The Journal of English and Germanic Philology articles from October 1999

The Journal of English and Germanic Philology archives from October 1999

"... So wird Ihr Brief naturlich seyn": Zur Geschichte der praktischen deutschen Brieflehre des 18. Jahrhunderts.
October 1, 1999... I In zwei Banden `Fabeln und Erzahlungen', die 1746 und 1748 erschienen, bewies der Leipziger Poet und Universitatslehrer Christian Furchtegott Gellert ein besonderes Talent: Er verstand es glanzend, aus einer in gereimten Versen...

Unlocking Exodus ll. 516-532.(Review)
October 1, 1999... Panon Israhelum ece raedas on merehwearfe Moyses saegde, heahpungen wer, halige spraece, deop aerende. Daegweorc nemnad swa gyt werdeode, on gewritum findad doma gehwilcne, ...

Nudity, the Body, and Early English Drama.
October 1, 1999... Attitudes toward the human body were an important factor affecting the production of the late medieval religious drama of England. The unclothed postlapsarian body was regarded as a sign of shame, as opposed to the perfect human body of Christ,...

Weddings, Funerals, and Incest: Alchemical Emblems and Shakespeare's Pericles, Prince of Tyre.
October 1, 1999... Pericles, Prince of Tyre is presented primarily by means of narrative and spectacle rather than through drama. Many of the play's enacted episodes, as well as the dumbshows interpolated in Gower's narrative chorus, take the form of...

CRITICISM AND DISSENT IN THE MIDDLE AGES.(Review)
October 1, 1999... CRITICISM AND DISSENT IN THE MIDDLE AGES. Edited by Rita Copeland. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. xii + 332. $59.95 A feature of the 1990s is the prominent role of multiply-authored essay collections, as opposed to...

THE WORLD GROWN OLD IN LATER MEDIEVAL LITERATURE.(Review)
October 1, 1999... THE WORLD GROWN OLD IN LATER MEDIEVAL LITERATURE. By James M. Dean. Cambridge, Mass.: The Medieval Academy of America, 1997. Pp. xi + 379; 5 illustrations. $50. James Dean has written what, even in a very traditional discipline such as...

CHAUCER'S GARDENS AND THE LANGUAGE OF CONVENTION.(Review)
October 1, 1999... CHAUCER'S GARDENS AND THE LANGUAGE OF CONVENTION. By Laura L. Howes. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1997. Pp. xi + 142. $39.95. While admiring the work of such scholars as A. Bartlett Giamatti (The Earthly Paradise and the...

CHAUCER'S OPEN BOOKS: RESISTANCE TO CLOSURE IN MEDIEVAL DISCOURSE.(Review)
October 1, 1999... CHAUCER'S OPEN BOOKS: RESISTANCE TO CLOSURE IN MEDIEVAL DISCOURSE. By Rosemarie P. McGerr. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1998. Pp. x + 210. $49.95. The end of a narrative, medieval rhetoricians testify, is its strong point; so...

A CULTURE OF TEACHING: EARLY MODERN HUMANISM IN THEORY AND PRACTICE.(Review)
October 1, 1999... A CULTURE OF TEACHING: EARLY MODERN HUMANISM IN THEORY AND PRACTICE. By Rebecca W. Bushnell. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1996. Pp. xiii + 210; 6 illustrations. $37.50 (cloth); $15.95 (paper). More than a book about early modern...

DISSING ELIZABETH: NEGATIVE REPRESENTATIONS OF GLORIANA.(Review)
October 1, 1999... DISSING ELIZABETH: NEGATIVE REPRESENTATIONS OF GLORIANA. Edited by Julia M. Walker. Durham: Duke University Press, 1998. Pp. X + 300. $54.95 (cloth); $17.95 (paper). This extremely valuable collection of essays speaks clearly over silences...

ELIZABETHAN FICTIONS: ESPIONAGE, COUNTER-ESPIONAGE, AND THE DUPLICITY OF FICTION IN EARLY ELIZABETHAN PROSE NARRATIVES.(Review)
October 1, 1999... ELIZABETHAN FICTIONS: ESPIONAGE, COUNTER-ESPIONAGE, AND THE DUPLICITY OF FICTION IN EARLY ELIZABETHAN PROSE NARRATIVES. By R. W. Maslen. Oxford English Monographs. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997. Pp. viii + 320. $78. R. W. Maslen's...

THE SOUND OF VIRTUE: PHILIP SIDNEY'S ARCADIA AND ELIZABETHAN POLITICS.(Review)
October 1, 1999... THE SOUND OF VIRTUE: PHILIP SIDNEY'S ARCADIA AND ELIZABETHAN POLITICS. By Blair Worden. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996. Pp. xxv + 406. $50. Blair Worden's study of Philip Sidney's Arcadia is a major accomplishment in...

ENGENDERING A NATION: A FEMINIST ACCOUNT OF SHAKESPEARE'S ENGLISH HISTORIES.(Review)
October 1, 1999... ENGENDERING A NATION: A FEMINIST ACCOUNT OF SHAKESPEARE'S ENGLISH HISTORIES. By Jean E. Howard and Phyllis Rackin. London and New York: Routledge, 1997. Pp. xviii + 248; 10 plates. $65. (cloth); $17.95 (paper). As its title suggests, this...

LATE SHAKESPEARE: A NEW WORLD OF WORDS.(Review)
October 1, 1999... LATE SHAKESPEARE: A NEW WORLD OF WORDS. By Simon Palfrey. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997. Pp. ix + 298. $85. Simon Palfrey's Late Shakespeare is a dazzling and dizzying study of Shakespeare's four late romances, Pericles, Cymbeline, The...

"RENAISSANCE" TALK: ORDINARY LANGUAGE AND THE MYSTIQUE OF CRITICAL PROBLEMS.(Review)
October 1, 1999... "RENAISSANCE" TALK: ORDINARY LANGUAGE AND THE MYSTIQUE OF CRITICAL PROBLEMS. By Stanley Stewart. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 1997. Pp. xvii + 306. $48 (cloth); $21.50 (paper). Shortly after the high tide of structuralism, in the...

IDEOLOGY AND DESIRE IN RENAISSANCE POETRY: THE SUBJECT OF DONNE.(Review)
October 1, 1999... IDEOLOGY AND DESIRE IN RENAISSANCE POETRY: THE SUBJECT OF DONNE. By Ronald Corthell. Detroit. Wayne State University Press, 1997. Pp. 227. $39.95. After being exalted by Eliot and canonized by the New Critics, Donne's stock has declined...

SACRED AND PROFANE: SECULAR AND DEVOTIONAL INTERPLAY IN EARLY MODERN BRITISH LITERATURE.(Review)
October 1, 1999... SACRED AND PROFANE: SECULAR AND DEVOTIONAL INTERPLAY IN EARLY MODERN BRITISH LITERATURE. Edited by Helen Wilcox, Richard Todd, and Alasdair MacDonald. Amsterdam: VU University Press, 1996. Pp. xiv + 345. $45. This varied and important...

THE MAKING OF JACOBEAN CULTURE: JAMES I AND THE RENEGOTIATION OF ELIZABETHAN LITERARY PRACTICE.(Review)
October 1, 1999... THE MAKING OF JACOBEAN CULTURE: JAMES I AND THE RENEGOTIATION OF ELIZABETHAN LITERARY PRACTICE. By Curtis Perry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. PP. xiv + 281; 4 illustrations. $65. Curtis Perry's book is based on several...

"THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY": MILTON'S REINVENTION OF THE MYTHOLOGICAL TRADITION.(Review)
October 1, 1999... "THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY": MILTON'S REINVENTION OF THE MYTHOLOGICAL TRADITION. By John Mulryan. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 1996. Pp. xii +345. $48. John Mulryan's book is a wide-ranging study that investigates Milton's mythic...

AT ZERO POINT: DISCOURSE, CULTURE, AND SATIRE IN RESTORATION ENGLAND.(Review)
October 1, 1999... AT ZERO POINT: DISCOURSE, CULTURE, AND SATIRE IN RESTORATION ENGLAND. By Rose A. Zimbardo. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1998. Pp. x + 203. $34.95. Professor Zimbardo argues that Restoration England, like Juvenal's Rome and...

PROFESSIONAL IMAGINATIVE WRITING IN ENGLAND, 1670-1740: "HACKNEY FOR BREAD".(Review)
October 1, 1999... PROFESSIONAL IMAGINATIVE WRITING IN ENGLAND, 1670-1740: "HACKNEY FOR BREAD." By Brean S. Hammond. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997. PP. viii + 348. $85. The enactment of the Statute of Anne (1710), the world's first copyright act, was a...

DON QUIXOTE IN ENGLAND: THE AESTHETICS OF LAUGHTER.(Review)
October 1, 1999... DON QUIXOTE IN ENGLAND: THE AESTHETICS OF LAUGHTER. By Ronald Paulson. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. Pp. xx + 242; 18 figures. $35. Don Quixote stands in Professor Paulson's study as an originary embodiment of a...

COSMOPOLITAN CRITICISM: OSCAR WILDE'S PHILOSOPHY OF ART.(Review)
October 1, 1999... COSMOPOLITAN CRITICISM: OSCAR WILDE'S PHILOSOPHY OF ART. By Julia Prewitt Brown. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1997. Pp. xx + 137. $30. What is scandalous about Oscar Wilde today? It is, says Julia Prewitt Brown in this...

THE SENSUAL PHILOSOPHY: JOYCE AND THE AESTHETICS OF MYSTICISM.(Review)
October 1, 1999... THE SENSUAL PHILOSOPHY: JOYCE AND THE AESTHETICS OF MYSTICISM. By Colleen Jaurretche. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1997. Pp. x + 156. $27.95. This short and elegantly written book attempts both to condense a lot of material...

AFTER EMPIRE: SCOTT, NAIPAUL, RUSHDIE.(Review)
October 1, 1999... AFTER EMPIRE: SCOTT, NAIPAUL, RUSHDIE. By Michael Gorra. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. Pp. x + 207. $35 (cloth); $14.95 (paper). "In 1701 Daniel Defoe, angry at the mistreatment of the Dutch immigrants who had come to Britain...

NECESSARY MADNESS: THE HUMOR OF DOMESTICITY IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICAN LITERATURE.(Review)
October 1, 1999... NECESSARY MADNESS: THE HUMOR OF DOMESTICITY IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICAN LITERATURE. By Gregg Camfield. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. xiv + 236. $55. This book addresses a bifurcation between humor and domestic writing in...

LETTERS, FICTIONS, LIVES: HENRY JAMES AND WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS.(Review)
October 1, 1999... LETTERS, FICTIONS, LIVES: HENRY JAMES AND WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS. By Michael Anesko. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. xvii + 492. $65. All scholars and students of American literature are indebted to Michael Anesko's superb study...

THE CHANGING IMAGE OF THEODOR FONTANE.(Review)
October 1, 1999... THE CHANGING IMAGE OF THEODOR FONTANE. By Helen Chambers. Columbia, S.C.: Camden House, 1997. Pp xi + 172. $52.95. Let us recognize from the onset: Helen Chambers's meticulously researched, chronologically listed, and critically commented...

WELTTHEATER: HOFMANNSTHAL, RICHARD VON KRALIK, AND THE REVIVAL OF CATHOLIC DRAMA IN AUSTRIA, 1890-1934.(Review)
October 1, 1999... WELTTHEATER: HOFMANNSTHAL, RICHARD VON KRALIK, AND THE REVIVAL OF CATHOLIC DRAMA IN AUSTRIA, 1890-1934. By Judith Beniston. London: W. S. Maney and Sons Ltd. for the Modern Humanities Research Association and the Institute of Germanic Studies,...

VOICE AND VOID: THE POETRY OF GERHARD FALKNER.(Review)
October 1, 1999... VOICE AND VOID: THE POETRY OF GERHARD FALKNER. By Neil H. Donahue. (Beitrage zur neueren Literaturgeschichte, dritte Folge, 157.) Heidelberg: Universitatsverlag C. Winter, 1998. Pp. 234. DM 58. In his preface Donahue explains why he decided...

EAST, WEST, AND OTHERS: THE THIRD WORLD IN POSTWAR GERMAN LITERATURE.(Review)
October 1, 1999... EAST, WEST, AND OTHERS: THE THIRD WORLD IN POSTWAR GERMAN LITERATURE. By Arlene A. Teraoka. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1996. Pp. x + 250. $35. By dint of lucid prose and keen analysis this fine contribution to...

BAIRISCHES DEUTSCH: LEXIKON DER DEUTSCHEN SPRACHE IN ALTBAYERN.(Review)
October 1, 1999... BAIRISCHES DEUTSCH: LEXIKON DER DEUTSCHEN SPRACHE IN ALTBAYERN. Von Ludwig Zehetner. Munchen: Hugendubel, 1997. Pp. 392. DM 48. Ludwig Zehetner has already earned for himself a unique place among researchers and those who publish on aspects...