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Review Of Realist Fiction And The Strolling Spectator, John Rignall

The George Eliot Review Online, ISSN: 2831-5375

The problem of vision, of what the artist or writer sees, is among the most fascinating of the links between literature and painting, which separates them both from music. Vision itself implies something seen which cannot be separated from an inner quality of how it is seen. The I seeing and the eye seeing involves a synthesis which again distinguishes them both from the camera. The presence of this 'magic' which resists analysis has obsessed artists as frequently as critics, and led them to reject what seemed incapable of completion. A poem, according to W.H. Auden, was never finished, only …

Review Of George Eliot: Selected Critical Writings, Rosemary Ashton

The George Eliot Review Online, ISSN: 2831-5375

Walter Houghton made duality, and especially opposites, the keystone of his analysis of the Victorian frame of mind. Eliot's mind fits happily into that dualistic frame. Was she George or Marian (or any variation of the latter)? Was she the contriver of the novels or was it her husband? Was she hypochondriac or valetudinarian, diffident or arrogant, prominent or retiring, imposing or horse-faced? The identity remains fascinatingly protean.

If deciding whether Eliot was novelist or poet is less difficult than a similar decision with regard to Hardy, the common reader (and more particularly the paperback purchaser) has been at a …

London Branch Report 1992, Graham Handley, Beryl Gray

The George Eliot Review Online, ISSN: 2831-5375

The London Branch celebrated George Eliot's birthday by bolding a luncheon in her honor on 29th November at St Philip’s Church, Earls Court Road, London W8. This was attended by about 40 members and friends, and was preceded by a programme of readings devised by Margaret Wolfit and taken from Romola and Daniel Deronda. Margaret had chosen the appropriate title of The Italian Connection, and her sequence of extracts was greatly appreciated by the audience who listened to her with rapt attention for more than an hour. The luncheon followed, and once again we are indebted to Michael and Suzanne …

Review Of Gordon S. Haight; George Eliot's Originals And Contemporaries: Essays In Victorian Literary History And Biography, Hugh Witemeyer

The George Eliot Review Online, ISSN: 2831-5375

It is good to meet old friends, to discover again who is the real heroine of Middlemarch and to realise that Ladislaw can be defended and that Or Leavis was deaf to George Eliot's irony. Casaubon may not really have been impotent. All those theories about originals have been thoroughly tested, evaluated, replaced or re-stated by the investigative particularity of an eminent George Eliot scholar and, as some would have us believe, her definitive biographer (though I do not accept this last claim). Was Klesmer Liszt or, as appears more likely, a mercurial Rubinstein? Was Casaubon Mark Pattison? Does it …

Annual Report- 1992, Kathleen Adams

The George Eliot Review Online, ISSN: 2831-5375

As I reach the end of my 25 years as Secretary of the Fellowship I inevitably look back to the beginning of my years of office and, as I prepared this report, to the first one I delivered 24 years ago. It covered half of a sheet of quarto paper. The events recorded were insignificant compared to our current programme but we did have Richard Church as our Guest of Honour at the Birthday Dinner in 1968. Our membership for that year had just reached 60, 7 of whom were life members.

1992 began, as always, with a quiet Annual …

The Clerical Character In George Eliot's Fiction, Oliver Lovesey

The George Eliot Review Online, ISSN: 2831-5375

Writing to Blackwood in November 1856 to introduce Scenes of Clerical Life, G.H. Lewes promised,

tales and sketches illustrative of the actual life of our country clergy about a quarter of a century ago; but solely in its 'human' and 'not at all' in its 'theological' aspect; the object being to do what has never yet been done in our Literature, for we have abundant religious stories polemical and doctrinal, but since the Vicar and Miss Austen, no stories representing the clergy like any other class with the humours, sorrows, and troubles of other men.

Oliver Lovesey's new study is …

Review Essay: Ann Rosalind Jones, The Currency Of Eros: Women's Love Lyric In Europe, 1540-1620, Deborah N. Losse

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Ann Rosalind Jones, The Currency of Eros: Women's Love Lyric in Europe, 1540-1620, Indiana University Press, 1990, ix, 242 pp., ill., biblio., index, $29.95.

Review Essay: Silvia Ruffo Fiore, Niccolò Machiavelli: An Annotated Bibliography Of Modern Criticism And Scholarship, De Lamar Jensen

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Silvia Ruffo Fiore, Niccolò Machiavelli: An Annotated Bibliography of Modern Criticism and Scholarship, Greenwood Press, 1990, 824 pp., $89.50.

Review Essay: Susan K. Hagen, Allegorical Remembrance: A Study Of "The Pilgrimage Of The Life Of Man" As A Medieval Treatise On Seeing And Remembering, Glenn W. Olsen

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Susan K. Hagen, Allegorical Remembrance: A Study of "The Pilgrimage of the Life of Man" as a Medieval Treatise on Seeing and Remembering, University of Georgia Press, 1990, xii, 268 pp., biblio., index, $35.00.

Review Essay: John B. Gleason, John Colet, Norman L. Jones

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John B. Gleason, John Colet, University of California Press, 1989, 416 pp., $50.00.

Review Essay: Timothy Verdon And John Henderson, Eds., Christianity And Renaissance: Image And Religious Imagination In The Quattrocento, Edward J. Olszewski

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Timothy Verdon and John Henderson, eds., Christianity and the Renaissance: Image and Religious Imagination in the Quattrocento, Syracuse University Press, 1990, xix, 611 pp., ill., $55.00 (cloth), $18.95 (paperback).

Edward Ii And The Tactics Of Kingship, Carolyn P. Schriber

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Edward II (1307-1327) succeeded to the throne of England at a crucial time. In 1307 England was at war with Scotland and faced threats of further trouble in Wales and Gascony. In addition his father had left him a debt-ridden country in which the barons were beginning to recognize their potential for governmental control through financial blackmail. The country's finances were overextended, but the baronage and clergy had been resisting royal demands for increased taxation. If Edward II were to continue his father's policies and pursue the war in Scotland, as the barons wished, he would be forced to give …

Review Essay: Timothy Hampton, Writing From History: The Rhetoric Of Exemplarity In Renaissance Literature, Silvia Ruffo Fiore

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Timothy Hampton, Writing from History: The Rhetoric of Exemplarity in Renaissance Literature, Cornell University Press, 1990, 309 pp., index, $42.95 (cloth), $12.95 (paperback).

Review Essay: Gervase Rosser, Medieval Westminster: 1200-1540, Richard M. Wunderli

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Gervase Rosser, Medieval Westminster: 1200-1540, Clarendon Press, 1989, xvii, 425 pp., ill., fig., tables, app., biblio., index, $84.00.

Review Essay: Jacques Ferrand, A Treatise On Lovesickness, William Klein

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Jacques Ferrand, A Treatise on Lovesickness, trans. Donald A. Beecher and Massimo Ciavolella, Syracuse University Press, 1990, xvi, 709 pp., biblio., index, $49.95.

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Garnerings 譯藪 1991-1992, Garnerings Editorial Board

Garnerings 譯藪

This is the last year in which Garnerings will be compiled by third year students. Henceforth the Publication Workshop will take place in second year. The current issue, like its two predecessors, has set future generations of students an enviably high standard. All of us are indebted to the contributors and their translators. I wish this 1992 issue every success.

Self-Discovery In James Joyce's A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man And Taha Hussein's Al-Ayyam (The Stream Of Days), Fawzy Abdul Salam Abdul Hady

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Review Essay: John Taylor And Wendy Childs, Eds., Politics And Crisis In Fourteenth-Century England, Kenneth G. Madison

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John Taylor and Wendy Childs, eds., Politics and Crisis in Fourteenth-Century England, Alan Sutton, 1990, xvi, 157 pp., index, $30.00.

Review Essay: M. Beresford And J. G. Hurst, Eds., Deserted Medieval Villages, R. Bruce Hitchner

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M. Beresford and J. G. Hurst, eds., Deserted Medieval Villages, Alan Sutton, 1989, 340 pp., ill., maps, $48.00.

"With Holy Importunitie, With A Pious Impudencie": John Donne's Attempts To Provoke Election, Raymond-Jean Frontain

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Donne's use of the imperative when addressing God in the Divine Poems is a maneuver designed to resolve a particularly Protestant dilemma, the same dilemma confronted by the speaker of Elegy 19 under another guise. As C. L. barber and Richard P. Wheeler have pointed out, the reformers' dismantling of "much of the Catholic apparatus of worship in order to isolate the individual worshiper in direct rapport with God through faith...put worshippers at risk in new ways. In areas where the Reformation triumphed, extraordinary anxiety could be generated by the absolute importance conferred upon the individual's faith in the grace …

The Mystic As Pilgrim: Margery Kempe And The Tradition Of Nonfictional Travel Narrative, James P. Helfers

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Margery Kempe, fifteenth-century pilgrim and female mystic, stirred up controversy in her own day and continues to do so in the present. This controversy, then and now, centers on both Margery's spiritual life and its social expression. While she was alive, her contemporaries disagreed over the validity of her mystical experience and the way that experience manifested itself; now this conflict continues in contemporary critical debates over the nature of her literary and spiritual significance. The Book of Margery Kempe has heretofore been analyzed as autobiography, mystical treatise, devotional manual, and feminist tract. Clarissa Atkinson, for instance, sees the book …

Review Essay: Tarquato Tasso, Rinaldo: Edizione Critica Basata Sulla Seconda Edizione Del 1570 Con Le Varianti Della Princeps (1562), Robert M. Johnston

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Torquato Tasso, Rinaldo: Edizione critica basata sulla seconda edizione del 1570 con le varianti della princeps (1562), ed. Michael Sherberg, Classici italiani minori 16, Longo Editore, 1990, 332 pp.

Review Essay: Hilda L. Smith And Susan Cardinale, Women And The Literature Of The Seventeenth Century: An Annotated Bibliography Based On Wing's Short-Title Catalogue, Renée Pigeon

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Hilda L. Smith and Susan Cardinale, Women and the Literature of the Seventeenth Century: An Annotated Bibliography Based on Wing's Short-Title Catalogue, Bibliographies and Indexes in Women's Studies, No. 10, Greenwood Press, 1990, xxi, 353 pp., $45.00.

Review Essay: Elizabeth D. Harvey And Katherine E. Maus, Eds., Soliciting Interpretation: Literary Theory And Seventeenth-Century English Poetry, David Freeman

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Elizabeth D. Harvey and Katherine E. Maus, eds. Soliciting Interpretation: Literary Theory and Seventeenth-Century English Poetry, University of Chicago Press, 1990, 352 pp., $47.50.

The Artist As Entrepreneur: Long-Term Professional Bonds In Quattrocento Florence, Yael Even

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A number of comparatively recent publications on collaboration in Quattrocento art attest to the renewed interest in reassessing the nature of professional exchange among artist. These studies continue to shed more light on the prevalence and extent of collaborative artistic undertakings in Florence during this period. Originating in archival research, the studies reject the romanticized, traditional view of Early Renaissance painters, sculptors, and architects as solitary geniuses, suggesting instead that these creative talents operated as entrepreneurs who collaborated to establish profitable careers.

Review Essay: Circa 1492: Art In The Age Of Exploration, Delno West

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Circa 1492: Art in the Age of Exploration, ed. Jay A. Levenson, Yale University Press, 1991, 671 pp., ill., $59.95.

Review Essay: Howard V. Hendrix, The Ecstasy Of Catastrophe: A Study Of Apocalyptic Narrative From Langland To Milton, Clement H. Wyke

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Howard V. Hendrix, The Ecstasy of Catastrophe: A Study of Apocalyptic Narrative from Langland to Milton, American University Studies 4, Peter Lang, 1990, 394 pp., biblio., index, $65.00.

Moral Lessons For Women Readers Of Jean Lemaire De Belges's Les Illustrations De Gaule Et Singularitez De Troye, Judy Kem

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Jean Lemaire de Belges (1473-1525), poet and historiographer of the French and Burgundian courts of the early Renaissance, wrote his epic history of Troy, Les Illustrations de Gaule et singularitez de Troye (1511-1513), at the request of his patron, Margaret of Austria, to offer an "occupation voluptueuse, et non pas inutile" [sensual yet useful occupation] to the ladies of France (1:11). Lemaire dedicated each of the three books of his epic to a different noblewoman. Mercury, who narrates the prologues of all three volumes, identifies each noblewoman with one of the three goddesses of the Judgment of Paris: Margaret of …

Review Essay: David M. Dean And Norman L. Jones, Eds., The Parliaments Of Elizabethan England, F. Jeffrey Platt

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David M. Dean, and Norman L. Jones, eds., The Parliaments of Elizabethan England, Basil Blackwell, 1990, 226 pp., $45.00.