'A Quivering Quick-Sand': Romantic Border Aesthetics,
2021
Northumbria University
'A Quivering Quick-Sand': Romantic Border Aesthetics, David Stewart
Studies in Scottish Literature
Examines Romantic and later treatments of the Solway's distinctive quicksands and bore-tides, from Anne Radcliffe and Allan Cunningham to Edwin Morgan, with special focus on Walter Scott's Solway novels, Redgauntlet and Guy Mannering.
The Natural-Supernatural Solway,
2021
Somerville College, Oxford
The Natural-Supernatural Solway, Fiona Stafford
Studies in Scottish Literature
Explores, through discussion of Burns's letters from Annan Water on the Solway, and in his poems, Burns's treatment of the supernatural, specifically his references to treatment of Kelpies, the mythical Scottish waterhorses seen in the destructive force of Solway tides and storms, carrying this forward to the work of Allan Cunningham, including his story “Judith Macrone, the Prophetess” (1821) and his poem "The Mermaid of Galloway" (1810).
Thomas Mcgrugar’S ‘Letters Of Zeno’: Patriotic Print & Constitutional Improvement In The Caledonian Mercury, 1782-1783,
2021
University of Glasgow
Thomas Mcgrugar’S ‘Letters Of Zeno’: Patriotic Print & Constitutional Improvement In The Caledonian Mercury, 1782-1783, Alex Benchimol
Studies in Scottish Literature
Discusses a series of five newspaper letters by Thomas McGrugar (1751-1810), published in an Edinburgh newspaper the Caledonian Mercury, which urged increased representation of the Scottish burghs in the U.K. parliament, and argues that in them McGrugar used print culture to create an alternative political forum to existing political structures.
Boswell’S 'The Cub' And The Shadow Of Augustan Satire,
2021
University of South Carolina
Boswell’S 'The Cub' And The Shadow Of Augustan Satire, Robert G. Walker
Studies in Scottish Literature
Reassesses James Boswell's satiric poem, and self-portrait, "The Cub" (1762), and Boswell's known affinity for the writings of Sterne, arguing for a wider satiric context in early Augustan satiric poetry, in Pope and especially Swift, and analysing the poem's multiple shifts of satiric viewpoint and allusion.
The Sobieski Stuarts And The Royal Lady’S Magazine: Some Newly-Attributed Tales,
2021
University of Western Australia
The Sobieski Stuarts And The Royal Lady’S Magazine: Some Newly-Attributed Tales, Craig Buchanan
Studies in Scottish Literature
Identifies and describes19 previously unrecorded periodical tales, some in multiple parts, contributed to the Royal Lady's Magazine in 1831-34, by the prolific early Victorian Stuart pretenders John and Charles Sobieski Stuart, providing evidence for the attributions and the brothers' pen-names, and quadrupling their known literary output.
David Lindsay And The Shape Of Inner Being,
2021
Staffordshire University
David Lindsay And The Shape Of Inner Being, Eric Wills
Studies in Scottish Literature
Explores the influence of German Idealist philosophy, specifically Nietzsche and Hegel, in the work of the 20th century Scottish writer David Lindsay (1876-1945), now best-known for his novel A Voyage to Arcturus (1920) with primary attention to the role and character of symbolic imagery in Lindsay's stories, focusing on his novels Sphinx (1923) and Devil’s Tor (1932), and countering the broadly gnostic worldview sometimes attributed to him.
'I'M In Full Control': Muriel Spark's The Finishing School,
2021
Smith College
'I'M In Full Control': Muriel Spark's The Finishing School, Robert E. Hosmer
Studies in Scottish Literature
Discusses the special issues for reviewers treating an author's late work, analyzes Muriel's Spark's last novel, The Finishing School (2004) and its reception, and draws on correspondence in the Spark archives at the National Library of Scotland to document Spark's firm control over the text of her work.
Thomas Campbell, Joanna Baillie, And The New Monthly Magazine,
2021
University of Nottingham
Thomas Campbell, Joanna Baillie, And The New Monthly Magazine, Amy Wilcockson
Studies in Scottish Literature
Reports and transcribes (with illustration) a previously-unpublished letter dated December 2, 1820, to the Scottish poet and dramatist Joanna Baillie from Thomas Campbell, writing as the incoming editor of Colburn's New Monthly Magazine; discusses his role as editor, noting that Baillie's poem "To a Child" appeared in the next issue (and was reciprocated by Campbell's "To a Rainbow" in an anthology Baillie edited in 1823); and places the letter in the context of Campbell's busy professional and fraught family life.
Thomas Campbell’S Epigram On The American Flag And Abolitionist Oratory: Frederick Douglass, William Wells Brown, And William Lloyd Garrison,
2021
University of South Carolina - Columbia
Thomas Campbell’S Epigram On The American Flag And Abolitionist Oratory: Frederick Douglass, William Wells Brown, And William Lloyd Garrison, Patrick Scott, Michael C. Weisenburg
Studies in Scottish Literature
Describes the background to a brief epigram written in 1836 by the Scottish poet Thomas Campbell about the American flag and American slavery, which circulated widely in contemporary newspapers on both sides of the Atlantic, and discusses the use made of Campbell's epigram over the next decades by three leading American anti-slavery orators, Frederick Douglass, William Wells Brown, and William Lloyd Garrison. The contemporary impact of the epigram is illustrated by an early non-authorial transcript recently acquired for the G. Ross Roy Collection.
Serious Play On The Fringes Of Empire: Zoë Wicomb, Thomas Pringle, And The Transnational Author,
2021
College of Charleston
Serious Play On The Fringes Of Empire: Zoë Wicomb, Thomas Pringle, And The Transnational Author, Simon Lewis
Studies in Scottish Literature
Discusses the novel Still Life (2020) by the Scottish/South African writer Zoë Wicomb, which portrays a contemporary novelist researching the life and significance of the Scottish/South African poet Thomas Pringle (1789-1834) through an imaginative collaboration with an early 20th century bellelettristic biographer (referencing Virginia Woolf's imaginative biography Orlando) and with the intervention of two African figures Pringle believed himself to have liberated, the West Indian ex-slave Mary Prince (c. 1788-1833) and Hinza, the Tswana boy memorialized in one of Pringle's best-known South African poems, suggesting that Wicomb's novel (and her oeuvre) present an important transnational version of authorial identity …
Moulding A Persona: The Life And Letters Of William Sharp And Fiona Macleod,
2021
University of Stirling
Moulding A Persona: The Life And Letters Of William Sharp And Fiona Macleod, Michael Shaw
Studies in Scottish Literature
Discusses William F. Halloran's three-volume collected Life and Letters of the Scottish poet and critic William Sharp (1855-1905) and his literary alter ego “Fiona Macleod,” with primary attention to the third and most recent volume and to its significance for students of Scottish literature and the fin-de-siecle.
Contributors To Ssl 47.1,
2021
University of South Carolina
Contributors To Ssl 47.1
Studies in Scottish Literature
Brief biographical notes on contributors to the current issue of the journal.
The Dichotomy Of Nature And Culture In Riders To The Sea,
2021
CUNY Queens College
The Dichotomy Of Nature And Culture In Riders To The Sea, Kayla J. Baur
Publications and Research
Jonathan Millington Synge spent his time on the Aran Islands wandering through the peasantry in the countryside, using his experiences and things he witnessed to inspire his writings. He wrote the play Riders to the Sea to portray the lives of the Aran peasants by showing the way in which they coped with the natural forces surrounding their island through believing in certain cultures. Synge constructs a dichotomy between the belief in the forces of nature and culture stemming from modern Christianity not only to portray the mixture of cultures present among the Aran peasants but also to challenge the …
Review Of "The Origins Of English Revenge Tragedy. George Oppitz-Trotman. Edinburgh Critical Studies In Renaissance Culture. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019. Xiv + 258 Pp. £80.",
2021
Chapman University
Review Of "The Origins Of English Revenge Tragedy. George Oppitz-Trotman. Edinburgh Critical Studies In Renaissance Culture. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019. Xiv + 258 Pp. £80.", Samantha Dressel
English Faculty Articles and Research
A book review of The Origins of English Revenge Tragedy by George Oppitz-Trotman.
The Iron Queen And The Paper Crown: Imperial Anxiety In The Minor Tetralogy,
2021
Concord University
The Iron Queen And The Paper Crown: Imperial Anxiety In The Minor Tetralogy, Gabriel A. Rieger
Selected Papers of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference
No abstract provided.
King Lear And The Unreality Of Countries,
2021
Miami University
King Lear And The Unreality Of Countries, Conner Moore
Selected Papers of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference
No abstract provided.
"O Monstrous Fault, To Harbor Such A Thought!": Physiognomy, Deformity, And Ethics In Literary, Artistic And Screen Depictions Of Richard Iii,
2021
Chattahoochee Technical College
"O Monstrous Fault, To Harbor Such A Thought!": Physiognomy, Deformity, And Ethics In Literary, Artistic And Screen Depictions Of Richard Iii, Dan Mills
Selected Papers of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference
No abstract provided.
Covenant Orthopraxy And Shakespeare's Idea Of The Nation,
2021
University of Michigan - Flint
Covenant Orthopraxy And Shakespeare's Idea Of The Nation, Mary Jo Kietzman
Selected Papers of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference
No abstract provided.
Front Matter,
2021
Heidelberg University
Front Matter, Emily Isaacson
Selected Papers of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference
No abstract provided.
Unthinkable Conditions: Affect And Environment In Romanticism And Speculative Fiction,
2021
CUNY Graduate Center
Unthinkable Conditions: Affect And Environment In Romanticism And Speculative Fiction, Amelia Z. Greene
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
Unthinkable Conditions bridges two literary periods and two theoretical modes in order to illustrate important parallels between historical periods and the writers who attempted to approach the changing environmental conditions of their respective eras. Each chapter names and theorizes a unique form of feeling which then serves as a framework for eco-affective analysis, drawing from existing studies in the environmental humanities and in studies of affect in order to construct a hybrid theoretical model which more fully accounts for the work of the writer treated in each chapter. The central claim of this dissertation is that vital affective innovations accompany …
