...Tom Henthorne Copyright © Hofstra University 2008 '41 “Stench!”Arnold Bennetts End and the Beginning of Finnegans Wake Tom Henthorne [Arnold Bennett] said that nothing was so insular and absurd as to suppose that the ordinary water of Paris, indeed of France...

...Randi Saloman Copyright © Hofstra University 2012 Arnold Bennett’s Hotels Arnold Bennett’s Hotels Randi Saloman Hotels are exercises in practical salvation. —Wayne Koestenbaum Virginia Woolf famously accused Arnold Bennett of caring more...

...Chad Bennett This article reveals the formative interplay between the queer art of gossip and poetic practice in James Merrill’s The Changing Light at Sandover , a sprawling verse trilogy composed with the unlikely assistance of a Ouija board. The poem’s extensive gossip with the dead is often...

...Laci Mattison This essay reads Elizabeth Bowen’s The Little Girls (1963) alongside recent theorists of “thingness,” namely, Bill Brown and Jane Bennett. While Bowen’s things intersect with the social terrain, they also simultaneously and paradoxically destabilize that very reality...

... with a proximate other without the backing of intersubjectivity or of established social form. Focusing on The Voyage Out (1915), “An Unwritten Novel” (1917), and “Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown” (1924), the essay highlights minor intimacy as an alternative to the given forms both of intimacy itself and of realistic...

.... In the years fol­ lowing Bennett’s death in 1931, prominent modernists such as Virginia Woolf andT. S. Eliot embarked upon a “demetropolitanization of English literature” (Esty 251), but by that point Woolf had declared Bennett’s liter­ ary conventions the equivalent of “ruin” and “death” (“Character...

...” offers an ambitious, theoretically sophisticated, and historically informed reading of a text that may too often be seen as at best a “provincial” classic. The essay brings out the interest of Bennett’s text with respect to the permeation of the provinces with the effects and even...

... and nonhuman entities. It provides a concrete articulation of human activity’s inextricable linkages to supposedly inanimate phenomena, thus exemplifying ideas found in the work of contemporary thinkers such as Jane Bennett. This is a world in which humans occupy an equivalent ethical plane to these other...

... networks of animate and inanimate relations connecting what Jane Bennett has called, in her theorizing of a “vital materialism,” the ontological diversity of actants (2010, xiv). As Bruce Clarke notes, where this applies for example to both Serres’s and Latour’s embrace of cybernetics as the interfacing...

...” (1916) As the current answers don’t do, one has to grope for a new one; & the process of discarding the old, when one is by no means certain what to put in their place, is a sad one. Still, if you think of it, what answers do Arnold Bennett or Thackeray, for instance...

..., and modern mechanized warfare, generally. (108) But Stallworthy’s interest in earlier war poetry is genuine: in Singing School he relates that his enthusiasm for Old English was kindled by “a gnome- like New Zealander and a friend of my father” Jack Bennett (149), “the most gentle and peaceable...

..., sixty years later, demonstrates the durability of poetry in contrast to the twenty-four hour news cycle. This chapter focuses on the news ballads of Jamaican poet Louise Bennett; poems of Heaney, Yeats, MacNeice, and other Irish writers; and the relationship to news of American poets from...

..., “Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown” (1924). Contrasting the “Edwardians” (H. G. Wells, Arnold Bennett, and John Galsworthy) with the “Georgians” (E. M. Forster, D. H. Lawrence, Lytton Strachey, and, by implication, herself), Woolf points out the limitations of the former in treating “character in itself...

... To the dismay of First Amendment advocates, Hicklin found its way into American jurisprudence. In United States u Bennett, the appellate court upheld a trial court’s charge to the jury that tracked the Hicklin obsceni­ ty test. The appellate court concluded that the trial judge did not err in his...

.... But it might also model our apprehension, as readers, of the poetic body of the elegy itself. Jane Bennett’s (2020 : xii) sense of the “porous” “I” produced in poetry at the point of nonorganic “it” becoming a “vibrant” “us,” the point of encounter between self and matter where “I” am constituted...

....” 41.4 (1995): 367-80 Smith, Susan Bennett. “Reinventing Grief Work: Virginia Woolfs Feminist Rep­ resentations of Mourning in Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse. ”41.4 (1995): 310-27 Spark, Muriel. See Montgomery Stambuk, Andrew. “Learning to Hover: Robert Frost, Robert Francis...

... by Attell Kevin . Stanford : Stanford University Press . Alt Christina . 2010 . Virginia Woolf and the Study of Nature . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . Attridge Derek . 2004 . The Singularity of Literature . London : Routledge . Bennett Jane . 2010...

..., Russell and the Epistemology of Modernism . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . Bennett Jane . 2010 . Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Berman Jessica . 2011 . Modernist Commitments: Ethics, Politics, and Transnational...

...); she speaks like “a displaced person” (10).16 This representation of Eva illuminates the novel’s use of Jeremy and its exclusion of sign language. Outside of language himself, Jeremy serves as a mirror to reflect Eva’s deficiencies of language and flattened subjectiv- ity. Andrew Bennett...

... legitimize the idea that language can magically transform the world for real people. transition ’s transformative vision brought the experimental, surreal, and irrational literature published there into what David Bennett calls the “life-praxis” or lived experience of the magazine’s readers. According...