The Journal of English and Germanic Philology articles from April 1998

The Journal of English and Germanic Philology archives from April 1998

The continuation of Hlaoajarla saga.
April 1, 1998... Finnur Jonsson appears to have been the first to speculate on the existence of a lost separate saga on the jarls of Hladir in proendalog.(1) He surmised that this lost text began with Hakon gamli Grjotgardsson in the days of Haraldr harfagri,...

The tale of the credulous provost in Der Stricker's "Der Pfaffe Amis."
April 1, 1998... The most conspicuous difference between the two principal versions of "Der Pfaffe Amis," the first German Schwankroman, is the omission from the "Vulgata" of the tenth episode in the Rieddeger text, in which Amis plays the role of an illiterate...

Playing with reason: aspects of Hooker's rhetoric in 'Lawes' I-V. (Richard Hooker)
April 1, 1998... The words beginning the first book of Richard Hooker's Of the Lawes of Ecclesiasticall Politie allude to dissident rhetoric: "He that goeth about to perswade a multitude, that they are not so well governed as they ought to be, shall never want...

For public consumption: the origin of titling the short poem.
April 1, 1998... Martial himself added subject headings (for example, "Pepper," "Cheese from Trebula") to the verse inscriptions for gifts that make up Book 13, Xenia, of his epigrams. In an introductory poem, he encourages the peruser of the volume to use the...

Henry Fielding and Parson Adams: Whig writer and Tory priest. ('Joseph Andrews')
April 1, 1998... Henry Fielding's overtly political writings generally identify him with one Whig faction or another, whether ministry, patriot, or broadbottom.(1) In November, 1744, he became a Pelhamite party hack, and in his social tracts of the 1750s,...

Mimesis and the Human Animal: On the Biogentic Foundations of Literary Representation.
April 1, 1998... Mimesis and the Human Animal: On the Biogenetic Foundation of Literary Representation. By Robert Storey. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1996. Pp. xxii + 274; 4 illustrations. $19-95 (paper). Robert Storey has made a bold and...

On Interpretation: Meaning and Inference in Law, Psychoanalysis, and Literature.
April 1, 1998... On Interpretation: Meaning and Inference in Law, Psychoanalysis, and Literature. By Patrick Cohn Hogan. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1996. Pp. X + 235-$45 In his ambitious new book, Patrick Cohn Hogan sets out to enhance our ability...

"Beowulf" and the Demise of Germanic Legend in England.
April 1, 1998... "Beowulf" and the Demise of Germanic Legend in England. By Craig R. Davis. (Albert Bates Lord Studies in Oral Tradition, 17.) New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1996. Pp. xvii + 237. $36. Craig Davis perceives Beowulf as a combination of...

Slavery in Early Mediaeval England: From the Reign of Alfred Until the Twelfth Century.
April 1, 1998... Slavery in Early Mediaeval England: From the Reign of Alfred until the Twelfth Century. By David A. E. Pelteret. (Studies in Anglo-Saxon History.) Rochester, N.Y., and Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 1995. Pp. xvi + 375. $81. No brief...

Public Reading and the Reading Public in Late Medieval England and France.
April 1, 1998... Public Reading and the Reading Public in Late Medieval England and FrANCE. By Joyce Coleman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. xiv + 250; 11 illustrations. $59.95. In this "ethnographic" study of reading practices in the late...

Medieval Venuses and Cupids: Sexuality, Hermeneutics, and English Poetry.
April 1, 1998... Medieval Venuses and Cupids: Sexuality, Hermeneutics, and English Poetry. By Theresa Tinkle. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996. Pp. xiii + 294. $39.50 This book does not present a sustained argument about the nature and uses of Venus...

Chaucer, Boccaccio, and the Debate of Love.
April 1, 1998... Chaucer, Boccaccio, and the Debate of Love. A Comparative Study of the Decameron and the Canterbury Tales. By N. S. Thompson. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996. PP. 354. $72. Acknowledging that the issue of whether Chaucer knew the Decameron is...

The Towneley Plays.
April 1, 1998... The Towneley Plays. Edited by Martin Stevens and A. C. Cawley. (Early English Text Society, supplementary series, 13-14.) Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994. 2 vols. pp. xlix + 733; 1 illustration. $78. The long-awaited edition of the...

Paracelsus: Speculative Theory and the Crisis of the Early Reformation.
April 1, 1998... Paracelsus: Speculative Theory and the Crisis of the Early Reformation. By Andrew Weeks. (SUNY Series in Western Esoteric Traditions.) Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997. Pp. xii + 238. $65-50 (cloth); $21-95 (paper). This...

Principles of Letter-Writing: A Bilingual Text of 'Justi Lipsii Epistolica Institio.'
April 1, 1998... Principles of Letter-Writing: A Bilingual Text of Justi Lipsii Epistolica Institutio. Edited and translated by R. V. Young and A Thomas Hester. (The Library of Renaissance Humanism.) Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University...

Myths of Modern Individualism: Faust, Don Quixote, Don Juan, Robinson Crusoe.
April 1, 1998... Myths of Modern Individualism: Faust, Don Quixote, Don Juan, Robinson Crusoe. By Ian Watt. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. v + 293. $27.95. Despite the numerous efforts in recent years to supplant it, Ian Watt's The Rise of...

The Title of the Poem.
April 1, 1998... The Title to the Poem. By Anne Ferry. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996. Pp. 314. $39.50. In his 1965 essay "Wordsworth, Inscriptions, and Romantic Nature Poetry," Geoffrey Hartman noted that "I have found no study of the tiding of...

Staging Reform, Reforming the Stage: Protestantism and Popular Theatre in Early Modern England.
April 1, 1998... Staging Reform, Reforming the Stage: Protestantism and Popular Theater in Early Modern England. By Huston Diehl. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997. Pp. xiii + 238; 16 illustrations. $39.95 In the opening sentence of this lucidly written...

Prayer, Despair, and Drama: Elizabethan Introspection.
April 1, 1998... Prayer, Despair, and Drama: Elizabethan Introspection. By Peter Iver Kaufman. (Studies in Anglican History.) Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1996. Pp. xii + 166. $24.95. Scholars of the English literary Renaissance will profit from this...

Things of Darkness: Economies of Race and Gender in Early Modern England.
April 1, 1998... Things of Darkness: Economies of Race and Gender in Early Modern England. By Kim F. Hall. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1995. Pp. xiii + 319; 27 illustrations. $45 (cloth); $17.95 (paper). Kim F. Hall's wide-ranging analysis of the...

Poetry and the Realm of Politics.
April 1, 1998... Poetry and the Realm of Politics. By Howard Erskine-Hill. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. Pp. xiv + 284. $55. Poetry and the Realm of Politics is the first part of an ambitious study of political poetry from the Renaissance through the...

Society and Politics in the Plays of Thomas Middleton.
April 1, 1998... Society and Politics in the Plays of Thomas Middleton. By Swapan Chakravorty. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996. Pp. xii + 230. $55. Few monographs devoted to the plays of Thomas Middleton have been published since the 1970s, although essays on...

The Control and Censorship of Caroline Drama: The Records of Sir Henry Herbert, Master of the Revels, 1623-73.
April 1, 1998... The Control and Cencorship of Caroline Drama: The Records of Sir Henry Herbert, Master of the Revels, 1623-73. Edited, with Introduction, by N. W. Bawcutt. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996. Pp. ix + 350. $80. The unfortunately hyperbolic and...

Sexual Freedom in Restoration Literature.
April 1, 1998... Sexual Freedom in Restoration Literature. By Warren Chernaik. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. xii + 268. $54.95. If there is one thing modern literary sexologists agree about, it is that sex is a pretty rough business. After...

Mania and Literary Style: The Rhetoric of Enthusiasm from the Ranters to Christopher Smart.
April 1, 1998... Mania and Literary Style: The Rhetoric of Enthusiasm from the Ranters to Christopher Smart. By Clement Hawes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. xii + 243. $54-95 This original, closely argued, and stimulating study bridges a...

The Rhetoric of Suffering: Reading the Book of Job in the Eighteenth Century.
April 1, 1998... The Rhetoric of Suffering: Reading the Book of Job in the Eighteenth Century. By Jonathan Lamb. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995. Pp. xii + 329; 8 illustrations. $65. In a brilliant and difficult argument, Jonathan Lamb reads the book of Job as...

Wordsworth's Pope: A Study in Literary Historiography.
April 1, 1998... Wordsworth's Pope: A Study in Literary Historiography. By Robert J. Griffin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp xii + 190; 2 illustrations. $49-95. When I began graduate school at Cornell University in the late 1970s, those of...

Napoleon and English Romanticism.
April 1, 1998... Napoleon and English Romanticism. By Simon Bainbridge. (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. xiv + 259; 9 illustrations. $49.95. In recent years, numerous books, articles, and conferences have...

Revising Wild: Society and Subversion in the Plays of Oscar Wilde.
April 1, 1998... Revising Wilde: Society and Subversion in the Plays of Oscar Wilde. By Sos Eltis. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996. Pp. x + 226. $60. Readers already familiar with Kerry Powell's Oscar Wilde and the Theatre of the 1890s (Cambridge University...

The Book of Yeats's Vision: Romantic Modernism and Antithetical Tradition.
April 1, 1998... The Book of Yeats's Vision: Romantic Modernism and Antithetical Tradition. By Hazard Adams. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1995. Pp. xiv + 178; 18 figures, 3 tables, glossary, index. $39.50. Hazard Adams's The Book of Yeats's Vision...

Ordbog over det norrone prosasprog/ A Dictionary of Old Norse Prose.
April 1, 1998... Ordbog over det norrone prosasprog // A Dictionary of Old Norse Prose. Volume 1. Edited by Helle Degnbol, Bent Chr. Jacobsen, Eva Rode, Christopher Sanders, Porbjorg Helgadottir. Copenhagen: The Arnamagnaean Commission, 1995. Pp. 453 (906...

The Language of the Oldest Runic Inscriptions: A Linguistic and Historical-Philological Analysis.
April 1, 1998... The Language of the Oldest Runic Inscriptions: A Linguistic and Historical-Philological Analysis. By E[nver] A[xmedovic] Makaev. Translated from the Russian by John Meredig, in consultation with Elmer H. Antonsen. (Kungl. Vitterhets Historie...

The Phonology of German.
April 1, 1998... The Phonology of German. By Richard Wiese. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996. Pp.x +351. $74 This book is the fourth volume of the series entitled The Phonology of the World's Languages. The series' stated objective for each study is that it...

Der Stricker. 'Daniel von dem Bluhenden Tal.'
April 1, 1998... Der Stricker. Daniel von dem Bluhenden Tal. 2, neubearbeitete Auflage. Herausgegeben von Michael Resler. (Altdeutsche Textbibliothek, 92.) Tubingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1995. Pp. xxvi + 364. DM 86. In an article published in this journal...

Chivalry in Twelfth-Century Germany. The Works of Hartmann von Aue.
April 1, 1998... Chivalry in Twelfth-Century Germany. The Works of Hartmann von Aue. By W. H. Jackson. Woodbridge and Rochester: D. S. Brewer, 1994. Pp. xiv + 320. $71. In recent times chivalry and its relation to literature have increasingly occupied the...

Der Heiligen Leben. Bank I: 'Der Sommerteil.'
April 1, 1998... Der Heiligen Leben. Band I: Der Sommerteil. Herausgegeben von Margit Brand, Kristina Freienhagen-Baumgardt, Ruth Meyer und Werner Williams-Krapp. Tubingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1996. Pp. liii + 584. DM 278. By virtue of its extensive...

Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock. 'Der Messias.'
April 1, 1998... Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock. Der Messias. Band 3: Text /Apparat. Herausgegeben von Elisabeth Hopker-Herberg. (Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock. Werke und Briefe. Historisch-Kritische Ausgabe. Herausgegeben von Horst Gronemeyer, Elisabeth...

Harmonious Tensions: The Writings of Friedrich Schiller.
April 1, 1998... Harmonious Tensions: The Writings of Friedrich Schiller. By Steven D. Martinson. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1996. Pp. 448. $55. In this ambitious but uneven study Steven D. Martinson surveys the writings of Friedrich Schiller in...

Nietzsche and Schiller: Untimely Aesthetics.
April 1, 1998... Nietzsche and Schiller: Untimely Aesthetics. By Nicholas Martin. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1996. pp. xi + 219. $55. "It may seem strange, perverse even," Martin writes at the beginning of the Introduction to this study, "that anyone should...

Georg Kaiser and the Critics: A Profile of Expressionism's Leading Playwright.
April 1, 1998... Georg Kaiser and the Critics: A Profile of Expressionism's Leading Playwright. By Audrone B. Willeke. Columbia, S.C.: Camden House, Inc., 1995. Pp. xiv + 154. $54.95. While critics tend to incorporate previous scholarship in the discussion...