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Literature in English, British Isles

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2003

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Several Letters By Tennyson And His Family, Terry L. Meyers Nov 2003

Several Letters By Tennyson And His Family, Terry L. Meyers

Arts & Sciences Articles

"In the years since Cecil Y. Lang and Edgar F. Shannon edited Tennyson's letters (1981-1990), I have been able to acquire for my collection several letters by Tennyson and by other members of his family. I print those here, along with some other material relating to Tennyson..."

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Conrad Scholarship Under New-Millennium Western Eyes, Michael Lackey Jul 2003

Conrad Scholarship Under New-Millennium Western Eyes, Michael Lackey

English Publications

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Bodies Of Type: The Work Of Textual Production In English Printers' Manuals, Lisa M. Maruca Apr 2003

Bodies Of Type: The Work Of Textual Production In English Printers' Manuals, Lisa M. Maruca

English Faculty Research Publications

This essay examines the shifting, ideologically situated and contested representations of print texts and technologies in two representative printers' manuals: Joseph Moxon's 1683 Mechanick Exercises on the Whole Art of Printing and John Smith's 1755 The Printer's Grammar. The construction of orderly print is supported in each by changing discourses of sexuality and gender. Moxon's manual celebrates the heterosexual working bodies of print, the laborers whose physical production of print is as important as the text supplied by writers. In Smith, however, the naturalized gendering of a now invisible print privileges only the Author, whose disembodied intellect transcends the …

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Review Of Jane Austen On Film And Television: A Critical Study Of The Adaptations, Lynda A. Hall Mar 2003

Review Of Jane Austen On Film And Television: A Critical Study Of The Adaptations, Lynda A. Hall

English Faculty Articles and Research

A review of Jane Austen on Film and Television: A Critical Study of the Adaptations by Sue Parrll.

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The Power Of The Passive Self In English Literature, 1640-1770 By Scott Gordon (Review), Rachel Carnell, Scott Gordon Jan 2003

The Power Of The Passive Self In English Literature, 1640-1770 By Scott Gordon (Review), Rachel Carnell, Scott Gordon

English Faculty Publications

Reviews the book 'The Power of the Passive Self in English Literature, 1640–1770,' by Scott Paul Gordon.

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Donne, Doubt And The Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, Brooke Conti Jan 2003

Donne, Doubt And The Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, Brooke Conti

English Faculty Publications

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Prophecy And Anti-Popery In Victorian London: John Cumming Reconsidered, Robert Ellison, Carol Herringer Jan 2003

Prophecy And Anti-Popery In Victorian London: John Cumming Reconsidered, Robert Ellison, Carol Herringer

English Faculty Research

John Cumming (1807-1881) was the popular minister of the Crown Court Church of Scotland in London's Covent Garden. This article examines his views on the end times and the Roman Catholic Church, two of the favorite subjects of his preaching.

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Ladies Reading And Writing: Eighteenth-Century Women Writers And The Gendering Of Critical Discourse, Karen Gevirtz Jan 2003

Ladies Reading And Writing: Eighteenth-Century Women Writers And The Gendering Of Critical Discourse, Karen Gevirtz

Department of English Publications

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My Worldy Goods Do Thee Endow: Widowhood, Economic Conservatism, And The Mid- And Late Eighteenth-Century Novel, Karen Gevirtz Jan 2003

My Worldy Goods Do Thee Endow: Widowhood, Economic Conservatism, And The Mid- And Late Eighteenth-Century Novel, Karen Gevirtz

Department of English Publications

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William Morris On Prostitution: A Letter Of August 17, 1885, Terry L. Meyers Jan 2003

William Morris On Prostitution: A Letter Of August 17, 1885, Terry L. Meyers

Arts & Sciences Articles

"The following letter by William Morris refer to the St. James's Hall Conference and Hyde Park demonstration of August 21 and 22, 1885. The letter is not in []orman Kelvin' The Collected Letters of William Morris, 3 vol. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984t but appeared in the Pall Mall Gazette, August 19, 1885, p. 12..."

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The Mill On The Floss, Elisabeth Rose Gruner Jan 2003

The Mill On The Floss, Elisabeth Rose Gruner

English Faculty Publications

The Mill on the Floss was the second novel Marian Evans published under the pseudonym George Eliot. Born in 1819 to a prosperous estate manager, Marian Evans spent her youth much as her heroine did, in reading and outdoor activities. In 1850 Evans moved to London where she worked as a translator and editor, and fell in love with the writer and editor George Henry Lewes, a married man. Contemporary marriage law prevented Lewes from obtaining a divorce from his adulterous wife; the law held that, having condoned the adultery previously, he now had no grounds for divorce. Knowing this, …

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Sexual Slander And Working Women In "The Roaring Girl", Mario Digangi Jan 2003

Sexual Slander And Working Women In "The Roaring Girl", Mario Digangi

Publications and Research

Though scholarship of the early modern era focuses on the character of Moll Frith when considering the gender ideology contained in Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker's "The Roaring Girl," the play's other female characters are also of interest. The "citizen wives" of the play are women who, though married, work outside the home. Their special status in the emerging capitalist marketplace of the early modern era gave rise to unique anxieties about their economic power and sexual availability. These anxieties in turn made these women especially susceptible to slander against their sexual reputation and thus respectability in the community. An …

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