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• The "loveliest and lordliest": gender and the spiritual journey in Charles Williams' All Hallows' Eve

  Author:Kathleen AndersonFrom:Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature (Vol. 60, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  Summer 20086,482 words Critical essay ALL of the relatively few scholars who have written about Charles Williams's last novel, All Hallows' Eve, seem to agree that it is rich with theological significance and portrays its characters as participants in a...

• Ecofeminism in Christina Rossetti's "Goblin Market"

  Authors:Kathleen Anderson and Hannah ThullberyFrom:Victorians: A Journal of Culture and Literature (Issue 126)

  Fall 20147,575 words Article Since its publication in 1862, Christina Rossetti's "Goblin Market" has sparked intense curiosity among critics. Although Rossetti's editor-brother, Michael Rossetti, claimed she disavowed complex literary or...

• The Jane Austen diet: the weight of women in Austen's letters

  Author:Kathleen AndersonFrom:Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal (Vol. 27)

  Annual 20055,314 words Article IF JANE AUSTEN WERE THE JUDGE of a beauty pageant today, who would be her winner? What image of the female body would she promote? In the novels, both robust and delicate women are portrayed as attractive. The athletic...

• Mrs. Jennings and Mrs. Palmer: the path to female self-determination in Austen's Sense and Sensibility

  Authors:Kathleen Anderson and Jordan KiddFrom:Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal (Vol. 30)

  Annual 20085,530 words Critical essay BEGINNING WITH THE TITLE OF Sense and Sensibility, Austen makes readers aware of the two archetypes to be explored. Austen's female bildungsroman is more nuanced than the title suggests at first glance, however, and...

• "I make the whole world answer to my art": Alice Meynell's poetic identity

  Author:Kathleen AndersonFrom:Victorian Poetry (Vol. 41, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Summer 20037,015 words Critical essay IN "A POET OF ONE MOOD," LATE-VICTORIAN POET ALICE MEYNELL DESCRIBES herself as a poet of "wild ways" who commands the world's attention with poetry that emanates from "One thought that is the treasure of my years...And...

• Shaping Self through Spontaneous Oral Narration in Richard Adams’ Watership Down

  From: Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts

  19933,013 words Critical essay [(essay date 1993) In the following essay, Anderson analyzes the origins of Watership Down as an oral narrative and examines the elements of spontaneous storytelling that survive in the written text. She argues that it...

• ‘Stab as Occasion Serves’: The Real Isabella in Marlowe’s Edward II

  Editors:George Walton Williams and Barbara J. BainesFrom: Renaissance Papers 1992

  19934,226 words Critical essay [(essay date 1993) In the following essay, originally delivered at a conference in 1992, Anderson summarizes critical complaints about the inconsistent development of characters in Edward II, particularly that of...

• Walking a Path toward Marriage in Persuasion

  From: Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal On-Line

  Winter 20073,329 words Critical essay [(essay date winter 2007) In the following essay, Anderson and VonderBecke explore the significance of walking as a metaphor for love and marriage in Persuasion.] Jane Austen integrates walking into Persuasion to aid...