Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 articles from September 1993

Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 archives from September 1993

"One must be master": patronage in Blake's 'Vala.' (William Blake)
September 22, 1993... In his 25 April 1803 letter to Thomas Butts, Blake provides an intriguing, but somewhat puzzling description of a massive epic poem: But none can know the Spiritual Acts of my three years Slumber on the banks of the Ocean unless he...

Unbound from wrath: Orc and Blake's crisis of vision in 'The Four Zoas.' (William Blake)
September 22, 1993... Blake's labor in The Four Zoas can be seen, in one major aspect, as an effort to recast his oracle of human liberation--and the social rebellion that remained integral to it--without the mythic agency of Orc, who had been central to his earlier...

Intertextual influences in Byron's Juvenalian satire.
September 22, 1993... Poetry's engagements with history are always in part a function of specific modes and genres, with their own detailed histories, none of which is purely "literary." This paper will examine one mode of Byron's satire--the Juvenalian--at one...

Gulnare/Kaled's "untold" feminization of Byron's oriental tales.
September 22, 1993... "I do not despise Mrs. Heman[s]--but if [she] knit blue stockings instead of wearing them it would be better."(1) In such remarks casually penned to his publisher John Murray from his retreat in Italy (28 September 1820), Byron reveals a...

Piranesi's prison: Thomas De Quincey and the failure of autobiography.
September 22, 1993... Thomas De Quincey, in his autobiographical writing, constantly locates seemingly disparate details from his life in evidently patterned sequences. Perhaps the most striking example of this practice is the series of losses which punctuate his...

The medium of landscape in Cobbett's Rural Rides. (William Cobbett)
September 22, 1993... I "The world in our conceit of it is not much bigger than a nutshell," observes William Hazlitt in his essay "On Going a Journey": "It is not one prospect expanded into another, county joined to county, kingdom to kingdom, lands to...

England's Samuel: Wordsworth in the "hungry-forties." (William Wordsworth)
September 22, 1993... I In 1820 the poet and antislavery campaigner Thomas Pringle made an arresting claim about Wordsworth. At the climax of a sonnet entitled "Poets Are Nature's Priests" he likened him to Samuel. In England now, as once in Israel, those...

Cultural reformation and cultural reproduction in Anne Bronte's 'The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.'
September 22, 1993... The Tenant of Wildfell Hall has struck many readers as a puzzling and inconsistent work. The heroine is endowed with strong moral and religious principles, yet her destiny is marriage to a man who scarcely seems her equal. Bronte's prevailing...