Journal of European Studies articles from March 2001

Journal of European Studies archives from March 2001

Paris through enemy eyes: the Wehrmacht in Paris 1940-1944.
March 1, 2001... MELANIE GORDON KROB [*] On 14 June 1940, the Wehrmacht marched into an evacuated Paris, ushering in four of the darkest years that the city has ever known. While for the French the Occupation still evokes memories of food shortages,...

Perspectives of nineteenth-century Italian Jewry.
March 1, 2001... ELIZABETH MAHLER SCHACHTER [*] Much has been written about the Jewish Question in Italy during the Fascist regime, but the period from the second emancipation of the Jews (1848) until the outbreak of the First World War is largely uncharted...

Mirbeau and the politics of misogyny.(writer Octave Mirbeau)(Critical Essay)
March 1, 2001... SHARIF GEMIE [*] Octave Mirbeau (1848-1917) was a misogynist and an anarchist. At first sight these two qualities seem mutually exclusive: anarchism stands for the liberation of all people from any form of authoritarian control;...

The body which is not one.(The Frail Social Body: Pornography, Homosexuality, and Other Fantasies in Interwar France and Heterographies: Sexual Difference in French Autobiography)(Review)
March 1, 2001... BILL MARSHALL [*] Carolyn J. Dean, The Frail Social Body: Pornography, Homosexuality, and Other Fantasies in Interwar France (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000). Pp. 263. [pound]18.95. Alex Hughes, Heterographies: Sexual...

The Dynamics of Global Dominance. European Overseas Empires 1415-1980.(Review)
March 1, 2001... The Dynamics of Global Dominance. European Overseas Empires 1415-1980. By David B. Abernethy. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000. Pp. viii + 524. [pound]25.00. The etiquette of reviewing is complex. It entails personal judgement...

Revolutionizing the Sciences. European Knowledge and its Ambitions, 1500-1700 & When Information Came of Age. Technologies of Knowledge in the Age of Reason and Revolution, 1700-1850.(Review)
March 1, 2001... Revolutionizing the Sciences. European Knowledge and its Ambitions, 1500-1700. By Peter Dear. Basingstoke: Paigrave, 2001. Pp. viii + 208. [pound]14.99. When Information Came of Age. Technologies of Knowledge in the Age of Reason and...

Jacob Burckhardt and the Crisis of Modernity.(Review)
March 1, 2001... Jacob Burckhardt and the Crisis of Modernity. By John R. Hinde. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2000. Pp. xii + 327. [pound]46.00. Few nineteenth-century historians have proved so difficult to pin down as Jacob...

Lost Time. On Remembering and Forgetting in Late Modern Culture.(Review)
March 1, 2001... Lost Time. On Remembering and Forgetting in Late Modern Culture. By David Gross. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2000. Pp. xii + 199. [pound]27.00. This thoughtful, interesting and well-written book moves between memory,...

Geography Militant: Cultures of Exploration and Empire.(Review)
March 1, 2001... Geography Militant: Cultures of Exploration and Empire. By Felix Driver. Oxford: Blackwell, 2001. Pp. viii + 258. [pound]16.99. It is only relatively recently that historians of the discipline of geography have raised their eyes beyond the...

The Artist on the Artist.(Review)
March 1, 2001... The Artist on the Artist. By Harry Guest. Exeter: Elm Bank Publications, 2000. Pp. xv + 462. Harry Guest's subject -- artists interested in the springs of their own creativity, who owed a debt to like-minded practitioners or sought to...

European Cinema: An Introduction.(Review)
March 1, 2001... European Cinema: An Introduction. Jill Forbes and Sarah Street. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave, 2000. Pp. xvi + 216. [pound]14.99. This sleek, well-conceived volume provides a tremendous resource for students and teachers of European...

The Rhetoric of National Dissent in Thomas Bernhard, Peter Handke and Elfriede Jelinek.(Review)
March 1, 2001... The Rhetoric of National Dissent in Thomas Bernhard, Peter Handke and Elfriede Jelinek. By Matthias Konzett. Rochester and Woodbridge: Camden House, 2000. Pp. xii + 164. [pound]35.00. Matthias Konzett's book explores elements of the...

Baudelaire and the Art of Memory.(Review)
March 1, 2001... Baudelaire and the Art of Memory. By J. A. Hiddleston. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999. Pp. xiv + 304. [pound]48.00. This is another major work by one of the leading scholars in the field. It fills a huge gap. While it brings together some of...

Flaubert and the Pictorial Arts. From Image to Text.(Review)
March 1, 2001... Flaubert and the Pictorial Arts. From Image to Text. By Adrianne Tooke. Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. xi + 316. [pound]48.00. This is a pioneering work of scholarship. It makes such an unambiguously original contribution to the...

Poetry's Appeal. Nineteenth-Century French Lyric and the Political Space.(Review)
March 1, 2001... Poetry's Appeal. Nineteenth-Century French Lyric and the Political Space. By E. S. Burt. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999. Pp. 287. [pound]11.95. The aim of this stimulating book is to challenge a long-held philosophical...

Francois Mauriac.(Review)
March 1, 2001... Francois Mauriac. By Violaine Massenet. Paris: Flammarion, 2000. Pp. 305. FF.149-. Violaine Massenet's biography of Francois Mauriac in Flammarion's series 'Grandes biographies' is at once disappointing and tantalizing, and for all its...

Politics and Theater: The Crisis of Legitimacy in Restoration France, 1815-1830.(Review)
March 1, 2001... Politics and Theater: The Crisis of Legitimacy in Restoration France, 1815-1830. By Sheryl Kroen. (Studies on the History of Society and Culture, 40.) Berkeley/Los Angeles/London: University of California Press, 2000. Pp. xiv + 394....

Victor Considerant and the Rise and Fall of French Romantic Socialism.(Review)
March 1, 2001... Victor Considerant and the Rise and Fall of French Romantic Socialism. By Jonathan Beecher. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London, University of California Press, 2001. Pp. xvi + 584. [pound]40.00. This scholarly account offers a major advance...

Apartment Stories. City and Home in Nineteenth-Century Paris and London.(Review)
March 1, 2001... Apartment Stories. City and Home in Nineteenth-Century Paris and London. By Sharon Marcus. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. Pp. x + 323. [pound]13.95. This is a brilliant book, grounded in an impressive familiarity with...

France and the Nazi Menace: Intelligence and Policy Making, 1933-1939.(Review)
March 1, 2001... France and the Nazi Menace: Intelligence and Policy Making, 1933-1939. By Peter Jackson. Oxford OUP, 2000. Pp. xii + 446. [pound]48.00. In the last few years, the study of intelligence has at last become a recognized field of serious...

Little Detours. The Letters and Plays of Luise Gottsched (1713-1 762).(Review)
March 1, 2001... Little Detours. The Letters and Plays of Luise Gottsched (1713-1 762). By Susanne Kord. Columbia SC: Camden Hous, 2000. (Distributed by Boydell and Brewer, Woodbridge, Suffolk.) Pp. 222. [pound]40.00. This book does some creditable...

Heinrich von Kleist und die Aufklarung.(Review)
March 1, 2001... Heinrich von Kleist und die Aufklarung. Edited by Tim Mehigan. Rochester, NY and Woodbridge, Suffolk: Camden House, 2000. Pp.xix + 246. [pound]40.00. As an example of the interface between literature and philosophy, Heinrich von Kleist's...

Lily Braun, 1865-1916. German Writer, Feminist, Socialist.(Review)
March 1, 2001... Lily Braun, 1865-1916. German Writer, Feminist, Socialist. By Ute Lischke. (Studies in German Literature, Linguistics and Culture, ed. James Hardin.) Rochester, New York & Woodbridge, Suffolk: Camden House, 2000. Pp. xx + 144. [pound]45.00. ...

Ethics and Remembrance in the Poetry of Nelly Sachs and Rose Auslander.(Review)
March 1, 2001... Ethics and Remembrance in the Poetry of Nelly Sachs and Rose Auslander. By Kathrin M. Bower. Rochester, New York: Camden House, 2000. Pp. 280. [pounds]35.00. This book examines the work of two German-Jewish poets who, as survivors of the...

The Politics of Literature. Poland 1945-1989.(Review)
March 1, 2001... The Politics of Literature. Poland 1945-1989. By Carl Tighe. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1999. Pp. 412. [pound] 40.00. For a study which 'explores the relationship between literature and politics' Carl Tighe's book is far too...

Peter the Great through British Eyes: Perceptions and Representations of the Tsar since 1698.(Review)
March 1, 2001... Peter the Great through British Eyes: Perceptions and Representations of the Tsar since 1698. By Anthony Cross. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xii + 172. [pound]35.00. Only some two centuries after his sojourn in Deptford...

Dostoevsky and English Modernism 1900-1930 & English Literature and the Russian Aesthetic Renaissance.(Review)
March 1, 2001... Dostoevsky and English Modernism 1900-1930. By Peter Kaye. Cambridge: CUP, 1999. Pp. vii + 248. [pound]37.50. English Literature and the Russian Aesthetic Renaissance. By Rachel Polonsky. Cambridge: CUP, 1998. Pp. xii + 249. [pound]45.00....