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'Some Pastoral Improvement' In The Gentle Shepherd: Mediation, Remediation, And Minority, Steve Newman Dec 2020

'Some Pastoral Improvement' In The Gentle Shepherd: Mediation, Remediation, And Minority, Steve Newman

Studies in Scottish Literature

This essay shows how in The Gentle Shepherd Allan Ramsay engages in the complex work of "pastoral improvement" on an individual and national scale and foresees--to a point--how his work will be received in the decades and even centuries to come. After situating his work within the uprising of the Galloway Levellers, pastoral, and the early work of agricultural improvement, I consider how the concept of improvement shapes the reception of his work in the Linley-Tickell production of the 1780s--including a surprising appearance from the Shakespearean forger, William Henry Ireland--and the key role The Gentle Shepherd plays in "The Young …


The Irish Vampire: Dracula, Parnell, And The Troubled Dreams Of Nationhood, Michael Valdez Moses Dec 2020

The Irish Vampire: Dracula, Parnell, And The Troubled Dreams Of Nationhood, Michael Valdez Moses

Journal X

No abstract provided.


Tears And Blood: Lady Wilde And The Emergence Of Irish Cultural Nationalism, Marjorie Howes Dec 2020

Tears And Blood: Lady Wilde And The Emergence Of Irish Cultural Nationalism, Marjorie Howes

Journal X

No abstract provided.


George Moore, W. T. Stead, And The Boer War, Joseph O. Baylen Sep 2020

George Moore, W. T. Stead, And The Boer War, Joseph O. Baylen

Studies in English

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The King And The People In Burns And Lady Nairne, With A Coda On Jane Austen’S Favorite Burns Song, Carol Mcguirk Aug 2020

The King And The People In Burns And Lady Nairne, With A Coda On Jane Austen’S Favorite Burns Song, Carol Mcguirk

Studies in Scottish Literature

Explores the treatment of the monarchy, and the Jacobite song tradition, in Robert Burns (who "refuses political silence yet ... embraces indirection, even contradiction") and Caroline Oliphant, Lady Nairne (whose "lyrics highlight Scottish solidarity... offering her readers [and the performers of her songs] an immersion experience in being Jacobite"), with discussion also of Jane Austen's favourite Burns song "“Their Groves of Sweet Myrtle,” suggesting that this is echoed in Austen's Emma.


The Reputation Of David Gray, David Mcvey Aug 2020

The Reputation Of David Gray, David Mcvey

Studies in Scottish Literature

Discusses responses to the poetry, including the death, of the Scottish poet David Gray (1838-1861), primarily with reference to his longer poem The Luggie and his sonnet sequence In The Shadows, exploring the extent to which Gray himself consciously constructed a reputation around his own imminent death from TB, through reference to the career and death of earlier sufferers, including Michael Bruce, Robert Pollock, and John Keats.


Writing The Highland Tour: A Story Of A Deeply Troubling Kind, Andrew Hook Aug 2020

Writing The Highland Tour: A Story Of A Deeply Troubling Kind, Andrew Hook

Studies in Scottish Literature

Review and discussion of Nigel Leask, Stepping Westward: Writing the Highland Tour c.1720-1830 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), from Burt and Pennant to Dr Johnson, William and Dorothy Wordsworth, and John Keats, praising the book as timely, and suggesting that in discussing attitudes to the people of the Scottish Highlands it tells "a story of a deeply troubling kind."


Song: The Emotional Storyteller In The Tales Of Edgar Allan Poe, Sadie O'Conor Jun 2020

Song: The Emotional Storyteller In The Tales Of Edgar Allan Poe, Sadie O'Conor

The Criterion

Edgar Allan Poe argues in his Marginalia column that “indefiniteness is an element … of the true musical expression.” Music is a powerful device for expression because of its intangible yet deeply rooted connection to human emotion; it captures ideas that cannot always be put into words. In a similar way, we can never truly “hear” music if it is only described on a page. Poe used this phenomenon on a literary level to illustrate a character’s deep, almost indescribable longing for something that they would rarely reveal to the other people in their stories. The references to instrumental music …


Introducing C.S. Lewis: Sincerity Personified, Kathryn Lindskoog Apr 2020

Introducing C.S. Lewis: Sincerity Personified, Kathryn Lindskoog

Mythcon Proceedings

An overview of C.S. Lewis’s life, primarily based on Surprised by Joy and Letters, covering the entire period from his birth to death with special emphasis on his education and conversion. Includes personal reminiscences of the author’s own meeting with him in 1956. This is the first chapter of Lindskoog’s biography of Lewis.


Beyond The Fields We Know, Lois Newman Apr 2020

Beyond The Fields We Know, Lois Newman

Mythcon Proceedings

Discussion of the career and writings of Lord Dunsany, precursor of Tolkien and a great influence on H.P. Lovecraft in particular. Emphasizes Dunsany’s unique literary style, inventive and opulent, and focuses primarily on Tales of Three Hemispheres and The King of Elfland’s Daughter.


Ireland In Double Vision: The Allegory Of Seamus Heaney's "Come To The Bower", Janaya Tanner Apr 2020

Ireland In Double Vision: The Allegory Of Seamus Heaney's "Come To The Bower", Janaya Tanner

Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism

No abstract provided.


Full Issue Winter 2020 Apr 2020

Full Issue Winter 2020

Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism

No abstract provided.


Tolkien's Lost Chaucer (2019) By John M. Bowers, Nelson Goering Mar 2020

Tolkien's Lost Chaucer (2019) By John M. Bowers, Nelson Goering

Journal of Tolkien Research

Book review by Nelson Goering of Tolkien's Lost Chaucer (2019) by John M. Bowers


Téacsúil Fionnachtain, Alan Delozier Feb 2020

Téacsúil Fionnachtain, Alan Delozier

Critical Inquiries Into Irish Studies

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A London Leaving, Colette Bryce Feb 2020

A London Leaving, Colette Bryce

Critical Inquiries Into Irish Studies

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Disrupting Mythological Foundations Of Identity: Hugh O'Neill, Making History, And The Troubles, Elizabeth Ricketts Feb 2020

Disrupting Mythological Foundations Of Identity: Hugh O'Neill, Making History, And The Troubles, Elizabeth Ricketts

Critical Inquiries Into Irish Studies

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Nelle 3 (Complete Issue), Nelle Staff Jan 2020

Nelle 3 (Complete Issue), Nelle Staff

Nelle

No abstract provided.