Criticism back issues from January 1997:
Making a Social Body: British Culture Formation, 1830-1864.
Jan 01, 1997; ... by Mary Poovey. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995. Pp. x + 255. $34.00 cloth. $12.95 paper. The body has been the focus of much literary criticism for the last couple of decades. At first this criticism focused on the body itself, but before long attention turned to ...
The Ruling Passion: British Colonial Allegory and the Paradox of Homosexual Desire.
Jan 01, 1997; ... by Christopher Lane. Durham: Duke University Press, 1995. Pp. xiii + 326. $49.95 cloth. $16.95 paper. The body has been the focus of much literary criticism for the last couple of decades. At first this criticism focused on the body itself, but before long attention turned to ...
Walking the Victorian Streets: Women, Representation, and the City.
Jan 01, 1997; ... by Deborah Epstein Nord. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1995. Pp. 270 + xiv. $16.95 paper. Both of these books concern themselves with nineteenth-century female pathologies: the figure of the "fallen woman," in Nord's case, and in Ender's study, the hysteric. Both ...
Sexing the Mind: Nineteenth-Century Fictions of Hysteria.
Jan 01, 1997; ... by Evelyne Ender. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1995. Pp. 307 + xi. $17.95 paper. Both of these books concern themselves with nineteenth-century female pathologies: the figure of the "fallen woman," in Nord's case, and in Ender's study, the hysteric. Both use ...
Strange Dislocations: Childhood and the Idea of Human Interiority, 1780-1930.
Jan 01, 1997; ... by Carolyn Steedman. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1995. Pp. vii-254. $29.95. Had I given this review a title, it might have read "An (Inner) Child is Being Beaten" as a gesture to the conceptual, historical dimensions of Carolyn Steedman's intriguing book. ...
Discrepant Dislocations: Feminism, Theory, and Postcolonial Histories.
Jan 01, 1997; ... by Mary E. John. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1996. Pp. 198. $18.00 paper. $45.00 cloth. The subtitle of John's book clearly spells out the main project of Discrepant Dislocations--the historicization of theory, especially feminist theory, from a ...
Disciplines of Virtue: Girl's Culture in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries.
Jan 01, 1997; ... by Lynne Vallone. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995. Pp. x + 230. $25.00. In this theoretically astute addition to eighteenth- and nineteenth-century cultural studies, Lynne Vallone explores an area often neglectd by literary scholars-youth studies. Vallone covers a wide ...
Imagining Monsters: Miscreations of the Self in Eighteenth-Century England.
Jan 01, 1997; ... by Dennis Todd. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1995. Pp. xvii + 339. $17.95 (paper). Dennis Todd's examination of the widely perceived dangers of the corporeal imagination in early eighteenth-century England and the anxieties about identity that they fueled, ...
Reading North by South: On Latin American Literature, Culture, and Politics.
Jan 01, 1997; ... by Neil Larsen. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995. Pp. xi + 234. $18.95 paper. Reading North by South starts from the important question about the position of a North American critic, however knowledgeable and sympathetic, who reads the literature of Latin America ...
Marianne Moore: Questions of Authority.
Jan 01, 1997; ... by Cristanne Miller (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995). Pp. 303. $35.00. Explaining how Marianne Moore likes to dismantle dichotomies, Cristanne Miller describes her own intellectual approach: "Her mind works toward connection" (141). This book's methods, that is, ...
Vision and Textuality.
Jan 01, 1997; ... by Stephen Melville and Bill Readings. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1995. Pp. 408. $49.95 cloth. $17.95 paper. I am an art historian, and once as a graduate student, I asked a friend in comparative literature about what kinds of "theory" he found particularly "useful." He ...
The Tory View of Landscape.
Jan 01, 1997; ... by Nigel Everett. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994. Pp. 248. $40.00. Nigel Everett's study of representations of landscape in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries reminds us that the British countryside, far from being "natural," was a highly acculturated, ...
Shelley and the Revolution in Taste.
Jan 01, 1997; ... by Timothy Morton. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. xiii, 298. $57.95. It was Carl Woodring, in a graduate class on Queen Mab, who first taught me the significance of Shelley's vegetarianism. (He had treated the topic briefly in his 1970 Politics in English ...
Rhetorical Traditions and British Romantic Literature.
Jan 01, 1997; ... by Don H. Bialostosky and Lawrence D. Needham. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1995. Pp. viii + 312. $39.95. This volume of seventeen essays, eight new, eight previously published (1980-1992), and one translated from a work of 1944 by Klaus Dockhorn, ...