Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 articles from September 1996

Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 archives from September 1996

Revaluating revolution and radicalness in the 'Lyrical Ballads.'(The Nineteen Century)
September 22, 1996... Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads has been treated consistently in the past thirty years or so as both a consequence and an expression of deterministic history.(1) In particular, the inspirational origin and the motivational impetus of that poetic...

Jane Austen and the riches of embarrassment.(The Nineteen Century)
September 22, 1996... I was prompted to write this essay when, on rereading Jane Austen's novels, I began to notice not only how frequently scenes of embarrassment occur in her work, but how peculiarly susceptible to embarrassment her characters are.(1) I am not the...

Keats and the politics of Cockney style.(The Nineteen Century)
September 22, 1996... On the evidence of the poems it might seem that John Keats's recent critics are a good deal more interested in politics than he was himself.(1) "At Dilkes I fall foul of Politics,"(2) Keats told his sister-in-law, representing it as a social...

Laeticia Landon and the dawn of English post-Romanticism.(The Nineteen Century)
September 22, 1996... Imagine a reader in the year 1823 encountering the most recent issue of William Jerdan's Literary Gazette, an inexpensive guide to recent developments in the arts and sciences. Turning for a moment to the "Original Poetry" section, the reader...

Cultural anxiety in Anna Jameson's art criticism.(The Nineteen Century)
September 22, 1996... Like William Hazlitt (whom she read) and John Ruskin (who read her), Anna Jameson worked to educate and habituate a wider public to art through her criticism. Although they were largely intended for readers, not tourists, her works should be...

Double gender, double genre in 'Jane Eyre' and 'Villette.'(The Nineteenth Century)
September 22, 1996... The trope of "doubleness" is everywhere in feminist critics' commentaries upon women writers. Figures of doubleness find their way into feminist theory through sources ranging from Luce Irigaray's vision of female sexuality and language as...

George MacDonald, Julia Kristeva, and the Black Sun.(The Nineteenth Century)
September 22, 1996... Most of the main critical readings of George MacDonald's Phantastes have recognized that the text is highly susceptible of a Freudian or (more frequently) a Jungian interpretation. Robert Lee Wolff's ground-breaking book The Golden Key: A Study...

Death and domestication in Charlotte M. Yonge's 'The Clever Woman of the Family.'(The Nineteen Century)
September 22, 1996... In the domestic fiction of Charlotte M. Yonge (1823-1901), the prolific self-appointed popularizer of Tractarianism, the upper-middle-class patriarchal family is the site in which an ethos of feminine self-abnegation is enacted. Yonge's novels of...

Metaphorical "indiscretion" and literary survival in Swinburne's "Anactoria." (Algernon Charles Swinburne)(The Nineteenth Century)
September 22, 1996... One of the most memorable lines from early Swinburne criticism comes from an anonymous voice in the London Review, 4 August 1866; in addition to objecting to the "diseased state of mind out of which many of [these works] must have issued,"...

Recent studies in the nineteenth century.(The Nineteenth Century)
September 22, 1996... Among the wealth of books on nineteenth-century subjects published last year, three trends may be discerned. First, there is the large number of transgeneric studies, by which I mean those that address colonialism, postcolonialism, gender, sex,...