A Reply to Maximillian E. Novak David Fishelov Published in Connotations Vol. 17.2-3 (2007/08) I am delighted that Maximillian E. Novak, an authority on Defoe, has found my discussion of surprise in Robinson Crusoe useful, and am grateful for the opportunity to offer further observation on the way that Defoe’s […]
Strangely Surpriz’d by Robinson Crusoe: A Response to David Fishelov Maximillian E. Novak Published in Connotations Vol. 17.2-3 (2007/08) In treating Defoe’s Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, most critics have focused on the first word, “Life”—the fictional work as creating a real world in which characters learn, […]
Pope’s Ombre Enigmas in The Rape of the Lock17) Oliver R. Baker Published in Connotations Vol. 17.2-3 (2007/08) To appreciate the Ombre allusions in The Rape of the Lock a modern audience must first understand how this complicated and counter−intuitive card game is played. Successive editors have exhaustively glossed Pope’s […]
Unmanning the Self: The Troublesome Effects of Sympathy in Thomas Otway’s Venice Preserv’d. A Response to Elizabeth Gruber Roland Weidle Published in Connotations Vol. 17.2-3 (2007/08) In her essay “‘Betray’d to Shame’: Venice Preserved and the Paradox of She−Tragedy” Elizabeth Gruber reads Otway’s play as a deliberate adaptation of Othello. […]
Feminine Agency and Feminine Values in Venice Preserved: A Response to Elizabeth Gruber Katharina M. Rogers Published in Connotations Vol. 17.2-3 (2007/08) It appears to me that Elizabeth Gruber’s “‘Betray’d to Shame’: Venice Preserved and the Paradox of She−Tragedy” diminishes Thomas Otway’s play by reducing it to a she−tragedy that […]
Ironic Oppositions and the Articulation of Dissent in Thomas Heywood’s The English Traveller David Laird Published in Connotations Vol. 17.2-3 (2007/08) Burying of wives— As stale as shifting shirts—or for some servants To flout and gull their masters. The English Traveller (V.i.220−22) Thomas Heywood’s The English Traveller gains a special […]
Ambiguities of Honour: A Response to Carrie Pestritto’s “Outlooks on Honor in Henry V and Julius Caesar” Thomas Kullmann Published in Connotations Vol. 17.2-3 (2007/08) “Caesar was ambitious, and Brutus is an honourable man” (Julius Caesar 3.2.78−100).76) Are things really as simple as that? If we follow Carrie Pestritto’s arguments […]
The Butterfly, the Fart and the Dwarf: the Origins of the English Laureate Micro-Epic Tom MacFaul Published in Connotations Vol. 17.2-3 (2007/08) The three poets who can be considered England’s first laureates—Edmund Spenser, Ben Jonson, and William Davenant—all wrote miniature mock epics in which they are concerned not with imperial […]
Painful Restoration: Transformations of Life and Death in Medieval Visions of the Other World Fritz Kemmler Published in Connotations Vol. 17.2-3 (2007/08) Medieval visions of the other world require a revision of some of our current concepts pertaining to life and death so that the complex interplay of these two […]
Reinventing Isabelle Eberhardt: Rereading Timberlake Wertenbaker’s New Anatomies Verna A. Foster Published in Connotations Vol. 17.1 (2007/08) New Anatomies (1981), Timberlake Wertenbaker’s first play to be published (in 1984), chronicles the life of Isabelle Eberhardt, the European traveller and writer who lived in Algeria cross−dressed as an Arab man at […]
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