In the following essay, originally delivered as a lecture in 1984, Misenheimer concentrates on Lamb's nostalgic vision by examining six of his representative Elian essays.
At this approachin...
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In the following essay, Wedd discusses Lamb's subtle and complex use of irony in his Elian essay “Poor Relations.”
Irony, the Oxford Dictionary tells us, is a ‘Figure of...
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In the following essay, Natarajan emphasizes Lamb's use of the outsider's perspective in his essays.
On the 27th September, 1796, Lamb wrote to Coleridge to tell him that
my poor d...
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In the following essay, Parker suggests the political relevance of Lamb's seemingly apolitical Elian essays by considering the circumstances of their original publication in the London Magazine...
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In the following essay, Wordsworth briefly surveys the traits of Lamb's literary persona, Elia.
Then there is Charles Lamb, a long way from his friend Hazlitt in ways and manners; he is very...
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In the following essay, originally delivered as a lecture, Perry evaluates Lamb's ironic and idiosyncratic approach to comedy and seriousness in his Elian essays.
It is a great honour and pl...
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In the following essay, Mulvihill traces affinities between Lamb's essays and Enlightenment moral philosophy, illustrated by the “dialectic of essence and accident” in Elia and Th...
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In the following essay, originally delivered as a lecture, the Misenheimers probe the ironic wit and technique of four lesser-known Elian essays.
To refer to ‘another Elia’ will to som...
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Lecture by James B. Misenheimer, Jr.
