Spring 1982

John Seelye’s “Oceans of Emotion: the Narcissus Syndrome” Paul Barolsky’s “Walter Pater’s Renaissance” Charlotte H. Scott’s “College Desegregation: Virginia’s Sad Experience” Millicent Bell’s “Huckleberry Finn: Journey Without End” Stories by John Seelye, Paul Barolsky, Charlotte H. Scott, and Millicent Bell Poetry by Irving Feldman, Cynthia Huntington, Michael Cadnum, and Rich Ives
Spring 1982

Volume 58, Number 2

Virginia Quarterly Review, Spring 1982 cover
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Table of contents

Criticism 
CRITICISM / ISSUE: Spring 1982

A Model for Criticism

By William E. Cain
Poetry 
POETRY / ISSUE: Spring 1982

Flat Valley In Darkness

By Michael Cadnum
POETRY / ISSUE: Spring 1982

A Fly

By John Vernon
 
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The Green Room, Spring 1982

By Staige D. Blackford
/ ISSUE: Spring 1982

The Nature of the Historian’s Vocation

By Louis J. Halle
/ ISSUE: Spring 1982

Notes on Current Books, Spring 1982

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Underground

By Bobbie Ann Mason
/ ISSUE: Spring 1982

The Salon of Famous Babies

By Irving Feldman
/ ISSUE: Spring 1982

Prose Style, Tennis, and Social Change

By Burling Lowrey
/ ISSUE: Spring 1982

Here Come the Men My Mother Warned Me Of

By Cynthia Huntington
/ ISSUE: Spring 1982

The Face of London

By Peter Corodimas
/ ISSUE: Spring 1982

Migraine

By Cynthia Huntington
/ ISSUE: Spring 1982

Did You Once See Willy Plain?

By Christopher Clausen
/ ISSUE: Spring 1982

The Answer Man

By Rich Ives
/ ISSUE: Spring 1982

Cookbook, Spring 1982

By Walker and Claudine Cowen
/ ISSUE: Spring 1982

Dry Ice

/ ISSUE: Spring 1982

Oceans of Emotion: the Narcissus Syndrome

By John Seelye
/ ISSUE: Spring 1982

Jim Der Trapper and Other Heroes of the Old West

By David Kirby
/ ISSUE: Spring 1982

Toy Trains In the Landlord’s House

/ ISSUE: Spring 1982

Walter Pater’s Renaissance

By Paul Barolsky
/ ISSUE: Spring 1982

Regretful Westering

By David Wyatt
/ ISSUE: Spring 1982

Reprint, Spring 1982

/ ISSUE: Spring 1982

College Desegregation: Virginia’s Sad Experience

By Charlotte H. Scott
/ ISSUE: Spring 1982

Jefferson and the West

By Bernard W. Sheehan
/ ISSUE: Spring 1982

The Burial Ground

By Ashley Mace Havird
/ ISSUE: Spring 1982

Wintry Conscience

By Jeffrey Meyers
/ ISSUE: Spring 1982

Huckleberry Finn: Journey Without End

By Millicent Bell

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