TROPICS OF DISCOURSE

Like most of White's work, the book arises from a boldly imaginative transaction between the philosophy of history, literary critici sm and semiotics. Notes and QueriesNo other historian appears to be at the frontier of so many developments or so skillful at integ rating them into traditional American scholarship in the history of ideas. In this White seems a successor to A. O. Lovejoy and Erns t Cassirer. Journal of Modern History