...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...

... 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...

... climactic chapter to his absorbing book. RICHARDD. ALTICK Ohio State University Play, Games, and Sport: The Literary Works of Lewis Carroll. By KATHLEEN BLAKE.Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1974. 216 pp. $8.75. With the...

...Jenijoy La Belle Copyright © 1976 by Duke University Press 1976 THEODORE ROETHKE’S “THE LOST SON” FROM ARCHETYPES TO LITERARY HISTORY By JENIJOY LA BELLE Sooner or later in almost every lengthy study of Theodore...

... ESSAYS IN RENAISSANCE LITERARY HISTORY' By MICHAELMURRIN In their recent books John Steadman and Rosalie Colie have both tried to write a limited kind of literary history, the type that stresses criticism in the period. Neither succeeds, a...

...James Gindin Copyright © 1976 by Duke University Press 1976 TOWARD LITERARY BIOGRAPHY’ By JAMES GINDIN Within just the last decade, a proliferation of thoughtful and sensi- tive books concerning Hardy has considerably deepened the level of...

... and the Literary Imagination. By LAWRENCEL. LANCER. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1975. xiii i-300 pp. $12.50. The fundamental assumption of The Holocaust and the Literary Imagina- tion is that the destruction of the European Jews was an unprecedented act, unique in...

... “tri- umph of goodness” that is “real but muted” (p. 269). If the book is divided into literary history on the one hand and literary criticism on the other, it is more seriously divided by what appears to be a central inconsistency. One of its theses is that Pope’s career, pace Brower, is...

...Margaret M. Starkey Copyright © 1952 by Duke University Press 1952 THE HISTORY OF IDEAS AND LITERARY STUDIES By MARGARETM. STARKEY The student of literature who attempts to adapt the history-of-ideas method to purposes of literary research feels a little...

...Donald Cornu Edmund Burke and His Literary Friends . By Donald Cross Bryant. St. Louis: Washington University Studies (New Series, Language and Literature, No. 9), 1939. Pp. 323. $2.75 Copyright 1940 by University of Washington Press 1940 Elizabeth Artis Watts...

...Allen R. Benham Wesley Whiting George. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1939. Pp. xii+401. $3.50. Copyright © 1940 by Duke University Press 1940 558 Reviews Milton’s Literary fIlilieUy GEORGEWESLEY W~I~TIKG. Chapel Hill: The...

...Joycelyn Moody Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies . By Elizabeth McHenry. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002. xiv + 423 pp. © 2005 University of Washington 2005 Joycelyn Moody is associate professor of English at Saint Louis...

...Megan M. Ferry © 2005 University of Washington 2005 Megan M. Ferry is Luce Junior Professor of East Asian Studies and assistant professor of Chinese at Union College. She is currently revising a manuscript on early-twentieth-century Chinese women writers. Women’s Literary History...

...Scott Saul Signs and Cities: Black Literary Postmodernism . By Madhu Dubey. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. ix + 284 pp. © 2005 University of Washington 2005 Scott Saul is assistant professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. His book Freedom Is...

... British Empire. A forthcoming book compares the East and West German cinemas. Her current book project is a comparative study of European modernism. The Arabian Nights, Arab-European Literary Influence, and the Lineages of the Novel Rebecca Carol Johnson, Richard Maxwell, and Katie Trumpener...

...David Randall In Habermasian theory, the bourgeois public sphere was preceded by a literary public sphere whose favored genres revealed the interiority of the self and emphasized an audience-oriented subjectivity. This essay argues that the association of this early modern literary discourse with...

...Sun Yifeng Translation has played a critical role in forming the modern Chinese literary canon and continues to stimulate its change and expansion. It is instrumental to the exchange and synthesis of foreign narrative modes and aesthetic paradigms. There are obvious political, cultural, and...

...Patricia Meyer Spacks A Literary History of Women's Writing in Britain, 1660–1789 . By Susan Staves. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xi + 536 pp. © 2008 by University of Washington 2008 Patricia Meyer Spacks, Edgar F. Shannon Professor Emerita at the University of...

...David Simpson Upward Mobility and the Common Good: Toward a Literary History of the Welfare State . By Bruce Robbins. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007. xviii + 304 pp. © 2008 by University of Washington 2008 David Simpson is G. B. Needham Distinguished Professor of...