“Tales and Adventures”: G.A. Henty’s Union Jack and the Competitive World of Publishing for Boys in the 1880s’

In the competitive publishing environment of the late nineteenth century, writers and magazines had to distinguish themselves carefully from potential rivals. This article examines how G.A. Henty’s quality boys’ weekly, Union Jack (1880-83), attempted to secure a niche in the juvenile publishing market by deliberately distinguishing itself from other papers as a literary, imperialist and “healthy” publication. The article explores the design and marketing techniques of the magazine, its status as a fiction paper, the high calibre of its contributors, and its aggressive rhetoric in targeting an exclusively masculine audience. It argues that while Union Jack was marketed as a niche publication, it eventually failed to distinguish itself sufficiently to survive in an extremely competitive environment

La morfología de los verbos de origen romance en The Complaynt of Scotland

A recurren! feature of early Modern English and Middle Scots is the variation in the past participle and preterí te forms of Latín or French derived verbs ending in -t, since uninnected forms, which retain their loanword status (crear, execut), coexist with fonns more acclirnatized to the English verbal system (created, executed). This paper studies the morphology of these Romance verbs in The Complaynt of Scorland ( 1549), a literary work in prose writtcn in Scots and modelled on Chartier's Quadrilogue lnvectif

Thinking Wetly: Causeways and Communities in East Anglian Hagiography

Water defined the landscapes of medieval East Anglia. Hitherto scholarly attention has focussed on the physical geography of the region, with landscape archaeology and excavations revealing sites of international importance and speaking to the potency and ubiquity of water as a ritual element. Surprisingly, however, very little attention has been paid to the symbolic importance of water in medieval East Anglian literature, and this article addresses this scholarly lacuna. Water features prominently in the literature from the region, particularly in the lives and legends of the numerous saints venerated at its many cult centres. This article begins by outlining some of the key ways in which water signifies in these contexts, before discussing a case study from the Liber Eliensis which, at first reading, seems to confound the received notion of water’s symbolic resonances but which, on closer consideration, reveals an additional, previously unidentified aspect of this most fluid of metaphors

An Incident

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Numerical study of the impact of land use modification on local rainfall over Manila, A

Includes bibliographical references