Hahn, George
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Item Book review of Precursors of Nelson: British admirals of the eighteenth century(American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, 2002-09) Hahn, H. George (Henry George), 1942-; Towson University. Department of EnglishBook review of a collection of essays about British admirals who preceded Lord Horatio Nelson.Item Book review of An Oxford companion to the Romantic Age: British culture 1776-1832, Iain McCalman, editor(American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, 2002) Hahn, H. George (Henry George), 1942-; Towson University. Department of EnglishBook review of a reference work on British culture during the Romantic AgeItem Book review of George H. Douglas' H. L. Mencken: critic of American life(Maryland Historical Society, 1978) Hahn, H. George (Henry George), 1942-; Towson University. Department of EnglishBook review of an examination of H.L. MenckenItem Book review of Carleton Jones's Maryland: a picture history, 1632-1976 and Edwin Wolf II's Philadelphia: portrait of an American city(Maryland Historical Society, 1978) Hahn, H. George (Henry George), 1942-; Towson University. Department of EnglishBook review of two pictorial histories; one about Maryland and one about Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaItem Book review of A concordance and word-lists to Henry Fielding's "Shamela," Michael G. Farringdon, ed.(Springer, 1983-12) Hahn, H. George (Henry George), 1942-; Towson University. Department of EnglishBook review of a concordance to Henry Fielding's ShamelaItem Book review of Robert Ignatius Letellier's The English Novel, 1660-1700: An annotated bibliography(College of Toronto. Press, 1998-11) Hahn, H. George (Henry George), 1942-; Towson University. Department of EnglishBook review of an annotated bibliography of the early English novelItem Book review of Deborah Kennedy's Poetic sisters: early eighteenth-century women poets(American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, 2013-09) Hahn, H. George (Henry George), 1942-; Towson University. Department of EnglishBook review of a book on eighteenth century women poetsItem Book review of Eric Parisot's Graveyard poetry: religion, aesthetics and the mid-eighteenth-century poetic condition(American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, 2015-03) Hahn, H. George (Henry George), 1942-; Towson University. Department of EnglishBook review of a book on graveyard poetryItem Book review of Poetic meditations on death: a Gothic and Romantic literary genre of the long eighteenth century (1693-1858), ed. Evert Jan van Leeuwen(Pennsylvania State University Press, 2017) Hahn, H. George (Henry George), 1942-; application/pdf; Towson University. Department of EnglishBook review of an anthology of graveyard poetryItem The rake reformed: a literary history of the recent critical fortunes of Henry Fielding with a guide to research(1979) Hahn, H. George (Henry George), 1942-; Towson University. Department of EnglishItem Henry Fielding: an annotated bibliography(Scarecrow Press, 1979) Hahn, H. George (Henry George), 1942-; Towson University. Department of EnglishItem The eighteenth-century British novel and its background: an annotated bibliography and guide to topics(Scarecrow Press, 1985) Hahn, H. George (Henry George), 1942-; Behm, Carl, 1942-; Towson University. Department of EnglishItem The country myth and the politics of the early Georgian novel(Peter Lang Publishing, 1991) Hahn, H. George (Henry George), 1942-; Towson University. Department of EnglishItem The country myth: motifs in the British novel from Defoe to Smollett(Peter Lang Publishing, 1991) Towson University. Department of EnglishItem The ocean bards: British poetry and the war at sea, 1793-1815(Peter Lang Publishing, 2008) Hahn, H. George (Henry George), 1942-; Towson University. Department of EnglishItem "Auburn" in Goldsmith's The deserted village: possible Gallic overtones?(College Language Association (U.S.), 1978-12) Hahn, H. George (Henry George), 1942-; Towson University. Department of English[From article]: The deserted village of Goldsmith’s 1770 poem has proved to be a lost village as well, for scholars have been unable to find an exact location for it. Many identify Auburn with the poet’s home of Lissoy in Ireland. Professor Friedman allows that the name may have been suggested by a town in Wiltshire. Others believe it to be an English village important more as a type than as a specific place. And Professor Wardle thinks the name and location to be irrelevant because Goldsmith probably conceived the place as a composite of his boyhood memories and his later observations of English villages. Whatever Auburn’s location, Goldsmith was no doubt mainly concerned with providing an emblem in The Deserted Village of a once idyllic place now forever abandoned that could also contrast with the horrific implications of life in the city and in America later in the poem. Whether Irish, English, or irrelevant on the map, in the poem, Auburn embodies Goldsmith’s explicit theme, stressed in his prefatory letter to Reynolds. That theme is the depopulation of the countryside, shown by history and the poem alike to be the result of the displacement of the poor from rural areas by wealthy landowners who wished to improve and expand their own farms, parks, and hunting preserves. In the letter, Goldsmith claims both to inveigh against this cause and to regret its effect. To augment his theme, I would suggest, Goldsmith may have selected the name Auburn for its rich and subtle merging of Gallic sound and sense.Item The orchard and the street: the political mirror of the tragic in Julius Caesar and Coriolanus(College Language Association (U.S.), 1983) Hahn, H. George (Henry George), 1942-; Towson University. Department of English[From article]: It is perhaps no coincidence that in Julius Caesar and Coriolanus Shakespeare demonstrates his most “Roman” virtues: political concern, sobriety of language, tonal reserve, dignity of mood, spare and functional structure, singleness of direction, and proud nobility in his heroes. Yet if these plays exhibit these outward classical virtues, there is at least one kind of common inner virtue that may be branded “Roman,” and that is their taciturnity, or perhaps laconism, for within each is a highly suggestive scene, insignificant at first glance, whose implications provide a scaled-down version of the issues of the entire play. In another sense, this kind of scene functions, to borrow a term from the classical oration, as a highly charged exordium which informs the audience of the means and end of some issues of the dramatic discourse, and to see this is to recognize a technique of construction that is a miniature of the raw, central issues of each play. The orchard (II.i) of Julius Caesar and the street (I.i) of Coriolanus are such emblematic scenes. Both are placed early in their dramatic actions as if by their prime locations they call attention to themselves and, as we shall see, to the dual concerns of each play as a whole. They yield as much meaning about the tragic concern as they do about the more apparent political one, and by fusing these concerns they aid their plays in carrying a greater impact and significance. More is at stake, for example, than the personal fortunes of Brutus and Coriolanus; indeed, the very columns of Roman government are being swayed in terms of them. An understanding of this fusion of the personal and political is essential to an understanding of the play, so it is in two well-placed scenes that Shakespeare illustrates this fusion by means of two constants, one ethical, one poetic: the political rationale of the hero and the dominant image patterns.Item Twilight reflections: the hold of Victorian Baltimore on Lizette Woodworth Reese and H.L. Mencken(University of Southern Mississippi. College of Arts and Sciences, 1984) Hahn, H. George (Henry George), 1942-; Towson University. Department of English[From article]: To the old, as Faulkner wrote in “A Rose for Emily,” “all the past is not a diminishing road but, instead, a huge meadow which no winter ever quite touches.” Certainly for Baltimore’s two preeminent native authors, the spring meadows of their youth remain forever green in a set of autobiographical masterpieces, in many ways the crowns of their respective achievements. Taken together, Lizette Woodworth Reese’s A Victorian Village (1929) and The York Road (1931) and H. L. Mencken’s Happy Days (1940) and Heathen Days (1943) provide sensitive and vivid glimpses of the last forty years of nineteenth-century Baltimore. Even more, they reveal the Victorian Baltimore of their early years to have been a fertile soil and salubrious climate for the nurturing of their geniuses. Combined, these reminiscences allow a shape and color to their times often unnoticed by social historians and highlight a dimension to their work usually neglected by literary historians concerned more with belles lettres than with autobiography.Item An approach to character development in Defoe's narrative prose(University of Iowa, 1972) Hahn, H. George (Henry George), 1942-; Towson University. Department of English[From article]: The critical approach to character in Defoe’s narrative prose has been mainly circuitous. By emphasizing genres as external patterns that inform his conception of the individual, interpretation of central character is often sacrificed to analysis of the form assumed to beget the character.[...] And as these forms are significations of random bourgeois interests, the characters within them, the criticism suggests, are all representative of resourceful middle-class Englishmen. Yet summarily to dismiss the characters as middle class is at best middling criticism, however undeniably valuable that criticism may otherwise be in its manifold discoveries.[...] I do not suggest, of course, that an internal approach is the only solution, but conceding the question of genre to the critics to say that Defoe uses features of many forms leaves still the problem of character as character. Looking at that problem, however, in terms of events, actions with which the characters are intimately involved can allow more fruitful answers.Item The campus trials of Mencken's satire(Enoch Pratt Free Library, 2013) Hahn, H. George (Henry George), 1942-; Towson University. Department of English[From article]: “I think that people like to read abuse,” said Mencken to Donald Kirkley in a recorded interview of 1948. His charge prompts four trials about satire to a college-age class today.