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Modern Language Quarterly (1986) 47 (4): 347–365.
Published: 01 December 1986
...Sara van den Berg Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 EVE, SIN, AND WITCHCRAFT IN PARADISE LOST SARA VAN DEN BERG During the European witch panics of the sixteenth and seven...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1943) 4 (4): 473–494.
Published: 01 December 1943
... their Teeth chatter at Goblin or Ghost”- 1 Sir Walter Scott, Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft (London, 1830)) pp. 36-8. 2 The Edinburgh Journal of Science, New Series, I1 (1830), 218-22 and 319-21 ; I11 (1830)) 244-5 ; IV (1831)) 261-3. 3 I11 (1818), 589-92. Cf. “The Spectral Dog...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1951) 12 (3): 371–373.
Published: 01 September 1951
... of the late tenth and early eleventh centuries. They have a particular value, moreover, as testi- monials to the Old Icelandic way of living and looking at things. Witchcraft, for instance, plays an unusually prominent part in both tales. The underlying tragedy of Skald Korm6k’s life...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2005) 66 (2): 173–196.
Published: 01 June 2005
.... In one of his earliest oracle pieces, an essay in the Craftsman that treats the 1736 Repeal of Witchcraft Act, Fielding explicitly connects contemporary politicians and modern-day witch-oracles. This essay, attributed to Fielding by Martin C. Battestin, is framed as a letter from one Rachel...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1941) 2 (4): 625–638.
Published: 01 December 1941
...., 111, 357-358. “Ibid., 111, 362. 30 Ibid., 111, 217-218 632 Flower Symbolism in “Mardi” enchantress would have been made clear, for the meaning would have been: I have a message for you. Some witchcraft is weaving. Youthful charms I give you. Fly to me.s1...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1967) 28 (3): 329–341.
Published: 01 September 1967
... their amusement or annoyance. Miss Fuller had repeated the Tribune at- tack, compounding the offense with a series of puffs for Mathews as the greatest of American novelists, poets, and playwrights, and topping it off with a special supplement devoted to Witchcraft, a play by Mathews which no New...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1985) 46 (3): 293–315.
Published: 01 September 1985
...- cultural limb, and for the most part commentary accordingly cen- tered almost exclusively on Updike’s portrayal of his titular charac- ters, Alexandra Spofford, Jane Smart, and Sukie Rougemont (inev- itably being termed the Weird Sisters). “Updike has always won- ‘ Satanism and Witchcraft...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1940) 1 (1): 49–61.
Published: 01 March 1940
... which His Maiestie auoweth, that vnder the name of Mug- icke all other unlawful1 arts are comprehended, and yet doth His Maiestie dis- tinguish it from Necromancie, Witchcraft, and the rest : of all of which he hath written largely and most learnedly. For the Mwicke which His Maustie...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1951) 12 (3): 373–374.
Published: 01 September 1951
... and are even defiant or reluctant in their preempted devotion; they are aware throughout that its end cannot be good. Where Irish heroes act often under a geis yet fight it because of a conflicting loyalty, KormAk succumbs to a fascination negated by witchcraft. The substitution is easily made...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (4): 607–609.
Published: 01 December 2016
... between belief and folklore than this book provides. Coleridge’s poem makes much of the folkloric history of his fireside “stranger,” the ashy film dancing on his grate. It would be gratifying to hear Jager dilate on this folkloric tradition or on Scott’s Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft , which...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1944) 5 (1): 115–117.
Published: 01 March 1944
... does not pretend it to be. But, for the student of literature or of intellectual history, the false notions men have held are as important as the true; therefore the attention Thorn- dike pays to astrology, alchemy, chiromancy, physiognomy, and witchcraft increases the usefulness of his...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2003) 64 (3): 396–398.
Published: 01 September 2003
... is represented by the failure of critics to deal with his nonŽctional prose: the writings on Dryden, Swift, witchcraft and demon- ology, ethnology, and the like. Studies of this kind would show the serious- ness of Scott’s project and the ways in which he is closer to Burke than to Dumas, much as one may...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1995) 56 (2): 207–220.
Published: 01 June 1995
... that it had to silence them to survive: “In this parallel world of witchcraft, the people of Salem discovered an alternative linguistic system, and although the substance of what was being said may not have made any rational sense, the very fact that it confounded those in authority made...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1984) 45 (4): 407–410.
Published: 01 December 1984
... of Shapiro’s argument, while perhaps overabbreviated, at least gives its flavor. In succeeding chapters, she applies the same lines of reasoning to history and law, pauses for a moment to look at witchcraft-prosecutions for which, she argues, dropped off because of an increasingly skeptical attitude...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1940) 1 (2): 245–248.
Published: 01 June 1940
... them certainly existed. The existence of daemons, ghosts, witchcraft, and magic was a commonplace matter of faith with most Elizabethans; less commonplace were the fine controversial points on the doctrine surrounding these matters of faith ; probably only among the polemists themselves...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1959) 20 (4): 398–400.
Published: 01 December 1959
... York: Philosophical Library, 1959. Pp. 351. $5.00. Robbins, Rossell Hope. Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Crown Publishers, 1959. Pp. 571. $7.50. Schach, Paul, and Lee M. Hollander (translators). Eyrbyggja Saga. Trans- lated from the Old Icelandic. Lincoln...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1989) 50 (3): 282–285.
Published: 01 September 1989
...- fests itself primarily in the “spots of time” passages of The Prelude. Bewell reads those passages as internalizations of the anthropological inquiries Wordsworth conducted with his marginal and primitive subjects, a turn from studying witchcraft in figures like Goody Blake or Martha Ray...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1993) 54 (1): 77–89.
Published: 01 March 1993
... influenced exciting new literary studies like Gail Paster’s work on shame and the body.18 John Putnam Demos’s study of witchcraft in early New England, a model of balanced interdisciplinary research, gives equal attention to demography, (psychoanalytic) psychology, sociology, and history...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2003) 64 (3): 299–322.
Published: 01 September 2003
..., to the connections between a play’s treatment of witchcraft and the treatment of witchcraft in contemporaneous religious or juridical writ- ings.7 Moreover, recent historicist attention has often focused on moments in a text, rather than on its overall narrative structure. There are good reasons for this shift...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1953) 14 (4): 348–359.
Published: 01 December 1953
... at an approximate dite-and make fun of astrology in so doing. He thought that the majority of intelligent people were opposed to judicial astrology, witchcraft, and the like, although recently certain people at Tring in Herefordshire had mur- dered a man and woman accused of practicing witchcraft. Other...