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"In Modernity and Its Other Robert Woods Sayre examines eighteenth-century North America through discussion of texts drawn from the period. He focuses on this unique historical moment when early capitalist civilization (modernity) in colonial societies, especially the British, interacted closely with Indigenous communities (the "Other") before the balance of power shifted definitively toward the colonizers. Sayre considers a variety of French perspectives as a counterpoint to the Anglo-American lens, including J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur and Philip Freneau, as well as both Anglo-American and French or French Canadian travelers in "Indian territory," including William Bartram, Jonathan Carver, John Lawson, Alexander Mackenzie, Baron de Lahontan, Pierre Charlevoix and Jean-Baptiste Trudeau. Modernity and Its Other is an important addition to any North American historian's bookshelf, for it brings together the social history of the European colonies and the ethnohistory of the American Indian peoples who interacted with the colonizers."--

The approaches to the sociology of literature of Lucien Goldmann & Leo Lowenthal are compared. They contrast in that Lowenthal rejected as inappropriate Goldmann's fundamental concern with method & theory, preferring that method be implicit in concrete analysis. Goldmann considered Lowenthal to be primarily concerned with society rather than with literature, a statement with which Lowenthal agreed. Lowenthal concerned himself with the social effects of literature, while Goldmann did not. Thus, while Goldmann's theoretical contribution has been greater, Lowenthal's breadth & flexibility have allowed him to deal with important questions that Goldmann has ignored. W. H. Stoddard.

Introduction : Romanticism, capitalism, and ecology -- William Bartram's travels and romantic environmentalism -- Thomas Cole, painter-prophet of ecological disaster -- William Morris's romantic ecological utopia -- Walter Benjamin against the "murder" of nature -- Raymond Williams : Romantic culture and socialist ecology -- Naomi Klein, twenty-first century climate warrior.

Cet essai est idéal pour certains dialogues entre la pensée de Marx et Engels avec le romantisme et certains auteurs romantiques.Mots clés: Littérature romantique à Marx et Engels; Romantisme; critique marxiste. Resumo — Este ensaio sugere alguns diálogos entre o pensamento de Marx e Engels com o romantismo e alguns escritores românticos.Palavras-chave: Literatura romântica em Marx e Engels; Romantismo; crítica marxista. Abstract — This essay is ideal for some dialogues between the thought of Marx and Engels with romanticism and some romantic writers.Keywords: Romantic literature in Marx and Engels; Romanticism; Marxist criticism.