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{"title":"Satire in Eighteenth-Century Medical Discourse: Elizabeth Nihell, Tobias Smollett and the Advent of Man-Midwifery","authors":"Richard J. Whitt","doi":"10.1080/0013838x.2023.2266232","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0013838x.2023.2266232","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines Tobias Smollett’s scathing assessment in the Critical Review of Elizabeth Nihell’s midwifery treatise, Treatise on the Art of Midwifery (1760), a polemic against the use of instruments in childbirth and the increasing popularity of man-midwifery. This continues with Nihell publishing a response to Smollett’s review, and then Smollett responding to Nihell’s response. The Nihell-Smollett exchange brings discourses surrounding two concomitant medical controversies – the use of instruments in childbirth and the presence of men in the birthing chamber – to the fore, and it is particularly remarkable due to the satirical tone adopted in this exchange, particularly by Smollett. Using Simpson’s model of satirical discourse, this paper explores the textual-linguistic practices adopted by both Smollett and Nihell and elucidates how satire both construes and is construed by rival medical ideologies in mid-eighteenth-century England.","PeriodicalId":51858,"journal":{"name":"ENGLISH STUDIES","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135803874","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":"Hrothgar and Etzel: <i>Beowulf</i> Analogues in Middle High German Literature","authors":"Leonard Neidorf","doi":"10.1080/0013838x.2023.2266223","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0013838x.2023.2266223","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTFigures identical to Hrothgar in Scandinavian analogues (i.e., Ro or Hróarr) shed minimal light on the king’s character in Beowulf. More promising insights into the literary history of Hrothgar can be obtained by comparing him with the figure of Etzel in Middle High German literature. Two passages involving Etzel, one from the Nibelungenlied and the other from the Klage, are identified herein as the closest extant analogues to two passages from Beowulf involving Hrothgar. Behind the two sets of analogous passages evidently lies an archaic character type that informs the representation of both Hrothgar and Etzel. The type is that of the sedentary overlord, whose cosmopolitan court attracts wealth and warriors from beyond its borders. The type is courteous and magnanimous, yet also tragic and pitiable, with a glorious past and a precarious present.KEYWORDS: BeowulfNibelungenliedKlageHildebrandsliedcomparative literature Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 For the canonical assemblage of recognized analogues to Beowulf (which are predominantly Scandinavian or Latin rather than Middle High German), see Garmonsway and Simpson, Beowulf and its Analogues; see also Chambers, Beowulf. There have, however, been disconnected and sporadic attempts to relate Beowulf with the Nibelungenlied: see, for example, Canitz, “Kingship in Beowulf and the Nibelungenlied”; Classen, “Friends and Friendship”; Renoir, “Oral-Formulaic Theme Survival”; Renoir, “The Heroic Oath”; Neidorf, “On Beowulf and the Nibelungenlied”; and Vowell, “Grendel’s Mother and the Women”.2 For comparative studies of the Nibelungenlied and the traditions informing it, see Andersson, Legend of Brynhild; Andersson, Preface to Nibelungenlied; Heusler, Nibelungensage und Nibelungenlied; Panzer, Nibelungenlied; Reichert, Nibelungenlied. For the history of Nibelungenlied studies, in which this approach looms large, see Thorp, The Study of the Nibelungenlied; and Kragl, Nibelungenlied und Nibelungensage.3 There is, however, an alternative tradition of Beowulf research in which analogues are understood to consist of works that exhibit similar arrangements of folkloric motifs. For examples, see Barnes, “Folktale Morphology and the Structure of Beowulf”; Chadwick, “The Monsters and Beowulf”; Fjalldal, “Beowulf and the Old Norse Two-Troll Analogues”; Grant, “Hrólfs saga Gautrekssonar”; Jorgensen, “The Two-Troll Variant”; Panzer, Studien; Shippey, “Fairy-Tale Structure”; and Stitt, Beowulf and the Bear’s Son.4 For use of the Liber Monstrorum, see Lapidge, “Beowulf, Aldhelm, the Liber Monstrorum and Wessex”. For use of Alcuin’s letter, see Bolton, Alcuin and Beowulf. For use of the Latin and Scandinavian sources pertaining to the Scyldings, see Osborn, “The Alleged Murder of Hrethric in Beowulf”. I cite one example for each because a comprehensive account of the use of these sources in Beowulf studies would be both otiose and unfeasible.5 For use ","PeriodicalId":51858,"journal":{"name":"ENGLISH STUDIES","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135803885","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":"“An Otter’s Temporary Resting Place”: Michael Longley’s Western Landscape","authors":"Ying Zhou","doi":"10.1080/0013838x.2023.2266213","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0013838x.2023.2266213","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThis article discusses the western landscape in Michael Longley’s poems, a physical, imaginary, and aesthetic space that displays some of the most sustained tensions between self and other, the ecological and the political in his work. Drawing on Timothy Morton’s ideas such as intimate strangeness, interconnectedness, and difference, this article argues that the sense of interconnectedness in Longley’s poems values an ecological interdependency that emphasizes defamiliarization, instability, strangeness, and difference. It informs a philosophy of co-existence that stands against fixed dwelling and rigid identity categorisation both within and beyond the Northern Ireland situation.KEYWORDS: Michael LongleyThe Irish Westecocritical readingContemporary Irish Poetry Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 Brearton, Reading Michael Longley, 12.2 Reynolds, “Some Perspectives after Pope”, 219.3 Brown, “Place and Placelessness”, 143.4 Brearton, “The Privilege/ Of vertigo”, 199.5 Heaney, “Place and Displacement”, 173.6 McDonald, Mistaken Identity, 118.7 Kennedy-Andrews, Writing Home, 153.8 Foster, “Challenges to an Irish Eco-Criticism”, 7.9 Longley, “Japanese Influences”, 21.10 McElroy, “Northern Ireland-Global South”, 155; Peacock, qtd in Alexander “Shorelines”, 75.11 Herron, “Mayo Littoral”, 80.12 See James McElroy’s chapter “Northern Ireland—Global South” in Ecocriticism of the Global South (2015): “Rajeev Patke, ‘Partition and its Aftermath: Poetry and History in Northern Ireland’ (2010), writes that Northern Ireland’s poets try ‘to marginalize the politics of partition by practicing a poetics of obliquity’ (24). This is especially true of poets who hail from the North’s Protestant tradition” (156).13 Redmond, “Fighting for Balance”, 259.14 Brearton, Reading Michael Longley, 249.15 Russell, Poetry and Peace, 166.16 Michael Longley, “The West”, CP, 69.17 Morton, The Ecological Thought, 7.18 Ibid., 8.19 Morton, “Thinking Ecology”, 281.20 Ibid., 47, 54.21 Morton, “Unworking Animals”, 77.22 Timothy Morton sees the capitalized word “Nature” as inadequate for thinking about ecology. He argues that “ecology can do without a concept of something, a thing of some kind, ‘over yonder,’ called Nature. Yet thinking, including ecological thinking, has set up ‘Nature’ as a reified thing in the distance, under the sidewalk, on the other side where the grass is always greener … ” (The Ecological Thought, 3).23 Morton, The Ecological Thought, 5.24 Welch, “Michael Longley and the West”, 55.25 Morton, The Ecological Thought, 15.26 Longley, CP, 35.27 Morton, “Why Ambient Poetics”, 55.28 Lysaght, qtd in Longley Selected Prose, 344.29 Morton, The Ecological Thought, 47.30 Nash, “Remapping and Renaming”, 44.31 Foster, “The Western Island”, 264.32 Herron, “Mayo Littoral”, 75.33 Deane, Nationalism, Colonialism, and Literature, 11.34 Michael Longley, Sidelines, 343; Edna Longley, The Living Stream, 23.35 Kiberd, “Contem","PeriodicalId":51858,"journal":{"name":"ENGLISH STUDIES","volume":"87 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135803699","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":"Revisiting the <i>Pansies</i> Notebook: New Approaches to D. H. Lawrence's Late Archives","authors":"Buxi Duan","doi":"10.1080/0013838x.2023.2252710","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0013838x.2023.2252710","url":null,"abstract":"D. H. Lawrence completed several significant works concurrently during the last three years of his life (1928–1930), including the poetry collection Pansies. Though the three volumes of Poems of the comprehensive Cambridge Edition of the Works of D. H. Lawrence offer valuable insight into Lawrence's verse-writing, this article underscores the importance of critically examining the materiality and intertextuality of Lawrence's late works by returning to the archives. It proposes two innovative approaches: reconstructing the Pansies notebook by situating dispersed archival materials back into the notebook, and analysing the intertextuality of seemingly unrelated pieces across various genres. This study complements the existing scholarly edition by providing a fresh perspective for examining Lawrence's late archives and appreciating his works synoptically and compositionally. It emphasises the significance of archives in the study of D. H. Lawrence and the broader field of modernist studies.","PeriodicalId":51858,"journal":{"name":"ENGLISH STUDIES","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135395548","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":"Women and Crowds in the Novels of Elizabeth Gaskell and Margaret Harkness","authors":"Chieko Ichikawa","doi":"10.1080/0013838x.2023.2237320","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0013838x.2023.2237320","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51858,"journal":{"name":"ENGLISH STUDIES","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135878477","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":"Implicit Meaning and Gender Ideologies in Interwar <i>Good Housekeeping</i> Magazine","authors":"Annalisa Federici","doi":"10.1080/0013838x.2023.2255455","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0013838x.2023.2255455","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51858,"journal":{"name":"ENGLISH STUDIES","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135879488","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":"Shakespeare and University Drama in Early Modern England, by Daniel Blank, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2023, vi+181 pp., £65 (hardback), ISBN: 978-0-19-288609-5 Early Modern Drama in the Universities: Institutions, Intertexts, Individuals, by Elizabeth Sandis, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2022, xi+268 pp., £70 (hardback), ISBN: 978-0-19-285713-2","authors":"Paul Dean","doi":"10.1080/0013838x.2023.2254635","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0013838x.2023.2254635","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51858,"journal":{"name":"ENGLISH STUDIES","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135878819","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":"The Interplay of Dominant Empiricism and Residual Cartesianism in Ann Radcliffe’s <i>A Sicilian Romance</i>","authors":"Saeedeh Esmailzadeh, Maryam Soltan Beyad","doi":"10.1080/0013838x.2023.2255448","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0013838x.2023.2255448","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51858,"journal":{"name":"ENGLISH STUDIES","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135880533","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":"Kazuo Ishiguro: Twenty-First Century Perspectives","authors":"Dominic Dean","doi":"10.1080/0013838x.2023.2249723","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0013838x.2023.2249723","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51858,"journal":{"name":"ENGLISH STUDIES","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85384167","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":"Arden of Faversham","authors":"P. Dean","doi":"10.1080/0013838x.2023.2251844","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0013838x.2023.2251844","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51858,"journal":{"name":"ENGLISH STUDIES","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72777021","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}