...Louis B. Wright Jean Robertson, London: University of Liverpool Press, 1942. Pp. 80. 7/6. Copyright © 1944 by Duke University Press 1944 240 Reviews The Art of Letter Writing: An Essay on the Handbooks Publislwd in England dztring the Sixteenth...

...- mary of Renaissance achievement, comparable in tone with Gar- gantua’s letter to his son though far more comprehensive. We see also at first hand the gropings of a Renaissance mind, still held back in part by a strange mixture of astrology, Christianity, and Pla- tonism, yet slowly...

...Christopher W. Sten Copyright © 1974 by Duke University Press 1974 BARTLEBY THE TRANSCENDENTALIST MELVILLE’S DEAD LETTER TO EMERSON By CHRISTOPHERW. STEN In his essay “The Transcendentalist” (1843), Emerson remarked that he...

...Carl R. Woodring Copyright © 1956 by Duke University Press 1956 THE AIMS, AUDIENCE, AND STRUCTURE OF THE DRAPIER’S FOURTH LETTER By CARLR. WOODRING Many an undergraduate has noticed for himself that the famous satires of Dean Swift lack...

...Richmond P. Bond Copyright © 1957 by Duke University Press 1957 A LETTER TO STEELE ON THE SPECTATOR By RICHMONDP. BOND Joseph Collet, after suffering bankruptcy, gained appointment as deputy governor of York Fort...

...Edward Rosen Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 THE AUTHENTICITY OF GALILEO’S LETTER TO LANDUCCI By EDWARDROSEN Galileo described his contribution to the development of the tele- scope in three of his writings...

...George L. Barnett Copyright © 1952 by Duke University Press 1952 CHARLES LAMB TO JOHN BRITTON AN UNPUBLISHED LETTER By GEORGEL. BARNETT In 1937 John H. Birss pointed out the existence of an unpublished letter from Lamb to John...

... and that of the Additions. A letter by Voltaire on Diderot’s philosophic opuscule, Diderot’s reply (both texts are pub- lished here, though not for the first time, from the original manuscripts), notes, a bibliography, and the list of variants complete the edition. Professor Niklaus has listed all...

...Lewis M. Knapp. Lillian de la Torre. Copyright © 1953 by Duke University Press 1953 228 Reviews indispensable source for all future research on Voltaire and the eighteenth century. Mr. Gagnebin’s edition of Voltaire’s unedited letters brings to light...

...Stuart Atkins Copyright © 1958 by Duke University Press 1959 HEINE’S LETTER TO BOCAGE, SEPTEMBER 11, 1855 By STUARTATKINS In the Carl M. Loeb Heine Collection of the Harvard College Library there is a letter...

.... Sacvan Bercovitch’s The Of+jceof “The Scarlet Letter” forms a chief exhibit of the paradoxical recentralization of Hawthorne produced by this shifting of the critical ground. A brilliant and passionate exploration of the mechanisms of liberal ideology (the book’s real subject) and a richly...

...; $1 1.95, paper. Bruce Redford’s introduction suggests that he will provide a more solid critical methodology for the study of letters than has been available up to now. He rejects as oversimple Barbara Herrnstein Smith’s characterization of letters as “natural” rather than “fictive...

... and boundaries, Hawthorne twists the genres together again, as do John Keats and Robert Browning. Snakes in The Marble Faun , vines in The Blithedale Romance , and the A in The Scarlet Letter are tangled figures that at once image both the relationship between the genres and the newly powerful nature...

...Michael North Commonwealth of Letters: British Literary Culture and the Emergence of Postcolonial Aesthetics . By Kalliney Peter J. . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2013 . 336 pp. Copyright © 2017 by University of Washington 2017 In the case of Peter J. Kalliney’s...

...Howard S. Jordan Copyright © 1944 by Duke University Press 1944 THE DATE OF ONE OF SAINT-EVREMOND’S LETTERS TO LIONNE By HOWARDS. JORDAN One of Saint-Evremond’s letters to the Comte Joachim de Lionne has never been...

...John L. Lievsay Thomas C. Izard. New York: Columbia University Studies in English and Comparative Literature, No. 158, 1942. Pp. viii + 297. $3.75. Copyright © 1944 by Duke University Press 1944 REVIEWS George Whetstone: Mid-Elizabethan Gentleman of Letters...

...Theodore G. Ehrsam Copyright © 1946 by Duke University Press 1946 MARY SHELLEY IN HER LETTERS By THEODOREG. EHRSAM Shelley’s letters have for years been a rich source for biography, but it was not until the production of the Julian Edition...

... of Mary Wolstonecraft (New York: St. Martin's, 1992); and Jane Moore, “Plagiarism with a Difference: Subjectivity in ‘Kubla Khan’ and Letters Written during a Short Residence in Norway, Denmark, and Sweden ,” in Beyond Romanticism: New Approaches to Texts and Contexts, 1780–1832 , ed. Stephen Copley...

... information comes to hand Mr. Newman Ivey White’s pains- taking biography of Shelley may stand. It is, of course, not definitive. No biography can be. It is, however, an anvil upon which many hammers can be broken. WALDOH. DUNN Scripps College Letters...

...George Leonard Barnett Copyright © 1948 by Duke University Press 1948 A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE LUCAS EDITION OF LAMB’S LETTERS By GEORGELEONARD BARNETT When the Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, edited by E. V. Lucas, appeared in 1935...