Books Received

Brian Alderson, ed. The Water-Babies. A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. xlix + 235 pp.

Dudley Andrew, ed. André Bazin’s New Media. Trans. Dudley Andrew. Oakland: University of California Press, 2014. xiv + 337 pp.

Andrew Asibong. Marie NDiaye: Blankness and Recognition. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2013. ix + 245 pp.

Pascal Blanchard, Sandrine Lemaire, Nicolas Bancel, and Dominic Thomas, eds. Colonial Culture in France since the Revolution. Trans. Alexis Pernsteiner. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2014. viii + 633 pp.

Michel Brix. Poème en prose, vers libre et modernité littéraire. Paris: Éditions Kimé, 2014. 156 pp.

Charly Coleman. The Virtues of Abandon: An Anti-Individualist History of the French Enlightenment. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2014. xi + 402 pp.

George Craig, Martha Dow Fehsenfeld, Dann Gunn, and Lois More Overbeck, eds. The Letters of Samuel Beckett. Volume III: 1957–1965. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. xlix + 771 pp.

Marie-Odile Delacour and Jean-René Huleu, eds. Writings from the Sand, Volume 2: Collected Works of Isabelle Eberhardt. Trans. Melissa Marcus. Lincoln and London: University Press of Nebraska, 2014. xxiv + 619 pp.

David Evan. Théodore de Banville: Constructing Poetic Value in Nineteenth-Century France. London: Modern Humanities Research Association and Maney Publishing, 2014. x + 322 pp.

Margaret C. Flinn. The Social Architecture of French Cinema, 1929–1939. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2014. x + 244 pp.

James Fowler. Richardson and the Philosophes. London: Modern Humanities Research Association and Maney Publishing, 2014. x + 185pp.

Hugo Frey. Nationalism and the Cinema in France: Political Mythologies and Film Events, 1945–1995. New York: Berghahn Books, 2014. viii + 242 pp.

Rubén Gallo. Proust’s Latin Americans. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. x + 261 pp.

Graham Handley, ed. Daniel Deronda. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. xliv + 713 pp.

Mairéad Hanrahan. Cixous’s Semi-Fictions: Thinking at the Borders of Fictions. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2014. viii + 199 pp.

Fabrice Leroy. Sfar So Far: Identity, History, Fantasy, and Mimesis in Joann Sfar’s Graphic Novels. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2014. 304 pp.

Cybelle H. McFadden. Gendered Frames, Embodied Cameras: Varda, Akerman, Cabrera, Calle, and Maïwenn. Madison (nj): Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; Lanham (md): Rowman and Littlefield, 2014. xii + 233 pp.

François Moureau, Marie-Christine Gomez-Géraud, and Philippe Antoine, eds. Travaux de Littérature. Itinéraires littéraires du voyage. Vol. XXVI. Droz: Geneva, 2013. 366 pp.

Christelle Reggiani. Poétiques oulipiennes. La contrainte, le style, l’histoire. Geneva: Droz, 2014. 165 pp.

Alistair Rolls. Paris and the Fetish: Primal Crime Scenes. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2014. 181 pp.

Leon Sachs. The Pedagogical Imagination: The Republican Legacy in Twenty-First-Century French Literature and Film. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2014. xi + 227 pp.

Gisèle Sapiro. The French Writers’ War, 1940–1953. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2014. ix + 740 pp.

Ursula Tidd. Jorge Semprún: Writing the European Other. London: Modern Humanities Research Association and Maney Publishing, 2014. x + 188 pp.

Claire White. Work and Leisure in Late Nineteenth-Century French Literature and Visual Culture: Time, Politics and Class. London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. xiv + 246 pp.

Kathrin Yacavone., ed. Photography in Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures. Nottingham French Studies. Vol. 53, No. 2. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2014. (115–248).

Zahi Zalloua. Reading Unruly: Interpretation and Its Ethical Demands. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2014. x + 216 pp.

Enrica Zanin. Fins Tragiques: Poétique et éthique du dénouement dans la tragédie de la première modernité (Italie, France, Espagne, Allemagne). Geneva: Droz, 2014. 471 pp.

Émile Zola. The Conquest of Plassans. Trans. Helen Constantine. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. xxx + 307 pp.