Anq-A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles Notes and Reviews

Article	Citations
Contrapuntal Capitalism: Alternated Prosperity/failure in E. L. Doctorow’s Welcome to Hard Times	2
“Here is the Why-Poem”: Bodily Privacy in Anne Sexton’s “Wanting to Die”	2
Richard Aldington’s Allegory of Reading: The Eaten Heart	2
Plague Writing and Quarantine in Zijian Chi’s Snow Crow	1
Grit , True and Otherwise	1
The Silence of Sound: An Acoustic Study of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 129	1
A Posthumanist Reading of Geological Agency in “The Domain of Arnheim”	1
An Historical Source for the Indian Pre-history in Somerset Maugham’s The Hero	1
Relocating the Sacred: Evolving Perceptions of Faith in Don DeLillo’sFalling Man	1
The Rise of the Arm Chair and the Fall of the Discipline—Philosophy and Quarantine: An Introduction to the Quarantine Special Issue	1
The Influence of Alexandre Dumas in Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	1
Sixteenth to Eighteenth-Century Underclass Slang: autem mort “Married Woman”	1
Roaming Pauses in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road	1
Verbal Negative Contraction in Four Most Complete Witnesses to the Old English Bede	1
The Political Unconscious of Jackson Mac Low	1
Mixed-Race Flâneuse : Identity Quest Through Flânerie in Han Suyin’s The Mountain Is Young	1
Another Shaker of Salt: “To Earthward”	1
Hamlet Things Thus Unknown	1
“That Noisome and Contagious Receptacle”: Quarantine and Horror in Charles Brockden Brown’s “The Man at Home”	1
The Plague in Romeo and Juliet: “The Day Is Hot”	1
Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited (1945) and Milton’s Areopagitica : The Satirist in Spite of Himself	0
A Literary Forerunner to Judge Holden in Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian : S. Behrman in Frank Norris’s The Octopus	0
“Mr. Britnell Knew Nothing of It“: The Other Protagonist in M. R. James’s “The Mezzotint”	0
Sherman Alexie’s “Green World” and Don Quixote	0
Philip Hobsbaum and British Poetry Anthologies at the End of the Twentieth Century	0

Decoding Gaudiness in Early Hard-Boiled Fiction	0
The Middle English Life of Christina Mirabilis by Thomas of Cantimpre´	0
Rewriting the Sexual Contract in Octavia E. Butler’s “Bloodchild”	0
“Trac’d upon Vellum or Wild Indian Leaf”:Hyperion, Mediation, and Romantic Materiality	0
The Archetype in the Genesis A Adaptation of the Cainite Genealogy	0
The Calm of the Wild: Memory, Inversion and Narrative Authority as a Function of Quarantine in Jack London’sThe Scarlet Plague	0
A Spatial Narrative Interpretation of The Story of an Hour	0
Philip Larkin’s “The Mower” as a Curtal Sonnet	0
“Maybe the Symbols Don’t Mean What They Seem To”: Mary Elizabeth Counselman and the Language of Modernism	0
Setting the Stage for Self-Determined Identity: Amiri Baraka‘s Dutchman as Political Myth	0
The Lordlessness of the Danes in Beowulf	0
Sterne’s Eastern Rambles: Melancholy and Imperial Subjectivity in Tristram Shandy	0
Atomic Priesthood(s) and the “Knowing Smirk” of the Wandering Jew in A Canticle for Leibowitz	0
Sankofa, Pets, and Familiars: How Animal Characters Encourage Interspecies Decolonization, Liberation, and Kinship in Alice Walker’sThe Temple of My Familiar	0
Pindar’sIsthmian7.44–47 and Natale Conti’sMythologiae9.4 as the Possible Source Texts ofParadise Lost7.18–19	0
Hardy’s Intertextual Use of English Drama in The Return of the Native	0
“Things in Heaven and Earth”: The Hamlet Allusions in H. G. Wells’s “In the Avu Observatory”	0
Two Possible Sources in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”	0
Byron’s the Bride of Abydos: A Tragic Love Poem?	0
Uncanny Economies: Philip Larkin’s “Toads” and “Toads Revisited”	0
Of Peerie Bairns and Periwinkles	0
Literary Studies and Digital Archives: The Curious Case of the Epigraph in Gertrude Stein’s Three Lives	0
The Etymology of Dyke and Bull-dyke	0
Privileged Empathy in Susan Glaspell’s Trifles	0
The Hamlet Wager: Ods A’th Weeker Side	0
A Posthumanist Reading of the Dog in The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket	0
The Origin of the Name Beowulf in a Gutnish *baþolfr “Battle-Wolf”	0
Foot Picts: Faerie Lore and the Second Sight	0
Architecture, Gender and the Polemic of Taste: 1730s–1750s	0
Psychovisualism and Scenography in Russell Atkins’s Poetry-Drama The Corpse	0
The First Literary Fictions of the 1587 Roanoke “Lost Colony”	0
The Limits of Language and the Fragmentation of the Western Mind in John Burnside’s the Dumb House	0
Shakespearean Echoes in Beaumont’s The Knight of the Burning Pestle	0
“How Many Trades Have I to Live By”: Women’s Informal Labor in Thomas Heywood’s The Wise-Woman of Hogsdon	0
Gissing’s Demos as an Antecedent of Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour”	0
Dreaming of Cicero in John Gower’s Cultor in ecclesia	0
Edie’s Enigma: Scott’s The Antiquary as a Source for Poe’s “Thou Art the Man”	0
The Dialectical You, Representin’ I/i, Signifyin’ We: A Pronouns Primer for Claudia Rankine’s Citizen and the Black Arts Movement’s Grammar of Resistance	0
Environmental Horror in the Time of the Ancient Mariner	0
The Fall of Troy and Gawain’s Moral Siege: Identity and Vulnerability in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight	0
Nietzsche Rethought: Testing Virtue Ethics in John Banville	0
The Philosophy of Eating in “Bon-bon”	0
Two Norse Literary Analogues of J. R. R. Tolkien’s Beacons of Gondor	0
“I Never Make Mistakes”: Reimagining Victorian Heroines Through Lucilla’s Image in Margaret Oliphant’s Miss Marjoribanks (1866)	0
George Henry Lewes’ Diary for January–March 1872	0
Variation and Reconstruction in Chinese Translations of Gulliver’s Travels , 1872-1948: Texts and Paratexts	0
Erasing Racial Boundaries in “Hiram Powers’ Greek Slave”	0
The Cosmology of Hank Morgan’s Daughter in A Connecticut Yankee	0
Falconry in The Battle of Maldon and Kudrun	0
The Old English Noun gebyrþen Revisited	0

Adaptations of a Cultural Image: The Monkey King in Contemporary Overseas Chinese English Literature	0
Reconstructing the Original Beasts and Super-Beasts by “Saki,” or How a Short Story Collection Took Shape	0
Allen Ginsberg’s “China Works” and Poetics of “Unobstructed Breath”	0
Dander and Dandruff : Etymologies	0
Sir Orfeo as the Source for the Medieval Romance Topoi of Abduction and Otherworld Rampant within The Hobbit ’s Mirkwoo	0
“I Stink of You”: Queer Sexuality in Sarah Kane’s Blasted	0
“The Blind Man Eats Many Flies”: From Folk Remedy to Folk Saying?	0
Drag and Drag Queen: Speculations on Origins	0
Dickinson’s Non-Holding, “Sumptuous Destitution” and Emerson	0
The Empowerment of Transmediation: From Literary Work to Material Culture	0
A Detour in English Language: Reading The Joy Luck Club with Rey Chow	0
Conflicting Promises in the Book of Joshua and Chaucer’s “Franklin’s Tale”	0
On Consideration: Affect in J. M. Barrie’s “The Inconsiderate Waiter”	0
Nature as Home Through the Portrait of Goldberry and Tom Bombadil in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Old Forest	0
(Post)Feminism in the Vicki Barr Series: A Study of Helen Wells’ Peril over the Airport (1953)	0
Cinematic Qualities and Visual Pleasure in John Updike’s “A&P”	0
Slime, Gender, and Environment: Misogyny’s Slimic Entanglements with Ecophobia	0
Edward Robinson: A Forgotten English Performer on the Continent in 1711	0
The Theoretical Cornerstone and Central Concept of Ethical Literary Criticism: Ethical Choice	0
Twelfth Night : The Servant, the Love Letter, and the Pauline Epistles	0
Editor’s Note	0
Paradise Lost : Milton’s Last Poem	0
Female Spaces and Female Identity in Estela Portillo-Trambley’s The Day of the Swallows	0
“A Small Lantern in His Hand”: Evoking Diogenes in H. G. Wells’s “In the Avu Observatory”	0
Heremod and the Jutes	0
Some Overlooked Extracts from Mary Wollstonecraft’s Writings Published in Britain, 1792–1795	0
Raymond Chandler’s Gun Play: Chapters 14-16 of The Big Sleep as Three-Act Farce	0
Armand Aubigny’s Quest for Legitimacy	0
“Punish with Impunity”: The Unreliable Narration in “My Purple Scented Novel”	0
Ethics of Narrative	0
Cornix and May: Further Parallels in Gower and Chaucer	0
Murder of the Eye (I): Disruption of Circumscription in “The Tell-Tale Heart”	0
Platonic Soul in Hamlet’s Choral Trio	0
The Masculinity Crisis Manifested by Sound and Voices in T. S. Eliot’s Early Poetry	0
Dickinson’s Self-Cultivation, Optional Summer and Chinese Aesthetic	0
An Unpublished Letter from Thomas Carlyle to His American Publisher Abraham Hart	0
Challenging Marginalization: Zitkala-Sa, American Indian Stories , and the Child of Disruption	0
The Unrecognized Legacy: The Palimpsestuous Presence of the Little House Books in Linda Sue Park’s SeeSaw Girl	0
Playing the Dozens: Etymology Reconsidered	0
Intellectual Pleasure: Solitary Leisure of the Jamesian Traveling Self	0
Shangri-La and the Imperial Imagination in James Hilton’s Lost Horizon	0
She, Not I: Issues of Female Subjectivity in Beckett’s Not I A Study of the 1977 BBC Production of Not I	0
Echoes of the Biblical Story of Joseph and His Brothers in Willa Cather’s O Pioneers!	0
Emerson and Marti: Kindred Spirits	0
Quarantine Then and Now: Reflections on Year of Wonders and COVID-19	0
“Rouse English Virtue in Each English Heart”: The Role of the Gentleman’s Magazine in the Propaganda War Against the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745–46	0
Last of the Romans: Boffin, Belisarius, and the Collapse of Historical Distance in Dickens’s Our Mutual Friend	0
Suresby and Shallow	0
“Old Buggers”: Graham Swift’s Last Orders and the Chatham Naval Memorial	0
American (Un)sustainability and Transcendental Resilience in Jack London’s The Scarlet Plague	0
Kyd, Shakespeare, and Arden of Faversham: Rerunning a Two-Horse Race	0
The Eagle Has Landed: A Prophetic Pun in John Gower’sCronica tripertita	0
Social and Ecological Relationships in South Korean Quarantine and COVID-19 Literature	0
The Mound and the Supernatural: The Dream of the Rood Line 32b Reconsidered	0
Illustrations As Metatext in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas	0
“I Reed a Hard Readinge a whill”: Reconstructing the Reading of Lady Margaret Hoby	0
A Story About Beaver Slavery in Arabic, Northern European, and Persian Sources	0
Prosthetic Memory and Textual Inheritance: Reading Nicole Krauss’s The History of Love with Bernard Stiegler	0
On Gendering the Speaker in Anne Vaughan Lock’s Meditation of a Penitent Sinner	0
“She Dragged Herself Along”: The Limping Heroine in Edith Wharton’s “All Souls’”	0
“First Hell”: The Timing and Circumstances of Hell’s Creation in Paradise Lost	0
Specter of Shame: Social Melancholy and (De)pathologization of Femininity in Fae Myenne Ng’s Bone	0
Snoopy’s Pedigree: The Etymology of Beagle	0
Narrative Tension in A Narrow Fellow in the Grass	0
F. Scott Fitzgerald and Willa Cather: A Literary Relationship in Letters	0
The Character Helle in De Resurrectione Domini , the Old English Cotton Vespasian D.xiv Version of Christ’s Descent into Hell in the Gospel of Nicodemus	0
Limestone, Language, and Play: On W. H. Auden’s “In Praise of Limestone”	0
Primo Levi’s “The Last One”: A Possible Context	0
Things Teachers Can Learn from Roald Dahl’s Matilda : Education in Children’s Literature	0
The Date of Composition of D. H. Lawrence’s “Insouciance”	0
The Question of Mrs Costello’s Hostility in Henry James’s “Daisy Miller”	0
Victory in Ethics: An Ethical Reading of Joseph Conrad’s Victory	0
Problems with the Dramatic Irony Theory ofBeowulf	0
Auden-Byron Parallel: Lord Byron’s Don Juan as Intertext in W. H. Auden’s Travel Writing	0
“Laetitia Pilkington’s “ Verses Wrote in a Library ” and the Poetical Imagination”	0
Reception, Translation, and British Liberalism’s Continental Roots: Augustin Filon on John Morley’s French Studies	0
Spunk, Gormless , and Their Multi-Factor Etymologies	0
“She’s Mad, but She’s Magic”: Kay “Kaja” Johnson, Charles Bukowski and Their Literary Relationship	0
Temporality and History in John Bale’s King Johan	0
Interest Theory and Slingsby Bethel in Absalom and Achitophel	0

The Nonhuman Turn inGravity’s Rainbow	0
Grendel and the Witches: Germanic Mythology and Beowulf Line 163	0
Masculinity, Trauma, and Literary Rebellion: John Berryman’s Homage to Mistress Bradstreet	0
“You Horrible Lovely Genius”: Assia Wevill, Storytelling, and Feminist Recovery	0
“Potatosoap”: Moly in James Joyce’s Ulysses	0
New Light on Nella Larsen’s Denmark	0
“Who Is the Real Protagonist?: Unreliable Narration and Narrative Maneuver in William Trevor’s “Gilbert’s Mother”	0
Monstrous Alphabet in J. M. Coetzee’s Foe	0
Imagery and Influence: The Parallel Prospects of Ursula K. Le Guin and Nikolai Gogol	0
Washington Allston’s “Belshazzar”: The Key to Poe’s “The Masque of the Red Death”	0
The Portrayal of King Cynewulf in the Entry for 755 in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle	0
The Neglected Aestheticism in Scotland: Robert Louis Stevenson’s Bohemian Aesthetics	0
The Politics of Naming: Helen in Alice Munro’s “Floating Bridge”	0
Two Unpublished Letters of Helen Maria Williams to Hester Lynch Piozzi	0
Pricing and Competition in Early London Editions of Robinson Crusoe , 1719–1747	0
Morrison’s The Bluest Eye and the Myth of Persephone: An Ecofeminist Critique	0
A New George Eliot Letter	0
“Please Tell About Dad”: Anxiety and Nostalgia in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman	0
New Evidence Against an Early Date for Hamlet	0
Koringa and the Professor: Beating some ‘fictive’ bounds in Finuala Dowling’s The Man Who Loved Crocodile Tamers	0
“Of Unreproved Name”: The Decay of Memory in Ben Jonson’s Volpone	0
Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea : Paired Oppositions as a Narrative Strategy	0
William Butler Yeats’s Encounter with Korea	0
Twee ‘Dainty, Quaint, Precious, mawkish’	0
The Multiple Meanings of the Ear Metaphor in Hamlet	0
Cosmic Egg and Infant Demiurge: Antecedents of McCarthy’s Judge Holden ( Blood Meridian )	0
Dogwood, Whippletree , and Swingletree : Cross-Referential Etymologies	0
An Unremarked Collocation	0
What are You Going to Do Now?: Intentional Action in The Graduate	0
“The Goddamn Vietnam Thing”: Donald E. Westlake’s The Comedy Is Finished	0
Examining Scholarly Disagreement on D. H. Lawrence’s “The State of Funk”: New Perspectives from Archives	0
Postlapsarian Garden in Kyd’s the Spanish Tragedy and Shakespeare’s Hamlet	0
Deep Time, Prehistoric Animals, and the Crystal: J. G. Ballard and Haeckel’s Evolutionary Biology	0
Eleven Alexander Baron Letters	0
A “Peculiarly American” Sense in T. S. Eliot’s “Tradition and the Individual Talent”	0
Emersonian Borrowings in Two Early Poems of Wallace Stevens	0
Reading and Reworking the Bard in Amherst, Massachusetts: Allusions to William Shakespeare’s Tragedies in Three of Emily Dickinson’s Poems	0
An Unheimlich Wanderer: Mick’s Spatial Anxiety in Carson McCullers’s The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter	0
Death by hari-kari in The Murder of Roger Ackroyd	0
“Pulling Meaning” from the Earth: Blues Singing in Song of Solomon	0
“Things Can Always Get Worse”: Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield , William Shakespeare’s King Lear , and the Comitragic Arc of the Musse	0
Behind the Scenes: Exposing the American West in Peter Handke’s Short Letter, Long Farewell	0
The Quadrant and the Sextant: Taking the Measure of the Cosmos in Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick and Cormac McCarthy’s The Road	0
The Female Prophet and Religious Re-visioning in Marilynne Robinson’s Lila	0
“Like This”: The Coffin Pictogram and the Implied Editor in as I Lay Dying	0
On Mockingbirds and Finches: Charles Darwin, Eugenics, and the Title of Harper Lee’s Most Famous Novel	0
“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”: Robert Frost’s Comments on Emerson	0
The Origin of Faggot “Homosexual” and Its Historical Tie to Heresy	0
“I am Rather Morbid”: An Unpublished George Eliot letter to Sir Henry Maine	0
Some Notes on the Rhetoric of Macbeth ’s “If It Were Done” Soliloquy	0
“What’s in a Name?”: Barton Booth, Billy Booth and Some Theatrical Roots in Fielding’sAmelia	0
Digging up Emerson’s Garden: Competing Notions of Transcendentalist Temporality in the Dial	0
The Iron Teeth of Wrath: A Source for Spenser’s Faerie Queene II.iv. in The Pilgrimage of the Lyfe of the Manhode of Guillaume de Deguilev	0
“Something Like Amusement”: Comedy and Humor in Cormac McCarthy’s Suttree	0
Homeland Behind the Iron Curtain: Steinbeck’s Depoliticized Writing in A Russian Journal	0
Reflections on Quarantine and Social Relations in Zijian Chi’s Snow Crow in Light of Shanghai’s 2022 Quarantines	0
Echoes of Hesiod’s Works and Days in T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land	0
Thrones and Dominions/Dominations in the Old English Version of the Homiliary of Angers	0
The Heraldic Landscape in M. R. James’s “A Warning to the Curious”	0
A Bibliography of the Literary Works of Bernard Isaac Durward	0
“Worldes Faierie”: The Narrative Controversies over Constance in Confessio Amantis	0
Quarantine Time is “Out of Joint”: Re-Stitching Time as Posthuman Temporalities in Emma Donoghue’sThe Pull of the Stars	0
An American Source for Oscar Wilde’s A Woman of No Importance	0
Creating the New Breed of Comic Heroine in Elizabeth Polwhele’s the Frolicks (1671)	0
“Fathers and Sons” and the Triumphs and Tribulations of Male Bonding in August Wilson’s Two Trains Running and Jitney	0
Two Sources for John Gower’s “Ad mundum mitto”	0
O. Henry’s Fictional Quarrel with Henry James	0
Cognitive Embedding in Retrospective Focalization in Robinson Crusoe : Self-Alienation, Moral Self-Fashioning, and Rhetorical Effect	0
Dorothy Parker’s “Perfect Limousine”	0
CORRECTION	0
“Isn’t this the ending of Fahrenheit 451?”: The Intertextual Intersection of Fahrenheit 451, Fight Club, and Adjustment Day	0
Madness as Resistance in Alice Walker’s By the Light of My Father’s Smile	0
Coriolanus and Failures of Listening	0
Literary Cartography and Planetary Poetics in Lord Jim	0
Faces and Gazes in The Winter’s Tale	0
The Fascination of Corruption: Oscar Wilde and Pater’s Leonardo da Vinci	0
Issa and Ryokan in James Merrill’s the Book of Ephraim	0
‘New Themes for the Bold’: The POOL Group’s Prototypically Queer Perspectives on Cinema	0
The Prologue to Romeo and Juliet in Q1 (1597) and Q2 (1599): Purpose, Precedence, and Value	0
Cædmon, Daniel, and the Dreamer in The Dream of the Rood	0
“Lyell’s Hypothesis Again”: Kenneth Rexroth’s Diction of Stone	0
Textual Beadwork in Zitkala-Ša’s Autobiographical Essays	0
The Relevance of Rivendell’s Growing Cultural Value from The Hobbit to The Lord of the Rings	0
Angela Carter and the “Sociology of clothes” in The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman	0
Babbalanja’s Theurgy in Melville’s Mardi	0
Johnson’s Circle, Conversation, and Civil Society	0
Dexter and Sinister in M. R. James’s “Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad”	0
Byrhtwold’s Speech in The Battle of Maldon : A New Analogue in Saxo Grammaticus’s Gesta Danorum	0
Pasquill’s “Lives of the Saints” and Thomas Nashe’s Almond for a Parrat (1590)	0
Art in the Stories of Jhumpa Lahiri	0
Human Machines and Machinic Humans in Philip K Dick’s We Can Build You	0
Animals in Quarantine: Biosecurity Vs. Biodiversity	0
J.R.R. Tolkien and Bertha S. Phillpotts: A New Source for “The Monsters and the Critics”	0
Sherlock Holmes, ‘Metaphysical Detective’: A Note on Arthur Conan Doyle’s “The Naval Treaty” and Alfred Tennyson’s “Flower in the Crannied Wall”	0
Bret Harte’s “Ah Sin”: Irish Catholics, Chinese Immigrants, and Heathen Others in “Plain Language from Truthful James”	0