... 483 French Letters” must have been suggested to Thibaudet by his recol- lection of the pre-war poll on the significance of Boileau for modern times, which had been taken among French writers. From this initial datum we may reconstruct the sequence of thoughts in Thibaudet’s mind...

... About Face: German Physiognomic Thought from Lavater to Auschwitz . By Richard T. Gray. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2004. lvi + 453 pp. Reviews The Grounds of English Literature. By Christopher Cannon. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. viii + 237 pp. The Grounds of English...

... Thurmond (2004). University of Washington 2006 A Cultural History of Causality: Science, Murder Novels, and Systems of Thought . By Stephen Kern. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004. 437 pp. Reviews Dido’s Daughters: Literacy, Gender, and Empire in Early Modern England...

... time. BERTHA M. KUHN University of Washington The Eighteenth Century Background. Studies on the Idra of Nature in tlw Thought of the Prriod. By BASILWILTXY. New York: Columbia University Press, 1941. Pp. viii + 302. $3.25. “I have...

... eighteenth century. ALAN D. MCKILLOP The Rice Institute The Mind of a Poet. A Study of Wordsworth‘s Thought with Par- ticular Ref crence to “The Prelude.” By RAYMOND DEXTER HAVENS. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1941. Pp. xviii + 670...

... lhigmtion of Vision in ‘IivPntiPth-Gntury1;rQnch Thought. By Martin Jay. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. xi + 632 pp. oocloth, $ iCi.oo paper. Intellectual history, if it is to be critical and do more than passively follow and record trends in thinking, must strive to recast...

...,” in the Zeitschrift für Ästhetik und Allgemeine Kunstwissenschaft (2008). Afterness: Figures of Following in Modern Thought and Aesthetics . By Richter Gerhard . New York : Columbia University Press , 2011 . 260 pp . © 2013 by University of Washington 2013 Reference Richter Gerhard...

...” appeared in the September 1996 issue of MLQ . Hyperboles: The Rhetoric of Excess in Baroque Literature and Thought . By Johnson Christopher D. . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University, Department of Comparative Literature , 2010 . 695 pp. © 2014 by University of Washington 2014 Reviews...

...William Haller Zera S. Fink. Evanston: Northwestern University, 1945. Pp. xi + 225. $4.00. Copyright © 1946 by Duke University Press 1946 246 REZ~~P‘IVS The Classical Republicans: An Essay in the Recovery of a Pattern of Thought in Seventeenth Century...

... sentimentalist. RICHARDD. ALTICK 0hio State University John Henry Newman: An Expository and Critical Study of His Mind, Thought and Art. By CHARLESFREDERICK HARROLD. New York: Longmans, Green, and Company, 1945. Pp. xv + 472. $3.50. While...

... RUFENER.New York: King’s Crown Press, 1946. Pp. x + 126. $2.75. The thought must have occurred to more than one observer that the history of the last decade could be written using Zola’s titles as chapter headings: Germinal, La BSte Humaine, Les Quadre Evan- giles (Terre, Travail...

... of these differing attitudes to the expressions of legal thought. Bentham’s preferred form of law was the (allegedly unambiguous) statute, so it is no surprise that he was a critic of Britain’s unwritten constitution, defended vigorously by Edmund Burke and attacked by radical reformers (notably Thomas Paine...

...John W. Bicknell Noel Gilroy Annan. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1952. Pp. 342. $5.00. © 1954 University of Washington 1954 John W.Bicknell 187 Leslie Stephen: His Thought and Character in Relation to His Time. By NOEL...

...Karl P. Wentersdorf Copyright © 1973 by Duke University Press 1973 LINKAGES OF THOUGHT AND IMAGERY IN SHAKESPEARE AND MORE By KARLP. WENTERSDORF In his now famous essay “Shakespeare and the Play of More,” R. W. Chambers...

...Robert L. Montgomery Alastair Fowler. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1975. viii + 152 pp. £4.50. Copyright © 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 REVIEWS Conceilful Thought: The Interpretation of English Renaissance Poems. By ALASTAIRFOWLER...

... yoking of Smollett with a history of the concept of luxury in Western thought can lx made somehow to seem plausible (it never seems necessary), and even if it were possible to believe that Tobias Smollett could be the crowning expression of any tradition that begins in the Garden of Eden...

... but challenging book must not be missed. WILLIAMH. MA-I(.HI.TI Urii-C~e?sityof M’diinyton R ti (11ru I Shell9 : The Phz losophicn I A n a rchis rn n ?id U t op iu n Thought of Percy Ry\s h e Shell?. By MI(:HAELHE” SCRIVENEK.Princeton...

..., murderous thoughts can be purged by confession. This, in sum, is George Eliot’s experiment in narrative repair of moral wrong and mistake. (p. 298) If GeorgeEliot and Blackmail is not the critical lode one might have hoped for, this passage and others like it show that this is a book...

...Daniel G. Calder J. A. Burrow. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986. ix + 211 pp. $39.95. Copyright © 1987 by Duke University Press 1987 386 REVIEWS The Ages of Man: A Study in Medieval Writing and Thought. By J. A. BURROW. Oxford...

... us for an instant into Coleridge’s presence-as a poet, as an active intelligence, as a husband, as a lover, as a man. GEORGEWHALLEY Qu een ’s U n iuers i i y Kingston, Ontario Existential Thought and Fictional Technique...