The Modern Language Review articles from July 2005

The Modern Language Review archives from July 2005

Pope and plagiarism.
July 1, 2005... Pope is the poet of the English Augustan age whose peace of mind and posthumous reputation were most disturbed by allegations of plagiarism. This article discusses his general sensitivity to the ethics of literary borrowing and the numerous...

T.S. Eliot on the limits of criticism: the anomalous 'Experiment' of 1929.(Experiment in Criticism, lecture)(Critical Essay)
July 1, 2005... In 1929 Eliot delivered a lecture entitled 'Experiment in Criticism'. He never collected it, and it has been largely ignored by critics. This article argues that the essay represents a major departure from his usual conflicted position in the...

The Paris of Rene Crevel.(Critical Essay)
July 1, 2005... Although Crevel spent his life in Paris, he always felt something of an outsider in the capital. This article shows how Crevel's Paris serves, in turn, as a locus of homosexual pleasures (especially those of the bal musette), a source of verbal...

Simone de Beauvoir's 'La femme rompue': reception and deception.(Critical Essay)
July 1, 2005... This article aims to account for the 'misreading' of 'La femme rompue' by the readers of its serialized publication in French Elle magazine. It offers a close reading of the parallels between the protagonist's strategies for self-deception and...

Translating the Pope and the Apennines: Harington's version of the Orlando Furioso.
July 1, 2005... Sir John Harington's translation of the Orlando furioso, first published in 1591, despite its overall fidelity, clearly reflects in key ways the age in which it was produced, in particular a creative interaction with and intervention in the...

No time for the doves? Intrusion and redrafting in the English translation of La placa del Diamant.(Critical Essay)
July 1, 2005... The art of translation is fraught with difficulty. This is particularly the case with literary translation, where a whole series of strategies employed by the translator can alter both the nature and the tenor of the original. This article...

The colonial criticism of Jose Rabasa: a Marxist critique.(Critical Essay)
July 1, 2005... The transition from classical to post-Marxism, recently promoted by colonial critics, constitutes a theoretically regressive step. Focusing on the paradigmatic figure of Jose Rabasa, this article argues that the post-structural 'linguistic...

Oral reading, print culture, and the German Enlightenment.
July 1, 2005... The eighteenth century is often identified as the period when silent reading became the norm. In the German Enlightenment, however, reading aloud did not die out. Everyday domestic practices, including oral reading, reflected the Enlightenment...

Masochism and its limits in Robert Musil's 'Die Vollendung der Liebe'.
July 1, 2005... This article analyses the theme of masochism in Musil's story 'Die Vollendung der Liebe'. It assesses whether the depiction of a masochistic female protagonist by a male narrator reinscribes a schematic gender polarity and the extent to which...

Universal history as Reworked by 'Satirikon' and 1066 and All That as parody history textbooks: a suggestion of a literary genre.
July 1, 2005... 1066 and All That, the famous parody history textbook and classic of British humour, was published in 1930. There is an equivalent in Russian humorous literature: a parody history textbook Universal History as Reworked by 'Satirikon', published...

Ossian and Ossianism in Britain and Germany: a review article.('Homer des Nordens' und 'Mutter der Romantik': James Macphersons 'Ossian' und seine Rezeption in der deutschsprachigen Literatur, vols. 1-3)(Kommentierte Neuausgabe wichtiger Texte zur deutschen Rezeption, vol. 4)(Ossian and Ossianism: Subcultures and Subversions, 1750-1850)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... This extended review of two collections of materials on the reception of James Macpherson's 'Ossian' poems in Britain and Germany respectively examines the diversity of responses to Macpherson's work and the depth with which his imagery...

De soi a soi: l'ecriture comme autohospitalite.(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... De soi a soi: l'ecriture comme autohospitalite. Ed. by ALAIN MONTANDON. Clermont-Ferrand: Presses Universitaires Blaise Pascal. 2004. 284 pp. 25 [euro]. ISBN 2-84516-241-3. This volume represents the proceedings of a conference held at the...

Narrative Bodies: Toward a Corporeal Narratology.(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Narrative Bodies: Toward a Corporeal Narratology. By DANILO PUNDAY. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave. 2003. x+234 pp. 42.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 1-4039-6241-3. Daniel Punday announces that 'After a decade of suspicion about language's...

Women and Laughter in Medieval Comic Literature.(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Women and Laughter in Medieval Comic Literature. By LISA PERFETTI. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 2003. xiv+286 pp. 36 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-472-11321-6. Drawing on a variety of theoretical approaches, this book examines how...

Culture and Change: Attending to Early Modern Women.(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Culture and Change: Attending to Early Modern Women. Ed. by MARGARET MIKESELL and ADELE SEEFF. Newark: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2003. 400 pp. $48.50. ISBN 0-87413-825-6. This is the fourth volume...

The Global Eighteenth Century.(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... The Global Eighteenth Century. Ed. by FELICITY A. NUSSBAUM. Baltimore, MD, and London: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2003. xiv+385 pp. 40.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8018-6865-3. It has recently been suggested in some academic circles...

Walter Benjamin and Romanticism.(The Hieroglyph of Tradition: Freud, Benjamin, Gadamer, Novalis, Kant)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Walter Benjamin and Romanticism. Ed. by BEATRICE HANSSEN and ANDREW BENJAMIN. New York and London: Continuum. 2002. viii+246 pp. $33.95. ISBN 0-8264-6021-6. The Hieroglyph of Tradition: Freud, Benjamin, Gadamer, Novalis, Kant. By ANGELIKA...

Discours d'Auschwitz: litterarite, representation, symbolisation.(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Discours d'Auschwitz: litterarite, representation, symbolisation. By KARLA GRIERSON. Paris: Champion. 2003. 526 pp. 85 [euro]. ISBN 2-7453-0722-3. This book has all the advantages and disadvantages of starting out as the author's doctoral...

Animal Rites: American Culture, the Discourse of Species and Posthumanist Theory.(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Animal Rites: American Culture, the Discourse of Species, and Posthumanist Theory. By CARY WOLFE. Foreword by W.J.T. MITCHELL. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 2003. xvi+237 pp. $49 (pbk $18); 34.50 [pounds sterling] (pbk 13...

Untimely Interventions: AIDS Writing, Testimonial and the Rhetoric of Haunting.(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Untimely Interventions: AIDS Writing, Testimonial, and the Rhetoric of Haunting. By ROSS CHAMBERS. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 2004. xxxvi+ 415 pp. 17 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-472-06871-7. In a densely argued study, Ross...

Anglo-Saxon Styles.(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Anglo-Saxon Styles. Ed. by CATHERINE E. KARKOV and GEORGE HARDIN BROWN. (SUNY Medieval Studies) Albany: State University of New York Press. 2003. viii+320pp. $71.50 (pbk $23.95). ISBN 0-7914-5869-5 (pbk 0-7914-5870-9). This...

Unlocking the Wordhord: Anglo-Saxon Studies in Memory of Edward B. Irving, Jr.(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Unlocking the Wordhord: Anglo-Saxon Studies in Memory of Edward B. Irving, Jr. Ed. by MARK C. AMODIO and KATHERINE O'BRIEN O'KEEFER. Toronto and London: University of Toronto Press. 2003. x+359 pp. $78; 48 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8020-4822-6....

Writing War: Medieval Literary Responses to Warfare.(A Companion to Gower)(The English Prose Treatises of Richard Rolle)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Writing War: Medieval Literary Responses to Warfare. Ed. by CORINNE SAUNDERS, R01208 FRANCOISE LE SAUX, and NEIL THOMAS. Cambridge: Brewer. 2004. x+235 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]; $75. ISBN 0-85991-843-2. A Companion to Gower. Ed. by SIAN...

Early Medieval Texts and Interpretations: Studies Presented to Donald G. Scragg.(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Early Medieval Texts and Interpretations: Studies Presented to Donald G. Scragg. Ed. by ELAINE TREHARNE and SUSAN ROSSER. (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 252) Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. 2003. xx+391...

Fairy in 'The Faerie Queene': Renaissance Elf-Fashioning and Elizabethan Myth-Making.(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Fairy in 'The Faerie Queene': Renaissance Elf-Fashioning and Elizabethan Myth-Making. By MATTHEW WOODCOCK. Aldershot: Ashgate. 2004. ix+162 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]; $59.95. ISBN 0-7546-3639-6. The Faerie Queene remains a kind of fantasy...

Marlowe's Empery: Expanding his Critical Contexts.(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Marlowe's Empery: Expanding his Critical Contexts. Ed. by SARA MUNSON DEATS and ROBERT A. LOGAN. Newark: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2002. 210 pp. $40; 20.93 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-87413-787-x. ...

Shakespeare's Visual Theatre: Staging the Personified Characters.(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Shakespeare's Visual Theatre: Staging the Personified Characters. By FREDERICK KIEFER. Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 2003. xiv+358 pp. 50 [pounds sterling]; $70. ISBN 0-521-82725-6. Frederick Kiefer's book...

The Taste of the Town: Shakespearian Comedy and the Early Eighteenth-Century Theater.(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... The Taste of the Town: Shakespearian Comedy and the Early Eighteenth-Century Theater. By KATHERINE WEST SCHEIL. (Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture) Cranbury, NJ: Bucknell University Press; London: Associated...

Shakespeare Minus 'Theory'.(Bawdy and Soul: A Revaluation of Shakespeare's Sonnets)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Shakespeare Minus 'Theory'. By TOM MCALINDON. Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate. 2004. xii+210 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-7546-3981-9. Bawdy and Soul: A Revaluation of Shakespeare's Sonnets. By FRANK ERIK POINTNER. Heidelberg:...

Reading Shakespeare's Will: The Theology of Figure from Augustine to the Sonnets.(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Reading Shakespeare's Will: The Theology of Figure from Augustine to the Sonnets. By LISA FREINKEL. New York: Columbia University Press. 2002. xxx+384 pp. $52; 36.50 [pounds sterling] (pbk $20; 14 [pounds sterling]). ISBN 0-231-12324-8 (pbk...

Four Hundred Years of Shakespeare in Europe.(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Four Hundred Years of Shakespeare in Europe. Ed. by LUIS PUJANTE and TON HOENSELAARS, with a foreword by STANLEY WELLS. Newark: University of Delaware Press. 2003. 274 pp. 42 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-87413-812-4. This important collection...

A Brave New World of Knowledge: Shakespeare's 'The Tempest' and Early Modern Epistemology.(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... A Brave New World of Knowledge: Shakespeare's 'The Tempest' and Early Modern Epistemology. By B. J. SOKOL. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2003. 274 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]. ISBN...

Imagining Death in Spenser and Milton.(Threshold Poetics: Milton and Intersubjectivity)(The Baroque in English Neoclassical Literature)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Imagining Death in Spenser and Milton. Ed. by ELIZABETH JANE BELLAMY, PATRICK CHENEY, and MICHAEL SCHOENFELDT. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2003. xii+216 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-333-98398-x. Threshold Poetics:...

Death and the Early Modern Englishwoman.(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Death and the Early Modern Englishwoman. By LUCINDA M. BECKER. Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate. 2003. x+226 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-7546-3349-7. With this book, Lucinda M. Becker attempts an exploration of the gendering of...

Better a Shrew than a Sheep: Women, Drama, and the Culture of Jest in Early Modern England.(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Better a Shrew than a Sheep: Women, Drama, and the Culture of Jest in Early Modern England. By PAMELA ALLEN BROWN. Ithaca, NY, and London: Cornell University Press. 2003. xii+263 pp. $49.95 (pbk $19.95). ISBN 0-8014-4024-6 (pbk 0-8014-8836-2)....

Rhetorical Affect in Early Modern Writing: Renaissance Passions Reconsidered.(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Rhetorical Affect in Early Modern Writing: Renaissance Passions Reconsidered. By ROBERT COCKCROFT. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2003. x+209 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-333-80252-7. Rhetorical Affect in Early Modern...

Authorial Conquests: Essays on Genre in the Writings of Margaret Cavendish.(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Authorial Conquests: Essays on Genre in the Writings of Margaret Cavendish. Ed. by LINE COTTEGNIES and NANCY WEITZ. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2003. 238 pp. 38 [pounds sterling]....

The English Radical Imagination: Culture, Religion and Revolution, 1630-1660.(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... The English Radical Imagination: Culture, Religion and Revolution, 1630-1660. By NICHOLAS MCDOWELL. (Oxford English Monographs) Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. 2003. x+219 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-19-926051-6. The...

The Poems of Andrew Marvell.(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... The Poems of Andrew Marvell. Ed. NIGEL SMITH. (Longman Annotated English Poets) London, New York, and Toronto: Pearson Longman. 2003. xxvi+468 pp. 50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-582-07770-2. Nigel Smith's Longman edition of Marvell is a...

Mammon's Music: Literature and Economics in the Age of Milton.(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Mammon's Music: Literature and Economics in the Age of Milton. By BLAIR HOXBY. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. 2003. xii+320 pp. 30 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-300-09378-0. Mammon's Music is a work of considerable originality,...

Sterne, the Moderns, and the Novel.(Scepticism and Literature: An Essay on Pope, Hume, Sterne, and Johnson)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Sterne, the Moderns, and the Novel. By THOMAS KEYMER. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2002. xiv+222 pp. 47 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-19-924592-4. Scepticism and Literature: An Essay on Pope, Hume, Sterne, and Johnson. By FRED PARKER....

Epistolary Spaces: English Letter Writing from the Foundation of the Post Office to Richardson's 'Clarissa'.(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Epistolary Spaces: English Letter Writing from the Foundation of the Post Office to Richardson's 'Clarissa'. By JAMES HOW. (Studies in Early Modern English Literature) Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate. 2003. x+214 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]....

The Other John Adams, 1705-1740.(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... The Other John Adams, 1705-1740. By BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2003. 207 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8386-3986-0. It is not hard to understand why the...

Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination.(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination. By BARBARA TAYLOR. (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism) Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 2003. xvi+331 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]; $65 (pbk 16.95 [pounds sterling];...

Modes of Discipline: Women, Conservatism and the Novel after the French Revolution.(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Modes of Discipline: Women, Conservatism and the Novel after the French Revolution. By LISA WOOD. (Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture) Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2003....

Angers, Fantasies and Ghostly Fears: Nineteenth-Century Women from Wales and English-Language Poetry.(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Angers, Fantasies and Ghostly Fears: Nineteenth-Century Women from Wales and English-Language Poetry. By CATHERINE BRENNAN. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. 2003. viii+237 pp. 14.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-7083-1764-2. The seven poets...

Jane Austen on Screen.(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Jane Austen on Screen. Ed. by GINA MACDONALD and ANDREW MACDONALD. Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 2003. xii+ 284 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]; $70 (pbk 16.95 [pounds sterling]; $25). ISBN 0-521-79325-4 (pbk...

Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory.(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory. By PAUL HAMILTON. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 2003. viii+316 pp. $25; 17.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-226-31480-4. 'Metaromanticism' is Paul Hamilton's coinage. It...

British Poetry and the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars: Vision and Conflict.(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... British Poetry and the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars: Vision and Conflict. By SIMON BAINBRIDGE. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. 2003. xii+259 pp. 50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-19-8187580. Simon Bainbridge extends the work...

Byron and Place: History, Translation, Nostalgia.(Byron, Poetics and History)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Byron and Place: History, Translation, Nostalgia. By STEPHEN CHEEKE. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave. 2003. x+241 pp. 47.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 1-4039-0403-0. Byron, Poetics and History. By JANE STABLER. (Cambridge Studies in...

English Romanticism and the Celtic World.(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... English Romanticism and the Celtic World. Ed. by GERARD CARRUTHERS and ALAN RAWES. Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 2003. xii+265 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]; $60. ISBN 0-521-81085-x. Not that long ago, the title...

Stephen Spender: The Authorized Biography.(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Stephen Spender: The Authorized Biography. By JOHN SUTHERLAND. London: Viking Penguin. 627 pp. 25 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-670-88303-4. Writing to Spender in April 1942, Auden suggested: 'I believe that you are a very strong, ruthless...

The Extension of Life: Fiction and History in the American Novel.(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... The Extension of Life: Fiction and History in the American Novel. By R. A. YORK. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2003. 178 pp. 30 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8386-3986-5. Richard York...

Reading the East India Company, 1720-1840: Colonial Currencies of Gender.(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Reading The East India Company, 1720-1840: Colonial Currencies of Gender. By BETTY JOSEPH. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2004. $45 (pbk $18). ISBN 0-226-41203-2 (pbk 0-226-41202-4). In late December 1774 Bishnukumari, the rani of...

English Literature and Ancient Languages.(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... English Literature and Ancient Languages. By KENNETH HAYNES. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2003. xiv+210 pp. 47 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-19-926190-3. This is an unusual and welcome book, probably the first monograph of its kind,...

Fictions of Commodity Culture: From the Victorian to the Postmodern.(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Fictions of Commodity Culture: From the Victorian to the Postmodern. By CHRISTOPH LINDNER. Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate. 2003. viii+190 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-7546-3483-3. Christoph Lindner offers a study that looks at...

Dramaturgies britanniques (1980-2000).(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Dramaturgies britanniques (1980-2000). Ed. by JEAN-MARC LANTERI. (Ecritures contemporaines, 5) Paris and Caen: Lettres Modernes Minard. 2002. 228 pp. 20 [euro]. ISBN 2-256-91047-4. Major social transformations in Britain since 1979 have...

Horror: A Thematic History in Fiction and Film.(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Horror: A Thematic History in Fiction and Film. By DARRYL JONES. London: Arnold. 2003. iv+220 pp. 35 [pounds sterling] (pbk 9.99 [pounds sterling]). ISBN 0-340-76252-7 (pbk 0-340-76253-5). Darryl Jones's Horror: A Thematic History in...

Future Present: Ethics and/as Science Fiction.(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Future Present: Ethics and/as Science Fiction. By MICHAEL PINSKY. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2003. 215 pp. 34 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8386-3924-0. The mode, Michael Pinsky...

The Anonymous Marie de France.(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... The Anonymous Marie de France. By R. HOWARD BLOCH. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 2003. xii+367 pp. 31.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-226-05968-5. R. Howard Bloch's latest book is a very personal work. Dedicated to the...

Fortune's Faces: The 'Roman de la Rose' and the Poetics of Contingency.(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Fortune's Faces: The 'Roman de la Rose' and the Poetics of Contingency. By DANIEL HELLER-ROAZEN. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2003. xvi+206 pp. 33.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8081-7191-3. This informative book...

A Bibliography of French Emblem Books of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, vol. 11.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... A Bibliography of French Emblem Books of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, Vol. 11: L-Z. By ALISON ADAMS, STEPHEN RAWLES and ALISON SAUNDERS. Geneva: Droz. 2002. xxii+762 pp. SwF 142; 9103.95. ISBN 2-600-00676-1. Only three years...

Webs of Allusion: French Protestant Emblem Books of the Sixteenth Century.(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Webs of Allusion: French Protestant Emblem Books of the Sixteenth Century. By ALISON ADAMS. (Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance, 378) Geneva: Droz. 2003. x+ 324 pp. SwF 92.20; 62.42 [euro]. ISBN 2-600-00874-8. Well researched and...

L'Arcadie.(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... L'Arcadie. By JACQUES SANNAZAR. Trans. by JEAN MARTIN. Ed. by JEAN-CLAUDE TERNAUX. (Publication du Centre de Recherche sur la Transmission des Modeles Litteraires et Esthetiques) Reims: Presses Universitaires de Reims. 2003. 209 pp. 18 [euro]....

Oeuvres completes, vol. 1: La Deffence, et illustration de la langue francoyse.(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... OEuvres completes, Vol. 1: La Deffence, et illustration de la langue francoyse. By JOACHIM DU BELLAY. Ed. by FRANCOIS GOYET and OLIVIER MILLET. (Textes de la Renaissance, 71) Paris: Champion. 2003. 461 pp. 45 [euro]. ISBN 2-7453-0874-2. ...

Early Modern French Thought: The Age of Suspicion.(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Early Modern French Thought: The Age of Suspicion. By MICHAEL MORIARTY. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2003. xiv+271 pp. 53 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-19-926146-6. Michael Moriarty follows a meticulous survey of previous scholarship on...

Freedom, Slavery and Absolutism: Corneille, Pascal, Racine.(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Freedom, Slavery and Absolutism: Corneille, Pascal, Racine. By ZIAD ELMARSAFY. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2003. 196 pp. 34 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8387-5548-8. In this often stimulating...

The Classical Sublime: French Neoclassicism and the Language of Literature.(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... The Classical Sublime: French Neoclassicism and the Language of Literature. By NICHOLAS CRONK. Charlottesville: Rookwood Press. 2002. ii+210 pp. 32 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 1-88636-522-9. Nicholas Cronk's book takes as its subject matter the...

Andromede au rocher: fortune theatrale d'une image en France et en Italie 1587-1712.(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Andromede au rocher: fortune theatrale d'une image en France et en Italie 1587-1712. By BENOIT BOLDUC. (Teatro studie testi, 12) Florence: Olschki. 2002. 389 pp., 14 b/w plates. 40 [euro]. ISBN 88-222-5067-2. Those dramatists who exploited...

L'Amant indiscret ou le maistre estourdi.(Pausanias, tragedie)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... L'Amant indiscret ou le maistre estourdi. By PHILIPPE QUINAULT. Ed. by WILLIAM BROOKS. Liverpool: Liverpool Online Series. Critical Editions of French Texts. 2003. 150 pp. ISBN 0-9533816-6-8. Pausanias, tragedie (1668). By PHILIPPE...

Correspondance de Pierre Bayle, Vol. III: Janvier 1678-fin 1683. Lettres 147-241.(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Correspondance de Pierre Bayle, Vol. 111: Janvier 1678-fin 1683. Lettres 147-241. Ed. by ELIZABETH LAMBROUSSE, ANTONY MCKENNA, LAURENCE BERGON, HUBERT BOST, WIEP VAN BUNGE, and EDWARD JAMES, with ERIC-OLIVIER LOCHARD DOMINIQUE TAURISSON, ANNIE...

Science et religion dans la pensee francaise du XVIIIe siecle: le mythe du deluge universel.(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Science et religion dans la pensee francaise du XVIIIe siecle: le mythe du deluge universel. By MARIA SUSANA SEGUIN. (Les Dix-Huitiemes Siecles, ed. by RAYMOND TROUSSON and ANTHONY MCKEENA). Paris: Champion. 2001. 535 pp. 83.85 [euro]. ISBN...

Encounters with the Other: A Journey to the Limits of Language through Works by Rousseau, Defoe, Prevost and Graffigny.(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Encounters with the Other: A Journey to the Limits of Language through Works by Rousseau, Defoe, Prevost and Graffigny. By MARTIN CALDER. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi. 2003. 312 pp. 60 [euro]. ISBN 90-420-0825-3. Within the scope of a...

L'Annee balzacienne 2003: 'Le Medecin de campagne'.(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... L'Annee balzacienne 2003: 'Le Medecin de campagne'. By the GROUPE D'ETUDES BALZACIENNES. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France. 2004. 421 pp. 43 [euro]. ISBN 2-13-053343-4. The first, and most substantial, part of L'Annee balzacienne...

Victor Hugo, un temps pour rire.(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Victor Hugo, un temps pour rire. By JOE FRIEDMANN. Saint-Genouph: Nizet. 2002. 204 pp. 22 [euro]. ISBN 2-7078-1265-x. Five of the seven chapters of Joe Friedemann's study of the comic in six novels and one volume of rhapsodic essays (Han...

Prosper Merimee: Plays on Hispanic Themes.(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Prosper Merimee: Plays on Hispanic Themes. Trans. and ed. by OSCAR MANDEL. New York: Peter Lang. 2003. viii+205 pp. $29.95. ISBN 0-8204-6308-6. Thirteen works in dramatic form constitute a substantial part of Merimee's literary output,...

Les Fleurs du mal: actes du colloque de la Sorbonne des 10 et 11 janvier 2003.(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... 'Les Fleurs du mal': actes du colloque de la Sorbonne des 10 et 11 janvier 2003. Ed. by ANDRE GUYAUX and BERTRAND MARCHAL. Paris: Presses de l'Universite de Paris-Sorbonne. 2003. 316 pp. 22 [euro]. ISBN 2-84050-265-8. This book has been...

Notes from Exile.(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Notes from Exile. By EMILE ZOLA. Ed. DOROTHY E. SPEIRS and YANNICK PORTEBOIS. Trans. by YANNICK PORTEBOIS. Toronto, Buffalo, and London: University of Toronto Press. 2003. xxvi+97 pp. $27.95. ISBN 0-8020-3747-x. On 18 July 1898 Emile Zola,...

Germinal.(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Germinal. By EMILE ZOLA. Trans. by ROGER PEARSON. London: Penguin. 2004. xlvi+546 pp. 7.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-140-44742-3. Roger Pearson's new English translation of Emile Zola's Germinal (1885) represents a thoroughly rigorous and...

Proust et le langage religieux: la cathedrale profane.(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Proust et le langage religieux: la cathedrale profane. By STEPHANE CHAUDIER. (Recherches proustiennes, 2) Paris: Champion. 2004. 549 pp. 85 [euro]. ISBN 2-7453-0768-1. A book that studies the religious references in Proust's work (Jean...

Proust and Emotion: the Importance of Affect in 'A la recherche du temps perdu'.(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Proust and Emotion: The Importance of Affect in 'A la recherche du temps perdu'. By INGE GROSMAN WIMMERS. Toronto, Buffalo, and London: Toronto University Press. 2003. xii+278 pp. $55; 35 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8020-8727-2. Unconvinced...

Mauriac: The Poetry of a Novelist.(Francois Mauriac 6: un ecrivain journaliste)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Mauriac: The Poetry of a Novelist. By PAUL COOKE. (Faux Titre, 240) Amsterdam: Rodopi. 2003. 280 pp. 57 [euro]. ISBN 90-420-0848-2. Francois Mauriac 6: un ecrivain journaliste. Ed. by PHILIPPE BAUDORRE. (Revue des Lettres Modernes, serie...

Obscure Objects of Desire: Surrealism, Fetishism, and Politics.(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Obscure Objects of Desire: Surrealism, Fetishism, and Politics. By JOHANNA MALT. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004. x+234 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-19-925342-0. As Johanna Malt notes in her introduction (pp. 2-3), in studies of...

Love at the Full.(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Love at the Full. By LUCIEN BECKER. Trans. and intro. by CHRISTOPHER PILLING. Hexham: Flambard Press. 2004. 96 pp. 7.95 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 1-873226-61-6. Lucien Becker (1911-84)was a significant poet of the generation which grew up...