...John Funchion In The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900), L. Frank Baum imagines Dorothy's nostalgia for Kansas as a desire that compels her to develop a cosmopolitan ethics only as a means of returning home. But this psychic fantasy of cosmopolitan nostalgia inevitably compromises her engagement...

... romance, Merlin and Morgan Le Fay and kindred wizards. Even the two memorable plays of the age where a magus is central seem to display little real comprehension of the philosophical magic that was de- bated and practiced by intellectuals in Italy, France, and Germany. Cer- tainly...

... are in that case both necessary and necessarily meaningless. Although it places them in time, the number 1900 should not be able to add to or to affect the sense of Sister Carrie, Peter Rabbit, Lord Jim, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The Interpretation of Dreams, or “The Darkling Thrush.” On the other hand...

... of the analyses provided in the codas are not as convincing. The coda to chapter 1 centers on the writing of L. Frank Baum, the creator of the Wizard of Oz. Douthwaite contends that in Baum’s regular featured column “Our Landlady,” published in the Aberdeen...

... certifiable by objective mechanisms (“Forms of Capital,” 247), most importantly by the cre- dentializing function of the school. In The Wizard of Oz, for example, we know that the Scarecrow has more than proven his intelligence and that he has acquired considerable symbolic capital based on that per...

...: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and The Art of Decorating Dry Goods Windows,” Representations 21 (1998): 107. That the author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was also a window dresser is a relatively well known (but nonetheless delightful) fact. 17 The fantasy of being elsewhere recurs frequently in naturalist...

... boot, And he went to a farrier’s with t’other. Sharpe’s most ambitious essay in poetic diablerie is his anony- mous The Wizard Peter. A Song of the Solwuy (Edinburgh, 1834), the plot of which turns on Margaret’s temptation by the ghost of her lover Richard, who...

... and proprietor of McCrillus’s Tonic Blood Purifier, Oriental Liniment, and Hoarhound expectorant.”24 By 1876 Riley had advanced to the much larger Wizard Oil Company, canvassing Indiana and Ohio in a blue- and-gold wagon and interspersing songs, recitations, and sideshow pre- sentations with sales...

...,” to “prevent” the “Star-led Wizards” as they journey toward Bethlehem. There is something mildly ludicrous in this slight framing- tale, the competition between the Heavenly Muse and the Magi, the blend of eager ambition with the obligatory pretense of the “humble ode” laid “lowly” at the baby’s...

... considerable energies on a created world that itself is almost an image of his customary world of politicians, cranks, agrarian exploiters and reformers, and commercial wizards and failures. However perfectly harmonious the novel becomes on its own terms, the reader is forced to accept...

... was dull, and gross, and familiar. One reads in the magic story-books of a charm or a flower which the wizard gives, and which enables the bearer to see the fairies. 0 enchanting boon of Nature, which reveals to the possessor the hidden spirits of beauty round about him...

... of sexual inversion? Whatever the truth of Olive and Verena in The Bostonians, their relationship becomes paramount in the story. As Edgar has pointed out, James attempts to blend two themes: satire on wizards, mediums, and reform and reformers (“spirit-rappers and roaring radicals”l6...

..., where, twelve years before Agincourt, the great Harry, with the help of the historically authentic Sir John Oldcastle, had overcome the rebellious Percys, and with them the wizard Owen Glendower. When Shakespeare wrote the part of Falstaff originally under the name of Oldcastle, his...

... the neighborhood of rustic belief at least as subject of his poetry: “Tis thine to sing how, framing hideous spells, / In Skye’s lone isle the gifted wizard seer, / Lodged” (11.53-55), or about second sight, or the monstrous Kaelpie, ghosts, and so on. Even better would be simple credulity on the poet’s...

... that his response to the sway of Reason was more properly a “spell” than an issue of belief. And, as by simple waving of a wand The wizard instantaneously dissolves Palace or grove, even so did I unsoul As readily by syllogistic words Some charm...

... of Heroes: A Retelling of the Kalevala (New York: Atheneum, 1978), p. 78: “The magic emanated from her and only from her. This little shrivelled woman, perched on a chair so big her feet did not reach the floor, held all these wizards in her mind and gave them being.” 288...

... financial-industrial wizard never appears in the drama, but his vast power is felt in every scene. Steel, not music, is the epitome of his power. In his forecastle scenes the effect sought by O’Neill was of “a cramped space in the bowels of a ship, imprisoned by white steel.” Here...

... made the God of War. MERCURY, a Sorcerer and notorious Wizard, a Fortune-teller, and dealer with the Devil. VENUS, a beautiful Woman, but an everlasting Whore, an insatiate impudent Strumpet, and infamous notorious She-Devil, the vilest and worst of her Sex. (20) Defoe’s...

... problem 246 FAUST and he is our problem. He is a veritable wizard of the arts and sci- ences, and he is an accomplished and cunning psychologist, a psy- chologist as philosopher, theologian, scientist, physician, and so forth. Goethe does...

... Press, 1993], 5–14). 13 “Throbbing romance has waned and wanned, / No wizard wields the witching pen / Of Bulwer, Scott, Dumas, and Sand” (Thomas Hardy, “An Ancient to Ancients,” in Collected Poems [New York: Macmillan, 1937], 658). 14 The incident was one of the germs of Wilkie Collins’s...