J our nal of the Georg ia Philolo g ical Association The Journal of the Georgia philology noun phi·lol·o·gy | \ f-lä-l-j also f- \ Philological Association Definition of philology 1: the study of literature and of disciplines relevant to literature or to language as used in literature 2a: LINGUISTICS Volume 8 especially : historical and comparative linguistics b: the study of human speech especially as the vehicle of literature and as a field of study that sheds light on cultural history (Merriam-Webster Dictionary) ISBN 978-1-79470-793-1 90000 V ol. 9 781794 707931 8 Journal of the Georgia Philological Association Vol. 8 (2018-19) GPA logo © Georgia Philological Association Original design by Stephen Carey The Journal of the Georgia Philological Association is published annually and contains selected expanded essays from proceedings from its annual conference held in the Spring as well as blind submissions. GPA membership is a prerequisite for final publication of all articles. To submit to the JGPA, email manuscripts, double- spaced and in MLA format as an attachment to: Farrah Senn, Editor-in-Chief Journal of the Georgia Philological Association [email protected] Complete submission instructions and more information can be found on the GPA web page at http://www.ega.edu/gpa. All views or conclusions are those of the authors of the articles and not necessarily those of the editorial staff or the Georgia Philological Association. Annual Memberships Faculty, Full and Part-time $25 Students Graduate $20 Undergraduate $15 Independent Scholars and Retired Faculty $20 Subscription Rates (order forms available on the website): Print Electronic Institutions and Libraries $60 $60 Individuals Members $20 Included in membership Non-members $30 $30 This journal is a member of the CELJ, the Council of Editors of Learned Journals. It is indexed in the MLA International Bibliography and EBSCOhost Research Databases. ii Journal of the Georgia Philological Association Editorial Staff: Editor-in-Chief Farrah R. Senn, Assistant Professor of English Andrew College [email protected] Co-Editor Dave Buehrer, Professor of English (retired) Valdosta State University [email protected] Founding Editor 2005-2009 Thom Brucie, Professor of English (Brewton-Parker College) South Georgia State College Editorial Board: Thom Brucie, Professor of English South Georgia State University Valerie Czerny, Associate Professor of English East Georgia State College Lorraine Dubuisson, Associate Professor of English Middle Georgia State University Marcus Johnson, Assistant Professor of Education Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College Laura Hanna, Graduate Assistant Valdosta State University Published by the Georgia Philological Association 2019 Copyright © 2019 by the Georgia Philological Association All rights reserved. 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First Printing: 2006 ISBN 978-1-79470-793-1 Georgia Philological Association http://www.ega.edu/gpa Table of Contents Foreword ................................................................................................vii Introduction...........................................................................................10 Beowulf and the Idealization of the Comitatus ..........................12 Anca Garcia University of South Florida Harmonious Relationships in For Whom the Bell Tolls: A Pagan Spiritual Approach .................................................................35 Lay Sion Ng Osaka University Table, Bottle, and Bed: The Insatiable Southern Appetite of Tennessee Williams ............................................................................51 Vicki Collins University of South Carolina Aiken The Medieval Beginnings of Science Fiction...............................68 Kathleen Burt, PhD Middle Georgia State University “Lusty as Nature”: Whitman’s Environmental Eroticism........89 Matthew Wynn Sivils Iowa State University Encounters with Suffering and the Almighty: Theodicy and Rhetoric in the Poetry of Rosalía de Castro and Emily Dickinson .............................................................................................103 Mark DeStephano, PhD Saint Peter's University The Naturalness and Arbitrariness of Rustic Language: Reconsidering Wordsworth’s Preface to Lyrical Ballads.....131 Sunghyun Jang Korea University A Pilgrim’s Progress for the Digital, Post-Human(ist) Age?: Neo-Realism and Allegorical Representation in Russell Banks’s Lost Memory of Skin ..........................................................153 Dave Buehrer Valdosta State University The Representation of Women and the Concept of “Womanish” Behavior in Henry IV, Part I..................................179 Joshua Temples Andrew College v Slaying Monstrosity: The Undermining of the Heroic Ideal and the Monstrous in the Beowulf Legend ...............................192 Eric Sterling Auburn University, Montgomery At “the Edge of the Void”: An Existential Reading of Mixedblood Identity in Momaday’s House Made of Dawn and The Ancient Child................................................................................215 Jason Huddleston, PhD Emmanuel College vi Foreword From the GPA President… I am honored to once again be serving as president of the Georgia Philological Association (GPA) for the 2018-2019 academic year and to be writing the forward to the latest edition of our peer- reviewed journal. That my colleagues chose to elect me to this office for an unprecedented third term is deeply humbling and a challenge to me as president to reflect on the ways in which the GPA is serving its membership and the academy at large. That desire to understand the role of the GPA in both the regional and national academic communities inspires me to refer back to the framework created by our founding members. According to the 2006 Constitution of the GPA: “The Georgia Philological Association exists for the purposes of exploring and exchanging ideas within the field of philological studies,” and “membership shall be open to students, teachers, scholars, and creative artists in the field of philological studies.” These mandates in the founding documents of the GPA define us as an organization devoted to high-quality scholarship within a broad category of interests; they also establish our commitment to creating opportunities for social and professional networking as well as opportunities to mentor the next generation of scholars. What sets the GPA apart from many other academic organizations in the humanities (outside of the affordability and accessibility of our conference for Georgia teachers and scholars) are the rigorous, blind peer review all submissions to our journal undergo and our willingness to showcase the voices of burgeoning scholars. Many of our long-time members use the GPA as an avenue for teaching their undergraduate and graduate students about the conventions of scholarship: How do I write an abstract? A conference paper? How do I correspond with a conference organizer or the editor of a journal? How do I present my ideas successfully to a body of my academic peers? How do I revise a conference paper for publication? How do I submit that revised piece for publication, and how do I handle the gamut of responses I might receive from an editorial board regarding my work? These are questions that many graduate students don’t begin to address until they are entering the job market, and many undergraduate students don’t address them at all in the course of their undergraduate studies. The GPA is relatively unique in that it accepts conference presentation and article submissions from the entire spectrum of the academy—from those students who are just beginning their scholarly journeys to seasoned, full professors at prestigious institutions. Although I think the benefits to emerging scholars of this aspect of our organizational mission are very evident, I also think the positive effects on those of us whose positions in the academy are firmly established cannot be ignored. Students bring fresh perspectives to texts with long histories in the canon; they don’t know how these texts are “supposed” to be read, and so can offer novel ways of interpreting them. Students also clamor for the scholarly treatment of more recently published and more diverse texts, leading to the expansion of the canon. Perhaps more importantly, when we teach students how to navigate the academy, we come to understand more fully the professional and theoretical foundations of our own scholarly work. I am proud that the GPA includes students in our definition of scholar and look forward to more contributions from undergraduate and graduate students to the conference and journal. The thirteenth annual conference of the GPA was held on May 18, 2018, at the Conference Center on the Macon campus of Middle Georgia State University. At this meeting, we awarded Sara Selby a lifetime membership in the GPA for her role in founding the organization and her continued support of GPA’s scholarly enterprise. We also awarded the Vicki Hill Memorial Graduate Recognition Award to Daniel Pendleton for his paper “Objectification and the Cost of Being Exotic in Aphra Behn’s ‘Oroonoko.’” Presentations covered a wide range of topics, including race, pedagogy, class, gender, and setting; they investigated a variety of genres, including poetry and prose, and