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SLATER, Vol. 1: Sketches by Boz and Other Early Papers, 1833-39 Michael, ed. Columbus: Ohio State UP, 1994, xiii, 580 pp. $37.50. Professor Michael Slater is doing all students of [...]

It is common knowledge among his readers that Henry James often named his characters for their suggestive, sometimes even allegorical significance. Examples abound: Rowland Mallet, Christopher Newman, Winterbourne, Gilbert Osmond, [...]

Charlotte Perkins Gilman's landmark tale of a woman undergoing a rest cure for a postpartum depression was first published in the January 1892 issue of New England Magazine with three [...]

New York: The Mod. Lang. Assn. of Amer., 2003. xvii, 201 pp. $18.00. Any faculty member who has ever used one of the more than seventy-five titles in the MLA [...]

Among the collection of Margaret Fuller papers at the Houghton Library, Harvard College, is a manuscript plan for a collection of essays that varies considerably from the edition published by [...]

In May 1888, Gerard Hopkins told friend and poet Robert Bridges something unusual: 'I wrote a paper of Readings and Renderings of Sophocles this year and sent it to the [...]

The archive of John Murray (Publishers) Ltd. in London possesses a number of manuscript letters in a collection called the Algarotti Papers that Lord Byron, in a letter to John [...]

A bibliography of works by or about Marilynne Robinson is the first such attempt at a fairly complete listing. It includes novels, uncollected short stories, nonfiction, recordings, audiovisuals, essays, reviews, interviews, criticism, dissertations, theses and papers. Informational and bibliographic materials are also covered. Robinson's fame has grown ever since her 1980 novel 'Housekeeping' came out. Novel and movie reviews of this title are included., Since the publication of her novel Housekeeping in 1980, Marilynne Robinson has generated a considerable amount of acclaim and influence among both fiction writers and literary scholars. Even now, seventeen [...]

More Old English glosses have been found in the manuscript of the 'Vitellius Psalter.' The glosses were discovered by looking at the paper frames, which hold the leaves, under fiber optic light. Earlier research had uncovered new glosses for psalms one to 30. For psalms 31 to 60, there are 32 new glosses, 40 completions of partial glosses found by James L. Rosier and also corrections of previous misreadings. The glosses are listed., In an earlier note published in this journal [6.4 (1993)], I recorded nearly seventy Old English glosses to the first thirty psalms of the Vitellius Psalter (British Library, Cotton Vitellius [...]

The Archives of John Murray (Publishers) Ltd. in London hold a collection of letters called the Algarotti Papers (see Jung 17-20). Count Francesco Algarotti (1712-64) was a well-known literary figure [...]

MITCHELL, Sally. New York: Columbia UP. 1995. vii. 258 pp. $19.95 paper. Although I have never met Sally Mitchell, I have come to respect her careful scholarship through Victorian Britain: [...]

The Federal Gazette, which began publishing between Jan. 1 to Mar.26, 1798, published essay series to generate reader interest. However, most of these serials such as 'The Moralist' did not include the names of its authors. It was suggested that the practice of not publishing the authors was aimed at leading readers to assume that American authors wrote such serials, when in fact they were written by English authors. It was also hypothesized that the editors may not have known the names of the reprinted articles since many of them came from anthologies., The Federal Gazette and Daily Advertiser was published by Caleb Wayne in Boston from January 1 to March 26, 1798. It had begun the year as a daily evening paper [...]

There are more Old English glosses in the Vitellius Psalter than have been published. The psalter is a Gallican version from 1050, and an edition was published in 1962. The text was damaged in a fire and all of the pages present difficulties in reading. Use of artificial lighting to examine the paper reveals many more glosses or completions of published partial glosses. Errors in the 1962 edition can also be corrected. A listing of 68 new or completed glosses is presented.

Between 1881 and 1896, William Hale White (1831-1913) published six interlinked fictions: The Autobiography of Mark Rutherford, Mark Rutherford's Deliverance, The Revolution in Tanner's Lane, Miriam's Schooling and Other Papers, [...]

WESTBROOK, Deanne. Urbana & Chicago: U of Illinois P, 1996. xi, 349 pp. $19.50 (paper). Deanne Westbrook begins her study of baseball and myth with an air of trepidation. Indeed, [...]

'Meditations in Time of Civil War' was destined to be an important poem for W. B. Yeats and for Irish history. Written at a pivotal time in Ireland's emergence as [...]

In September 1961, having graduated only the previous year from Columbia College, nascent playwright Terrence McNally was hired by novelist John Steinbeck to accompany him and his family on what [...]

Readings of Herman Melville's 'Bartleby, The Scrivener' typically treat the story's elderly and 'eminently safe' (4) narrator in one of two ways. The first is with contempt: the lawyer is [...]

Lewis Carroll's The Game of Logic (GL) had a tortuous publication history to say the least (Imholtz), but this was true of many of Carroll's books. What is unique about [...]

The following is a list of eighty-six new and three corrected attributions of authorship of poems, articles, letters, and staff notes appearing in the Gentleman's Magazine (hereafter GM) during 1731-36, [...]

In his monograph on Caedmon's Hymn, Daniel P. O'Donnell reconstructs 'the hypothetical written ancestor to all surviving recensions of the poem' (205), the opening four lines of which are edited [...]

It is customary for the reader to credit the writer for a well-made work, often unaware of the significant role that the editors and copy editors have played. However, readers [...]

In March 1642, his vehement dispute with Parliament drawing to a climax, Charles I left the London area and moved his court north. For the next four months, the Royalist [...]

AUSTEN, Gillian. George Gascoigne. Studies in Renaissance Literature 24. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2008. 236 pp. $95.00 Gillian Austen's biographical reading of the complete literary and artistic works of George [...]

In the mid-1800s, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's long poem Evangeline famously revived the memory of the Acadian Expulsion of 1755 and became the founding myth of the Cajuns of Louisiana. What [...]

When Rupert Brooke died of blood poisoning on his way to fight the Turkish forces at Gallipoli in 1915, his friends in England were quick to turn him into a [...]

BLEVINS, Jacob, ed. Re-Reading Thomas Traherne: A Collection of New Critical Essays. Tempe: ACMRS, 2007. 226 pp. $39.00. BLEVINS, Jacob. An Annotated Bibliography of Thomas Traherne Criticism, 1900-2003. Lewiston: The [...]

One of the most interesting still images of the British-Bengali encounter is a marble frieze in the antechapel of University College, Oxford, that depicts Sir William Jones (1746-94) in profile, [...]

Although Camille Wells Slights does not discuss Donne's 'Valediction of the booke,' the poem might be included among Donne's works that she describes as 'calling the world's attention to the [...]

After he wins over Lady Anne 'all the world to nothing' in the second scene of Richard III, Richard asks: 'Hath she forgot already that brave prince, / Edward, her [...]

Middle English Marian lyrics The Virgin Mary was a popular figure in Middle English lyrics of the fifteenth century, often acting as a symbol of obedience or as a mediator [...]

The Gentleman's Magazine (hereafter GM), during the editorial regime of its first conductor, Edward Cave, 1731-54, enjoyed a well-deserved reputation for its encouragement of original poetry. The verses that stocked [...]

KUSKIN, William, ed. Caxton's Trace: Studies in the History. of English Printing. Notre Dame: U of Notre Dame P, 2006. xxvii, 394 pp. $33.50 The essays in Caxton's Trace contain [...]

On 22 May 1795, Mungo Park, a hearty twenty-four-year-old sponsored by Britain's African Association, sailed out of Portsmouth, determined to locate the Niger River and make his way to the [...]

Hrothgar's homily (lines 1700-84) includes both praise and warning for Beowulf, fresh from defeating Grendel's dam. To alert Beowulf to the danger of pride, Hrothgar portrays a ruler long favored [...]

Trinity College MS O.5.26 is a noteworthy collection of medieval scientific and astrological texts written on 183 vellum leaves (Schmidt). (1) Little is known of its whereabouts prior to 1738, [...]

The Authoress: A Tale (1819) is a lively satire in the Horatian mode. The volume was published anonymously as 'by the author of 'Rachel'' and later attributed, perhaps erroneously, to [...]

Skjoldunga saga / The Saga of the Scyldings Introduction: Skjoldunga saga and Beowulf The opening lines of Beowulf assert that we (that is, the poet and the poet's Anglo-Saxon audience) [...]

The 1980 edition of Lyn Hejinian's strangely affecting memoir, My Life, consists of thirty-seven sections, each composed of thirty-seven sentences, Hejinian's age at the time she composed the work. When [...]

As its title suggests, William Dean Howells's A Modern Instance (1882) is an examination of the representatively 'modern.' This examination is set, like Howells's other major realist novels (The Rise [...]

One would never guess, from the deliberate tone conveyed by the firm trochaic meter with which Robert Lowell introduces 'Nautilus Island's hermit/heiress' in the first two lines of 'Skunk Hour,' [...]

Late in Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography, we find this discussion of the 'Franklin Stove' and the pamphlet Franklin wrote to explain that invention: I wrote and published a Pamphlet Intitled, An [...]

Among the texts that constitute London, Lambeth Palace Library MS 306 is a Middle English life of St. Eustace, which has not been printed. (1) The manuscript as a whole, [...]

In Andre Gide's Counterfeiters (1927), Bernard is required by his examiners at the Sorbonne to comment on a passage from La Fontaine. Recounting this viva voce to Olivier, he remarks [...]

Previously in this issue of ANQ, Stephen Guy-Bray reports on a postcard sent from the poet Hart Crane (1899-1932) to Peter Blume and discusses its possible relevance to Crane's poem [...]

Mary Wilkins Freeman's 'A New England Nun' is the most widely analyzed-and controversial--of her tales. Indeed, even a cursory review of the criticism devoted to it will turn up a [...]

The general purport of the opening verses in Beowulf is clear: the Danish royal dynasty is evidently to be invoked as the background for the Geatish hero Beowulf's achievements, first [...]

ECHARD, Sign, and Stephen Partridge, eds. The Book Unbound: Editing and Reading Medieval Manuscripts and Texts. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2004. xxii, 236 pp. $50.00. This volume publishes revised [...]