Journal of European Studies articles from December 2003

Journal of European Studies archives from December 2003

Introduction.(Editorial)
December 1, 2003... The papers presented in this issue under the rubric of 'Culture and Melancholy' originated as contributions to a conference hosted by the School of English and the Kent Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities at the University of Kent in...

'Melancholic imaginations': witchcraft and the politics of melancholia in Elizabethan Kent.
December 1, 2003... The article examines the politics of melancholy in Scot's The Discoverie of Witchcraft. It suggests that Scot's knowledge of this condition, its symptoms and treatment, was indicative of enlightened Protestant thought. It argues that, in this...

Never to go forth of the limits': space and melancholy in Robert Burton's library project.
December 1, 2003... This article is a study of early seventeenth-century melancholy in the context of a library project introduced by Robert Burton in his Anatomy of Melancholy (1621). Modelled on the great libraries of the times, Button's library is designed to...

Is there a melancholic gaze? From visual distemper to visionary fancy.
December 1, 2003... The aim of this paper is to show the ambivalence of the idea of melancholy in seventeenth-century England from the specific perspective of the melancholic gaze. If the perturbation of the senses and of visual perception may be seen by...

British Romantic melancholia: Charlotte Smith's Elegiac Sonnets, medical discourse and the problem of sensibility.
December 1, 2003... In the context of increasing British discomfort with the cult of sensibility in the 1790s, medical writers redefined the profile of the melancholic as a highly rational, rather than emotional, literary man. Charlotte Smith's representation of...

Elitist differentiation: melancholia as identity in Flaubert's November and Huysmans' A Rebours.
December 1, 2003... Both G. Flaubert's November and J. K. Huysmans' A Rebours exhibit great anxiety about preserving a sense of identity in the face of widespread cultural change. To combat this anxiety, the decadent heroes of both novels adopt and embrace...

In the name of the other I ... Gerard de Nerval.
December 1, 2003... What was the French poet Gerard de Nerval thinking, when he wrote under his too realistic portrait: 'I am the other'? In attempting to distance himself from his reputation as a madman, he deprived himself of a proper self-identity. This essay...

Suffering, transience and immortal longings Salome between Nietzsche and Freud.
December 1, 2003... This essay explores Lou Salome's intellectual friendships with Nietzsche and Freud, with particular respect to the psychological implications of Nietzsche's doctrine of Eternal Recurrence and Freud's quite different acceptance of transience....

Corrections: Contemporary American melancholy.
December 1, 2003... This paper examines the effect on contemporary American literature of a popular discourse on depression, looking at Rick Moody's memoir The Black Veil, and two novels, Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections and David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest....

Cultural memory on film soundtracks.
December 1, 2003... This article addresses issues of cultural memory arising from the use of classical music on film soundtracks. The phenomenon is considered in three forms: (1) historical layering, as in Jane Campion's Portrait of a Lady and Kieslowski's Three...

German anti-Americanism in context.
December 1, 2003... The anti-American rhetoric which suddenly emerged in Western Europe's intellectual discourse during the showdown of the Second Gulf War in 2002-3 is more than a political act. The new patterns of antagonism are symptoms of a process of cultural...

The Great Encounter. Native Peoples and European Settlers in the Americas, 1492-1800.(Book Review)
December 1, 2003... By Jayme A. Sokolow. Armonk, New York: M. E. Sharpe, 2003. Pp. xii + 296. $25.95. Emphasizing the role of Native Americans, Jayme Sokolow provides an account of North and South American history that is distinctive as well as clear,...

The National Churches of England, Ireland and Scotland 1801-46.(Book Review)
December 1, 2003... By Stewart J. Brown. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. x + 459. 60 [pounds sterling]. Stewart Brown's narrative 'explores the role of the national churches of England, Ireland and Scotland' in their plans to create a unified...

The Cubist Painters.(Book Review)
December 1, 2003... By Guillaume Apollinaire. Apollinaire and Cubism. By Peter Read. Forest Row, East Sussex: Artists Bookworks, 2002. Pp. 294. 20.00 [pounds sterling]. Of all the avant-garde movements of the early twentieth century, Paris Cubism was the one...

Essays on Music.(Book Review)
December 1, 2003... By Theodor W. Adorno. Selected, with introduction, commentary, and notes, by Richard Leppert. New translations by Susan H. Gillespie. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. $34.95. It is a curious fact that the impact of the...

When the King Took Flight.(Book Review)
December 1, 2003... By Timothy Tackett. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003. Pp. xiii + 270. $24.95. This well-written and interesting book is best read alongside Munro Price's The Fall of the French Monarchy. Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette and the...

The French Revolution and Empire. The Quest For A Civic Order.(Book Review)
December 1, 2003... By D. M. G. Sutherland. Oxford: Blackwell, 2003. Pp. viii + 424. 60.00 [pounds sterling]. This, the second edition of France 1789-1815. Revolution and Counterrevolution (Oxford: Blackwell, 1985), focuses on the issues raised in the opening...

Balzac's Shorter Fictions: Genesis and Genre.(Book Review)
December 1, 2003... By Tim Farrant. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. xii + 356. 55.00 [pounds sterling]. We might be right to assume that the average undergraduate would identify Balzac's career with the mass production of massive novels, typical of...

Literature, Art and the Pursuit of Decay in Twentieth-Century France.(Book Review)
December 1, 2003... By Timothy Mathews. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xi + 234. 40.00 [pounds sterling]. This is a book which lends itself uneasily to gloss or synopsis. For it is in the very detail of its analyses that its impact is to be...

Tucholsky and France.(Book Review)
December 1, 2003... By Stephanie Burrows. MHRA and Institute of Germanic Studies, University of London, 2001. (Bithell Series of Dissertations, vol. 25.) Pp. 270. 33.00 [pounds sterling]. This is a meticulous and comprehensive account of the satirist Kurt...

A History of the French New Wave Cinema.(Book Review)
December 1, 2003... By Richard Neupert. Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 2002. Pp. xxix + 342. A signal moment in cinematic history, the French New Wave has received a wealth of critical attention and the task of approaching this period afresh is a...

Die Furie und das Gesetz. Zur Dramaturgie der 'grossen Szene' in der Tragodie des 19. Jahrhunderts.(Book Review)
December 1, 2003... By Juliane Vogel. (Rombach Wissenschaften: Reihe Litterae, 94.) Freiburg i. Br.: Rombach, 2002. Pp. 429. 65.80 [euro]. This study deals with a type of scene which, despite all objections to its psychological implausibility, enjoyed lasting...

A City in Search of an Author: The Literary Identity of Trieste.(Book Review)
December 1, 2003... By Katia Pizzi. London, Continuum, 2001. Pp. 218. 60.00 [pounds sterling]. Katia Pizzi's study of the roots and nature of Triestine literary identity fits into, and to some extent seeks to explicate the reasons behind, the recent flowering...

This Meager Landscape: Landscape and National Identity in Imperial Russia.(Book Review)
December 1, 2003... By Christopher Ely. Dekalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 2002. Pp. xi + 278. $42.00. Today, when any frequent visitor to Russia will eventually find themselves mushroom-picking in some dense forest and engaging in long and...

The Stalin Years: A Reader.(Book Review)
December 1, 2003... The Stalin Years: A Reader. Edited by Christopher Read. London: Macmillan, 2003. Pp. xviii + 241. 14.99 [pounds sterling]. Stalinism. Edited by David L. Hoffmann. Oxford: Blackwell, 2003. Pp. xiv + 317. 15.99 [pounds sterling]. The...