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Queer Reflections on Childhood, Boarding School, and the Nation in Rosemary Manning’s The Chinese Garden
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (4): 411–436.
Published: 01 December 2019
...Chris Roulston This article explores the relations among childhood innocence, queerness, and nation-building in Rosemary Manning’s boarding school narrative, The Chinese Garden (1962). Recent scholarship by Lee Edelman and Kathryn Bond Stockton has questioned the innocence we invest in the figure...
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May the Record Speak: The Correspondence of T. S. Eliot and Emily Hale
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (4): 431–462.
Published: 01 December 2020
... in Cambridge with her mother, who was Eliot’s mother’s sister” ( NWEH 1). In her career, Hale acted and directed amateur plays and taught drama and speech at Simmons College, Milwaukee-Downer College, Scripps College, Smith College, and girls’ boarding schools. Without a college degree, her prospects...
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Mademoiselle from Malibu: Eighteenth-Century Pastoral Romance, H-Bombs, and the Collaborative, Intertextual Gidget
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (2): 233–264.
Published: 01 June 2020
... with extravagant foreign personalities, quickly read signposts to historical sites. Narratively, of course, that Franzie displays a breadth and depth of knowledge far beyond that of most high school sophomores matters less than whether Kohner’s characterization of his unusual protagonist narrator remains...
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Lawrence’s Bildungsroman and the Science of Sexual Development
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) 60 (3): 273–304.
Published: 01 September 2014
... by a democratically elected board;
thirty-two years later the 1902 Education Act extended public support and
government regulation to include secondary schools as well. Lawrence started
attending a “Board School” four months before his fourth birthday. The expe-
rience was traumatic. In an essay titled...
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Julian Mayfield and Alternative Civil Rights Literatures
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (2): 115–140.
Published: 01 June 2017
...: “If the continuing story of school desegregation has been obscured by a narrative of post–1965 declension, the struggle for economic justice has been erased altogether” (2005, 1258). According to Joseph, the “historical and political narrative of the ‘movement’” centered on the “Heroic” period “obscures and effaces...
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Writing Home: Domestic Space, Narrative Production, and the Homeland in Roth’s American Pastoral
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) 60 (2): 222–242.
Published: 01 June 2014
...
Merry disappears after the bombing, the Swede is left to try to reconcile
his shattered existence with his prior visions of domestic harmony.
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From the first descriptions of the Swede as a star high school athlete,
he is associated with narrative production of the sort...
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Competing Paradigms of Multiculturalism?
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (1): 114–124.
Published: 01 March 2009
..., “Jewish-specific images, sites, experiences have
become broadly representative of that social moment itself” and “have
built a normative narrative for immigrants across the board” (7). This
argument, while stressing the needed inclusion of minorities in the forma
tion of modern American...
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The Rhubarbarian’s Redress: Tony Harrison and the Politics of Speech
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (2): 207–232.
Published: 01 June 2020
...-classical,” “hurtfully lucid narrative outlines” emphasize the alleged lowness of their raw material, and Harrison’s “ironies are drawn from pentametric metricality and full rhymes—the philistine standard of verse—to subjects that otherwise subvert or denounce the mistaken political, social and literary...
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T. S. Eliot as a Schoolboy: The Lockwood School, Smith Academy, and Milton Academy
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (4): 619–656.
Published: 01 December 2013
...,” given three times per term. As we would expect
of such a conscientious boy—whose grandfather was the founder of the
school and whose father was on the Board of Directors—Eliot’s grades
for deportment are usually 100% or a point or two below. But in the first
term of the 1903-04 session, Eliot’s...
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Heroes and Homosexuals: Education and Empire in E. M. Forster
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2002) 48 (3): 324–347.
Published: 01 September 2002
.... Several commissions throughout the‘1860s focused on the respective roles of
public, grammar, and working-class schools, arguing that reform was required
to optimize the output each class could deliver. The Education Act of 1870
that created school boards across the country would lead, by 1899...
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Representing the Poor: Interwar Documentary Film, Mass Observation, and Victor Gollancz Ltd.
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (1): 1–24.
Published: 01 March 2022
..., Contributions, Influence . Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press . Flaherty Robert . 1931 . Industrial Britain . In Land of Promise: The British Documentary Movement 1930–1950 . London : Empire Marketing Board Film Unit. DVD . Foucault Michel . 1991 . Discipline and Punish...
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True Lies: Virginia Woolf, Espionage, and Feminist Agency
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (3): 317–346.
Published: 01 September 2018
... but the vast distorted shadows of life,” this essay argues that such counterfactual narratives do not impose the world of the thriller onto Woolf; rather, they allegorize a spy-function already present in the writer’s life and work. From her participation in the 1910 Dreadnought Hoax, during which she...
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Amy Gerstler’s Rhetoric of Marriage
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2004) 50 (1): 88–105.
Published: 01 March 2004
... project, the
norms of lyric and narrative discourse.1 In retelling and subverting some
familiar marital stories, the texts reconfigure storytelling itself, pointing
toward new spaces and new opportunities for both amatory relations and
textuality. Although Gerstler’s scrolling texts tell stories...
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White-Collar Masochism: Grove Press and the Death of the Managerial Subject
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (1): 1–24.
Published: 01 March 2018
... of the résumé, white-collar workers especially acquire economic power through an ever-increasing accumulation of human capital, a journey that begins in school and continues up the job ladder. A reworking of the Horatio Alger narrative, the accumulation of human capital justifies income inequality as a function...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2003) 49 (1): 1–11.
Published: 01 March 2003
... in Paris and
immersed himself in a French surrealism that was to determine the very
nature of the New York school.
Two hundred years earlier, against a background of accord on cer
tain Enlightenment principles and France’s role as distant tuteur to the
American sapling, the young nation...
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Cockroach Dreams: Oscar Zeta Acosta, Legal Services, and the Great Society Coalition
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) 60 (4): 455–480.
Published: 01 December 2014
... at the School Board, pickets at the police stations, pickets at City
Hall, demonstrations at poverty program offices, marches to the welfare
offices” (Revolt 71). Ultimately he joins his clients in bombing Safeway
supermarkets and the courthouse itself.
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Cockroach Dreams: Oscar Zeta Acosta, Legal...
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“A Dirty Word These Days”: Anglo-Saxonism, Race, and Kinship in Go Set a Watchman
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (2): 151–178.
Published: 01 June 2022
... of Watchman and the narrator of Mockingbird . Narrative irony in Mockingbird has long been adduced in defense against accusations that the novel plays on a reductive sentimentality; irony lets the reader know, it is argued, that Scout’s childhood impressions do not add up to the whole story. 7 While...
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Acknowledging Addie’s Pain: Language, Wittgenstein, and As I Lay Dying
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (2): 167–190.
Published: 01 June 2017
... of Modernism .” Bulletin of the Midwest Modern Language Association 8 , no. 1 : 1 – 20 . Jameson Fredric R. 1991 . Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Leloudis James L. 1996 . Schooling the New South: Pedagogy, Self...
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Confession and Autobiography in James Merrill’s Early Poetry
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2002) 48 (2): 150–173.
Published: 01 June 2002
... Street investor who
married every thirteenth year. The mother is the specific woman whose
marriage, as the fifth sonnet dramatizes, was already strained in “the fall /
Of 1931” (CP 198). The “real house [that] became a boarding school,”
with its long corridors, ballroom, favorite dog...
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James Merrill’s Embodied Memory
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (4): 539–574.
Published: 01 December 2013
... Merrill is one
such hesitant wayfarer; in his epic poem The Changing Light at Sandover,
JM (as he calls himself there) professes to comply only grudgingly when
spirits at the Ouija board command him to write “POEMS OF SCIENCE”
(113): “Poems of Science? Ugh. / The very thought” [109 But Merrill...
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