... are grateful to Willson and to Duke University Press for making this excellent and stimulating book available. ROBERTL. KAHN Rice University The Forked Flame: A Study of D. H. Lawrence. By H. M. DALESKI.Evans- ton: Northwestern University...

... of the Olden Time”: Revisions of the Regency in the Construction of Victorian Domestic Fiction Tamara S. Wagner roliferating from the mid-1820s to the mid-1840s and then rapidly Pdeclining, the “silver-fork” or “fashionable” novel has often been dismissed as a mere bridge between early...

... devel- oped further in Sedgwick’sEpistemology (67ff 19 Adburgham, Silver Fork Society: Fashionable Life and Literaturefiom 1814-1840 (London: Constable, 1983), 118. Elfenbein 0 Byronism and Homosexual Performance 54’ ety only after many years, while Lady Blessington, who had...

... in the character of national prophet, and is a recognition of the fact that in order to ut- ter prophetic words at all the poet must be blessed with unity of be- ing. Biblical thought constantly images evil as “double-mindedness” (Pss. 12:2, 119: 113; Jer. 9:5-8), while the forked tongue or sharp...

..., of Hamlet, of Othello. The hero under- goes intensifying stress, becomes more and more passionately aware of the problems confronting him, and comes to a fateful fork in his road. The next step will take him beyond a point of no return. He is usually aware that inaction is in itself a form...

... matters of emphasis and interpretation. All in all, we are grateful to Willson and to Duke University Press for making this excellent and stimulating book available. ROBERTL. KAHN Rice University The Forked Flame: A Study of D. H. Lawrence...

... of its main verb.8 Amid the panoply of grammatical forkings in Dombey there is one thrilling transgression of the grammatically illicit sort, attributed to Cockney ingenuity in the dialogue of the irrepressible Susan Nipper. She is about to tell Dombey off...

... orange juice in three sips and commemorates soteriological doctrine by laying knife and fork crosswise. Now he appears as a hair-splitting theologian, completely acquainted with all the subtle distinctions of dogma. This compound of extreme ritualism and exaggerated intellectualism...

...” (110). A poet- icized culture, then, would be governed by Ezra Pound’s slogan sum- marizing (so it appears) a version of literary modernism: “Make it new! Rorty and Macintyre in the Garden of the Forking Paths On a certain view, the differences between Rorty and MacIntyre dwin- dle.8...

... of the structure result in parody, comedy, satire, and irony. The varied styles of Vanity Fair both mirror and distort the content and attitudes 348 REVIEWS found in contemporary fictional modes, such as the “fashionable” or silver- fork fiction...

... himself in Finnegans Wake as “the masterbilker” (quoted on p. 7). Appropriate muse for the artist as bilker-forger-prankster, Folly is “fork-tongued, cross- eyed, and two-faced, so that her assertions are doubly dubious, free to cavort, doubleshuffle, and disappear, producing a liberating...

... to one literary corpus” (207); the nod, of course, goes to English. An earlier fork in the road has already been taken at the end of antiquity, when Attridge discontinues his historical survey of poetry in Latin to focus on the vernacular: with commendable transparency (148), he signals that this de...

... the trappings of servility in a former self and the superstition of lesser men’s acceptance : Monstrous ! Why? Had it a beard, and horns? no heart? a tongue Forked as flattery? Looked it of the hue, To such as live in great men’s bosoms...

... as the manipulations of a puppet show by its master. Secondly, the topography and geography of the book reveal Cooper’s ignorance. The action of The Prairie is supposedly set in the great plains lying between the north and south forks of the Platte River, some five hundred miles west...

... Joyce, who characterized himself in Finnegans Wake as “the masterbilker” (quoted on p. 7). Appropriate muse for the artist as bilker-forger-prankster, Folly is “fork-tongued, cross- eyed, and two-faced, so that her assertions are doubly dubious, free to cavort, doubleshuffle, and disappear...

..., Ladislav, and Krystyna I’omorska (editors). Readings in lizissian Poetics: Formalist and Structuralist Views. Cambridge, Mass., and London: iVI 1T Press, 1971. x + 306 pp. $12.50. Kaffel, 13urton. The Forked Tongue: A Study of the Translation Process. The Hague and Paris: Mouton, De...