“Novels are … the most dangerous kind of reading”: Metafictional Discourse in Early American Literature1) Jürgen Wolter Published in Connotations Vol. 4.1-2 (1994/95) I would like to point out in this paper2) (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.88) 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 Shakespeare114) 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 […]
“Strange Meeting” Yet Again Kenneth Muir Published in Connotations Vol. 3.3 (1993/94) Jon Silkin, whose work as poet, editor and critic I have long admired and to whose journal, Stand, I have subscribed since its inception, deserves our gratitude for calling our attention to other poets of the First World […]
“But the poet … never affirmeth”: A Reply to Bernard Harrison Lothar Černý Published in Connotations Vol. 3.3 (1993/94) Professor Harrison has honoured me with a very long and substantial reply. Discussing my article and the responses of Professors Hammond and Hudson conjointly, he has written much more than a […]
Romance and the Didactic in the Eighteenth-Century Novel: An Elaboration upon Andrew Varney Brean S. Hammond Published in Connotations Vol. 3.3 (1993/94) What I have to offer on Andrew Varney’ s stimulating piece is a widow’s mite rather than a more thrilling Titanic struggle-a matter of emphasis and nuance. On […]
Shakespeare, Burgess, and Psalm 46: A Note in Reply to Paul Franssen William Harmon Published in Connotations Vol. 3.3 (1993/94) I figure that I have had my turn at bat, and, if others want to comment on what I say, then they can have their turns. Once one engages in […]
Chivalry and Courtesy: A Comment on Richard McCoy, The Rites of Knighthood Thomas Kullmann Published in Connotations Vol. 3.3 (1993/94) Where rites and ceremonies of the Elizabethan age are concerned, which are given expression in literary texts, inductive analyses of historical and phenomenological data (now frequently going by the name […]
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