Levity of Design: Man and Modernity in the Poetry of J. H. Prynne

How can poetry embody morality via targeting metaphrasts? what's the relation among an allummette and the alpha rhythm? Why is it that money has changed into a metonym of goodness and luck? And specially, is it nonetheless attainable to think about the human topic as a doable class in overdue modernity?

The Well-Tun'd Word: Musical Interpretations of English Poetry, 1597-1651

The years 1957–1651 marked a interval of excessive success within the heritage of track. within the Well-Tun'd notice Elise Bickford Jorgens stories altering musical conventions of English music in terms of new styles in poetic flavor from the overdue Elizabethan period throughout the Jacobean and Caroline years, basing her paintings at the premise that any musical surroundings of a poem is an interpretation of the poem itself.

Jane Austen's names : riddles, persons, places

In Jane Austen’s works, a reputation isn't only a identify. in reality, the names Austen provides her characters and areas are as wealthy in sophisticated which means as her prose itself. Wiltshire, for instance, the house county of Catherine Morland in Northanger Abbey, is a clue that this heroine isn't as silly as she turns out: based on legend, crafty Wiltshire citizens stuck hiding contraband in a pond capitalized on a name for lack of know-how by means of claiming they have been digging up a “big cheese”—the moon’s mirrored image at the water’s floor.

Defoe and the Whig Novel: A Reading of the Major Fiction

His examine areas Defoe's significant fiction squarely within the rising Whig tradition of the early eighteenth century. It bargains an alternative choice to the view that Defoe is basically a author of felony or experience fiction and to the Marxist judgment that he extols individualism or derives his maximum thought from well known print tradition.