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Shylock Celebrates Easter, Brooke Conti
Shylock Celebrates Easter, Brooke Conti
English Faculty Publications
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Slipping From Secret History To Novel, Rachel K. Carnell
Slipping From Secret History To Novel, Rachel K. Carnell
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The secret history, a genre of writing made popular as opposition political propaganda during the reign of Charles ii, has been the subject of renewed critical interest in recent years. By the mid-1740s, novelists were using markers of secret histories on the title pages of their works, thus blurring the genres. This forgotten history of the secret history can help us understand why Ian Watt and other twentieth-century critics tended to end their narratives of the rise of the “realist” Whig novel with the works of the Tory novelist Jane Austen. In particular, the blended narrative perspective that Watt praises …
Burbage's Father's Ghost, James J. Marino
Burbage's Father's Ghost, James J. Marino
English Faculty Publications
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Eliza Haywood And The Narratological Tropes Of Secret History, Rachel K. Carnell
Eliza Haywood And The Narratological Tropes Of Secret History, Rachel K. Carnell
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Eliza Haywood’s novels and political writings are often considered in isolation from each other; however, there is a discursive thread that links her fictional and political works: her engagement with secret history. Across her career, in her novels as well as her political pamphlets and periodicals, Haywood deploys two important narratological tropes of the secret historian: the tendency to reveal the secrets of public figures while concealing the author’s own political position and the tendency to muse self-reflexively about the author’s own role as a writer of history. Haywood’s facility in deploying these dual narratological devices of concealment and confession …
Illustrations And Text: Storyworld Space And The Multimodality Of Serialized Narrative, Laura Daniel Buchholz
Illustrations And Text: Storyworld Space And The Multimodality Of Serialized Narrative, Laura Daniel Buchholz
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This essay examines the interaction between picture and text in the construction of the narrative spaces in George W. M. Reynolds's Mysteries of London (1844–45) and William Harrison Ainsworth's Jack Sheppard (1839) . Building on previous discussions from Gabriel Zoran (1984) and David Herman ( Story Logic, 2002) concerning the process by which space is constructed in verbal/written texts, this essay examines how such theories function in conjunction with the illustrations that often accompanied Victorian serialized narratives in their original publication. Specifically, I consider the interaction between the verbal and visual channels in the construction of interior rooms presented in …
Clarissa: An Abridged Version (Review), Rachel K. Carnell
Clarissa: An Abridged Version (Review), Rachel K. Carnell
English Faculty Publications
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Othello's "Malignant Turk" And George Manwaring's "A True Discourse": The Cultural Politics Of A Textual Derivation, Imtiaz Habib
Othello's "Malignant Turk" And George Manwaring's "A True Discourse": The Cultural Politics Of A Textual Derivation, Imtiaz Habib
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A critique is presented of the play "Othello" by William Shakespeare, focusing on a reference from Othello's final speech to an incident in Aleppo, Syria that the author attributes to the manuscript essay "A True Discourse" by George Manwaring, a companion of English adventurer Sir Anthony Sherley. Early 17th century British history, Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, and Queen Elizabeth I are mentioned, as well as references in the works to Turks and the censorship of English literature.
Reading Austen's Lady Susan As Tory Secret History, Rachel K. Carnell
Reading Austen's Lady Susan As Tory Secret History, Rachel K. Carnell
English Faculty Publications
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The Arrest Of Caleb Williams: Unnatural Crime, Constructive Violence, And Overwhelming Terror In Late Eighteenth-Century England, Gary Dyer
English Faculty Publications
In the later eighteenth century, the twelve justices of the supreme English common law courts ruled repeatedly that blackmailing a man by threatening to accuse him of sodomitical practices constituted the capital offense of robbery; the judges focused on the overwhelming terror they claimed was unique to this threat. This legal doctrine is a covert presence in William Godwin's novel Caleb Williams (1794). Ferdinando Falkland, fearing that his secret is about to be revealed by Caleb, accuses him of having 'robbed' him, and even though Falkland's secret is literally murder, the mutual persecution and mutual terrorizing that ensue evoke the …
The Protestant Whore: Courtesan Narrative & Religious Controversy In England, 1680-1750 (Review), Rachel K. Carnell
The Protestant Whore: Courtesan Narrative & Religious Controversy In England, 1680-1750 (Review), Rachel K. Carnell
English Faculty Publications
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The Seduction Narrative In Britain By Katherine Binhammer. (Review), Rachel Carnell, Katherine Binhammer
The Seduction Narrative In Britain By Katherine Binhammer. (Review), Rachel Carnell, Katherine Binhammer
English Faculty Publications
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Review Of Early Modern Nationalism And Milton's England By David Loewenstein And Paul Stevens, Brooke Conti
Review Of Early Modern Nationalism And Milton's England By David Loewenstein And Paul Stevens, Brooke Conti
English Faculty Publications
The article reviews the book Early Modern Nationalism and Milton's England, edited by Paul Stevens and David Loewenstein.
Review Of The Literary Culture Of The Reformation: Grammar And Grace / Liturgy And Literature In The Making Of Protestant England By Brian Cummings And Timothy Rosendale, Brooke Conti
English Faculty Publications
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Review Of The Voice Of The Hammer: The Meaning Of Work In Middle English Literature, Gregory M. Sadlek
Review Of The Voice Of The Hammer: The Meaning Of Work In Middle English Literature, Gregory M. Sadlek
English Faculty Publications
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The Anachronistic Shrews, James J. Marino
The Anachronistic Shrews, James J. Marino
English Faculty Publications
A single line in the Folio text of The Taming of the Shrew seems to point to dates decades apart. A performer identified by his speech heading as 'Sinklo,' the actor John Sincklo or Sincler, recalls a stage character named 'Soto,' presumably the character from John Fletcher's Women Pleased. Sinklo's name is used to argue for an early date for the play, sometimes as early as 1592, while the allusion to Soto suggests a date around 1620. Scholars intent on setting an early date for the 1623 text and on preserving its priority to the 1594 Taming of a Shrew …
'That Which Marreth All': Constancy And Gender In The Virtuous Octavia, Yvonne Bruce
'That Which Marreth All': Constancy And Gender In The Virtuous Octavia, Yvonne Bruce
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This article reports on the play "The Virtuous Octavia," by Samuel Brandon, and the role of women in it. The article discusses the play in relation to the feminine ideal of the Christian Stoic, noting its role as a model for women in literature and drama. Information is also provided on constancy, suffering, and verse.
Delarivier Manley's Possible Children By John Tilly, Rachel Carnell
Delarivier Manley's Possible Children By John Tilly, Rachel Carnell
English Faculty Publications
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Review Of Milton In Popular Culture By Laura Lunger Knoppers And Gregory M Colón, Brooke Conti
Review Of Milton In Popular Culture By Laura Lunger Knoppers And Gregory M Colón, Brooke Conti
English Faculty Publications
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The Devotions: Popular And Critical Reception, Brooke Conti
The Devotions: Popular And Critical Reception, Brooke Conti
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Revising Tragic Conventions: Aphra Behn's Turn To The Novel, Rachel Carnell
Revising Tragic Conventions: Aphra Behn's Turn To The Novel, Rachel Carnell
English Faculty Publications
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Feminism And The Public Sphere In Anne Brontë'S The Tenant Of Wildfell Hall, Rachel Carnell
Feminism And The Public Sphere In Anne Brontë'S The Tenant Of Wildfell Hall, Rachel Carnell
English Faculty Publications
The bipartite narrative structure of Anne Brontë's 'The Tenant of Wildfell Hall' (1848) has been interpreted recently as an attempt to subvert the traditional Victorian rubric of separate spheres. Reconsidering this novel in terms of Jürgen Habermas's concept of the 18th-century public sphere broadens the historical context for the way we understand the separate spheres. Within Brontë's critique of Victorian gender roles, we may identify a reluctance to address the Chartist-influenced class challenges to an older version of the public good. In hearkening back to an 18th-century model of the public sphere, Brontë espouses not so much a 20th-century-style challenge …
Clarissa's Treasonable Correspondence: Gender, Epistolary Politics, And The Public Sphere, Rachel Carnell
Clarissa's Treasonable Correspondence: Gender, Epistolary Politics, And The Public Sphere, Rachel Carnell
English Faculty Publications
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"Lost Books" And Publishing History: Two Annotated Lists Of Imprints For The Fiction Titles Listed In The Circulating Library Catalogs Of Thomas Lowndes (1766) And M. Heavisides (1790), Of Which No Known Copies Survive, Edward Jacobs, Antonia Forster
"Lost Books" And Publishing History: Two Annotated Lists Of Imprints For The Fiction Titles Listed In The Circulating Library Catalogs Of Thomas Lowndes (1766) And M. Heavisides (1790), Of Which No Known Copies Survive, Edward Jacobs, Antonia Forster
English Faculty Publications
Almost immediately upon the British Library's publication of The Eighteenth Century Short Title Catalogue on CD-ROM (hereafter ESTC), there emerged criticism and controversy respecting the design and execution of that monumental bibliography, and of its access software. However, amidst these discussions and those surrounding the on line version, little notice has been taken of the historical inaccuracies inevitably entailed by the fact that ESTC and other union-catalog-type bibliographies only include books of which copies have survived. Certainly, for most scholars it makes sense to give bibliographical priority to cataloging books of which we still have copies, since those are the …
Love, Labor, And Sloth In Chaucer’S Troilus And Criseyde, Gregory M. Sadlek
Love, Labor, And Sloth In Chaucer’S Troilus And Criseyde, Gregory M. Sadlek
English Faculty Publications
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The 'Vanity Fair' Of Nineteenth-Century England: Commerce, Women, And The East In The Ladies’ Bazaar, Gary Dyer
The 'Vanity Fair' Of Nineteenth-Century England: Commerce, Women, And The East In The Ladies’ Bazaar, Gary Dyer
English Faculty Publications
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Laughter, Game, And Ambiguous Comedy In The South English Legendary, Gregory M. Sadlek
Laughter, Game, And Ambiguous Comedy In The South English Legendary, Gregory M. Sadlek
English Faculty Publications
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Carnival And Loitering In The Waggoner, Gary Dyer
Carnival And Loitering In The Waggoner, Gary Dyer
English Faculty Publications
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Unwitnessed By Answering Deeds: 'The Destiny Of Nations' And Coleridge's Sibylline Leaves, Gary Dyer
Unwitnessed By Answering Deeds: 'The Destiny Of Nations' And Coleridge's Sibylline Leaves, Gary Dyer
English Faculty Publications
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The South English Legendary As Rose Window, Gregory M. Sadlek
The South English Legendary As Rose Window, Gregory M. Sadlek
English Faculty Publications
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Now Goe Seeke Thy Peace In Warre’: Jonson’S Stoic Consolatio, Gregory M. Sadlek
Now Goe Seeke Thy Peace In Warre’: Jonson’S Stoic Consolatio, Gregory M. Sadlek
English Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.