...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...

...Nicholas Halmi The Story of Joy: From the Bible to Late Romanticism . By Adam Potkay. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xiii + 304 pp. University of Washington 2010 Reviews Music, Madness, and the Unworking of Language. By John T. Hamilton. New York: Columbia University...

... . Child-Killers and the Competition between Late Victorian Theater and the Novel Renata Kobetts Miller he doldrums in which British drama stalled during the Victorian Tperiod have consigned it to a marginal position in literary study. But by neglecting the theater, about which...

...Linda Woodbridge Back to Nature: The Green and the Real in the Late Renaissance . By Robert N. Watson. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. viii + 436 pp. © 2008 by University of Washington 2008 Linda Woodbridge is Weiss Chair in the Humanities and professor...

...Hugh W. Hetherington Copyright © 1955 by Duke University Press 1955 A TRIBUTE TO THE LATE HIRAM MELVILLE By HUGHW. HETHERINGTON In the New York Times for October 6, 1891, “The Late Hiram Melville” was the heading of a column which contained a letter en...

... of everyday affairs. The study would be much more useful if indexed. WILLARDHALLAM BONNER University of Bufalo A Comparison Between the Two Stages. A Late Restoration Book of the Theatre. Edited with an Introduction and notes, by STARING B...

... for failing to read with the necessary “imaginative Sympathy” [p. 1391) to late twentiethcentury readers, who occupy historically different positions? Hein- richs’s material could give rise to these and other considerations of how, why, and within what limits we reconstruct conventions in order to read...

...Rita Copeland Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 LYDGATE, WWES, AND THE SCIENCE OF RHETORIC IN THE LATE MIDDLE AGES Bp RITA COPELAND In literary histories and critical studies of the English fifteenth cen- tury it has...

...José E. Limón © 1996 University of Washington 1996 Mexicans, Foundational Fictions, and the United States: Caballero, a Late Border Romance Jose E. Lim6n n the nineteenth century the romance novel became a socially sig- Inificant literary presence in Latin America...

.... He is completing a book on the cultural history and poetics of anonymity during the period 1695-1835. MLQ 62.4 05 Griffin 10/24/01 5:52 PM Page 377 The Age of “The Age of” Is Over: Johnson and New Versions of the Late Eighteenth Century Robert J. Griffin...

...Jessica Burstein Late Modernism: Politics, Fiction, and the Arts between the World Wars . By Tyrus Miller. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. xii + 263 pp. © 2001 University of Washington 2001 MLQ 62.4 09 Reviews 10/24/01 5:54 PM Page 453 Reviews...

...John J. Parry Laura Keeler. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Publications in English, Volume 17, Number 1, 1946. Pp. viii + 152. $1.75. Copyright © 1948 by Duke University Press 1948 REVIEWS Geoflrey of Moamouth and the Late Latin...

...Matthew Eatough The Extinct Scene: Late Modernism and Everyday Life . By Davis Thomas S. . New York : Columbia University Press , 2016 . 328 pp. Copyright © 2017 by University of Washington 2017 If there is one truism that has dominated the study of late modernism...

... of Eriglisli Duiru~i in the Late Severiteentli Ceriiio‘y. By ROBERTD. HUME.Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976. xv + 525 pp. $37.50. Because Robert Hume has given us an often excellent chronicle of changes in English popular dramatic entertainment from 1660 to 1710, I wish he had hit on a more...

...Walter R. Davis Copyright © 1966 by Duke University Press 1966 THE IMAGERY OF BACON’S LATE WORK By WALTERR. DAVIS In a recent article suggesting, among other things, that Bacon’s program for the advancement of learning might have...

....” WALTERR. DAVIS University of Notre Dame Ben Jonson’s “Dotages”: A Reconsideration of the Late Plays. By LARRY S. CHAMPION.Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1967. 156 pp. $6.50. In this useful, short book Larry Champion asserts that Jonson’s late plays are not different...

... CHARACTER IN DICKENS’ LATE NOVELS By THOMASKELLY In recent years the treatment of character in the novels of Charles Dickens has undergone a marked reassessment. The critical obiter dicta of George Eliot, Henry James, and E. M. Forster, which imputed vari...

...John Th. Honti Copyright © 1940 by Duke University Press 1940 LATE VINLAND TRADITION (THE THORBJORN NARRATIVE) By JOHN TH. HONTI I There is one written source of Vinland tradition’ which...

.... Ttiese passages finely conclude what is, despite its inequalities, a t.ery useful and reliable volume. PAULH. KOCHEK University of Washington The Epistolary Norel in the Late Eighteenth Century, a DescrLp- tizfc adBibliographicaf Study...

...Robert P. Adams TRANSFORMATIONS IN THE LATE ELIZABETHAN TRAGIC SENSE OF LIFE NEW CRITICAL APPROACHES By ROBERTP. ADAMS My aim in this essay is to make as clear as possible both the nature...