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A quarterly journal of medieval and modern literature in European languages. Articles cover academic discussion, scholarly criticism, and book reviews.

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A Lover's Complaint Cymbeline, and the Shakespeare canon: interpreting shared vocabulary.(Critical essay)
July 1, 2008... A Lover's Complaint was published in the 1609 Quarto of Shakespeare's Sonnet and was given its own ascription to 'William Shakespeare', but in recent years several specialists in attribution have questioned its authenticity. Brian Vickers has argued that the true author is John Davies of...

Lies, damned lies, and statistics: epistemology and fiction in Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year.(Daniel Defoe)(Critical essay)
July 1, 2008... This article considers Defoe's use of statistical data in his historical novel A Journal of the Plague Year, a device generally considered as a means of supplying a work of fiction with verisimilitude. Re-evaluating Defoe's attitude to the science of political arithmetic and the earliest...

George Eliot and racism: how should one read 'The Modern Hep! Hep! Hep!'?(Critical essay)
July 1, 2008... A number of recent critics have accused George Eliot of racism and even anti-Semitism. Her essay 'The Modern Hep! Hep! Hep!' has been widely cited to support these claims. Critics have tended to take passages from it as straightforward statements of Eliot's views which they identify with...

Parisian literary fields: James Joyce and Pierre Reverdy's theory of the image.(Critical essay)
July 1, 2008... This article examines Joyce's Parisian works through the lens of Reverdy's aesthetic of the image, which was symptomatic of the intricate tensions between innovative ideas and the rivalries surrounding avant-garde practices, thus showing possible links between Parisian avant-garde practices...

The epistemology of the mantelpiece: subversive ornaments in the novels of Guy de Maupassant.(Critical essay)
July 1, 2008... This article examines episodes from three novels by Guy de Maupassant, Notre Coeur (1890), Bel-Ami (1885), and Pierre et Jean (1888), and analyses how mantelpieces and ornaments become a privileged topos for the fictional investigation of epistemology and the phenomenon of disavowal. Through...

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