Journal articles: 'English literature History and criticism19th century'

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Daalder, Joost. "The Cambridge history of twentieth-century English literature." English Studies 88, no. 2 (April 2007): 239–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00138380601154934.

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Partner, Nancy F., and John Taylor. "English Historical Literature in the Fourteenth Century." American Historical Review 94, no. 5 (December 1989): 1361. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1906393.

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Baker-Smith, Dominic. "Studies in Seventeenth century English Literature, History and Bibliography." Neophilologus 70, no. 3 (July 1986): 462–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf00459827.

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Dettmar, Kevin J. H. "The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century English Literature (review)." Modernism/modernity 13, no. 4 (2006): 783–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mod.2006.0083.

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Behrendt, Stephen C. "“PARADISE LOST”, HISTORY PAINTING, AND EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLISH NATIONALISM." Milton Studies 25 (January 1, 1989): 141–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/26395616.

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Cooke, Miriam. "Intelligent Souls? Feminist Orientalism in Eighteenth-Century English Literature." Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 17, no. 2 (July 1, 2021): 271–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/15525864-8949485.

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Spencer, Jenny S., and Niloufer Harben. "Twentieth-Century English History Plays: From Shaw to Bond." Theatre Journal 42, no. 4 (December 1990): 527. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3207745.

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Priydarshi, Ashok Kumar. "History and Development of the Problem Play in English Literature." Journal of Advanced Research in English and Education 06, no. 03 (December 8, 2021): 1–2. http://dx.doi.org/10.24321/2456.4370.202104.

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The genre, ‘problem play’ originated in France in the late 19th century. Notable example are Ibsen’s ‘A Dolls’ House’ (1879), questioning the subordination of women in marriage, Shaw’s ‘Mrs Warren’s Profession’ (1902), examining attitudes towards prostitution; and Galsworthy’s ‘Justice’ (1910), exposing the cruelties of solitary confinement and the legal system. Some plays by later writers such as A. Wesker, J. McGrath, Caryl Churchill, H. Brenton and D. Hare also raise contemporary issues, often using a wider canvas than their predecessors.

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Priydarshi, Ashok Kumar. "History and Development of the Problem Play in English Literature." Journal of Advanced Research in English and Education 06, no. 03 (December 8, 2021): 1–2. http://dx.doi.org/10.24321/2456.4370.202104.

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The genre, ‘problem play’ originated in France in the late 19th century. Notable example are Ibsen’s ‘A Dolls’ House’ (1879), questioning the subordination of women in marriage, Shaw’s ‘Mrs Warren’s Profession’ (1902), examining attitudes towards prostitution; and Galsworthy’s ‘Justice’ (1910), exposing the cruelties of solitary confinement and the legal system. Some plays by later writers such as A. Wesker, J. McGrath, Caryl Churchill, H. Brenton and D. Hare also raise contemporary issues, often using a wider canvas than their predecessors.

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Gregory, Jeremy. "Review: Rural Life in Eighteenth-Century English Poetry." Literature & History 6, no. 1 (March 1997): 95–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/030619739700600111.

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Stow, George B. "English Historical Literature in the Fourteenth Century. John Taylor." Speculum 64, no. 3 (July 1989): 771–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2854251.

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Lecker, Robert. "Nineteenth-Century English-Canadian Anthologies and the Making of a National Literature." Journal of Canadian Studies 44, no. 1 (January 2010): 91–117. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/jcs.44.1.91.

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Wallace, J. "Laura Marcus and Peter Nicholls (eds.), The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century English Literature." English 55, no. 211 (March 1, 2006): 118–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/english/55.211.118.

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Jenkins, E. R. "English South African children’s literature and the environment." Literator 25, no. 3 (July 31, 2004): 107–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/lit.v25i3.266.

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Historical studies of nature conservation and literary criticism of fiction concerned with the natural environment provide some pointers for the study of South African children’s literature in English. This kind of literature, in turn, has a contribution to make to studies of South African social history and literature. There are English-language stories, poems and picture books for children which reflect human interaction with nature in South Africa since early in the nineteenth century: from hunting, through domestication of the wilds, the development of scientific agriculture, and the changing roles of nature reserves, to modern ecological concern for the entire environment. Until late in the twentieth century the literature usually endorsed the assumption held by whites that they had exclusive ownership of the land and wildlife. In recent years English-language children’s writers and translators of indigenous folktales for children have begun to explore traditional beliefs about and practices in conservation.

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Lamont, William. "Review: Praise Disjoined: Changing Patterns of Salvation in Seventeenth-Century English Literature." Literature & History 2, no. 2 (September 1993): 95–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/030619739300200217.

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Grošelj, Nada. "Two 17th century Jesuit plays in Ljubljana inspired by English literature." Acta Neophilologica 37, no. 1-2 (December 1, 2004): 61–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/an.37.1-2.61-71.

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Jesuit teachers, whose members came to Ljubljana in the late 16th century, placed great emphasis on the production and staging of the school drama. Despite the domination of religious themes, the range of its subject matter was wide and varied. The article discusses two plays which derived their subject matter from English literature, namely from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People and Holinshed's Historie of Britain.The texts themselves are lost, but in the case of the Holinshed-inspired work (a version of the King Lear story), a detailed synopsis has been preserved. The article examines the synopsis and the extant manuscript reports about the plays, the original English sources, and the treatment of the two works in contemporary scholarly treatises.

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Garrett, Cynthia. "The Rhetoric of Supplication: Prayer Theory in Seventeenth-Century England." Renaissance Quarterly 46, no. 2 (1993): 328–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3039064.

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Although Manuals Offering detailed instructions in private prayer are both a distinctive and highly popular form of post-Reformation English literature, relatively little critical attention has been paid to these texts, either by literary critics or historians of religion. Surveys of English devotional literature, such as Helen White's Tudor Books of Private Devotion and English Devotional Literature 1600-1640 and C.J. Stranks's Anglican Devotion, describe the more prominent of these prayer manuals, but no critical study of this large body of literature yet exists. The reasons for this critical neglect are several. As Sam D. Gill's essay on prayer in the recently published Encyclopedia of Religion suggests, the study of prayer itself is still “undeveloped and naive” (2.489).

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Galván, Fernando. "Metaphors of Diaspora: English Literature at the Turn of the Century." ELOPE: English Language Overseas Perspectives and Enquiries 5, no. 1-2 (June 16, 2008): 113–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/elope.5.1-2.113-123.

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The purpose of this essay is to make a literary reading of the postcolonial diasporas in Britain, especially in connection with the metaphors used by diasporic writers in the UK in their search for their own identity and belonging. As diaspora is a metaphorical term in the sense we are using it now, three different metaphorical constructions of diaspora will be explored: a) the metaphor of the imaginary homelands created by immigrant writers; b) the metaphor of the Black Atlantic as a sort of space shared by those who are part of the diaspora and what this entails in history and literature; and c) the metaphor of the journey as an intrinsic element of diaspora itself.

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Small, Helen. "'In the guise of science' : literature and the rhetoric of 19th-century English psychiatry." History of the Human Sciences 7, no. 1 (February 1994): 27–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/095269519400700102.

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Fontaine, Philippe. "The Capitalist Entrepreneur In Eighteenth-Century Economic Literature." Journal of the History of Economic Thought 15, no. 1 (1993): 72–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1053837200005277.

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Although the capitalist entrepreneur played a significant role in the early classical explanation of capital markets and economic development, mainstream opinion in the history of economic thought merely holds that eighteenth-century economists failed to distinguish the entrepreneurial function from that of supplying financial capital. Accordingly, one considers the conception of the capitalist entrepreneur an erroneous view—characterized by the confusion between profits and interest—that Jean-Baptiste Say corrected at the turn of the century (Schumpeter 1954, p. 555; Koolman 1971, p. 276). Moreover, this conception has been mainly ascribed to British authors (Perroux 1929, p. 1665; Cole 1942, pp. 120–1; Hoselitz 1951, p. 212; Blaug 1985, pp. 459–60), a claim which certainly goes back to Say's opinion that:The English do not have a word to render entrepreneur d'Industrie, which has prevented them from distinguishing, among industrial operations, the service provided by the capital from the service provided by one who uses this capital through his ability and talent. Hence…the obscurity in the demonstrations where they [the English] try to go back to the source of profits (Say 1803, pp. 74–75, n. 1; see also p. 357, n. 1).

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Dr Mubashar Saeed and Sadia Irshad. "CHILDREN'S URDU LITERATURE." Tasdiqتصدیق۔ 4, no. 2 (December 30, 2022): 139–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.56276/tasdiq.v4i2.100.

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One of the major fields of literature and journalism is Children's Literature. In the 19th century, the tradition of the publication of magazines in Urdu journalism became very strong, but the first regular magazines for children began in the early twentieth centure. “Bachon Ka Akhbar” of Munshi Mehboob Alam is regarded as the first children magazine published in May 1902. So far more than 300 such magazines have been launched till now. The Role of Government in this regard also praiseworthy. In the last half of Twentieth Century Government of Pakistan translate many booklets from English Literature to Urdu Literature for Children. It made the history of children literature.

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Robert P. Irvine. "Labor and Commerce in Locke and Early Eighteenth-Century English Georgic." ELH 76, no. 4 (2009): 963–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/elh.0.0067.

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Richardson, R. C. "Adrian Streete, Apocalypse and Anti-Catholicism in Seventeenth-Century English Drama." Literature & History 27, no. 2 (November 2018): 210–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0306197318795798b.

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Speck, W. A. "Review: Before Novels: The Cultural Contexts of Eighteenth-Century English Fiction." Literature & History 1, no. 1 (March 1992): 99–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/030619739200100122.

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Makin (book author), Bathsua, Mary More (book author), Robert Whitehall (book author), Frances Teague (book editor), Margaret J. M. Ezell (book editor), Jessica Walker (book editor), and Victoria E. Burke (review author). "Educating English Daughters: Late Seventeenth-Century Debates." Renaissance and Reformation 40, no. 2 (October 5, 2017): 209–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.33137/rr.v40i2.28525.

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Rauer, Christine. "The sources of the Old English Martyrology." Anglo-Saxon England 32 (December 2003): 89–109. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0263675103000061.

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For much of the ninth century, Anglo-Saxon interest in literary culture was apparently not as great as it could have been. Medieval and modern commentators have spoken of a pronounced early-ninth-century neglect of English libraries, which seems to have affected contemporary literature as well as the literary legacy which had been inherited from the seventh and eighth centuries. It appears that fewer books and texts were produced; the Latin texts produced may to some extent have been of inferior linguistic quality, and were, so it would seem, used with greater difficulties by a smaller and less educated readership. Comparatively fewer books seem to have survived the ninth century than any other period of Anglo-Saxon history.

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BRASSLEY, PAUL. "The Professionalisation of English Agriculture?" Rural History 16, no. 2 (September 12, 2005): 235–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0956793305001494.

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Following Perkin's suggestion that western European society is increasingly professionalised, and given the emergence of a stratum of large commercial farms in twentieth-century England, this paper examines the contention that, to some extent at least, English agriculture has been professionalised over the course of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It briefly surveys the literature on professionalisation, identifies a list of professional characteristics, and then tests the attributes of twentieth-century English farmers against this list. It also briefly examines the effects of professionalisation, and concludes that, although it would be excessively simplistic to claim that the whole industry has been professionalised, it is possible to identify professional groups.

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Georgianna, L. "Periodization and Politics: The Case of the Missing Twelfth Century in English Literary History." Modern Language Quarterly 64, no. 2 (June 1, 2003): 153–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00267929-64-2-153.

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Gardner, Jessica. "The Cambridge History of Twentieth‐Century English Literature2005247Edited by Laura Marcus and Peter Nicholls. The Cambridge History of Twentieth‐Century English Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2004. xiv+886 pp., ISBN: 0 521 82077 4 £95/$160 New Cambridge History of English Literature." Reference Reviews 19, no. 5 (July 2005): 28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/09504120510604175.

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Mandler, Peter. "Against ‘Englishness’: English Culture and the Limits to Rural Nostalgia, 1850–1940." Transactions of the Royal Historical Society 7 (December 1997): 155–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3679274.

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OVER the last fifteen years, a substantial literature has welled up, practically from nowhere, purporting to anatomise ‘Englishness’. ‘Englishness’, this literature suggests, is not a true estimate of national character, an enduring national essence, but rather a historical construct that was developed towards the end of the nineteenth century by the ‘dominant classes’ in British society in order to tame or thwart the tendencies of their day towards modernism, urbanism and democracy that might otherwise have overwhelmed elite culture. These aspirations for social control determined the lineaments of the new ‘Englishness’. Nostalgic, deferential and rural, ‘Englishness’ identified the squire-archical village of Southern or ‘Deep’ England as the template on which the national character had been formed and thus the ideal towards which it must inevitably return. Purveyed by the ‘dominant classes’ to the wider culture by means of a potent array of educational and political instruments—ranging from the magazineCountry Lifeto the folk-song fad to the National Trust to Stanley Baldwin's radio broadcasts—‘Englishness’ reversed the modernising thrust of the Indus-trial Revolution and has condemned late twentieth-century Britain to economic decline, cultural stagnation and social division.

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Haan, E. "Milton and the Spiritual Reader: Reading and Religion in Seventeenth-Century England * Milton, Evil and Literary History." English 59, no. 227 (February 9, 2010): 398–400. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/english/efp046.

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Kramnick, Jonathan Brody. "The Making of the English Canon." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 112, no. 5 (October 1997): 1087–101. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/463485.

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This essay discusses the origins of the literary canon in mid-eighteenth-century England, looking in particular at the changing reputations of Shakespeare and Spenser. Situating the writing of English literary history within the context of the cultural market, print culture, and nationalism, I argue that the mid-century model of literary history both represents the dialectical outcome of previous decades of thinking through the problem of cultural change and puts in place the terms for the modern narrative of the literary canon. An earlier aesthetics of gendered and sociable refinement separated itself from a Gothic past later recovered as the singular moment of literary achievement. The Gothic account was then challenged by a rethinking of consumption as reading abstracted over time. Together, Gothic historicism and abstract reading formed the antithetical basis on which critics established the modern canonical account of English literary history.

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SMITH, TOM. "ISLANDERS, PROTESTANT MISSIONARIES, AND TRADITIONS REGARDING THE PAST IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY POLYNESIA." Historical Journal 60, no. 1 (August 4, 2016): 71–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0018246x16000157.

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ABSTRACTIn this article, I consider Polynesian genealogies, which took the form of epic poems composed and recited by specialist genealogists, and were handed down orally through generations of Polynesians. Some were written down in the nineteenth century, reaching an English-speaking audience through a number of works largely neglected by historians. In recent years, some anthropologists have downplayed the possibility of learning anything significant about Polynesian thought through English-language sources, but I show that there is still fresh historical insight to be gained in demonstrating how genealogies came to interact with the traditions of outsiders in the nineteenth century. While not seeking to make any absolute claims about genealogy itself, I analyse a wide body of English-language literature, relating chiefly to Hawai‘i, and see emerging from it suggestions of a dynamic Polynesian oral tradition responsive to political, social, and religious upheaval. Tellingly, Protestant missionaries arriving in the islands set their own view of history against this supposedly irrelevant tradition, and in doing so disagreed with late nineteenth-century European and American colonists and scholars who sought to emphasize the historical significance of genealogy. Thus, Western ideas about history found themselves confounded and fragmented by Polynesian traditions.

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Dejean, Joan. "A Long Eighteenth Century? What Eighteenth Century?" PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 127, no. 2 (March 2012): 317–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2012.127.2.317.

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When i agreed to contribute to this issue, i wanted to focus a debate about periodization for once solely on foreign languages and not, as is usually the case, on a single foreign language in comparison with English. To do this, I intended to take a new look at one of the most successful examples of the new periodization: the long eighteenth century. The concept first came to the fore and gained wide critical currency in English studies and in history. In these fields, a number of differently long eighteenth centuries have been proposed and practiced—an eighteenth century that begins as early as 1660, for example, and one that ends as late as 1832. Among the many consequences of the various choices of chronological limits for the long eighteenth century, probably the most significant is the way in which the Enlightenment's role is heightened or diminished in each version of the period. Since in intellectual and literary terms the Enlightenment's impact was felt all over western Europe in the 1700s, I decided that this should be one issue of periodization whose presence would be by now visible in most if not all modern foreign languages. As it turned out, I could not have been more wrong. And what I learned on the way to that realization caused me to shift course radically.

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Roper, L. H. "The Fall of New Netherland and Seventeenth-Century Anglo-American Imperial Formation, 1654–1676." New England Quarterly 87, no. 4 (December 2014): 666–708. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/tneq_a_00417.

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The English takeover of the Dutch colony of New Netherland in 1664 illustrates the enduring centrality of colonial agendas in the political culture of the seventeenth-century English Empire but also provided an occasion by which the metropolitan government and its perspective ironically assumed greater weight in colonial-imperial relations.

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CUBITT, GEOFFREY. "THE POLITICAL USES OF SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLISH HISTORY IN BOURBON RESTORATION FRANCE." Historical Journal 50, no. 1 (February 13, 2007): 73–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0018246x06005929.

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For French political commentators and polemicists of the Bourbon Restoration period (1814–30), England's history of revolution and of royalist restoration between 1640 and 1688 offered striking and suggestive similarities to the trajectory of France's own political experience since 1789. Elaborated not just in the historical writings of men like Villemain, Guizot, and Carrel, but in a host of political speeches and pamphlets and other forms of ephemeral literature, allusions to Stuart and Cromwellian history carried a potent charge in debates and polemics over France's own political prospects. Drawing on statements by politicians and writers as diverse as François-René de Chateaubriand, Louis de Bonald, and Benjamin Constant, this article explores the meanings that were read into the comparison or juxtaposition of French and English histories, the ways in which these meanings were argued and contested, and the political uses to which they were put, both by critics and by supporters of the Restoration regime. If references to the Stuarts, to Cromwell, or to 1688 were sometimes politically opportunistic, they also sometimes reflected an aspiration to comprehend France's political destiny by relating its present position to broader frameworks of historical understanding – a point which the later parts of the article seek to develop by scrutinizing the ways in which French and English histories are connected in specific writings by Augustin Thierry, Guizot, and Chateaubriand.

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Singleton, A. "The Early English Text Society in the Nineteenth Century: An Organizational History." Review of English Studies 56, no. 223 (February 1, 2005): 90–118. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/res/hgi006.

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Vishnuvajjala, Usha. "Women’s Contributions to Middle English Arthurian Scholarship." Journal of the International Arthurian Society 7, no. 1 (September 1, 2019): 91–119. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jias-2019-0005.

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Abstract This article examines the history of scholarship of both Middle English Arthurian literature and its afterlives to argue that the marginalisation of such literature has slowly diminished – often through the work of women. The increasing numbers of women in academia coincided with the advent of new methodologies in literary studies in the late-twentieth century to produce a wide range of scholarship on English Arthurian literature, including on texts that had long been considered beneath serious study. This work continues now, with recent studies considering English Arthuriana through postcolonial theory, queer theory, affect theory, adaptation studies and many other methods.

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Austin, Linda Marilyn. "Aesthetic Embarrassment: The Reversion to the Picturesque in Nineteenth-Century English Tourism." ELH 74, no. 3 (2007): 629–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/elh.2007.0021.

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Jonsson, Emelie. "The Old Tune: English Professors on Science and Literature." Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture 4, no. 2 (October 1, 2020): 83–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.26613/esic.4.2.191.

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Abstract Ian Duncan's Human Forms and Devin Griffiths's Age of Analogy attempt to illuminate interactions between evolutionary theories and literature from the late eighteenth century up through the nineteenth century. They do not advance knowledge about this subject. Both authors treat evolution as a semi-fictional construction that owes more to literary inspiration than to the scientific method, and they reduce literature to a battleground for ideological forces. They write using dense terminology, shifting rhetoric, and flights of verbal performance that obscure their claims. In all these respects, they are representative of the field “science and literature”—and particularly of the subfield that studies evolution and literature. I analyze the history of this subfield of literary scholarship and attempt to explain how it developed into its present form. The subfield was founded in the 1980s on the basis of poststructuralist theory and has never escaped the core assumptions of that theory: our minds cannot reach outside culture; our thoughts, behaviors, and ideas about the world are primarily the result of our culture; some cultural traditions are oppressive while others are liberating; and the meaning of texts cannot be determined. Though Duncan and Griffiths represent the highest level of scholarship on evolution and literature, I argue that they fail their fascinating subject by offering very little that is new within their own field, and nothing that is of value to other fields.

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Nardo, Anna K. "Romola and Milton: A Cultural History of Rewriting." Nineteenth-Century Literature 53, no. 3 (December 1, 1998): 328–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2903043.

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George Eliot's novel of fifteenth-century Florence, Romola, represents her struggles with both the history of Western culture and her real and literary fathers by reimagining Milton's life and thought. As heir to both Renaissance humanism and Reformation zeal, as a central historical link between fifteenth-century Florence and Victorian England, as the patriarch of English letters, and as the father of rebellious daughters, Milton is the unacknowledged father in Romola, and the stories of his family are woven into the fabric of the novel. Recovering the cultural history of these stories-retold by biographers for two centuries and fictionalized throughout the nineteenth century-allows us to historicize and expand Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar's insight that Milton is present in Romola, but also to confute their widely accepted conclusion (quoting Harold Bloom) that Milton was for Eliot, as for other women writers, "the great Inhibitor, the Sphinx who strangles even strong imaginations in their cradles."

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Aldukhayil, Zakarya. "The Myth of Rape in Eighteenth-Century Literature." World Journal of English Language 13, no. 1 (November 24, 2022): 77. http://dx.doi.org/10.5430/wjel.v13n1p77.

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Rape as propaganda is the main focus of this study. Feminist scholars and activists have investigated rape in English history and discussed how this term was used by men to dominate women and spread fear amongst them. The patriarchal society of the early eighteenth-century England used rape in order to limit the freedom of female movement. Women were led to believe that their state of safety lies within their willingness to trade submission to a man for protection from all other men. This study investigates attitudes of rape and near rape attempts which were used in three seventeenth and eighteenth-century texts; Aphra Behn’s The Rover (1677), Eliza Haywood’s The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless (1751), and Frances Burney’s novel Evelina (1778). These attitudes were presented in order to portray different ideas such as a critique of the patriarchal society, to warn women of the dangers they might face out of the domestic sphere and perks of abiding by the social conduct, and also to encourage women to follow the mandates expected of women of quality. These three text are evidence that rape was commonly discussed as a method to warn women to keep out of public space prior to the nineteenth century.

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Godden, Malcolm. "The Old English Life of St Neot and the legends of King Alfred." Anglo-Saxon England 39 (December 2010): 193–225. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0263675110000116.

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AbstractThe Old English Life of St Neot has been generally dated to the twelfth century and dismissed as a late and derivative work. The article argues that it was written much earlier, in the first few decades of the eleventh century, and is both a significant example of late Old English hagiographic literature and an important witness to early legends about King Alfred and his posthumous reputation.

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Hundt, Marianne, and Benedikt Szmrecsanyi. "Animacy in early New Zealand English." English World-Wide 33, no. 3 (October 29, 2012): 241–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/eww.33.3.01hun.

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The literature suggests that animacy effects in present-day spoken New Zealand English (NZE) differ from animacy effects in other varieties of English. We seek to determine if such differences have a history in earlier NZE writing or not. We revisit two grammatical phenomena — progressives and genitives — that are well known to be sensitive to animacy effects, and we study these phenomena in corpora sampling 19th- and early 20th-century written NZE; for reference purposes, we also study parallel samples of 19th- and early 20th-century British English and American English. We indeed find significant regional differences between early New Zealand writing and the other varieties in terms of the effect that animacy has on the frequency and probabilities of grammatical phenomena.

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Ottestad, Einar, and Daniel S. Orlovich. "History of Peripheral Nerve Stimulation—Update for the 21st Century." Pain Medicine 21, Supplement_1 (August 1, 2020): S3—S5. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/pm/pnaa165.

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Abstract Objective To present a history of the development of peripheral nerve stimulation. Methods Narrative literature review. Results Peripheral nerve stimulation has a history stretching from Scribonius Largus and eels in Mesopotamia to Michael Farady’s discovery in London, the German-English physician Julius Althaus’s application of electricity to a peripheral nerve, the sensational “Electreat” in the United States, to the application by Wall and Sweet of the gate theory proposed by Melzack and Wall to specialized neurosurgeons. Conclusions This is now a modern field in clinical neuroscience and medicine with improved technology, renewed interest by a diverse range of specialties, and accessibility with ultrasound.

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Vincent, Robert Hudson. "Baroco: The Logic of English Baroque Poetics." Modern Language Quarterly 80, no. 3 (September 1, 2019): 233–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00267929-7569598.

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Abstract As many scholars, including the editors of the Oxford English Dictionary, continue to cite false etymologies of the baroque, this article returns to a Scholastic syllogism called baroco to demonstrate the relevance of medieval logic to the history of aesthetics. The syllogism is connected to early modern art forms that Enlightenment critics considered excessively complicated or absurdly confusing. Focusing on the emergence of baroque logic in Neo-Latin rhetoric and English poetics, this article traces the development of increasingly outlandish rhetorical practices of copia during the sixteenth century that led to similarly far-fetched poetic practices during the seventeenth century. John Stockwood’s Progymnasma scholasticum (1597) is read alongside Richard Crashaw’s Epigrammatum sacrorum liber (1634) and Steps to the Temple (1646) to reveal the effects of Erasmian rhetorical exercises on English educational practices and the production of English baroque poetry. In the end, the article demonstrates the conceptual unity of the baroque by showing the consistency between critiques of baroco, critiques of English metaphysical poetry, and critiques of baroque art during the Enlightenment.

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Weiskott, Eric. "Early English meter as a way of thinking." Studia Metrica et Poetica 4, no. 1 (August 7, 2017): 41–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.12697/smp.2017.4.1.02.

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The second half of the fourteenth century saw a large uptick in the production of literature in English. This essay frames metrical variety and literary experimentation in the late fourteenth century as an opportunity for intellectual history. Beginning from the assumption that verse form is never incidental to the thinking it performs, the essay seeks to test Simon Jarvis’s concept of “prosody as cognition”, formulated with reference to Pope and Wordsworth, against a different literary archive.The essay is organized into three case studies introducing three kinds of metrical practice: the half-line structure in Middle English alliterative meter, the interplay between Latin and English in Piers Plowman, and final -e in Chaucer’s pentameter. The protagonists of the three case studies are the three biggest names in Middle English literature: the Gawain poet, William Langland, and Geoffrey Chaucer.

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Villari, Enrica. "The Crisis of Action in Nineteenth-Century English Literature, by Stefanie Markovits." Victorian Studies 50, no. 3 (April 2008): 535–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/vic.2008.50.3.535.

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Williams, Anne. "The Gothic Psyche: Disintegration and Growth in Nineteenth-Century English Literature (review)." Victorian Studies 42, no. 4 (2000): 674–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/vic.1999.0033.

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Pahl, Kerstin Maria. "The Language of Love’s Lessening. Falling Out of Love and Nineteenth-Century English Literature." Cultural and Social History 17, no. 3 (November 27, 2019): 391–406. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14780038.2019.1689025.

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