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...exhibition "German Masters of the Nineteenth Century," now on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, is about 35 years late in coming to Manhattan; but in this case, better late than never. No such comprehensive view of German art has ever been set before an American public; from the romantic visions and esoteric metaphors of painters like Philipp Otto Runge and Caspar David Friedrich in the first decades of the 19th century, to the robust dash and splash of Lovis Corinth at its end, there are 150 works by 30 artists, and they help fill...
...Doll's House is notoriously difficult to stage. Ibsen's once radical idea of making bourgeois ladies and gentlemen into tragic heroes and heroines has become the stuff of conventional theater. The play's social commentary, so bold in the late nineteenth century, sounds amusingly quaint or downright comical if not presented with extreme care. Ibsen weaves his plot slowly and meticulously, revealing his characters as Puppets of Fate. Slaves of Society, each trapped in his own private doll house. The play demands subtlety and intelligent handling of its strong emotions and quirks of fate. Despite obvious effort, the Eliot...
...PROBLEMS DESCRIBED will be compounded by other proposed changes, such as the planned omission of subtopics on women in nineteenth century America, and Marxist theory. Though not popular among tutors, the "women in history" topic should be left as an alternative for those who wish to teach it. The symbolic gesture of removing the reading list on women from circulation is a very confusing signal from a department that claims to be open-minded...
Delbanco describes Channing and the intellectual life of nineteenth century America in academic prose that is alternately stiff and playful, making for some confusion but not obfuscating his larger interpretations. In seeking brevity, the author looks for neatly suggestive anecdotes and historical shorthands to portray his subject, and occasionally descends to awkward constructions, calling Trumball's M'Fingal a "bundle of hesitations," and stretching to describe Channing as fighting "an internal civil war that would last as long as he lived." There are also times when it seems the author reveres his subject almost unceasingly, remarking early in the biography...
...admits: "Without a critic's coercion, no man is a true bellwether for a century, and Channing may not always place his hand consciously on the pulse of his age." When Channing fails as an emblem of his generation. Delbanco shifts to a discussion of America in the nineteenth century, and with thoughtfulness and clarity, connects the dilemmas of this period to those of the twentieth century. When the author declares that "America has become a collection of self-interested combattants swirling about one another," he could easily be describing our own time as well as the 1830s...