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Intertextuality and Influence | Muriel Spark | In the opening scene a woman psychiatrist, Dr Hildegard Wolf, is consulted by a man claiming to be the famously missing Lord Lucan
. Inveterate gambler Lucky Lord Lucan
(Richard John Bingham, 7th Earl of... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Henrietta Camilla Jenkin | The subtitle of this novel (which in earlier centuries had been the title of a bawdy song) here alludes to a proverb about the impossible perfections of maids' husbands and bachelors' children. This first novel... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Susan Du Verger | The titles, however, reveal that romance is to be countered with romance: The Generous Poverty, The Honourable Infidelity, The Fortunate Misfortune, The Double Rape, etc., sound like novels, and they employ... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Flora Thompson | She opened with remarkable clarity, confidence, and accuracy for an entirely self-taught critic: Before Jane Austen began to write, the novelists of her day had depended on involved plot, sensational incident, and the long arm... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Eleanor Sleath | At this point Gertrude hears a noise in her late husband's room; Ethelind sees a mysterious armed personage resembling him; Winifred sees a tall, white figure; Ormond offers to lie in wait for the ghost... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anna Maria Mackenzie | The 1809 title-page quotes Shakespeare
's The Merchant of Venice. In 1811 this place is taken by lines from Henry VI Part III, in which the future Richard III avows his villainy and... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Bryher | |
Intertextuality and Influence | U. A. Fanthorpe | The title poem explains the implications of the title: I was set here / To watch. So I do, / And report, in cipher, to headquarters, / Which is an hypothesis. qtd. in Wainwright, Eddie. Taking Stock, A First Study of the Poetry of U.A. Fanthorpe. Peterloo Poets, 1995. 28 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Maria Theresa Kemble | Its plot is of the same type as that of Shakespeare
's The Taming of the Shrew.William Shakespeare |
Intertextuality and Influence | Clemence Dane | Will Shakespeare is written in blank verse, but does not imitate Elizabethan language. Subtitled an invention, the play dramatises Shakespeare
's early career as a writer, focusing on his move from Stratford to London... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Fielding | This is a work of fiction, not documentary. It relates the stories of four ex-prostitutes sympathetically, presenting a strong argument for social reform. According to scholar Katherine Binhammer
, it is the most feminist among... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Michelene Wandor | The four characters, who meet periodically, chat, complain, and reminisce. They also rehearse as the witches in Shakespeare
's Macbeth. They dance, they backchat. To a happy retirement, Katie. . . . To gravetime... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Owen | That JO
intended to publish is suggested by her dedication To the Worthy and Constant Catholickes of England—especially, she says, rich ones. Owen, Jane. Jane Owen. Editor Latz, Dorothy L., Ashgate, 2000. prelims |
Intertextuality and Influence | Frances Jacson | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Bryony Lavery | Ophelia: A Comedy, a rewriting of the play-within-a-play in Shakespeare
's Hamlet, mercilessly scrambles the plot, and has assimilated characters from other plays: Portia, Goneril, Lady Capulet, Juliet's Nurse, and Cleopatra's Charmian. Charmian... |
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