Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 articles from September 1999

Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 archives from September 1999

Master Plots: Race and the Founding of an American Literature, 1787-1845.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Race and the founding of an American Literature, 1787-1845 Jared Gardner "An intelligent and thoughtful study of the racial aspects of identity raised by formative American writers like Royall Tyler, Charles Brockden Brown, James...

WOMEN, WRITING, AND THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Susan Zlotnick The rising industrialism of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries inspired deep feats and divisions throughout England. Susan Zlotnick argues that women writers foresaw in the industrial revolution the prospect of real...

STUDIES IN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY CULTURE, Volume 27.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Volume 27 edited by Julie Chandler Hayes and Timothy Erwin This volume presents a group of essays that evoke broad contexts and future avenues for work in the field of eighteenth-century studies. The contributors take up the question of...

GARDENS AND GARDENING IN THE CHESAPEAKE, 1700-1805.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Barbara Wells Sarudy "A landmark book, with a mountain of information--a terrific contribution to the study of gardens and landscapes because of the interesting and exciting primary-source scholarship that illuminates the detailed garden...

THE PORTUGUESE EMPIRE, 1415-1808: A WORLD ON THE MOVE.(Review)
September 22, 1999... A World on the Move A. J. R. Russell-Wood "The original feature is the author's concentration on people and transport as vectors of cultural exchange...He evokes a lively picture of the highly mobile merchants, missionaries and...

Gothic Desire in Charlotte Bronte's Villette.
September 22, 1999... A letter of l6 June 1854 reads as follows: "My dear Ellen, Can you come next Wednesday or Thursday? I am afraid circumstances will compel me to agree to an earlier day than I wished. I sadly wished to defer it till the 2nd week in July, but I...

The Gendering of History in She.
September 22, 1999... H. Rider Haggard's 1887 She is not merely an intriguing exemplar of the male quest romances that mirrored and furthered imperialist initiatives; as critics have persuasively asserted, She is also a thinly disguised allegorical admonition to...

Hardy and the Imagery of Place.
September 22, 1999... In the text that follows, I make two assumptions about the nature of Thomas Hardy's fiction and poetry in general, both of which were articulated years ago by John Holloway in The Victorian Sage and both of which have been echoed many times...

Recent Studies in the Nineteenth Century.
September 22, 1999... This, the last SEL nineteenth-century survey to carry a date beginning with "19--," makes no attempt to provide complete coverage of this year's work in Romantic and Victorian studies. The total number of books received for review was 250,...

Maria Edgeworth and the Question of National Identity.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Recent years have witnessed a great deal of attention to the emergence of nationalism in late-eighteenth-century Europe, and critics such as Seamus Deane have drawn particular attention to the way in which the new nationalist narratives tended...

The Mad Body as the Text of Culture in the Writings of Mary Lamb.
September 22, 1999... The Mary Lamb who was "mad, bad, and dangerous to know" has not received much purchase in the Lamb biographies or literary criticism to date. That this should be so is understandable. The silence that surrounded the facts of Lamb's madness...

The Blind Daughter in Charles Dickens's Cricket on the Hearth.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 1999... The Cricket on the Hearth, Charles Dickens's third and best-selling Christmas book, concludes with a spontaneous celebratory dance, "quite an original dance, and one of a most uncommon figure." [1] In a Christmas Eve 1845 review, William...

Literary Paupers and Professional Authors: The Guild of Literature and Art.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 1999... William Dorrit, the Father of the Marshalsea, falteringly informs Arthur Clennam that "it's of no use to disguise the fact--you must know, Mr. Clennam, that it does sometimes occur that people who come here desire to offer some...

Siblings and Suitors in the Narrative Architecture of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 1999... Anne Bronte's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall has been singled Out most frequently for two elements: (1) its unusually complicated framing device (Gilbert Markham's epistolary account of his relationship with Helen Huntingdon surrounds her much...