Books Received

THE FICTION OF NARRATIVE: Essays on History, Literature, and Theory, 1957-2007. By Hayden White. Edited by Robert Doran. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2010. 382 pp. $60 (cloth); $30 (paper).

RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE AND THE MODERNIST NOVEL. By Pericles Lewis. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2010. 236 pp. $85 (cloth).

COSMOPOLITAN PATRIOTS: American in Paris in the Age of Revolution. By Philipp Ziesche. Charlottesville: Univ. of Virginia Press, 2010. 239 pp. $39.50 (cloth).

THE HISTORICISM OF CHARLES BROCKDEN BROWN: Radical History and the Early Republic. By Mark L. Kamrath. Kent, OH: Kent State Univ. Press, 2010. 341 pp. $65 (cloth).

LITERATURE, ANALYTICALLY SPEAKING: Explorations in the Theory of Interpretation, Analytic Aesthetics, and Evolution. By Peter Swirski. Austin: Univ. of Texas Press, 2010. 200 pp. $55 (cloth).

SOMETHING AKIN TO FREEDOM: The Choice of Bondage in Narratives by African American Women. By Stephanie Li. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2010. 162 pp. $60 (cloth).

OMISSIONS ARE NOT ACCIDENTS: Modern Apophaticism. By Christopher J. Knight. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 2010. 267 pp. $55 (cloth).

THE BODY IN EARLY MODERN ITALY. Edited by Julia L. Hairston and Walter Stephens. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2010. 437 pp. $70 (cloth).

JOSEPH CONRAD IN CONTEXT. Edited by Allen H. Simmons. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2009. 284 pp. $99 (cloth).

THE PROMISE OF HAPPINESS. By Sara Ahmend. Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press, 2010 315 pp. No price given.

POSSIBLE WORLDS OF FICTION AND HISTORY: The Postmodern Stage. By Lubomír Doležel. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2010. 171 pp. $60 (cloth).

NATIONS OF NOTHING BUT POETRY. By Matthew Hart. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2010. 240 pp. No price given.

THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO THE LITERATURE OF NEW YORK. Edited by Cyrus R. K. Patell and Bryan Waterman. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2010. 288 pp. $24.99 (paper).

POETICS OF EMPTINESS: Transformations of Asian Thought in American Poetry. By Jonathan Stalling. Bronx, NY: Fordham Univ. Press, 2010. 267 pp. $45 (cloth).

ERNEST HEMINGWAY AND THE GEOGRAPHY OF MEMORY. Edited by Mark Cirino and Mark P. Ott. Kent, OH: Kent State Univ. Press, 2010. 248 pp. $45 (cloth).

BOOK MAKERS: British Publishing in the Twentieth Century. By Iain Stevenson. London: The British Library, 2010. 314 pp. No price given.

PETRARCH'S HUMANISM AND THE CARE OF THE SELF. By Gur Zak. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2010. 179 pp. $80 (cloth).

HERBERT WILLIAMS. By Phil Carradice. Cardiff: Univ. of Wales Press, 2010. 192 pp. $25 (paper).

THE FEELING OF KINSHIP: Queer Liberalism and the Racialization of Intimacy. By David L. Eng. Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press, 2010. 251 pp. $23.95 (paper).

THE COMING OF FABRIZZE and A LOST KING. By Ramond DeCapite. Kent, OH: Kent State Univ. Press, 2010. 224 pp. and 232 pp., respectively. $19.95 each.

MURIEL SPARK: Twenty-First-Century Perspectives. Edited by David Herman. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2010. 241 pp. $65 (cloth); $30 (paper).