The Journal of English and Germanic Philology articles from January 2000

The Journal of English and Germanic Philology archives from January 2000

Edwardus redivivus in A Gest of Robyn Hode(*).(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2000... Of the thirty-eight Robin Hood ballads printed by Francis James Child, three are widely considered the earliest in date: Robin Hood and the Monk (Child 119), Robin Hood and the Potter (Child 121), and A Gest of Robyn Hode (Child 117). The first...

"Nourish-Milke": Breast-Feeding and the Crisis of Englishness, 1600-1660(*).
January 1, 2000... For the newborn, what better reassurance can there be than the support of its mother and the satisfaction of suckling at her breast, what better promise of things to come? The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding (The La Leche League...

Narrating the Cell: Dickens on the American Prisons.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2000... The accumulated wisdom of 150 years of scholarship on Dickens's American Notes runs something like this: the young and already-renowned radical author arrived in the United States in January 1842 only to have his idealized vision of a...

The Individual and the Ideal: The Representation of Royalty in Morkinskinna.
January 1, 2000... In recent years scholars have to a greater extent than before been engaged in the study of the various perceptions of individuality in the Middle Ages. One of the major issues at dispute has been the rather complex relationship between the...

BEDEUTUNGSERFASSUNG UND BEDEUTUNGSBESCHREIBUNG IN HISTORISCHEN UND DIALEKTOLOGISCHEN WORTERBUCHERN.(Review)
January 1, 2000... BEDEUTUNGSERFASSUNG UND BEDEUTUNGSBESCHREIBUNG IN HISTORISCHEN UND DIALEKTOLOGISCHEN WORTERBUCHERN. Herausgegeben yon Rudolf Grosse. Leipzig: Verlag der Sachsischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 1998. Pp. 278. DM 126. How does...

MITTELHOCHDEUTSCHE GRAMMATIK.(Review)
January 1, 2000... MITTELHOCHDEUTSCHE GRAMMATIK. Yon Hermann Paul, mit Syntax von Ingeborg Schrobler. 24. Auflage uberarbeitet von Peter Wiehl und Siegfried Grosse. Tubingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1998. Pp. xxiv + 638. DM 44. Compared to the twenty-third...

The Long Arm of Coincidence: The Frustrated Connection Between Beowulf and Grettis Saga.(Brief Article)(Review)
January 1, 2000... THE LONG ARM OF COINCIDENCE: THE FRUSTRATED CONNECTION BETWEEN BEOWULF AND GRETTIS SAGA. By Magnus Fjalldal. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998. Pp. iv + 176. $50. For over a hundred years scholars have been hard at work trying to...

SORG OCH ELEGII EDDANS HJALTEDIKTNING.(Review)
January 1, 2000... SORG OCH ELEGII EDDANS HJALTEDIKTNING. By Daniel Savborg. (Stockholm Studies in the History of Literature, 36.) Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 1997. Pp. 485. One of the most vexed questions in the field of Eddaic studies is the age of the...

THE BOOK OF REYKJAHOLAR: THE LAST OF THE GREAT MEDIEVAL LEGENDARIES.(Review)
January 1, 2000... THE BOOK OF REYKJAHOLAR: THE LAST OF THE GREAT MEDIEVAL LEGENDARIES. By Marianne Kalinke. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996. Pp. xii + 322. $65. To scholars of medieval Icelandic literature, the myths and poetry of the pagan past...

SCHWIERIGE MODERNITAT: DER `ACKERMANN' DES JOHANNES VON TEPL UND DIE AMBIGUITAT HISTORISCHEN WANDELS.(Review)
January 1, 2000... SCHWIERIGE MODERNITAT: DER `ACKERMANN' DES JOHANNES VON TEPL UND DIE AMBIGUITAT HISTORISCHEN WANDELS. Von Christian Kiening. (Munchener Texte und Untersuchungen zur deutschen Literatur des Mittelalters, Bd. 113.) Tubingen: Niemeyer, 1998. Pp....

EMBLEMATA: HANDBUCH ZUR SINNBILDKUNST DES XVI. UND XVII. JAHRHUNDERTS.(Review)
January 1, 2000... EMBLEMATA: HANDBUCH ZUR SINNBILDKUNST DES XVI. UND XVII. JAHRHUNDERTS. Herausgegeben von Arthur Henkel und Albrecht Schone. Taschenbuchausgabe. Stuttgart: Metzler, 1996. Pp. lxxiii + 2100 cols. DM 98. When Henkel and Schone's compendium of...

HEROINEN IN DER GESCHLECHTERORDNUNG. WEIBLICHKEITSPROJEKTIONEN BEI DANIEL CASPER VON LOHENSTEIN UND DIE QUERELLE DES FEMMES.(Review)
January 1, 2000... HEROINEN IN DER GESCHLECHTERORDNUNG. WEIBLICHKEITSPROJEKTIONEN BEI DANIEL CASPER VON LOHENSTEIN UND DIE >QUERELLE DES FEMMES In this volume Plume undertakes to link the works of one of the leading German authors of the Baroque, Daniel Casper...

FRIEDRICH VON HAGEDORN, BRIEFE.(Review)
January 1, 2000... FRIEDRICH VON HAGEDORN, BRIEFE. Band 1: Text. Band 2: Apparat/Kommentar. Herausgegeben von Horst Gronemeyer. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter 1997. Pp. 826. DM 490. Im Zuge editorischer Neuerschlie[Beta]ungen literarischer Texte des...

BY THE RIVERS OF BABYLON: HEINRICH HEINE'S LATE SONGS AND REFLECTIONS.(Review)
January 1, 2000... BY THE RIVERS OF BABYLON: HEINRICH HEINE'S LATE SONGS AND REFLECTIONS. By Roger F. Cook. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1998. Pp. 399. $39.95. Half of this major study of Heine's late thought and of Romanzero undertakes a...

ENIGMATIC BLISS: THE PARADISE MOTIF IN LITERATURE.(Review)
January 1, 2000... ENIGMATIC BLISS: THE PARADISE MOTIF IN LITERATURE. By Ingrid G. Daemmrich. New York: Peter Lang, 1997. Pp. vii + 240. The search for paradise or a paradisiacal place has occupied mankind from the earliest beginnings, and has consequently...

Colonial Fantasies: Conquest, Family, and Nation in Precolonial Germany, 1770-1870.(Review)
January 1, 2000... COLONIAL FANTASIES; CONQUEST, FAMILY, AND NATION IN PRECOLONIAL GERMANY, 1770-1870. By Susanne Zantop. Durham: Duke University Press, 1997. Pp. 292. $49-95. The reception of colonialism in German letters has always been an ambiguous...

Electronic Text: Investigations in Method and Theory.(Review)
January 1, 2000... ELECTRONIC TEXT: INVESTIGATIONS IN METHOD AND THEORY. Edited by Kathryn Sutherland. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997. Pp. ix + 245; 33 illustrations. $58. Kathryn Sutherland's Electronic Text brings together an assortment of essays on current...

Anglo-Saxonism and the Construction of Social Identity.(Review)
January 1, 2000... ANGLO-SAXONISM AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF SOCIAL IDENTITY. Edited by Allen J. Frantzen and John D. Niles. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1997. Pp. 242. $49.95. Old English studies' founding myth of a self-conscious "racial" and...

THE MEDIEVAL MEDEA.(Brief Article)(Review)
January 1, 2000... THE MEDIEVAL MEDEA. By Ruth Morse. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1996. Pp. xvi + 267; 7 illustrations. $72. This book is mistitled in only one respect: nearly half of it is concerned with the classical Medea, both as she is subsumed within the...

DEATH AND PURGATORY IN MIDDLE ENGLISH DIDACTIC POETRY.(Review)
January 1, 2000... DEATH AND PURGATORY IN MIDDLE ENGLISH DIDACTIC POETRY. By Takami Matsuda. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1997. Pp. x + 278; 7 illustrations. $63. The reconsideration of spirituality and devotionalism in pre-Reformation England began in earnest...

COURTLY DESIRE AND MEDIEVAL HOMOPHOBIA: THE LEGITIMATION OF SEXUAL PLEASURE IN CLEANNESS AND ITS CONTEXTS.(Review)
January 1, 2000... COURTLY DESIRE AND MEDIEVAL HOMOPHOBIA: THE LEGITIMATION OF SEXUAL PLEASURE IN CLEANNESS AND ITS CONTEXTS. By Elizabeth B. Keiser. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997. Pp. x + 299. $37.50. Elizabeth Keiser's Courtly Desire and Medieval...

WILLIAM LANGLAND REVISITED.(Review)
January 1, 2000... WILLIAM LANGLAND REVISITED. By Joseph S. Wittig. New York: Twayne, 1997-Pp. xiv + 202. $28.95. This book, long awaited by admirers of Wittig's powerful and ground-breaking study twenty-six years ago of the middle passus of Piers Plowman...

CHAUCER ON LOVE, KNOWLEDGE, AND SIGHT.(Review)
January 1, 2000... CHAUCER ON LOVE, KNOWLEDGE, AND SIGHT. By Norman Klassen. (Chaucer Studies, 21.) Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1995 (1997). Pp. xi + e25. $53. Although this study of some of Chaucer's intellectual and literary backgrounds calls itself...

ENGLISH WYCLIFFITE SERMONS.(Review)
January 1, 2000... ENGLISH WYCLIFFITE SERMONS, VOLS. IV AND V. Edited by Pamela Gradon and Anne Hudson. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996. Pp. xv + 333; xiii + 443. $110;$125. Even a belated review can note the achievement that these final volumes of Gradon's...

SHAKESPEARE AND IRELAND: HISTORY, POLITICS, CULTURE.(Review)
January 1, 2000... SHAKESPEARE AND IRELAND: HISTORY, POLITICS, CULTURE. Edited by Mark Thornton Burnett and Ramona Wray. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997-Pp. xii + 264. $59.95. What should a book of essays on Shakespeare and Ireland be like? The editors of...

KING LEAR AND THE NAKED TRUTH: RETHINKING THE LANGUAGE OF RELIGION AND RESISTANCE.(Review)
January 1, 2000... KING LEAR AND THE NAKED TRUTH: RETHINKING THE LANGUAGE OF RELIGION AND RESISTANCE. By Judy Kronenfeld. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1998. Pp. xiii + 383. $64.95 (cloth); $21.95 (paper). Judy Kronenfeld inaugurates this learned,...

JONSON, SHAKESPEARE, AND EARLY MODERN VIRGIL.(Review)
January 1, 2000... JONSON, SHAKESPEARE, AND EARLY MODERN VIRGIL. By Margaret Tudeau-Clayton. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xii + 267; 5 illustrations. $59.95. Margaret Tudeau-Clayton's erudition and latinity are on convincing display from...

SERMONS AT COURT: POLITICS AND RELIGION IN ELIZABETHAN AND JACOBEAN PREACHING.(Review)
January 1, 2000... SERMONS AT COURT: POLITICS AND RELIGION IN ELIZABETHAN AND JACOBEAN PREACHING. By Peter E. McCullough. (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History.) Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xv + 237; 9 illustrations;...

THEORY AND THEOLOGY IN GEORGE HERBERT'S POETRY: "DIVINITIE, AND POESIE, MET".(Review)
January 1, 2000... THEORY AND THEOLOGY IN GEORGE HERBERT'S POETRY: "DIVINITIE, AND POESIE, MET." By Elizabeth Clarke. (Oxford Theological Monographs.) Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997. Pp. viii + 599. $75. As its subtitle indicates better than its title, the...

RESHAPING THE SEXES IN SENSE AND SENSIBILITY.(Review)
January 1, 2000... RESHAPING THE SEXES IN SENSE AND SENSIBILITY. By Moreland Perkins. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1998. Pp. xi + 208. $24.50. In a book written in a refreshingly plain style, Moreland Perkins reads Austen's first published...

BYRON'S DON JUAN AND THE DON JUAN LEGEND.(Review)
January 1, 2000... BYRON'S DON JUAN AND THE DON JUAN LEGEND. By Moyra Haslett. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997. Pp. ix + 310. $78. Moyra Haslett sets out to correct a major misconstruction, as she sees it, of Byron's Don Juan: a misleading consensus among...

FORMAL CHARGES: THE SHAPING OF POETRY IN BRITISH ROMANTICISM.(Review)
January 1, 2000... FORMAL CHARGES: THE SHAPING OF POETRY IN BRITISH ROMANTICISM. By Susan J. Wolfson. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997. Pp. xiv + 344; 10 illustrations. $39.50. In this well reasoned defense of formalist criticism and the...

ROMANTICISM AND THE SELF-CONSCIOUS POEM.(Review)
January 1, 2000... ROMANTICISM AND THE SELF-CONSCIOUS POEM. By Michael O'Neill. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997. Pp. xliv + 308. $75. This is a wonderful book. I read it with immense pleasure and I know that I will go back to it, at regular intervals, in the...

JOYCE AND THE INVENTION OF IRISH HISTORY: FINNEGANS WAKE IN CONTEXT.(Review)
January 1, 2000... JOYCE AND THE INVENTION OF IRISH HISTORY: FINNEGANS WAKE IN CONTEXT. By Thomas C. Hofheinz. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. xiii + 200. $49.95. The linking of the terms "invention" and "history" in the title of this fine...