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Audio Cassette Review, Ruth Harris, Gabriel Woolf

The George Eliot Review Online, ISSN: 2831-5375

Gabriel WooIf' s second cassette of readings from George Eliot begins and ends with her poetry. However we assess the value of her poems, there can be no doubt that they raise issues that were fundamental to her. Nor can there be any doubt that the poetry is illuminated for us by the voice of the reader. His tenderly nostalgic interpretation of the Brother and Sister sequence is enlivened by glints of humour as George Eliot describes her devoted dependence on her "little man / Of forty inches", or reveals her excitement when she catches the' 'silver perch" - her …

Review Of George Eliot (Marian Evans): A Literary Life, Kerry Mcsweeney

The George Eliot Review Online, ISSN: 2831-5375

Many publishers run series of 'introductions' to English literature - handy roll-calls of the canon, beginning with Chaucer and ending with Virginia Woolf or thereabouts - and inevitably George Eliot has to be there. One is, of course, glad for the small army of academics for whom gainful employment is thus provided, but the question naturally arises whether so many books covering the same ground serve any useful purpose.

In Professor McSweeney's case the answer is yes. His book is rewarding because he is sufficiently master of his subject to make it his own. He forms his own judgements, chooses …

Review Of The Mill On The Floss, Michelene Wandor

The George Eliot Review Online, ISSN: 2831-5375

In the radio dramatization of a novel, it is left to the actors to persuade us that they are the individuals whose roles they undertake, but it remains the responsibility of the scriptwriter to select and organize those roles with respect for the overall vision of the originating artist. How well, then, did Radio Four's recent five-episode dramatization of The Mill on the Floss serve George Eliot?

It is axiomatic that, without Maggie Tulliver, there would be no Mill on the Floss; but, in this most autobiographical of George Eliot's novels, it is not Maggie who is omnipresent, but the …

Annual Report 1990

The George Eliot Review Online, ISSN: 2831-5375

The year opened, as it always does, with the least exciting event - the Annual General Meeting. All four officers were re-elected and we also re-elected for a further three year term our supportive and generous President Jonathan Ouvry.

The next event was much more exciting. In April Gabriel Woolf made his 21st annual visit to Warwickshire to present the ever popular programme of Readings from the novels. 'Enter the Aunts' proved to be one of the most popular he has ever done, and his own sense of humour and sensitivity of selection made the most of those wonderful aunts, …

Review Of Meriden: Its People And Houses Part 1, Doreen M.K. Agutter

The George Eliot Review Online, ISSN: 2831-5375

This publication, said to be 'the first book ever written about Meriden', has come to our attention because of 'The George Eliot Connection' and because it was researched and written by a member of the George Eliot Fellowship. The historical research, dating back to the Middle Ages, is very thorough, and there are numerous photographs, plans and maps. The prose is somewhat breathless, as if copious notes have been written up with great rapidity, and this impairs its clarity. There are some errors in proof: the Clarkes, not the Evanses, must have been living at The Cottage in 1850. The …

Sonnet For George Eliot, Ralph E. Avery

The George Eliot Review Online, ISSN: 2831-5375

Great George, when she was youthful Mary Ann,

Strove faithfully to read the mind of God.

At length she sought Him in the soul of Man,

As Trinity’s sweet garden path she trod.

And so with strong, diffusive, voice she sings

The need for each to love his fellow man.

To us her caring soul great comfort brings,

And urges us to do the best we can

To buoy the sinking heart, assuage the wound.

Her passionate art transcends the written word;

True, lasting immortality she’s found;

Sweet echoes of her love can still be heard.

So has she joined …

Hagiographical Parody In The Ysengrimus, Dennis J. Billy

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Considered the first great expression of medieval Latin beast epic, the Ysengrimus, a mid-twelfth-century poem of 6,574 verses, has been hailed as a masterpiece of lampooning monastic parody and wit. Composed by an anonymous author (probably a monk of St. Peter's, Blandigny) in the environs of the then burgeoning Flemish city of Ghent, the poem follows the exploits of Ysengrimus, a ravenous wolf-monk of dubious intelligence whose unruly gastric and sexual appetites make him more often the prey than predator in his sundry endeavors. Until now, one area that has successfully eluded the attention of most Ysengrimus scholars is …

Sir Clyomon And Sir Clamydes: A Revaluation, Peter T. Hadorn

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Long dismissed as an immature play with no intrinsic merit, Sir Clyomon and Sir Clamydes (ca. 1570-1583) quite thoroughly debates issues of contemporary political interest. This essay seeks to restore Clyomon from its undistinguished position in Renaissance studies by showing how it dramatically supports Queen Elizabeth's use of chivalry as an ideology of power and order and criticizes military adventurism. By reading this play as a political text, in this essay I employ the methodologies of New Historicism, which identifies literature as only one of many cultural discourses taking part in the negotiation of power. "Representations of the world in …

Review Essay: Tom Scott, Thomas Muntzer: Theology And Revolution In The German Reformation, Albert L. Winkler

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Tom Scott, Thomas Muntzer: Theology and Revolution in the German Reformation, Macmillan, 1989, xix, 203 pp., ill., biblio., index, $29.95.

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Garnerings 譯藪 90-91, Garnerings Editorial Board

Garnerings 譯藪

This year's Garnerings is a tribute to the resourcefulness and industry of the graduating class of 1991. They appear to have actually managed to fulfill the high expectations of Michael Leung, let alone those of the rest of us. For that we are very much in their debt. Their biggest challenge is to persuade more people actually to read Garnerings and - better still - to buy it!

"A Strange Liking": Our Admiration For Criminals, Martha Grace Duncan

Faculty Articles

This article explores noncriminals' admiration for the lawbreaker. Drawing on literature, films, history, and psychoanalysis, the article seeks to delineate and explain this paradox. Each part of the article adopts a different approach to the subject of admiration for criminals. Part II, "Reluctant Admiration," sets the stage by presenting evidence that such admiration, and conflict over it, are pervasive. Parts III and IV present two quite different strategies that noncriminals employ to cope with their inner conflict over criminality. Thus, Part III, "Rationalized Admiration," depicts noncriminals who express undisguised enjoyment in, and reverence for, criminals. These noncriminals justify their attraction …

Aristotle's Critique Of Mimesis: The Romantic Prelude, Terryl Givens

English Faculty Publications

The most notable element of Plato's theory of art, or at least the most memorable, is his censorship of poetry from the ideal state (Republic III: 398; X: 607). However Plato's argument is construed, it is enlightening to note the domestication to which it is invariably subjected. Since Aristotle's theory is eminently more amenable to our contemporary appreciation for art, and, in one form or another, is judged more central to the history of Western literature, Plato's attack is dispensed with after due characterization as ironic, unmanageably ambiguous, valid only in a most limited context, or excusable in the light …

A Comparative Study Of The Images Of Women In Taha Husain's The Call Of The Curlew And Hardy's Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Pervine Yehia Al-Refai

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Review Essay: Ruth Martin, Witchcraft And The Inquisition In Venice, 1550-1650, Mary R. O'Neil

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Ruth Martin, Witchcraft and the Inquisition in Venice, 1550-1650, Basil Blackwell, 1989, 263 pp., ill., biblio., index, $55.00.

Review Essay: Walter Liedtke, The Royal Horse And Rider: Painting, Sculpture, And Horsemanship, 1500-1800, John F. Moffitt

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Walter Liedtke, The Royal Horse and Rider: Painting, Sculpture, and Horsemanship, 1500-1800, Abaris, 1989, 336 pp., over 300 b & w and 34 color illus., biblioo., $65.00.

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Review Essay: Kevin Brownlee And Walter Stephens, Eds., Discourses Of Authority In Medieval And Renaissance Literature, Michael Rudick

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Kevin Brownlee and Walter Stephens, eds., Discourses of Authority in Medieval and Renaissance Literature, University Press of New England, 1989, x, 309 pp., biblio., index, $35.00.

Review Essay: Richard Dutton, William Shakespeare: A Literary Life, William F. Gentrup

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Richard Dutton, William Shakespeare: A Literary Life, St. Martin's Press, 1989, xii, 180 pp., biblio., index, $35.00.

Review Essay: Francis X. Newman, Ed., Social Unrest In The Late Middle Ages: Papers Of The Fifteenth Annual Conference Oof The Center For Medieval And Early Renaissance Studies, Melanie V. Shirk

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Francis X. Newman, ed., Social Unrest in the Late Middle Ages: Papers of the Fifteenth Annual Conference of the Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, vol. 9, 1986, 148 pp., ill., $16.00.

Review Essay: Peter Nicholson, An Annotated Index To The Commentary On Gower's Confessio Amantis, Katherine S. Gittes

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Peter Nicholson, An Annotated Index to the Commentary on Gower's Confessio amantis, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 62, State University of New York, 1989, 593 pp., $35.00.

Review Essay: Robert Mcmahon, Augustine's Prayerful Ascent: An Essay On The Literary Form Of The Confessions, Wilson G. Baroody

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Robert McMahon, Augustine's Prayerful Ascent: An Essay on the Literary Form of the Confessions, University oof Georgia Preess, 1989, 200 pp., biblio., index, $27.50.

Review Essay: Leon Battista Alberti, Dinner Pieces: A Translation Of The Intercenales, W. Scott Blanchard

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Leon Battista Alberti, Dinner Pieces: A Translation of the Intercenales, trans. and ed. David Marsh, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies and The Renaissance Society of America, 1987, ix, 268 pp., ill., biblio., index, $20.00.

Review Essay: Cindy L. Vitto, The Virtuous Pagan In Middle English Literature, Gary D. Schmidt

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Cindy L. Vitto, The Virtuous Pagan in Middle English Literature, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 79, Part 5, 1989, 97 pp., biblio., index, $15.00

Review Essay: John D. Bernard, Ceremonies Of Innocence: Pastoralism In The Poetry Of Edmund Spenser, Steven Max Miller

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John D. Bernard, Ceremonies of Innocence: Pastoralism in the Poetry of Edmund Spenser, Cambridge University Press, 1989, ix, 242 pp., biblio., $42.50.

Review Essay: Retha M. Warnicke, The Rise And Fall Of Anne Boleyn: Family Politics At The Court Of Henry Viii, Hugh T. Lovin

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Retha M. Warnicke, The Rise and Fall of Anne Boleyn: Family Politics at the Court of Henry VIII, Cambridge University Press, 1989, xi, 326 pp, ill., biblio., index, $10.95.

Gaspara Stampa's Poetry For Performance, Janet L. Smarr

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During the mid-sixteenth century in Italy, when a remarkable number of women joined in the production of poetry, one of the channels open to their pursuit of intellectual life and fame was the Venetian saloon. There music and poetry mingled as poems were frequently sung or recited before an audience rather than read privately in silence. The poetry of Gaspara Stampa was produced for this milieu. Published in 1554, a year after her death, her collection of more than three hundred poems has been approached in two main ways: as the autobiographical self-expression of a passionate woman and more recently …

Review Essay: Ernesto Grassi And Maristella Lorch, Folly And Insanity In Renaissance Literature, Silvia R. Fiore

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Ernesto Grassi and Maristella Lorch, Folly and Insanity in Renaissance Literature, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 1986, 128 pp., biblio., index, $18.00.

The Fable In Medieval Literature, Ashraf Abdel Fattah Eissa

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George Eliot Birthday Lucheon: The Toast To The Immortal Memory, Ted Veasey

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As a local historian I have been thinking to what extent did George Eliot portray Nuneaton - more especially in her most local book Scenes o/Clerical Life - and how good a historian was she in this work.

Essential dates, first of all. George Eliot was born in 1819 and wrote Scenes in 1857- 58. She sets the events of Amos Barton and J and s Repentance some 25 years before the date of writing; that is roughly 1830 when she was a young girl of some eleven years of age. Mr. Gilfil' s Love Story starts in 1820 but …