Papers on Language & Literature articles from March 2006

Papers on Language & Literature archives from March 2006

The French Revolution as a romance: Mary Robinson's Hubert de Sevrac.(Hubert de Sevrac A Romance, of the Eighteenth Century )(Critical essay)
March 22, 2006... When Mary Robinson wrote Hubert de Sevrac A Romance, of the Eighteenth Century (published November 1796), public opinion in England had turned against the French Revolution, and freedom of speech was under attack. Charlotte Smith's...

From wonderland to wasteland: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The Great Gatsby, and the new American fairy tale.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2006... THE FAIRY TALE IN AMERICA In 1919, The New York Timesran an editorial lamenting the end of an era: "L. Frank Baum is dead, [...] and the children have suffered a loss they do not know" ("Fairy Tales" 140). While this article is ostensibly...

Sweet odors and interpretative authority in the Exeter Book Physiologus and Phoenix.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2006... A recurring question in Anglo-Saxon studies is why certain texts were selected for inclusion in specific manuscripts, and the Exeter Book (Exeter, Cathedral Library, MS 3501, s. [x.sup.2]), a tenth-century miscellany that corresponds with the...

"Dr. Eliot's Five-Foot Shelf of Books": toward a centennial of The Harvard Classics.(Charles W. Eliot)
March 22, 2006... On a damp October afternoon UPS recently deposited two heavy boxes at my front door. A glance at the postmark assured me that fifty volumes of my father's Harvard Classics had now come to live with me after my brother's death. In my childhood I...

Tracing the postmodern sublime.(Paradigms of Paranoia: The Culture of Conspiracy in Contemporary American Fiction)(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Samuel Chase Coale. Paradigms of Paranoia: The Culture of Conspiracy in Contemporary American Fiction. U of Alabama P, 2005. 258 pp. Cloth $40.00. Samuel Chase Coale's Paradigms of Paranoia considers the thematic treatment of conspiracy...