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Delicate Subjects: Romanticism, Gender, And The Ethics Of Understanding [Review], Michael Fischer

English Faculty Research

We are still trying to sort out the complex legacy of romanticism. "We" here includes philosophers Stanley Cavell and Richard Rorty, feminist critics Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, and a remarkable variety of literary theorists, from Northrop Frye, M. H. Abrams, Paul de Man, and Harold Bloom through Hazard Adams and Jerome J. McGann. Julie Ellison's important book, Delicate Subjects, focuses on an especially difficult problem we have inherited from the romantics: the problem of defining the ethics of interpretation. According to Ellison, male romantic writers worry that in literary interpretation, we murder to dissect (to paraphrase Wordsworth). Criticism, from …

The Mormons' War On Poverty: A History Of Lds Welfare, 1830-1990 By Garth L. Mangum And Bruce D. Blumell, Thomas G. Alexander, Lemuel Hardison Redd Jr.

BYU Studies Quarterly

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Women Of Covenant: The Story Of Relief Society By Jill Mulvay Derr, Janath Russell Cannon And Maureen Ursenbach Beecher; Women And Authority: Re-Emerging Mormon Feminism Edited By Maxine Hanks; Natural Allies: Women's Associations In American History By Anne Firor Scott, Mary Stovall Richards

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Confronting Abuse Edited By Anne L. Horton, B. Kent Harrison, And Barry L. Johnson, Janet Hooper

BYU Studies Quarterly

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Men At The Crossroads: Beyond Traditional Roles & Modern Options (Book Review), Charles Veenstra

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Reviewed Title: Men at the Crossroads: Beyond Traditional Roles & Modern Options, by Jack Balswick (Downers Grove: InterVarsity, 1992). 218 pages.

Bright Angels And Familiars: Contemporary Mormon Stories Eugene England, Patricia Mann Alto

BYU Studies Quarterly

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Are Mormons Christians? By Stephen E. Robinson; Offenders For A Word By Daniel C. Peterson And Stephen D. Ricks, Paul Hedengren

BYU Studies Quarterly

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The Church Through The Years, Vols. 1 And 2 By Richard P. Howard, William Dean Russell

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The Church Through The Years, Vol. 1 By Richard P. Howard, Davis Bitton

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Health And Medicine Among The Latter-Day Saints: Science, Sense, And Scripture By Lester E. Bush, Jr., John L. Sorenson

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The Story Of The Latter-Day Saints By James B. Allen And Glen M. Leonard, Donald Q. Cannon

BYU Studies Quarterly

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Solemn Covenant: The Mormon Polygamous Passage By B. Carmon Hardy, Lowell C. Bennion

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Review Essay: Cole, Penny J. The Preaching Of The Crusades To The Holy Land, 1095-1270, David Harry Miller

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Cole, Penny J. The Preaching of the Crusades to the Holy Land, 1095-1270. Medieval Academy Books no 98. Medieval Academy of America, Cambridge, Mass. 1991. xiv + 281 pp. $35.00.

Review Essay: Devries, Kelly. Medieval Military Technology, Albert Winkler

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DeVries, Kelly. Medieval Military Technology. Broadview Press, Peterborough, Ontario 1992. xi + 340 pp. $14.95.

Review Essay: Frese, Dolores Warwick. An Ars Legendi For Chaucer's Canterbury Tales: Re-Constructive Reading, Charles R. Smith

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Frese, Dolores Warwick. An Ars Legendi for Chaucer's Canterbury Tales: Re-Constructive Reading. University of Florida Press, Gainesville 1991. x + 238 pp. $34.95 / $17.95.

Review Essay: Kiser, Lisa J. Truth And Textuality In Chaucer's Poetry, Katharine S. Gittes

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Kiser, Lisa J. Truth and Textuality in Chaucer's Poetry. University Press of New England, Hanover, N.H. 1991. 201 pp. $35.00.

Hill, John M. Chaucerian Belief: The Poetics of Reverence and Delight. Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn. 1991. 204 pp. $27.50.

Review Essay: Kugel, James L., Ed. Poetry And Prophecy: The Beginnings Of A Literary Tradition, Janine Marie Idziak

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Kugel, James L., ed. Poetry and Prophecy: The Beginnings of a Literary Tradition. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, N.Y. 1990. 251 pp. $13.95.

Review Essay: Lerer, Seth. Literacy And Power In Anglo-Saxon Literature, Raymond P. Tripp Jr.

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Lerer, Seth. Literacy and Power in Anglo-Saxon Literature. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln 1991. xii + 268 pp. $35.00.

Review Essay: Poly, Jean-Pierre, And Eric Bournazel. The Feudal Transformation, 900-1200, Francis X. Hartigan

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Poly, Jean-Pierre, and Eric Bournazel. The Feudal Transformation, 900-1200. Trans Caroline Higgitt. Holmes and Meier, New York 1991. 404 pp. $42.95.

Review Essay: Cholakian, Patricia Francis. Rape And Writing In The Heptameron Of Marguerite De Navarre, Caroline Mcalister

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Cholakian, Patricia Francis. Rape and Writing in The Heptameron of Marguerite de Navarre. Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale 1991. xiv + 301 pp. $34.95.

Review Essay: Duplessis, Robert S. Lille And The Dutch Revolt: Urban Stability In An Era Of Revolution, 1550-1582, Kelly Devries

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DuPlessis, Robert S. Lille and the Dutch Revolt: Urban Stability in an Era of Revolution, 1500-1582. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1991. xv + 372 pp. $69.95.

Review Essay: Haynes, Alan. Invisible Power: The Elizabethan Secret Services, 1570-1603, F. Jeffrey Platt

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Haynes, Alan. Invisible Power: The Elizabethan Secret Services, 1570-1603. St Martin's Press, New York 1992. 1790 pp. $29.95.

Review Essay: Heffernan, Thomas. Art And Emblem: Early Seventeenth-Century English Poetry Of Devotion, Thomas Spaulding Willard

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Heffernan, Thomas. Art and Emblem: Early Seventeenth-Century English Poetry of Devotion, Renaissance Monographs no 17. Renaissance Institute, Sophia University, Tokyo 1991. 123 pp. $38.00 by subscription.

Review Essay: Kastan, David Scott, And Peter Stallybrass, Edd. Staging The Renaissance: Reinterpretation Of Elizabethan And Jacobean Drama, Mac Groves

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Kastan, David Scott, and Peter Stallybrass, edd. Staging the Renaissance: Reinterpretation of Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama. Routledge, London 1991. 293 pp. $45.00 / $14.95.

Review Essay: Maccaffrey, Wallace T. Elizabeth I: War And Politics, 1588-1603, F. Jeffrey Platt

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MacCaffrey, Wallace T. Elizabeth I: War and Politics, 1588-1603. Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J. 1992. 592 pp. $65.00.

Review Essay: Marshall, Cynthia. Last Things And Last Plays: Shakespearean Eschatology, Richard G. Barlow

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Marshall, Cynthia. Last Things and Last Plays: Shakespearean Eschatology. Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale 1991. xv + 142 pp, appendixes, works cited, index. $24.50.

Adelman, Janet. Suffocating Mothers: Fantasies of Maternal Origin in Shakespeare's Plays: Hamlet to The Tempest. Routledge, London 1992. xii + 379 pp, note on the text, notes, author index, index to Shakespeare's works, subject index. $49.50 / $15.95.

Review Essay: Mcintosh, Marjorie Keniston. A Community Transformed: The Manor And Liberty Of Haverings, 1500-1620, Wm. Kent Hackmann

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McIntosh, Marjorie Keniston. A Community Transformed: The Manor and Liberty of Havering, 1500-1620. Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy, and Society in Past Time. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1991. 489 pp. $74.95.

Review Essay: Piccolomini, Manfredi. The Brutus Revival: Parricide And Tyrannicide During The Renaissance, David Bornstein

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Piccolomini, Manfredi. The Brutus Revival: Parricide and Tyrannicide during the Renaissance. Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale 1991. xiv + 142 pp. $24.95.

Review Essay: Rabil, Albert Jr, Ed, Trans. Knowledge, Goodness, And Power: The Debate Over Nobility Among Quattrocento Italian Humanists, De Lamar Jensen

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Rabil, Albert Jr, ed, trans. Knowledge, Goodness, and Power: The Debate over Nobility among Quattrocento Italian Humanists. Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, Binghamton, N.Y. 1991. 410 pp. $30.00.

Review Essay: Sebald, Hans. Der Hexenjunge. Fallstudie Eines Inquistioonsprozesses, Albrecht Classen

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Sebald, Hans. Der Hexenjunge. Fallstudie eines Inquistioonsprozesses. Diagonal-Verlag, Marburg 1992. 115 pp.