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Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Harriet Burney | The Shipwreck presents (with memories of William ShakespeareThe Tempest as well as Daniel DefoeRobinson Crusoe) |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Stevenson | AS
says she began to write verse when I was introduced to Shakespeare
and the English Romantics as a child, Stevenson, Anne. Between the Iceberg and the Ship. University of Michigan Press. 121 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Hamilton | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Lesley Storm | The title is a near-quotation from Shakespeare
's A Midsummer Night's Dream—the working man who is about to play the role of the lion promises not to frighten the ladies in the audience: I... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Meeke | Jane, a widow whose only child is dead, decides to marry again, and picks the young Marquess of Montrath, heir to an earldom, whom she has first seen as a fellow visitor to the spunging-house... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Margaret Drabble | Imagery of postpartum fluidity, particularly lactation, characterizes the lovers' growing passion and the descriptions of female sexual desire and orgasm. The narrative alternates between a schizoid third-person dialogue Drabble, Margaret. The Waterfall. Penguin. 130 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Sexton | She titled the volume from the words of Shakespeare
's character Macduff when he hears of the murder of his wife and children; this borrowing was suggested by James Wright
. Middlebrook, Diane Wood. Anne Sexton: A Biography. Houghton Mifflin. 163 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Thomas | In his absence Camilla recovers, and three years later marries another rake, Sir Lusignan Dellbury; when his former adoration is cooled by marriage, she turns to her children for emotional satisfaction. He insists on her... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Hannah More | The title-page quotation from Paradise Lost features the archangel Raphael's pronouncement that it is better for human beings to know That which before us lies in daily life than things remote. Feminist Companion Archive. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Charlotte Smith | A preface (in the first volume) quotes the words of Samuel Johnson
(with apology for applying them to so trifling a matter as novel-writing) about working at his dictionary amid grief and illness, feeling cut... |
Intertextuality and Influence | John Oliver Hobbes | Pearl Richards (later JOH
) read widely as a child and adolescent, and her parents' liberal views (and considerable fortune) meant that she could pursue her tastes in both the lending libraries and the less... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Melesina Trench | Particular sketches include an allegory sent to Mary Leadbeater entitled The Birth of Calumny Trench, Melesina. The Remains of the Late Mrs. Richard Trench. Editor Trench, Richard Chenevix, Parker and Bourn. 162-4 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Jolley | The narrative voice (a Scottish one, apparently as a kind of joke) is complex and shifting, with irony fed by unstable reference to the central couple (now Muriel and Henry, now Mother and Father, and... |
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 | Sarah Harriet Burney | These letters show her to be a rewarding, informal, up-to-the-minute literary critic. She kept remarkably up to date on the topic of women's writing, showing herself consistently receptive to new styles and new ideas. She... |
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