...Maurice Hunt Copyright © 1987 by Duke University Press 1987 WORDS AND DEEDS IN ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL By MAURICEHUNT Were playgoers tojudge from the King of France’s recollection of the deceased Count...

...Alexander Leggatt Copyright © 1971 by Duke University Press 1971 ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL THE TESTING OF ROMANCE By ALEXANDERLEGGATT It has been commonly observed that romance and realism are in con- flict in ‘411...

...John H. Fisher E. Talbot Donaldson. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1985. x + 165 pp. $15.00. Copyright © 1985 by Duke University Press 1985 REVIEWS The Swan at the Well: Shakespeare Reading Chaucer. By E. TALBOTDONALDSON. New Haven...

...James L. Calderwood Copyright © 1964 by Duke University Press 1964 STYLES OF KNOWING IN ALL’S WELL By JAMES L. CALDERWOOD It is generally agreed that AZZ’s Well is an unsatisfactory play and that much of the trouble lies in the uneasy...

...Zoe Beenstock H. G. Wells’s diverse works of literature and political theory make him a test case for lines of intersection between modernity and the Enlightenment, a period concerned with the relations between the two genres. Traditionally, studies of Wells go back only as far as Victorianism...

...Geoffrey Galt Harpham Copyright © 1978 by Duke University Press 1978 MINORITY REPORT: TONO-BUNGAY AND THE SHAPE OF WELLS’S CAREER By GEOFFREYGALT HARPHAM Among the vast number of primary and secondary effects of Darwin’s...

.... Pp. xl + 337. $6.00. George Gissing and H. G. Wells: Their Friendship and Correspondence. Edited with an introduction by ROYALA. GETTMANN.Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1961. Pp. 285. $3.50. These two collections of letters advance the emergence of George Gissing’s...

... OF THE LORDS WELLES* By MARY HAMEL Nearly thirty years ago Angus McIntosh published a letter-draft, dated in the second quarter of the fifteenth century, which men- tions the writer’s possession of “ane Inglische buke . . . cald Mort Arthur Noting that the letter...

...John Edwin Wells Copyright © 1945 by Duke University Press 1945 ∗ Professor Wells died June 22, 1943. WORDSWORTH AND RAILWAYS IN 1844-1845 By JOHN EDWINWELLS* The middle third of the nineteenth century was in England a period of extensive...

...John Edwin Wells Alan Dugald McKillop. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1942. Pp. viii + 192. $2.50. Copyright © 1944 by Duke University Press 1944 376 Rcviews The Background of Thomson’s “Seasons.” By ALANDUGALD hlc- KILLOP.Minneapolis...

...Henry W. Wells Harold C. Gardiner, S.J., New Haven: Yale University Press, 1946. Pp. xiv + 139. $3.00. Copyright © 1946 by Duke University Press 1946 502 Reviews den Goethegeist, wird dieses Ziel fur ewig unerreichbar bleiben” (P. 3 These concluding...

.... The “double blessing” that Polonius gives Laertes shows this ritual comically, as do those of earlier sons Launce and Launcelot in The Two Gentlemen of Verona and The Merchant of Venice ; All’s Well That Ends Well renders it confusingly in feudal transition into a new age. King Lear offers it in the peaceful...

.... Edmund Husserl’s deepenings of aspects of these Kantian theories are apt for understanding what Wordsworth saw in Kant and what he achieved in “The Ruined Cottage,” going even beyond Kant—and Husserl as well. Wordsworth’s meditative activity produces, in practice, the distinctive consciousness...

...Samuel Baker It is well known that Walter Scott adapted the forms of sentimental fiction for his initial trilogy of novels on Scottish manners and that he drew on philosophical theories of sympathy when conceiving of his characters and placing them in historical relation to one another and to his...

... to those of the mid-eighteenth century. In thus arguing for Waverley as a rumination on the history of the novel “sixty years since”—as a literary-historical as well as historical novel—the essay considers Scott's debt to the most popular of these midcentury fictions, the object narrative, by reading...

...), and on the interplay among them; it inquires as well into the literary construction of testimonial authority. University of Washington 2010 Liran Razinsky is a postdoctoral researcher at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He works mainly in French and comparative literature and in psychoanalytic theory. He...

... of the Ancient Mariner,” as well as other literary texts, to transform the failure of his quest for a transantarctic crossing into a glorious triumph. Shackleton's allusions and structural borrowings substitute the truth of literature for the reality of the polar experience. While this substitution is typical...

... with books from childhood to early adulthood, focusing on his well-known interest in Søren Kierkegaard and Karl Barth and contextualizing that interest by reference to such contemporary publishing ventures as Anchor Books and the Harper Torchbooks. University of Washington 2010 Kathleen Verduin...

... expectations and desires of readers to whom the gestures were addressed. It argues that if the aristocratic airs adopted by writers situate them squarely in the Old Regime, the readerly practices to which they appealed (and which they in turn shaped)—individualized and moralized as well as commercialized—might...