ESC: English Studies in Canada

INDEX: VOLUME 24, 1998 NUMBER 1 March 1998 Editing On iii Contributors v Abstracts vii l i s a d i c k s o n Industrious Scenes and Acts of Death: King John’s Visible Economy and the (Dis)Appearing “I” 1 c r a i g G o r d o n “The Possibilities of Faces” : Figuring Ethics and History in Henry James’s The Golden Bowl 25 g e o r g e p i g g f o r d “A National Enema” : Identity and Metafiction in Scott Symons’s Place D ’Armes 47 Jo h n c l e m e n t b a l l Pessoptimism: Satire and the Menippean Grotesque in Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children 61 p e g g y m a r t i n “What a Pathetic Old Tart” : Alice Munro’s Older Women 83 REVIEW ESSAY d a v i d l y l e j e f p r e y Rescuing Literature: The Critical Project of Patrick Grant 93 REVIEWS p e t e r s i n n e m a Michelle Weinroth, Reclaiming William Morris: Englishness, Sublimity, and the Rhetoric of Dissent 103 m a r y j a n e E d w a r d s Frances Hoffman and Ryan Taylor, Much To Be Done: Private Life in Ontario from Victorian Diaries-, Carl Ballstadt, Elizabeth Hopkins, and Michael A. Peterman, eds., I Bless You in My Heart: Selected Correspondence of Catharine Parr Traill 105 t h o m a s e . t a u s k y Michael Gnaxowski, ed., Memoirs of Montparnasse, by John Glassco 108 Pa m e l a d a l z i e l Keith Wilson, Thomas Hardy on Stage 110 j . d o u g l a s k n e a l e G. Kim Blank, Wordsworth and Feeling: The Poetry of an Adult Child 113 e d w a r d l o b b John Xiros Cooper, T.S. Eliot and the Ideology of Four Quartets 115 ESC 24, 1998 Pa t r i c i a m e r i v a l e Richard Dellamora, ed., Postmodern Apocalypse: Theory and Cultural Practice at the End 117 NUMBER 2 June 1998 Abstracts v Contributors vii D o m i n i c m a n g a n i e l l o “Leaf by Niggle” : The Worth of the Work 121 m a r k A n d r e w S i l v e r b e r g A Readership of None: The Later Poetry of W.S. Graham 139 D a v i d s. m i a l l The HypertextualMoment 157 REVIEWS D a v i d a . k e n t David Lyle Jeffrey, People of the Book: Christian Identity and Literary Culture 175 s a r a h w e s t p h a l The Complete Romances of Chrétien de Troyes, trans. with an introduction by David Staines 178 Jo h n f i n l a y s o n Elizabeth Archibald and A.S.G. Edwards, eds., A Companion to Malory 181 j o a n n e s. n o r m a n Murray J. Evans, Rereading Middle English Romance: Manuscript Layout, Decoration, and the Rhetoric of Composite Structure 185 d a n i e l w. d o e r k s e n Michael F.N. Dixon, The Polliticke Courtier: Spenser’s The Faerie Queene 187 p a u l w e r s t i n e Edward Pechter, ed., Textual and Theatrical Shakespeare: Questions of Evidence 189 Ju d i t h o w e n s A. Lynne Magnusson and C.E. McGee, eds., The Elizabethan Theatre XIII 192 A n g e l a e s t e r h a m m e r Elizabeth Sauer, Barbarous Dissonance and Images of Voice in Milton’s Epics 196 j à n i s s v i l p i s David Blewett, The Illustration of Robinson Crusoe 1719-1920 198 d a v i d b l e w e...