Papers on Language & Literature articles from March 2002

Papers on Language & Literature archives from March 2002

"The Only Really Objective Novel Ever Written"? Arnold Bennett's Riceyman Steps.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2002... The opening lines of Arnold Bennett's 1923 novel Riceyman Steps seem to herald an aesthetically and stylistically retarded exercise in late nineteenth-century realism--a self-consciously detached, rationalistic, and materialistic study of a...

"'Tis Pity That When Laws Are Faulty They Should Not Be Mended or Abolisht": Authority, Legitimation, and Honor in Aphra Behn's The Widdow Ranter.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2002... Aphra Behn's tragicomedy The Widdow Ranter, or, The History of Bacon in Virginia was staged posthumously in November 1689, but it was most probably written in 1688.[1] Although by the summer of 1683 the Whigs had suffered total defeat, the...

"Biheste is dette": Marriage Promises in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2002... biheste = promise dette = obligation "Biheste is dette," said Chaucer's Man of Law when it was his turn to tell his Tale. A promise is an obligation, and the Man of Law, like his fellow pilgrims on the way to Canterbury, had agreed to...

Alienated, Betrayed, and Powerless: A Possible Connection Between Charlotte Temple and the Legend of Inkle and Yarico.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2002... In the penultimate chapter of Charlotte Temple, the semi-reformed seducer Montraville, "tortured almost to madness" by news brought to him that the abandoned Charlotte is wandering about on a cold winter evening despite suffering from "illness,...

FORTHCOMING IN PLL.(Abstract)
March 22, 2002... ALEXANDER PETTIT, "Adventures in Pornographic Places: Eliza Haywood's Tea-Table and the Decentering of Moral Argument" BRYAN WALPERT, "A Darkness Pulled Out of Us: Stanley Plumly and the Elegy of Relationship" MARTIN BIDNEY, "The...