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Refiguring the Sentimental
Oct 01, 2007; ... Refiguring the Sentimental LYNN FESTA, Sentimental Figures of Empire in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2006), pp. 312, cloth, $55.00. Lynn Festa's account of the shortcomings (and the strengths) of imperialist benevolence in the eighteenth century is ...
Fit and Surfeit in As I Lay Dying
Oct 01, 2007; ... "'Meet Mrs Bundren,' he says." Anse Bundren's introduction, "kind of hangdog and proud too" (261), of his new wife to his astonished children, less than twenty-four hours after they have finally managed to inter Addie Bundren, his first wife and the children's mother, strikes many ...
Nothing Personal: The Decapitation of Character in A Tale of Two Cities
Oct 01, 2007; ... One could not read the correspondence of an old-regime intendant with his superiors and subordinates without noting how the similarity of institutions makes the officials of that time similar to those of our own. They seem to shake hands across the abyss of the Revolution which separates ...
The Trial Narrative in Richardson's Pamela: Suspending the Hermeneutic of Happiness
Oct 01, 2007; ... That which purifies is trial, and trial is by what is contrary. Milton, Areopagitica "Happiness is a new idea in Europe," declared Saint-Just in 1794. Historians have by and large concurred with his assessment, despite its revolutionary hyperbole. The eighteenth century, they ...
Maggie, Not a Girl of the Streets
Oct 01, 2007; ... The grisette leaves home, and she goes to work: so her story begins. Before it ends, this carefree girl will divide nations and novels, antagonize even some of those most attracted to her, and, in her provocative simplicity, raise questions so complex that they might seem to draw one inexorably ...