... of Charles Reade? Wayne Burns has recognized the drawbacks in treating either Reade’s works, life, or place in literary history in a full book and has instead devised the subtitle of “A Study in Victorian Author- ship” to indicate that his work attempts a union of all three. If the result some...

... test case is a reading of how The Waste Land fleshes out the potential in emphasizing the power of relations over the power of foundational thinking. Charles Altieri teaches English at the University of California, Berkeley. His most recent books are The Particulars of Rapture: An Aesthetics...

...William A. Oram [email protected] Reading and Not Reading “The Faerie Queene”: Spenser and the Making of Literary Criticism . By Catherine Nicholson . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2020 . vii + 311 pp. Copyright © 2021 by University of Washington 2021...

... to the social, economic, and literary histories of the ancien régime. Reading the Moment and the Moment of Reading in Gdfigny‘s L&tres d9unePh~- Thomas M. Kavanagh ew works reveal more about the convoluted relations between Fexperience and expression, reading and writing, reception...

...Debra A. Castillo © 1996 University of Washington 1996 Reading Loose Women Reading Debra A. Castillo Who reads novels in Latin America these days? In view of the post- boom disillusion with the role of the writer in society, what is the use value of fiction? According...

... (2002). The Time of Commitment: Reading “Sapho 1900” Reading Sappho Joan DeJean To the memory of Jack Winkler, who set an example by taking a political stand without sacrificing scholarly standards hose of us who work on the first manifestations of what is now Tknown...

...John Watkins Reading the Allegorical Intertext: Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton . By Judith H. Anderson. New York: Fordham University Press, 2008. x + 436 pp. University of Washington 2009 John Watkins is professor of English, medieval studies, and Italian studies...

...Rosemarie Bodenheimer The Burdens of Perfection: On Ethics and Reading in Nineteenth-Century British Literature . By Andrew H. Miller. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2008. xiv + 260 pp. University of Washington 2010 Rosemarie Bodenheimer is professor of English at Boston...

...Kathleen Verduin Self-consciousness was eminently John Updike's hallmark theme, the matrix of his sustained confrontation with mortality and the condition of his alliance with Christianity. As with most literate persons, Updike's self-consciousness was stimulated by reading. His extensive oeuvre...

...John T. Hamilton The Dark Side of Literacy: Literature and Learning Not to Read. By Benjamin Bennett. New York: Fordham University Press, 2008. ix + 347 pp. University of Washington 2010 Reviews Music, Madness, and the Unworking of Language. By John T. Hamilton. New York...

...Elizabeth Freeman Everybody's Family Romance: Reading Incest in Neoliberal America . By Gillian Harkins. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009. xx + 316 pp. © 2011 by University of Washington 2011 Elizabeth Freeman is professor of English at the University of California...

... that the reading methods we bring to born-translated writing are symbiotic with dominant accounts of modernism, and they give us the opportunity to develop new methods and new approaches to literary history. Rebecca L. Walkowitz is associate professor of English at Rutgers University and Walter Jackson...

... Poetics (2011). Phenomenal Reading: Essays on Modern and Contemporary Poetics . By Reed Brian M. . Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press , 2012 . xxvii + 249 pp. © 2013 by University of Washington 2013 Reference Zukofsky Louis . 1964 . A Test of Poetry . New...

... 1998 and Martin 2015 . For more on the formation of the American historical poetics reading group and its affiliated members, see Prins 2008 and her essay collected in this issue. 4 A bibliography of recent articles and books by this group of scholars, as well as a collection...

...David Loewenstein Inside “Paradise Lost”: Reading the Designs of Milton’s Epic . By Quint David . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2014 . x + 329 pp. Copyright © 2015 by University of Washington 2015 David Quint’s elegant, learned, and nuanced study of Paradise...

...,and autobiography. “Books and Bad Company”: Reading the Female Plot in Teresa de la Parra’s IŽgenia Kristine Byron La pretendida autora de esa nueva IÞgenia . . . [c]ometió es cierto, la horrible indiscreción de hacer editar en París bajo su nombre, ese diario íntimo que yo había...

...Paul B. Armstrong Although form and history are joined in reading, the profession of literary studies has regularly regarded formalism and historicism as opposites and even antagonists. When dichotomous terms replicate themselves without mediation, a phenomenological approach to resolving...

... include On Literature (2002), Literature as Conduct: Speech Acts in Henry James (2005), and The J. Hillis Miller Reader (2005). Reading (about) Modern Chinese Literature in a Time of Globalization J. Hillis Miller hy should I (or any American or European, for that matter) Wwant...

...Herbert Lindenberger The Look of Reading: Book, Painting, Text . By Garrett Stewart. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. xvii + 411 pp. © 2008 by University of Washington 2008 Herbert Lindenberger is Avalon Foundation Professor of Humanities Emeritus at Stanford University...

...Jeffrey Todd Knight The Long Public Life of a Short Private Poem: Reading and Remembering Thomas Wyatt . By Peter Murphy . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2019 . xvi + 246 pp. Copyright © 2020 by University of Washington 2020 This fascinating, hopeful book...