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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. -
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 Progress of Patriotism and Biography: The Battle of Trafalgar in Southey's The Life of Nelson
(United States Air Force Academy. Department of English and Fine Arts, 1997)[From article]: "Every poet," said Ovid, "bears the burden of Homer" (I.i). And every biographer faces the problems and looks to the standard of Plutarch. But the biographer of a contemporary bears the burden of his times ... -
Can a Gentleman Rage?: Ben Franklin on the Curve of Satire
(Central Piedmont Community College (Charlotte, N.C.), 2011)[From article]: It was the Golden Age of satire, the eighteenth century in England, and Swift, Pope, Gay, Addison and Steele, Fielding, and Jane Austen were the gold standard. Never has a country before or since produced ... -
The Tone in the Tune: An Echo of Burns in Hardy's "The Darkling Thrush"
(Pennsylvania State University Press, 2017)[From article:] The most anthologized of Thomas Hardy's poems, "The Darkling Thrush," is also a site of contesting themes of skepticism, agnosticism, denial, and regret [...] Yet there is a chorus of agreement about the ... -
War in British Romantic Literary Scholarship
(University of Chicago. Press. Journals Division, 2017-11)[From article] But for almost a century since Henry Beers’s History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century (New York, 1899), the mainlines of literary scholarship, criticism, and popular thought have viewed the ...