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New Literary History 32.3 (2001) 797-801



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REVISING FLANNERY O'CONNOR: Southern Literary Culture and the Problem of Female Authorship. By Katherine Hemple Prown. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2001. 208 pp. $35 (cloth).

PEDAGOGICAL ECONOMIES: The Examination and the Victorian Literary Man. By Cathy Shuman. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. 255 pp. $49.50 (cloth).

DEFICITS AND DESIRES: Economics and Sexuality in Twentieth-Century Literature. By Michael Tratner. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. 239 pp. $45 (cloth).

LITERARY MAGAZINES AND BRITISH ROMANTICISM. By Mark Parker. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. 213 pp. $54.95 (cloth).

MILTON AND MODERNITY: Politics, Masculinity, and Paradise Lost. By Matthew Jordan. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2001. 228 pp. $59.95 (cloth).

SKYLINE: The Narcissistic City. By Hubert Damisch. Translated by John Goodman. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. 167 pp. $45 (cloth); $14.95 (paper).

FUTURES: Of Jacques Derrida. Edited by Richard Rand. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. 252 pp. $49.50 (cloth); $18.95 (paper).

THE PASSION OF DENNIS POTTER: International Collected Essays. Edited by Vernon W. Gras and John R. Cook. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2001. 279 pp. $45 (cloth).

SACRED NARRATIVES. By Lucrezia Tornabuoni de'Medici. Edited and translated by Jane Tylus. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. 280 pp. $50 (cloth); $20 (paper).

SANIN. By Mikhail Artsybashev. Translated by Michael R. Katz. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001. 266 pp. $42.95 (cloth); $17.95 (paper).

THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF SUGAR: Caribbean Slavery and Narratives of Colonialism. By Keith A. Sandiford. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 221 pp. $59.95 (cloth).

A HISTORY OF WOMEN'S WRITING IN ITALY. Edited by Letizia Panizza and Sharon Wood. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. 361 pp. $74.95 (cloth); $27.95 (paper).

THE POWER OF FEELINGS: Personal Meaning in Psychoanalysis, Gender, and Culture. By Nancy J. Chodorow. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001. 320 pp. $35 (cloth); $17.95 (paper).

UNDERSTANDING ANNIE PROULX. By Karen L. Rood. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2001. 192 pp. $29.95 (cloth).

ALMOST A GIRL: Male Writers and Female Identification. By Alan Williamson. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2001. 224 pp. $49.50 (cloth); $18.50 (paper).

THE MUSLIM JESUS: Sayings and Stories in Islamic Literature. By Tarif Khalidi. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001. 245 pp. $22.95 (cloth).

WRITING FOR AN ENDANGERED WORLD: Literature, Culture, and Environment in the U.S. and Beyond. By Lawrence Buell. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001. 365 pp. $35 (cloth).

COMMON PRAYER: The Language of Public Devotion in Early Modern England. By Ramie Targoff. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. 176 pp. $40 (cloth); $17 (paper).

HOMOSEXUALITY AND PSYCHOANALYSIS. Edited by Tim Dean and Christopher Lane. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. 472 pp. $68 (cloth); $25 (paper).

THE HORROR READER. Edited by Ken Gelder. New York: Routledge, 2001. 414 pp. $24.99 (paper).

PHILOSOPHY, REVISION, CRITIQUE: Rereading Practices in Heidegger, Nietzsche, and Emerson. By David Wittenberg. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. 266 pp. $45 (cloth).

FAKING LITERATURE. By K. K. Ruthven. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. 237 pp. $64.95 (cloth); $22.95 (paper).

WOMEN, NATIONALISM, AND THE ROMANTIC STAGE: Theatre and Politics in Britain, 1780-1800. By Betsy Bolton. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. $59.95 (cloth).

ROMAN WOMEN. Edited by Augusto Fraschetti. Translated by Linda Lappin. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. 248 pp. $20 (paper).

TWILIGHT OF THE LITERARY: Figures of Thought in the Age of Print. By Terry Cochran. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001. 288 pp. $39.95 (cloth).

WHY THE FRENCH LOVE JERRY LEWIS: From Cabaret to Early Cinema. By Rae Beth Gordon. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. 274 pp. $49.50 (cloth); $22.95 (paper).

CASTRATION: An Abbreviated History of Western Manhood. By Gary Taylor. New York: Routledge, 2001. 307 pp. $28 (cloth).

A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF D. H. LAWRENCE. By Warren Roberts and Paul Poplewski. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. 847 pp. $130 (cloth).

SOUNDPROOF ROOM. Malraux's Anti-Aesthetics. By Jean-François Lyotard. Translated by Robert Harvey. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. 114...

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