Taking Fidelity Philosophy: Romola and the Historical Novel as Translation

OLIVIA LINGYI XU



Not So "Simple as That": Institutional Racism and the Limits of Recognition in the Sax/ Davies Othello

J. GIOVANNI GLINBIZZI



The Stubborn Will to Mean: Sympathy, Rationality, and the Origins of Collecting Indigenous Bones in the Eighteenth Century

ROBBIE RICHARDSON



From the Divine to the Decadent - A history of British Aesthetic Teolology, 1800-1900

JOHN STOWELL



Milton and Some Extemporaries

ALEX WALTON



All White in the End: From the Passage of James Wait to the Passing of James Wait to the Passing of James Gatz; Intertextuality and the Riddle of Race in The Great Gatsby

RICHARD GABRI



The Multiple Invention of Magical Realism

FEDOR KARMANOV



The Folded Familiar Letter as Material and Chronotope

SARAH HAGGARTY



"An American Offer": Thomas Hardy and the Transatlantic Manuscript Trade, 1890-1929

EVA DEMA



Interpersonal Field: Characters, Narrators, and Readers in Aphra Behn's Oroonoko

ALEXANDER BUCKLEY

Feelings of Expectation: Consolation and Sentimental Allegory in the Contemporary Novel

FINTAN CALPIN



Alternative Geographies and Urban Parks: Duse Mohamed Ali and Yoshio Markino in Imperial London

ELIZABETH F. EVANS



Worldbuilding in Clarissa

THOMAS SALEM MANGANARO



Brave New World and the Rise of the Factory Farm

STEWART COLE



Rhetorical Materialism: Karl Marx and the Nineteenth-Century Writer as Weaver

KEVIN KING



"We Should Be Colliers": Coal, Contagion and the Elizabethan Theater

CHLOE KATHLEEN PREEDY



Situational Awareness in Emma

CHRISTOPHER R. MILLER



"Not a Matter of Any Importance": The Parentheses of Virginia Woolf

ISAAC GRUBER



The Absence of Allegory: A Brief History of Misreading the Structural Dynamics of Paradise Lost

CATHERINE GIMELLI MARTIN



Becoming Christopher Okigbo: Aestheticism, Teleology, History

ALEKSANDAR STEVIC

965__ Real Estate and the Millenial Romance

SEO HEE IM



989__ Small Press Exoticism: Rabindranath Tagore and the Late Arts and Crafts Movement

ANNA PREUS



1019__ Taking Poetry Seriously

CHRIS TOWNSEND



1049__ Pregnant Poems: Margaret Cavendish and the Immanence of Form

SHANNON FOREST



1079__Henry James' Rhythms

JAMES LELLO



1109__ Squandered Art: Edith Wharton and the Erotics of Collecting

CHIP BADLEY



1137__ Defamiliarization and the Romantic War on Habit: Edmund Burke, William Godwin, Samuel Taylor Coleridge

BEATRICE SANFORD RUSSELL



1169__ Wayward Witches: Macbeth and the Specter of the Overbury Scandal

MICHAEL VACLAV



1199__ The Political Climate: Ecocritism and the Apocalytic Tone

JONATHAN BASILE



1235__ Counting to Infinity: The Rhetoric of the Line Number in English Poetry

ALEXANDER BURDGE

Volume 92.3, Fall 2025


Essays from the 2023 English Institute: Catastrophe

- Your Studies Shall Become Life Studies (Sonya Postmentier)

- Anti-Catastrophe from Marvell to Gaza (Feisal G. Mohamed)

- Predatory Optimism: Earthquake and Elsewhere Catastrophe (Anna Brickhouse)

- Migrant Crash (Joseph Jonghyun Jeon)

- Accumulated Catastrophes (Jodi A. Byrd)

- Carvaggio's America (Edgar Garcia)

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Essays from the 2024 English Institute: Expression (Jennifer L. Fleissner and Shonni Enelow)

- Clouds, Bubbles, Teardrops: Anne Finch's Poetic of Paraphrase (Courtney Weiss Smith)

- For the Love of Reading (Kevin Quashie)

- Yours Truly, or Free Expression in the Post-War: Murdoch, Anscombe, Orwell (Nancy Yousef)

- Cat Got Your Tongue (Caleb Smith)

- Wilde at Heart (Karen Tongson)

- Robot Bodies (Tina Post)

- Between Voice and Name, or, Chaucer Theorizes Literary Person-Making (Julie Orlemanski)

ELH Volume 92.1, Spring 2025



1___ Motor Types: Vernon Lee's Kinaesthetics

Megan Girdwood



33__ Qui et quels nous sommes? The Poetics of Address in Aimé Césaire's Cahier d'un retour au pays natal and Edward Kamau Brathwaite's The Arrivants

Aliya Ram



65__ Sermons and Novels: Personifying Conscience i Sterne's Tristram Shandy

Joshua R. Held



97__ God's Act of Knowing: Henry Vaughan, Participatory Attention, and the Eschatological Restoration of the Creatures

Travis Decook

119_ Anti-Abolitionism, US-Southern Writers, & the "Negatively Capable" Poet John Keats

Amanda Louise Johnson



147_ "Reader, Be Assured, this Narrative is No Fiction": Harriet Jacobs and the Print History of Samuel Richardson's Pamela

Emily Gowen



175_ Elegies for the Planet

Jahan Ramazani



211_ Interpretation as Ethical Life: From Scriptural Hermeneutics to Tragic Responsibility in Adam Bede

Ben Parker



235_ The Public and its Problems: Sacco and Vanzetti, Dewey, Dos Passos, and Activist Literary Publics in the 1920s

Mark Whalan



263_ Between Law and Nature: The Similes of Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes

Ben Labreche

_907_ Introduction to Essays from the English Institute 2022: Action

Sandra Macpherson and Martin Harries



_915_ Pond, Pottering, Potentiality: Action and Its Critics

Jennifer Fleissner



_945_ Structuralist Violence

Yoon Sun Lee



_967_ Alexander Pope's Earthworks

Jonathan Kramnick



_993_ Acting the Part

Shonni Enelow



_1011_ The Great Space

David Marriott



_1055_ Exile, Diaspora, and Sovereignty: Rethinking the Medieval Canon on Indigenous Lands

Suzanne Conklin Akbari



_1083_ Thomas Hardy's Betraying Heart: Realism and Bodily Affect

Doug Battersby



_1111_ Rabelais in the Whig World: Religious Persecution, Forced Migration, and the Politics of Literary Translation in Post-revolutionary England

Nicholas McDowell



_1139_ How To Do Things While Saying Nothing: Illocutionary Dissimulation in Milkman

Annabel Quinn Barry



_1167_ "Can She the Bodiless Dead Espy?": Coleridge and the Hermeneutics of Ghost Seeing

Alex Thomas

_599_ Friendship and Its Logics in Amis and Amiloun

Elliot Kendall



_629_ Poetry and the Inapprehensible: A Genealogy

Eric Weiskott



_663_ "Cease, Be Dumb and Mute" : George Herbert's Ars Moriendi and the Poetics of Self-Discipline

Promise Li



_695_ "Lie thee down, oddity!": Plot and Its Resistance in the Richardsonian Novel

Bethany Creed



_727_ Towards the Condition of Birdsong

Julia Laurel Mueller



_759_ The Reliability of Sensational Interpretation

Yao Ong



_783_ Satire vs. Sentiment: Mark Twain, Bella Z, Spencer, and the Subscription Book Market

Jessice Camille Jordan



_811_ Scrolling Along: Spatial Design as Narrative in Thomas Hardy

John P. Farrel



_843_ The Pole and The Tree: Zitkála-šá's "Consciousness" and the New Thought

Lloyd Alimboyao Sy



_873_ Mobilizing Literature: Social Movements and Post-1945 US Literary Studies

Jeffrey Lawrence

_1_ Written in Haste: Practical Letters and Everyday Criticism in the Fifteenth Century

Daniel Wakelin



_29_ Bombast Circumstance: Linguistic Creativity and Aesthetic Judgement in Early Modern Tragedy

Matthew Hunter



_61_ Against Literary Property: Arthur Murphy and the Copyright Metaphor in Eighteenth-Century England

Jane Wessel



_93_ Precisely Knowing Not: Emily Dickinson and Generative Negation

Camila Ring



_123_ Vernon Lee: Art Lover

Elizabeth Greeniaus



_149_ Race Rent, and the Grid: Structure and Culture in Henry James's "The Jolly Corner"

Brian Gingrich



_181_ Wordsworth, Shelley, and Hardy: The Inheritance of Loss

Madeleine Callaghan



_207_ Margaret Walker and the WPA: Black Feminism, Progressive Government, and the Program Era

Eric Strand



_239_ Plath's German

Langdon Hammer



_263_ Patience Agbabi, The Canterbury Tales, and Polyhistorical Form

Peter Miller

_609_ Print Elegies, Henry Vaughan, and the Everyday Deaths of War

Catharine Gray



_639_ Imoinda's Rebellion: Sovereignty, Slavery, and the Ancient Constitution in Aphra Behn/s Oroonoko

Sarah Marsh



_667_ Fops vs Tops: Character and Attention in The Country Wife

Eve Houghton



_693_ Addison's Classical Criticism and the Origins of Eighteenth-Century Aesthetics

Paul Davis



_723_ Form, History, and the Politics of Lyric in Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind"

Eric Tyler Powell



_767_ "Bird, Jewel, or Flower?": On the Tokenization of Nineteenth-Century Women's Poetry

Kylan Rice



_799_ "Gardens of Decay": Decomposing Nature in Frederick Goddard Tuckerman's American Sonnets

Zoë Pollak



_827_ "Who Could Say Now with What Passion?": Reimagining Henry James and "The Beast in the Jungle"

Christopher Stuart



_851_ T. S. Eliot and the Problem of the Archive

Nicholas Smart



_883_ Tillie Olsen's Reproductive Aesthetics

Louise McCune

_309_ Milton, Time, and Narrative: "Now, / While Time Was"

Judith H. Anderson



_337_ Fielding's Prepositions: Eighteenth-Century Historiography and the Novel

Sean Silver



_367_ Stedman's Horror, Blake's Indifference

Li Qi Peh



_393_ Coleridge and the Fear of Utopia

Ben Hewtt



_425_ Eat, Write, Dramatize: Young Bengal's Gastro Drama

Meghna Sapui



_457_ "The Right Use of Reason": Virginia Woolf, Isaac Watts, and Logic

Sangam MacDuff



_491_ The Forgetting of Idealism: T.S. Eliot, Robert Browning, and the Origins of Literary Criticism

Mark Taylor



_519_ Joyce-Pidgin-Man

Marta Figlerowicz



_549_ Hear Here: A Homophone in English Poetry

Ross Wilson



_577_ Cromwell on the World Stage: Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall and the Historical Novel After Globalization

Kevin Gallin