Books Received

BOOK REVIEWS (1980-1985). But unlike this work, the present compilation consists of two sections: Part 1, listing 1,855 "Biographies of Victorian Men"; Part 2, listing 391 "Biographies of Victorian Women." Also included are dates of birth and death; precise identification (e.g., United Presbyterian Minister, Newcastle solicitor, antiquarian, police magistrate, comic writer); the author or editor; place and date of publication; name of publisher or printer; number of volumes; the source of information for the entry (e.g., British Library, National Library of Scotland.) Of course, an item is listed, whether a biography or memoir, book or pamphlet, or whether it contains a portrait or photograph. Of great value is the information as to whether the publication is a reprint from a magazine or periodical as well as the corrections of errors in titles, chronology, etc., as listed in library catalogues. In sum, this bibliographical device is of inestimable value for research in political and social history and especially the literature of mid-and late Victorian Britain. Bell merits praise for a job well done. ). O. Baylen Eastbourne, England Emeritus ♦ Books Received ♦ Lund, Roger D. The Margins of Orthodoxy: Herterodox Writing and Cultural Response 1660-1760. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. xiv+ 298 pp. $59.95 Morwood, James and David Crane, eds. Sheridan Studies. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. xiv + 203 pp. $54.95 Nardin, Jane. Trollope and Victorian Moral Philosophy. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1996. 172 pp. $34.95 O'Connell, Joanna. Propsero's Daughter: The Prose of Rosario Castellanos. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1995. 288 pp. Paper $17.95 Phiddian, Robert. Swifit's Parody. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. χ + 221 pp. $59.95 Rogers, Deborah D. Ann Radcliffe: A Βίο-Bibliography. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1996. xii + 209 pp. $55.00 Smith Charlotte. Letters of a Solitary Wanderer. Revolution and Romanticism, 1789-1834 Series. New York: Woodstock Books, 1995. 381 pp. $85.00 Southcott, Joanna. A Dispute Between the Woman and the Power of Darkness. Revolution and Romanticism, 1789-1834 Series. New York: Woodstock Books, 1995. 128 pp. $48.00 525 ELT 39:4 1996 The Texas Stories of Nelson Algren. Bettina Drew, intro. and ed.. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1995. 208 pp. Paper $12.95 Urgo, Joseph R. Willa Cather and the Myth of American Migration. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1995. 200 pp. Cloth $39.95 Paper $14.95 Walker, William. Locke, Literary Criticism, and Philosophy. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. xviii + 227 pp. $57.95 Wright, Terence. Elizabeth Gaskell. "We are not angels":Realism, Gender, Values. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996. xiii + 220 pp. $49.95 I Précis I Louise Kennelly University of North Carolina, Greensboro Greenfield, John R. British Short-Fiction Writers, 1800-1880. Dictionary of Literary Biography. Volume 159. Detroit: Gale Research, 1996. xv + 402 pp. $128.00 Fiction as a popular genre developed in the early nineteenth century as a result of a mass reading public that included the middle and working classes as well as more women readers than ever; these changes were accompanied by a proliferation of magazines, newspapers, and the advent of miscellanies and annuals as vehicles for short fiction. A variety of figures are covered: Charlotte Brontë, Dickens, John Gait, Ann Maria Hall, George Meredith, Margaret Oliphant and Trollope. Thirty-two authors in all are included in this new volume in Gale Research's excellent DLB series. This is a must-volume for any college or university library. Herman, David. Universal Grammar & Narrative Form. Durham: Duke University Press, 1995. χ + 281 pp. Cloth $49.95 Paper $19.95 Herman attempts to reformulate some of the foundations, methods and aims of narrative poetics. By studying the forms and techniques of representative twentieth-century literary narratives, the book reevaluates the limits of classical models for narratological research. 'The question now before us is whether in our century narrative discourse has provisionally assumed to itself the role of universal idiom, unfolding between the living languages in which narrative takes root and that "future langue rationnelle into which narrative cannot evolve without thereby ceasing to be," writes the author. Herman uses an interpretation of universal grammar developed via modernist writers such as Woolf and...