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Studies in the satires of Charles Churchill
(1962)
The following chapters attempt full scale studies of four of Churchill's important satires. Chapter one surveys Churchill scholarship and criticism of the past twelve years, with emphasis upon those studies and editions ...
"In whom to lay the pattern of a Christian hero": Milton and the Elizabethan tradition of Christian learning
(1957)
As Spenser said of Sir Calidore's quest for the Blatant Beast, the conclusion of this dissertation must remind the reader that the course of the discussion "is often stayd, yet never is astray." This study of Milton's ...
Affinities of forms: Chinese poets and Pope, Pound, Eliot and Williams
(1988)
Despite the tremendous linguistic particularities and cultural differences, Chinese poetry shares some formal and technical similarity with Anglo-American poetry. Through an effective use of the couplet-based verse form ...
Alien stages: Immigration, reformation, and representations of Englishness in Elizabethan moral and comic drama
(1998)
This dissertation discusses the complex representation of foreigners in sixteenth-century English drama. It relates literary evidence to contemporary implicit and overt allegations that vices brought to England by both ...
"...to do Rome service is but vain": Romanness in Shakespeare
(1999)
Shakespeare creates a Rome in which he brings together and reinvents Rome's political and military brilliance and the work of its greatest poets and historians. As Shakespeare's Romans have become to a great extent "our" ...
Reminiscent scrutinies: Individual memory and social life in Anthony Powell's "A Dance to the Music of Time"
(1988)
In The Music of Time, Anthony Powell examines the tension between the internal reality of memory and the external social world in which the self is defined. The twelve volumes are presented as the fictional memoirs of ...
The dramatic work of David Mallet
(1959)
In this study of Mallett's dramatic work, I have relied heavily on four collections of letters: the correspondence found in the first two volumes of Aaron Hill's Works (1753), George Sherburn's Correspondence of Alexander ...
NARRATIVE STRATEGIES IN THE LAST HALF OF "ULYSSES": THE CASE FOR JOYCE'S "DOOMED" EXPERIMENTS
(1981)
In his seminal essay on Ulysses, Edmund Wilson called such episodes as The Oxen of the Sun and Eumaeus "artistically absolutely indefensible," and he wondered if Joyce had forgotten, in his flights of technical virtuosity, ...
THE SHAKESPEARE EXPERIENCE, AN INTRODUCTION
(1982)
Shakespearean drama is communally performed to celebrate and re-create the life of its attendant culture. This celebration and re-creation is the action by which a transcendent Shakespearean threatre convokes of its many ...
Attitude toward women in Thackeray's "Catherine", Collins's "Man and Wife", and Dickens's "Dombey and Son" (William Makepeace Thackeray, William Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens)
(1993)
Catherine, Man and Wife, and Dombey and Son will be compared with respect to their treatment of women characters. Each novel is either sympathetic to feminism and the treatment of women as equals, or constraining in its ...