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Literature in English, British Isles

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2017

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A Neglected Source For Burns Manuscripts? Some Old Guides For Autograph Collectors Nov 2017

A Neglected Source For Burns Manuscripts? Some Old Guides For Autograph Collectors

Patrick Scott

Discusses the continuing value of older, prephotographic, facsimiles of Burns's manuscripts, and illustrates a variety of examples of Burns's handwriting from Victorian guide for autograph collectors, and the evidence they can provide to Burns editors. .

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The Text Of Robert Burns's 'What Ails Ye Now': An Early Holograph Manuscript From The Roy Collection Nov 2017

The Text Of Robert Burns's 'What Ails Ye Now': An Early Holograph Manuscript From The Roy Collection

Patrick Scott

Discusses different 19th century claims about whether Burns wrote the poem "What ails ye now" (Kinsley 119B, also known as "Robert Burns's Answer," "A Letter to a Taylor," "Reply to a Trimming Epistle from a Tailor," and "Answer to a Trimming Epistle"), which was not published in Burn's lifetime, and for which no manuscript in Burns's hand is known; describes and illustrates, a contemporary or near-contemporary manuscript in another hand that has numerous variants from the early printed text; and examines the possible relationship between the two texts and their implications for the authorship debate.

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The Kilmarnock Burns And Book History, Patrick Scott Nov 2017

The Kilmarnock Burns And Book History, Patrick Scott

Patrick Scott

Based on the recent census of the surviving copies of Robert Burns's first book, Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (Kilmarnock, 1786) (Young and Scott, 2017), discusses and illustrates the different forms in which it has been preserved, contrasting the original wrappers with later fine bindings, but also illustrating several contemporary bindings with which the original owners replaced the temporary wrappers, suggesting that these give a better indication of the social range of Burns's first readers.

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Dr John Mackenzie And The Irvine Miscellany Nov 2017

Dr John Mackenzie And The Irvine Miscellany

Patrick Scott

--following up a marginal annotation in the late G. Ross Roy's annotated copy of Egerer's Burns bibliography, reprints an 1815 letter by Burns's friend Dr John Mackenzie in the Irvine and County of Ayr Miscellany, which included the first publication of Burns's short poem inviting Mackenzie to a masonic dinner, and also of Burns's letter to Mackenzie, dated January 11, 1787.

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The Rise And Fall Of The New Edinburgh Theatre Royal, 1767-1859: Archival Documents And Performance History, Judith Bailey Slagle Aug 2017

The Rise And Fall Of The New Edinburgh Theatre Royal, 1767-1859: Archival Documents And Performance History, Judith Bailey Slagle

Judith Bailey Slagle

Excerpt: In 1859, the Edinburgh house of Wood and Company published a Sketch of the History of the Edinburgh Th eatre-Royal in honor of its fi nal performance and closing, its author lamenting that “Th is House, which has been a scene of amusement to the citizens of Edinburgh for as long as most of them have lived, has at length come to the termination of its own existence” (3).

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Appropriating The Restoration: Fictional Place And Time In Rose Tremain’S Restoration: A Novel Of Seventeenth-Century England, Judith Bailey Slagle Aug 2017

Appropriating The Restoration: Fictional Place And Time In Rose Tremain’S Restoration: A Novel Of Seventeenth-Century England, Judith Bailey Slagle

Judith Bailey Slagle

Excerpt: It was the sixties—albeit the 1660s—a time for tricksters, rakes, subversive women and sexual energy on the stage. It was a time of fun for those with the means to partake of it. The “good old days” are, of course, always better from a distance, but writers on through the twentieth century found the Restoration an apt setting for their fictions about prostitution, political intrigue, and tragic or comic historical events, especially for the cinema.

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Four Case Studies In Teaching Sermons At A Public University, Robert Ellison Apr 2017

Four Case Studies In Teaching Sermons At A Public University, Robert Ellison

Robert Ellison

In this paper, delivered at the March 2017 meeting of the Northeast Modern Language Association, I discuss my experience with teaching sermons at Marshall University, a public institution in Huntington, WV. I have done this in four classes over the past several years: “Good Essays” (a 200-level general-education course in the English Department); “God Talk” (another gen-ed course, team-taught with a faculty member in religious studies); “Sermon: Text and Performance” (a 400-level class in the Honors College); and “The Victorian Spoken Word” (a graduate seminar in English). The audiences were very different, as were the texts we used (Newman, Spurgeon, …

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"Not In Egerer"? (Some Of) What We Still Don't Know About Burns Bibliography Mar 2017

"Not In Egerer"? (Some Of) What We Still Don't Know About Burns Bibliography

Patrick Scott

A talk written for the planning workshop on Burns bibliography at the National Library of Scotland, March 16, 2017, convened by Gerard Carruthers and Robert Betteridge, in association with the University of Glasgow's Centre for Robert Burns Studies and the AHRC-funded project Editing Burns for the 21st Century.

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Poetic Science: Wonder And The Seas Of Cognition In Bacon And Pericles, Jean E. Feerick Dec 2016

Poetic Science: Wonder And The Seas Of Cognition In Bacon And Pericles, Jean E. Feerick

Jean Feerick

This book is about the complex ways in which science and literature are mutually-informing and mutually-sustaining. It does not cast the literary and the scientific as distinct, but rather as productively in-distinct cultural practices: for the two dozen new essays collected here, the presiding concern is no longer to ask how literary writers react to scientific writers, but rather to study how literary and scientific practices are imbricated. These specially-commissioned essays from top scholars in the area range across vast territories and produce seemingly unlikely unions: between physics and rhetoric, math and Milton, Boyle and the Bible, plague and plays, among …

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