...Jesse Molesworth The manipulation of local time, or clock time, constitutes a vital aspect of gothic storytelling, as seen in Horace Walpole’s Castle of Otranto , Matthew Lewis’s Monk , and Ann Radcliffe’s novels. Several concepts emerge: the importance of the hour as a temporal unit...

...Joan Ramon Resina The Moderns: Time, Space, and Subjectivity in Contemporary Spanish Culture . By Paul Julian Smith. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. xii+ 206 pp. © 2002 University of Washington 2002 Reviews How Milton Works. By Stanley Fish. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press...

...Nicholas Birns Backgazing: Reverse Time in Modernist Culture . By Paul Giles . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2019 . vi + 310 pp. Copyright © 2020 by University of Washington 2020 Fifty years ago one of the truisms of academic studies of literary modernism...

... in Our Time.” The series’ scope is open-ended: literary history is construed broadly in accord with journal tradition; crises, clarities, and opportunities can point to the precariousness or promise (or both) of our collective now. We are keen to solicit commentary from scholars representing...

...Benjamin A. Saltzman [email protected] Translation Effects: Language, Time, and Community in Medieval England . By Mary Kate Hurley . Columbus : Ohio State University Press , 2021 . xii + 212 pp. Copyright © 2023 by University of Washington 2023 Translation entails...

...Jesse Oak Taylor [email protected] Deep Time: A Literary History . By Noah Heringman . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2023 . xv + 297 pp. Copyright © 2024 by University of Washington 2024 Reviews Deep Time: A Literary History. By Noah Heringman. Princeton, NJ...

...Maurice Hunt Copyright © 1991 by Duke University Press 1991 MROSAND THE RIPENESS OF TIME IN AS YOU LIIE IT By MAURICEHUNT Not every series of critical articles cumulatively deepens our under- standing of a Shakespearean play...

... Twilight MemoriRF: Mading Time in a Culture of Ammia By Andreas Huyssen. NewYork: Routledge, 1995. x + 292 pp. $49.95 cloth, $16.95 paper. Andreas Huyssen is one of the few German scholars who have had a direct impact on contemporary theoretical debates in this country beyond the cir- cle...

... interested in thinking about Tel Quel or, indeed, French cultural history from 1960 to 1983. Shying away from the anecdotal and the personal, The Time of Theory documents “a his- tory of Tel Quel (1960-1983)” with precision and detail, relating develop- ments in theory and criticism to specific...

...: The Functions of Criticism in Our Time. By Jonathan Arac. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1997. ix t 254 pp. $39.95 cloth, $17.95 paper. Although Jonathan Arac maintains that he is not an Americanist, “Huckle- berry Finn” as Idol and Target captures with startling accuracy a recurring ele...

...Catherine Gallagher © 2000 University of Washington 2000 MLQ 61.1-11Gallagher.ak 6/1/00 2:33 PM Page 229 Formalism and Time Catherine Gallagher he most prominent generic features of the novel have received Tremarkably little...

...Neil Kenny © 2000 University of Washington 2000 MLQ 61.2-01Kenny.ak 5/26/00 3:49 PM Page 253 Books in Space and Time: Bibliomania and Early Modern Histories of Learning and “Literature” in France Neil Kenny...

...Herman Rapaport Time-Fetishes: The Secret History of Eternal Recurrence . By Ned Lukacher. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1998. xv + 176 pp. $49.95 cloth, $17.95 paper. © 2000 University of Washington 2000 05-Reviews 10/3/00 9:45 AM Page 545 Reviews...

...). Her book Unmodernizing Shakespeare is forthcoming. MLQ 62.4 04 de Grazia 10/24/01 5:52 PM Page 355 Hamlet before Its Time Margreta de Grazia o work in the English literary canon has been so closely identified Nwith the beginning...

...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...

...Norman Finkelstein Writing in Real Time: Emergent Poetics from Whitman to the Digital . By Paul Jaussen . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2017 . vii + 226 pp . Copyright © 2018 by University of Washington 2018 Paul Jaussen’s ambitious Writing in Real Time , ranging...

...Lloyd Pratt Novels in the Time of Democratic Writing: The American Example . By Nancy Armstrong and Leonard Tennenhouse . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2018 . 264 pp. Copyright © 2019 by University of Washington 2019 One of the most enduring...

... seek to imbue himself with the life and spirit of the time.” Truth and meaning, then, were located where the epistemological task of compiling facts met the task of imbuing them with spirit, which, whatever else it was, went beyond the facts and partook of the aesthetic (as Hayden White [1986...

... that they are just repressed and that in this repression they conceal the insidious hand of the imperium of national time. What may be presented as visuality might very well refer to very specific British or French debates on the scopic regime; the long nineteenth century might just be a code word for the reach...

.... KESTERSVENDSEN University of Oklahoma Shelley and the Thought of His Time: A Study in the History of Ideas. By JOSEPH BARRELL.New Haven: Yale University Studies in English, Volume 106 ; London : Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press, 1947. Pp. ix + 210. $3.00. Dr. Barrell...