...Lurline V. Simpson Edward Nobel Stone. Three Old French Chronicles of the Crusades (The History of the Holy War, The History of them that took Constantinople, The Chronicle of Reims) . Seattle: University of Washington Publications in Social Sciences, X, 1939. Pp. 377. $3.50. Copyright...

...Patricia Ybarra This essay suggests that the erasure of such nineteenth-century works as Alfredo Chavero's Quetzalcóatl from mainstream Mexican theater histories has diminished the importance of theater as a mode of nation-building historiography even as national textbooks and archaeological...

...Joycelyn Moody Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies . By Elizabeth McHenry. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002. xiv + 423 pp. © 2005 University of Washington 2005 Joycelyn Moody is associate professor of English at Saint Louis...

... of Washington 2012 Realism, Romance, and the Problem of African Literary History Simon Gikandi In postcoloniality, every metropolitan de nition is dislodged. The general mode for the postcolonial is citation, reinscription, rerouting the historical. — Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak...

...Shuang Shen Hong Kong literary history presents a polemical case study for a contemporary rethinking of national literary history: Is it a local history or a global history? How should we describe the complex connections between the city’s sinophone literature and the literatures of mainland China...

... with the systematization of knowledge, can be traced back to the “temporalization” of history in the second half of the eighteenth century, when transhistorical aesthetic classification was destabilized and literary history developed as a distinct critical practice. But the troubled historical consciousness manifested...

... of natural phenomena, and opposed physical and/or ethical sympathies. The copresence of polarized historical periods in Milton’s work remains a distinguishing feature; examples from preceding and succeeding periods make the case for recognizing in Milton a pivotal moment in English literary history...

...Zsolt Komáromy Abstract The conversational style of William Cowper’s poetry owes much to the influence of Charles Churchill. Despite this connection, the two poets occupy different niches in literary history: Churchill is remembered as a practitioner of the declining tradition of satirical poetry...

...Heather Dubrow After Lavinia: A Literary History of Premodern Marriage Diplomacy . By John Watkins . Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press , 2017 . xii + 274 pp. Copyright © 2019 by University of Washington 2019 In this powerful, wide-ranging study, John Watkins demonstrates...

...Lionel J. Friedman Nicolas James Perella. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1969, 356 pp. $10.95. Copyright © 1972 by Duke University Press 1972 REVIEWS The Kiss Sacred and Profane: An Interpretative History of Kiss Symbolism...

... maverick pastors and internet discussion-board enthusiasts. In Collective Understanding Melissa Mowry contends that revisiting the Levellers’ challenges to established order exposes buried fault lines in literary history. Leveller radicalism, in Mowry’s bracing account, promises nothing less than...

... 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...

...Jesse Oak Taylor [email protected] Deep Time: A Literary History . By Noah Heringman . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2023 . xv + 297 pp. Copyright © 2024 by University of Washington 2024 One might expect a book titled Deep Time: A Literary History to trace...

..., Discursive History, and the Auto-Affection of God Eric Rothstein In what does [philosophical activity today] consist, if not in the endeavor to know how and to what extent it might be possible to think differently, instead of legitimating what is already known?-Michel Foucault...

... Nationalism . His essay “Nationalisms in a Global Economy” is forthcoming in International Cultural Studies , edited by Richard Dienst and Henry Schwarz. Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Nationalism and Geoculture in Defoe’s History of Writing Joel Reed In An Essay...

...José Antonio Mazzotti © 1996 University of Washington 1996 The Lightning Bolt Yields to the Rainbow: Indigenous History and Colonial Semiosis in the Royal Commentaries of El Inca Garcilaso de la Vega Jose Antonio Mazzotti mong the many studies of El Inca Garcilaso de...

...Mary M. Gaylord © 1996 University of Washington 1996 The True History of Early Modern Writing in Spanish: Some American Reflections Mary M. Gaylord This essay’s scene of writing is a morning walk along the Charles River. I thread my way through narrow streets and set...

... Theory/Theatre: An Introduction . Married with Children: 27~Winter’s Tale and Social History or, Infacticide in Earlier Seventeenth-Century England Mark Fortier CAMILLO Have you thought on A place whereto you’ll go? FLORIZEL Not any yet...

... inhere in the structures and represen- tations of modernism and its legacy and how narratives of literary history contribute to their obscurity. As such, it keeps those of us who would invoke the strategy of essentialism mindful of its dangers. It gets under the skin, into the blood...