... contesting ges- tures, affirm the social structures of its time. Henry James seems particularly susceptible to this reading. Was he not a genteel Anglophile who fled the America of the Gilded Age and shrank, one might assume, from engagement in the contests of class, deepening in his lifetime...

...Lyon N. Richardson Richard Nicholas Foley. Washington, D. C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 1944. Pp. 169. Copyright © 1946 by Duke University Press 1946 Lyon N. Richardson 371 Henry James: The Major Phase. By F. 0. MATTHIESSEN.New...

..., a truly persuasive book. One awaits the next round with interest. EVELYNBIRGE VITZ New York University James Boswell: The Earlier Years, 1740-1769. By FREDERICKA. POTTLE.New York, Toronto, London: McGraw-Hill, 1985 (1966). xviii + 606 pp...

...Joseph Rossi Copyright © 1943 by Duke University Press 1943 THE ITALLAN POEMS OF THOMAS JAMES MATHIAS By JOSEPH ROSS Those who have recently studied Mathias’ Italian works have been concerned either with his Italian translations...

...Heather Fielding Henry James often criticizes mass culture for having instrumentalized the novel by conditioning readers to reduce the text to its ending. Yet he also suggests that popular visual technologies—cinema and its predecessor, the magic lantern—are uniquely able to compensate for mass...

...: Walter Pater, Gerard Manley Hop- Kim, Marcel Proust, Henry James. By ELLENEVE FRANK. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1979. xv + 31 1 pp. $18.00. For two reasons, Ellen Frank’s book is an important contribution to studies in English of the sister arts. First...

...Constance Jordan Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 The Household and the State: Transformations in the Representation of an Analogy from Aristotle to James I Constance Jordan 0f the many forms of analogy that characterized the culture of early...

... to posit within ourselves: a sacred space” (87).One might also pursue what is at stake in the poststructuralist repudiation of identity. Despite Lacan and Althusser, most people at most times do feel that they have a “self of selves,”as William James contended, even if it is true that they have...

...: Masculine Thresholds in Schubert, James, and Freud Lawrence Kramer evenant: a specter, a ghost, a phantom, one who haunts, who R returns, who walks again. From the French rmenir: to come again, return, reappear, haunt, rebegin, recover, regain consciousness, but also to fetch...

...Angela Sorby Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 Performing Class: James Whitcomb Riley’s Poetry of Distinction Angela Sorby In 1889 the poet James Whitcomb Riley and the prose humorist Bill Nye appeared at Boston’s Tremont Temple in a show sponsored...

...Beth Blum This essay uses “self-help” guides to James Joyce as an occasion to illuminate the buried history of modernism’s engagement with popular morality. It suggests that the birth of Joyce’s aesthetic—and, by extension, of modernism more broadly—is attributable to early twentieth-century...

... difficult and expensive to publish monographs, the McGill-Queen’s University Press is hardly to be congratulated for publishing this work in its present form. WALTERE. REX University of Calfol-nia,Berkeley Henry James and ihe...

...CARL S. SMITH Copyright © 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 ∗ Several colleagues and friends were very helpful in the preparation of this essay, particularly Professor Charles Feidelson, Christopher Herbert, and Jane S. Smith. JAMES’S TRAVELS, TRAVEL WRITINGS...

... and Culler have to of- fer. W. DAVIDSHAW University of Toronto Caught in the Web of Words: James A. H. Murray and the “Oxford English Dictionary.” By K. M. ELISABETHMURRAY. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1977...

...William Riley Parker Copyright © 1942 by Duke University Press 1942 MILTON ON KING JAMES THE SECOND By WILLIAMRILEY PARKER In the first published life of Milton, Anthony h Wood included a bibliography of Milton’s printed works, the thirty-fourth...

... track. ROBERTE. HELBLING Uniuersity of Utah The Concept of Ambiguity-the Example of James. By SHLmiI-rH KihihioN. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1977. xiii + 257 pp. $19.00. Shlomith Rimmon is hardly the first...

...Susan M. Griffin Copyright © 1984 by Duke University Press 1984 SEEING DOUBLES REFLECTIONS OF THE SELF IN JAMES’S SENSE OF THE PAST By SUSANM. GKIFFIN The Sense ofthe Past has traditionally...

... the heroes blush, “the very antithesis”-or contrary-“of ironic detachment” (p. 186). And innocence, it might be said, is a moral state, and love a moral act, even in the open universe. JAMES ENGELL Haruard University Henry James and the Problem...

...Heath Moon Copyright © 1988 by Duke University Press 1988 SAVING JAMES FROM MODERNISM HOW TO READ THE SACRED FOUNT By HEATHMOON The subject for decades of the most painstaking analysis, The Sacred Fount, one would expect...

... with an interest in the general contentions-and be left to wonder what is at issue. ANNE. HERTHOFF U n ivei-sit y ojMassa ch usel IS, nos t on The Unfolding $“The Seasons”: A Sttrdy cf James Thomson’s Poem. By KALPHCOHEN. Baltimore...