Books Received

What Is A World?: On Postcolonial Literature as World Literature. By Pheng Cheah. Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press, 2016. 408 pp. $99.95 (cloth); $28.95 (paper and ebook).

Of Grammatology. By Jacques Derrida. Translated by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Introduction by Judith Butler. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2016. 40th anniversary edition. 560 pp. $34.95 (paper and ebook).

Narrating Space/Spatializing Narrative: Where Narrative Theory and Geography Meet. By Marie-Laure Ryan, Kenneth Foote, and Maoz Azaryahu. Columbus: Ohio State Univ. Press, 2016. 313 pp. $99.95 (cloth).

Mysterious Medicine: The Doctor-Scientist Tales of Hawthorne and Poe. Edited by L. Kerr Dunn. 290 pp. Kent, OH: Kent State Univ. Press, 2016. $35 (paper).

Imperfect Creatures: Vermin, Literature, and the Sciences of Life, 1600–1740. By Lucinda Cole. 240 pp. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press, 2016. $75 (cloth); $39.95 (paper and ebook).

Computing as Writing. By Daniel Punday. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2016. 200 pp. $94.50 (cloth); $27.00 (paper).

Shipwreck Modernity: Ecologies of Globalization, 1550–1719. By Steve Mentz. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2016. 225 pp. $30 (paper).

Receptive Spirit: German Idealism and the Dynamics of Cultural Transmission. By Márton Dornbach. 292 pp. New York: Fordham Univ. Press, 2016. No price given.

Redeemer Nation in the Interregnum: An Untimely Meditation on the American Vocation. By William V. Spanos. 184 pp. New York: Fordham Univ. Press, 2016. No price given.

Literary Journalism and the Aesthetics of Experience. By John C. Hartsock. Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press, 2016. 224 pp. $27.95 (paper).

Reading Junot Díaz. By Christopher González. Pittsburgh, PA: Univ. of Pittsburgh Press, 2015. 192 pp. $24.95 (paper).

Recipes for Thought: Knowledge and Taste in the Early Modern English Kitchen. By Wendy Wall. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. 328 pp. $69.95 (cloth).

Unraveling the Enigma of Samuel Beckett’s Plays and Prose. By Leland de la Durantaye. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, 2016. 208 pp. $29.95 (cloth).

Bandersnatch: C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and the Creative Collaboration of the Inklings. By Diana Pavlac Glyer. Kent, OH: Kent State Univ. Press, 2016. 224 pp. $18.95 (paper).

Reading Hemingway’s Across the River and into the Trees. By Mark Cirino. Kent, OH: Kent State Univ. Press, 2016. 258 pp. $29.95 (paper).

Shadows of Trauma: Memory and the Politics of Postwar Identity. By Aleida Assmann. Translated by Sarah Clift. 302 pp. New York: Fordham Univ. Press, 2015. $110 (cloth); $35 (paper).

Indian Arrivals 1870–1915: Networks of British Empire. By Elleke Boehmer. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2015. No price given.

Or Orwell: Writing and Democratic Socialism. By Alex Woloch. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, 2016. 378 pp. $45 (cloth).

Between Self and Society: Inner Worlds and Outer Limits in the British Psychological Novel. By John Rodden. Austin: Univ. of Texas Press, 2016. 244 pp. $55 (cloth).

Unnatural Narrative: Impossible Worlds in Fiction and Drama. By Jan Alber. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press, 2016. 330 pp. $55 (cloth).

Aesthetics of Negativity: Blanchot, Adorno, Autonomy. By William S. Allen. New York: Fordham Univ. Press, 2016. 316 pp. $65 (cloth).

Indonesian Notebook: A Sourcebook on Richard Wright and the Bandung Conference. Edited by Brian Russell Roberts and Keith Foulcher. Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press, 2016. 262 pp. $89.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).

Adapted Brains and Imaginary Worlds: Cognitive Science and the Literature of the Renaissance. By Donald Beecher. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s Univ. Press, 2016. 486 pp. $110 (cloth); $39.95 (paper).

Persistent Form: Explorations in Historical Poetics. Edited by Ilya Kliger and Boris Maslov. New York: Fordham Univ. Press, 2015. 477 pp. $65 (cloth).

Dreams for Dead Bodies: Blackness, Labor, and the Corpus of American Detective Fiction. By M. Michelle Robinson. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press, 2016...