Beddoes

Sage's relationship with megalomaniacal info-broker D.B. Beddoes is a bit far-fetched (he uses and manipulates he at every turn) but the satirical look at the handling of information overload is enough to make this a good story.

REVIEW: The Year's Best Science Fiction #19 edited by Gardner Dozois 2005

Ultimately, Hoeveler resolves her discussions of the central preoccupations of Beddoes's texts as autobiographical extensions of an unresolved conflict Beddoes has with religion: "At times a dualist and at other times a monist, Beddoes is finally muddled as a gothic poet with theological interests" (161).

Introduction 1821

By bringing the broader claims about science that Foucault makes to a specific study of The Brides 'Tragedy, Purinton brings a contemporary critical methodology to the cultural discourses that are played out within Beddoes's work.

Introduction 1821

The violence against women in Beddoes's texts is thus read as the poet "blam [ing] the woman for not ushering in the promised land" of the resurrected or redeemed body (161).

Introduction 1821

Brides 'Tragedy, works from the assumption that the family is the seat of patriarchal ideology and suggests that the fate of women in Beddoes's play is far from bizarre or tragic in a classical sense.

Introduction 1821

There is here no "criticism of life;" it is a criticism of strange death; and, so far, may recall Beddoes's _Death's Jest-Book_, unpublished, of course, in 1830.

The Death-Wake or Lunacy; a Necromaunt in Three Chimeras Thomas T Stoddart 1878

Now, Mr. Beddoes is very far indeed from being a boy-wiseacre.

Review 1823

Mr. Beddoes is a minor, and an under-graduate of Pembroke College, Oxford.

Review of The Brides' Tragedy Barry Cornwall 1823

The character of Mrs. Beddoes, the alderman in "South Riding," was drawn so closely from the author's mother that Holtby felt the need to place a "Prefatory Letter to Alderman Mrs. Holtby" at the novel's beginning.

Writer With a Cause Martin Rubin 2011

Lovell Beddoes (who read both poets) may have caught this strain with lighter luxury, closing The Induction to the

Notes on 'Sounding Romantic: The Sound of Sound' 2008