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Article: Jane Barker and the politics of Catholic celibacy.(Critical essay)
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- Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900
- Article date:
- June 22, 2007
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"Forlorn! the very word is like a bell To toll me back from thee to my
sole self!"
--John Keats (1)
INTRODUCTION
Through the simile of a dreary bell tolling time, the speaker in John Keats's "Ode to a Nightingale" is jarred back into the present characterized by separation from the joyful nightingale. While in Keats's poem the bell functions to explicate the full force that the word "forlorn" has upon the poet, a quite different use of such imagery is employed in the framing narrative to Love Intrigues (1713), the first novel published by Jane Barker, a writer whose works have recently begun to receive critical treatment. (2) Barker sets the ...
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