BRYN MAWR REVIEW OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE Volume 1, Number 1 (Summer 1999)

REVIEWS:

Ethical Theory:

• Rey Chow, Ethics After Idealism: Theory--Culture--Ethnicity--Reading, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998.
  Reviewed by Jane Hedley, Bryn Mawr College.

• Robert Eaglestone, Ethical Criticism: Reading After Levinas, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1997.
  Reviewed by John David Dawson, Haverford College.

• Alexander Nehamas, The Art of Living: Socratic Reflections from Plato to Foucault, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.
  Reviewed by Richard J. Bernstein, New School for Social Research.
  
  

Early Modern and Eighteenth Century:

• Valeria Finucci, ed., Renaissance Transactions: Ariosto and Tasso, Durham: Duke University Press, 1999.
  Reviewed by Nancy Dersofi, Bryn Mawr College.

• Marina Leslie, Renaissance Utopias and the Problem of History, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998.
  Reviewed by Katherine Rowe, Bryn Mawr College.

• Ronald Paulson, Don Quixote in England: The Aesthetics of Laughter, Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.
  Reviewed by Peter M. Briggs, Bryn Mawr College.
  
  

Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries:

• Stanley Corngold, Complex Pleasure: Forms of Feeling in German Literature, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998.
  Reviewed by Azade Seyhan, Bryn Mawr College.

• Ellis Hanson, Decadence and Catholicism, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997.
  Reviewed by Talia Schaffer, San Francisco State University.
  
  

Cultural Studies:

• Dominick LaCapra, History and Memory After Auschwitz, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998.
  Reviewed by Barbi Zelizer, University of Pennsylvania.

• Traise Yamamoto, Masking Selves, Masking Subjects: Japanese American Women, Identity, and the Body, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.
  Reviewed by Seiji Lippit, University of California, Los Angeles.

• Fredric Jameson and Masao Miyoshi, eds., The Cultures of Globalization, Durham: Duke University Press, 1998.
  Reviewed by Ruth Lindeborg.

• Jochen Achilles and Carmen Birkle, eds., (Trans)formations of Cultural Identity in the English-Speaking World, Heidelberg: Universitatsverlag C. Winter, 1998.
  Reviewed by Andrew Murphy, Villanova University.