...Robert D. Spector Norman Kelvin. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1961. Pp. ix + 250. $5.50. Copyright © 1961 by Duke University Press 1961 Robert D. Spector 309 A Troubled Eden: Nature and Society in the Works of George...

... She14 and his Circle The New York Public Lihay Wordsworth and the Enlightenment: Nature, Man, and Society in the Experimental PoetT. By ALAN BEWELL.New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1989. xiv + 331 pp. $36.00. William Wordsworth has long been authoritatively linked...

... serve as a spur to others in the expanding field of cultural studies who will want to reckon with this book. Robert S. Knapp, Reed College Mock Kings in Medieual Society and Renaissance Drama. By Sandra Billington. Oxford: Clarendon, 1991. xii + 287 pp...

... University Lord Byron's Strength: Romantic Writing and Cornwcial Society. By Jerome Christensen. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993. xxv + 426 PP. 3634.95- This brilliant, exasperating, and transformative text explores a convulsive fit between English romanticism's most...

...Ronald Levao © 2000 University of Washington 2000 MLQ 61.1-05Levao.ak 6/1/00 2:28 PM Page 79 “Among Unequals What Society”: Paradise Lost and the Forms of Intimacy Ronald Levao The poem of course invites multiple perspectives...

...Richard Kroll A History of the Modern Fact: Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of Wealth and Society . By Mary Poovey. Chicago: University of Chicago Press,1998. xxvi + 419 pp. $49.00 cloth, $17.00 paper. © 2000 University of Washington 2000 05-Reviews 10/3/00 9:45 AM Page 545...

... attention in more detail in the future. HARRISFLETCHER University of Illinois Man and Society: The Scottish Inquiry of the Eighteenth Century. By GLADYSBRYSON. Princeton : Princeton University Press, 1945. Pp. ix + 286. $3.00. For some...

... criticism in the period, it is cer- tainly well above the average among doctoral dissertations. HOYTTROWBRIDGE University of Oregon The Metaphysical Society: Victorian Minds in Crisis, 1869-1880. By ALANWILLARD BROWN. New York : Columbia...

... to Enlightenment philosophy on a scale denied to most Italians. Leopardi was especially taken with the thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, whose writings on society inspired a substantial meditation in the Zibaldone (see Leopardi 1949b , 3: secs. 543–79). In particular, Rousseau’s language on the social contract...

...H. Fisch; H. W. Jones Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 BACON’S INFLUENCE ON SPRAT’S HISTORY OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY By H. FISCHand H. W. JONES The general indebtedness of any apology for science...

...R. C. Bald Fredson Bowers. Volume I, 1948–1949. Charlottesville: Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 1948. Pp. 204. $3.50. Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 370 Reviews this manifold evidence before us, we can look over...

... The Dialectics of Isolation: Self and Society in the French Novel from the Realists to Proust. By RICHARDTERDIMAN. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, Romanic Studies, Second Series, 25, 1976. xvi + 265 pp. $12.50. The subject of this book (despite its more ambitious title...

... that, for all their skepticism regarding the writer’s task, they kept on writing and produced a literary corpus that is un- surpassed elsewhere in the twentieth century. THEODOREZIOLKOWSKI Princeton University Tragic Realism and Modern Society...

...Karl S. Weimar Copyright © 1966 by Duke University Press 1966 THE SCIENTIST AND SOCIETY A STUDY OF THREE MODERN PLAYS By KARLS. WEIMAR C. P. Snow’s T;~loCultTtres rtnd the Scientific Revolution (1959) attracted so much...

... Pen nsy lvan ia State University The German Novel and the Afluent Society. By R. HINTONTHOMAS and WILFRIEDVAN DER WILL. Toronto: University of ‘Toronto Press, 1968. xix + 167 pp. $4.75. In this study of the German novel since 1945, R. Minton Thomas and 1 Probldmes du...

...Wolfgang Leppmann Copyright © 1956 by Duke University Press 1956 SHAPING THE MODERN GOETHEBILD THE YEARBOOK OF THE GOETHE SOCIETY By WOLFGANGLEPPMANN The first issue of the Goetlze Yearbook appeared in 1880. At present simply...

...Paul H. Meyer Copyright © 1958 by Duke University Press 1958 THE INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIETY IN ROUSSEAU’S EMILE By PAULH. MEYER The supposed contradiction between the extreme individualism of certain of Rousseau’s writings and the collectivist and even totalitarian...

...Margaret Denny Copyright © 1940 by Duke University Press 1940 THE EARLY PROGRAM OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY AND JOHN EVELYN By MARGARETDENNY No account of John Evelyn has been considered complete with- out some reference to his association...

... with the critical apparatus which Charles Lillie’s volumes so much need. ROBERTJ. ALLEN IVillinms College Comedy and Society from Conyrcve to Fielding. By JOHN LOFTIS. Stanford: Stanford Studies in Language and Literature, XIX, 1959...