REVIEWED ELSEWHERE

• Published in: Biography (Honolulu) 2009, Vol.32 (1), p.190-290
• Main Authors: Altizer, Nell, Angley, Patricia, Bell, Alana, Coullie, Judith Lütge, Fassiotto, Michael, Fischer, Lars, Garneau, Marie-Christine, Garneau, Theo, Kent, Noel, Lee, John S I, Merle, Gabriel, Peterson, Barbara Bennett, Pitts, rest R, Ward, Yvonne
• Format: Review
• Language: English
• Subjects: Amis, Kingsley; Creative writing; European history; French language; Historical text analysis; Journalists; Judaic studies; Language history; Literature; Politics; Powell, Jerome; Prisons; Religion; South African English; Tongue
• ISSN: 0162-4962; 1529-1456; 1529-1456
• DOI: 10.1353/bio.0.0084

Publications reviewed include The Age (Melbourne), American Scientist, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Arbitrium, Bryn Mawr Classical Review, Central European History, French Studies, Heine Jahrbuch, Journal of Asian Studies, Journal of Jewish Studies, Journal of the Royal Musical Association, Modern Austrian Literature, Le Monde des Livres, music & letters, Musical Times, Die Musikforschung, Musiktheorie: Zeitschrift für Musikwissenschaft, The New Yorker, New York Review of Books (NYRB), New York Times Book Review (NYTBR), Le Nouvel Observateur, Pacific Historical Review, Presidential Studies Quarterly, Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Geschichte, Science, Studi Francesi, Theologische Zeitschrift, Times Literary Supplement (TLS), (Toronto) Globe and Mail, Vierteljahrrchrift für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte, Washington Post National Weekly Edition (WP), Weimarer Beiträge, wirkendes wort, Women's Review of Books, Zeitschrift für Deutsche Philologie, Zeitschrift für Germanistik, and Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte; and from South Africa, the African Book Publishing Record, Artsmart, English in Africa, Beeld, Die Burger, Cape Times, Daily Dispatch, Fair Lady, Financial Mail, The Herald: TGIF, Jozi Weekly, Litnet, Mail and Guardian, NELM News, New Contree, Oprah Magazine, Pink Tongue, Postamble, Protea Boekwinkel Stennbosch Newsletter, Research in African Literatures, SA Bookworm, Saturday Dispatch, Saturday Star, Sowetan, Sunday Independent, The Times, Tonight, and Wordstock. Though Seemann does not succeed in offering an alternative assessment of Anna Amalia's significance, she emphasizes that Anna Amalia was not a systematic patron of the arts, rejected "classical" aesthetic ideals, and considered her passion for the arts a private pursuit and a refuge from the world of politics. The biography by Leonie and Joachim Berger makes Berger's doctoral dissertation on Anna Amalia, currently the authoritative scholarly monograph, available to a wider readership, and ultimately takes Anna Amalia out of the realm of literary history and places her squarely in her historical context as a ruler and a ruler's mother.