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Item Open Access Aristocracy and modernism: signs of aristocracy in Marcel Proust's-À la Recherche du temps perdu(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005) Chesney, D. M.Item Open Access Book review: unite proletarian brothers! radicalism and revolution in the Spanish Second Republic by Matthew Kerry(SAGE Publications, 2023-01) Chamberlin, FosterItem Open Access Changing French orientalism: Tarare (1790) and the question of slavery(University of Nebraska Press, 2011) Hodson, D.Item Open Access Greek gods in Baltimore: Greek tragedy and The Wire(Wayne State University Press, 2010) Love, C.Item Embargo Hackenbracht, Ryan. National reckonings: The last judgment and literature in Milton’s England(Brill, 2022-03-02) Lenthe, VictorItem Open Access Herodotus and history(Cambridge University Press, 2022-06-17) Bruzzone, RachelItem Open Access The history of the history of the salon(University of Nebraska Press, 2007) Chesney, D.M.The article traces the development of an historical and ideological understanding of the French salon in the nineteenth century, especially during the July Monarchy and the Second Empire. The salon, while continuing to be an important social space, becomes a lieu de mémoire for writers and scholars intent upon reconciling the inherited aristocratic and revolutionary traditions. Balzac and others are briefly discussed before attention is focused on Sainte-Beuve as the key to this historical, revisionist work. His study of salonnières and the conversational tradition is also, relatedly, a major exception in the development of nineteenth-century academic literary criticism.Item Open Access Ian James. The technique of thought: Nancy, Laruelle, Malabou, and Stiegler after nat-uralism(University of Chicago Press, 2021) Stockwell, CoryItem Open Access The Jester and the Sage: Twain and Nietzsche(University of California Press, 2005) Brahm, G. N.; Robinson, F. G.Though Mark Twain and Friedrich Nietzsche were aware of each other, they never met and there is no evidence of influence in either direction. Yet the similarities in their thought are strikingly numerous and close. They were both penetrating psychologists who shared Sigmund Freud's interest in the unconscious and his misgiving about the future of civilization. Both regarded Christianity as a leading symptom of the world's madness, manifest in a slavish morality of good and evil and in a widespread subjection to irrational guilt. They were at one in lamenting the pervasive human surrender to varieties of evasion, disavowel, deceit, and self-deception. Other, lesser similarities abound in thought, style, and patterns of literary production. © 2005 by The Regents of the University of California.Item Open Access Michael Panaretos in context: a historiographical study of the chronicle on the emperors of Trebizond(De Gruyter, 2019) Kennedy, ScottIt has often been said it would be impossible to write the history of the empire of Trebizond (1204-1461) without the terse and often frustratingly laconic chronicle of the Grand Komnenoi by the protonotarios of Alexios III (1349-1390), Michael Panaretos. While recent scholarship has infinitely enhanced our knowledge of the world in which Panaretos lived, it has been approximately seventy years since a scholar dedicated a historiographical study to the text. This study examines the world that Panaretos wanted posterity to see, examining how his post as imperial secretary and his use of sources shaped his representation of reality, whether that reality was Trebizond’s experience of foreigners, the reign of Alexios III, or a narrative that showed the superiority of Trebizond on the international stage. Finally by scrutinizing Panaretos in this way, this paper also illuminates how modern historians of Trebizond have been led astray by the chronicler, unaware of how Panaretos selected material for inclusion for the narratives of his chronicle.Item Open Access Narratives of emergence: Jean Paul on the inner life(University of Toronto Press, 2009) Coker, W. N.Item Open Access Not yet: The faith of revolution(Edinburgh University Press, 2014) Stockwel, C.This essay seeks to contribute to revolutionary understandings of time through an examination of Derrida's 1993 book Sauf le nom, and the poet and mystic Angelus Silesius, whom Derrida reads in this book.The essay counters Martin Hägglund's claim that deconstruction and negative theology are fundamentally opposed to one another by tracing the work of impoverishment in Silesius's poetry. The essay then employs this understanding of impoverishment to deconstruct the concept of desire in Hägglund's 2008 book Radical Atheism, proposing as an alternative to this concept a 'faith of revolution' that is tied to a certain understanding of the future.Item Open Access Peirce, immediate perception, and the "New" unconscious: neuroscience and empirical psychology in support of a "Well-Known Doctrine"(Penn State University Press, 2015) Sorrell, K.This article defends Charles Peirce's "doctrine of immediate perception." This realistic view holds that conscious agents, due to the work of unconscious mind, directly perceive the world and often know objects, events, and persons as they truly are, independently of how we might prefer to think of them (what is known as our realist intuition). The doctrine provides a promising alternative to more recent views insisting that all experience of the world and other persons is ineluctably mediated by language, along with the categories and biases language inevitably imposes. Peirce's view is further explicated in terms of what neuroscientists now call the "new" unconscious (but to which Peirce contributed to earlier) and supported by recent work in both neuroscience and empirical psychology, especially experiments involving infants. The article supports the conclusion that, while much experience is mediated by language (often helpfully so), direct (and desirable) access to a world that informs and often surprises us persists throughout conscious experience. Copyright © 2015 The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA.Item Open Access Persuasive ironies: Utopian readings of swift and krasicki(Pennsylvania State University Press, 2013) Bartoszyska, K.Item Open Access Remote theater Review(The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022) Del Balzo, AngelinaItem Open Access Sovereignty, secrecy, and the question of magic in Roberto Bolaño's distant star(Michigan State University Press, 2016) Stockwell, C.Item Open Access Sympathy, vocation, and moral deliberation in George Eliot(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018) Fessenbecker, PatrickCritics have tended to portray sympathy in George Eliot as an alternative to moral judgments based on principles. But this account overlooks Eliot's emphasis on the way principles can be morally transformative: in particular, agents' vocations create in them the capacity to work for something other than mere self-satisfaction and thus serve as a resistance to egoism. Read against this background, sympathy appears not as an alternative to moral principles but rather as a vital check upon them. Sympathy for Eliot thus functions like the categorical imperative test in Immanuel Kant's ethics, as a form of practical reasoning that ensures selflessness in action.Item Open Access Venice Preserved by Thomas Otway (review)(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020) Del Balzo, AngelinaItem Open Access The Woman Hater by Frances Burney, and: The Belle’s Strategem by Hannah Cowley(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021-08-17) Del Balzo, AngelinaItem Open Access A would-be Turk: Louis XIV in le Bourgeois gentilhomme(Routledge, 2010) Hodson, D.Despite the large number of references to diplomatic blunders by the French during Süleyman Aǧa's visit to Paris in 1669 and the charade-like character of much of Louis XIV's policies towards the Ottoman Empire during the period, few scholars have seen the humour in Le Bourgeois gentilhomme as directed towards the crown and court. In this article, I argue that Molière's comedy-ballet can be read as a pointed satire of how Hugues de Lionne, the foreign minister, and the king received the Ottoman envoy in their official audiences, and of French foreign policy with the Ottoman state itself. The mummery involved in Lionne's receiving Süleyman as the 'Grand Vizier' of France, and the king's pretence in expecting to be viewed as a crusading monarch while diligently pursuing commercial relations with the Porte, provided Molière with ample material for satirical development. The oriental trappings of the work, especially of the Turkish ceremony, might thus be considered as a means to mirror and criticize French governmental policies and behaviour rather than as a proto-colonialist attempt imaginatively to represent the Ottoman Turk. © The Society for Seventeenth-Century French Studies 2010.