Summer 1984

Paul M. Gaston’s “Irony In Utopia: the Discovery of Nancy Lewis” Samuel Yellen’s “The Two Kneelings of King Lear” Paul Barolsky’s “The Case of the Domesticated Aesthete” Anthony Shaw’s “Informed Nonconsent: Ethical Dilemmas In Medical Decision-Making” Stories by Paul M. Gaston, Samuel Yellen, Paul Barolsky, and Anthony Shaw Poetry by Joyce Carol Oates, James Ulmer, Baron Wormser, and Franz Wright
Summer 1984

Volume 60, Number 3

Virginia Quarterly Review, Summer 1984 cover
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Table of contents

Criticism 
CRITICISM / ISSUE: Summer 1984

The Masquers

By Joyce Carol Oates
CRITICISM / ISSUE: Summer 1984

A Scandalous Trial In Fact and Fiction

By Virginia Spencer Carr
Poetry 
POETRY / ISSUE: Summer 1984

A Day Comes

By Franz Wright
 
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Notes on Current Books, Summer 1984

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The Two Kneelings of King Lear

By Samuel Yellen
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Reprint, Summer 1984

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The Reign of James

By Martin Lebowitz
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The Case of the Domesticated Aesthete

By Paul Barolsky
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Gathering

By James Ulmer
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The Green Room, Summer 1984

By Staige D. Blackford
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Informed Nonconsent: Ethical Dilemmas In Medical Decision-Making

By Anthony Shaw
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Families

By Baron Wormser
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Thomas Mann As Diarist

By Jay Parini
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Pomfret

By John Bovey
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Census

By David Wojahn
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A Voyage of Discovery

By Elizabeth Langhorne
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Up From Segregation

By John Shelton Reed
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Past the Dark Arroyo

By David Wojahn
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Class In America

By Doris L. Eder
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Recordings, Summer 1984

By David L. Smith
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A Library of the Real

By Eric J. Sundquist
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Road Gang

By John Lane
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America’s Utopian Prophets

By John Higham
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After the War

By Suellen Mayfield
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Roses

By Margaret Edwards
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Shunga

By Siv Cedering
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Irony In Utopia: the Discovery of Nancy Lewis

By Paul M. Gaston
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The Blue Dress

By Siv Cedering
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The Great Fire

By David Tillinghast

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