...Frederick M. Padelford By Herbert David Rix. The Pennsylvania State College Studies, No. 7, State College, Pennsylvania, 1940. Pp. 88. Copyright © 1941 by Duke University Press 1941 REVIEWS Renaissance Literary Theory and Practice. Classicism in the Rheto...

... author of James Joyce's“Ulysses”: A Book of Many Happy Returns (1982), Cross-Examinations of Law and Literature: Cooper, Hawthorne, Stowe, and Melville (1987), The New Historicism and Other Old-Fashioned Topics (1991), and American Literary Realism and the Failed Promise of Contract (1997) . He has also...

..., of the first volume of the new Oxford English Literary History (forthcoming). Periodization and Politics: The Case of the Missing Twelfth Century in English Literary History Linda Georgianna or several years I have been at work on a narrative literary history F of medieval...

...Richard Helgerson © 2003 University of Washington 2003 Richard Helgerson is professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is author of The Elizabethan Prodigals(1976), Self-Crowned Laureates: Spenser, Jonson, Milton, and the Literary System (1983), Forms of...

... (2002) ; and German Literature,Jewish Critics: The Brandeis Symposium , edited by Stephen D. Dowden and Meike G. Werner (2002). Trostgründe: Cultural Nationalism and Historical Legitimation in Nineteenth-Century German Literary Histories Hinrich C. Seeba n Germany, where chauvinist...

...Margit Sichert © 2003 University of Washington 2003 Margit Sichert is a member of a research team at Justus Liebig University in Gießen, Germany, that investigates the construction of the canon of “English literature” through the writing of literary histories. Her main areas of research...

... and New Zealand film, culture, and literature. The Same People Living in Different Places: Allen Curnow’s Anthology and New Zealand Literary History Hugh Roberts ew Zealand has produced few literary histories, and only one of N those, E. H. McCormick’s 1940 Letters and Art in...

... National Identity in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century England (2001) and Literary History/Cultural History: Force-Fields and Tensions (2001) . His main areas of research are seventeenth-century English literature, modern American literature, and literary theory. Cultivating a Common Literary...

...William Flesch Invisible Forms: A Guide to Literary Curiosities . By Kevin Jackson. New York: Dunne, 2000. xxii + 310 pp. © 2003 University of Washington 2003 Reviews Ideographia: The Chinese Cipher in Early Modern Europe. By David Porter. Stan- ford, Calif.: Stanford University...

...Trevor Ross Poetry and the Making of the English Literary Past, 1660 - 1781 . By Richard Terry. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. vii + 354 pp. © 2003 University of Washington 2003 Reviews Staging Domesticity: Household Work and English Identity in Early Modern Drama. By Wendy...

... Pittsburgh. She is author of Reading for Realism: The History of a U.S. Literary Institution, 1850-1910 (1997) and recent essays about literary culture, print culture, and civil society. Her book Literature in the Making: A History of U.S. Literary Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century is forthcoming...

... account of the evolution of English studies. This essay builds and tests the theory that literary societies were agents for disseminating not only literature but scholarly practice, spreading productive debate about curricula, relevance, and the public benefit of literature over the English-speaking world...

... terms, the relation of Fielding’s humor to his moral bent, to literary factionalism, and to politics. The collection of essays as a whole is well rounded and integrated about the central figure of Pope. The later essays on Swift and Fielding carry the mind back to Mr. Sherburn’s remarks about...

...Philip A. Wadsworth Copyright © 1946 by Duke University Press 1946 A FORMULA OF LITERARY CRITICISM, FROM ARISTOTLE TO LA BRUYBRE By PHILIPA. WADSWORTH In recent years La BruyCre has received singularly little attention from scholars...

...Robert T. Tally, Jr. Graphs, Maps, Trees: Abstract Models for a Literary History . By Franco Moretti. London: Verso, 2005. 119 pp. University of Washington 2007 Robert T. Tally Jr. is lecturer in English at Texas State University. He is working on a book tentatively titled...

... brief essays on Bembo and Sanazzaro, and a useful page of Bibliography. HOWARD LEE NOSTRAND University of Washington Studies on the Literary Salon in France, 1550-1615. By L. CLARK KEATINC. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1941. Pp...

...Vernon Hall, Jr. © 1943 University of Washington 1943 DECORUM IN ITALIAN RENAISSANCE LITERARY CRITICISM By VERNONHALL, JR. In the Renaissance, the writers of literary criticism did not attempt to separate their social...

...Michael Murrin L. MONTGOMERY ROBERT. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1979. vii + 235 pp. $14.00. Copyright © 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 REVIEWS The Reader’s Eye: Studies in Didactic Literary Theory from Dante to...

...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...