...William A. Oram Copyright © 1984 by Duke University Press 1984 ARNOLD’S “SCHOLAR-GIPSY” AND THE CRISIS OF THE 1852 POEMS By WILLIAMA. ORAM The debate about the meaning of “The Scholar-Gipsy...

... that he will not forego the privilege of treating the more attractive aspect of the subject as well. LAWRENCEM. PRICE University of California in Berkeley Frederick Henry Hedge: A Cosmopolitan Scholar. By 0. W. LONG. Portland, Me...

... Michigan State Uwiversity ‘A Librurjr for Younger Schollers’ : Compiled by an English Scholar-Priest about 1655. Edited by ALMA DEJORDYand HARRISFRANCIS FLETCHER. Urbana: University of Illinois Studies in Language and Literature, Vol. 48, 1961. Pp. xii + 149. $4.50, cloth...

...Frederick J. Hoffman Copyright © 1965 by Duke University Press 1965 THE SCHOLAR-CRITIC: TRENDS IN CONTEMPORARY BRITISH AND AMERICAN LITERARY STUDY By FREDERICKJ. HOFFMAN The work in modem British and American literature is so abundant...

...Kingsbury Badger Copyright © 1945 by Duke University Press 1945 MARK PATTISON AND THE VICTORIAN SCHOLAR By KINGSBURYBADGER I At Oxford in the 1860’s two theologians-the Zeus-like Dr. Ed- ward Bouverie Pusey...

...Doris Sommer Abstract During the US Cold War boom in area studies, scholars would sometimes innocently support homeland economic and political interests. In Latin America and elsewhere, the fact-finding focus often morphed into the look of love, as objects of investigation turned out to be more...

...Ashley Marshall Most modern scholars have taken for granted that Henry Fielding admired and sought to emulate the great “Scriblerian” satirists we consider the titans of their age. That Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, and John Gay exerted a major influence on his development is a critical...

...Timothy Larsen Abstract This article explores the current state of biblical and theological literacy in the discipline of Victorian studies. It observes the ordinarily strong, careful, and impressive work done in recent decades, especially since some scholars have become interested in a postsecular...

..., scholars focus on acts 2 through 4, where the play in question is rehearsed and staged. However, overlooking the frame in acts 1 and 5, where the subject of the interior play is chosen and the problematic consequences of the actor’s conversion are laid out, obscures Rotrou’s true theme, which is neither...

... predominantly from Western theories to Chinese practice. To different degrees, and with varying urgency, all three Chinese scholars lodge a plea for greater recognition of Chinese theories in the West and for Chinese scholarship to construct a theory of its own, rooted in the Chinese tradition. By way of a new...

...James Mulholland Abstract For decades scholars have relied on the concept of circulation to explain the operation of texts and to animate the significance of literary studies. Its overuse has elided differences in the virtual relationships created by reading and has blurred empirical details about...

...Deidre Lynch Abstract This essay highlights the role that Enlightenment conjectural histories and liberal concepts of contractual exchange play in Nancy Armstrong’s revisionist description of the rise of the novel. It urges scholars of the novel to follow the example of Desire and Domestic Fiction...

...Morgan Day Frank Abstract Literary scholars in recent years have endowed institutions with tremendous explanatory power, insisting that these social formations exercise a determining influence on cultural production. The fiction that institutions can impose themselves as coherent subjects...

...Robert Hudson Vincent Abstract As many scholars, including the editors of the Oxford English Dictionary , continue to cite false etymologies of the baroque, this article returns to a Scholastic syllogism called baroco to demonstrate the relevance of medieval logic to the history of aesthetics...

...Harris Feinsod Abstract This essay offers a philological career of the term world poetry as poets and scholars employed it and close cognates across the twentieth century (the century in which it first appeared). This career emphasizes trajectories in three of the West’s imperial language...

...Jeffrey R. Wilson Abstract When scholars consider Shakespeare’s rise and lasting popularity in modern culture, they usually tell us how he assumed his position at the head of the canon but not why . This essay contends that Shakespeare’s elevation in the early nineteenth century resulted from...

... developments have come to the fore. It also claims that reimagining theater as a form of performance pedagogy is an important step for scholars in the field to take. Ultimately, this essay reveals not merely that Mexican politics are theatrical, or that the theater has served the Mexican state...

... to be framed as a choice between symbolic economy (Casanova's “universal” literary capital) and political economy (the focus of many Latin Americanist scholars on hegemonic constructions of modernity). Yet the unique circumstances of Mundial —published in Paris by Spanish America's most famous poet, composed...

...Caroline Levine Many scholars have embraced world literature as a project to understand literature’s role in a large-scale story of global inequality. Yet critics have paid remarkably little attention to one of the most unevenly distributed of the world’s resources: literacy itself. For most...

... for the breakdown of sympathy and a broader one for the irreducible complexity of being. Such complexity inflects the very structure of what scholars, after Franco Moretti, call the quantitative analysis of literature (in the conversion of texts to countable units: one, two, three, etc.). It also reveals how texts...