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......function." (15) Other contemporary studies of pageantry have tended to politicize these functions. For instance, Curtis Perry tells us that "the pageant was supposed to legitimate the civic elite in the eyes of a wider viewing and reading public......

......folk irrationality and scatology, in which communal benevolence triumphs over rationalism. (4) On the contrary, Curtis Perry has argued that the workaday world in the play is characterized by a climate of grasping economic individualism, as......

...In his magisterial study, Landlords and Tenants in Mid-Victorian Ireland, William Vaughan redresses the imbalance of John Pomfret's pioneering work, The Struggle for Land in Ireland, 1800-1923 (Princeton, 1930), that depicted the Irish landlords as so many "alien and absentee" predators who...

......Ripper and the London Press. L. Perry Curtis Jr. New Haven, CT: Yale University...ways, to mythicize, but as L. Perry Curtis Jr. makes clear in Jack the Ripper...Ripper and the London Press, L. Perry Curtis Jr., professor of history, modern......

......route cascaded model of Coltheart, Rastle, Perry, Langdon, and Ziegler (2001) could possibly...colleagues' (Coltheart, 1978; Coltheart, Curtis, Atkins, & Haller, 1993; Coltheart, Rastle, Perry, Langdon, & Ziegler, 2001 ; Paap & Noel......

......as a link between violence and verbosity, and--as Perry Curtis has shown--Victorian depictions of the Irishman in...animosity as well as his animal spirits. (5) Following Curtis, Sheridan Gilley has examined the mixed caricatures......

......been proposed and provide detailed descriptions of these processes (e.g., Coltheart, Curtis, Atkins, & Haller, 1993; Coltheart, Rastle, Perry, Langdon, & Ziegler, 2001; Jacobs, Rey, Ziegler, & Grainger, 1998; Norris, 1994......

......Names of Body Parts in English, 1400-1550. Tuusula: Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae, 1998. Pp. 471. Perry, Curtis. The Making of Jacobean Culture: James I and the Renegotiation of Elizabethan Literary Practice. Cambridge U. Press......

...This essay treats the image of the sodomite king--in Marlowe's Edward II and in the gossip surrounding James 1 and his favorites-- as a figurative response to resentments stemming from the regulation of access to the monarch. Animosities in Marlowe's play anticipate criticism of the Jacobean...

...Thomas De Quincey, in his autobiographical writing, constantly locates seemingly disparate details from his life in evidently patterned sequences. Perhaps the most striking example of this practice is the series of losses which punctuate his texts. In Confessions of an English Opium Eater, De...