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New Literary History 36.3 (2005) 499-500



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A MORNING AFTER WAR: C. S. Lewis and WWI. By K. J. Gilchrist. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2005. 200 pp. $29.95 (paper).

THE EXTRAVAGANT: Crossings of Modern Poetry and Modern Philosophy. By Robert Baker. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2005. 424 pp. $65 (cloth); $30 (paper).

OUR COMMON DWELLING: Henry Thoreau, Transcendentalism, and the Class Politics of Nature. By Lance Newman. New York: Palgrave, 2005. $65 (cloth).

MODERNISM AND THE CULTURE OF CELEBRITY. By Aaron Jaffe. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. $75 (cloth).

SYMBOLISM: An International Annual of Critical Aesthetics. Volume 4. Edited by Rudiger Ahrens. Brooklyn, NY: AMS Press, 2005. $114.50 (cloth).

POSTCOLONIALISMS: An Anthology of Cultural Theory and Criticism. Edited by Gaurav Desai and Supriya Nair. Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2005. 656 pp. $29.95 (paper).

THE NEW ANTHOLOGY OF AMERICAN POETRY: Volume Two Modernisms: 19001950. Edited by Steven Gould Axelrod, Camille Roman, and Thomas Travisano. 819 pp. $35 (paper).

NARCOTIC CULTURE: A History of Drugs in China. By Frank Dikötter, Lars Laamann, and Zhou Xun. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. 256 pp. $35 (paper).

IMAGINED CITIES: Urban Experience and the Language of the Novel. By Robert Alter. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2005. 184 pp. $27.50 (paper).

SONNETS FOR MICHELANGELO: A Bilingual Edition. By Vittoria Colonna. Edited and translated by Abigail Brundin. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. 344 pp. $24 (paper).

WHAT HAPPENED TO HENRY? By Sharon Pywell. Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Publishing Group, 2005. $14 (paper).

REALISM AND NATURALISM: The Novel in an Age of Transition. By Richard Lehan. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2005. 304 pp. $60 (cloth); $22.95 (paper). [End Page 499]

THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO NABOKOV. Edited by Julian W. Connolly. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. $70 (cloth); $24.99 (paper).

THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO AMERICAN MODERNISM. Edited by Walter Kalaidjian. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. $65 (cloth); $24.99 (paper).

MATCHBOOK: Essays in Deconstruction. By David Wills. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2005. $60 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).

EUROPEAN AND NORDIC MODERNISMS. Edited by Mats Jansson, Jakob Lothe, and Hannu Riikonen. Chester Springs, PA: Dufour Editions, 2005. 258 pp. $64.95 (cloth).

JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU: Restless Genius. By Leo Damrosch. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2005. 480 pp. $30 (paper).

THE POST-REVOLUTIONARY SELF: Politics and Psyche in France, 17501850. By Jan Goldstein. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005. 414 pp. $45 (cloth).

THE ELSEWHERE: On Belonging at a Near Distance: Reading Literary Memoirs from Europe and the Levant. Edited by Adam Zachary Newton. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2005. 412 pp. $45 (cloth).

A TWENTIETH-CENTURY LITERATURE READER: Texts and Debates. Edited by Soman Gupta and David Johnson. New York: Routledge, 2005. 320 pp. No price given.

PARTHENOPE: Selected Studies in Ancient Greek Fiction. By Tomas Hägg. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2004. 493 pp. $58 (cloth).

CREATIVE WRITING AND THE NEW HUMANITIES. By Paul Dawson. New York: Routledge, 2005. 254 pp. No price given.

THE NEW NORTH AMERICAN STUDIES: Culture, Writing, and the Politics of Recognition. By Winfred Siemerling. New York: Routledge, 2005. 210 pp. $24.95 (paper).



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