The Journal of English and Germanic Philology articles from October 1997

The Journal of English and Germanic Philology archives from October 1997

The unbearable lightness of being a philologist.
October 1, 1997... Wea bi?? wundrum clibbor; wolcnu scri??a??. Woe is wondrously clinging; the clouds glide by. --Maxims II, 13 A birthday needs a cake. For a centenarian like the Journal of English and Germanic Philology, a maple-flavored...

"In thievish ways": tropes and robbers in Shakespeare's sonnets and early modern England.
October 1, 1997... Heather Dubrow, University of Wisconsin I Proclaiming her resolve to remain faithful to Romeo, Juliet catalogues the dreadful fates she would accept in lieu of wedding his rival: O, bid me leap, rather than marry Paris, ...

Multiple readers, multiple texts, multiple Keats. (John Keats)
October 1, 1997... I. THE IDEA OF INCONGRUITY My topic is the multiple meanings of Keats's poems, the multiple Keats who created the multiple meanings, and what I think is the real reason for the yearlong tribute of admiration and affection that marked...

Confession and camouflage: the diaries of Thomas Mann.
October 1, 1997... Something dramatic and unexpected has happened to the reputation of Thomas Mann in Germany over the last two decades: it has taken a sharp turn upwards from where it stood in 1975, one hundred years after his birth. On that occasion, the...

Thomas Mann: A Biography.
October 1, 1997... By Ronald Hayman. New York: Scribner, 1995. Pp. 672; 32 illustration. $35. The present, rich harvest of biographies of Thomas Mann is in itself an astonishing phenomenon and must come as a surprise to anyone who has not been closely...

Thomas Mann: A Life.
October 1, 1997... By Donald Prater. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. Pp. xviii + 544; 49 illustrations, $35. The present, rich harvest of biographies of Thomas Mann is in itself an astonishing phenomenon and must come as a surprise to anyone...

Thomas Mann, Deutscher und Weltburger: Eine Biographie.
October 1, 1997... Von Donald Prater. Aus dem Englischen von Fred Wagner. Munchen und Wien: Carl Hanser Verlag, 1955. Pp. 775; 8 illustrations. DM 68. The present, rich harvest of biographies of Thomas Mann is in itself an astonishing phenomenon and must come...

Thomas Mann: Eine Biographie.
October 1, 1997... Von Klaus Harpprecht. Reinbek: Rowohlt Verlag, 1995. Pp. 2256. DM 98. The present, rich harvest of biographies of Thomas Mann is in itself an astonishing phenomenon and must come as a surprise to anyone who has not been closely monitoring the...

Thomas Mann: Eros and Literature.
October 1, 1997... Herausgegeben von Hans Wsyling und Yvonne Schmidlin. Zurich: Artemis, 1994. Pp. 504; 700 illustration. DM 148. The present, rich harvest of biographies of Thomas Mann is in itself an astonishing phenomenon and must come as a surprise to...

Thomas Mann: Ein Leben in Bildern.
October 1, 1997... By Anthony Heilbut. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. Pp. xiii + 636; 31 illustrations. $40. The present, rich harvest of biographies of Thomas Mann is in itself an astonishing phenomenon and must come as a surprise to anyone who has not been...

Der Zauberer: Das Leben des deutschen Schriftstellers Thomas Mann, 3 vols.
October 1, 1997... Band 1: 1875-1905; Band 2: 1905-1918; Band 3: 1919 und 1933 (nachgelassene Kapitel). Von Peter de Mendelssohn. Herausgegeben von Albert von Schirnding. Uberarbeitet und mit Zitatnachweisen versehen von Cristina Klostermann. Frankfurt/Main: S....

A History of Paradise:The Garden of Eden in Myth and Transition.
October 1, 1997... By Jean Delumeau. Translated by Matthew O'Connell. New York: Continuum, 995. Pp. x + 276; 25 maps and details of maps. $29.50. Until recently, if one wanted to read about the history of Paradise, one began with H. R. Patch's 1950 study, The...

Echoes of Desire: English Petrarchism and its Counterdiscourses.
October 1, 1997... By Heather Dubrow. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1995. Pp. xiv + 295. $45. This perceptive book by one of our best readers of Renaissance lyric sheds new light on Petrarchism, "one of the most significant discourses in Tudor and even...

The Reformation of the Subject: Spenser, Milton, and the English Protestant Epic.
October 1, 1997... By Linda Gregerson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. xi + 281. $49.95. In The Reformation of the Subject, Linda Gregerson investigates the nature of "subject formation"--both of the literary character and of the responsive...

John Donne and the Ancient Catholic Nobility.
October 1, 1997... By Dennis Flynn. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995. Pp. vii + 245. $35. Two scholarly developments in recent years have made Dennis Flynn's John Donne and the Ancient Catholic Nobility a timely contribution to current academic...

Milton and Republicanism.
October 1, 1997... Edited by David Armitage, Armand Himy, and Quentin Skinner. (Ideas in Context.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. xii + 284; 1 illustration. $54.95. The political pamphlets that John Milton wrote between 1649 and 1660 are...

Paper Bullets: Print and Knightship Under Charles II.
October 1, 1997... By Harold M. Weber. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1996. Pp. x + 292; 4 illustrations. $39.95. In this book, Harold Weber engages a number of issues that have pretty much become standard motifs in Restoration and...

Women Travel Writers and the Language of Aesthetics: 1716-1818.
October 1, 1997... By Elizabeth A. Bohls. (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism, 13.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. x + 309; 8 illustrations. $49.95. Bohls's book presents a provocative and stimulating analysis of women's travel writing and its...

Henry James: History, Narrative, Fiction.
October 1, 1997... By Roslyn Jolly. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993. Pp. xi + 239. $41. "The difficulties produced for both James and his characters by the idea of history" (p. v) is Roslyn Jolly's subject. Ranging through the novels, James's critical writings...

The Dialect of Modernism: Race, Language and Twentieth-Century Literature.
October 1, 1997... By Michael North. New York: Oxford University Press 1994. Pp. iii + 252. $29.95. Relating dialect and blackface to Anglo-American social and literary history, Michael North offers them as the basis for a broader study of American culture....