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... century. The Scots Songs of Allan Ramsay: “Lyrick” Transformation, Popular Culture, and the Boundaries of the Scottish Enlightenment Steve Newman hat was the Scottish Enlightenment? In a pair of influential texts WAlasdair MacIntyre presents it as the tragic demise of a Scottish...

... by them both, unhealthily; and writing of them was a necessary act.) (P. 138) The central characters in To the Lighthouse-Mrs. Ramsay, Mr. Ram- say, and Lily Briscoe-were inspired by her mother, her father, and herself...

[email protected] Copyright © 2024 by University of Washington 2024 Virginia Woolf David Jones war literature war poetry modernism The Great War serves as an important context to the Ramsays’ stay on the Isle of Skye in Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse . But the plot of the novel is almost...

... of the play, and . . . strengthen it elsewhere, perhaps [pointing] to a mood of increasing cynicism in Chekhov himself” (Pitcher 1985: 156). Channeling Chekhov more intensely than before, Woolf’s revisions underscore main points, bringing certain motifs into higher relief. Mrs. Ramsay’s utter...

... experiences. Partaking of the physical and the phenomenal, of matter and imagination, modern memory recomposes the past with the present in a way that challenges our understanding of influence. One scene in Woolf’s To the Lighthouse illustrates just such a mem- ory.4 Mrs. Ramsay’s interior thoughts...

... for Byron as well as Wordsworth. “Literal” maternal language, as Homans defines it, is immanent with presence, not indicative of absence. It is best described-appropriately enough- by specific examples, the very best of which is a quotation from To the Lighthouse in which Mrs. Ramsay is putting...

... Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse, although here, strangely, midlife progress is exemplified by the character of Mrs. Ramsay (no men- tion is made of Mrs. Ramsay’s death), and the presumably rhetorical ques- tion, “Is Lily Briscoe as interesting as Mrs. Ramsay?” (p. 22), I, and I think Woolf...

... of Woolfs exploratioii of the significant moment. It carries as well the corollary question of life’s meaning that hangs on the threshold of all such inornetits, as it did, for example, in To the Lighthouse, at the start of Mrs. Ramsay’s dinner party, when she asks: “But what have I doiie with my...

.... Zwerdling’s literary sensibility is blunt, and he is likely to go only as far into the novels as his carefully learned and identified sources on Woolf’s “social vision” will take him. His literary parallels are broadly indiscriminate; thus he portrays Mr. Ramsay’s “failure” in To the Lighthouse...

... be the subject of a much longer essay, a single example must suffice here. Joseph Spence’s equation of women and pineapples was itself ripe for ridicule, and parodied it was three years later in the first sustained critique of the aesthetic in English, a Dialogue on Taste ( 1755) by Allan Ramsay...

.... Ramsay’s table in To the Lighthouse , “what matters is not the object Lily has seen, but rather the fact she has allowed herself a moment of observation.” But I would argue that its status as a salt cellar on Mrs. Ramsay’s table is also significant. First, it is an everyday household item associated...

... and ballads and of imagining the place of “the people.” Earlier Scottish collectors had already responded cannily to dom- inant characterizations of Scots songs. The songs in Allan Ramsay’s musical collections and dramas, while seeming to affirm the Scotland- as-pastoral motif, work in the mode...

.... Reading for ambivalence toward procreation in modernist fiction leads to strong chapters on Woolf and Lawrence. In Woolf, Matz focuses on the recurrence of paired women characters, one with children and one without, such as Mrs. Ramsay and Lily Bart in To the Lighthouse . Without resorting...

... Copyright © 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 SAMUEL HYNES 215 drawing on experience, thinking about literature and life. So, commenting on Mrs. Ramsay’s fairy tale in To the Lighthouse, she writes: “It offers the child the storm...

... day replicating with a difference structural elements of the earlier day—the journey to the lighthouse, Mr. Ramsay’s need for sympathy, the creative force of the feminine embodied in Mrs. Ramsay, Lily’s painting, and so forth. The simultaneity of time is structured into the novel’s third section...

...), 53-136. It is not mentioned in A. H. Gilbert, “Milton and the Mysteries,” SP, XVII (1920), 147-69; Herbert Harris, “Was P. L. Suggested by the Mystery Plays?” MLN, X (1895), 445-46; and R. L. Ramsay, “Morality Themes in Milton’s Poetry,” SP, XV (1918), 123-58; nor in any...

... English Metrical Psalter (London, 18 George P. Krapp, editor, Paris Psalter and the Meters of Boethiw, Anglo- Saxon Poetic Records, Vol. 5 (New York, 1932). (The metrical portion of the Paris Psalter.) James W. Bright and Robert L. Ramsay, editors, The West-Saxon Psalms, Being...

... explicitly public than her previous, classically modernist, experiments in representing the inner life. Though a landmark in both modernist autobiography and the rep- resentation of interiority, To the Lighthouse makes far more noticeable gestures toward thematizing social injustice. Mrs. Ramsay...

... focuses on the ballad, specifically on the range from assimilation to imitation to impersonation (Chatterton), to forgery (as when contemporary authors like Alan Ramsay or Lady Wardlaw printed as old ballads poems of their own composition),to collection from oral tradition, to the elaboration...

... Durrant’s plight, and Lily Briscoe’s resistance to Mrs. Ramsay’s efforts to have her marry, and, more generally, in the way she speaks of marriage. Kelley like- wise fails to detect Woolf‘s awareness of the link between patriarchal soci- eties and the growth of fascism and how that awareness...