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‘And If It Be a Pretty Woman All the Better’-Darwin and Sexual Selection
Authors: Levinep George 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
As Gillian Beer has argued, Darwin’s theory of sexual selection puts back into the theory of evolution the intention and cultural direction that seemed so alarmingly absent in Darwin’s first formulation On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. While, in the Origin of Species, Darwin was careful not to discuss the human species or culturally difficult issues (except, inevitably, through metaphor), in The Descent of Man, he met humanity, morality, and culture head on, not only to attempt to explain them naturalistically but to introduce cultural determinants into biological developments.
The Psychology of Childhood in Victorian Literature and Medicine
Authors: Shuttleworth Sally 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
In 1838, as Darwin painstakingly filled his notebooks, working and reworking the ideas that were to yield his theories of biological evolution, he took time to compose his ‘Autobiographical Fragment’ where he attempted to chart his earliest memories. The following year, with the birth of his first son William, he started a notebook that he would maintain for four years, recording the development of his children.
On Not Being Able to Sleep
Authors: Rose Jacqueline 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
This Chapter was originally presented as a paper at the centenary for The Interpretation of Dreams, Vienna, May 2000. Special thanks to the discussion group at Queen Mary College, London University, with whom I read the new translation of The Interpretation of Dreams and whose ideas and insights have contributed much to this Chapter: Amanda Dackombe, Matt ffytche, Sandra Lahire, Lisa O’Sullivan, Maeve Pearson, Aimee Shalan, and Drew Shaw.
John Donne’s Religion of Love
Authors: Wootton David 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
John Donne was in love with love. He was, of course, a love poet, and in the love poems he presents himself as one of ‘Love’s divines, (since all Divinity I Is love or wonder ‘, and as ‘love’s martyr ‘. He hoped his God would ‘ravish ‘ him ( ‘Batter my heart, three person ‘d God ‘). He believed ‘there is a religion in friendship ‘; his friends often heard him say ‘I love you ‘; and when he signs his letters he is sometimes ‘your very affectionate friend and servant and lover ‘. He described himself as a member of the’sect ‘ of ‘the philosophy of love ‘.
Complaint, Clamour, and Libels
Authors: Scase Wendy 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
London, British Library, MS Harley 2253, are among several early fourteenth century poems of satirical complaint that engage with judicial plaint.3 Echoing and adapting the Beatitudes (‘Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness’, Matthew 5: 6), the speaker in Song on the Venality of the Judges blesses those who do right and do not draw back from the ‘pauperum clamore’, from the ‘clamour’ of the poor for justice.
The Literature of Clamour
Authors: Scase Wendy 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
We have many representations of peasant plaint and petition from the materials of the 1381 rising. In some ways the rebels’ complaint is traditional—it is 84 Literature and Complaint in England, 1272–1553 the discourse of peasant plaint, and clamour. ‘The Course of the Revolt’ appropriates and twists traditional peasant plaint. Recalling the techniques of Song of the Husbandman, or Satire on the Retinues of the Great, this macaronic lyric appropriates the peasant plaint of the rebels. The tax has indeed harmed ‘vs alle’—and the slaughter of Archbishop Sudbury (chancellor and, hence, perpetrator of the tax) by clamorous rebels is just one example of the harm that the tax has brought. The rebels’ acts of violence are well known.
Professing Medicine, Virtue Based Ethics, and the Retrieval of Professionalism
Authors: Pellegrino Edmund D 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
In the last several decades, the traditional professions of medicine, law, and ministry have suffered a progressive erosion of their social and moral status. Concomitantly, and reciprocally, a significant degree of moral malaise has afflicted professionals them- selves. There is a general loss of faith in the sustainability of the ancient links between ethics and professional practice. There is even doubt about what has been lost, why and how it was lost, and whether or not it ought to be retrieved.
Law, Morality, and Virtue
Authors: Koller Peter 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
In recent times, the concept of virtue has regained a prominent role in public discourse and in academic ethics as well, by contrast to previous decades in which this concept was widely deemed as old-fashioned and conservative. This turn does not only manifest in a huge proliferation of popular publications on virtues, but also in a renaissance of ‘virtue ethics’ in philosophy, that is, ethical theories in which virtue plays a central or constitutive role (Chapman and Galston 1992; Crisp and Slote 1997; Stratman 1997).
Patriotism and Citizenship: The Gendered Languages of War and Peace
Authors: Bingham Adrian 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Late Victorian and Edwardian notions of gender were, as many historians have recognized, significantly influenced by the increasing prominence of the Empire in British culture. Imperial adventurers and conquerors such as Gordon, Rhodes, and Kitchener were held up as paragons of manliness. Baden-Powell, the hero of Mafeking, explicitly encouraged the nation’s youth to learn the virtues of the Empire-builders through his dramatically successful scouting organizations. A chivalrous, nationalistic, muscular, stoic masculinity was celebrated in the best-selling fiction of such writers as G. A. Henty, Rider Haggard, and Rudyard Kipling.
Pleasure and the Arts
Authors: Butler Christopher 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
How do the arts give us pleasure? Covering a very wide range of artistic works, from Auden to David Lynch, Rembrandt to Edward Weston, and Richard Strauss to Keith Jarrett, ‘Pleasure and the Arts’ offers us an explanation of our enjoyable emotional engagements with literature, music, and painting. The arts direct us to intimate and particularised relationships, with the people represented in the works, or with those we imagine produced them. When we listen to music, look at a purely abstract painting, or drink a glass of wine, can we enjoy the experience without verbalising our response? Do our interpretative assumptions, our awareness of technique, and our attitudes to fantasy, get in the way of our appreciation of art, or enhance it? Examining these questions and more, we discover how curiosity drives us to enjoy narratives, ordinary jokes, metaphors, and modernist epiphanies, and how narrative in all the arts can order and provoke intense enjoyment. Pleasurable in its own right, ‘Pleasure and the Arts’ presents a sparkling explanation of the enduring interest of artistic expression.
Beyond Words: Appreciation, Technique, and Form
Authors: Butler Christopher 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Our enjoyments can be relatively thoughtless, and not much concerned with improvement by any very complex understanding. We can say that we know enough to ‘just enjoy’ the kiss, the tickle, or the ice cream, or to familiarly dream our way through a Liszt étude, a Shakespeare sonnet, or a lovely Corot landscape, because the context of understanding by which we enjoy such things, however minimal, is established beforehand. But we never really just do this, because as long as we are attending to such objects, we can be shown to be enjoy ing them under some description or another.
City on the Hill, Quixote in the Cave: The Politics of Retreat in the Fiction of Hugh Henry Brackenridge
Authors: Wood Sarah F 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
‘The Cave of Vanhest’ (1779) was a seven-part serial, written by Brackenridge and published in his own United States Magazine .1 It is narrated by a tutor who has formerly ‘spent some time in the army’ (USM, 254), and is now returning with his student from an educational visit to the site of the Battle of Monmouth. This inconclusive battle between British and Continental troops took place in New Jersey, on 28 June 1778, at a time when American commitment to the long and bloody war was felt to be flagging.
The Underwhelming History of America’s Overbearing Fathers: A History of New York, From the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty
Authors: Wood Sarah F 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
In Book VII of A History of New York , Dutch governor and military Quixote, Peter Stuyvesant, travels through New England to a hero’s welcome, riding high upon a ‘foundered Narraganset pacer’ and accompanied by his loyal squire and ‘lusty’ trumpeter, Antony Van Corlear (HNY, 688). When we trace the public career of Antony Van Corlear, the figure that emerges is a model of deference: here is a squire who demands no rights, voices no opinions, and remains loyal to his betters. Antony the Trumpeter is every Federalist’s dream in a Jeffersonian world where social hierarchies are crumbling, the balance of power is shifting, and the educated elite are finding themselves surplus to requirement, unwanted and out of work.
Coda: Romantic Quixotes and Reconstructed Knights
Authors: Wood Sarah F 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
On 17 April 1826, in the last of his letters to Thomas Jefferson, an ailing John Adams declared that ‘Our American Chivalry is the worst in the World. It has no Laws, no bounds, no definitions; it seems to be all a Caprice’.1 Quixotic fictions in the early republic seem very much the same.
‘Fals flesch Food and the Embodied Piety of Margery Kempe
Authors: Raine Melissa 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
One of the most conspicuous ways in which the heightened religious experience of Margery Kempe is communicated to those around her is through the violation of certain norms of everyday bodily regulation: Margery weeps, howls, all but collapses in her contemplative ecstasies. The sheer inability to regulate her own physicality signifies piety in these instances. Yet this lack of regulation is, perhaps ironically, also a highly conformist gesture, as these losses of self-control signify Margery’s participation in a tradition of female affective piety. However, it is not only the flamboyant physicality of Margery’s piety that demonstrates the ambiguity of notions of control and its loss, and of conformity as distinct from singularity or individuality: other, more everyday forms of self-regulation are also intrinsic to communicating Margery’s exceptional spiritual experiences to her audiences.
H.D.: Egoist Modernism
Authors: Potter Rachel 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Of the three poets discussed in the following three chapters, H.D. is the least obviously politically engaged. She rarely occupied herself with wider political events, although anti-Semitic Vienna and the violence of the Blitz are significant backdrops in Tribute to Freud and Trilogy. Yet, running through her writing is a consistent interest in the nature of power and subjection. In fact, mastery, whether as patriarchal regulation, as scientific rigour, as psychoanalytic reason, or as legal rule, dominates H.D.’s writing. She seems to erect a series of counter-values to these regulatory discourses: poetic mysticism, female prophecy, and poetic introspection.
T. S. Eliot, Women, and Democracy
Authors: Potter Rachel 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
In this chapter I explore two points of literary departure. First there are women, whose voices echo vacuously through domestic interiors and whose bodies straddle men and give promise ‘of pneumatic bliss’— women who consolidate ideas of male subjectivity in modernist writing. Second, there is the idea of a politicized romanticism which ‘made the revolution’, the ‘idea of liberty’, of humanism, progress, democracy, and liberalism— ideas against which the new classicism in the arts and a new reactionary politics of authority and discipline are defined. Both departures are crucial for Anglo-American modernist writing and for Eliot’s work, yet these two moments have only rarely been brought into dialogue with each other.
Mina Loy: Psycho-Democracy
Authors: Potter Rachel 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
When Mina Loy’s first four ‘Love Songs’ appeared in the first volume of the New York magazine Others in 1915, their sexually explicit subjectmatter, Futurist content, explosive wit, and use of free verse were a fitting beginning to a new magazine devoted to ‘the new verse’. In the November 1915 issue, the magazine’s editor, Alfred Kreymborg, in a foreword, quotes from J. B. Kerfoot, who claims that the new poetry entails a new political sensibility: ‘By the way, the new poetry is revolutionary. It is the expression of a democracy of feeling rebelling against an aristocracy of form.’ In 1914 Pound had described the new poetry in precisely the opposite sense, defending what he called the new ‘aristocracy of the arts’ against artists who dabble in democracy. Whereas Pound and Eliot defend poetic authority against an expressive individualism, here those values are reversed, as expression is privileged over form. Where should Loy’s ‘Love Songs’ be positioned in relation to these opposed ways of understanding the relationship between poetry and authority? We might expect Loy, who explicitly identifies herself as an international ‘psycho-democrat’ in 1921, and whose poems had a prominent position in Others over a number of years, to align herself with Kerfoot’s ‘democracy of feeling’. Yet Loy’s poems do not sit happily with the expression ‘democracy of feeling’, as they are perhaps most distinctive for their extinction of personality, foregrounding of aesthetic artifice, and, according to Pound, lack of ‘emotion’.
Pythian 5 The King and his Royal Forebears
Authors: Currie Bruno 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Pythian 5 celebrates the chariot victory of Arkesilas IV of Cyrene in the 31st Pythian festival, in 466 or 462 bc (for the problem in dating Pythian victories, see above, Chapter 1). Arkesilas was also victorious in the same event at Olympia in 460 bc. The Olympic victory is not mentioned in either Pythian 4 or Pythian 5, and so may be assumed to postdate both poems (P. 5.124 is a prayer for success at Olympia).
Plato’s Cosmological Theory
Authors: Wilberding James 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
An understanding of Plato’s cosmology is essential to an appreciation of Plotinus’ contribution to the subject. The bulk of Plato’s natural philosophy is to be found in the Timaeus, which furnishes us with a structured basis from which we can survey Plato’s natural philosophy in its entirety, bringing in other dialogues as necessary to unfold certain heterogeneous features of his thought, as well as to corroborate the findings from the Timaeus.
Introduction: From the Ground Up
Authors: Wilson Peter 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
The Greek –– and above all, the Attic –– theatre is probably the single most intensively studied institution from the ancient world. And, over the last thirty years in particular, research into Classical drama as an institution of the city-state has enjoyed a spectacular regeneration and efflorescence through the application of a range of fruitful new approaches. The once largely text centred study of traditional philology and New Criticism has given way to a series of new methodologies that seek to understand dramatic texts within their many original ancient contexts. From the late 1970s performance-analysis and reconstruction pioneered by Oliver Taplin led the way, teaching us to see Classical tragedy and comedy as works for the stage rather than the study, designed for a very real live performance under the alien conditions and conventions of ancient Greek open-air, communal, religious theatre. In the 1980s and beyond the paradigm shifted to more broadly political and social contexts, largely under the influence of the so-called ‘Paris School’ of Vernant and Vidal-Naquet, with its many successors.
Dithyramb, Tragedy–– and Cyrene
Authors: Ceccarelli Paola , Milanezi Silvia 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
The traditional emphasis on Athens in the study of dramatic and musical performances is to some extent justified by the abundance of the documentation and the importance of theatrical activities for the cultural life of the city. Yet increasingly other localities of the ancient Greek world are receiving the attention they deserve. Still, the problems facing those intent on broadening the Athenocentric horizon are enormous. And so, any attempt to extend the geographical scope turns almost inevitably into a study in the empirical and methodological difficulties involved in writing anything like a history of dramatic culture outside Athens. Nevertheless, the fact that such interpretive eﬀorts will often have to remain hypothetical or speculative should not be considered sufficient excuse for forgetting that much was going on elsewhere in the Greek world.
The Dionysia at Iasos: Its Artists, Patrons, and Audience
Authors: Crowther Charles 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Strabo illustrates his discussion of the dependence of the coastal Carian city of Iasos on its fishing grounds with a carefully constructed story of how a recital from a kitharoidos was disturbed by the bell of the fish-market which abruptly drew away the audience, except for the one man who could hear neither the performance nor the signal. The impression of an uncultured, indifferent community that could easily be deduced from Strabo’s anecdote would, however, be a misleading one. The performance interrupted by the bell was also in its way typical of the ancient city. The epigraphical corpus of Iasos has preserved a continuous record of the dramatic life of the city over the course of the second century bc and offers the contrasting picture of a community that attended tenaciously to its civic and cultural life and amenities even through adversity.
An Opisthographic Lead Tablet from Sicily with a Financial Document and a Curse Concerning choregoi *
Authors: Jordan David 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Here I present a reading, from autopsy, of an unusually interesting lead tablet of the earlier fifth century from southeast Sicily, which is now in the Rare Book Room of the Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It is opisthographic, both sides inscribed in West Greek, one bearing a record, in the ‘blue’ alphabet (+ = chi), of a financial transaction that took place in the presence evidently of a proxenos, the guarantor being one Apellis. This Apellis later writes, or causes to be written, on the other side and in the earlier ‘red’ alphabet (↓ = chi), a magical curse to ensure [ineq], ‘because of his love/friendship for Eunikos’, that this Eunikos, a choregos, shall defeat other choregoi in a competition.
Introduction
Authors: Rigaud-Drayton Margaret 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
In 1931, Henri Michaux went East, travelling from India, to Indonesia, Japan, and China. He did not speak any of the languages spoken in the countries which he was about to visit. But he did not think that this would be an obstacle between him and the local people. He was convinced that with ‘l’homme de la rue … l’homme qui joue de la flûte et l’homme qui joue dans un théâtre, et l’homme qui danse et qui fait des gestes, j’ai ce qu’il faut pour tout comprendre … à peu près’. As soon as he set foot in India, he was forced to recognize his mistake. Indians, as it turned out, did not gesture much. How was he to understand their gestures if they refused to move? To make matters worse, his own gestures appeared to be incomprehensible to those around him. Waving his arms in a sign of impatience, he found that not only did the Indians to whom he was addressing himself not understand that he was in a hurry, but they did not seem to register that he had gestured to them.
Beginning
Authors: Fowler Alastair 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
A very few gifted individuals can write in one go (or say they can): they are able to sit before a blank page or screen, confidently expecting words to come, and find they do. But the rest of us, if we followed that method, would find the page still obstinately blank at the end of the writing session. For most sorts of writing, the best way to begin is not to. Or rather to have already begun in the past. If you make a big deal about the moment of beginning, it may never happen.
Paragraphs
Authors: Fowler Alastair 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
The paragraph is a main unit of composition, as important to the writer as the sentence or the phrase. It develops a single topic, and so has a distinct, independent unity. As a distinct passage, it begins with a new line (often indented: the new line marks a break in sense from the previous paragraph, and consequently a breathing space). It may help to think of the paragraph as a box containing a bunch of closely related ideas about the topic.
Signposts
Authors: Fowler Alastair 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
In a piece of any great length—say, over a thousand words—readers may need to be guided through the longer paragraphs, through the more complicated paths of argument or exposition. In short, they may need signposts. These signs or directional markers signal where to withdraw attention from one topic and view the larger picture, or where to turn to the next topic. Or they may indicate how two passages connect.
Practicalities
Authors: Fowler Alastair 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Writers are generally averse to rules; when critics imposed prescriptive dogmas in the eighteenth century, the unruly free flow of Romanticism ensued. Every sort of writing pattern suits someone: some write on-screen from start to finish, while others never touch a keyboard; some write nocturnally for the silence; some don’t write at all for months and then produce a book in a few manic days, regardless of their surroundings.
Greek Athletics in the Roman World
Authors: Newby Zahra 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
The enduring importance of Greek athletic training and competition during the period of the Roman Empire has been a neglected subject in past scholarship on the ancient world. This book examines the impact that Greek athletics had on the Roman world, approaching it through the plentiful surviving visual evidence, viewed against textual and epigraphic sources. It shows that the traditional picture of Roman hostility has been much exaggerated. Instead Greek athletics came to exercise a profound influence upon Roman spectacle and bathing culture. In the Greek east of the empire too, athletics continued to thrive, providing Greek cities with a crucial means of asserting their cultural identity while also accommodating Roman imperial power.
G. E. Moore on Sense-data and Perception
Authors: Snowdon Paul 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
In 1958, the year of Moore’s death, Professor A. R. White published his book G. E. Moore: A Critical Exposition. White’s study, though now, presumably, rarely read, is extremely acute and based on a close reading of Moore’s work as he knew it. In it White says: ‘There are three main topics dealt with in Moore’s writings, namely, philosophical method, ethics, and perception.’ As a general description, the only reservation that can be felt about this remark is that it would be more accurate to add epistemology as a fourth main topic. Moore obviously grappled in a variety of ways with the problems raised by scepticism. Now, it might be that White included epistemology under the title of ‘perception’, and it is, indeed, not uncommon to think of the name ‘philosophy of perception’ as covering epistemology. But another, and I think more likely, possibility is that White underestimated Moore’s epistemological concerns, perhaps because when White was writing a number of Moore’s essays on the subject were not widely known (or, at least, not known to White).