The Modern Language Review back issues from April 2008:
Lucanic irony in Marlowe's Tamburlaine.(Critical essay)
Apr 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT This article shows how Marlowe departs from his primary historical sources (Mexia and Perondinus) in his retelling of the life of Tamburlaine. Marlowe employed the heavily ironic tone of Lucan's discussion of Julius Caesar's apparently 'divine' barbarism in his ...
Jousting for the honour of Greece and 'a certain Miss Phrosyne': Baron Byron and Gally Knight clash over costume, correctness, and a princess.(Critical essay)
Apr 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT This article attempts to rescue Henry Gally Knight (1786-1846), architectural writer and antiquary, from the footnotes of literary history. Few Romantic writers of Oriental verse tales travelled to the East, and the work of this friend of Walter Scott and William ...
The ethics of anonymity.(Critical essay)
Apr 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT This article contributes to recent debates on anonymous publication, authorship, and attribution. Following early modern examples from Shakespeare, Erasmus, Montaigne, and others, I argue that central to debates on anonymity is the relation between the known and the ...
The gift of the poem: Mallarme and Robert Duncan's Ground Work: before the war.(Stephane Mallarme, French symbolist)(Critical essay)
Apr 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT Robert Duncan's poetry is conventionally read in the context of the Black Mountain school of poetry or the San Francisco Renaissance of the 1950s. However, his work is also deeply involved with that of the French symbolist Stephane Mallarme. While Mallarme informs much ...
Languages in conflict in Toulouse: las leys d'Amors.
Apr 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT The poetry competition founded in Toulouse in 1323 is a well-known instance of cultural resistance, thanks to its promotion and preservation of poetry in Occitan shortly after the county of Toulouse had become part of the French crown. This article re-examines the Leys ...
The fabric of society: textile and metatextual imitation in the Burgundian Cliges (1454).
Apr 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT This article discusses the mise en prose of Chretien de Troyes's Cliges for the mid-fifteenth-century court of Burgundy under Philip the Good. In particular it offers a close examination of a single textual moment in the 1454 Livre de Alixandre Empereur de ...
Erik Satie's poetry.(Critical essay)
Apr 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT This article is the first literary critical analysis of Satie's poetry. It starts from his Trois poemes d'amour, whose verse form and musical setting place exaggerated emphasis on the 'e muet' of feminine rhymes. The 'e muet' and sounds connoted as feminine play an ...
Alessandro Manzoni's I promessi sposi: a chaste novel and an erotic palimpsest.(Critical essay)
Apr 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT In I promessi sposi, Manzoni avoids love scenes, fearing that some readers might relive them with excessive intensity. This article focuses on twentieth-century writers and critics who introduced erotic elements in their rewriting or rereading of the novel. Their ...
Abstract and concrete: translating Coral Bracho.(Critical essay)
Apr 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT Translations by the English poet Katherine Pierpoint of the Mexican Coral Bracho test the terms abstract and concrete, popularized by Ezra Pound and T. E. Hulme. A comparative reading redefines the apparently concrete language of Pierpoint as a more evasive notation of ...
Reading beyond community: D. F. Strauss's Das Leben Jesu and Nietzsche's Also Sprach Zarathustra.(David Friedrich Strauss, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche)(Critical essay)
Apr 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT While Nietzsche's relationship to D. F. Strauss has generally been approached in terms of Nietzsche's attack on Strauss, this article presents a wider intellectual-historical perspective to show that both are part of the philosophical and theological crisis of ...
Revolution and redemption: Alfred Doblin's November 1918.(Critical essay)
Apr 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT This article focuses on the heterogeneity of Doblin's November 1918, indicated on the one hand by this title and on the other by that given on the dust-jacket of Part iii in the 1950 edition: Karl und Rosa. Eine Geschichte zwischen Himmel und Holle von Alfred Doblin ....
Women and Medieval Epic: Gender, Genre, and the Limits of Epic Masculinity.(Book review)
Apr 01, 2008; ... Women and Medieval Epic: Gender, Genre, and the Limits of Epic Masculinity. Ed. by Sara S. Poor and Jana K. Schulman. (The New Middle Ages) Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 2007. xii + 299 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-1-4039-6602-5. 'Epic' is defined rather broadly in this ...
Lancelot: Der mittelhochdeutsche Roman im europaischen Kontext.(Book review)
Apr 01, 2008; ... Lancelot: Der mittelhochdeutsche Roman im europaischen Kontext. Ed. by Klaus rid- R02600 der and Christoph Huber. Tubingen: Niemeyer. 2007. vi+317 pp. 986. ISBN 978-3-484-64036-8. This collection of essays on the prose Lancelot tradition has a lot to tackle: a voluminous ...
Arthurian Literature vol. XXIII.(Book review)
Apr 01, 2008; ... Arthurian Literature, vol. xxiii. Ed. by Keith bus by and Rogerdal Dalrymple. Cambridge: Brewer. 2006. viii+179 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]; $75. ISSN 0034-6551 (online 14716968). This edition of Arthurian Literature consists of a selection of articles on a wide variety of ...
A Bibliography of Modern Arthuriana 1500-2000.(Book review)
Apr 01, 2008; ... A Bibliography of Modern Arthuriana 1500-2000. By Ann F. Howey and Stephen R. Reimer. Cambridge: Brewer. 2006. ii+774 pp. 125 [pounds sterling]; $180. ISBN 978-184384-068-8. The scope of this bibliography is an excitingly and commendably wide one, which makes the volume ...
Dante and Derrida: Face to Face.(Book review)
Apr 01, 2008; ... Dante and Derrida: Face to Face. By Francis J. Ambrosio. Albany: State University of New York Press. 304 pp. $75. ISBN 978-0-7914-7005-3. There are few harder books on Dante than this, and not that many harder on Derrida. In part this is because of some sentences which run on ...
From Many Gods to One: Divine Action in Renaissance Epic.(Book review)
Apr 01, 2008; ... From Many Gods to One: Divine Action in Renaissance Epic. By Tobias Gregory. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2006. xii+247 pp. $30; 19 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 9780-226-30755-8. This elegantly written book discusses a fundamental question which recurs in Italian and English ...
Scotland in Europe.(Book review)
Apr 01, 2008; ... Scotland in Europe. Ed. by Tom Hubbard and R. D. S. Jack. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi. 2006. 304 pp. 960; $81. ISBN 978-90-420-2100-6. This is a collection of perceptive and stimulating essays about various aspects of Scottish literature and its connections with Europe-a ...
John Gay's 'The Beggar's Opera' 1728-2004: Adaptations and Re-Writings.(Book review)
Apr 01, 2008; ... John Gay's 'The Beggar's Opera' 1728-2004: Adaptations and Re-Writings. Ed. by Uwe Boker, Ines Detmers, and Anna-Christina Giovanopoulos. (Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, 105) Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi. 2006. 347 pp. 70 [pounds ...
La Russie et les Russes dans la fiction francaise du XIXe siecle (1812-1917): d'une image de l'autre a un univers imaginaire.(Book review)
Apr 01, 2008; ... La Russie et les Russes dans la fiction francaise du XIXe siecle (1812-1917): d'une image de l'autre a un univers imaginaire. By Charlotte Krauss. (Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, 108) Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi. 2007. 446 pp. 90 ...
Women in Europe between the Wars: Politics, Culture and Society.(Book review)
Apr 01, 2008; ... Women in Europe between the Wars: Politics, Culture and Society. Ed. by Angela Kershaw and Angela Kimyongur. Aldershot: Ashgate. 2007. xii+249 pp. 50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-7546-5684-5. The aim of this interdisciplinary volume is to make visible the extent and nature of ...
Haunted Subjects: Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis and the Return of the Dead.(Book review)
Apr 01, 2008; ... Haunted Subjects: Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis and the Return of the Dead. By Colin Davis. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 2007. 181 pp. 45[pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-230-50782-1. Ghosts and the undead appear ore frequently than ever in our films and books. Surveying and ...
Cain et Abel: rivalite responsabilite.(Book review)
Apr 01, 2008; ... Cain et Abel. rivalite responsabilite. By Veronique Leonard-Roques. (Figures et Mythes) Monaco. Editions du Rocker. 2007. 285 pp. 18 [euro]. ISBN 978-2-268-06175-7 Just as most accidents happen in the home, so most violence is intrafamilial. Cain and Abel are much more than two ...
Why Fairy Tales Stick: The Evolution and Relevance of a Genre.(Book review)
Apr 01, 2008; ... Why Fairy Tales Stick: The Evolution and Relevance of a Genre. By Jack Zipes. London: Routledge. 2006. xx + 332 pp. 65 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-415-97780-7. Those who have followed Jack Zipes's prodigious publishing activities since the appearance of Fairy Tales and the Art ...
Absent Minds: Intellectuals in Britain.(Book review)
Apr 01, 2008; ... Absent Minds: Intellectuals in Britain. By Stefan Collini. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2006. ix + 526 pp. 25 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-19-929105-2. Stefan Collini sets out an argument questioning what he calls the 'absence thesis'--the familiar argument that Britain ...
Creation, Migration, and Conquest: Imaginary Geography and Sense of Space in Old English Literature.(Book review)
Apr 01, 2008; ... Creation, Migration, and Conquest: Imaginary Geography and Sense of Space in Old English Literature. By Fabienne Michelet. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2006. xiv + 297 pp. 55 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-19-928671-3. The subject of Fabienne Michelet's intelligent and ...
Venus' Owne Clerk: Chaucer's Debt to the Confessio Amantis.(Book review)
Apr 01, 2008; ... 'Venus' owne clerk': Chaucer's Debt to the 'Confessio amantis'. By Wim Lindeboom. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi. 2007. 477 pp. 71 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-90-420-2150-1. The title of this sprawling book is a misnomer. Wim Lindeboom really finds in Chaucer less a 'debt' to ...
Marriage, Adultery and Inheritance in Malory's 'Morte Darthur'.(Book review)
Apr 01, 2008; ... Marriage, Adultery and Inheritance in Malory's 'Morte Darthur'. By Karen Cherewatuk. (Arthurian Studies, 67) Cambridge: Brewer. 2006. ii + 153 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]; $80. ISBN 978-1-84384-089-3. This book is a series of short studies on a single theme, although it involves ...
Unsettled: The Culture of Mobility and the Working Poor in Early Modern England.(Book review)
Apr 01, 2008; ... Unsettled: The Culture of Mobility and the Working Poor in Early Modern England. By Patricia Fumerton. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2006. xxvii + 237 pp. 13 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-226-26956-6. Apparently, this book originated as an 'act of scholastic penance' ...
Early Modern English Poetry. A Critical Companion.(Book review)
Apr 01, 2008; ... Early Modern English Poetry. A Critical Companion. Ed. by Patrick Cheney, Andrew Hadfield, and Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2007. xxiii + 342 pp. 21.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-19-515387-3. This is an exceptionally useful collection of ...
The Popular Culture of Shakespeare, Spenser, and Jonson.(Book review)
Apr 01, 2008; ... The Popular Culture of Shakespeare, Spenser, and Jonson. By Mary Ellen Lamb. London: Routledge. 2006. x+271 pp. 65 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-415-28881-1. Popular culture has long excited early modern scholars. Over the last few years our understanding of its media and ...
Echoing Texts: George Chapman's Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles Duke of Byron.(Book review)
Apr 01, 2008; ... Echoing Texts: George Chapman's Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles Duke of Byron. By Gunilla Florby. Stockholm: Lund University Press. 2005. 188 pp. 20.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-91-974023-8-5. Gunilla Florby's book represents a scholarly companion to Chapman's Byron plays, ...
Milton and the Idea of the Fall.(Book review)
Apr 01, 2008; ... Milton and the Idea of the Fall. By William Poole. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2005. xi + 240 pp. [pounds sterling]48. ISBN 978-0-521-84763-6. Milton and the Idea of the Fall offers a radical rereading of Milton that takes religion seriously without losing sight of ...
The Lives and Letters of an Eighteenth-Century Circle of Acquaintance.(Book review)
Apr 01, 2008; ... The Lives and Letters of an Eighteenth-Century Circle of Acquaintance. By Temma Berg. Aldershot: Ashgate. 2006. x+295. 50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-7546-5599-2. I was won over by this book despite its clunkiness in places. It is a collection of letters from a family circle ...
Eighteenth-Century Letters and British Culture.(Book review)
Apr 01, 2008; ... Eighteenth-Century Letters and British Culture. By Clare Brant. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 2006. x+431 pp. 60 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-1-4039-9482-0. In Eighteenth-Century Letters and British Culture Clare Brant has produced a magisterial study of letters, an important ...
The Prose of Things: Transformations of Description in the Eighteenth Century.(Book review)
Apr 01, 2008; ... The Prose of Things: Transformations of Description in the Eighteenth Century. By Cynthia Sundberg Wall. London: University of Chicago Press. 2006. xiii + 318 pp. 22.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-226-87158-5. Cynthia Sundberg Wall's new book is one rich both in information ...
Nineteenth-Century Religion and Literature: An Introduction.(Book review)
Apr 01, 2008; ... Nineteenth-Century Religion and Literature: An Introduction. Ed. By Mark Knight and Emma Mason. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2006. viii + 245 pp. 50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-19-927710-0. Mark Knight and Emma Mason have produced an ambitious book. Focusing upon English ...
George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Psychology: Exploring the Unmapped Country.(Book review)
Apr 01, 2008; ... George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Psychology: Exploring the Unmapped Country. By Michael Davis. (The Nineteenth Century Series) Aldershot: Ashgate. 2006. 224 pp. 50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-7546-5172-7. As an analogue for George Eliot's explorations of the mind, Michael ...
John Halifax, Gentleman.(victorian novels)(Book review)
Apr 01, 2008; ... John Halifax, Gentleman. By Dinah Mulock Craik. Ed. by Lynn M. Alexander. Peterborough, Ont.: Broadview Press. 2005. 585 pp. 9.55 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-1-55111-500-9. Villette. By Charlotte Bronte. Ed. by Kate Lawson. Peterborough, Ont.: Broadview Press. 2006. 647 pp. 7.99 ...
Victoriana: Histories, Fictions, Criticism.(Book review)
Apr 01, 2008; ... Victoriana: Histories, Fictions, Criticism. By Cora Kaplan. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 2007. viii+173 pp. 15.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-7486-1146-1. Cora Kaplan offers Victoriana as both an example and a critique of a complex cultural phenomenon. What she ...
Working Fictions: A Genealogy of the Victorian Novel.(Book review)
Apr 01, 2008; ... Working Fictions: A Genealogy of the Victorian Novel. By Carolyn Lesjak. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 2007. x+270 pp. 14.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-8223-3888-8. Working Fictions explores the relationship between 'labour' and 'pleasure' in a number of Victorian ...
Red Riding Hood and the Wolf in Bed: Modernism's Fairy Tales.(Book review)
Apr 01, 2008; ... Red Riding Hood and the Wolf in Bed: Modernism's Fairy Tales. By Ann Martin. Toronto and London: University of Toronto Press. 2006. ix+199 pp. 32 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-8020-9086-7. The malleability of the fairy tale is, today, an almost taken-for-granted assumption in ...
The Cambridge Introduction to Joseph Conrad.(Book review)
Apr 01, 2008; ... The Cambridge Introduction to Joseph Conrad. By John G. Peters. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2006. x+146pp. 35 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-521-83972-3. This volume on Conrad is part of a new introductory series. The first chapter is biographical; the second devotes ...
Henry James Goes to Paris.(Book review)
Apr 01, 2008; ... Henry James Goes to Paris. By Peter Brooks. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2007. 255 pp. $24.95; 15.95 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-691-12954-9. Or, perhaps, how Henry James learnt to stop worrying about the novel and came to love Flaubert's parrot. The jacket cover of ...
T. S. Eliot: The Making of an American Poet, 1888-1922.(Book review)
Apr 01, 2008; ... T. S. Eliot: The Making of an American Poet, 1888-1922. By James E. Miller, Jr. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. 2005. xx+468 pp. 29.95 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-271-02681-7. A fortune-teller once told Eliot he was 'flirtatious' and 'obstinate': he ...
William Empson: Against the Christians.(Book review)
Apr 01, 2008; ... William Empson: Against the Christians. By John Haffenden. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2006. xxii+797 pp. 30 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-19-927660-8. John Haffenden's second volume sees William Empson in a series of wartime and post-war careers: the BBC from 1940 (and ...
The 'New Negro' in the Old World: Culture and Performance in James Weldon Johnson, Jessie Fauset, and Nella Larsen.(Book review)
Apr 01, 2008; ... The 'New Negro' in the Old World: Culture and Performance in James Weldon Johnson, Jessie Fauset, and Nella Larsen. By Lena Ahlin. (Lund Studies in English, 111) Stockholm: Department of English, Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University. 2006. 205 pp. $79.50. ISBN ...
La Disme de Penitanche.(Brief article)(Book review)
Apr 01, 2008; ... La Disme de Penitanche. By Jehan de Journi. Ed. by Glynn Hesketh. (MHRA Critical Texts, 7) London: MHRA. 2006. 206 pp. 12.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-947623-71-5. The stated aim of this series is to make available lesser-known literary texts that are out of print or ...
Le 'Policratique' de Jean de Salisbury (1372), Livre V.(Book review)
Apr 01, 2008; ... Le 'Policratique' de Jean de Salisbury (1372), Livre V. Trans. by Denis Foulechat. Ed. by Charles Brucker. (Publications Romanes et Francaises, 242) Geneva: Droz. 2006. 907 pp. SwF 152. ISBN 978-2-600-01072-6. John of Salisbury was a beacon of the so-called Twelfth-Century ...
Book and Text in France, 1400-1600: Poetry on the Page.(Book review)
Apr 01, 2008; ... Book and Text in France, 1400-1600: Poetry on the Page. Ed. by Adrian Armstrong and Malcolm Quainton. Aldershot: Ashgate. 2007. 236 pp. 50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-7546-5590-9. Several monographs and collections of essays discussing the relationships between authors, texts, ...
La Memoire des guerres de religion: la concurrence des genres historiques (XVIe-XVIIIe siecles).(Book review)
Apr 01, 2008; ... La Memoire des guerres de religion: la concurrence des genres historiques (XVIe-XVIIIe siecles). Ed. by Jacques Berchtold and Marie-Madeleine Fragonard. (Cahiers d'Humanisme et Renaissance, 79) Geneva: Droz. 2007. 376 pp. SwF 40. ISBN 978-2-600-01119-8. The French Wars of ...
La Muse lascive: anthologie de la poesie erotique et pornographique.(Book review)
Apr 01, 2008; ... La Muse lascive: anthologie de la poesie erotique et pornographique. Ed. by Michel Jeanneret. Paris: Jose Corti. 2007. 384 pp. 22 [euro]. ISBN 978-2-7143-0942-6. The book under review is not only an interesting anthology of witty and sometimes surprising audacious poems from ...
De l'or de Virgile aux ors de Versailles: metamorphoses de l'epopee dans la seconde moitie du XVIIe siecle en France.(Book review)
Apr 01, 2008; ... De l'or de Virgile aux ors de Versailles: metamorphoses de l'epopee dans la seconde moitie du XVIIe siecle en France. By Ludivine Goupillaud. (Travaux du Grand Siecle, 25) Geneva: Droz. 2005. 394 pp. SwF 170. ISBN 978-2-600-00991-1. At the outset of her comprehensive study on ...
Jean Racine.(Book review)
Apr 01, 2008; ... Jean Racine. By Georges Forestier. Paris: Gallimard. 2006. 942 pp. 935. ISBN 978-2-07-075529-5. Having provided one monument to Racinian scholarship with his 'Pleiade' edition of the tragedian's collected works, Georges Forestier now comes along with another one in the form of ...
Interdisciplinarity. Qu'est-ce que les Lumieres? La Reconnaissanceau dix-huitieme siecle.(Book review)
Apr 01, 2008; ... Interdisciplinarity. Qu'est-ce que les Lumieres? La Reconnaissance au dix-huitieme siecle. Ed. by Jonathan Mallinson. (SVEC, 2006:12) Oxford: Voltaire Foundation. 2006. 400 pp. 75 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-7294-0886-8. With almost thirty articles by both established and ...
Styles of Enlightenment: Taste, Politics, and Authorship in Eighteenth-Century France.(Book review)
Apr 01, 2008; ... Styles of Enlightenment: Taste, Politics, and Authorship in Eighteenth-Century France. By Elena Russo. (Parallax Re-visions of Culture and Society) Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2007. 346 pp. 36.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-8018-8476-4. Styles of Enlightenment ...
L'Art de la preface au siecle des Lumieres.(Book review)
Apr 01, 2008; ... L'Art de la preface au siecle des Lumieres. Ed. by Ioana Galleron. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes. 2007. 267 pp. 918. ISBN 978-2-7535-0383-0. Proceedings from a 2006 colloquium at the Universite de Bretagne Sud in Lorient dedicated to 'pre-texts' in the long eighteenth ...
Philosophical Letters; or, Letters regarding the English Nation.(Book review)
Apr 01, 2008; ... Philosophical Letters; or, Letters regarding the English Nation. By Voltaire. Ed. by John Leigh, trans. by Prudence L. Steiner. Indianapolis and Cambridge: Hackett. 2007. xxv+158 pp. 7.95 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-87220-881-0. This new translation of Voltaire's Lettres ...
Correspondance litteraire.(Book review)
Apr 01, 2008; ... Correspondance litteraire. By Friedrich Melchior Grimm. Ed. by Ulla Kolving. Vol. I: 1753-1754, ed. by Ulla Kolving, Jean de Booy, and Christoph Frank, Preface by Roland Mortier; vol: II: 1755, ed. by Robert Granderoute. Fernay-Voltaire: Centre International d'Etude du XVIIIe Siecle. 2006 ....
Sade's Theatre: Pleasure, Vision, Masochism.(Book review)
Apr 01, 2008; ... Sade's Theatre: Pleasure, Vision, Masochism. By Thomas Wynn. (SVEC, 2007:02) Oxford: Voltaire Foundation. 2007. x+224 pp. 55 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-7294-0903-2. The text on the inside cover of this study begins with the remark: 'Sade's rehabilitation as a major ...
Nouvelles francaises du dix-neuvieme siecle: anthologie.(Book review)
Apr 01, 2008; ... Nouvelles francaises du dix-neuvieme siecle: anthologie. Ed. by Allan H. Pasco. Charlottesville: Rookwood. 2006. 487 pp. $59.95. ISBN 978-1-886365-59-9. This substantial anthology comprises an introduction entitled 'Qu-est-ce que la nouvelle?', followed by twenty-six texts from ...
Character and Meaning in the Novels of Victor Hugo.(Book review)
Apr 01, 2008; ... Character and Meaning in the Novels of Victor Hugo. By Isabel Roche. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press. 2007. ix+242 pp. $43.95. ISBN 978-1-55753-438-5. Goethe once described the characters of Notre-Dame de Paris as lifeless figures under the control of a ruthless ...
Hugo et Sainte-Beuve: vie et mort d'une amitie 'litteraire'.(Book review)
Apr 01, 2008; ... Hugo et Sainte-Beuve: vie et mort d'une amitie 'litteraire'. By Michel Brix. Paris: Kime. 2007. 144 pp. 18 [euro]. ISBN 978-2-84174-413-8. Literary friendships can be notoriously difficult, since talent and familiarity can make for a volatile combination. In 1758, Diderot and ...
George Sand, pratiques et imaginaires de l'ecriture: colloque international de Cerisy-la-Salle Ier-8 juillet 2004.(Book review)
Apr 01, 2008; ... George Sand, pratiques et imaginaires de l'ecriture: colloque international de Cerisy-la-Salle Ier-8 juillet 2004. Ed. by Brigitte Diaz and Isabelle Hoog Naginski. Caen: Presses Universitaires de Caen. 2006. 399 pp. 30 [euro]. ISBN 978-84133-273-1. This imposing collection of ...
The Violence of Modernity: Baudelaire, Irony, and the Politics of Form.(Book review)
Apr 01, 2008; ... The Violence of Modernity: Baudelaire, Irony, and the Politics of Forms. By Debarati Sanyal. (Parallax Re-visions of Culture and Society)Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2006. 276 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-8018-8308-8. As the rich title of this study ...