Papers on Language & Literature articles from September 1996

Papers on Language & Literature archives from September 1996

Naive and knowledgeable nihilism in Byron's gothic verse.
September 22, 1996... Gothic poetry and prose vocalize a medley of Calvinistic, sentimental and naturalistic values, a trio echoing the three "powerful approaches" to gothicism that Jeffrey Cox reviews in Seven Gothic Dramas: "the numinous, the political, the...

Getting the mother's story right: Charlotte Lennox and the New World.
September 22, 1996... Charlotte Ramsay Lennox (1720?27?29?-1804) wrote two novels about life in the New World, one at the beginning of her literary career -- The Life of Harriot Stuart, Written by Herself (1751) -- and the other at the end -- Euphemia (1790)....

The army motif in 'The Red Badge of Courage' as a response to industrial capitalism.
September 22, 1996... In 1904, four years after the death of his friend Stephen Crane, Henry James returned to the United States for the first time in twenty-one years. He describes his approach to New York City this way: ... the monster grows and grows......

Saul and the social contract: constructions of 1 Samuel 8-11 in Cowley's 'Davideis' and Defoe's 'Jure Divino.'
September 22, 1996... I. To the extent that we can identify a "public sphere" in seventeenth century England, we must acknowledge that it was a public sphere constructed, maintained, and negotiated by the near-absolute rhetorical legitimacy of the English...