Abstract:This article argues that King Lear decouples kindness and kinship in ways that raise questions of recognition. Because Lear deliberately breaks his kinship bond with Cordelia, Aristotelian anagnorisis cannot suffice to reconcile them. Hegelian Anerkennung frames recognition as a process of creating relational bonds but grounds this process in a struggle that does not structure the reconciliation between Lear and Cordelia. Consequently, I argue that kindness in the play consists of a freedom to meet ontological human vulnerability with relational care. The play's tragedy lies in the way that kindness, because both vulnerable and free, comes with no guarantees.
{"title":"The Tragedy of Kindness in King Lear","authors":"J. Kerr","doi":"10.1353/sel.2021.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sel.2021.0003","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article argues that King Lear decouples kindness and kinship in ways that raise questions of recognition. Because Lear deliberately breaks his kinship bond with Cordelia, Aristotelian anagnorisis cannot suffice to reconcile them. Hegelian Anerkennung frames recognition as a process of creating relational bonds but grounds this process in a struggle that does not structure the reconciliation between Lear and Cordelia. Consequently, I argue that kindness in the play consists of a freedom to meet ontological human vulnerability with relational care. The play's tragedy lies in the way that kindness, because both vulnerable and free, comes with no guarantees.","PeriodicalId":45835,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88881555","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:In The Countess of Montgomery's Urania, Mary Wroth highlights the familiar likeness-based rivalries that attend friendship. But rather than respond to this tension with physical conflict, the female friends in Wroth's romance lie and deceive in order to circumvent such antagonism. These lies prove to be a novel way to sublimate ugly sentiments in relations as well as a means to expand the range of emotions that a relationship may contain. In depicting this affective expansion, Wroth challenges the romantically inflected social paradigm that valorizes the pursuit of dyadic partnerships and articulates an ethic of friendship that seeks the establishment of larger social networks.
{"title":"Lies, Evasions, and Friendly Networks in Mary Wroth's Urania","authors":"Jonathan Shelley","doi":"10.1353/sel.2021.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sel.2021.0005","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In The Countess of Montgomery's Urania, Mary Wroth highlights the familiar likeness-based rivalries that attend friendship. But rather than respond to this tension with physical conflict, the female friends in Wroth's romance lie and deceive in order to circumvent such antagonism. These lies prove to be a novel way to sublimate ugly sentiments in relations as well as a means to expand the range of emotions that a relationship may contain. In depicting this affective expansion, Wroth challenges the romantically inflected social paradigm that valorizes the pursuit of dyadic partnerships and articulates an ethic of friendship that seeks the establishment of larger social networks.","PeriodicalId":45835,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87012854","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:An assessment of recent scholarly work treating the literature of the English Renaissance and some general observations on the state of the profession. A full bibliography and price list of works received by SEL for consideration follow.
{"title":"Recent Studies in the English Renaissance","authors":"Joseph F. Loewenstein","doi":"10.1353/sel.2021.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sel.2021.0007","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:An assessment of recent scholarly work treating the literature of the English Renaissance and some general observations on the state of the profession. A full bibliography and price list of works received by SEL for consideration follow.","PeriodicalId":45835,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75994476","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:In "Embodiment and Disability in 3 Henry VI and Richard III," I argue that Richard's choice of weapon, a falchion, offers new insight into how Shakespeare represents disability in the two plays. Because the weapon was often used to flay kills during hunts, I argue that Richard curtails other bodies and adds their biomass to his own. Doing so allows Richard to blur the lines between his body and those of others, turning ableism against itself to raise him to the English throne.
{"title":"Embodiment and Disability in 3 Henry VI and Richard III","authors":"Matthew Carter","doi":"10.1353/sel.2021.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sel.2021.0002","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In \"Embodiment and Disability in 3 Henry VI and Richard III,\" I argue that Richard's choice of weapon, a falchion, offers new insight into how Shakespeare represents disability in the two plays. Because the weapon was often used to flay kills during hunts, I argue that Richard curtails other bodies and adds their biomass to his own. Doing so allows Richard to blur the lines between his body and those of others, turning ableism against itself to raise him to the English throne.","PeriodicalId":45835,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73686258","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Transitions","authors":"L. D. Browning","doi":"10.1353/sel.2020.0037","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sel.2020.0037","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45835,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87229347","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:This article considers Percy Bysshe Shelley’s response to William Wordsworth’s The Excursion, viewing the younger poet as responding to the challenge of Wordsworth’s epic throughout his career. Focusing specifically on Laon and Cythna, Prometheus Unbound, and The Triumph of Life, this article shows Shelley’s one-sided debate with Wordsworth as pitting his poetics against Wordsworth’s poetics, Shelleyan philosophy against Wordsworthian thought. The Excursion was not a poem for Shelley to reject. It was the epic that would tease Shelley into complex thought. Shelley’s troubled though profound response to Wordsworth’s poem sees Shelley make The Excursion his own.
{"title":"Shelley’s Excursion","authors":"M. Callaghan","doi":"10.1353/SEL.2020.0029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/SEL.2020.0029","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article considers Percy Bysshe Shelley’s response to William Wordsworth’s The Excursion, viewing the younger poet as responding to the challenge of Wordsworth’s epic throughout his career. Focusing specifically on Laon and Cythna, Prometheus Unbound, and The Triumph of Life, this article shows Shelley’s one-sided debate with Wordsworth as pitting his poetics against Wordsworth’s poetics, Shelleyan philosophy against Wordsworthian thought. The Excursion was not a poem for Shelley to reject. It was the epic that would tease Shelley into complex thought. Shelley’s troubled though profound response to Wordsworth’s poem sees Shelley make The Excursion his own.","PeriodicalId":45835,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74573818","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:While a hallmark of Jane Austen’s fiction is that characters’ firmly held own truths often become the basis for learning a few home truths, something distinctive is at work in Emma. This article argues that the novel distinguishes an ethically viable relativism from the alternatives of both an absolutist belief in fixed truths and the anything-goes attitude recently dubbed the “chimera of relativism.” Expressed chiefly through plot developments, dialogue, and narrative technique, this stance has significant consequences for how we understand the novel and how we understand the kinds of social and interpretive community that it imagines.
{"title":"Emma and the “Chimera of Relativism”","authors":"Yasmin Solomonescu","doi":"10.1353/sel.2020.0028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sel.2020.0028","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:While a hallmark of Jane Austen’s fiction is that characters’ firmly held own truths often become the basis for learning a few home truths, something distinctive is at work in Emma. This article argues that the novel distinguishes an ethically viable relativism from the alternatives of both an absolutist belief in fixed truths and the anything-goes attitude recently dubbed the “chimera of relativism.” Expressed chiefly through plot developments, dialogue, and narrative technique, this stance has significant consequences for how we understand the novel and how we understand the kinds of social and interpretive community that it imagines.","PeriodicalId":45835,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80857027","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:As a historical novel, Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities is not only a fiction set in the past, but also an investigation into the authority that resides in the act of historical narration. The novel analyzes the differences among the many forms of the historical register, such as written text, memory, and physiological inheritance, and repeatedly asks how the parameters and affordances of unofficial or imperfect narratives might allow for the rerouting of history to more ethical ends.
{"title":"History, Memory, and Rewriting the Past in A Tale of Two Cities","authors":"T. Y. Choi","doi":"10.1353/sel.2020.0032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sel.2020.0032","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:As a historical novel, Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities is not only a fiction set in the past, but also an investigation into the authority that resides in the act of historical narration. The novel analyzes the differences among the many forms of the historical register, such as written text, memory, and physiological inheritance, and repeatedly asks how the parameters and affordances of unofficial or imperfect narratives might allow for the rerouting of history to more ethical ends.","PeriodicalId":45835,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88089811","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:This article uses George Eliot’s Middlemarch to model a new strategy for reading chapter epigraphs, suggesting we understand them as shrunken, subsidiary structures subsumed within a vast novel. Focusing on questions of epigraphical size and scale reveals a multifaceted examination of gender in which canonical male authors are miniaturized and unattributed epigraphs express empathy for women who, like Dorothea, leave “no great name on the earth.” Epigraphs enable Middlemarch to construe problems of gender in terms of textual proportion and to translate these issues of proportion into an argument concerning the importance of the incrementally influential female life.
{"title":"Epic-graphic Proportions in George Eliot’s Middlemarch","authors":"Amelia Hall","doi":"10.1353/sel.2020.0033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sel.2020.0033","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article uses George Eliot’s Middlemarch to model a new strategy for reading chapter epigraphs, suggesting we understand them as shrunken, subsidiary structures subsumed within a vast novel. Focusing on questions of epigraphical size and scale reveals a multifaceted examination of gender in which canonical male authors are miniaturized and unattributed epigraphs express empathy for women who, like Dorothea, leave “no great name on the earth.” Epigraphs enable Middlemarch to construe problems of gender in terms of textual proportion and to translate these issues of proportion into an argument concerning the importance of the incrementally influential female life.","PeriodicalId":45835,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86570615","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:Through a series of textual comparisons between Leigh Hunt’s essays and Charles Dickens’s early city sketches, this article uncovers a neglected genealogy for Dickens’s realistic depictions of the ordinary subject. From establishing Dickens’s debt to the Romantic essayists more generally, I go on to elicit a key distinction. In the essayists’ representations, detail conduces to the construction of a self; in Dickens’s, it signals a close attention to the other. Detail, then, is the marker of the ethical relation modeled in Dickens’s style of ordinariness. Foregrounding this style, I reassert Dickens’s contribution to the developing realism of the mid-nineteenth century.
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