The Modern Language Review articles from April 1999

The Modern Language Review archives from April 1999

Charles Grant, a literary mediator: With three unpublished letters to George Eliot.
April 1, 1999... In his biography of John Sterling, (1) Thomas Carlyle sums up the life of his subject in these words: All that remains, in palpable shape, of John Sterling's activities in this world are those Two poor Volumes; scattered fragments gathered...

Children and childlessness in the novel of female adultery.
April 1, 1999... Adultery in the nineteenth-century European realist novel has attracted more critical attention than any other theme involving sexual transgression, but many of the questions it raises still lack adequate definition. There are several possible...

The White Devil and old wives' tales.
April 1, 1999... When Francisco de Medici begins to plan his revenge for the murder of his sister, Isabella, he closes his eyes and imagines her figure. He assumes that the ghost appearing before him is the creation of his own melancholy ('the quick idea of my...

Cor laceratum: Corresponding till death in Swift's Journal to Stella.
April 1, 1999... 'I never remember so many people of quality to have died in so short a time', writes Jonathan Swift in a letter to Esther Johnson and Rebecca Dingley on 26 August, 1711. (1) He is responding most directly to the four deaths recorded in his...

Colloquial vocabulary and politeness in French.
April 1, 1999... In French, as in other languages, the powerful role played by vocabulary in marking shifts between formal and informal style, and in signalling the social identities of speakers, is well known. Public awareness of the opposition between...

Emma's feet on clay: The ironies of romanticized location in Madame Bovary.
April 1, 1999... To speak of Flaubert's 'modernity' is now something of a critical commonplace, yet many aspects of his provocative use of language remain to be explored. The present study aims to elaborate a 'geolinguistic' approach to the detailed analysis of...

Surrealism and pseudo-initiation: Raymond Queneau's Odile.
April 1, 1999... Raymond Queneau's literary practice has often been defined by contrast with Surrealism: he has been regarded as a rigorous formalist reacting against the exaltation of chance and the subconscious. Recently, however, this way of seeing his...

'L'intuizione del fantastico': Antonio Rubino, futurist manque.
April 1, 1999... This article examines Antonio Rubino in the light of the Futurist movement. Rubino, better known perhaps as one of the inventors of Italian cartoon and in particular of the celebrated octosyllabic lines for the children's weekly magazine Corriere...

The fables of Eiximenis: Norm and abnormality.
April 1, 1999... Like so many medieval authors who wish to address a broad audience, Francesc Eiximenis, a friar of the Franciscan Order, makes use of exempla, because 'to cite St Gregory, "concrete examples are more forceful than mere words"'. (1) In his Ars...

Reflections of the war of 1898 in Pardo Bazan's fiction and travel chronicles.
April 1, 1999... Nine years before the war between Spain and the United States, Emilia Pardo Bazan made a number of harsh comments concerning the state and potential effectiveness of the Spanish army. These opinions, expressed when Pardo Bazan was attending the...

Forms of Expansion: Recent Long Poems by Women.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Forms of Expansion: Recent Long Poems by Women. By Lynn Keller. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 1997. xi+373 pp. $45; 35.95 [pounds sterling] (paperbound $18.95; 15.25 [pounds sterling]). Lynn Keller's study is a brave and...

Juan Goytisolo's queer (be)hindsight: homosexuality, epistemology, and the 'extimacy' of the subject in Coto Vedado and En Los Reinos De Taifa.
April 1, 1999... Everything is played out in retro and a tergo. (Jacques Derrida) (1) 'In classic paintings, I look for the subconscious--in a Surrealist painting, for the conscious.' (Sigmund Freud) (2) One of the most productive yet...

Schiller's early styles: Language and gesture in Die Rauber.
April 1, 1999... If we are to understand the language of drama in the eighteenth century (that is, the act of communication between characters on stage, between play and audience, author and society), we must consider both verbal and non-verbal communication and...

'Die Verkorperte Scham': The body in Handke's Wunschloses Ungluck.
April 1, 1999... Early criticism of Peter Handke's Wunschloses Ungluck (1) (1972) divided into two distinct strands. One view was that the text marked a turning-point in Handke's career, a move away from experimentation with language towards more traditional...

The city in Russian literature: Images past and present.
April 1, 1999... Before considering the contemporary depiction of life in the Russian city in fiction, it will be useful to rehearse some general points. First, the very manifestation of urban life in Russia has been viewed with extreme ambiguity. Pushkin can be...

Walter Benjamin: Theoretical Questions.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Walter Benjamin: Theoretical Questions. Ed. by DAVID S. FERRIS. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. 1996. xii + 246 pp. $45 (paperbound $15.95). The essays in this volume are based on conference papers delivered in 1991 at Yale...

The Fayre Formez of the Pearl Poet.(Review)
April 1, 1999... The Fayre Formez of the Pearl Poet. By SANDRA PIERSON PRIOR. (Medieval Texts and Studies) East Lansing: Michigan State University Press. 1996. xiv + 222 pp. $37.95. In the opening sentence of this book, Sandra Pierson Prior states that her aim...

The Heaven Singing. Music in Early English Religious Drama. Vol. 1.(Review)
April 1, 1999... The Heaven Singing: Music in Early English Religious Drama. Vol. 1. By RICHARD RASTALL. Cambridge: Brewer. 1996. xxi + 422 pp. 55 [pounds sterling]. The quantity of music surviving in the medieval English play texts is quite small. A single...

The Medieval Siege: Theme and Image in Middle English Romance.(Review)
April 1, 1999... The Medieval Siege: Theme and Image in Middle English Romance. By MALCOLM HEBRON. (Oxford English Monographs) Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1997. ix + 191 pp. 30 [pounds sterling]. Sieges featured extensively in medieval writings, providing a useful...

Editing 'Piers Plowman': The Evolution of the Text.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Editing 'Piers Plowman': The Evolution of the Text. By CHARLOTTE BREWER. (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, 28) Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 1996. xv + 459 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]; $64.95. Surviving...

Reading from the Margins: Textual Studies, Chaucer, and Medieval Literature.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Reading from the Margins: Textual Studies, Chaucer, and Medieval Literature. Ed. by SETH LERER. San Marino, CA: Huntington Library Press. 1996. vii + 160 pp. $12. (Huntington Library Quarterly, 58, 1.) Reading from the Margins began life as a...

The Telling Image: Explorations in the Emblem.(Review)
April 1, 1999... The Telling Image: Explorations in the Emblem. Ed. by AYERS L. BAGLEY, EDWARD M. GRIFFIN, and AUSTIN J. MCLEAN. (AMS Studies in the Emblem) New York: AMS Press. 1997. xiv + 286 pp. $76.50. Nine essays, approaching emblematic writing from...

Pastoral Transformations: Italian Tragicomedy and Shakespeare's Late Plays.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Pastoral Transformations: Italian Tragicomedy and Shakespeare's Late Plays. By ROBERT HENKE. Cranbury, NJ: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses. 1997. 239 pp. 30 [pounds sterling]. By examining the dramaturgy of...

Milton's Imperial Epic: 'Paradise Lost' and the Discourse of Colonialism.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Milton's Imperial Epic: 'Paradise Lost' and the Discourse of Colonialism. By J. MARTIN EVANS. Ithaca, NY, and London: Cornell University Press. 1996. xi + 194 pp. 27.50 [pounds sterling]. Readers of Paradise Lost will readily recall its...

Persona and Decorum in Milton's Prose.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Persona and Decorum in Milton's Prose. By REUBEN SANCHEZ, JR. Cranbury, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 1997. 251 pp. 32 [pounds sterling]. Reuben Sanchez's monograph, which has its origins in a...

Tricksters & Estates: On the Ideology of Restoration Comedy.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Tricksters & Estates: On the Ideology of Restoration Comedy. By J. DOUGLAS CANFIELD. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 1997. xii + 315 pp. $44.95. J. Douglas Canfield's book will drive every reader to revaluate the scope and nature of...

Telling Time: Clocks, diaries, and English Diurnal Form, 1660-1785.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Telling Time: Clocks, Diaries, and English Diurnal Form, 1660-1785. By STUART SHERMAN. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 1997. xv + 323 pp. $60; 47.95 [pounds sterling] (paperbound $19.95; 15.95 [pounds sterling]). 'I wish there...

Narratives of Enlightenment: Cosmopolitan History from Voltaire to Gibbon.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Narratives of Enlightenment: Cosmopolitan History from Voltaire to Gibbon. By KAREN O'BRIEN. (Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought) Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 1997. xii + 249...

Consuming Subjects: Women, Shopping, and Business in the Eighteenth Century.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Consuming Subjects: Women, Shopping, and Business in the Eighteenth Century. By ELIZABETH KOWALESKI-WALLACE. New York: Columbia University Press 1997. ix + 185 pp. $39.50; 31.50 [pounds sterling] (paperbound $15.50; 12.50 [pounds sterling])....

Familiar Violence: Gender and Social Upheaval in the Novels of Frances Burney.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Familiar Violence: Gender and Social Upheaval in the Novels of Frances Burney. By BARBARA ZONITCH. Cranbury, NJ: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses. 1997. 167 pp. 26.50 [pounds sterling]. Thanks to the work of...

Speak Silence: Rhetoric and Culture in Blake's 'Poetical Sketches'.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Speak Silence: Rhetoric and Culture in Blake's 'Poetical Sketches'. Ed. by MARK L. GREENBERG. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press. 1996. 221 pp. $39.95; 35.95 [pounds sterling]. Speak Silence is a disappointing book, and a puzzling one....

Coleridge in Italy.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Coleridge in Italy. By EDOARDO ZUCCATO. Cork: Cork University Press. 1996. xix + 275 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]. Edoardo Zuccato's Coleridge in Italy is a splendid book, original, important, and learned. While its immediate concern is...

Literature and the Marketplace: Romantic Writers and Their Audiences in Great Britain and the United States.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Literature and the Marketplace: Romantic Writers and Their Audiences in Great Britain and the United States. By WILLIAM G. ROWLAND, JR. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press. 1997. xv + 230 pp. 38 [pounds sterling]. In 1812 W. H....

Nerves and Narratives: A Cultural History of Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century British Prose.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Nerves and Narratives: A Cultural History of Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century British Prose. By PETER MELVILLE LOGAN. Foreword by Roy Porter. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press. 1997. xvii + 248 pp. $40; 32 [pounds...

Framing the Victorians: Photography and the Culture of Realism.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Framing the Victorians: Photography and the Culture of Realism. By JENNIFER GREEN-LEWIS. Ithaca, NY, and London: Cornell University Press. 1997. xii + 255 pp. 27.50 [pounds sterling]. The term 'heliogravure', used by the earliest photographers...

Church and Stage in Victorian England.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Church and Stage in Victorian England. By RICHARD FOULKES. Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 1997. xiv + 263 pp. 37.50 [pounds sterling]; $59.95. When on 19 May 1897, Oscar Wilde emerged from prison after a two...

Transcendental Utopias: Individual and Community at Brook Farm, Fruitlands, and 'Walden'.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Transcendental Utopias: Individual and Community at Brook Farm, Fruitlands, and 'Walden'. By RICHARD FRANCIS. Ithaca, NY, and London: Cornell University Press. 1997. xiii + 256 pp. 25.50 [pounds sterling]. The title and subtitle of Richard...

The Letters of Christina Rossetti.(Review)
April 1, 1999... The Letters of Christina Rossetti. Vol. 1: 1843-1873. Ed. by ANTONY H. HARRISON. (Victorian Literature and Culture) Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia. 1997. lxii + 458 pp. $49.50. The trajectory of Christina Rossetti's...

The Letters of Matthew Arnold.(Review)
April 1, 1999... The Letters of Matthew Arnold. Vol. II: 1860-1865. Ed. by CECIL Y. LANG. (Victorian Literature and Culture) Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia. 1997. xxi + 505 pp. $60. The second volume of Cecil Y. Lang's edition of The...

In the Palatial Chamber of the Mind: Comparative Essays on Henry James.(Review)
April 1, 1999... In the Palatial Chamber of the Mind: Comparative Essays on Henry James. By MAURIZIO ASCARI. Pescara: Tracce. 1997. 232 pp. 25,000 lire. The Prefaces of Henry James: Framing the Modern Reader. By JOHN H. PEARSON. University Park: Pennsylvania...

The Prefaces of Henry James: Framing the Modern Reader.(Review)
April 1, 1999... In the Palatial Chamber of the Mind: Comparative Essays on Henry James. By MAURIZIO ASCARI. Pescara: Tracce. 1997. 232 pp. 25,000 lire. The Prefaces of Henry James: Framing the Modern Reader. By JOHN H. PEARSON. University Park: Pennsylvania...

Henry James and the Culture of Publicity.(Review)
April 1, 1999... In the Palatial Chamber of the Mind: Comparative Essays on Henry James. By MAURIZIO ASCARI. Pescara: Tracce. 1997. 232 pp. 25,000 lire. The Prefaces of Henry James: Framing the Modern Reader. By JOHN H. PEARSON. University Park: Pennsylvania...

Henry James in the Periodicals.(Review)
April 1, 1999... In the Palatial Chamber of the Mind: Comparative Essays on Henry James. By MAURIZIO ASCARI. Pescara: Tracce. 1997. 232 pp. 25,000 lire. The Prefaces of Henry James: Framing the Modern Reader. By JOHN H. PEARSON. University Park: Pennsylvania...

British Literary Culture and Publishing Practice, 1880-1914.(Review)
April 1, 1999... British Literary Culture and Publishing Practice, 1880-1914. By PETER M. MCDONALD. (Cambridge Studies in Publishing and Printing History) Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 1997. xi + 230 pp. 37.50 [pounds sterling];...

Literature, Politics and Culture in Postwar Britain.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Literature, Politics and Culture in Postwar Britain. 2nd edn. By ALAN SINFIELD. London and Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Athlone Press. 1997. xxx + 347 pp. 16.95 [pounds sterling]. The publishers do few favours to this new edition of Alan Sinfield's...

Coming Home Again: American Family Drama and the Figure of the Prodigal.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Coming Home Again: American Family Drama and the Figure of the Prodigal. By GEOFFREY S. PROEHL. Cranbury, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 1997. 221 pp. 32.50 [pounds sterling]; $36. Tennessee...

Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales, Children, and the Culture Industry.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales, Children, and the Culture Industry. By JACK ZIPES. New York and London: Routledge. 1997. x + 171 pp. 40 [pounds sterling] (paperbound 12.99 [pounds sterling]). Jack Zipes is well known in children's literature...

De l'emploi du subjonctif passe/On the Use of the Past Subjunctive.(Review)
April 1, 1999... De l'emploi du subjonctif passe/On the Use of the Past Subjunctive. By EVA HAVU. Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia. 1996. 240 pp. The study starts with the premise that 'in the narrative register the Subjunctive Imperfect as well as the...

Gender and Genre in Medieval French Literature.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 1999... Gender and Genre in Medieval French Literature. By SIMON GAUNT. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1995. x + 372 pp. Thanks largely to the impact of feminist scholarship, the question of gender has, in recent years, become an integral part...

La Vie de saint Germer et la vie de saint Josse de Pierre de Beauvais: Deux poemes du XIII siecle, publies avec introduction notes et glossaire.(Review)
April 1, 1999... La Vie de saint Germer et la vie de saint Josse de Pierre de Beauvais: Deux poemes du XIII e siecle, publies avec introduction, notes et glossaire. Ed. by NILS-OLF JONSSON. (Etudes Romanes de Lund, 56) Lund: Lund University Press. 1997. 270 pp....

W.B. Yeats: A Life. Vol.1: The Apprentice Mage, 1865-1914.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Perpetuum mobile: Metamorphoses des corps et des oeuvres de Vinci a Montaigne. By MICHEL JEANNERET. (Collection Argo) Paris: Macula. 1997. 331 pp. 150 F. 'La matiere demeure, mais la forme se perd.' It is all but a truism to state that...

Perpetuum mobile: Metamorphoses des corps et des oeuvres de Vinci a Montaigne.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 1999... W. B. Yeats: A Life. Vol. I: The Apprentice Mage, 1865-1914. By R. F. FOSTER. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. 1997. xxxi + 640 pp. 25 [pounds sterling]. The Yeats who emerges from this long-awaited first part of R. F. Foster's...

L'Amie de Court.(Review)
April 1, 1999... L'Amie de Court. By BERTRAND DE LA BORDERIE. Ed., with an introduction and commentary, by DANIELLE TRUDEAU. (Textes de la Renaissance, 16) Paris: Champion. 1997. xxxvii + 161 pp. 220 F. Bertrand de la Borderie's Amie de Court (1542) set in...

Mots dores pour un siecle de fer: 'Les Mimes, ensignemens et proverbes' de Jean-/Antoine de Baif: Texte, contexte, intertexte.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Mots dores pour un siecle de fer: 'Les Mimes, ensignemens et proverbes' de Jean-Antoine de Baif: texte, contexte, intertexte. By JEAN VIGNES. (Bibliotheque Litteraire de la Renaissance, 37) Paris: Champion. 1997. 656 + xiv pp. 640 F. This...

Le Premiere reception des 'Essais' de Montaigne. (1580-1640).(Review)
April 1, 1999... La premiere reception des 'Essais' de Montaigne (1580-1640). By OLIVIER MILLET. (Etudes Montaignistes, 23) Paris: Champion. 1995. 256 pp. 150 F. Despite the impression given by the title, this is not a monograph. It is a selective anthology of...

Les sources de la pensee philosophique de Raimond Sebond (Ramon Sibuida).(Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 1999... Les sources de la pensee philosophique de Raimond Sebond (Ramon Sibiuda). By JAUME DE PUIG. (Etudes Montaignistes, 17) Paris: Champion. 1995. 318 pp. 270 F. Sebond has received a great deal of attention recently, particularly in the context of...

Montaigne proprietaire foncier: Inventaire raisonne du 'Terrier de Montaigne' conserve a la Bibliotheque Municipale de Bordeaux.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 1999... Montaigne proprietaire foncier: Inventaire raisonne du 'Terrier de Montaigne' conserve a la Bibliotheque Municipale de Bordeaux. By AGNES MARCETTEAU-PAUL. (Etudes Montaignistes, 24) Paris: Champion. 1995. 152 pp. 240 F. Purchased in Germany in...

Meditations sur les Pseaumes.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Meditations sur les Pseaumes. By JEAN DE SPONDE. Ed. by SABINE LARDON. Paris: Champion. 1996. 515 pp. 370 F. Alan Boase's seminal revival of the works of Jean de Sponde brought this writer to the attention of scholars of the mid-twentieth...

A Man to Heal all Differences: Essays and Talks on St. Francis de Sales.(Review)
April 1, 1999... A Man to Heal All Differences: Essays and Talks on St. Francis de Sales. By ELISABETH STOPP. Philadelphia, PA: Saint Joseph's University Press. 1997. xiv + 220 pp. $21.95. For those interested in a short but informatively interesting...

L'Isle des Hermaphrodites.(Review)
April 1, 1999... L'Isle des Hermaphrodites. Ed. By CLAUDE-GILBERT DUBOIS. (Textes Litteraires Francais) Geneve: Droz. 1996. 204 pp. Eighty-nine years after the publication of Thomas More's Utopia in Latin (1516), and fifty-four years after the English version...

French Theatre in the Neo-Classical Era, 1550-1789.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 1999... French Theatre in the Neo-Classical Era, 1550-1789. Ed. by WILLIAM D. HOWARTH. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1997. xlii + 718 pp. 90 [pounds sterling]; $155. Although this formidable volume has been produced under the overall...

Pascal and Rhetoric: Figural and Persuasive Language in the Scientific Treatises, the 'Provinciales' and 'Pensees'.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 1999... Pascal and Rhetoric: Figural and Persuasive Langage in the Scientific Treatises, the 'Provinciales' and 'Pensees'. By EREC KOCH. Ed. by David Lee Rubin. (EMF Monographs) Charlottesville, VA: Rookwood Press. 1997. xxvii + 199 pp. $39.95. Erec...

The Encylopedists as a Group: A Collective Biography of the Authors of the Encyclopedie.(Review)
April 1, 1999... The Encyclopedists as a Group: A Collective Biography of the Authors of the Encyclopedie. FRANK A. KAFKER. (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, 345) Oxford: The Voltaire Foundation. 1996. xxvii + 222 pp. In the literary quarrels of...

Mass Enlightenment: Critical Studies in Rousseau and Diderot.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 1999... Mass Enlightenment: Critical Studies in Rousseau and Diderot. By JULIA SIMON. (SUNY Series in Social and Political Thought) Albany: State University of New York Press. 1995. 236 pp. $59.50 (paperbound $19.95). This provocative study builds on...

Pour encourager les autres: Studies for the Tercentenary of Voltaire's Birth, 169401994.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Pour encourager les autres: Studies for the Tercentenary of Voltaire's Birth, 1694-1994. Ed. by HAYDN MASON. (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, 320) Oxford: The Voltaire Foundation. 1994. 318 pp. 60 [pounds sterling]. Sixteen...

Voltaire: 'Candide'.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 1999... Voltaire: 'Candide'. By DAVID WILLIAMS. (Critical Guides to French Texts, 117) London: Grant & Cutler. 1997. 100 pp. 4.95 [pounds sterling]. The only other systematic guide aimed specifically at explaining Candide to English-speaking students...

Sick Heroes: French society and Literature in the Romantic Age, 1750-1850.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 1999... Sick Heroes: French Society and Literature in the Romantic Age, 1750-1850. By ALLAN H. PASCO. Exeter: University of Exeter Press. 1997. xviii + 250 pp. 37.50 [pounds sterling] (paperbound 12.00 [pounds sterling]). Allan Pasco's bedside manner...

The Play of Terror in Nineteenth-Century France.(Review)
April 1, 1999... The Play of Terror in Nineteenth-Century France. Ed. by JOHN T. BOOKER and ALLAN H. PASCO. Newark: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses. 1997. 274 pp. 29.50 [pounds sterling]. This volume contains seventeen essays...

Victor Hugo. Vol. 1: A Companion to his Poetry.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 1999... Victor Hugo. Vol. I: A Companion to his Poetry. By J. C. IRESON. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1997. xiv + 519 pp. 65 [pounds sterling]. This is a general critical edition in narrative form. It consists almost entirely of accurate, previously known...

La Part due mal: Essai sur l'imaginaire de Jules Romains dans 'Les Hommes de bonne volonte'.(Review)
April 1, 1999... La Part du mal: essai sur l'imaginaire de Jules Romains dans 'Les Hommes de bonne volonte'. By DIRCK DEGRAEVE. (Histoire des idees et critique litteraire, 360) Geneve: Droz. 1997. 311 pp. 51 SwF. In October 1903, in the rue d'Amsterdam, Jules...

The Erotics of Passage: Pleasure, Politics, and Form in the Later Work of Marguerite Duras.(Review)
April 1, 1999... The Erotics of Passage: Pleasure, Politics, and Form in the Later Work of Marguerite Duras. By JAMES S. WILLIAMS. (Modern French Writers) Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. 1997. xi + 243 pp. 14.95 [pounds sterling]. James S. Williams...

Helene Cixous, Rootprints: Memory and Life Writing.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 1999... Helene Cixous, Rootprints: Memory and Life Writing. By HELENE CIXOUS and MIREILLE CALLE-GRUBER. Trans. by ERIC PRENOWITZ. London and New York: Routledge. 1997. 254 pp. This translation of an important collection of writings by and about Helene...

Six Contemporary French Women Poets: Theory, Practice and Pleasure.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Six Contemporary French Women Poets: Theory, Practice and Pleasures. Ed. and trans. by SERGE GAVRONSKY. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press. 1997. xlix + 113 pp. The cover blurb of this book claims this as 'the only...

French Cinema in Nostalgia and the Crisis of Masculinity.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 1999... French Cinema in Nostalgia and the Crisis of Masculinity. By PHIL POWRIE. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1997. xiii + 203 pp. 35 [pounds sterling] (paperbound [pounds sterling]13.99). Given the quite extensive number of 1980s French films that have...

A Mission to Civilize: The Republican Idea of Empire in France and West Africa.(Review)
April 1, 1999... A Mission to Civilize: The Republican Idea of Empire in France and West Africa, 1895-1930. By ALICE C. CONKLIN. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. 1997. x + 367 pp. 37.50 [pounds sterling]; $55. Alice W. Conklin's detailed historical...

Post-Colonial Cultures in France.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Post-Colonial Cultures in France. Ed. by ALEC G. HARGREAVES and MARK MCKINNEY. London and New York: Routledge. 1997. xv + 299 pp. [pounds sterling]45 (paperbound 15.99 [pounds sterling]). This wide-ranging interdisciplinary collection of...

Dante: Contemporary Perspectives.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Dante: Contemporary Perspectives. Ed. by AMILCARE A. IANNUCCI. (Toronto Italian Studies, Major Italian Authors) Toronto: Toronto University Press. 1997. xxii + 299 pp. 41 [pounds sterling] ($55). Fourteen essays, plus a generous introduction,...

Dante's Second Love: The Originality and the Contexts of the Convivio.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Dante's Second Love: The Originality and the Contexts of the Convivio. By PETER DRONKE. (Occasional Papers, 2) Leeds: Society for Italian Studies. 1997. vi + 76 pp. 10 [pounds sterling]. This book represents the written version of the Barlow...

Dante's Interpretive Journey.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Dante's Interpretive Journey. By WILLIAM FRANKE. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1996. 13.50 [pounds sterling]. Dante and Governance. Ed. by JOHN WOODHOUSE. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1997. xi + 179 pp. 30 [pounds sterling]. 'My...

Dante and Governance.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Dante's Interpretive Journey. By WILLIAM FRANKE. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1996. 13.50 [pounds sterling]. Dante and Governance. Ed. by JOHN WOODHOUSE. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1997. xi + 179 pp. 30 [pounds sterling]. 'My...

Selected Letters of Alessandra Strozzi.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Selected Letters of Alessandra Strozzi. Bilingual edition. Trans. with an introduction and notes by HEATHER GREGORY. (Biblioteca Italiana) Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press. 1997. ix + 252 pp. 32 [pounds sterling]...

Per Giovanni della Casa. Ricerche e contributi (Gargano del Garda, 3-5 ottobre 1996).(Review)
April 1, 1999... Per Giovanni della Casa. Ricerche e contributi (Gargano del Garda, 3-5 ottobre 1996). Ed. by GENNARO BARBARISI and CLAUDIA BERRA. Milan: Cisalpino (Istituto Editoriale Universitario-Monduzzi Editore). 1997. 503 pp. Incipitario della lirica...

Incipitario della lirica meridionale e repertorio generale degli autorio di lirica nati nel mezzogiorno d'Italia.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Per Giovanni della Casa. Ricerche e contributi (Gargano del Garda, 3-5 ottobre 1996). Ed. by GENNARO BARBARISI and CLAUDIA BERRA. Milan: Cisalpino (Istituto Editoriale Universitario-Monduzzi Editore). 1997. 503 pp. Incipitario della lirica...

Discorso sopra la corte di Roma.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Discorso sopra la corte di Roma. By GIOVAN FRANCESCO COMMENDONE. Ed. by CESARE MOZZARELLI. Rome: Bulzoni. 1996. 144 pp. 20,000 lire. While literary (or sociological) critics continue to produce ephemeral speculations about courtly literature,...