Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 articles from September 2005

Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 archives from September 2005

Domestic mobility in Persuasion and Sanditon.
September 22, 2005... From the mention of watering places, may the author be allowed to suggest a few remarks on the evils which have arisen from the general conspiracy of the gay to usurp the regions of the sick; and from their converting the health-restoring...

Sensibility as epistemology in Caleb Williams, Waverley, and Frankenstein.
September 22, 2005... While critics of the last fifteen years have exhibited renewed interest in sensibility, they have concentrated on the paradigm at its apex rather than in its decline. This essay will argue that Caleb Williams (1794) by William Godwin, Waverley...

Hazlitt, Horne, and the spirit of the age.(Richard Henry Horne, William Hazlitt )
September 22, 2005... We were wise indeed, could we discern truly the signs of our own time; and by knowledge of its wants and advantages, wisely adjust our own position in it. Thomas Carlyle, "Signs of Times [1829]"(1) When William Hazlitt wrote The...

Jane Eyre, from governess to girl bride.
September 22, 2005... "Yes; Mrs. Rochester," said he; "Young Mrs. Rochester--Fairfax Rochester's girl-bride." --Rochester to Jane, Jane Eyre (1) Since its publication in 1847, readers of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre have debated the subversive...

"Sympathy" in Jane Eyre.
September 22, 2005... Although the racial language of Jane Eyre is most often read in postcolonial or imperialist terms. (1) I argue that it may instead constitute Bronte's attempt to find a replacement for both religious faith and the morality founded thereon....

Villette's compulsory education.
September 22, 2005... [W]hat a melancholy pleasure I should feel in dwelling on the recollection of my early friend! --Charlotte Bronte (1) This essay intends to dwell (2) on obsession's implication in the melancholic pleasure structuring Charlotte Bronte's...

The moral intuition of Ruskin's "Storm-Cloud".(John Ruskin, The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century)(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2005... John Ruskin's 1884 lecture "The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century" is perhaps the best-known piece of nineteenth-century "environmental" writing by an English author, a reputation canonized in our own time by the influential Norton...

Aesthetic consumption and the cultural production of Michael Field's Sight and Song.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2005... While visiting Logan Pearsall Smith's family cottage, Katherine Bradley and Edith Cooper, the aunt and niece who lived together as lovers and who published as Michael Field, collaborated in an act resembling shoplifting. They relate in their...

Recent studies in the nineteenth century.(English literature)
September 22, 2005... In his influential book on the sublime, Neil Hertz places Thomas McFarland's nineteenth-century SEL review essay for 1976 in some very distinguished company. As a "contemporary instance of the mathematical sublime," Hertz suggests, the essay...