Furlong, Monica. The End of Our Exploring. Hodder and Stoughton.
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Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Peisley | MP
likens her passage through the forests of America to my pilgrimage through the world. In this she may have been mindful of Bunyan
's Pilgrim's Progress, since she has in mind many of... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Monica Furlong | She begins arrestingly: We live in a period in which it is not possible to talk meaningfully about God. Furlong, Monica. The End of Our Exploring. Hodder and Stoughton. 13 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Dorothy Richardson | Her heroine Miriam, now twenty-six, looks into her past and future in an attempt to come to terms with herself. The novel is divided into four chapters: on the whole the first is dominated by... |
Intertextuality and Influence | John Buchan | The Bunyan
esque title is echoed in occasional chapter titles of the same kind, from The Wicket-Gate to The Summons Comes to Mr. Standfast. The effect is to create an ironic comparison between Bunyan's... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Emma Robinson | The title sounds like an allusion more to Thackeray
than to Bunyan
. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Bury | Here she concludes by quoting, unascribed, eight lines of poetry by Congreve
beginning When Lesbia first I saw, so heavenly Fair. Bury, Elizabeth. An Account of the Life and Death of Mrs Elizabeth Bury. Editor Bury, Samuel, Printed by and for J. Penn and sold by J. Sprint. 189 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Zadie Smith | The public unveiling of FutureMouse is a climactic scene that brings together most of the novel's central characters. It begins with a speech by Dr Marc-Pierre Perret, an experimental geneticist, Marcus Chalfen's mentor—whom as a... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Steele | Surviving prose by AS
includes miscellaneous as well as predominantly religious pieces. The Journey of Life, reminiscent of John Bunyan
's The Pilgrim's Progress or Samuel Johnson
's Vision of Theodore, opens with... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Harriet Corp | The introduction presents an old gentleman whose impatience with religious novels is being patiently reasoned away by his grandson with a reminder that the category includes Bunyan
. An elderly bachelor, a reviewer, a boarding-school... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ann Martin Taylor | The debt to Bunyan
's Pilgrim's Progress (often quoted here) is obvious. |
Leisure and Society | Mary Jones | |
Other Life Event | Agnes Beaumont | The night after her father's death, AB
was accused by Feery of poisoning him. The accusation was made first to her brother. Beaumont, Agnes. The Narrative of the Persecutions of Agnes Beaumont. Editor Camden, Vera J., Colleagues Press. 70-1 |
politics | Charlotte Grace O'Brien | |
Textual Features | Anne Wheathill | AW
's fondness for alliteration links her back in time to writings in Old English. She is steeped in the familiar rhythms of the Bible: But all my trust is in thy mercie: for... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Justice | EJ
's account of her early life takes little pains to shape herself as a heroine, though she is bright (teachable), Justice, Elizabeth. Amelia; or, The Distress’d Wife. 3 |
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