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Book reviews

1997; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 2; Issue: 8 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/10848779708579857

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Wayne Andersen, Jennifer Tannoch‐Bland, Graham Richards, Bernard Zelechow, Lionel W. McKenzie, Arthur Lapan, Andrew Barker, Christopher Allmand, Gabriele Griffin, Carol Nicholson, Rudolf Dekker, S. D. Chapman, Michael Herzfeld, David Potter, Stephen H. Cutcliffe, Deborah L. Madsen, R. J. B. Bosworth, Pamela Clements, Karen Ford, Meredith Veldman, Timothy Kenyon, Linda Munk, Jane E. Phillips, Gabriel Weisberg, Robert P. Porter, Hermine Weigel Williams, F. Peter Wagner, Simon Lee‐Price, Edmund J. Campion, Penny Roberts, Susanna Rabow‐Edling, Joseph Mali, Karl Newton, J. K. A. Thomaneck, David A. Ward, Karen E. Holmberg, Esther Schor, Paweł Luków, Michael Ann Holly, Benjamin F. Martin, David W. Lovell,

The Plight of Emulation: Ernest Meissonier and French Salon Painting. By Marc J. Gotlieb (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1996) 255 pages, $45.00, £33.50 cloth. Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species: New Interdisciplinary Essays. By David Amigoni and Jeff Wallace (eds.) (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1995) xii + 211 pp., £35.00 cloth, £12.99 paper. Gestalt Psychology in German Culture 1890–1967. Holism and the Quest for Objectivity. By Mitchell G. Ash (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995) xii + 513 pp., £35.00/$54.95 cloth. The Elm and the Expert: Mentalese and Its Semantics. By Jerry A. Fodor (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1994) 125 pp., $19.95 cloth. Bordering on the Body: The Racial Matrix of Modern Fiction and Culture. By Laura Doyle (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995) 268 pp., £30.00 cloth, £14.99 paper. Mapping the Renaissance World: The Geographical Imagination in the Age of Discovery. By Frank Lestringant, translated by David Fausset, with a foreword by Stephen Greenblatt (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994) 197 pp., $38.00 cloth. Political Islam: Essays from Middle East Report. By Joel Beinin and Joe Stork (eds.) (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996) x + 395 pp., $50.00/£40.00 cloth, $20.00/£15.95 paper. Culture and Political Crisis in Vienna: Christian Socialism in Power, 1897–1918. By John W. Boyer (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995) 736 pp., $43.25/£29.95. The Origins of the Modern State in Europe, 13th‐18th Centuries. The Individual in Political Theory and Practice. By Janet Coleman (ed.) (Oxford: European Science Foundation and Clarendon Press, 1996) xxxvi + 395 pp., £50.00 cloth. Getting into the Act: Women Playwrights in London 1776–1829. By Ellen Donkin (London: Routledge, 1996), History/Gender Studies, xiii + 240 pp. Sex and Existence: Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex. By Eva Lundgren‐Gothlin, translated by Linda Schenck (London: Athlone, 1996), xii + 329 pp., £16.95 paper, £45.00 cloth. Youth and Authority: Formative Experiences in England 1560–1640. By Paul Griffiths (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996). New Inequalities: The Changing Distribution of Income and Wealth in the United Kingdom. By John Hills (ed.) (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996) xxv + 394 pp., £50.00/$69.95 cloth, £16.96/$27.95 paper. Identity: Essays Based on Herbert Spencer Lectures Given in the University of Oxford. By Henry Harris (ed.) (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995) xii + 170 pp., £16.99 cloth. La France du XVIe siècle, 1483–1598. By Arlette Jouanna (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, “Collection Premier Cycle,” 1996) xx + 688 pp., 149FF. Conceptual Foundations for Multidisciplinary Thinking. By Stephen Jay Kline (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995). xviii + 338 pp., $45.00/ £30.00 cloth. Writing Across Worlds: Literature and Migration. By Russell King, John Connell and Paul White (eds.) (London and New York: Routledge, 1995) xvii + 284 pp. Italian Journalism: A Critical Anthology. By Robert Lumley (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1996) 133 pp., £14.99. Printed Commonplace‐Books and the Structuring of Renaissance Thought. By Ann Moss (Oxford: Clarendon/Oxford University Press, 1996) 338 pp., £40.00 cloth. The Fragility of Freedom: Tocqueville on Religion, Democracy and the American Future. By Joshua Mitchell (Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 1995) 273 pp., $34.95/£27.95 cloth. After the Victorians: Private Conscience and Public Duty in Modern Britain: Essays in Memory of John Clive. By Susan Pedersen and Peter Mandler (eds.) (London/New York: Routledge, 1994) v + 260 pp., £40.00 cloth. Reading Holinshed's Chronicles. By Annabel Patterson (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994) xviii + 339 pp., £34.50/$49.50 cloth, £13.50/$19.50 paper. The Legacy of Sacco and Vanzetti. By Louis Joughin and Edmund M. Morgan (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996) 596 pp. Emerson: The Mind on Fire. By Robert D. Richardson Jr. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995) xiii + 671 pp., n.p.g. Erasmus on Women. By Erika Rummel (ed.) (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996) 251 pp. The Exceptional Woman: Elisabeth Vigée‐Lebrun and the Cultural Politics of Art. By Mary D. Sheriff (Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 1996.) 353 pp., $40.00 cloth. Russian Literature 1988–94: The End of an Era. By N. N. Shneidman (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1995), 245 pp., $45.00 cloth, $19.95 paper. Handel's Oratorios and Eighteenth‐Century Thought. By Ruth Smith (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995) 484 pp. Bulgaria in a Time of Change: Economic and Political Dimensions. By Iliana Zloch‐Christy (ed.) (Aldershot, UK: Avebury, 1996) 221 pp., £35.00 cloth. La Régression Démocratique. By Alain‐Gérard Slama (Paris: Fayard, 1995) 285 pp., 120.00FF, paper. Mass Enlightenment: Critical Studies in Rousseau and Diderot. By Julia Simon (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995) xii + 236 pp., $19.95 paper. Cassell Guide to Literature in French. By Valerie Worth‐Stylianou (ed.) (London/New York: Cassell, 1996) 274 pp., $24.95. The King's Army: Warfare, Soldiers, and Society during the Wars of Religion in France, 1562–1576. By James B. Wood (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996) xvi + 349 pp., £45.00/ $69.96. The International Politics of Russia and the Successor States. By Mark Webber (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1996) 366 pp., £45.00 cloth, £14.99 paper. The Masada Myth: Collective Memory and Mythmaking in Israel. By Nachman Ben‐Yehuda (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996) xxi + 401 pp., $54.00/£20.50 cloth. Democracy and Difference: Contesting the Boundaries of the Political. By Seyla Benhabib (ed.) (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996) 373 pp., $59.50/£35.00 cloth, $19.95/£16.95 paper. The Path to Christian Democracy: German Catholics and the Party System from Windthorst to Adenauer. By Noel D. Cary (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996) xi + 355 pp., $49.95 cloth. The Aldo Moro Murder Case. By Richard Drake (Cambridge/London: Harvard University Press, 1995) xi + 318 pp., $45.00 cloth. An Unnecessary Man: The Life of Apollon Grigor'ev. By Wayne Dowler (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1995) 286 pp. $55.00/£42.90/ $66.00 Europe. The Reformation of the Subject: Spenser, Milton, and the English Protestant Epic. By Linda Gregerson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995) 280 pp., £35.00/$49.95 cloth. Kant, Critique and Politics. By Kimberly Hutchings (London/New York: Routledge, 1996) xi + 219 pp., £37.50 cloth, £12.99 paper. Fra Angélico: Dissemblance and Figuration. By Georges Didi‐Huberman, trans. Jane Marie Todd (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995) xiv + 274 pp., n.p.g. Existence et démocratie. By Robert Misrahi (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1995) 247 pp., 145 FF. Le Processus de Paix au Moyen‐Orient. By Maurice Konopnicki and Simon Petermann (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1995) 127 pp., n.p.g. Privatizing Russia. By Maxim Boycko, Andrei Shleifer, Robert Vishny (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1995) ix+ 165 pp., $18.95.