Anq-A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles Notes and Reviews

Article	Citations
“I Reed a Hard Readinge a whill”: Reconstructing the Reading of Lady Margaret Hoby	2
Marlowe’s “Faustus”, the Horse-Courser, and Werewolves	2
Ethics of Narrative	2
On Mockingbirds and Finches: Charles Darwin, Eugenics, and the Title of Harper Lee’s Most Famous Novel	1
Norse Mythology and the Nine Herbs Charm	1
Twee ‘Dainty, Quaint, Precious, mawkish’	1
Correction	1
“Maybe the Symbols Don’t Mean What They Seem To”: Mary Elizabeth Counselman and the Language of Modernism	1
A Translation of a ‘Taoist Aesthete’: A Source for Lord Wotton’s Theory of “Self-Development” in Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray	1
The Hamlet Wager: Ods A’th Weeker Side	1
Addenda: One Middle English Manuscript and Four Editions of Medieval Works Known to J. R. R. Tolkien and What They Reveal	1
“In the Grip of Grue”: The Fascination with Horror in Cormac McCarthy’s Suttree	1
Auden-Byron Parallel: Lord Byron’s Don Juan as Intertext in W. H. Auden’s Travel Writing	1
Snoopy’s Pedigree: The Etymology of Beagle	1
Emerson and Marti: Kindred Spirits	1
Grit , True and Otherwise	1
Human Machines and Machinic Humans in Philip K Dick’s We Can Build You	1
Brian Vickers Gentle Shakespeare and Arden of Faversham Another View	1
Female Body in The House of Mirth from the Perspective of “Gaze Theory”	1
Byron’s the Bride of Abydos: A Tragic Love Poem?	1
The Limits of Language and the Fragmentation of the Western Mind in John Burnside’s the Dumb House	1
“A Small Lantern in His Hand”: Evoking Diogenes in H. G. Wells’s “In the Avu Observatory”	0
The Neglected Aestheticism in Scotland: Robert Louis Stevenson’s Bohemian Aesthetics	0
Issa and Ryokan in James Merrill’s the Book of Ephraim	0
Variation and Reconstruction in Chinese Translations of Gulliver’s Travels , 1872-1948: Texts and Paratexts	0

On the Dating and Source of OED Quotations	0
Gissing’s Demos as an Antecedent of Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour”	0
Temporality and History in John Bale’s King Johan	0
Literary Studies and Digital Archives: The Curious Case of the Epigraph in Gertrude Stein’s Three Lives	0
The Image of Hats in Katherine Mansfield’s “The Garden Party”	0
Sterne’s Eastern Rambles: Melancholy and Imperial Subjectivity in Tristram Shandy	0
“She Dragged Herself Along”: The Limping Heroine in Edith Wharton’s “All Souls’”	0
Morrison’s The Bluest Eye and the Myth of Persephone: An Ecofeminist Critique	0
Rewriting the Sexual Contract in Octavia E. Butler’s “Bloodchild”	0
Murtherers as Your Selues: Speech Ascription in King Richard III	0
Pricing and Competition in Early London Editions of Robinson Crusoe , 1719–1747	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
“How Many Trades Have I to Live By”: Women’s Informal Labor in Thomas Heywood’s The Wise-Woman of Hogsdon	0
The Transformation of Mark Twain’s “The Californian’s Tale” into “Shan Jia Qi Yu”	0
Cædmon, Daniel, and the Dreamer in The Dream of the Rood	0
Hamlet Things Thus Unknown	0
“It Merely Happens to One Man and Not to others”: An Unnoted Quote from T. S. Eliot in Dag Hammarskjöld’s Markings	0
The Heraldic Landscape in M. R. James’s “A Warning to the Curious”	0
Privileged Empathy in Susan Glaspell’s Trifles	0
An Historical Source for the Indian Pre-history in Somerset Maugham’s The Hero	0
Textual Beadwork in Zitkala-Ša’s Autobiographical Essays	0
Julian Hawthorne Inscriptions in the Library of James Carleton Young	0
Intellectual Pleasure: Solitary Leisure of the Jamesian Traveling Self	0
American (Un)sustainability and Transcendental Resilience in Jack London’s The Scarlet Plague	0
Correction	0
“She’s Mad, but She’s Magic”: Kay “Kaja” Johnson, Charles Bukowski and Their Literary Relationship	0
The Female Prophet and Religious Re-visioning in Marilynne Robinson’s Lila	0
Charles Henry Smith, Florida Promoter	0
Minor Germanic Deities and the Etymology of Beowulf’s Name	0
Erasing Racial Boundaries in “Hiram Powers’ Greek Slave”	0
Architecture as Metaphor in Washington Irving’s “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”	0
Babbalanja’s Theurgy in Melville’s Mardi	0
Kyd, Shakespeare, and Arden of Faversham: Rerunning a Two-Horse Race	0
Nature as Home Through the Portrait of Goldberry and Tom Bombadil in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Old Forest	0
“Maids Turn’d Bottels” in the Rape of the Lock : A Reconsideration	0
Inhabiting a Comfortable Fiction of the Self: J.M. Coetzee’s Summertime	0
Emily Dickinson’s Measurement of Marriage in “I Gave Myself to Him–”	0
“Things in Heaven and Earth”: The Hamlet Allusions in H. G. Wells’s “In the Avu Observatory”	0
Angela Carter and the “Sociology of clothes” in The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman	0
Edward Robinson: A Forgotten English Performer on the Continent in 1711	0
A New George Eliot Letter	0
The Ethics of the Text: Codifying Ethical Chronotopes in Tennyson’s Patriotic War Poems	0
Cornix and May: Further Parallels in Gower and Chaucer	0
Marie Hay’s The Evil Vineyard and Jung’s Memories, Dreams, Reflections	0
The Cosmology of Hank Morgan’s Daughter in A Connecticut Yankee	0
Falconry in The Battle of Maldon and Kudrun	0
Dexter and Sinister in M. R. James’s “Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad”	0
The Origin of Faggot “Homosexual” and Its Historical Tie to Heresy	0
Interest Theory and Slingsby Bethel in Absalom and Achitophel	0
Plague and “Anti-Quarantine” Writing in Traditional Chinese Biography	0

Cosmic Egg and Infant Demiurge: Antecedents of McCarthy’s Judge Holden ( Blood Meridian )	0
Faces and Gazes in The Winter’s Tale	0
Rewriting the Human: AI, Ethics, and the Crisis of Community in Machines Like Me	0
A Posthumanist Reading of the Voyage in “The White Ship”	0
An Unpublished Letter from Thomas Carlyle to His American Publisher Abraham Hart	0
Thrones and Dominions/Dominations in the Old English Version of the Homiliary of Angers	0
A “Peculiarly American” Sense in T. S. Eliot’s “Tradition and the Individual Talent”	0
Echoes of Hesiod’s Works and Days in T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land	0
The Romanticization of Cape Horn in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando	0
Richard Aldington’s Allegory of Reading: The Eaten Heart	0
Hijack : Etymology and History	0
The Lordlessness of the Danes in Beowulf	0
The Middle English Life of Christina Mirabilis by Thomas of Cantimpre´	0
Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea : Paired Oppositions as a Narrative Strategy	0
Antarctic Expedition and Geological Agency: A Posthumanist Reading of “At the Mountains of Madness”	0
The Rise of the Arm Chair and the Fall of the Discipline—Philosophy and Quarantine: An Introduction to the Quarantine Special Issue	0
“Laetitia Pilkington’s “ Verses Wrote in a Library ” and the Poetical Imagination”	0
Functions of Stamps in Iris Murdoch’s Bruno’s Dream	0
Quarantine Then and Now: Reflections on Year of Wonders and COVID-19	0
Birds of a Feather: Gay Uncle Jack and Queer Cousin Francis inTo Kill a Mockingbird	0
Literary Cartography and Planetary Poetics in Lord Jim	0
Byrhtwold’s Speech in The Battle of Maldon : A New Analogue in Saxo Grammaticus’s Gesta Danorum	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
Conflicting Promises in the Book of Joshua and Chaucer’s “Franklin’s Tale”	0
Micro-Fascism in Contemporary Fiction: The Mis/Use of Canon in Roald Dahl’s Matilda , Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book , and Jamaica Kinca	0
Reception, Translation, and British Liberalism’s Continental Roots: Augustin Filon on John Morley’s French Studies	0
‘New Themes for the Bold’: The POOL Group’s Prototypically Queer Perspectives on Cinema	0
Three Unpublished John Ruskin Letters	0
Washington Allston’s “Belshazzar”: The Key to Poe’s “The Masque of the Red Death”	0
Two Unpublished Letters of Helen Maria Williams to Hester Lynch Piozzi	0
“Who Is the Real Protagonist?: Unreliable Narration and Narrative Maneuver in William Trevor’s “Gilbert’s Mother”	0
Verbal Negative Contraction in Four Most Complete Witnesses to the Old English Bede	0
More Unpublished George Eliot-George Henry Lewes Letters	0
“The Blind Man Eats Many Flies”: From Folk Remedy to Folk Saying?	0
Sherman Alexie’s “Green World” and Don Quixote	0
Sodomy and the M.O.A.I. Riddle in Twelfth Night	0
Old English Wlītan and Wlātian : Poetic Verbs of Looking (And Seeing)	0
The Mental Mapping of a Heterotopic Space in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake	0
Problems with the Dramatic Irony Theory ofBeowulf	0
“You Horrible Lovely Genius”: Assia Wevill, Storytelling, and Feminist Recovery	0
Uncanny Economies: Philip Larkin’s “Toads” and “Toads Revisited”	0
A Detour in English Language: Reading The Joy Luck Club with Rey Chow	0
The Political Unconscious of Jackson Mac Low	0
Spunk, Gormless , and Their Multi-Factor Etymologies	0
Slime, Gender, and Environment: Misogyny’s Slimic Entanglements with Ecophobia	0
“In the austere theatre of the Infinite”: Constructivist Abstraction as the Aesthetic Archetype in Mina Loy’s Ekphrases	0
Homeland Behind the Iron Curtain: Steinbeck’s Depoliticized Writing in A Russian Journal	0
Two Possible Sources in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”	0
Mixed-Race Flâneuse : Identity Quest Through Flânerie in Han Suyin’s The Mountain Is Young	0
Illustrations As Metatext in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas	0
“Old Buggers”: Graham Swift’s Last Orders and the Chatham Naval Memorial	0
An Early Fragment of Cormac McCarthy’s The Passenger	0
Quarantine and the Transformation of Power Dynamics during China’s War of Resistance against Japan	0
Suresby and Shallow	0
The Portrayal of King Cynewulf in the Entry for 755 in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle	0
Roaming Pauses in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road	0
“Mercenaries Descending”: Ichabod Crane and His Headless Other	0
Illustrating Gulliver and the Lilliputians in 1727 and 1728	0
“It Was Left for Others to Speak”: Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the Civil War	0
Death by hari-kari in The Murder of Roger Ackroyd	0
Raymond Chandler’s Gun Play: Chapters 14-16 of The Big Sleep as Three-Act Farce	0
“Worldes Faierie”: The Narrative Controversies over Constance in Confessio Amantis	0
What are You Going to Do Now?: Intentional Action in The Graduate	0
“David Foster Wallace’s ‘Incarnations of Burned Children’ as Transgressive Pragmatism”	0
Stillness in Locomotion: Exploring the Self-Dissolution of Urban Existence in Bowen’s To the North	0
The Crisis and Rejuvenation of American Masculinity in Sinclair Lewis’s Arrowsmith	0
The Ethics of Reading Revisited in the Age of Artificial Intelligence	0
The Task of the Chinese Translator: Charles Bernstein’s “A Test of Poetry”	0
Quarantine Time is “Out of Joint”: Re-Stitching Time as Posthuman Temporalities in Emma Donoghue’sThe Pull of the Stars	0
On Gendering the Speaker in Anne Vaughan Lock’s Meditation of a Penitent Sinner	0
Notes on Thomas Gray’s Poetic Coterie and Correspondence	0
Atomic Priesthood(s) and the “Knowing Smirk” of the Wandering Jew in A Canticle for Leibowitz	0
“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”: Robert Frost’s Comments on Emerson	0
Cinematic Qualities and Visual Pleasure in John Updike’s “A&P”	0
Insurrection and Narrativity: The Vitality of Clothes in Great Expectations	0
Some Overlooked Extracts from Mary Wollstonecraft’s Writings Published in Britain, 1792–1795	0
Armand Aubigny’s Quest for Legitimacy	0
Edward Bellamy’s Use and Critique of Advertising in Looking Backward and The New Nation	0
“I Never Make Mistakes”: Reimagining Victorian Heroines Through Lucilla’s Image in Margaret Oliphant’s Miss Marjoribanks (1866)	0
The Calm of the Wild: Memory, Inversion and Narrative Authority as a Function of Quarantine in Jack London’sThe Scarlet Plague	0

Creating the New Breed of Comic Heroine in Elizabeth Polwhele’s the Frolicks (1671)	0
“I am Rather Morbid”: An Unpublished George Eliot letter to Sir Henry Maine	0
Royal Wassail in Hamlet Reconsidered	0
Masculinity, Trauma, and Literary Rebellion: John Berryman’s Homage to Mistress Bradstreet	0
(Post)Feminism in the Vicki Barr Series: A Study of Helen Wells’ Peril over the Airport (1953)	0
Behind the Scenes: Exposing the American West in Peter Handke’s Short Letter, Long Farewell	0
New Evidence Against an Early Date for Hamlet	0
“That Noisome and Contagious Receptacle”: Quarantine and Horror in Charles Brockden Brown’s “The Man at Home”	0
Samson Agonistes as a Possible Source for a Punctuation Effect in Tennyson’s “Tithonus”	0
Adaptations of a Cultural Image: The Monkey King in Contemporary Overseas Chinese English Literature	0
Sankofa, Pets, and Familiars: How Animal Characters Encourage Interspecies Decolonization, Liberation, and Kinship in Alice Walker’sThe Temple of My Familiar	0
Primo Levi’s “The Last One”: A Possible Context	0
Repeated Phrases and Early Modern Authorship: Arden of Faversham as a Case Study	0
Tennyson’s Proof Copies Rejected by the Turkish Bureaucracy	0
Dickinson’s Non-Holding, “Sumptuous Destitution” and Emerson	0
Madness as Resistance in Alice Walker’s By the Light of My Father’s Smile	0
Tracing Mangrove ’s Etymology: Plant Studies, Linguistic Circulation and Creole Culture	0
Nietzsche Rethought: Testing Virtue Ethics in John Banville	0
The Nonhuman Turn inGravity’s Rainbow	0
“Pulling Meaning” from the Earth: Blues Singing in Song of Solomon	0
An American Source for Oscar Wilde’s A Woman of No Importance	0
Motherhood and Its Intersection with Race in Toni Morrison’s Beloved	0
Last of the Romans: Boffin, Belisarius, and the Collapse of Historical Distance in Dickens’s Our Mutual Friend	0
Inkling ‘Hint, Intimation, Suggestion’	0
J.R.R. Tolkien and Bertha S. Phillpotts: A New Source for “The Monsters and the Critics”	0
A Bibliography of the Literary Works of Bernard Isaac Durward	0
“Here is the Why-Poem”: Bodily Privacy in Anne Sexton’s “Wanting to Die”	0
Correction	0
The Eagle Has Landed: A Prophetic Pun in John Gower’sCronica tripertita	0
Charles Dickens’s Public Readings in the Newspaper Reviews	0
Ian McEwan’s Nutshell : A Creative Misreading of Hamlet	0
Grendel and the Witches: Germanic Mythology and Beowulf Line 163	0
Limestone, Language, and Play: On W. H. Auden’s “In Praise of Limestone”	0
The Trials of Katherine of Aragon and Vittoria Corombona: 2.4 and 3.1 of Shakespeare’s “Henry VIII” and 3.2 of Webster’s “The White Devil”	0
George Henry Lewes’ Diary for January–March 1872	0
Sir Orfeo as the Source for the Medieval Romance Topoi of Abduction and Otherworld Rampant within The Hobbit ’s Mirkwoo	0
John Brown as Launcelot: The Influence of Tennyson on Herman Melville’s “ The Portent ”	0
George Henry Lewes’ Diary for January–March 1871	0
Edie’s Enigma: Scott’s The Antiquary as a Source for Poe’s “Thou Art the Man”	0
Specter of Shame: Social Melancholy and (De)pathologization of Femininity in Fae Myenne Ng’s Bone	0
The Plague in Romeo and Juliet: “The Day Is Hot”	0
The Fall of Troy and Gawain’s Moral Siege: Identity and Vulnerability in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight	0
Digging up Emerson’s Garden: Competing Notions of Transcendentalist Temporality in the Dial	0
From Dublin, Ireland, to Vestal, Tennessee: Snowfall and Memory in James Joyce’s “The Dead” and the Third Part of Cormac McCarthy’sThe Orchard Keeper	0
The Influence of Alexandre Dumas in Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	0
George Henry Lewes’ Diary for 1870	0
Shakespearean Echoes in Beaumont’s The Knight of the Burning Pestle	0
Setting the Stage for Self-Determined Identity: Amiri Baraka‘s Dutchman as Political Myth	0
Jig’s Polemics in “Hills like White Elephants”	0
The Fascination of Corruption: Oscar Wilde and Pater’s Leonardo da Vinci	0
Dogwood, Whippletree , and Swingletree : Cross-Referential Etymologies	0
The Ghostliness of the Proper Name in Shakespeare’s Hamlet	0
“The Robber’s Daughter” and “Die Nymphe des Brunnens”	0
Philip Hobsbaum and British Poetry Anthologies at the End of the Twentieth Century	0
Some Notes on the Rhetoric of Macbeth ’s “If It Were Done” Soliloquy	0
Relocating the Sacred: Evolving Perceptions of Faith in Don DeLillo’sFalling Man	0
Bodies With/Out Souls: The Material Vs. The Immaterial in Issac Asimov’s The Bicentennial Man	0
“Lyell’s Hypothesis Again”: Kenneth Rexroth’s Diction of Stone	0
Body as a Metaphor in Doris Lessing’s “To Room Nineteen”	0
An Icelandic Unferð in Illuga Saga Gríðarfóstra	0
Reading and Reworking the Bard in Amherst, Massachusetts: Allusions to William Shakespeare’s Tragedies in Three of Emily Dickinson’s Poems	0
“Mr. Britnell Knew Nothing of It“: The Other Protagonist in M. R. James’s “The Mezzotint”	0
Edgar’s Cliff: The View from a Height in King Lear	0
Playing the Dozens: Etymology Reconsidered	0
The Composition of the Offa Digression and Its Rhetorical Purpose in Beowulf	0
“Potatosoap”: Moly in James Joyce’s Ulysses	0
The Date of Composition of D. H. Lawrence’s “Insouciance”	0
“Isn’t this the ending of Fahrenheit 451?”: The Intertextual Intersection of Fahrenheit 451, Fight Club, and Adjustment Day	0
F. Scott Fitzgerald and Willa Cather: A Literary Relationship in Letters	0
Cognitive Embedding in Retrospective Focalization in Robinson Crusoe : Self-Alienation, Moral Self-Fashioning, and Rhetorical Effect	0
The Question of Mrs Costello’s Hostility in Henry James’s “Daisy Miller”	0
Intergenerational Rebellion in Edmund Gosse’s Father and Son	0
A Posthumanist Reading of the Dog in The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket	0
On the Differences between Gulliver’s Travels and Han Man You	0
The Prologue to Romeo and Juliet in Q1 (1597) and Q2 (1599): Purpose, Precedence, and Value	0
Echoes of the Biblical Story of Joseph and His Brothers in Willa Cather’s O Pioneers!	0
Johnson’s Circle, Conversation, and Civil Society	0
An Unremarked Collocation	0
The Theoretical Cornerstone and Central Concept of Ethical Literary Criticism: Ethical Choice	0
Paradise Lost : Milton’s Last Poem	0
Emersonian Borrowings in Two Early Poems of Wallace Stevens	0
“The Blot Inside: Jonathan Lethem’s A Gambler’s Anatomy , Lack, Dissent, and Corporate Power”	0
Dreaming of Cicero in John Gower’s Cultor in ecclesia	0
“Punish with Impunity”: The Unreliable Narration in “My Purple Scented Novel”	0
Enter Ftatateeta: Name Symbolism in Bernard Shaw’s Caesar and Cleopatra	0
Face and Ethics in Frank O’Connor’s “Guests of the Nation”	0
Plague Writing and Quarantine in Zijian Chi’s Snow Crow	0
The Masculinity Crisis Manifested by Sound and Voices in T. S. Eliot’s Early Poetry	0
Katherine Mansfield’s “Bliss”: A Portrait of the Bourgeoisie	0
Coriolanus and Failures of Listening	0
Reconstructing the Original Beasts and Super-Beasts by “Saki,” or How a Short Story Collection Took Shape	0
Social and Ecological Relationships in South Korean Quarantine and COVID-19 Literature	0
Foot Picts: Faerie Lore and the Second Sight	0
“Willing to Remember Jim”: Narrative as Mediation	0
Heremod and the Jutes	0