{"title":"<scp>Vidyan Ravinthiran</scp>. <i>Worlds Woven Together: Essays on Poetry and Poetics</i>","authors":"David Wheatley","doi":"10.1093/res/hgad087","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/res/hgad087","url":null,"abstract":"Journal Article Vidyan Ravinthiran. Worlds Woven Together: Essays on Poetry and Poetics Get access Vidyan Ravinthiran. Worlds Woven Together: Essays on Poetry and Poetics. Pp. 296. New York: Columbia University Press, 2022. Paperback, £25. David Wheatley David Wheatley University of Aberdeen, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Review of English Studies, hgad087, https://doi.org/10.1093/res/hgad087 Published: 24 October 2023 Article history Received: 27 September 2023 Editorial decision: 07 October 2023 Accepted: 12 October 2023 Corrected and typeset: 24 October 2023 Published: 24 October 2023","PeriodicalId":255318,"journal":{"name":"The Review of English Studies","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135219785","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Porphyro’s ‘Ancient Ditty’: Text and Topology in <i>The Eve of St Agnes/</i>‘La Belle Dame sans Merci’","authors":"Richard Marggraf-Turley","doi":"10.1093/res/hgad082","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/res/hgad082","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article explores non-orientable textualities and self-quotation in Romantic poetry, focusing on two of John Keats’s major poems: The Eve of St Agnes and ‘La Belle Dame sans Merci’. It proposes that an intricate web of intertextuality between Keats’s romance and ballad can be conceptualized in topological terms. Central to this approach is the application of the Klein bottle—a single-sided, non-orientable structure—as a model for understanding the complex ways in which the two poems are connected to themselves and each other. The analysis is extended to include the reflexive dynamics of Robert Burns’s bawdy song, ‘Nine Inch Will Please a Lady’ and Richard Roos’s Middle English translation of Alain Chartier’s ‘La Belle Dame sans Mercy’. Finally, the essay argues that Keats’s romance and ballad can be envisioned not as distinct literary works but rather as topological regions on a larger, continuous textual surface—a spatial paradigm that has the potential to provide a fresh lens for examining intertextual literature more widely.","PeriodicalId":255318,"journal":{"name":"The Review of English Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135665771","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"<scp>Richard Meek</scp>. <i>Sympathy in Early Modern Literature and Culture</i>","authors":"Bradley J Irish","doi":"10.1093/res/hgad088","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/res/hgad088","url":null,"abstract":"Journal Article Richard Meek. Sympathy in Early Modern Literature and Culture Get access Richard Meek. Sympathy in Early Modern Literature and Culture. Pp. 298. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Hardback, £85. Bradley J Irish Bradley J Irish Arizona State University, USA https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8021-6359 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Review of English Studies, hgad088, https://doi.org/10.1093/res/hgad088 Published: 19 October 2023 Article history Received: 21 September 2023 Editorial decision: 07 October 2023 Accepted: 09 October 2023 Corrected and typeset: 19 October 2023 Published: 19 October 2023","PeriodicalId":255318,"journal":{"name":"The Review of English Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135729530","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"<scp>Heidi Craig</scp>, <i>Theatre Closure and the Paradoxical Rise of English Renaissance Drama in the Civil Wars</i>","authors":"Jane Rickard","doi":"10.1093/res/hgad086","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/res/hgad086","url":null,"abstract":"Journal Article Heidi Craig, Theatre Closure and the Paradoxical Rise of English Renaissance Drama in the Civil Wars Get access Heidi Craig, Theatre Closure and the Paradoxical Rise of English Renaissance Drama in the Civil Wars. Pp. x+245. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Hardback, £85. Jane Rickard Jane Rickard University of Leeds, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Review of English Studies, hgad086, https://doi.org/10.1093/res/hgad086 Published: 19 October 2023 Article history Received: 27 September 2023 Editorial decision: 07 October 2023 Accepted: 09 October 2023 Corrected and typeset: 19 October 2023 Published: 19 October 2023","PeriodicalId":255318,"journal":{"name":"The Review of English Studies","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135729262","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"<scp>Sarah Houghton-Walker</scp>. <i>Wordsworth’s Poetry of Repetition: Romantic Recapitulation</i>","authors":"Jessica Fay","doi":"10.1093/res/hgad085","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/res/hgad085","url":null,"abstract":"Journal Article Sarah Houghton-Walker. Wordsworth’s Poetry of Repetition: Romantic Recapitulation Get access Sarah Houghton-Walker. Wordsworth’s Poetry of Repetition: Romantic Recapitulation. Pp. xii+295. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. Hardback, £78. Jessica Fay Jessica Fay University of Birmingham, UK https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0611-9374 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Review of English Studies, hgad085, https://doi.org/10.1093/res/hgad085 Published: 17 October 2023 Article history Received: 20 September 2023 Editorial decision: 07 October 2023 Accepted: 09 October 2023 Corrected and typeset: 17 October 2023 Published: 17 October 2023","PeriodicalId":255318,"journal":{"name":"The Review of English Studies","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135994806","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"<scp>David O’Shaughnessy</scp> (ed.). <i>The Censorship of Eighteenth-Century Theatre: Playhouses and Prohibition, 1737-1843</i>","authors":"James Harriman-Smith","doi":"10.1093/res/hgad090","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/res/hgad090","url":null,"abstract":"Journal Article David O’Shaughnessy (ed.). The Censorship of Eighteenth-Century Theatre: Playhouses and Prohibition, 1737-1843 Get access David O’Shaughnessy (ed.). The Censorship of Eighteenth-Century Theatre: Playhouses and Prohibition, 1737-1843. Pp. xvii+262. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Hardback, £85. James Harriman-Smith James Harriman-Smith Newcastle University, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Review of English Studies, hgad090, https://doi.org/10.1093/res/hgad090 Published: 17 October 2023 Article history Received: 06 October 2023 Editorial decision: 07 October 2023 Accepted: 09 October 2023 Corrected and typeset: 17 October 2023 Published: 17 October 2023","PeriodicalId":255318,"journal":{"name":"The Review of English Studies","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135994816","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"<scp>Noah Heringman</scp>. <i>Deep Time: A Literary History</i>","authors":"Matthew Rowlinson","doi":"10.1093/res/hgad089","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/res/hgad089","url":null,"abstract":"Journal Article Noah Heringman. Deep Time: A Literary History Get access Noah Heringman. Deep Time: A Literary History. Pp. xviii+297. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2023. Hardback, £100. Matthew Rowlinson Matthew Rowlinson University of Western Ontario, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Review of English Studies, hgad089, https://doi.org/10.1093/res/hgad089 Published: 17 October 2023 Article history Received: 30 September 2023 Editorial decision: 07 October 2023 Accepted: 09 October 2023 Corrected and typeset: 17 October 2023 Published: 17 October 2023","PeriodicalId":255318,"journal":{"name":"The Review of English Studies","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135994823","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"<scp>Gill Plain</scp>. <i>Prosthetic Agency: Literature, Culture and Masculinity after World War II</i>","authors":"Aaron Shaheen","doi":"10.1093/res/hgad081","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/res/hgad081","url":null,"abstract":"Journal Article Gill Plain. Prosthetic Agency: Literature, Culture and Masculinity after World War II Get access Gill Plain. Prosthetic Agency: Literature, Culture and Masculinity after World War II. Pp. v + 278. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Hardback, £85.00. Aaron Shaheen Aaron Shaheen University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Review of English Studies, hgad081, https://doi.org/10.1093/res/hgad081 Published: 27 September 2023 Article history Received: 11 September 2023 Editorial decision: 17 September 2023 Accepted: 19 September 2023 Corrected and typeset: 27 September 2023 Published: 27 September 2023","PeriodicalId":255318,"journal":{"name":"The Review of English Studies","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135534359","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"<scp>Michael Johnston</scp>. <i>The Middle English Book: Scribes and Readers, 1350–1500</i>","authors":"Charlotte E Ross","doi":"10.1093/res/hgad080","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/res/hgad080","url":null,"abstract":"Journal Article Michael Johnston. The Middle English Book: Scribes and Readers, 1350–1500 Get access Michael Johnston. The Middle English Book: Scribes and Readers, 1350–1500. Pp. xvi + 288. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. Hardback, £78. Charlotte E Ross Charlotte E Ross University of Oxford, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Review of English Studies, hgad080, https://doi.org/10.1093/res/hgad080 Published: 27 September 2023 Article history Received: 15 September 2023 Editorial decision: 17 September 2023 Accepted: 18 September 2023 Corrected and typeset: 27 September 2023 Published: 27 September 2023","PeriodicalId":255318,"journal":{"name":"The Review of English Studies","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135585763","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Aldhelm’s Fandom: The Humble Virtues of Boniface’s Riddles","authors":"Megan Cavell, Jennifer Neville","doi":"10.1093/res/hgad077","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/res/hgad077","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract St Boniface, the eighth-century scholar, missionary, and eventual martyr, is generally characterized as an important historical figure but a bad poet. In part it is because his verse is so strongly marked by direct borrowings from Aldhelm that it is easy to assume he did not possess the creativity or ability to write for himself. Here, we seek to rehabilitate Boniface’s collection of Latin riddles about the personified Virtues and Vices, engaging especially with Humilitas Cristiana (‘Christian Humility’), Virginitas … humilium (‘Virginity of the Humble’), Superbia (‘Pride’), and Vana gloria iactantia (‘Vainglorious Boasting’). We examine Boniface’s riddles through the lens of fan studies, arguing that fandom and fan fiction provide insights into group-identity formation and gift-giving that reframe Boniface’s debt to Aldhelm, as well as his entire creative project. Like a writer of fan fiction, Boniface creates new characters based on his reading of Aldhelm’s De virginitate (‘Concerning Virginity’) and, through them, he develops Aldhelm’s warning against taking pride in virtue. However, Boniface’s riddle-subjects speak an encoded message that only a true fan of Aldhelm could appreciate. Distance from this fandom has led to scholarly neglect of a fascinating poetic collection, but we hope to bridge the gap.","PeriodicalId":255318,"journal":{"name":"The Review of English Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135203305","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}