Books Received

The Flight of Icarus: Artisan Autobiography in Early Modern Europe. By James S. Amelang. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998. 497 pp. $60.00.

Social Formalism: The Novel in Theory from Henry James to the Present. By Dorothy J. Hale. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998. 251 pp. $49.50 (cloth); $17.95 (paper).

Pedagogy and Power: Rhetorics of Classical Learning. Edited by Yun Le Too. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 319 pp. $64.95.

Encounters: Philosophy of History After Postmodernism. By Ewa Domanska. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1998. 293 pp. $55.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

Repossessions: Psychoanalysis and the Phantasms of Early Modern Culture. Edited by Timothy Murray and Alan K. Smith. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1998. 256 pp. $54.95 (cloth); $21.95 (paper).

Utopia and Cosmopolis: Globalization in the Era of American Literary Realism. By Thomas Peyser. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1998. 189 pp. $49.95 (cloth); $17.95 (paper).

Dance Pathologies: Performance, Poetics, Medicine. By Felicia McCarren. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998. 277 pp. $49.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

Victorian Poets and the Politics of Culture. By Anthony H. Harri-son. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1998. 189 pp. $32.50.

Reception Histories: Rhetoric, Pragmatism, and American Cultural Politics. By Steven Mailloux. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1998. 206 pp. $42.50 (cloth); $15.95 (paper).

Proposing Men: Dialects of Gender and Class in the Eighteenth-Century English Periodical. By Shawn Lisa Maurer. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998. 306 pp. $49.50.

The Orphaned Imagination: Melancholy and Commodity Culture in English Romanticism. By Guinn Batten. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1998. 307 pp. $59.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

Gender and Nationalism in Colonial Cuba: The Travels of Santa Cruz y Montalvo, Condesa de Merlin. By Adriana Méndez Rodenas. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1997. 312 pp. $34.95.

Ruskin’s Cultural Wars: Fors Clarigera and the Crisis of Victorian Liberalism. By Judith Stoddart. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1998. 224 pp. $32.50.

Exotics at Home: Anthropologies, Others, American Modernity. By Micaela di Leonardo. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1998. 445 pp. $35.00.

A History of the Modern Fact: Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of Wealth and Society. By Mary Poovey. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1998. 446 pp. $49.00 (cloth); $17.00 (paper).

National Manhood: Capitalist Citizenship and the Imagined Fraternity of White Men. By Dana D. Nelson. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1998. 344 pp. $49.95 (cloth); $17.95 (paper).

Contrary Things: Exegesis, Dialectic, and the Poetics of Didacticism. By Catherine Brown. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998. 209 pp. $45.00.

That Is To Say: Heidegger’s Poetics. By Marc Froment-Meurice. Translated by Jan Plug. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998. 257 pp. $17.95.

Ideology and Inscription: “Cultural Studies” after Benjamin, de Man, and Bakhtin. By Tom Cohen. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 258 pp. $59.95 (cloth); $18.95 (paper).

Mysterious Music: Rhythm and Free Verse. By G. Burns Cooper. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998. 238 pp. $49.50.

The Letters of Matthew Arnold. By Cecil Y. Lang. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1998. 544 pp. $60.00.

Literary Essays. By Ernst Bloch. Translated by Andrew Joron and Others. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998. 538 pp. $65.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).

Epistolary Practices: Letter Writing in America Before Telecommunications. By William Merrill Decker. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1998. 304 pp. $49.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

A Concise Glossary of Contemporary Literary Theory. By Jeremy Hawthorn. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. 274 pp. $18.95.

The Cambridge Companion to George Bernard Shaw. Edited by Christopher Innes. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 343 pp. $59.95 (cloth); $18.95 (paper).

Feigned Commonwealths: The Country-House Poem and the Fashioning of the Ideal Community. By Hugh Jenkins. Pittsburg: Duquesne University Press, 1998. 275 pp. $48.00.

Hispanisms And Homosexualities. Edited by Sylvia Molley and Robert Irwin. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1998. 319 pp. $49.95 (cloth); $17.95 (paper).

Children of Ezekiel: Aliens, UFOs, the Crisis of Race, and the Advent of End Time. By Michael Lieb...