Tom Jones and the ‘Clare-obscure’: A Response to Andrew Varney, Bernard Harrison, and Lothar Černý Mark Loveridge Published in Connotations Vol. 4.1-2 (1994/95) Connotations 3.2 sees an intriguing juxtaposition of two articles. In one, Bernard Harrison suggests that a major merit of Fielding’s Tom Jones is that it takes issue […]
A Response to Debra Fried Judith Dundas Published in Connotations Vol. 4.1-2 (1994/95) Debra Fried has nicely supplemented what I said in my article. As a matter of fact, I have since explored a little more fully the idea that in The Temple Herbert followed the old “etymological” rule that […]
Imagining Voices in A View of the Present State of Ireland: A Discussion of Recent Studies Concerning Edmund Spenser’s Dialogue John M. Breen Published in Connotations Vol. 4.1-2 (1994/95) Edmund Spenser’s A View of the Present State of Ireland was entered in the Stationers’ Register on 14 April, 1598.27) Permission […]
Derek Walcott’s Don Juans D. L. MacDonald Published in Connotations Vol. 4.1-2 (1994/95) Di sasso ha il core, O cor non ha! —Lorenzo da Ponte I. The Nobody of Nowhere68) In 1974, the Royal Shakespeare Company commissioned Derek Walcott to adapt El Burlador de Sevilla (1616?), the original Don Juan […]
Subjected People: Towards a Grammar for the Underclass in Elizabeth Bishop’s Poetry Jonathan Ausubel Published in Connotations Vol. 4.1-2 (1994/95) Robert B. Shaw hints that many questions besides biography vex Bishop studies, calling the bulk of the discussion about her work “tentative” because of its newness.85) Shaw points to a […]
“Novels are … the most dangerous kind of reading”: Metafictional Discourse in Early American Literature100) Jürgen Wolter Published in Connotations Vol. 4.1-2 (1994/95) I would like to point out in this paper101) (though not the first to do so) that metafictional self−reflexiveness is not restricted to postmodern literature. If we […]
Liberty, Corruption and Seduction in the Republican Imagination Tara Fitzpatrick Published in Connotations Vol. 4.1-2 (1994/95) I In the fall of 1787, as the Constitutional Convention completed its work, Philadelphia’s Columbian Magazine published a two−part “original novel, founded upon recent facts,” as part of its editorial commitment to encourage “the […]
Competing Discourses in The Winter’s Tale David Laird Published in Connotations Vol. 4.1-2 (1994/95) In a recent article, Stephen Orgel makes a case for textual incomprehensibility.187) He suggests that earlier editors were mistaken when they worried obscure passages into sense. He fastens on several notoriously difficult passages in The Winter’s […]
A very Antony: Patterns of Antonomasia in Shakespeare213) Donald Cheney Published in Connotations Vol. 4.1-2 (1994/95) When Dr Johnson complained that Shakespeare’s punning was “the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world and was content to lose it,” he at once expressed his own century’s reaction against paronomasia and […]
The False Domesticity of A Woman Killed with Kindness Lisa Hopkins Published in Connotations Vol. 4.1 (1994/95) One of the most memorable moments in Thomas Heywood’s play A Woman Killed with Kindness comes in scene xiii, just before the climactic moment when the trusting Master Frankford will discover his wife […]
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