Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 articles from September 1997

Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 archives from September 1997

Dramas of naming in Coleridge. (poetic naming of conversation poems)
September 22, 1997... Throughout his career Samuel Taylor Coleridge was preoccupied with accommodating an audience wider than the one that had read Lyrical Ballads. His awareness of himself as a poet with claims on the reading public larger than the one he usually...

"Christabel" and abjection: Coleridge's narrative in process/on trial.
September 22, 1997... In spite of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's claims that he always had in mind the completed narrative of "Christabel," he never finished the story. Yet "incomplete" as it is, the poem has been a source of fascination - and an enigma - to its readers...

'Paradise Lost' and 'Aurora Leigh.' (poems)
September 22, 1997... Lord Illingworth. The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. Mrs. Allonby. It ends with Revelations. The same is almost true of Aurora Leigh; although the crucial meeting between Aurora and her cousin Romney in the garden...

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Italian independence, and the "Critical Reaction" of Henry James.
September 22, 1997... Few writers as prominent in their own lifetimes fell afterwards into neglect more completely, or have had to wait longer for renewed intelligent attention, than Elizabeth Barrett Browning. A critical climate more and more impatient with inherited...

Love in the garden: 'Maud,' 'Great Expectations,' and W.S. Gilbert's 'Sweethearts.'
September 22, 1997... The garden is a central and sacred space in Christian mythology. Of the three crucial events of human history, two - the birth of the race into innocence and the fall of the race into sin - are located in the garden; only the final redemption,...

Tennyson's 'Idylls,' pure poetry, and the market. (Alfred Lord Tennyson)
September 22, 1997... A new generic preoccupation appears to develop in perfect coincidence with, and perhaps as a direct result of, the emergent literary market of the nineteenth century. I am speaking not of those popular narrative forms that were being ingested at...

The domestic drone: Margaret Oliphant and a political history of the novel.
September 22, 1997... Demands for entry into the workplace, along with legal and educational reforms, it is commonly supposed, signaled the advent of modern-day feminism in mid-Victorian Britain. Not all middle-class women who worked to support themselves endorsed the...

Poetic genesis, the self, and nature's things in Hopkins. (Gerard Manley Hopkins)
September 22, 1997... In the century since Gerard Manley Hopkins, Jesuit priest and brilliantly original poet, died in 1889, his small but powerful body of poetry has undergone a great transformation in critical reception. Work never published during his lifetime and...

Kipling's use of verse and prose in "Baa Baa, Black Sheep." (Rudyard Kipling)
September 22, 1997... Although Rudyard Kipling professed that he did not particularly consider himself a poet,(1) his fictions persistently draw on his mastery of English poetry to convey meanings that complicate his prose. Whether of Kipling's own making or borrowed...

Recent studies in the nineteenth century. (English literature)
September 22, 1997... It is customary in an essay of this nature to begin with a general and benign observation on the wealth of studies and editions that have appeared in the last twelve months, attesting to the continued health and vigor of studies in...