Recently added articles from CLIO:
The fictional afterlife of Anne Boleyn: how to do things with the Queen, 1901-2006.
Sep 22, 2007; Burstein, Miriam Elizabeth ... Since the 1980s, feminists pondering the historical romance and its immediate cousin, the erotic historical, have complained that even when the heroine is uniquely powerful, "the majority of the novels ... end, as do the traditional formula romances, with either the marriage of the heroine ...
Conscience and the "gentle paines" of reform in A View of the Present State of Ireland.
Sep 22, 2007; Kisting, Wesley ... Literary critics frequently turn to Edmund Spenser's A View of the Present State of Ireland (1596) to illuminate the colonial politics that inform the depiction of justice in Book V of The Faerie Queene (1596)--and rightly so. There are conspicuous similarities between A View's plan for ...
The politics of ambivalence: romance, history, and gender in Mary W. Shelley's Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck.
Sep 22, 2007; Garrett, Erin L. Webster ... I am doomed to a divided existence and I submit. (1) Published in 1830, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's second and last historical romance, The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck, elicited reviews that questioned not only her legitimacy as a historical romancer, but also the damaging ...
Autobiography, activism, and the carceral: an analysis of the prison writing of Lady Constance Lytton.
Sep 22, 2007; Tilghman, Carolyn M. ... The social enemy was transformed into a deviant, who brought with him the multiple danger of disorder, crime, and madness. (1) Documents uncovered at the National Archives reveal that the votes-for-women movement probably became the first "terrorist" organisation subjected to ...
The postmodern enlightenment.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; Garrard, Graeme ... Kant and the Culture of Enlightenment. By Katerina Deligiorgi. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2005. xi + 248 pages. Vitalizing Nature in the Enlightenment. By Peter Hanns Reill. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. x + 388 pages. The German ...
Historians, history brokers, consumers, and English historical culture 1800-1970.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; Richardson, R.C. ... Modernizing England's Past: English Historiography in the Age of Modernism 1870-1970. By Michael Bentley. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. viii + 245 pages. The Culture of History: English Uses of the Past 1800-1953. By Billie Melman. Oxford: Oxford University Press, ...
The Soul of Tragedy: Essays on Athenian Drama.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; Mitchell-Boyask, Robin ... The Soul of Tragedy: Essays on Athenian Drama. Edited by Victoria Pedrick and Steven M. Oberhelman. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. vi + 323 pages. The Soul of Tragedy presents a number of stimulating essays on the drama of ancient Athens, but this is, in several ...
The Empire of the Great Mughals: History, Art, and Culture.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; Singh, Jyotsna G. ... The Empire of the Great Mughals: History, Art, and Culture. By Annemarie Schimmel. Translated by Corinne Atwood. Edited by Francis Robinson. London: Reaktion Books, 2004. 352 pages. "For Europeans in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the Great Mughal Empire seemed like a ...
Aguecheek's Beef, Belch's Hiccup, and Other Gastronomic Interjections: Literature, Culture, and Food among the Early Moderns.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; Boehrer, Bruce ... Aguecheek's Beef, Belch's Hiccup, and Other Gastronomic Interjections: Literature, Culture, and Food among the Early Moderns. By Robert Appelbaum. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. xxii + 376 pages. At over three hundred pages plus notes, Robert Appelbaum's ...
The Book of the Play: Playwrights, Stationers, and Readers in Early Modern England.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; Whitney, Charles ... The Book of the Play: Playwrights, Stationers, and Readers in Early Modern England. Edited by Marta Straznicky. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2006. 237 pages. This wide-ranging collection by many leaders in the field offers state-of-the-art inquiries into the ...
Styles of Enlightenment: Taste, Politics, and Authorship in Eighteenth-Century France.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; Douthwaite, Julia ... Styles of Enlightenment: Taste, Politics, and Authorship in Eighteenth-Century France. By Elena Russo. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. 346 pages. Styles of Enlightenment incarnates literary criticism as it was traditionally conceived: as the careful, ...
Ireland: Social, Political, and Religious.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; Allen, Nicholas ... Ireland: Social, Political, and Religious. By Gustave de Beaumont. Edited and translated by W. C. Taylor. Introduction by Tom Garvin and Andreas Hess. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006. 448 pages. Gustave de Beaumont was a lifelong colleague of Alexis de ...
Victorian Sensations: Essays on a Scandalous Genre.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; Loesberg, Jonathan ... Victorian Sensations: Essays on a Scandalous Genre. Edited by Kimberly Harrison and Richard Fantina. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2006. xxiii + 278 pages. Since the appearance of Winifred Hughes's The Maniac in the Cellar in 1980, Victorian scholars have given ...
Lost Causes: Historical Consciousness in Victorian Literature.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; McCaw, Neil ... Lost Causes: Historical Consciousness in Victorian Literature. By Jason B. Jones. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2006. xii + 134 pages. Lost Causes is a book that delights in the intricacies and complexities of Victorian ideas of history and concerns about the ...
Women and the Politics of Travel, 1870-1914.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; Chan, May Caroline ... Women and the Politics of Travel, 1870-1914. By Monica Anderson. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2006. 287 pages. Monica Anderson's recent study analyzes travel narratives by Isabella Bird, Florence Dixie, and Kate Marsden with the intention of creating a ...
The Politics of Memory in Postwar Europe.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; Ziebinska-Witek, Anna ... The Politics of Memory in Postwar Europe. Edited by Richard Ned Lebow, Wulf Kansteiner, and Claudio Fogu. Durham: Duke University Press, 2006. xi + 366 pages. The Politics of Memory in Postwar Europe is a comparative study that explores how different European countries (Austria, ...