MODERN PHILOLOGY
VOLUME 96, NUMBER 3, FEBRUARY 1999
Editors' Foreword
Joshua Scodel and Katie Trumpener v
ARTICLES
"The Darke and Vicious Place": The Dread of the Vagina
in KingLear
Peter L.Rudnytsky 291
Proserpine and Pessimism: Goddesses of Death, Life, and
Language from Swinburne to Wharton
MargotK. Louis 312
James's "Aliens": Consuming, Performing, and Judging the
American Scene
Gert Buelens 347
BOOK REVIEWS
Margaret Anne Doody, The True Story of the Novel
James Grantham Turner 364
Thorlac Turville-Petre, England the Nation: Language,
Literature, and National Identity, 1290-1340
Jesse M. Gellrich 370
Deborah Lesko Baker, The Subject of Desire: Petrarchan
Poetics and the Female Voice in Louise Labe
Jerry C. Nash 375
Robert Weimann, Authority and Representation in Early
Modern Discourse
Timothy Hampton 377
Andrew Gurr, The Shakespearian Playing Companies
Scott McMillin 381
Janel Todd, ed., Aphra Behn Studies
Paula R. Backscheider 384
FranpoisJaouen, De I 'art de plaire en petits morceaux: Pascal,
La Rochefoucauld, La Bruyere
l.arry F. Norman 387
Daniel P. Watkins, Sexual Power in British Romantic Poetry
Judith W. Page 390
Geraldine Friedman, The Insistence of History: Revolution in
Buike, Wordsworth, Keats, and Baudelaire
On-in N. G. Wang 393
Helen Small, Love's Madness: Medicine, the Novel, and
Female Insanity, 1800-1865
John Maynard 396
Penny Fielding, Writing and Orality: Nationality, Culture, and
Nineteenth-Century Scottish Fiction
Robert Crawford 399
Christopher GoGwilt, The Invention of the West: Joseph
Conrad and the Double-Mapping of Europe and Empire
James F. English 402
Geoffrey Gait Harpham, One of Us: The Mastery of Joseph
Conrad
James F. English 402
John Whittier-Ferguson, Framing Pieces: Designs of the Gloss
in Joyce, Woolf, and Pound
Reed Way Dasen brock 406
Carolyn Alien, Following Djuna: Women Lovers and the
Erotics of Loss
Lynda Hart 409
Roger Keys, The Reluctant Modernist: Andrei Belyi and the
Development of Russian Fiction, 1902-1914
Sleven Cassedy 412
Bruce A. King, Derek Walcott and West Indian Drama: "Not
Only a Playwright but a Company," the Trinidad Theatre
Workshop, 1959-1993
Paul Breslin 413
Robert Wess, Kenneth Burke: Rhetoric, Subjectivity,
Postmodernism
Paul Jay 417
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MODERN PHILOLOGY
VOLUME 97, NUMBER 1, AUGUST 1999
ARTICLES
Geoffrey of Monmouth in Renaissance Drama: Imagining
Non-History
John E. Curran, Jr. 1
"What Is Hecuba to Him or [S]he to Hecuba?" Lucrece's
Complaint and Shakespearean Poetic Agency
Mary fo KieUman 21
From Good Looks to Good Thoughts: Popular Women's
History and the Invention of Modernity, ca. 1830-1870
Minam Elizabeth Burstein 46
BOOK REVIEWS
John Kerrigan, Revenge Tragedy: Aeschylus to Armageddon
Martin Mueller 76
Sumnne Reynolds, Medieval Reading: Grammar, Rhetoric and
the Classical Text
Ralph Hexter 80
Joyce Coleman, Public Reading and the Reading Public in Late
Medieval England and France
Mary E Godfrey 85
Margreta de Grazia, Maureen Qililligan, and Peter Sudlybrass,
eds., Subject and Object in Renaissance Culture
Joseph Loewenstein 88
Barbara Correll, The End of Conduct: "Grobianus" and the
Renaissance Text of the Subject
Gail Kern Paster 92
Judith H. Anderson, Words That Matter: Linguistic Perception
in Renaissance English
Jennifer Brady 96
Stephen Orgel, Impersonations: The Performance of Gender
in Shakespeare's England
Linda Woodbridge 99
Elizabeth Sauer, Barbarous Dissonance and Images of Voice in
Milton's Epics
Clare R. Kinney 104
John Rogers, The Matter of Revolution: Science, Poetry, and
Politics in the Age of Milton
Stephen M. Fallen 107
Sharon Cadman Seelig, Generating Texts: The Progeny of
Seventeenth-Century Prose
DavidHillRadclilTe 112
Derek Hughes, English Drama, 1660-1700
PaulD.Cannan 114
H. B. Nisbet and Claude Rawson, eds., The Cambridge History
of Literary Criticism, Volume 4: The Eighteenth Century
Jonathan BrodyKramnick 117
Homer Obed Brown, Institutions of the English Novel: From
Defoe to Scott
Alexander Welsh 122
Everetl Zimmerman, The Boundaries of Fiction: History and
the Eighteenth-Century British Novel
Douglas Lane Patey 124
Michael Prince, Philosophical Dialogue in the British
Enlightenment: Theology, Aesthetics, and the Novel
Timothy Dykstal 128
Frans De Bruyn, The Literary Genres of Edmund Burke: The
Political Uses of Literary Form
Mark R. Blackwell 132
Terence Allan Hoagivood, Politics, Philosophy, and the
Production of Romantic Texts
Simon Bainbridge 135
Lee Erickson, The Economy of Literary Form: English
Literature and the Industrialization of Publishing,
1800-1850
Meredith L. McGill 138
Deirdre David, Rule Britannia: Women, Empire, and Victorian
Writing
Lillian Nayder 141
Garrett Stewart, Dear Reader: The Conscripted Audience in
Nineteenth-Century British Fiction
Judith Wilt 145
Amy Oilman Srebnick, The Mysterious Death of Mary Rogers:
Sex and Culture in Nineteenth-Century New York
Christopher Loohy 149
Shaivn James Rosenheim, The Cryptographic Imagination:
Secret Writing from Edgar Poe to the Internet
John Carlos Rowe 152
Evlyn Gould, The Fate of Carmen
Peter Conrad 155
Peter Bondanella, Umberto Eco and the Open Text:
Serniotics, Fiction, Popular Culture
Rebecca West 157
Kim Worthingion, Self as Narrative: Subjectivity and
Community in Contemporary Fiction
Eugene Goodheart 162
Eve Kosofoky Sedgwick, ed., Novel Gazing: Queer Readings in
Fiction
Andrew Elfenbein 165
James L. Battersby, Reason and the Nature of Texts
Paisley Livingston 168
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