Janet Oppenheim is Professor of History at the American University, Washington, D.C., and is the author of The Other World and The Nationalization of Culture.
`Throughout, this is a remarkeable example of traditional scholarly
writing and publishing. No misprints, no theorizing; instead, plain
English and knowledgable pragmatism ... must become the standard
survey of its subject.' History
`Professor Oppenheim writes with agreeable gusto. With a
historian's skills she masters the intricacies of psychiatric
thinking admirably ... serious, stimulating, and entertaining.' The
Lancet
'Janet Oppenheim is Professor of History at the American
University, Washington, DC. She spent nigh on a decade writing this
admirable book, which combines scholarship with wit and clarity of
writing. This is a great source book for any who are interested in
the origins of our ideas about depression. It illuminates the
present, as it illuminates the past. I recommend it thoroughly.'
Paul Bebbington, Insitute of Psychiatry, London, International
Review of Psychiatry (1992)
John Reddick has written a substantial and compelling book on Georg
Büchner. John Reddick communicates his sense of wonder at Büchner's
achievement, which he describes using terms applied to the plays of
Molière - "une transcription physique". This is a good book, and
long overdue.
*Forum for Modern Language Studies. Vol. XXXIII, No. 4 '97*
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