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...Louis I. Bredvold Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1945. Pp. vii + 288. $6.50. Copyright © 1945 by Duke University Press 1947 Lauis I. Bredvatd 127 Essays on the Eighteenth Century. Presented to David Nichol Smith in Honour of His Seventieth...

...Florian Gargaillo Abstract In a review of T. S. Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral , Stevie Smith lamented that “so many writers of these times, which need courage and the power of criticism, and coolness, should find their chief delight in terrifying themselves and their readers with past echoes...

... literature and of a book in progress, The Culture of Criticism: The Social Roles of Criticism in England, 1662–1835 . Genius versus Capital: Eighteenth-Century Theories of Genius and Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations Zeynep Tenger and Paul Trolander heories of genius have been treated...

...Elizabeth W. Harries Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 Elizabeth W. Harries is professor of English and comparative literature at Smith College. Her book The Unfinished Manner , a study of deliberate fragments and artificial ruins in the later eighteenth century, came out...

... of several theorists, including Elaine Scarry, Martha C. Nussbaum, and John Guillory, and through two more earthquakes, each seeming to delegitimize theodicy and replace it with secular understanding, but inconclusively: the 1755 Lisbon earthquake, which Adam Smith used (in displaced form) in his Theory...

... novel Stover at Yale (1912) and Don DeLillo’s postwar experimental novel End Zone (1972) and Jay M. Smith and Mary Willingham’s exposé of the athletics scandals at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Cheated (2015). The fact that the institutional analysis of End Zone and the institutional...

...-century antecedents in Joseph Addison and Adam Smith. Like two of his early protagonists, Guy Mannering the astrologer and Jonathan Oldbuck the antiquary, “the Author of Waverley ” is himself a compromised Stoic, yet Scott's narratives demonstrate repeatedly how, while it may fail on its own terms...

...; conversely, literary studies rarely consider empiricist political theory in contexts later than Victorian realism. Wells’s works challenge these conventions by reflecting on the writings of Adam Smith and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Wells questions the social contract hypothesis that individual interests...

...: the literary antiauthoritarianism in his drama (the irony granting audiences the freedom of interpretation) perfectly matched the political antiauthoritarianism (liberalism) advocated by the likes of Adam Smith and John Stuart Mill. Thus it is possible to speak of bardolatry as an allegorical intertext...

... stage in their history to recover their forgotten political significance. Working across four central cases (Samuel Richardson’s “man of feeling” Sir Charles Grandison, Charlotte Smith’s self-effacing protagonist Lionel Desmond, Walter Scott’s “mediocre heroes,” and Jane Austen’s “creepmouse” heroine...

...Patricia Juliana Smith University of Washington 2006 Patricia Juliana Smith is associate professor of English at Hofstra University. She is author of Lesbian Panic: Homoeroticism in Modern British Women's Fiction (1997), editor of The Queer Sixties (1999), and coeditor of En...

...Roland M. Smith Copyright © 1946 by Duke University Press 1946 KING LEAR AND THE MERLIN TRADITION By ROLAND&I. SMITH It has been generally believed that the great scenes of King Lear which unfold the madness of Lear, Edgar, and the Fool sprang from...

...Roland M. Smith Alexander C. Judson. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1945. The Works of Edmund Spenser: A Variorum Edition. Pp. xii + 238. $4.50. Copyright © 1945 by Duke University Press 1947 122 Reviews The Life of Edmund Spenser. By ALEXANDERC. JUDSON...

...George L. Lam; Warren H. Smith Copyright © 1944 by Duke University Press 1944 GEORGE VERTUE’S CONTRIBUTIONS TO CHAUCERIAN ICONOGRAPHY By GEORGEL. LAMAND WARRENH. SMITH George Vertue’s antiquarian collections,l like those of Thomas Hearne,2...

...Matthew J. Smith Love as Human Freedom . By Paul A. Kottman . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2017 . x + 241 pp . Copyright © 2018 by University of Washington 2018 Paul A. Kottman asks us to entertain an unnerving possibility at the end of Othello : “In the murder...

...Roland M. Smith Copyright © 1948 by Duke University Press 1948 Myles Dillon. London: Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press, 1946. Pp. viii + 124. $3.25. ...

...Courtney Craig Smith Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 WILLIAM HICKES, COMPILER OF DROLLERIES By COURTNEYCRAIG SMITH There are very few names that can be associated with the produc- tion of drolleries, a condition which is scarcely...

...Grover Smith, Jr. Copyright © 1958 by Duke University Press 1958 THE DOLL-BURNERS: D. H. LAWRENCE AND LOUISA ALCOTT By GROVERSMITH, JR. From the titles of books exchanged and discussed by D. H. Law- rence and Jessie Chambers...

...CARL S. SMITH Copyright © 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 ∗ Several colleagues and friends were very helpful in the preparation of this essay, particularly Professor Charles Feidelson, Christopher Herbert, and Jane S. Smith. JAMES’S TRAVELS, TRAVEL WRITINGS...

...Roland M. Smith Copyright © 1942 by Duke University Press 1942 SPENSER’S TALE OF THE TWO SONS OF MILES10 By ROLANDM. SMITH In his study “Amidas v. Bracidas” in this journal’ Herbert B. Nelson traces the background of Spenser’s episode (Faerie Queene, Book V...