...Carole L. Glickfeld Duke University Press 2011 Reviews LOVE KNOTS Carole L. Glickfeld The jeweler was soft spoken, paternal even, as he leaned across the counter to ask, “What do you think it’s worth?” I...

... and Ireland in 1799–1802. Translated from Persian to English by an Irish scholar working for the British East India Company, Charles Stewart, and published in London in two editions (1810, 1814), The Travels of Mirza Abu Taleb Khan records the author's love for the Irish and theirs for him. This mutual...

...Susan R. Kramer Newman Barbara , Making Love in the Twelfth Century: “Letters of Two Lovers” in Context . ( Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2016 ), 365 pp. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017...

.... —Simone Roberts C. Stephen Jaeger, Ennobling Love: In Search of a Lost Sensibility (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999), 311 pp. Building on his earlier studies of courtly society, Jaeger describes a central theme in Western culture from...

...: Devalued Currency, Part 3 MODERNISM’S LOVE CHILD The Story of Happy Architectures Yoke-Sum Wong What is it about Levittown? But children live in Levittown and hid in the shelters underground until the Soviets turned their ships around and tore the Cuban missiles down  — so Billy...

... loses as well the capacity to perceive meaning in Eve or in his partnership with her. Following the couple's first sin, Adam experiences the “prime end and form of marriage” as carnal gratification, rather than as “conjugal love and mutual assistance in life” (6:381). For Lanyer, postlapsarian cognition...

... only appears . . . when there is enough money to produce a little leisure, a little time in which to love. . . . The cash value of the Christian ideal of universal brotherhood has, for the last two centuries, been the conviction that once science and technology have produced enough wealth...

.... Marjorie Perloff doi 10.1215/0961754X-7900000 Jeanne Heuving, The Transmutation of Love and Avant- Garde Poetics (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2016), 217 pp. Instead of writing of love, or about love, or even for love, Heuving in these pages simply writes love, as if she would have us believe...

... Christian’s attitudes during the Middle Ages. The analysis considers what qualifies as an expression of love for Muslims, the distinction between positive regard for Islam and positive regard for Muslims, and whether Islamophilia essentializes Muslims in the same way that Islamophobia does. The author argues...

... falling in love with an Irish-speaker while he is in her country to translate Irish place-names into English for an imperial cartographic survey. While the lieutenant is referred to in the play as a Hibernophile, the essay interprets his love as xenophilic: love for the foreignness rather than...

... in the Babylonian Talmud. Examining the story of Rav Rehumi and his wife in Ketubot 62b, the author inquires whether differences of culture and the passage of time make it impossible for us to determine whether love is the affect involved. The case is especially difficult to resolve, given that, while there may...

... this would not be an argument about how words make things happen and so, perhaps, a topic for a different book. Miguel Tamen doi 10.1215/0961754X-8521585 Tim Whitmarsh, Dirty Love: The Genealogy of the Ancient Greek Novel (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018), 201 pp. Before the novel came the novel...

... approach misses is that even the religious discourses of the period were tied to a long and in no way local epistemological debate about signs and their meaning, whose roots are to be found in Greek and Latin rhetorical theory. This first installment of “Tokens of Love” commences a discussion of the role...

... in the Eucharist than to dismiss the issue as vexingly trivial in comparison with the question of whether God thinks that each or any of us adequately loves him. For the questions that concern Donne, there are no determinate answers available, and no standard vocabulary. But the poet's alternating acquiescence...

... has found in her journey of discovery: there can never be a single way of classifying things in this world. “In every organism on which you gaze, there is complexity you will never comprehend,” she writes, having found her deliverance (and, by the way, also the love of her life). This, after all...

...Adir H. Petel Lynch Deidre Shauna , Loving Literature: A Cultural History ( Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2015 ), 352 pp. Cumming Laura , The Vanishing Man: In Pursuit of Velázquez ( London : Vintage , 2016 ), 304 pp. Copyright © 2018 by Duke University...

...Shaul Magid This contribution to the Common Knowledge symposium on xenophilia examines the life choices of two Jews who loved Christianity. Elijah Zvi Soloveitchik, born into an ultra-Orthodox, nineteenth-century rabbinic dynasty in Lithuania, spent much of his life writing a Hebrew commentary...

... of peacekeeping, by the encouragement of positive feelings toward out-groups, and the author of this essay responds by showing how the Freudian theory of ambivalence and the history of literature on which Freud drew in constructing it support Pittinsky's viewpoint. Enemies regularly fall in love, above all...

...Mikhail Epstein The article suggests that, contrary to widespread opinions and standard encyclopedic definitions, philosophy is a domain not only of thoughts and ideas but also of feelings. Philosophy as (etymologically) love for wisdom includes emotions in both of its components. Among the many...