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... and cognition to reverse the polarity; he did not see the collector revivifying the dead form of the ballad so much as ballads and songs themselves galvanizing the members of a nation. Joseph Ritson, an antiquarian dedicated to the most rigorous standards of authentication, also published “garlands...

... place in British travel and landscape writing, its rise was contested by Welsh and working-class writers like the antiquarian poet Richard Llwyd (1752–1835). By conspicuously failing to impose picturesque features on a carefully historicized landscape, Llwyd’s poem Beaumaris Bay (1800) lays bare...

.... Ferris I Review 389 complication of its intersections with related genres, especially antiquarian genres, but she keeps in mind that formal choices are driven by the extraformal pressures of lived experience. So the introduction, for example...

... roots and rootedness of the various European languages and literatures took place, in a process that reverberated back and forth between the fields of philology, antiquarianism, and imaginative liter- ature. It revolutionized the European self-image and historical con- sciousness and led...

..., or possibly Robert Burton, should we expect to cite, and in just this way, “the learned Jew, Josephus, and the Platoniclc Constantinopolitan, Michel Psellus” ? Strictly speaking, of course, this antiquarian is a man without a period, for there were no well-known collectors of popular ballads...

..., was a major contri- bution to the genre, and one that reiterated the antiquarian-nationalist strategy described by Sorensen. Denying the people’s “coevalness” ( Johannes Fabian’s formulation in Time and the Other [1983], chap. 2), Scott buries them in the past under a formidable scholarly apparatus...

..., reveals a formative conflict between the earliest literary historians, for whom “a glorious imperial present . . . demonstrates the barbarity of the past,” and the antiquarian philologists “paging through the dirty and damaged manuscript,” for whom “the present is also corrupted, eaten away by the fire...

...) and Saxons were used interchangeably (P. H. Sawyer, From Roman Britain to Norman England [London: Methuen, 1978], 2). 530 MLQ December 2012 Antiquarians threw themselves into the search for written evidence of the common law. Anglo-­Saxon texts unearthed...

... group experiments with engraving constituted “scribal publishing with plates” (108), a queer analogue to the literary practices at Little Gidding. The book’s final chapter explores print and manuscript scraps compiled into volumes by the antiquarian John Bagford. Bagford’s fortunes, and so the fortunes...

... to matter, and civilization to barbarism. Yet various kinds of anti- colonial historiography have challenged this conceit by suggesting, for instance, that the diffusion that is modernity works not just in two ways but in multiple directions. This example of an antiquarian...

... on which his name now rests.”lo Among the historians and antiquarians, a Caruthers contemporary, the Rev. Philip Slaughter, historiographer of the Episcopal diocese of Virginia, observing in 1877 that Caruthers’ selection of the Spotswood theme had been “happily chosen...

... involved in attaining altitude. By the time Chapter X, “Antiquarian Learning,” in the first volume, has been reached, the authors recognize that because of the blurring already referred to, with types like CA and CB de- manding attention, a further classification is essential...

... to bring out the clash between antiquarian or otherwise erudite writing and the scenes of violent destruction or pain that elicited them, or to illustrate the apparently trivial and long-forgotten manifestations of period style with which instances of terrible damage might be associated. It is a resource...

.... “Toothache and Courtly Love.” Fr. St., IV (1950), 50-54. 3238. . “Some Notes on the Roman de Fergus.” Trans. of the Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian SOC.,XXVII ( 1950 163-172. 3239. Le Hir, Y. “L‘Elbment biblique dans la Qutte du Saint Graal.” Lumihre du...

....”a That such a misprint should occur ill two printings of the same allusion in different plays eighteen years apart is hardly credible. I think there can be little doubt that Jonson, whose extensive antiquarian and scholarly interest in Chaucer and his language is well is emending Chaucer. “New...

... down through several generations. It contains a number of passages of great antiquarian interest and is fairly entertaining, but cannot be classed with the best sagas artistically because it lacks homoge- 366 Reviews neity in substance and inner form. This may...

.... More illuminating to us than the library chargings and more revelatory to us of Emerson’s hierarchy of values will be the pub- lication of the inventory of Emerson’s personal library which is now housed with the Concord Antiquarian Society and at his old home in Concord...

..., and even long after that year. This antiquarian interest appears also in the coats of arms emblasoned in the MSS. These need further study. The MSS have been used for the history of costume, for although the miniatures are not contemporary, they seem to preserve fash- ions known to be in vogue...

... join that other work in the limbo of charming but unimportant antiquarian lives, now that Mr. Sisson has so vigorously attacked its chief reason for continued existence : reputed truth ? Only time will tell. Undoubtedly much that he says will stand time’s test ; undoubtedly our views...

... they have hitherto been unknown, makes his work difficult to read. Moreover, the intricate details of the financial management of a Virginia plantation, while important for some antiquarians, are not very entertaining to Johnsonians or readers anxious to study the development of character...