Books Received

Death of a Discipline. By Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. 136 pp. $18 (paper).

Lessons of the Masters. By George Steiner. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005. 198 pp. $14.95 (paper).

Topographies Of The Sacred: The Poetics of Place in European Romanticism. By Kate Rigby. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2005. 320 pp. $22.50 (paper); $65 (cloth).

The Fiction Of Ellen Gilchrist: An Appreciation. By Brad Hooper. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2005. 200 pp. $39.95 (cloth).

Mastery's End: Travel and Postwar American Poetry. By Jeffrey Gray. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2005. $44.95 (cloth).

The Cambridge History Of English Literature, 1660–1780. Edited by John Richetti. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. $160 (cloth).

A Pound Of Paper. By John Baxter. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2005. $14.95 (paper).

The Complete Dictionary Of Symbols. Edited by Jack Tresidder. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2005. 544 pp. $22.95 (paper).

Sublime Historical Experience. By Frank Ankersmit. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2005. $24.95 (paper); $70 (cloth).

Play And The Politics Of Reading: The Social Uses of Modernist Form. By Paul B. Armstrong. Ithaca, NH: Cornell University Press, 2005. 207 pp. $39.95 (cloth).

Voices For Tolerance In An Age Of Persecution. Edited by Vincent P. Carey. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2005. 236 pp. $40 (paper).

ACtresses And Whores: On Stage and in Society. By Kirsten Pullen. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. $24.99 (paper); $60 (cloth).

Taste: A Literary History. By Denise Gigante. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2005. 256 pp. $35 (paper).

Consuming Silences: How We Read Authors Who Don't Publish. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2005. $19.95 (paper); $49.95 (cloth).

Afterwords: Letters on the Death of Virginia Woolf. Edited by Sybil Oldfield. Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2005. 272 pp. $23.95 (cloth).

Inventing Sam Slick: A Biography of Thomas Chandler Haliburton. By Richard A. Davies. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005. $60 (cloth).

Interpretive Reasoning. By Laurent Stern. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005. 214 pp. $39.95 (cloth).

The Letters Of Christina Rossetti. Volume 4: 1887–1894. Edited by Antony H. Harrison. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2005. 464 pp. $70 (cloth).

The War Complex: World War II in Our Time. By Marianna Torgovnick. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. $25 (paper).

Philosophical Chaucer: Love, Sex, and Agency in the Canterbury Tales. By Mark Miller. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. $75 (cloth).

Cinematic Modernism: Modernist Poetry and Film. By Susan McCabe. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. $75 (cloth).

Theory's Empire: An Anthology of Dissent. Edited by Daphne Patai and Will H. Corral. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. 736 pp. $29.50 (paper); $79.50 (cloth).

Like No Other. By Robert Mercer-Nairne. Bellevue, WA: Gritpoul, Inc., 2005. $22.95 (paper).

Trafficking Subjects: The Politics of Mobility in Nineteenth-Century America. By Mark Simpson. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 2005. 240 pp. $18.95 (paper); $56.95 (cloth).

Milton And The Rhetoric Of Zeal. By Thomas Kranidas. Pittsburgh, PA: Duquesne University Press, 2005. 255 pp. $58 (cloth).

Suffering In Paradise: The Bubonic Plague in English Literature from More to Milton. By Rebecca Totaro. Pittsburgh, PA: Duquesne University Press, 2005. 260 pp. $58 (cloth).

Readers And Authorship In Early Modern England. By Stephen B. Dobranski. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. $75 (cloth).

Chicago Dreaming: Midwesterners and the City, 1871–1919. By Timothy B. Spears. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. 296 pp. $20 (paper).

The Life Of Lady Johanna Eleonora Petersen, Written By Herself: Pietism and Women's Autobiography in Seventeenth-Century Germany. By Johanna Eleonora Petersen. Edited and Translated by Barbara Becker-Cantarino. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. 168 pp. $18 (paper).

Nothing In Sight. By Jens Rehn. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. $20 (paper).

Staging History: Brecht's Social Concepts of Ideology. By Astrid Oesmann. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2005. $65 (cloth).

Hospital Transports: A Memoir of the Embarkation of the Sick and Wounded from the Peninsula...