ENGLISH STUDIESPub Date : 2025-09-26DOI: 10.1080/0013838x.2025.2560442
Iain Twiddy
{"title":"Special Worlds: Pastoral Elegy in Stephen Sexton’s <i>If All the World and Love Were Young</i>","authors":"Iain Twiddy","doi":"10.1080/0013838x.2025.2560442","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0013838x.2025.2560442","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51858,"journal":{"name":"ENGLISH STUDIES","volume":"107 2","pages":"290-313"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147896576","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 : 2024-09-02DOI: 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}