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{"title":"Exile, Diplomacy and Texts: Exchanges between Iberia and the British Isles, 1500–1767 ed. by Ana Sáez-Hidalgo and Berta Cano-Echevarría (review)","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/mlr.2023.a907839","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mlr.2023.a907839","url":null,"abstract":"Reviewed by: Exile, Diplomacy and Texts: Exchanges between Iberia and the British Isles, 1500–1767 ed. by Ana Sáez-Hidalgo and Berta Cano-Echevarría Andrew Hiscock Exile, Diplomacy and Texts: Exchanges between Iberia and the British Isles, 1500–1767. Ed. by Ana Sáez-Hidalgo and Berta Cano-Echevarría. (Intersections: Interdisciplinary Studies in Early Modern Culture, 74) Leiden: Brill. 2021 232 pp. €105; $126. ISBN 978–90–04–27365–8. This 74th instalment in Brill's Intersections series is endlessly fascinating from start to finish. It constitutes yet another valuable contribution to early modern studies designed to urge Anglophone audiences to look more ambitiously among the documentary evidence from continental Europe to gain a richer understanding of the island nations during the Tudor and Stuart centuries. The editors' Introduction establishes the critical mood for the whole volume iii both signalling received thinking concerning sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Anglo-Spanish relations and then proceeding to complicate, to nuance, and finally to unsettle long-standing assumptions. The volume's quarry remains matters religious, political, and diplomatic in the chosen period and recruits not only British and Spanish lines of vision on the subject, but also notably those of Irish and Portuguese witness. One of the key emphases of the volume is to challenge lazy critical formulations of 'the Other' when approaching this area of study, and this ambition is amply fulfilled in the discussions which follow. Glyn Redworth draws upon sketches of Antoon Van Den Wijngaerde in the first chapter to re-evaluate the presence of Tudor military forces at the 1557 siege of Saint Quentin (as well the capture of the fortress town of Ham). Mary Tudor would send a force of 4000 foot soldiers, 1000 cavalry, and 1500 military engineers and sappers to support her husband Philip II's war against France. Red-worth demonstrates that Anglophone assessments of this engagement have been [End Page 581] repeatedly governed by expectations of reluctance and marginality (and by critical neglect), concluding persuasively that 'to assume that negative comments must outweigh all praise is to normalise an already tainted view of this war' (p. 17). In all, the Spanish-led force would number as many as 50,000 men (or more) and Redworth draws innovatively on engravings of Wijngaerde's sketches circulating shortly after the Saint Quentin victory to explore new perspectives on the profile and engagement of Mary's forces. In the next discussion, Susanna Oliveira considers Portuguese diplomatic relations with the Tudor realm, most particularly in the context of Thomas Wilson's mission to England's oldest ally in 1567. The name of Thomas Wilson may be best known to those engaged in early modern studies in the context of his published discussion of rhetorical practice. However, here Oliveira unveils a polyglot diplomat who would be the first envoy that Elizabeth sent to Portugal after a ser","PeriodicalId":45399,"journal":{"name":"MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134933769","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Politics of Realism by Thomas Docherty (review)","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/mlr.2023.a907841","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mlr.2023.a907841","url":null,"abstract":"Reviewed by: The Politics of Realism by Thomas Docherty Charlotte Jones The Politics of Realism. By Thomas Docherty. London: Bloomsbury. 2022. 288 pp. £90. ISBN 978–1–350–22853–5. The 'unreality' of contemporary politics has become something of a truism, but what does it mean for politics to 'keep it real'? Thomas Docherty's wide-ranging, spirited account of the role played by a contested aesthetic weaves examples from literature, visual arts, and film in a discursive, even meandering, manner. There is a deftness of touch that makes such breadth of reference feel light but tangible. What I am less convinced by is whether all of the vignettes Docherty brings together fit coherently under the narrative about realism he offers. Part i begins in 1857, with Flaubert and Baudelaire in legal difficulties over alleged indecency and a new Obscene Publications Act in England. Docherty suggests that the way 'censorship was used to divert attention from real conditions of human [End Page 585] life, to banish these conditions from representation and from easy availability to a public assembly or society' (p. 228) is linked to the operations of realism, an aesthetic vested in control over what constitutes reality, in the sense of giving credence to what is 'realistic' or established as non-controvertible. Gustave Courbet, to take one instance, challenges conventional notions of propriety by identifying the real with irreducibly material conditions of the human body: labour, sex, death. Realism's 'mimetic adequacy' (p. 165) thus obtains a political charge, though as Docherty engages with more examples it should become clear that nineteenth-century realism involves more than mere verisimilitude. In Chapter 4, realism in Dickens's Bleak House and Hard Times 'operates as a mechanism for calling into question the idea of a single authoritative account of what constitutes reality itself' (p. 98). In Part ii, an opening interlude on Henry James gives way to discussions of Zola, Turgenev, the documentary film-maker Jane Anthony Grierson, Anatoly Lunacharsky's Soviet Socialist realism, and the ways in which realism seeks to catalyse change, which Docherty frames in terms of a reader's 'education'. Docherty's characterization of realism unfolds heuristically as the book advances, which allows readers to feel themselves into his train of thought. In one way or another, we are told, all of these works 'orient us towards indeterminacy, and away from the certainties that are grounded in any fundamentalist belief-system' (p. 228). In Part iii, Docherty explicitly pitches realism against fascism, wherein 'the reality that we seek lies hidden under a fictionalized or mythic account of what constitutes the real world' (p. 228). Chapters parse the abolition of theatrical censorship in England in 1968, shadowed by Mary Whitehouse's moral purity campaigns, and cast realism as 'resistance' in Italian neo-realism and against Leni Riefenstahl's Nazi propaganda, where reality exists l","PeriodicalId":45399,"journal":{"name":"MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW","volume":"144 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134933775","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Words of her Own: Women Authors in Nineteenth-Century Bengal by Maroona Murmu (review)","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/mlr.2023.a907860","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mlr.2023.a907860","url":null,"abstract":"Reviewed by: Words of her Own: Women Authors in Nineteenth-Century Bengal by Maroona Murmu Máire ní Fhlathúin Words of her Own: Women Authors in Nineteenth-Century Bengal. By Maroona Murmu. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. 2020. xvi+ 439 pp. ₹1395; £26.99. ISBN 978–0–19–949800–0. The tradition of women's writing in colonial Bengal has been historically undervalued, only recently becoming the topic of literary and historical scholarship. Maroona Murmu's book, an impressive project of retrieval and contextualization, focuses primarily on the second half of the nineteenth century, a period when women writers published, by her estimate, over three hundred books. Murmu's subjects are educated, Westernized, Hindu and Brahmo women; she excludes those she terms 'their religious others—Muslim and Christian women authors—as well as regional others—Oriya and Marathi women writers' (p. 20). The first chapter uses archival research to locate these elite women among and against those of 'lower caste and class' who nevertheless shared some of their experiences of family life and culture. Later chapters aim to supply through genre-based case studies 'all that the official archive left unmentioned' (p. 66). In Chapter 2, essays by Kailashbashini Debi and Swarnamayee Gupta both take issue with the ideology of domestic femininity; Kailashbashini's work is subtitled 'Hindu Female: Miseries of Hindu Women', although she credits her husband Durgacharan Gupta for its publication. Other chapters focus on life-writing by Kailashbashini Debi (not to be confused with her namesake) and Saradasundari Debi, novels by Kusumkumari Roychoudhurani and Swarnakumari Debi, and travel narratives by Krishnabhabini Das and Prasannamayee Debi. A final note examines the reception of women's writing by a predominantly male reading public (excluding most women by virtue of their low levels of literacy), whose normative gaze exerted its own pressure on the form, substance, and conditions of production of these works. One of the strengths of Murmu's detailed, thoughtful research is her delineation of these writers' social and political milieu. The cultural impact of colonialism is pervasive, as are the ways in which both colonial and indigenous norms prescribed women's roles. Krishnabhabini Das's narrative of her encounter with Britain, Englande Bangamahila (1885), reverses the colonial gaze, but as Murmu points out, print technologies had long before her journey brought British culture to Bengal. In the pedagogy of domesticity, exemplary figures include 'the daughters of the Empress Victoria' as well as the Hindu deities Draupadi and Sita—all reminding 'modern women' of the importance of cooking (p. 124). Both these cultural forces are evident in the figure of Swarnakumari Debi, whose literary work spanned the fields of fiction, poetry, drama, and journalism, among others. Her writing bears the traces of her wide reading in English—Gray, Shelley, Shakespeare, Byron—and 'Mary Evans who ma","PeriodicalId":45399,"journal":{"name":"MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW","volume":"72 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134934008","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Enlightenment at Court: Patrons, Philosophes, and Reformers in Eighteenth-Century Europe ed. by Thomas Biskup et al. (review)","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/mlr.2023.a907840","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mlr.2023.a907840","url":null,"abstract":"Reviewed by: Enlightenment at Court: Patrons, Philosophes, and Reformers in Eighteenth-Century Europe ed. by Thomas Biskup et al. Roberto Quirós Rosado Enlightenment at Court: Patrons, Philosophes, and Reformers in Eighteenth-Century Europe. Ed. by Thomas Biskup, Benjamin Marschke, Andreas Pečar, and Damien Tricoire. (Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment) Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, University of Oxford. 2022. xi+ 367 pp. £65. ISBN 978–1–80085–507–6. The Enlightenment, one of the key pillars in the construction of Europe in the early modern age, is the axis of this collective book. Despite the usual divergences in the quality of the chapters included in this type of work, the four editors offer the reader—both in the arrangement of the chapters and through the hierarchy of ideas and debates in an extensive Introduction—the opportunity to engage with a multiplicity of views on the political, cultural, religious, and social connections of this intellectual phenomenon as it played out in what we can call the 'court ecosystem'. Through the aforementioned Introduction and its eleven contributions divided into four large blocks, a multifocal analysis of the historiographical issues covers [End Page 584] the major areas of development of political culture in the eighteenth century: from monarchical patronage to the (not always victorious) reformism of the Enlightenment, passing through the mechanisms of individual or collective representation and the emergence of a real public sphere. One of the greatest merits of the volume is how, for the first time, it brings together case studies that synthesize the rhetorics and practices of palatine networks, the links between reformers and philosophers, and the multiple facets of the cultural (understood as an eminently political means of dissemination on different scales). It does so not by making only timid links—e.g. between the French Lumières, Germanic Aufklärung, and British Enlightenment—but by opening up to spaces less known to general historiography, such as Spain, Russia, or Sweden. The divergences in the behaviour and sociability of some of these regions, such as the imperial, royal, and princely courts in the Holy Roman Empire (Berlin, Anhalt, Bayreuth, and Vienna), are examined in great detail. However, explorations of other essential spaces in this European melting pot, such as the three most important cities of the Italian Grand Tour—Rome, Venice, and Florence—or reformist Naples under the Habsburgs and Bourbons, are missing. Thanks to the results provided by Enlightenment at Court, we can observe the full validity of the court socio-political system in the face of the propagandistic criticism of its emulators in the transition to revolution and liberalism. We also see how palaces, gardens, and reserved cabinets constituted spaces of mimesis between the reformism of the ancien régime and the safeguarding of the essences of the absolutism of the eighteenth century. Finally, the collection","PeriodicalId":45399,"journal":{"name":"MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134934965","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Words like Fire: Prophecy and Apocalypse in Apollinaire, Marinetti, and Pound by James P. Leveque (review)","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/mlr.2023.a907842","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mlr.2023.a907842","url":null,"abstract":"Reviewed by: Words like Fire: Prophecy and Apocalypse in Apollinaire, Marinetti, and Pound by James P. Leveque Willard Bohn Words like Fire: Prophecy and Apocalypse in Apollinaire, Marinetti, and Pound. By James P. Leveque. (Studies in Comparative Literature, 50) Cambridge: Legenda. 2021. x+ 221 pp. £85. ISBN 978–1–78188–443–0. This book is a welcome contribution to avant-garde studies in Europe and North America. Devoted primarily to poetry, it examines the early literary activities of three giants who helped shape our response to the twentieth century: Guillaume Apollinaire in France, F. T. Marinetti in Italy, and Ezra Pound in England and America. To my knowledge, this is the only book-length study of all three poets, each of whom—officially or unofficially—headed a major literary movement. Associated with Cubism, Futurism, and Imagism respectively, they strove to create a revolutionary poetry that reflected the values of the modern age. Unlike the Italian leader, who was the official head of the Futurist movement, the other two led largely by example, juxtaposing their revolutionary poems with articles defending the poetics in question. Alternating between prophecy and apocalypse (or combining the two), as James P. Leveque demonstrates, they drew on biblical literature to establish various religious parallels. In particular, the author claims, apocalyptic attitudes and prophetic poses were used by all three men 'to establish poetry as the authoritative voice on the meaning of [the First World War] and the potential for the post-war future' (p. 18). [End Page 587] The following three chapters consider the role played by prophecy in the poets' early works, which in Apollinaire's case was far from negligible. As Leveque is not the first to point out, the French author frequently refers to personages and themes in the Bible. Published in 1966, Robert Couffignal's L'Inspiration biblique dans l'œuvre de Guillaume Apollinaire (Paris: Lettres Modernes) has been a valuable reference for many years. However, since Leveque's biblical knowledge is much more exhaustive, he is able to paint a more detailed portrait of the poet's indebtedness. The prophetic bent of Marinetti's works is not as evident as Apollinaire's because it assumes a different form. Arguing that the Futurist leader considered his writings to be a form of prophecy, the author focuses on Le Monoplan du pape (The Pope's Monoplane) and several Futurist manifestos. In his opinion, the latter represent 'perhaps the modern prophetic mode par excellence' (p. 64). Marinettti hoped to become a modern Joshua, he explains, leading the Italian people into the conquest of a Promised Land. In a similar manner, Pound also viewed himself as a poet and something of a prophet. Unlike the previous leaders' works, which tended to be optimistic, his own were marked by pessimism and a profound sense of loss. Since he believed that modern poetry was vastly inferior to traditional poetry, his works were filled ","PeriodicalId":45399,"journal":{"name":"MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134935194","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Latin Jazz: The Other Jazz by Christopher Washburne (review)","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/mlr.2023.a907843","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mlr.2023.a907843","url":null,"abstract":"Reviewed by: Latin Jazz: The Other Jazz by Christopher Washburne Jessica Sequeira Latin Jazz: The Other Jazz. By Christopher Washburne. (Currents in Latin American and Iberian Music) Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2020. xi+ 216 pp. £75. ISBN 978–0–19–537162–8. Christopher Washburne begins his lively book with an excerpt from Jorge Luis Borges's 'The Cruel Redeemer Lazarus Morell', quoting it as he traces the effects of the African presence in the United States, and the 'remote cause' for phenomena such as the popularity of the song 'The Peanut Vendor'. Washburne frames his work as a 'sonic ecology' (p. 110) and an 'exploration of Latin jazz through the lens of Borgesian entangled histories' (p. 3); he describes how bandleader Don Azpiazú brought Cuban rhythms into the mainstream through this song, despite its suggestive Spanish lyrics about eating peanuts from a cone. A 1930 version by Louis Armstrong reworked it with a 2/3 clave pattern, change of maní (peanuts) to Marie, and castanets in the foreground; quickly on its heels came a 1931 Duke Ellington version mixing Cuban rumba, Trinidadidan calypso, and Harlem stride, expanding a black musical archipelago (Havana, Port of Spain, Harlem). Washburne approaches Latin jazz as a global music, a 'nexus of intercultural exchange where African American traditions are blended with Latin American cultural ones' (p. 3). Alternative terms are Afro-Latin, Afro-Cuban, Caribbean jazz, jazz latin, Cubop and (per Jelly Roll Morton) 'the Spanish tinge'. Indeed, despite [End Page 589] his title, Washburne argues that Latin jazz is not 'other' but a tree in a shared grove, aspens with an interconnected root system (p. 177). Latin jazz survives as an efficient label to help musicians get gigs. Giving some history of jazz roots, Washburne makes the case for layered history including Latin American—not just African American—elements. Emerging from New Orleans, with Congo Square as symbolic place of origin, it is a 'confluence of slavery, colonialism, plantation life, postcolonialism, emancipation' (p. 9). New Orleans was aligned with French and Spanish colonies, and imported slaves from Senegambia (West Africa); slaves also had connections first with Haiti and then with Cuba, where they migrated after the 1790s slave uprisings of the Napoleonic Wars. All of these moments can be heard in jazz rhythms. In the 1920s and 1930s Spanish Harlem—with its own immigration history—became the industry recording capital. The 'rumba' (actually son pregón, mislabelled by record executives) took off. New instruments such as the flute and conga drum became popular in jazz as a result of Latin American influence, as did rhythms such as the tresillo, cinquillo, and clave. In 1931 the Gretsch Percussion Company began to produce bongos, clave, aracas, güiros, cowbells, and timbales. Cuban influences also brought limb independence to jazz drumming, solos over static chord progressions, non-functional harmonies, and Afro-Cuban modal tona","PeriodicalId":45399,"journal":{"name":"MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW","volume":"2014 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134933718","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Scripting the Nation: Court Poetry and the Authority of History in Late Medieval Scotland by Katherine H. Terrell (review)","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/mlr.2023.a907853","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mlr.2023.a907853","url":null,"abstract":"Reviewed by: Scripting the Nation: Court Poetry and the Authority of History in Late Medieval Scotland by Katherine H. Terrell Emily Wingfield Scripting the Nation: Court Poetry and the Authority of History in Late Medieval Scotland. By Katherine H. Terrell. (Interventions: New Studies in Medieval Culture) Columbus: Ohio State University Press. 2021. viii+ 232 pp. $99.95 ISBN 978–0–8142–1462–6. Katherine H. Terrell's richly inventive study positions a range of fourteenth- to sixteenth-century Scottish chronicle material alongside the works of poets connected to the court of James IV, and she deftly explores how this material both appropriates and subverts English literary and historiographical models in order to assert—often simultaneously—literary and territorial sovereignty. Indeed, Terrell's work is unique in juxtaposing—and demonstrating the close relationship between—Scotland's historiographical tradition and the works of those writers commonly labelled 'Scots Chaucerians'. Scripting the Nation significantly advances scholarship in both areas as a result. Terrell begins by outlining the War of Historiography which accompanied the physical battles of the period's Wars of Independence: Edward I and Edward II both seized upon Galfridian myths which traced English origins to Brutus and the Trojans in order to bolster their claims to lordship and ownership of Scotland; to counteract this, and prove Scotland's independence and superior cultural status, Scottish historians instead traced their origins to a Greek prince, Gaythelos, and his Egyptian wife, Scota. Terrell's theoretically informed readings of John Hardyng's Chronicle are a real highlight here: in focusing on his forgery of evidence to support England's claims to Scotland, and on the role in certain manuscript witnesses of additional maps and marginalia that assert and document an interest in the same claims, she demonstrates how Hardyng created a past tailor-made to serve the imperialist interests of his monarchs' (p. 24). Having observed that Scottish writers of the period regularly 'engage in a complex dance of deference to and defiance against their English models' (p. 5), in Chapter 2 Terrell explores how John of Fordun responded in his late fourteenth-century Chronica Gentis Scotorum to Geoffrey of Monmouth's use of the Trojan origin legend. She articulates how Fordun deliberately set Geoffrey's narrative against the alternative and genealogically focused Greek Scottish origin legend, whilst simultaneously leaving open the contradictions of his various source materials, in order to reveal 'history as contested political ground' (p. 61). In next demonstrating how Walter Bower found ways to assert the superior morality and hereditary lineage of the Scots in his mid-fifteenth-century Scotichronicon, and carefully attending to the text's actual and ideal readers, Terrell makes a strong case for viewing Bower's project as the 'creation of a textual community' (p. 66); history, she argue","PeriodicalId":45399,"journal":{"name":"MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134933773","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Hubert Crackanthorpe: Selected Writings ed. by William Greenslade and Emanuela Ettorre (review)","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/mlr.2023.a907861","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mlr.2023.a907861","url":null,"abstract":"Reviewed by: Hubert Crackanthorpe: Selected Writings ed. by William Greenslade and Emanuela Ettorre Jessica Gossling Hubert Crackanthorpe: Selected Writings. Ed. by William Greenslade and Emanuela Ettorre. (MHRA Jewelled Tortoise, 7; MHRA Critical Texts, 71) Cambridge: Modern Humanities Research Association. 2020. viii+ 414 pp. £34.99. IBSN 978–1–78188–966–4. Hubert Montague Crackanthorpe (1870–1896) is well known among those interested in the fin de siècle, although unfortunately this is more to do with his mysterious death by drowning in Paris at the age of twenty-six than for his writing, which has remained predominantly out of print. Hubert Crackanthorpe: Selected Writings—the seventh volume iii Stefano Evangelista and Catherine Maxwell's Jewelled Tortoise series—is therefore a much-needed edition that successfully presents the range and importance of Crackanthorpe's writing. The volume comprises two critical introductory essays by the editors, a selection of Crackanthorpe's fiction and non-fiction, and a comprehensive bibliographic survey. William Greenslade's essay, 'Life, Context and Criticism', begins with the details of Crackanthorpe's death and the discovery of his decomposed body, recognizable only by his signet ring, before expanding on his connections with some of the most influential literary figures of the day (Henry James, William Butler Yeats, and Arthur Symons, to name a few), his establishment of the short-lived journal The Albermale: A Monthly Review (1892), and his lifelong interest in French culture and writing. As discussed by Emanuela Ettorre in 'The Stories and the Prose [End Page 619] Poems', this context enables a deeper understanding of Crackanthorpe's attraction to challenging, Zolaesque subject matter, and the artistic experimentation that led to him being considered 'as one of the exponents of \"new realism'\" (p. 35) at the beginning of his career. In three years, this realism rapidly developed into a darker and uneasy impressionism—a progression that is foregrounded in the organization of the short stories and prose poems in Selected Works. The first part, 'Fiction', takes a chronological approach to Crackanthorpe's more realist short-story collections. It includes six of the seven stories in Wreckage: Seven Studies (1893); all but 'Yew Trees and Peacocks' in Sentimental Studies (1895); two of the six in A Set of Village Tales (1895); and all three of the stories in Last Studies, collected and published posthumously in 1897. As justified by the editors, the omissions from these collections provide the space to present three less familiar short stories in the second part, 'Uncollected Fiction'. This is the first time 'A Latter-Day Highwayman (An Adventure in Miniature)' has been published since the original newspaper version in 1896. In this short story, the narrator recalls the night he spent sheltering from a snowstorm in a disused cattleshed with an inept highwayman who 'resembled a decadent Father Christmas' (p. ","PeriodicalId":45399,"journal":{"name":"MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134934011","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Fantine in the Belle Époque: Representation of the Fille-Mère in L'Assiette au beurre (1902) and Marcelle Tinayre's La Rebelle (1905)","authors":"Kathryn Bryan","doi":"10.1353/mlr.2023.a907832","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mlr.2023.a907832","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: This article reads depictions of the fille-mère as a vehicle for the expression of anxieties surrounding representation of marginal female figures and freedom of the press in the Belle Époque. It looks to two texts, exploring how these fictional unmarried mothers differ from Hugo's Fantine, the archetype of the fille-mère , earlier in the nineteenth century. After an overview of welfare support for unmarried mothers in the long nineteenth century, the author provides close and intermedial readings of a 1902 issue of L'Assiette au Beurre and Marcelle Tinayre's La Rebelle (1905), focusing on the limits of representation of these non-conforming women.","PeriodicalId":45399,"journal":{"name":"MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW","volume":"74 5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134935161","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Delw y Byd: A Medieval Welsh Encyclopedia ed. by Natalia I. Petrovskaia, and: Hystoria Gweryddon yr Almaen: The Middle Welsh Life of St Ursula and the 11,000 Virgins ed. by Jane Cartwright (review)","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/mlr.2023.a907852","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mlr.2023.a907852","url":null,"abstract":"Reviewed by: Delw y Byd: A Medieval Welsh Encyclopedia ed. by Natalia I. Petrovskaia, and: Hystoria Gweryddon yr Almaen: The Middle Welsh Life of St Ursula and the 11,000 Virgins ed. by Jane Cartwright Helen Fulton Delw y Byd: A Medieval Welsh Encyclopedia. Ed. by Natalia I. Petrovskaia. (MHRA Library of Medieval Welsh Literature) Cambridge: Modern Humanities Research Association. 2020. x+ 183 pp. £37.85. ISBN 978–1–78188–949–7. Hystoria Gweryddon yr Almaen: The Middle Welsh Life of St Ursula and the 11,000 Virgins. Ed. by Jane Cartwright. (MHRA Library of Medieval Welsh Literature) Cambridge: Modern Humanities Research Association. 2020. x+ 133 pp. £39.99. ISBN 978–1–907322–59–4. With the publication of these two edited volumes, the MHRA Library of Medieval Welsh Literature now comprises six editions representing some key works of Middle Welsh prose and poetry, including court poetry, nature poetry, and historical writing. The series aims to make Middle Welsh texts accessible to students and scholars who may have little or no knowledge of the language and, as someone contracted to produce an edition for the series in the future, I welcome this initiative for the support of medieval Welsh literature and its importance within comparative medieval studies. These two new volumes perfectly represent the aims and achievements of the series. Each of them makes available a significant Middle Welsh text illustrative [End Page 604] of a specific genre of interest to medievalists. The first, Delw y Byd, presents a selection of chapters from a thirteenth-century Welsh prose translation of Book 1 of the twelfth-century Latin encyclopedia by Honorius Augustodunensis, Imago mundi (whose title, 'image of the world', is exactly repeated in the Welsh title). The second, Hystoria Gweryddon yr Almaen (literally, 'the story of the virgins of Germany'), is the first edited text of the Welsh Life of Saint Ursula, adapted from Latin versions by the poet and hagiologist Syr Huw Pennant, active in the first half of the sixteenth century. Though differing in dates, both texts exemplify the interest among medieval Welsh writers and patrons in Latinate non-fiction prose from the worlds of secular and religious learning. In her edition of Delw y Byd, Natalia I. Petrovskaia presents 67 of the 136 chapters of the Welsh text, justifying her selection on the grounds of'structure, use, and representativeness' (p. 27). In other words, she has selected chapters which are necessary to preserve the basic structure of the text in its geographical description of the world, chapters which were evidently the subject of discussion, and chapters representative of particular sequences, such as lists of countries, planets, or constellations. She provides a full list of chapter numbers in the complete text, making it clear which chapters have been selected for this edition. The edited text itself is not very long, representing just under 30 pages sandwiched between the slightly longer introdu","PeriodicalId":45399,"journal":{"name":"MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134935206","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}