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2018

Literature in English, British Isles

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The Early History Of "Why Should We Idly Waste Our Prime" Nov 2018

The Early History Of "Why Should We Idly Waste Our Prime"

Patrick Scott

Discusses varying editorial opinions on the origin and authorship of the radical song, "Why Should We Idly Waste Our Prime," first included in a Burns edition in the 1830s, and undertakes textual comparison between a number of versions of the song printed in the mid-1790s and later, in London, Belfast, and Newcastle, to suggest the ways in which such songs might be adapted and modified to fit changing political circumstances. Current version an unedited prepublication text, not in final form or with pagination.

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The Kilmarnock Census: An Update, Patrick Scott, Allan Young Nov 2018

The Kilmarnock Census: An Update, Patrick Scott, Allan Young

Patrick Scott

Records and describes two further copies of Burns's first book, noted since publication of The Kilmarnock Burns: A Census (2017), one at Mount St Vincent University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, and one in the Scottish Rite Masonic Museum and Library, Lexington, MA, bringing the current total of located extant copies to 86.

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Burns’S Reading Of Milton, Or How Big Was Burns’S Pocket?, Patrick Scott Nov 2018

Burns’S Reading Of Milton, Or How Big Was Burns’S Pocket?, Patrick Scott

Patrick Scott

Locates and describes a copy of Milton's Poetical Works with the ownership signature of Robert Burns, traces its provenance, and assesses the likelihood that it was the "pocket Milton" Burns told William Nicol in June 1787 that he had bought himself and carried with him "perpetually" to study "the dauntless magnanimity; the intrepid, unyielding independance; the desperate daring, and noble defiance of hardship, in that great Personage, Satan."

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Burns And The Edinburgh Gazetteer: A New Resource, Patrick Scott Nov 2018

Burns And The Edinburgh Gazetteer: A New Resource, Patrick Scott

Patrick Scott

A description of the recent digital edition of the Edinburgh Gazetteer (1792-1794), edited by Rhona Brown of the University of Glasgow, and a brief account of Burns's contact with its editor, William Johnston, the contributions to it by Burns and his neighbour Robert Riddell, government hostility to its publication, and the value of the digital version for Burnsians exploring the Scottish political climate of the 1790s.

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William Morris On Prostitution: A Letter Of August 17, 1885, Terry L. Meyers Nov 2018

William Morris On Prostitution: A Letter Of August 17, 1885, Terry L. Meyers

Terry Meyers

No abstract provided.

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G. O. Trevelyan: Morality And The ‘Cambridge University Boat Of 1860, Terry L. Meyers Nov 2018

G. O. Trevelyan: Morality And The ‘Cambridge University Boat Of 1860, Terry L. Meyers

Terry Meyers

No abstract provided.

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An Interview With William Morris, September, 1885: His Arrest And Freedom Of Speech, Terry L. Meyers Nov 2018

An Interview With William Morris, September, 1885: His Arrest And Freedom Of Speech, Terry L. Meyers

Terry Meyers

No abstract provided.

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Robert Burns: A Documentary Volume, Patrick Scott Oct 2018

Robert Burns: A Documentary Volume, Patrick Scott

Patrick Scott

This volume in the long-established Dictionary of Literary Biography series collects primary source materials on Burns’s life, reading, and writing; contemporary descriptions of the places he lived; reviews and selected poetic responses; obituaries; and contextual material on such topics as Ayrshire agriculture, the duties of an excise officer, song-editing, and 1790’s radicalism.  Along with over 300 documents and extracts, the book includes 34 manuscript facsimiles, 45 sidebars on special topics, 10 maps, and over 100 supporting illustrations. The link here is to the preface only, describing the book in more detail; the book itself is available in print, as an …

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New Wine In Old Kings: British Wine Bottle Names And The Old Testament, Steven W. Holloway Jun 2018

New Wine In Old Kings: British Wine Bottle Names And The Old Testament, Steven W. Holloway

Steven W Holloway

No abstract provided.

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Biblical Assyria And Other Anxieties In The British Empire, Steven W. Holloway Jun 2018

Biblical Assyria And Other Anxieties In The British Empire, Steven W. Holloway

Steven W Holloway

The successful “invasion” of ancient Mesopotamia by explorers in the pay of the British Museum Trustees resulted in best-selling publications, a treasure-trove of Assyrian antiquities for display purposes and scholarly excavation, and a remarkable boost to the quest for confirmation of the literal truth of the Bible. The public registered its delight with the findings through the turnstyle- twirling appeal of the British Museum exhibits, and a series of appropriations of Assyrian art motifs and narratives in popular culture - jewelry, bookends, clocks, fine arts, theater productions, and a walk-through Assyrian palace among other period mansions at the Sydenham Crystal …

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Assur Is King Of Persia: Illustrations Of The Book Of Esther In Some Nineteenth-Century Sources, Steven W. Holloway Jun 2018

Assur Is King Of Persia: Illustrations Of The Book Of Esther In Some Nineteenth-Century Sources, Steven W. Holloway

Steven W Holloway

The marriage of archaeological referencing and picture Bibles in the nineteenth century resulted in an astonishing variety of guises worn by the court of Ahasuerus in Esther. Following the exhibition of Neo-Assyrian sculpture in the British Museum and the wide circulation of such images in various John Murray publications, British illustrators like Henry Anelay defaulted to Assyrian models for kings and rulers in the Old Testament, including the principal actors in Esther, even though authentic Achaemenid Persian art had been available for illustrative pastiche for decades. This curious adoptive choice echoed British national pride in its splendid British Museum collection …

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Harold Pinter’S Other Places (Staged Reading), Katherine Weiss May 2018

Harold Pinter’S Other Places (Staged Reading), Katherine Weiss

Katherine Weiss

ETSU Patchwork Players will perform a staged reading of Other Places – 3 Plays by Harold Pinter in Studio 205 of Campus Center Building at 7:30 p.m. free of charge. The reading is under the direction of Theatre & Dance faculty member Melissa Shafer and advising of Department of Literature & Language Chair Dr. Katherine Weiss, acting as dramaturg.

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Exploding Bombs: Masculinity And War Trauma In Sam Shepard’S Drama, Katherine Weiss May 2018

Exploding Bombs: Masculinity And War Trauma In Sam Shepard’S Drama, Katherine Weiss

Katherine Weiss

This paper examines violence and masculinity in Sam Shepard's work as a symptom of war trauma, apparent in his characterization of several of his male characters as war veterans and the violent language accompanying his other characters. War becomes a cultural disease infesting and destroying the family on Shepard's stage.

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The Comedy Of Scholarship: Review Of Hugh Kenner’S Flaubert, Joyce And Beckett: The Stoic Comedians, Katherine Weiss May 2018

The Comedy Of Scholarship: Review Of Hugh Kenner’S Flaubert, Joyce And Beckett: The Stoic Comedians, Katherine Weiss

Katherine Weiss

Review of Flaubert, Joyce and Beckett: The Stoic Comedians. by Hugh Kenner

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Beckett's "Happy Days": Rewinding And Revolving Histories, Katherine Weiss May 2018

Beckett's "Happy Days": Rewinding And Revolving Histories, Katherine Weiss

Katherine Weiss

Excerpt: Beckett is keenly interested in ways individuals unsuccesfully atempt to disown their past. His explorations into this reflect his awareness of being a survivor of the Second World War.

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Archive Fever, Archive Failure: Exploring The ‘It’ In Beckett’S Theatre, Katherine Weiss May 2018

Archive Fever, Archive Failure: Exploring The ‘It’ In Beckett’S Theatre, Katherine Weiss

Katherine Weiss

Using Jacques Derrida's 1995 study, Archive Fever, Weiss examines how Samuel Beckett's Come and Go and Footfalls stage the failed acts of archiving. In both plays, memories are either unknown or not named. Either way, without being named they cannot be collected, catalogued or made public. Despite this, the women haunting his plays seem struck by archive fever. Ultimately, Beckett stages the tension between the desire to remain silent with the desire to archive.

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Selected Essays On Robert Burns, G. Ross Roy, Patrick Scott, Elizabeth A. Sudduth, Jo Durant Mar 2018

Selected Essays On Robert Burns, G. Ross Roy, Patrick Scott, Elizabeth A. Sudduth, Jo Durant

Patrick Scott

This book collects essays and talks about Robert Burns by the Burns scholar G. Ross Roy (1924-2013).  Along with introductions to such well-known Burns poems as "Tam o' Shanter" and "Auld Lang Syne," it includes essays discussing Burns's attitudes to the French Revolution, politics, and religion, his love-letters to Clarinda, The Merry Muses of Caledonia, poems written about Burns, and the editing of Burns's works. The volume opens with some autobiographical reflections about reading and working on Burns that Ross Roy recorded shortly before his death, and it concludes with an illustrated interview about his six decades as a …

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Women’S Literacy In Early Modern Spain And The New World, Ed. By Anne J. Cruz And Rosilie Hernández, Kirsten Schultz Mar 2018

Women’S Literacy In Early Modern Spain And The New World, Ed. By Anne J. Cruz And Rosilie Hernández, Kirsten Schultz

Kirsten Schultz

No abstract provided.

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What Do You Give To A God Who Has Everything? "In The Bleak Mid-Winter", Leslie A. Engelson Dec 2017

What Do You Give To A God Who Has Everything? "In The Bleak Mid-Winter", Leslie A. Engelson

Leslie Engelson

A discussion of Christina Rosetti and her poem "A Christmas Carol". A famous musical setting of this poem is by Gustav Holst and is where the title "In the Bleak Mid-Winter originated. Another setting, by Harold Darke is sung and broadcast every Christmas by the Kings College Choir at Cambridge. This essay also includes a personal account of the author's experience with the poem and it's meaning to her. The full text of the poem as well as the Holst version of the carol is also included.

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