Rankin, Bill. “Byatt’s Stories Live Up to her High Standards”. Edmonton Journal, p. F7.
F7
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
---|---|---|
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Davys | MD
makes skilful use of letters to project character, political issues, and gender interaction. Her use of significant dates (All Saints' Day, November the fifth) links her with the prophetic tradition of Lady Eleanor Douglas |
Intertextuality and Influence | Janet Schaw | Schaw's narrative falls into four parts, corresponding to different stages in her travels. In the first she crosses the Atlantic to the Caribbean. The others cover Antigua and St Kitts, North Carolina, and... |
Intertextuality and Influence | A. S. Byatt | One reviewer noted ASB
's fascination with the symbolic world of the fairy tale, the dream and the artist's vision shape both the style and the content. Rankin, Bill. “Byatt’s Stories Live Up to her High Standards”. Edmonton Journal, p. F7. F7 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Jo Shapcott | Epigraphs to particular poems quote Chaucer
, Swift
, Elizabeth Barrett
, Elizabeth Bishop
, Geoffrey Bateson
, and (most frequently) Elizabeth Hardwick
. The title-poem (called by a reviewer Kafka
esque) Wormald, Mark. “Making a virtue of double vision”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 4497, pp. 241-2. 642 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Molly Keane | This, like Good Behaviour, is a black comedy set in a crumbling Anglo-Irishbig house, Durraghglass. Unlike Good Behaviour it sets its protagonist family (of the same generation as Aroon St Charles) in... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Leonora Carrington | The Debutante is set in an unnamed city on 1 May 1934. Its title character is an unnamed young woman who narrates in the first person and begins her narrative by announcing: When I was... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Catherine Gore | The title-page quotes the passage in Swift
's Gulliver's Travels where the King of Brobdingnag hears from Gulliver about English politics and marvels that human grandeur can be mimicked by such contemptible insects. Gore, Catherine. The Hamiltons; or, Official Life in 1830. R. Bentley. title-page |
Intertextuality and Influence | Catherine Gore | Any relation to Jonathan Swift
's A Tale of a Tub is indirect and inexplicit. The tub in this case is the working tool of Jeannette, stocking-mender, launderer, and cousin of du Barry
(who herself... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Lady Caroline Lamb | The title-page of volume one of Graham Hamilton quotes Burns
; the second quotes Swift
denouncing scandal. Though quieter, this novel again displays splendid satirical energy. It contains only one lyric (written by Nathan for... |
Leisure and Society | Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan | She did not forget her literary plans and ambitions. She had already, in her teens, subscribed to the new and influential magazine Anthologia Hibernica. Now, helping to clear out a house in Dublin which... |
Literary responses | Edith Sitwell | |
Literary responses | Marghanita Laski | US reviews were good. C. J. Rolo
in the Atlantic Monthly called the book a scorching indictment of a hierarchical society, predicting that the blandly devastating satire will especially regale those well versed in the... |
Literary responses | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | According to a delighted Hervey, Pope was infuriated. Swift
thought the Verses were badly written. Montagu's granddaughter Lady Louisa Stuart
thought that for high-born writers to jeer at Pope's family was shameful. On the whole... |
Literary responses | Mary Latter | Reviewers in general were impressed. The Gentleman's Magazine (which printed an excerpt in February) noted that this work was Swiftian
in style, although by a lady. Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers. 34 (1764): 91 |
Literary responses | Hannah More |
No timeline events available.
No bibliographical results available.