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Multiple, competing lexical genealogies might well be allowed to share space in an argument (or a poem), and even an avowedly spurious etymology could be valued for its aptness.

The Limelight of the Idols” thus bridges the gap between two kinds of genealogies of modernity employed by literary historians.

She begins with a rewarding chapter in which she proposes that the genealogies of Christ, being both kingly and genetic/dynastic, were the model for the chronicles read by, respectively, Arthur

James Gabrillo and Nathaniel Zetter, eds., Articulating Media: Genealogy, Interface, Situation (Open Humanities Press, 2023).

Quoss-Moore, University of Arkansas. ‘Fetching Genealogies in Spenser’s Antiquitee of Faery lond’. ... I argue that Spenser uses the word ‘fetch’ in the sense of ‘derive’ (OED, ‘fetch’, 6c-d) to weave his fairy genealogy into the main

Making the Miscellany: Poetry, Print, and the History of the Book in Early Modern England offers not a history but a genealogy of the miscellany, an account of how it came

These later writers, further along in time to Milton but who now also belong to the literary past, reach forward from their own genealogy of rhythms into the consciousness of the

Munster, occupied himself with translating “Dermot and the Earl,” a Norman-French poem about the conquest, as part of his research into the genealogy and land-rights of the territory he

By making it plain that class-based writing has a much richer and lengthier genealogy than is recognised by most modern scholars, Literature and Class is a significant and fascinating addition

Even so, with their increasingly elaborate materials—commentary, genealogy, and biography, and eventually glossary—these editions of Chaucer’s Works seek to transmit a specific idea of ‘Englishness’ that linked a