...Jed Esty Without prejudice concerning what qualifies as literature,” Marshall Brown ( 1992 : 18) writes, literary history “reminds us that the life after texts is, finally, the life within them.” Apt and brief, Marshall neither minces nor wastes words. For years his clarity set the tone...

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...Matthew Eatough Reference Berman Jessica . 2011 . Modernist Commitments: Ethics, Politics, and Transnational Modernism . New York : Columbia University Press . Lefebvre Henri . 2005 . The Critique of Everyday Life , translated by Eliot Gregory . New York : Verso...

... place among the moulders of modern demo- cratic thought.” Professor Priestley’s own work should do much to set him there. ELIZABETHNITCHIE Goucher College The Life of Edward FitzGeraZd. By ALFREDMCKINLEY TERHUNE. New Haven : Yale...

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... Companion to African American Women's Literature (2009) and The Cambridge History of African American Literature (2010). Owning Up: Privacy, Property, and Belonging in U.S. Women's Life Writing . By Adams Katherine . New York : Oxford University Press , 2009 . vi + 264 pp. © 2011...

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... Library: Medieval Books in Early Modern England . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . The Long Public Life of a Short Private Poem: Reading and Remembering Thomas Wyatt . By Peter Murphy . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2019 . xvi + 246 pp. Copyright © 2020...

...William Galperin whg1@english.rutgers.edu The Calamity Form: On Poetry and Social Life . By Anahid Nersessian . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2020 . 213 pp. Copyright © 2021 by University of Washington 2021 Anahid Nersessian begins a discussion...

... be more Hamilton Review 117 “realistic” if its resolution laid bare a causal chain ignores the reality that life is a patchwork of fictions and illusions. For Molesworth, Tristram Shandy represents an even more explicit Humean fiction...

...Angela Sorby Heart Beats: Everyday Life and the Memorized Poem. By Catherine Robson. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2012. xv + 295 pp. Catherine Robson’s Heart Beats uses specific poems (Felicia Hemans’s “Casa- bianca,” Thomas Gray’s “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard,” Charles...

...Catherine Gimelli Martin Arbitrary Rule: Slavery, Tyranny, and the Power of Life and Death . By Nyquist Mary . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2013 . xiii + 421 pp. Copyright © 2015 by University of Washington 2015 Arbitrary Rule offers a rich, intricately detailed...

...: Scepticism, Faith, and the Politics of Cognition ; and of essays that have appeared or will appear in venues such as Criticism, ELH, Exemplaria , and the Shakespeare Quarterly . Thinking with Shakespeare: Essays on Politics and Life . By Lupton Julia Reinhard . Chicago : University...

...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...

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...Roland M. Smith Alexander C. Judson. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1945. The Works of Edmund Spenser: A Variorum Edition. Pp. xii + 238. $4.50. Copyright © 1945 by Duke University Press 1947 122 Reviews The Life of Edmund Spenser. By ALEXANDERC. JUDSON...

... for adding one more study to the growing list of works on realism, as well as for his straightforward presentation, which is handled with lucidity and skill. ALPHOKSER. FAVREAU Unirlersity of Michigan The Life and Noziels of Lkon Gozlan...

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