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David Laird – Ironic Oppositions and the Articulation of Dissent in Thomas Heywood’s The English Traveller

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 […]

Thomas Kullmann – Ambiguities of Honour: A Response to Carrie Pestritto’s “Outlooks on Honor in Henry V and Julius Caesar

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).10) Are things really as simple as that? If we follow Carrie Pestritto’s arguments […]

Tom MacFaul – The Butterfly, the Fart and the Dwarf: the Origins of the English Laureate Micro-Epic

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 […]

Verna A. Foster – Reinventing Isabelle Eberhardt: Rereading Timberlake Wertenbaker’s New Anatomies

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 […]

Irene Gorak – A Response to Myrtle Hooper’s “Textual Surprise in Pauline Smith’s ‘The Sinner'”

A Response to Myrtle Hooper’s “Textual Surprise in Pauline Smith’s ‘The Sinner'” Irene Gorak Published in Connotations Vol. 17.1 (2007/08) Myrtle Hooper’s study of “The Sinner” in the 2004−2005 issue of Connotations is one of five subtle and nuanced readings she has published of Pauline Smith’s South African story collection […]

Frank J. Kearful – “Stand and live”: Tropes of Falling, Rising, Standing in Robert Lowell’s Lord Weary’s Castle

“Stand and live”: Tropes of Falling, Rising, Standing in Robert Lowell’s Lord Weary’s Castle Frank J. Kearful Published in Connotations Vol. 17.1 (2007/08) Tropes of falling, rising, and standing recur frequently in Robert Lowell’s poetry from Lord Weary’s Castle (1946), whose title−page illustration depicts Abel falling backwards in a field […]

Norbert Lennartz – The Intrusion of Old Times: Ghosts and Resurrections in Hardy, Joyce and Beyond

The Intrusion of Old Times: Ghosts and Resurrections in Hardy, Joyce and Beyond Norbert Lennartz Published in Connotations Vol. 17.1 (2007/08) I Since Positivism, ghosts and revenants have, if not entirely disappeared, at least been subjected to severe scrutiny. Notwithstanding the fascination for vampires and other creatures of Gothic horror […]