The Modern Language Review articles from January 2007

The Modern Language Review archives from January 2007

Shakespeare's Sonnet CXI and John Davies of Hereford's Microcosmos (1603).(Critical essay)
January 1, 2007... Lines in Shakespeare's Sonnet CXI bear a strong resemblance to lines in John Davies of Hereford's Microcosmos (1603). In the sonnet Shakespeare's Poet persona blames Fortune for making him reliant on 'public means which public manners breeds'....

Defoe's Roxana: the making and unmaking of a heroine.(Daniel Defoe's "Journal of the Plague Year and Roxana")
January 1, 2007... This article begins by drawing together some differences between Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year and Roxana, claiming a link between them in terms of an obsession with language and silence, recovery and ruin. The central argument is that in...

The Byronic in Jane Austen's persuasion and "Pride and Prejudice".(Lord George Gordon Byron)
January 1, 2007... Although Austen and Byron are often considered to be irreconcilable opposites, in this article I argue that Austen engaged closely with Byron's poetry and drew inspiration from some of his most popular poems. The first part of the article...

Paratexts and their functions in seventeenth-century English Decamerons.(Giovanni Boccaccio)
January 1, 2007... This article examines the first English translation of Boccaccio's Decameron (London: Jaggard, 1620), and its subsequent seventeenth-century editions. Meaning is shown to be constructed not only within the translated text itself, but also by...

From store to museum: the reorganization of the Louvre's painting collections in 1848.(Musee du Louvre)
January 1, 2007... With the founding of the Second Republic following the Revolution of 1848, the Louvre was placed under new political and artistic management. Philippe-Auguste Jeanron, Director of National Museums, and Frederic Villot, Curator of Paintings in...

From the Sphinx to Pisa: reconciling two faces of Peladan.(Josephin Peladan)
January 1, 2007... This article deals with unacknowledged parallels between two apparently disparate areas of the work of Josephin Peladan. The early volumes (1892-94) of his doctrinal manuals the Amphitheatre des sciences mortes propose ideals and lifestyles for...

Sanguineti and Montale: travelling companions in the 1970s.(Edoardo Sanguineti and Eugenio Montale's works)
January 1, 2007... This article considers parallels between Edoardo Sanguineti's collections of poems Reisebilder (1971) and Postkarten (1978) and Eugenio Montale's Satura (1971), notably their recording of the specifics of travel in a matter-of-fact, ironic, and...

Meyerbeer's L'Africaine: French grand opera and the Iberian exotic.(Giacomo Meyerbeer)(Critical essay)
January 1, 2007... This article looks at Meyerbeer's last grand opera, L'Africaine (1865), and relates several interconnected themes embedded in the plot-slavery, religious bigotry, the 'black legend' of Iberian confessional government and colonial expansion in...

William Dean Howells's Indian Summer and Theodor Fontane's Effi Briest: forms and phases of the realist novel.(Critical essay)
January 1, 2007... Reviewing Fontane's essay on William Dean Howells's novel A Foregone Conclusion, Werner Hoffmeister identifies parallels in the two writers' careers and in their thinking about the realist novel. Building on Hoffmeister's suggestion that a...

Walter Benjamin's myth of the flaneur.(Critical essay)
January 1, 2007... This article challenges the substance of what is accepted as a critical key to nineteenth-century urban experience: Walter Benjamin's concept of the flaneur. Benjamin's concept is based on incorrect readings of Baudelaire and Poe, and is...

Against adaptation? The strange case of (POD) Poruchik Kizhe.(Critical essay)
January 1, 2007... The extent of the Russian Formalists' engagement with cinema has been obscured by their association with theories of the specificity of literature and a uniquely 'poetic language'. The problematic history of the film adaptation of Iurii...

What Is Morphology?(Book review)
January 1, 2007... What is Morphology? By Mark Aronoff and Kirsten Fudeman. Oxford: Blackwell. 2005. xviii+257PP. 16 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-631-20319-3. This textbook is aimed at students on their first course in linguistic morphology. The book...

Celtic Presence: Studies in Celtic Languages and Literatures, Irish, Scottish Gaelic and Cornish.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Celtic Presence: Studies in Celtic Languages and Literatures. Irish, Scottish Gaelic and Cornish. By Piotr Stalmaszczyk. Lodz: Lodz University Press. 2005. 197 pp. ISBN 978-83-7171-849-6. This volume is primarily a survey of various aspects...

Latin Poetry and the Judgement of Taste: An Essay in Aesthetics.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Latin Poetry and the Judgement of Taste: An Essay in Aesthetics. By Charles Martindale. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. 2005. xi+265 pp. 50.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-o-19-924040-1. One of the most overlooked aspects of...

Allegoresis: Reading Canonical Literature East and West.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Allegoresis: Reading Canonical Literature East and West. By Zhang Longxi. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. 2005. x + 256 pp. $39-95420.95; 20.95 [pounds sterling] ISBN 978-0-8014-4369-5. The argument here understands allegorical...

Die Sehnsucht nach dem Gesamtkunstwerk: Studien zu einer asthetischen Konzeption der Moderne.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Die Sehnsucht nach dem Gesamtkunstwerk: Studien zu einer asthetischen Konzeption der Moderne. By Roger Fornoff. (Echo: Literaturwissenschaft im interdisziplinaren Dialog, 6) Hildesheim: Olms. 2004. 658 pp. 68 [euro]. ISBN 978-3-487-12767-5. ...

New Directions in Oral Theory: Essays on Ancient and Medieval Literatures.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... New Directions in Oral Theory: Essays on Ancient and Medieval Literatures. Ed. by Mark C. Amodio. (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 287) Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. 2005. x + 341 pp. $40; 30 [pounds...

Tous vos gens a Latin: Le Latin, langue savante, langue mondaine (XIVe-XVIIe siecles).(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Tons vos gens a latin: le latin, langue savante, langue mondaine (XIVe-XVIIe siecles). Ed. by Emmanuel Bury. (Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance, 405) Geneva: Droz. 2005. 463 pp. SwF 132. ISBN 978-2-600-00975-1. This handsome volume brings...

Visual Words and Verbal Pictures: Essays in Honour of Michael Bath.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Visual Words and Verbal Pictures: Essays in Honour of Michael Bath. Ed. by alison Saunders and Peter Davidson. Glasgow: Glasgow Emblem Studies. 2005. xxxii + 223 pp. 17.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-85261-814-1. The dust of the...

The 'Je-Ne-Sais-Quoi' in Early Modern Europe: Encounters with a Certain Something.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... The 'Je-Ne-Sais-Quoi'in Early Modern Europe: Encounters with a Certain Something. By Richard Scholar. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2005. xii + 334 pp. 50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-19-927440-6. 'When the most stylish thing on stage...

The Inn and the Traveller: Digressive Topographies in the Early Modern European Novel.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... The Inn and the Traveller: Digressive Topographies in the Early Modern European Novel. By Will McMorran. Oxford: Legenda. 2002. xi + 279 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-1-900755-64-1. Much criticism of travel literature tends to contrast...

Monomania: The Flight from Everyday Life in Literature and Art.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Monomania: The Flight from Everyday Life in Literature and Art. By Marina Van Zuylen. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. 2005. x + 238 pp. $49.95 (pbk $18.95). ISBN 978-0-8014-4298-8 (pbk 978-0-8014-8986-0). As Marina Van Zuylen's...

Medea: Ikone des Fremden und des Anderen in der europaischen Literatur des 20. Jahrhunderts.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Medea: Ikone des Fremden and des Anderen in der europaischen Literatur des 20. Jahrhunderts. By Marketta Gobel-Uotila. (Germanistische Texte and Studien, 73) Hildesheim, Zurich, and New York: Olms-Weidmann. 2005. 326 pp. 34.80 [euro]. ISBN...

Electra after Freud: Myth and Culture.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Electra after Freud: Myth and Culture. By Jill Scott. Ithaca, NY, and London: Cornell University Press. 2005. viii + 200 pp. 21.95 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-8014-4261-2. Scott provides a culturally specific and feminist reading of the...

The Future of Environmental Criticism: Environmental Crisis and Literary Imagination.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... The Future of Environmental Criticism: Environmental Crisis and Literary Imagination. By Lawrence Buell. (Blackwell Manifestos) Oxford: Blackwell. 2005. x + 195 pp. 15.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-1-4051-2476-8. The title of Lawrence...

Theatrical Translation and Film Adaptation: A Practitioner's View.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Theatrical Translation and Film Adaptation: A Practitioner's View. By Phyllis Zatlin. Clevedon, Buffalo, and Toronto: Multilingual Matters. 2005. xii + 222 pp. $89.95; 49-95 [pounds sterling] (pbk $39-95; 19-95 [pounds sterling]). ISBN...

The Judaic Other in Dante, the Gawain Poet, and Chaucer.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... The Judaic Other in Dante, the Gawain Poet, and Chaucer. By Catherine S. Cox. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. 2005. x + 240 pp. $65. ISBN 978-0-8130-2855-2. This book provides a stimulating and original approach to 'the Jewish...

Culture and Conflict in Seventeenth-Century France and Ireland.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Culture and Conflict in Seventeenth-Century France and Ireland. Ed. by Sarah Alyn Stacey and Veronique Desnain. Dublin: Four Courts Press. 2004. 288 pp. 55 [euro]. ISBN 978-1-85182-717-6. This miscellany of eighteen essays hovers not so...

Flint on a Bright Stone: A Revolution of Precision and Restraint in American, Russian, and German Modernism.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Flint on a Bright Stone: A Revolution of Precision and Restraint in American, Russian, and German Modernism. By Kirsten Blythe Painter. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. 2006. xxii + 306 pp. $60. ISBN 978-0-8047-5075-2. The focus of...

The Grounds of English Literature.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... The Grounds of English Literature. By CHRISTOPHER CANNON. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004. xi + 237 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-19-927082-8. This is a fiercely intelligent and consistently challenging book. It combines a...

Medieval Lyric: Middle English Lyrics, Ballads, and Carols.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Medieval Lyric: Middle English Lyrics, Ballads, and Carols. Ed. by John C. Hirsh. Oxford: Blackwell. 2005. xiv + 220 pp. 17.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-1-4051-1482-0. This attractively produced volume offers a new generation of students...

The Idea of Anglo-Saxon England in Middle English Romance.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... The Idea of Anglo-Saxon England in Middle English Romance. By Robert Allen Rouse. Cambridge: Brewer. 2005. viii + 180 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-1-84384-041-1. In opposition to D. G. Scragg's view that 'few of the authors of the...

Gender and Medieval Drama.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Gender and Medieval Drama. By Katie Normington. Cambridge: Brewer. 2004. ix + 158 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-1-8438-4027-5. This is an informative monograph that (partly) fills a serious gap. No other book-length study deals with...

Writing the Oral Tradition: Oral Poetics and Literate Culture in Medieval England.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Writing the Oral Tradition: Oral Poetics and Literate Culture in Medieval England. By Mark C. Amodio. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press. 2004. xvii + 298 pp. $25. ISBN 978-0-268-02024-8. This carefully constructed book explores the...

The French Fetish from Chaucer to Shakespeare.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... The French Fetish from Chaucer to Shakespeare. By Deanne Williams. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xiv + 283 pp.; 18 illustrations. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-521-83216-8. Deanne Williams sets out to chart the...

Spenser Studies.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Spenser Studies, vol. XIX. Ed. by William A. Oram, Anne Lake Prescott, and Thomas P. Roche, Jr. New York: AMS. 2004. vi + 257 pp. $79.50. ISBN 978-0-404-19217-4. It has been gratifying to witness the revival of Spenser Studies over recent...

Spenser and Ovid.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Spenser and Ovid. By Syrithe Pugh. Aldershot: Ashgate. 2005. vii + 302 pp. 47-50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-7546-3905-3 Syrithe Pugh subjects the whole corpus of Spenser's poetry to a close and detailed analysis in the light of an...

Masculinity, Anti-Semitism and Early Modern English Literature: From the Satanic to the Effeminate Jew.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Masculinity, Anti-Semitism and Early Modern English Literature: From the Satanic to the Effeminate Jew. By Matthew Biberman. Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate. 2004. xiv + 260 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-7546-5045-4. This book...

Refiguring Mimesis: Representation in Early Modern Literature.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Refiguring Mimesis: Representation in Early Modern Literature. Ed. by Jonathan Holmes and Adrian Streete. Hatfield: University of Hertfordshire Press. 2005. xvi + 221 pp. 25 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-1-902806-35-8. Introduced by Peter...

Shakespearean Fantasy and Politics.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Shakespearean Fantasy and Politics. By Thomas Betteridge. Hatfield: University of Hertfordshire Press. 2005. vii + 214 pp. 18.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-1-902806-40-2. Starting from the premiss that Shakespeare's drama 'is centrally...

Queen Elizabeth I: Past and Present.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Queen Elizabeth I: Past and Present. Ed. by Christa Jansohn. Munster: Lit. 2004. vi + 250 pp. 19.90 [euro]. ISBN 978-3-8258-7529-9. One in a flurry of publications marking the quatercentenary of the Virgin Queen's death, Queen Elizabeth I:...

Shakespeare and the History of Soliloquies.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Shakespeare and the History of Soliloquies. By James Hirsh. Cranbury, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2003. 470 pp. 60 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-8386-3971-9. In Shakespeare and the...

Poetry and the Creation of a Whig Literary Culture, 1681-1714.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Poetry and the Creation of a Whig Literary Culture 1681-1714. By Abigail Williams. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2005. iv + 303 pp. 53 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-19-925520-7. Abigail Williams has several aims in this book: to recover...

Women Writing of Divinest Things: Rhetoric and the Poetry of Pembroke, Wroth and Lanyer.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Women Writing of Divinest Things: Rhetoric and the Poetry of Pembroke, Wroth and Lanyer. By Lyn Bennett. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press. 2004. x + 331 pp. $60. ISBN 978-0-8207-0359-6. The introduction to Germaine Greer's anthology of...

Adventures in Domesticity: Gender and Colonial Adulteration in Eighteenth-Century British Literature.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Adventures in Domesticity: Gender and Colonial Adulteration in Eighteenth-Century British Literature. By Sharon Harrow. New York: AMS Press. 2004. vii + 265 pp. $72.50. ISBN 978-0-404-63545-9 The title of this book, Adventures in...

Joseph Severn: The Letters and Memoirs.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Joseph Severn: The Letters and Memoirs. Ed. by Grant F. Scott. Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate. 2005. xxxv + 716 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-7190-7158-4. Like Charles Brown and J. H. Reynolds, Joseph Severn has come to be known...

Memoranda during the War.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Memoranda during the War. By Walt Whitman. Ed. by Peter Coviello. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004. liv + 176 pp. 14-99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-19-516793-1. The Civil War was a decisive turning-point in Whitman's career. On...

The Last Titan: A Life of Theodore Dreiser.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... The Last Titan: A Life of Theodore Dreiser. By Jerome Loving. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press. 2005. 22.95 [pounds sterling]. xvi + 480 pp. ISBN 978-0-520-23481-9. Jerome Loving is emphatic, even bullish,...

James Joyce and the Difference of Language.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... James Joyce and the Difference of Language. Ed. by Laurent Milesi. Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 2003. xiii + 232 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]; $60. ISBN 978-0-521-62337-7. This collection of twelve essays...

Twentieth Century Poetry: Selves and Situations.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Twentieth Century Poetry: Selves and Situations. By Peter Robinson. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. 2005. Vii + 287 pp. 50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-19-927325-6. I suspected that reviewing this book might prove a struggle,...

The Cambridge Companion to W.H. Auden.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... The Cambridge Companion to W. H. Auden. Ed. by Stan Smith. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2005. xxi + 261 pp. 15.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-521-53647-9. 'Not as much has been written about Auden as about some other major...

Integral Music: Languages of African American Innovation.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Integral Music: Languages of African American Innovation. By Aldon Lynn Nielsen. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. 2004. xvii + 218 pp. $26.95. ISBN 978-0-8173-5139-7 Undoubtedly, this is an important book. As the second book in a...

Arthur Miller: A Critical Study.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Arthur Miller: A Critical Study. By Christopher Bigsby. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2005. x + 514 pp. 19.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-521-60553-3. While there is no shortage of books about Arthur Miller out there, this new...

Living to Tell about It: A Rhetoric and Ethics of Character Narration.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Living to Tell about It: A Rhetoric and Ethics of Character Narration. By James Phelan. Ithaca, NY, and London: Cornell University Press. 2005. xv + 236 pp. 11.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-8014-8928-0. In this book James Phelan...

The Contemporary British Novel.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... The Contemporary British Novel. By Philip Tew. London and New York: Continuum International. 2004. xv + 205 pp. 14-99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-082647350-9. This book comes with an endorsement from Will Self that refers to 'contemporary...

Paradigms of Paranoia: The Culture of Conspiracy in Contemporary American Fiction.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Paradigms of Paranoia: The Culture of Conspiracy in Contemporary American Fiction. By Samuel Chase Coale. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. 2005. ix + 258 pp. $40. ISBN 978-0-8173-1447-7. The purpose of this book is to restore the...

Contemporary Novelists: British Fiction since 1970.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Contemporary Novelists: British Fiction since 1970. By Peter Childs. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2005. vi + 287 pp. 17.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-1-4039-1120-9. Peter Childs's book is concerned with contemporary...

Exploring Language Change.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Exploring Language Change. By Mari C. Jones and Ishtla Singh. London and New York: Routledge. 2005. xiv + 213 pp. 60 [pounds sterling] (pbk 18.99 [pounds sterling]). ISBN 978-0-415-31774-0 (pbk 978-0-415-31775-7) This book on a...

Femina (Trinity College, Cambridge MS B.14.40).(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Femina (Trinity College, Cambridge MS B.14.40). Ed. by William Rothwell. Aberystwyth and Swansea: The Anglo-Norman Online Hub. 2005. xii + 118 pp.; (http://www.anglo-norman.net/texts/femina.pdf). Not on general sale. ISBN 978-0-9552124-0-6. ...

Clement Marot: The Mirror of the Prince.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Clement Marot: The Mirror of the Prince. By Ehsan Ahmed. Charlottesville: Rookwood Press. 2005. 88 pp. $19.95. ISBN 978-1-886365-57-5. Ehsan Ahmed explores in this book how Marot portrayed his relationship with the monarch in his poetry, a...

Oeuvres completes.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Oeuvres completes. By Jean Second. Vol. 1: Basiorum liber et Odarum liber. Ed. by Roland Guillot. (Textes de la Renaissance, 97) Paris: Champion. 2005. 438 pp. 79 [euro]. ISBN 978-2-7453-1243-3. This first volume of what will become the...

Le Verger fertile des vertus.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Le Verger fertile des vertus. By Madame Du Verger and Philippe Du Verger. Ed. by Susan Broomhall and Colette H. Winn. (Textes de la Renaissance, 85) Paris: Champion. 2004. 179 pp. 31 [euro]. ISBN 978-2-7453-1005-7. It is a commonplace when...

A Discourse on the Method.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... A Discourse on the Method. By Rene Descartes. Trans. by Ian Maclean. (Oxford World's Classics) Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2006. lxxvi + 84 pp. 6.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-19-282514-8. This is a new translation of Descartes's...

Racine: Language, Violence and Power.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Racine: Language, Violence and Power. By Mary Reilly. Oxford and Bern: Peter Lang. 2005. 140 pp. 22 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-3-03910-286-0. Clearly and concisely written, richly documented with textual evidence, this book makes a new...

Publishing in the Republic of Letters: The Menage-Graevius-Wetstein Correspondence 1679-1692.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Publishing in the Republic of Letters: The Menage-Graevius-Wetstein Correspondence 1679-1692. Ed. by Richard G. Maber. (Studies in the History of Ideas in the Low Countries, 6) Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi. 2005. vii + 174 pp. 40 [euro]. ISBN...

Les oeuvres completes de Voltaire.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Les Oeuvres completes de Voltaire. Ed. by Nicholas Cronk and others. Vol. LXVIII: Histoire du parlement de Paris. Ed. by John Renwick. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation. 2005. xxiv + 604 pp.; 3 plates. 110 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-7294-0823-3....

Correspondance de Madame de Graffigny.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Correspondance de Madame de Graffigny. Ed by J. A. Dainard. Vol. VI: 23 octobre 1744-10 septembre 1745, lettres 761-896. Ed. by Pierre Bouillaguet, Judith Curtis, J. A. Dainard, and others. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation. 2000. xix + 638 pp. 95...

Emilie Du Chatelet: Rewriting Enlightenment Philosophy and Science.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Emilie Du Chatelet: Rewriting Enlightenment Philosophy and Science. Ed. by Judith P. Zinsser and Julie Candler Hayes. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation. 2006. xii + 325 pp. 60 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-7294-0872-1. Emilie du Chatelet once...

Gender and Voice in the French Novel, 1730-1782.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Gender and Voice in the French Novel, 1730-1782. By Aurora Wolfgang. Aldershot: Ashgate. 2004. ix + 209 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-7546-3702-8. This is an important study of the engendering of literary style during the eighteenth...

The Kill.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... The Kill. By Emile Zola. Trans., with an introduction and notes, by Brian Nelson. (Oxford World's Classics) Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004. xxxix + 275 pp. 7.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-19-280464-8. La Curee (1872), the second...

Jules Lefevre-Deumier:un poete romantique contre la peine demort (quatre poemes).(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Jules Lefevre-Deumier:un poete romantique contre la peine demort (quatre poemes). Ed. by Loic P. Guyon. (Liverpool Online Series Critical Editions of French Texts, II) Liverpool: University of Liverpool. 2005. 86 pp. ISBN 978-0-9545406-0-9. ...

Hombres.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Hombres. By Paul Verlaine. Ed. by Steve Murphy. Beziers: H & O. 2005. 127 pp. 4.90 [euro]. ISBN 978-2-84547-107-8. This is the best and cheapest edition imaginable. The ever meticulous Steve Murphy lists no fewer than eleven editions in his...

Maupassant: Quinze contes.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Maupassant: Quinze contes. By Trevor Harris. (Critical Guides to French Texts, 139) London: Grant & Cutler. 2005. 81 pp. 7.95 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-7293-0447-4. For this first critical opus on the Quinze contes edited by F. C....

Sex, Sailors and Colonies: Narratives of Ambiguity in the Works of Pierre Loti.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Sex, Sailors and Colonies: Narratives of Ambiguity in the Works of Pierre Loti. By Helene De Burgh. (European University Studies, French Language and Literature Series, 277) Bern: Peter Lang. 2005. 322 pp. 37-90 [pounds sterling]. ISBN...

Proust's English.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Proust's English. By Daniel Karlin. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2005. xii+ 229 pp. 25 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-19-925688-4. The elegant subtlety of Proust's English begins with the illustration on the dust jacket. Daniel Karlin...

Proust et le moi divise. La Recherche: creuset de la psychologie experimentale (1874-1914).(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Proust et le moi divise. La Recherche: creuset de la psychologie experimentale (1874-1914). By Edward Bizub. (Histoiredes ideas et critique litteraire, 422) Geneva: Droz. 2006. 296 pp. SwF 55. ISBN 978-2-600-01032-0. Proust had not read...

Proust at the Movies.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Proust at the Movies. By Martine Beugnet and Marion Schmid. (Studies in European Cultural Transition, 31) Aldershot: Ashgate. 2004. viii + 261 pp.; 12 plates. 50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-7546-3541-3. This lucid and stimulating book is...

Jean Cocteau.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Jean Cocteau. By James S. Williams. (French Film Directors) Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press. 2006. xv+223 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-7190-5883-7. Cocteau's contribution to the cinema is the area of his...

Francophone Writing in Transition: Algeria 1900-1945.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Francophone Writing in Transition: Algeria 1900-1945. By Peter Dunwoodie. (Modern French Identities, 42) Bern: Peter Lang. 2005. 339 pp. 39 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-3-03910-294-5 Peter Dunwoodie's Francophone Writing in Transition is an...

Rene Char I: Le 'Pays' dans la poesie de Char de 1946 a 1970.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Rene Char I: Le 'Pays' dans la poesie de Char de 1946 a 1970. Ed. by Patrick Nee and Daniele Leclair. (Revue des Lettres Modernes) Paris and Caen: Lettres Modernes Minard. 2005. 234 PP. 23.75 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-2-256-91095-1. This...

Love and Sexuality: New Approaches in French Studies.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Love and Sexuality: New Approaches in French Studies. Ed. by Sarah F. Donachie and Kim Harrison. (Modern French Identities, 32) Oxford and Bern: Peter Lang. 2005. 194 pp. 26 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-3-03910-249-5. This volume is the...

Space: New Dimensions in French Studies.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Space: New Dimensions in French Studies. Ed. by Emma Gilby and Katja Haustein. (Modern French Identities, 30) Oxford and Bern: Peter Lang. 2005. 169 pp. 23 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-3-03910-178-8. Emma Gilby and Katja Haustein's volume...

Experiencing the Afterlife: Soul and Body in Dante and Medieval Culture.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Experiencing the Afterlife: Soul and Body in Dante and Medieval Culture. By Manuele Gragnolati. (The William and Katherine Devers Series in Dante Studies, 7) Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press. 2005. xvii+279 PP. $50 (pbk $25). ISBN...

Machiavelli: The First Century: Studies in Enthusiasm, Hostility, and Irrelevance.(Book review)
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