anonymity: ‘‘In his satires Swift enacted what he disdained or despised or feared; he imagined wh... more anonymity: ‘‘In his satires Swift enacted what he disdained or despised or feared; he imagined what should not be. His best writing is entirely negative creation. Anonymity was at its root. The initially authorless life of Gulliver’s Travels was part of its author’s design.’’ Mr. Mullan does not follow up these astute insights. While he devotes a chapter to ‘‘Danger,’’ in some cases he hastily dismisses the pressures of censorship and self-censorship in anonymous publications. In his treatment of the Travels, for example, he emphasizes the playfulness of Swift’s elaborate plots to cloak his authorship. Not all of the dean’s stratagems of selfconcealment can be reduced to teasing or taunting, however; for the Scriblerians, anonymity was not merely a game. Swift enjoyed toying with his readers, but his caution was as much prudential as playful. Indeed, Pope’s remark in a letter to Swift that ‘‘none, bar ‘the mob of criticks’ . . . ‘suspected [Gulliver’s Travels] of particular reflections . . . so that you needed not to have been so secret on this head’’ indicates the degree of Swift’s anxiety over publishing a topical satire. Finally, Mr. Mullan is not the first to have written on anonymity, yet he overlooks or minimizes Foucault, Marcy North, Paul Hammond, and Donald Foster, who have published on this topic. Anonymity, nevertheless, is a fascinating survey of anonymous literature from the Renaissance forward. Rendered in clean, vigorous prose, it wears its learning lightly and will interest scholars, students, and general readers. Randy Robertson Susquehanna University
This volume is devoted to the work of Elizabeth Singer Rowe, a poet once greatly admired by such ... more This volume is devoted to the work of Elizabeth Singer Rowe, a poet once greatly admired by such writers as Samuel Johnson, Isaac Watts, and Matthew Prior. It offers a worthy addition to the canon of late 17th-century and early 18th-century literature.
The several problems of cross-cultural teaching of English literature to Puerto Rican students wh... more The several problems of cross-cultural teaching of English literature to Puerto Rican students whose second language is English are suggested by the obvious unfamiliarity of cyclical seasonal change which provides the funda-mental mutability mythology of English literature. ...
Page 1. ENGLISH CONGREGATIONAL HYMNS IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY Madeleine For ell Marshall and Jan... more Page 1. ENGLISH CONGREGATIONAL HYMNS IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY Madeleine For ell Marshall and Janet Todd Page 2. Page 3. Page 4. JTlistorians of the English congrega-tional hymn, focusing on its literary or ...
anonymity: ‘‘In his satires Swift enacted what he disdained or despised or feared; he imagined wh... more anonymity: ‘‘In his satires Swift enacted what he disdained or despised or feared; he imagined what should not be. His best writing is entirely negative creation. Anonymity was at its root. The initially authorless life of Gulliver’s Travels was part of its author’s design.’’ Mr. Mullan does not follow up these astute insights. While he devotes a chapter to ‘‘Danger,’’ in some cases he hastily dismisses the pressures of censorship and self-censorship in anonymous publications. In his treatment of the Travels, for example, he emphasizes the playfulness of Swift’s elaborate plots to cloak his authorship. Not all of the dean’s stratagems of selfconcealment can be reduced to teasing or taunting, however; for the Scriblerians, anonymity was not merely a game. Swift enjoyed toying with his readers, but his caution was as much prudential as playful. Indeed, Pope’s remark in a letter to Swift that ‘‘none, bar ‘the mob of criticks’ . . . ‘suspected [Gulliver’s Travels] of particular reflections . . . so that you needed not to have been so secret on this head’’ indicates the degree of Swift’s anxiety over publishing a topical satire. Finally, Mr. Mullan is not the first to have written on anonymity, yet he overlooks or minimizes Foucault, Marcy North, Paul Hammond, and Donald Foster, who have published on this topic. Anonymity, nevertheless, is a fascinating survey of anonymous literature from the Renaissance forward. Rendered in clean, vigorous prose, it wears its learning lightly and will interest scholars, students, and general readers. Randy Robertson Susquehanna University
This volume is devoted to the work of Elizabeth Singer Rowe, a poet once greatly admired by such ... more This volume is devoted to the work of Elizabeth Singer Rowe, a poet once greatly admired by such writers as Samuel Johnson, Isaac Watts, and Matthew Prior. It offers a worthy addition to the canon of late 17th-century and early 18th-century literature.
The several problems of cross-cultural teaching of English literature to Puerto Rican students wh... more The several problems of cross-cultural teaching of English literature to Puerto Rican students whose second language is English are suggested by the obvious unfamiliarity of cyclical seasonal change which provides the funda-mental mutability mythology of English literature. ...
Page 1. ENGLISH CONGREGATIONAL HYMNS IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY Madeleine For ell Marshall and Jan... more Page 1. ENGLISH CONGREGATIONAL HYMNS IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY Madeleine For ell Marshall and Janet Todd Page 2. Page 3. Page 4. JTlistorians of the English congrega-tional hymn, focusing on its literary or ...
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