The Modern Language Review articles from January 2008

The Modern Language Review archives from January 2008

The good communicated: Milton's drama of the fall and the law of charity.(John Milton)(Critical essay)
January 1, 2008... ABSTRACTS The article offers a suggested cause for Milton's representation of the Fall in Book IX of Paradise Lost as Eve and Adam's transgression of the law of charity, that is, the love of God, self, and neighbour. The law of charity...

'The rock whence ye are hewn': the Book of Ebenezer Le page and Guernsey literature and history.(British Isles)(Critical essay)
January 1, 2008... G. B. Edwards's fictional autobiography, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page (1981), is an intriguing but little-known novel. Although it was a popular commercial success on publication, it has received scant attention from literary scholars. One of...

Mises en abyme and narrative function in Zola's La Curee.(Emile Zola)(Critical essay)
January 1, 2008... This article examines the narrative function of mises en abyme in Emile Zola's La Curee, using the theoretical framework proposed by Dallenbach in Le Recit speculaire. The broad range of reflections analysed includes some not previously...

Gide and Ibsen: a symbolist crossroads.(Andre Gide, Henrik Ibsen)(Critical essay)
January 1, 2008... In the 1890s Gide's views on Ibsen did not always coincide with critical opinion, and in 1904 he wrote on 'mask' and 'character', echoing Oscar Wilde. Ghosts and The Wild Duck provide an important link between Ibsen and Gide. However, other...

Family comes first: i-identity and we-identity in Pierre Bergounioux.(Critical essay)
January 1, 2008... The article examines three of Pierre Bergounioux's most closely related works--La Maison rose, L'Orphelin, and La Toussaint--and argues that their interconnected narratives testify to an Eliasian conception of the relationship between identity,...

History and pastoral in the structure of Leopardi's Canti.(Giacomo Leopardi)(Critical essay)
January 1, 2008... This article explores the cultural matrices of Leopardi's Canti, one of the most complex and stratified poetic books of the Italian tradition: the notion of history and that of pastoral (or bucolic or idyll, as Leopardi would have it). Emphasis...

Collective suicide: Rafael Alberti's updating of Cervantes's la destruccion de Numancia.(Critical essay)
January 1, 2008... La destruccion de Numancia, the tragedy wherein Cervantes depicted the Iberians' collective suicide rather than surrender to the invading Romans, was twice adapted by Rafael Alberti, first in 1937 in a Madrid besieged during the Spanish Civil...

Mothers and nomadic subjects: configurations of identity and desire in Laura Restrepo's La Novia oscura.(Critical essay)
January 1, 2008... This article deals with gender and subjectivity in Laura Restrepo's La novia oscura, in which Colombia' s insertion into multinational capitalism creates homosocial subcommunities which briefly challenge patriarchal-heterosexual norms. The...

Fontane and the programmatic realists: contrasting theories of the novel.(Theodor Fontane)
January 1, 2008... Fontane's theory of the novel is more sophisticated and owes less to the ideas of the Programmatic Realists Julian Schmidt and Otto Ludwig than is generally thought. He rejects tendentiousness, undifferentiated speech, and schematic...

Private failings and public virtues: Gunter Grass's Beim Hauten der Zwiebel and the exemplary use of authorial biography.(Critical essay)
January 1, 2008... Gunter Grass's surprise revelation in August 2006 that he had served with the Waffen SS from late 1944 until May 1945 was followed by the (early) release of his Beim Hauten der Zwiebel, in which this episode is embedded within an account of his...

Language and Meaning: The Structural Creation of Reality.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Language and Meaning: The Structural Creation of Reality. By CHRISTOPHER BEEDHAM. (Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 55) Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 2005. xiv+225 pp. 115 [euro]; $138. ISBN 978-90272-1564-2. ...

La Quete des invariants interlangues: la linguistique est-elle une science?(Book review)
January 1, 2008... La Quete des invariants interlangues: la linguistique est-elle une science? By GILBERT LAZARD. (Bibliotheque de Grammaire et de Linguistique, 23) Paris: Champion. 2006. 338 pp. 68 [euro]. ISBN 978-2-7453-1392-8. This book presents...

Surprised in Translation.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Surprised in Translation. By MARY ANN CAWS. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 2o06. xii+145 pp. $25; 16 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-226-09873-9. Mary Ann Caws explains the notion of surprise and its nuances for a...

Collaboration in the Arts from the Middle Ages to the Present.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Collaboration in the Arts from the Middle Ages to the Present. Ed. by SILVIA BIGLIAZZI and SHARON WOOD. (Studies in European Cultural Transition, 35) Aldershot: Ashgate. 2006. xii+22i pp. 50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-7546-5512-1. This...

Metamorphoses d'Arachne: l'artiste en araignee dans la litterature occidentale.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Metamorphoses d'Arachne: l'artiste en araignee dans la litterature occidentale. By SYLVIE BALLESTRA-PUECH. Geneva: Droz. 2006. 460 pp. 77.60 [euro]. ISBN 9782-600-01061-0. Sylvie Ballestra-Puech's book truly mimics its subject-matter in so...

Ovid's Art and the Wife of Bath: The Ethics of Erotic Violence.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Ovid's Art and the Wife of Bath: The Ethics of Erotic Violence. By MARILYNN DESMOND. Ithaca, NY, and London: Cornell University Press. 2006. xvi+ 206 pp. $20.95; 11.95 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-8014-7317-3. The reception of Ovid's Ars...

The Meanings of Magic: From the Bible to Buffalo Bill.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... The Meanings of Magic: From the Bible to Buffalo Bill. Ed. by AMY WYGANT . New York and Oxford: Berghahn. 2006. x+241 pp. 42 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-1-84545-178-3. The Meanings of Magic is a volume of breezy essays on historical topics...

La Fabrique du Moyen Age au XIXe siecle: representations du Moyen Age dans la culture et la litterature francaises au XIXe siecle.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... La Fabrique du Moyen Age au XIXe siecle: representations du Moyen Age dans la culture et la litterature francaises au XIXe siecle. Ed. by SIMONE BERNARD-GRIFFITHS, PIERRE GLAUDES, and BERTRAND VIBERT. (Romantismes et Modernites, 94) Paris:...

Memory and Medievalism.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Memory and Medievalism. Ed. by KARL FUGELSO. (Studies in Medievalism, 15) Cambridge: Brewer. 2007. 201 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]; $80. ISBN 978-1-84384-115-9. The theme of this book is the Middle Ages in modern perception. Though the papers...

Performing America: Colonial Encounters in New World Writing.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Performing America: Colonial Encounters in New World Writing, 1500-1786. By SUSAN CASTILLO. London and New York: Routledge. 2006. x+276 pp. 55 [pounds sterling] (pbk 18.99 [pounds sterling]). ISBN 978-0-415-31606-4 (pbk 978-0-415-31607-1). ...

Print and Power in France and England, 1500-1800.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Print and Power in France and England, 1500-1800. Ed. by DAVID ADAMS and ADRIAN ARMSTRONG. Aldershot: Ashgate. 2006. viii+157PP. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN978-0-7546559I-6. In an intellectual climate where the benefits of interdisciplinary...

The Frame of Art: Fictions of Aesthetic Experience 1750-1815.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... The Frame of Art: Fictions of Aesthetic Experience, 1750-1815. By DAVID MARSHALL. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2005. x+259 pp. $50. ISBN 978-0-8018-8233-3. The 'Frame of Art' of this book's title is emphatically...

'Relations Stop Nowhere': The Common Literary Foundations of German and American Literature 1830-1917.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... 'Relations Stop Nowhere': The Common Literary Foundations of German and American Literature 1830-1917. By HUGH RIDLEY. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi. 2007. 317 pp. 64 [euro]. ISBN 978-90-420-2183-9. In recent decades German-American...

La Poesie du lieu: Segalen, Thoreau, Guillevic, Ponge.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... La Poesie du lieu: Segalen, Thoreau, Guillevic, Ponge. By STEVEN WINSPUR. (Chiasma, 20) Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi. 2006. 180 pp. 36 [euro]; $49. ISBN 97890-420-2103-7. La Poesie du lieu is an ambitious project, ranging over writings in...

Melancholia's Dog.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Melancholia's Dog. By ALICE A. KUZNIAR. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 2006. x+215 pp. $26; 16.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-226-46578-4. What E. O. Wilson has called the 'biophilia hypothesis', that is, the idea of an...

Secret Sharers: Joseph Conrad's Cultural Reception in Germany.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Secret Sharers: Yoseph Conrad's Cultural Reception in Germany. By ANTHONY FOTHERGILL. (Cultural History and Literary Imagination, 4) Oxford and Bern: Peter Lang. 2006. 274 pp. 31.50 [pounds sterling]; 48.20 [euro]. ISBN 978-3-03-910271-6. ...

Geomodernisms: Race, Modernism, Modernity.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Geomodernisms: Race, Modernism, Modernity. Ed. by LAURA DOYLE and LAURA WINKIEL . Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press. 2o06. xiv + 354 pp. $24-95. ISBN 978-0-253-21778-3. The last ten years have seen a remarkable...

Kontinentalisierung: Das Europa der Schriftsteller.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Kontinentalisierung: Das Europa der Schriftsteller. By PAUL MICHAEL LUTZELER. Bielefeld: Aisthesis. 2007. 293 pp. 24.80 [euro]. ISBN 978-3-89528-595-0 With a common currency in much of Europe and the effective disappearance of national...

The Literary in Theory.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... The Literary in Theory. By JONATHAN CULLER. (Cultural Memory in the Present) Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. 2007. xii + 276pp. $21.95. ISBN 9780-8047-5374-6 This difficult yet interesting book asserts that theory is not dead,...

The Neo-Primitivist Turn: Critical Reflections on Alterity, Culture, and Modernity.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... The Neo-Primitivist Turn: Critical Reflections on Alterity, Culture, and Modernity. By VICTOR Li. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 2006. xii+292 pp. $50. ISBN 978-0-8020-9111-6. There is something charming in this scrupulous study of...

Nouvelles mythologies de la mort.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Nouvelles mythologies de la mort. By ISABELLE CASTA. (Bibliotheque de Litterature Generale et Comparee, 67) Paris: Champion. 2006. 228 pp. 43 [euro]. ISBN 9782-7453-1495-6. Has our relation to death changed? This is the question Isabelle...

Electronic Textual Editing.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Electronic Textual Editing. Ed. by LOU BURNARD, KATHERINE O'BRIEN O'KEEFFE, and JOHN UNSWORTH. New York: Modern Language Association of America. 2o06. viii+419 pp. $28. ISBN 978-0-87352-971-6. Computers came along at an opportune time for...

Diversifying the Discourse: The Florence Howe Award for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship 1990-2004.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Diversifying the Discourse: The Florence Howe Award for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship 1990-2004. Ed. by MIHOKO SUZUKI and ROSEANNA DUFAULT. New York: Modern Language Association of America. 2006. xxviii+342 pp. $22. ISBN 978-0-87352-947-1....

Eros, blessures et folie: detresses du vieillir.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Eros, blessures et folie: detresses du vieillir. Ed. by ALAIN MONTANDON. (Litteratures) Clermont-Ferrand: Presses Universitaires Blaise Pascal. 2006. 356 pp. 30 [euro]. ISBN 978-2-84516-312-6. Viellir, not vieillesse: a dynamic process...

White Civility: The Literary Project of English Canada.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... White Civility: The Literary Project of English Canada. By DANIEL COLEMAN. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 2006. x+320 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 9870-8020-3707-7. Much recent criticism on Canadian literature concentrates on the...

The Oxford History of Literary Translation in English, IV: 1790-1900.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... The Oxford History of Literary Translation in English, IV: 1790-1900. Ed. by PETER FRANCE and KENNETH HAYNES. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2006. xv+ 595 pp. 09. ISBN 978-0-19-924623-6. This volume, the second in the series to be...

Language and Imagination in the Gawain Poems.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Language and Imagination in the 'Gawain'-Poems. By J. J. ANDERSON. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press. 2005. vii+247 pp. 35 [pounds sterling] (pbk 16.99 [pounds sterling]). ISBN 978-0-7190-5353-5 (pbk 978-0-7190-7102-7) ...

Renaissance and Reformations: An Introduction to Early Modern English Literature.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Renaissance and Reformations: An Introduction to Early Modern English Literature. By MICHAEL HATTAWAY. Oxford: Blackwell. 2005. v11+253 pp. 17.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-1-4051-0045-8. What is the best name for the period? 'Early...

Renaissance England's Chief Rabbi: John Selden.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Renaissance England's Chief Rabbi: John Selden By JASON P. ROSENBLATT. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2006. ix+314 pp. 63 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-19-928613-3. John Selden is best known for his competence in an impressive range of...

Marvelous Protestantism: Monstrous Births in Post-Reformation England.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Marvelous Protestantism: Monstrous Births in Post-Reformation England. By JULIE CRAWFORD. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2005. x+ 270 pp. 33-50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-8018-8112-1. The connection of the body...

Single Imperfection: Milton, Marriage and Friendship.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Single Imperfection: Milton, Marriage and Friendship. By THOMAS H. LUXON. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press. 2005. xvi+215 pp. 33 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-08207-0373-2 Thomas H. Luxon's observations on the divorce tracts, Paradise...

Between Spenser and Swift: English Writing in Seventeenth-Century Ireland.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Between Spenser and Swift: English Writing in Seventeenth-Century Ireland. By DEANA RANKIN. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2005. xiv+294 PP. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-521-84302-7. It has been said that the most original...

Pope and the Destiny of the Stuarts.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Pope and the Destiny of the Stuarts. By PAT ROGERS. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2005. xvii+341 pp. 75 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-19-927439-0. Pope and the Destiny of the Stuarts is a complementary volume to Pat Rogers's earlier,...

Eighteenth-Century Women Poets and their Poetry: Inventing Agency, Inventing Genre.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Eighteenth-Century Women Poets and their Poetry: Inventing Agency, Inventing Genre. By PAULA R. BACKSCHEIDER. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2005. xxvii + 412pp. 45-49 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-8018-8169-5. This book is a...

Cultural Constructions of Madness in Eighteenth-Century Writing: Representing the Insane.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Cultural Constructions of Madness in Eighteenth-Century Writing: Representing the Insane. By ALLAN INGRAM, with MICHELLE FAUBERT. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 2005. x+245 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-1-4039-4595-2 This is a...

The Augustan Art of Poetry: Augustan Translation of the Classics.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... The Augustan Art of Poetry: Augustan Translation of the Classics. By ROBIN SOWERBY. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2006. x+368 pp. 50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-19928612-6. Robin Sowerby embraces The Augustan, and not just in his...

Romantic Indians: Native Americans, British Literature, and Transatlantic Culture 1756-1830.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Romantic Indians: Native Americans, British Literature, and Transatlantic Culture 1756-1830. By TIM FULFORD. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2006. x+ 318 pp. 50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 987-0-19-927337-9. Tim Fulford's subtitle reflects a...

Romantic Metropolis: The Urban Scene of British Culture, 1780-1840.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Romantic Metropolis: The Urban Scene of British Culture, 1780-1840. Ed. by JAMES CHANDLER and KEVIN GILMARTIN. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2006. xiii+291 pp. 50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-521-83901-3. This book is' not about...

Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century. By EMMA MASON. (Writers and their Work) Tavistock: Northcote House. 2006. xii+148 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-74631113-4. The 'women poets' of the title are Felicia Hemans, Dora Greenwell,...

The Body Economic: Life, Death, and Sensation in Political Economy and the Victorian Novel.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... The Body Economic: Life, Death, and Sensation in Political Economy and the Victorian Novel. By CATHERINE GALLAGHER. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2o06. xix+209 pp. 18.95 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-691-12358-5. In her commanding...

Scottish Fiction and the British Empire.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Scottish Fiction and the British Empire. By DOUGLAS S. MACK. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 2006. ix+247 pp. 16.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-7486-1814-9. This book has useful things to say on how the fiction of 'non-elite...

Gospels and Grit: Work and Labour in Carlyle, Conrad, and Orwell.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Gospels and Grit: Work and Labour in Carlyle, Conrad, and Orwell. By ROB BRETON. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 2005. x+246 pp. [pounds sterling] 35. ISBN 978-08020-3888-3. The central theme of this book is that in the industrial age...

Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the Late Victorian Sonnet Sequence: Sexuality, Belief and the Self.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the Late Victorian Sonnet Sequence: Sexuality, Belief and the Self. By JOHN HOLMES. Aldershot: Ashgate. 2005. x+190 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-7546-5108-6. In this welcome new monograph John Holmes in...

British Modernism and Censorship.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... British Modernism and Censorship. By CELIA MARSHIK. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2006. xii+257 pp. 48 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-521-85966-0. Celia Marshik's study argues that 'in the context of British modernism, censorship...

Modernism: An Anthology.(The Modernist Novel and the Decline of Empire)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Modernism: An Anthology. Ed. by LAWRENCE RAINEY. Maldon and Oxford: Blackwell. 2005. xxxii+1181 pp. 19.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-631-20449-7. The Modernist Novel and the Decline of Empire. By JOHN MARX. Cambridge and New York:...

Narrating Scotland: The Imagination of Robert Louis Stevenson.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Narrating Scotland: The Imagination of Robert Louis Stevenson. By BARRY MENIKOFF. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press. 2005. xii+233 pp. 29.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-1-57003-568-5. Narrating Scotland is a tour de force of...

Storia della letteratura inglese.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Storia della letteratura inglese, vol. IV: Dal 1870 al 1921. By FRANCO MARUCCI. Florence: Le Lettere. 2006. 1225 pp. 46 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-88-7166-952-6. It is a brave person, in the early years of the twenty-first century, who is...

Literature, Technology, and Modernity, 1860-2000.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Literature, Technology, and Modernity, 1860-2000. By NICHOLAS DALY. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2004. vii+161 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-521-833929. Nicholas Daly's book continues the meditation on the relations...

Literature and the Taste of Knowledge.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Literature and the Taste of Knowledge. By MICHAEL NVbon . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2005. x+205 pp. 14.95 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-521-60653-0. Michael Wood's critical forte is to communicate the readerly experience, or...

Touch and Intimacy in First World War Literature.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Touch and Intimacy in First World War Literature. By SANTANU DAS. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2005. xii+265PP. 48 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-521-846035. 'The world of the trenches', Santanu Das argues in his important study...

To Exercise Our Talents: The Democratization of Writing in Britain.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... To Exercise Our Talents: The Democratization of Writing in Britain. By CHRISTOPHER HILLIARD. London: Harvard University Press. 2006. x+390 pp. 19.95 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-674-02177-8. Christopher Hilliard offers a measured, sober...

Domestic Modernism, the Interwar Novel, and E.H. Young.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Domestic Modernism, the Interwar Novel, and E. H. Young. By CHIARA BRIGANTI and KATHY MEZEI. Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate. 2006. viii+211 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-7546-5317-2. This ground-breaking study documents the...

Collected Poems.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Collected Poems. By Louis MACNEICE. Ed. by PETER MCDONALD. London: Faber and Faber. 2007. xxxiv+836 pp. 30 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-571-21574-4. Peter McDonald's magnificent new edition of the Collected Poems sharply raises...

As for Sinclair Ross.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... As for Sinclair Ross. By DAVID STOUCK. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 2005. xv+353 PP. 28 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-8020-4388-7. For much of his life, James Sinclair Ross strove for literary success yet shunned the public eye....

The Thriller and Northern Ireland since 1969: Utterly Resigned Terror.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... The Thriller and Northern Ireland since 1969: Utterly Resigned Terror. By AARON KELLY. Aldershot: Ashgate. 2005. viii+213 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-7546-3839-1. Northern Ireland has just claim to the title of most...

Trailing Clouds: Immigrant Fiction in Contemporary America.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Trailing Clouds: Immigrant Fiction in Contemporary America. By DAVID COWART. Ithaca, NY. Cornell University Press. 2006. xii+249 pp. $55; 31.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-8014-4469-2. David Cowart brings a quite winning assurance to this...

The Cambridge Companion to Modern Irish Culture.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... The Cambridge Companion to Modern Irish Culture. Ed. by JOE CLEARY and CLAIRE CONNOLLY. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2005. 1iii+362 pp. 17-99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-521-52629-6. This is a substantial volume, as much...

The Rhetoric of Modernist Fiction: From a New Point of View.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... The Rhetoric of Modernist Fiction: From a New Point of View. By MORTON P. LEVITT. Hanover and London: University Press of New England. 2006. xx+200 pp. 47-49 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-1-58465-122-2. This book is an hommage and a...

Approaches to Teaching the 'Song of Roland'.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Approaches to Teaching the 'Song of Roland'. Ed. by WILLIAM W. KIBLER and LESLIE ZARKER MORGAN. New York: Modern Language Association of America. 2006. 317 pp. $19-75. ISBN 978-087352-990-0 The essays in this volume, written by over thirty...

Maistre Wace: A Celebration.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Maistre Wace: A Celebration. Ed. by GLYN S. BURGESS and JUDITH WEISS. St Helier: Societe Jersiaise. 2006. viii+ 197 pp.; 8 pp. colour illustrations. 15 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 9780-901897-40-4. This book presents proceedings of the 2004...

Love and Death in Medieval French and Occitan Courtly Literature: Martyrs to Love.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Love and Death in Medieval French and Occitan Courtly Literature: Martyrs to Love. By SIMON GAUNT. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2006. vii+235 pp. 50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-19-927207-5. Simon Gaunt's new book treats a familiar...

Rossignos.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Rossignos. By JOHN OF HOWDEN. Ed. by GLYNN HESKETH. (Anglo-Norman Texts, 63) London: Anglo-Norman Text Society. 2o06. 270 pp. 37.50 [pounds sterling] (25 [pounds sterling] to Society members). ISBN 978-0-905474-46-5 Glynn Hesketh' sedition...

Debate and Dialogue: Alain Chartier in his Cultural Context.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Debate and Dialogue: Alain Chartier in his Cultural Context. By EMMA CAYLEY. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 2006. xi+258 pp. 50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-19-929026-0. The importance of this addition to late medieval French literary,...

Enseignements a sa fille suivis de l'Histoire du siege de Brest.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Enseignements a sa fille suivis de l'Histoire du siege de Brest. By ANNE DE FRANCE. Ed. by TATINA CLAVIER and ELIANE VIENNOT. (La Cite des dames) Saint-Etienne: Publications de l'Universie de Saint-Etienne. 2006. 144 pp. 7 [euro]. ISBN...

Rymes (1545).(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Rymes (1545). By PERNETTE DU GUILLET. Ed. by ELISE RAJCHENBACH. (Textes Litteraires Francais) Geneva: Droz. 2006. 295 pp. SwF 52. ISBN 978-2-60001063-4. Emerging from the hothouse atmosphere of mid-sixteenth-century Lyon, Pernette du...

From Mother and Daughter: Poems, Dialogues, and Letters of Les Dames des Roches.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... From Mother and Daughter: Poems, Dialogues, and Letters of Les Dames des Roches. Ed. and trans. by ANNE R. LARSEN. (The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe) Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 2006. 319 pp. $24. ISBN...

'The Regrets', with 'The Antiquities of Rome', Three Latin Elegies, and 'The Defense and the Enrichment of the French Language' (A Bilingual Edition).(Book review)
January 1, 2008... 'The Regrets', with 'The Antiquities of Rome', Three Latin Elegies, and 'The Defense and the Enrichment of the French Language' (A Bilingual Edition). By JOACHIM DU BELLAY. Ed. and trans. by RICHARD HELGERSON. Philadelphia: University of...

Thuanus: The Making of Jacques-Auguste de Thou (1553-1617).(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Thuanus: The Making of Jacques-Auguste de Thou (1553-1617). By INGRID DE SMET. (Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance, 168) Geneva: Droz. 2006. 344 pp. SWF 116. ISBN 978-2-600-01071-9. For a historian, Jacques-Auguste de Thou's renown rests...

Le Moyen de parvenir.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Le Moyen de parvenir. By BEOALDE DE VERVILLE. Intro. by MICHEL JEANNERET. Ed. by MICHEL RENAUD. Paris: Gallimard. 2006. 579 pp. 8.70 [euro] ISBN 978-2-07-042777-2. For the reader tackling Beroalde de Verville's fiendishly fragmentary,...

Elemens on Institutions de la langue francoise (1586).(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Elemens on Institutions de la langue francoise (1586). By JEAN BOSQUET. Ed. by COLETTE DEMAIZIERE. (Textes de la Renaissance, 83) Paris: Champion. 2005. 176 pp. 36.60 [euro]. ISBN 978-2-7453-1146-7. This is the fifth sixteenth-century...

'L'Autre Monde' de Cyrano de Bergerac: un voyage dans l'espace du livre.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... 'L' Autre Monde' de Cyrano de Bergerac: un voyage dans l' espace du livre. GUILHEM ARMAND. Paris and Caen: Lettres Modernes Minard. 2005. 140 pp. 18 [euro]. ISBN 978-2-256-90477-6. This slim volume offers an intriguing exploration of Cyrano...

Progres et perfectibilite: un dilemme des Lumieres francaises (1755-1814).(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Progres et perfectibilite: un dilemme des Lumieres francaises (1755-1814). By FLORENCE LOTTERIE. (SVEC, 2006:04) Oxford: Voltaire Foundation. 2006. 203 pp. 50[pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-72940-876-9. In this study Florence Lotterie sets...

La Sapho des Lumieres.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... La Sapho des Lumieres. Ed. by HUGUETTE KRIEF. (Societe Francaise d'Etude du XVIIIe Siecle) Saint-Etienne: Publications de l'Universie de Saint-Etienne. 2006. 145 PP. 15 [euro]. ISBN 978-2-86272-367-9. In La Sapho des Lumieres, Huguette...

Diderot and European Culture.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Diderot and European Culture. Ed. by FREDERIC OGEE and ANTHONY STRUGNELL. (SVEC, 2006:09) Oxford: Voltaire Foundation. 2006. xii+246 pp. 55 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-7294-0883-7. The essays in this collection are based upon papers...