.... HELENC. WHITE University of Wisconsin Edward Eggleston, Author of the Hoosier School-Master. By WIL- LIAM PEIRCERANDEL. New York: King’s Crown Press, 1946. Pp. xi + 313. $3.50. Edward Eggleston has deserved a sound biographical and critical study, and now in William Peirce...

... O’Hara Now (2010). The New York School Poets and the Neo-Avant-Garde: Between Radical Art and Radical Chic . By Silverberg Mark . Farnham : Ashgate , 2010 . xii + 281 pp. © 2013 by University of Washington 2013 Reviews Chance and the Eighteenth-­Century Novel: Realism...

...William Haller Lemen Clark Donald. New York: Columbia University Press, 1948. Pp. x + 269. $3.50. Copyright © 1950 by Duke University Press 1950 John Milton at St. Paul’s School: A Study of Ancient Rhetoric in English Renaissance Education. By DONALDLEMEN CLARK. New York...

...Pamela Cheek Libertines and Radicals in Early Modern London: Sexuality, Politics,and Literary Culture, 1630-1685. By James Grantham Turner. Cambridge:Cambridge University Press, 2002. xxii + 343 pp.; Schooling Sex:Libertine Literature and Erotic Education in Italy, France, and England,1534-1685...

...Andrew Elfenbein George Eliot’s novella Silas Marner, the Weaver of Raveloe was central to the high school English curriculum in the United States for much of the twentieth century. Its status had risen during a period of cooperation between high schools and colleges about standards for admission...

...Paul Fry Abstract Advanced schools of literary research today concur in their disapproval of unscaffolded interpretations of texts that “overhear” the presumed self-communing voices of authors in their solitude. Choosing from among the many antihermeneutic arguments, this essay responds in the main...

... fulfillment of the requirements for the doctor’s degree at Radcliffe College. The place of publication of books included in the footnotes is Londoti unless otherwise noted. 1 Foster Watson, The English Grammar Schools to 1660: Their Curriculum and Practice (Cambridge, 1908), pp. 365 ff. 2...

... of the FranMurt school is no longer primarily perceived as a revisionist version of the Marxist tradition. In contrast to his earlier work The Institution of Criticism, which was still written from a Marxist perspective that drew in particular on the notion of the “pub lic sphere” as articulated...

... as a national language which must be learned by both Highland and Lowland school children. Rather, political and educational forces have consistently tended to operate in the reverse direction. For an incisive account of the de- tails, reference may be made to John Lorne Campbell’s Gaelic...

...-century British and American schools, focusing on the theories and policies that promoted—and ultimately demoted—its use in the classroom. The British story is more straightforward because education in England was (more or less) centrally managed by the Church of England and later by the national...

... of past worlds of thought is pow- erfully influenced by strategies of interpretation that consciously aim at the dissolution of meaning in any recognizable sense of the term. Twentieth-century varieties of Marxist thought, stemming from Antonio Gramsci and from the Frankfurt School, have...

... of youths “too dainty for the wars’’ (lines 2597 ff .) is simply a repetition of criticism by older Englishmen of the younger men from the mid-sixteenth century on to the 1580’s. Roger Ascham says he wrote Toxophitus, the School of Shooting (1545), not only to teach youth to shoot, but also...

... are that the dramatist had the advantage of a sound and exacting grammar-school education and that a large part, perhaps the majority, of his audience had training of this type.2 And this school- ing, I am convinced, was not likely to create an aversion to philosophy. True, the Christian Humanists, who...

... exposition of this material is useful apart from its application to the plays. One finds in the first three chapters a survey of EIizabethan source-books on spirit doctrine ; the material is organized around controversial matters and according to the various schools of thought on these matters...

... and waste of time, or the preachers and other custodians of public morals, apprehensive of moral deteriora- tion, and therefore nobody bothered to oppose them. The Schoole of Abztse, consequently, belongs to the first stage of the attack. It is a temperate and reasonable indictment...

.... Felice Battaglia (Bologna: Sansoni, 1944), p. 161. 105 106 RENAISSANCE HUMANISM And if by some chance the gifted child of a tenant farmer or urban laborer happened to be schooled in Latin by the local priest or parson...

... the ages, from the MHG times of Heinrich von Muggeln to the last Meister- singer of the eighteenth century, this apparent irregularity can be found applied unblushingly by the “poets” of practically every School. The above publication, coming from the pen of a well-known specialist (“Clair...

... university down to the lowly elementary school. But although liter- ary scholars have known these facts for years, histories of institutional English studies, early and late, have tended to credit only thinkers and movements from the 1920s onward for the important...