Journal of European Studies articles from March 2003

Journal of European Studies archives from March 2003

Editorial.(Brief Article)(Editorial)
March 1, 2003... After a long and fruitful relationship with Alpha Academic, the Journal of European Studies will, from now on, be published by SAGE Publications. We hope that this will also be a long and fruitful partnership. JES will continue to be published...

Sex, shame and guilt: reflections on Bernhard Schlink's Der Vorleser (The Reader) and J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace.
March 1, 2003... The occasion for this paper was twofold. One had to do with the fact that I happened to read Bernhard Schlink's Der Vorleser (The Reader) (1995) and J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace (1999) in close proximity to each other. This, in itself, is not...

Andre Malraux and the challenge to aesthetics.
March 1, 2003... Writers in the field of aesthetics--or the philosophy of art as it is sometimes called--have had relatively little to say about Andre Malraux's account of the visual arts, as presented, for example, in his major works on the subject, Les Voix...

Thesis and antithesis in Malcolm Bradbury's The History Man.
March 1, 2003... To date it has passed unnoticed that Bradbury's epigraph to The History Man is a passage of dialogue taken from Gunter Grass's The Diary of a Snail. (1) 'Who's Hegel?' asks a nameless speaker there. 'Somebody who sentenced mankind to history',...

A Companion to the Worlds of the Renaissance.(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Edited by Guido Ruggiero. Oxford: Blackwell, 2002. Pp. xii + 561. 55.00 [pounds sterling]. This most impressive volume deserves considerable praise, but at the outset it is appropriate to express a few concerns. The rubric of the series is...

Venice and Venetia Under the Habsburgs 1815-1835.(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... By David Laven. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. xi + 256. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. This is an important and scholarly revisionist work that offers a fundamental re-evaluation of Venice under Francis I and, in doing so, is...

Mapping Lives. The Uses of Biography.(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Edited by Peter France and William St. Clair. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. x + 350. 25.00 [pounds sterling]. As part of its centenary celebrations, the British Academy is publishing a series of monographs designed to show the...

The Three-Piece Suit and Modern Masculinity. England, 1550-1850.(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... By David Kuchta. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. Pp. x + 299. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. A well-written and interesting book that uses changing codes of dress to consider strategies of class differentiation and stabilization,...

The Influence of Switzerland on the Life and Writings of Edward Gibbon.(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... By Brian Norman. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2002. Pp. xv + 176. 39.00 [pounds sterling]. For a paperback this is an expensive work, which is a pity, as Brian Norman, Associate Lecturer and Research Associate in the Arts Faculty of the...

European Literature from Romanticism to Postmodernism: a Reader in Aesthetic Practice.(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Edited by Martin Travers. London and New York: Continuum, 2001. Pp. xiv + 348. 17.00 [pounds sterling] (80.00 [pounds sterling] hardback). There is a long tradition in books whose purpose is to provide, by means of excerpts from...

The Poetics of the Kunstlerinroman and the Aesthetics of the Sublime.(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... By Evy Varsamopoulou. (Studies in European Cultural Transition.) Aldershot, Hants, and Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate, 2002. Pp. 268. 47.50 [pounds sterling]. By exploring the Kunstlerinroman (novel of the female artist or writer) as a...

Europe 1900-1945.(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Edited by Julian Jackson. (The Short Oxford History of Europe.) Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. xii + 254. 12.99 [pounds sterling]. This welcome addition to a useful series contains an introduction by Julian Jackson followed by...

Ideas of Europe since 1914. The Legacy of the First World War & The Meaning of Europe. Variety and Contention within and among Nations.(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Ideas of Europe since 1914. The Legacy of the First World War. Edited by Menno Spiering and Michael Wintle. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002. Pp. xiii + 208. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. The Meaning of Europe. Variety and Contention within and among...

Vital Crossroads. Mediterranean Origins of the Second World War, 1935-1940.(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... By Reynolds M. Salerno. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002. Pp. xviii + 285. Drawing on wide-ranging archival research, this is a study that fulfils the usual characteristic of a first book: it draws attention to a subject that...

The French Army 1750-1820. Careers, Talent, Merit.(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... By Rafe Blaufarb. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2002. Pp. xii + 227. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. Though distressingly expensive, this is a well-researched and ably written book that is important not only for its topic but also, more...

Barricades. The War of the Streets in Revolutionary Paris, 1830-1848.(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... By Jill Harsin. Houndmills: Palgrave, 2002. Pp. ix + 417. 25.00 [pounds sterling]. This well-researched study, which draws on a wealth of manuscript and printed sources, especially newspapers, is an important contribution to...

Taking Liberties. Problems of a New Order from the French Revolution to Napoleon.(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Edited by Howard G. Brown and Judith A. Miller. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2002. Pp. ix + 210. 14.99 [pounds sterling]. A wide-ranging and interesting collection of essays, this book bridges the divide between the...

Stavisky. A Confidence Man in the Republic of Virtue.(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... By Paul F. Janokowski. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2002. Pp. 326. 23.50 [pounds sterling]. Although long recognized as a major and unsatisfactorily resolved scandal in the history of the Third Republic the ramifications of...

Bataille, Klossowski, Blanchot. Writing at the Limit.(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... By Leslie Hill. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. 273. 50.00 [pounds sterling]. This authoritative and powerful study is in a class of its own. Taking his cue from Foucault, Leslie Hill explores, with awesome finesse, the...

Italy in the German Literary Imagination. Goethe's 'Italian Journey' and its Reception by Eichendorff, Platen, and Heine.(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... By Gretchen L. Hachmeister. Rochester, N.Y.: Camden House, 2002. Pp. xiv + 217. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. According to Freud, much of the desire to travel is rooted in a lack of satisfaction with one's home-life. Even today, German tourists...

A Companion to the Works of Heinrich Heine.(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Edited by Roger F. Cook. Rochester, N. Y.: Camden House, 2002. Pp. xiv + 373. 55.00 [pounds sterling]. The editor is to be congratulated on assembling some of the most interesting Heine scholars to produce this volume of essays. Though...

Liebesschmerz und Textlust. Figuren der Liebe und des Masochismus in der Literatur.(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... By Michael Gratzke. (Epistemata: Wurzburg Wissenschaftliche Schriften, Reihe Literaturwissenschaft, Band 304.) Wurzburg: Konigshausen und Neumann, 2000. Pp. 380. 51.00 [euro] From the point of view of an empirical English critic, Gratzke's...

Nietzsche, Biology and Metaphor.(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... By Gregory Moore. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. 228. 37.50 [pounds sterling]. Nietzsche tells us in Ecce Homo that in the mid-1870s he lost interest both in Wagner and in classical philology, and felt a thirst for...

Heinrich Mann's Novels and Essays. The Artist as Political Educator.(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... By Karin Verena Gunnemann. Rochester, N.Y.: Camden House, 2002. Pp. xiv + 237. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. Although the German-speaking world has seen a considerable amount of scholarship on Heinrich Mann, beginning with the annotated editions...

A Companion to the Works of Thomas Bernhard.(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Edited by Matthias Konzett. Rochester, N.Y.: Camden House, 2002. Pp. vi + 251. 60.00 [pounds sterling]. From the publication of his first novel, Frost (1963), till his death in 1989, Thomas Bernhard worked to provoke controversy in Austria....

The Poet's Role: Lyric Responses to German Unification by Poets from the GDR.(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... By Ruth J. Owen. (Amsterdamer Publikationen zur Sprache und Literatur 147.) Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2001. Pp. 366. 68 [euro]. This wide-ranging study, the first of its kind, provides a detailed survey of that exceptional burgeoning...

Heimat: a Critical Theory of the German Idea of Homeland.(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... By Peter Blickle. Rochester, N.Y.: Camden House, 2002. Pp. xii + 186. 40.00 [pounds sterling]. In a poll conducted by Die Zeit at the end of the last millennium, 'Heimat' was among the top ten words to receive positive responses from...

Inventing the Schlieffen Plan. German War Planning 1871-1914.(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... By Terence Zuber. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. xii + 340. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. It is always exciting when established interpretations are challenged, but this also poses problems for scholars. In the case of German war...

Borgese.(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... By Luciano Parisi. Turin: Tirrenia, 2000. Pp. 96. 7.75 [euro]. In the course of rive chapters, each one a complete unit in itself, Luciano Parisi traces here the professional, and also the personal and spiritual, development of the writer,...

The Routledge Companion to Russian Literature.(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Edited by Neil Cornwell. London and New York, Routledge, 20001. Pp. x + 271. 12.99 [pounds sterling] (paperback). This volume extends over one thousand years of Russian literature, from its medieval beginnings into the post-Soviet period....

A History of Women's Writing in Russia.(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Edited by Adele Marie Barker and Jehanne M. Gheith. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. 391. 65.00 [pounds sterling]. For some time now scholarship on Western women writers has become an established branch of mainstream...

Pushkin's Tatiana.(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... By Olga Peters Hasty. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1999. Pp. xvii + 269. 15.95 [pounds sterling]. In Russia, no literary heroine commands such reverence and affection as Tatiana from Pushkin's Eugene Onegin. Not Natasha Rostova,...

Nikolai Sukhanov: Chronicler of the Russian Revolution.(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... By Izrael Getzler. Basingstoke: Palgrave in Association with St Antony's College, Oxford. Pp. xix + 226. 42.50 [pounds sterling]. Forced to lie on his back for several weeks after an operation, Izrael Getzler decided to re-read one of the...

Culture and Society in Habsburg Syain. Studies Presented to R. W. Truman by his Pupils and Colleagues on the Occasion of His Retirement.(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Edited by Nigel Griffin, Clive Griffin, Eric Southworth and Colin Thompson. London: Tamesis, 2001. Pp. viii + 242. 35.00 [pounds sterling]. This collection of thirteen essays is a veritable treasure-house of scholarship and entirely...