...Paul Armstrong Anesko Michael , Monopolizing the Master: Henry James and the Politics of Modern Literary Scholarship ( Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2012 ), 248 pp. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013...

...Miguel Tamen Ross Hamilton, Accident: A Philosophical and Literary History (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007), 320 pp. Duke University Press 2010 LITTLE REVIEWS Sarah McNamer, Affective Meditation and the Invention of Medieval Compassion...

...Seamus Perry Jeanne M. Britton , Vicarious Narratives: A Literary History of Sympathy, 1750–1850 . ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2019 ), 256 pp. Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 A Literary History of Sympathy, 1750–1850 would be a very good thing...

...Caryl Emerson Duke University Press 2002 CK 8.3-06 Emerson 7/14/02 3:12 PM Page 482 LITERARY HUMILITY The Case of Russia under Its Old Regimes Caryl Emerson In his luminous reinaugural plea...

...Wai Chee Dimock Duke University Press 2003 PLANETARY TIME AND GLOBAL TRANSLATION “Context” in Literary Studies Wai Chee Dimock What is the appropriate scale for the study of culture and, in particular, the study...

...J. Paul Hunter The third of a century between the late 1680s and the early 1720s—a time when a vast number of prolific poets flourished—is almost completely overlooked in literary history, perhaps because there was no single poetic leader and no dominant direction in the poetry. But it was a very...

...H. R. Woudhuysen Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 Rydell Anders , The Book Thieves: The Nazi Looting of Europe’s Libraries and the Race to Return a Literary Inheritance , trans. Koch Henning ( New York : Viking , 2017 ), 368 pp. ...

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...Galin Tihanov Duke University Press 2004 WHY DID MODERN LITERARY THEORY ORIGINATE IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE? (And Why Is It Now Dead?) Galin Tihanov At the outset of the twenty-first century, we seem at last positioned to recognize and admit the demise of literary theory...

...M. H. Abrams; Jeffrey M. Perl Hagberg G. L. , Meaning and Interpretation: Wittgenstein, Henry James, and Literary Knowledge ( Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press , 1994 ), 183 pp. Copyright © 2019 Duke University Press 2019 ...

... for teaching him smart writing and thinking well. Mitchell Cohen learned his lesson. Peter Burke doi 10.1215/0961754X-7899796 John Watkins, After Lavinia: A Literary History of Premodern Marriage Diplomacy (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2017), 274 pp. On the one hand, interdynastic marriage...

... quite different intellectual contexts: anthropology and literary studies. The proliferation of Latour figurations is shown to be a consequence of interactions between, on the one hand, existing disciplinary constellations of ideas, concerns, and practices, and, on the other hand, his own often ambiguous...

...David Bellos Thirlwell Adam , Multiples: An Anthology of Stories in an Assortment of Languages and Literary Styles . ( London : Portobello Books , 2013 ), 379 pp. © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014...

... concentrating on a single humanities field, literary studies, this response to Epstein makes the case that fear and awe of the sciences have resulted in the exclusion of subjectivity from literary criticism, even though regarding the critic as anything but a subjective human being responding to the creative...

...Ardis Butterfield This is the final part of a three-part essay on fuzziness in medieval literary language. Each part corresponds broadly to Clifford Geertz's trifold instances of blur as involving “face-to-face interaction” (“life as game”), “collective intensities” (“life as stage...

...Noa Halevy This article is the first installment of a three-part contribution to the Common Knowledge symposium on xenophilia. The series of three examines the ways in which Anglo-American writers, from the mid-nineteenth until the late twentieth century, turned to Russian literature and literary...

...Noa Halevy This third installment in a chronologically arranged, three-part sequence concludes the author’s examination of Anglo-American literati who, in the later nineteenth and twentieth centuries, turned—in acts of combined xenophilia and xenophobia—to Russian literature and literary theory...