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Turning “Bad Jews Into Worse Christians”: Hermann Adler And The London Society For Promoting Christianity Amongst The Jews, Robert Ellison Oct 2019

Turning “Bad Jews Into Worse Christians”: Hermann Adler And The London Society For Promoting Christianity Amongst The Jews, Robert Ellison

Robert Ellison

This paper explores how sermons contributed to Jewish-Christian relations in Victorian England. I begin with a rhetorical analysis of sermons preached on behalf of the London Society for Promoting Christianity among the Jews, the largest and best known missionary organization of its kind. I then examine a collection of sermons in which Hermann Adler, then rabbi of London’s Bayswater Synagogue and later Chief Rabbi of the British Empire, pushes back against their efforts, offering the “true explanations” of passages which, in his view, had been improperly employed by Christian preachers. Finally, I trace a kind of “feedback loop” in which …

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Orlando: A Biography, Virginia Woolf, Suzanne Raitt, Ian Blyth Sep 2019

Orlando: A Biography, Virginia Woolf, Suzanne Raitt, Ian Blyth

Suzanne Raitt

Orlando, a novel loosely based on the life of Vita Sackville-West, Virginia Woolf's lover and friend, is one of Woolf's most playful and tantalizing works. This edition provides readers with a fully collated and annotated text. A substantial introduction charts the birth of the novel in the romance between Woolf and Sackville-West, and the role it played in the evolution and eventual fading of that romance. Extensive explanatory notes reveal the extent to which the novel is embedded in Woolf's knowledge of Sackville-West, her family history and her writings. Thorough annotation of every literary and historical allusion in the text …

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Comments On Amy Clampitt’S 'Matoaka', Terry L. Meyers Jul 2019

Comments On Amy Clampitt’S 'Matoaka', Terry L. Meyers

Terry Meyers

No abstract provided.

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Marital Law In He Knew He Was Right, Suzanne Raitt Apr 2019

Marital Law In He Knew He Was Right, Suzanne Raitt

Suzanne Raitt

Bringing together leading and newly emerging scholars, The Routledge Research Companion to Anthony Trollope offers a comprehensive overview of Trollope scholarship and suggests new directions in Trollope studies. The first volume designed especially for advanced graduate students and scholars, the collection features essays on virtually every topic relevant to Trollope research, including the law, gender, politics, evolution, race, anti-Semitism, biography, philosophy, illustration, aging, sport, emigration, and the global and regional worlds.

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"Contagious Ectasy": May Sinclair's War Journals, Suzanne Raitt Apr 2019

"Contagious Ectasy": May Sinclair's War Journals, Suzanne Raitt

Suzanne Raitt

The Great War stimulated a sudden growth in the novel industry, and the trauma of the war continued to reverberate through much of the fiction published in the years that followed its inglorious end. The essays in this volume, by a number of leading critics in the field, considers some of the best-known, and some of the least-known, women writers on whose work the war left its shadow. Ranging from Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, and H.D. to Vernon Lee, Frances Bellerby, and Mary Butts, the contributors challenge current thinking about women's responses to the First World War and explore the …

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Science, Poetry, And Defining Life In The Romantic Era: “Life! What Is Life?”, Michelle Trantham Apr 2019

Science, Poetry, And Defining Life In The Romantic Era: “Life! What Is Life?”, Michelle Trantham

Michelle Trantham

What defines humanity? Is it the soul? The body? In the early nineteenth century,
these questions were not purely philosophical. Science, religion, politics, and literature
were changing rapidly, and the question of “What is Life?” was central to the public and
private pursuit of knowledge. One way to track the evolution of the question through the
Romantic period is to look at the work of Dr. John Hunter, the originator of ‘vitalism’,
which was the subject in the infamous the Lawrence-Abernethy debates. The question of
life, and the nature of life, permeated the literary, scientific, and cultural spheres,
influencing Romanticism …

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“Boadicea Onstage Before 1800, A Theatrical And Colonial History.” Studies In English Literature 1500-1900 49.3 (Summer 2009): 595-614., Wendy Nielsen Apr 2019

“Boadicea Onstage Before 1800, A Theatrical And Colonial History.” Studies In English Literature 1500-1900 49.3 (Summer 2009): 595-614., Wendy Nielsen

Wendy Nielsen

This essay examines the theatrical legacy of Boadicea, the British warrior queen defeated by the Romans around 61 AD, in three plays: John Fletcher's "The Tragedy of Bonduca, or the British Heroine" and two unrelated dramas titled "Boadicea" by Charles Hopkins and Richard Glover. Performance histories attempt to explain why audiences respond to Boadicea with ambivalence. Each production underplays the defeated queen and gives starring roles to one or more of her daughters and a male lead, who contrast with Boadicea's supposed brutality and provide British audiences with lessons about ways to rule in an ostensibly civilized fashion.

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Swinburne’S Conception Of Shelley, Terry L. Meyers Jan 2019

Swinburne’S Conception Of Shelley, Terry L. Meyers

Terry Meyers

No abstract provided.

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Shelley’S Influence On Atalanta In Calydon, Terry L. Meyers Jan 2019

Shelley’S Influence On Atalanta In Calydon, Terry L. Meyers

Terry Meyers

No abstract provided.

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Second Thoughts On Rossetti: Tennyson’S Revised Letter Of October 12, 1882, Terry L. Meyers Jan 2019

Second Thoughts On Rossetti: Tennyson’S Revised Letter Of October 12, 1882, Terry L. Meyers

Terry Meyers

No abstract provided.

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An Interview With Tennyson On Poe, Terry L. Meyers Jan 2019

An Interview With Tennyson On Poe, Terry L. Meyers

Terry Meyers

No abstract provided.

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"Facts Are Chiels": Some New (?) Facts (?) About Robert Burns, Patrick Scott Jan 2019

"Facts Are Chiels": Some New (?) Facts (?) About Robert Burns, Patrick Scott

Patrick Scott

A talk on an invited topic sponsored by the Centre for Robert Burns Studies, University of Glasgow, and held at the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum, Alloway, on January 12, 2019. Among topics discussed are variant texts of the song "Yestreen I had a pint o wine" [The gowden Locks of Anna], and the date, background and manuscript sources for "Fragment: Esopus to Maria." The talk is not fully referenced, and only selected powerpoint slides are included, but fuller references will be provided if and when topics are written up for formal publication. A section of the talk about the long-lost …

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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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