...Adam Barrows The fantasy of turning back the clock by journeying eastward across what we today call the International Date Line appears in the fiction of Edgar Allan Poe, Jules Verne, Rudyard Kipling, and James Joyce, all of whom create characters who make, or contemplate making, such time-defying...

...Bill Readings Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 SUBLIME POLITICS: THE END OF THE PAR” LINE By BILL READINGS THE POLITICS OF THE SUBUME An interest in the sublime...

...Stephen Rupp Front Lines: Soldiers’ Writing in the Early Modern Hispanic World . By Miguel Martínez . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2016 . 320 pp. Copyright © 2020 by University of Washington 2020 Latin American literature can trace its origins...

... and Variants of Lines 8879-10,822, Followed by a Study of the Noun Declensional Sys- tem. By MAURICESILVER. New York: Privately printed, 1942. Pp. 212. For some ten years now there has been a Loherain seminar at Columbia University, devoted to the study and the publication...

... useful” privileges. Evan Watkins, University of Washington Reading between the Lines. By Annabel Patterson. Madison: University of Wis- consin Press, 1993. x + 339 pp. $48.50 cloth, $17.95 paper. In a wide-ranging and theoretically informed collection, Annabel...

.... DONALDA. RINGE Uniorr~ityof Michigan Thc Manuscript Poems of A, E. Housman: Eight Hundred Lines of Hitherto Uncollected first from the Author‘s h‘otebooks. Edited by TOMBURNS HAB~R.Mirineapolis : University of Minnesota Press ; London : Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University...

...; their nostalgia for the old-fashioned ideals of marriage and family represents a form of psychological escapism. The point is under- scored when Gissing shows Dr. Madden in the opening scene of the novel gathering his daughters around him to read aloud from Tenny- son’s “Lotos-Eaters” the lines...

...Simon Jarvis Abstract A superversive line is that line in a given poem which most eminently exploits the play between syntactic and metrical segmentation, between an ordinary and a special phonology; which peculiarizes verse as verse. A superversive poetics places composition and technique...

... the boundaries of decency and propriety while inviting censors and the public to hone their understanding of these concepts. In producing increasingly daring versions of Le paysan perverti (1775), Rétif repeatedly forced authorities to redraw the line between the passable and the prohibited. In this way he...

...Angela Sorby Nineteenth-century reading practices (which involved the copying, memorizing, and unauthorized circulation of verses) blurred the line between readers and writers, vexing the very idea that a poem could have an owner. In 1867 a notorious attribution scandal pitted the established...

.... Mad Men belongs to a long line of naturalist narratives in which the outsider within (often a Jew or probable Jew) assimilates the myriad impacts of capitalist globalization and thus exemplifies the periodic resurgence of historical realism, which Georg Lukács predicted in The Historical Novel...

... Westminster Abbey and the capitol-like Whitehall—is revisited in Milton’s epic. God expels Adam and Eve from Eden and subsequently washes away the garden during the Flood to prevent it from turning into a temple-and-grove along the lines of Pandaemonium or a capital seat like Charles’s London, in either case...

...Zoe Beenstock H. G. Wells’s diverse works of literature and political theory make him a test case for lines of intersection between modernity and the Enlightenment, a period concerned with the relations between the two genres. Traditionally, studies of Wells go back only as far as Victorianism...

... reading by generic recognition, a reading of poetry as a form of cognition emerges among later critics like I. A. Richards, who illustrates how a line from Robert Browning is read in the mind’s eye, as if in the present tense. But Browning was already doing a version of historical poetics, in writing “Pan...

... and con’s of Dryden’s influence seem peripheral, for if we try to approach Lamia objectively, we are seldom reminded of neo-classic style. Here and there a single couplet-such as “Love in a hut, with water and a crust, / Is-Love, forgive us!- cinders, ashes, dust.. balances line, rhetoric...