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Genre (2017) 50 (3): 421–447.
Published: 01 December 2017
...Rebecca Tierney-Hynes This essay argues that William Congreve’s comedy, influenced by Lockean empiricism, intervenes influentially in the development of eighteenth-century models of selfhood. Congreve takes John Locke’s mimetic model of the mind, in which we copy and contain the afterimages...
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Genre (2002) 35 (2): 221–251.
Published: 01 June 2002
... Pohl Nicole . New York : St. Martin's Press , 2000 . 93 - 110 . Eamon William . Science and the Secrets of Nature: Books of Secrets in Medieval and Early Modern Culture . Princeton : Princeton UP , 1994 . Flecknoe Richard . Love's Dominion . London , 1654 . Frank...
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Genre (2007) 40 (1-2): 81–104.
Published: 01 March 2007
... figures for mem- ory, with less pathos even than those haunters of their own graves in William Cullen Bryant's "The Two Graves." "In a Disused Graveyard" uses the cemetery to remind us of how its lesson of mortality cannot overcome the human wish that we could "stop[ ] dying now forever." A more...