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...Trevor Blount Copyright © 1964 by Duke University Press 1964 THE CHADBANDS AND DICKENS’ VIEW OF DISSENTERS By TREVORBLOUNT To realize the immensity of Dickens’ achievement in his novels, we must recognize the extent of his experimentation...

...Maximillian E. Novak Copyright © 1966 by Duke University Press 1966 DEFOE’S SHORTEST WAY WITH THE DISSENTERS HOAX, PARODY, PARADOX, FICTION, IRONY, AND SATIRE By MAXIMILLIANE. NOVAK Defoe’s famous...

... FRANCIS PONGE A DISSENTING VIEW OF HIS POETRY By MARKJ. TEMMER The reputation of Francis Ponge has been increasing steadily since 1947, when Sartre published a small book entitled L‘Homme et Zes choses. Only nine years later, La Nouvelle...

...Peter Happé D. Kendall Ritchie. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1986. 286 pp. $27.50. Copyright © 1987 by Duke University Press 1987 REVIEWS The Drama of Dissent: The Radical Poetics of Nonconformity, 1380-1590...

... the expression of Spain’s substate national identities less belligerent as they advanced by other means the technocratic and timidly cosmopolitan mind-set that informed Franco’s later administrations. The present essay explores the differential and dissenting sensibilities of key authors who during the period...

... of Heterodox Thinking Ruth Shklar For the most part, critics have approached the problem of dissent in The Book of Margery Kempe as something curiously external to its author’s purpose. Either they accept Kempe’s orthodoxy at face value, reading the accusations of heresy...

... of progress is its historical association with Dissent, the sectarian pluralism on which Canuel has written two previous books. This disputatious British tendency accounts for progressive energies that “could encompass unruly divisions” (6). The Romantic version of progress thus “revised” and “reconfigured...

... terminates with the judgment that Yeats was a very great poet, per- haps the greatest of the past century, perhaps among the three or four greatest in the language. Such is the view which all other views honor as the basis of argument, and as the point from which dissent is taken...

...- cations such literature had for his ideas of Christianity and its place in English national culture, Defoe, the famous dissenter, at times in his debates with Toland supported the national church and criticized tol- erance of non-Christian religious views, in defense of a uniftrlng myth...

... Hazlitt and Keats made their marks in the world of aesthetics, but their aesthetics were informed by the politics of their youth. 13 Both were raised in settings of religious dissent sympathetic to the fights for political liberty in America and France. Their roots lay in the seventeenth-century...

... Speech 57 would take up arms to defend her new country; her application was rejected, and the Supreme Court upheld the denial of citizenship. Holmes wrote into his dissenting opinion words that should reverber- ate now more than ever: “Some of her answers might...

... The Shortest Way with Dissenters , which landed him in prison), The Shortest Way with Defoe deploys in its design many elements of narrative structure and psychological characterization that Defoe himself deployed so ingeniously in his novels. It is a notable work of scholarship, abundantly provisioned...

..., critics like Rita Felski have over the last few years helped us realize that devotion is as worthy of analysis as dissent. To arrive at that realization, Felski ( 2020 : 9) says, means reappraising the account of the modern as a “drama of scission and separation” (Taylor’s separation story) in which...

... Manchester, so he can earn his living as a tutor to the rising manufacturing class. Mr. Hale’s recent refusal to subscribe to the Thirty-Nine Articles due to unalterable but unspecified “doubts” renders him a Nonconformist or Dissenter, which costs him his position as a minister in the Church of England...

..., Cowper claims for himself the right to dissent even from himself—which is again a tacit acknowledgment of Churchill’s skeptical method. This skepticism would undermine the “godly” claim that conversation leads us to truth by overcoming error if it were not for the right of dissent from skepticism itself...

... satire of Protestant Dissenters ; and although he found this to be the basic strategy throughout the book, he observed that “the Mask is more plainly taken off in the Fragment.”g Made obvious by this supposed removal of the authorial mask, the Fragment’s blatant and degrading banter upon...

..., for example, we are told, “I WRITEthis Paper for the Sake of the Dissenters” (111, 126). But what follows is an aggressive attack in which Dissenters, who are characterized as king-killers and fanatics, are ominously warned to disperse themselves and cease making trouble, lest right-thinking men...

... and the Inns of Court. Billington maintains that the original relationship between these theatri- calked holiday customs and the real world of politics was not lost on Renais- sance dramatists, who often used inherited “subversive” popular traditions “to express sophisticated criticism and dissent...

... as their idle play (pp. 192-93). Martin’s own role in playing and jesting is seen as fundamentally serious, and linked to the proposition that dissenters’ writing is often selfdramatiz- ing. This notion for Kendall justifies their “dramatic” presentation because it leads to self-identification...

... of “liberal” and “reactionary,” with a corresponding ascription of simple motives, noble or sinister. Again, the part played by Dissent in English political thought is complex. To lump all Dis- senters together as Calvinists, or to represent Price and Priestley as standing in the same...