BRYN MAWR REVIEW OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE Volume 4, Number 1 (Summer 2003)

REVIEWS:

Spirit and Letter:

• Geoffrey Hartman, Scars of the Spirit: The Struggle Against Authenticity.

Reviewed by Kevin Hart, The University of Notre Dame.

Technologies and Aesthetics of Modernity:

• Sarah Danius, The Senses of Modernism: Technology, Perception, and Aesthetics.

Reviewed by Tim Harte, Bryn Mawr College.
 
• Paul Julian Smith, The Moderns: Time, Space, and Subjectivity in Contemporary Spanish Culture.

Reviewed by Marvin D'Lugo, Clark University.

Modes of Aesthetics:

• Philip Fisher, Wonder, the Rainbow, and the Aesthetics of Rare Experiences.

Reviewed by Bethany Schneider, Bryn Mawr College.
 
• Bruce Holsinger, Music, Body, and Desire in Medieval Culture: Hildegard of Bingen to Chaucer.

Reviewed by Maud Burnett McInerney, Haverford College.

Early Modern Explorations:

• Harriette Andreadis, Sappho in Early Modern England: Female Same-Sex Literary Erotics, 1550-1714.

Reviewed by Amelia Zurcher, Marquette University.
 
• Peter DeSa Wiggins, Donne, Castiglione, and the Poetry of Courtliness.

Reviewed by Joan E. Hartman, College of Staten Island, City University of New York.

Reconfiguring Orientalism:

• Madeleine Dobie, Foreign Bodies: Gender, Language, and Culture in French Orientalism.

Reviewed by Francis Higginson, Bryn Mawr College.