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Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2008) 54 (3): 273–306.
Published: 01 September 2008
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Concealing Leonard s Nose:
Virginia Woolf, Modernist Antisemitism,
and “The Duchess and the Jeweller”
Lara Trubowitz
“Although I loathe anti-semitism, I do dislike Jews.”
—Harold Nicolson...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2003) 49 (3): 298–327.
Published: 01 September 2003
... understanding
of subjectivity, then by reading her short story “The Duchess and The
Twentieth-Century Literature 49.3 Fall 2003 298
Virginia Woolf’s and Leonard Woolf’s “Jewish” Stories
Jeweller” in these terms, and finally by discussing an earlier short story,
“Three Jews,” by her...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (4): 657–665.
Published: 01 December 2013
... aspects of this book.
Dickey’s capacity for discrimination works as well when weighing
poems participating in the same generic tradition, as in her comparison
of Browning’s widely anthologized “My Last Duchess” (1842) with
Rossetti’s “The Portrait.” Both poems open with overt expressions...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (1): 137–144.
Published: 01 March 2009
...
tion when women are enshrined in art. Early short stories such as “The
Muse’s Tragedy” (1899), “The Moving Finger” (1901), and “The Duchess
at Prayer” (1900) show women figuratively or literally “killed” into art.
With scrupulous close readings, Orlando reveals Wharton’s reworking...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2006) 52 (4): 391–412.
Published: 01 December 2006
... passage, the narrator describes the groin of the circus performer
the Duchess of Broadback:
The stuff of her tights was no longer a covering, it was herself; the span
of tightly stitched crotch was so much her own flesh that she was as
undersexed as a doll. The needle that made...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (4): 575–595.
Published: 01 December 2013
... aestheticization of Gretta
and the Duke of Ferrara’s literal reduction of his last wife to art in Robert
Browning’s “My Last Duchess.” Norris, for instance, finds in Joyce’s story
and Browning’s poem a common “appreciation of female beauty that
resents the life and living feeling of the subject...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2024) 70 (3): 285–314.
Published: 01 September 2024
... far beyond the means of their peers. John Davys Beresford (1923 : v) began his short story collection The Imperturbable Duchess and Other Stories with a diatribe on the subject: “The easiest way by which a struggling British or American author may make a living wage is to write short stories...
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Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2004) 50 (1): 88–105.
Published: 01 March 2004
... of a sort, they are
disjointed ones, filled with hints, echoes, innuendoes, and black holes.
Stylistically, they seem inspired by Gertrude Stein, evoking the plot of
language more than a plot of character and event; one might say they
try to recreate Browning’s “My Last Duchess” in the manner...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (4): 485–509.
Published: 01 December 2009
... never intends to turn a
flower girl into a duchess, only to pass her off as one (Cavell 413). The
terms of the bet depend not on what Eliza is but on how she is perceived.
Inspired by Lamarck, Shaw’s play illustrates how quickly an “animal” can
change, but as in Wells’s more Darwinian work...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2007) 53 (2): 93–124.
Published: 01 June 2007
... with a resemblance that never
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Why Can’t Biologists Read Poetry? Ian McEwan’s Enduring Love
ceases to proliferate” (49; Foucault’s italics). Just as Cervantes’s Duke and
Duchess, seeking entertainment, are pulled into Don Quixote’s lunatic
fantasies, so Joe becomes mad by mimicking the madness of his...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (3): 317–346.
Published: 01 September 2018
... of unfettered imagination” that can only be found in popular fiction: “The bad writer seems to possess a predominance of the day-dreaming power, he lives all day long in that region of artificial light where every factory girl becomes a duchess, where, if truth be told, most people spend a few moments every day...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2001) 47 (1): 39–71.
Published: 01 March 2001
... of women’s autonomy and inde
pendence from the demands of patriarchal social norms, not unlike the
world presented in The Convent of Pleasure (1668) by Margaret Cavend
ish, Duchess of Newcastle. The stylized poses o f the “flowers” and “stat
ues” indicate the staged quality...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (1): 32–62.
Published: 01 March 2015
...) 11 Wharton’s career shows her to be heavily engaged with her literary forebears. Her early gothic story “The Duchess at Prayer,” for example, is a rather deliberate revision of “La Grande Bretèche,” the Balzac story she celebrates as “that most perfectly-composed of all short stories” (1997b, 67...
