Elkin, Lauren, and Deborah Levy. “Introduction”. Beautiful Mutants and Swallowing Geography. Two Early Novels, Bloomsbury, p. vii - xiii.
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Textual Features | Deborah Levy | The detached wryness of this book reminded Lauren Elkin
of Djuna Barnes
. Elkin, Lauren, and Deborah Levy. “Introduction”. Beautiful Mutants and Swallowing Geography. Two Early Novels, Bloomsbury, p. vii - xiii. x |
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Textual Features | Jane Harvey | JH
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and Milton
). But she says nothing about these texts, or about the experience of reading them... |
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, who, she says, has asked why she chooses to write fiction and not moral essays. She answers that novels offer opportunities... |
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gathered mostly improving pedagogical material, drawing on revered literary names like Shakespeare
and Milton
, as well as more recent and controversial writers like Thomas Chatterton
and Helen Maria Williams
... |
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Textual Features | Frances Cornford | In A Glimpse Cornford describes the unchanging environment, the Smooth-shadowed waters Milton
loved, Cornford, Frances. Different Days. Hogarth Press. 24 |
Textual Features | Frances Cornford | In this collection Cambridge again functions as an important subject. Frances Cornford saw her Cambridge poems as emblematic of her poetry as a whole. They served as a gauge for her poetic development and also... |
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Textual Features | Samuel Johnson | This was not the first dictionary of English, but its predecessors had remained more or less close to the model of a word-list, omitting common words or any attempt to distinguish one idiomatic usage from... |
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Textual Features | Elizabeth Smith | She then recorded how she look[ed] back on my past life with shame and confusion, when I recollect the many advantages I have had, and the bad use I have made of them. Smith, Elizabeth. Fragments, in Prose and Verse. Editor Bowdler, Henrietta Maria, Richard Cruttwell. 85 |
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