Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 articles from September 1995

Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 archives from September 1995

Placing the places in Wordsworth's 1802 sonnets.
September 22, 1995... I Wordsworth's political sonnets of summer and fall 1802 recount the sights and sounds the poet encountered during the brief respite provided by the Peace of Amiens, which enabled him to return to France and to the woman and child who were...

Sibling revelry in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
September 22, 1995... The nineteenth century's well-known fixation on the family has generally been dealt with by critics in terms of the parentchild relationship, with remarkably little attention given to the sibling bond. (1) Yet, to a great extent, that century's...

"Elysian and effeminate": Byron's The Island as a revisionary text.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 1995... The Island has been fairly widely recognized as a revision of early Byronism. What critics have failed to notice is the essentially female nature of the alternative offered. Whereas the world of discipline and mutiny, authority and rebellion,...

Hazlitt's worshiping practice in Liber Amoris.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 1995... [A]nd I will make a Goddess of her, and build a temple to her in my heart, and worship her on indestructible altars, and raise statues to her: and my homage shall be unblemished as her unrivalled symmetry of form. ...

A good woman on five thousand pounds: Jane Eyre, Vanity Fair, and literary rivalry.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 1995... Composed and published concurrently, William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair (1847-1848) and Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre (1847) together signaled a watershed year in the history of the Victorian novel. Although one scarcely can conceive of...

Gender and generic mixing in charlotte Bronte's Shirley.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 1995... In examinations of Charlotte Bronte's novels as a sequence, Shirley is commonly noted as a "detour," "the odd one out," to quote Inga-Stina Ewbank. (1) The reason for this status is, of course, Bronte's departure from the use of a...

The Life of Charlotte Bronte and the death of Miss Eyre.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 1995... Why does Wives and Daughters contain a character named Miss Eyre? Elizabeth Gaskell gives too little information to provide a conclusive answer: the gratuitousness of the allusion to Bronte's eponymous novel is reinforced by the insignificance...

Power and submission in Felix Holt, the Radical.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 1995... In Felix Holt, the Radical, George Eliot considers carefully the difficult political demands, with all their troubling and threatening implications, that beset the era of Reform in nineteenth-century England. If we acknowledge, however, that...

Trollope's insanity defense: narrative alienation in He Knew He Was Right.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 1995... "Madness in Novels," an 1866 Spectator review of Mrs. Henry Wood's St. Martin's Eve, sharply criticizes her portrayal of Charlotte Norris, a character who suffers from an acute case of insane jealousy. According to the reviewer, Wood's...

Recent studies in the nineteenth century.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 1995... Reading the scholarship in nineteenth-century British literature that came over the transom last year often sent me out to look, or look again, at nineteenth-century British literature--"The Triumph of Life," "A Voice from the Factory," The...

Books received.
September 22, 1995... Alford, Norman. The Rhymers' Club: Poets of the Tragic Generation. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994. Pp. x + 165. $35.00. ISBN 0-312-12341-8. Altholz, Josef L. Anatomy of a Controversy: The Debate over "Essays and Reviews," 1860-1864....