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...Rob Nixon Copyright © 1988 by Duke University Press 1988 Rob Nixon London Calling: V. S. Naipaul and the License of Exile There is no success like exile. Guillermo Cabrera Infante S. Naipaul s familial and personal dis­ placements figure so boldly in both his work and its critical reception...

...Elizabeth J. Deis; Lowell T. Frye Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 ''London or Else the Back-Woods : Some British Views of America in the 1830s Elizabeth J. Deis and Lowell T. Frye During the 1830s Thomas Carlyle s attitudes toward America shifted fre­ quently, the fluctuations...

...William C. Havard Copyright © 1959 by Duke University Press 1959 THE LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS REVISITED William C. Havard DISTINGUISHED Cambridge don recently said that as an institution the London School of Economics and Political Science is a genuine original. In the context in which...

...Roland Mushat Frye William Byrd of Virginia: The London Diary (1717-1721) and Other Writings . Wright Louis B. Tinling Marion , editors. New York : Oxford University Press , 1958 . Pp. vi , 647 . $10.00 . Copyright © 1959 by Duke University Press 1959 Book Reviews 333...

...James L. Godfrey Copyright © 1950 by Duke University Press 1950 ANGLO-AMERICAN NAVAL CONVERSATIONS PRELIMINARY TO THE LONDON NAVAL CONFERENCE OF 1930 JAMES L. GODFREY THE WASHINGTON Naval Conference of 1922 limited the total tonnages of national holdings in capital ships and restricted...

...Robert R. Wilson Report of Robert H. Jackson, United States Representative to the International Conference on Military Trials, London, 1945 . Washington : Government Printing Office , 1949 . Pp. xx , 441 . $1.75. . Copyright © 1950 by Duke University Press 1950 530 The South...

...William Henry Irving Boswell’s London Journal 1762-1763 . Edited by Pottle Frederick A. . New York : McGraw-Hill Book Company , 1950 . Pp. xxix , 370 . $5.00 . Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 Book Reviews 591 This book will remind historians of some...

...Fiona Paisley This essay concerns the protest of an Australian Aboriginal man outside Australia House in central London. In the 1920s Anthony Martin Fernando made regular appearances outside Australia House on the Strand. Dressed in a black cloth on which he had sewn tiny skeletons, he expressed...

...Emma Dowling; Anna Feigenbaum; Susan Pell; Katherine Stanley This essay brings together the authors’ experiences and observations with reflections gathered in an open workshop about Occupy London organized under the banner of the Tent City University working group. The essay posits Occupy London...

...Paul W. Miller Copyright © 1972 by Duke University Press 1972 The Cyclical Renewal of London Paul W. Miller It has been customary for scholars to view London as a frontier of virtually uninterrupted growth from its founding in Roman times to the present.1 It might be more accurate, however...

...Clarence Gohdes The Interchange of Plays between London and New York, 1910-1939: A Study in Relative Audience Response . By Boyd Alice Katharine . New York : King’s Crown Press , 1948 . Pp. x , 125 . $2.50 . Copyright © 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 320 The South...

...Elgin W. Mellown Virginia Woolf and London: The Sexual Politics of the City . By Squier Susan Merrill . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 1985 . Pp. xii , 220 . $19.95 . Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 406 The South Atlantic Quarterly...

.... UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS GEORGE J. WORTH The London Muse: Victorian Poetic Response to the City. By William B. Thesing. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 1982. Pp. xviii, 230. $20.00. But what of the poetry about the city written between Blake and Eliot, while England was becoming the world s first urban...

...Lisa A. Freeman Lisa A. Freeman Tragic Flaws: Genre and Ideology in Lillo s London Merchant In the history of theater, no dramatic genre of any period has been accounted a failure as con­ sistently and persistently as eighteenth-century tragedy. For the most part, twentieth-century critics have...

...T. S. Graves Copyright © 1914 by Duke University Press 1914 The Shape of the First London Theatre T. S. Graves Assistant Professor of English in Trinity College. Owing largely to the facts that the Globe, constructed from the materials of the Theatre, was circular in shape and that De Witt...

...Lawrence F. London GEORGE EDMUND BADGER, MEMBER OF THE HARRISON-TYLER CABINET, 18+1 LAWRENCE F. LONDON EORGE EDMUND BADGER was, for many years, an im­ portant figure in the political life of North Carolina and, for a shorter time, a prominent personage in national affairs. An at­ tempt...

...Priyamvada Gopal In June 2011, A. C. Grayling, a professor of philosophy at Birkbeck College London and a familiar figure in British left-liberal circles, unleashed a firestorm of controversy when he announced the formation of Britain's first fully private and for-profit liberal arts institution...

... architecture that are nevertheless subject to—and to a degree invite—embarrassment in the context of Berlin as a historically burdened location. In contrast, Ernö Goldfinger's house at 2 Willow Road, Hampstead Heath, London, formulates a different response to the problem of properly acknowledging...

..., to the logic of the city. As documented on YouTube, Jump London , and Casino Royale or seen in the flesh, parkour is the most spectacular of a set of unruly practices in the specular city, from skateboarding to flash mobbing. The traceur can be situated in the history of urban wanderers in the midst of capital...

... long-term and intersectional perspectives that go beyond the mere male/female balance. This essay, based on ongoing research and founded on a series of interviews with ride-hailing and food-delivery platform workers in London and Paris, explores the impact of digi-talization in two male-dominated...