...Richard Gilman Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 Richard Gilman The Seagull: Art and Love, Love and Art Some preliminary notes, ideas, observa­ tions, questions, and reminders for an essay on the play. Its title is the most nearly symbolic of those for any Chekhov play, but like...

...Russell A. Fraser In Praise of Love: An Introduction to the Love-Poetry of the Renaissance . By Valency Maurice . New York : Macmillan , 1958 . Pp. xi , 319 . $6.50 . Copyright © 1959 by Duke University Press 1959 Book Reviews 619 Themes of Simone de Beauvoir s Les Mandarins...

...J. D. McAuliffe 2004 by Duke University Press 2004 J. D. McAuliffe Grave Love: A Story On the afternoon of November my brother was the victim...

...Corey D. B. Walker This essay engages the theme of religion and the futures of blackness by critically examining the interrelationship between two normative standards in the discourse of religion and blackness: love and community. The essay proceeds by thinking love and community as risks...

...Susana M. Morris In this essay, I argue that Toni Morrison’s Love is in the tradition of texts such as Ernest Gaines’s The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman , Alice Walker’s Meridian , and Charles Johnson’s Dreamer in that it is a reevaluation of the civil rights movement and a meditation...

... recent history makes an unlikely beacon for those interested in the perennial political philosophical problem of freedom, has for its national motto: “The love of freedom brought us here.” In this essay, I propose to reacquaint my readers with what I take to be some key elements of that discourse in what...

...Ellie Ragland-Sullivan Copyright © 1989 by Duke University Press 1989 Ellie Ragland-Sullivan Plato s Symposium and the Lacanian Theory of Transference: Or, What Is Love? In the first ten meetings of his seminar On the Transference Lacan offered an innovative interpretation of Plato s...

...Annette B. Hopkins Copyright © 1925 by Duke University Press 1925 Jane Austen s Love and Freindship : A Study in Literary Relations Annette B. Hopkins Goucher College The advent of a long needed critical edition1 of Jane Austen s novels is being welcomed with deserved cordiality...

...Robert W. Johannsen Love of Order: South Carolina’s First Secession Crisis . By Barnwell John . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 1982 . Pp. x , 258 . $25.00 . Copyright © 1984 by Duke University Press 1984 Book Reviews 239 Republicans themselves...

...Michael Hardt Alexandra Kollontai, Bolshevik revolutionary and minister in the first Soviet government, argues that in capitalist society the bonds of romantic love and family love are based on the logic of property relations, or what can be called property love. She critiques property love...

...Robert F. Durden God’s Country and Mine: A Declaration of Love Spiced with a Few Harsh Words . By Barzun Jacques . Boston : Little Brown and Company , 1954 . Pp. 344 . $5.00 . Copyright © 1955 by Duke University Press 1955 Book Reviews 147 God s Country and Mine...

...Abbott C. Martin Copyright © 1930 by Duke University Press 1930 THE LOVE OF SOLITUDE IN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY POETRY ABBOTT C. MARTIN Sewanee, Tenn. I READERS of English poetry of the eighteenth century will perhaps remember how often in this poetry man is depicted as a solitary and to what...

...Jack Stillinger The Romantic Body: Love and Sexuality in Keats, Wordsworth, and Blake . By Hagstrum Jean H. . Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press , 1985 . Pp. xvi , 177 . Illus. $14.95 . Copyright © 1987 by Duke University Press 1987 BOOKS The Romantic Body: Love...

...Larry S. Champion Love and Society in Shakespearean Comedy: A Study of Dramatic Form and Content . By Levin Richard A. . Newark : The University of Delaware Press ; London : Associated University Presses , 1985 . Pp. 9 , 203 . $26.50 . Copyright © 1987 by Duke University Press...

...Will L. Mclendon Proust and the Art of Love . By Rivers J. E. . New York : Columbia University Press , 1980 . Pp. ix , 327 . $22.50 . Copyright © 1982 by Duke University Press 1982 BOOKS Proust and the Art of Love. By J. E. Rivers. New York: Columbia University Press, 1980...

...Fred Chappell The Lost America of Love: Reading Robert Creeley, Edward Dorn, and Robert Duncan . By Paul Sherman . Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press , 1981 . Pp. xvi , 276 . $17.50 . Copyright © 1982 by Duke University Press 1982 472 The South Atlantic Quarterly...

...Calvin T. Ryan Copyright © 1941 by Duke University Press 1941 THE AMERICAN S LOVE OF BEING FIRST CALVIN T. RYAN AT A WATER carnival held on the Thames River, so the story comes out of England, a diver from the United States waited his turn to participate. When he was called, he asked...

...Shirley Strum Kenny Copyright © 1979 by Duke University Press 1979 Elopements, Divorce, and the Devil Knows What : Love and Marriage in English Comedy, 1690 1720 Shirley Strum Kenny In Farquhar s The Recruiting Officer, which opened in 1706, the hero, Plume, says that he would never consent...

...Anne Firor Scott An Ordered Love: Sex Roles and Sexuality in Victorian Utopias—the Shakers, the Mormons, and the Oneida Community . By Kern Louis J. . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 1981 . Pp. xiii , 430 . $24.00 hardback; $9.95 paperback. Copyright © 1983...

...Wallace Jackson Copyright © 1973 by Duke University Press 1973 The Country Wife: The Premises of Love and Lust Wallace Jackson The Country Wife has always proven a difficult play for critics because the nature of its action has remained unclear. It is custom­ ary to regard it as Wycherley s...