... lasting popularity suggests that he provided the century with one of its best-known and most resonant versions of the martial ideal. © 2008 by University of Washington 2008 John Richardson is associate professor of English language and literature at the National University of Singapore. His most...

...” that is used to set the pace and chart the celestial flights of those Miltonic angels (p. 82f HARRYLEVIN Harvard University The American Ideal: Literary History as a Worldly Activity. By PETER CARAFIOL. New York: Oxford University Press...

...,etMreeii the validity of the hero and of’ the poem in which lie ap- pears (of’tlie heroic and the poetic ideals). He is certainly correct that iri Jon- cillrciii Il’iltl we are no longer iri tlie same mock-heroic world as in M(ic- Fluckpioe, The Rape qf‘lhu Lock, and Tho thincititl, where...

...John J. Lakich Copyright © 1970 by Duke University Press 1970 THE IDEAL AND REALITY IN THE FRENCH THEATER OF THE 1920’s By JOHN J. LAKICH For the last thirty or so years, critics have habitually looked upon...

... and has made his profound knowledge readily accessible to us, he deserves our attention and gratitude. GONZALOSOBE JANO Columbia University A Mythical Image: The Ideal of India in German Romanticism. By A. LESLIEWILLSON. Durham, N.C...

...: University of Massachusetts Press, 1966. xiii + 171 pp. $6.00. FIELDING AND RALPH ALLEN BENEVOLISM AND ITS LIMITS AS AN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY IDEAL’ By MARTINC. BATTESTIN Early in Tom Jones (1.iv) Squire Allworthy...

... University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America. By LEOMARX. New York: Oxford University Press, 1964. 392 pp. $6.75. The resonant title of this book is also very precise. Leo Marx is concerned with the relation between two images...

...Jonathan Bishop Copyright © 1960 by Duke University Press 1960 THE HEROIC IDEAL IN DOUGHTY’S ARABIA DESERTA By JONATHAN BISHOP Anne Treneer’s book on Charles Doughty is still the most recent full-length study of that British writer, and it is more...

... IN WIELAND’S CONCEFT OF THE IDEAL STATE By JAMES A. MCNEELYS In contrast to most prominent writers of the German Enlighten- ment, Christoph Martin Wieland had a profound, intrinsic interest in the problems of society and government...

...Janet Marion Martin Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 CICERO’S JOKES AT THE COURT OF HENRY I1 OF ENGLAND ROMAN HUMOR AND THE PRINCELY IDEAL By JANET MARION MARTIN The Saturnalia, by the fifth-century Roman...

... conception of a humane idealism which nowhere in German letters has found so stirring and so magnificent an expression as in this play. Yet it might be possible that, when using these strange words, he was anticipating the criti- cism of a new era, leveled against his great play, leveled...

...Timothy J. Reiss Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 Revim Essay The Limits of Discursive Idealism Timothy J. Reiss With a response by Anthony J. Cascardi The Su4ect ofhlodmity. By AnthonyJ. Cascardi. Cambridge: Cambridge Uni- versity Press, 1992. x + 316 pp...

... forward to reading with pleasure in the coming years. GEORGEBORNSTEIN University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Robert Penn Wawen and American Idealism. By JOHN BURT.New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1988. xi + 238 pp. $22.50...

... OF DRAYTON’S POETICS IN ENGLANDS HEROICALL EPISTLES FROM MIRRORED IDEALS TO “THE CHAOS IN THE MIND”* By BARBARAC. EWELL Though Englands Heroicall...

...Evan Radcliffe Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 KEATS, IDEALS, AND ISA B ELLA By EVAN KADCLIFFE In the summer of 1818, during a walking tour of northern Eng- land and Scotland, Keats visited the cottage of Robert Burns, hop- ing...

...Michael D. Cherniss Copyright © 1969 by Duke University Press 1969 HEROIC IDEALS AND THE MORAL CLIMATE OF GENESZS B By MICHAELD. CHERNISS NO one has ever seriously challenged the critical view that the major- ity of Old...

... as well as to those who have no previous specialized knowledge of Stendhal. GITAR/IAY Columbia University Bernard Shaw 6. the Art of Destroying Ideals: The Early Plays. By CHARLES A. CARPENTER.Madison: University...

...James Rolleston Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 THE LEGACY OF IDEALISM SCHILLER, MORIKE AND BIEDERMEIER CULTURE By JAMES ROLLESTON Friedrich Schiller and Eduard Miirike...

... they are read with an eye to authorial mediation. Further, conceptualizing authors as mediators proves a better framework for writing the history of authorship, as it clarifies synchronic tensions and diachronic developments that unfolded within this frame. It also reveals that the modern ideal of authorial...

... heterogeneity were intrinsically related to its political critique. His objections to “Lycidas” also reflected his view that pastoral depicted an idealized life of rural leisure to distract and entertain city men. This ancient association between pastoral and leisure may have informed eighteenth-century readers...