.... A. M. SAUERLANDER university of Washington Social Criticism in the Early Works of Erich Kiistner. By JOHN WINKELMAN. Columbia: University of Missouri Studies, XXV, No. 4, 1953. Pp. 144. $2.50. Erich Kistner, well known in America as an author of light entertainment, has doubtless...

... reticent, antisocial, Wordsworth writes poetry that Nersessian is convinced “wants [her] gone” (91), which proves crucial both to her demonstration here and the new study overall. Copyright © 2021 by University of Washington 2021 The Calamity Form: On Poetry and Social Life . By Anahid...

...Zarena Aslami [email protected] Communities of Care: The Social Ethics of Victorian Fiction . By Schaffer Talia . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2021 . xvii + 274 pp. Copyright © 2023 by University of Washington 2023 In the early phases of the pandemic...

...A. C. GOODSON J. Mcgann Jerome. Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 1988. xii + 279 pp. $27.50. Copyright © 1989 by Duke University Press 1989 A. C. GOODSON 197 Social Values and Poetic Acb: The Historical Judgment...

... Theory/Theatre: An Introduction . Married with Children: 27~Winter’s Tale and Social History or, Infacticide in Earlier Seventeenth-Century England Mark Fortier CAMILLO Have you thought on A place whereto you’ll go? FLORIZEL Not any yet...

...William E. Wilson Leo Kirschenbaum. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Publications in Modern Philology, Volume 25, Number 4, 1944. Pp. viii + 317-424. Copyright © 1944 by Duke University Press 1944 364 Reviews Enrique Gaspar and the Social...

...Kevis Goodman The Work of Writing: Literature and Social Change in Britain,1700–1830 . By Clifford Siskin. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. x + 285 pp. $39.95. © 2000 University of Washington 2000 05-Reviews 10/3/00 9:45 AM Page 545 Reviews...

... of its context and without its background gives a some- what erroneous impression of what the cited author actually held. JOHN J. PARRY Univemity of Illinois Social Criticism in Popular Religious Literature of the Sixteenth Century. By HELENC...

...Mary Loeffelholz The Social Lives of Poems in Nineteenth-Century America . By Cohen Michael C. . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2015 . 296 pp. Copyright © 2017 by University of Washington 2017 Poems have social lives, or at least they had them...

...Floyd Stovall Richard D. Mosier. New York: King's Crown Press, 1947. Pp. vii + 207. $3.00. Copyright © 1948 by Duke University Press 1948 370 Reviews Making the American Mind: Social and Moral Ideas in the McGufley Readers. By RICHARDD. MOSIER.New York...

... SCULPTING THE SOCIAL LANGUAGES OF HUGH SELWYN MAUBERLEYS “MERE SURFACE” By BRIANG. CARAHER Applications of Mikhail Bakhtin’s ideas to the study of narrative fiction have been ample and illuminating, but his notorious charac- terization of lyric poetry...

...Allen F. Stein Nettels Elsa. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1988. xi + 236 pp. $23.00. Copyright © 1988 by Duke University Press 1988 80 REVIEWS Language, Race, and Social Class in Howells’s America. By ELSANETTELS. Lex...

... theorizing of the Enlightenment and on eighteenth-century culture’s readiness to grant power to writing as a technology of world making. Its opening chapter treats Enlightenment conjectural histories of political association and Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s 1762 Social Contract in particular. Its final chapter...

...Herbert Rosengarten Copyright © 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 1 JENNI CALDER. Women and Marriage in Victorian Fiction . New York: Oxford University Press, 1976, 223 pp. $10.00 “FROM THE SOCIAL SIDE” TWO STUDIES OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY FICTION...

.... That is not, however, his usual way. W. B. CARNOCHAN Stanford University Rousseau’s Socratic Aemilian Myths: A Literary Collation of “Emile” and the “Social Contraci.” By MADELEINEB. ELLIS.Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1977...

...Leland Thielemann Copyright © 1941 by Duke University Press 1941 THE PROBLEM OF UNITY AND INDIVIDUALISM IN ROMAINS’ SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY By LELANDTE-IIELEMANN I. INTRODUCTION M. Jules Romains has many times...

...Stavros Deligiorgis HAMBUECHEN POTTER JOY. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982. x + 230 pp. $20.00. Copyright © 1982 by Duke University Press 1982 REVIEWS Five Frames for the “Decameron”: Communication and Social Systems in the “Cor- nice...

... and His Tradition in Social Criticism. By JEFFREY L. SI’EAK.New York: Columbia University Press, 1984. xvi + 277 pp. $30.00, cloth; $12.50, paper. Ruskin’s social criticism has always proved problematic. Some commen- tators have connected it with socialism or communism, noting Kuskin’s own...

... Shakrspcarc’s Fcstivc Co~ricdy: A Study of Drainntir Fnrin and Its Relation to Social Czistom. By C. L. BARBER.Princeton : Princeton University Press, 1959. Pp. x + 266. $5.00. Primarily festive rather than romantic or satiric, Shakespeare’s early come- dies from Low’s Labour’s Lost through...

.... BERNARDWE IN B ERG University of Chicago John Marston of the Middle Temple: An Elizabethan Dramatist in His Social Setting. By PHILIPJ. FINKELPEARL.Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1969. xii 4- 275 pp. $6.00. The development of the so-called Jacobean characteristics-curt...