...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...

...Lewis C. Seifert Twice upon a Time: Women Writers and the History of the Fairy Tale . By Elizabeth Wanning Harries. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001. xiv + 216 pp. © 2004 University of Washington 2004 Lewis C. Seifert is associate professor of French studies at Brown...

... of the Olden Time”: Revisions of the Regency in the Construction of Victorian Domestic Fiction Tamara S. Wagner roliferating from the mid-1820s to the mid-1840s and then rapidly Pdeclining, the “silver-fork” or “fashionable” novel has often been dismissed as a mere bridge between early...

... of markets and publics in early modern Europe. Richard Hakluyt’s Navigations in Time: History, Epic, and Empire David Harris Sacks udged in terms of its literary reputation as well as its own expressed Jintentions, Richard Hakluyt’s often celebrated Principal Navigations of the English...

...Marshall Brown © 2004 University of Washington 2004 Literature in Time Marshall Brown eminism has long seemed to me an ideal focus for a special issue of F MLQ. There are lessons both positive and negative to be learned; generative tensions, patterns, and challenges to ponder...

... about a disconnection in the present itself. Belonging neither to the past nor to the present, the remnant draws attention to modernity's temporality as that of the time lag: a suspension of connection and continuity that generates a curiously insubstantial existence in the present. Rereading Scott...

... in Time Margaret Ferguson ike the White Rabbit, those of us addressing you from the pages of L this special issue on “feminism in time” are late, quite late, for what remains (arguably) a very important date—with a highly enigmatic fig- ure whose continued existence is subject to debate...

...: Writing against the Heart (1992). She is writing a book on form and the aesthetic in nineteenthand twentieth-century poetry. In Time, and Out: Women’s Poetry and Literary History Angela Leighton Looking back, I look too straight: I can’t locate my old self, young self, you know...

... (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...

... , with Donald E. Pease (2002). On Being in Time with Feminism Robyn Wiegman As soon as we learn words we find ourselves outside them. . . . There is a long inchoate period during which the struggle between the language of experi- ence and the language of theory becomes a kind of agony...

... (1988), Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction (1997), and other works of literary theory and criticism. He is at work on books on Baudelaire and on the theory of the lyric. “Feminism in Time”: A Response Jonathan Culler collection of essays on feminism in time promises an account...

... for generating subsequent structures. Through these processes, emergent effects arise: formal, thematic, and aesthetic properties that could not be anticipated by the poet nor predicted from the outset of the poem. (3) Writing in Real Time: Emergent Poetics from Whitman to the Digital . By Paul...

...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...

... in these essays: periodization and time. What sets literary history apart from literary criticism and theory is not just its concern with historicizing literature but its preoccupation with temporal markers and ruptures in what John Frow ( 1986 : 103) calls “an established literary series.” In effect, a literary...

...: 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...