The Modern Language Review articles from July 2003

The Modern Language Review archives from July 2003

Saints' Lives and Women's Literary Culture c. 1150-1300: Virginity and Its Authorizations.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... Saints' Lives and Women's Literary Culture c. 1150-1300: Virginity and its Authorizations. By JOCELYN WOGAN-BROWNE. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. 2001. xvi+314 pp. 55 [pounds sterling]. ISBN: 0-19-811279-3. At the end of her...

Common Prayer: The Language of Public Devotion in Early Modern England.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... Common Prayer: The Language of Public Devotion in Early Modern England. By RAMIE TARGOFF. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 2001. xiii+162 pp. $40 (pbk $17). ISBN 0-226-78968-3 (pbk 0-226-78969-1). This is both a handsomely...

Ambition, Rank and Poetry in 1590s England.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... Ambition, Rank and Poetry in 1590s England. By JOHN HUNTINGTON. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press. 2001. ix+194 pp. $35. ISBN 0-252-02628-4. John Huntington says that his book 'aspires to the simple goal of making us conscious...

Rehearsing the Revolution: Radical Performance, Radical Politics in the English Restoration.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... Rehearsing the Revolution: Radical Performance, Radical Politics in the English Restoration. By ODAI JOHNSON. Cranbury, NJ: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2000. 184 pp. 28 [pounds sterling]. ISBN...

The Drama of John Marston: Critical Re-Visions.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... The Drama of John Marston: Critical Re-Visions. Ed by. T. F. WHARTON. Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 2001. xiii+233 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]; $59.95. ISBN 0-521-65136-0. While this book was in the press, a...

Representing Revolution in Milton and His Contemporaries: Religion, Politics, and Polemics in Radical Puritanism.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... Representing Revolution in Milton and his Contemporaries: Religion, Politics, and Polemics in Radical Puritanism. By DAVID LOEWENSTEIN. Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 2001. xiii+413 pp. 40 [pounds sterling];...

The Life of John Milton.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... The Life of John Milton. By BARBARA K. LEWALSKI. (Blackwell Critical Biographies) Oxford and Malden, MA: Blackwell. 2000. xvii+777pp. 25 [pounds sterling]; $39.95. ISBN 0-405-10625-5. The Life of John Milton is the magnum opus of Barbara K....

The Uncertain World of 'Samson Agonistes.'(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... The Uncertain World of 'Samson Agonistes'. By JOHN T. SHAWCROSS. (Studies in Renaissance Literature, 6) Cambridge: Brewer. 2001. ix+158 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]; $75. ISBN 0-85991-609-x. Samson may be a hero of faith, but he is no model for...

Exiled from Light: Divine Law, Morality, and Violence in Milton's 'Samson Agonistes.'(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... Exiled from Light: Divine Law, Morality, and Violence in Milton's 'Samson Agonistes'. DEREK N. C. WOOD. Toronto, Buffalo, NY, and London: University of Toronto Press. 2001. xxii+247 pp. $55; 35 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-80204-848-x. Samson may...

Poems of Nation, Anthems of Empire: English Verse in the Long Eighteenth Century.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... Poems of Nation, Anthems of Empire: English Verse in the Long Eighteenth Century. By SUVIR KAUL. Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia. 2000. vii+337 pp. $55 (pbk $19.50). ISBN 0-81391-967-3 (pbk 0-81391-968-1). This book...

The Trauma of Gender: A Feminist Theory of the English Novel.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... The Trauma of Gender: A Feminist Theory of the English Novel. By HELENE MOGLEN. Berkeley and London: University of California Press. 2001. x+216 pp. $45; 28.50 [pounds sterling] (pbk $16.95; 10.50 [pounds sterling]). ISBN 0-520-22588-0. In The...

The Domestic Revolution: Englightenment Feminisms and the Novel.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... The Domestic Revolution: Enlightenment Feminisms and the Novel. By EVE TAVOR BANNET. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2000. ix+304 pp. 37 [pounds sterling] (pbk 14.50 [pounds sterling]). ISBN 0-8018-6416-X. In The Trauma...

Mark Akenside: A Reassessment.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... Mark Akenside: A Reassessment. Ed. by ROBIN DIX. Cranbury, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2000. 296 pp. 38 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-83863-882-1. Samuel Johnson had little time for Akenside. As...

Wordsworth and the Critics: The Development of a Critical Reputation.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... Wordsworth and the Critics: The Development of a Critical Reputation. By JOHN L. MAHONEY. (Studies in English and American Literature, Linguistics, and Culture: Literary Criticism in Perspective) Rochester, NY, and Woodbridge: Camden House. 2000....

The Challenge of Coleridge: Ethics and Interpretation in Romanticism and Modern Philosophy.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... The Challenge of Coleridge: Ethics and Interpretation in Romanticism and Modern Philosophy. By DAVID P. HANEY. (Literature and Philosophy) University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. 2001. xviii+ 309 pp. $55; 46.50 [pounds sterling]....

Mapping Male Sexuality: Nineteenth-Century England.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... Mapping Male Sexuality: Nineteenth-Century England. Ed. by JAY LOSEY and WILLIAM D. BREWER. Cranbury, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2000. 376 pp. 42.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-83863-828-7....

Dickens and the Children of Empire.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... Dickens and the Children of Empire. Ed. by WENDY S. JACOBSON. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave. 2000. x+211 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-333-77044-7. James Kincaid neatly summarizes one of the main thrusts of this collection when he...

Haunted Hardy: Poetry, History, Memory.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... Haunted Hardy: Poetry, History, Memory. By TIM ARMSTRONG. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave. 2000. viii+198 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-333-59791-5. Although there is no lack of critical publications on Thomas Hardy, there are...

Conrad and Impressionism.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... Conrad and Impressionism. By JOHN G. PETERS. Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 2001. xiii+206pp. 35 [pounds sterling]; $54.95. ISBN 0-521-79173-1. In his preface to Joseph Conrad: A Personal Remembrance (1924) Ford...

Rereading Conrad.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... Rereading Conrad. By DANIEL R. SCHWARZ. Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press. 2001. ix+194 pp. 14.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-82621-327-8. In this book Daniel R. Schwarz has some interesting things to say about 'setting' as it...

British Theatre Between the Wars, 1918-1939.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... British Theatre between the Wars, 1918-1939. Ed. by CLIVE BARKER and MAGGIE B. GALE. (Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2000. ix+260 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]; $59.95. ISBN 0-52162-407-x. This excellent...

Joyce, Dante, and the Poetics of Literary Relations: Language and Meaning in 'Finnegans Wake.'(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... Joyce, Dante, and the Poetics of Literary Relations: Language and Meaning in 'Finnegans Wake'. By. LUCIA BOLDRINI. Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 2001. xi+233 pp. 37.50 [pounds sterling]; $54.95. ISBN...

D.H. Lawrence: Desire and Narrative.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... D. H. Lawrence: Desire and Narrative. By EARL G. INGERSOLL. Gainesville, Tallahassee, and Tampa: University Press of Florida. 2001. xi+197 pp. $55. ISBN 0-81301-850-1. Lawrence has generally eluded postmodern criticism. In one of the few...

Picturing the Human: The Moral Thought of Iris Murdoch.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... Picturing the Human: The Moral Thought of Iris Murdoch. By MARIA ANTONACCIO. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. 2000. vii+244 pp. 25 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-19-513171-1. Iris Murdoch's reputation as an important late...

The Star You Steer By: Basil Bunting and British Modernism.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... The Star You Steer By: Basil Bunting and British Modernism. Ed. by JAMES MCGONIGAL and RICHARD PRICE. (Studies in Literature, 30) Amsterdam and Atlanta, GA: Rodopi. 2000. 298 pp. $64; HA. 150. ISBN 90-420-1214-5. 'Basil Bunting's status within...

Tony Harrison and the Holocaust.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... Tony Harrison and the Holocaust. By ANTHONY ROWLAND. (Liverpool English Texts and Studies, 39) Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. 2001. x+326 pp. 32.95 [pounds sterling] (pbk 14.95 [pounds sterling]) ISBN 0-85323-506-6 (pbk 0-85323-516-3)....

Novel Theology: Nikos Kazantzakis's Encounter with Whiteheadian Process Theism.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... Novel Theology: Nikos Kazantzakis's Encounter with Whiteheadian Process Theism. By DARREN J. N. MIDDLETON, with a foreword by PETER BIEN. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press. 2000. xix+256 pp. $39.95. ISBN 0-86554-624-x. In the foreword to this...

Peter Ackroyd: The Ludic and Labyrinthine Text.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... Peter Ackroyd: The Ludic and Labyrinthine Text. By JEREMY GIBSON and JULIAN WOLFREYS, with a foreword by PETER NICHOLLS. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2000. xi+311 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-333-67751-x. The circumstances...

Stranger Gods: Salman Rushdie's Other Worlds.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... Stranger Gods: Salman Rushdie's Other Worlds. By ROGER Y. CLARK. Montreal, Kingston, and London: McGill-Queen's University Press. 2001. xxii+226 pp. 42.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-773-52107-0. The 'other worlds' of Clark's subtitle are the...

The Romantic Architecture of Herman Melville's 'Moby-Dick.'(Book Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... The Romantic Architecture of Herman Melville's 'Moby-Dick'. By SHAWN THOMSON. Cranbury, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2001. 238 pp. 30 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8386-3859-7. Although...

Ezra Pound and Poetic Influence: The Official Proceedings of the 17th International Ezra Pound Conference Held at Castle Brunnenberg, Tirolo di Merano.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... Ezra Pound and Poetic Influence: The Official Proceedings of the 17th International Ezra Pound Conference Held at Castle Brunnenberg, Tirolo di Merano. Ed. by HELEN M. DENNIS (Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden...

Ashes to Ashes: Mourning and Social Difference in F. Scott Fitzgerald's Fiction.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... Ashes to Ashes: Mourning and Social Difference in F. Scott Fitzgerald's Fiction. By JONATHAN SCHIFF. Cranbury, NJ: Susquehanna University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2001. 175 pp. 27 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 1-57591-046-2....

John Ashbery and American Poetry.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... John Ashbery and American Poetry. By DAVID HERD. Manchester: Manchester University Press. 2000. vii+245 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-7190-5597-0. In this useful (though misleadingly entitled) study David Herd explores the 'occasional'...

'La Chanson de Guillaume' and 'La Prise d'Orange.'(Book Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... 'La Chanson de Guillaume' and 'La Prise d'Orange'. By PHILIP E. BENNETT. (Critical Guides to French Texts, 121.1) London: Grant & Cutler. 2000. 134 pp. 8.95 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-7293-0420-5. The reader is introduced from the outset to the...

La Chanson de Guillaume (La Chancun de Willame).(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... La Chanson de Guillaume (La Chancun de Willame). Ed. and trans. by PHILIP E. BENNETT. (Critical Guides to French Texts, 121.11) London: Grant & Cutler. 2000. 209 pp. 8.95 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-7293-0421-3. The Chanson de Guillaume is a...

La Traduction des psaumes de David par Clement Marot: aspects poetiques et theologiques.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... La Traduction des psaumes de David par Clement Marot: aspects poetiques et theologiques. By CATHERINE REUBEN. (La Renaissance francaise, 8) Paris: Champion. 2000. 272 pp. ISBN 2-7453-0472-0. Marot's verse translation of the Psalms is a complex...

Montaigne et la verite du mensonge.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... Montaigne et la verite du mensonge. By GISELE MATHIEU-CASTELLANI. (Les seuils de la modernite, 4: Cahiers d'Humanisme et Renaissance, 59) Geneva: Droz. 2000. 159 pp. 26 [euro]; 41 SwF. ISBN 2-600-00461-0. This book sets out to examine the...

Being Interior: Autobiography and the Contradictions of Modernity in Seventeenth Century France.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Being Interior: Autobiography and the Contradictions of Modernity in Seventeenth-Century France. By NICHOLAS D. PAIGE. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2001. ix+297 pp. 38.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8122-3577-0 Starting from...

Oeuvres completes, vol. 3: Theatre.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... CYRANO DE BERGERAC, Oeuvres completes. Vol. III: Theatre. Ed. by ANDRE BLANC. (Sources classiques: Collection dirigee par Philippe Sellier, 32) Paris: Champion. 2001. 367 pp. ISBN 2-7453-0419-4. This volume contains Cyrano's two theatrical...

Gender and Citizenship: The Dialectics of Subject-Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century French Literature and Culture.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Gender and Citizenship: The Dialectics of Subject-Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century French Literature and Culture. By CLAUDIA MOSCOVICI. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield. 2000. xvii+129 pp. ISBN 1-800-462-642-0. Claudia Moscovici's study aims to...

Balzac, ou les hieroglyphes de l'imaginaire.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... Balzac, ou les hieroglyphes de l'imaginaire. By ANNE-MARIE BARON. Paris: Champion. 2002. 213 pp. ISBN 2-7453-0569-7. This is the third of a series of original and suggestive monographs on Balzac by Anne-Marie Baron. Developing her Le Fils...

Rachilde: Decadence, Gender and the Woman Writer.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... Rachilde: Decadence, Gender and the Woman Writer. By DIANA HOLMES. Oxford and New York: Berg. 2001. vii+231 pp. 42.99 [euro]. ISBN 1-85973-555-x. Rachilde is one of those remarkable nineteenth-century French women who have begun to emerge from...

Writing Marginality in Modern French Literature.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... Writing Marginality in Modern French Literature. By EDWARD J. HUGHES. Cambridge, London, and New York: Cambridge University Press. 2001. xii+209pp. 40 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-5216-4296-5. The opening of Edward Hughes's book sets up Genet's...

The Papin Sisters.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... The Papin Sisters. By RACHEL EDWARDS and KEITH READER. (Oxford Studies in Modern European Culture) Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2001. viii+ 134 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]; $83.50 (pbk 14.99 [pounds sterling]; $24.50). ISBN 0-19-816011-9. On...

Annie Ernaux: The Return to Origins.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... Annie Ernaux: The Return to Origins. By SIOBHAN MCILVANNEY. (Modern French Writers) Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. 2001. viii+240 pp. 18.95 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-85323-537-6. Siobhan McIlvanney's aim in this book is to provide close...

Robbe-Grillet: romancier alchimiste.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Robbe-Grillet: romancier alchimiste. By CHRISTIAN MILAT. Ottawa: Editions David. 2001. 242 pp. C$18. ISBN 2-922109-54-2. Christian Milat, in this discussion of Robbe-Grillet's novels, adopts an approach that is both enlightening and original....

The Paris Jigsaw: Internationalism and the City's Stage.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... The Paris Jigsaw: Internationalism and the City's Stage. Ed. by DAVID BRADBY and MARIA M. DELGADO. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press. 2002. xvi+ 02 pp. 45 [pounds sterling] (pbk 14.99 [pounds sterling]). ISBN 0-7190-6183-0 (pbk...

Dantis Alagherii Comedia.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... Dantis Alagherii Comedia. Ed. by FEDERICO SANGUINETI. (Archivio romanzo, 2) Tavarnuzze (Florence): Sismel--Edizioni del Galluzzo. 2001. lxxxvii+582 pp. 92.96 [euro]. ISBN 88-8450-096-6. Federico Sanguineti has provided the first critical...

The Universities of the Italian Renaissance.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... The Universities of the Italian Renaissance. By PAUL GRENDLER. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2002. xx+592 pp. $52.95. ISBN 0-8018-6631-6. Given that histories of individual universities can sometimes run to several...

The Italian Tragedy in the Renaissance: Cultural Realities and Theatrical Innovations.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... The Italian Tragedy in the Renaissance: Cultural Realities and Theatrical Innovations. By SALVATORE DI MARIA. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2002. 272 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8387-5490-2....

The Italian Romance Epic in the Age of Humanism: The Matter of Italy and the World of Rome.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... The Italian Romance Epic in the Age of Humanism: The Matter of Italy and the World of Rome. By JANE E. EVERSON. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2001. xii+ 386 pp.; ill. 50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-19-816015-1. In this book Jane Everson...

Bibliografia delle opere a stampa di Giambattista Marino.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... Bibliografia delle opere a stampa di Giambattista Marino. By FRANCESCO GIAMBONINI. (Biblioteca di Bibliografia Italiana, 161) Florence: Olschki. 2000. 2 vols. 922 pp. 65.56 [euro]. ISBN 88-2224-876-7. Francesco Giambonini had offered an...

Cose da pazzi: Cesare Lombroso e la letteratura.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... Cose da pazzi: Cesare Lombroso e la letteratura. By ANDREA RONDINI. Pisa and Rome: Istituti editorialie poligrafici internazionali. 2001. 220 pp. 26 [euro]. ISBN 88-8147-274-0. This study charts the Italian literary impact of Lombroso's...

Variation and Change in Spanish.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... Variation and Change in Spanish. By RALPH PENNY. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2000. x+284 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]; $59.95. ISBN 0-521-78045-4. Variation and Change in Spanish details the historical development of the Spanish...

Memorias del arte de cosina y pasteleria y confituras y geleas.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Memorias del arte de cosina y pasteleria y confituras y geleas. By JOAN BAPTISTA PANYO. Ed. by PEP VILA and ENRIC PRACT. (Serie gran, 22) Barcelona: Quaderns Crema. 2000. 106 pp. ISBN 84-7727-291-3. This slim volume is an edition with...

Three Fifteenth-Century Valencian Poets.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... Three Fifteenth-Century Valencian Poets. By. (Papers of the Medieval Hispanic Research Seminar, 24) London: Queen Mary and Westfield College. 2000. 64 pp. ISBN 0-904188-66-3. 6 [pounds sterling]; $9.50; 1,500 ptas. The Medieval Hispanic...

La imaginacion emblematica en el drama de Tirso de Molina.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... La imaginacion emblematica en el drama de Tirso de Molina. By PABLO RESTREPO-GAUTIER. Newark: Juan de la Cuesta. 2001. 112 pp. $16.95. ISBN 0-404-63715-9. Just as in much of the rest of Europe, emblems and other pictorial allegories (with or...

Creatividad Textual e intertextual en Galdos.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... Creatividad textual e intertextual en Galdos. By JAMES WHISTON. (Ottawa Hispanic Studies, 22) Ottawa: Dovehouse Editions Canada. 1999. 230 pp. Can.$16. ISBN 1-895537-49-5. The early versions of Galdos's works, namely the manuscripts and galley...

El Edipol en Unamuno y el espejo de Lacan.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... El Edipo en Unamuno y el espejo de Lacan. By ARTURO A. FOX. (Hispanic Literature, 59) Lewiston, Queenston, and Lampeter: Mellen. 2001. vii+107 pp. $59.95. ISBN 0-7734-7673-3. Professor Fox's brief, suggestive study of identity formation and...

A Twice-Told Tale: Reinventing the Encounter in Iberian/Iberian American Literature and Film.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... A Twice-Told Tale: Reinventing the Encounter in Iberian/Iberian American Literature and Film. Ed. by SANTIAGO JUAN-NAVARRO AND THEODORE ROBERT YOUNG. Newark: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2001. 301 pp. 27.01...

Postcolonial Perspectives on the Cultures of Latin America and Lusophone Africa.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... Postcolonial Perspectives on the Cultures of Latin America and Lusophone Africa. Ed. by ROBIN FIDDIAN. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. 2000. x+218 pp. 16.95 [pounds sterling] (pbk). ISBN 0-85323-576-7. This collection edited by Robin...

Science, Technology, and Latin American Narrative in the Twentieth Century and Beyond.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... Science, Technology, and Latin American Narrative in the Twentieth Century and Beyond. By JERRY HOEG. Bethlehem: Lehigh University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2000. 139 pp. 25 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-9342-2361-0. The...

The Sexual Woman in Latin American Literature: Dangerous Desires.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... The Sexual Woman in Latin American Literature: Dangerous Desires. By DIANE E. MARTING. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. 2001. xiii+345 pp. $55. ISBN 0-8130-1832-3. Diane E. Marting is perhaps best known as the author of two valuable...

Narrativische Perspektiven in Wolframs 'Willehalm': Figuren, Erzaher, Sinngebungsprozeb.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... Narrativische Perspektiven in Wolframs 'Willehalm': Figuren, Erzahler, Sinngebungsprozess. By CHRISTOPHER YOUNG. (Untersuchungen zur deutschen Literaturgeschichte, 104) Tubingen: Niemeyer. 2000. vii+203 pp. 38 [euro]. ISBN 3-484-32194-0 (pbk)....

The Presentation of Authorship in Medieval German Narrative Literature 1220-1290.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... The Presentation of Authorship in Medieval German Narrative Literature 1220-1290. By SEBASTIAN COXON. (Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs) Oxford: Clarendon Press. 2001. x+254 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-1981-6017-8 (hbk)....

Die Funktion der Alltagwirklichkeit in der Metaphorik Mechthilds von Magdeburg.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... Die Funktion der Alltagswirklichkeit in der Metaphorik Mechthilds von Magdeburg. By BARBARA WEBER. (Goppinger Arbeiten zur Germanistik, 683) Goppingen: Kummerle. 2000. iv+194 pp. 25 [euro]. ISBN 3-87452-930-4 (pbk). Mechthild of Magdeburg has...

Vom Annolied zur Kaiserchronik: Zu Text- und Forschungsgeschichte einer verlorenen deutschen Reimchroinik.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... Vom Annolied zur Kaiserchronik: Zu Text- und Forschungsgeschichte einer verlorenen deutschen Reimchronik. By STEPHAN MULLER. (Beitrage zur alteren Literaturgeschichte) Heidelberg: Winter. 1999. x+340 pp. 50 [euro]. ISBN 3-8253-0897-9 (pbk)....

Die 'Germania generalis' des Conrad Celtis: Studien mit Edition, Ubersetzung un Kommentar.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... Die 'Germania generalis' des Conrad Celtis: Studien mit Edition, Ubersetzung und Kommentar. By GERNOT MICHAEL MULLER. (Fruhe Neuzeit, 67) Tubingen: Niemeyer. 2001. xviii+536 pp. 108 [euro]. ISBN 3-494-36567-6 (hbk). Though largely forgotten...

Kulturgeschichte Ostpreubens der Fruhen Neuzeit.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... Kulturgeschichte Ostpreussens der Fruhen Neuzeit. Ed. by KLAUS GARBER, MANFRED KOMOROWSKI, and AXEL E. WALTER. (Fruhe Neuzeit, 56) Tubingen: Niemeyer. 2001. xvi+1025 pp.; 60 ill. 178 [euro]. ISBN 3-484-36556-0 (hbk). The series 'Fruhe Neuzeit'...

Umkehr der Sinneshierarchie: Herder und die Aufwertung des Tastsinns seit fer fruhen Neuzeit.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... Umkehr der Sinneshierarchie: Herder und die Aufwertung des Tastsinns seit der fruhen Neuzeit. By ULRIKE ZEUCH. (Communicatio, 22) Tubingen: Niemeyer. 2000. xii+332 pp. 66 [euro]. ISBN 3-484-63022-1 (pbk). As the consequences of uncritical trust...

Lenz und die Mimesis: Eine Untersuchung der Nachahmungsproblematik bei Jakob Michael Lenz (1751-1792).(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... Lenz und die Mimesis: Eine Untersuchung der Nachahmungsproblematik bei Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz (1751-1792). By JORG SCHLIESKE. (Europaische Hochschulschriften, Reihe I: Deutsche Sprache und Literatur, 1777) Frankfurt a.M.: Lang. 2000. 412 pp....

Diatetik und Askeze: Zur Dialektik der Aufklarungin Goethes Romanen.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... Diatetik und Askese: Zur Dialektik der Aufklarung in Goethes Romanen. By IRMGARD EGGER. Munich: Fink. 2001. 284 pp. 35.80 [euro]. ISBN 3-7705-3606-1 (pbk). Doctors and health play an integral role in Goethe's later novels: living 'correctly'...

Doctor's Orders: Goethe and Enlightenment Thought.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... Doctor's Orders: Goethe and Enlightenment Thought. By. ROBERT D. TOBIN. London and Cranbury, NJ: Associated University Presses. 2001. 255 pp. 33 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8387-5466-x (hbk). Doctors and health play an integral role in Goethe's...

Barrock um 1800: Bearbeitung und Aneignung deutscher Literature des 17. Jahrhunderts.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... Barock um 1800: Bearbeitung und Aneignung deutscher Literatur des 17. Jahrhunderts. By DIETER MARTIN. (Das Abendland: Neue Folge, 26) Frankfurt a.M: Klostermann. 2000. xi+702 pp. 99 [euro]. ISBN 3-465-03039-7 (hbk). The subject of this study...

Heinrich von Kleist und die Aufklarung.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... Heinrich von Kleist und die Aufklarung. Ed. by TIM MEHIGAN. (Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture) Rochester, NY: Camden House. 2000. xix+246 pp. $65; 40 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 1-57113-047-0 (hbk). The volume gives us the...

Literature, the 'Volk' and Revolution in Mid-Nineteenth Century German.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... Literature, the 'Volk' and Revolution in Mid-Nineteenth Century Germany. By MICHAEL PERRAUDIN. New York and Oxford: Berghahn. 2000. v+242 pp. 47 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 1-57181-989-4 (hbk). Michael Perraudin undertakes a re-evaluation of...

Based in the Age of Burckhardt: A Study in Unseasonable Ideas.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... Basel in the Age of Burckhardt: A Study in Unseasonable Ideas. By LIONEL GOSSMAN. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 2000. xiv+608 pp. 28 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-226-30498-1 (hbk). Lionel Gossman is known for several important...

Nietzsche-Handbuch.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... Nietzsche-Handbuch. Ed. by HENNING OTTMANN. Stuttgart: Metzler. 2000. xiii+ 561 pp. 49.90 [euro]. ISBN 3-476-01330-8 (hbk). This impressive reference work will be welcomed by students of Nietzsche familiar with German. The Nietzsche-Handbuch is...

Lily Braun: 1865-1916, German Writer, Feminist, Socialist.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... Lily Braun: 1865-1916. German Writer, Feminist, Socialist. By UTE LISCHKE. Rochester, NY: Camden House. 2000. xviii+144 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]; $55. ISBN 1-57113-169-8 (hbk). Lily Braun is a fascinating yet contradictory and frustrating...

Gottfried Keller: Romane und Erzahlungen.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Gottfried Keller: Romane und Erzahlungen. By ROLF SELBMANN. (Klassiker-Lekturen, 6) Berlin: Schmidt. 2001. 200 pp. 16.80 [euro]. ISBN 3-503-06109-6 (pbk). Rolf Selbmann's book will be of inestimable value to all those who concern themselves...

Die imaginare Nation: Thomas Mann und das 'Deutsche.'(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... Die imaginare Nation: Thomas Mann und das 'Deutsche'. By YAHYA ELSAGHE. Munich: Fink. 2000. 429 pp. 41 [euro]. ISBN 3-7705-3455-7 (pbk). Thomas Mann's relation to Germany was problematic and ambivalent, as was his attitude towards Jews. Both...

Entzauberung der Nation: Di Reprasentation Deutschlands im werk Thomas Manns.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... Entzauberung der Nation: Die Reprasentation Deutschlands im Werk Thomas Manns. By JOCHEN STROBEL. Dresden: Thelem. 2000. 394 pp. 35 [euro]. ISBN 3-933592-01-1 (pbk). Thomas Mann's relation to Germany was problematic and ambivalent, as was his...

Parodie und parodistische Schriebweise in Thomas Manns "Doktor Faustus.'(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... Parodie und parodistische Schreibweise in Thomas Manns 'Doktor Faustus'. By INKEN STEEN. (Untersuchungen zur deutschen Literaturgeschichte, 105) Tubingen: Niemeyer. 2000. 208 pp. 938. ISBN 3-484-32105-9 (pbk). Thomas Mann's relation to Germany...

Kulturbruch und Glaubenskrise: Hermann Brochs 'Schlafwandler' und Matthias Grunewalds 'Isenheimer Altar.'(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... Kulturbruch und Glaubenskrise: Hermann Brochs 'Schlafwandler' und Matthias Grunewalds 'Isenheimer Altar'. By PAUL MICHAEL LUTZELER. (Kontakte, 10) Tubingen and Basel: Francke. 2001. 117 pp. 24 [euro]. ISBN 3-7720-2529-3 (pbk). Paul Michael...