The Modern Language Review back issues from April 1999:
Charles Grant, a literary mediator: With three unpublished letters to George Eliot.
Apr 01, 1999; ... In his biography of John Sterling, (1) Thomas Carlyle sums up the life of his subject in these words:All that remains, in palpable shape, of John Sterling's activities in this world are those Two poor Volumes; scattered fragments gathered from the general waste of forgotten ...
Children and childlessness in the novel of female adultery.
Apr 01, 1999; ... Adultery in the nineteenth-century European realist novel has attracted more critical attention than any other theme involving sexual transgression, but many of the questions it raises still lack adequate definition. There are several possible reasons why so few ideas on the subject have won ...
The White Devil and old wives' tales.
Apr 01, 1999; ... When Francisco de Medici begins to plan his revenge for the murder of his sister, Isabella, he closes his eyes and imagines her figure. He assumes that the ghost appearing before him is the creation of his own melancholy ('the quick idea of my mind' (IV. 1. 105)). (1) 'Remove this object', ...
Cor laceratum: Corresponding till death in Swift's Journal to Stella.
Apr 01, 1999; ... 'I never remember so many people of quality to have died in so short a time', writes Jonathan Swift in a letter to Esther Johnson and Rebecca Dingley on 26 August, 1711. (1) He is responding most directly to the four deaths recorded in his letters of the previous few days. (2) Perhaps, ...
Colloquial vocabulary and politeness in French.
Apr 01, 1999; ... In French, as in other languages, the powerful role played by vocabulary in marking shifts between formal and informal style, and in signalling the social identities of speakers, is well known. Public awareness of the opposition between 'standard' and 'non-standard' in the French lexicon is ...
Emma's feet on clay: The ironies of romanticized location in Madame Bovary.
Apr 01, 1999; ... To speak of Flaubert's 'modernity' is now something of a critical commonplace, yet many aspects of his provocative use of language remain to be explored. The present study aims to elaborate a 'geolinguistic' approach to the detailed analysis of placenames in Madame Bovary, highlighting how ...
Surrealism and pseudo-initiation: Raymond Queneau's Odile.
Apr 01, 1999; ... Raymond Queneau's literary practice has often been defined by contrast with Surrealism: he has been regarded as a rigorous formalist reacting against the exaltation of chance and the subconscious. Recently, however, this way of seeing his relations with the movement has been questioned in ...
'L'intuizione del fantastico': Antonio Rubino, futurist manque.
Apr 01, 1999; ... This article examines Antonio Rubino in the light of the Futurist movement. Rubino, better known perhaps as one of the inventors of Italian cartoon and in particular of the celebrated octosyllabic lines for the children's weekly magazine Corriere dei Piccoli, was never officially involved in ...
The fables of Eiximenis: Norm and abnormality.
Apr 01, 1999; ... Like so many medieval authors who wish to address a broad audience, Francesc Eiximenis, a friar of the Franciscan Order, makes use of exempla, because 'to cite St Gregory, "concrete examples are more forceful than mere words"'. (1) In his Ars praedicandi he gives five types of material that ...
Reflections of the war of 1898 in Pardo Bazan's fiction and travel chronicles.
Apr 01, 1999; ... Nine years before the war between Spain and the United States, Emilia Pardo Bazan made a number of harsh comments concerning the state and potential effectiveness of the Spanish army. These opinions, expressed when Pardo Bazan was attending the Paris Exhibition of 1889, provoked a fierce ...
Forms of Expansion: Recent Long Poems by Women.(Review)
Apr 01, 1999; ... Forms of Expansion: Recent Long Poems by Women. By Lynn Keller. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 1997. xi+373 pp. $45; 35.95 [pounds sterling] (paperbound $18.95; 15.25 [pounds sterling]).Lynn Keller's study is a brave and bracing exploration of the contemporary ...
Juan Goytisolo's queer (be)hindsight: homosexuality, epistemology, and the 'extimacy' of the subject in Coto Vedado and En Los Reinos De Taifa.
Apr 01, 1999; ... Everything is played out in retro and a tergo. (Jacques Derrida) (1) 'In classic paintings, I look for the subconscious--in a Surrealist painting, for the conscious.' (Sigmund Freud) (2)One of the most productive yet relatively ...
Schiller's early styles: Language and gesture in Die Rauber.
Apr 01, 1999; ... If we are to understand the language of drama in the eighteenth century (that is, the act of communication between characters on stage, between play and audience, author and society), we must consider both verbal and non-verbal communication and these in relation to one another. The ...
'Die Verkorperte Scham': The body in Handke's Wunschloses Ungluck.
Apr 01, 1999; ... Early criticism of Peter Handke's Wunschloses Ungluck (1) (1972) divided into two distinct strands. One view was that the text marked a turning-point in Handke's career, a move away from experimentation with language towards more traditional forms of storytelling. This view is neatly ...
The city in Russian literature: Images past and present.
Apr 01, 1999; ... Before considering the contemporary depiction of life in the Russian city in fiction, it will be useful to rehearse some general points. First, the very manifestation of urban life in Russia has been viewed with extreme ambiguity. Pushkin can be viewed as the instigator of the urban theme ....
Walter Benjamin: Theoretical Questions.(Review)
Apr 01, 1999; ... Walter Benjamin: Theoretical Questions. Ed. by DAVID S. FERRIS. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. 1996. xii + 246 pp. $45 (paperbound $15.95).The essays in this volume are based on conference papers delivered in 1991 at Yale University. The conference-title was 'Walter ...
The Fayre Formez of the Pearl Poet.(Review)
Apr 01, 1999; ... The Fayre Formez of the Pearl Poet. By SANDRA PIERSON PRIOR. (Medieval Texts and Studies) East Lansing: Michigan State University Press. 1996. xiv + 222 pp. $37.95.In the opening sentence of this book, Sandra Pierson Prior states that her aim is 'to define and describe the poetics ...
The Heaven Singing. Music in Early English Religious Drama. Vol. 1.(Review)
Apr 01, 1999; ... The Heaven Singing: Music in Early English Religious Drama. Vol. 1. By RICHARD RASTALL. Cambridge: Brewer. 1996. xxi + 422 pp. 55 [pounds sterling].The quantity of music surviving in the medieval English play texts is quite small. A single actor's part for three vernacular plays ...
The Medieval Siege: Theme and Image in Middle English Romance.(Review)
Apr 01, 1999; ... The Medieval Siege: Theme and Image in Middle English Romance. By MALCOLM HEBRON. (Oxford English Monographs) Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1997. ix + 191 pp. 30 [pounds sterling].Sieges featured extensively in medieval writings, providing a useful device for investigating topics such ...
Editing 'Piers Plowman': The Evolution of the Text.(Review)
Apr 01, 1999; ... Editing 'Piers Plowman': The Evolution of the Text. By CHARLOTTE BREWER. (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, 28) Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 1996. xv + 459 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]; $64.95.Surviving in over fifty manuscripts and early ...
Reading from the Margins: Textual Studies, Chaucer, and Medieval Literature.(Review)
Apr 01, 1999; ... Reading from the Margins: Textual Studies, Chaucer, and Medieval Literature. Ed. by SETH LERER. San Marino, CA: Huntington Library Press. 1996. vii + 160 pp. $12. (Huntington Library Quarterly, 58, 1.)Reading from the Margins began life as a special issue of the Huntington Library ...
The Telling Image: Explorations in the Emblem.(Review)
Apr 01, 1999; ... The Telling Image: Explorations in the Emblem. Ed. by AYERS L. BAGLEY, EDWARD M. GRIFFIN, and AUSTIN J. MCLEAN. (AMS Studies in the Emblem) New York: AMS Press. 1997. xiv + 286 pp. $76.50.Nine essays, approaching emblematic writing from several angles and focusing on different ...
Pastoral Transformations: Italian Tragicomedy and Shakespeare's Late Plays.(Review)
Apr 01, 1999; ... Pastoral Transformations: Italian Tragicomedy and Shakespeare's Late Plays. By ROBERT HENKE. Cranbury, NJ: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses. 1997. 239 pp. 30 [pounds sterling].By examining the dramaturgy of Shakespeare's Cymbeline, The Winter's ...
Milton's Imperial Epic: 'Paradise Lost' and the Discourse of Colonialism.(Review)
Apr 01, 1999; ... Milton's Imperial Epic: 'Paradise Lost' and the Discourse of Colonialism. By J. MARTIN EVANS. Ithaca, NY, and London: Cornell University Press. 1996. xi + 194 pp. 27.50 [pounds sterling].Readers of Paradise Lost will readily recall its depiction of Satan as a daring 'adventurer' ...
Persona and Decorum in Milton's Prose.(Review)
Apr 01, 1999; ... Persona and Decorum in Milton's Prose. By REUBEN SANCHEZ, JR. Cranbury, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 1997. 251 pp. 32 [pounds sterling].Reuben Sanchez's monograph, which has its origins in a doctoral dissertation (p. 13), ...
Tricksters & Estates: On the Ideology of Restoration Comedy.(Review)
Apr 01, 1999; ... Tricksters & Estates: On the Ideology of Restoration Comedy. By J. DOUGLAS CANFIELD. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 1997. xii + 315 pp. $44.95.J. Douglas Canfield's book will drive every reader to revaluate the scope and nature of Restoration comedy. He refreshingly ...
Telling Time: Clocks, diaries, and English Diurnal Form, 1660-1785.(Review)
Apr 01, 1999; ... Telling Time: Clocks, Diaries, and English Diurnal Form, 1660-1785. By STUART SHERMAN. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 1997. xv + 323 pp. $60; 47.95 [pounds sterling] (paperbound $19.95; 15.95 [pounds sterling]).'I wish there was not a clock in the kingdom', ...
Narratives of Enlightenment: Cosmopolitan History from Voltaire to Gibbon.(Review)
Apr 01, 1999; ... Narratives of Enlightenment: Cosmopolitan History from Voltaire to Gibbon. By KAREN O'BRIEN. (Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought) Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 1997. xii + 249 pp 37.50 [pounds sterling]; $59.95. ...
Consuming Subjects: Women, Shopping, and Business in the Eighteenth Century.(Review)
Apr 01, 1999; ... Consuming Subjects: Women, Shopping, and Business in the Eighteenth Century. By ELIZABETH KOWALESKI-WALLACE. New York: Columbia University Press 1997. ix + 185 pp. $39.50; 31.50 [pounds sterling] (paperbound $15.50; 12.50 [pounds sterling]).Since the publication of John Brewer, ...
Familiar Violence: Gender and Social Upheaval in the Novels of Frances Burney.(Review)
Apr 01, 1999; ... Familiar Violence: Gender and Social Upheaval in the Novels of Frances Burney. By BARBARA ZONITCH. Cranbury, NJ: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses. 1997. 167 pp. 26.50 [pounds sterling].Thanks to the work of feminist critics of the last twenty ...
Speak Silence: Rhetoric and Culture in Blake's 'Poetical Sketches'.(Review)
Apr 01, 1999; ... Speak Silence: Rhetoric and Culture in Blake's 'Poetical Sketches'. Ed. by MARK L. GREENBERG. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press. 1996. 221 pp. $39.95; 35.95 [pounds sterling].Speak Silence is a disappointing book, and a puzzling one. Blake's Poetical Sketches has a unique ...
Coleridge in Italy.(Review)
Apr 01, 1999; ... Coleridge in Italy. By EDOARDO ZUCCATO. Cork: Cork University Press. 1996. xix + 275 pp. 35 [pounds sterling].Edoardo Zuccato's Coleridge in Italy is a splendid book, original, important, and learned. While its immediate concern is Coleridge's engagement with Italian society and ...
Literature and the Marketplace: Romantic Writers and Their Audiences in Great Britain and the United States.(Review)
Apr 01, 1999; ... Literature and the Marketplace: Romantic Writers and Their Audiences in Great Britain and the United States. By WILLIAM G. ROWLAND, JR. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press. 1997. xv + 230 pp. 38 [pounds sterling].In 1812 W. H. Ireland, having survived the controversy ...
Nerves and Narratives: A Cultural History of Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century British Prose.(Review)
Apr 01, 1999; ... Nerves and Narratives: A Cultural History of Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century British Prose. By PETER MELVILLE LOGAN. Foreword by Roy Porter. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press. 1997. xvii + 248 pp. $40; 32 [pounds sterling] (paperbound $16; 12.95 [pounds ...
Framing the Victorians: Photography and the Culture of Realism.(Review)
Apr 01, 1999; ... Framing the Victorians: Photography and the Culture of Realism. By JENNIFER GREEN-LEWIS. Ithaca, NY, and London: Cornell University Press. 1997. xii + 255 pp. 27.50 [pounds sterling].The term 'heliogravure', used by the earliest photographers to describe their occupation, has much ...
Church and Stage in Victorian England.(Review)
Apr 01, 1999; ... Church and Stage in Victorian England. By RICHARD FOULKES. Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 1997. xiv + 263 pp. 37.50 [pounds sterling]; $59.95.When on 19 May 1897, Oscar Wilde emerged from prison after a two year sentence, a fifty-year-old clergyman ...
Transcendental Utopias: Individual and Community at Brook Farm, Fruitlands, and 'Walden'.(Review)
Apr 01, 1999; ... Transcendental Utopias: Individual and Community at Brook Farm, Fruitlands, and 'Walden'. By RICHARD FRANCIS. Ithaca, NY, and London: Cornell University Press. 1997. xiii + 256 pp. 25.50 [pounds sterling].The title and subtitle of Richard Francis's study are neatly juxtaposed and ...
The Letters of Christina Rossetti.(Review)
Apr 01, 1999; ... The Letters of Christina Rossetti. Vol. 1: 1843-1873. Ed. by ANTONY H. HARRISON. (Victorian Literature and Culture) Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia. 1997. lxii + 458 pp. $49.50.The trajectory of Christina Rossetti's reputation is quite remarkable. Thirty ...
The Letters of Matthew Arnold.(Review)
Apr 01, 1999; ... The Letters of Matthew Arnold. Vol. II: 1860-1865. Ed. by CECIL Y. LANG. (Victorian Literature and Culture) Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia. 1997. xxi + 505 pp. $60.The second volume of Cecil Y. Lang's edition of The Letters of Matthew Arnold maintains the ...
In the Palatial Chamber of the Mind: Comparative Essays on Henry James.(Review)
Apr 01, 1999; ... In the Palatial Chamber of the Mind: Comparative Essays on Henry James. By MAURIZIO ASCARI. Pescara: Tracce. 1997. 232 pp. 25,000 lire.The Prefaces of Henry James: Framing the Modern Reader. By JOHN H. PEARSON. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. 1997. vii + 168 ...
The Prefaces of Henry James: Framing the Modern Reader.(Review)
Apr 01, 1999; ... In the Palatial Chamber of the Mind: Comparative Essays on Henry James. By MAURIZIO ASCARI. Pescara: Tracce. 1997. 232 pp. 25,000 lire.The Prefaces of Henry James: Framing the Modern Reader. By JOHN H. PEARSON. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. 1997. vii + 168 ...
Henry James and the Culture of Publicity.(Review)
Apr 01, 1999; ... In the Palatial Chamber of the Mind: Comparative Essays on Henry James. By MAURIZIO ASCARI. Pescara: Tracce. 1997. 232 pp. 25,000 lire.The Prefaces of Henry James: Framing the Modern Reader. By JOHN H. PEARSON. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. 1997. vii + 168 ...
Henry James in the Periodicals.(Review)
Apr 01, 1999; ... In the Palatial Chamber of the Mind: Comparative Essays on Henry James. By MAURIZIO ASCARI. Pescara: Tracce. 1997. 232 pp. 25,000 lire.The Prefaces of Henry James: Framing the Modern Reader. By JOHN H. PEARSON. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. 1997. vii + 168 ...
British Literary Culture and Publishing Practice, 1880-1914.(Review)
Apr 01, 1999; ... British Literary Culture and Publishing Practice, 1880-1914. By PETER M. MCDONALD. (Cambridge Studies in Publishing and Printing History) Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 1997. xi + 230 pp. 37.50 [pounds sterling]; $59.95.In the long introduction to ...
Literature, Politics and Culture in Postwar Britain.(Review)
Apr 01, 1999; ... Literature, Politics and Culture in Postwar Britain. 2nd edn. By ALAN SINFIELD. London and Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Athlone Press. 1997. xxx + 347 pp. 16.95 [pounds sterling].The publishers do few favours to this new edition of Alan Sinfield's 1989 book by issuing it in a rather ...
Coming Home Again: American Family Drama and the Figure of the Prodigal.(Review)
Apr 01, 1999; ... Coming Home Again: American Family Drama and the Figure of the Prodigal. By GEOFFREY S. PROEHL. Cranbury, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 1997. 221 pp. 32.50 [pounds sterling]; $36.Tennessee Williams once remarked that he had never ...
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales, Children, and the Culture Industry.(Review)
Apr 01, 1999; ... Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales, Children, and the Culture Industry. By JACK ZIPES. New York and London: Routledge. 1997. x + 171 pp. 40 [pounds sterling] (paperbound 12.99 [pounds sterling]).Jack Zipes is well known in children's literature criticism, especially for his writings ...
De l'emploi du subjonctif passe/On the Use of the Past Subjunctive.(Review)
Apr 01, 1999; ... De l'emploi du subjonctif passe/On the Use of the Past Subjunctive. By EVA HAVU. Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia. 1996. 240 pp.The study starts with the premise that 'in the narrative register the Subjunctive Imperfect as well as the Subjunctive Pluperfect are still used, ...
Gender and Genre in Medieval French Literature.(Review)(Brief Article)
Apr 01, 1999; ... Gender and Genre in Medieval French Literature. By SIMON GAUNT. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1995. x + 372 pp.Thanks largely to the impact of feminist scholarship, the question of gender has, in recent years, become an integral part of medieval studies. Simon Gaunt's book ...
La Vie de saint Germer et la vie de saint Josse de Pierre de Beauvais: Deux poemes du XIII siecle, publies avec introduction notes et glossaire.(Review)
Apr 01, 1999; ... La Vie de saint Germer et la vie de saint Josse de Pierre de Beauvais: Deux poemes du XIII e siecle, publies avec introduction, notes et glossaire. Ed. by NILS-OLF JONSSON. (Etudes Romanes de Lund, 56) Lund: Lund University Press. 1997. 270 pp.For this new edition of the two French ...
W.B. Yeats: A Life. Vol.1: The Apprentice Mage, 1865-1914.(Review)
Apr 01, 1999; ... Perpetuum mobile: Metamorphoses des corps et des oeuvres de Vinci a Montaigne. By MICHEL JEANNERET. (Collection Argo) Paris: Macula. 1997. 331 pp. 150 F.'La matiere demeure, mais la forme se perd.' It is all but a truism to state that Renaissance writers are conscious of living in ...
Perpetuum mobile: Metamorphoses des corps et des oeuvres de Vinci a Montaigne.(Review)(Brief Article)
Apr 01, 1999; ... W. B. Yeats: A Life. Vol. I: The Apprentice Mage, 1865-1914. By R. F. FOSTER. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. 1997. xxxi + 640 pp. 25 [pounds sterling].The Yeats who emerges from this long-awaited first part of R. F. Foster's splendid biography is very much a maker on ...
L'Amie de Court.(Review)
Apr 01, 1999; ... L'Amie de Court. By BERTRAND DE LA BORDERIE. Ed., with an introduction and commentary, by DANIELLE TRUDEAU. (Textes de la Renaissance, 16) Paris: Champion. 1997. xxxvii + 161 pp. 220 F.Bertrand de la Borderie's Amie de Court (1542) set in motion a poetic dialogue that debated ...
Mots dores pour un siecle de fer: 'Les Mimes, ensignemens et proverbes' de Jean-/Antoine de Baif: Texte, contexte, intertexte.(Review)
Apr 01, 1999; ... Mots dores pour un siecle de fer: 'Les Mimes, ensignemens et proverbes' de Jean-Antoine de Baif: texte, contexte, intertexte. By JEAN VIGNES. (Bibliotheque Litteraire de la Renaissance, 37) Paris: Champion. 1997. 656 + xiv pp. 640 F.This volume forms one panel of a diptych, of ...
Le Premiere reception des 'Essais' de Montaigne. (1580-1640).(Review)
Apr 01, 1999; ... La premiere reception des 'Essais' de Montaigne (1580-1640). By OLIVIER MILLET. (Etudes Montaignistes, 23) Paris: Champion. 1995. 256 pp. 150 F.Despite the impression given by the title, this is not a monograph. It is a selective anthology of responses to the Essais during the ...
Les sources de la pensee philosophique de Raimond Sebond (Ramon Sibuida).(Review)(Brief Article)
Apr 01, 1999; ... Les sources de la pensee philosophique de Raimond Sebond (Ramon Sibiuda). By JAUME DE PUIG. (Etudes Montaignistes, 17) Paris: Champion. 1995. 318 pp. 270 F.Sebond has received a great deal of attention recently, particularly in the context of Montaigne studies. This volume goes to ...
Montaigne proprietaire foncier: Inventaire raisonne du 'Terrier de Montaigne' conserve a la Bibliotheque Municipale de Bordeaux.(Review)(Brief Article)
Apr 01, 1999; ... Montaigne proprietaire foncier: Inventaire raisonne du 'Terrier de Montaigne' conserve a la Bibliotheque Municipale de Bordeaux. By AGNES MARCETTEAU-PAUL. (Etudes Montaignistes, 24) Paris: Champion. 1995. 152 pp. 240 F.Purchased in Germany in 1982, this previously unrecognized ...
Meditations sur les Pseaumes.(Review)
Apr 01, 1999; ... Meditations sur les Pseaumes. By JEAN DE SPONDE. Ed. by SABINE LARDON. Paris: Champion. 1996. 515 pp. 370 F.Alan Boase's seminal revival of the works of Jean de Sponde brought this writer to the attention of scholars of the mid-twentieth century. Since then, much has been written ...
A Man to Heal all Differences: Essays and Talks on St. Francis de Sales.(Review)
Apr 01, 1999; ... A Man to Heal All Differences: Essays and Talks on St. Francis de Sales. By ELISABETH STOPP. Philadelphia, PA: Saint Joseph's University Press. 1997. xiv + 220 pp. $21.95.For those interested in a short but informatively interesting introduction to St Francois de Sales, this ...
L'Isle des Hermaphrodites.(Review)
Apr 01, 1999; ... L'Isle des Hermaphrodites. Ed. By CLAUDE-GILBERT DUBOIS. (Textes Litteraires Francais) Geneve: Droz. 1996. 204 pp.Eighty-nine years after the publication of Thomas More's Utopia in Latin (1516), and fifty-four years after the English version (1551), there appeared an anonymous, ...
French Theatre in the Neo-Classical Era, 1550-1789.(Review)(Brief Article)
Apr 01, 1999; ... French Theatre in the Neo-Classical Era, 1550-1789. Ed. by WILLIAM D. HOWARTH. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1997. xlii + 718 pp. 90 [pounds sterling]; $155.Although this formidable volume has been produced under the overall supervision of W. D. Howarth, he has been ...
Pascal and Rhetoric: Figural and Persuasive Language in the Scientific Treatises, the 'Provinciales' and 'Pensees'.(Review)(Brief Article)
Apr 01, 1999; ... Pascal and Rhetoric: Figural and Persuasive Langage in the Scientific Treatises, the 'Provinciales' and 'Pensees'. By EREC KOCH. Ed. by David Lee Rubin. (EMF Monographs) Charlottesville, VA: Rookwood Press. 1997. xxvii + 199 pp. $39.95.Erec Koch's learned book takes demolition of ...
The Encylopedists as a Group: A Collective Biography of the Authors of the Encyclopedie.(Review)
Apr 01, 1999; ... The Encyclopedists as a Group: A Collective Biography of the Authors of the Encyclopedie. FRANK A. KAFKER. (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, 345) Oxford: The Voltaire Foundation. 1996. xxvii + 222 pp.In the literary quarrels of the eighteenth-century, it became ...
Mass Enlightenment: Critical Studies in Rousseau and Diderot.(Review)(Brief Article)
Apr 01, 1999; ... Mass Enlightenment: Critical Studies in Rousseau and Diderot. By JULIA SIMON. (SUNY Series in Social and Political Thought) Albany: State University of New York Press. 1995. 236 pp. $59.50 (paperbound $19.95).This provocative study builds on the insights of the Frankfurt School in ...
Pour encourager les autres: Studies for the Tercentenary of Voltaire's Birth, 169401994.(Review)
Apr 01, 1999; ... Pour encourager les autres: Studies for the Tercentenary of Voltaire's Birth, 1694-1994. Ed. by HAYDN MASON. (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, 320) Oxford: The Voltaire Foundation. 1994. 318 pp. 60 [pounds sterling].Sixteen years after the double commemoration of ...