Recent Books of Interest

Ashford, David. London Underground: A Cultural Geography. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2013. Pp. xii + 188. $99.95 (cloth).

Birksted, J. K. An Architecture of Ineloquence: José Lluis Sert’s Carmel de la Paix; A Study in Modern Architecture and Religion. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2013. Pp. xxvii + 146. $104.95 (cloth).

Boll, Tom. Octavio Paz and T. S. Eliot. Oxford: Legenda, 2012. Pp. x + 233. $89.50 (cloth).

Bonikowski, Wyatt. Shell Shock and the Modernist Imagination: The Death Drive in Post-World War I British Fiction. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2013. $99.95 (cloth).

Bowman, Donna and Clayton Crockett, eds. Cosmology, Ecology, and the Energy of God. New York: Fordham University Press, 2012. Pp. ix + 201. $24.00 (paper).

Boyd, Brian. Stalking Nabokov. New York: Columbia University Press, 2011. Pp. xvi + 452. $35.00 (cloth).

Bönker, Dirk. Militarism in a Global Age: Naval Ambitions in Germany and the United States Before World War I. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2012. Pp. x + 421. $49.95 (cloth).

Chesney, Duncan McColl. Silence Nowhen: Late Modernism, Minimalism, and Silence in the Work of Samuel Beckett. New York: Peter Lang, 2013. Pp. xi + 248. $83.95 (cloth).

Clark, T. J. Picasso and Truth: From Cubism to Guernica. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2013. Pp. 329. $45.00 (cloth).

Colombino, Laura and Max Saunders, eds. The Edwardian Ford Madox Ford. New York: Rodopi, 2013. Pp. 277. $81.00 (paper).

Comentale, Edward P. Sweet Air: Modernism, Regionalism, and American Popular Song. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2013. Pp. xii + 274. $90.00 (cloth); $28.00 (paper).

Connolly, Julian W. Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov. New York: Bloomsbury, 2013. Pp. vii + 164. $19.95 (paper).

Cottom, Daniel. International Bohemia: Scenes of Nineteenth-Century Life. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. Pp. x + 353. $59.95 (cloth).

El-Ariss, Tarek. Trials of Arab Modernity: Literary Affects and the New Political. New York: Fordham University Press, 2013. Pp. xi + 233. $75.00 (cloth); $20.00 (paper).

English, Daylanne K. Each Hour Redeem: Time and Justice in African American Literature. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013. Pp. vii + 230. $75.00 (cloth); $25.00 (paper).

Esposito, Roberto. Terms of the Political: Community, Immunity, Biopolitics. Rhiannon Noel Welch, trans. New York: Fordham University Press, 2013. Pp. 152. $65.00 (cloth); $24.00 (paper).

Faflik, David. Boarding Out: Inhabiting the American Urban Literary Imagination, 1840–1860. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2012. Pp. xii + 374. $79.95 (cloth); $29.95 (paper).

Fordham, Finn. Lots of Fun at Finnegans Wake: Unravelling Universals. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. 271. $95.00 (cloth); $45.00 (paper).

Forsdick, Charles and Andy Stafford, eds. La Revue: The Twentieth-Century Periodical in French. New York: Peter Lang, 2013. Pp. viii + 369. $73.95 (paper).

Franco, Jean. Cruel Modernity. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2013. Pp. 326. $89.95 (cloth); $24.95(paper).

Grimes, Hilary. The Late Victorian Gothic: Mental Science, the Uncanny, and Scenes of Writing. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2011. Pp. vii + 188. $99.95 (cloth).

Gruesser, John Cullen. The Empire Abroad and the Empire at Home: African American Literature and the Era of Overseas Expansion. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2012. Pp. viii + 159. $59.95 (cloth); $22.95 (paper).

Gvion, Liora. Beyond Hummus and Falafel: Social and Political Aspects of Palestinian Food in Israel. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012. Pp. xx + 207. $26.95 (paper).

H. D. (Hilda Doolittle). Magic Mirror, Compassionate Friendship, Thorn Thicket: A Tribute to Erich Heydt; An Annotated Scholarly Edition. Ed. Nephie J. Christodoulides. Victoria: ELS Editions, 2012. Pp. xxxix + 248. $35.00 (paper).

Hadfield, D. A. and Jean Reynolds, eds. Shaw and Feminisms: On Stage and Off. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2013. Pp. xvi + 234. $74.95 (cloth).

Hannah, Daniel. Henry James, Impressionism, and the Public. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2013. Pp. ix + 215. $99.95 (cloth).

Henry Anthony, Ronda C. Searching for the New Black Man: Black Masculinity and Women’s Bodies. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2013. Pp. xi + 192. $55.00 (cloth).

Kelly, Adam. American Fiction in Transition: Observer-Hero Narrative, the 1990s, and Postmodernism. New York: Bloomsbury, 2013. Pp. x + 147. $100.00 (cloth).

Kerr, Douglas. Conan Doyle: Writing, Profession, and Practice. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. viii + 273. $55.00 (cloth).

Kesson, Andy and Emma Smith, eds. The Elizabethan Top Ten: Defining Print Popularity in Early Modern England. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2013. Pp. xiii + 269. $114.95 (cloth).

Koopman, Colin. Genealogy as Critique: Foucault and the Problems of Modernity. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2013. Pp. xii + 348. $30.00 (paper).

Kresser, Katie. The Art and Thought of John La Farge: Picturing Authenticity in Gilded Age America. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2013. Pp. xv + 211. $99.95 (cloth).

Krinsky, Charles, ed. The Ashgate Research Companion to Moral Panics. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2013. Pp. xix + 478. $149.95 (cloth).

Kuxhausen, Anna. From the Womb to the Body Politic: Raising the Nation in Enlightenment Russia. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2013. Pp. xiii + 228. $29.95 (paper).

LaPierre, Brian. Hooligans in Khrushchev’s Russia: Defining, Policing, and Producing Deviance during the Thaw. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2012. Pp. xiii + 281. $29.95 (paper).

Norman, Will. Nabokov, History and the Texture of Time. New York: Routledge, 2012. Pp. xv + 205. $125.00 (cloth).

Nurhussein, Nadia. Rhetorics of Literacy: The Cultivation of American Dialect Poetry. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2013. Pp. xi + 292. $64.95 (cloth).

Owens, Cólín. Before Daybreak: “After the Race” and the Origins of Joyce’s Art. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2013. Pp. xxiv + 325. $74.95 (cloth).

Parmar, Sandeep. Reading Mina Loy’s Autobiographies: Myth of the Modern Woman. New York: Bloomsbury, 2013. Pp. xi + 225. $110.00 (cloth).

Patke, Rajeev S. Modernist Literature and Postcolonial Studies. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013. Pp. xxvii + 164. $120.00 (cloth); $34.00 (paper).

Patterson, Anthony. Mrs Grundy’s Enemies: Censorship, Realist Fiction and the Politics of Sexual Representation. New York: Peter Lang, 2013. Pp. vii + 235. $105.95 (cloth).

Peterson, Jennifer Lynn. Education in the School of Dreams: Travelogues and Early Nonfiction Film. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2013. Pp. xxiii + 369. $99.95 (cloth); $27.95 (paper).

Reinhard, Wolfgang. A Short History of Colonialism. New York: Manchester University Press, 2011. Pp. vi + 308. $100.00 (cloth).

Rentzou, Effie. Littérature Malgré Elle: Le Surréalisme et la transformation du littéraire. Leuven: Association des Amis de Pleine Marge, 2011. Pp. 357. $42.95 (paper).

Restuccia, Frances. The Blue Box: Kristevan/Lacanian Reading of Contemporary Cinema. New York: Continuum, 2012. Pp. x + 175. $29.95 (paper).

Retman, Sonnet. Real Folks: Race and Genre in the Great Depression. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011. Pp. xiii + 322. $24.95 (paper).

Reynolds, Paige. Modernism, Drama, and the Audience for Irish Spectacle. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. ix + 257. $103.00 (cloth); $35.99 (paper).

Rhodes, John David. Meshes of the Afternoon. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. Pp. 127. $15.00 (paper).

Rhodes, John David and Elena Gorfinkel, eds. Taking Place: Location and the Moving Image. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011. Pp. xxix + 376. $27.50 (paper).

Ritzenberg, Aaron. The Sentimental Touch: The Language of Feeling in the Age of Managerialism. New York: Fordham University Press, 2013. Pp. x + 179. $35.00 (cloth).

Robé, Chris. Left of Hollywood: Cinema, Modernism, and the Emergence of U.S. Radical Film Culture. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2010. Pp. viii + 298. $55.00 (cloth).

Roberts, Brian Russell. Artistic Ambassadors: Literary and International Representation of the New Negro Era. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2013. Pp. xii + 231. $24.50 (paper).

Roberts, David. The Total Work of Art in European Modernism. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2011. Pp. viii + 292. $37.50 (paper).

Rosa, Hartmut. Social Acceleration: A New Theory of Modernity. Jonathan Trejo-Mathys, trans. New York: Columbia University Press, 2013. Pp. xl + 470. $35.00 (cloth).

Ruebner, Josh. Shattered Hopes: The Failure of Obama’s Middle East Peace Process. New York: Verso, 2013. Pp. 354. $26.95 (paper).

Salisbury, Laura. Samuel Beckett: Laughing Matters, Comic Timing. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012. Pp. ix + 253. $105.00 (cloth).

Saunders, Max. Self Impression: Life Writing, Autobiografiction, & the Forms of Modern Literature. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. Pp. x + 563. $95.00 (cloth); $45.00 (paper).

Schreiber, Rachel, ed. Modern Print Activism in the United States. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2013. Pp. xviii + 252. $99.95 (cloth).

Schuldenfrei, Robin, ed. Atomic Dwelling: Anxiety, Domesticity, and Postwar Architecture. New York: Routledge, 2012. Pp. xiv + 301. $170.00 (cloth); $45.00 (paper).

Sell, Mike. The Avant-Garde: Race Religion War. New York: Seagull Books, 2011. Pp. viii + 355. $25.00 (paper).

Shaw, Lytle. Fieldworks: From Place to Site in Postwar Poetics. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2013. Pp. xiv + 379. $39.95 (paper).

Shoshkes, Ellen. Jaqueline Tyrwhitt: A Transnational Life in Urban Planning and Design. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2013. Pp. xiv + 260. $99.95 (cloth).

Smith, John H. Dialogues Between Faith and Reason: The Death and Return of God in Modern German Thought. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2011. Pp. xii + 309. $35.00 (paper).

Smith, Thomas R., ed. Robert Bly in this World. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Libraries, 2011. Pp. 298. $34.95 (cloth).

Wells, Rachel. Scale in Contemporary Sculpture: Enlargement, Miniaturisation and the Life-Size. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2013. Pp. xv + 203. $104.95 (cloth).

Westall, Claire and Michael Gardiner, eds. Literature of an Independent England: Revisions of England, Englishness, and English Literature. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Pp. xi + 253. $85.00 (cloth).

Whitfield, Sarah. William Scott. London: Tate Publishing, 2013. Pp. 96. $24.95 (cloth).

Wilson, Keith. A Companion to Thomas Hardy. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013. Pp. xiii + 488. $219.95 (paper).

Wullschlager, Jackie. Chagall: Love and Exile. New York: Penguin, 2008. Pp. xxii + 582. $40.00 (cloth).

Zervigón, Andrés Mario. John Heartfield and the Agitated Image: Photography, Persuasion, and the Rise of Avant-Garde Photomontage. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2012. Pp. xii + 309. $65.00 (cloth).

Ziarek, Ewa Płonowska. Feminist Aesthetics and the Politics of Modernism. New York: Columbia University Press, 2012. Pp. xii + 265. $89.50 (cloth); $29.50 (paper).

Zimring, Rishona. Social Dance and the Modernist Imagination in Interwar Britain. Burlington, VT: Asghate, 2013. Pp. x + 229. $99.95 (cloth).