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Beneath Interpretation Intention and the Experience of Literature
Authors: Fry Paul H 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Literary theory is for the most part a thing of the past. To be sure, if we allow that all of today’s approaches to literature that have already been grounded in social identity are ‘theoretical’, then certainly a great deal of theory is still being written concerning the identification, interpretation, and criticism of literature. And indeed, although it seems to me that no single one of these ‘discourses’, as they are called, entails a power of generalization strong enough to support either a foundational or an antifoundational account of the human science we call literary, it is true none the less that all of them taken together (all the race, class, gender, and historicist theories) do continue to reflect a paradigm conflict of general purport in the antifoundational tradition. The pioneering version of this conflict was Jacques Derrida’s ‘Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences’, where the system of binary oppositions central to structuralism, from Saussure to Levi-Strauss, was subjected to critique under the general notion of ‘freeplay’. On this view, the ‘signified’ yoked to the ‘signifier’ in the Saussurian formula stands revealed as itself a signifier in an indeterminate chain of implication, such that there can be no governing signifier or god-term standing outside a given structure with respect to any signified taken to be that structure. I (Wittgenstein’s deconstruction-if I may-of objectivist accounts of the part-whole relation in paragraphs 47-67 of the Philosophical Investigations is a similar landmark along the separate path that led to neo-pragmatist appropriations of speech-act philosophy.)
Mac Flecknoe, Heir of Augustus
Authors: Erskine-Hill Howard 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
The aim of this essay is to balance a largely literary-critical account of Mac Flecknoe, certainly correct so far as it goes, with a historical and political account. For a start we may briefly review some of the salient points of the poem’s reception during the last forty-seven years. Ian Jack’s Augustan Satire (1952) insisted on the work’s mockheroic logic: high terms used, ironically, to ridicule a low subject. On the occasion of the poem, James Kinsley, in his edition The Poems of John Dryden (1958), candidly stated that while the critical disagreements between Dryden and Shadwell concerning the achievement of Jonson and the nature of comedy were ‘the basis of Mac Flecknoe’ yet ‘the occasion of the satire on Shadwell is unknown’. Kinsley found no personal animosity on Dryden’s part in his critical exchanges with Shadwell, and was unable to explain Dryden’s sudden change to poetic satire without positing ‘some personal quarrel’ thus far undiscovered.
Editing, Authenticity, and Translation: Re-Presenting Dryden’s Poetry In 2000
Authors: Hopkins David 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
I begin with two quotations. The first is from James McLaverty‘s paper ‘The Concept of Authorial Intention in Textual Criticism‘: Whereas some works of art (painting and sculpture, for example) are particulars, instanced by one unreproducible individual, other works of art, most clearly music, are types, instanced by any number of tokens. Those works of art which are types may have scores from which ‘performances‘ of the work can be realized. If we accept that literature should be classed with music as an art in which works can be composed in the mind, can have any number of instances, and can be performed (as plays are and as poems used to be) we can say that the editor‘s concern is with the score. The score represents the work, it is not identical with it.
Dante in Somerset: Ghosts, Historiography ,Periodization
Authors: Wallace David 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
English readers, or readers who have spent much time in England, will probably find the notion of ‘Dante in Somerset’ faintly comic, perhaps preposterous. Why is that? And how did that particular ‘structure of feeling’ (the finding comic or preposterous) come to be?1 Perhaps it is the unassimilable largeness and foreignness of Dante (as a medieval Italian Ghibelline Roman Catholic) that makes him seem so unlikely a visitor, or long-term resident, of such a quiet, deeply rural locality. The landscape of Somerset in south-west England has never been fully assailed by the energies of an industrial revolution nor fully hymned as a site of natural grandeur.
Forgery at the University of Cambridge
Authors: Hiatt Alfred 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
In 1564 the visit of Queen Elizabeth I to the University of Cambridge provoked a venomous and long-winded debate between the Cambridge physician and classicist John Caius, and his Oxford namesake, Thomas Caius. The object of each man was to assert that his own university was the most ancient, not only in England, but in the whole of Christen¬ dom. The Cambridge Caius argued that an exiled Spanish king, Cantaber, had founded the East Anglian studium in annomundi 3588; the Oxford Caius maintained in his Assertioantiquitatisacademiaeoxoniensis—presented to the Queen in 1566—that Oxford could trace its history back to the Trojan colonization of Britain. The argument rumbled on well into the eighteenth century, and gained fresh impetus from the contributions of such prominent and verbose Oxford antiquarians as Brian Twyne, Anthony a Wood, and Thomas Hearne.
Rivalry and Reciprocity in Lydgate’sTroy Book
Authors: Straker Scott-Morgan 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Shortly after the marriage on 2 June 1420 of England’s King Henry V to Katherine of Valois, the youngest daughter of Charles VI of France, John Lydgate completed his massive translation of Guido delle Colonne’s Historiadestructionistroiae, which Henry commissioned him to write in 1412. The Troy Book begins and ends with a tribute to its patron, and in 1420 the achievements Lydgate chooses to celebrate are Henry’s marriage and the diplomatic coup represented by the Treaty of Troyes (ratified 21 May 1420). Although the history he translates visits disaster upon all its protagonists, Lydgate ends the TroyBook on a note of literary and political triumph: the completion of his task coincides with the consummation of Henry V’s continental ambition.
Reading Caxton: Transformations in Capital Authority, Print, and Persona in the Late Fifteenth Century
Authors: Kuskin William 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
The printed book’s authority in the late fifteenth century is complex: a combination of the text’s authorial and exemplary authority clearly, but also an expression of the social and political authority vested in the various audiences that sponsored its initial production in manuscript and its subsequent reproduction in print. Readings of William Caxton traditionally rely on the categories of patronage and commerce to explain his press’s relationship to this authority.
Introduction: Gendered Cartographies of Viewing
Authors: Parsons Deborah L 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
THE RE are infinite versions of any one city. The city as a text to be read, the text as a city to be traversed; this formulation has become so common as to be almost a clich é. Not only linguistic terms and figures of speech, but also forms of perception, experience, and communication are predicated on the ‘body’ and ‘soul’ of the city. Yet the relationship is not just one of analogy —we are increasingly realizing the significance of the urban map as influential in the very structures of social and mental daily life. A city can be analysed demographically, economically, architecturally, as the result of an urban plan or a history of literary and visual representation.
Epilogue: Re-envisioning the Urban Walker
Authors: Parsons Deborah L 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Put her brain, together with the other million brains, women’s brains, that recorded in such tiny loving anxious detail the histories of windowsills, skins of paint, replaced curtains and salvaged baulks of timber, and there would be a recording instrument, a sort of six-dimensional map which included the histories and lives and loves of people, London-a section map in depth.’
Homoerotic Puns and Queer Collaborations
Authors: Bly Mary 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Even given a very loose definition of ‘pun’, Chapter 4 dealt with homoerotic imagery rather than with puns. However, I argued that certain rhetorical flourishes were experienced as puns—in other words, they offered a code to early modern audience members. They are, then, of a family with those puns whose pivotal moment is the figurative undressing of the speaker, the bawdy regendered puns of Chapters 2 and 3. This chapter will mediate between the most material of facts—the White friars syndicate’s contracts, lawsuits, and debts—and the most elusive of linguistic forms, a pun in the moment of performance. I will be constructing a triangular enquiry, pitting the nature of the theatrical company, the nature of queer puns, and the nature of authorial collaboration against each other.
Epilogue
Authors: King Kathryn R 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
The view of Barker proposed in this study has emphasized continuities linking her with her own time and place even if, ironically, these links call into question the feminist paradigms that brought her to our attention in the first place. Approaches which stress her kinship with other women writers serve well the feminist literary historical aim of reconstructing the lineages and networks of female affiliation which for their part bring significance to the study of early modern women’s writings, but their effect is to distort the nature of Barker’s literary achievement and, less happily still, to obscure much of what is most distinctive in her work.
Slavery, Testimony, Propaganda: John Newton, William Cowper, and Compulsive Confession
Authors: Wood Marcus 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
John Newton is one of the most terrifying personalities of the second half of the eighteenth century. Still lionized by Christian publishers as one of theproudest examples of a converted sinner, he published several autobiographical accounts of his life and has been the subject of a steady flow of biographies ever since.1 At least ten have been published in the last two decades, four of them designed for a juvenile market.2 Newton is currently reincarnated within the celebratory rhetoric of the British Tourist Board, his bewigged and jowelly face appearing on the display boards, and interspersed among the images and narratives, of the ‘Cowper and Newton Museum Home of Olney’s Heritage’.
Introduction: Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the Sciences of Life
Authors: Roe Nicholas 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
On the evening of 26 January 1793 members of the Physical Society squeezed onto the benches in the Theatre at Guy’s Hospital, London, to listen to a lecture which brought advanced science into explosive contact with revolutionary politics. John Thelwall, who was the most notorious ‘Jacobin’ reformist in the country, a leader of the London Corresponding Society, a poet and orator, addressed the audience on the theme of ‘Vitality’.
Glorious Causes
Authors: Swindells Julia 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Glorious Causes explores the politics of theatricality and the theatricality of politics in late Georgian Britain, at a time when the British nation can be described as a stage for reform. 1832 is particularly significant for legislation in relation to both the drama and the parliamentary franchise. In many ways, though, the forces of change date back to the later part of the eighteenth-century, and were set in motion by powerful liberation movements, not only in France and North America, but in Britain itself. Particularly important, in addition to agitation for the vote, were the movements for abolition of the slave trade and slave emancipation, the attempt to improve conditions in the factory, resistance to the exploitation of agricultural workers and, not least, the early struggle for women's rights. Political rhetoric was characterized by a rich vocabulary, drawing on theatrical language and forms, from melodrama and tragedy, to comedy and burlesque. Most importantly, activity in the theatres themselves, often dismissed until recently as vulgar or sentimental, was highly charged with political dynamic and controversy, central to the drama of reform.
Introduction: Beyond the Pale
Authors: McCabe Richard A 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
I OWE the idea for this book to a question posed by a disgruntled student at a Spenser seminar in Dublin: ‘If King Arthur was Celtic how can he be the hero of an English national epic?’ AB I was preoccupied at the time with explaining the influence of Neoplatonism on the Gardens of Adonis, this salvo from the blue, or rather from the green, was most unwelcome. I mentioned ‘poetic licence’ and passed swiftly on, but the question lingered in my mind and I thought of it again when I visited Kilcolman for the first time. It reminded me that the Irish dimension of The Faerie Queene is as much a matter of text as context, as much a concern of poetic fabric as polemical allusion.
Diana’s Spite
Authors: McCabe Richard A 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
In presenting the Mutability Cantos to the reading public in 1609, Matthew Lownes judged his moment shrewdly. During the1590s Spenser was one of the most popular authors published by his rival, William Ponson-by, and his success was greatly enhanced by a reputation for topicality. Lownes had sought to capitalize on this by attempting to publish A View of the Present State of Ireland at the very height of the Nine Years’ War. That project had come to nothing but now, with Ireland at the top of the political agenda once again, Spenser could be made to address current issues from beyond the grave. The appearance of the Mutability Cantos, set in the devastated wastelands of the Munster plantation, coincided with the issuing of James I’s ‘Orders and Conditions’ for the plantation of Ulster.
Modern Irish Poetry
Authors: Sewell Frank 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Recently, chapters on individual Irish-language authors have formed part of publications regarding modern Irish art and culture in general. Such chapters are welcome but they have excited the curiosity of readers to the degree that longer, more detailed works are now required to put writing in Irish into perspective. In this study of four modern poets (two each from two generations), Sewell attempts to illustrate not only the accumulative but the transformative nature of tradition. Chapters 1 and 2 turn from the mid-20th century master Seán Ó Riordáin to the contemporary poet Cathal Ó Searcaigh because the comparison and contrast highlights significant aspects of the amazing development of Irish poetry and, indeed, society in the period. Here, importantly, the word 'development' is meant in a neutral way - the image used is that of a zig-zag movement in the pattern of the continuing Irish tradition. Chapter 3 returns to the slightly earlier, major Irish-language poet Máirtín Ó Direáin. In doing so, it returns home (from the internationalism of the previous chapter on Searcaigh) to Ireland - a major focus and concern for the more solely traditionalist Ó Direáin. This switch back (in time, geography, social mores or outlook) fits and illustrates Sewell's concept of the zig-zag movement of a country's culture as it proceeds from generation to generation. The positioning, therefore, has a thematic purpose. The fourth and final chapter focuses on the contemporary poet Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill who has managed to synthesise tradition and modernity (central concerns of this book) and who, in doing so, has become the current trail-blazer of Irish poetry in either language.
The Old English Exodus and the Colonization of the Promised Land
Authors: Savage Anne 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Translation, the moving of one thing to occupy another place, is of unusual significance in Anglo-Saxon England, because of that culture’s transition into Christianity: written language-to-language translation is a broad, general category, while other kinds of translation—of systems of belief and behaviour—bear close examination. For example, the moving of saints’ relics to more prestigious sites with particular significance to the Anglo-Saxon Church, or the transmutation of Christian values in terms of the warrior ethos, reclaimed and transformed pre-Christian Anglo-Saxon beliefs in a process which carried validation and revalidation along with it. First, I would like to discuss translation generally in Anglo-Saxon England; then the Old English Exodus, which exemplifies this process.
The Knight of the Tower and the Queen in Sanctuary: Elizabeth Woodville’s Use of Meaningful Silence and Absence
Authors: Kemp Theresa D 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
0n 29 April 1483 Richard, Duke of Gloucester (later Richard III) intercepted the 12-year-old King Edward V at Stony Stratford as he headed toward London for his coronation. On the following day Richard also arrested the king’s closest companions, chief among them Anthony Woodville (his maternal uncle), Richard Grey (his maternal half-brother), and his chamberlain, Thomas Vaughan. When the news reached London four days later, Elizabeth Woodville (Edward V’s newly widowed mother) immediately fled with her daughters and remaining son into the Sanctuary at Westminster Abbey. During the period between Elizabeth’s flight and Richard Ill’s death at Bosworth, the Ricardian and Woodville factions engaged in a political struggle for dynastic power which involved two competing versions of Elizabeth’s identity. In general, the Ricardians drew upon the prevailing ideology requiring female obedience to male authority and prohibiting female speech. Accusing her of the double crime of not only speaking (a woman naming herself rather than being named) but also of speaking falsely (naming herself queen and royal mother), they charged her with seditiously disrupting England’s social order by wrongfully inserting herself and her children into the royal dynastic chain.
Gender and Politics in Osbern Bokenham’s Legendary
Authors: Hilles Carroll 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
There is much evidence to support the now widespread association of women and pious reading in the latter part of the Middle Ages. Elite women were not only historically important patrons, they were also interpellated as ideal readers of clerical texts.1 Hence the sense of inevitability associated with Osbern Bokenham’s decision to create a legendary of female saints. Between 1443 and 1447, Bokenham, an Augustinian friar at Clare Priory, Suffolk, wrote the only collection of lives of female saints in Middle English. Called ‘Legends of Holy Women’ by its twentieth-century editor, Mary Serjeantson, the untitled legendary exists in a single manuscript, London, British Library Arundel 327.
Towards an Epidemiology of Paranoid Narrative
Authors: Trotter David 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
By Harold Perkin’ s account, it was during the period between 1880 and the First World War that ‘professional society’ finally and unequivocally ‘rose’. ‘By r9u,’ Perkin notes, ‘if we add the lesser professionals and technicians to the higher ones, the professions were 4. r per cent of the occupied population, not much short of the 4.6 per cent who were “employers” in the census of industrial status, and if we add “managers and administrators” the figure rises to 7.5 per cent, larger than the category of “employers and proprietors” (6.7 per cent).’ As significant as the overall increase in numbers was the degree of organization now to be found within the majority of professions. To the seven qualifying associations extant in 1800—two Royal Colleges, four Inns of Court for barristers, and the Society of Apothecaries—twenty had been added by 188o. In the period between 1880 and the First World War, by contrast, no less than thirty-nine further associations were formed: for chartered accountants, estate agents, insurance brokers, and so on. Several non-qualifying associations, such as the National Union of Teachers, also came into being, as did an ‘intellectual class’ consisting of ‘men of letters’, ‘men of science’, and university teachers.
The Will-to-Abstraction: Hulme, Lewis, Lawrence
Authors: Trotter David 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
People no longer wanted the self-effacements of impressionism, Wyndham Lewis told Ford Madox Ford in 1914. And while I have tried to show in my previous two chapters that literary impressionism was less self-effacing than one might suppose, nobody could doubt that the stunts and firework-displays Lewis had in mind were of a different order to the sad stories told by Conrad and Ford. ‘What’s the good of being an author’, Lewis demanded, ‘if you don’t get any fun out of it?’ This chapter is in part an attempt to determine what it was that Lewis got his fun out of. For the purpose of the stunts he performed in the years before the war was to outshine impressionism. Ford (Hueffer, as he then was) had given Lewis his big literary break by publishing some pieces in the English Reviell’. He was ripe for outshining.
Beyond Modernism, Beyond Paranoia
Authors: Trotter David 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
My argument concerning ‘paranoid Modernism’ has reached a point where any further elaboration would be significantly reiterative. It must stand or fall by what it has enabled me to say about works by Conrad, Ford, Lawrence, and Lewis, and about the embeddedness of those works in early twentieth-century English culture and society: their reckoning with professional status and with the psychopathies of expertise, their grasp of masculinity as a form of cultural capital, their postliberalism, their susceptibility to moral panic. To develop the argument further would require the construction of a different frame of reference.
Making, Mourning, and the Love of Idols
Authors: Fradenburg L O Aranye 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
For one to be responsible and responsive seems, in the dominant strains of Western ethics, to require that one be ‘alive’ or ‘sentient’ and address a living other. Sentience here is ‘consciousness, susceptibility to sensation’; something is sentient if it ‘feels or is capable of feeling’, has ‘the power or function of sensation or of perception by the senses’. Classical ethical regimens enhance sentience by stylizing sense-feeling and awareness of aliveness. In medieval moral theology, the more sentient the creature, the more extensive its ethical responsibilities. For Aquinas, the intellectual capacity to derive universals from sense-perception—a process with clear implications for justic—is a sublime form of human sentience.
The Sacrament of the Altar in Piers Plowman and the Late Medieval Church in England
Authors: Aers David 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
This chapter explores Langland’s understanding of sacramental signs, particularly of the sacrament of the altar. Scholars of Piers Plowman seem to have found such an enquiry rather irrelevant and the reason is probably the one given in the chapter on ‘Langland’s theology’ in The Companion to Piers Plowman. There Robert Adams writes that Langland’s theology of the sacraments is ‘ethical rather than sacramental’. It is indicative that we have a massive and often informative work on Piers Plowman and the sacrament of penance, a substantial work on Piers Plowman and marriage, work on Piers Plowman and the liturgy, but nothing comparable, as far as I am aware, on the sacrament of the altar and Piers Plowman.