SPRING 2004

Volume 56, Number 2

(click on author's name for a brief abstract of the article)

ARTICLES

William N. West

111

Reading Rooms: Architecture and Agency in the Houses of

Michel de Montaigne and Nicholas Bacon

Lina Steiner

130

Pushkin's Parable of the Prodigal Daughter: The Evolution of the Prose Tale

from Aestheticism to Historicism

Floyd Dunphy

147

Postdeconstructive Necrophilia: Grave Spaces in Aristotle, Augustine, and

Blanchot and the Question of the Decision

Joseph Luzzi

168

Did Italian Romanticism Exist?

BOOK REVIEWS

Lawrence Manley

192

The Author's Due: Printing and the Prehistory of Copyright, and

Ben Jonson and Possessive Authorship.  By Joseph Loewenstein.

Tom Conley

198

Baroque Bodies: Psychoanalysis and the Culture of French Absolutism.

By Mitchell Greenberg.

Nicholas Rennie

201

The Laboratory of Poetry: Chemistry and Poetics in the Work of

Friedrich Schlegel.  By Michel Chaouli.

Karl Fink

204

The Romantic Conception of Life.  Science and Philosophy

in the Age of Goethe.  By Robert J. Richards.