Books Received

Fictional Points of View. By Peter Lamarque. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1996. 224 pp. $35.00.

Bodies in Pieces: Fantastic Narrative and the Poetics of the Fragment. By Deborah A. Harter. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996. 167 pp. $35.00.

Virtue’s Faults: Correspondences in Eighteenth-Century British and French Women’s Fiction. By April Alliston. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996. 318 pp. $39.50.

The Material Queer: A Lesbigay Cultural Studies Reader. Edited by Donald Morton. Dumore, Pa.: Westview Press, 1996. 395 pp. $75.00 (cloth); $25.00 (paper).

Centuries’ Ends, Narrative Means. Edited by Robert Newman. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996. 387 pp. $49.50 (cloth); $18.95 (paper).

Economies of Change: Form and Transformation in the Nineteenth-Century Novel. By Michael Peled Ginsburg. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996. 251 pp. $39.50.

The Fantastic in Modern Japanese Literature: The Subversion of Modernity. By Susan J. Napier. New York: Routledge, 1996. 253 pp. $59.95 (cloth); $17.95 (paper).

Quotation and Modern American Poetry: “‘Imaginary Gardens with Real Toads.’” By Elizabeth Gregory. Houston: Rice University Press, 1996. 300 pp. $37.50.

Epistolary Bodies: Gender and Genre in the Eighteenth-Century Republic of Letters. By Elizabeth Heckendorn Cook. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996. 237 pp. $35.00.

Consumption of Culture 1600–1800. By John Brewer and Ann Bermingham. New York: Routledge, 1996. 548 pp. $150.00.

Sounding the Whale: Moby-Dick as Epic Novel. By Christopher Sten. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1996. 112 pp. $9.50 (paper).

The Letters of Matthew Arnold. Volume I, 1829–1859. Edited by Cecil Y. Lang. Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1996. 549 pp. $60.00.

The Rules of Art: Genesis and Structure of the Literary Field. By Pierre Bourdieu. Translated by Susan Emanuel. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996. 408 pp. $49.50 (cloth); $18.95 (paper).

Speak Silence: Rhetoric and Culture in Blake’s Poetical Sketches. Edited by Mark L. Greenberg. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1996. 222 pp. $39.95.

The Specular Moment: Goethe’s Early Lyric and the Beginnings of Romanticism. By David E. Wellbery. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996. 467 pp. $55.50 (cloth); $18.95 (paper).

Walter Benjamin: Theoretical Questions. Edited by David S. Ferris. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996. 246 pp. $39.50 (cloth); $14.95 (paper).

Lost Saints: Silence, Gender, and Victorian Literary Canonization. By Tricia Lootens. Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1996. 288 pp. $35.00.

Laboratory of Dreams: The Russian Avant-Garde and Cultural Experience. By John E. Bowlt and Olga Matich. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996. 359 pp. $60.00.

False Positions: The Representational Logics of Henry James’s Fiction. By Julie Rivkin. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996. 223 pp. $35.00.

Origins of Narrative: The Romantic Appropriation of the Bible. By Stephen Prickett. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. 288 pp. $54.95.

Gothic Images of Race in Nineteenth-Century Britain. By H. L. Malchow. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996. 335 pp. $55.00 (cloth); $18.95 (paper).

Gender and History in Yeats’s Love Poetry. By Elizabeth Butler Cullingford. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1996. 334 pp. $16.95 (paper).

At Odds with Aids: Thinking and Talking about a Virus. By Alexander García Düttmann. Translated by Peter Gilgen and Conrad Scott-Curtis. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996. 144 pp. $37.50 (cloth); $12.95 (paper).

Discourse, Racism and Ideology. By Teun A. van Dijk. Tenerife, Spain: RCEI Ediciones, 1996. 63 pp.

Political Inversions: Homosexuality, Fascism, and the Modernist Imaginary. By Andrew Hewitt. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996. 333 pp. $49.50 (cloth); $16.95 (paper).

Wittgenstein’s Ladder: Poetic Language and the Strangeness of the Ordinary. By Marjorie Perloff. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. 302 pp. $27.95.

Afterlives of the Saints: Hagiography, Typology, and Renaissance Literature. By Julia Reinhard Lupton. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996. 269 pp. $39.50.

Living Together: Nationality, Sociality, and Obligation. By Margaret Gilbert. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1996. 416 pp. $22.95.

Aesthetic Ideology. By Paul de Man. Edited by Andrzej Warminski. Theory and History of Literature Series, 65. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996. 224 pp. $49...