...Trevor Ross Poetry and the Making of the English Literary Past, 1660 - 1781 . By Richard Terry. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. vii + 354 pp. © 2003 University of Washington 2003 Reviews Staging Domesticity: Household Work and English Identity in Early Modern Drama. By Wendy...

...Virgil Nemoianu Imperfect Histories: The Elusive Past and the Legacy of Romantic Historicism . By Ann Rigney. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2001. 209 pp. © 2003 University of Washington 2003 396 MLQ September 2003 and traditional...

... at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, is author of Between Nations: Shakespeare, Spenser, Marvell, and the Question of Britain (1997) and coeditor of British Identities and English Renaissance Literature (2002). The Postcolonial Past Barbara Fuchs and David J. Baker When? istoricism...

... on philologists and national thought in nineteenth-century Europe. Literary Historicism: Romanticism, Philologists, and the Presence of the Past Joep Leerssen Nous entrons dans l’avenir à reculons.—Paul Valéry etween 1780 and 1840 a huge rediscovery of the early medieval ver- Bnacular...

... and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Her publications include Toward a Speech Act Theory of Literary Discourse (1977) and Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation (1992). She was president of the Modern Language Association in 2003. The Anticolonial Past Mary Louise Pratt...

... of the Postcolonial Past Robert Markley It is very usual for Civiliz’d and Polite Nations to look upon all others as bar- barous. . . . Europe now being the Seat of Learning, and Science, wherein learned Academies are set up for the Discovery of Hidden Secrets in Nature, we take all...

... of media technologies on postcolonial national identity and culture. Predicting the Past Deepika Bahri The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. “Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?” he asked. “Begin at the beginning,” the King said gravely, “and go on till you come...

...Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Why study the past? Because we must. The computer seems to offer us access to simultaneity. We must therefore study the past “broadly.” Primo Levi offers us an example. But the access to simultaneity is a simulacrum, for the computing (intending) subject is determined...

... project, tentatively titled Petrified Truth: Ideology and the End(s) of Literature , traces the theoretical and historical intersections between politics, aesthetics, and literary history. Predicting the Past: The Paradoxes of American Literary History . By Boyden Michael . Leuven...

...Stephen Best A good deal of recent scholarship into the slave past proclaims that the past’s political significance resides in its continuity with our present, finding both ethical moment and critical motivation in a recovery imperative that seeks to continue, reanimate, or complete the political...

... The Spectacular Past: Popular History and the Novel in Nineteenth-Century France . By Maurice Samuels. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2004. xi + 280 pp. Reviews Redefining Elizabethan Literature. By Georgia E. Brown. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. viii + 261 pp. Georgia E...

... © 2014 by University of Washington 2014 Erratum for Leigh Dale and Jennifer McDonell, “Lessons from the Past MLQ 75 (2014): 119–27. On page 124, the last two sentences of the full paragraph should read as follows: “Almost twenty years after Cultural Capital,” Rachel Sagner Buurma...

...Florian Gargaillo Abstract In a review of T. S. Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral , Stevie Smith lamented that “so many writers of these times, which need courage and the power of criticism, and coolness, should find their chief delight in terrifying themselves and their readers with past echoes...

..., and her project Lessons from the Past: The History of Academic English , with Jennifer McDonell, has come to the end of the beginning. Jennifer McDonell is senior lecturer in English in the School of Arts at the University of New England (Australia). She has published on the work of both...

... By ahistorical evaluation I mean anachronistic application of present-day aesthetic or moral or ideological standards to works of the past (e.g., denouncing Alexander Pope for holding sexist views). In both cases we need to be attentive to the motive behind the enterprise as well as to the basis of judgment...

... of the Past. By JAMES LONGENBACH.Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987. xviii + 279 pp. $29.00. Stone Cottage: Pound, Yeats, and Modernism. By JAMES LONGENBACH.New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. xviii + 329 pp. $21.95. “Ghosts move about me / Patched with histories,” wrote...

...Susan M. Griffin Copyright © 1984 by Duke University Press 1984 SEEING DOUBLES REFLECTIONS OF THE SELF IN JAMES’S SENSE OF THE PAST By SUSANM. GKIFFIN The Sense ofthe Past has traditionally...

...Paul A. Olson Lee Patterson. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1987. xiv + 239 pp. $35.00 cloth; $15.95 paper. Copyright © 1988 by Duke University Press 1988 REVIEWS Negotiating the Past: The Historical Understanding of Medieval Literature...

... shortcomings, however, this is a good and highly stimulating book. GERHARDBAUMCAERTEL University of Washington Zsauc Bashewis Singer and the Eternal Past. By IRVINGH. BUCHEN.New York: New York University Press; London: University of London...

...Elsa Nettels Copyright © 1970 by Duke University Press 1970 THE AMBASSADORS AND THE SENSE OF THE PAST By ELSANETTELS Lambert Strether, the central character of The Ambassadors, is Henry James’s most detailed...