Anonymity: The literary history of a word

New Literary History

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 193-214

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EID: 33847617578     PISSN: 00286087     EISSN: 1080661X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/nlh.2002.0015     Document Type: Review

References (52)

1. Randolph Quirk, A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language (New York, 1985), pp. 1524-25
2. See also Otto Jespersen, The Philosophy of Grammar (London, 1963), pp. 74-81
3. Tottel's Miscellany, ed. Hyder Rollins, revised ed. (Cambridge, Mass., 1965), vol. 2, p. 79
4. The Paradise of Dainty Devices, ed. Hyder Rollins (Cambridge, Mass., 1927), p. 7
5. A Gorgeous Gallery of Gallant Inventions, ed. Hyder Rollins (Cambridge. Mass., 1926). p. 9
6. England's Helicon, ed. Hyder Rollins (Cambridge, Mass., 1935), vol. 1, p. 161
7. Anne Ferry, The Art of Naming (Chicago, 1988), pp. 55-61
8. Samuel Coleridge, The Collected Letters of Samuel Coleridge, ed. Earl Griggs (Oxford, 1956), vol. l, p. 412
9. Anne Ferry, The Title to the Poem (Stanford, 1996), pp. 72-73
10. Hallam Tennyson, Alfred Lard Tennyson: A Memoir (London, 1906), p. 696
11. Alfred Lord Tennyson, The Poetic and Dramatic Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson ed. W. J. Rolfe (Boston, 1898), p. 4n
12. Boyd Litzinger and Donald Smalley, ed., Browning: The Critical Heitage (London, 1970), pp. 36-37; hereafter cited in text as CH
13. Some examples are: James Lane Allen, "Anonymity: 'The Breadwinners, '" Critic, 3 (1883), 517-18
14. Harry Smith, "The Science of Anonymity, " Good Wards, 39 (1898), 99-104
15. Cortison Kernahan, "The Question of Anonymity and Pseudonymity: Should Authors Deny the Authorship of Their Own Work?" Chambers's Journal 7th series, 3 (1913), 241-44
16. Henry Hazlitt, "The Cult of Anonymity, " Nation, 131 (Oct. 1, 1930). 350
17. E. M. Forster, Anonymity: An Enquiry (London, 1925), p. 16; hereafter cited in text as AE
18. John Crowe Ransom, "A Poem Nearly Anonymous" in The World's Body (New York, 1938), p. 2
19. reprinted from American Review, 1 (May, 1933), 179-203; hereafter cited in text as PNA
20. Henry Seidel Canby, "Anon Is Dead, " American Mercury, 8 (May, 1926). 79-84
21. William Cronin, Nature's Metropolis (New York, 1991). p. 8
22. The earliest use I have been able to find of anonymity in a description by a sociologist of the modern city is, unsurprisingly, in an essay of c. 1900, influential in America, by Georg Simmel, "The Metropolis and Mental Life, " tr. Kurt Wolff, in Cities and Society, ed. Paul Hatt and Albert Reiss (Glencoe, 1964). p. 637
23. William Blake, The Complete Writings of William Blake, ed. Geoffrey Keynes (London, 1957), p. 216; hereafter cited in text as WB
24. William Wordsworth, The Prelude, Or Growth of a Poet's Mind, ed. Ernest de Selincourt (London, 1928), p. 223. All quotations from The Prelude are from this edition; hereafter indented passages are cited in the text only, by line numbers
25. Raymond Williams. The Country and the City (New York. 1973), p. 236
26. For more recent discussions of this material see, for example: Robert Crawford, The Savage and the City (Oxford, 1987)
27. William Sharpe, Unreal Cities (Baltimore, 1990)
28. Richard Shusterman, "The Urban Aesthetics of Absence: Pragmatist Reflections in Berlin, " New Literary History, 28 (1997), 739-55
29. Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil, or The Two Nations (London, 1975). pp. 98-100
30. Thomas Carlyle. "The Present Time" in Latter-Day Pamphlets (London, 1850), p. 11
31. Arnold Toynbee, "Industry and Democracy" in Toynbee's Industrial Revolution (London, 1969), p. 190
32. George Gissing, Demos (New York, [1928?]), p. 26
33. Upton Sinclair. The Jungle (New York, 1906), p. 208
34. Waldo Frank, Our America (New York, 1919), p. 173
35. Lewis Mumford, The Culture of Cities (New York, 1938). pp. 148, 272
36. James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night and Other Poems (London, 1910), p. 245; hereafter cited in text as CDN
37. John Davidson, Fleet Street and Other Poems (London, 1909), pp. 38-42
38. W. B. Yeats, The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats (New York, 1961), p. 39
39. Ezra Pound. Personae (New York, 1971), p. 109
40. Robert Frost, Complete Poems of Robert Frost (New York, 1961). p. 324
41. T. S. Eliot, "Preface, " John Davidson: A Selection of His Poems, ed. Hugh McDiarmid (London, 1961), p. xi
42. T. S. Eliot, "What Dante Means to Me, " in To Criticize the Critic (London, 1965), p. 126
43. T.S. Eliot. "Baudelaire, " Selected Essays 1917-1932 (New York, 1932). p. 340; hereafter cited in text as B
44. T.S. Eliot, Inventions of the March Hare, ed. Christopher Ricks (London, 1996), p. 18
45. William Wordsworth, The Prelude 1799, 1805, 1850, ed. Jonathan Wordsworth et al. (New York, 1979), p. ix. Herbert Tucker has pointed out to me that Eliot used the same tactic of neglecting urban materials in works of the Brownings and Tennyson
46. Eliot, "Tradition and the Individual Talent" in Selected Essays, p. 7; hereafter cited in text as TT
47. T. S. Eliot, Collected Poems 1909-1962 (New York, 1963), pp. 13-15; hereafter cited in text as CP
48. For relevant theoretical analyses by linguists of the workings of pronouns discussed here in Eliot's poems see Emile Benveniste, Problems in General Linguistics, tr. Mary Elilzabeth Meek (Miami, 1971), pp. 217-30
49. Roman Jakobson, "Shifters, Verbal Categories, and the Russian Verb" in Russian Language Project (Cambridge, Mass., 1957), PP. 1-12
50. T. S. Eliot, "Wordsworth and Coleridge" in The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism (London, 1933), p. 69
51. John Paul Riquelme points out echoes of Wordsworth's "Elegiac Stanzas, " ll. 11-12 ("I could have fancied that the mighty Deep / Was even the gentlest of all gentle Things") in Harmony of Dissonance (Baltimore, 1990), p. 152
52. T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land, facsimile, ed. Valerie Eliot (New York, 1971), p. 3