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From:The Atlantic (Vol. 293, Issue 1)How--without feeling as addled as its hero--to try to say something new about Don Quixote? About the work once singled out by the Nobel Institute as the greatest novel of all time? After imperishable tributes by...
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From:Daedalus (Vol. 136, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed"Love variously doth various minds inspire," wrote Dryden, but for many of us true sexual eccentricity remains difficult to comprehend. We still don't have the words. Granted, in most modern liberal societies, you can...
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From: Masquerade and Civilization: The Carnivalesque in Eighteenth-Century English Culture and Fiction[In the essay that follows, Castle characterizes A Simple Story as subversive because it both uses and mocks sentimental literary conventions.] Moving from [Fanny] Burney's novel to Elizabeth Inchbald's A Simple Story,...
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From: Masquerade and Civilization: The Carnivalesque in Eighteenth-Century English Culture and Fiction[(essay date 1986) In the following essay, Castle argues that, whereas the eighteenth-century male writer treated fictional depictions of the masquerade as a chance temporarily to “relinquish ideological control over the...
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From: Sexual Sameness: Textual Differences in Lesbian and Gay Writing[(essay date 1992) In the following essay, Castle discusses Warner's Summer Will Show as a lesbian novel.] What is a lesbian fiction? According to what we might call the 'Queen Victoria Principle' of cultural analysis,...
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From: New Republic[(essay date 14 October 2002) In the essay below, Castle presents a detailed overview of The Lives of the Muses, praising Prose's narrative skill, but questioning the ideological premise of the work.] Back when I was a...
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From: Times Literary Supplement[(essay date 2 June 1989) In the following essay, Castle discusses Sexchanges, and reviews Gubar and Gilbert's argument that men's deaths have sparked women's creativity.] In Sexchanges, the latest instalment of No...
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From: Studies in English Literature 1500-1900[(essay date summer 1982) In the following essay, Castle interprets Pamela in light of the Freudian notion of the castration complex. Castle concludes that Pamela's eventual union with Mr. B. must be inevitable, as the...