Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 articles from September 2003

Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 archives from September 2003

Meter, identity, voice: untranslating Christabel.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2003... This essay poses a riddle: what can be plagiarized, but not copyrighted? It answers by connecting the technical management of meter with the property of "voice" which, in turn, responds to the problem of defining poetic "identity" in copyright...

Coleridge's "The raven" and the forging of radicalism.(Samuel Taylor Coleridge)(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2003... Read in the context of eighteenth-century and romantic forgeries and political verse fables, Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "The Raven" (1798) appears as a serious literary hoax. Published during the controversy over William Henry Ireland's forged...

Empire, Coleridge, and Charles Lamb's consumer imagination.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2003... Scholarship on Charles Lamb typically presents his essays as responses to personal tragedy or as idealistic fancies detached from history, and perpetuates romantic conventions by unfavorably comparing the minor writer to Coleridge. This article...

Responsible creativity and the "modernity" of Mary Shelley's Prometheus.(how Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus reconfigures and modernizes the Prometheus myth)(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2003... This article analyzes how Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus reconfigures, recontextualizes, and thus "modernizes" the myth of Prometheus. It argues that by focusing on the issues of paternal negligence and the need for...

Re-reading sisterhood in Christina Rossetti's "Noble Sisters" and "Sister Maude".(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2003... This essay examines the representation of women's relationships in two Christina Rossetti poems, "Noble Sisters" and "Sister Maude." Both poems were composed after "Goblin Market" and, notably, after she had begun volunteering at Highgate...

The metaphorical space of Meredith's Diana of the Crossways.(George Meredith)(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2003... This essay offers a new reading of George Meredith's 1885 novel Diana of the Crossways from the perspective of cognitive theory as it has been developed by George Lakoff, Mark Johnson, and Mark Turner. A cognitive perspective reveals that the...

Thomas Hardy and the language of the inanimate.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2003... Like the romantic poets, Thomas Hardy might appear "morbid" when considered in terms of John Ruskin's pathetic fallacy. As I argue, however, the pathetic fallacy is a trope, another name for personification which, more than being one trope...

Reconstructing Tess.(Tess of the d'Urbervilles)(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2003... "Reconstructing Tess" argues, in the context of a discussion of Victorian virginity's religious, medical, social, journalistic, and pornographic discourses, that Tess of the d'Urbervilles's narrative logic or illogic attempts to resolve Angel...

Mrs. Humphry Ward's fictional experiments in the woman question.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2003... Current evaluations of Mrs. Humphry Ward as novelist range from "Victorian anti-feminist" to "New Woman novelist" and "rebel." For a more nuanced treatment of Ward, which would justify her initial reception as an important serious novelist who...

Recent studies in the nineteenth century.
September 22, 2003... An assessment of recent scholarly work treating the Nineteenth Century and some general observations on the state of the profession. A full bibliography and price list of the works received by SEL for consideration follow. ********** ...

Books received.
September 22, 2003... Ardis, Ann L. Modernism and Cultural Conflict, 1880-1922. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2002. Pp. ix + 187. $55.00. ISBN 0-521-81206-2. Ardis, Ann L., and Leslie W. Lewis, eds. Women's Experience of Modernity, 1875-1945....