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The Ur-Quiver In The Pro-Stiff Upper Lip: Secrecy And Reserve From Keble To Clough, Patrick Scott Nov 2007

The Ur-Quiver In The Pro-Stiff Upper Lip: Secrecy And Reserve From Keble To Clough, Patrick Scott

Patrick Scott

A paper for the Victorian Institute, 2007, where the theme was Victorian Secrets. Discusses the Tractarian doctrine of reserve in Isaac Williams and John Keble, and the non-reserve of R.H. Froude and F.W. Faber, and then considers the influence of the idea in Tennyson, Arnold, and Clough, concluding that far from the Tractarian doctrine of reserve being specifically Tractarian, ... reserve, concealment, the principled rejection of promiscuous self-expression, is a widespread phenomenon in Victorian culture because of cognitive or epistemological self-consciousness...  The Tractarians, pompous, prickly, self-important, self-deluding, snobbish, ... nonetheless were onto something significant for their age, for many who …


Voice In Writing Again: Embracing Contraries, Peter Elbow Oct 2007

Voice In Writing Again: Embracing Contraries, Peter Elbow

Peter Elbow

"Voice in writing" has fallen into a kind of limbo as a topic: it's vexed; it's discredited by most composition scholars; it's not much written about recently; and yet it remains widely used by readers, teachers, and writers. I examine good reasons for paying lots of attention to voice when we read and teach writing; and also good reasons for ignoring it. And finally insist that we can usefully do both.


Where I Am, There (Sh)It Will Be, Melanie Mcdougald Jun 2007

Where I Am, There (Sh)It Will Be, Melanie Mcdougald

Melanie E McDougald

No abstract provided.


Wives Of Steel: Voices Of Women From The Sparrows Point Steelmaking Communities (Book Review), Linda Niemann Mar 2007

Wives Of Steel: Voices Of Women From The Sparrows Point Steelmaking Communities (Book Review), Linda Niemann

Linda G. Niemann

Review of the book "Wives of Steel: Voices of Women from the Sparrows Point Steelmaking Communities", by Karen Olson. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005.


Woolfian Resonances, Anne Fernald Dec 2006

Woolfian Resonances, Anne Fernald

Anne E Fernald

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“An Vnder Black Dubblett Signifying A Spanish Hart”: Costumes And Politics In Middleton’S A Game At Chess, Robert Lublin Dec 2006

“An Vnder Black Dubblett Signifying A Spanish Hart”: Costumes And Politics In Middleton’S A Game At Chess, Robert Lublin

Robert Lublin

The political significance of Middleton’s A Game at Chess has drawn scholarly attention in the past, but one promising area of study has gone largely unconsidered: the play’s visual presentation. How did the actors appear when they first performed the play and how was that visual information received by early modern London audiences? This essay seeks to establish what costumes were worn by the King’s Men for their production of Middelton’s play and, more importantly, how they were received by their contemporary audience. Through such a study, we learn that Middleton employed costumes as skillfully as he used dialogue to …


Byron And The Choreography Of Queer Desire, Steven Bruhm Dec 2006

Byron And The Choreography Of Queer Desire, Steven Bruhm

Steven Bruhm

No abstract provided.


Exchanging Life Narratives: The Politics And Poetics Of Perzines, Doreen M. Piano Dec 2006

Exchanging Life Narratives: The Politics And Poetics Of Perzines, Doreen M. Piano

Doreen M Piano

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“Devoid Of Guilty Shame: Ovidian Tendencies In Spenser’S Erotic Poetry.”, M. L. Stapleton Dec 2006

“Devoid Of Guilty Shame: Ovidian Tendencies In Spenser’S Erotic Poetry.”, M. L. Stapleton

M. L. Stapleton

No abstract provided.


Tragical-Comical-Pastoral-Colonial: Economic Sovereignty, Globalization, And The Form Of Tragicomedy, Zachary Lesser Dec 2006

Tragical-Comical-Pastoral-Colonial: Economic Sovereignty, Globalization, And The Form Of Tragicomedy, Zachary Lesser

Zachary Lesser

I examine the politics of tragicomedy by focusing on its 1620s shift from pastoral to proto-colonial settings. This formal transformation reveals the genre's connection to economic debates over England's coin shortage and to Thomas Mun's abstract, global model of trade, removed from monarchical authority and naturalized in self-regulating "laws of commerce." Like Mun's model, tragicomedy requires us to imagine the ability of past actions and distant causes to ramify across time and space. Set on a barren, inaccessible island, Fletcher and Massinger's Sea Voyage isolates the nature of money and demonstrates the dangers of transgressing the natural law of commerce.


Vernacular Literacy, Peter Elbow Dec 2006

Vernacular Literacy, Peter Elbow

Peter Elbow

No abstract provided.


Modernism And Tradition, Anne E. Fernald Dec 2006

Modernism And Tradition, Anne E. Fernald

Anne E Fernald

No abstract provided.