Simon Dentith
Biographic Data
| ID | 1129933 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Simon Dentith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Simon |
| FAMILY NAME | Dentith |
| SIGNATURE | DENTITH S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Liverpool |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Doctor Thorne
‘Frank has but one duty before him. He must marry money.’ The squire of Greshamsbury has fallen on hard times, and it is incumbent on his son Frank to make a good marriage. But Frank loves the doctor's niece, Mary Thorne, a girl with no money and mysterious parentage. He faces a terrible dilemma: should he save the estate, or marry the girl he loves? Mary, too, has to battle her feelings, knowing that marrying Frank would ruin his family and fly …
‘All Livin Language is Sacred’
Phineas Finn
To become a member of the British Parliament!... He almost thought that he could die happy.’ Phineas Finn, the handsome Irishman, is equally successful at scaling the political ladder and gaining the affection of influential women. As he makes his precarious way in parliament he discovers how far principles must be sacrificed to the common cause, and how essential money is to political progress. Set during the turbulent passage of the second Refo…
Morris, ‘The Great Story of the North’, and the Barbaric Past
Epic and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Britain
In the nineteenth century, epic poetry in the Homeric style was widely seen as an ancient and anachronistic genre, yet Victorian authors worked to recreate it for the modern world. Simon Dentith explores the relationship between epic and the evolution of Britain's national identity in the nineteenth century up to the apparent demise of all notions of heroic warfare in the catastrophe of the First World War. Paradoxically, writers found equivalent…
Epic and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Britain
In the nineteenth century, epic poetry in the Homeric style was widely seen as an ancient and anachronistic genre, yet Victorian authors worked to recreate it for the modern world. Simon Dentith explores the relationship between epic and the evolution of Britain's national identity in the nineteenth century up to the apparent demise of all notions of heroic warfare in the catastrophe of the First World War. Paradoxically, writers found equivalent…
Heaney and Walcott
Seamus Heaney’s ‘The Ministry of Fear’, and Derek Walcott’s ‘Homecoming: Anse La Raye’, written within a few years of each other, bear some striking resemblances, which – together with their inevitable differences – illuminate the specific national situations from which their poetry emerges, and the differing ways each poet takes to negotiate or make the most of their particular histories. Heaney’s poem is the first in a sequence of six poems cal…
Society and Cultural Forms in Nineteenth Century England
Bakhtinian thought
Short notices
Ruth Kastner, Geistlicher Rauffhandel. Form und Funktion der illustrierten Flugblütter zum Reformationsjubiläum 1617 (1982), 421 (Verlag Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main, n.p.) (Clerical Rowdyism. Form and Function of the Illustrated Broadsheets for the Reformation Jubilee of 1617). Patrick Collinson, The Religion of Protestants. The Church in English Society 1559–1625 (1982), xiv+297 (Clarendon Press, Oxford, £17.50). Etienne François, Koblenz im 1…
Political economy, fiction and the language of practical ideology in nineteenth‐century England
ion is at once the condition of the scientificity of Political Economy and a guarantee for its subsequent practicality. If one measure of the difference between the discursive hierarchies of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is that Adam Smith was a Professor of Moral Philosophy while Nassau Senior was a Professor of Political Economy, the further abstraction within the economic was what made the latter necessary at all. Though described in…
Epic and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Britain
In the nineteenth century, epic poetry in the Homeric style was widely seen as an ancient and anachronistic genre, yet Victorian authors worked to recreate it for the modern world. Simon Dentith explores the relationship between epic and the evolution of Britain's national identity in the nineteenth century up to the apparent demise of all notions of heroic warfare in the catastrophe of the First World War. Paradoxically, writers found equivalent…
Phineas Finn
To become a member of the British Parliament!... He almost thought that he could die happy.’ Phineas Finn, the handsome Irishman, is equally successful at scaling the political ladder and gaining the affection of influential women. As he makes his precarious way in parliament he discovers how far principles must be sacrificed to the common cause, and how essential money is to political progress. Set during the turbulent passage of the second Refo…
Heaney and Walcott
Seamus Heaney’s ‘The Ministry of Fear’, and Derek Walcott’s ‘Homecoming: Anse La Raye’, written within a few years of each other, bear some striking resemblances, which – together with their inevitable differences – illuminate the specific national situations from which their poetry emerges, and the differing ways each poet takes to negotiate or make the most of their particular histories. Heaney’s poem is the first in a sequence of six poems cal…
Political economy, fiction and the language of practical ideology in nineteenth‐century England
ion is at once the condition of the scientificity of Political Economy and a guarantee for its subsequent practicality. If one measure of the difference between the discursive hierarchies of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is that Adam Smith was a Professor of Moral Philosophy while Nassau Senior was a Professor of Political Economy, the further abstraction within the economic was what made the latter necessary at all. Though described in…
Political economy, fiction and the language of practical ideology in nineteenth‐century England
ion is at once the condition of the scientificity of Political Economy and a guarantee for its subsequent practicality. If one measure of the difference between the discursive hierarchies of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is that Adam Smith was a Professor of Moral Philosophy while Nassau Senior was a Professor of Political Economy, the further abstraction within the economic was what made the latter necessary at all. Though described in…
Short notices
Ruth Kastner, Geistlicher Rauffhandel. Form und Funktion der illustrierten Flugblütter zum Reformationsjubiläum 1617 (1982), 421 (Verlag Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main, n.p.) (Clerical Rowdyism. Form and Function of the Illustrated Broadsheets for the Reformation Jubilee of 1617). Patrick Collinson, The Religion of Protestants. The Church in English Society 1559–1625 (1982), xiv+297 (Clarendon Press, Oxford, £17.50). Etienne François, Koblenz im 1…
Bakhtinian thought
Society and Cultural Forms in Nineteenth Century England
Heaney and Walcott
Seamus Heaney’s ‘The Ministry of Fear’, and Derek Walcott’s ‘Homecoming: Anse La Raye’, written within a few years of each other, bear some striking resemblances, which – together with their inevitable differences – illuminate the specific national situations from which their poetry emerges, and the differing ways each poet takes to negotiate or make the most of their particular histories. Heaney’s poem is the first in a sequence of six poems cal…
Epic and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Britain
In the nineteenth century, epic poetry in the Homeric style was widely seen as an ancient and anachronistic genre, yet Victorian authors worked to recreate it for the modern world. Simon Dentith explores the relationship between epic and the evolution of Britain's national identity in the nineteenth century up to the apparent demise of all notions of heroic warfare in the catastrophe of the First World War. Paradoxically, writers found equivalent…
Epic and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Britain
In the nineteenth century, epic poetry in the Homeric style was widely seen as an ancient and anachronistic genre, yet Victorian authors worked to recreate it for the modern world. Simon Dentith explores the relationship between epic and the evolution of Britain's national identity in the nineteenth century up to the apparent demise of all notions of heroic warfare in the catastrophe of the First World War. Paradoxically, writers found equivalent…
Morris, ‘The Great Story of the North’, and the Barbaric Past
Phineas Finn
To become a member of the British Parliament!... He almost thought that he could die happy.’ Phineas Finn, the handsome Irishman, is equally successful at scaling the political ladder and gaining the affection of influential women. As he makes his precarious way in parliament he discovers how far principles must be sacrificed to the common cause, and how essential money is to political progress. Set during the turbulent passage of the second Refo…
‘All Livin Language is Sacred’
Doctor Thorne
‘Frank has but one duty before him. He must marry money.’ The squire of Greshamsbury has fallen on hard times, and it is incumbent on his son Frank to make a good marriage. But Frank loves the doctor's niece, Mary Thorne, a girl with no money and mysterious parentage. He faces a terrible dilemma: should he save the estate, or marry the girl he loves? Mary, too, has to battle her feelings, knowing that marrying Frank would ruin his family and fly …
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