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... City University of New York Italo Svevo: The Man and the Writer. By P. N. FURBANK.Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1966. xi + 232 pp. $6.00. P. N. Furbank‘s eminently readable book, the first in English entirely devoted to the great Triestine novelist, is from...

..., but the central thesis is narrowly single-minded and strangely inconclusive. ILONABELL Wi11 iums College Dryden the Public Writer, 1660-1685. By GEORGEMCFADDEN. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978. xi 4- 305 pp. $16.50...

..., 1978. vi + 435 pp. $36.00. Libraries should shelve John Lough’s book in their reference section, for it is less an analytic study of writer and public in France than a highly useful com- pendium of information regarding the economics (and, to a lesser degree, the politics) of being...

...Allen W. Porterfield Copyright © 1941 by Duke University Press 1941 E. T. A. HOFFMANN AS A LYRIC WRITER By ALLENW. PORTERFIELD In the Harich edition1 of Hoffmann’s works there is a total of 5,760 pages written by Hoffmann himself. This excludes...

...Karl S. Weimar Walter H. Sokel. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1959. Pp. vi + 251. $5.00. Copyright © 1960 by Duke University Press 1960 Karl S. M’kirnar 233 The Writer irt Exfrewis: Expressionisnt in Tw~ntieth-CenturyGerman...

...Wilson T. Bell; Thomas Lahusen The Making of the State Writer: Social and Aesthetic Origins of Soviet Literary Culture . By Evgeny Dobrenko. Translated by Jesse M. Savage. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001. xxi + 484 pp. © 2004 University of Washington 2004 Wilson T...

...Elaine V. Beilin Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 WRITING PUBLIC POETRY HUMANISM AND THE WOMAN WRITER By EMNE V. BEILIN Had I a husband or a house, And all that longes therto...

..., and the formation of the middle class. She is working on a history of middlebrow culture in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century England, provisionally titled “Popular Novel Reading, Sexuality, and the Nation.” Jane EF, the Woman Writer, and the History of Experience Anita Levy Elizabeth...

... of his legacy, as a final comparison with Hegel shows. Tim Fulford, Nottingham Trent University Letters from the Front. Vol. 3 of No Man ’s Land: The Place of the Woman Writer in the Twentieth Century. By Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar. New Haven, Conn.: Yale...

... and importance of the work. “Fabulous,” “stupendous,” “monumental,” “immense,” “amazing,” are a few of these. One cannot hope to go further in this respect, but the present writer can at least approve the ad- jectives already employed. For it is a plain fact that no man in history has ever...

... of Stefan George, when he met the latter in the winter of 1901, and was looked upon as a member of the “Georgekreis.” But like other independent writers, von Heiseler eventually refused to make the necessary personal sacrifices in the service of the “Master” and was henceforth treated...

...George Woodcock Frank Field. Cambridge, New York, London: Cambridge University Press, 1975. 212 pp. $13.95. Copyright © 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 GEORGE WOODCOCK 105 Three French Writers and the Great War: Studies...

...: A Study of the Classical French Moralist Writers. By LOUISEK. HOROWITZ.Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1977. 169 pp. $12.50. Generally love is an overworked term, applied to the most various urges and affections, emotions, and drives. In French literature of the seventeenth...

.... G. B. TENNYSON University of Calfornia, Los Angeles The Writer’s Task from Nietrsche to Brecht. By HANSREISS. Totowa, N.J.: Rowman and Littlefield, 1978. xiv + 221 pp. $19.50. It has been a favorite topos of cultural critics at least since Jeremiah that the world is galloping...

.... EDWARDW. TAYLER Columbia University The Sentimental Revolution: French Writers of 1690-1740. By GEOFFROY ATKINSON.Edited by ABRAHAMC. KELLER.Seattle and London: Univer- sity of Washington Press, 1965. ix + 188 pp. $6.00. The late Geoffroy Atkinson once told me...

...John Leon Lievsay Copyright © 1941 by Duke University Press 1941 BRAGGADOCHIO : SPENSER’S LEGACY TO THE CHARACTER-WRITERS By JOHN LEONLIEVSAY It is not a little ironic that the most vital of Spenser’s charac- ters...

...Caroline Walker Bynum Peter Dronke. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984. xi + 338 pp. $54.50, cloth; $15.95, paper. Copyright © 1985 by Duke University Press 1985 REVIEWS Women Writers of the Middle Ages: A Critical Study of Textsfrom Perpetua (f...

...Janice H. Harris Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 NOT SUFFERING AND NOT STILL WOMEN WRITERS AT THE CORNHILL MAGAZINE, 1860- 1900 By JANICE H. HARRIS In his introduction to volume 3...

...Deidre Lynch British Women Writers and the Writing of History, 1670-1820 . By Devoney Looser. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. 272 pp. © 2003 University of Washington 2003 Lynch Review 393 British Women Writers...