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- Newly discovered secular lyrics from later thirteenth-century Cheshire. Pickering, O.S. // Review of English Studies;May92, Vol. 43 Issue 170, p158
Discusses a group of eight previously unknown Middle English secular lyrics of the later thirteenth century. Lyrics sophisticated in stanza form; Heavily alliterative; Subjects, knightly assembly, hunting, natural world in winter, fugitive in hills, keeping a lady's love, bad weather,...
- Morrison, Gissing, and the Stark Reality. Henkle, Roger // Novel: A Forum on Fiction;Spring92, Vol. 25 Issue 3, p302
Examines the novels of Arthur Morrison and George Gissing, both of whom write about the urban poor during the late 1800s. Morrison's first book `Tales of Mean Streets'; Morrison's most famous book `The Child of Jago' (1896); Gissing's powerful novel of the London slums, `The Nether World';...
- Silver Fork Writers and Readers: Social Contexts of a Best Seller. Hughes, Winifred // Novel: A Forum on Fiction;Spring92, Vol. 25 Issue 3, p328
Examines the original `Regency romances'--arguably the first best sellers--which were the so-called `silver fork' or fashionable novels of the 1820s and 30s. The popularity of the silver fork; The novels were marked by a radical instability of tone; Catherine Gore's retrospective novel `Cecil,...
- `Logiques metisses': Cultural appropriation and postcolonial representations. Lionnet, Francoise // College Literature;Oct92-Feb93, Vol. 19/20 Issue 3/1, p100
Introduces a theoretical argument about postcolonial culture from inferences on the writings of Francophone women. Jean-Loup Amselle's logiques metisses: Anthropologie de l'identite en Afrique et ailleurs; Border zones of culture; Conflict between tradition and modernity; Multiculturalism;...
- No home but the struggle. Tonkin, Boyd // New Statesman & Society;4/30/93, Vol. 6 Issue 250, p16
Looks at literary radicalism in Great Britain from the 1930s to the 1990s. Graham Greene; Literary Stalinism of the 1930s; Cyril Connolly; Fragmentation of left-liberal thinkers; Academic seclusion; Cultural left's bewitchment by structural theories of language and society; EP Thompson; Raymond...
- `She was a queen, and therefore beautiful': Sidney, his mother, and Queen Elizabeth. Kay, Dennis // Review of English Studies;Feb92, Vol. 43 Issue 169, p18
Provides an investigation into the Jacobean anxiety about the relation of art to life, exemplified through selected passages of Sidney's works and other available material on the Elizabethan era. Consequences of permeability of literary discourse; Relationship between physical and political...
- Samuel Johnson's The Rambler and Edmund Burke's Reflections. // Modern Age;Jun92, Vol. 34 Issue 4, p344
Discusses the similarities found in Samuel Johnson's `The Rambler' and Edmund Burke's `Reflections on the Revolution in France.' Johnson and Burke's method of employing the periodic sentence and binary opposites; Use of the past; Consideration of history; Counsel to prudence; Thoughts on...
- Reviews. // Review of English Studies;Nov92, Vol. 43 Issue 172, p569
Reviews the books `Women in Romanticism: Mary Wollstonecraft, Dorothy Wordsworth and Mary Shelley,' by Meena Alexander and `Sensibility in Transformation: Creative Resistance to Sentiment from the Augustans to the Romantics. Essays in Honor of Jean H. Hagstrum,' edited by Syndy McMillen Conger.
- Reviews. // Review of English Studies;Nov92, Vol. 43 Issue 172, p579
Reviews the books `The Letters of Alfred Lord Tennyson. Vol. III, 1871-1892,' edited by Cecil Y. Lang and Edgar F. Shannon Jr. and `The Post-Romantics,` by Donald Thomas.
