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Akerloff, George A. and Robert J. Shiller. Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why it Matters for Global Capitalism. Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2009. Pp. xiv + 230. $24.95 (cloth).
Alton, Delia. Demetres P. Tryphonopoulos, ed. Majic Ring: A Novel by H. D.. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2009. Pp. xxxix + 277. $69.95 (cloth).
Axelrod, Jeremiah B. C. Inventing Autopia: Dreams and Visions of the Modern Metropolis in Jazz Age Los Angeles. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2009. Pp. xii + 401. $65.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).
Banham, Reyner. Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies. With a new foreword by Joe Day. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2009. $22.95 (paper).
Bekker, Hugo. Paul Celan: Studies in his Early Poetry. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2008. Pp. xix + 248. $81.00 (paper).
Boehmer, Elleke, Robert Eaglestone, and Katy Iddiols, eds. J. M. Coetzee in Context and Theory. New York and London: Continuum, 2009. Pp. x + 206. $120.00 (cloth).
Burn, Stephen J. Jonathan Franzen at the End of Postmodernism. New York and London: Continuum, 2008. Pp. xvi + 159. $120.00 (cloth).
Butler, Judith. Frames of War: When is Life Grievable? London and New York: Verso, 2009. Pp. viii + 193. $26.95 (cloth).
Gasiorek, Andrzej and Daniel Moore, eds. Ford Madox Ford: Literary Networks and Cultural Transformations. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2008. Pp. xix + 248. $85.00 (paper).
Dalle Pezze, Barbara and Carlo Salzani, eds. Essays on Boredom and Modernity. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2009. Pp. 227. $62.00 (cloth).
Diamond, Andrew J. Mean Streets: Chicago Youths and the Everyday Struggles in the Multiracial City, 1908–1969. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2009. pp. xvii + 396. $60.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).
Driesen, Cynthia vanden. Writing the Nation: Patrick White and the Indigene. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2009. Pp. xxxvi + 207. $65.00 (cloth).
Gillett, Robert and Godela Weiss-Sussex, eds. “Verwisch die Spuren! Berthold Brecht’s Work and Legacy: A Reassessment. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2008. Pp. 359. $93.60 (cloth).
Halasz, Piri. A Memoir of Creativity: Abstract Painting, Politics & the Media, 1956-2008. New York: iUniverse, 2009. Pp. xi + 510. $40.95 (cloth); $30.95 (paper).
Hofmannsthal, Hugo von. J. D. McClatchey, ed. The Whole Difference: Selected Writings of Hugo von Hofmannsthal. Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2008. Pp. ix + 502. $35.00 (cloth).
Kopley, Richard and Barbara Cantalupo, eds. Prospects for the Study of American Literature (II). New York: AMS Press, Inc., 2009. Pp. xviii + 355. $122.50 (cloth).
Lincoln, Abraham. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Donald Yacovone, ed. Lincoln on Race and Slavery. Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2009. Pp. lxviii + 343. $24.95 (cloth).
Lobel, Michael. James Rosenquist: Pop Art, Politics, and History in the 1960s. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2009. Pp. x + 214. $49.95 (cloth). [End Page 849]
Macleod, Dianne Sachko. Enchanted Lives, Enchanted Objects: American Women Collectors and the Making of Culture, 1800–1940. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2008. Pp. xii + 310. $45.00 (cloth).
Mulhall, Stephen. The Wounded Animal: J. M. Coetzee and the Difficulty of Reality in Literature and Philosophy. Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2009. Pp. x + 259. $75.00 (cloth); $26.95 (paper).
Nixon, Mark and Matthew Feldman, eds. The International Reception of Samuel Beckett. New York and London: Continuum, 2009. Pp. xiv + 309. $160.00 (cloth).
Okamuro, Minako, Naoya Mori, Bruno Clément, Sjef Houppermans, Angela Moorjani, and Anthony Uhlmann, eds. Borderless Beckett: Beckett sans frontières. Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd’hui 19. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2008. Pp. 468. $122.20 (cloth).
Peters, John G, ed. Conrad in the Public Eye: Biography / Criticism / Publicity. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2008. Pp. x + 275. $86.00 (paper).
Poggi, Christine. Inventing Futurism: The...

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