... that her investigation into speculative fictions of racialized madness serves as a “thought exercise” suggesting a retreat from a more disability-materialist-bodyminds approach. Here I engage Horace’s “madness” as a switchpoint of desire and thus a direct apprehension of the representation of racialized...

... in the celebrated war of the theaters in which Jonson and Marston were the principal antagonists. Dekker combined the satire on Jonson as the pompous poet Horace with the pseudo-historical romance of King William Rufus lust for Celestine to produce a dramatic medleys, which Swinburne ridiculed as an incongruity...

... to reformation and critique. Offering just such a reformation and critique, Mitchell also uses the three articles under examination here as a starting point for a reading of Randall Kenan’s 1989 novel, A Visitation of Spirits , about a gay, black, psychiatrically disabled teenager, Horace Thomas Cross. In his...

... like Virgil, Horace, and Raphael the poet whom Fairfax rendered into English. Implicitly also, he bridges two different cultures [literatures] and thereby illustrates the idea of translatio studii. The m ention of Tasso is followed by the well-known triad of sweet SPENSER, Milton, and Shakespeare...

... in the third-to-last line of the poem. A HURLY-BURLY 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...

... 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...

... own aesthetic theory, drawn from Horace, Cicero, and Quintilian. That theory, commonplace in the early m odern era, emphasizes the moral function of poetry.11 In the Prefatory Epistle to Volpone, Jonson writes of the poet: H e that is said to be able to inform young m en to all good disciplines...

..., a longstanding trope, one that comes through Ovid's Tristia and Epistulae ex ponto, from Horace's fp/sf/es.12Töpffer, a schoolmaster and prose writer, perhaps knew it from M iddle French chansons and lyrics, or from Boccaccio. Introduced to English w riting by Geoffrey Chaucer at the end of his long poem...

... righteously replies: it s n o t right to curse the master. Instead we ought to be careful not to fall into the tyrant s clutches. 11 Likewise, in the school dialogues of Ju an Luis Vives the tyrannical behaviour o f some schoolm asters is represented by Orbilius Plagosus, a figure from Horace: a fierce m...

... of integrity, but troubled by m inor human flaws (illness, a temper, nameless anxiety). The best of them, Head Judge Horace Irwin, epitomizes what judges should try to do: "w ith his great resources of knowl­ edge and experience he assayed new explanations o f the inexplicable; patiently, unw illing to despair...

...Jerrold E. Hogle Copyright © 2010 Regents of the University of Colorado 2010 H y p e r-re a lity and the G othic A ffe c t: The Sublim ation o f Fear from Burke and W a lp o le to T h e R ing J errold e . Hogle F rom at least the tim e of Horace W alpole's The Castle o f Otranto, the first...