Mathäs views paranoia from a different perspective in a chapter on “Der blonde Eckbert,”
examining unity and dissolution in the context of submission to authority and paranoid self …

Following Hegel's analysis of art's increasing difficulty to both engage and extricate itself
from prosaic reality, Paul Fleming investigates the strategies employed by German literature …

Given the numerous and popular “moralizations” of Ovid's Metamorphoses during the
Middle Ages and the Renaissance, the literary use of Ovid's Narcissus myth in these periods …

REVIEWS difficulty of disentangling productive from unproductive labor and the association
of labor with both objectless desire and desire for a loved object''(53), whereas the chapter …

The social practice of tact was an invention of the nineteenth century, a period when Britain
was witnessing unprecedented urbanization, industrialization, and population growth. In an …

372Philosophy and Literature genius and the Enlightenment to the emergence of bourgeois
rationality within feudal absolutism. In a brilliant study of naturalism and aestheticism, Bürger …

This is a fascinating, though sometimes frustrating, book. Daniel L. Purdy con-centrates on
the rhetoric or discourses of fashion in the later eighteenth century, particularly in Germany …

From 1890 to 1920, the British aristocracy faded in historical importance. The culture of that
period often presented aristocratic characters and typically sought to conserve aristocratic …

The revolutionary ideas of major theorists Charles Darwin (1809-1882), Gregor Mendel
(1822-1884), Karl Marx (1818-1883), Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929), and Sigmund Freud …

Catherine Gallagher, DA Miller, and John Bender. However, von Miicke's bo differs from
those of her predecessors in its focus on the semiotics of the aesth transaction, its cross …