Allan Hepburn
Biographic Data
| ID | 3625168 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Allan Hepburn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Allan |
| FAMILY NAME | Hepburn |
| SIGNATURE | HEPBURN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | McGill University |
| ORCID | 0009-0004-7650-7227 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1893 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Somerset Maugham's Failings
‘A bald exposition of the essential facts’
Espionage depends on the gathering, sifting, reporting, and selling of information. In Erskine Childers’ The Riddle of the Sands, information about a German plot to invade Britain has implications for statehood and military strategy. This novel responds to the changing culture of information and reconnaissance captured by Robert Baden-Powell’s Reconnaissance and Scouting, David Henderson’s The Art of Reconnaissance, and military manuals that give…
We know nothing except through style”
John Banville identifies style as an attribute of world literature. As a novelist, he admires authors who make wit, word play, linguistic theatricality and virtuosity literary ends in themselves. In reviews and articles, he praises Henry James, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Vladimir Nabokov, Raymond Chandler, and other writers for their highly polished prose styles. In turn, critics single out Banville’s own finely tuned style as the defining trai…
The World My Wilderness and the Possibility of Forgiveness
In Rose Macaulay’s The World My Wilderness (1950), forgiveness affords possibilities to redeem personal and national guilt. Can humankind be forgiven for atrocities perpetrated during the Second Word War, and if so, by whom? Whereas forgiveness can undo the predicament of irreversibility by bringing about reconciliation and an improved future for individuals and communities, those outcomes never come to pass in this novel. Refusal to acknowledge …
The Heroic Today
Over her career, Elizabeth Bowen published ten novels, yet she left no comprehensive theory of the novel. This essay draws especially upon ‘Notes on Writing a Novel’ (1945), ‘The Technique of the Novel’ (1953), and ‘Truth and Fiction’ (1956), as well as opinions that Bowen expressed in her weekly book columns for The Tatler, to formulate her key perceptions of, and rules for, writing a novel. Bowen defined her ideas by drawing upon the empirical …
Diplomacy and the Modern Novel
Between 1900 and 1960, many writers in France and Britain either had parallel careers in diplomatic corps or frequented diplomatic circles: Paul Claudel, Albert Cohen, Lawrence Durrell, Graham Greene, John le Carré, André Malraux, Nancy Mitford, Marcel Proust, and others. What attracts writers to diplomacy, and what attracts diplomats to publishing their experiences in memoirs or novels? Like novelists, diplomats are in the habit of describing si…
Saints and Miracles
Miracles rarely appear in novels, yet Graham Greene includes several of them in The End of the Affair . Sarah Miles heals a boy suffering from appendicitis and a man with a disfigured cheek. Like a saint, she seems to heal or revive through her compassionate touch, as when she raises her lover, who may or may not have died in a bomb blast, by touching his hand. This chapter locates Sarah’s interventions amidst debates about miracles, beginning wi…
Bombed Churches
More often than not, the blitz was represented by bombed churches. Images of St Paul’s Cathedral soaring above smoke and, in a more tragic key, the ruins of St Michael’s Cathedral in Coventry encapsulate the values that Britons thought they were fighting for in the Second World War. John Piper, Cecil Beaton, Hanslip Fletcher, and other visual artists, many of them employed by the War Artists’ Advisory Committee (WAAC), expressed their ideas about…
A Grain of Faith
During and after the Second World War, religion informed British literature and culture. Leading writers contributed to discussions about faith and spiritual life, inside and outside organized religion. Graham Greene, Muriel Spark, and Barbara Pym incorporated miracles, evil, and church-going into their novels, while Louis MacNeice, T. S. Eliot, and C. S. Lewis gave radio broadcasts about the role of Christianity in contemporary society. Certainl…
Memento Mori and gerontography
Novels are so often identified with development and Bildung – all implicitly about youthful characters in search of experience – that the representation of old age may be classed as an anti-novelistic phenomenon. In Memento Mori, Muriel Spark focuses on a group of characters over 70 years old in order to weigh the physiological and spiritual dimensions of ageing. Her working notes for the novel, now archived at the University of Tulsa, indicate t…
Around 1945
"Around 1945 examines an issue that preoccupied social and political thinkers at mid-century and that has resonance still: Who is a citizen and on what grounds is citizenship defined? The volume attempts to articulate some of the complexities that inform the relation between citizenship and human rights in light of a reconsideration of citizenship and rights that occurred in the postwar era. Literary texts and cultural events model problems of ri…
Righting queer rights
Modernism and Autobiography
This volume offers sixteen original essays that attest to the extraordinary inventiveness and range of modernist autobiography. It examines the ways modernist writers chose to tell their life stories, with particular attention to forms, venues, modes of address, and degrees of truthfulness. The essays are grouped around a set of rubrics that isolate the distinctive character and shared preoccupations of modernist life-writings: questions of ances…
Acoustic modernism
Elizabeth Bowen, at the invitation of BBC Radio producers, broadcast talks, features, and short dramatic pieces from the 1940s through the 1960s. Her broadcasting caused her to rethink the relation of sound to information and meaning. Radio thus had a defining influence on her writing of fiction, especially The Little Girls, which is implicated in a complex sound world. Like other novels published at mid-century, this novel emphasizes the acousti…
Jeff Crump and Bettina Schormann, Earth to Table
Jeff Crump and Bettina Schormann, Earth to Table: Seasonal Recipes from an Organic Farm, Random House Canada, 2009, 326 pages / Lucy Waverman, A Year in Lucy’s Kitchen: Seasonal Recipes and Memorable Meals, Random House Canada, 2009, 304 pages. Un article de la revue Cuizine (Food, Language, and Identity) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
People, Places, Things – Essays by Elizabeth Bowen
This volume collects for the first time essays published in British, Irish, and American periodicals during Bowen's lifetime as well as essays which have never been published before. The range of subjects alone makes these essays indispensable reading. Throughout her career, Elizabeth Bowen, the Anglo-Irish novelist and short story writer, also wrote literary essays that display a shrewd, generous intelligence. Always sensitive to underlying tens…
The Bazaar and Other Stories
GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748635726'); This volume brings together the previously uncollected stories of this exceptional modernist writer, from fairy tale to fable and social drama. Covering a range of situations - broken engagements, encounters with ghosts, brushes with crime - these previously uncollected stories demonstrate the virtuosity that characterizes all of Elizabeth Bowen's writing. "The Lost Hope" ranks with the best of …
People, Places, Things
Troubled Legacies
Intrigue
Why do spies have such cachet in the twentieth century? Why do they keep reinventing themselves? What do they mean in a political process? This book examines the tradition of the spy narrative from its inception in the late nineteenth century through the present day. Ranging from John le Carré's bestsellers to Elizabeth Bowen's novels, from James Bond to John Banville's contemporary narratives, this book sets the historical contexts of these fict…
In Darkest James
Book Review| March 01 2002 In Darkest James: Reviewing Impressionism, 1900-1905 By Robin Hoople. Lewisburg, Penn.: Bucknell Univ. Press. 2000. 299 pp.$46.50. Allan Hepburn Allan Hepburn Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2002) 74 (1): 152–154. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-74-1-152 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Allan Hepburn; In Dar…
Henry James's Last Romance
Introduction: at home: the reception of Henry James Part I. Henry James's Last Romance: The Sense of the Past: 1. The sense of the present 2. The sense of a happy ending Part II. Civilization and its Contents: The American Scene: 3. Making signs of the past: interpretation and C. S. Peirce 4. Waste makes taste: Classicism, conspicuous consumption, and Thorstein Veblen 5. 'Psychic Mulattos': the ambiguity of race and W. E. B. Du Bois 6. The return…
Intensely Family
The Cosmopolitan World of Henry James
State and National Bank Circulation
Discussing the subject of State and national bank circu- lation, I said in my recent report....The Constitution of the United States prohibits the States from coining money or making anything except gold and silver legal tender.State-bank bills could not become a legal tender.Neither are national-bank bills.State-bank bills when issued add just so much to the liabilities of the bank.They would circulate freely in times of prosperity and confidenc…
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State and National Bank Circulation
Discussing the subject of State and national bank circu- lation, I said in my recent report....The Constitution of the United States prohibits the States from coining money or making anything except gold and silver legal tender.State-bank bills could not become a legal tender.Neither are national-bank bills.State-bank bills when issued add just so much to the liabilities of the bank.They would circulate freely in times of prosperity and confidenc…
The Cosmopolitan World of Henry James
Intensely Family
Henry James's Last Romance
Introduction: at home: the reception of Henry James Part I. Henry James's Last Romance: The Sense of the Past: 1. The sense of the present 2. The sense of a happy ending Part II. Civilization and its Contents: The American Scene: 3. Making signs of the past: interpretation and C. S. Peirce 4. Waste makes taste: Classicism, conspicuous consumption, and Thorstein Veblen 5. 'Psychic Mulattos': the ambiguity of race and W. E. B. Du Bois 6. The return…
In Darkest James
Book Review| March 01 2002 In Darkest James: Reviewing Impressionism, 1900-1905 By Robin Hoople. Lewisburg, Penn.: Bucknell Univ. Press. 2000. 299 pp.$46.50. Allan Hepburn Allan Hepburn Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2002) 74 (1): 152–154. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-74-1-152 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Allan Hepburn; In Dar…
Intrigue
Why do spies have such cachet in the twentieth century? Why do they keep reinventing themselves? What do they mean in a political process? This book examines the tradition of the spy narrative from its inception in the late nineteenth century through the present day. Ranging from John le Carré's bestsellers to Elizabeth Bowen's novels, from James Bond to John Banville's contemporary narratives, this book sets the historical contexts of these fict…
Troubled Legacies
People, Places, Things – Essays by Elizabeth Bowen
This volume collects for the first time essays published in British, Irish, and American periodicals during Bowen's lifetime as well as essays which have never been published before. The range of subjects alone makes these essays indispensable reading. Throughout her career, Elizabeth Bowen, the Anglo-Irish novelist and short story writer, also wrote literary essays that display a shrewd, generous intelligence. Always sensitive to underlying tens…
The Bazaar and Other Stories
GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748635726'); This volume brings together the previously uncollected stories of this exceptional modernist writer, from fairy tale to fable and social drama. Covering a range of situations - broken engagements, encounters with ghosts, brushes with crime - these previously uncollected stories demonstrate the virtuosity that characterizes all of Elizabeth Bowen's writing. "The Lost Hope" ranks with the best of …
People, Places, Things
Jeff Crump and Bettina Schormann, Earth to Table
Jeff Crump and Bettina Schormann, Earth to Table: Seasonal Recipes from an Organic Farm, Random House Canada, 2009, 326 pages / Lucy Waverman, A Year in Lucy’s Kitchen: Seasonal Recipes and Memorable Meals, Random House Canada, 2009, 304 pages. Un article de la revue Cuizine (Food, Language, and Identity) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
Acoustic modernism
Elizabeth Bowen, at the invitation of BBC Radio producers, broadcast talks, features, and short dramatic pieces from the 1940s through the 1960s. Her broadcasting caused her to rethink the relation of sound to information and meaning. Radio thus had a defining influence on her writing of fiction, especially The Little Girls, which is implicated in a complex sound world. Like other novels published at mid-century, this novel emphasizes the acousti…
Righting queer rights
Modernism and Autobiography
This volume offers sixteen original essays that attest to the extraordinary inventiveness and range of modernist autobiography. It examines the ways modernist writers chose to tell their life stories, with particular attention to forms, venues, modes of address, and degrees of truthfulness. The essays are grouped around a set of rubrics that isolate the distinctive character and shared preoccupations of modernist life-writings: questions of ances…
Around 1945
"Around 1945 examines an issue that preoccupied social and political thinkers at mid-century and that has resonance still: Who is a citizen and on what grounds is citizenship defined? The volume attempts to articulate some of the complexities that inform the relation between citizenship and human rights in light of a reconsideration of citizenship and rights that occurred in the postwar era. Literary texts and cultural events model problems of ri…
Saints and Miracles
Miracles rarely appear in novels, yet Graham Greene includes several of them in The End of the Affair . Sarah Miles heals a boy suffering from appendicitis and a man with a disfigured cheek. Like a saint, she seems to heal or revive through her compassionate touch, as when she raises her lover, who may or may not have died in a bomb blast, by touching his hand. This chapter locates Sarah’s interventions amidst debates about miracles, beginning wi…
Bombed Churches
More often than not, the blitz was represented by bombed churches. Images of St Paul’s Cathedral soaring above smoke and, in a more tragic key, the ruins of St Michael’s Cathedral in Coventry encapsulate the values that Britons thought they were fighting for in the Second World War. John Piper, Cecil Beaton, Hanslip Fletcher, and other visual artists, many of them employed by the War Artists’ Advisory Committee (WAAC), expressed their ideas about…
A Grain of Faith
During and after the Second World War, religion informed British literature and culture. Leading writers contributed to discussions about faith and spiritual life, inside and outside organized religion. Graham Greene, Muriel Spark, and Barbara Pym incorporated miracles, evil, and church-going into their novels, while Louis MacNeice, T. S. Eliot, and C. S. Lewis gave radio broadcasts about the role of Christianity in contemporary society. Certainl…
Memento Mori and gerontography
Novels are so often identified with development and Bildung – all implicitly about youthful characters in search of experience – that the representation of old age may be classed as an anti-novelistic phenomenon. In Memento Mori, Muriel Spark focuses on a group of characters over 70 years old in order to weigh the physiological and spiritual dimensions of ageing. Her working notes for the novel, now archived at the University of Tulsa, indicate t…
Diplomacy and the Modern Novel
Between 1900 and 1960, many writers in France and Britain either had parallel careers in diplomatic corps or frequented diplomatic circles: Paul Claudel, Albert Cohen, Lawrence Durrell, Graham Greene, John le Carré, André Malraux, Nancy Mitford, Marcel Proust, and others. What attracts writers to diplomacy, and what attracts diplomats to publishing their experiences in memoirs or novels? Like novelists, diplomats are in the habit of describing si…
The Heroic Today
Over her career, Elizabeth Bowen published ten novels, yet she left no comprehensive theory of the novel. This essay draws especially upon ‘Notes on Writing a Novel’ (1945), ‘The Technique of the Novel’ (1953), and ‘Truth and Fiction’ (1956), as well as opinions that Bowen expressed in her weekly book columns for The Tatler, to formulate her key perceptions of, and rules for, writing a novel. Bowen defined her ideas by drawing upon the empirical …
The World My Wilderness and the Possibility of Forgiveness
In Rose Macaulay’s The World My Wilderness (1950), forgiveness affords possibilities to redeem personal and national guilt. Can humankind be forgiven for atrocities perpetrated during the Second Word War, and if so, by whom? Whereas forgiveness can undo the predicament of irreversibility by bringing about reconciliation and an improved future for individuals and communities, those outcomes never come to pass in this novel. Refusal to acknowledge …
We know nothing except through style”
John Banville identifies style as an attribute of world literature. As a novelist, he admires authors who make wit, word play, linguistic theatricality and virtuosity literary ends in themselves. In reviews and articles, he praises Henry James, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Vladimir Nabokov, Raymond Chandler, and other writers for their highly polished prose styles. In turn, critics single out Banville’s own finely tuned style as the defining trai…
‘A bald exposition of the essential facts’
Espionage depends on the gathering, sifting, reporting, and selling of information. In Erskine Childers’ The Riddle of the Sands, information about a German plot to invade Britain has implications for statehood and military strategy. This novel responds to the changing culture of information and reconnaissance captured by Robert Baden-Powell’s Reconnaissance and Scouting, David Henderson’s The Art of Reconnaissance, and military manuals that give…
Somerset Maugham's Failings
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