Recent Books of Interest

Adamson, Walter L. Embattled Avant-Gardes: Modernism’s Resistance to Commodity Culture in Europe. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2007. Pp. xii + 435. $45.00 (cloth).

Adorno, Theodor W. Anne G. Mitchell and Wesley V. Bolmster, eds. Philosophy of Modern Music. New York and London: Continuum, 2007. Pp. xiii + 194. $24.95 (paper).

Adorno, Theodor W. and Hanns Eisler. Composing for the Films. New York and London: Continuum, 2007. Pp. xxxvi + 133. $19.95 (paper).

Ashour, Radwa. Barbara Romaine, transl. Siraaj: An Arab Tale. Austin: The Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, 2007. Pp. xix + 87. $16.00 (paper).

Baker, Barbara, ed. Backstage Stories. New York and London: Continuum, 2007. Pp. xv + 240. $24.95 (cloth).

Beegan, Gerry. The Mass Image: A Social History of Photomechanical Reproduction in Victorian London. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. Pp. xii + 302. $85.00 (cloth).

Berberich, Christine. The Image of the English Gentleman in Twentieth-Century Literature: Englishness and Nostalgia. Aldershot, Hampshire and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2007. Pp. ix + 207. $99.95 (cloth).

Bevis, Matthew, ed. Some Versions of Empson. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. xiii + 341. $47.95 (cloth).

Blair, Sara. Harlem Crossroads: Black Writers and the Photograph in the Twentieth Century. Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2007. Pp. xxi + 353. $35.00 (cloth).

Bodenheimer, Rosemarie. Knowing Dickens. Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 2007. Pp. x + 238. $35.00 (cloth).

Bowie, Andrew. Music, Philosophy, and Modernity. Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press, 2007. Pp. xiii + 428. $99.00 (cloth).

Brown, Julie, ed. Western Music and Race. Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press, 2007. Pp. xii + 285. $95.00 (cloth).

Caistor, Nicholas. Octavio Paz. London: Reaktion Books, 2007. Pp. 143. $16.95 (paper).

Capo, Beth Widmaier. Textual Contraception: Birth Control and American Fiction. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2007. Pp. ix + 220. $42.95 (cloth).

Chu, Patricia E. Race, Nationalism and the State in British and American Modernism. Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press, 2006. Pp. xi + 196. $85.00 (cloth).

Cianci, Giovanni and Jason Harding, eds. T. S. Eliot and the Concept of Tradition. Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press, 2007. Pp. xv + 229. $95.00 (cloth).

Coleman, Philip, ed. On Literature and Science: Essays, Reflections, Provocations. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007. Pp. 270. $65.00 (cloth).

Cope, Stephen, ed. George Oppen: Selected Prose, Daybooks, and Papers. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press 2007. Pp. ix + 276. $50.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

Davies, Laurence and Gene M. Moore, eds. The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad. Volume 8, 1923–1924. Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press, 2008. Pp. lxxii + 426. $180.00 (cloth).

Davies, Laurence, Owen Knowles, Gene M. Moore, and J. H. Stape, eds. The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad. Volume 9: Uncollected Letters and Indexes, 1892–1923. Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press, 2007. Pp. xlviii + 383. $180.00 (cloth).

Davis, Tracy C. and Peter Holland, eds. The Performing Century: Nineteenth-Century Theatre’s History. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. Pp. xiv + 271. $74.95 (cloth).

Delap, Lucy. The Feminist Avant-Garde: Transatlantic Encounters of the Early Twentieth Century. Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press, 2007. Pp. x + 357. $95.00 (cloth).

Doris, Sara. Pop Art and the Contest Over American Culture. Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press, 2007. Pp. xii + 304. $85.00 (cloth).

Dufourmantelle, Anne. Catherine Porter, transl. Blind Date: Sex and Philosophy. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2007. Pp. xxiii + 113. $60.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

Ellis, Steve. Virginia Woolf and the Victorians. Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press, 2007. Pp. xi + 211. $85.00 (cloth).

Emery, Mary Lou. Modernism, the Visual, and Caribbean Literature. Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press, 2007. Pp. xi + 290. $95.00 (cloth).

Fleming, Bruce. The Aesthetic Sense of Life: A Philosophy of the Everyday. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2008. Pp. vii + 170. $25.00 (paper).

Fleming, Bruce. The New Tractatus: Summing Up Everything. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2007. Pp. ix + 129. $20.00 (paper).

Fohlin, Caroline. Finance Capitalism and Germany’s Rise to Industrial Power. Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press, 2007. Pp. xii + 392. $85.00 (cloth).

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