Sexual and Social Mobility in The Duchess of Malfi

Author(s): Frank Whigham

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PMLA, Vol. 100, No. 2 (Mar., 1985), pp. 167-186

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Modern Language Association

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• Issue Table of Contents
  • PMLA, Vol. 100, No. 2 (Mar., 1985), pp. 139-272
    • Front Matter [pp. 141-257]
    • Editor's Column [pp. 139-140]
    • Improvising Rules in the Book of Ruth [pp. 145-153]
    • The Figure of the Reader in Petrarch's Secretum [pp. 154-166]
    • Sexual and Social Mobility in The Duchess of Malfi [pp. 167-186]
    • The Father's Word/Satan's Wrath [pp. 187-202]
    • Dialogic Midwifery in Kleist's Marquise von O and the Hermeneutics of Telling the Untold in Kant and Plato [pp. 203-219]
    • "That Which is Always Beginning": Stevens's Poetry of Affirmation [pp. 220-233]
    • Forum
      • The Drowned Man of Esthwaite [pp. 234-236]
      • Fire Imagery [pp. 236-237]
      • Literature and Politics [pp. 237-238]
    • Professional Notes and Comment [pp. 252+254+256+258]
    • Back Matter [pp. 259-272]