... the meaning of the “true experience.” With “calm of mind,” we are sent out to debate our doubts, which is the function of drama and literature in a republic. Although we should resist allowing the Age of Shakespeare to colonize all areas of criticism, we can learn from reading across the divide...

.... 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...

...: 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...

...: 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 English...

...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 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 the history...

...Bertha M. Kuhn Joseph B. Collins. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1940. Pp. xiv + 251. $3.25. Copyright © 1943 by Duke University Press 1943 Bertha M. Kuhn 115 Christian Mysticisnz in the Elizabethan Age with its Background in Mystical...

...Gordon Braden Petrarchism at Work: Contextual Economies in the Age of Shakespeare . By Kennedy William J. . Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press , 2016 . xiv + 333 pp. Copyright © 2017 by University of Washington 2017 This is William J. Kennedy’s third book on Renaissance...

...Zachary Tavlin The Lyric in the Age of the Brain . By Skillman Nikki . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2016 . 342 pp. Copyright © 2017 by University of Washington 2017 It is peculiar for a book of literary history to posit an “age of the brain.” Approaches...

...-with-stability . Mussell James . 2012 . The Nineteenth-Century Press in the Digital Age . New York : Palgrave Macmillan . Noble Safiya Umoja . 2018 . Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism . New York : New York University Press . O’Neil Cathy . 2016...

...Jesse Oak Taylor jot8@uw.edu Human Forms: The Novel in the Age of Evolution . By Ian Duncan . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2019 . xiii + 290 pp. Copyright © 2021 by University of Washington 2021 Ian Duncan’s Human Forms promises to realign...

...César Domínguez cesar.dominguez@usc.gal Comparing the Literatures: Literary Studies in a Global Age . By David Damrosch . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2020 . x + 386 pp. Copyright © 2022 by University of Washington 2022 It is difficult to classify David...

...Julianne Werlin Abstract This essay describes how commercial publishing in Renaissance England made the age of authors newly salient, especially at the important moment of the literary debut. Drawing on a prosopographic survey of Tudor and early Stuart writers, the essay sketches the age structure...

... 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 trace the “course...

... 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 Winckelmann. German...

...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...

..., and 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...

... 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 denotes something that never existed, a time of perfect homo- geneity, an organic society of unified values...

... by Nadel Ira B. , 204 – 23 . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . doi:10.1017/CCOL0521431174.010 . Yao Steven . 2002 . Translation and the Languages of Modernism: Gender, Politics, Language . New York : Palgrave Macmillan . Close Reading in an Age of Global Writing Rebecca...

...). 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...