...-Century Word (2005). University of Washington 2006 The Modern Movement. By Chris Baldick . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. 550 pp. Reviews Dido’s Daughters: Literacy, Gender, and Empire in Early Modern England and France. By Margaret W. Ferguson. Chicago: University...

... of the excellent bibliography. DONALDSTONE, JR. Haruard University English Verse: Voice and Movement from Wyatt to Yeats. By T. R. BARNES. Cambridge: At the University Press, 1967. ix + 324 pp. $6.50. In his introduction T. R. Barnes announces...

.... J. A. SCOTT University of California,Berkeley 7he Humanitarian Movement in Eighteenth-Century France. By SHELBYT. MCCLOY.Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1957. Pp. 274. $6.50. Shelby McCloy, who has previously published two important historical studies...

.... KgugR Uniwersity of Warhington La Wullonie, 1885-1892: The Symbolist Movement in Belgium. By ANDBEW JAC~SON MATHEWS.New York: King’s Crown Press, 1947. Pp. viii + 115. $2.25. L’usage trk frkuent de citations qui brisent B chaque instant le contexte rend assez phible la...

... in the era in question demonstrates the objective accuracy of the warning social criticisms contained in Kistner’s popular writings. CLAIRHAYDEN BELL University of Californiu ProvPrrpzl Regionalism: A Study of the Movement in the “Revue...

... in the era in question demonstrates the objective accuracy of the warning social criticisms contained in Kistner’s popular writings. CLAIRHAYDEN BELL University of Californiu ProvPrrpzl Regionalism: A Study of the Movement in the “Revue...

... culmination and inaugural disruption. In Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained the phrase much revolving becomes iconic of revolution as period-defining movement. Milton’s characters pivot, roll, twist, contort, resist, and return. In doing so, they show, and not simply describe, the lived experience...

...Ming Dong Gu Although Lu Xun (1881–1936) produced all his literary works in a period that coincided with the heyday of Western modernism (1910–30), scholars both inside and outside China have made few attempts to study them in the international context of the modernist movement. Because of Lu Xun's...

... unchanged by their movement. The protagonists of the Japanese writer Kosugi Tengai's New Year's Finery and the American Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie (both 1900) show Zola's character reduced to a cluster of minimal qualities: performance, mobility, and contagion. Paradoxically, flattening the Nana...

... and transcendentalism and offering a reading that emerged from Nelson’s Marxist outlook. This essay explores Miller’s penchant for existentialist readings of historical-literary figures and movements, which clashed with Nelson’s materialist interpretation of antebellum culture. Although these two approaches seem...

...John T. Hamilton Literary history's persistent attempts to locate the work of Joseph von Eichendorff within German Romanticism aim at a stabilization that contradicts the very dynamism associated with this movement. A study of Eichendorff's exemplary novella Das Marmorbild ( The Marble Statue...

...Joyce Wexler In 1929 Alfred Döblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz was not only compared to Ulysses but also hailed as a prime example of the postwar movement called magic realism. This junction led directly to landmark magic realist texts by Günter Grass, Gabriel García Márquez, and Salman Rushdie...

... second claim involves periodization and uneven development. The events that produced the 1968 social explosions in the global North are bound up with the earlier liberation movements of the global South. Thus the global South’s 1968, partially reflected in these novels, offers a perspective...

... fictional movement against casteism, atrocity, and historical elision has effectively embraced the ideologies of realism while developing a strident critique of modernist aesthetics. This essay deconstructs that realist turn by tracing it through the question of caste. Gajarawala reads the present embrace...

... of human history, the written word has been the province of a privileged minority. This essay argues that current discussions of world literature have taken their shape from three print-based institutions — the mass literacy movements of the late nineteenth century, the publishing industry...

... famously claims about freedom: that it is best understood not as sovereignty but as natality, being freed from life’s automatic routines and partaking, in a sense, of a second birth. Rather than conjure free movement—whether through self-control, capable pursuit of self-interest, or unimpeded intellectual...

.... Brought back to China and transformed by Chinese scholars who had studied with Babbitt, New Humanism became a counternarrative to the May Fourth Movement, to Marxism, and to radicalism in general. This essay delineates the roles New Humanism played in China, its internal contradictions, and its intricate...

... of the potentially global significance of local environmental change emerged in concert with the environmental philosophy of his era, specifically the “back to the land” movement and theories of climatic determinism, and was developed in a 1909 short story, “The Machine Stops,” that he wrote while beginning Howards...

... of a modern definition of circulation, so this essay returns to one especially pertinent case from that period, Helenus Scott’s it-narrative The Adventures of a Rupee (1782), which describes the movements of a rupee coin in the world economy. Attending to the linguistic form and publication history of Scott’s...

... and era of globalization. This article outlines the networks that sought to foster such a world literature and the main aesthetic controversies within the movement. In particular, the article looks at the efforts of such official spokesmen as Andrei Zhdanov, Karl Radek, and Georg Lukács to proscribe...