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1650-1850; ideas, æsthetics, and inquiries in the early modern era; v.16.
This issue of 1650-1850, a series examining the cultural history of Europe in terms of aesthetics and philosophy, begins with the standard collection of diverse essays examining such topics as the colors of goods and commodities of Early Modern England, David Hume's reader-response narratology, British portraits of women reading, imitation and mock-form in Alexander Pope's Pastorals, and cartographic and topographic representations of the sea. It also includes a special section on English art historian, writer, and politician Horace Walpole (1717-1797), which contains six papers examining Walpole's politics, architectural taste, antiquarian book collecting, and place in the historiography of the English landscape garden, among other topics. The volume concludes with the presentation of 19 book reviews. (Annotation ©2010 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Emblematica; an interdisciplinary journal for emblem studies; v.17.
Some changes have been made in the journal with this volume, most notably a shift in typeface from a variant of Palatino to a variant of Garamond, the addition of brief abstracts preceding each article, changes in the style sheet and submission guide, and (perhaps underlying all the others) five new members on the board of directors. The 12 essays discuss such topics as an emblematic embroidery in the Burrell Collection, the 18th-century revival of the Pia desideria in a Dutch children's book, Giorgo Vasari's allegory of prudence mirroring Alciato and Valeriano's emblems, making pictures speak in Quarles' Emblemes, and the Emblemmi of Hippolito Megliorino. Recent publication — individual titles or groups — are treated in 14 reviews. (Annotation ©2010 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Readings on equal education; v.24: Enhancing institutional and state initiatives to increse student success; studies of the Indiana Project on Academic Success.
The 10 chapters in this volume are part of the series Readings on Equal Education, which shares studies on campus-based efforts to enhance student success and institutional improvement at the university level from the Indiana Project on Academic Success. The project focuses on the use of action research to identify institutional interventions to enhance success; the evaluation of targeted interventions; and the use of a state student information database to inform campus-based and state postsecondary educational decision making. Hossler, director of the project at Indiana U., et al. provide chapters by researchers in education, policy, higher education, and educational leadership and policy studies from the US, who reflect on what they have learned from their action research and the impact of participating in the project on the institutions and individuals involved. They consider the effects of financial aid, student transfer, and student engagement on student pathways; the effectiveness of math tutoring, supplemental instruction, and orientation programs; and the project's process. (Annotation ©2010 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Religion in the age of reason; a transatlantic study of the long eighteenth century.
Contributors identified only by name explore how religion interacted with the more widely studied secular issues of the period in the anglophone north. Their topics include the brink of visibility and the form of religious experience from Spinoza to Cowper, the typological structure of the 17th-century debate on women in the church, dualities of the divine in Pope's Essay on Man and the Dunciad, Jonathan Edwards on nature as a language of God, Methodist devotion and the anti-Methodist response, and the changing legacy and varieties of Protestant and Catholic reception of John Foxe's Book of Martyrs about 1760-1830. (Annotation ©2010 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
