tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post5821656825867193152..comments2024-03-29T03:04:00.853-05:00Comments on Wuthering <br>Expectations: Swept into ocean – fate of the Extravagator: the glassily tinkling George DarleyAmateur Reader (Tom)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-26108692830456962432012-04-07T16:36:53.110-05:002012-04-07T16:36:53.110-05:00Part of Darley's story is his strong sense of ...Part of Darley's story is his strong sense of himself as a minor poet, as the lesser heir of Shelley and Keats. I fear that may have vitiated some of his triumphs.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-12837986454801896622012-04-06T12:05:15.172-05:002012-04-06T12:05:15.172-05:00Yes, if the excitement he put into the hie hie hie...Yes, if the excitement he put into the hie hie hie lines (assuming he was excited; he <i>looks</i> excited -- I can't think of those lines without imagining him bouncing on pure hie, ancestor to Hopkins and "Look at the stars! look, look, up at the skies! / O look ...") stayed with him, somehow imperishable, forever, and every time he read those words he felt revived. This is it, he thinks, this is wonderful, this works. Triumph.Umbagollahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14556344092820711893noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-22520877967784740262012-04-04T21:35:22.425-05:002012-04-04T21:35:22.425-05:00It would be interesting. What did he think was th...It would be interesting. What did <i>he</i> think was the really choice stuff. <br /><br />As much as I like <i>Nepenthe</i>, I do not regret the absence of the missing third canto. <i>Nepenthe</i> is not too short.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-71224256632558829902012-04-04T18:10:07.953-05:002012-04-04T18:10:07.953-05:00I've gone away and skimmed Nepenthe. That'...I've gone away and skimmed Nepenthe. That's fascinating, the way his attention seems to fall asleep for a while and then come awake again, then go back to sleep, sometimes trying to make hie-hie-hie or hollo-hollo do all the work, and sometimes coming up with a useful compression like "treeless winds." I wonder how he wrote. Did he write a few lines, go away, think about something else, eat an egg, come back, write a few more lines, go away, etc, etc, or did he write solidly, for pages? It would be interesting to know.Umbagollahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14556344092820711893noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-91512529631488425702012-03-30T22:47:10.495-05:002012-03-30T22:47:10.495-05:00Amanda: great question. I do not know the answer....Amanda: great question. I do not know the answer. By comparing the change over time in interest in a wide variety of authors, big, medium, and small, a clever researcher might well be able to answer a question like that. Patterns will emerge. Although, who knows, Austen may be a special case.<br /><br />A typical supplement to C.B.'s strategy is to study a subject that brushes up against a canonical figure - so you do not have to master the Jane Austen secondary literature for your thesis on "Garden Landscaping in the Regency Novel" but you have <i>Mansfield Park</i> as an example - perhaps the only example - that people have actually heard of.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-83176132779913465672012-03-30T19:11:33.747-05:002012-03-30T19:11:33.747-05:00IN response to Amanda's question above, when I...IN response to Amanda's question above, when I was in graduate school I was encouraged to base my thesis on someone with a low article count. I had a wonderful time doing just that, writing about the Findlater sisters, Mona Caird and Mary Cholmondeley who all have very low article counts at the time. Their totals have all gone up by at least one thanks to me.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06906212382849291562noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-25786917388761835962012-03-30T17:17:07.260-05:002012-03-30T17:17:07.260-05:00Looking at Meyers's numbers and the ones you h...Looking at Meyers's numbers and the ones you have above, I've wondered if the change in numbers over time is a combination of fad (recent popularity of Austen thanks to movie-versions, for example) and amount of research already present. Are academics significantly discouraged by those thousands of articles already available to choose a different subject? Perhaps you answer that with the curate's diaries comment. I guess what I'm really wondering is how closely amount of articles in a given time frame relates to actual interest or importance?amanda @ simplerpastimeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14127945915013121105noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-11471667547062775912012-03-30T15:20:39.113-05:002012-03-30T15:20:39.113-05:00My method, such as it is, is to go to the "Ba...My method, such as it is, is to go to the "Basic Search" page, type in the name, hit the "Person - About" option, and then "Search." A count of works tagged with the author's name will be the top or second result. E.g. Bernhard, Thomas (637)<br /><br />Jenny knows the truth - this huge mass of publications is a good part of the reason people are writing dissertations on curate's diaries. The task is manageable.<br /><br />Just as a semi-scholarly article on Darley would actually be feasible for an amateur who thinks he has something to say. One of those 13 publications is a 3 page article on Darley as a "mountain writer," one is a dictionary entry. One could cover the field, at least to a significant degree.<br /><br />Look at these article titles: "George Darley: The Poet as Pigmy," "George Darley: The Burial of the Self." Poor George Darley!Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-73592326693966738592012-03-30T15:01:49.844-05:002012-03-30T15:01:49.844-05:00What fun! I just discovered that I also have acces...What fun! I just discovered that I also have access to the database. I'm getting different results than you or Dr M. How are you setting up the query?<br /><br />JSTOR full texts, too! Honestly, I could spend a great deal of the rest of my life here. I should go to lunch instead.scott g.f.baileyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05726743149139510832noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-66825589820394996782012-03-30T14:23:58.024-05:002012-03-30T14:23:58.024-05:00I'm not even going to look; I'd be lost fo...I'm not even going to look; I'd be lost for the rest of the year. But I'd encourage you to add an article to expand the Darley scholarship. I've never heard of him, but will never again be able to visit the docks of the bay without listening for any sound a seal can make that might possibly be described as "murmuring."seraillonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17654593356535433945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-67359624268166762182012-03-30T11:51:42.912-05:002012-03-30T11:51:42.912-05:00Good luck, indeed, to those newly-minted Austen sc...Good luck, indeed, to those newly-minted Austen scholars. Back to the curates' diaries for them! <br /><br />I wonder if one could ever say enough about George Darley. Glassily tinkling, indeed. I think I need to take a nap.Jennyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00251983804060081813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-25557580508739586222012-03-30T09:37:07.993-05:002012-03-30T09:37:07.993-05:00Brontë, C: 1,718
Brontë, E: 951
Brontë, A: 258Brontë, C: 1,718<br />Brontë, E: 951<br />Brontë, A: 258Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-2761616925233961672012-03-30T02:18:26.739-05:002012-03-30T02:18:26.739-05:00How fascinating! I'm sort of surprised the Bro...How fascinating! I'm sort of surprised the Brontes aren't on here, but I suppose there's the issue of research being divided among the three sisters (and even Branwell).Dianahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02957349442523993974noreply@blogger.com