Dear List,
 
I don't remember this article being mentioned on Nabokv-L, but it is a fascinating piece on Philip Sidney's Arcadia as a subtext to Ada (cited, also, in Boyd's online annotations to Ada, 8, part 1, ch. 8):
 
Penny McCarthy, 'Nabokov's Ada and Sidney's Arcadia: The Regeneration of a Phoenix'
 
Published in the Modern Language Review, January 2004, vol. 99, no. 1, pp. 17-31, available online via: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/mhra/mlr
 
Barbara Wyllie
SSEES/UCL