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An approach to character development in Defoe's narrative prose
(University of Iowa, 1972)[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 ... -
Historiographic and literary: the fusion of two eighteenth-century modes in Scott's Waverly
(University of Hartford, 1974)[From article]: A first work is often traditional, and the study of it in the contexts of its traditions often yields fresh insights into the later canon that are as much technical as historical. Just as Shakespeare’s early ... -
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)Book review of two pictorial histories; one about Maryland and one about Philadelphia, Pennsylvania -
Book review of George H. Douglas' H. L. Mencken: critic of American life
(Maryland Historical Society, 1978)Book review of an examination of H.L. Mencken -
"Auburn" in Goldsmith's The deserted village: possible Gallic overtones?
(College Language Association (U.S.), 1978-12)[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 ... -
Henry Fielding: an annotated bibliography
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Steele's "Curs" and Fielding's Hounds
(Oxford University Press, 1979-12)A discussion of the source of the names for the squire's dogs in Henry Fielding's Joseph Andrews. -
Main lines of criticism of Fielding's Tom Jones, 1900-1978
(Anglo-American Associates, 1980)Except when questions of its morality got in the way of dispassionate criticism, as they did for Richardson, Johnson, and Hawkins, Tom Jones has continually been recognized as a masterpiece of design. As early as 1834 such ... -
Main lines of criticism of Fielding's Joseph Andrews, 1925-1978
(Anglo-American Associates, 1981)[From article]: Unlike the inferences of a vicious Fielding that the critics draw from Shamela or a gloomy Fielding from Jonathan Wild, those from Joseph Andrews uniformly depict him as a cheerful man highly conscious of ... -
Symbolic landscaping: Housman's Bredon hill
(Housman Society, 1982)[From article]: Structured by a series of juxtaposed images, A.E. Housman’s Bredon Hill articulates in a tautly symbolic way some of the elemental themes of A Shropshire Lad (1896), the book of poems in which it appears. -
The orchard and the street: the political mirror of the tragic in Julius Caesar and Coriolanus
(College Language Association (U.S.), 1983)[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 ... -
Book review of A concordance and word-lists to Henry Fielding's "Shamela," Michael G. Farringdon, ed.
(Springer, 1983-12)Book review of a concordance to Henry Fielding's Shamela -
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)[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 ... -
The eighteenth-century British novel and its background: an annotated bibliography and guide to topics
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Broadsides on the Thames: the social context of The rape of the lock, II, 47-52
(Walter de Gruyter & Co., 1986)[From article]: As Reuben Brower has shown, allusion in Pope is a resource equivalent to metaphor and imagery in other poets1 1 R. A. Brower, Alexander Pope: The Poetry of Allusion (Oxford, 1959). . Yet it is not merely ... -
Tarsicius: a hagiographical allusion in Joyce's "Araby"
(Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, 1991)[From article]: In his story "Araby" Joyce alludes to a Roman martyr both to designate a comic touch by the narrator and to deepen the themes of disillusionment and deflated romanticism. This purposefully melodramatic ... -
The country myth and the politics of the early Georgian novel
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The country myth: motifs in the British novel from Defoe to Smollett
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Disability Rights on the Public Agenda: Elite News Media Coverage of The Americans With Disabilities Act
(Temple University, 1995)This dissertation undertook a content analysis of U.S. elite newspapers and the three major news magazines (N=524), news photographs (N=171), and TV network news (N =24) to understand how the news media presented the ...