Journal of European Studies articles from September 1997

Journal of European Studies archives from September 1997

Living memory: French intellectuals and the experience of phoney war, 1939-1940.
September 1, 1997... This article explores a little-considered aspect of the history of World War Two relating to the memory of the phoney war between September 1939 and the Fall of France in June 1940. It examines the ways in which French intellectuals reacted to...

Kant, Habermas, and the 'philosophical legitimation' of modernity. (Immanuel Kant; Jurgen Habermas)
September 1, 1997... This paper seeks to address the meaning of what, for the last two hundred years, has been a common reference point to demarcate the distinctive nature of the 'present' in relation to, or even against, the 'past'. This reference point is...

Adam Michnik: a life in opposition. (Polish revolutionary)
September 1, 1997... Adam Michnik has been called 'courageous and uncompromising', 'the real heir to Polish Social democracy', 'a formidable. courageous and prolific revolutionary spirit'. Timothy Garton Ash has praised his irony 'modulated by a fine sense of moral...

The Biography of 'The Idea of Literature': From Antiquity to the Baroque.
September 1, 1997... This book, divided into four historical periods (Antiquity, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and Humanism, and Classicism and the Baroque) is, as the author explains, based not on a historical principle so much as an etymological and philological...

Oriental Enlightenment: The Encounter Between Asian and Western Thought.
September 1, 1997... This book, an essay in the history of ideas, is a study of what Clarke calls orientalism, that is 'the range of attitudes that have been evinced in the West towards the traditional religious and philosophical ideas and systems of South and East...

Literature and the Marketplace: Romantic Writers and Their Audiences in Great Britain and the United States.
September 1, 1997... This study is, at its best, a most interesting compendium of quotations, primarily by romantic writers, expressing views about audiences, reviewers, publishers, and all the attendant, reported difficulties involved then, as now, in making a...

Bad Objects: Essays Popular and Unpopular.
September 1, 1997... This most useful selection of essays offers the reader the possibility for the first time to gain an overview of Schor's most influential and well known pieces of the last ten years as well as some previously unpublished work. The common thread...

The Huguenots, the Protestant Interest, and the War of Spanish Succession: 1702-1714.
September 1, 1997... Based on a Northern Arizona University doctoral thesis, this is an interesting and important study that focuses on the religious dimension of the War of the Spanish Succession. It is instructive to see a consideration of this perspective because...

Horse-Drawn Cabs and Omnibuses in Paris: The Idea of Circulation and the Business of Public Transport.
September 1, 1997... This is an excellent book, meticulously researched and elegantly presented, that should be of interest to all specialists of the history of Paris in the nineteenth century. It has much of value to say to transport historians - the development of...

Inventing the Louvre: Art, Politics and the Origins of the Modern Museum in Eighteenth-Century Paris.
September 1, 1997... It seems entirely appropriate that this magnificently produced book should include among its 84 illustrations a photograph of I. M. Pei's glass and steel pyramids in the courtyard of the Louvre. Andrew McClellan's specific point at that juncture...

The Popularization of Images: Visual Culture Under the July Monarchy.
September 1, 1997... As a result of a vastly increased literacy and improved picture printing facilities, the July Monarchy witnessed a development of popular culture embracing 'a range of social strata unprecedented in European cultural history' (p. 4). But its...

Art and the French Commune: Imagining Paris After War and Revolution.
September 1, 1997... In Caillebotte's Jeune homme a sa fenetre (1876), one usually sees a voyeuristic scenario framed by urban geometry and complicated by the inverted symmetries of spatial designs. Through Albert Boime's critical grid, however, its confident...

Marketing Modernism in Fin-de-Siecle Europe.
September 1, 1997... In 1872 Durand-Ruel, the celebrated French dealer, sold Millet's Parc a moutons au clair de lune at exactly double the price he had paid for it at auction only two months earlier. In 1904 Julius Meier-Graefe's Entwicklungsgeschichte der modernen...

Neo-Impressionism and the Search for Solid Ground: Art, Science and Anarchism in Fin-de-Siecle France.
September 1, 1997... Building on Robert L. Herbert's pioneering work on the relationship between anarchism and fin-de-siecle avant-gardes, this book is a major contribution to the social history of art. For the fractured political and artistic context is less a...

Wilhelm Meister's Theatrical Calling.
September 1, 1997... The early version of Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre is a good read. This is not something often claimed for its profounder successor. In the Theatralische Sendung there are interesting (and not particularly symbolic) characters, as well as surprises...

The Critical Fortunes of a Romantic Novel: Novalis's 'Heinrich von Ofterdingen.'
September 1, 1997... Novalis's Heinrich von Ofterdingen is in need of elaborate interpretation for two main reasons, one intrinsic, the other extrinsic. The intrinsic reason is that, even leaving aside the circumstance that it is unfinished, it is difficult to...

Viroid Life: Perspectives on Nietzsche and the Transhuman Condition.
September 1, 1997... In his introduction, Keith Ansell Pearson tells us that '[i]n this volume of essays I question, problematize, overturn, revalue, announce, renounce, advocate, interrogate, affirm, deny, celebrate, critique, the "transhuman condition", exploring...

'... A Poet or Nothing at All': The Tubingen and Basel Years of Hermann Hesse.
September 1, 1997... After acknowledging the achievements of previous scholars who have published on the early career of Hesse, Helt indicates that the function of his book is to offer a sharper delineation to the picture which they have drawn, especially in relation...

Cosmogonische Augen: Gesammelte Schriften.
September 1, 1997... The works of the other members belonging to the so-called Kosmische Runde (such as Ludwig Derleth, Karl Wolfskehl, and Ludwig Klages, associated with the circle around Stefan George) have all been made available in editions of varying critical...