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Courtship and Private Character in Johnson's Rambler Essays on Marriage
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English Language Notes (2005) 43 (2): 50–59.
Published: 01 December 2005
..., Statuary AD 1596 to 1647 (London: Batsford, 1908) 18. COURTSHIP AND PRIVATE CHARACTER IN JO H N SO N S RAMBLER ESSAYS ON MARRIAGE O ne of the recurrent themes of Samuel Johnson s Rambler is the separateness of public and private behavior, and the latter s authenticity. This notion informs some ofJohnson s...
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“A Hurly-Burly in This Poor Woman's Head”: The Gothic Character of Ann Yearsley's Authorial Identity
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English Language Notes (2000) 37 (4): 29–52.
Published: 01 June 2000
... IN THIS PO O R WOMAN S HEAD ; THE GOTHIC CHARACTER OF ANN YEARSLEY S AUTHORIAL IDENTITY 1. H o ra c e W alpole, H a n n a h M o re, a n d th e D airy m aid In a letter dated November 13,1784, Horace Walpole, widely considered the inaugurator of the British Gothic novel, play fully admonishes H annah More...
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Sirens without a Song: Gender Stereotyping in Marvell's “The Character of Holland”
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English Language Notes (2002) 40 (1): 61–76.
Published: 01 September 2002
...D. Christopher Gabbard Copyright © 2002 Regents of the University of Colorado 2002 September 2002 61 SIRENS WITHOUT A SONG: GENDER STEREOTYPING IN MARVELL S THE CHARACTER OF HOLLAND In 1653 on the cusp of the Commonwealth and the Pro tectorate Andrew Marvell composed The Character...
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Dickens' Villains: Melodrama, Character, Popular Culture
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English Language Notes (2003) 40 (4): 83–84.
Published: 01 June 2003
...John R. Reed Dickens' Villains: Melodrama, Character, Popular Culture . By Juliet John . Oxford : Oxford UP , 2001 . Pp. xiii + 258. hc. £50.00 . 0-19-818461-1; pb. £16.99 0-19-926137-7. Copyright © 2003 Regents of the University of Colorado 2003 June 2003 BOOK REVIEWS 83...
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Privacy, Character, and the Jurisdiction of the Self: A “Story of the Door” in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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English Language Notes (2010) 48 (2): 215–224.
Published: 01 September 2010
... to Privacy" and Jekyll and Hyde reorient in term s of personal subjectivity and agency, those key facets of character. In effect, they re-imagine conventionally territorial notions of ju ris d ictio n authority, space, and speech as more metaphysical personal boundaries, the jurisdiction o f the self. Both...
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“A Syrup of Passion and Desire”: Transgressive Politics of Pleasure in Claude McKay’s Romance in Marseille
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (1): 38–57.
Published: 01 April 2021
...,” McKay’s novel features characters who engage in romantic and sexual relationships that subvert the expectations of heteronormativity, sexual economy, and the color line. Anticipating the twenty-first-century theories that locate sovereign power in the body, McKay politicizes and radicalizes desire...
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Marseille Exposed: Under Surveillance in Claude McKay’s Banjo and Romance in Marseille
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (1): 93–108.
Published: 01 April 2021
... constraints under which characters in Romance navigate the social world of Quayside, the city’s international working-class quarter. The article argues that McKay depicts an important moment in which state and corporate actors create networks of transnational surveillance that aim at securing an advantageous...
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A Queer Romance: Centering the Margins in Claude McKay’s Romance in Marseille
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (1): 58–72.
Published: 01 April 2021
... against Home to Harlem (1928) and Banjo (1929), offers one of the most sustained, nuanced representations of queer life in McKay’s archive and in early twentieth-century LGBT literature more generally, one in which same-sex-oriented characters are rendered as normal, integral figures in urban life rather...
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Ice Thieves: Urban Water, Climate Justice, and the Humor of Incongruity in Jane Rawson’s A Wrong Turn at the Office of Unmade Lists
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (1): 82–95.
Published: 01 April 2019
... as violence that is, at some level, unrepresentable. Its humor stresses not only the immense difficulties faced by characters who navigate in this future but also the deep socioeconomic inequality with which such difficulties are bound up, opening the narrative toward efforts to achieve climate justice...
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Hydro-eroticism
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (1): 96–115.
Published: 01 April 2019
... that are “absurd, perverse, and humorous in character and/or focused on the absurd, perverse, and humorous as they arise in relationship to ecology and representations thereof.” 46 The sexual liaison between Elisa and the creature engenders Seymour’s tripartite characterization of irreverent ecocriticism...
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Indigenous Narratives of Creation and Origin in Embrace of the Serpent , by Ciro Guerra
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English Language Notes (2020) 58 (1): 200–213.
Published: 01 April 2020
...Enrique Bernales Albites Abstract In Ciro Guerra’s film Embrace of the Serpent (2015), cultural exchanges between the central characters reveal the origin narratives and the curative power of plants valued by Indigenous cultures of the Amazon. This article analyzes how Embrace of the Serpent...
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Claude McKay’s Bad Nationalists: Colonial Passport Controls and Shipping Damages in Romance in Marseille
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (1): 109–132.
Published: 01 April 2021
... challenges and expands existing research that suggests that McKay’s writings register the impulse for a nomadic wandering away from oppressive forms of identity control set up in the wake of World War I. The article contends that Claude McKay’s renegade cast of “bad nationalist” characters registers...
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All Aboard: Reading, Writing, and Drinking with Ernest Hemingway
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (1): 139–149.
Published: 01 April 2022
...Ellen Lansky Abstract This essay situates Ernest Hemingway’s iconic “Hills Like White Elephants” as a short story about drinking. From this perspective, Hemingway’s story enables readers to experience a personal and deeply felt emotional engagement with the characters, the scene, and the situation...
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Words on the Tip of the Tongue: A Response to Marcia Douglas's ‘The Rastalogy of I&I: Writing into I-finity’
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English Language Notes (2012) 50 (1): 163–166.
Published: 01 March 2012
... as an “emerging Woman-I,” and comes to a new understanding of her own fictional character, Sistah Vaughn, as honoring that agency: “I&I is a Rastawoman,” says Vaughn in “House of Zion.” For “when [she] speaks these words the narrative breaks from conventional first person point of view, and enters the psyche...
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Mapping Minor Spaces: Towards a Critical Literary Geography of Hardy's Wessex
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English Language Notes (2014) 52 (1): 91–102.
Published: 01 March 2014
... traces of social space's uneven development, but the m ultivalent types of spaces that structure novelistic worlds. So, how to begin? Our route to comprehending the character of narrati ve spaces passes through a fa m ilia r terrain the narrative space o f characters. One recent stu d y Alex Woloch's...
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“Read the name . . . that I have written inside”: Onomastics and Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone
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English Language Notes (2003) 41 (1): 69–75.
Published: 01 September 2003
... the personalities of the characters to whom they are attached. Onomastics, or the study of the origin of proper names, often reveals the endless puns and symbolic interpretations attached to character names, and nowhere is this more evident than in the novels of Charles Dickens. One could say that Dickens...
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E.M. Forster's Leonard Bast: A Source for Virginia Woolf's Septimus Smith
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English Language Notes (2005) 42 (3): 52–67.
Published: 01 March 2005
... been t a k e n . 16 Woolf is being disingenuous to some degree here, since the major character of Leonard Bast would rem ain m ore vivid to her than the m inor ones and partially inspire her portrayal of Septimus Smith in Mrs. Dalloway. She clearly adopts aspects of Bast for her characterization...
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Doctor Balack and Bishop Boloch: Nomenclature in Restoration Parallel Poems
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English Language Notes (2005) 43 (1): 39–48.
Published: 01 September 2005
... AND BISHOP BOLOCH: NOMENCLATURE IN RESTORATION PARALLEL POEMS The characters that populate poems written in imitation of Absalom and Achitophel (1681) received their names, as in Dryden s original, according to various principles, several of which might be operative in a single poem .1Often, the poets tried...
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“Loose from Wholesome Guidance”: Phrenology's and Physiognomy's Narrative of Anxiety
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English Language Notes (2009) 47 (2): 61–73.
Published: 01 September 2009
... into question by uniting w ith another. Only by finding a partner suitable in both character and social status could anyone ensure a lasting relation ship (and an equally durable class position). Physiognomy and phrenology had become, by the early 1840s, one of the governing m od els of characterization...
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A History of African American Theatre African American Performance and Theater History: A Critical Reader
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English Language Notes (2005) 42 (4): 83–95.
Published: 01 June 2005
..., became famous when he took over for Edm und Keen in the role of Othello in 1833. He caused a great debate in the London newspapers regarding the acceptability of a black man playing the character of Othello in an English nation al theater. Occurring at a time of great contention between pro slavery...
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