Journal of European Studies articles from March 1997

Journal of European Studies archives from March 1997

Greece restored: Greece and the Greek War of Independence in French Romantic historiography 1821-1830.
March 1, 1997... The collapse of the Napoleonic imperium and the re-establishment of the Bourbon monarchy in 1814 created, if we are to believe the autobiographical reflections of writers such as Quinet and Musset, an intense feeling of anticlimax and...

Europe. A History.
March 1, 1997... The title is significant, and deliberately so. As Professor Davies explains in his Introduction, there are many ways of defining Europe, and most them are misleading. On the Albert Memorial, for example, as he notes on p. 13, only four figures...

What is Europe? 4 vols.
March 1, 1997... The covers on the four books under review implicitly answer their shared question What is Europe? with a map overlooked by a representative figure. The map is the same throughout - circa 1780, a wood engraving by Jean-Frederic Oberlin. West of...

The History of the Idea of Europe.
March 1, 1997... The covers on the four books under review implicitly answer their shared question What is Europe? with a map overlooked by a representative figure. The map is the same throughout - circa 1780, a wood engraving by Jean-Frederic Oberlin. West of...

Aspects of European Cultural Diversity.
March 1, 1997... The covers on the four books under review implicitly answer their shared question What is Europe? with a map overlooked by a representative figure. The map is the same throughout - circa 1780, a wood engraving by Jean-Frederic Oberlin. West of...

European Democratic Culture.
March 1, 1997... The covers on the four books under review implicitly answer their shared question What is Europe? with a map overlooked by a representative figure. The map is the same throughout - circa 1780, a wood engraving by Jean-Frederic Oberlin. West of...

Europe and the Wider World.
March 1, 1997... The covers on the four books under review implicitly answer their shared question What is Europe? with a map overlooked by a representative figure. The map is the same throughout - circa 1780, a wood engraving by Jean-Frederic Oberlin. West of...

A Monarchy Transformed. Britain: 1603-1714.
March 1, 1997... With Peter Clarke's Hope and Glory: Britain 1900-1990, this is one of the first two volumes of the new Penguin History of Britain series. As such, any review necessarily has to consider not only the merits of the work, but also the general claims...

Dark Alchemy: The Films of Jan Svankmajer.
March 1, 1997... A study of Czech animator Jan Svankmajer tells as much of Czech underground culture as it does of the more esoteric history of animated film, and Peter Hames's edited volume of essays on Svankmajer consciously straddles these two related fields,...

The Poetics of Death: The Short Prose of Kleist and Balzac.
March 1, 1997... The title of this book is immediately arresting and targets much-needed study of the other great taboo that current criticism on sexuality has relegated, death. Beatrice Guenther has also pinpointed the necessity of reappraising...

Realms of Memory: The Construction of the French Past, 3 vols.
March 1, 1997... Paul Valery, who talked of the openness and the mysteriousness of French society (Regards sur le monde actuel (Paris: Gallimard, 1945), p. [115]), judged all societies on the strength of their 'forces fictives' (Varietes II (Paris: Gallimard,...

Paulhan le Juste.
March 1, 1997... Anyone interested in the literary culture and intellectual climate of mid twentieth-century France sooner or later encounters Jean Paulhan, best known for his editorship of the leading literary review, the Nouvelle Revue Francaise, which he...

Sich einen Namen machen: Anonymitat und weiblicher Autorschaft, 1700-1900.
March 1, 1997... The thought behind this book clearly developed out of Kord's seminal work on German women dramatists from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Ein Blick hinter die Kulissen (Stuttgart, 1992). The title of the earlier work pointed to the need...

Thalia's Daughters: German Women Dramatists from the Eighteenth Century to the Present.
March 1, 1997... This volume arose out of the 1992 MLA convention in New York, and reflects the recent growth of interest in German women's writing for the stage, which the editors recognize as 'part of a vital and diverse literary tradition' (p.1). The diversity...

Paul Cassirer und sein Kreis: Ein Berliner Wegbereiter der Moderne.
March 1, 1997... As the author rightly says (p.14), the gallery-owner and publisher Paul Cassirer (1871-1926) is virtually forgotten, notwithstanding his distinguished background (about which much intriguing information is provided (pp.15-38 and 185-95))....

Le Roman historique: Mann, Brecht, Doblin.
March 1, 1997... According to Aristotle, there is a fundamental difference between poetry and history (Poetics, 1451b). Upheld by W. von Humboldt and a host of literary theoreticians, this principle has nevertheless proved to be inadequate in the case of the...

Telegrams from the Soul: Peter Altenberg and the Culture of fin-de-siecle Vienna.
March 1, 1997... Till recently, Peter Altenberg (1859-1919) was a relatively neglected figure of the Viennese fin de siecle. His books of atmospheric sketches, aphorisms and dialogues, beginning with Wie ich es sehe (1896), are unusual in German literature and...

Ich bin immerhin der grosste Experimentator Osterreichs: Raoul Hausmann, Dada und Neodada.
March 1, 1997... Even though Hausmann's many-sided oeuvre had been valued by the German and Austrian avant-gardes of the 1960s, German-speaking academe took a long time to discover him (p.131), and when it did so, more than a decade after his death in Limoges in...

Dionysius DADA Areopagita: Hugo Ball und die Kritik der Moderne.
March 1, 1997... In September 1994, the Katholische Akademie Rabanus Maurus in Wiesbaden-Naurod (where the editor of this volume is 'Studienleiter') organized an inter-disciplinary conference, supported by the Bishoprics of Fulda, Limburg and Mainz, to discuss...

Exploring the Divided Self: Hermann Hesse's Steppenwolf and its Critics.
March 1, 1997... David G. Richards examines Steppenwolf criticism thoroughly and lucidly, conforming to the high standards maintained by this extremely useful series. He begins with a brief overview of Hesse's uneven critical fortunes - oblivion under Nazism,...

By the Banks of the Neva. Chapters from the Lives and Careers of the British in Eighteenth-Century Russia.
March 1, 1997... Throughout the eighteenth century, and particularly through the period of the two mutually contemporary sovereigns, George III of Great Britain and the empress Catherine II of Russia, the Russian empire had a growing fascination and attraction...