Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 articles from September 2004

Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 archives from September 2004

Discovery and the domestic affections in Coleridge and Shelley.(Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Mary Shelley)(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2004... In the fall of 1797, as Samuel Taylor Coleridge was writing "The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere," (1) he found himself reflecting on the influence of his childhood reading, recalling how, from the age of three, he "read incessantly," and, by the...

Ordination and revolution in Mansfield Park.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2004... Now I will try to write of something else:--it shall be a complete change of subject--Ordination. --Jane Austen (1) Nearly two hundred years after the writing of Mansfield Park (1814), scholars still debate the meaning and degree...

Austen's later subjects.(Jane Austen)(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2004... In her 1925 essay on Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf spends some time discussing Austen's early work The Watsons and suggests that it, though "in the main [an] inferior story," contains "all the elements of Jane Austen's greatness": The...

Cruikshank, Thackeray, and the Victorian eclipse of satire.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2004... Popular and critical understandings have often contrasted the eighteenth century as the golden age of satire in Britain with the nineteenth century as the age of the realistic novel, in which satire played at most a fugitive and subordinate...

The education of Bronte's new Nouvelle Heloise in Shirley.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2004... Charlotte Bronte's Shirley depicts two contrasting schoolroom feasts, one public, institutional, and sumptuous, the other private, impromptu, and austere. The first, the annual Whitsuntide banquet honoring supporters of the local parish school,...

"The one poor word" in Middlemarch.
September 22, 2004... George Eliot's synthesis of sympathy and irony in Middlemarch (1871-72) and the impressive unity of the novel's details--of metaphors, motifs, images, and allusions--have been at the center of George Eliot criticism for many years. Granted, one...

Semantic counterpoint, Hopkins, and The Wreck of the Deutschland.
September 22, 2004... The complexity, obscurity, and internal contradictions of Gerard Manley Hopkins's poetry are well known. As a result of them, the search for the philosophical unity of his writings was actually abandoned at the end of the 1960s, and synchronic...

Women poets and contested spaces in The Yellow Book.
September 22, 2004... The Yellow Book, that most defining of 1890s periodicals, has often been approached in terms of a historical divide: B.T. and A.T., before and after the trial of Oscar Wilde. More recently, Margaret D. Stetz, Mark Samuels Lasner, and Laurel...

Recent studies in the nineteenth century.
September 22, 2004... In his unforgettably entitled memoir, Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen, novelist, essayist, and bookseller Larry McMurtry writes of how, when an undergraduate, he was "never especially interested in literature courses. Where literature was...

Abstracts.
September 22, 2004... Kate Flint, Recent Studies in the Nineteenth Century An assessment of recent scholarly work treating the literature of the Nineteenth Century and some general observations on the state of the profession. A full bibliography and price list...