Papers on Language & Literature articles from September 2000

Papers on Language & Literature archives from September 2000

Neither Northanger Abbey: The Reader Presupposes.
September 22, 2000... We knew better but it was wrong to use a language that named ghosts, nothing you could touch. And this is why we came to love the double negative --Vern Rutsula, "Words" The prevalence of negative constructions in Jane Austen's...

Walter Scott, Literary History, and the "Expressive" Tenets of Waverley Criticism.
September 22, 2000... "In joyous picturesqueness and fellow-feeling, freedom of eye and heart, or to say it in a word, in general healthiness of mind, these Novels prove Scott to have been amongst the foremost writers." Thomas Carlyle, "The Amoral Scott" ...

Avoiding the Perils of the Muse: Hannah More, Didactic Literature, and Eighteenth-Century Criticism.
September 22, 2000... In 1761 a pious teenager named Hannah More sat down to write a play. As a teacher at her sisters' school, More had noticed that few plays available in English were appropriate for performance by schoolgirls. If she could write such a drama...

"Oh, Phooey to Death!": Boethian Consolation in Tom Stoppard's Arcadia.
September 22, 2000... The audience of dramatic performance is often provided with more information, a larger perspective of events, than the characters on the stage. Typically, viewers gain this knowledge through one character's asides or soliloquies of which other...

Invisible Buildings: Maggie's Architectural Adventures in The Golden Bowl.
September 22, 2000... "Experience," wrote Henry James in 1884, is "an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue. It is the very...

Reinventing American Poetry.(Review)
September 22, 2000... American Poetry: The Twentieth Century, Volumes One and Two. Eds. Robert Hass, et al. The Library of America: New York, 2000. 986 pp., 1009 pp., respectively. $35.00 each. The Library of America is well on its way to completing the most...