Journal of European Studies articles from December 1998

Journal of European Studies archives from December 1998

Shaping History: Ordinary People in European Politics, 1500-1700.(Review)
December 1, 1998... Wayne Te Brake. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. Pp. xiii + 221. [pounds]11.95. A wide-ranging and important contribution to the understanding of early modern European history. Te Brake, a noted scholar of Dutch history,...

The Austrian Comic Tradition: Studies in Honour of W.E Yates (Austrian Studies 9).(Review)
December 1, 1998... (Austrian Studies 9). Edited by John R. P. McKenzie and Lesley Sharpe. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1998. Pp. xviii + 279. [pounds]50.00. The only British Germanist who has ever been elected to the Osterreichische Akademie der...

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach: Leben und Werk.(Review)
December 1, 1998... Edith Toegel. New York, Washington DC/Baltimore, Berne, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Vienna, Paris: Peter Lang, 1997. Pp. 150. [pounds]25.00. As the title suggests, this is a traditional study of the life and works of the important...

Realms of Memory: The Construction of the French Past.(Review)
December 1, 1998... Under the direction of Pierre Nora; English language edition edited by Lawrence D. Kritzman; translated by Arthur Goldhammer. Volume III: Symbols. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998. Pp. xii + 751. [pounds]31.95. In this final...

Form the Royal to the Republican Body: Incorporating the Political in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century France.(Review)
December 1, 1998... Edited by Sara Melzer and Kathryn Norberg. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. Pp. vii + 267. [pounds]13.95. This exciting account of cultural identities and politics begins with a bold statement of the centrality of the...

The King's Midwife: A History and Mystery of Madame du Coudray.(Review)
December 1, 1998... Nina Rattner Gelbart. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. Pp. xi + 347. $35.00 In the corporate society of the Ancien Regime, in which professional bodies jealously protected their perceived rights, medicine was marked by...

Paris 1937: Worlds on Exhibition.(Review)
December 1, 1998... James D. Herbert. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1998. Pp. xiv + 207. [pounds]31.50. This is not a book, as its author feels a need to stress, which could have been written in 1937: 'the lack of a position of omniscient...

Aspects of Contemporary France.(Review)
December 1, 1998... Edited by Sheila Perry. London: Routledge, 1997. Pp. xviii + 258. [pounds]13.99. This book is designed for undergraduates and complements the already well-established volumes which bring together essays on political, economic, social and...

Understanding 'Les Fleurs du Mal'; Critical Readings.(Review)
December 1, 1998... Edited by William J. Thompson. Foreword by Claude Pichois. Nashville and London: Vanderbilt University Press, 1997. Pp. xi + 241. $18.95 (pbk). This collection of analyses is not informed by any particular programme; if anything, it...

Apollinaire and the International Avant-Garde.(Review)
December 1, 1998... Willard Bohn. (SUNY series, The Margins of Literature). Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997. Pp. 369. US $24.95. In his heyday, on the verge of the Great War, Guillaume Apollinaire was like a restless spider at the centre of a...

Cioran l'Heretique.(Review)
December 1, 1998... Patrice Bollon. Paris: Gallimard, 1997. Pp. 307. FF 140.00. Paul Johnson set many people's teeth on edge several years ago when, in his book Intellectuals, he examined the pronouncements of a select group of public philosophers through the...

Camus: The Challenge of Dostoevsky.(Review)
December 1, 1998... Ray Davison. Exeter: Exeter University Press, 1997. Pp. ix + 243. [pounds]11.99. This study explores the impact of Dostoevsky on Camus's intellectual development and argues that Camus pursued a counter-discourse with the Russian writer,...

Beckett Before Godot.(Review)
December 1, 1998... John Pilling. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1997. Pp. xiv + 277. It is perhaps unfortunate that Cambridge University Press have brought this book out a year after a study by Lois Gordon, The World of Samuel Beckett, 1906-1946...

Contes Americains.(Review)
December 1, 1998... Jean-Francois de Saint-Lambert. Presented by Roger Little. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 1997. (Textes Litteraires, collection dirigee par Keith Cameron, XCIX.) Pp. xl + 88. [pounds]10.99. The title is not Saint-Lambert's but Roger...

Profile der Aufklarung: Friedrich Nicolai - Isaak Iselin, Briefwechsel (1767-1782).(Review)
December 1, 1998... Edited by Holger Jacob-Friesen. Schweizer Texte, Neue Folge, Bd. 10, Bern: Verlag Paul Haupt, 1997. SF 48,-. Although little known outside of Swiss and German academic circles, Isaak Iselin (1728-1782) was one of the most important figures...

Scharfrichter der burgerlichen Seele: Raoul Hausmann in Berlin 1900-1933: Unveroffentlichte Briefe Texte Dokumente aus den Kunstler-Archiven der Berlinischen Galerie.(Review)
December 1, 1998... Edited by Eva Zuchner. Berlin: Berlinische Galerie and Verlag Gerd Hatje, 1998. Pp. 532. Raoul Hausmann's writings from the Dada and post-Dada years have been appearing piecemeal since the 1970s, and although researchers always guessed...

Schriften zur Kunst.(Review)
December 1, 1998... Adolf Behne. Edited by Cornelia Briel. Berlin: Gebr. Mann Verlag, 1998. Pp. 280. DM 198,-. More than one reviewer in this Journal has noted that the left-wing art historian, architectural theoretician and aesthetic popularizer Adolf Behne...

Proletarian Performance in Weimar Berlin: Agitprop, Chorus, and Brecht.(Review)
December 1, 1998... Richard Bodek. Columbia, SC: Camden House, 1997. Pp. xiv + 184. [pounds]45.00. Richard Bodek's study of the culture and politics of Weimar Berlin presents an alternative to the popular view of the 'Golden Twenties', of an era 'dancing on...

Russia and the Low Countries in the Eighteenth Century.(Review)
December 1, 1998... Edited by Emmanuel Waegemans. Groningen: Instituut voor Noord- en Oost-Europese Studies, 1998. (Baltic Studies, vol. 5.) Pp. viii + 340. $30.00. This is a handsome volume, assembled by Emmanuel Waegemans of the Catholic University of...

Literary Journals in Imperial Russia.(Review)
December 1, 1998... Edited by Deborah A. Martinsen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xiv + 265. [pounds]40.00. The nineteenth-century Russian 'thick journals' (tolstye zhurnaly) - like the intelligentsia, to whose ideas they gave voice, and...

Patriotism and linguistic purism in France: Deux dialogues dans le nouveau langage francois and Parlez-vous Franglais?
December 1, 1998... 1. Purism in the sixteenth and twentieth centuries Nearly four centuries separate the publication in France of two satirical works: Henri Estienne's Deux dialogues dans Ie nouveau langage francois italianize (1578) and Parlez-vous...

Aspects of philology and racial theory in nineteenth-century Celticism - the case of James Cowles Prichard.
December 1, 1998... Modern European debates about the cultural standing of different nations have hinged largely on ideas of their distant ancestry. The ghosts of the Goths and Teutons, Franks and Gauls, Anglo-Saxons and Celts have been seen in their German,...

The doctrine of equivalents.
December 1, 1998... There can possibly be no more inappropriate translator/commentator than Kinbote, the Boswell in Pale Fire to the mistakenly murdered poet Shade. As a bearded, vegetarian, homosexual, Christian, European royalist he is uniquely unqualified to...

Translating free verse: two poems from Jaccottet's 'On voit.'.
December 1, 1998... One might argue that the peculiar challenge of free verse lies in its being, at one and the same time, possibly the strictest and possibly the most accommodating of mediums. It can be seen as strict in that, historically, one of its principal...

Making connections.(evaluation of the book by James Dolamore)
December 1, 1998... As one would expect of a publication such as this, attention is focused right from the start on the recipient of the Festchrift. There is an introduction by the editor, in which he justifies the somewhat disparate nature of the articles by...

Making Connections: Essays in French Culture and Society in Honour of Philip Thody.(Review)
December 1, 1998... As one would expect of a publication such as this, attention is focused right from the start on the recipient of the Festchrift. There is an introduction by the editor, in which he justifies the somewhat disparate nature of the articles by...