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Marketing Masks and Makeup in Mollie Panter-Downes’s “Letter from London”
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (2): 37–48.
Published: 01 October 2022
...Melissa Dinsman Abstract Over the span of almost fifty years the British author Mollie Panter-Downes contributed 852 pieces to the New Yorker ; this included 153 London Letters during World War II alone. In these Panter-Downes reported on the “everyday” aspects of the British home front experience...
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Wordsworth Prepares to Move from Grasmere (1810): an Unpublished Letter
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English Language Notes (2005) 43 (2): 96–102.
Published: 01 December 2005
... to one reference in O Brian s journals where he wrote Com plete idleness on my part. I finished Mansfield Park 8cwith it allJA s works (99-100). This was one o f many times that O Brian reread A usten s novels. WORDSWORTH PREPARES TO MOVE FROM GRASMERE (1810): AN UNPUBLISHED LETTER A hitherto...
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Two Unpublished Letters of James Fenimore Cooper
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English Language Notes (2001) 38 (3): 77–84.
Published: 01 March 2001
..., eds. H um phry H ouse an d G raham Storey (Oxford: O xford UP, 1959) 136. 10 G erard M anley H opkins, The Sermons and Devotional Writings of Gerard Manley Hopkins, ed. C hristopher Devlin, (London: O xford UP, 1959) 128. TWO UNPUBLISHED LETTERS OF JAMES FENIMORE COOPER Two previously unpublished...
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Vocal Register in Behn's Love-Letters between a Nobleman and His Sister
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English Language Notes (2003) 41 (1): 44–53.
Published: 01 September 2003
... REGISTER IN BEHN S LOVE-LETTERS BETWEEN A NOBLEMANAND HIS SISTER G. Gabrielle Starr in Rereading Prose Fiction: Lyric Con vention in Aphra Behn and Eliza Haywood (ECF12 (1999), 218) describes how Behn s Love-Letters between a Nobleman and his Sister alternates recognizably poetic language with equally...
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Dead Letters and Circulating Texts: On the Limits of Literary Archiving
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English Language Notes (2007) 45 (1): 5–20.
Published: 01 March 2007
... yourself a scholar? If so, you w ill need to gather your vitae and letter o f accreditation, and prepare to meet me inside o f the archive." Like Poe's Fortunato, I follow , but never w ith ou t a w orry that once inside the archive, I too w ill become a non-circulating thing. The archive is for me, first...
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Reading the Contingencies of Print on the Borderlands
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English Language Notes (2018) 56 (2): 121–123.
Published: 01 October 2018
... to a series of decisions by scholars, editors, and grant agencies in the twentieth century, this letter is today best known in an English translation and within the frame provided by the popular Heath Anthology of American Literature . The appropriation of Otermín’s letter by the discipline of American (US...
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Fashions and Wars: Negotiations of Liberal Humanism in E. M. Forster’s Writings, 1915–1925
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (2): 69–91.
Published: 01 October 2022
..., Them and You” (1925). The sartorial symbols that emerge from his letters, essays, and the archive he created of El-Adl’s notes allow us to reapproach the philosophical idea with which he is most closely associated: liberal humanism. This essay finally suggests that Forster’s experiences in Egypt led...
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Swift, Ramsay, and “the Cabala, as Masonry Was Call’d in Those Days”
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English Language Notes (2018) 56 (1): 97–118.
Published: 01 April 2018
...Marsha Keith Schuchard Abstract When Jonathan Swift anonymously published A Letter from the Grand Mistress of the Female Freemasons (Dublin, 1724), he entered a political minefield, for it was a mocking response to James Anderson’s Constitutions of the Freemasons (London, 1723). Swift countered...
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Before Latinx: X and Cartas de un Americano
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English Language Notes (2018) 56 (2): 48–50.
Published: 01 October 2018
... of letters written in New York and Philadelphia, the article notes the importance of male-centered homosocial relations and epistolary form for this transatlantic publication. When considering the history of textual production, should Latinx be viewed as a misnomer created by contemporary US politics? Does...
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Borderlands Letrados : La Crónica , the Mexican Revolution, and Transnational Critique on the US-Mexico Border
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English Language Notes (2018) 56 (2): 107–120.
Published: 01 October 2018
...Yolanda Padilla Abstract Angel Rama’s concept of the letrado refers to Latin American lettered individuals who used writing to consolidate the nation. But what might it have meant to be a letrado in the geopolitical context of the US-Mexico border in the early twentieth century, one that combined...
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Body as Epitaph: Byron's Reclamation of England through Allegra
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English Language Notes (2003) 41 (1): 53–61.
Published: 01 September 2003
... with certainty about Allegra s death is that most of what Byron said about it related to how he viewed himself and to his own sense of impending demise.5 The directions for her burial in England, directions that constitute the first half of a letter written to John Murray on May 26, 1822, ask Murray to place her...
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Isode's “sownyng vppon the c_ _sse of S ir Trystr am ” in Malory's Morte Darthur
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English Language Notes (2004) 42 (1): 1–3.
Published: 01 September 2004
... Thomas Malory s Morte Darthur appears an account of Isode s death following Mark s m urder of Tristram: la beali Isode dyed sownyng vppon the sse ofsir Trystram. 1The two underscores in c__ sse represent two blotted letters in the manuscript. The last three letters are clear; each s is the f-like...
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Mystical Reflections on the Primordial Torah
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English Language Notes (2018) 56 (1): 67–82.
Published: 01 April 2018
... gazing into a river named kevar (כבר), a word with the same three-letter root as keruv (כרב) and merkavah (רכב) (Ezek. 1:2). Furthermore, the keruvim feature as an important motif in the kabbalistic teachings on the merkavah based on the first chapter of Ezekiel, a text revered as containing...
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Of Anagrammatology
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English Language Notes (2009) 47 (2): 139–148.
Published: 01 September 2009
..., is Anagram matisme, or Metagrammatisme, which is a dissolution of a Name truely written into his Letters . . . and a new connexion o f it by artificiali transposition [ ] w ithout addi tion, substraction [s/c], or change of any letter [ ] into different words, making some per fect sence."5 Camden's...
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Two Iberian Cases of Intellectual Mysticism
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English Language Notes (2018) 56 (1): 197–202.
Published: 01 April 2018
... the trilingual Qur’an nor the letter in Castilian that Yça wrote to Juan has survived, a prologue composed by Juan de Segovia has, as has a Latin translation of Yça’s letter accepting the project. 1 The latter is the first text I focus on in this essay. The second is an anonymous poem recorded on a single...
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“Still lookeing towardes the place”: John Winthrop's Erotics of Jurisdiction
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English Language Notes (2010) 48 (2): 99–107.
Published: 01 September 2010
... the place where shee left her beloued.1 B efore delivering his speech, "A Modell of Christian Charity," to the passengers of the Arbella in 1630, W inthrop w ould w rite from London to his close friend. Sir W illiam Springe in Suffolk in February 1629.2The letter is rem arkable as pas sionate...
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“Worms in the Dull Earth of Ignorance”: Zoosemiotics and Sexual Politics in the Works of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle
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English Language Notes (2002) 39 (4): 12–24.
Published: 01 June 2002
... in a letter to H enry More in 1649: For language is the one certain indication of latent cogitation in a body, and all m en use i t . . . whereas on the other hand not a single brute speaks, and con sequently this we may take for the true difference between man and beastWhile Cartesian dualism endorsed...
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Fake You!
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English Language Notes (2024) 62 (1): 142–144.
Published: 01 April 2024
... a letter purportedly written by Charles Dickens in November 1868 that promised to donate all his earnings from an upcoming reading to the Printers’ Almshouses. The letter, with its strikingly generous offer, was quickly reprinted by newspapers. But Dickens never wrote it, and within days his publisher...
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More Light on Dreiser's Chester Gillette/Clyde Griffiths Family
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English Language Notes (2000) 38 (1): 68–73.
Published: 01 September 2000
... be cited in parentheses in th e text. 10 The Poems of Matthew Arnold, note to lines 35-37. 11 In a letter to ja n e , w ritten on Jan u ary 25, 1851, M atthew opens with the following sentence: Since you do n o t write to m e, I m ust be th e first (LMA 1: 188). Perhaps the Tasso was n o t as effective...
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Fake News, Then and Now
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English Language Notes (2024) 62 (1): 138–141.
Published: 01 April 2024
... news” in newspapers of the 1860s: stories of doubtful or unknown origin, offered with the intention of circulating information known to be false. “Hoaxing the papers,” as it was called, was for a while a common activity, 6 and Long cites two other cases of apparently forged letters, similar...
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