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Carlyle's influence on Shakespeare.(Thomas Carlyle)

Mar 22, 2007; Sawyer, Robert ... Rope-walking monkeys, riding-masters chased by clowns, an "Aquatic Theatre" flooded with water from the nearby New River in order to stage sensational naval melodramas--these were the entertainments dominating the London theatrical scene as Thomas Carlyle sat down in November of 1837 to ...

Imagining Ophelia in Christina Rossetti's "Sleeping at Last".

Mar 22, 2007; Faraci, Mary ... Published posthumously and given the title, "Sleeping at Last," the verses were represented by William Rossetti as Christina Rossetti's final work. Diane D'Amico in "Christina Rossetti's Last Poem: 'Sleeping at Last' or 'Heaven Overarches'?" has raised questions about the date of ...

The poison within: Robert Browning's "The Laboratory".(The Laboratory: Ancien Regime)

Mar 22, 2007; Sonstroem, David ... Robert Browning's "The Laboratory: Ancien Regime" is remarkable if for nothing else than that it is a widely known poem about which almost nothing interpretive has been written. (1) Apparently "The Laboratory" yields its meaning without exegesis--the explicator's worst nightmare. Two ...

"Her life was in her books": Jean Ingelow in the literary marketplace.(Biography)

Mar 22, 2007; Ives, Maura ... "There are two reasons why the life of Jean Ingelow should have been uneventful. She was a woman who never married and she was a writer. Her life was in her books, and while these were widely read on two continents, there was little behind them that the world has known or that it was ...

The Buddhist sub-text and the imperial soul-making in Kim.(Critical essay)

Mar 22, 2007; Kwon, Young Hee ... I. 'Lama, lama, my dear sir; and some of them are gentlemen in their own country': Rereading the lama as an unsettling foreign guest in the empire's house of fiction In his introduction to Psychoanalysis of Race, Christopher Lane succinctly observes the central conundrum of Kim ...

"Gliding": a note on the exquisite delicacy of the religious glissade motif in Hopkins's "The Windhover".(Critical essay)

Mar 22, 2007; Cervo, Nathan ... Poetry is a fine art. It proceeds by indirection, by a kind of perichoresis (a dancing around by) of all its elements in relation to its main theme. With this in mind, it is clear that readers of Gerard Manley Hopkins's poem "The Windhover" have remained in large measure immobile in a ...

Books received.

Mar 22, 2007 ... Craig, David M. John Ruskin and the Ethics of Consumption. Studies in Religion and Culture. Charlottesville & London: U of Virginia P, 2006. Pp. x + 422. $60.00. "The book's argument divides into three parts. The two chapters in part 1 introduce the theological structure of Ruskin's early ...