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English Literature, 2017 How did eighteenth-century British authors encounter, and respond to, this question: are we able to feel the emotions of other people? How did the dominance of empirical epistemology shape their responses?
Mckeon, Michael
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English Literature, 2015 This essay argues that Alton Locke (1850) by Charles Kingsley might be read as a response to a tension that emerged, in the nineteenth century, between the imperatives of political economy and medicine.
Mangham, Andrew S.
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‘#DifferenceMakesUs’: Selling Shakespeare Online (and the Commerce Platform Etsy)
English Literature, 2018 The mission statement of the online creative commerce platform Etsy declares its commitment to “using the power of business to strengthen communities and empower people”.
Anna, Blackwell
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English Literature, 2014 The essay argues that glittering tribute to Essex in the Prothalamion is ambivalent and paradoxical. The author focuses on the Ovidian and Virgilian intertexts of the praise and brings to light Spenser’s hidden references to Lucifer and Phaethon ...
Grimaldi-Pizzorno, Patrizia
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D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover and “Popular” Editions
Études Lawrenciennes, 2022 In “Accumulated Mail” (1925) Lawrence wrote that “it’s no fun, writing unpopular books” (RDP 239). But he was keen to see his books sold. When Lady Chatterley’s Lover (1928) was widely pirated he sought to beat the pirates at their own game by arranging ...
Jonathan Long
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Narrative Suspense in Edgar Allan Poe and Alfred Hitchcock
English Literature, 2018 This article explores the construction of narrative suspense in Edgar Allan Poe’s and Alfred Hitchcock’s works. Central to their creations is a dual narrative structure that builds tension by articulating two stories in one. Narratological analyses of
Indrusiak, Elaine
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Contemporary Poetic Ecologies and a Return to Form
C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-century Writings, 2016 Ecology is currently coming under increasing poetic scrutiny in a range of terms (landscape, place, environment). Critical responses to this poetry commonly assume a relationship between form and content, wherein textual ecology – the shape of the poem ...
Daniel Weston
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Études Lawrenciennes, 2022 Lawrence saw boredom as a distinctively modern problem that grew out of a double sense of time as both empty and excessive. Identifying boredom with the masses and industrial society, however, also led him to explore how boredom extends into space ...
Adam Parkes
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The Rhetoric of Passions in John Tillotson's Sermons
English Literature, 2017 As the leading member of the Latitudinarian movement, scholars have often referred to John Tillotson as the father of the reform of ecclesiastical oratory that took place in the second half of the seventeenth century.
Dal Santo, Regina Maria
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The Spectator, Aesthetic Experience and the Modern Idea of Happiness
English Literature, 2015 Focusing on Joseph Addison and Richard Steele’s Spectator papers, this essay links modern ideas of happiness to the emergence of aesthetic theory in early eighteenth-century Britain.
Norton, Brian Michael
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