Papers on Language & Literature articles from March 2007

Papers on Language & Literature archives from March 2007

"Elbowing vacancy": Philip Larkin's non-places.
March 22, 2007... To consider the significance of place in Philip Larkin's oeuvre may seem a foredoomed endeavor. For one whose particularity in rendering the quotidian is almost a signature trait, it is revealing that of the 172 poems Larkin wrote between 1946...

Epic, ode, or something new: the blending of genres in Thomson's Spring.
March 22, 2007... The mid-eighteenth-century long poem is best and in greatest complexity represented by James Thomson's The Seasons and its revisions. While the idea of the long poem as a poetic genre is a twentieth-century effort of scholars to come to terms...

"The fertilising conflict of individualities": H. G. Wells's A Modern Utopia, John Stuart Mill's On Liberty, and the Victorian tradition of liberalism.
March 22, 2007... For all the humanity he wins to, through his dramatic device of dialogue, I doubt if anyone has ever been warmed to desire himself a citizen in the Republic of Plato; I doubt if anyone could stand a month of the relentless publicity...

The locale of Melville's Gothicism.
March 22, 2007... The publication of Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto in 1764 marks the inception of a literary mode that would be developed largely in Britain over the remainder of the eighteenth century by authors including Clara Reeve (The Old English...

Off the raft: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Jane Smiley's The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton.
March 22, 2007... 1 In the long history of Harper's magazine, the most letters ever received about an article was in response to a 1996 essay by Pulitzer prize-winning novelist Jane Smiley entitled "Say It Ain't So, Huck"(Berube 693). In this now-notorious...