Anq-A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles Notes and Reviews

Article	Citations
The Limits of Language and the Fragmentation of the Western Mind in John Burnside’s the Dumb House	3
“I Reed a Hard Readinge a whill”: Reconstructing the Reading of Lady Margaret Hoby	3
Confucian and Taoist Wisdom of Williams’s Political Poetry in the 1930s	2
Ethics of Narrative	2
Trauma Narrative and Reconstruction of Ethical Identity in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Gravel Heart	2
“In the Grip of Grue”: The Fascination with Horror in Cormac McCarthy’s Suttree	1
Grit , True and Otherwise	1
Marlowe’s “Faustus”, the Horse-Courser, and Werewolves	1
Auden-Byron Parallel: Lord Byron’s Don Juan as Intertext in W. H. Auden’s Travel Writing	1
A Bergsonian Reading of The Ha-Ha by Jennifer Dawson	1
On the Road to Damascus in Henry James’s “The Jolly Corner”	1
Twee ‘Dainty, Quaint, Precious, mawkish’	1
A Woman with Hallucination: Hyperesthesia and Tropical Medicine in E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India	1
Articulating Asia in the Age of Capitalocene: Techno-Orientalism in Three Cli-Fi Novels	1
Brian Vickers Gentle Shakespeare and Arden of Faversham Another View	1
Correction	1
Exhausting Totalization: Vito Acconci’s “Margins on This Paper are Set”	1
A Roundtable Discussion of Transnational Crusoe, Illustration and Reading History, 1719–1722	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
Narrating Rome: Urban Imagination and Narrative Limits in Mark Twain’s The Innocents Abroad	1
Fascination in Rudyard Kipling’s “Gunga Din”: Exploring the Ambivalence of the Imperial Gaze	1
Minor Germanic Deities and the Etymology of Beowulf’s Name	1
Voices from an Enclosed Commons: John Clare’s Ecological Textuality and the Archive of Lost Nature	1
Norse Mythology and the Nine Herbs Charm	1
How to Understand AI Literature from the Perspective of Ethical Literary Criticism	0

Symbolic Meanings of Sugarcane with Salt by James Ng’ombe	0
“A Small Lantern in His Hand”: Evoking Diogenes in H. G. Wells’s “In the Avu Observatory”	0
Food Writing in Zakes Mda’s Novels	0
Arthurian Sacrificial Meaning in the Western Legacy: Death and Rhetorical Leadership in Pericles’ Funeral Oration	0
Eleven Alexander Baron Letters	0
“I am Rather Morbid”: An Unpublished George Eliot letter to Sir Henry Maine	0
The Irony of the Intellectual Hero and Academic Community Transformation in The History Man	0
Charles Henry Smith, Florida Promoter	0
“Worldes Faierie”: The Narrative Controversies over Constance in Confessio Amantis	0
The Lordlessness of the Danes in Beowulf	0
“She Dragged Herself Along”: The Limping Heroine in Edith Wharton’s “All Souls’”	0
Face and Ethics in Frank O’Connor’s “Guests of the Nation”	0
From Dismemberment to Departure: Embodied Resistance and the Disability Metaphor in Albee’s the American Dream	0
Nature as Home Through the Portrait of Goldberry and Tom Bombadil in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Old Forest	0
“And the Splendid Moment Had Come to Speak” Kristevan Subjectivity and Semiotic Silence in A White Heron	0
“How Many Trades Have I to Live By”: Women’s Informal Labor in Thomas Heywood’s The Wise-Woman of Hogsdon	0
Katherine Mansfield’s “Bliss”: A Portrait of the Bourgeoisie	0
A Bibliography of the Literary Works of Bernard Isaac Durward	0
Two Norse Literary Analogues of J. R. R. Tolkien’s Beacons of Gondor	0
More-Than-Human Warfare: Environmental Agency in The Things They Carried	0
Atticus Finch and the Unspoken: A Symptomatic Reading of To Kill a Mockingbird	0
The Open Wound: Writing Diaspora in Europe	0
The Fascination of Corruption: Oscar Wilde and Pater’s Leonardo da Vinci	0
Illness and Ethics of the Other in Philip Roth’s The Anatomy Lesson	0
Aemilia Lanyer and the New Astronomy	0
Foreword: The Ethics of Reading, Narrative, and Criticism	0
Jing (敬) and the Storm: Neo-Confucian Virtue in Joseph Conrad’s Typhoon	0
Byrhtwold’s Speech in The Battle of Maldon : A New Analogue in Saxo Grammaticus’s Gesta Danorum	0
Falconry in The Battle of Maldon and Kudrun	0
Old English Wlītan and Wlātian : Poetic Verbs of Looking (And Seeing)	0
The Portraitist as Failed Impressionist in Henry James’s “Flickerbridge”	0
Sankofa, Pets, and Familiars: How Animal Characters Encourage Interspecies Decolonization, Liberation, and Kinship in Alice Walker’sThe Temple of My Familiar	0
Quarantine and the Transformation of Power Dynamics during China’s War of Resistance against Japan	0
Is the Name Carfax in Arthur Conan Doyle’s “The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax” An Allusion to Oscar Wilde or Bram Stoker?	0
Two Possible Sources in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”	0
Transpositioning Diaspora: Assemblage, Mobility, and Writing	0
Repeated Phrases and Early Modern Authorship: Arden of Faversham as a Case Study	0
Variation and Reconstruction in Chinese Translations of Gulliver’s Travels , 1872-1948: Texts and Paratexts	0
Donning and Doffing the Clothing of Anthropocentrism in Octavia E. Butler’s Dawn	0
“The Robber’s Daughter” and “Die Nymphe des Brunnens”	0
The Mental Mapping of a Heterotopic Space in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake	0
Pricing and Competition in Early London Editions of Robinson Crusoe , 1719–1747	0
Arrested Initiation: An Existentialist Reading of Hemingway’s “Indian Camp”	0
“Soul Astray”: Spatial Trauma and the Fragmentation of Home in Elizabeth Bowen’s The Heat of the Day	0
The Neglected Aestheticism in Scotland: Robert Louis Stevenson’s Bohemian Aesthetics	0
George Eliot, Harriet Martineau, and the ‘Boldest’ Book in the English Language	0
Stillness in Locomotion: Exploring the Self-Dissolution of Urban Existence in Bowen’s To the North	0
Noise Without Work: “Objectless Blasting” and Negative Infrastructure in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness	0
“A Savoury Sacrifice to the Roman Belus”: An Example of John Owen’s Classical and Patristic Allusions in The Death of Death (1648)	0
Playing the Dozens: Etymology Reconsidered	0

Intellectual Pleasure: Solitary Leisure of the Jamesian Traveling Self	0
“Of Him the Harpers Sadly Sing”: Fragmentary Ballad Diction and Transmission in The Lord of the Rings	0
From Die Chymische Hochzeit to The Chymical Wedding : A Postmodern Recreation of a Seventeenth-Century Alchemical Fiction	0
Three Unpublished John Ruskin Letters	0
On the Differences between Gulliver’s Travels and Han Man You	0
Marie Hay’s The Evil Vineyard and Jung’s Memories, Dreams, Reflections	0
The Demonic Herd: A Markan Reading of Burke’s “Swinish Multitude” in Reflections on the Revolution in France	0
“It Merely Happens to One Man and Not to others”: An Unnoted Quote from T. S. Eliot in Dag Hammarskjöld’s Markings	0
Intergenerational Rebellion in Edmund Gosse’s Father and Son	0
Raymond Chandler’s Gun Play: Chapters 14-16 of The Big Sleep as Three-Act Farce	0
Reading and Reworking the Bard in Amherst, Massachusetts: Allusions to William Shakespeare’s Tragedies in Three of Emily Dickinson’s Poems	0
Inhabiting a Comfortable Fiction of the Self: J.M. Coetzee’s Summertime	0
Instruments of Passion: Media, Device, and Enchanted Consent in Busirane’s House	0
Unweaving the “Serican Canopy”: A New Source for Satan’s Shield in Paradise Lost	0
Sodomy and the M.O.A.I. Riddle in Twelfth Night	0
Slime, Gender, and Environment: Misogyny’s Slimic Entanglements with Ecophobia	0
George Henry Lewes’ Diary for January–March 1873	0
Madness as Resistance in Alice Walker’s By the Light of My Father’s Smile	0
The Question of Mrs Costello’s Hostility in Henry James’s “Daisy Miller”	0
Knitting Time: Embodied Duration in Woolf’s To the Lighthouse	0
George Henry Lewes’ Diary for January–March 1872	0
“A Man in Babylon”: The Brothel Motif in Twelfth Night	0
Washington Allston’s “Belshazzar”: The Key to Poe’s “The Masque of the Red Death”	0
The Theoretical Cornerstone and Central Concept of Ethical Literary Criticism: Ethical Choice	0
Dickinson’s Self-Cultivation, Optional Summer and Chinese Aesthetic	0
The Masculinity Crisis Manifested by Sound and Voices in T. S. Eliot’s Early Poetry	0
Properties of Death on and Under the Early Modern Stage	0
Asimov’s Epigrammatic Style	0
Two Unpublished Letters of Helen Maria Williams to Hester Lynch Piozzi	0
A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Chinese Yixiang and Western Image	0
Emily Dickinson’s Warning of the Power of Words in “A Man May Make a Remark –”	0
A Succinct Allusion to Hector of Troy in Lord Jim	0
Richard Aldington’s Allegory of Reading: The Eaten Heart	0
The Transformation of Mark Twain’s “The Californian’s Tale” into “Shan Jia Qi Yu”	0
Royal Wassail in Hamlet Reconsidered	0
Homeland Behind the Iron Curtain: Steinbeck’s Depoliticized Writing in A Russian Journal	0
Gissing’s Demos as an Antecedent of Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour”	0
Erasing Racial Boundaries in “Hiram Powers’ Greek Slave”	0
Of Peerie Bairns and Periwinkles	0
Enter Ftatateeta: Name Symbolism in Bernard Shaw’s Caesar and Cleopatra	0
Mixed-Race Flâneuse : Identity Quest Through Flânerie in Han Suyin’s The Mountain Is Young	0
The “Runaway Style”: Zadie Smith’s White Teeth as Diaspora Writing in the Age of Globalization	0
Nietzsche Rethought: Testing Virtue Ethics in John Banville	0
Quranic Textuality in Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”	0
Diaspora, Rebellion, and Reconfiguration: Forming Cultural Identity in Shirley Geok-Lin Lim’s Joss and Gold	0
The Image of Hats in Katherine Mansfield’s “The Garden Party”	0
Spunk, Gormless , and Their Multi-Factor Etymologies	0
Anne Sexton and the Affect of Ekphrasis	0
Rewriting the Sexual Contract in Octavia E. Butler’s “Bloodchild”	0
The Lady with the Camp: Mary Seacole’s Rivalry with Florence Nightingale	0
The Middle English Life of Christina Mirabilis by Thomas of Cantimpre´	0
Hamlet’s Task of Re-Membering	0
The Chinese Impact on African Literature	0
The Eastern Objects as Moral Others in Murdoch’s Jackson’s Dilemma	0
“I Never Make Mistakes”: Reimagining Victorian Heroines Through Lucilla’s Image in Margaret Oliphant’s Miss Marjoribanks (1866)	0
Cogito in Hell: Cartesian Dualism in Harlan Ellison’s “I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream” (1967)	0
Ian McEwan’s Nutshell : A Creative Misreading of Hamlet	0
An Unpublished Letter from Thomas Carlyle to His American Publisher Abraham Hart	0
Primo Levi’s “The Last One”: A Possible Context	0
Edward Robinson: A Forgotten English Performer on the Continent in 1711	0
Murtherers as Your Selues: Speech Ascription in King Richard III	0
Allen Ginsberg’s “China Works” and Poetics of “Unobstructed Breath”	0
Setting the Stage for Self-Determined Identity: Amiri Baraka‘s Dutchman as Political Myth	0
Hybrid Body-Making of the Chinese Diaspora and the Changing Global Landscape in Larissa Lai’s Salt Fish Girl	0
Insurrection and Narrativity: The Vitality of Clothes in Great Expectations	0
James Joyce’s Exile in the Context of an “Adhesive” Diaspora	0
The Brand New Native White Zimbabwean in Tendai Huchu’s The Hairdresser of Harare	0
The Nikeres of the Middle English Wade and Hildebrand Fragment	0
(Un)drawn Conclusions: The Visual Language in Breakfast of Champions	0
On the Dating and Source of OED Quotations	0
The Political Unconscious of Jackson Mac Low	0
Developing the Oppositional Gaze: Resistance to the Male Gaze in Jane Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea	0
Charles Dickens’s Public Readings in the Newspaper Reviews	0
Zombifying Bildung: The Posthuman Anti-Subject in Joyce Carol Oates’s Zombie	0
George Henry Lewes’ Diary for January–March 1871	0
Static and Dynamic: Chronotopes in The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African	0
A Symbiotic Reading of the Rabbit and Mulan in Transnational Writings	0
Drinks, Ballads, and the Logic of Commerce Revisiting Thomas Dekker’s The Shoemaker’s Holiday	0
Micro-Fascism in Contemporary Fiction: The Mis/Use of Canon in Roald Dahl’s Matilda , Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book	0
The Cosmology of Hank Morgan’s Daughter in A Connecticut Yankee	0

More Unpublished George Eliot-George Henry Lewes Letters	0
“The Blind Man Eats Many Flies”: From Folk Remedy to Folk Saying?	0
“The Blot Inside: Jonathan Lethem’s A Gambler’s Anatomy , Lack, Dissent, and Corporate Power”	0
The Ghostliness of the Proper Name in Shakespeare’s Hamlet	0
Diaspora: An Afterword	0
Echoes of the Biblical Story of Joseph and His Brothers in Willa Cather’s O Pioneers!	0
Lost Prose-Format Copies of Piers Plowman : Rejoinder	0
W. E. B. Du Bois’s “The Comet” and the Crisis of Black Manhood	0
An Unremarked Collocation	0
Cornix and May: Further Parallels in Gower and Chaucer	0
A Posthumanist Reading of the Dog in The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket	0
Illustrations as Media of Ethical Criticism in Whitefield’s Life of Pamela (1741)	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
Masculinity, Trauma, and Literary Rebellion: John Berryman’s Homage to Mistress Bradstreet	0
Heremod and the Jutes	0
Cosmic Egg and Infant Demiurge: Antecedents of McCarthy’s Judge Holden ( Blood Meridian )	0
The Cat “Looking” Back: Revisiting the “Poorness” of Animals in Hemingway’s “Cat in the Rain”	0
A Posthumanist Reading of the Voyage in “The White Ship”	0
Ecological Refusals: Animal Agency and the Unmaking of Empire in Doris Lessing’s The Grass is Singing (1950)	0
Shakespearean Echoes in Beaumont’s The Knight of the Burning Pestle	0
Hillbilly : Etymology, Semantics, and Topographical Allusion	0
Marxism as Perceived by Native Nigerian Writers	0
A Spatial Narrative Interpretation of The Story of an Hour	0
Antedatings of the OED Entry for Chinese Dragon	0
The Ethics of Reading Revisited in the Age of Artificial Intelligence	0
Sounding Resistance: The Politics of Voice in Thomas Wyatt’s ‘My Lute, Awake!’	0
Uncanny Economies: Philip Larkin’s “Toads” and “Toads Revisited”	0
Inhabiting a Damaged World: Utopian Ruins and Compromised Survival within the Anthropocene in Heroes and Villains	0
From “Abject Body” to “We”: Han Suyin’s Destination Chungking and Sino-Anglophone Solidarity During World War II	0
The Smell of Shaving Lotion in Death of a Salesman	0
“Medievalizing Complexity”: A Knights Hospitaller Allusion in M. R. James’s “The Mezzotint”	0
What are You Going to Do Now?: Intentional Action in The Graduate	0
Hijack : Etymology and History	0
Morrison’s The Bluest Eye and the Myth of Persephone: An Ecofeminist Critique	0
Correction	0
Correction	0
The Interaction of Qi-Things in the Anthropocene: A Study of Amy Tan’s Saving Fish from Drowning	0
Ethical Identity: A Keyword of Ethical Literary Criticism	0
Foot Picts: Faerie Lore and the Second Sight	0
John Brown as Launcelot: The Influence of Tennyson on Herman Melville’s “ The Portent ”	0
“A ‘Found’ Lyric of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: ‘Walter von der Vogelweide’”	0
Chaucer’s Wife of Bath and Clooth-Makyng	0
A Possible Source for Joyce’s “The Sisters” and Its Implications for Understanding His Early Style	0
Grendel and the Witches: Germanic Mythology and Beowulf Line 163	0
Sterne’s Eastern Rambles: Melancholy and Imperial Subjectivity in Tristram Shandy	0
“Laetitia Pilkington’s “ Verses Wrote in a Library ” and the Poetical Imagination”	0
Social and Ecological Relationships in South Korean Quarantine and COVID-19 Literature	0
British Theater and the Orientalist Imagination: The Ottoman Protest Over the 1893 Gaiety Theater Incident	0
Illustrations As Metatext in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas	0
Romantic Hypochondria as Metaphor for National Sensitivity in Mary Shelley’s The Last Man	0
‘New Themes for the Bold’: The POOL Group’s Prototypically Queer Perspectives on Cinema	0
Deep Time, Prehistoric Animals, and the Crystal: J. G. Ballard and Haeckel’s Evolutionary Biology	0
“Things in Heaven and Earth”: The Hamlet Allusions in H. G. Wells’s “In the Avu Observatory”	0
Roaming Pauses in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road	0
Functions of Stamps in Iris Murdoch’s Bruno’s Dream	0
Ideological Encounters: China’s Reception of George Orwell’s 1984	0
“Punish with Impunity”: The Unreliable Narration in “My Purple Scented Novel”	0
Rewriting the Human: AI, Ethics, and the Crisis of Community in Machines Like Me	0
Intercultural Spectacle in Asian Shakespeare Intercultural Archive (A|S|I|A)	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
A “Peculiarly American” Sense in T. S. Eliot’s “Tradition and the Individual Talent”	0
Affective Agency of the Floral Imagery in “Odour of Chrysanthemums”	0
Dogwood, Whippletree , and Swingletree : Cross-Referential Etymologies	0
The Nonhuman Turn inGravity’s Rainbow	0
Jewels in Mrs. Dalloway : Signifiers of Political Power and a New World Order	0
Crossing the Spheres: Female Sentiment and Political Power in Woman in the Nineteenth Century and Uncle Tom’s Cabin	0
Katherine Mansfield’s “ Je ne parle pas français ”: The Dandy and Transgressive Masculine Consumption	0
Aesthetical Ethics and the Subjectivity of AI Aesthetics	0
Lookism Before Lookism: Sir Walter Elliot in Austen’s Persuasion	0
Inkling ‘Hint, Intimation, Suggestion’	0
Specter of Shame: Social Melancholy and (De)pathologization of Femininity in Fae Myenne Ng’s Bone	0
George Henry Lewes’ Diary for 1870	0
The Romanticization of Cape Horn in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando	0
Disenchantment, Immigration and the Emergence of the Secular Self in V.S. Naipaul’s “One Out of Many”	0
An Early Fragment of Cormac McCarthy’s The Passenger	0
Geographies of Masculinity and Racial Anxiety in Jack London’s The Valley of the Moon	0
Antarctic Expedition and Geological Agency: A Posthumanist Reading of “At the Mountains of Madness”	0
Faces and Gazes in The Winter’s Tale	0
Behind Every Great Man: Phelps’ Profound Impact on Howells’ Portrayal of Female Characters	0
The Date of Composition of D. H. Lawrence’s “Insouciance”	0
New Evidence Against an Early Date for Hamlet	0
“Hic Jacet”: Oliver Onions’s Doppelganger Tale for the Artistic Types	0
Sherman Alexie’s “Green World” and Don Quixote	0
“Mr. Britnell Knew Nothing of It“: The Other Protagonist in M. R. James’s “The Mezzotint”	0
“Here is the Why-Poem”: Bodily Privacy in Anne Sexton’s “Wanting to Die”	0
Deconstructing “Novotny’s Pain”: From Absurd Diagnosis to Embodied Resistance	0
Some Overlooked Extracts from Mary Wollstonecraft’s Writings Published in Britain, 1792–1795	0
Performative Kingship: Aragorn’s ‘I’ In Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings	0
Cinematic Qualities and Visual Pleasure in John Updike’s “A&P”	0
Photographic Storytelling and Narrative Indeterminacy in Paul Auster’s “Auggie Wren’s Christmas Story” and Smoke	0
Literary Studies and Digital Archives: The Curious Case of the Epigraph in Gertrude Stein’s Three Lives	0
Angela Carter and the “Sociology of clothes” in The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman	0
Ought I To Worry? Christopher Isherwood’s Admirable Struggle With Spiritual Doubt	0
Waste, Toxicity, and Fluid Bodies: Reconfiguring Posthuman Diaspora in Waste Tide and Animal’s People	0
The Limping Man in Amelia Edwards’s “Was it an Illusion?“	0