List: Academic Writing | Curated by Allen Michie

Dec 3, 2024
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Academic Writing
Allen Michie
Book Review: Anahid Nersessian’s “Keats’s Odes: A Lover’s Discourse” — More like a QuarrelKeats’s Odes: A Lover’s Discourse by Anahid Nersessian. University of Chicago, 160 pages, $20.
May 5, 2023
May 5, 2023
Allen Michie
New Historicism and Jurassic ParkConsider the word “pastime.” It’s a word with connotations of triviality, harmlessness, and ephemerality. No doubt the word has its origins…
Mar 11, 2023
Mar 11, 2023
Allen Michie
Between Calvin and Calvino: Postmodernism and Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s ProgressThe Pilgrim’s Progress is currently one of the most unpopular works among English literature’s greatest best-sellers, one of the most…
Mar 11, 2023
Mar 11, 2023
Allen Michie
Richardson and Fielding: the Dynamics of a Critical RivalryChapter 1
Mar 11, 2023
Mar 11, 2023
Allen Michie
Review of Disrupted Patterns: On Chaos and Order in the Enlightenment, edited by Theodore E.D.Now for something that has not been discussed in the pages of Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation for quite some time. Dr. Lynn…
Mar 19, 2023
Mar 19, 2023
Allen Michie
New Philosophy Calls All in Doubt: Chaos Theory and the Fractal Poetics of John DonneOne of the few unbroken threads in John Donne’s critical reception history is the attempt to find inconsistency in his biography and…
Mar 19, 2023
Mar 19, 2023
Allen Michie
Preface to Style: Essays on Renaissance and Restoration Literature and Culture in Memory of…The first words of Harriett Hawkins’ first book are a quotation from John Dryden:
Mar 19, 2023
Mar 19, 2023
Allen Michie
Gulliver the Houyahoo: Swift, Locke, and the Ethics of Excessive Individualism“Wherein then, would I gladly know, consists the precise and unmovable Boundaries of that Species?” — Locke, An Essay Concerning Human…
Mar 24, 2023
Mar 24, 2023
Allen Michie
Far from Simple: Sarah Fielding’s Familiar Letters and the Limits of the Eighteenth-Century SequelSarah Fielding is clearly one of the most important novelists of the eighteenth century. Not only is she widely acknowledged now as a…
Mar 24, 2023
Mar 24, 2023
Allen Michie
Review of A New Species of Criticism: Eighteenth-Century Discourse on the Novel by Joseph F.Reviewing Joseph F. Bartolomeo’s first book is a humbling task. Any reviewer risks the hypocrisy of missing the point in the very act of…
Feb 18, 2023
Feb 18, 2023
Allen Michie
Review of Tassie Gwilliam’s Samuel Richardson’s Fictions of GenderReaders hailed Samuel Richardson as a genius in his own day for the morality of his novels, and morality had everything to do with sex. In…
Feb 18, 2023
Feb 18, 2023
Allen Michie
Unchained Melody: Postmodernism and Twentieth-Century MusicThere is traditionally no such thing as postmodern music. Chapters with that heading will rarely be found in books of music history. In…
Feb 18, 2023
Feb 18, 2023