... is a measure of the social dominance of his class, but the turning of his own power against himself in self-flagellation likewise indicates how the aristocracy, in the historical long run, may destroy itself from within. Taking its cue from Lampedusa and beginning with Don Quixote , this essay looks at social...

... are fascinating and metic- ulously researched. Situating the novel between the First and Second Reform Bills (although it was written after the second was passed in 1867, and thus with “the advantage of double hindsight,” 27), Kuzmic highlights the English anxieties about the aristocracy’s loss...

.../commerce, on the one hand, and aristocracy/art, on the other.12 The description of the shop with its “murs menaçants” (33; “threatening walls,” 16), windows that allow only a “un jour douteux” (33; “doubtful light,” 17), “lourds volets” (37; “heavy shutters,” 21), and “gros barreaux de fer” (38...

..., and the present speaker was the first to reveal to the world the value of these formidable civilizations that do not know and do not want to know how to write . . . . After Alesia, the Gaulish aristocracy immediately declared itself Roman. They rushed to acquire, not only the Romans’ language, but what...

... is buggering Tatave is really too much This was a common and appar- ently inevitable grievance among Proust’s critics: Proust was long-winded and end- lessly engrossed by the perversions of the aristocracy.5 In this respect Proust could be seen as the epitome of his...

...). Whereas the expansion of the Normans into England after 1066 and the subsequent moves of the Anglo-Norman aristocracy on Wales and Ireland are part of the same general expansion of the Frankish “aristocratic diaspora” that Bartlett describes (24–59), seeking to take over a neighboring territory...

... Sismondi considered Spanish literature as the perfect mirror in which to contemplate a feminized oriental other: 3 Spaniards themselves had helped create this confusion of identities as a nationalist act of resis- tance against foreign influences. The Spanish aristocracy reacted against the French...

... in 429 A.D. (Wang Rubi 38-40). The Northern Wei dynasty was established by the tribe of Xianbei, a non-Chinese (i.e., non-Han) nomadic people who conquered and controlled Northern China from 386 to 534 A.D. In the first half of its dynastic rule, the Xianbei aristocracy, including the royal house...

... professionalization of diplomacy in seventeenth-century Europe and the challenge it posed to the autonomy of the aristocracy. These social ten- sions are traced throughout the work to the very undiplomatic conclusion of the drama. The novelty that emerges from this concluding failure of diplomacy is the new form...

... professionalization of diplomacy in seventeenth-century Europe and the challenge it posed to the autonomy of the aristocracy. These social ten- sions are traced throughout the work to the very undiplomatic conclusion of the drama. The novelty that emerges from this concluding failure of diplomacy is the new form...

... professionalization of diplomacy in seventeenth-century Europe and the challenge it posed to the autonomy of the aristocracy. These social ten- sions are traced throughout the work to the very undiplomatic conclusion of the drama. The novelty that emerges from this concluding failure of diplomacy is the new form...

..., popularly known as “German,” garments of oriental or Turkish inspiration were among the most visible emblems of Balkan- ism. A similar gap ran between the so-called “reactionary” aristocracy and its Turkish-style hierarchy, on the one hand, and the newly developing bourgeoisie, professionals...

... nineteenth-century Russian novels set alongside their French subtexts, some of them already known from previous scholarship and others expertly identified by Meyer for the first time. While French language and culture emerged as the lingua franca  of the Russian aristocracy in the late eighteenth...

...-century Russian novels set alongside their French subtexts, some of them already known from previous scholarship and others expertly identified by Meyer for the first time. While French language and culture emerged as the lingua franca  of the Russian aristocracy in the late eighteenth century...

... nineteenth-century Russian novels set alongside their French subtexts, some of them already known from previous scholarship and others expertly identified by Meyer for the first time. While French language and culture emerged as the lingua franca  of the Russian aristocracy in the late eighteenth...

... and excluded from the noble households of the Odyssey : trade and the art of metalworking. The two are connected, for metals were the most important commodities of ancient merchants ( Finley 60–61, 100–102 ). The wealth of Alcinous and his landed aristocracy officially depend on the fabulous fertility...

... to extract signs of weakness and the victims defy them to the grisly end. In this, Montaigne’s cannibals resemble both the “embattled BOOK REVIEWS/183 French aristocracy, with whom they share a similar heroic ethos that combines emulative...

... to the grisly end. In this, Montaigne’s cannibals resemble both the “embattled BOOK REVIEWS/183 French aristocracy, with whom they share a similar heroic ethos that combines emulative martial valor with a kind of Stoic constancy...

... to the grisly end. In this, Montaigne’s cannibals resemble both the “embattled BOOK REVIEWS/183 French aristocracy, with whom they share a similar heroic ethos that combines emulative martial valor with a kind of Stoic constancy...

... to the grisly end. In this, Montaigne’s cannibals resemble both the “embattled BOOK REVIEWS/183 French aristocracy, with whom they share a similar heroic ethos that combines emulative martial valor with a kind of Stoic constancy...