...Rita Felski Women, Compulsion, Modernity: The Moment of American Naturalism . By Jennifer Fleissner. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. xiv + 338 pp. University of Washington 2006 Rita Felski is chair of comparative literature at the University of Virginia. Her most recent...

...John Plotz Although naturalism shares some features with realism and others with modernism, it has properties that contrast with the realist and modernist prioritization of felt individual experience as the evidentiary matrix on which their accounts of the world are based. Naturalist fiction...

...Lucien W. White Copyright © 1962 by Duke University Press 1962 MORAL ASPECTS OF ZOLA’S NATURALISM JUDGED BY HIS CONTEMPORARIES AND BY HIMSELF By LUCIENW. WHITE Consideration of the moral aspects of literary works became a vogue...

...Percy G. Adams 460 Reviews Spence’s ideas on Homeric criticism, aesthetic theory, and the natural genius of the unlearned poets to those of his distinguished contemporaries and immediate followers would make this an even more valuable contribution...

... of the better studies of Mann’s work. HI~NRYHATFIELD Harvard University Diderot and Descmtes: A Study of Scientific Naturalism in the Enlightmment. By ARAMVARTANIAN. Princeton : Princeton University History of Ideas Series...

...Manuel Olguín Copyright © 1950 by Duke University Press 1950 VALERA’S PHILOSOPHICAL ARGUMENTS AGAINST NATURALISM By MANUELOLGUfN Although several excellent studies have been devoted to Valera’s criticism in this country and abroad,l...

...Donald F. Brown Copyright © 1948 by Duke University Press 1948 THE CATHOLIC NATURALISM OF MANUEL GALVEZ By DONALDF. BROWN Except for a brief interlude in his youth, Gdlvez has always been a loyal Catho1ic.l Throughout most...

...Linda Woodbridge Back to Nature: The Green and the Real in the Late Renaissance . By Robert N. Watson. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. viii + 436 pp. © 2008 by University of Washington 2008 Linda Woodbridge is Weiss Chair in the Humanities and professor...

...Suvir Kaul Colonizing Nature: The Tropics in British Arts and Letters, 1760-1820 . By Beth Fowkes Tobin. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. xvi + 255 pp. University of Washington 2007 Suvir Kaul is professor of English and director of the South Asia Center...

... to the other. The quotation from Granada justifies the passage from the Christocentric to the Theocentric, for contemplation of Christ as love naturally leads to contemplation of God as love, but Granada does not explain the shift from the Theocentric to the Christocentric. Consequently, Father...

... umana e la sorgente della massima parte de’ nostri vizi e scelleraggini” (the corrupter of human nature and the source of most of our vices and wickedness) (Leopardi 1949b , 3: sec. 191; 2013: 191). Leopardi followed Rousseau in believing that society was a necessary evil that enabled citizens to join...

...Esei Murakishi Abstract In A Dialogue concerning Heresies (1529) and The Confutation of Tyndale’s Answer (1532–33), Thomas More proffers an account of natural language: the writing, speaking collectivity determines the meanings of words, and words picture the contents of the individual...

... of social work and connections that the term enabled. Genius became associated in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries with author, nature, and nation in ways that grounded new models of literature and identity in the supposedly transcendental truth of nature and in specific landscapes...

... for which all Anglo-Saxon scholars will be grateful. ARTHURG. KENNEDY Stanford University Shakespeare and the Nature of Man. By THEODORESPENCER. New York: Macmillan, 1942. Pp. xii + 233. $2.75. Several notable studies in recent years have shown...

...Colin Jager © 2002 University of Washington 2002 Colin Jager is assistant professor of English at Rutgers University. He is at work on a book titled Natural Designs: Romanticism and Secularism from Hume to Austen . Mansfield Park and the End of Natural Theology Colin Jager...

... of the Natural Sign. By Murray Krieger. Emblems by Joan Krieger. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992. xvii + 292 pp. $38.00. Krieger’s book’s declared intention is to offer a straightforward critical his tory of ekphrasis, or at least the sketch of such a history, from antiquity...

... on “American Literary Realism and the Failed Promise of Contract.” Parts Related to Wholes and the Nature of Subaltern Opposition Brook Thomas The cultural critic is not happy with civilization, to which alone he owes his discontent-Theodor W. Adorno, Aism ince the late 1960s...

... is writing a book titled William Hazlitt and the Medium of Culture . Consuming Nature: Wordsworth and the Kendal and Windermere Railway Controversy James Mulvihill Is then no nook of English ground secure From rash assault? Schemes of retirement sown...

..., ON : Pandora . Corson Hiram . 1889 . An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning’s Poetry . New York : Heath . Escher Edwin . 1920 . “ The ‘Invention’ of the Natural Method of Language Teaching .” Modern Language Journal 4 , no. 6 : 295 – 301 . Friedland Martin L...

... of Washington A Natural Passion: A Study of the Novels of Samuel Richardson. By MAR- GARET ANNEDOODY. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974. viii + 410 pp. $25.75. In this very long and seemingly exhaustive study of Richardson’s writings, Margaret Anne Doody attacks her subject...