ENGLISH STUDIESPub Date : 2024-09-02DOI: 10.1080/0013838x.2024.2393068
Basil Arnould Price
{"title":"Sufficient Tragedy: Masculinity as Cruel Optimism in Beowulf","authors":"Basil Arnould Price","doi":"10.1080/0013838x.2024.2393068","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0013838x.2024.2393068","url":null,"abstract":"This article offers a new framework for approaching masculinity in Beowulf by suggesting that masculinity is dependent upon what affect theorist Lauren Berlant (2011) calls “cruel optimism”: when a...","PeriodicalId":51858,"journal":{"name":"ENGLISH STUDIES","volume":"67 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142261033","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}
ENGLISH STUDIESPub Date : 2024-08-29DOI: 10.1080/0013838x.2024.2333642
Breann Leake
{"title":"Medieval Pasts and Eugenicist Futures: Grant Allen, Masculinity and Early English History","authors":"Breann Leake","doi":"10.1080/0013838x.2024.2333642","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0013838x.2024.2333642","url":null,"abstract":"Grant Allen was a Victorian scholar and novelist who published widely on science, literature and history. Embedded within these publications is a fascination with early England, particularly early ...","PeriodicalId":51858,"journal":{"name":"ENGLISH STUDIES","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142193699","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}
ENGLISH STUDIESPub Date : 2024-08-28DOI: 10.1080/0013838x.2024.2390737
Wei Feng
{"title":"The Kid’s Transformation, the Judge’s Rejuvenation: Subtle Referential Changes in Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian Editions","authors":"Wei Feng","doi":"10.1080/0013838x.2024.2390737","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0013838x.2024.2390737","url":null,"abstract":"In the transition from early to later editions of Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian, sometimes the designation of the protagonist subtly changes from “the kid” to “the lad.” This shift uncovers sign...","PeriodicalId":51858,"journal":{"name":"ENGLISH STUDIES","volume":"210 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142261035","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}
ENGLISH STUDIESPub Date : 2024-08-28DOI: 10.1080/0013838x.2024.2390732
Michael Boyden
{"title":"The Activist Humanist: Form and Method in the Climate Crisis","authors":"Michael Boyden","doi":"10.1080/0013838x.2024.2390732","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0013838x.2024.2390732","url":null,"abstract":"Published in English Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)","PeriodicalId":51858,"journal":{"name":"ENGLISH STUDIES","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142193696","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}
ENGLISH STUDIESPub Date : 2024-08-28DOI: 10.1080/0013838x.2024.2390740
Fahime Serhatti, Margaret J.-M. Sönmez
{"title":"Narrative Time and Moral Injury in Daniel Defoe’s The Fortunate Mistress","authors":"Fahime Serhatti, Margaret J.-M. Sönmez","doi":"10.1080/0013838x.2024.2390740","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0013838x.2024.2390740","url":null,"abstract":"This paper explores the deliberate use of temporal ambiguities and discrepancies in Defoe’s The Fortunate Mistress to convey the disturbed retrospections of a guilt/shame-ridden narrator and the re...","PeriodicalId":51858,"journal":{"name":"ENGLISH STUDIES","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142193694","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}
ENGLISH STUDIESPub Date : 2024-08-28DOI: 10.1080/0013838x.2024.2368970
Corey Wakeling
{"title":"Martin Johnston, the Problem of Elegy, and Social Poetics in Late Modernist Lyric","authors":"Corey Wakeling","doi":"10.1080/0013838x.2024.2368970","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0013838x.2024.2368970","url":null,"abstract":"Elegiac poems by Australian late modernist poet Martin Johnston (1947–90) expose key anxieties about lyric poetry after American mid-century late modernism. Johnston, like other of his contemporari...","PeriodicalId":51858,"journal":{"name":"ENGLISH STUDIES","volume":"80 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142193704","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}
ENGLISH STUDIESPub Date : 2024-08-28DOI: 10.1080/0013838x.2024.2391669
Graham A. C. Scheper
{"title":"Ofer Hronrade—Defining the Long-Enigmatic “Hron” of Old English","authors":"Graham A. C. Scheper","doi":"10.1080/0013838x.2024.2391669","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0013838x.2024.2391669","url":null,"abstract":"The poetic compound hronrad at the beginning of Beowulf is often translated as “whale road”, despite protestations from J.R.R. Tolkien that have hitherto been unheeded. Through an exhaustive contex...","PeriodicalId":51858,"journal":{"name":"ENGLISH STUDIES","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142193697","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}
ENGLISH STUDIESPub Date : 2024-08-28DOI: 10.1080/0013838x.2024.2390734
Lucía Bennett-Ortega
{"title":"Examining the Refugee Identity and the Ethics of Hospitality in Richard Powers’ Generosity (2009)","authors":"Lucía Bennett-Ortega","doi":"10.1080/0013838x.2024.2390734","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0013838x.2024.2390734","url":null,"abstract":"Richard Powers’ (2009) Generosity delves into the pursuit of the elusive “happiness gene” and its associated bioethical dilemmas. The narrative centres on Thassadit, an Algerian refugee in the USA,...","PeriodicalId":51858,"journal":{"name":"ENGLISH STUDIES","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142193695","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}
ENGLISH STUDIESPub Date : 2024-08-19DOI: 10.1080/0013838x.2024.2390733
Yingjie Duan, Junwu Tian
{"title":"“Sights from Various Comers of the Globe”: Cosmopolitan Pressure and Paradoxical Mobility in The Remains of the Day","authors":"Yingjie Duan, Junwu Tian","doi":"10.1080/0013838x.2024.2390733","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0013838x.2024.2390733","url":null,"abstract":"This article intends to shed new light on the well-trodden theme of Englishness in The Remains of the Day by situating it within a cosmopolitan context. This article argues that this novel is not c...","PeriodicalId":51858,"journal":{"name":"ENGLISH STUDIES","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142193698","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}
ENGLISH STUDIESPub Date : 2024-07-29DOI: 10.1080/0013838x.2024.2378391
Zhen Liu
{"title":"Making Light of Grave Matters: Humour in Edith Eaton’s Works","authors":"Zhen Liu","doi":"10.1080/0013838x.2024.2378391","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0013838x.2024.2378391","url":null,"abstract":"When Edith Eaton (Sui Sin Far) published her only book Mrs. Spring Fragrance in 1912, it received about twenty reviews in the American and Canadian press. Many of the reviews suggested that the nat...","PeriodicalId":51858,"journal":{"name":"ENGLISH STUDIES","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141946892","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}