... 2019 Charles Churchill William Cowper conversational form skepticism and common sense literary history The works of Charles Churchill and William Cowper are usually seen as occupying different niches in the history of eighteenth-century English poetry. According to a still-prevalent view...

...Matthew Wickman This essay addresses the relationship between shape and number that is implicit to the conversion of statistics into forms of visual display. It does so by way of the work and legacy of Robert Burns, particularly the well-known poems “To a Louse” and “To a Mouse.” Bearing...

... takes the form of a three-cornered conversation that links Pascalian thinking not only to the Hobbes of Leviathan but to the Hegel of the Phenomenology of Spirit and the Elements of Right and to the Wittgenstein of the late, sadly fruitless notebook On Certainty . [email protected]...

..., scholars focus on acts 2 through 4, where the play in question is rehearsed and staged. However, overlooking the frame in acts 1 and 5, where the subject of the interior play is chosen and the problematic consequences of the actor’s conversion are laid out, obscures Rotrou’s true theme, which is neither...

... devoir de violence (Mali), Les soleils des indépendances (Côte d’Ivoire), and The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (Ghana). Only Devoir has been particularly important to the conversation about postcolonial literature and form, thanks to Kwame Anthony Appiah. Andrade’s first claim is that the relation...

...; conversely, literary studies rarely consider empiricist political theory in contexts later than Victorian realism. Wells’s works challenge these conventions by reflecting on the writings of Adam Smith and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Wells questions the social contract hypothesis that individual interests...

... that the “‘conversational facility’ of the Don J21nn manner springs from Byron’s adaptation of an Italian conversational form to an English conversational style, and Byron learned how to do this by studying writers like Pope and Pulci” (“DonJzian”in Context, p. 556). But when Beaty goes on to say...

... that the “‘conversational facility’ of the Don J21nn manner springs from Byron’s adaptation of an Italian conversational form to an English conversational style, and Byron learned how to do this by studying writers like Pope and Pulci” (“DonJzian”in Context, p. 556). But when Beaty goes on to say...

... into conversation with Iphi- genia and is gradually led to insight and independent choice. The substance of the Euripidean drama reappears in Goethe’s play in an entirely new form, one that reflects the development of Western consciousness in the intervening two millennia: the emergence of what we know...

... political action in Sybilis speech, in both its public (Parliamentary, mass meeting) and conversational forms. Disraeli seeks above all to defend the effectiveness of discussion as a politi- Gerard does waver a bit between the notions of inherent property rights and rights justified by use...

... of Paradise Lost that puts drama, dialogue, and conversation at the center. In the dramatic Milton, meaning is found in dialogue and conversation, growing out of the noise of debate and conflict. Copyright © 2017 by University of Washington 2017 Paradise Lost Samson Agonistes tragedy...

... or crossing over such metaleptic dreams, the bubbles and worlds of interpretation are what historical poetics is made of. When Fry writes that “the abiding questions for historical poetics are: with whom is this text meant to enter into conversation, and under what generic and prosodic signs?,” he...

... literature a unifying principle for his episodic fictions. The conversion of Robinson Crusoe and the long-delayed conversion of Moll Flanders are not forced intrusions of piety; on the con- trary, they give precise focus to the narrative. In Roxana the influence of spiritual autobiography...

... had favored their more intimate union. She felt herself formed for domestic affection. General conversation in society did not satisfy her.. . . She repined when she also reflected that the best years of her life were spent in comfortless solitude. These ideas made the cordial inter...

... I3rooke,” SP, 56 (1959), 489503; Yvor Winters, Forms OJ Discovery (Chicago, 1967); Hugh N. llaclean, “Fulke Greville: Kingship and Sovereignty,” HLQ, 16 (1953).237-71; idem, “Fulke Greville on War,” ibid., 21 (1958). 95-109; idem, “Greville’s ‘Poetic SP, 61 (1!)64), 170-91. In addition...

... for such with all the World, for Fifty Years together. And what indeed can one mean, when he speaks of a fine Gentleman, but one who is qualify’d in Conversation, to please the best Company of either Sex? (John Dennis, A Defence of Sir Fopling Flutter [1722]) The comments of Steele...

...Joseph Butwin Michael Ragussis. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1995. ix + 340 pp. $54.95 cloth, $17.95 paper. Copyright © 1998 by Duke University Press 1998 Reviews Figures of Conversion: “TheJewish Question ” and English National Identity. By Michael Ragussis. Durham...

...- flict (between his mother and himself) as a thematic device, for the drama of conversion, for self-examination, for the form of dialogue with God, and for the justification of his faith. . . . (p. 180) Confession is the ultimate metaphor for autobiography not be- cause all...

... are “but talk,” deriving from it the “funda- mental premise” of his work: “the eighteenthcentury familiar letter, like 94 REVIEWS eighteenthcentury conversation, is a performance-an ‘act’ in the theatri- cal sense as well as a ‘speech-act...

... the- ology and a way to give form to vaguer apprehensions and surmises. The chief events of Mansfield Park originate in design’s failure to control feeling. Where nature once was deployed to bend strong feel- ing upward toward the divine, we now see feeling escaping into a social realm ungoverned...