...John N. Swift Copyright © 1980 by Duke University Press 1980 Similes of Disguise and the Reader of Paradise Lost John N. Swift For Milton, the act of shape-shifting lies somewhere near the heart of Satanic evil; Satan s creative competition with God is epitomized by his self-transformations...

...Alistair M. Duckworth The Impossible Observer: Reason and the Reader in 18th-Century Prose . By Uphaus Robert W. . Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky , 1979 . Pp. 160 . $14.00 . Copyright © 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 Book Reviews 237 Thackeray s Canvass...

...Harry Miller Solomon Gulliver and the Gentle Reader: Studies in Swift and Our Time . By Rawson C. J. . Boston and London : Routledge and Kegan Paul , 1973 . Pp. v , 190 . $10.95 . Copyright © 1975 by Duke University Press 1975 280 The South Atlantic Quarterly and speeches...

... , 1945 . Pp. x , 626 . $5.00 . Rocky Mountain Reader . Edited and with an Introduction by West Ray B. Jr. New York : E. P. Dutton and Company , 1946 . Pp. 436 . $3.50 . Copyright © 1946 by Duke University Press 1946 528 The South Atlantic Quarterly Tolstoy: An Approach...

..., Brown, 1980 . Parini, Jay. “Mentors.” In Some Necessary Angels: Essays on Writing and Politics . New York: Columbia University Press, 1997 . Parini, Jay. The Patch Boys . New York: Holt, 1986 . Fred Gardaphe Writing As a Reader...

...Edd Winfield Parks HOWELLS AND THE GENTLE READER EDD WINFIELD PARKS IN HIS numerous critical essays William Dean Howells often defined the proper relationship of the author to the fictional world he is creating. The definition, however variously phrased, comes always to the same meaning...

...Francis E. Skipp The Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald . Edited by Turnbull Andrew . New York : Charles Scribner’s Sons , 1963 . Pp. xviii , 615 . $10.00 . The Fitzgerald Reader . Edited by Mizener Arthur . New York : Charles Scribner’s Sons , 1963 . Pp. xxvii , 509...

...Marvin Magalaner Copyright © 1953 by Duke University Press 1953 JAMES JOYCE AND THE UNCOMMON READER Marvin Magalaner BEARDED GEORGE RUSSELL, bookkeeper, invoker of druidical powers, agricultural consultant, and mystic poet, was the first formal critic of the stories in James Joyce s Dubliners...

...Arlin Turner A Southern Reader . By Thorp Willard . New York : Alfred A. Knopf , 1955 . Pp. xxiii , 760 , vi . $7.50 . Copyright © 1956 by Duke University Press 1956 Book Reviews 241 the progressive estrangement and eventual rupture of German-American relations. Concern...

...John N. Morris Surprised by Sin: The Reader in Paradise Lost . By Fish Stanley Eugene . New York : St. Martin’s Press , 1967 . Pp. xi , 344 . $7.50 . Copyright © 1969 by Duke University Press 1969 134 The South Atlantic Quarterly arrival next morning), he never attempted...

...Terence Martin Book Reviews 155 The Battle and the Books: Some Aspects of Henry James. By Ed­ ward Stone. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1964. Pp. xi, 234. $5.00. Henry James and the Modern Reader. By D. W. Jefferson. New York: St. Martin s Press, 1964. Pp. viii, 240. $7.95. Neither of these books...

...Thomas Lahusen Copyright © 1991 by Duke University Press 1991 Thomas Lahusen Socialist Realism Revisited: Or, the Reader s Searching Melancholy The warden held that there are no senseless or boring books if a reader will only seek the mean­ ing of life in them attentively. Boring books come...

...Arthur B. Ferguson English Books and Readers, 1558 to 1603, Being a Study in the History of the Book Trade in the Reign of Elizabeth I . By Bennett H. S. . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1965 . Pp. xviii , 320 . $8.50 . Copyright © 1966 by Duke University Press 1966...

...William H. Wannamaker Copyright © 1908 by Duke University Press 1908 Ibsen for American Readers* By William H. Wannamaker Professor of German in Trinity College The publicfuneral awarded Henrik Ibsen by the Storthing at his death on May 23, 1906, which was attended by the King of Nor­ way...

...Edward Jenkinson When Readers Dislike the Works of Writers: Censorship in America Today Edward Jenkinson As I study attempts by individuals and groups to censor books in public school libraries and classrooms in America, 1 read thousands of words written by people who either dislike or fear...

...Charles R. Young Book Reviews 109 Medieval Readers and Writers 1350-1400. By Janet Coleman. New York: Columbia University Press, 1981. Pp. ix, 337. $27.50. Janet Coleman has brought together recent research in a number of academ­ ic disciplines to provide new answers to old questions about...

...Arlin Turner Leaves of Grass: Comprehensive Reader’s Edition . Edited by Blodgett Harold W. Bradley Sculley . New York : New York University Press , 1965 . Pp. Lviii , 768 . $12.50 . Copyright © 1965 by Duke University Press 1965 576 The South Atlantic Quarterly The Two...

... life s but a walking shadow, etc. In his valedictory he says: It is the beauties of earth that make life hard to bear, knowing that life must end. Away then with the whine of being miserable sinners, . . . We ve important things to do. marie a. updike white Dickens and His Readers: Aspects...

...David A. Ellison From the beginning of his career, Dickens conceived of the home and in particular the hearth as the reception point for his distinctive narrative transmissions. The relationship between writer and reader was imagined in terms of the most intimate and residentially entrenched...

... half of 1967 in Milan, Italy. Black Reconstruction struck a responsive chord in those readers because of both its vision of an egalitarian social structure in its formative years and a sense of victory by the exploited and the oppressed in their process of putting an end to slavery. This group...