... and still remain the symbol of southern liberties" (p. 150). The question of the south resentful of the non-southern part of France, and of federalism, is dis- S. S. fYeiltrr 93 cussed under the amusing chapter-heading "North and South or Dixie...

...Ralph W. Baldner Copyright © 1961 by Duke University Press 1961 ASPECTS OF THE NOUVELLE IN FRANCE BETWEEN 16CO AND 1660 By RALPHW. BALDNER Critics of seventeenth-century prose fiction have applied the term nouvelle more or less...

...Dorothy Kelly [email protected] Unmaking Sex: The Gender Outlaws of Nineteenth-Century France . By Anne E. Linton . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2022 . x + 254 pp. Copyright © 2024 by University of Washington 2024 Anne E. Linton’s book provides a fascinating...

... interest in a work which-whatever one may think of its romantic weaknesses-is of undoubted value as a monument of liter- ary history. ARNOLDC. ROWBOTHAM University .of California Ma.upassant Criticism in France, 1880-1940. lYith an Enquiry into his...

... monument” as central to poetry as such? What is it that led T. S. Eliot to write, “Every poem an epi- taph”? Of course, there has been no shortage of theorizing on such questions. On Wordsworth alone, essays and books by Geoffrey Hartman, Frances Fer- guson, and J. Hillis Miller are noted by Scodel...

.... The best of her essays aspire to be books, and the strain is evident. Patricia Meyer Spacks, University of Virginia German Ideology: From France to Germany and Back. By Louis Dumont. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994. x + 250 pp. $32.50. Those who fear...

..., and at the heart of the deepest anxieties of the body politic. Priscilla Wald, University of Washington New Novel, New Wave, New Politics: Fiction and the Representation of History in Postwar France. By Lynn A. Higgins. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1996. ix + 259...

... in footnotes. DOROTHYBROWN ASPINWALL The College of Idaho The Epic in Nineteenth-Century France. A Study in Heroic and Humanitarian Poetry from “Les Martyrs” to “Les Sikcles Morts.” By HERBERTJ. HUNT. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1941. Pp. xii + 446. $6.25...

...Timothy J. Reiss Conley Tom. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996. xiii + 372 pp. $34.95. Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 The Self-MadeMap: Cartographic Writing in Early Modern France. By Tom Con- ley. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996. xiii...

...Neil Kenny © 2000 University of Washington 2000 MLQ 61.2-01Kenny.ak 5/26/00 3:49 PM Page 253 Books in Space and Time: Bibliomania and Early Modern Histories of Learning and “Literature” in France Neil Kenny...

...Derek Van Abbé Copyright © 1945 by Duke University Press 1947 SOME NOTES ON CULTURAL RELATIONS BETWEEN FRANCE AND GERMANY IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY By DEREKVAN ABBB During World War I1 much unscientific thinking about the Ger...

...Henry A. Grubbs Copyright © 1945 by Duke University Press 1947 NONSENSE IN FRANCE AND IN FRENCH LITERATURE By HENRYA. GRUBBS That Nonsense literature and Nonsense in literature deserve more than to be relegated permanently to the nursery, that they are worth...

..., LESTERW. J. SEIFERT University of JYisconsin Attitudes of Seventeenth-Century France toward the Middle Ages. By NATHANEDELMAN. New York: King’s Crown Press, 1946. Pp. xvi + 464. $4.00. Mr. Edelrnan’s study is obviously the product of profound scholar- ship and intensive...

...Georges May James Hutton. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1946. Pp. xi + 822. $5.00. Copyright © 1947 by Duke University Press 1947 REVIEWS The Greek Anthology in France and in the Latin Writers of The Netherlands to the Year 1800. By JAMES...

... claims that depend on human exceptionalism” (161). It also casts doubt on human exceptionalism, as do all the “strange, hybrid, and fantastic figures” (161), from fish knights to bestial kings, encountered in the book. In the Skin of a Beast: Sovereignty and Animality in Medieval France...

...Helmut Hatzfeld Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 CHRISTIAN, PAGAN, AND DEVOUT HUMANISM IN SIXTEENTH-CENTURY FRANCE By HELMUTHATZFELD I. NEW POINTSOF VIEW IN RECENTSCHOLARSHIP Humanism as the “enthusiasm...

...Henry S. Lucas Marcel Françon. Cambridge, Mass.: Privately printed, 1941. Pp. 23. Copyright © 1942 by Duke University Press 1942 REVIEWS Guide Bibliographique pour servir d I‘Etude de I’Histoire Litte‘raire en France aux XIVe et XVe Sidcles...

... of the Jewish question in the political, social, and economic life of France. That is, how closely does the literature reflect life? Perhaps Mr. Randall has not yet made up his mind on that point. In the opening of the book, he explains that in the period of 1870-1894 the Jews were not greatly...

...Robert J. Ellrich John Lough. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978. vi + 435 pp. $36.00. Copyright © 1979 by Duke University Press 1979 REVIEWS Wriler and Public in‘ France: From the Middle Ages to the Present Day. By JOHN LOUCH.Oxford: Clarendon Press...

...- ric and Poetic of Italy, France, and England, 1400-1600. By CHARLESSEARS BALDWIN. New York : Columbia University Press, 1939. Pp. xiv+251. $2.75. Studies in Early Tudor Criticism, Linguistic and Literary. By ELIZABETHJ. SWEETING. Oxford : Basil Blackwell, 1940. Pp...