Browsing Department of English by Issue Date
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Unspoken intimacy in Henry James's The 'Papers'
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Brick Lane: A Materialist Reading of the Novel and its Reception
(Sage, 2010-10)Monica Ali’s 2003 novel Brick Lane was feted by the literary establishment but prompted protests on Brick Lane itself. In a now familiar pattern, such protests were generally regarded as reflecting a conflict between ... -
The Semaines' Dissemination in England and Scotland until 1641
(Wiley: 24 months, 2011-08-05)This article tracks the reputation of Guillaume de Saluste Du Bartas's Semaines (1578, 1584 et seq.) among readers in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England and Scotland. The Semaines were initially mentioned in print ... -
'An author in form': Women writers, print publication, and Elizabeth Montagu's Dialogues of the Dead
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012)Eighteenth-century women writers repeatedly expressed resistance to the public exposure of print publication. The first publication of the bluestocking intellectual Elizabeth Montagu, three satirical dialogues included in ... -
Word versus honor: The case of Françoise de Rohan vs. Jacques de Savoie
(2012-12-24)This paper examines one of the most notorious scandals of sixteenth-century France. In 1557, Françoise de Rohan, a lady-in-waiting to Catherine de Medici, launched a legal battle to get the duke of Nemours, Jacques de ... -
Playing with Books in John Bale's Three Laws
(English Association, 2013)It has become something of a critical commonplace to talk about John Bale's deep ambivalence about drama as a representational practice. Using drama against itself, Bale, in the words of recent criticism, seeks to expose ... -
Presbyterian Imitation Practices in Zachary Boyd’s Nebuchadnezzars Fierie Furnace
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge): SSH Titles, 2013-06-14)The university administrator, preacher and poet Zachary Boyd (1585–1653) relied heavily on epithets and similes borrowed from Josuah Sylvester's poetry when composing his scriptural versifications Zion's Flowers(c. 1640?). ... -
The subject of sacrifice in John Wilkinson's down to earth
(2014-01-02)This article discusses John Wilkinson's volume Down to Earth (2008), and in particular the use of the trope of sacrifice in that book's examination of the violence inherent in capitalism. Making a comparison with Wilkinson's ... -
Domestic Bloomsbury
(Cambridge University Press, 2014-05)Bloomsbury's deconstruction of standard domestic routine, as explored by Morag Shiach, was meant to support a way of life in which creativity was paramount. The home was reimagined as a place to fidn a room of one's own ... -
Thomas Edison’s Poetry Machine
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Remediating Affect: "Luclyn" and Lesbian Intimacy on YouTube
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2014-06-27)This article focuses on Kaelyn and Lucy, a long distance (US–UK) lesbian couple who document their relationship on YouTube. Their channel has attracted a following of hundreds of thousands of individuals who profess to ... -
The Physics of Melting in Early Modern Love Poetry
(2014-10-03)
