Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 articles from September 1998

Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 archives from September 1998

The material sublime of women romantic poets.
September 22, 1998... Of all the qualities of Art, the sublime is that which appears to be the most vague, irregular, and undefined... for those who talk rationally on other subjects, no sooner touch on this, than they go off in a literary delirium; fancy...

Gender and the nation in the work of Robert Burns and Janet Little.
September 22, 1998... In Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, Benedict Anderson broke new ground in linking the development of the nation in the eighteenth century to cultural practice, including the growth of print culture.(1)...

Boyd's Dante, Coleridge's 'Ancient Mariner,' and the pattern of infernal influence.(Reverend Henry Boyd; Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
September 22, 1998... As a literary critic, Samuel Taylor Coleridge was one of the first in the English language to assess the particularities of Dante's Divina Commedia. Indeed, his lecture on Dante in 1818 remains one of the most significant landmarks in the...

The mutable 'locus amoenus' and consolidation in Tennyson's 'In Memoriam.'.(Alfred Lord Tennyson)
September 22, 1998... If literary criticism judges the success of an elegy by the amount of consolation it can offer, then it is not surprising that Alfred Lord Tennyson's In Memoriam has been read in this century with a cautious skepticism. Although Tennyson's...

Browning and the ekphrastic encounter.(Robert Browning)
September 22, 1998... Critical theory regarding verbal representations of visual representations continues to emphasize the paragonal aspect of literary ekphrasis.(1) The artifact resulting from the contest between the sister arts of poetry and painting attests to...

Meditating on the low: a Darwinian reading of 'Great Expectations.'.
September 22, 1998... There have been surprisingly few Darwinian readings of the novels that Charles Dickens wrote after 1859, the year in which Charles Darwin published The Origin of Species.(1) But while Dickens's last three novels - the ones best suited...

Heroism and organicism in the case of Lydgate.
September 22, 1998... Middlemarch is generally regarded as an antiheroic novel. Dorothea's failure to perform "some long-recognizable deed," and even more, that of Lydgate, are seen as implicit arguments against the possibility of heroism in any grand sense and for...

Hard science, soft psychology, and amorphous art in 'The Picture of Dorian Gray.'.
September 22, 1998... In the first scene of the 1945 film adaptation of The Picture of Dorian Gray, Lord Henry Wotton captures a butterfly in his top hat, slides a plate of chloroform under its rim, and asphyxiates the insect. After he impales the butterfly with a...

Recent studies in the nineteenth century.
September 22, 1998... Finally, it is time to write. For months I have been reading and taking notes, trying to refamiliarize myself with arguments about works that lie on the periphery of my own sub-sub-specializations; introducing myself to new readings of texts...