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Publications and Societies

Sydney Studies in English

 

Sydney Studies in English is an annual publication devoted to criticism and scholarship in English literature and drama. It is also designed to strengthen the relationship between the University and the study of English at the senior secondary level.

The publication is jointly sponsored by the Department of English, University of Sydney and the English Association (Sydney Branch).

Subscriptions ($A16.50, including postage) are payable to Sydney Studies in English, Department of English, University of Sydney, N.S.W., 2006, Australia.

The following editions are available from the Department of English Literature. All back issues are available at the cost of $6.00 each, or 6 issues for $30.00.

Volume 4, 1978
David L. Frost, Othello and the Democrats
E.A.M. Colman, Othello and the sense of an Ending
Simon Petch, Tennyson: Mood and Myth
Barry Spurr, G.M. Hopkins - the Poet as Sacramentalist
Robert Speaight, T.S. Eliot as Dramatist
Peter Porter, The Achievement of Auden

Volume 5, 1979
Anthony J. Hassall Discontinuities in Gulliver's Travels
Penny Gay, The Romanticism of Persuasion
G.A. Wilkes, The "Compulsive Course" of Othello
J.F. Burrows, A Measure of Excellence: Modes of Comparison in Pride and Prejudice
David Brooks, Dryden and Juvenal's First Satire
Alison Walls, The Feud and Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet: a Reconsideration
A.P. Riemer and Ann Parker, Macbeth - Two Notes
Derek Peat, The New Shakespeare: Text and Performance (review article)

Volume 6, 1980
David Boyd, The Player Prince: Hal in Henry IV Part I
The Ethical Mode of Pride and Prejudice
F.H. Langman, Truth and Effect in The Duchess of Malfi
P.D. Edwards, Daniel Deronda: New Elements and Long Familiar Types
A.P. Riemer, 'A World of Figures': Language and Character in Henry IV Part 1
Margaret Harris, An Unpublished Short Story by George Meredith
E.P. Shrubb, Reading Sons and Lovers

Volume 7, 1981
A.J.A. Waldock, Interpreting Henry IV: The Men in Buckram
William Christie, The Act of Love in Coleridge's Conversation Poems
Anthony Miller, Roles and Players in Henry IV Part I
Pamela Law, Reading Wuthering Heights
Judith Barbour, Euphemism and Paternalism in Our Mutual Friend
Barry Spurr, The Art of Robert Lowell
Barbara Caine G. H. Lewis and "The Lady Novelists"
Simon Petch, Little Dorit: Some Visions of Pastoral
Margaret Harris, Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles: Faithfully presented by Roman Polanski?

Volume 8, 1982
Derick Marsh, Macbeth: Easy Questions, Difficult Answers
Meredith Goulding, A Case for the Epigram: Ben Jonson's "Inviting a Friend to Supper"
G. L. Little, No Moral Miracle: A Reading of The Ancient Mariner
Michael Wilding, George Meredith's Beauchamp's Career: Politics, Romance and Realism
Brian Kiernan, Motives in the Narrative: Some Remarks on Huckleberry Finn
A. P. Riemer, The Poetry of Religious Paradox - T. S. Eliot and the Metaphysicals
Derek Peat and Tim Fitzpatrick, Macbeth in Performance
Lyndall Abraham, Alchemical Reference in Antony and Cleopatra

Volume 9, 1983
A. J. A. Waldock, Macbeth
Stephen Knight, Chaucer's Pardoner in Performance
Anthony Miller, Coriolanus: The Tragedy of Virtus
Robert W. Williams, Alexander Pope and Ut Pictura Poesis
Giulia Giuffre, Sex, Self and Society in Mansfield Park
Elizabeth Lawson, Stevie Smith and the Metaphors of Disengagement
A. P. Riemer, An Annotated Copy of The Faerie Queene

Volume 10, 1984
Michael Orange, Coherence and Incoherence in King Lear
Robert W. Williams, Images Reflect from Art to Art; Pope's Epistle to a Lady
Simon Petch, Character and Voice in the Poetry of Browning
Michael Haig, The Allegory of Great Expectations
Don Anderson, Can Strether Step Into the Same River Twice? The Ambassadors as Meta-novel
C.A. Runcie, Robert Lowell's, Skunk Hour: A Reading
Michael Wilding, Heart of Darkness
Derek Peat, Responding Blindly? A Reading of a Scene in King Lear
P.D. Edwards, Trollope's Letters


Volume 11, 1985
Anthony Miller, Hamlet: Mirrors of Revenge
Robert W. Williams, Fate and the Narrative of The Rape of the Lock
G. L. Little, "Do I Wake or Sleep?": Keats's Ode to a Nightingale
Pamela Law, Mary Clarke and the Nineteenth-Century Salon
G.A. Wilkes, The Mill on the Floss as Moral Fable?
Jennifer Gribble, The Fogginess of Heart of Darkness
E. P. Shrubb, The Girls and the Money: Reflections on The Great Gatsby
John Hardy and Nicholas Brown, Shelly's "Dome of Many-Coloured Glass"

Volume 12, 1986
David Frost, Constructing Hamlet's Mind
Robert W. Williams, A Poem is a Speaking Picture: Pope and Iconography
Oliver MacDonagh, The Church in Mansfield Park: A Serious Call?
Joanne Wilkes, Keats's Silent Historian: The "Ode on a Grecian Urn"
Ann Blake, The Fame of Sean O'Casey: A Reconsideration of the Dublin Plays
Stephen Knight, Re-Formations of the Thriller: Raymond Chandler and John Le Carre
Pamela Law, Seamus Heaney
Margaret Harris, Authors and Authority in Lives of Girls and Women

Volume 13, 1987
Ian Donaldson, Ben Jonson and the Story of Charis
A. P. Riemer, Deception in The Winter's Tale
Robert W. Williams, Pope and the 'Painted Scene'
Penelope Gay, Theatricals and Theatricality in Mansfield Park
G. A. Wilkes, Unconscious Motives in Jane Austen's Emma
Geoffrey Little, 'Kubla Khan': The Poet in the Poem
Axel Kruse, Bernard Shaw's Heartbreak House:The War in 'Neverland'

Volume 14, 1988
Derick R. C. Marsh, Othello Re-read
Maurice J. O'Sullivan, Shakespeare, Johnson and Wolsey: A Community of Mind
Robert W. Williams, Pope and the 'Microscopic Eye'
Catherine C. Runcie, Matthew Arnold's Christ and the Unity of Culture and Religion
Barry Spurr, Alienation and Affirmation in the Poetry of Philip Larkin
B. K. Martin, Le Carre's The Spy Who Came In From the Cold: A Structuralist Reading

Volume 15, 1989
Diane Speed, Character and Circumstance in The Franklin's Tale
Robert Williams, Critical Ideology: Pope's Epistle to Burlington
Penny Gay, A Changing View: Jane Austen's Landscape
Michael Orange, Aspect of Narration in Persuasion
William Christie, Wordsworth's Tintern Abbey, Inspiration or Aspiration?
David Kelly, The Gothic Game
Judith Johnston, Middlemarch: Medieval Discourses and Will Ladislaw
Don Anderson, 'A Fury of Intention': The Scandal of Henry James' The Turn of the Screw

Volume 16, 1990
Ruth Lunney, Faustus and the Angels
J.P. Roche, Henry IV Part I:Harmony of Contrasts?
Anthony Miller, Henry IV Part I Renaissance Ideologies
Lyndy Abraham, The Alchemical Code in Marvell's 'To His Coy Mistress'
Alan Urquhart, 'Wit' and 'Impertinence': The Elison of Class Difference in Pride and Prejudice
Geoffrey Little, The Ironic Impulse in Keats: Three Poems
Simon Petch, Law as Literature?
G. A. Wilkes, Autumn at Uppercross: A note on the Use of Landscape in Persuasion

Volume 17, 1991
A. P. Riemer, Anthony and Cleopatra Revisited
Jeanette D. Ferreira-Ross, Johson's Satire of Puritanism in The Alchemist
Geoffrey Little, Cleopatra's Barge
Michael Orange, Prudes, Lusciousness and Joseph Andrews
Gavin Edwards, The Illegitimation of Richard Savage
Deidre Coleman, Keats, Women, and the Demon Poesy
Penelope Pether, E. M. Foster's A Passage to India: A Passage to the Patria?
Joanne Wilkes, Jane Austen (Review)

Volume 18, 1992
R. L. P. Jackson, Imagining Anthony and Cleopatra
Anthony Miller, The Metamorphic Tragedy of Anthony and Cleopatra
Ian Donaldson, Volpone and the Ends of Comedy
G.A. Wilkes, The Dual Reading of Paradise Regained
Rodney Stenning Edgecombe, Marvell's 'The Garden' and the Arts Moriendi
Judith Johnston, Women and Violence in Dicken's Great Expectations
Emma Hardinge, Identity, Self and Shadow in Little Dorrit

Volume 19, 1993
Ian Donaldson, Invading Interpreters and Politic Picklocks: Reading Jonson Historically
A.P. Riemer, Troubled Speech: The Representation of Madness in Renaissance Drama
G.A. Wilkes, 'Excellent Dissembling': A View of Anthony and Cleopatra
Robert W. Williams, Alexander Pope - Artist
Heather Nielson, 'The face at the window: Gothic thematics in Frankenstein, Wuthering Heights, and The Turn of the Screw
William Christie, Nostalgia in Tennyson's 'Ulysses'
David Kelly, Telling Questions in Absalom, Absalom!

Volume 20, 1994
A. P. Riemer, The Promised End: Some Last Words on King Lear
James Tulip, The Intertextualities of Ben Johnson's Volpone
Andrew McRae, Landscape and Poverty in Seventeenth-Century Poetry
C. A Runcie, The Reader, The Interpreter and The Waste Land Recycled
G.A. Wilkes, The Narrator of Brighton Rock
Michael Lynch, Pinter and Foucault: Duologues as Discourse
G.A. Wilkes, The Stupefied Bystander: Complicity in The Taming of the Shrew?

Volume 21, 1995
David Kelly, The Canonization of John Donne
G. A. Wilkes, The Tempest and the Discourse of Colonialism William Christie, 'Impassioned Clay': Reading the Grecian Urn
Katherine Newey, 'What think you of books?': Reading Pride and Prejudice
Margaret Harris, Whose Middlemarch? The 1994 British Broadcasting Corporation Television Production
Heather L. E. Neilson, The Reluctant Voyeur: the spectator and the 'abject' in Gillian Mears' Finflour

Volume 22, 1996
Diane Speed, Quest and Question in The Wife of Bath's Tale
David Brooks, Hamlet: Prince of Denmark
Alan Urquhart, Hamlet and Revenge Tragedy: a Reappraisal
G.A. Wilkes, The Uncomprehending Narrator in The Ancient Mariner
R.S. Edgecombe, An Antecedent to The Eve of St. Agnes
Jennifer Gribble, The Hidden Shame: Telling Hetty Sorrel's Story
Heather Neilson A Reflection on the 'Culture Wars': Harold Bloom, Gore Vidal, and the Resistance of the Philistines

Volume 23, 1997
Adrian Mitchell, Tripping on the Light Fantastic: a bit of a look at Australian film
Anthony Miller, 'In this last tempest': Modernising Shakespeare's Tempest on film.
Penny Gay, Pictures of Perfection? Filming Jane Austen
C.A. Runcie, Recovering Meaning: Little Dorrit as Novel and Film
David Kelly, The Lady in the Frame: Two Portraits by Henry James and Jane Campion
Axel Kruse, The X Files: Entries on Meaning

Volume 24, 1998
Axel Kruse, The Herbal Bed: literary nostalgia, cinema, and romance
Peter Marks, Partial Transcripts: Dialogues with History in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale
Katherine Newey, Recent Readings of Othello
Margaret Rogerson, The Wife of Bath: standup comic
Noel Rowe, Much More You Could Say: Bruce Dawe's Poetry
Peter J Smith, 'A good soft pillow for that good white head': Othello as Comedy
Benjamin Vonwiller, The Spectre Shakespeare in Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildernstern are Dead

Volume 25 (1999)
Lloyd Davis The Plots of Othello: Narrative, Desire, Selfhood.
Markman Ellis Fictions of Science in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Will Christie The Metamorphoses of Frankenstein
Jennifer Gribble Postmodern Tess: Recent Readings of Tess of the d'Urbervilles
David Kelly The Lyricism of Nick Carraway
Monique Rooney Visions of Blindness: Narrative Structure in The Great Gatsby and Snow Falling on Cedars
Fiona Morrison Figures of the Many and the One: Genre and Narrative in Tim Winton's Cloudstreet

Volume 26 (2000)
Terry Collits Intimations of feminism in Ancient Athens: Euripides'
Medea
Margaret Rogerson The Truman Show: an Everyman for the 1990s
Geraldine Barnes Truth, fiction and the Daughter of Time
Noel Rowe Sonnets in print, worlds below: Seamus Heaney's deepening words
Katrine Sanders Polemical plot-coils: thematising the postmodern in A.S. Byatt's Possession
Peter Williams It's the body that matters: reticence and desire in Snow Falling on Cedars


Current Edition
The current edition, Volume 27, is available for $16.50 (including postage)

Philippa Kelly King Lear: Kinder casts for Goneril and Regan
Andrei Baltakmens Narrative Authority in Bleak House
Peter Marks Thinking on Paper: Incompleteness and the essay
Joel Gibson Authorcidal tendencies: Emma and less Clueless approaches to film adaptations of the canon
Barry Spurr True confessions? Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters
Axel Kruse After postmodernism: Literary theory, culture, and the new HSC English syllabus