...Robyn Marsack Jed Esty, A Shrinking Island: Modernism and National Culture in England (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003), 302 pp. © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 LITTLE REVIEWS Gabriel Piterberg...

... it. In this new book, we have something of a ramble through the historical underpinnings for Toulmin’s contentions. The “modern” epoch began after Montaigne. It ended with Wittgenstein. If only Wittgenstein himself had understood this history! So Toulmin muses. And he suggests...

... fascinating dynamics. precarious position in balancing external expectations with internal country’s political that outlines that Pakistan of modern history institutional and political a provides forinstance, Ali, Asdar Kamran perspectives. unique offer butions contri- ofthe several...

.... Is, therefore, our e-mail society a loveless, sexless, and brainless culture? Send your answer on a postcard, please. —Colin Richmond Robert Pippin, Henry James and Modern Moral Life (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000...

... England: Medieval Modernism and the London Underground (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), 242 pp. John Ruskin and William Morris are remembered as the Spartans of a cultural Thermopylae, defenders of individual autonomy against...

...Tyrus Miller Ehrhard Bahr, Weimar on the Pacific: German Exile Culture in Los Angeles and the Crisis of Modernism (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007), 358 pp. Duke University Press 2010 Little Reviews Mark S. Schantz, Awaiting the Heavenly Country...

...Douglas Mao Rhonda K. Garelick, Electric Salome: Loie Fuller's Performance of Modernism (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007), 246 pp. Duke University Press 2010 Little Reviews Mark S. Schantz, Awaiting the Heavenly Country: The Civil War...

...David A. Hollinger Robert D. Richardson, William James in the Maelstrom of American Modernism (Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 2006), 622 pp. Duke University Press 2008 LITTLE REVIEWS Thomas Laird, The Story of Tibet: Conversations with the Dalai Lama (New York...

...Jeffrey M. Perl Anthony Vidler, Histories of the Immediate Present: Inventing Architectural Modernism (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2008), 239 pp. Duke University Press 2011 LITTLE REVIEWS Steve Pincus, 1688: The First Modern Revolution (New Haven, CT: Yale...

... of literature's modernity and temporality. The turn away from the noise of the world at the beginning of the century has been criticized as the motivation for and the effect of modernism's obsession with time. But the modernist “time cult” did not simply withdraw into the space of the internal and eternal...

...William M. Chace Gibbons Luke , Joyce's Ghosts: Ireland, Modernism, and Memory . ( Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2015 ), 286 pp. © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016...

...William M. Chace Spoo Robert , Modernism and the Law ( London : Bloomsbury Academic , 2019 ), 196 pp. Copyright © 2020 Duke University Press 2020 C O M M O N K N O W L E D G E 3 5 8 Robert Spoo, Modernism and the Law (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019), 196 pp. Literary...

.... perloffmarjorie@gmail.com Jason Harding and John Nash , eds., Modernism and Non-translation ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2019 ), 232 pp. Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press 2022 ...

... legacy to what has been an overall “counterfactual” turn of mind in the modern era, see Fuller, Knowledge , 210–61 . A study is needed on the reception of John Duns Scotus over the centuries as a bellwether of attitudes toward modernity. For example, Charles Sanders Peirce and Martin Heidegger are two...

... in paradigm, whereas a scientist who resists will effectively disappear. Thus, the Morte Darthur set the terms for modern literature in English by holding fast to those of the Middle Ages. This essay argues that Malory was “modern” in that the Morte Darthur would not have been written except for the events...

... “primitives,” they had taken the wrong road and ended up in a cul-de-sac, in contrast to contemporaries such as Géricault and Delacroix, Constable and Turner, who had taken the road that led, without break, to modernity. To the Nazarenes, however, as to the neoclassical artists of the turn of the eighteenth...

...Richard Shiff This article, a contribution to the Common Knowledge symposium “Fuzzy Studies: On the Consequence of Blur,” documents how some modern artists and critics have argued against any sort of verbal thinking about art. Beyond describing works of visual art and pronouncing on their relative...

...Keith Thomas Koslofsky Craig , Evening's Empire: A History of the Night in Early Modern Europe ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2011 ), 431 pp. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 LITTLE REVIEWS...

...Ramie Targoff Keith Thomas, The Ends of Life: Roads to Fulfilment in Early Modern England (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), 416 pp. Duke University Press 2010 LITTLE REVIEWS Brigitte Le Juez, Beckett before...

...Alick Isaacs Ilan Pappe, A History of Modern Palestine: One Land, Two Peoples (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), 356 pp. Duke University Press 2006 L I T T L E R E V I E W S Robert Mills, Suspended Animation: Pain, Pleasure, and Punishment...