...Frances Ferguson © 2000 University of Washington 2000 MLQ 61.1-08Ferguson.ak 6/1/00 2:30 PM Page 157 Jane Austen, Emma, and the Impact of Form Frances Ferguson ne of the criticisms leveled at formalist criticism is that it claims...

...Deborah Elise White Wordsworth's Profession: Form, Class, and the Logic of Early Romantic Cultural Production. By Thomas Pfau. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1997. xii + 454 pp. $49.50. © 2000 University of Washington 2000 MLQ 61.2-05Reviews.ak 5/26/00 5:16 PM Page 415...

... in MLQ 61:3 (September 2000). He is editing a collection of essays on early modern theater and the law and working on a book-length study of Renaissance addictions. Law/Form/History: Shakespeare’s Verdict in All Is True Dennis Kezar he archetypal confrontation between the law and drama...

...Nicholas F. Radel Sexuality and Form: Caravaggio, Marlowe, and Bacon . By Graham L. Hammill. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. x + 219 pp. © 2002 University of Washington 2002 Reviews Cervantes, the Novel, and the New World. By Diana de Armas Wilson. Oxford: Oxford...

... for twentieth-century poetry of the forthcoming Longman anthology of southern literature, Voices of the American South . The Myth of the Fixed-Form Villanelle Julie Kane he villanelle, like the sonnet and the sestina, is one of the “fixed T poetic forms,” whose rhyme schemes and metrical...

...Christopher L. Hill In the decades following the publication of Emile Zola's novel Nana (1880), “Nana figures” resembling Zola's heroine appeared in fiction around the world. The history of the Nana figure contradicts current models for the study of world literature, based on the diffusion of forms...

...Christopher Lane Bad Form: Social Mistakes and the Nineteenth-Century Novel . By Kent Puckett. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. viii + 177 pp. © 2011 by University of Washington 2011 Christopher Lane is professor of English and Pearce Miller Research Professor of Literature...

... McLane for their insightful comments on this essay in its earlier form as a series of talks. Anahid Nersessian is assistant professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University. She has completed a book manuscript tentatively titled Utopia, Limited and has published essays...

...Paul B. Armstrong Although form and history are joined in reading, the profession of literary studies has regularly regarded formalism and historicism as opposites and even antagonists. When dichotomous terms replicate themselves without mediation, a phenomenological approach to resolving...

... in aesthetic theory of the time — nostalgia for an irrecoverable past — also expressed itself artistically in forms at once engaged with and detached from history, notably stylistic simulacra of the past and, in poetry, failed or ironized revivals of the classical gods. This essay was originally prepared...

... The Victorian Multiplot Novel: Studies in Dialogical Form. By PETERK. GARRETT. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1980. ix + 227 pp. $17.50. Contemporary critical theory-that incompatible mixture of structuralism, deconstruction, phenomenology, and semiotics-has done some astonishing...

...Caroline Chung Simpson America's Asia: Racial Form and American Literature, 1893-1945 . By Colleen Lye. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005. x + 342 pp. University of Washington 2007 Caroline Chung Simpson is associate professor of English at the University...

... for the advent of a commercial modernity that renders judgment all but obsolete. Refusing the sentimental (Richardsonian) and aesthetic (Shaftesburian) responses to this social theory as also complicit in the elision of judgment, Fielding works to transform the emerging novel into a narrative and aesthetic form...

... Ventures: Fiction and Print Culture in England, 1690–1730 . By Leah Orr . Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press , 2017 . vii + 336 pp. Novel Machines: Technology and Narrative Form in Enlightenment Britain . By Joseph Drury . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2017 . vii...

...Susanna Greer Fein Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 FORM AND CONTINUITY IN THE ALLITERATIVE TRADITION: CRUCIFORM DESIGN AND DOUBLE BIRTH IN TWO STANZAIC POEMS By SUSANNAGREER FEIN Motifs...

... twentiethcentury forms did to nineteenthcentury conceptions of character raises a question whose answer had already seemed long settled when W. J. Harvey set out to counter the prevailing wisdom on the subject more than a quarter century ago. While in Character and the NmeZ (1965) Har- vey sought to defend...

...Lawrence Kramer Jensen Hines Thomas. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1991. x + 205 pp. $28.00. Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 Review Essay The Real in Embers, the Arts Inflamed Lawrence Kramer Collaboratiue Form: Studies in the Relations...

... Literature (1990). Presently he is at work on a book about literature, politics, and national identity in Renaissance France. On the Border: Geography, Gender, and Narrative Form in the H@tumhn Timothy Hampton Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres.-Caesar Stones...

.... Steven Dillon, Bates College Constituting A meri‘cans: Cultural Anxiety and Narrative Form. By Priscilla Wald. New Americanists. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1995. xiv + 390 pp. $56.95 cloth, $17.95 paper. Deciding who is included in “We the People” has always been a vexing problem...