...A. T. Hazen James L. Clifford. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1941. Pp. xix + 492. Copyright © 1941 by Duke University Press 1941 652 Reviews Hester Lynch Piozzi (Mrs. Thrale). By JAM= L. CLIFFORD.Ox- ford: At the Clarendon Press, 1941. Pp. xix + 492...

...Hester Goodenouch Gelber Caroline Walker Bynum. Berkeley and London: University of California Press, The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics, 1987. xvi + 444 pp. $29.95. © 1989 University of Washington 1987 HESTER GOODENOUGH GELBER 28 1...

.... When the narrative begins, Roger Chillingworth, Arthur Dimmesdale, and Hester Prynne have already estranged themselves from their proper positions in the great scheme of mankind and nature. Thus the novel is a study in thwarted purposes, for as long as each remains estranged, 12 R. B...

... critics have been. “Dimmesdale’s escape may be grand,” he says, “and it may even be tragic, but it is an escape all the same’’ (p. 146). What heroism there is-and it is hardly unmitigated-belongs to Hester, who must remain to bear the burden of history. . . . It is she who provides...

... understand to be neither definitive nor dismissible. The “vulgar” or naive rumor that Hester’s letter is “red-hot with infernal fire,” for example, allegorizes Hester, sacrificing her subjectivity to the townspeople’s need to “vaguely confess [their] private sins by defensively displacing...

..., techniques, and even personalities from literature and literary studies. Not coincidentally, many of the best-known female mediums of the modernist era either came from literary backgrounds or undertook lit- erary careers quite separately from their mediumistic vocations. Hester Dowden (a.k.a...

... such possibilities as Adulteress, Arthur, and Able; the townspeople of Salem themselves reinterpret the letter throughout Hester Prynne’s career.3 Less often noticed is how the A shifts between the decorative or picto- rial and the linguistic. In this passage it is first an “object” instead of a transparent...

... by seeing how they played themselves out in a Hawthorne text. The text is The Scarlet Letter, and not even the whole of it, but two points in it: the grim moment in chapter 13 where, having explicated the continuing, indeed growing, wildness hidden beneath Hester Prynne’s ascetically com- posed...

... editor). Sources and Analogues of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. University of Chicago Press, 1941. Pp. vii + 765. $10.00. Clifford, James L. Hester Lynch Piozzi (Mrs. Thrale). New York : Oxford University Press ; Oxford : at the Clarendon Press, 1941. Pp. v + 492. $6.50...

... of the author known as “Pseudo-Bonaventure” (pp. 70-71, 89-100). Since roughly 300 exemplars of medieval preaching manuals survive in a total of about 600 manuscripts, accurately characterizing the medieval HESTER GOODENOUGH GELBER 28 1 theory of preaching...

... and written by women, such as Margaret Cavendish’s recipe poems or Hester Pulter’s poems about pregnancy and confinement. Future scholars will certainly benefit from thinking with Kadue’s domestic georgic framework as they address works in which domestic concerns and household labors are central. Ultimately...

... John Hester that Paracelsus himself was known to Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Among the most illuminating critical comments in the book are Grudin’s acute observations on the idea of “becoming” in Antony and Cleopatra (he points out that the word and its cognates appear no fewer than...

... Eliot’s Adam Bede , published nine years later and again portraying “a pair of illicit lovers named Hester and Arthur” (47), an example that testifies to how Nathaniel Hawthorne’s classic novel “has catalyzed writers and artists in every generation since” (72). Buell’s unparalleled ability to make...

... to assess and to harmonize the material into a coherent story. Now Clifford, whose skill as a biographer was demonstrated in his Hester Lynch Piozzi, has undertaken to appraise all that is known or conjectured about the first forty-five years of Johnson’s life, and to assemble the scattered...

... War (composed 1671), Catharine Macaulay’s History of England in Letters (1778), and Hester Lynch Piozzi’s strange blend of personal reminiscence and world history, Retrospection (1801). A few earlier studies, undeterred by the claims of novelty tendered by the practitioners of “herstor y...

... Oliphant’s Experimental Sensationalism Throughout her fiction Oliphant returned to the narrative opportu- nities created by economic crises, continually revising her representa- tion of the economy’s impact on the domestic so that in Hester (1883), for example, women manage the family business while...

... universality or contemporaneity from its historicity (Hester is puzzled by Pearl’s actions; Hawthorne composed the novel in 1849-,50), Ferguson will presentify everything- historical events, for instance, even when he’s not discussing the representation of those events in texts-to challenge...

... of William Congreve. Cambridge, London, New York: Cambridge University Press, Plays by Renaissance and Restoration Dramatists, 1982. xvi + 407 pp. $39.50, cloth; $14.95, paper. Hester, M. Thomas. Kinde Pitty and Brave Scorn: John Donne’s “Satyres.” Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1982. 178...

.... 10.100 (cloth); D. Kr. 9.300 (paper). Bloom, Edward A. and Lillian D. (editors). The Piozzi Letters: Corrrespondence of Hester Lynch Piozzi, 1748-1821 (/ormerly M?-s. Thrale). Volume 1: 1784-1791. New- ark: University of Delaware Press; London and Toronto: Associated Univer- sity Presses...

... of Hester Prynne’s domestic refuge for social exiles, it should not surprise us that this happens more often than not in early US novels. In referencing the contrary domestic story that shapes Haywood’s British Recluse , then, Lynch reminds us that the American novels of the period also staged an argument...