Journal of European Studies articles from December 2004

Journal of European Studies archives from December 2004

Mothers and sons and Russian literature *.
December 1, 2004... Using basic information about the history of the Russian family to set up some elementary points of reference, the lecture examines the ways in which a series of eminent Russian male authors from the eighteenth century to the present day have...

'Hottentots' and the evolution of European racism.
December 1, 2004... Springing from the argument in recent scholarship that 'race' is a doctrine that emerged only in the post-Enlightenment, this essay develops a theory concerning the ideological history of 'racism', understood in its modern Western sense. While...

Marianne: from Medusa to Messalina: psycho-sexual imagery and political propaganda in France 1789-1945.
December 1, 2004... The use of 'monstrous', anxiety-generating imagery (tropes of the mythological Medusa or the Hydra) to demonize opponents was a marked feature of political caricature and national propaganda on different points in the ideological spectrum, from...

The Enlightenment and Religion. The Myths of Modernity.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... The Enlightenment and Religion. The Myths of Modernity. By S. J. Barnett. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000. Pp. vii + 244. 14.99 [pounds sterling]. An important revisionist study that questions assumptions about religion and...

What History Tells. George L. Mosse and the Culture of Modern Europe.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... What History Tells. George L. Mosse and the Culture of Modern Europe. Edited by Stanley G. Payne, David J. Sorkin and John S. Tortorice. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2004. Pp. xiv + 292. The latest volume in the George L. Mosse...

George Eliot and Schiller. Intertextuality and Cross-Cultural Discourse.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... George Eliot and Schiller. Intertextuality and Cross-Cultural Discourse. By Deborah Guth. (Warwick Studies in the Humanities.) Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003. Pp. 189. 40.00 [pounds sterling]. Although George Eliot's preoccupation with Goethe is...

The Cambridge Introduction to French Poetry.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... The Cambridge Introduction to French Poetry. By Mary Lewis Shaw. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xii + 226. 14.95 [pounds sterling]. If this otherwise thoroughly recommendable introduction to French poetry has any faults...

Crebillon fils: Les Egarements du coeur et de l'esprit.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Crebillon fils: Les Egarements du coeur et de l'esprit. By Patrick Fein. London: Grant & Cutler, 2000. Pp. 72. 5.95 [pounds sterling]. Patrick Fein acquits himself well of the task of providing a thoughtful yet accessible interpretation of...

Re-writing the French Revolutionary Tradition. Liberal Opposition and the Fall of the Bourbon Monarchy.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Re-writing the French Revolutionary Tradition. Liberal Opposition and the Fall of the Bourbon Monarchy. By Robert Alexander. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xvi + 386. 55 [pounds sterling]. A well-grounded scholarly study...

The Romantic Conception of Life: Science and Philosophy in the Age of Goethe.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... The Romantic Conception of Life: Science and Philosophy in the Age of Goethe. By Robert J. Richards. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2002. Pp. xix + 587. 24.50 [pounds sterling]. The word 'life' in the title of this book...

Women and German Drama: Playwrights and their Texts, 1860-1945.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Women and German Drama: Playwrights and their Texts, 1860-1945. By Sarah Colvin. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2003. Pp. 211. 50 [pounds sterling]. This book is an absorbing account of women's attempts to participate in the discourse of...

Nietzsche and the German Tradition.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Nietzsche and the German Tradition. Edited by Nicholas Martin. Oxford, Bern and Berlin: Peter Lang, 2003. Pp. xviii + 314. 57.80 [euro]. Nietzsche, Godfather of Fascism? On the Uses and Abuses of a Philosophy. Edited by Jacob Golomb and...

Twentieth-Century Reworkings of German Literature: an Analysis of Six Fictional Reinterpretations from Goethe to Thomas Mann.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Twentieth-Century Reworkings of German Literature: An Analysis of Six Fictional Reinterpretations from Goethe to Thomas Mann. By Gundula M. Sharman. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2002. Pp. xii + 221. 40.00 [pounds sterling]. Comparative...

Expressionist Film: New Perspectives.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Expressionist Film: New Perspectives. Edited by Dietrich Scheunemann. (Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture.) Woodbridge: Camden House, 2003. Pp. xiv + 302. 50.00 [pounds sterling]. This essay collection sets out to...

The German Urban Experience 1900-1945. Modernity and Crisis.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... The German Urban Experience 1900-1945. Modernity and Crisis. By Anthony McElligott. (Routledge Sources in History.) London and New York: Routledge, 2001. Pp. xiv + 295. 65 [pounds sterling] (hbk); 20.99 [pounds sterling] (pbk). The...

The Life and Works of Wolfgang Borchert.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... The Life and Works of Wolfgang Borchert. By Gordon Burgess. (Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture.) Rochester, New York and Woodbridge, Suffolk: Camden House, 2003. Pp. x + 256. 50.00 [pounds sterling]. Wolfgang Borchert...

German Idealism and the Jew. The Inner Anti-Semitism of Philosophy and German Jewish Responses.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... German Idealism and the Jew. The Inner Anti-Semitism of Philosophy and German Jewish Responses. By Michael Mack. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2003. Pp. viii + 229. 24.50 [pounds sterling]. Kant's understanding of the...

Black Sun. Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism and the Politics of Identity.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Black Sun. Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism and the Politics of Identity. By Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke. New York and London: New York University Press, 2002. Pp. vi + 369. $29.95. Nearly twenty years ago Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke published a...

Julius Streicher. Nazi Editor of the Notorious Anti-Semitic Newspaper 'Der Sturmer'.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Julius Streicher. Nazi Editor of the Notorious Anti-Semitic Newspaper "Der Sturmer'. By Randall L. Bytwerk. New York: Cooper Square Press, 2001. Pp. xii + 264. $17.95 (pbk). Randall Bytwerk's fine study of Julius Streicher and Der Sturmer,...

Recasting German Identity. Culture, Politics and Literature in the Berlin Republic.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Recasting German Identity. Culture, Politics and Literature in the Berlin Republic. Edited by Stuart Taberner and Frank Finlay. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Camden House, 2002. Pp. 276. 50 [pounds sterling]. The identity of the Germans continues to...

St Petersburg, 1703-1825.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... St Petersburg, 1703-1825. Edited by Anthony Cross. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. Pp. xiii + 197. 45 [pounds sterling]. This well-produced volume of nine essays commemorates the tercentenary of St Petersburg, though not in any...