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English Scholarly Works: Recent submissions
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The Science of Pronominal Usage: He and It in Co-Reference to Inanimate Objects in Late Middle English Texts on Alchemy
(SAGE Publications, 2011-12-01)This article explores the variation between he and it in coreference to inanimate entities (such as mercury, sulfur, and salt). Using alchemical texts from the fifteenth century as material, the article demonstrates that ... -
The Nature of Knowledge: Evidence and Evidentiality in the Witness Depositions from the Salem Witch Trials
(Duke University Press, 2012-01-01)This article explores evidentiality (or the linguistic marking of source of information), a topic that has received little attention in studies on the history of English. Using witness depositions from the witch trials in ... -
Manuscripts as Sources for Linguistic Research: A Methodological Case Study Based on the Mirror of Lights
(SAGE Publications, 2006-06-01)This article explores the problematic issue of using editions as sources for studies of English historical morpho-syntax. It presents a methodological case study of the variation between he and it in reference to inanimate ... -
'ffor to make Azure as Albert biddes’: Medieval English Alchemical Writings in the Pseudo-Albertan Tradition
(Maney Publishing, 2006-01-01)The aim of this article is to explore the unresearched body of manuscript texts on alchemy in medieval English (fifteenth century). More specifically, it is concerned with texts that are commonly attributed to the famous ... -
The Anatomy of Correction: Additions, Cancellations, and Changes in the Documents of the Salem Witchcraft Trials
(Taylor & Francis, 2007-01-01)The Salem witchcraft trials of 1692 hold a special place in early American history. Though limited in comparison with many European witch persecutions, the Salem trials have reached mythical proportions, particularly in ... -
A Previously Unrecorded Fragment of the Middle English Short Metrical Chronicle in Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica M199
(Taylor & Francis, 2006-06-01)This article presents an edition of a fragment of the Middle English Short Metrical Chronicle found in Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica, Amsterdam, MS M199 (henceforth BPH M199). BPH M199 is an alchemical miscellany ... -
Albertus Magnus and the Queen of the Elves: A 15th-Century English Verse Dialogue on Alchemy
(Walter de Gruyter, 2007-12-11)This article presents an edition of a Middle English verse tract on alchemy based on Trinity College, Cambridge, MS R. 14. 44 (15th century). The tract, entitled “Semita Recta Albertus peribet testimonium”, is structured ... -
Sidrak and Bokkus: An Early Modern Reader Response
(Walter de Gruyter, 2009-02-03)The Middle English version of the encyclopedic verse dialogue Sidrak and Bokkus has received little attention in recent scholarship, and hence questions about its organization and appeal to readers remain unanswered. ... -
The Primitive Mind of Silas Marner
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008-01-01)This essay investigates the peculiar phenomenon of catalepsy in the context of Eliot’s narrative realism. The primitive mental state depicted in Silas Marner and those reduced social forms that it engenders together obstruct ... -
Primitive Minds: Evolution and Spiritual Experience in the Victorian Novel
(Ohio State University Press, 2013-08-28)For twenty-first-century veterans of the evolution culture wars, Primitive Minds: Evolution and Spiritual Experience in the Victorian Novel, by Anna Neill, makes unlikely bedfellows of two Victorian “discoveries”: evolutionary ... -
Marvelous Plasticity and the Fortunes of Species in The Water Babies
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014-04-01)In The Water-Babies, the wild, wicked child who matures into a man of science appears to “recapitulate” the story of the human rise to preeminence in the animal kingdom. Yet Kingsley uses evolutionary thought precisely to ... -
Evolution and Epilepsy in Bleak House
(Rice University, 2011-10-01)In Charles Dickens's novels, nervous seizures trigger dreamy, clairvoyant episodes in which normally imperceptible connections and relations among events and characters come to light. During such episodes, which the ... -
On Evoluton, The Brain, and Imaginative Literature
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The Savage Genius of Sherlock Holmes
(Cambridge University Press, 2012-06-01)When Dr. Watson first meets Sherlock Holmes in A Study in Scarlet, the former is an itinerant medical veteran of the Second Afghan War who, sick and rootless, without “kith or kin” in England, is naturally drawn to London, ... -
Review of "Grief and Genre in American Literature, 1790-1870" by Desirée Henderson
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Review of "Rogue Performances: Staging the Underclasses in Early American Theatre Culture" by Peter P. Reed
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The Saga of Third World Belle: Resurrecting the Ethnic Woman in Ishmael Reed's Flight to Canada
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Review Essay - A Tale both Old and New: Jamestown at 400
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Review of "A Nation of Speechifiers: Making an American Public After the Revolution" by Carolyn Eastman
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Review of "Love's Whipping Boy: Violence & Sentimentality in the American Imagination" by Elizabeth Barnes
(Oxford University Press, 2012)