Summer 1980

Nora Beloff’s “Russia and the Hundred-Headed Hydra” Francelia Butler’s “Children’s Literature: the Bad Seed” Molly Ingle Michie’s “A Splendid Day” John Halperin’s “Eminent Victorians and History” Stories by Nora Beloff, Francelia Butler, Molly Ingle Michie, and John Halperin Poetry by Mark Rudman, Stanley Moss, Chris Gilbert, and Phillis Levin
Summer 1980

Volume 56, Number 3

Virginia Quarterly Review, Summer 1980 cover
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Table of contents

Criticism 
CRITICISM / ISSUE: Summer 1980

Revolutionary Criticism

By William E. Cain
 
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Johnny’s Dying

By Joan Walsh
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Letter to the Butterflies

By Stanley Moss
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Recordings

By David L. Smith
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Big In Osaka

By Peter Makuck
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Lenin, Gorky and I

By Stanley Moss
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Reprint, Summer 1980

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The Road to Europe’s Armageddon

By Gerald Freund
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Saxophone

By Chris Gilbert
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American Literature and Environmental Reform

By Philip F. Gura
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Any Good Throat

By Chris Gilbert
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Russia and the Hundred-Headed Hydra

By Nora Beloff
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A Freudian Misinterpretation

By Kenneth Levin
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The Paperweight

By Phillis Levin
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Children’s Literature: the Bad Seed

By Francelia Butler
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Carroll Through the Pillar-Box

By Peter Heath
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The Secret

By Jonathan Holden
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A Splendid Day

By Molly Ingle Michie
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The Urban Frontier

By Oliver Zunz
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Night Walking

By Herbert Scott
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Custody

By Joan Millman
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A Feminist Fantasy

By Miriam Tane
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To Henry VIII’s Ghost

By Katherine Kane
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Eminent Victorians and History

By John Halperin
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The Green Room, Summer 1980

By Staige D. Blackford
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Meditation on An Age

By Katherine Kane
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Wyndham Lewis and T.S. Eliot: A Friendship

By Jeffrey Meyers
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Notes on Current Books, Summer 1980

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Tryst

By Katherine Kane
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The Art of Being a Sitwell

By Richard Jones
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The Black Dove

By Mark Rudman
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Cantina

By David St. John

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