..., reading that which was once forbidden. Disraeli will vie with Dickens for an eve- ning’s reading, but of course the Dickens scandal will ultimately surpass the virtues of the great prime minister. It would be a strange reader, however, who did not spend his first evening...

...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...

... during the Romantic period . The First Women (Psycho)analysts; or, The Friends of Feminist History Laura Mandell France has continued the Roman and Christian work that Christianity had promised. . . . Brotherly equality had been postponed to the next life, but [France...

... translated volumes of Korean myths and folktales: The Morning Bright (1990) and Tiger, Burning Bright (1992). The First Professional: The Women Wfiters’ Suffrage League Sowon S. Park In 1908 Britain saw the formation of its first professional organiza- tion of women writers...

...C. Grant Loomis Copyright © 1944 by Duke University Press 1944 A NOTE CONCERNING THE EDITIONS OF THE FIRST VOLUME OF THE HOFMANNSWALDAU ANTHOLOGY By C. GRANTLOOMIS A copy of the 1695 first volume of the Hofmannswaldau An- thology has come...

...) is part of a trilogy of works about gender and poetics. She is professor emerita at Temple University. Nobody’s Business: Twenty-First Century Avant-Garde Poetics . By Reed Brian M. . Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press , 2013 . xix + 222 pp. © 2015 by University of Washington 2015...

... Marxist contribution to radical literary history; reading him through Tretiakov reveals, moreover, a striking cultural-historical possibility: the queer potential of the First Five-Year Plan (1928–32). Copyright © 2015 by University of Washington 2015 Christopher Isherwood Sergei Tretiakov queer...

...Laurence E. Gemeinhardt Copyright © 1946 by Duke University Press 1946 THE CAST OF THE FIRST HAMBURG PERFORMANCE OF GOTTER’S “JAHRMARKT” By LAURENCEE. GEMEINHARDT Dr. Curt von Faber du Faur’s extensive collection of first editions of works...

...David Simpson [email protected] Keywords for Today: A Twenty-First-Century Vocabulary; The Keywords Project . Edited by Colin MacCabe and Holly Yanacek . New York : Oxford University Press , 2018 . xviii + 393 pp. Copyright © 2021 by University of Washington...

... of France itself by Greece and Rome, imbuing France with a dual status as both an emerging colonial power and a former colonized nation. The structural principle of the book is thus a nuanced, triangulated coloniality. The argument unfolds organically. The first section explores the impli...

...G. W. Majors SHAKESPEARE’S FIRST BRUTUS HIS ROLE IN LUCRECE By G. W. MAJORS Moral ambiguities scarcely abound in The Rape of Lucrece. For all the atten tion given their “psychological aspects,” Tarquin and Lucrece...

.... LAWRENCEM. PRICE University of California First Editiom of the German Romantic Period in American Li- braries. Edited by FREDERICKW. J. HEUSER. New York : Mod- ern Language Association of America ; London : Oxford Uni- versity Press, 1942. Pp. viii + 48. Despite...

... LESSING’S FIRST POLEMIC By ROBERTERIC RENTSCHLER Lessing had highly unorthodox opinions about truth. He re- fused to accept any truths whatever, even those presumably handed down by Providence, and he...

...Martin Stevens V. A. Kolve. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1984. xiv + 551 pp. $39.50. Copyright © 1984 by Duke University Press 1984 REVIEWS For those familiar kvitti V. A. Kolve’s first book, The f’/qCcilled Corps O’hm/i ( I!N;S), it rvill...

...J. P. W. Rogers Copyright © 1970 by Duke University Press 1970 CONGREVE’S FIRST BIOGRAPHER THE IDENTITY OF “CHARLES WILSON” By J. P. W. ROGERS There are several puzzles surrounding Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Amours...

..., and Style of Tlioinns Carlyle’s First Major Work. By G. B. TENNYSON.Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1965. viii + 354 pp. $8.50; 68s. G. B. Tennyson’s book will be valuable for years to come for at least two important reasons: it is one of those rare performances in which...

...Raymond Immerwahr Copyright © 1960 by Duke University Press 1960 THE FIRST ROMANTIC AESTHETICS By RAYMONDIMMERWAHR’ In the first chapter of The Great Chain of Being, Arthur 0. Love- joy, a historian of ideas who had previously denied...

... of interest, particularly when his criticism of the closely read text turns out to be, as he confesses, so often mere “minute fault-finding.” MALCOLMBROWN University of Washington Lord Byron’s First Pilgrimage, 1809-1811...

.... HEFFNERand W. P. LEHMANN.2nd ed. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1950. Pp. 78. $1.85. The series of word-indexes for MHG was initiated some fourteen years ago by Alfred Senn and W. F. Twaddell with the publication of a Word-Index to Wolfram’s “Parzival.” The first edition...

... Johns Hopkins University First Follow Nature: Primitivism in English Poetry, 1725-1 750. By MARGARETM. FITZGERALD.New York : King’s Crown Press, 1947. Pp. x + 270. $3.00. Miss Fitzgerald’s First Follow Nature is another contribution to the history of ideas in eighteenth...