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Ovidian retro-metamorphosis on the Elizabethan stage
(McMaster University Library Press and Becker Associates, 2018-11-02)
Although Ovid dedicated his Metamorphoses to the subject of change, the vast majority of the corporeal alterations catalogued in this ancient Roman poem are singular, permanent transformations. In contrast, dramatists ...
Richardson's 'Sir Charles Grandison' and the symptoms of subjectivity
(The Eighteenth Century, 2010-12-01)
Proceeding from the academic orthodoxy that the eighteenth-century novel is a key site of the creation of modern subjectivity, this essay examines the representations of authority, morality, and community in Richardson's ...
Capital enthusiasm
(Duke University Press, 2013)
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Introduction
(Glyphi, 2012)
Diana, Dido, and The Fair Maid of Dunsmore: classical precursors, common tunes, and the question of consent in seventeenth-century balladry
(Taylor & Francis, 2017-11-24)
The tragedy of Isabel of Dunsmore an English shepherd s daughter who commits suicide after being impregnated by a social superior is recounted in two similar, yet lyrically distinct seventeenth-century ballads: The ...
Speaking of '98: Young Ireland and Republican Memory
(1999)
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Ireland s Difficulty: The Novelist s Opportunity
(Field Day, 2008)
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Locke's species: Money and philosophy in the 1690s
(Taylor and Francis, 2013-10-15)
John Locke intervened in two major debates in which the issue of species featured: (1) the question of whether species designations are based on real essences or only nominal essences (discussed in the Essay), and (2) the ...
Poems, by J.D. (1635) and the Creation of John Donne's Literary Biography
(John Donne Journal, 2013)
When, in 1619, John Donne urged Sir Robert Ker to remind
readers of Biathanatos that it was "a Book written by jack
Donne, and not by D. Donne," he probably did not expect this
brief, personal message to become a ...
English Bards and Unknown Reviewers: a Stylometric Analysis of Thomas Moore and the Christabel Review
(University of Notre Dame, 2015)
Fraught relations between authors and critics are a commonplace of literary history. The particular case that we discuss in this article, a negative review of Samuel Taylor Coleridge s Christabel (1816), has an additional ...