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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 ...
Son and Parents: Speranza and William Wilde
(Cambridge University Press, 2013-01)
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Unauthorized Mangan
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)
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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 ...
'Female agency' in Lady Morgan's The Princess, or, The Béguine (1835).
(Humanitas, 2011)
This little-known novel expresses two of Lady Morgan's enthusiasms: her love of Europe and interest in travelling there, and her developing feminism. She had previously provoked controversy by her combination of travel and ...
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 ...
Speculation and multiple dedications in Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum
(The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015)
This essay analyzes how the dedications in Aemilia Lanyer's Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum (1611) not only mark the transition between the reciprocal gift economy of patronage and commercial book sales but also recommend the ...
Masks of Refinement: Pseudonym, Paratext, and Authorship in the Early Poetry of Thomas Moore
(Taylor and Francis, 2014-08-05)
Thomas Moore adopted the pseudonymous persona of Thomas Little in order to place his early amorous poetry within distinct literary, historical, and generic contexts. He was motivated by a desire to provoke a favorable ...