The Modern Language Review, April 1st, 1999
The Telling Image: Explorations in the Emblem. Ed. by AYERS L. BAGLEY, EDWARD M. GRIFFIN, and AUSTIN J. MCLEAN. (AMS Studies in the Emblem) New York: AMS Press. 1997. xiv + 286 pp. $76.50.
Nine essays, approaching emblematic writing from several angles and focusing on different issues, are here collected. This very heterogeneity of topic and approach, indeed, underlines the importance and versatility of the emblem form as it developed over the period from, say, the 1520s to the nineteenth-century revival of interest therein. Most of the essays were originally delivered as papers presented t...
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