Philological Quarterly back issues from March 2004:
Plato's Timaeus and the Song of Roland: remarks on Oxford Bodleian MS Digby 23.
Mar 22, 2004; ... Oxford Bodleian MS Digby 23 contains two works, each copied by a different twelfth-century scribe. (1) The first part of the codex is given over to Calcidius' Latin translation of Plato's Timaeus, a learned cosmological treatise which describes the creation of the universe. (Calcidius' ...
Directed readings: paratext in a Game at Chess and The Tragedie of Philotas.
Mar 22, 2004; ... It has become a commonplace in studies of early modern reading practices to argue that seventeenth-century readers interpreted written works analogically. A. H. Tricomi best articulates this view in his 1986 article, "Philip, Earl of Pembroke, and the Analogical Way of Reading Political ...
Representations of illegitimacy in Wilkie Collins's early novels.
Mar 22, 2004; ... Illegitimacy was a prominent political, social, and literary issue throughout the nineteenth century, and is a theme that the sensation novelist Wilkie Collins repeatedly returns to in his fiction. Best remembered for his 1860 novel, The Woman in White, which heralded the beginning of the ...
"A gallant heart to the empire." Autoethnography and Imperial identity in Mary Seacole's Wonderful Adventures.(Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands)
Mar 22, 2004; ... 1 It seems fitting that the bi-centenary year of Mary Seacole's birth has been marked by a spate of discoveries and publications about the author of Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands (1857). In January 2005 a "lost" portrait of Seacole, painted in 1879 by an ...
Gertrude on the block: writing, love, and fame in Stanzas in Meditation.(Gertrude Stein)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Gertrude Stein once wrote, referring to Alice B. Toklas, that she is "the air of here and there," but I would suggest that the "heir" space Toklas occupies during the composition of Stanzas in Meditation is confined to a single one of Gertrude Stein's lungs, perhaps the right. The other ...