The Modern Language Review articles from October 2003

The Modern Language Review archives from October 2003

Sex, Literature and Censorship.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Sex, Literature and Censorship. By JONATHAN DOLLIMORE. Cambridge: Polity. 2001. xii + 206 pp. 50 [pounds sterling] (pbk 12.99 [pounds sterling]). ISBN 0-7456-2763-3 (pbk 0-7456-2764-1). Few people writing today are as keenly alive as Jonathan...

Humour in Anglo-Saxon Literature.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Humour in Anglo-Saxon Literature. Ed. by JONATHAN WILCOX. Cambridge: Brewer. 2000. vii + 162 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]; $75. ISBN 0-85991-576-X. Who can resist a collection of essays that indexes Dream of the Rood next to 'double entendre' and...

Nature, Sex, and Goodness in a Medieval Literary Tradition.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Nature, Sex, and Goodness in a Medieval Literary Tradition. By HUGH WHITE. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. 2000. ix + 278 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-19-818730-0. Hugh White demonstrates convincingly that the concept of...

Magic in Medieval Romance from Chretien de Troyes to Geoffrey Chaucer.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Magic in Medieval Romance from Chretien de Troyes to Geoffrey Chaucer. By MICHELLE SWEENEY. Dublin: Four Courts Press. 2000. 199 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 1-85182-536-3. It is the virtue of this book to draw attention to an area which, one...

Minstrels Playing: Music in Early English Religious Drama, vol. 2.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Minstrels Playing: Music in Early English Religious Drama. Volume II. By RICHARD RASTALL. Cambridge: Brewer. 2001. xxi + 549 pp. 60 [pounds sterling]; $110. ISBN 0-85991-585-9. One of the main objectives of this companion volume to Rastall's...

The Index of Middle English Prose, Handlist XVII: Manuscripts in the Library of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... The Index of Middle English Prose, Handlist xvii: Manuscripts in the Library of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. By KARI ANNE RAND SCHMIDT. (The Index of Middle English Prose) Cambridge: Brewer. 2001. xxvi+168 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]; $60....

The Malory Debate: Essays on the Texts of 'Le Morte Darthur.'(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... The Malory Debate: Essays on the Texts of 'Le Morte Darthur'. Edited by BONNIE WHEELER, ROBERT L. KINDRICK, and MICHAEL N. SALDA. (Arthurian Studies, 47) Cambridge: Brewer. 2000. xxii+420 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]; $75. ISBN 0-85991-583-2. This...

Fictions of Disease in Early Modern England: Bodies, Plagues and Politics.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Fictions of Disease in Early Modern England: Bodies, Plagues and Politics. By MARGARET HEALY. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave. 2001. xii+277 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-333-96399-7. To that triumvirate of early modern studies--politics,...

Ovid and the Renaissance Body.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Ovid and the Renaissance Body. Ed. by GORAN V. STANIVUKOVIC. Toronto, Buffalo, NY, and London: University of Toronto Press. 2001. vii+281 pp. $65; 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8020-3515-9. In his introduction to Ovid and the Renaissance Body...

Elizabethan News Pamphlets: Shakespeare, Spenser, Marlowe & the Birth of Journalism.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Elizabethan News Pamphlets: Shakespeare, Spenser, Marlowe & the Birth of Journalism. By PAUL J. VOSS. (Medieval & Renaissance Literary Studies) Pittsburgh, PA: Duquesne University Press. 2001. xii+256pp. $60. ISBN 0-8207-0321-4. Elizabethan...

Beyond 'The Spanish Tragedy': A Study of the Works of Thomas Kyd.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Beyond 'The Spanish Tragedy': A Study of the Works of Thomas Kyd. By LUKAS ERNE. (Revels Plays Companion Library) Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press. 2002. xix + 252 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-7190-60093-1. Given his...

Shakespeare & the Poets' War.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Shakespeare & the Poets' War. By JAMES P. BEDNARZ. New York and Chichester: Columbia University Press. 2001. x + 334 pp. $49.50 (pbk $19). ISBN 0-231-12242-X (pbk 0-231-12243-8). The year 2001 witnessed the 400th anniversary of the 'terrible...

Press Censorship in Jacobean England.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Press Censorship in Jacobean England. By CYNDIA SUSAN CLEGG. Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 2001. xi + 286 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]; $59.95. ISBN 0-521-78243-0. Censorship has become such a site of contention in...

Majestick Milton: British Imperial Expansion and Transformations of 'Paradise Lost,' 1667-1837.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Majestick Milton: British Imperial Expansion and Transformations of 'Paradise Lost', 1667-1837. By ANNE-JULIA ZWIERLEIN. (Studien zur englischen Literatur, 13) Munster, Hamburg, and London: LIT. 2001. xi + 492 pp. DM 128. ISBN 3-8258-5432-9....

The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne: Bearing Blindness.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne: Bearing Blindness. By CATHERINE MAXWELL. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press. 2001. viii + 279 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-7190-5752-3. It was a standard insult in Victorian...

Eighteen-Century Women: Studies in Their Lives, Work and Culture, vol. 1.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Eighteenth-Century Women: Studies in their Lives, Work and Culture. Volume 1. Ed. by LINDA. V. TROOST. London and New York: AMS Press. 2001. xi+356 pp. $89.50. ISBN 0-404-64701-4. Women Writing 1550-1750. Ed. by JO WALLWORK and PAUL SALZMAN....

Women Writing 1550-1750.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Eighteenth-Century Women: Studies in their Lives, Work and Culture. Volume 1. Ed. by LINDA. V. TROOST. London and New York: AMS Press. 2001. xi+356 pp. $89.50. ISBN 0-404-64701-4. Women Writing 1550-1750. Ed. by JO WALLWORK and PAUL SALZMAN....

Women, Nationalism and the Romantic Stage: Theatre and Politics in Britain, 1780-1800.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Women, Nationalism and the Romantic Stage: Theatre and Politics in Britain, 1780-1800. By BETSY BOLTON. (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism) Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 2001. xiv+272 pp. 40 [pounds sterling];...

Three Deaths and Enlightenment Thought: Hume, Johnson, Marat.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Three Deaths and Enlightenment Thought: Hume, Johnson, Marat. By STEPHEN MILLER. Cranbury, NJ: Bucknell University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2001. 219 pp. 32 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8387-5481-3. Stephen Miller's intention...

Johnson Re-Visioned: Looking Before and After.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Johnson Re-Visioned: Looking Before and After. Ed. by PHILIP SMALLWOOD. (Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture) Cranbury, NJ: Bucknell University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2001. 179 pp. 30 [pounds...

The Lab'ring Muses: Work, Writing, and the Social Order in English Plebian Poetry, 1730-1830.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... The Lab'ring Muses: Work, Writing, and the Social Order in English Plebeian Poetry, 1730-1830. By WILLIAM J. CHRISTMAS. Cranbury, NJ: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2001. 364 pp. 44 [pounds sterling]. ISBN...

Accidental Migrations: An Archaeology of Gothic Discourse.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Accidental Migrations: An Archaeology of Gothic Discourse. By EDWARD H. JACOBS. (Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture) Cranbury, NJ: Bucknell University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2000. 295 pp. 37.50...

Seditious Allegories: John Thelwall and Jacobin Writing.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Seditious Allegories: John Thelwall and Jacobin Writing. By MICHAEL SCRIVENER. University Park: Pennsylvania University Press. 2001. xii + 305 pp. $55. ISBN 0-271-02109-8. In this fine study, Michael Scrivener makes a series of related...

'Wonders Divine': The Development of Blake's Kabbalistic Myth.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... 'Wonders Divine': The Development of Blake's Kabbalistic Myth. By SHIELA A. SPECTOR. Cranbury, NJ: Bucknell University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2001. 213 pp. 46 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8387-5468-6. 'Glorious...

'Glorious Incomprehensible': The Development of Blake's Kabbalistic Language.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... 'Wonders Divine': The Development of Blake's Kabbalistic Myth. By SHIELA A. SPECTOR. Cranbury, NJ: Bucknell University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2001. 213 pp. 46 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8387-5468-6. 'Glorious...

Felicia Hemans: Selected Poems, Letters, Reception Materials.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Felicia Hemans: Selected Poems, Letters, Reception Materials. Ed. by SUSAN J. WOLFSON Princeton, NJ, and Oxford: Princeton University Press. 2001. xl+633 pp. $49.50; 33.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-69105-029-5. Felicia Hemans was one of the...

Men in Wonderland: The Lost Girlhood of the Victorian Gentleman.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Men in Wonderland: The Lost Girlhood of the Victorian Gentleman. By CATHERINE ROBSON. Princeton, NJ, and Oxford: Princeton University Press. 2001. xii+ 250 pp. 19.95 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-69100-422-6. Catherine Robson's attractively...

Skeptical Music: Essays on Modern Poetry.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Skeptical Music: Essays on Modern Poetry. By DAVID BROMWICH. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 2001. xvii+256 pp. $16; 10.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-226-07561-3. In the preface to this collection of his essays and reviews...

Retelling the Tale: An Introduction to Medieval French Literature.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Retelling the Tale: An Introduction to Medieval French Literature. By SIMON GAUNT. London: Duckworth. 2001. 160 pp. 11.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-71562-925-5. Despite its title, Simon Gaunt is clear that this book is not a conventional...

Histoire de la reine Berthe et du roy Pepin: mise en prose d'une chanson de geste.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Histoire de la reine Berthe et du roy Pepin: mise en prose d'une chanson de geste. Ed. by PIOTR TYLUS. (Textes Litteraires Francais, 536) Geneva: Droz. 2001. 348 pp. 31.21 [euro]. ISBN 2-600-00498-X. This is an edition of the unique manuscript,...

Oeurvres completes, vol 3: Le Triomphe de l'Agneau.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... MARGUERITE DE NAVARRE, OEuvres completes. Ed. by NICOLE CAZAURAN. Vol. III: Le Triomphe de l'Agneau. Ed. by SIMONE DE REYFF. (Textes de la Renaissance, 42) Paris: Champion. 2001. 301 pp. 160 F. ISBN 2-7453-0576-X. Le Triomphe de l'Agneau,...

Noel Du Fail: conteur.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Noel Du Fail: conteur. By MARIE-CLAIRE BICHARD-THOMINE. Paris: Champion. 2001. 627 pp. 89.95 [euro]. ISBN 2-7453-05271-1. Hitherto, Du Fail has received rather limited scholarly attention. Lack of modern editions may have deterred interest;...

Excentricite et humanisme: parodie, derision et detournement des codes a la Renaissance.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Excentricite et humanisme: parodie, derision et detournement des codes a la Renaissance. By PATRICIA EICHEL-LOJKINE. (Cahiers d'Humanisme et Renaissance, 63) Geneva: Droz. 2002. 352 pp. SwF 69.90; 47.16 [euro]. ISBN 2-600-00642-7. Excentricite...

Poesie et Renaissance.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Poesie et Renaissance. By FRANCOIS RIGOLOT. Paris: Editions du Seuil. 2002. 406 pp. ISBN 2-02-047423-9. Francois Rigolot's intention in tackling this vast subject is not to present an exhaustive coverage, but to examine a range of topics...

Le Triumphe des Vertuz, second traite: Le Triumphe de Force.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Le Triumphe des Vertuz, second traite: Le Triumphe de Force. By JEAN THENAUD. Ed. by TITIA J. SCHUURS-JANSSEN and RENE E. V. STUIP. Geneva: Droz. 2002. 52 [euro]. lxxviii+371 pp. ISBN 2-600-00686-9. As a literary genre, 'mirrors for...

L'Amant resusite de la mort d'amour: en cinq livres (1558).(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... L'Amant resuscite de la mort d'amour: en cinq livres (1558). By NICOLAS DENISOT. Ed. by VERONIQUE DUCHE-GAVET. Geneva: Droz. 1998. 419 pp. SwF 92. ISBN 2-600-00254-5. As Veronique Duche-Gavet appears to assert in her introduction to this text,...

Abel L'Angelier et Francois de Louvain (1574-1620). Suivi du Catalogue des ouvrages publies par Abel L'Angelier (1574-1610) et la Veuve L'Angelier (1610-1620).(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Abel L'Angelier et Francoise de Louvain (1574-1620). Suivi du Catalogue des ouvrages publies par Abel L'Angelier (1574-1610) et la Veuve L'Angelier (1610-1620). By JEAN BALSAMO and MICHEL SIMONIN ([dagger]). (Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance,...

Le Triomphe des cinq passions.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Le Triomphe des cinq passions. By GILLET DE LA TESSONERIE. Ed. by PEGGY CHAPLIN. (Exeter French Texts/Textes litteraires, 112) Exeter: University of Exeter Press. 2001. xxi+105 pp. 13.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-85989-668-4. Peggy Chaplin has...

Les Dieux desenchantes: la fable dans la pensee francaise de Huet a Voltaire (1680-1760).(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Les Dieux desenchantes: la fable dans la pensee francaise de Huet a Voltaire (1680-1760). By JULIE BOCH. Paris: Champion. 2002. 573 pp. ISBN 2-7453-0543-3. One of the enduring questions of intellectual history asks how and why it happened that...

Saint-Evremond: A Voice from Exile: Newly Discovered Letters to Madame de Gouville and the Abbe de Hauteville (1697-1701).(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Saint-Evremond: A Voice from Exile. Newly Discovered Letters to Madame de Gouville and the Abbe de Hauteville (1697-1701). Ed. by DENYS POTTS. Oxford: Legenda. 2002. 91 pp. 19.50 [pounds sterling] ($29.50). ISBN 1-900755-50-5. This book is a...

Les Combats des lumieres: recueil d'etudes sur le dix-huitieme siecle.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Les Combats des lumieres: recueil d'etudes sur le dix-huitieme siecle. By ROLAND MORTIER, with a preface by ROBERT DARNTON. Ferney-Voltaire: Centre international d'etude du XVIIIe siecle. 2000. xlix+421 pp. ISBN 2-84559-005-9. Superlatives...

L'Atelier de Montesquieu: manuscrits inedits de La Brede.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... L'Atelier de Montesquieu: manuscrits inedits de La Brede. Ed. by CATHERINE VOLPILHAC-AUGER with CLAIRE BUSTARRET. Naples: Liguori; Oxford: Voltaire Foundation. 2001. 315 pp. ISBN 88-207-3326-9 (Liguri edn); 0-7294-0792-6 (Voltaire Foundation...

The Telling of the Act: Sexuality as Narrative in Eighteenth-and Nineteenth-Century France.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... The Telling of the Act: Sexuality as Narrative in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century France. By PETER CRYLE. London: Associated University Presses. 2001. 434 pp. 38 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-87413-748-9. Peter Cryle's major study of the topoi...

Sade: The Libertine Novels.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Sade: The Libertine Novels. By JOHN PHILLIPS. London and Sterling, VA: Pluto Press. 2001. x+204 pp. ISBN 0-7453-1598-4. Sade, ou la tentation totalitaire: etude sur l'anthropologie litteraire dans 'La Nouvelle Justine' et 'L'Histoire de...

Sade, ou la tentation totalitaire: etude sur l'anthropologie litteraire dans 'La Nouvelle Justine' et 'L'Histoire de Juliette.'(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Sade: The Libertine Novels. By JOHN PHILLIPS. London and Sterling, VA: Pluto Press. 2001. x+204 pp. ISBN 0-7453-1598-4. Sade, ou la tentation totalitaire: etude sur l'anthropologie litteraire dans 'La Nouvelle Justine' et 'L'Histoire de...

Sade: From Materialism to Pornography.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Sade: From Materialism to Pornography. By CAROLINE WARMAN. (SVEC 2002:01) Oxford: Voltaire Foundation. 2002. x+178 pp. ISBN 0-7294-0773-X. Throughout the nineteenth century, and for most of the twentieth, Sade was a focus for Romantic and...

Peripheries of Nineteenth-Century French Studies: Views from the Edge.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Peripheries of Nineteenth-Century French Studies: Views from the Edge. Ed. by TIMOTHY RASER. Newark, NJ: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2002. 322 pp. $55. ISBN 0-87413-765-9. As Timothy Raser explains in...

Balzac, la duchesse et l'idole: poetique du corps aristocratique.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Balzac, la duchesse et l'idole: poetique du corps aristocratique. By MIREILLE LABOURET-GRARE. Paris: Champion. 2002. 495 pp. ISBN 2-7453-0452-6. Expanding upon Mireille Labouret-Grare's doctoral thesis, this work analyses the 'double' role of...

Traces de l'exces: essai sur la nouvelle philosphique de Balzac.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Traces de l'exces: essai sur la nouvelle philosophique de Balzac. By SCOTT LEE. (Romantisme et Modernites, 51) Paris: Champion. 2002. 180 pp. ISBN 2-7453-0573-5. For too long, Balzac's shorter fiction has been the Cinderella of his output,...

Zola, vol. II: L'Homme de 'Germinal' (1871-1893).(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Zola. By HENRI MITTERAND. Vol. II: L'Homme de 'Germinal' (1871-1893). Paris: Fayard. 2001. 1192 pp.; 32 plates, 42 [euro]. ISBN 2-213-60831-8. Henri Mitterand has devoted his academic career to the study of Zola's life and work and is...

L'Ironie naturaliste: Zola et les paradoxes du serieux.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... L'Ironie naturaliste: Zola et les paradoxes du serieux. By MARIE-ENGE VOISIN-FOUGERE. (Romantisme et Modernites, 40) Paris: Champion. 2001. 271 pp. 53.35 [euro]. ISBN 2-7453-0378-3. This book aims to challenge the perception of Les...

Bloy et la communication dans 'l'enfer des medias.'(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Bloy et la communication dans 'l'enfer des medias'. Ed. by PASCAL DURAND. (Revue des Lettres Modernes, Leon Bloy 5) Paris: Lettres Modernes Minard. 2001. 282 pp. 22.11 [euro]. ISBN 2-256-91030-X. Bloy's relationship with the media was...

Proust's Cup of Tea: Homoeroticism and Victorian Culture.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Proust's Cup of Tea: Homoeroticism and Victorian Culture. By EMILY EELLS. (Studies in European Cultural Transition, 15) Aldershot: Ashgate. 2002. xii+248 pp.; 16 pp. plates. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-7546-0518-3. Emily Eells's study...

Proust in Perspective: Visions and Revisions.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Proust in Perspective: Visions and Revisions. Ed. by ARMINE KOTIN MORTIMER and KATHERINE KOLB. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press. 2002. xii+ 316 pp. $39.95. ISBN 0-252-02754-X. It is fitting, as Jean-Yves Tadie remarks in his...

Le roman monologue: Montherlant auteur, narrateur, acteur.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Le Roman monologue: Montherlant auteur, narrateur, acteur. By SABINE HILLEN. Paris: Lettres Modernes Minard. 2002. 212 pp. ISBN 2-85210-064-9. Critics of Montherlant's novels and theatre have tended to divide themselves into two camps: those...

Albert Camus 19: 'L'Homme revolte' cinquante ans apres.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Albert Camus 19: 'L'Homme revolte' cinquante ans apres. Ed. by RAYMOND GAY-CROSIER. Paris and Caen: Lettres Modernes Minard. 2001. 231 pp. 22.11 [euro]. ISBN 2-256-91031-8. Five of the nine articles in this volume revisit L'Homme revolte fifty...

HIV Stories: The Archeology of AIDS Writing in France, 1985-1988.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... HIV Stories: The Archeology of AIDS Writing in France, 1985-1988. By JEAN-PIERRE BOULE. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. 2002. vii + 184 pp. 39.95 [pounds sterling] (pbk 17.95 [pounds sterling]). ISBN 0-85323-568-6 (pbk 0-85323-578-3)....

Awakening Spaces: French Caribbean Popular Songs, Music, and Culture.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Awakening Spaces: French Caribbean Popular Songs, Music, and Culture. By BRENDA F. BERRIAN. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 2000. xiv + 287 pp. ISBN 0-226-04456-4. Much of the critical attention on French Caribbean culture has...

Tous Azimuts, II: Les Usages du genre.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Tous Azimuts, II: Les Usages du genre. Ed. by CHARLES FORDSICK. Glasgow: University of Glasgow French and German Publications. 2002. iv + 141 pp. 8 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-85261-761-5. This is a collection of conference papers given by...

La Presse regionale: des affiches au grands quotidiens.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... La Presse regionale: des affiches aux grands quotidiens. By MARC MARTIN. Paris: Fayard. 2002. 501 pp. 25 [euro]. ISBN 2-2136-1054-1. Anybody who has ever read a French regional newspaper will know that its coverage encompasses both the global...

La Neologie en francais contemporain: examen du concept et analyse de productions neologiques recentes.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... La Neologie en francais contemporain: examen du concept et analyse de productions neologiques recentes. By JEAN-FRANCOIS SABLAYROLLES. Paris: Champion. 2000. 588 pp. 86.90 [euro]. ISBN 2-7453-0275-2. This is a scholarly and thought-provoking...

A New Life of Dante.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... A New Life of Dante. By STEPHEN BEMROSE. Exeter: University of Exeter Press. 2000. xxi+249 pp. 42.50 [pounds sterling] (pbk 14.99 [pounds sterling]). ISBN 0-85989-583-1 (pbk 0-85989-584-x). This book aims to provide an account of Dante's life...

Il canzoniere a stampa (1470-1530): tradizione e fortuna di un genere fra storia del libro e letteratura.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Il canzoniere a stampa (1470-1530): tradizione e fortuna di un genere fra storia del libro e letteratura. By NADIA CANNATA. (Dipartimento di Studi Romanzi, Universita a di Roma 'La Sapienza', Filologia materiale, 1) Rome: Bagatto Libri. 2000. 475...

Women and Feminine Images in Giacomo Leopardi, 1797-1837: Bicentenary Essays.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Women and Feminine Images in Giacomo Leopardi, 1797-1837: Bicentenary Essays. By LYNNE PRESS and PAMELA WILLIAMS. (Studies in Italian Literature, 7) Lewiston: Mellen. 1999. xiv + 272 pp. 74.95 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-7734-7929-5. This...

Federico Fellini: Contemporary Perspectives.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Federico Fellini: Contemporary Perspectives. Ed. by FRANK BURKE and MARGUERITE R. WALLER. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 2002. xxxii+239 pp. 42 [pounds sterling] (pbk 15 [pounds sterling]). ISBN 0-8020-0696-5 (pbk 0-8020-7647-5)....

Pilgrimage to Patronage: Lope de Vega and the Court of Philip III, 1598-1621.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Pilgrimage to Patronage: Lope de Vega and the Court of Philip III, 1598-1621. By ELIZABETH E. WRIGHT. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2001. 184 pp. 30 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8387-5454-6. Lope de...

Signs of Science: Literature, Science, and Spanish Modernity since 1868.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Signs of Science: Literature, Science, and Spanish Modernity since 1868. By DALE PRATT. (Purdue Studies in Romance Literature, 22) West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press. 2001. ix+226 pp. $50.95. ISBN 1-55753-221-4. Signalling Spain's...

'La Espana Moderna' and 'Regeneracion': A Cultural Review in Restoration Spain, 1889-1914.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... 'La Espana Moderna' and 'Regeneracion': A Cultural Review in Restoration Spain, 1889-1914. By RHIAN DAVIES. (Canada Blanch Monographs, 5) Manchester: Manchester Spanish and Portuguese Studies. 2000. xii+212 pp. 14.95 [pounds sterling]. ISBN...

Una mujer moderna: Concha Mendez en su mundo (1898-1986).(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Una mujer moderna: Concha Mendez en su mundo (1898-1986). Ed. by JAMES VALENDER. Madrid: Publicaciones de la Residencia de Estudiantes. 2001. 259 pp. 17.43 [euro]. ISBN 84-95078-01-5. 'Ahora, si, amigos. Ahora creo en "la vanguardia." Porque...

Spanish Studies: An Introduction.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Spanish Studies: An Introduction. By BILL RICHARDSON. London: Arnold. 2001. xiv+226 pp. 14.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-340-76038-9 (pbk). Most of us who teach modern languages nowadays have to cope with pressures which nudge departments...

Constructing Identity in Contemporary Spain: Theoretical Debates and Cultural Practice.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Constructing Identity in Contemporary Spain: Theoretical Debates and Cultural Practice. Edited by Jo LABANYI. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2002. xiv+343 pp. 16.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-19-815994-3 (pbk). Jo Labanyi has edited,...

Latin America 1800-2000: Modern History for Modern Languages.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Latin America 1800-2000: Modern History for Modern Languages. By WILL FOWLER. London: Arnold. 2002. xx+170 pp. 12 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-340-76351-5 (pbk). I suspect that I am not alone in greeting the publication of yet another general...

The Atlantic Slave Trade.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... The Atlantic Slave Trade. By HERBERT S. KLEIN. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1999. xxi+234 pp. 13.95 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-521-46588-5. The Atlantic slave trade was one of the first truly global trades. Involvement in it offered...

Poets of Contemporary Latin America: History and the Inner Life.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Poets of Contemporary Latin America: History and the Inner Life. By WILLIAM ROWE. (Oxford Hispanic Studies) Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. 2000. viii+370 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-19-815892-0. William Rowe's overarching...

Light Into Shadow: Marginality and Alienation in the Work of Elena Garro.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Light into Shadow: Marginality and Alienation in the Work of Elena Garro. By JULIE A. WINKLER. (Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures, 76) New York: Lang. 2001. 196 pp. 37 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8204-4071-x. With the...

Polifonia de la subversio: la veu col-lectiva de Vicent Andres Estelles.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Polifonia de la subversio: la veu col*lectiva de Vicent Andres Estelles. By DOMINIC KEOWN. (Arguments, 3) Valencia: Tandem Edicions. 2000. 231 pp. ISBN 84-8131-318-1. Dominic Keown begins his excellent study by rejecting the tree-pattern...

National Varieties of German Outside Germany: A European Perspective.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... National Varieties of German outside Germany: A European Perspective. Ed. by GABRIELLE HOGAN-BRUN. (German Linguistic and Cultural Studies, 8) Oxford, Bern, and Berlin: Lang. 2000. 275 pp. 28 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 3-906765-58-x (pbk). The...

Das Nibelungenlied: Actas do Simposia Internacional, 27 Outobro de 2000.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Das Nibelungenlied: Actas do Simposio Internacional, 27 de Outobro de 2000. Ed. by JOHN GREENFIELD. Oporto: Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto. 2001. 183 pp. 10 [euro]. ISBN 972-9350-57-4 (pbk). Das Nibelungenlied. By JAN-DIRK...

Das Nibelungenlied.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Das Nibelungenlied: Actas do Simposio Internacional, 27 de Outobro de 2000. Ed. by JOHN GREENFIELD. Oporto: Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto. 2001. 183 pp. 10 [euro]. ISBN 972-9350-57-4 (pbk). Das Nibelungenlied. By JAN-DIRK...

The Nibelungen Tradition: An Encyclopaedia.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... The Nibelungen Tradition: An Encyclopaedia. Ed. by WINDER McCONNELL, FRANCIS G. GENTRY, ULRICH MULLER, and WERNER WUNDERLICH. New York and London: Routledge. 2002. xxvii+375 pp. 85 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8153-1785-9 (hbk). In vain did the...

Deutsche Antikenromane des Mittelaters.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Deutsche Antikenromane des Mittelalters. By ELISABETH LIENERT. (Grundlagen der Germanistik, 39) Berlin: Schmidt. 2001. 223 pp. 19.95 [euro]. ISBN 3-503-06116-9 (pbk). The author of this book, well qualified by her work on the Trojanerkrieg of...

Die deutsche Literature (DDL), vol. 2 and 3.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Diedeutsche Literatur (DDL). Ed. by HANS-GERT ROLOFF. Reihe II, Abt. A: Autorenlexikon. Vol. II: fascs 6-10 and vol. III: fascs 1-5. Stuttgart and Bad Cannstatt: Frommann-Holzboog. 2001. 414 and 386 pp. 88.16 [euro] each. No ISBN given. The...

'Ich, Michel Pehn': Zum Kunst-und Rollenverstandnis des meisterlichen Berufsdichters Michel Beheim.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... 'Ich, Michel Pehn': Zum Kunst- und Rollenverstandnis des meisterlichen Berufsdichters Michel Beheim. By FRIEDERIKE NIEMEYER. (Mikrokosmos: Beitrage zur Literaturwissenschaft und Bedeutungsforschung, 59) Frankfurt a.M., Berlin, and Bern: Lang....

In scenam datus est cum plausu: Das Theater der Jesuiten in passau (1612-1775).(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... In scenam datus est cure plausu: Das Theater der Jesuiten in Passau (1612-1775). By SANDRA KRUMP. (Studium Litterarum: Studien und Texte zur deutschen Literaturgeschichte, 3) Berlin: Weidler. 2000. 2 vols. 290 and 410 pp. 79 [euro]. ISBN...