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Convict Voices: Women, Class, And Writing About Prison In Nineteenth-Century England, Anne Schwan

University of New Hampshire Press: Open Access Books

In this lively study of the development and transformation of voices of female offenders in nineteenth-century England, Anne Schwan analyzes a range of colorful sources, including crime broadsides, reform literature, prisoners' own writings about imprisonment and courtroom politics, and conventional literary texts, such as Adam Bede and The Moonstone. Not only does Schwan demonstrate strategies for interpreting ambivalent and often contradictory texts, she also provides a carefully historicized approach to the work of feminist recovery. Crossing class lines, genre boundaries, and gender roles in the effort to trace prisoners, authors, and female communities (imagined or real), Schwan brings new insight …

The Right To Write; Or, Colley Cibber And The Drury-Lane Monster, Melissa Bloom Bissonette

English Faculty/Staff Publications

In lieu of an abstract, here is the chapter's first paragraph:

During the eighteenth century, it was a matter of some dispute whether Colley Cibber (1671-1757), actor, manger, playwright, and poet, had raised the business of theatre to an art or lowered the art of drama to a business. Though officially the King's servants, the Drury Lane actors and managers had always made their living by commercial success, not patronage. Yet Colley Cibber's very public attempts to turn a profit, please the public, and still rise in stature among men of letters, made him repeatedly the focus and emblem of …

"I Am A Living Enigma - And You Want To Know The Right Reading Of Me": Gender Anxiety In Wilkie Collins's The Haunted Hotel And The Guilty River, Hannah Allford

MA in English Theses

This paper discusses gender anxiety in two of Wilkie Collins's novellas, The Haunted Hotel and The Guilty River.As each of Collins's novella was written near the turn of the nineteenth century, commonly known as the Fin de Siècle, the author explores the social construction - and subsequent subverting - of Victorian notions of genderideology in each text. Arguing that the novella's emphasis on marginalized characters demands scholarly attention and literary worth, the author next investigates three discourses through which traditional genderspheres are subverted. In examining each novella's use of embedded narratives, discussion of science (specifically chemicals), and portrayal of …

Nashe’S Poem For Ferdinando Stanley, Lord Strange, Jennifer L. Andersen

English Faculty Publications

Of "The Choise of Valentines," editor R. B. McKerrow says, "There can, I fear, be little doubt that this poem is the work of ThomasNashe" (V, 141). From the 1590s through the seventeenth century, the poem was not printed but was circulated privately in manuscript copies among a select coterie audience. Five of six extant manuscript copies begin with a dedicatory sonnet, one of which includes a dedication "To the right Honorable the lord S." and another 'To the right HonourableLordStrainge" (Beal 356), offering clues to the specific coterie for which the poem was composed. Although some editors and critics …

Not Trivial: How Studying The Traditional Liberal Arts Can Set You Free By Laurie Endicott Thomas Leawood, Ks Freedom Of Speech Publishing, 2013 Isbn: 1938634993, Sarah Dierlam

Journal of South Texas English Studies

No abstract provided.

Review Of The War Against Grammar By David Mulroy Portsmouth, Nh: Boynton/Cook Publishers, Inc., 2003 Isbn: 0-86709-551-2, David Aguilar

Journal of South Texas English Studies

No abstract provided.

Like The Odyssey, Only Different: Olympian Omnipotence Versus Karmic Adjustment In Pynchon's Vineland, David P. Rando

English Faculty Research

In Vineland, Pynchon recalls the Odyssey in order to foreground crucial differences from its Western model of comprehending narrative outcomes as acts of Olympian or divine omnipotence. Instead, Vineland does something innovative with narrative power, establishing specific karmic character relationships that potentially ameliorate personal and national grievances and suffering and broadening our understanding of narrative power and outcomes beyond the heavy hand of judgment in order to register gentle karmic nudges.

Good Writing, Sally Jarzab

Journal of South Texas English Studies

No abstract provided.

The Irrevocable, Bruce Bond

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 62

This Thing We Do, Kimberly Bruss

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 65

Midnight, Quinn Lewis

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 101

Fortunes Of Men, Melissa Range

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 121-123

In Two Hundred Years, Cody Walker

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 146

Self-Portrait As The Allegory Of Painting, Chelsea Woodard

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 154-155

The Lost Boys, Jason Walker

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 189-192

War Reporter, John Saad

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 193-198

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, 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, Sheila Black

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 60

Ars Poetica, Troy Jollimore

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 95-96

The Digger, Mary Moore

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 111

Saint Gerard, Brent Newsome

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 113-114

A Change Of Heart, R T. Smith

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 138-139

Third Trimester, Cody Walker

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 144

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", 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, Richard Jackson

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 90-91

Johnson And The Birds, R T. Smith

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 134-135

Waiting For St. Brendan, Eric Bilman

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 178-181

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 …