A Place Revisited: The House at The Jolly Corner Ursula Brumm Published in Connotations Vol. 7.2 (1997/98) The Jolly Corner, published in 1908, is one of Henry James’s late stories; it is also one of the most autobiographical of his fictions and—a strange combination—one of his “ghost stories.” It is […]
Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey”: From Self-Consciousness to Sympathy Leona Toker Published in Connotations Vol. 7.2 (1997/98) In “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour, July 13, 1798,” the speaker, biographically identified with Wordsworth himself, contemplates a landscape well−remembered since a […]
Old England, Nostalgia, and the “Warwickshire” of Shakespeare’s Mind Maurice Hunt Published in Connotations Vol. 7.2 (1997/98) “He was wont to go to his native country once a year,” the seventeenth−century biographer John Aubrey pronounced concerning the playwright Shakespeare’s relationship with his native place, the Midlands town Stratford−upon−Avon.14) No one […]
Colin Clout’s Homecoming: The Imaginative Travels of Edmund Spenser Donald Cheney Published in Connotations Vol. 7.2 (1997/98) Let me begin by expressing my sense of gratitude and pleasure at being able to address you today. You will of course recognize the conventionality of this remark: it may seem little more […]
Revisiting Halberstadt, July 1997 John Russell Brown Published in Connotations Vol. 7.2 (1997/98) The idea was simple compared to the event: an international symposium on “A Place Revisited,” to be held at the Gleimhaus library−museum at Halberstadt, the town in rural Saxony where the founder−editor of Connotations, Professor Dr. Inge […]
Editor’s Preface Inge Leimberg Published in Connotations Vol. 7.2 (1997/98) When, in 1991, I revisited my hometown Halberstadt after a 35 years’ absence, the impact was of a kind to make me wish for seeing the motif or theme of revisiting a place reflected in literature. The result was a […]
More Than Just a Fashion: T. H. White’s Use of Dress as a Means of Characterization Christiane Berger Published in Connotations Vol. 7.1 (1997/98) The discussion of T. H. White’s Arthurian novel The Once and Future King in Connotations drew my attention to this text, and as a medievalist and […]
Some Comments on “T. H. White, Pacifism and Violence” Elizabeth Brewer Published in Connotations Vol. 7.1 (1997/98) It is no doubt idle to speculate as to what might have happened if T. H. White had not gone to Ireland in 1939 and then been marooned there, eventually eating his heart […]
Modernism Revisited: Willi Erzgräber’s Studies in Modern English and Anglo-Irish Literature Bernfried Nugel Published in Connotations Vol. 7.1 (1997/98) “The structure is now visible.” —Virginia Woolf70) By the very fact of its publication, a book of critical essays like Erzgräber’s collection nolens volens constitutes a challenge to the contemporary state […]
The Incorporation of Identities in Perkin Warbeck: A Response to Lisa Hopkins Willy Maley Published in Connotations Vol. 7.1 (1997/98) In her thoughtful and provocative essay on John Ford’s The Broken Heart, Lisa Hopkins raises a number of important issues around the dramatisation of national identities in Ford’s corpus. In […]
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