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MEDIEVAL JOKE POETRY: The Cantigas d’Escarnho e de Mal Dizer. By Benjamin Liu. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004. 166 pp. $45 (cloth); $27.50 (paper).
JOHN BROWN’S BODY: Slavery, Violence, and the Culture of War. By Franny Nudelman. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. 240 pp. $49.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).
IMAGINING ROBIN HOOD. By A. J. Pollard. New York: Routledge, 2005. $27.95 (paper).
PASSING THE THREE GATES: Interviews with Charles Johnson. Edited by Jim McWilliams. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2005. 336 pp. $40 (cloth); $22.50 (paper).
POSTCOLONIAL THEORY AND FRANCOPHONE LITERARY STUDIES. By H. Adlai Murdoch and Anne Donadey. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2005. 320 pp. $65 (cloth).
KALEVALA AND THE WORLDS TRADITIONAL EPIC. By Laurie Honko. London: Gazelle Books, 2004. $29.99 (paper).
SHAW SHADOWS: Rereading the Texts of Bernard Shaw. By Peter Gahan. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2004. 352 pp. $59.95 (cloth).
COLERIDGE’S MELANCHOLIA: An Anatomy of Limbo. By Eric G. Wilson. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2004. 240 pp. $59.95 (cloth).
NEW WORLD MODERNISMS: T. S. Eliot, Derek Walcott, and Kamau Brathwaite. By Charles W. Pollard. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2004. 240 pp. $55 (cloth); $19.50 (paper).
J. M. COETZEE AND THE ETHICS OF READING: Literature in the Event. By Derek Attridge. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. 240 pp. $19 (paper).
THE FICTION OF SOUTH ASIANS IN NORTH AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN: A Critical Study of English-Language Works Since 1950. By Mitali P. Wong and Zia Hasan. Jefferson, NC: McFarland Publishing, 2005. 155 pp. $35 (paper).
HOW TO MAKE IT AS A WOMAN: Collective Bibliographical History from Victoria to the Present. By Alison Booth. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. 424 pp. $24 (paper). [End Page 143]
JOHN BROWN’S BODY: Slavery, Violence, and the Culture of War. By Franny Nudelman. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. $49.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).
CRUEL DELIGHT: Enlightenment Culture and the Inhuman. By James A Steintrager. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004. 212 pp. $49.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).
ON SEXUALITY AND POWER. By Alan Sinfield. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. 224 pp. $64.50 (cloth); $24.50 (paper).
MIXED BLOODS AND OTHER CROSSES: Rethinking American Literature from the Revolution to the Culture Wars. By Betsy Erkkila. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. 288 pp. $49.95 (cloth).
HOW LAWYERS LOSE THEIR WAY: A Profession Fails Its Creative Minds. By Jean Stefancic and Richard Delgado. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005. 152 pp. $19.95 (paper).
THE WORLD REPUBLIC OF LETTERS. By Pascale Casanova. Translated by M. B. DeBevoise. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004. 420 pp. $35 (paper).
NARRATING REALITY: Austen, Scott, Eliot. By Harry E. Shaw. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005. 275 pp. $24.95 (paper).
THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO FLAUBERT. Edited by Timothy Unwin. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. $65 (cloth); $23.99 (paper).
AFRO-ORIENTALISM. By Vill V. Mullen. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2004. 256 pp. $56.95 (paper); $18.95 (cloth).
THE ROAD OF EXCESS: A History of Writers on Drugs. By Marcus Boon. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005. 339 pp. $16.95 (paper).
QUEER CONSTELLATIONS: Subcultural Space in the Wake of the City. By Dianne Chisholm. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2004. 264 pp. $59.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).
MUSLIM WOMEN SING: Hausa Popular Song. By Beverly B. Mack. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005. 248 pp. $60 (cloth); $27.95 (paper).

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