The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 35 No. 3

Authors

• Theresa M. Mackey
• Dorothy Dodge Robbins
• Carolyn Nelson
• John L. Dusseau
• Nicholas O. Pagan
• James A. Stevenson
• Lawrence Bradley
• Carrie Frasier
• Judith Harris
• James Hawkins
• Lyn Lifshin
• Mark Sanders
• Rita Signorelli-Pappas
• Sara Sproles
• William John Watkins
• Don Welch
• Jeff Worley
• Patricia A. Behlar
• Midwest Quarterly Editors

Contents

ARTICLES 

The Lingering Nationalism of James Joyce 

"Coming Down Along the Road": The Journey Motif in A Portrait of the Artist 

"Return to Me Again": The Threat of Religious Seduction in Novels by Victorian Women 

Three Hardy Flowers  

The Governing Rhetoric of Theatricality in Hawthorne's Blithedale Romance 

Pericles's Influence on the Gettysburg Address 

POEMS 

Garcia Lorca Writes for America 

Irises 

Blessing  

Odium 

Evensong 

Indian Summer 

For My Sister, 1961  

The Old Man and the Sea  

Children of the Clouds  

Wind 

Themes of Initiation  

a satori 

The Power of Cold 

The Dream of the Sloth  

They Came Over Fields 

March  

REVIEW 

Cornell W. Clayton; The Politics of Justice  

Abstract

Nationalism, both fashionable and deadly once more, is THERESA M. MACKEY's subject as she examines the writings of James Joyce. Rather than anti-nationalist, Mackey finds the later Joyce committed to a position akin to modern radically nationalist republicanism. Professor of English at St. John's College in Annapolis, Mackey is here publishing her first scholarly essay.

DOROTHY DODGE ROBBINS recounts the journey of Stephen Dedalus in James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist and how it fits the typology of such adventures in ancient and modern literature. Robbins is a doctoral student at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln.

How did women writers in the Victorian age become involved in the "conversion fiction" prompted when John Henry Newman embraced the Catholic Church in 1845? CAROLYN NELSON discusses how two novelists, Charlotte Brontë and Mary Ward, gave a women's perspective on this subject, a topic doubly difficult for them since males dominated the Church hierarchy and the High Church movement centered in Oxford. Nelson has taught English in the West Virginia University system, both at the Morgantown and Parkersburg campuses. She is presently working on a study of Helen as she appears in classical literature.

As JOHN L. DUSSEAU views the great Victorian novelist Thomas Hardy, it was the writer's "zeal for compassion, not for reformation" that set his work apart and left us with such meaningful, human characters. Retired as Editor-in-Chief and Vice President of the W.B. Saunders Company in 1977, Dusseau has written widely on many topics, including Egyptian monotheism in a previous issue of this journal. The University of Pennsylvania Press will publish his revision of a book by a remarkable woman who spent seventeen years immobile in an iron lung.

LAWRENCE BRADLEY, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has published poetry in Seneca Review and Potato Eyes.

CARRIE FRASIER, graduate student at Colorado State University and native of Ft. Collins, has published poetry in Wordsmith and Near Expectations.

JUDITH HARRIS teaches at George Washington University where she recently received her doctorate in English literature. Her poems have appeared in Nimrod, South Florida Poetry Review, Hiram Peatry Review, and other journals. She lives in Washington, D.C.

JAMES HAWKINS is a semi-retired investment banker living outside Wheeler, Arkansas.

LYN LIFSHIN has published several books and has had poems in numerous prestigious journals. She is currently living in Washington, D.C., through she is at home in Niskayuna, New York.

MARK SANDERS has taught at colleges and universities in Nebraska, Missouri, and Oklahoma. He is editor of Sandhills Press and the Plains Poetry Series, and his poems have appeared in journals in the U. S., Canada, and Great Britain. He currently lives in League City, Texas.

RITA SIGNORELLI-PAPPAS, Valparaiso, Indiana, has published poems in Poetry, Poetry Northwest, Southern Poetry Review, and other journals. She has completed two collections of poetry and is working on a third.

SARA SPROLES, when she submitted the poem in this issue, was in graduate school in New Orleans, where she also worked as a deli-counter worker, a magazine seller, and a fortune teller. She now lives in Windsor, Wisconsin.

WILLIAM JOHN WATKINS, Ocean, New Jersey, has published fourteen books and dozens of poems, stories, and articles. His Jaws of Poetry won a national award for educational software sponsored by IBM and the League of Innovation. He teaches at Brookdale Community College in Lincroft, New Jersey, and is a member of the Neshaminy High School Football Hall of Fame.

DON WELCH is Reynolds Professor of Poetry at the University of Nebraska at Kearney. He has published recent poems in The Laurel Review and The Chariton Review.

JEFF WORLEY, Lexington, Kentucky, was selected for a Fellowship in Creative Writing (Poetry) by the National Endowment for the Arts in 1991 and for an Al Smith Fellowship by the Kentucky Council for the Arts in 1990-1991. His poems have appeared in numerous journals, including College English, Poetry Northwest, Prairie Schooner, The Georgia Review, and Kansas Quarterly.

Nathaniel Hawthorne, as NICHOLAS O. PAGAN shows in The Blithedale Romance, uses a theatrical language to illuminate the relationships of his characters and enhance our understanding of his meaning. English Instructor at Auburn University, Pagan has recently published Rethinking Literary Biography: A Postmodern Approach to Tennessee Williams (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press).

JAMES A. STEVENSON parallels Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address with that delivered by Pericles in ancient Athens and, contrary to most historians, thinks Lincoln may well have consulted that text, as well as many other sources, in crafting that justly famous speech. A previous contributor to The Midwest Quarterly, Stevenson has published articles about Lincoln in many journals. He is Associate Professor of History at Dalton College in Georgia.

PATRICIA BEHLAR, Book Review editor, advises pre-law students and teaches political science courses at Pittsburg State.

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Recommended Citation

Mackey, Theresa M.; Robbins, Dorothy Dodge; Nelson, Carolyn; Dusseau, John L.; Pagan, Nicholas O.; Stevenson, James A.; Bradley, Lawrence; Frasier, Carrie; Harris, Judith; Hawkins, James; Lifshin, Lyn; Sanders, Mark; Signorelli-Pappas, Rita; Sproles, Sara; Watkins, William John; Welch, Don; Worley, Jeff; Behlar, Patricia A.; and Midwest Quarterly Editors (1994) "The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 35 No. 3," The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought: Vol. 35: Iss. 3, Article 1.
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