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Review Essay: Epstein, Marcia Jenneth. Prions En Chantant: Devotional Songs Of The Trouvères, William Burgwinkle Jan 1998

Review Essay: Epstein, Marcia Jenneth. Prions En Chantant: Devotional Songs Of The Trouvères, William Burgwinkle

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Epstein, Marcia Jenneth. Prions en chantant: Devotional Songs of the Trouvères. Toronto Medieval Texts and Translations, II. University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 1997. 240 pp. Paperback $19.95. ISBN 0-802-07826-5. Hardback $50.00. ISBN 0-802-00840-2.


Review Essay: Lyons, John D. The Tragedy Of Origins: Pierre Corneille And Historical Perspective, Sara E. Melzer Jan 1998

Review Essay: Lyons, John D. The Tragedy Of Origins: Pierre Corneille And Historical Perspective, Sara E. Melzer

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Lyons, John D. The Tragedy of Origins: Pierre Corneille and Historical Perspective. Stanford University Press, Stanford, 1996. 236 pp. $45.00. ISBN 0-804-72616-7.


Review Essay: Mendelson, Sara, And Patricia Crawford. Women In Early Modern England, Jan Stirm Jan 1998

Review Essay: Mendelson, Sara, And Patricia Crawford. Women In Early Modern England, Jan Stirm

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Mendelson, Sara, and Patricia Crawford. Women in Early Modern England. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1998. xviii+ 480 pp. Illus. Paperback $19.95. ISBN 0-198-20812-x. Hardback $35. ISBN 0-198-20124-9.


War And Its Discontents: Pacifism And Quietism In The Abrahamic Traditions (Book Review), G. Scott Davis Jan 1998

War And Its Discontents: Pacifism And Quietism In The Abrahamic Traditions (Book Review), G. Scott Davis

Religious Studies Faculty Publications

Review of the book, War and Its Discontents: Pacifism and Quietism in the Abrahamic Traditions, edited by J. Patout Burns. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 1996.


Review Essay: Williams, Gary Jay. Our Moonlight Revels: "A Midsummer Night's Dream" In The Theatre. Studies In Theatre History And Culture Series, Lois Potter Jan 1998

Review Essay: Williams, Gary Jay. Our Moonlight Revels: "A Midsummer Night's Dream" In The Theatre. Studies In Theatre History And Culture Series, Lois Potter

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Williams, Gary Jay. Our Moonlight Revels: "A Midsummer Night's Dream" in the Theatare. Studies in Theatre History and Culture Series, ed. Thomas Postlewait, University of Iowa Press, Iowa City, 1997. 340 pp. $39.95. ISBN 0-877-45592-9.


Review Essay: Major Women Writers Of Seventeenth-Century England, Theodora A. Jankowski Jan 1998

Review Essay: Major Women Writers Of Seventeenth-Century England, Theodora A. Jankowski

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Major Women Writers of Seventeenth-Century England, ed. James Fizmaurice, Josephine A. Roberts, Carol L. Barash, Eugene R. Cunnar, and Nancy A. Gutierrez. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 1997. 408 pp. Paperback $29.95. ISBN 0-472-06609-9. Hardback $52.50. ISBN 0-472-09609-5.


Review Essay: Goldberg, Jonathan. Desiring Women Writing: English Renaissance Examples, Christy Desmet Jan 1998

Review Essay: Goldberg, Jonathan. Desiring Women Writing: English Renaissance Examples, Christy Desmet

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Goldberg, Jonathan. Desiring Women Writing: English Renaissance Examples. Stanford University Press, Stanford, 1997- vii + 255 pp. ISBN 0-8047-2982-4. $45.00.


Review Essay: Hanson, Elizabeth. Discovering The Subject In Renaissance England, Louise Schleiner Jan 1998

Review Essay: Hanson, Elizabeth. Discovering The Subject In Renaissance England, Louise Schleiner

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Hanson, Elizabeth. Discovering the Subject in Renaissance England. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1998. xii + 190 pp. $54.95; and Matchinske, Megan. Writing, Gender and State in Early Modern England: Identity Formation and the Female Subject. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1998. xi + 247 pp. $59.95. ISBN 0-521-62254-9.


Review Essay: Harris, Jonathan Gil. Foreign Bodies And The Body Politic: Discourses Of Social Pathology In Early Modern England, Julian Yates Jan 1998

Review Essay: Harris, Jonathan Gil. Foreign Bodies And The Body Politic: Discourses Of Social Pathology In Early Modern England, Julian Yates

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Harris, Jonathan Gil. Foreign Bodies and the Body Politic: Discourses of Social Pathology in Early Modern England. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1998. xi + 197 pp. $64.95. ISBN 0-521-59405-7.


Book Review: To End A War, Rory J. Conces Jan 1998

Book Review: To End A War, Rory J. Conces

Philosophy Faculty Publications

If asked to name career diplomats who have tackled some very difficult international crises, many foreign policy makers would put Richard Holbrooke near the top of the list. Not many negotiators have wielded moral principle, power, and reason as well as Holbrooke. His book on the Bosnia negotiations leading up to the 1995 Dayton Peace Agreement is timely, given the ethnic cleansing that is being carried out in Kosovo, a southern province of Yugoslavia's Serb Republic. Once again we are faced with unrest in the Balkans. We have seen the daily newspaper headlines change from "24 Albanian Men Killed in …


Book Review: Chechnya: Tombstone Of Russian Power, Rory J. Conces Jan 1998

Book Review: Chechnya: Tombstone Of Russian Power, Rory J. Conces

Philosophy Faculty Publications

From December 1994 to August 1996, Russia was engaged in the Chechen War, a Vietnam-style quagmire that exemplified, on the one hand, the end of Russia as a great military and imperial power, and, on the other hand, "one of the greatest epics of colonial resistance in the past century.'' No analysis can hope to understand the totality of forces that lend to the stability (or instability) of nations with large minority populations unless it first examines the conditions that led to the Russian defeat in Chechnya. At the center of that problem lies an interesting issue. What aspects of …