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New Literary History 35.2 (2004) 351-354



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Books Received

CHINESE AESTHETICS AND LITERATURE:A Reader. By Corinne H. Dale. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2004. $81.50 (cloth); $27.95 (paper).

TO WALT WHITMAN, AMERICA. By Kenneth M. Price. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. 192 pp. $49.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

RADICAL TRAGEDY: Religion, Ideology, and Power in the Drama of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries, 3rd ed. By Jonathan Dollimore. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004. $84.95 (paper); $23.95 (cloth).

GUYS LIKE US:Citing Masculinity in Cold War Poetics. By Michael Davidson. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. 296 pp. $22.50 (paper).

FROM THE LIGHTHOUSE TO MONK'S HOUSE:A Guide to Virginia Woolf's Literary Landscapes. By Katherine Hill-Miller. Dulles, VA: Duckworth, 2004. 200 pp. $26 (cloth).

UNNATURAL SELECTIONS:Eugenics in American Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance. By Daylanne K. English. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. $49.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

PERIOD PEACE:A Victorian Childhood. By Gwen Raverat. Dulles, VA: Clear Books, 2004. 272 pp. $45 (cloth).

PRODUCTION OF PRESENCE:What Meaning Cannot Convey. By Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2004. $45 (cloth); $17.95 (paper).

THE VONNEGUT EFFECT. By Jerome Klinkowitz. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2004. 228 pp. $39.95 (cloth).

HUNGER OVERCOME?Food and Resistance in Twentieth-Century African American Literature. By Andrew Warnes. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2004. $49.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO CANADIAN LITERATURE. Edited by Eva-Marie Kröller. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. $60 (cloth); $22 (paper).

SAPPHIC PRIMITIVISM: Productions of Race, Class, and Sexuality in Key Works of Modern Fiction. By Robin Hackett. Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2004. 200 pp. $60 (cloth); $21.95 (paper). [End Page 351]

MELANCHOLY, LOVE, AND TIME:Boundaries of Self in Ancient Literature. By Peter Toohey. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004. $70 (cloth).

POSTMODERN SOPHISTRY:Stanley Fish and the Critical Enterprise. Edited by Gary A. Olsen and Lynn Worsham. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2004. $35 (cloth).

THE ROMANCE OF AUTHENTICITY:The Cultural Politics of Regional and Ethnic Literatures. By Jeff Karem. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2004. 256 pp. $55 (cloth); $18.50 (paper).

A STUDY OF WALT WHITMAN'S MIMETIC PROSODY:Free-Bound and Full Circle. By Doug Martin. Ceredigion, Wales: Edwin Mellen Press, 2004. 174 pp. $99.95 (cloth).

CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE NOVEL:Connected Essays. By David Lodge. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004. 320 pp. $16.95 (paper).

THE EDUCATION OF HISTORIANS FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY. By Thomas Bender, Philip M. Katz, Colin Palmer, and the Committee on Graduate Education. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2004. $35 (cloth); $16.95; $16.95 (paper).

CRACK WARS:Literature Addiction Mania. By Avital Ronell. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2004. $18 (paper).

AMERICAN WOMEN ARTISTS. By Charlotte Rubinstein. 576 pp. New York: Avon Books, 2003. $12.95 (paper).

THE CROWNING OF LOUIS:A New Metrical Translation of the Old French Verse Epic. Edited and translated by Nirmal Dass. Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Company, 2003. 131 pp. $32 (paper).

THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO THEODORE DREISER. Edited by Leonard Cassuto and Clare Virginia Eby. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. $65 (cloth); $23 (paper).

GENDER AND NATIONAL LITERATURE:Heian Texts in the Construction of Japanese Modernity. By Tomiko Yoda. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004. $84.95 (cloth); $23.95 (paper).

READING SITES:Social Difference and Reader Response. Edited by Patrocinio P. Schweickart and Elizabeth A. Flynn. New York: Modern Language Association, 2004. 360 pp. $40 (cloth); $22 (paper).

RHETORICAL INVESTIGATIONS:Studies in Ordinary Language Criticism. By Walter Jost. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2004. 368 pp. $55 (cloth).

MY COCAINE MUSEUM. By Michael Taussig. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. 360 pp. $22.50 (paper). [End Page 352]

BEYOND CRYSTAL CASTLES:Book I of "Empires for the Taking" Series. By Fred Hoffman. Philadelphia: Xlibris Corporation, 2003. 311 pp. $29.69 (cloth); $19.54 (paper).

THE PRAGMATIC TURN IN PHILOSOPHY:Contemporary Engagements between Analytic and Continental Thought. Edited by William Egginton...

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