...Ruth Perry Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 Ruth Perry is professor of literature at MIT. She has written widely on eighteenth-century English letters and culture and is currently working on a history of kinship and the family in relation to the novel in England from 1750...

...John F. McElroy Copyright © 1976 by Duke University Press 1976 MIDDLETON, ENTERTAINER OR MORALIST? A.N INTERPRETATION OF THE FAMILY OF LOVE AND YOUR FIVE GALLANTS By JOHN F. MCELROY A few years ago...

..., in so great Absurdity, and with such Liberty, that any would be afraid to hear them.” He then writes that “we need a full awareness of the topicality” of Shakespeare’s last plays and that he “will argue that King James and his family constitute a ‘text’ that Shakespeare read in gathering...

...Elizabeth Freeman Everybody's Family Romance: Reading Incest in Neoliberal America . By Gillian Harkins. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009. xx + 316 pp. © 2011 by University of Washington 2011 Elizabeth Freeman is professor of English at the University of California...

...Jason Groves [email protected] The Dynastic Imagination: Family and Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Germany . By Adrian Daub . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2021 . 253 pp. Copyright © 2022 by University of Washington 2022 The Dynastic Imagination...

...-editor of Transformations: The Languages of Culture and Personhood after Theory (forthcoming spring 1994). The Anxiety of Change: Reconfigwring Family Relations in Beaumarchais’s Trilogy Christie McDonald Si j’etais professeur d’histoire de France, (dit l’histoire), et...

...Mark Patterson Shirley Samuels. Romances of the Republic: Women, the Family, and Violence an the Literature of the Early American Nation . New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. viii + 198 pp. $39.95. © 1998 University of Washington 1998 Patterson I Review...

...J. L. Simmons Epigraphs from William Roper’s “Life of Sir Thomas More” represent rituals of familial blessing in transition from the feudal to the early modern. They exemplify Shakespeare’s complex employment of the ritual in Hamlet and throughout his plays from the farcical to the serene...

... and their acute attention to the role of women, particularly daughters, within the patriarchal family and its attendant economic systems. They share Woolf’s interest in the economic, inheritable underpinnings of female authority, the social forms of a patrilineal culture that help demarcate the possibilities...

... in that it reinforces Protestantism as integral to American identity, Oldtown Folks prioritizes the vibrancy and longevity of Anglo-American Puritanism and Episcopalianism as relatively autonomous, family- and community-based institutions that maintain complex relationships to state violence and imperialism...

...Ron Ben-Tovim Abstract Home and war seem to be spaces set apart, one defined by the rules and order of society and the other by the absolute, order-undoing destruction of battle. Yet for those families who endure war even from afar, and for those who return from war, its violence continues...

... grotesque the inseparably erotic, familial, and financial tendencies of comic plot. In Desire under the Elms , for example, lovers are brought together but placed under arrest. The metacomedies record O’Neill’s reaction against the coalescent endings common to two modes of drama that he knew well...

... MlQI December 1996 know the text, and we begin by examining it when we desire to know its relationship to us. In this light I propose the following reading of family life in The Winter’s Tale: a textual reading, but informed in obvi- ous ways by a contemporary cultural position. Near...

... cannot be explained from historically ubiquitous patterns. Furthermore, Bynum seems distracted by Chodorow’s model (as well as by aspects of her own stance) from exploring developments in the family that are of moment to her subject. Bynum is concerned that expla- nations that locate behavior...

... arrangements. Michael Lucey links this moment to the earlier Napoleonic civil code’s regula- tion of the hegemonic normative family form, especially in relation to the inheritance of property.4 The PACS, which permits persons of the same sex to be legally declared partners, nevertheless retains much...

... critical readings of Hegel’s representation of woman, see Luce Iri- garay, Speculum, de l’autrefemme (Paris: Minuit, 1974); Mary O’Brien, The Politics of Rqbroduc- tion (Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1981);Joan B. Landes, “Hegel’s Conception of the Family,” in The Family in Political Thought...

... of mis- leading appearance and the disrupted family. From the first, it is apparent that Shakespeare uses sexual disguise to provide witty romantic involvements for the heroine. Until Cyrnbeline, the exchanges the heroine has with her lover or would-be lover are cen- tral in explaining...

.... And when they do so, the outlines of a Great Family begin to stand out. Across the generations, the members of the Dar- win and Wedgwood families have made their cultural contributions to England partly through the advantage of belonging to an eminent family. Carlyle, on the other hand...

... Shaffer, Gzft of the Gorgon Uncrowning the Family Petrarch Robert Lowell’s last book of poems, Day by Day, parallels the anamor- phism of Sidney Nolan’s cover portrait for the 2 July 1967 Time maga- zine. Around Lowell’s disembodied head is a zigzagging laurel wreath that looks...