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Front Matter, Emily Isaacson Mar 2018

Front Matter, Emily Isaacson

Selected Papers of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference

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Language As Communication Vs. Language As Art: J.R.R. Tolkien And Early 20th-Century Radical Linguistic Experimentation, Dimitra Fimi Mar 2018

Language As Communication Vs. Language As Art: J.R.R. Tolkien And Early 20th-Century Radical Linguistic Experimentation, Dimitra Fimi

Journal of Tolkien Research

This article situates Tolkien’s “A Secret Vice” (and its accompanying notes and papers) within the cultural and intellectual milieu of the early 20th century. It claims that at the heart of Tolkien’s exploration in this material is the question of language as communication vs. language as art. It argues that Tolkien’s language invention navigates the (perceived) binary between a utilitarian aim for language invention (contemporary International Auxiliary Languages) vs. an aesthetic linguistic pursuit (contemporary Modernist and other avant-garde linguistic experimentation), by choosing a third (middle) way. It examines Tolkien's linguistic invention alongside the work of Sapir, Jespersen, Joyce, Stein, and …

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Robert Burns’S Politics And The French Revolution, G. Ross Roy Mar 2018

Robert Burns’S Politics And The French Revolution, G. Ross Roy

Selected Essays on Robert Burns by G. Ross Roy

A sympathetic survey of Burns's changing political ideas before, during and after the French Revolution

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Preface, Patrick Scott Mar 2018

Preface, Patrick Scott

Selected Essays on Robert Burns by G. Ross Roy

A brief introduction to Ross Roy's Selected Essays with a note on editorial procedure

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Details On Printed Volume: Prelims, Dedication, Abbreviations, Contents Page, Patrick Scott, Elizabeth Sudduth, Jo Durant Mar 2018

Details On Printed Volume: Prelims, Dedication, Abbreviations, Contents Page, Patrick Scott, Elizabeth Sudduth, Jo Durant

Selected Essays on Robert Burns by G. Ross Roy

Consolidated prelims pages from the print edition of this book, giving seties and publication information (including ISBN), the dedication to Lucie Roy (1924-2018), abbreviations, and contents page.

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Robert Burns: A Self-Portrait, G. Ross Roy Mar 2018

Robert Burns: A Self-Portrait, G. Ross Roy

Selected Essays on Robert Burns by G. Ross Roy

An essay looking at Burns as he portrays himself in his letters, notable for looking at how different correspondents bring out different aspects of his character.

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The Bible In Burns And Scott, G. Ross Roy Mar 2018

The Bible In Burns And Scott, G. Ross Roy

Selected Essays on Robert Burns by G. Ross Roy

Surveys and compares the use of Biblical reference and allusion in two major Scottish writers, Robert Burns and Walter Scott

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Editing Robert Burns In The Nineteenth Century, G. Ross Roy Mar 2018

Editing Robert Burns In The Nineteenth Century, G. Ross Roy

Selected Essays on Robert Burns by G. Ross Roy

Surveys and assesses the major Burns editors from James Currie and Robert Cromek, through Allan Cunningham and Robert Chambers, to Scott Douglas, and the Chambers-Wallace and Henley-Henderson editions.

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Robert Burns And The Brash And Reid Chapbooks, G. Ross Roy Mar 2018

Robert Burns And The Brash And Reid Chapbooks, G. Ross Roy

Selected Essays on Robert Burns by G. Ross Roy

A survey and discussion of the poems and songs by Robert Burns included in one of the major Scottish late-18th century chapbook series, published by Brash and Reid of Glasgow, and collected in their series Poetry Original and Selected.

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Robert Burns And The Merry Muses Of Caledonia, G. Ross Roy Mar 2018

Robert Burns And The Merry Muses Of Caledonia, G. Ross Roy

Selected Essays on Robert Burns by G. Ross Roy

An introduction for a reprint of the first edition of The Merry Muses of Caledonia, collection of (sometimes) bawdy songs, including some by Burns, first printed in 1799, probably in Edinburgh, for the Crochallan Fencibles. an Edinburgh social club to which Burns belonged.

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Addenda To "Publications By G. Ross Roy: A Checklist", Patrick Scott Mar 2018

Addenda To "Publications By G. Ross Roy: A Checklist", Patrick Scott

Selected Essays on Robert Burns by G. Ross Roy

The original checklist of Ross Roy’s published writings, 1954-2011, compiled by Patrick Scott and Justin Mellette, appeared in Robert Burns and Friends, ed. Scott and Simpson (2012), 162-180. The list here notes a few earlier items retrieved from Ross Roy’s own files and updates the checklist to cover more recent publications, through 2015.

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Sources And Acknowledgements, Patrick Scott Mar 2018

Sources And Acknowledgements, Patrick Scott

Selected Essays on Robert Burns by G. Ross Roy

A consolidated list with the pubication history of each essay, original publication venue, copyright status (which is G. Ross Roy, and Estate of G. Ross Roy/Studies in Scottish Literature unless otherwise specified), and where permission from the original publisher(s) or their successors.

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The “Sighan, Cantan, Grace-Proud Faces”: Robert Burns And The Kirk, G. Ross Roy Mar 2018

The “Sighan, Cantan, Grace-Proud Faces”: Robert Burns And The Kirk, G. Ross Roy

Selected Essays on Robert Burns by G. Ross Roy

A sympathetic examination of Burns's kirk satires and his attitude to religion.

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Robert Burns And “Clarinda”, G. Ross Roy Mar 2018

Robert Burns And “Clarinda”, G. Ross Roy

Selected Essays on Robert Burns by G. Ross Roy

A sympathetic introduction to Burns's relationship with Mrs Agnes (Nancy) McLehose, and their correspondence under the names "Sylvander" and "Clarinda"

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“Tam O’ Shanter”, G. Ross Roy Mar 2018

“Tam O’ Shanter”, G. Ross Roy

Selected Essays on Robert Burns by G. Ross Roy

A short introduction to the background and history of one of Burns's greatest and most dramatic poems

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"Auld Lang Syne", G. Ross Roy Mar 2018

"Auld Lang Syne", G. Ross Roy

Selected Essays on Robert Burns by G. Ross Roy

A short introductory account of the background, sources, and music, of one of the best-known Burns songs.

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Poems And Songs Spuriously Attributed To Robert Burns, G. Ross Roy Mar 2018

Poems And Songs Spuriously Attributed To Robert Burns, G. Ross Roy

Selected Essays on Robert Burns by G. Ross Roy

A broad-ranging discussion of poems not written by Burns that have been wrongly attributed to him by later writers and editors, with quoted examples.

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"The Mair They Talk, I'M Kend The Better": Poems About Robert Burns To 1859, G. Ross Roy Mar 2018

"The Mair They Talk, I'M Kend The Better": Poems About Robert Burns To 1859, G. Ross Roy

Selected Essays on Robert Burns by G. Ross Roy

A broad-ranging discussion, with quoted examples, of the many poems written to and about Burns from his lifetime up to the centenary of his birth in 1859.

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Editing Burns's Letters In The Twentieth Century, G. Ross Roy Mar 2018

Editing Burns's Letters In The Twentieth Century, G. Ross Roy

Selected Essays on Robert Burns by G. Ross Roy

Discusses the history of Burns's letters, the major groups and collections, their editors, and the editions done by J. deLancey Ferguson (1931) and Ross Roy himself (1985).

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Collecting Burns: A Conversation, G. Ross Roy, Patrick Scott Mar 2018

Collecting Burns: A Conversation, G. Ross Roy, Patrick Scott

Selected Essays on Robert Burns by G. Ross Roy

Illustrated transcript of extended interview made in which Ross Roy discusses the development of the G. Ross Roy Collection of Robert Burns, at the University of South Carolina, with comments on some important individual items and the story of how he acquired them. Interview videotaped in December 2008, at the University of South Carolina; first shown at a plenary session at the University of Glasgow’s Robert Burns 250th Anniversary conference, January 2009, and again during the South Carolina conference in April. The illustrations here are selected from those in the published catalogue of the Roy Collection by Elizabeth Sudduth (University …

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Index To Selected Essays On Robert Burns, By G. Ross Roy, Elizabeth Sudduth, Jo C. Durant Mar 2018

Index To Selected Essays On Robert Burns, By G. Ross Roy, Elizabeth Sudduth, Jo C. Durant

Selected Essays on Robert Burns by G. Ross Roy

A full index to the poems, songs, books, people, and places referenced in Selected Essays on Robert Burns, by G. Ross Roy (Columbia, SC: South Carolina Scottish Literature Series, 2018).

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The Gawain-Poet And The Fourteenth-Century English Anticlerical Tradition, Ethan Campbell Feb 2018

The Gawain-Poet And The Fourteenth-Century English Anticlerical Tradition, Ethan Campbell

Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture

In this fresh reading of the Gawain-poet's Middle English works (Cleanness, Patience, Pearl, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight), Ethan Campbell argues that a central feature of their moral rhetoric is anticlerical critique. Written in an era when clerical corruption was a key concern for polemicists such as Richard FitzRalph and John Wyclif, as well as satirical poets such as John Gower, William Langland, and Geoffrey Chaucer, the Gawain poems feature an explicit attack on hypocritical priests in the opening lines of Cleanness as well as more subtle critiques embedded within depictions of …

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Shakespeare, Antony And Cleopatra, And The Nature Of Fame, Robert A. Logan Feb 2018

Shakespeare, Antony And Cleopatra, And The Nature Of Fame, Robert A. Logan

Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture

Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, and the Nature of Fame is a characterological study, presenting new perspectives on Antony and Cleopatra, the most ambiguous of Shakespeare's plays. It offers fresh insights into Shakespeare's understanding of the attributes of fame, the process by which it occurs, and the significance of being famous—and into the origins and nature of the playwright's own imperishable fame. Inclusive and enlarging, the study considers a fresh method of dealing with the longstanding difficulties theater-goers and readers have had in responding to the characters of Shakespeare's plays, the seventeenth-century contexts of the play that the playwright …

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Environmental Humanities: Voices From The Anthropocene By Serpil Oppermann And Serenella Iovino, Pamela Banting Feb 2018

Environmental Humanities: Voices From The Anthropocene By Serpil Oppermann And Serenella Iovino, Pamela Banting

The Goose

Review of Environmental Humanities: Voices from the Anthropocene by Serpil Oppermann and Serenella Iovino, eds.

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Tragedy And Theodicy: The Role Of The Sufferer From Job To Ahab, Nora Carroll Feb 2018

Tragedy And Theodicy: The Role Of The Sufferer From Job To Ahab, Nora Carroll

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

The character of Job starts in literature, a trope and archetype of the suffering man who potentially gains wisdom through suffering. Job’s characterization informs a comparison to Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex, Shakespeare’s King Lear, Milton’s Paradise Lost, and finally Melville’s Moby-Dick. These versions of Job rally, fight, and rebel against a universe that was once loving and fair towards a more chaotic and nihilistic one. Job’s suffering is on the mark of all tragedy because he not only experiences a downfall, he gains wisdom through universalizing his torment. The Job trope not only stresses the role of suffering, it …

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"Betwixt The World Destroyed And World Restored": Subjectivity And Paradisal Recovery In John Milton's Late Poems, Chihping Ma Feb 2018

"Betwixt The World Destroyed And World Restored": Subjectivity And Paradisal Recovery In John Milton's Late Poems, Chihping Ma

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This study focuses on the discovery of subjectivity through the recovery of lost paradise in Milton’s late poems, Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes. This theme revolves around the tension between the affective and the empirical, which also configure the spheres of the sacred and the profane. I explore how the irresistibly emancipatory impulse of recovering lost paradise compels Miltonic subjects to seek ways to return to their originary state or the divine ensemble. During this process, the subject is engaged with his own incapacity or privation while reaching into the sphere of unknown potentiality. In …

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Flora Of Middle-Earth (2017) By Walter S. Judd And Graham A. Judd, Martin Simonson Jan 2018

Flora Of Middle-Earth (2017) By Walter S. Judd And Graham A. Judd, Martin Simonson

Journal of Tolkien Research

Book review by Martin Simonson of Flora of Middle-earth (2017) by Walter S. Judd and Graham A. Judd

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Frankenstein And “The Labours Of Men Of Genius”: Science And Medical Ethics In The Early 19th Century, Allison Lemley Jan 2018

Frankenstein And “The Labours Of Men Of Genius”: Science And Medical Ethics In The Early 19th Century, Allison Lemley

Grand Valley Journal of History

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, first published in 1818, used a sprawling network of allusions to contemporary literary and scientific works, which strongly reflected Romantic scientific and literary ideology. The robust connections between Romantic artistic and scientific circles included personal and professional relationships, scientists writing literary works, and authors discussing scientific advances. The closely linked scientific and artistic community helped define science and the nature of life in the new era. Medical historians have not fully discussed the debate concerning medical ethics in this period, detailing earlier Enlightenment medical ethics and later Romantic medical developments, which more closely resemble modern scientific …

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Intersex And The Pardoner’S Body, Kim Zarins Jan 2018

Intersex And The Pardoner’S Body, Kim Zarins

Accessus

Most scholars today have retreated from reading into the Pardoner's body in favor of more figurative readings that emphasize his lack of masculinity, and such lack is then linked to his dejection and despair. Other, more affirming readings center the Pardoner's performance, which allows him to model any sort of body desired through figuration. While such positions dominate and older theories like Beryl Rowland's proposal of an intersex Pardoner are dismissed, in fact, an intersex reading might be a more life-affirming interpretation, not only in terms of reframing the Pardoner's body as manifesting variation as opposed to lack, but also …

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Finding Aid To The Collection Of John Lane Materials, John Lane, Colby College Special Collections Jan 2018

Finding Aid To The Collection Of John Lane Materials, John Lane, Colby College Special Collections

Finding Aids

John Lane (1854-1925) was a British publisher who was co-founder of The Bodley Head, initially specializing in antiquarian books. As a publisher Lane became noted for printing provocative and controversial works. Some of his publications were "The Yellow Book" and the famous "Keynotes" series, with covers by Aubrey Beardsley. Lane was married to the author Annie Philippine King and subsequently published several of her works. Lane's nephew Allen Lane founded Penguin Books in 1935. The Collection contains correspondence to other British literary figures, two publisher statements to Violet Paget, and a published article on Anatole France's visit to England.

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