... perhaps in the final analysis wrong and therefore subversive of something. May nothing, not even its price, suppress it! LEWIS LEARY Early English Christian Poetry: Translated into Alliterative Verse. By Charles W. Kennedy. New York: Oxford University Press, 1952. Pp. ix, 292. $3.50. Chaucerian Essays...

...William Henry Irving Studies in English, Department of English, the University of Texas . Austin : The University of Texas Press . Pp. 297 . 1945 . Copyright © 1946 by Duke University Press 1946 248 The South Atlantic Quarterly is suggestive, and Professor Frankel avers...

...Ashbel Green Brice The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language . Edited by Morris William . Illustrated. New York and Boston : American Heritage Publishing Company and Houghton Mifflin Company , 1969 . Pp. 1550 . $7.95 plain-edged, $8.95 thumb-indexed, $12.50 de...

...Edward A. Alken Copyright © 1908 by Duke University Press 1908 The Bible as English Literature By Edward A. Allen Professor of English in the University of Missouri When we speak of the Bible as a work of literature, as the noblest prose in the whole range of English literature from the good...

...William Preston Few, Ph.D. Copyright © 1902 by Duke University Press 1902 Alfred in Relation to English Literature and Culture.1 By William Preston Few, Ph. D. Freeman, the very competent and discriminating historian of older England, has given this simple, comprehensive esti­ mate of Alfred...

... . Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press , 1950 . Pp. 96 . $1.00 . Magna Carta: Its Role in the Making of the English Constitution, 1300-1629 . By Thompson Faith . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 1948 . Pp. x , 410 . $6.50 . Magna Charta: Granting of the Magna...

...P. F. Baum The Secular Lyric in Middle English . By Moore Arthur K. . Lexington : University of Kentucky Press , [ 1951 ]. Pp. xi , 255 . $4.00 . Copyright © 1952 by Duke University Press 1952 Book Reviews 333 the feeling that it is dealing with real problems...

...David Harvie; Keir Milburn We reread E. P. Thompson’s remarkable 1971 essay “The Moral Economy of the English Crowd in the Eighteenth Century” in the light of the English riots of August 2011. Arguing against what Thompson would have called the “spasmodic view” of these riots—that they were...

...Patrick Allitt Copyright © 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 Patrick Allitt English Cricket and Literature Class, race, gender, hegemony, imperialism, ritual, liminality, sex, and discourse! Everyone s favorite analytical instruments and never more useful than in the interpretation...

...Julie A. Carlson Copyright © 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 Julie A. Carlson Forever Young: Master Betty and the Queer Stage of Youth in English Romanticism An empire occupied by a boy of thirteen! The history of the world furnishes not a similar example. The Courier (London), 3...

...Stephen Orgel Copyright © 1989 by Duke University Press 1989 Stephen Orgel Nobody s Perfect: Or Why Did the English Stage Take Boys for Women? My title is the last line of that most Re­ naissance of modern comedies, Some Like It Hot. Joe E. Brown reacts to Jack Lemmon s desperate revelation...

...Carol Houlihan Flynn The Brink of All We Hate: English Satires on Women, 1660–1750 . By Nussbaum Felicity A. . Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky , 1984 . Pp. viii , 192 . $20.00 . Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 Book Reviews IOI the remainder...

...Jefferson Hunter English Journey . By Priestley J. B. . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1984 . Pp. x , 320 , 80 halftones. $24.95 . Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 BOOKS English Journey. By J. B. Priestley. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984...

...Harriet Blodgett Copyright © 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 Enduring Ties: Daughters and Mothers in Contemporary English Fiction by Women Harriet Blodgett The memorable Mrs. Bennet and her five daughters aside, consanguine mother-daughter relationships have not been prominent in English...

... remarkable lives are assembled in these companion volumes, and that is a real service. GLENN NEGLEY. English Institute Essays: 1951. Edited by Alan S. Downer. New York: Columbia University Press, 1952. Pp. 221. $3.00. The subjects discussed at the English Institute in 1951 were four, with four essays under...

...Arthur B. Ferguson Book Reviews 2.95 Musicians in English Society. By Walter L. Woodfill. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1953. Pp. 372. $7.50. If, as is still quite possible, the reader has acquired a mental picture of the Elizabethan household as a citadel of song, a little conservatory...

... of King Henry and Cardinal Wolsey. The argu­ ments against going to Court were no longer valid. In 1518 he announced his intention of entering the royal service. How badly he misjudged both the King and the Cardinal the world well knows. Herbert sugden English Poetry: The Main Currents from Chaucer...

...F. Livingston Joy Copyright © 1921 by Duke University Press 1921 Magic in the English and Scottish Ballads F. Livingston Joy Oberlin College Study of the English and Scottish ballads soon reveals the fact that a rather large percentage of the three hundred and five ballads in Professor Child...

...William Thomas Lapkade Copyright © 1911 by Duke University Press 1911 The New Amendment to the English Constitution William Thomas Lapkade, Assistant Professor of History in Trinity College Again the Parliament of Great Britain has justified its reputa­ tion for conservatism...

...William Thomas Laprade Copyright © 1912 by Duke University Press 1912 Undercurrents in Present English Politics William Thomas Laprade Assistant Professor of History in Trinity College At least ten questions of prime significance are at present re­ ceiving attention in British political...