...Alexander Cowie THE VOGUE OF THE DOMESTIC NOVEL 1850-1870 ALEXANDER COWIE IN 1842 William Gilmore Simms referred to Cooper s Precaution as a very feeble work, a second or third rate imitation of a very inferior school of writings, known as the social life novel. By the social life novel, Simms...

...Dan Rubey Copyright © 1991 by Duke University Press 1991 Dan Rubey Voguing at the Carnival: Desire and Pleasure on MTV Music videos on television available in the seductive plenitude of MTV s 24-hour for­ mat have raised characteristic anxieties in parents and educators since the cable net­...

... by an English publishing house, the writer of this article examined a number of the leastknown plays of Moliere, such as I'Ecole des marls, le Medecin malgre lui and DomJuan. L' Ecole des marls is well thought of by French­ men, and formerly had considerable vogue. Le Medecin malgre lui is often played today...

... as imagination in Oklahoma. Why do vogue words and phrases {psycho­ somatic, macho image) come into vogue and out again {recrudesce, adumbrate)! Most important is the question of how it is that linguists and other educated folk so often seem at war where questions of cor­ rectness are concerned: the linguist s...

... to think casually of one s high school or acad­ emy days, one will have a hazy recollection of having been told that on its original appearance The Sketch Book was fairly successful in England, that Baudelaire s translations of Poe have given the latter writer great vogue in Erance, that Uncle Tom s...

.... A Survey of the Rise and Decline of the Gozzi Vogue in Germany and Austria, with Especial Reference to the German Romanticists. By Hedwig Hoffman Rusack. New York: Columbia University Press. 1930. Pp. xiii, 195. The Commedia dell Arte sprang up at the close of the sixteenth cen­ tury, ran its course...

...: The Achievement of Shakespeare s History Plays. By Robert Ornstein. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1972. Pp. 231. $11.00. A number of Elizabethan dramatists, among them Marlowe, Greene, and Peele, wrote history plays; but it was Shakespeare who gave the form an identity and created a vogue...

... of the English novel clearly teaches. The novel today appears to be yielding in popularity to the short story, which has enjoyed a marvelous vogue during the last two decades. The short story covers a closely allied field. Pos­ sessing most of the essential elements of the novel, it has an ad­ vantage...

..., their expressed aims (as far as possible in the language of the compilers themselves), their sources, their methods of compilation, the interrelationships of the various texts, the relation of the English dictionaries to contemporary bilingual dictionaries, the readers for whom the work is intended, the vogue...

... Reviews dette; the Freudian vogue in Hollywood ( the transformed practice of magic [clinical psychology war movies (the enemy, our own men the girls they left behind them) ; schizophrenic types and devices; and such sociological movies as One Third of a Nation and The Graces of Wrath (the we the people...

... traditions of a historic Arthur who ruled northern England in the early days. But for the inquiring scholar this is of course not enough. At any rate, Professor Loomis, starting with four poems written in the 1160 s by Chretien, the earliest of the Continental authors to exploit the vogue of Arthur...

...: Positions of Reading and the World of Platonov 357 Ray, Robert B., Tracking 771 Rodnyanskaya, Irina, The Obstacle: The Human Being, or the Twentieth Century in the Mirror of Dystopia 293 Rolleston, James, Anatomy Lessons: The Destiny of a Textbook, 1971-72 153 Rubey, Dan, Voguing at the Carnival: Desire...

... reason that the whole world loves harmony and melody and rhythm; that painting owes its vogue to the well-nigh universal delight in color and in a pictorial reproduction of life and nature; that the wide accept­ ance of the drama is to be attributed to the fact that men like to mimic and to see others...

... generation after another, from Diderot to Musset and Balzac, he used a sentimentalism scarcely less extravagant than Sterne s, a sentimentalism an­ swering certain pressing requirements of his age, and after; he was, moreover, rendered into good French by the Abbe Prevost. Fielding had his vogue, too...

... the business at hand. What I ve been trying to shape out, Ernst, is the conception of poetry that underlies the -pratique of both poets and critics who are related to the New Criticism. Among them, as you well know, there is that preference for poetry that may be called cerebral (cf. the vogue...

... by taxation, direct and indirect, the enormous sum of more than a billion dollars a year to meet the current needs of its various departments. The machinery for handling these vast sums is not provided for in the constitution, nor is it pat­ terned after the system in vogue in the days of Alexander Hamilton...

...; the dramatizing of advanced Whig views; and then, after the intrenchment of Walpole in political control, the utterance in drama of a pervasive sense that the English government and the English nation were sinking into general corruption. The vogue of opera and pantomime and the introduction of sentimentalism Mr...

... to Veblen and Santayana. The second part of the book, that part given over to German Literary Influence, runs roughly from the Sturm und Drang and the vogue of Kotzebue through James Fenimore Cooper, Hawthorne, and Poe (inci­ dentally, making out a case for at least some acquaintance by Poe with 140...

..., for that is essentially the burden of this book, Professors Starnes and Talbert have concentrated upon Renaissance lexicons, omitting detailed consideration of the more specialized compendia such as the Mythology of Natalis Comes. Their aim has been to demonstrate the great vogue of popular reference dictionaries...

... as possible in the language of the compilers themselves), their sources, their methods of compilation, the interrelationships of the various texts, the relation of the English dictionaries to contemporary bilingual dictionaries, the readers for whom the work is intended, the vogue and usefulness...