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Allen D. Breck Award Winner: Anne Southwell, Metaphysical Poet, Hugh Wilson

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T.S. Eliot has remarked that "[n]ot only is [it] extremely difficult to define metaphysical poetry, but [it is] difficult to decide what poets practise it and in which of their verses." Although the terminology was initially ad hoc, post hoc, and somewhat hostile, the adjective has been transvalued and it “stuck.” But ever since John Dryden accused John Donne of affecting “the metaphysics,” and “perplexing the fair sex with nice speculations of philosophy,” and long before Samuel Johnson wrote that the metaphysical poets were “men of learning,” there has been a tacit assumption that women did not …

Review Essay: Miran Bozovic. An Utterly Dark Spot: Gaze And Body In Early Modern Philosophy, Shankar Raman

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Miran Bozovic. An Utterly Dark Spot: Gaze and Body in Early Modern Philosophy. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000.

[From The Editor] : Special Issue : Modern Chinese Prose Poetry = [編者的話] : 專題 : 中國現代散文詩, Leo, Tak Hung Chan

Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 現代中文文學學報

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Liu Bannong And The Forms Of New Poetry, Michel Hockx

Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 現代中文文學學報

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The Lioness In The Text: Mary Of Egypt As Immasculated Female Saint, Onnaca Heron

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The oral legend of Saint Mary of Egypt, whose death is assigned the date of about A.D. 430, was first recorded in Greek by Sophronius, bishop of Jerusalem, in the mid-sixth century; roughly two centuries later, Paulus, the deacon of the church of holy Naples, translated Sophronius’s text into Latin. While closely following his Greek source in the Latin translation, Paulus the deacon inserted a “Prologus auctoris,” an introductory allusion to the blinding and healing of Tobit by the archangel Raphael

In Search Of Muhammad, Sandra Toenies Keating

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

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Frontmatter, Providence College

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

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Ex Corde Ecclesiae: The Catholic Identity Debates In Context, Rev. J. Bryan Hehir

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

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Spirit Prison In A Tree: Metamorphoses From Ovid To The Tempest, Judith Matthews Craig

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

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And The Word Was Made Stone: Romanesque And Gothic Lyons At The Time Of Rabelais, Kathryn E. Wildgen

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

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From Homer’S Odyssey, Book Vi, Edward Mccrorie

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

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Standing In The Sun: A Life Of J.M. W. Turner, Alice H.R.H. Beckwith

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

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Pompeii: Public And Private, R. Thomas Mcdonald

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

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The Roman Historians, John M. Lawless

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

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Washing, Edward Mccrorie

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

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The Year 1000: What Life Was Like At The Turn Of The First Millenium: An Englishman's World, Richard J. Grace

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

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Christian Mythmakers, Richard Homer

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

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The Twilight Of The Intellectuals: Culture And Politics For The Era Of The Cold War, William E. Hudson

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

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Darwin’S Spectre: Evolutionary Biology In The Modern World, Mark D. Nowel, O.P.

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

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The Columbia History Of Western Philosophy, Vance Morgan

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

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Father India: How Encounters With An Ancient Culture Transformed The Modern West, Ann W. Norton

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

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No Religion Is An Island: The Nostra Aetate Dialogues, William Paul Haas

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

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A Historical Handbook Of Major Biblical Interpreters, David Lewis Stokes

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

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Notes On Contributors, Providence College

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

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The Grand Strategy Of Phillip Ii, Albert J. Loomie, S.J.

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

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Review Of Women Of The Press In Nineteenth-Century Britain, Barbara Onslow

The George Eliot Review Online, ISSN: 2831-5375

'Everything in the literary world is done by favour and connections'. Mary Howitt's assessment of the importance of contacts in the London of the 1840s is borne out in Barbara Onslow's wide ranging and fascinating study of nineteenth century women journalists. 'Journalism was an open profession', as she observes, 'but it was a masculine one' and women who sought access to it relied on a variety of networks. Her book is, indirectly, a superb study of female networking. Family connections helped women like Mary Howitt, Anna Maria Hall, Isabella Beeton and Alice Meynell, each of whom teamed up with her …

Japanese Branch Report 1999, Kyoko Kishimoto

The George Eliot Review Online, ISSN: 2831-5375

The third annual convention of the George Eliot Fellowship of Japan was held at the beautiful Bunka Women's University in Musashino, Tokyo, on Saturday, 27 November 1999. On the rather cold day with eighty-seven active participants, the morning session began with a welcome speech by Yoko Yanagi, Dean of the Literature Department of Bunka Women's University. Among the three papers, the first was 'Eppie's Innocent Challenge in Si/as Mamer' by a graduate student at Edinburgh University, Yuko Nakamura. She thought that Eppie, as an eighteen-year-old woman, challenged mid-Victorian ideology with her marriage by rejecting that system of patriarchy and class …

Review Of The Letters Of George Henry Lewes, Vol. Iii, With New George Eliot Letters

The George Eliot Review Online, ISSN: 2831-5375

This helpful, clearly edited supplement to the original two-volume Letters of George Henry Lewes, which appeared in 1995, actually contains more letters by George Eliot than from Lewes: 79 by her and 54 by him, of which 92 (47 by him and 45 by her) are published for the first time. As William Baker says in his introduction, the letters cover each phase of their lives: her work with the Westminster Review, his with the Leader, their meeting and life together, his death and its devastating impact upon her. There are no dramatic discoveries, but the thirteen letters Lewes wrote …

"The Woman At The Window", Barbara Hardy

The George Eliot Review Online, ISSN: 2831-5375

Dear Editors

May I write a postscript to Terence R. Wright's review of Perspectives on Self and Community in George Eliot: Dorothea's Window in your last number? He says I 'come down strongly on lesser critics who make the mistake of locating Dorothea's vision ... in Chapter 80 ... in the boudoir rather than the marital bedroom', but I meant to include myself amongst misinterprets, in writing 'When I first read the novel I made this mistake'.

Review Of George Eliot's Middlemarch: A Guide For Students And Readers Of The Novel, Josie Billington

The George Eliot Review Online, ISSN: 2831-5375

Among certain readers of this review, those already equipped with personal computers capable of launching Cruise missiles at the twitch of a mouse, my opening paragraph will, if anything, pucker lips. But among the uninitiated it will probably furrow brows. For some, it will be more than enough to learn that the minimum system requirements for using this CD-ROM are a Pentium processor running at 100 MHz; a Graphics display card capable of 800 x 600 resolution in HiColor (16 bit); the installation of QuickTime 3 (which can be downloaded from the disc, if necessary); an 8 x speed CD-ROM …