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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 [...]

This paper examines how the past is constructed and mobilized within contemporary Peruvian mining politics. Beginning with an exploration of tensions existing within the mining industry's relationship to its history, I analyze how mining proponents have sought to both naturalize today's mining expansion by locating it within a national history of extraction, while also working to break free from certain negative aspects of the industry's past. The paper then examines how the past is remembered and invoked within the context of on-the-ground struggles at a large-scale gold mine in the region of Ancash. I address the contradictory ways in which local history is constructed in these struggles and document how memories of past experiences with mining inform how area residents understand and critique the 'new' mining economy. This paper underscores the need to understand the complicated, selective, and often-contradictory ways in which the past is made present in extractive industry conflicts. Keywords: mining, Peru, political ecology, resource politics., In his book In Search of an Inca, acclaimed Peruvian historian Alberto Flores Galindo traces how the people of Peru's Andean region have historically invoked idealized notions of the Inca [...]

College debate descended from the literary societies that were popular on American college campuses through the 19th century. As an intercollegiate pursuit, debate rose during the same years as college football and found its niche on campuses largely characterized by youthful revelry and indifference to serious study. Despite its deep roots in American life, debate was far from old-fashioned; rather, it had many points of intersection with modern American culture. In this paper, 1 examine the experiences of intercollegiate debaters at Emory University, New York University, and the University of Chicago. I also demonstrate that early 20th century debate reflected several popular American values including efficiency, expertise, and determination. The history of intercollegiate debate has tended to emphasize the work of coaches and the academic discipline of public speaking. However, different approaches are possible. For example, debating may be examined as a cultural representation that has its own set of social conventions, and which reflects aspects of American culture. This paper is a small step toward such an interpretation. Key Words." debate, history of education, Emory University, New York University, University of Chicago, EMORY DEBATERS WIN SEVEN VICTORIES; TEAM CONQUERS RAGING FLOODS, CRIPPLED RAILROADS, AND BRILLIANT SPEAKERS ("Emory Debaters ...," 1927). If debaters ever were conquering heroes, this would be the moment. On [...]

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 [...]

This essay examines David Zarefsky 's contributions to the research, teaching, and practice of public address, arguing that his career exemplifies the thorough intertwining of these variant forms of rhetorical art. It also demonstrates Zarefsky's key concern with studying rhetorical history in order to promote greater understanding of argumentative trajectories across time and to encourage inclusive, productive deliberation in the present. Key Words: David Zarefsky, public address, conversation, rhetorical trajectory, leadership, The thesis of this essay is that David Zarefsky is a consummate conversationalist. This term is not one that is routinely ascribed to my distinguished colleague. In fact, if by [...]

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 [...]