Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 articles from September 2000

Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 archives from September 2000

The Unaccountable "Knot" of Wordsworth's "Gipsies".
September 22, 2000... Two recent studies by David Simpson have drawn renewed attention to William Wordsworth's "Gipsies." Simpson's critique re-establishes the important historical issues the poem reflects; but, in concentrating on questions of labor, he overlooks...

Home and Nation in The Heart of Midlothian.
September 22, 2000... Readers of The Heart of Midlothian--particularly those who read Walter Scott as a historical novelist--are often troubled by its fourth volume, with its quotidian worries about bridal trousseaux, cheese recipes, and house payments, and its...

Enclosure and Taxonomy in John Clare.
September 22, 2000... I In the preface to his 1840 Canadian Naturalist, P. H. Gosse referred to the rebellions in Upper and Lower Canada that had been quelled just before he published his work: "[Canada] is here presented in a light on which there can be no...

Tennyson's Poetics of Melancholy and the Imperial Imagination.
September 22, 2000... Ever since Arthur Hallam's early review of Alfred, Lord Tennyson's Poems, critics have recognized that Tennyson's early work attempts to establish a kind of poetic authority, and that its characteristic power is grounded in melancholy. The best...

Prejudice in Jane Austen, Emma Tennant, Charles Dickens--and Us.
September 22, 2000... In one of the treasure troves that the internet habitually throws off these days, the AUSTENLIST itemizes sixty-eight Jane Austen literary "reversions" (including eight of Pride and Prejudice) written between 1850 and 2000. [1] Most are sequels...

Brontes Jane Eyre and the Grimms' Cinderella.
September 22, 2000... Readers attempting to place Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre in the nineteenth-century novel tradition have been puzzled by Bronte's bold mixing of genres and by the immense and powerful ideological dialectic that seems to "close down" at the...

The Affective World of Charlotte Bronte's Villette.
September 22, 2000... Matthew Arnold's comment that Villette was a "disagreeable" novel was, nonetheless, a testimony to the text's extraordinary emotional power, a feature that drew a different kind of evaluation from George Eliot, who wrote with astonishment that...

The Didactic Carnivalesque in Lucy Lane Clifford's "The New Mother".
September 22, 2000... Lucy Lane Clifford's cautionary tale "The New Mother" has terrified readers since its publication in her 1882 collection of children's stories, Anyhow Stories Moral and Otherwise. [1] Speaking for countless other readers, the children's...

Recent Studies in the Nineteenth Century.
September 22, 2000... This annual review of English studies is for the year 2000, a number which may mean something but probably does not. I often think the same thing about my official field, nineteenth-century British literature, and after producing what I view as...