... on Dryden’s poems, Burnet’s History, Pepys’ Diary and Evelyn’s Diary. They light up many passages in the history of the time. Mr. Aubin is to be congratulated on his editorial work. ALLENR. BENHAM. University of Washington Religious Trends...

...Cyrena N. Pondrom Genders, Races, and Religious Cultures in Modern American Poetry,1908-1934 . By Rachel Blau DuPlessis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. xiv + 238 pp. © 2003 University of Washington 2003 Reviews Ideographia: The Chinese Cipher in Early Modern Europe...

...James Kuzner James Kuzner is a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University. He is writing a dissertation on the shape of the speaking subject in English Renaissance literature. University of Washington 2006 Religious Ideology and Cultural Fantasy: Catholic and Anti-Catholic...

...E. L. Marilla THE SECULAR AND RELIGIOUS POETRY OF HENRY VAUGHAN By E. L. MARILLA ft is obvious that Henry Vaughan’s rescue from long oblivion by nineteenth-century clerical editors was inspired more by evangeIica1...

...Dwight Eddins Copyright © 1984 by Duke University Press 1984 ORPHIC CONTRA GNOSTIC RELIGIOUS CONFLICT IN GRAVITY’S RAINBOW By DWIGHTEDDINS The most common assumption among the critics of GmuityS Ruin- bow seems...

... other insights we should be grate- ful that Wenzel has read the sermon materials and lyrics so intently for so many years. MARIANNEG. BRISCOE University of Chicago Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval...

...Kingsbury Badger Copyright © 1964 by Duke University Press 1964 CHRISTIANITY AND VICTORIAN RELIGIOUS CONFESSIONS By KINGSBURYBADGER “On the 6th of October, 1845,” Ernest Renan tells us, in his Recol- lections...

...Henry A. Person BOOK REVIEWS Religious Lyrics of the XVth Century. Edited by CARLETONBROWN. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1939. Pp. xxxi+394. 10s. 6d. Religious Lyrics of the XYth Century is the third and final vol- ume of the series beginning with the appearance...

... understanding of-Chaucer. ELAINETv ITLE HANSEN Hami 1to n College Protestant Poetics and the Seventeenth-Century Religious Lyric. By BARBARAKIEFEK LEWAISKI.Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979. xiv + 536 pp. $27.50. Karely...

...Kenneth Muir REVIEWS Shakespeare’s Religious Background. By PETERIMILWARD. Bloomington and London: Indiana University Press, 1973. 312 pp. $12.50. Elizabethan drama, despite the influence of morality plays, was predomi- nantly secular: the censorship...

... University of Caltfornia, Berkeley The Religious Sublime: Christian Poetry and Critical Tradition in Eight- eenth-Century England. By DAVIDB. MORRIS.Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1972.260 pp. $8.50. This is a careful study of literary materials that remain...

... knowledge. Because the Ideo is concerned with this question of knowledge -of liberal “philosophy”-and because the Grammar is concerned ultimately with “real” assent in religious matters, the two books are in a special way com- plementary. There is, then, some special propriety about bringing...

.... JOHN J. PARRY Univemity of Illinois Social Criticism in Popular Religious Literature of the Sixteenth Century. By HELENC. WHITE.New York: Macmillan Company, 1944. Pp. ix + 330. $3.50. Miss White’s valuable book enlarges and intensifies our under- standing of social...

... and transparent language”). In the practice of religious worship, psalms were often set to “secular” melodies, poems as well as paintings and statuary were used to meditate on the Crucifixion, and novels read in private might mimic Christ’s parables in teasing the mind into ethical reflection. 5 Artistic...

...Winter Jade Werner; Mimi Winick Abstract Recent developments in the field of Victorian studies include its increasingly “global” or “transnational” scope as well as its “religious turn,” with a proliferation of scholarship on religion from Christian sects to new religious movements...

... implications and suggest that, if we wish to speak differently about religion, we should replace this implicit pedagogy of dismissing religion and reinstantiating secularism with an explicit pedagogy engaging the secular/religious binary. As a discipline, we need to take up religion in our literature...

... it comes to the question of Homer and Virgil. Fundamentally, though, both Arnold and Eliot reach toward a transcendental, even religious, view of the classic. The essay concludes by developing the implications of Eliot's “last poet” and the silencing qualities of the classic hinted at in his address...

...James Nohrnberg Abstract Milton’s thinking and oeuvre divide historical time and place the poet and his subjects on the verges of periodizing metamorphoses: different eras of epistemology, religious dispensations, archaeologies of knowledge, kinds of global consciousness, rival explanations...

..., in particular the religious civil wars of the preceding century. Albeit in the discreetly displaced form of a martyr story set in imperial Rome, the play enacts the violent disorders associated with religion itself and so, by extension, the virtues of the new secular order that theater embodies. 10 See...

...Alison Wood “Cambridge English” and the uses of literature it implies proffer, still, an image central to our sense of the history of literary study. This essay explores the percolation of the discipline at a religiously reforming Cambridge. In the three decades before the inaugural...