Books Recently Received

List of Books Received, February 1 through March 15, 1998

Ayres, Philip. Classical Culture and the Idea of Rome in Eighteenth-Century England (New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1997). Pp. xix + 245. $54.95.

Bhattacharya, Nandini. Reading the Splendid Body: Gender and Consumerism in Eighteenth-Century British Writing on India (Newark: Univ. of Delaware Press, 1998). Pp. 232. $39.50.

Burrows, Donald, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Handel (New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1997). Pp. xvi + 249. $59.95 cloth, 19.95 paper.

Carpenter, Andrew. Verse in English from Eighteenth-Century Ireland (Cork: Cork Univ. Press, 1998). Pp. xix + 623. $60.00 cloth, 29.95 paper.

Clark, Lorna J., ed. The Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney (Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press, 1997). Pp. lxvi + 549. $85.00.

Clingham, Greg, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson (New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1997). Pp. xx + 266. $59.95 cloth, 18.95 paper.

Cole, Richard C., ed. The General Correspondence of James Boswell, 1766–1769 (New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1998). Pp. xxii + 330. $70.00.

Connell, Patricia O. The Irish College at Alcalá de Henares, 1649–1785 (Portland, OR.: Four Courts Press, 1997). Pp. 128. $35.00.

Edwards, Jonathan. Notes on Scripture (New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1998). Pp. xiv + 674. $80.00.

Farnham, Christie Anne, ed. Women of the American South: A Multicultural Reader (New York: New York Univ. Press, 1998). Pp. 320. $55.00 cloth, 18.95 paper.

Frank, Frederick S. Guide to the Gothic II: An Annotated Bibliography of Criticism, 1983–1993 (Lanham, MD.: Scarecrow Press, 1995). Pp. 542. $68.50.

Fysh, Stephanie. The Work(s) of Samuel Richardson (Newark: Univ. of Delaware Press, 1998). Pp. 156. $29.50.

Günsberg, Maggie. Gender and the Italian Stage: From the Renaissance to the Present Day (New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1997). Pp. xi + 275. $59.95.

Hsia, R. Po-Chia. The World of Catholic Renewal, 1540–1770 (New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1998). Pp. xi + 240. $54.95 cloth, 16.95 paper.

La Fontaine, Jean. Fifty More Fables of La Fontaine (Champaign: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1998). Pp. xx + 166. $39.95 cloth, 24.95 paper.

Lees, Lynn Hollen. The Solidarities of Strangers: The English Poor Laws and the People, 1700–1948 (New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1997). Pp. xii + 373. $64.95.

Lummis, Trevor. Pitcairn Island: Life and Death in Eden (Hants: Ashgate Publishing, 1997). Pp. 173.

Maertz, Gregory, ed. Cultural Interactions in the Romantic Age: Critical Essays in Comparative Literature (Albany: State Univ. of New York Press, 1998). Pp. x + 258. $19.95 paper.

Matson, Cathy. Merchants and Empire: Trading in Colonial New York (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1997). Pp. x + 458. $45.00.

Moore, Lisa L. Dangerous Intimacies: Toward a Sapphic History of the British Novel (Durham: Duke Univ. Press, 1997). Pp. viii + 191. $49.95 cloth, 16.95 paper.

Morris, Marilyn. The British Monarchy and the French Revolution (New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1998). Pp. viii + 229. $28.50.

New, Melvyn, ed. Critical Essays on Laurence Sterne (New York: G. K. Hall, 1998). Pp. xiii + 335. $48.00.

Nisbet, H. B. and Claude Rawson, eds. The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism. Vol. 4. The Eighteenth Century (New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1997). Pp. xviii + 951. $125.00.

Pasco, Allan H. Sick Heroes: French Society and Literature in the Romantic Age, 1750–1850 (Exeter: Univ. of Exeter Press, 1997). Pp. xvii + 250. $75.00 cloth, 24.95 paper.

Paulson, Ronald. Don Quixote in England: The Aesthetics of Laughter (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1997). Pp. xx + 242. $35.00.

Rivero, Albert J., ed. Critical Essays on Henry Fielding (New York: G. K. Hall, 1998). Pp. xi + 245. $48.00.

Runge, Laura L. Gender and Language in British Literary Criticism, 1660–1790 (New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1997). Pp. ix + 233. $59.95.

Sabean, David Warren. Kinship in Neckarhausen, 1700–1870 (New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1997). Pp. xxviii + 628. $79.95 cloth, 27.95 paper.

Saine, Thomas P. The Problem of Being Modern, or the German Pursuit of Enlightenment from Leibniz to the French Revolution (Detroit: Wayne State Univ. Press, 1997). Pp. 370. $39.95.

Scheick, William J. Authority and Female...