Reading the Sensual in James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room by Ronnel Keith Berry, Michael Thomas

“…These techniques connect Baldwin’s literary persona and its transformations with the form and content of his essays, providing a framework for analyzing the tension between heteronormative love and queer desire experienced by David in the novel. …”
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The Contemporary Critical Reception of Walter Pater: Retrospective and Proleptical Views by Geoffrey Sadock

“…By showing the shift from hostile modernism to a more open and inclusive conception of his literary persona, I explain why Pater is no longer dismissed as precieux and inconsequential by the guardians of High Culture (such as Eliot) but is recognized as an original who synthesized personal preoccupations and aesthetic/critical response to various art forms, nature, and persons. …”
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“The Last Tram Has Gone”: by Nusrat Jahan

“… Jibanananda Das remains one of the major post-Tagore literary personas whose works are still open to interpretation. …”
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“An Unlearned Antinomian-Anabaptist”: Richard Baxter on John Bunyan by N. H. Keeble

“…This essay explores this profound difference of opinion between Puritanism’s two leading representatives on the nature of Christian faith and duty and their contrasting literary personae, and it speculates that its origins may lie in their Civil War experiences.…”
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