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...Eric Hayot Abstract The various pronouncements of the nation’s dissolution seem to have been premature. Literary history is still very much within the nation, especially if one considers the realm of the middle- and lowbrow, or indeed the vast swaths of genre fiction. What has changed in literary...

...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...

...Joseph Slater Copyright © 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 A LITERARY LIFE OF JOHN BRAHAM By JOSEPH SLATER On May 11, 1533, on the front page of The National Standard, a sober twopenny weekly devoted to Literature, Science, Music, The- atricals...

... a little more widely upon the contemporary Continental discussions parallel to Ashley’s. JOHN LEONLIEVSAY University of Tennessee Studies in the Literary Backgrounds of English Radicalism. By M. RAYADAMS. Lancaster, Pa.: Franklin...

... Fair Rosamond: A Study of the Development of a Literary Theme. By VIRGIL B. HELTZEL. Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Studies in the Humanities, No. 16, 1947. Pp. viii 4- 135. $3.00. Of England‘s royal mistresses, few have attained such literary fame, quanti- tatively...

....” -Ezra Pound’ DETERMINING FRONTIERS T. S. ELIOT’S FRAMING OF THE LI7ERARY ESSAYS OF EZRA POUND BJ MICHAEL COYLE Few examples of literary collaboration have been so celebrated as that of Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot...

... of Literary Work. By JE- ROME J. MCGAIVN.Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 1988. xii + 279 pp. $27.50. Jerome McGann’s new apology for poetry is one of the most characteristic books of the critical moment. It registers institutional pressures that are widely felt, and its...

... (p. 85), enghosts (p. 186), or ambiguating (p. 221). Superlatives are very freely dispensed, as upon that love story by Cervantes. Certain corners of literary history are occasionally cut. Marlowe did not invent the Mephistophelean dialogues in DoctorFaustus, they came from his German source...

...Julia Boffey Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 LYDGATE, HENRYSON, AND THE LITERARY TESTAMENT By JULIA BOFFEY Literary experiment with the matter and form of the legal testament held a particular...

...Mark Edmundson Geoffrey H. Hartman. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1991. 252 pp. $29.95. Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 REVIEWS Minor Prophecies: The Literary Essay in the Culture Wars. By GEOFFREY H. HART- UAN...

...David Perkins Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 Some Prospects for Literary History David Perkins here are approximately sixteen thousand professors of English in Tthe United States. Their deans, chairs, colleagues, conscience, and vanity, their needs...

...Virgil Nemoianu Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 Literary History: Some Roads Not vet) Taken Virgil Nemoianu It is more frightening than amusing to observe the relentless schol- arly stampede once a theoretical paradigm has been erected, along with the blind...

...Anne Mack; J. J. Rome; Georg Mannejc Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 Literary History, Romanticism, and Felicia Mernans Anne Mack, J. J. Rome, and Georg Mannejc AM. How agreeably “historical” we’ve all become in thinking about literature. But have we...

...Vincent P. Pecora The Sorcerer’s Apprentices: Romance, Anthropology, and Literary Theory Vincent P. Pecora This small mystical elite not only directs the community’s religious life but, as it were, guards its “soul.” The shaman is the great specialist in the human...

...Bill Readings Guillory John. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993. 392 pp. $36.00. Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 Reviews Cultural Capital: The Problem of Literary Canon Formation. By John Guillory. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993. 392 pp...

... to 1810, called Novel Relation . De-Familiarizing the Family; or, Writing Family History from Literary Sources Ruth Perry In some tragedies and romances we meet with many beautiful and interesting scenes, founded upon what is called the force of blood, or upon the wonder...

...Jonathan Brody Kramnick Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 Jonathan Brody Kramnick is a doctoral candidate in the English department at Johns Hopkins University. This essay is from his dissertation, “The Emergence of Literary History: Social Change and the Politics...

..., and English at Brown University. Coauthor (with Nancy Armstrong) of The Imaginary Puritan: Literature, Intellectual Labor, and the Origins of Personal Life (1992), he is working on a book about American sentimentalism. American Literary History in the Age of Critical Theory and Multiculturalism...

..., 1993. viii + 205 pp. $32.95. Imagining a “re-visioning of women’s literary history,” Margaret Ezcll becomes passionate and, herself, visionary: “If we will only ask the qwstions, instead of silence, there are a thousand voices that may answer” ( 160).What are those voices, and to whom do...

... Blanchot. Along the Fatal Narrative Turn (Toward an Anarchic Theory of Literary History) Gerald L. Bruns Late in September 1958, in a hotel in Stockholm, I set about writing this lec- ture for delivery a week later at the Brussels Fair. I recalled a remark made...