.... He is completing a book on the cultural history and poetics of anonymity during the period 1695-1835. MLQ 62.4 05 Griffin 10/24/01 5:52 PM Page 377 The Age of “The Age of” Is Over: Johnson and New Versions of the Late Eighteenth Century Robert J. Griffin...

... of the Restoration stage. If we look at the end of his career, we might be tempted to think of him as the reaction against the Age of Shakespeare and Renaissance drama, but if we look at it as a whole, he resists such categories, challenging the significance of 1642 as the great dividing point. Even...

...Kicardo J. Quinones Fraser Russell. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1973. xi + 425 pp. $16.00. Copyright © 1974 by Duke University Press 1974 REVIEWS The Dark Ages and the Age of Gold. By RUSSELLFKASER. Princeton: Princeton University...

...: The Silver Age of Sociocultural Moderation in Europe, 1815-1848 . By Virgil Nemoianu. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2006. xi + 258 pp. Reviews The Grounds of English Literature. By Christopher Cannon. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. viii + 237 pp. The Grounds of...

... our most various and most bewildering kinsman, the Indo- European Slav. 0. STEPANEK Unizgersity of Nebracka La Grande Clartk du Moyen-Age. By GUSTAVECOHEN. New York : editions de la Maison Franqaise, 1943. Pp. 225. This little book...

...Marguerite Waller Shakespeare's Foreign Worlds: National and Transnational Identities in the Elizabethan Age . By Carole Levin and John Watkins. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2009. xi + 217 pp. © 2011 by University of Washington 2011 Marguerite Waller is professor of...

... University of Washington 2012 Milton’s Trifles: Lyric Disparagement in an Age of Walking Books Sharon Achinstein his essay begins with a lost book, a misplaced book, perhaps a sto- Tlen book: a book that went missing from a public library. This is, of course, not an unfamiliar story in...

... between work in original languages and in translation. In the second part Damrosch proposes that the fundamental tension today has shifted to the question of the place of literary studies in a multimedia age, and he explores how we can make affirmative use of the common translation of classic texts across...

... Reading in an Age of Global Writing Rebecca L. Walkowitz In the global literary market there will be no place for any Barbara Pyms and Natalia Ginzburgs. Shakespeare would have eased off the puns. A new Jane Austen can forget the Nobel. — Tim Parks (2010) Where Is World...

... (2008-9). He is completing one book on Descartes and his age, another on rethinking the Renaissance as part of long continental and oceanic intercultural exchanges, and an edited collection on Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o. The Matter of Mind: Reason and Experience in the Age of Descartes . By Braider...

... English at Brown University. Coauthor (with Nancy Armstrong) of The Imaginary Puritan: Literature, Intellectual Labor, and the Origins of Personal Life (1992), he is working on a book about American sentimentalism. American Literary History in the Age of Critical Theory and Multiculturalism...

... enormous transformations occurring within medieval studies, transformations that revise the internal structure of the field and its most fundamental characteristics, the “Middle Ages” still performs as a cultural icon within the discourse of modernists in an older, manifestly prejudicial sense. It...

... Religious Trends in English Poetry. Volume 11: 1740-1780. Re- ligious Sentimentalism in the Age of Johnson. By HOXIENEALE FAIRCHILD.New York : Columbia University Press, 1942. Pp. ix + 406. $5.00. This is the second of a series of volumes in which Professor Fair- child proposes to...

... University of California at Los Angeles Winckelmann and his German Critics, 1775-1 781. A Prelude to the Classical Age. By HENRYCARAWAY HATFIELD. New York: Co- lumbia University Germanic Studies, New Series, No. 15, 1943. Pp. 169. $1.75. There has been of late a very strong interest in...

...Jane K. Brown Revolution and Renunciation, 1790-1803. vol. 2 of Goethe: The Poet and the Age. By Nicholas Boyle. Oxford: Clarendon, 2000. xiv + 949 pp. © 2001 University of Washington 2001 MLQ 62.3-05 Reviews 7/12/01 1:22 PM Page 285 Reviews Practicing...

...: American Naturalism and the Languages of Responsibility . The Mind a Department Store: Reconfiguring Space in the Gilded Age Gail McDonald ’ve been spending a month,” Henry James wrote to a correspondent I in 1905, “in the horrific, the unspeakable, extraordinary, yet partly interesting...

... Michigan State University Atlantic Double-Cross: American Literature and Bn‘tish InJZuence in the Age of Emerson. By ROBERTWEISBUCH. Chicago and London: University of Chi- cago Press, 1986. xxiii + 334 pp. $29.25. The long, shrill argument between the United States and England...

... University Goethe. The Poet and the Age. Vol. 1, The Poetry of Desire (1749-1 790). By Nicholas Boyle. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991. xx + 807 pp. $37.50. As the inventor of the historicized autobiography that sets the inner life in the context of the outer life and times, Goethe has...

...E. H. Eby F. O. Matthiessen. New York: Oxford University Press, 1941. Pp. xxiv + 678. $5.00. Copyright © 1941 by Duke University Press 1941 E. H. Eby 655 American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman. By...

...,. FRAUl’SCI11 Pen ns y lvu n iu S t a t e U n iversi t y Peacock: His Circle and His Age. By HOWARD~IIILS. Cambridge: At the University Press, 1969. xv -t 257 pp. $9.50. The nature of Thomas Love Peacock’s relationship to English romantic thought has always been a puzzle to scholars...