The Journal of English and Germanic Philology articles from April 1994

The Journal of English and Germanic Philology archives from April 1994

Deployment of an Irish loan: ON veroa at gjalti 'to go mad with terror.' (Old Norse)
April 1, 1994... Scholars of Old Norse lexicon since Johan Fritzner (although not Cleasby and Vigfusson) have recognized that the nominal component in the expression verda at gjalti derives from Irish geilt |wild man of the woods' (see infra for a closer...

Sororophobia: Differences Among Women in Literature and Culture.
April 1, 1994... By Helena Michie. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. Pp. 2i6. 29-95. In Sororophobia: Differences Among Women in Literature and Culture, Helena Michie addresses one of the most important issues in feminist scholarship: how to...

A Grammar of Old English, vol. 1, Phonology.
April 1, 1994... By Richard M. Hogg. Oxford: Blackwell, 1992. Pp. xii + 355. $79.95. More than a quarter of a century has passed since there was a new edition of a major reference work on Old English phonology. The delay is probably not just the effect of...

Dreaming in the Middle Ages.
April 1, 1994... By Steven F. Kruger. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, 14. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Pp. xii + 254. $59.95. Scholarship on medieval dream visions and theories of dreaming has been, since the late nineteenth...

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the Idea of Righteousness.
April 1, 1994... By Gerald Morgan. Dublin Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1991. Pp. 173. $39.50. Distilling the key themes of his articles on the pentangle symbol (MLR, 1979), the nature of Gawain's confession...

Chaucer and the Subject of History.
April 1, 1994... By Lee Patterson. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1991. Pp. x + 489. $14.95. Chaucer and the Subject of History, updating Caroline Spurgeon, tells us how to read Chaucer in a modern way. Ms. Spurgeon's half-century-old...

Lancelot Andrewes the Preacher, 1555-1626: The Origins of the Mystical Theology of the Church of England.
April 1, 1994... By Nicholas Lossky. Translated by Andrew Louth. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991. Pp. xii + 377. $89. The author, who is professor of English civilization at the University of Paris-X, X, first published this remarkable book several years...

A Gust for Paradise: Milton's Eden and the Visual Arts.
April 1, 1994... By Diane Kelsey McColley. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993. PP. xviii + 305; 61 plates. $49.95. After a brief introductory chapter, appropriately called "In the Beginning," this study divides neatly into two sections. The...

Victorian Scandals: Representations of Gender and Class.
April 1, 1994... Edited by Kristine Ottesen Garrigan. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1992. Pp. xi + 337; 12 illustrations. $39.95. Together with a foreword by the editor and an afterword by Thais E. Morgan the ten essays in this volume enliven and...

Housman's Poems.
April 1, 1994... By John Bayley. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992. Pp. vi + 202. $49.95. This exasperating book is obligatory reading because anything written by John Bayley in his field is obligatory reading, but the book is exasperating nevertheless. ...

The Flight of the Mind: Virginia Woolf's Art and Manic-Depressive Illness.
April 1, 1994... By Thomas C. Caramagno. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992. Pp. xi+362; 6 illustrations. $30. In this century, characterized by the explosion of knowledge and the rise of the specialist, interdisciplinary studies pose special...

The Hidden Law: The Poetry of W.H. Auden.
April 1, 1994... By Anthony Hecht. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993. pp. xi+484. $35. It is true enough, as Auden's most quoted line has it, that poetry makes nothing happen. But who would want it any other way? Auden believed that if a text...

Echo Chambers: Figuring Voice in Modern Narrative.
April 1, 1994... By Patrick O'Donnell. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1992. Pp. xii+224. $32.95. Patrick O'Donnell's newest book is not big, but its scope and implications loom large. Compounding literary theory with criticism and history,...

Eloquent Reticence: Withholding Information in Fictional Narrative.
April 1, 1994... By Leona Toker. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1993. Pp. x+ 225. $33. Leona Toker's study is concerned with those ellipses in fictional narratives which force the reader into "gap-filling" activities. Her work builds on the...

Dearest Beloved: The Hawthornes and the Making of the Middle-Class Family.
April 1, 1994... By T. Walter Herbert. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. Pp. xx + 331. $28. In spite of all the hullabaloo about expanding the canon and diversifying the literary curriculum, canonical authors have been the true...

Jennie Gerhardt.
April 1, 1994... By Theodore Dreiser. Edited by James L. W. West III. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992. Pp. xiv + 578. 39-95. Jennie Gerhardt is the second novel to be published in the Pennsylvania Edition of Dreiser's work. The eleven...

The Sexual Education of Edith Wharton.
April 1, 1994... By Gloria C. Erlich. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992. Pp. xiv + 210; 9 illustrations. $20. Gloria Erlich grounds her analysis of Edith Wharton's life and fiction in detailed consideration of two early, life-shaping events:...

Writing Illinois: The Prairie, Lincoln, and Chicago.
April 1, 1994... By James Hurt. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992. Pp. vii + 154. $29-95. James Hurt has produced a book that complements Robert Bray's Rediscoveries: Literature and Place in Illinois (1982), and also goes beyond it. While Bray...

Ezra Pound, Wyndham Lewis, and Radical Modernism.
April 1, 1994... By Vincent Sherry. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. Pp. viii + 228. 14 illustrations. $45. Let's begin as Vincent Sherry does in this admirably clear and direct study with the root meaning of the word ideologie: "a study of...

Deutsches Literatur-Lexikon: Biographisch-Biographisches Handbuch Begrundet von Wilhelm Kosch, 3d ed.
April 1, 1994... Dritte, vollig neu bearbeitete Auflage. Dreizehnter Band: Rill-Salzmann. Herausgegeben von Heinz Rupp (Mittelalter) und Carl Ludwig Lang (Neuzeit). Redaktion: Carl Ludwig Lang. Bern: Francke Verlag (1991). Pp. xiv; 768 cols. Progress...

Old English and Its Closest Relatives.
April 1, 1994... By Orrin W. Robinson. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1992. Pp. ix 290. $35. Orrin W. Robinson has with the writing of Old English and its Closest Relatives undertaken in ten chapters the very ambitious effort of presenting for...

Mittelhochdeutsch: Eine Einfuhrung in die Dialekte.
April 1, 1994... Von Herbert Penzl. (Langs Germanistische Lehrbuchsammlung, 8.) Bern, Frankfurt, New York, Paris: Verlag Peter Lang AG, 1989. Pp. 190. SFr 56.80. As I indicated in my review of the companion volume, Althochdeutsch in the same series (see...

Heroic Sagas and Ballads.
April 1, 1994... By Stephen A. Mitchell. Ithaca: Cornerll University Press, 1991. Pp. xiv+239. $26.95. Literary traditions which show a significant degree of continuity over several centuries should be a subject of special scrutiny for historians, more...

Formen Inzitativer Rede Bei Meister Eckhart: Untersuchungen zur literarischen Konzeption der Deutschen Predigt.
April 1, 1994... Von Burkhard Hasebrink. Tubingen: Niemeyer, 1992. Pp. ix+297. DM 162. In this detailed analysis of three Eckhart-sermons (Q12, Q30, and Q49) using the methodology of text-linguistics, Burkhard Hasebrink demonstrates the ways in which...

Faustus on Trial: The Origins of Johann Spies's "Historia" in an Age of Witch Hunting.
April 1, 1994... By Frank Baron. (Fruhe Neuzeit, 9.) Tubingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1992. Pp. viii_237 + 7 illustrations + 1 foldout. DM 76. In two earlier books, Doctor Faustus: From History to Legend (1978) and Faustus: Geschichte, Sage, Dichtung...

Fairy Tale Romance: The Grimms, Basile, and Perrault.
April 1, 1994... By James M. McGlathery. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1991. Pp. ix + 226. 29-95. In Fairy Tale Romance: The Grimms, Basile, and Perrault, James McGlathery sets out to examine the three "classic" collections of Early Modern fairy...

The Jewish Reception of Heinrich Heine.
April 1, 1994... Edited by Mark H. Gelber. Tubingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1992. Pp. 234. DM 96. Heinrich Heine's relationship to judaism, his Jewishness, and his Jewish contemporaries, a subject of endless fascination, has in recent decades produced...

Crossing Borders: Reception Theory, Poststructuralism, Deconstruction.
April 1, 1994... By Robert C. Holub. Madison, London: University of Wisconsin Press, 1992. Pp. xii + 244. $42. The title Crossing Borders designates the movement of "theory," particularly French theory, into the academic cultures of Germany and the U.S....

Diminished by kindness: Frederick Klaeber's Rewriting of Wealhtheow. (Klaeber's portrayal of women in his translation of 'Beowulf')
April 1, 1994... In the last several years a number of scholars, Allen J. Frantzen and Lee Patterson among them, have begun to raise serious questions about the ways we understand and carry on medieval scholarship; Frantzen especially has urged that we...

Chaucer's Man of Sorrows: secular images of pity in the 'Book of the Duchess,' the 'Squire's Tale,' and 'Troilus and Criseyde.' (Geoffrey Chaucer)
April 1, 1994... In a remarkable passage in the Book of the Duchess, the Man in Black, asked by the Dreamer to tell him about his sorrow so that he may help to remedy it, politely refuses any such assistance, but offers instead a portrait of his grief as...

Wordsworth's duty as poet in "We are Seven" and "Surprised by Joy.' (William Wordsworth)
April 1, 1994... The publication of Lyrical Ballads in 1798 was a revolutionary event in English poetry, a fact that William Wordsworth announced with characteristic frankness in his Advertisement to the first edition. He took pains there to encourage his...

The Poetics of Historical Perspectivism: Breitinger's "Critische Dichtkunst" and the Neoclassic Tradition.
April 1, 1994... By Jill Anne Kowalik. (University of North Carolina Studies in the Germanic Languages and Literatures, 114.) Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992. Pp. xiii + 148. $30. Professor Kowalik explores the interrelation of...

Herder's Aesthetics and the European Enlightenment.
April 1, 1994... By Robert E. Norton. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991. Pp. xi + 257. $35.95. Focusing on the early phase of Herder's creative activity between 1763 and 1778, the study offers an account of Herder's aesthetic philosophy that pursues...

Johann Jakob Engel: Briefwechsel aus den Jahren 1765 bis 1802.
April 1, 1994... Herausgegeben und kommentiert von Alexander Kosenina. Wurzburg: Konigshausen Neumann, 1992. Pp. xviii + 310. DM 86. "Ach! wann werd' ich einmal wieder auf Ihrem grunen Sofa neben Ihnen sitzen, Sie beym Kopf nehmen und kussen, und Ihnen...