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Article: Changing Ideas, Changing Texts: First-Person Novels in the Early Modern Period.(Book Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
- Article date:
- October 1, 2003
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Changing Ideas, Changing Texts: First-Person Novels in the Early Modern Period. By REINHARD UHRIG. (Mikrokosmos: Beitrage zur Literaturwissenschaft und Bedeutungsforschung, 60) Frankfurt a.M., Berlin, and Bern: Lang. 2001. 286 pp. 29 [euro]. ISBN 3-631-36919-0 (pbk).
This study breaks new ground, but its very range may limit its appeal in much of the English-speaking world. Uhrig's literary awareness and command of his subject are cosmopolitan in the best sense of that term, but these qualities may not be appreciated in all quarters. First and foremost one is struck by his appreciative insistence on the intrinsic value of different editions of the specific works he ...