...Siân E. White This article explores how Elizabeth Bowen's novel The Last September relies on a spatial aesthetic to convey interpersonal and political tensions, corresponding with the novelistic trend toward greater historical and political engagement that recent scholars have deemed “late...

...Sarah Allison This essay places Elizabeth Gaskell's Life of Charlotte Brontë in the context of responses it provoked from contemporaries, including their retrospective rereadings of Jane Eyre . By 1857, the novel form had come a long way from its eighteenth-century origins in the roman à clef...

... Elizabeth Bennet's desires, we see them actualized in the same way that domestic life is constructed in the Bennet home—through repetitive and circular movements that straddle the divide between the concrete and the abstract. Mining the creative tension between physical movement and narrative movement...

... with the present. Focusing on her last collection of poetry, Tonight No Poetry Will Serve (2011), I reconsider how Rich's late lyrics articulate the desire for and aesthetic difficulty of what the anthropologist Elizabeth A. Povinelli calls the “possibility of being otherwise” under late liberalism. Rich's late...

.... Reading Charlotte M. Yonge’s Daisy Chain (1856) and Elizabeth Gaskell’s Wives and Daughters (1866) through the temporal structure of the intelligent machine, this essay argues that these novels imagine new, routinized theories of development. Through the characters’ endless meal planning, sewing...

... Elizabeth Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret , sensation heroes find access to hidden mental reality through the psychologically revealing power of painted portraits. By doing so, they enact a distinctly gothic version of the sublime, offering a glimpse into the dark psyche by means of a subject's awed...

...Barbara Johnson; Louis Mackey; J. Hillis Miller; John Springer; Elizabeth McLemore Ronald Schleifer: I'm afraid we've run out of time. Thank you very much. JHM: I don't think we can do without generic terms, but I don't see that anything much is lost in seeing them as, to some degree...

...Elizabeth Hewitt [email protected] Thomas Koenigs , Founded in Fiction: The Uses of Fiction in the Early United States , Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2021 . I found myself with a similar confusion in the third chapter, in which he proposes that certain species...

...Elizabeth Callaway [email protected] David Sergeant , The Near Future in Twenty-First-Century Fiction: Climate, Retreat, and Revolution , Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2023 . Copyright © 2024 by University of Oklahoma 2024 The Near Future in Twenty...

...Elizabeth Klaver The cemetery is often portrayed in literary and cultural works as a heterotopic site for the other, awash in gothic or melodramatic features. This essay argues that Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters and act 3 of Thornton Wilder's Our Town offer something quite different...

...Elizabeth Covington The genre of the circadian or one-day novel, of which James Joyce's Ulysses (1922) and Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway (1925) are the most famous examples, relies on John Locke's theory of individual identity composed of memories over time. The modernist writer and critic Storm...

... to establish a framework for further readings of Rendell and, perhaps more ambitiously, to offer some suggestions about the role of genre in construc- tions of feminine literary authority. II. Elizabeth Vetch, the heroine-narrator of The House of Stairs, lives...

... downe to ashes of Alice Clark . London : John Oakes , 1635 . ---. Heavens Speedie Hue and Cry sent after Lust and Murther . 2nd edition . London : John Oakes , 1635 . ---. The Wonderfull Discoverie of Elizabeth Sawyer a Witch ... her conviction and condemnation and Death . London...

... Elizabeth Hirsch Marianne Langland Elizabeth . 1983 . Introduction to The Voyage In: Fictions of Female Development , edited by Abel Elizabeth Hirsch Marianne Langland Elizabeth , 3 – 19 . Hanover, NH : University Press of New England . Adams Henry . (1918) 2008...

... Elizabeth Costello , “a work in which the instantiation relation is no longer supportable, in which point of view itself is abandoned” (92). What he says he means by “abandoned” is that “despite Smith's own remarks about her work and about literature in general, On Beauty does not sustain any consistent...

..., UK : Wiley-Blackwell . Elizabeth I. (1600) 1887 . “Charter Granted by Queen Elizabeth, to the Governor and Company of Merchants of London, Trading into the East Indies.” In Charters Relating to the East India Company 1600 to 1761 , edited by Shaw John , 1 – 15 . Madras...

..., who similarly wants to force Elizabeth Dalloway’s soul to resemble her own. The most empathetic moment in the novel, when Clarissa feels Septimus’s 15. For a penetrating and complex account of Woolf’s attack on snobbery even as she played that role at times, see Latham 2003, 59...

... implicit aftermath that dominate chick narratives. For instance, as Caroline J. Smith (2008, 76) observes, chick lit texts such as Sex and the City and Carol Wolper’s 1999 novel The Cigarette Girl “construct sexually aggressive women . . . exploring nontraditional sexual unions”: Wolper’s Elizabeth...

...Rachel A. Bowser COPYRIGHT © 2008 BY THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA 2008 WORKS CITED Andres Sophia . “ Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Ambivalent pre-Raphaelite Ekphrasis .” Victorian Newsletter 108 ( 2005 ): 1 - 6 . Armstrong Nancy . Desire and Domestic Fiction . New York...

... it (16)? The problems that the environment concept addressed in the nineteenth century may have been importantly different from the ecological problems that make it crucial today. Hildebrand persuasively shows that nineteenth-century writers “anticipate Elizabeth Grosz's suggestion that we understand...