Anq-A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles Notes and Reviews

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(The median citation count of Anq-A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles Notes and Reviews is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
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“I Reed a Hard Readinge a whill”: Reconstructing the Reading of Lady Margaret Hoby3
Marlowe’s “Faustus”, the Horse-Courser, and Werewolves2
Ethics of Narrative2
“In the Grip of Grue”: The Fascination with Horror in Cormac McCarthy’s Suttree1
Auden-Byron Parallel: Lord Byron’s Don Juan as Intertext in W. H. Auden’s Travel Writing1
Emerson and Marti: Kindred Spirits1
A Translation of a ‘Taoist Aesthete’: A Source for Lord Wotton’s Theory of “Self-Development” in Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray1
“Mercenaries Descending”: Ichabod Crane and His Headless Other1
Brian Vickers Gentle Shakespeare and Arden of Faversham Another View1
Minor Germanic Deities and the Etymology of Beowulf’s Name1
“Maybe the Symbols Don’t Mean What They Seem To”: Mary Elizabeth Counselman and the Language of Modernism1
The Limits of Language and the Fragmentation of the Western Mind in John Burnside’s the Dumb House1
A Woman with Hallucination: Hyperesthesia and Tropical Medicine in E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India1
Norse Mythology and the Nine Herbs Charm1
Twee ‘Dainty, Quaint, Precious, mawkish’1
Correction1
Byron’s the Bride of Abydos: A Tragic Love Poem?1
Grit , True and Otherwise1
The Hamlet Wager: Ods A’th Weeker Side1
Visions of Decadence: The Reimagining of Salome in fin de Siècle Art and Literature0
The Middle English Life of Christina Mirabilis by Thomas of Cantimpre´0
A Bibliography of the Literary Works of Bernard Isaac Durward0
Hillbilly : Etymology, Semantics, and Topographical Allusion0
The Rise of the Arm Chair and the Fall of the Discipline—Philosophy and Quarantine: An Introduction to the Quarantine Special Issue0
“A Small Lantern in His Hand”: Evoking Diogenes in H. G. Wells’s “In the Avu Observatory”0
Birds of a Feather: Gay Uncle Jack and Queer Cousin Francis inTo Kill a Mockingbird0
Intercultural Spectacle in Asian Shakespeare Intercultural Archive (A|S|I|A)0
“Medievalizing Complexity”: A Knights Hospitaller Allusion in M. R. James’s “The Mezzotint”0
The Quadrant and the Sextant: Taking the Measure of the Cosmos in Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick and Cormac McCarthy’s The Road0
Babbalanja’s Theurgy in Melville’s Mardi0
Angela Carter and the “Sociology of clothes” in The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman0
An Icelandic Unferð in Illuga Saga Gríðarfóstra0
Temporality and History in John Bale’s King Johan0
“It Merely Happens to One Man and Not to others”: An Unnoted Quote from T. S. Eliot in Dag Hammarskjöld’s Markings0
Two Possible Sources in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”0
Three Unpublished John Ruskin Letters0
Uncanny Economies: Philip Larkin’s “Toads” and “Toads Revisited”0
Byrhtwold’s Speech in The Battle of Maldon : A New Analogue in Saxo Grammaticus’s Gesta Danorum0
Hamlet Things Thus Unknown0
Cædmon, Daniel, and the Dreamer in The Dream of the Rood0
Stillness in Locomotion: Exploring the Self-Dissolution of Urban Existence in Bowen’s To the North0
The Female Prophet and Religious Re-visioning in Marilynne Robinson’s Lila0
“The Blind Man Eats Many Flies”: From Folk Remedy to Folk Saying?0
An Historical Source for the Indian Pre-history in Somerset Maugham’s The Hero0
Narrative Tension in A Narrow Fellow in the Grass0
“Old Buggers”: Graham Swift’s Last Orders and the Chatham Naval Memorial0
Literary Studies and Digital Archives: The Curious Case of the Epigraph in Gertrude Stein’s Three Lives0
Murtherers as Your Selues: Speech Ascription in King Richard III0
Reading and Reworking the Bard in Amherst, Massachusetts: Allusions to William Shakespeare’s Tragedies in Three of Emily Dickinson’s Poems0
The Heraldic Landscape in M. R. James’s “A Warning to the Curious”0
Roaming Pauses in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road0
A Detour in English Language: Reading The Joy Luck Club with Rey Chow0
Illustrating Gulliver and the Lilliputians in 1727 and 17280
Ian McEwan’s Nutshell : A Creative Misreading of Hamlet0
Inkling ‘Hint, Intimation, Suggestion’0
“How Many Trades Have I to Live By”: Women’s Informal Labor in Thomas Heywood’s The Wise-Woman of Hogsdon0
Face and Ethics in Frank O’Connor’s “Guests of the Nation”0
The Nonhuman Turn inGravity’s Rainbow0
George Henry Lewes’ Diary for 18700
“The Blot Inside: Jonathan Lethem’s A Gambler’s Anatomy , Lack, Dissent, and Corporate Power”0
Marie Hay’s The Evil Vineyard and Jung’s Memories, Dreams, Reflections0
The Task of the Chinese Translator: Charles Bernstein’s “A Test of Poetry”0
Some Overlooked Extracts from Mary Wollstonecraft’s Writings Published in Britain, 1792–17950
Nietzsche Rethought: Testing Virtue Ethics in John Banville0
Sir Orfeo as the Source for the Medieval Romance Topoi of Abduction and Otherworld Rampant within The Hobbit ’s Mirkwoo0
Plague and “Anti-Quarantine” Writing in Traditional Chinese Biography0
Bodies With/Out Souls: The Material Vs. The Immaterial in Issac Asimov’s The Bicentennial Man0
Atomic Priesthood(s) and the “Knowing Smirk” of the Wandering Jew in A Canticle for Leibowitz0
Rewriting the Human: AI, Ethics, and the Crisis of Community in Machines Like Me0
Body as a Metaphor in Doris Lessing’s “To Room Nineteen”0
A Posthumanist Reading of the Voyage in “The White Ship”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 Nicodemus0
The Origin of Faggot “Homosexual” and Its Historical Tie to Heresy0
A “Peculiarly American” Sense in T. S. Eliot’s “Tradition and the Individual Talent”0
Edgar’s Cliff: The View from a Height in King Lear0
The Theoretical Cornerstone and Central Concept of Ethical Literary Criticism: Ethical Choice0
Richard Aldington’s Allegory of Reading: The Eaten Heart0
The Composition of the Offa Digression and Its Rhetorical Purpose in Beowulf0
The Ethics of Reading Revisited in the Age of Artificial Intelligence0
Edward Robinson: A Forgotten English Performer on the Continent in 17110
Echoes of the Biblical Story of Joseph and His Brothers in Willa Cather’s O Pioneers!0
“Things in Heaven and Earth”: The Hamlet Allusions in H. G. Wells’s “In the Avu Observatory”0
Quranic Textuality in Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”0
New Evidence Against an Early Date for Hamlet0
A Posthumanist Reading of the Dog in The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket0
The Neglected Aestheticism in Scotland: Robert Louis Stevenson’s Bohemian Aesthetics0
Insurrection and Narrativity: The Vitality of Clothes in Great Expectations0
Sodomy and the M.O.A.I. Riddle in Twelfth Night0
The Date of Composition of D. H. Lawrence’s “Insouciance”0
Reconstructing the Original Beasts and Super-Beasts by “Saki,” or How a Short Story Collection Took Shape0
More Unpublished George Eliot-George Henry Lewes Letters0
Last of the Romans: Boffin, Belisarius, and the Collapse of Historical Distance in Dickens’s Our Mutual Friend0
Paradise Lost : Milton’s Last Poem0
“A Man in Babylon”: The Brothel Motif in Twelfth Night0
Reception, Translation, and British Liberalism’s Continental Roots: Augustin Filon on John Morley’s French Studies0
(Post)Feminism in the Vicki Barr Series: A Study of Helen Wells’ Peril over the Airport (1953)0
‘New Themes for the Bold’: The POOL Group’s Prototypically Queer Perspectives on Cinema0
Madness as Resistance in Alice Walker’s By the Light of My Father’s Smile0
“That Noisome and Contagious Receptacle”: Quarantine and Horror in Charles Brockden Brown’s “The Man at Home”0
Verbal Negative Contraction in Four Most Complete Witnesses to the Old English Bede0
The Fascination of Corruption: Oscar Wilde and Pater’s Leonardo da Vinci0
The Image of Hats in Katherine Mansfield’s “The Garden Party”0
“She Dragged Herself Along”: The Limping Heroine in Edith Wharton’s “All Souls’”0
Dickinson’s Non-Holding, “Sumptuous Destitution” and Emerson0
Suresby and Shallow0
Two Unpublished Letters of Helen Maria Williams to Hester Lynch Piozzi0
“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”: Robert Frost’s Comments on Emerson0
Quarantine and the Transformation of Power Dynamics during China’s War of Resistance against Japan0
The Masculinity Crisis Manifested by Sound and Voices in T. S. Eliot’s Early Poetry0
Motherhood and Its Intersection with Race in Toni Morrison’s Beloved0
Raymond Chandler’s Gun Play: Chapters 14-16 of The Big Sleep as Three-Act Farce0
Correction0
Adaptations of a Cultural Image: The Monkey King in Contemporary Overseas Chinese English Literature0
“Who Is the Real Protagonist?: Unreliable Narration and Narrative Maneuver in William Trevor’s “Gilbert’s Mother”0
“In the austere theatre of the Infinite”: Constructivist Abstraction as the Aesthetic Archetype in Mina Loy’s Ekphrases0
Setting the Stage for Self-Determined Identity: Amiri Baraka‘s Dutchman as Political Myth0
“Here is the Why-Poem”: Bodily Privacy in Anne Sexton’s “Wanting to Die”0
George Henry Lewes’ Diary for January–March 18720
(Un)drawn Conclusions: The Visual Language in Breakfast of Champions0
Slime, Gender, and Environment: Misogyny’s Slimic Entanglements with Ecophobia0
Correction0
The Portrayal of King Cynewulf in the Entry for 755 in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle0
Limestone, Language, and Play: On W. H. Auden’s “In Praise of Limestone”0
Jig’s Polemics in “Hills like White Elephants”0
Shangri-La and the Imperial Imagination in James Hilton’s Lost Horizon0
Dogwood, Whippletree , and Swingletree : Cross-Referential Etymologies0
Death by hari-kari in The Murder of Roger Ackroyd0
Spunk, Gormless , and Their Multi-Factor Etymologies0
Some Notes on the Rhetoric of Macbeth ’s “If It Were Done” Soliloquy0
“Things Can Always Get Worse”: Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield , William Shakespeare’s King Lear , and the Comitragic Arc of the Musse0
The Transformation of Mark Twain’s “The Californian’s Tale” into “Shan Jia Qi Yu”0
Textual Beadwork in Zitkala-Ša’s Autobiographical Essays0
“Lyell’s Hypothesis Again”: Kenneth Rexroth’s Diction of Stone0
John Brown as Launcelot: The Influence of Tennyson on Herman Melville’s “ The Portent0
An Early Fragment of Cormac McCarthy’s The Passenger0
“The Robber’s Daughter” and “Die Nymphe des Brunnens”0
Homeland Behind the Iron Curtain: Steinbeck’s Depoliticized Writing in A Russian Journal0
The Lordlessness of the Danes in Beowulf0
A Portrait of Stephen Dedalus in Heterotopias0
Playing the Dozens: Etymology Reconsidered0
Privileged Empathy in Susan Glaspell’s Trifles0
Architecture as Metaphor in Washington Irving’s “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”0
Falconry in The Battle of Maldon and Kudrun0
Dexter and Sinister in M. R. James’s “Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad”0
On Gendering the Speaker in Anne Vaughan Lock’s Meditation of a Penitent Sinner0
“I Never Make Mistakes”: Reimagining Victorian Heroines Through Lucilla’s Image in Margaret Oliphant’s Miss Marjoribanks (1866)0
“Maids Turn’d Bottels” in the Rape of the Lock : A Reconsideration0
Cosmic Egg and Infant Demiurge: Antecedents of McCarthy’s Judge Holden ( Blood Meridian )0
“I am Rather Morbid”: An Unpublished George Eliot letter to Sir Henry Maine0
Emily Dickinson’s Measurement of Marriage in “I Gave Myself to Him–”0
Royal Wassail in Hamlet Reconsidered0
“You Horrible Lovely Genius”: Assia Wevill, Storytelling, and Feminist Recovery0
Coriolanus and Failures of Listening0
Behind the Scenes: Exposing the American West in Peter Handke’s Short Letter, Long Farewell0
The Ethics of the Text: Codifying Ethical Chronotopes in Tennyson’s Patriotic War Poems0
Echoes of Hesiod’s Works and Days in T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land0
Samson Agonistes as a Possible Source for a Punctuation Effect in Tennyson’s “Tithonus”0
“Hic Jacet”: Oliver Onions’s Doppelganger Tale for the Artistic Types0
Enter Ftatateeta: Name Symbolism in Bernard Shaw’s Caesar and Cleopatra0
Literary Cartography and Planetary Poetics in Lord Jim0
Katherine Mansfield’s “Bliss”: A Portrait of the Bourgeoisie0
Illustrations As Metatext in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas0
Foot Picts: Faerie Lore and the Second Sight0
Specter of Shame: Social Melancholy and (De)pathologization of Femininity in Fae Myenne Ng’s Bone0
Intergenerational Rebellion in Edmund Gosse’s Father and Son0
Sankofa, Pets, and Familiars: How Animal Characters Encourage Interspecies Decolonization, Liberation, and Kinship in Alice Walker’sThe Temple of My Familiar0
Repeated Phrases and Early Modern Authorship: Arden of Faversham as a Case Study0
Johnson’s Circle, Conversation, and Civil Society0
Mixed-Race Flâneuse : Identity Quest Through Flânerie in Han Suyin’s The Mountain Is Young0
Gissing’s Demos as an Antecedent of Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour”0
Two Norse Literary Analogues of J. R. R. Tolkien’s Beacons of Gondor0
Quarantine Then and Now: Reflections on Year of Wonders and COVID-190
Audience Regained: Reconsidering Othello’s Enargeia and Self-Alienation0
“Punish with Impunity”: The Unreliable Narration in “My Purple Scented Novel”0
Variation and Reconstruction in Chinese Translations of Gulliver’s Travels , 1872-1948: Texts and Paratexts0
Heremod and the Jutes0
Plague Writing and Quarantine in Zijian Chi’s Snow Crow0
Interest Theory and Slingsby Bethel in Absalom and Achitophel0
Grendel and the Witches: Germanic Mythology and Beowulf Line 1630
Cinematic Qualities and Visual Pleasure in John Updike’s “A&P”0
“Willing to Remember Jim”: Narrative as Mediation0
Philip Hobsbaum and British Poetry Anthologies at the End of the Twentieth Century0
The Eagle Has Landed: A Prophetic Pun in John Gower’sCronica tripertita0
Rewriting the Sexual Contract in Octavia E. Butler’s “Bloodchild”0
Creating the New Breed of Comic Heroine in Elizabeth Polwhele’s the Frolicks (1671)0
The Mental Mapping of a Heterotopic Space in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake0
The Cosmology of Hank Morgan’s Daughter in A Connecticut Yankee0
On the Dating and Source of OED Quotations0
“Mr. Britnell Knew Nothing of It“: The Other Protagonist in M. R. James’s “The Mezzotint”0
The Political Unconscious of Jackson Mac Low0
Old English Wlītan and Wlātian : Poetic Verbs of Looking (And Seeing)0
Charles Dickens’s Public Readings in the Newspaper Reviews0
Antarctic Expedition and Geological Agency: A Posthumanist Reading of “At the Mountains of Madness”0
Kyd, Shakespeare, and Arden of Faversham: Rerunning a Two-Horse Race0
Sterne’s Eastern Rambles: Melancholy and Imperial Subjectivity in Tristram Shandy0
The Plague in Romeo and Juliet: “The Day Is Hot”0
Julian Hawthorne Inscriptions in the Library of James Carleton Young0
American (Un)sustainability and Transcendental Resilience in Jack London’s The Scarlet Plague0
Tennyson’s Proof Copies Rejected by the Turkish Bureaucracy0
“Worldes Faierie”: The Narrative Controversies over Constance in Confessio Amantis0
Pricing and Competition in Early London Editions of Robinson Crusoe , 1719–17470
Charles Henry Smith, Florida Promoter0
Allen Ginsberg’s “China Works” and Poetics of “Unobstructed Breath”0
Erasing Racial Boundaries in “Hiram Powers’ Greek Slave”0
Social and Ecological Relationships in South Korean Quarantine and COVID-19 Literature0
Micro-Fascism in Contemporary Fiction: The Mis/Use of Canon in Roald Dahl’s Matilda , Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book , and Jamaica Kinca0
Quarantine Time is “Out of Joint”: Re-Stitching Time as Posthuman Temporalities in Emma Donoghue’sThe Pull of the Stars0
“Pulling Meaning” from the Earth: Blues Singing in Song of Solomon0
Nature as Home Through the Portrait of Goldberry and Tom Bombadil in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Old Forest0
Prosthetic Memory and Textual Inheritance: Reading Nicole Krauss’s The History of Love with Bernard Stiegler0
Inhabiting a Comfortable Fiction of the Self: J.M. Coetzee’s Summertime0
“Potatosoap”: Moly in James Joyce’s Ulysses0
Intellectual Pleasure: Solitary Leisure of the Jamesian Traveling Self0
An Unpublished Letter from Thomas Carlyle to His American Publisher Abraham Hart0
Shakespearean Echoes in Beaumont’s The Knight of the Burning Pestle0
Morrison’s The Bluest Eye and the Myth of Persephone: An Ecofeminist Critique0
Hijack : Etymology and History0
Cognitive Embedding in Retrospective Focalization in Robinson Crusoe : Self-Alienation, Moral Self-Fashioning, and Rhetorical Effect0
Cornix and May: Further Parallels in Gower and Chaucer0
Antedatings of the OED Entry for Chinese Dragon0
“It Was Left for Others to Speak”: Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the Civil War0
On the Differences between Gulliver’s Travels and Han Man You0
The Prologue to Romeo and Juliet in Q1 (1597) and Q2 (1599): Purpose, Precedence, and Value0
F. Scott Fitzgerald and Willa Cather: A Literary Relationship in Letters0
An Unremarked Collocation0
“David Foster Wallace’s ‘Incarnations of Burned Children’ as Transgressive Pragmatism”0
The Calm of the Wild: Memory, Inversion and Narrative Authority as a Function of Quarantine in Jack London’sThe Scarlet Plague0
Emersonian Borrowings in Two Early Poems of Wallace Stevens0
The Crisis and Rejuvenation of American Masculinity in Sinclair Lewis’s Arrowsmith0
Tracing Mangrove ’s Etymology: Plant Studies, Linguistic Circulation and Creole Culture0
Sherman Alexie’s “Green World” and Don Quixote0
Armand Aubigny’s Quest for Legitimacy0
Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea : Paired Oppositions as a Narrative Strategy0
Notes on Thomas Gray’s Poetic Coterie and Correspondence0
Emily Dickinson’s Warning of the Power of Words in “A Man May Make a Remark –”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
The Ghostliness of the Proper Name in Shakespeare’s Hamlet0
Functions of Stamps in Iris Murdoch’s Bruno’s Dream0
A New George Eliot Letter0
“Laetitia Pilkington’s “ Verses Wrote in a Library ” and the Poetical Imagination”0
Chaucer’s Wife of Bath and Clooth-Makyng0
George Henry Lewes’ Diary for January–March 18710
Conflicting Promises in the Book of Joshua and Chaucer’s “Franklin’s Tale”0
Faces and Gazes in The Winter’s Tale0
Masculinity, Trauma, and Literary Rebellion: John Berryman’s Homage to Mistress Bradstreet0
Issa and Ryokan in James Merrill’s the Book of Ephraim0
Thrones and Dominions/Dominations in the Old English Version of the Homiliary of Angers0
What are You Going to Do Now?: Intentional Action in The Graduate0
Washington Allston’s “Belshazzar”: The Key to Poe’s “The Masque of the Red Death”0
The Romanticization of Cape Horn in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando0
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