Books Received

The Theorist’s Mother. By Andrew Parker. Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press, 2012. 200 pp. $79.95 (cloth); ($22.95 paper).

Darger’s Resources. By Michael Moon. Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press, 2012. 168 pp. $79.95 (cloth); $22.95 (paper).

World Views: Metageographies of Modernist Fiction. By Jon Hegglund. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2012. 191 pp. $49.95 (cloth).

Green Suns and Faërie: Essays on Tolkien. By Verlyn Flieger. Kent, OH: Kent State Univ. Press. 2012. 331 pp. No price given (paper).

Powers of Possibility: Experimental American Writing since the 1960s. By Alex Houen. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2012. 282 pp. $99 (cloth).

Meaning, Truth, and Reference in Historical Respresentation. By Frank Ankersmit. Ithaca, NY: Cornell Univ. Press, 2012. 280 pp. $75 (cloth); $35 (paper).

A Biocultural Approach to Literary Theory and Interpretation. By Nancy Easterlin. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2012. 315 pp. $65 (cloth).

The Unfinished Life of Benjamin Franklin. By Douglas Anderson. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2012. 213 pp. $55 (cloth).

Guest of Honor: Booker T. Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, and the White House Dinner that Shocked a Nation. By Deborah Davis. New York: Atria Books, 2012. 304 pp. $25 (cloth).

Epic in American Culture: Settlement to Reconstruction. By Christopher N. Phillips. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2012. 360 pp. $70 (cloth).

The Style of Gestures: Embodiment and Cognition in Literary Narrative. By Guillemette Bolens. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2012. 233 pp. $65 (cloth).

Imagining Methodism in Eighteenth-Century Britain: Enthusiasm, Belief, and the Borders of the Self. By Misty G. Anderson. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2012. 279 pp. $65 (cloth).

In Dark Again In Wonder: The Poetry of René Char and George Oppen. By Robert Baker. Notre Dame, IN: Univ. of Notre Dame Press, 2012. 256 pp. $36 (paper).

Hemingway’s The Garden of Eden: Twenty-Five Years of Criticism. Edited by Suzanne del Gizzo and Frederic J. Svoboda. Kent, OH: Kent State Univ. Press, 2012. 416 pp. $55 (cloth).

Approaches to Teaching Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying. Edited by Patrick O’Donnell and Lynda Zwinger. New York: Modern Language Association, 2012. 218 pp. $37.50 (cloth); $19.75 (paper).

Entanglements, or Transmedial Thinking About Capture. By Rey Chow. Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press, 2012. 194 pp. $84.95 (cloth); $23.95 (paper).

State of Peril: Race and Rape in South African Literature. By Lucy Graham. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2012. 253 pp. $65 (cloth).

The Temporality of Taste in Eighteenth-Century British Writing. By James Noggle. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2012. 234 pp. $110 (cloth).

Approaches to Teaching the Works of Naguib Mahfouz. Edited by Waïl S. Hassan and Susan Muaddi Darraj. New York: Modern Language Association, 2012. 226 pp. $37.50 (cloth); $19.75 (paper).

Cognitive Literary Studies: Current Themes and New Directions. Edited by Isabel Jaén and Julien Jacques Simon. Austin: Univ. of Texas Press, 2012. 284 pp. $55 (cloth).

Opacity and the Closet: Queer Tactics in Foucault, Barthes, and Warhol. By Nicholas de Villiers. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2012. 248 pp. $25 (paper).

Polymorphous Domesticities: Pets, Bodies, and Desire in Four Modern Writers. By Juliana Schiesari. Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press, 2012. 131 pp. No price given (paper).

“The Child is Fathr of the Man”: The Importance of Juvenilia in the Development of the Author. By Ryan Twomey. Houten, Netherlands: Hes & DeGraaf Publishers, 2012. 164 pp. €59,95 (paper).

Fyodor Dostoevsky. By Robert Bird. London: Reaktion Books, 2012. 235 pp. $16.95 (paper).

When Stories Travel: Cross-Cultural Encounters between Fiction and Film. By Cristina Della Coletta. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2012. 273 pp. $65 (cloth) [End...