...Charles LaPorte Christopher Lane , The Age of Doubt: Tracing the Roots of our Religious Uncertainty ( Yale University Press , 2011 ). Timothy Larsen , A People of One Book: The Bible and the Victorians ( Oxford University Press , 2011 ). Copyright © 2012 Regents...

... colony. Despite the hard evidence they themselves embody, however—the unwanted pregnancies, the sexually transmitted infections, the beatings, the deaths—the doubt the viewer experiences in this scene shifts to the women who gather to talk about what they should do. “They made us disbelieve ourselves...

... a cautionary tale. It’s worth noting that Mr. Stevens experiences personal doubts and regrets about his choices at the end of his journey, though he oscillates between indicting his dignity and entertaining the idea that his fidelity had value regardless of his lord’s mistakes: The hard reality...

... lim p Our title fo r this special issue is a pun. We announce this fact because so many people w ith whom we have corresponded or to whom we have spoken did not get it. The fault is no doubt ours. Good puns do not require explanation. Nonetheless, this failure is surprising, given that our...

... not equally so: it is not quite one but it is de finite ly not the other.This positioning is the basis on which Bohrer w ill claim that the tendency of modern aesthetic fiction to reduce its sig­ nificance to a m om ent can be described as a "sym p to m of d o u b t" (232). He continues, "b u t this doubt...

... him­ self like true men. No doubt, also, these lines carry the smell of extreme female vanity. The female speaker asserts her position in the place of the soul of h er lover. And like the real soul, she desires to be free. Again, in lines 9 andlO she reminds her male partner of his gender position...

... to cross those chasms of uncertainty, arguments that sustain the careful scrutiny of doubting scholars. In dealing with Anglo-Saxon materials we are engaging with a largely conservative lot, many of whom are more comfortable with careful linguistic examinations and cata­ loguing patristic sources than...

... central to most of the criticism. In the early history of commentary, a principal concern has been the author Will Langland, as he perhaps names himself, who remains a figure of mystery. Scholars have given him a local habi­ tation as well as a name, but all remains in doubt. Benson gives a careful...

..., phrenological and physiognomic texts eventually exhibit doubts about the strategies they simultaneously set out to proclaim. This seemingly odd English Language Notes 47.2 Fall / W inter 2009 62 E nglish Lang u ag e N otes 47.2 Fall / W inter 2009 behavior prompts a series of questions: why does the promise...

... his attacks, lay no doubt, his sneaking attraction towards those qualities of brilliance and assertiveness which he officially condem ned (and probably feared) in females (329). Lady Mary lived h er life as a public figure, and G rundy shows how political differences contributed also to P o p e s...

... sung by none o th er than Echo in Ben Jo n so n s Cynthia s Revels, in which echo, water, rock, and lam entation for loss all come together. 5 Hollander no doubt takes us very close to Eliot s source, much closer indeed than anyone else who has construed its punning rel­ evance. And yet, there is, I...

... we go so far for an Excuse, as to conclude that Shakespear was him self a Catholick? This some Critics have imagin'd to be true, from the solemn Description of Purgatory given us by his Ghost in Hamlet, yet here, I doubt, the Conjecture is too strong; that Description being rather to be consider'd...

... the place of our being in relation to the whole. The Vicar explains that exposure to the hypocrisy of religious authority had brought him to a “painful” state of doubt when he first sought the truths professed in the discourse: “I ceaselessly wandered from doubt to doubt and brought back from my long...

... understood if we are to evaluate the appeal of critique's successors.That there is a narrative of exhaustion w ith in the profession, there can be no doubt. However one chooses to cast it, this narrative fuels an incipient hope that mak­ in g -m im e tic , artistic, diagram m atic can re-orient a critical...

... sim plicity w ith in a refusal to evade the trem endous com plexity of its own position. That the yearning fo r spirit is also the uncertainty o f that yearning makes of doubt an affirm ation and a profound solace, a faith in the approach o f the other that is at the same tim e a radical opening...

... readers, it is true, read the lines w ith o u t the benefit of Fowler's, Hughes's, or Leonard's notes, but perceptive eighteenth-century readers registered the fluctuation of tone: The words of Horeb o r o f Sinai im ply a doubt of the poet, which name was properestto be given that m ountain, on the top o...

... exorcising personal dem ons. How­ ever, Sophia refused to believe any real-life parallel existed (126). The story s genesis began in Fuller and Flaw thorne s m eeting in the woods seven years earlier (133). Fuller s parallel, H ester Prynne, faced public ridicule, as Fuller no doubt would have, had she...

... love, Hassan has doubts; T hat which D o n ju á n would seek, Hassan doesn t believe can be found.] Gallet s Haroun, on the other hand, by stressing the commutability of all the bodies processed by sexual appetite, idealizes the experience per se. To that extent, at least, he recalls such neoplatonic...

... the literal maze in Woodstock Park into its figurative enlargem ent as a vinculum amoris. Be that as it may, the fact that Belinda should have a hidden fortification of steel in her frontal locks (as Pope, ever interested in the transactions of the toilet, would no doubt have known) makes h er drooping nape...

... doubt, these issues were accelerated and accentuated by the pandemic. Bérubé discusses a series of interviews that he and his colleagues in the Senate conducted with faculty from colleges across the Penn State campuses in April 2020 and focuses on the impact on faculty of poor administrative decisions...