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Eva M. Pérez – The Trials of Sincerity: William Godwin’s Political Justice v. His Memoirs of Mary Wollstonecraft

The Trials of Sincerity: William Godwin’s Political Justice v. His Memoirs of Mary Wollstonecraft Eva M. Pérez Published in Connotations Vol. 13.3 (2003/04) Godwin’s changing opinions regarding issues covered in Political Justice have been amply documented.1) My specific concern in this article is the contrast between the rational philosophy put […]

Trevor Laurence Jockims – Mourning Place in Pastoral Elegy

Mourning Place in Pastoral Elegy Trevor Laurence Jockims Published in Connotations Vol. 13.3 (2003/04) This paper seeks to centralize the role of the pastoral place, of generic convention, as it functions within John Milton’s pastoral elegies, focussing on “Lycidas” and the Latin elegy “Epitaphium Damonis.” The sense of “conventional” as […]

Maxine Hong Kingston – A Letter in Response to Lara Narcisi

A Letter in Response to Lara Narcisi Maxine Hong Kingston Published in Connotations Vol. 13.1-2 (2003/04) I like your understanding and appreciation of Tripmaster Wittman and his journeys. It’s been my standard for a good book that the characters change, not just their fortunes but their very souls. I had […]

Nick Bentley – Translating English: Youth, Race and Nation in Colin MacInnes ‘s City of Spades and Absolute Beginners

Translating English: Youth, Race and Nation in Colin MacInnes ‘s City of Spades and Absolute Beginners Nick Bentley Published in Connotations Vol. 13.1-2 (2003/04) Introduction The 1950s represent a key decade in the formation of an English national identity based on multicultural and multiethnic principles. This process was informed by […]

Jean-Jacques Lecercle – Jane Austen Meets Dickens: A Response to Thierry Labica

Jane Austen Meets Dickens: A Response to Thierry Labica Jean-Jacques Lecercle Published in Connotations Vol. 13.1-2 (2003/04) In Thierry Labica’s “War, Conversation, and Context in Patrick Hamilton’s The Slaves of Solitude” I find myself, through direct interpellation, incited to justify a passing thought (that “Patrick Hamilton was a Marxist alcoholic […]

Winifred Farrant Bevilacqua – “… and the long secret extravaganza was played out”: The Great Gatsby and Carnival in a Bakhtinian Perspective

“… and the long secret extravaganza was played out”: The Great Gatsby and Carnival in a Bakhtinian Perspective Winifred Farrant Bevilacqua Published in Connotations Vol. 13.1-2 (2003/04) The supreme ruse of power is to allow itself to be contested ritually in order to consolidate itself more effectively.    Georges Balandier76) From antiquity, […]