Jacob, Naomi. The Man who Found Himself. Robert Hale.
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Intertextuality and Influence | Naomi Jacob | The book is headed by a quotation from As You Like ItWilliam Shakespeare
: Cupid hath clapped him on the shoulder. Jacob, Naomi. The Man who Found Himself. Robert Hale. prelims |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mrs Martin | Indeed, as in MM
's previous novels, the narrative technique contributes largely to the reader's enjoyment. The narrator addresses the reader as dear Madam, then (without modifying this address) invites her to call the narrator... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Plumptre | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Julia Young | The earlier Adelaide and Antonine, whose lovers take refuge from the French Revolution in England, is balanced by Agnes, or The Wanderer, whose protagonist (another Revolution victim) is ordered by her doomed husband... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ada Leverson | This novel is a comedy of manners set in London in springtime, the start of the social season. Critic Charles Burkhart
suggests that the title alludes to Shakespeare
's Twelfth Night; it also, paradoxically... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Edna St Vincent Millay | She writes often here about the landscape and plants at Steepletop, using them as a metaphor for life and joy and the past. The final piece included in her Selected Poems, 2003, a... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Heyrick | Both the title-page and the body of the work quote (unascribed) lines about social injustice spoken by Shakespeare
's King Lear (who has only just realised the rampant injustice of the world and of his... |
Intertextuality and Influence | A. Mary F. Robinson | Our Lady of the Broken Heart, the garden play mentioned in the volume title, is set in a public Italian garden during the seventeenth century, or any time. Robinson, A. Mary F. Songs, Ballads, and a Garden Play. T. Fisher Unwin. 115 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Rumer Godden | RG
found this negotiation among publishers traumatic. She had updated Shakespeare
's The Tempest in the spirit of the entertainments which Graham Greene
used to intersperse among his serious novels. Spencer Curtis
thought the story... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Rhoda Broughton | A Beginner tells the story of Emma Jocelyn, a young woman who writes a novel called Miching Mallecho. (The title, drawn from Hamlet, elicits the following exchange between Emma and her aunt in... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Adelaide Kemble | Bessie and her more assertive friend Ursula Hamilton are challenged by men in their social circle about the alleged inferiority of women, as proved by their failure to produce serious artistic work. Bessie thinks of... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Naomi Jacob | The Shakespeare
allusion is curious and suggestive. Antonio is replying to Shylock's famous speech claiming humanity for Jews; he justifies his own racial or religious hostility, and suggests that usury can only be pracised on... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Eliza Kirkham Mathews | The novel which emerged from so much interference during composition is naive, exaggerated, and badly structured, but highly unusual, with great intensity in its writing. Its title-page quotes Thomas Holcroft
, and its epigraphs to... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Thomas Hardy | Arguably Hardy's most melodramatic Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Boyd |
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