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Critical Histories Of Omniscience, Rachel Buurma
Critical Histories Of Omniscience, Rachel Buurma
Rachel S Buurma
This chapter of New Directions in the History of the Novel tells the story of the literary-critical invention of the Victorian novel’s narrative omniscience. Beginning with Victorian reviewers’ references to novelistic omniscience, the essay moves through early versions of narrative omniscience penned by post-Jamesian novel theorists and critics, who saw the talkative, inartistic, “omniscient author” as inessential to the novel and excluded it from their accounts of novelistic form. It marks a major shift in the 1960s, when the Anglo-American tradition began to see omniscience as formal and central to the Victorian novel’s form, tracing this shift through Foucauldian “panoptic …
Fluellen’S Foreign Influence And The Ill Neighborhood Of King Henry V, Ruben Espinosa
Fluellen’S Foreign Influence And The Ill Neighborhood Of King Henry V, Ruben Espinosa
Ruben Espinosa
This essay considers Shakespeare’s attention to Fluellen’s foreignness in King Henry V amid the play’s exploration of a nebulous cultural/national English identity, and it argues that the play’s emphasis on cultural and religious difference serves to underscore Elizabethan England’s tenuous sense of self. The imagined English fellowship under God that Henry evokes is at odds with the divided community at the margins of his play and the fractured identity of Shakespeare’s own England. Through Fluellen, then, difference is marked as concurrently strange and surprisingly stable.
Shakespeare And Immigration, Ruben Espinosa, David Ruiter
Shakespeare And Immigration, Ruben Espinosa, David Ruiter
Ruben Espinosa
The essays in this collection examine the role of, and reaction to, the issue of immigration in Shakespeare’s drama and culture. This volume not only seeks to interrogate how the massive influx of immigrants during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I influenced perceptions of English identity, and gave rise to anxieties about homeland security in early modern England, but they also aim to understand how our current concerns surrounding immigration shape our perception of the role of the alien in Shakespeare’s work and expand the texts in new and relevant directions to a contemporary audience.
Hunting Love And Catching Cupid In Spenser’S ‘March’ And Nashe’S Choise Of Valentines, Rachel Hile
Hunting Love And Catching Cupid In Spenser’S ‘March’ And Nashe’S Choise Of Valentines, Rachel Hile
Rachel E. Hile
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Providential Empiricism: Shaping The Self In Eighteenth-Century Children's Literature, Adrianne Wadewitz
Providential Empiricism: Shaping The Self In Eighteenth-Century Children's Literature, Adrianne Wadewitz
Adrianne Wadewitz
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