War Reporter,
2014
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Melancholy, Medicine, And Religion In Early Modern England: Reading The Anatomy Of Melancholy: Book Review,
2014
Nanyang Technological University
Melancholy, Medicine, And Religion In Early Modern England: Reading The Anatomy Of Melancholy: Book Review, Samara Anne Cahill
Religion in the Age of Enlightenment
In Melancholy, Medicine and Religion in Early Modern England: Reading The Anatomy of Melancholy (2010), Mary Ann Lund challenges what she sees as the excesses, on one hand, of attempting to shoehorn Robert Burton's idiosyncratic text into a single genre and, on the other, of reader-response interpretations of the Anatomy. Lund tackles the Anatomy's notorious unwieldiness by treating the text as a guidebook intended to combat all types of melancholy for any type of reader. In other words, the excessiveness of the Anatomy's form suggests the generosity of an author and pastor who sought to help everyone, …
Basnage De Beauval's "Reformation" Of The Dictionnaire Universel,
2014
Grand Valley State University
Basnage De Beauval's "Reformation" Of The Dictionnaire Universel, David Eick
Religion in the Age of Enlightenment
Henri IV's Edict of Nantes (1598) granted official tolerance to French Protestants and ended the Wars of Religion that had raged throughout France during the second half of the sixteenth century. On October 22, 1685, Louis XIV revoked the Edict of Nantes. Some two hundred thousand French Protestants sought exile in neighboring countries and in North America. The economic effects of the Protestant diaspora were disastrous for France; its cultural effects, unexpected and far-reaching. Much of the French publishing industry set up shop outside of France's national borders, in London, Geneva, Rotterdam, and Amsterdam, where publishers circumvented French regulations and …
Paicambu Cemetery,
2014
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Ars Poetica,
2014
University of Alabama at Birmingham
The Digger,
2014
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Saint Gerard,
2014
University of Alabama at Birmingham
A Change Of Heart,
2014
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Third Trimester,
2014
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Nashe’S Poem For Ferdinando Stanley, Lord Strange,
2014
California State University - San Bernardino
Nashe’S Poem For Ferdinando Stanley, Lord Strange, Jennifer Andersen
English Faculty Publications
This article makes a case for the dedication of "The Choise of Valentines" to Ferdinando Stanley, Lord Strange, and explores some of its ramifications for the interpretation of the poem. Beyond the significance of this identification for the poem, establishing the dedication to Lord Strange and Nashe’s participation in elite literary coteries would also be more broadly significant for Nashe studies.
Narrativa Oscura: The Open Question Of Tennessee Williams's "One Arm",
2014
Boise State University
Narrativa Oscura: The Open Question Of Tennessee Williams's "One Arm", Jacqueline O'Connor
English Literature Faculty Publications and Presentations
In the introduction to Tennessee Williams’s Collected Stories (1985), Gore Vidal suggests the stories “are the true memoir of Tennessee Williams. Whatever happened to him, real or imagined, is here. Except for an occasional excursion into fantasy, he sticks close to life as he experienced or imagined it” (xx). At the time of the volume’s publication, just two years after Williams’s death, critical attention to the short fiction had focused primarily on its significance as apprentice work and as source material for the plays that made him famous; when Dennis Vannatta published the first book-length study of the short fiction …
The Rest,
2014
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Johnson And The Birds,
2014
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Waiting For St. Brendan,
2014
University of Alabama at Birmingham
The Empty Link: Zen Meditative Harmonics And Intimations Of Enlightenment In Pope1s Essay On Man And Shakespeare's Merchant Of Venice,
2014
Indiana University Kokomo
The Empty Link: Zen Meditative Harmonics And Intimations Of Enlightenment In Pope1s Essay On Man And Shakespeare's Merchant Of Venice, John G. Rudy
Religion in the Age of Enlightenment
Commenting on its status as "unmistakably a poem of its period;' Frank Brady complains that Alexander Pope's An Essay on Man . has not fared as well among readers as have other representative epics, specifically The Prelude and Paradise Lost: "While we still retain enough of the Romantic attitude toward life to understand Wordsworth, and enough knowledge, at least, of Christianity to understand Milton, the philosophical basis of Pope's viewpoint has disappeared todaf' The problem, according to Brady, lies in the relationship between reason, the quality which lends the period one of its names, and philosophical optimism, the basis …
Milton In Context: Book Review,
2014
Brigham Young University
Milton In Context: Book Review, Angela Eward-Mangione
Religion in the Age of Enlightenment
John Milton evades literary categorization more than any of his early modern contemporaries. William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe primarily elicited fame through their contributions to English drama and poetry. John Donne is recognized as a master of both the sonnet and the sermon, though his love poetry remains a significant object of study as well. Milton, however, who wrote primarily as a poet and a pamphleteer, also worked as a government employee, actively engaging his social and political circumstances perhaps more than any other literary writer in early modern England. Milton's activism later led T. S. Eliot, when repenting his …
Theatre Of Crisis: The Performance Of Power In The Kingdom ·Of Ireland, 1662-1692: Book Review,
2014
Saint Leo University
Theatre Of Crisis: The Performance Of Power In The Kingdom ·Of Ireland, 1662-1692: Book Review, Dave Mcginnis
Religion in the Age of Enlightenment
Patrick Tuite's book Theatre of Crisis ostensibly details the political and social underpinnings of play development and performative aesthetics in Ireland between 1662 and 1692. From a purely historical point of view, this alone would merit the writing of the text as a point of serious study since Irish drama has traditionally lagged behind its English counterpart, even during the very years on which Tuite focuses. In pursuing this subject, Tuite has crafted a text that not only encapsulates the aesthetic preferences of the relevant era on Ireland's dominant stage at the time, the Smock Alley Theatre, but he has …
Of Broomsticks, The "Moderns;' And Self-Expression,
2014
Paris IV, Sorbonne
Of Broomsticks, The "Moderns;' And Self-Expression, Nathalie Zimpfer
Religion in the Age of Enlightenment
Broomsticks have a history of making their way into Jonathan Swift's works. One might recall that such is the object of Peter's theologico-interpretive rantings in A Tale of a Tub, in which "after some pause the Brother so often mentioned for his Erudition, who was very skill'd in Criticisms, had found in a certain Author, which he said should be nameless, that the same Word which in the Will is called Fringe, does also signify Broom-stick." More conspicuously, said object is also at the heart of A Meditation upon a Broomstick, an amusing opuscule whose full title, A …
Concerning The Mysteries Of The Egyptians,
2014
Brigham Young University
Concerning The Mysteries Of The Egyptians, J. V. B. M. V. St.
Religion in the Age of Enlightenment
I t is a tragedy for the investigating intellect to have both its own resilience and the power to lift itself to something higher chained when it attempts to track the progress of human knowledge in the annals of the world, the shaping of the intellect, and the refinement of morals. The scholar is fettered in his desire to collect data, which contributed to the enlightenment of nations and which, so to speak, fermented the human mind so that it was able to lift itself up into higher regions and throw off prejudices. He is hindered in his work when …
A Foray Into Library Digital Publishing: The British Virginia Project At Virginia Commonwealth University,
2014
Virginia Commonwealth University
A Foray Into Library Digital Publishing: The British Virginia Project At Virginia Commonwealth University, Kevin Farley
VCU Libraries Faculty and Staff Publications
The British Virginia project involves a collaboration between Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Libraries and faculty members in the departments of English and History at VCU, with the project led by Dr. Joshua Eckhardt (English). As of April 25, 2013, the project has published its first title: an online edition of a sermon preached to the Virginia Company by William Symonds. To ensure the success of this project, a number of details required careful planning, including library outreach, IT involvement, and digital publishing protocols. Our example has deepened a move toward a dynamic and creative digital environment for researchers across campus. …
