Familiar Studies: Stevenson’s Multiple Voices Richard Dury Published in Connotations Vol. 34 (2025) Abstract Stevenson’s ten essays collected in Familiar Studies (1882) differ stylistically from other contemporary studies of history, literary criticism, and literary history. They lack the single, authoritative, and impersonal voice that readers would expect of such methodical […]
Intertextual Stevenson: A Brief Introduction Lena Linne and Burkhard Niederhoff Published in Connotations Vol. 34 (2025) Abstract The writings of Robert Louis Stevenson have been extensively adapted and rewritten, in particular The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. However, Stevenson also imitated and transformed the works of others, […]
Medieval Jane Austen: A Response to Fritz Kemmler Roger E. Moore Published in Connotations Vol. 34 (2025) Abstract In this essay, I respond to Fritz Kemmler’s provocative suggestion that Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is indebted to medieval Christian traditions of moral instruction, particularly the seven deadly sins and their […]
Henry Vaughan’s Poetic Identities: A Response to Jonathan Nauman Thomas Willard Published in Connotations Vol. 34 (2025) Abstract Jonathan Nauman suggests that Henry Vaughan twice inaugurated himself as a poet in a new subgenre: first as a Welsh river poet in Olor Iscanus (1651) and then as a born-again Christian […]
Vaughan’s Living Waters: A Response to Jonathan Nauman Donald R. Dickson Published in Connotations Vol. 34 (2025) Abstract This article extends Jonathan Nauman’s analysis of how Vaughan used the trope of the classical river poet to establish his poetic pedigree as the Swan of Usk. I try to show how […]
“Now Tell Me What Else It Means”: Gender, Genre, and Canonicity in Contemporary Fiction Francesca Pierini Published in Connotations Vol. 34 (2025) Abstract This article analyses three different texts—a short story, a novel, and a book chapter—that each focuses on a young female protagonist who strives for a modicum of […]
“Speak, Mnemosyne”: Genre Performance and Metagenre in Petina Gappah’s Memoir-Novel The Book of Memory Katrin Berndt Published in Connotations Vol. 34 (2025) Abstract This article contends that the genre of the memoir-novel is inherently metageneric in purpose and design, arguing that it combines the novel’s aesthetic and thematic diversity with […]
A Response to Franziska Quabeck: “The Yellow Leaf: Age and the Gothic in Dickens” Robert L. Patten Published in Connotations Vol. 33 (2024) Abstract The response to Franziska Quabeck’s contribution to the debate on “Dickens and Colour” takes up a few points for further discussion and suggests that “yellow” does […]
Herbert and Gerson Reconsidered: Mystical Music and the Conciliarist Strain of Natural Law in “Providence”1 Angela Balla Published in Connotations Vol. 33 (2024) Abstract Recent scholarship has linked George Herbert to medieval French theologian Jean Gerson, an early theorist of individual natural rights and conciliarism. This essay proposes that Herbert […]
The Providential Rose: Herbert’s Full Cosmos and Fellowship of Creatures Paul Dyck Published in Connotations Vol. 33 (2024) Abstract Though Herbert’s writing is full of references to creatures and to human life in relation to non-human life, Herbert criticism has predominantly read his work as inner and devotional, often to […]
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