..., and the Ethics of Identity. © 2005 University of Washington 2005 Gender and National Literature: Heian Texts in the Constructions of Japanese Modernity . By Tomiko Yoda. Durham, NC: Duke University Press,2004. xvi + 277 pp. Reviews Eine Literaturgeschichte Mitteleuropas. By Zoran...

...Paul H. Fry Borderlines: The Shiftings of Gender in British Romanticism. By Susan J. Wolfson. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2006. xxii + 430 pp. © 2008 by University of Washington 2008 Paul H. Fry is William Lampson Professor of English at Yale University. His most...

...Timothy Hampton On the Border: Geography, Gender, and Narrative Form in the H@tumhn Timothy Hampton Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres.-Caesar Stones and the State The Hqtamhon (1559) takes place on disputed territory. Marguerite de Navarre’s prologue...

...Catherine Gallagher Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 ∗Originally presented as a lecture before the American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, Seattle, March 1992. NOBODY’S STORY GENDER, PROPERTY, AND THE RISE OF THE NOVEL...

... is an accomplished profes- sional editor. His playfulness and enthusiasm deserve to be indulged, and he deserves to be listened to. STEPHEN PARRISH Cornell University Chaucer and the Fictions of Gender. By ELAINETUTTLE HANSEN. Berkeley: Uni...

... innovation, independent of the gender of the signature or the overt politics of the texts that employ them, have progressive or revolutionary implications” (p. 8). The qualifications are an attempt to meet the claim raised by other feminists, such as Gilbert and Gubar, that the formal detachment...

... classical rhetorical texts can be charac- terized as deeply misogynist. Rut misogyny is not the sole problem. In Brody’s analysis gendered figures of style in advice to writers divert readers from the ideological functions of these pedagogical texts. In eighteenthcen- tury England gendered...

... of such notable critics as Orgel and Smith, Shapiro foregrounds the historical significance of cross-dressing arid its relationship to early modern England’s definitions of gender and sexuality. He first examines the “extradramatic sources of the theatrical excitement surround- ing the disguised heroine...

...Barbara L. Estrin Copyright © 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 Barbara L. Estrin is professor of English and department chair at Stonehill College. She is author of The Raven and the Lork: Lost Children in Literature of the English Renaissance (1985) and Laura: Uncovering Gender...

... 2011 Nana in the World: Novel, Gender, and Transnational Form Christopher L. Hill journalist in Emile Zola’s novel Nana describes its unrestrained A heroine as a “golden fly” who spreads social rot, “corrupting and deranging Paris between her snowy thighs.”1 The same might...

... historical and literary moments when gender norms, alongside racial and ethnic identities, underwent abrupt and vexed change. In these stories, scenes of domestic drama are transformed into modernist narratives of social and cultural transformation. The article contends that a pragmatic linguistic approach...

... in the skeptical tradition of European thought that returned with the Enlighten- ment’s rising doubt of the omnipotence and universal validity of la souveraine raison. Hayes provides us with a gender-­differentiated, well-­grounded analy- sis of a voluminous...

... of Pietro Bembo” appeared in the September 1996 issue of MLQ. University of Washington 2006 Dido's Daughters: Literacy, Gender, and Empire in Early Modern England and France . By Margaret W. Ferguson. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. xiv + 506 pp. Reviews Dido’s Daughters...

...Andrea Henderson The Physics of Possibility: Victorian Fiction, Science, and Gender . By Michael Tondre . Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press , 2018 . ix + 230 pp. Copyright © 2020 by University of Washington 2020 The Physics of Possibility offers a fresh...

...Ruth Perry Copyright © 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 Revim Essay The Contribution of Gender to the Evolution of the Novel Ruth Perry Nobody’s Story: The Vanishing Acts of Women Writers in the Marketplace, I 670-1820. By Catherine Gailagher. New Historicism, 31...

... Orders: Romance and the Production of Britain, 1740–1830 . Her current project is on allegory and cultural nationalism in Britain and Ireland during the period 1745–1832. Violent Translations: Allegory, Gender, and Cultural Nationalism in Ireland, 1796-1806 Miranda J. Burgess How...

...GEORGE E. ROWE Copyright © 1989 by Duke University Press 1989 PRIVACY, VISION, AND GENDER IN SPENSER’S LEGEND OF COURTESY By GEORGEE. ROWE That the sixth book of The Faerie Queene ends in bitterness and cynicism few readers...

...Ania Loomba En-Gendering India: Woman and Nation in Colonial and Postcolonial Narratives . By Sangeeta Ray. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2000. viii + 198 pp. © 2002 University of Washington 2002 Reviews How Milton Works. By Stanley Fish. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press...

...Cyrena N. Pondrom Genders, Races, and Religious Cultures in Modern American Poetry,1908-1934 . By Rachel Blau DuPlessis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. xiv + 238 pp. © 2003 University of Washington 2003 Reviews Ideographia: The Chinese Cipher in Early Modern Europe...

... fighters in revolutionary drama further deconstruct the patriarchy of gender, and their stories influenced the new development of gender politics in modern China. In general, the discourses of women's liberation were refashioned on the different stages of modern Chinese drama in parallel...