...Charles Altieri Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 Can We Be Historical Ever? Some Hopes for a Dialectical Model of Historical Self-Consciousness Charles Altieri n writing my Painterly Abstraction in Modernist American Poetry I Iencountered problems that make...

...Fiona Somerset Her Life Historical: Exemplarity and Female Saints' Lives in Late Medieval England . By Catherine Sanok. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. xvii + 256 pp. University of Washington 2009 Fiona Somerset is associate professor of English at Duke...

...Ina Ferris This essay contends that Scott's historical novels respond to the widespread sense of displacement in postrevolutionary Europe by activating and rewriting the figure of the remnant. As remnant tales, his novels are less about the loss of the past or its relationship to the present than...

...Patricia Meyer Spacks Patricia Meyer Spacks is Edgar F. Shannon Professor of English Emerita at the University of Virginia. She recently edited Pride and Prejudice: An Annotated Edition (2010) and is author of On Rereading . The Historical Novel in Europe, 1650 - 1950...

...Sanjay Krishnan The consensus that the postcolonial writer must be on the side of the oppressed prevents critics from grasping the original ways in which V. S. Naipaul’s untypical writings are attuned to the historical predicament of the periphery. Naipaul’s premise is that subjects...

... between the historical conception of political marriage argued by Polonius and Laertes and marriages of mutuality aborted by the adulterous and murderous one of Gertrude and Claudius. Hamlet is structured on the Danish history of Old Hamlet/Old Fortinbras abrupted by that of Young Hamlet/Young Fortinbras...

... of geological time to human history, challenging traditional theories of historical change. Drawing on this notion, Dipesh Chakrabarty outlines three theories of history. History 1 and 2 refer to liberalism and its postcolonial and postmodern critique, respectively. History 3, or post-Anthropocene history...

...V. Joshua Adams; Joel Calahan; Michael Hansen 9 Jonathan Culler ( 2015 : 84) critiques this cause-and-effect chronology as “historically irresponsible,” arguing that the poem of intense personal expression that became the nineteenth-century norm needs to be more clearly distinguished from...

... (2002) ; and German Literature,Jewish Critics: The Brandeis Symposium , edited by Stephen D. Dowden and Meike G. Werner (2002). Trostgründe: Cultural Nationalism and Historical Legitimation in Nineteenth-Century German Literary Histories Hinrich C. Seeba I n Germany, where chauvinist nationalism...

... the stalemate is typically to reflect on how they interact in lived experience. Refocusing attention in this way, I offer five theses on how history and form are connected in the experience of reading: (1) Literary works are historical entities, but they are not reducible to their origins. (2) The historical...

...George W. Umphrey Copyright © 1945 by Duke University Press 1945 SPANISH BALLADS IN ENGLISH PART I, HISTORICAL SURVEY By GEORGEW. UMPHREY The charm of the old popular ballads of Spain has been felt inore widely and deeply than...

... to lyric poetry? (3) What happens when the historical situation of a lyric literalizes apostrophic address? The answer to the first of these questions is yes. The answer to the second question depends on the critic, but this essay points out that defenses of lyric began in the early nineteenth century, so...

...Patrick M. Bray Abstract This essay looks at Gustave Flaubert’s L’éducation sentimentale as a “literary-historical event,” that is, an event that becomes legible only by a literary text. Flaubert’s novel attempted to turn the ambiguous political events of 1848 and the coup d’état of Napoleon III...

... in that drama would of course be Charles 11. STEVENN. ZWICKEK Washington University Wordsworth’s Historical Imaganation: The Poetry of Displacement. By DAVIDS I M P- SON. New York and London: Methuen, 1987. x + 239 pp. $33.00. Readers who...

..., Palmer, Friedrich, Maillol, and Villon also is pleasing. Both the press and Janet Wood, the book’s designer, deserve commendation. ANDREW v. E’ITIN Wake Forest University The Content of the Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical...

...Paul A. Olson Lee Patterson. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1987. xiv + 239 pp. $35.00 cloth; $15.95 paper. Copyright © 1988 by Duke University Press 1988 REVIEWS Negotiating the Past: The Historical Understanding of Medieval Literature...

... Carlyle and the Saint-Sintonians : The Concept of Historical Period- icity. By HILL SHINE.Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1941. Pp. xiii + 191. $2.25. Mr. Shine’s monograph is a worthy addition to the studies which have appeared on the foreign sources of Carlyle’s thought. Its...

...A. C. GOODSON J. Mcgann Jerome. Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 1988. xii + 279 pp. $27.50. Copyright © 1989 by Duke University Press 1989 A. C. GOODSON 197 Social Values and Poetic Acb: The Historical Judgment...

...Marshall Brown Ralph Cohen, Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1992. vi + 327 pp. $42.50 cloth, $17.95 paper Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 Reviews Studies in Historical Change. Edited by Ralph Cohen., Charlottesville: Univer- sity Press of Virginia...

..., The Lucid Veil, and Victorians and Mystery . Elegy and Theory: Is Historical and Critical Knowledge Possible? W. David Shaw iterary historians tend to claim either too little knowledge of the Lpast or too much. They may write useful factual chronicles, but what they narrate...