Archival Issue: Fall 2004

Discourse

2004-2005

English Literature

The Importance of Being Frank
Reconsidering Harcourt in Wycherley's
The Country Wife

David Spielman

Wycherley’s The Country Wife opens on Horner, the lead, telling his physician about his plan to change his reputation from that of a rake (promiscuous man-about-town) to that of a eunuch in order to gain access to women without anyone knowing. He withholds this plan from everyone but the doctor, who becomes his accomplice by spreading the rumor of Hornor’s impotence to the gossipiest women in London. Horner’s sex life constitutes two of the three main plots, in both of which he gains access to a married . . .read more

Anthropology

Sociolinguistics of
Australian English

Emily Trekell

Behind every language lies a fascinatingly intricate structure, which contains much more than a simple set of symbols.  Language is not merely a code used to switch a text from one idiom to another, but an entity with its own complex, intriguing characteristics.  In fact, exact translations do not even exist from one language to another because every dialect possesses unique aspects that have come about from centuries of social change and interaction.  In return, language, through everyday speech, as well as literature, shapes . . .read more

History/Political Theory

Revising Anne
A Critical Look at Histories of Hutchinson and the Antinomians

Brooke Schieb

In the seventeenth century, the Massachusetts Bay Colony was founded as a haven for Puritans, who sought religious freedom and harmony.  In order to achieve this haven, the settlers in Massachusetts Bay devised a system of government that would serve as both a political and moral authority.  Between 1636 and 1638 the relative harmony of the Massachusetts Bay Colony was shaken by an uprising that has become known as the Antinomian Controversy.  At the center of this controversy was Anne Hutchinson, a Boston . . . read more

Business/Communications

Tiffany & Company
Maintaining Elite Image while Broadening Customer Base

Stephanie Blackburn