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...Glending Olson Copyright © 1974 by Duke University Press 1974 THE REEVE’S TALE AS A FABLIAU By GLENDINGOLSON Most recent commentators on the Reeve’s Tale focus on a number of its darkest aspects and connect it intimately with its...

...Eileen Reeves Eileen Reeves is professor of comparative literature and associate member of the Program in History of Science at Princeton University. Her most recent book is Evening News: Optics, Astronomy, and Journalism in Early Modern Europe (2014). Hollow Men: Writing, Objects...

... and their reaction to those events he attempted to preserve the realism of the modern novel. Thirteen years later, Clara Reeve modified this general principle somewhat in her Preface to The Old English Baron, published in 1778. Miss Reeve felt that Walpole had been too violent in his use...

... of a very dubious parallel suggests that Chaucer may possibly have bor- rowed his picture of the Pardoner from Boccaccio’s Decameron. After some contemporary quotations about dishonest reeves, we are told on pages 251 -52 that in this respect Chaucer’s Reeve was typical. I think we might...

... Kolve will follow in the subsequent five chapters, which are devoted in sequence to The Knight’s Tale, The Miller’s Tale, Thp Reeve’s Tale, The Cook’s Tale (for a new examination of the Ellesmere-Hengwrt problem), and The Man of Law’s Tale. The first chapter makes much of mental images...

... of this conclusion. On page 283, Miss Bowden on the basis of a very dubious parallel suggests that Chaucer may possibly have bor- rowed his picture of the Pardoner from Boccaccio’s Decameron. After some contemporary quotations about dishonest reeves, we are told on pages 251 -52...

... personality, he nevertheless conforms to the medieval concept of what a miller should be. Among other things, he is red-haired, coarse-featured, socially ambitious, muscular, well-armed, vulgar, drunken, stupid, and dishonest ; and he associates with the reeve. As we shall see, all...

...Jeffrey L. Sammons Reeves Nigel. London: Oxford University Press. Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs, 1974. 209 pp. $6.50; $21.00 Copyright © 1975 by Duke University Press 1975 REVIEWS Heinrich Hezne: Poetry and Politics. By N...

... refuses to make expecta- tion of the imminent end “the sole touchstone of apocalypticism” (p. 29). Instead, he details three themes of apocalyptic eschatology in the Fathers: concern with the ages of the world, chiliasm, and Antichrist. Marjorie Reeves then surveys various “medieval...

...Paul A. Olson Copyright © 1963 by Duke University Press 1963 POETIC JUSTICE IN THE MILLER’S TALE By PAULA. OLSON F. N. Robinson notes that critics have observed, in Chaucer’s tales of the Miller and the Reeve, “a kind of moral quality...

.... The poetry of W. P. Reeves, Arthur Adams, Jessie McKay, and others, and the short-lived urry of magazines such as Zealandia and the New Zealand Illustrated Magazine, conveyed a robust nationalism that was simply untroubled by the question of cultural differences from Britain. New Zealand was a blank slate...

... . London : Burns and Oates . Rajan Tilottama . 2000 . “ Theories of Genre. ” In Brown 2000b : 226 - 49 . Reeve Clara . 1785 . The Progress of Romance, through Times, Countries, and Manners, with Remarks on the Good and Bad Effects of It, on Them Respectively . 2 vols . London...

... of the Shelley Society. London: Published for the Shelley Society by Reeves and Turner. Peck, Walter Edwin. 1923. “On the Origin of the Shelley Society.” Modern Lan- guage Notes 38, no. 3: 159 – 63.  . 1924. “On the Origin...

... to Harry Bailly’s demeanor in the Reeve’s Prologue as “lordly as a kyng” (1.3900) and that Harry should earlier have sworn “by my fader soule” (1.781). KODNEY DELASANTA 30 1 reinforced rather than assuaged by contact with a mysterious Christian rubric...

... of those poems cited by Hughes she neglects to mention K. Lamont and F. D. Reeve, who sought to explore the relation of the poems to the action within the novel much more specifically. But there is a considerable difference between statements in a formulation like “Several Principles...

... (Paris, 1932). ‘XIV (August, 1744), 420-21. 146 Reviews History of English Poetry.6 Even Charles Borde’s notorious at- tack on Rousseau, the Pre‘diction tirke d’un vieux manuscrit-a polemic often attributed to Voltaire7-Miss Barr assigns to “one Clara Reeve...

... and the sexual logic of sodomy,” in the process arguing for a broader “cultural anxiety over the performing male body as a site of musical and sexual deviance” ( 140). In Chaucer’s Par- doner, he Žnds the literary telos of this “musical and moral deviance” ( 182), while in the Reeve’s Tale he sees...

... are to give up all attempts at using critical terms precisely. Mr. Shelly very properly devotes a good deal of atten- tion to the fabliaux, thereby doing much to atone for the pious hypocrisy of some of the older criticism. Much of the point of the satire in the Reeve’s Tale is lost...

... introduction to Selected Pow of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (London, 1959), p. xxii, James Reeves describes the verse-letter as “among the most agonizing confessional poems in English.” In his notes to the verse-letter (pp. 145-47), Reeves sees the final ode as “a maimed version of the Letter...

...-vernacular tradition, separate in time and value from mass-cultural and “feminine” forms.* In The Progress of Romance (1785), Clara Reeve characterized the 1740s and 1750s as a time when “the press groaned under the weight of novels, which sprung up like mushrooms.”3 Perhaps...