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Sufficient Tragedy: Masculinity as Cruel Optimism in Beowulf English Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-02 Basil Arnould Price
This article offers a new framework for approaching masculinity in Beowulf by suggesting that masculinity is dependent upon what affect theorist Lauren Berlant (2011) calls “cruel optimism”: when a...
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Medieval Pasts and Eugenicist Futures: Grant Allen, Masculinity and Early English History English Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-29 Breann Leake
Grant Allen was a Victorian scholar and novelist who published widely on science, literature and history. Embedded within these publications is a fascination with early England, particularly early ...
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Narrative Time and Moral Injury in Daniel Defoe’s The Fortunate Mistress English Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-28 Fahime Serhatti, Margaret J.-M. Sönmez
This paper explores the deliberate use of temporal ambiguities and discrepancies in Defoe’s The Fortunate Mistress to convey the disturbed retrospections of a guilt/shame-ridden narrator and the re...
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Examining the Refugee Identity and the Ethics of Hospitality in Richard Powers’ Generosity (2009) English Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-28 Lucía Bennett-Ortega
Richard Powers’ (2009) Generosity delves into the pursuit of the elusive “happiness gene” and its associated bioethical dilemmas. The narrative centres on Thassadit, an Algerian refugee in the USA,...
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The Activist Humanist: Form and Method in the Climate Crisis English Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-28 Michael Boyden
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Martin Johnston, the Problem of Elegy, and Social Poetics in Late Modernist Lyric English Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-28 Corey Wakeling
Elegiac poems by Australian late modernist poet Martin Johnston (1947–90) expose key anxieties about lyric poetry after American mid-century late modernism. Johnston, like other of his contemporari...
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The Kid’s Transformation, the Judge’s Rejuvenation: Subtle Referential Changes in Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian Editions English Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-28 Wei Feng
In the transition from early to later editions of Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian, sometimes the designation of the protagonist subtly changes from “the kid” to “the lad.” This shift uncovers sign...
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Ofer Hronrade—Defining the Long-Enigmatic “Hron” of Old English English Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-28 Graham A. C. Scheper
The poetic compound hronrad at the beginning of Beowulf is often translated as “whale road”, despite protestations from J.R.R. Tolkien that have hitherto been unheeded. Through an exhaustive contex...
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“Sights from Various Comers of the Globe”: Cosmopolitan Pressure and Paradoxical Mobility in The Remains of the Day English Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-19 Yingjie Duan, Junwu Tian
This article intends to shed new light on the well-trodden theme of Englishness in The Remains of the Day by situating it within a cosmopolitan context. This article argues that this novel is not c...
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Making Light of Grave Matters: Humour in Edith Eaton’s Works English Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-29 Zhen Liu
When Edith Eaton (Sui Sin Far) published her only book Mrs. Spring Fragrance in 1912, it received about twenty reviews in the American and Canadian press. Many of the reviews suggested that the nat...
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Mad Dogs are Englishmen? Imperialism and Homicide in Somerset Maugham’s “The Outstation” English Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Thomas F. Connolly
In Maugham’s short story “The Outstation”, Warburton, the Resident in a remote sector of Borneo reifies Anderson’s imagined community. Warburton is lord of the realm but has an encompassing lack of...
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Dido, Queen of Carthage English Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Paul Dean
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“I Know Well and Appreciate the Repose and Delight to Be Found in Gardening”: Class, Gender, and “Garden Elements” in Charles Dickens’s Dombey and Son English Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Houliang Chen
Drawing upon Michael Waters’s and Sarah Bilston’s studies of Victorian literary representations of gardens, this article delves into scenes, activities, and imagery related to gardens and gardening...
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Reassessing the Eclipse of Aesthetic Sense—Natural Theology and the History of Modern British Aesthetics English Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 John Stowell
In this essay, I reconceptualise some of the most general coordinates of the history of modern British aesthetics. My central claim is that a renewed grasp of the relationship between aesthetic sen...
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A New Interpretation of the Crux aþolwarum in the Old English Maxims I 198b English Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-17 Kazutomo Karasawa
The word aþolwarum occurring in Maxims I 198b is a crux, and although various readings have been suggested, none of them are satisfactory: some are philologically implausible, while others do not m...
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One Soul We Divided: A Critical Edition of the Diary of Michael Field English Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-17 A. R. Gunn
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Decadent Women: Yellow Book Lives English Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-08 Lucy Ella Rose
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Dickens, Death, and Christmas English Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-08 Magdalena Pypeć
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The English Studies Interview: Rita Felski English Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-26 Anneloek Scholten, Usha Wilbers, Rita Felski
Published in English Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Female Printmakers, Printsellers, and Print Publishers in the Eighteenth Century: The Imprint of Women, c. 1700-1830 English Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-28 Leah Orr
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How to Read Middle English Poetry English Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-19 Laura Ashe
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A “Fanatic in Morality”: The “Native” Question, Revisions, and Emotional Intensity in Anthony Trollope’s South Africa (1878) English Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-19 Ge Tang
This article compares the manuscript and two published editions of Anthony Trollope's understudied travelogue South Africa (1878), exploring the affective impetus driving the inconsistency and revi...
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Della Cruscan Poetry, Women and the Fashionable Newspaper English Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-19 Carley Robertson
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Milton, Longinus, and the Sublime in the Seventeenth Century English Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-10 Irene Montori
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Emotional Anthologies: The Exeter Riddles and the Psalms English Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-04 Harriet Soper
The Old English riddles run the gamut in terms of emotional and rhetorical range, constituting a kind of micro-anthology within the wider anthology of the Exeter Book. They explore an assortment of...
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Jane Austen’s Will – and Those of the Two Cassandras English Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-04 Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade
As a follow-up to my (linguistic) close-reading of Jane Austen’s Will, this paper analyses the Wills of her mother and sister, Cassandra Austen-Leigh and Cassandra Elizabeth Austen. The dates of th...
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“Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”, J. R. R. Tolkien’s 1953 W. P. Ker Memorial Lecture: An Updated Chronology and Related Findings English Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-30 Andoni Cossio, Dimitra Fimi
On 15 April 1953, J. R. R. Tolkien was at the University of Glasgow to deliver the W. P. Ker Memorial Lecture on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, later published in The Monsters and the Critics, an...
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The Pragmatics of Racism in Claudia Rankine’s Citizen. An American Lyric (2014) English Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-26 Sandrine Sorlin
This article analyses how Claudia Rankine’s acclaimed book-length poem Citizen. An American Lyric, published in 2014, has readers experience racism in the very process of reading. It argues that th...
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Variation in the Usage of Relativisation Strategies in Migrant and Non-migrant English Speakers English Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-26 Cristina Suárez-Gómez, Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes
This study considers the use of adnominal restrictive relative clauses based on data from an acceptability rating task. We asked non-migrant native speakers (n = 24) of English and migrant native s...
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English Renaissance Manuscript Culture: The Paper Revolution English Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-26 Holly Riach
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The English Studies Interview with Melissa Harrison English Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-26 Dominic Dean
Published in English Studies (Vol. 105, No. 4, 2024)
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Scribal Consistency across Four Middle English Texts in NLW, Brogyntyn ii.1 English Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-26 Edurne Garrido-Anes
The number of hands involved in copying NLW, Brogyntyn ii.1 has been a subject of debate. Progress is currently being made from the rather general observations by Kurvinen (1953), Huws (1996), and ...
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The Transformation of New Sincerity Aesthetics in Zadie Smith’s Grand Union English Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-10 Sergio Lopez-Sande
This paper proposes that a transformation of the New Sincerity aesthetics has taken place in Zadie Smith’s short fiction. This shift is explored through an analysis of some of the short stories in ...
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Neither “Problem Plays” Nor “Problem Comedies”: Sexuality and Survival in All’s Well that Ends Well, Measure for Measure and Troilus and Cressida English Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-10 Mythili Kaul
The paper argues that All’s Well That Ends Well, Measure for Measure and Troilus and Cressida are neither “Problem Comedies” nor “Problem Plays”. They have been viewed in terms of a genre to which ...
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An In-depth Corpus-based Investigation of Unbound Reflexives English Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-10 Jungsoo Kim, Sanghoun Song
This paper provides a comprehensive study of real-life uses of unbound reflexives (URs) in two syntactic structures, coordination and prepositional object structures, using a large amount of synchr...
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Do You Want to Be Happy and Write?: Critical Essays on Michael Ondaatje English Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-30 Adnan Mahmutović
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The Drama of Serial Conversion in Early Modern England English Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-30 Stephen Wittek
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Pull Your Self Together: The Dangers of Dissociation in Old English Poetry English Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-30 Simon C. Thomson
This paper argues that one way of reading the portrayal of misery in Old English poetry is as an abjected state; something against which the not-miserable self and community is continually being de...
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Emotional Disturbance in the Old English Dialogues of Solomon and Saturn English Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-29 Rachel A. Burns
This article argues that the Old English Dialogues of Solomon and Saturn adapt the classical dialectical method in order to show how individual mentality can be reshaped through dialogue. The first...
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Emotion, Morality, and Exemplarity in Old English Literature English Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Niamh Kehoe
Published in English Studies (Vol. 105, No. 3, 2024)
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Emotion, Morality and Agency in Wærferth's Old English Version of Gregory's Dialogues English Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Alice Jorgensen
Werferth's translation of Gregory's Dialogues contains portrayals of the emotions of numerous holy people. The relationship of emotions to agency is of particular interest. Emotions that cannot be ...
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Sentimental Genres: The “Old English Elegy” and the Poetics of Nostalgia English Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Francisco J. Rozano-García
This study interrogates the scholarly construct known as the “Old English elegy.” This artificially formulated genre, which combines elements from eighteenth-century Classical German Elegy and nine...
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Landscapes, Women, and Art in A. S. Byatt’s “Crocodile Tears” and “A Stone Woman” English Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Xiuchun Zhang
This article examines the fascinating yet intricate relationships between women, art, and landscapes in A. S. Byatt’s two short stories, “Crocodile Tears” and “A Stone Woman”. By engaging in intert...
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Beowulf, the Wrath of God and the Fall of the Angels English Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Francis Leneghan
Beowulf’s anger has typically been viewed either negatively, as a sign of his monstrosity, or positively, as a form of furor heroicus (heroic anger). This article argues that the hero’s battle-fury...
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WONDER and AWE in the Old English Martyrology: Expression, Feeling Norms and Narrative Motifs English Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Francisco Javier Minaya Gómez
Following recent research on the conceptualisation and expression of amazement and on cognitive models for wonder and awe, this paper examines these two emotional responses in the Old English Marty...
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Coming Back Down to Earth: The Novel and the Human Condition in the Anthropocene English Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Berthold Schoene
Has the novel got what it takes to capture the human condition in the Anthropocene? Reading Martin MacInnes’ In Ascension (2023) as an exemplary Anthropocene novel, I argue that the fixation of man...
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Dickens and Democracy in the Age of Paper: Representing the People English Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Ben Moore
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The Knots of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight’s Boar Chase (Lines 1431–7) English Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Lawrence Warner
Editors have struggled to reconcile the two appearances of the term knot in the boar chase of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (lines 1431 and 1434) with the competing demands of intelligible syntax...
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Ideas of the World in Early Medieval English Literature English Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Christine Rauer
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Generic Innovation in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries English Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Emily Louisa Smith
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England’s Insular Imagining: The Elizabethan Erasure of Scotland English Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Simon Egan
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“So This was what Being Alone was like”: Articulations of Vulnerability in Colm Tóibín’s Nora Webster English Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 José Carregal-Romero
Set in 1960s Catholic Ireland, Colm Tóibín’s Nora Webster (2014) foregrounds the inherent and pathogenic vulnerabilities of widowhood –from bereavement to economic precarity and the culture of grie...
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Middle English fobbere and the Critical Editing of Piers Plowman English Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Eric Weiskott
This essay examines a line in William Langland's Piers Plowman that caused the scribes considerable trouble and which involves the synonymous Middle English hapax legomena fob and fobbere. The word...
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The Artist Helen Coombe (1864-1937): The Tragedy of Roger Fry’s Wife English Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Linda Elisabeth LaPinta
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Theatre Closure and the Paradoxical Rise of English Renaissance Drama in the Civil Wars English Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Rachel Willie
Published in English Studies (Vol. 105, No. 4, 2024)
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Beowulf: Translation and Commentary English Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Łukasz Neubauer
Published in English Studies (Vol. 105, No. 4, 2024)
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Writing the World in Early Medieval England English Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Leonard Neidorf
Published in English Studies (Vol. 105, No. 2, 2024)
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Imagining Time in the English Chronicle Play: Historical Futures, 1590–1660 English Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Paul Dean
Published in English Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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The Censorship of Eighteenth-Century Theatre: Playhouses and Prohibition, 1737–1843 English Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Sarah Burdett
Published in English Studies (Vol. 105, No. 4, 2024)
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The Letters, Writings, and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell English Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Jordan S. Sly
Published in English Studies (Vol. 105, No. 2, 2024)