...Jed Esty [email protected] Copyright © 2021 by University of Washington 2021 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...

... Merchant” is a conventional little romantic comedy. Its message is clear, and its signals for generically appropriate response are writ large in every speech. For George and Nell, however, drama is as fresh’and real as life; and, partly because the play’s story and characters are close to their own...

... but disappeared. And if we listen historically to the voices around us, we can detect in them unmistakable echoes of an earlier day” (p. 323). DAVIDC. FOWLER University of Washington Life of David Hume. By ERNESTCAMPBELL MOSSNER. Austin...

...Jeffrey Todd Knight 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 by University of Washington 2020 This fascinating, hopeful book...

... are already dead (like Keats’s Titans) but also that there is a form of death-in-life that, as Nersessian puts it, might ultimately “be perished out of” (127). Nersessian’s is not necessarily an interpretation of Cowper, or even of a specific form, in this case parataxis. It is more the takeaway...

...Matthew Rowlinson [email protected] The Novel and the Problem of New Life . By Aaron Matz . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2021 . xvii + 245 pp. Copyright © 2023 by University of Washington 2023 The stakes of Aaron Matz’s learned and engaging book on late...

...Francesca T. Royster [email protected] Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature . By Farah Jasmine Griffin . New York : Norton , 2021 . xii + 257 pp. Copyright © 2023 by University of Washington 2023 Farah Jasmine Griffin’s literary...

... not have been better said. Breaking and Remaking stumbles at the beginning but finishes with a flourish. It is an aggravating and provocative book. LANCEBERTELSEN Uniuersity of Texas at Austin Theatre Semiotics: Signs of Life...

...C. Stephen Jaeger Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 .HUMANISM AND PUBLIC LIFE INTRODUCTION By C. STEPHENJAECER The style of political life is its ethics made visible. Political ethics are not natural...

... point. In Norman Bryson’s recent interpretation of still life, Halter notes, the universality granted to the object threatens the particularity of the viewing subject, hence threatening to remove one of the partners required for the relation of empathy. Against such a threat, chapter 3...

...Noel Jackson Experimental Life: Vitalism in Romantic Science and Literature . By Mitchell Robert . Baltimore, MD : Johns Hopkins University Press , 2013 . viii + 309 pp. Copyright © 2016 by University of Washington 2016 Romanticism’s interest in the forms of scientific...

...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...

... and skill. ALPHOKSER. FAVREAU Unirlersity of Michigan The Life and Noziels of Lkon Gozlan: A Rcprcsentative of Literary Cross Cwrents in tlze Generation of Balzac. By MARTHAKATH- ERIKE LODER.Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania, 1943...

... study of the “Stern des Bundes,” and for which we are really grateful. AUGUSTCLOSS University of Bristol The Private Life of the Master Race: A Documentary Play. By BERTOLTBRECHT. English version and an essay on Brecht by ERICRUSSELL...

...Frederick King Turgeon Bruce Archer Morrissette. Saint Louis: Washington University Studies, New Series, Language and Literature, No. 17, 1947. Pp. xi + 210. $3.00. Copyright © 1948 by Duke University Press 1948 Frederick King Turgeoir 125 The Life...

...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...

... 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...

... as a whole can excite nothing but admira- tion for the author’s command of fact, perception of significance, and clarity of presentation. EDWARDWILLIAMSON Columbia University 23e Life of Surmienfo. By ALLISONWILLIAMS BUNKLEY...

.... HEREWARDT. PRICE Univfrsity of Michigan Henry Vaughan: A Life and Interpretation. By F. E. HUTCHINSON.Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1947. Pp. viii 4- 260. $5.50. Most of the material for this book was collected over the past half-century by Miss Gwenllian Morgan and Miss Louise...