...Christopher Hill Text and the City: Essays on Japanese Modernity. By Maeda Ai. Edited by James A. Fujii. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004. xv + 391 pp.; Transformations of Sensibility: The Phenomenology of Meiji Literature By Kamei Hideo. Edited by Michael Bourdaghs. Ann Arbor: Center for...

... Ethics of Identity. © 2005 University of Washington 2005 Gender and National Literature: Heian Texts in the Constructions of Japanese Modernity . By Tomiko Yoda. Durham, NC: Duke University Press,2004. xvi + 277 pp. Reviews Eine Literaturgeschichte Mitteleuropas. By Zoran...

... Modernity Monika Kaup n Latin America and the Caribbean, modernity is haunted by the Ireturn of its antithetical, premodern other: the baroque. Brazil- ian modernism, to name one dramatic example, is closely linked to the recuperation of Brazil’s historical baroque: the modern Brazilian...

... in Henry V” and “Law/Form/History: Shakespeare's Verdict in All Is True” appeared in the September 2000 and March 2002 issues of MLQ. University of Washington 2007 Delirious Milton: The Fate of the Poet in Modernity . By Gordon Teskey. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006. vi...

...Chengzhou He Because the theories of Chinese modernity are mainly organized around a masculine norm and pay insufficient attention to the specificity of women's lives and experiences, it is of great significance to carry out research on women's complex and changing relationships to the political...

...Juliet Shields Freedom's Empire: Race and the Rise of the Novel in Atlantic Modernity, 1640 – 1940 . By Laura Doyle. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008. xii + 578 pp. University of Washington 2009 Juliet Shields is assistant professor of English at the University of Washington...

...Richard Block Museums of the Mind: German Modernity and the Dynamics of Collecting . By Peter M. McIsaac. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2007. xiii + 322 pp. University of Washington 2009 Richard Block is associate professor of Germanics at the University of...

...Geoffrey Turnovsky Modesty and other “antiauthorial” conventions (anonymity, self-effacing prefaces, refusal to profit) tend to be viewed as retrograde concessions to the outdated norms of an antiquated cultural field, which a more modern, assertive, and critical authorial figure will learn to...

... Michelangelo. The remaining chapters jump to Balzac, to a series of meditations on the modern artist, and nally to Picasso. From A to Z, Adam ( – ) and Zeuxis – make cameo appearances. Shake- speare gets two glances Among the missing are Horace, Sidney, Spenser, Velázquez, Lessing, Berenson...

... culture, A New Literary History of America  is resolutely postmodern in eschewing any such argument or thesis, though it unfortunately gestures toward clichéd ideas, such as “the Modern Language Quarterly 72:4 (December 2011) © 2011 by University of Washington 538...

... popular print culture and the novel. Her current project focuses on the gendered cosmopolitanism of a network of late eighteenth-century and early nineteenth-century European women writers. The Literary Market: Authorship and Modernity in the Old Regime . By Turnovsky Geoffrey...

...: Constituting American Modernity . By Mallios Peter Lancelot . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2010 . xiv + 468 pp . © 2013 by University of Washington 2013 Reviews The Swerve: How the World Became Modern. By Stephen Greenblatt. New York: Norton, 2011. 356 pp. The...

... outside the Nation (2001), and Tales of Crossed Destinies: The Modern Turkish Novel in a Comparative Context (2008). She has published widely on German idealism, Romantic theory and literary modernity, multilingual literatures of the United States and Germany, and exile and translation studies. She is...

..., WilliamJames, and the Challenge of Modernity. By Ross POSNOCK.New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. 358 pp. $45.00 cloth, $19.95 paper. It is a fashionable view that literature is always “complicit”(the code word) with power, that it cannot contest, but must always, even in its...

...Carlos J. Alonso © 1996 University of Washington 1996 The Burden of Modernity Carlos J. Alonso During the last few years I have examined the rhetoric of cultural discourse in Spanish America in the context of the region’s con- flicted relationship with the ideology and...

... progress includes a study of culture and national identity in modern British fiction. Killing Stevie: Modernity, Modernism, and Mastery in Conrad and Hitchcock Mark A. Wollaeger I have not intended to commit a gratuitous outrage on the feelings of mankind.-Joseph...

...Eric Rothstein © 2000 University of Washington 2000 MLQ 61.2-03Rothstein.ak 5/26/00 3:51 PM Page 359 Broaching a Cultural Logic of Modernity Eric Rothstein rand narratives” are now out and “local knowledge,” in. All to the Ggood...

...Blakey Vermeule Fables of Modernity: Literature and Culture in the English Eighteenth Century . By Laura Brown. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2001. xii + 273 pp. © 2003 University of Washington 2003 Reviews Staging Domesticity: Household Work and English Identity in Early...

...Jackson I. Cope Copyright © 1970 by Duke University Press 1970 1 Robert Adolph. The Rise of Modern Prose Style . Cambridge, Mass., and London: M.I.T. Press, 1968. x + 372 pp. $12.50. MODES OF MODERNITY IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY PROSE...

... Polemics of Modernity. By ERICAHARTH. New York and London: Columbia University Press, 1970. vi + 288 pp. $10.00. In this wide-ranging and often stimulating book Erica Harth draws atten- tion to the serious content she finds in Cyrano’s work, his vigor and audacity, 434...