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..., rather different study. A. S. G. EDWARDS University of Victmk B@we Novels: The Cultural Contexts of Eighteenth-Century English Faction. By J. PAULHUNTER. New York: Norton, 1990. xxv + 421 pp. $25.00. Desire and Tmth: Functions of Plot...

...Howard D. Weinbrot Making the English Canon: Print-Capitalism and the Cultural Past, 1700–1770. By Jonathan Brody Kramnick. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. viii + 287 pp. $59.95; The Making of the English Literary Canon: From the Middle Ages to the Late Eighteenth Century. By Trevor...

..., of the first volume of the new Oxford English Literary History (forthcoming). Periodization and Politics: The Case of the Missing Twelfth Century in English Literary History Linda Georgianna F or several years I have been at work on a narrative literary history of medieval England from the beginnings...

... (2002) ; and German Literature,Jewish Critics: The Brandeis Symposium , edited by Stephen D. Dowden and Meike G. Werner (2002). Trostgründe: Cultural Nationalism and Historical Legitimation in Nineteenth-Century German Literary Histories Hinrich C. Seeba I n Germany, where chauvinist nationalism...

...Blakey Vermeule Fables of Modernity: Literature and Culture in the English Eighteenth Century . By Laura Brown. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2001. xii + 273 pp. © 2003 University of Washington 2003 Reviews Staging Domesticity: Household Work and English Identity in Early...

...María Soledad Barbón How to Write the History of the New World: Histories,Epistemologies, and Identities in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World . By Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press,2001. xviii + 450 pp. © 2004 University of Washington 2004...

...Timothy Materer Twenty-First-Century Modernism: The “New” Poetics . By Marjorie Perloff. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2002. ix + 222 pp. © 2004 University of Washington 2004 Timothy Materer is professor of English at the University of Missouri. His most recent book is James Merrill's...

...James Thompson Eighteenth-Century Fiction and the Law of Property . By Wolfram Schmidgen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. viii + 266 pp. © 2005 University of Washington 2005 James Thompson is professor and chair of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel...

... on the Seventeenth-Century Stage David Quint he rise in the 1980s of criticism intent on restoring historical mean- Ting to the literary text has raised questions about its capacity to rec- ognize the text as literary. If we read the text as another document of a given historical moment—as another...

...Judith Wilt Judith Wilt is Newton College Alumnae Chair in Western Culture at Boston College, where she teaches nineteenth- and twentieth-century British fiction, women's studies, and popular culture genres. Her books include Abortion, Choice, and Contemporary Fiction: The Armageddon...

...Evelyne Ender Evelyne Ender is professor of French at the University of Washington. She is author of Sexing the Mind: Nineteenth-Century Fictions of Hysteria (1995) and Architexts of Memory: Literature, Science, and Autobiography (2005). University of Washington 2006...

...Judith Wilt Disorienting Fiction: The Autoethnographic Work of Nineteenth-Century British Novels . By James Buzard. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005. vi + 320 pp. University of Washington 2006 Judith Wilt is Newton College Alumnae Chair in Western Culture at Boston...

... of Washington 2007 Writers on the Market: Consuming Literature in Early Seventeenth-Century Spain . By Donald Gilbert-Santamaría. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2005. 271 pp. Reviews The Grounds of English Literature. By Christopher Cannon. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004...

...Christopher Flint The Prose of Things: Transformations of Description in the Eighteenth Century. By Cynthia Sundberg Wall. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. xiii + 316 pp. © 2008 by University of Washington 2008 Christopher Flint is associate professor of English at Case...

... Hiline were, apparently, composed after December, 1572- January, 1573. MARCELFRANCON HarzJard Unizwsity Ait Age of Crisis: Man and World in Eighteenth Century French Thought. By LESTERG. CROCKER.Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins...

... Michigats State College Elisabethan Poetry in the Eighteenth Century. By EARL R. WASSERMAN. Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Studies in Language and Literature, Vol. XXXII, NOS.2-3, 1947. Pp. 292. $2.50. This book presents some new data on an old problem. As a study...

... Eighteenth-Century Germany. By HEINRICHSCHNEIDER. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1947. Pp. 178. $2.50. Regarding Masonry in Germany some misconceptions are rife. It is true that German Masonry was transferred from England to Germany as an enlightened antidote to sectarian...

... of the nineteenth century, which, in spite of the partially satisfactory productions of the Kembles and Edmund Kean, showed a decline in the quality of stage presentations of Hamlet. Partly for this reason the formal criticism of the play became almost completely divorced from the histrionic...

...Mary Hamel Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 ∗ A shorter version of this paper was read at the 16th International Arthurian Congress, Durham, England, 17 August 1990. ARTHURIAN ROMANCE IN FIFTEENTH-CENTURY LINDSEY THE BOOKS...

... AND A TWENTIETH-CENTURY ANALOGUE, MURIEL SPARK” By VELMABOURGEOIS RICHMOND A recent survey of the critical heritage of Chaucer argues that Chaucer as “religious poet’’ is a mid- and late-twentieth-century discovery or preoccupation. In this Chaucer...