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Emotion, Morality, and Exemplarity in Old English Literature English Studies Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Niamh Kehoe
Published in English Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Emotion, Morality and Agency in Wærferth's Old English Version of Gregory's Dialogues English Studies Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Alice Jorgensen
Werferth's translation of Gregory's Dialogues contains portrayals of the emotions of numerous holy people. The relationship of emotions to agency is of particular interest. Emotions that cannot be ...
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Sentimental Genres: The “Old English Elegy” and the Poetics of Nostalgia English Studies Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Francisco J. Rozano-García
This study interrogates the scholarly construct known as the “Old English elegy.” This artificially formulated genre, which combines elements from eighteenth-century Classical German Elegy and nine...
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Landscapes, Women, and Art in A. S. Byatt’s “Crocodile Tears” and “A Stone Woman” English Studies Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Xiuchun Zhang
This article examines the fascinating yet intricate relationships between women, art, and landscapes in A. S. Byatt’s two short stories, “Crocodile Tears” and “A Stone Woman”. By engaging in intert...
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Beowulf, the Wrath of God and the Fall of the Angels English Studies Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Francis Leneghan
Beowulf’s anger has typically been viewed either negatively, as a sign of his monstrosity, or positively, as a form of furor heroicus (heroic anger). This article argues that the hero’s battle-fury...
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WONDER and AWE in the Old English Martyrology: Expression, Feeling Norms and Narrative Motifs English Studies Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Francisco Javier Minaya Gómez
Following recent research on the conceptualisation and expression of amazement and on cognitive models for wonder and awe, this paper examines these two emotional responses in the Old English Marty...
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Coming Back Down to Earth: The Novel and the Human Condition in the Anthropocene English Studies Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Berthold Schoene
Has the novel got what it takes to capture the human condition in the Anthropocene? Reading Martin MacInnes’ In Ascension (2023) as an exemplary Anthropocene novel, I argue that the fixation of man...
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Dickens and Democracy in the Age of Paper: Representing the People English Studies Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Ben Moore
Published in English Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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The Knots of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight’s Boar Chase (Lines 1431–7) English Studies Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Lawrence Warner
Editors have struggled to reconcile the two appearances of the term knot in the boar chase of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (lines 1431 and 1434) with the competing demands of intelligible syntax...
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Ideas of the World in Early Medieval English Literature English Studies Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Christine Rauer
Published in English Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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“So This was what Being Alone was like”: Articulations of Vulnerability in Colm Tóibín’s Nora Webster English Studies Pub Date : 2024-03-21 José Carregal-Romero
Set in 1960s Catholic Ireland, Colm Tóibín’s Nora Webster (2014) foregrounds the inherent and pathogenic vulnerabilities of widowhood –from bereavement to economic precarity and the culture of grie...
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Middle English fobbere and the Critical Editing of Piers Plowman English Studies Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Eric Weiskott
This essay examines a line in William Langland's Piers Plowman that caused the scribes considerable trouble and which involves the synonymous Middle English hapax legomena fob and fobbere. The word...
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Generic Innovation in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries English Studies Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Emily Louisa Smith
Published in English Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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England’s Insular Imagining: The Elizabethan Erasure of Scotland English Studies Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Simon Egan
Published in English Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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The Artist Helen Coombe (1864-1937): The Tragedy of Roger Fry’s Wife English Studies Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Linda Elisabeth LaPinta
Published in English Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Theatre Closure and the Paradoxical Rise of English Renaissance Drama in the Civil Wars English Studies Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Rachel Willie
Published in English Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Beowulf: Translation and Commentary English Studies Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Łukasz Neubauer
Published in English Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Writing the World in Early Medieval England English Studies Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Leonard Neidorf
Published in English Studies (Vol. 105, No. 2, 2024)
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The Censorship of Eighteenth-Century Theatre: Playhouses and Prohibition, 1737–1843 English Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Sarah Burdett
Published in English Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Imagining Time in the English Chronicle Play: Historical Futures, 1590–1660 English Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Paul Dean
Published in English Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Wealth and the Material World in the Old English Alfredian Corpus English Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Nicole Guenther Discenza
Published in English Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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The Intersection of Class and Space in British Postwar Writing: Kitchen Sink Aesthetics English Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Ben Clarke
Published in English Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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The Letters, Writings, and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell English Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Jordan S. Sly
Published in English Studies (Vol. 105, No. 2, 2024)
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A Corpus-Based Investigation of the Word Football in Contemporary Spoken English: Linguistic Profile and Cultural Values in 1994 and 2014 English Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Ljubica Leone
The sport of football has played a prominent role in British society since 1863 (Russell 1999). The increasing popularity of this sport has stimulated research focused on the language of football i...
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The Necromantics: Reanimation, the Historical Imagination, and Victorian British and Irish Literature English Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Colleen English
Published in English Studies (Vol. 105, No. 2, 2024)
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Probabilistic Variability in Clausal Verb Complementation in World Englishes English Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Christian Mair
Published in English Studies (Vol. 105, No. 2, 2024)
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“What Is a Man?”: Disability, Domesticity, and Imperialism in Flannery O’Connor’s “The Life You Save May Be Your Own” English Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Mengyuan An
Following the mode of cultural studies, this essay focuses on Flannery O’Connor’s “The Life You Save May Be Your Own”, a story that has been understudied, for her delineation of masculinity in the ...
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Law as Practice: Hermeneutic Insights into Legal Issues in British Civil Courts from Ian McEwan’s The Children Act English Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Yang Kang, Liu Humin
Ian McEwan’s The Children Act serves as a profound narrative inquiry into the intricate legal challenges of British civil court practice. This paper responds to the scholarly omission of the law’s ...
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A History of Irish Literature and the Environment English Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Eoin Flannery
Published in English Studies (Vol. 105, No. 2, 2024)
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Transatlantic Transformations of Romanticism: Aesthetics, Subjectivity and the Environment English Studies Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Wayne George Deakin
Published in English Studies (Vol. 105, No. 1, 2024)
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Analogical Changes in the Nominal Morphology of Owun’s gloss to the Rushworth Gospels English Studies Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Nieves Rodríguez-Ledesma
This article offers a quantitative study of the genitive and nominative/accusative plural inflections in Owun’s gloss (Rushworth2) to the Rushworth Gospels in comparison with Aldred’s gloss to the ...
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“Nothing’s Forever”: Destruction, Creation, Connection, and Miltonic Influence in Cormac McCarthy’s The Passenger and Stella Maris English Studies Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Russell M. Hillier
The article proposes that engagement with John Milton’s Paradise Lost in Cormac McCarthy’s The Passenger and Stella Maris furnishes a clue to comprehending the duology. These twin volumes present a...
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Criminally Fat: Reframing the homme fatal in Vera Caspary’s Laura (1943) English Studies Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Ffion Davies
The spectre of queer men features prominently in the traditions of both film noir and hard-boiled crime fiction. Like the femme fatale, these “deadly sissies” (Russo 70) are part of a much broader ...
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In Memoriam – Frances Austin (1935–2023) English Studies Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade
Published in English Studies (Vol. 105, No. 1, 2024)
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The Making of a Shakespeare Critic: Partial English Translations of Goethe’s Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre in the Long Nineteenth Century English Studies Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Carmen Reisinger
Wilhelm’s reflections in Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre (1794/95) significantly influenced the history of Hamlet criticism. The belief that Goethe used his protagonist to present his own analyses was b...
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Edith Wharton’s Position on the Real in A Motor-Flight Through France: Arthur Schopenhauer and Aesthetic-Sublime Contemplation English Studies Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Valerie Smith
Edith Wharton's A Motor-Flight Through France, is not merely a collection of essays about trips through France; it is also a philosophical and experimental work about the “real” that engages with A...
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The 1930s: a decade of modern British fiction English Studies Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Matthew Taunton
Published in English Studies (Vol. 105, No. 1, 2024)
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Writing Orality: Australian Aboriginal Voices in Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria English Studies Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Xuehai Cui, Jiao Li
Australian Aboriginal stories have thrived for thousands of years through oral tradition and Aboriginal author Alexis Wright invokes this tradition in the construction of her novel Carpentaria. Thi...
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One Scribe or Two? On the Copying of Sir Gawayn and the Carl of Carlisle in NLW Brogyntyn ii.1 English Studies Pub Date : 2024-01-09 María José Carrillo-Linares
National Library of Wales Brogyntyn ii.1 (Porkington 10) is a fifteenth-century miscellany copied by a considerable number of scribes, though there is no consensus on the exact number. In the copyi...
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The Politics of Education in Dorothy Richardson’s Dental Record Writings: The Struggle Over Schooling in the Modernist Literary Field English Studies Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Matthew Herzog
Dorothy Richardson is often posited as one of the originators of stream-of-consciousness style. However, she is less known for her non-fiction writing. This article examines a “comment” from Richar...
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Satire in Eighteenth-Century Medical Discourse: Elizabeth Nihell, Tobias Smollett and the Advent of Man-Midwifery English Studies Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Richard J. Whitt
This paper examines Tobias Smollett’s scathing assessment in the Critical Review of Elizabeth Nihell’s midwifery treatise, Treatise on the Art of Midwifery (1760), a polemic against the use of inst...
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The Poets of Rapallo: How Mussolini’s Italy Shaped British, Irish, and U.S. Writers English Studies Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Ashim Dutta
Published in English Studies (Vol. 104, No. 8, 2023)
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“An Otter’s Temporary Resting Place”: Michael Longley’s Western Landscape English Studies Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Ying Zhou
This article discusses the western landscape in Michael Longley’s poems, a physical, imaginary, and aesthetic space that displays some of the most sustained tensions between self and other, the eco...
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The Myth of Family: Friendship and Sexual Impropriety in the Feminist Occult Grail Narratives of Mary Butts’s Armed with Madness (1928) English Studies Pub Date : 2023-12-21 Sue Terry
This article argues that in Armed with Madness Mary Butts proposes new options for successful living in the disaffected interwar years of the twentieth century, by adopting a counterintuitive moder...
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A Collostructional and Constructional Approach to the Transitive out of -ing Construction English Studies Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Jungsoo Kim, Rok Sim
This paper investigates the so-called transitive out of -ing construction, characterised by the structure of NP subject + V1 + NP object + out of VP2[-ing] predicate with corpus data (e.g., I cheat...
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Interconnections between Art and Commerce: Literary Prizes, Readers, and the Reading Committee of the Irish Women Writers' Club (1933–1958) English Studies Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Deirdre F. Brady
This essay examines the interconnections between art and commerce that lie behind cultural production. Using the case study of the Irish Women Writers’ Club (1933–1958), it explores the political, ...
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“From the Editor’s Standpoint”: L.T. Meade, Alice Corkran, and Lessons on Authorship, Collaboration, and Competition English Studies Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Beth Rodgers
The Irish writers L.T. Meade and Alice Corkran were both editors of leading London-based girls’ periodicals in the 1890s, Atalanta and the Girl’s Realm, respectively. Although both periodicals and ...
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“Distinguished Irishwomen in London”: The Promotion of Professional Networks in Charlotte O'Conor Eccles' Journalism and Fiction English Studies Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Tara Giddens
Throughout much of her career, Irish journalist Charlotte O’Conor Eccles (1863–1911) promoted other Irish women and supported better rights for working women. Along with this support was Eccles’ be...
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Portrait of a Woman Writer: Friendship and Collaboration Between Jane Barlow and Sarah Purser English Studies Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Tricia Cusack
The article considers how women writers and artists in the patriarchal society of turn of the century Dublin connected with, and supported one another, through correspondence, salon culture and fem...
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Irish Women Writers and Their (Trans)National Networks: Making and Translating Local Colour Literature English Studies Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Marguérite Corporaal
Irish women’s local colour fiction should be analysed in relation to three levels of literary brokerage: dedication, reviewing, and translation. This becomes clear from the case studies of Jane Bar...
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The Women behind the Abbey: Dolly Robinson and Irish Theatrical Networks English Studies Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Nora Moroney
This paper revives the work and reputation of artist Dolly Robinson, focusing on her as a lynchpin of many cultural circles in Dublin from the 1920s to the 1940s. Drawing on the archive of Robinson...
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Gender Space and Collaboration Politics: Christine Longford’s The Furies (1933) English Studies Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Natasha Remoundou
In the context of intersectional gender economies, collaborative genealogies, and hierarchies of (in)visibility in theatre making, this inquiry turns to Christine Longford's little-known play-versi...
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Camp Comedy and “Submerged Trouble”: Molly Keane's Queer Collaborations English Studies Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Naoise Murphy
In the 1930s and 1940s, the Anglo-Irish writer Molly Keane embarked on a collaborative playwriting career with her close friend and co-author John Perry, facilitated by a network of gay men in Lond...
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Poet, Editor, Anarchist: Lola Ridge’s New York Networks English Studies Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Lucy Collins
Irish-born poet, Lola Ridge (1873–1941), was a dynamic figure in New York literary and anarchist circles of the early twentieth century. A talented poet, she invested time and energy in her creativ...
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Connecting Voices: An Introduction to Irish Women Writers' Collaborations and Networks, 1880–1940 English Studies Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Kathryn Laing, Sinéad Mooney, Caoilfhionn Ní Bheacháin, Anna Pilz, Whitney Standlee, Julie Anne Stevens
Collaborations and networks are both the modus operandi and focus of investigation in this Special Issue on Irish women writers between 1880 and 1940. This introductory essay sets the scene for the...
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Women's Collaborative Literary Processes and Networks: Mary and Matilda Banim's Ireland English Studies Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Geraldine Brassil
This essay examines the literary and domestic networks of Mary (c 1847–1939) and Matilda (1842–1906) Banim, and the connections they forged on a personal level and in the wider world of publishing ...
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“All that I Am Craving Is the Talk”: Collaboration, Translation and Lady Gregory’s Workhouse Ward English Studies Pub Date : 2023-11-20 James Little
Central to the collaborative dynamics of the Irish Revival, Lady Gregory had a particularly fruitful working relationship with Douglas Hyde (Dubhghlas de hÍde), whose plays she translated and, in m...
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Don Quixote, Benengeli and Coetzee’s Jesus Trilogy English Studies Pub Date : 2023-11-09 María J. López
This article focuses on the central role of Don Quixote (1605, 1615) in J.M. Coetzee’s Jesus novels, arguing for the relevance of the fact that it is Benengeli, the fictional Moorish historian – an...
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Shakespeare and Textual Theory English Studies Pub Date : 2023-10-14 Paul Dean
Published in English Studies (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Revisiting the Pansies Notebook: New Approaches to D. H. Lawrence's Late Archives English Studies Pub Date : 2023-09-15 Buxi Duan
ABSTRACT D. H. Lawrence completed several significant works concurrently during the last three years of his life (1928–1930), including the poetry collection Pansies. Though the three volumes of Poems of the comprehensive Cambridge Edition of the Works of D. H. Lawrence offer valuable insight into Lawrence's verse-writing, this article underscores the importance of critically examining the materiality