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102 BRIEFER MENTION Blake, Kathleen. L£V£ and the Woman Question i η Victor ian Literature: The Art of Self-Postponement (Sussex: Harvester Press; Totowa, NJ: Barnes and Noble, 1983.) $29.50 Blake combines an historical viewpoint while examining the value of post-Freudian and deconstuctive approaches to feminist criticism . ELT readers may wish to explore three chapters in particular: "The Odd Women: The 'Poor of Spirit, the Flesh Prevailing'" (Chap. 4); "Sue Bridehead: A Woman of the Feminist Movement" (Chap. 5); "Olive Schreiner: Art and the Artist Self-Postponed" (Chap. 8). FitzGerald, Mary, ed. Selected Plays of Lady Gregory, with a Foreword by Sean O'Casey (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe; Washington , D. C: Catholic Univ. of America [Irish Drama Selections 3], 1983. Paper $9.95 FitzGerald's brief introduction is a good starting point for undergraduate and graduate students. This affordable edition offers thirteen plays, among which are The Travelling Man, Kincora, The Doctor J1 η Spite of Himsel f, 2îl£ Rising Moon, The Workhouse Ward, The Golden Apple, and the last play Lady Gregory published, Dave. O'Casey's Foreword was first published in his selection of her plays (1962). Also included is a selective collation of Lady Gregory's comments on playwriting, a list of first performances, and a bibliographical checklist. Hankin, C. A., ed. The Letters of John Midd leton Murray to Katherine Mansfield (London: Constable, 1983). £9.95 Over half of Murray's letters to Mansfield are published here for the first time; they letters cover January 1912 through January 1923. In the introduction, Hankin contends that "What Murray had to say to her casts a good deal of light on the close but troubled relationship between them." Many letters also contain information not only on their relationship with family and literary acquatinatnces, but comments on such figures as Hardy, Frank Harris, Lawrence, Wells, and Leonard and Virginia Woolf. Hynes, Samuel, ed. The Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hardy, Volume II (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984). $47.50 This edition contains the poetry Hardy published between 1914-1922: Satires of Circumstance, Moments of Vis in, and L_a_t_e_ Lyr ics and Earlier. There are also two appendices, "General Preface to the Novels and Poems," and "Hardy's Notes for Hermann Lea." For a full-length review of Volume I, see ELT, 27:4 (1984) , 325-27. Jerome, Jerome K. My_ Life and Times (London: John Murray, 103 1983). £9.50 Jerome's look back on his life and career was first published in 1926, and readers will discover, or re-discover, reflections on Transition figures such as J. M. Barrie, Conan Doyle, Gissing, Hardy, Kipling, and Shaw. While there is no critical apparatus to this edition, the introduction is Jerome's, an index has been provided. Poupard, Dennis, and James E. Pearson, Jr., eds. TwentiethCentury Literary Criticism, Vol. 13 (Detroit, MI: Gale Research, 1984). $82.00 This continuing series provides critical overviews, representing a range of responses to authors in the Transition period. Authors outside the period are also represented. Volume 13, however, does devote fifty pages to Conrad. Saddlemyer, Ann, ed. The Collected Letters of John Millington Synge, Volume Two 1907-1909 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984). $49.95 This second and last volume of letters covers the final twenty-one months of Synge's life. There is, of course, much discussion of the Abbey Theatre, Frank and William Fay, Lady Gregory, and Yeats. Professor Saddlemyer's notes are thorough but not obtrusive. Weiss, Timothy. Fairy Tale and Romance in Works of Ford Madox Ford (Lanham, New York, London: Univ. Press of America, 1984). Cloth $19.50 Paper $9.75 Weiss discusses the "fairy-tale and romance patterns" in a representative collection of Ford's works. The opening chapter defines the context of romance in Ford's fiction; subsequent chapters examine the 1890s fairy tales (The Brown Süi.» The Feather, The Queen Who Flew), the "most 'popular' historical romances" (The Fifth Queen, Ladies Whose Bright Eyes, The Young L.£Y_£¿.1) which "transfer elements of the fairy-tale world to historical milieux," as well as romance in other works: The Good Soldier and Parade's End. ...

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