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Women, Language, and Education
A select, annotated bibliography of English and American studies of language and gender (“Sex in Language”), and the education of women, with particular reference to the 19th and early 20th centuries. With an Appendix on the portrayal of women in fiction.
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German Influence on English and American Language, Life and Letters
A select bibliography of English and German annotated texts relevant to German influence on English and American life and letters. With an appendix of the contributions of Henry Crabb Robinson.
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Physics and mathematics versus the language of literature and ambiguity: A methodological contrast
A contrast of Richard Feynman’s distinction between ‘physics’ and its mathematical representation with William Empson’s account of ‘ambiguity’ as a tool for the analysis of literary language.
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A terminological jeu d’esprit. Holzfeuer in einem hölzernen Ofen
A short study of interacting commonplaces in linguistics and literature, with particular reference to F. Mauthner’s expression ‘wood fire in a wooden stove’ in early American linguistics. 5 pp
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Charlotte Brontë and the Education of Women in the 19th Century
A survey of important sources for Charlotte Brontë’s knowledge of English linguistic norms, with an Appendix on James Joyce’s reference to Lindley Murray’s Exercises in English Grammar.
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Freudvoll, Leidvoll, Gedankenvoll
A supplement to ‘Hidden Parallels: Appendix 1’, giving additional information on Goethe’s text, together with musical settings and select performances.
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George Eliot (1819-1880), Daniel Deronda (1876) The 19C Context of Klesmer
Hidden Parallels in George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda
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