The Modern Language Review articles from April 2000

The Modern Language Review archives from April 2000

'Beowulf' and Old Germanic Metre.(Review)
April 1, 2000... 'Beowulf' and Old Germanic Metre. By GEOFFREY RUSSOM. (Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England, 23) Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 1998. xii + 235 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]; $64.95. Although it appears, unlike...

The Middle Ages After the Middle Ages in the English-Speaking World.(Review)
April 1, 2000... The Middle Ages After the Middle Ages in the English-Speaking World. Ed. by MARIE-FRANCOISE ALAMICHEL AND DEREK BREWER. Cambridge: Brewer. 1997. ix + 166 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]; $81. Medievalism in Europe II. Vol. VIII: 1996. Ed. by LESLIE J....

Medievalism in Europe.(Review)
April 1, 2000... The Middle Ages After the Middle Ages in the English-Speaking World. Ed. by MARIE-FRANCOISE ALAMICHEL AND DEREK BREWER. Cambridge: Brewer. 1997. ix + 166 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]; $81. Medievalism in Europe II. Vol. VIII: 1996. Ed. by LESLIE J....

Lies, Slander, and Obscenity in Medieval English Literature: Pastoral Literature and the Deviant Speaker.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Lies, Slander, and Obscenity in Medieval English Literature: Pastoral Literature and the Deviant Speaker. By EDWIN D. CRAUN. (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, 31) Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 1997. xiv...

Henry IV, Part 2.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Henry IV, Part 2. Ed. by RENE WEIS. (The Oxford Shakespeare) Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1998. viii + 287 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. When Rene Weis calls 2 Henry IV 'the greatest Falstaff play' (p. 78) one thinks of Silence's comparison of Falstaff...

Disease, Desire and the Body in Victorian Women's popular Novels.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Disease, Desire and the Body in Victorian Women's Popular Novels. By PAMELA K. GILBERT. (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture) Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 1997. viii + 207 pp. 35...

Between Doctors and Patients: The Changing Balance of Power.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Between Doctors and Patients: The Changing Balance of Power. By LILIAN R. FURST. Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia. 1998. xii + 287 pp. $37.50. This book has a mission: to plead for a medicine that is ' "collaborative",...

The Pre-Raphaelite Body: Fear and Desire in Painting, Poetry and Criticism.(Review)
April 1, 2000... The Pre-Raphaelite Body: Fear and Desire in Painting, Poetry, and Criticism. By J. B. BULLEN. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1998. viii + 248 pp. + 23 illus. 35 [pounds sterling]. As the millennium approaches, the English Aesthetic Movement appears...

Genealogy and Fiction in Hardy: Family Lineage and Narrative Lines.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Genealogy and Fiction in Hardy: Family Lineage and Narrative Lines. By TESS O'TOOLE. Basingstoke: Macmillan; New York: St Martin's Press. 1997. ix + 195 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]. Tess O'Toole's book is an important new contribution to the...

Libidinal Currents: Sexuality and the Shaping of Modernism.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Libidinal Currents: Sexuality and the Shaping of Modernism. By JOSEPH ALLEN BOONE. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 1998. xii + 513 pp. $54; 43.25 [pounds sterling] (paperbound $18.95; 15.25 [pounds sterling]). Ambitious...

Literature, Modernism, and Myth: Belief and Responsibility in the Twentieth Century.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Literature, Modernism, and Myth: Belief and Responsibility in the Twentieth Century. By MICHAEL BELL. Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 1997. viii + 260 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]; $54.95. While Michael Bell's new...

The Radical Twenties: aspects of Writing, Politics, Culture.(Review)
April 1, 2000... The Radical Twenties: Aspects of Writing, Politics, Culture. By JOHN LUCAS. Nottingham: Five Leaves. 1997. vi + 263 pp. 35 [pounds sterling] (paperbound 11.99 [pounds sterling]). In a series of vigorously argued books, John Lucas has...

Staging the Rage: The Web of Misogyny in Modern Drama.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Staging the Rage: The Web of Misogyny in Modern Drama. Ed. by KATHERINE H. BURKMANN and JUDITH ROOF. Cranbury, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 1998. 274 pp. 36.50 [pounds sterling]. Once past...

Faulkner's Place.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Faulkner's Place. By MICHAEL MILLGATE. Athens and London: University of Georgia Press. 1997. xvii + 145 pp. 18.50 [pounds sterling]; $22.95. Faulkner's Place brings together eight of Michael Millgate's previously published essays, spanning two...

Fictions of Labor: William Faulkner and the South's Long Revolution.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Fictions of Labor: William Faulkner and the South's Long Revolution. By RICHARD GODDEN. (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture) Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 1997. x + 288 pp. 37.50 [pounds...

Rendering French Realism.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Rendering French Realism. By LAWRENCE R. SCHEHR. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. 1997. 268 pp. The studies in this volume raise a number of methodological problems. They suffer from a double handicap, linguistic in both cases. First,...

Oriana Fallaci: The Woman and the Myth.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Oriana Fallaci: The Woman and the Myth. By SANTO L. ARICO. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press. 1998. 276 pp. 21 [pounds sterling]. Santo Arico's brief introduction is challengingly entitled 'In Search of Truth',...

Umberto Eco and the Open Text: Semiotics, Fiction and popular Culture.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Umberto Eco and the Open Text: Semiotics, Fiction and Popular Culture. By PETER BONDANELLA. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1997. 218 pp. 30 [pounds sterling]. Peter Bondanella's concise monograph surveys the whole of Eco's intellectual...

Son of Andalusia: The Lyrical Landscapes of Federico Garcia Lorca.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Son of Andalusia: The Lyrical Landscapes of Federico Garcia Lorca. By C. BRIAN MORRIS. Liverpool. Liverpool University Press and Vanderbilt University Press. 1997. 480 pp. 35 [pounds sterling] (paperbound 16.95 [pounds sterling]). As readers...

Borges and Europe Revisited.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Borges and Europe Revisited. Ed. by EVELYN FISHBURN. London: Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London. 1998. iv + 128 pp. 12 [pounds sterling]. This volume presents a series of essays examining points of contact between...

Kurt Merz Schwitters: A Biographical Study.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Kurt Merz Schwitters: A Biographical Study. By GWENDOLEN WEBSTER. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. 1997. 443 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]. Kurt Schwitters was born on 20 June 1887 in Hanover, a city that had close connections with Great Britain,...

German Exiles: British Perspectives.(Review)
April 1, 2000... German Exiles: British Perspectives. By J. M. RITCHIE. (Exile Studies, 6) New York: Lang. 1997. 334 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]. Fourteen of the sixteen essays in this volume have already appeared in printed form, mostly during the 1990s, and will...

A Companion to German Literature: From 1500 to the Present.(Review)
April 1, 2000... A Companion to German Literature: From 1500 to the Present. By EDA SAGARRA and PETER SKRINE. Oxford: Blackwell. 1997. xv + 380 pp. 60 [pounds sterling]. The dust-jacket announces 'a landmark in the study of German literary and cultural...

A.I. Ertel' and the Destiny of Russia.(Review)
April 1, 2000... A. I. Ertel' and the Destiny of Russia. By STEVEN GRIFFIN. (Birmingham Slavonic Monographs, 29) Birmingham: University of Birmingham. 1998. vi + 155 pp. 14 [pounds sterling]. Ertel' is a little-known Russian prose writer, of German ancestry on...

Shakespeare on the German Stage: The Twentieth Century.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Shakespeare on the German Stage: The Twentieth Century. By WILHELM HORTMANN. With a Section on Shakespeare on Stage in the German Democratic Republic by MAIK HAMBURGER. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1998. xxi + 497 pp. 45 [pounds...

Modernism, Technology, and the Body: A Cultural Study.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Modernism, Technology, and the Body: A Cultural Study. By TIM ARMSTRONG. Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 1998. x + 309 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]; $59.95 (paperbound 14.95 [pounds sterling]; $19.95). For his cover...