Books Received

BEFORE IMAGINATION: Embodied Thought from Montaigne to Rousseau. By John D. Lyons. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2005. $55.00 (cloth).

MY MOTHER WAS A COMPUTER: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts. By N. Katherine Hayles. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. $22 (paper).

THE EMERGENCE OF AMERICAN LITERARY NARRATIVE, 1820–1860. By Jonathan Arac. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005. 267 pp. $15.95 (paper).

LONDON LITERATURE, 1300–1380. By Ralph Hanna. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. $95 (cloth).

EXPRESSIONISM AND MODERNISM IN THE AMERICAN THEATRE: Bodies, Voices, Words. By Julia A. Walker. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. $75 (cloth).

DEPENDENT STATES: The Child's Part in Nineteenth Century American Culture. By Karen Sanchez-Eppler. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. $35 (cloth).

A BUSINESS CAREER. By Charles W. Chesnutt. Edited by Matthew Wilson and Marjan van Schaik. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2005. $40 (cloth).

EVELYN'S HUSBAND. By Charles W. Chesnutt. Edited by Matthew Wilson and Marjan van Schaik. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2005. $40 (cloth).

HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN: The Misunderstood Storyteller. By Jack Zipes. New York: Routledge, 2005. 164 pp. $19.95 (paper).

THE DERRICK BELL READER. Edited by Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic. New York: NYU Press, 2005. $75 (cloth); $22 (paper).

THE STORIES OF HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN: A New Translation from the Danish. Translated by Diana Crone Frank and Jeffrey Frank. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005. 304 pp. $19.95 paper.

DYING PLANET: Mars in Science and the Imagination. By Robert Markley. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005. 456 pp. $24.95 (paper).

LYRICAL AND ETHICAL SUBJECTS: Essays on the Periphery of the Word, Freedom, and History. By Dennis J. Schmidt. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2005. $92.50 (cloth); $29.95 (paper).

THE KINGDOM OF SICILY, 1100–1250: A Literary History. By Karla Mallette. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. 224 pp. $45 (cloth).

SECOND DRAFTS OF HISTORY And Other Essays. By Lance Morrow. New York: Basic Books, 2006. $26.95 (cloth).

A HOLOCAUST CONTROVERSY: The Treblinka Affair in Postwar France. By Samuel Moyn. Lebanon, NH: University Press of New England, 2005. 248 pp. $65 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

THE COURT MIDWIFE. By Justine Siegemund. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. 280 pp. $24 (paper).

"PAPER-CONTESTATIONS" AND TEXTUAL COMMUNITIES IN ENGLAND, 1640–1675. By Elizabeth Sauer. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005. $50 (cloth).

WHITE SCHOLARS/AFRICAN AMERICAN TEXTS. Edited by Lisa A. Long. Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2005. 247 pp. $22.95 (paper).

THE AMBIVALENT ART OF KATHERINE ANNE PORTER. By Mary Titus. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2005. $39.95 (cloth).

LANGUAGE AND HEGEMONY IN GRAMSCI. By Peter Ives. London: Pluto Press, 2004. $75 (cloth); $22.95 (paper).

AESTHETICISM AND MODERNISM: Twentieth Century Literature 1900–1960. Edited by Richard Brown and Suman Gupta. New York: Routledge, 2005. 445 pp. No price given.

THE POPULAR AND THE CANONICAL: Debating Twentieth-Century Literature, 1940–2000. Edited by David Johnson. New York: Routledge, 2005. 452 pp. No price given.

TRAUMA AND ETHICS IN THE NOVELS OF GRAHAM SWIFT: No Short Cuts to Salvation. By Stef Craps. Brighton, UK: Sussex Academic Press, 2005. 230 pp. $65 (cloth).

WOUNDED HEARTS: Masculinity, Law, and Literature in American Culture. By Jennifer Travis. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. 232 pp. $59.95 (cloth); $22.50 (paper).

ANOTHER WAY HOME: The Tangled Roots of Race in One Chicago Family. By Ronne Hartfield. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. 200 pp. $14 (paper).

THE LAND'S WILD MUSIC: Encounters with Barry Lopez, Peter Matthiessen, Terry Tempest Williams, and James Galvin. By Mark Tredinnick. San Antonio, TX: Trinity University Press, 2005. 304 pp. $45 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).

THE GREMLINS OF GRAMMAR: A Guide to Conquering the Mischievous Myths that Plague American English. By Toni Boyle and K. D. Sullivan. New York: McGraw Hill, 2005. $11.95 (paper).

IMAGINING THE END OF LIFE IN POST-ENLIGHTENMENT POETRY: Voices Against the Void. By David J. Gordon. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2005. 170 pp. $59...