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  • Books Received

JANUARY 16, 2017 TO APRIL 15, 2017

Bowser, Rachel A. and Brian Croxall, eds. 2016. Like Clockwork: Steampunk Pasts, Presents, & Futures. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. $87.50 hc. $25.00 sc. 280 pp.
Brown, Megan. 2017. American Autobiography After 9/11. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. $64.95 hc. 176 pp.
Clarke, Bruce and Manuela Rossini, eds. 2017. The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Posthuman. New York: Cambridge University Press. $27.99 sc. 231 pp.
Cohen, Robert and Jay Parini, eds. 2017. The Writer's Reader: Vocation, Preparation, Creation. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing. $24.95 sc. 384 pp.
Dekker, Thomas, John Ford, and William Rowley. 2016. The Witch of Edmonton. Edited by Lucy Munro. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing. $102.00 hc. $20.95 sc. 320 pp.
Edenfield, Olivia Carr. 2017. Understanding Andre Dubus. Columbia: The University of South Carolina Press. $39.99 hc. 136 pp.
Frye, Steven. 2017. Understanding Larry McMurtry. Columbia: The University of South Carolina Press. $39.99 hc. 144 pp.
Green, Matthew J.A, ed. 2016. Alan Moore and the Gothic Tradition. Manchester: Oxford University Press. $29.95 sc. 306 pp.
Gutierrez-Mouat, Ricardo. 2016. Understanding Roberto Bolaño. Columbia: The University of South Carolina Press. $59.99 hc. 256 pp.
Hagood, Taylor. 2017. Following Faulkner: The Critical Response to Yoknapatawpha's Architect. Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer. $85.00 hc. 153 pp.
Hall, Stuart. 2017. Selected Political Writings: The Great Moving Show and other Essays. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. $27.95 sc. 376 pp.
Hamilton, Geoff. 2017. Understanding Gary Shteyngart. Columbia: The University of South Carolina Press. $39.99 hc. 160 pp.
Heathcote, Owen and Andrew Watts, eds. 2017. The Cambridge Companion to Balzac. New York: Cambridge University Press. $29.99 sc. 218 pp.
Kaul, Suvir. 2017. Of Gardens and Graves: Kashmir, Poetry, Politics. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. $23.95 sc. 256 pp.
Kozak, Lynn. 2016. Experiencing Hektor: Character in The Iliad. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing. $128.00 hc. 328 pp.
Larson, Jennifer. 2016. Understanding Walter Mosley. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press. $39.99 hc. 128 pp.
Levy, Eric P. 2016. Detaining Time: Temporal Resistance in Literature from Shakespeare to McEwan. New York: Bloomsbury Academic. $114.00 hc. 288 pp. [End Page 459]
Miller, Monica Carol. 2017. Being Ugly: Southern Women Writers and Social Rebellion. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. $39.95 hc. 176 pp.
Pilz, Anna and Whitney Standlee, eds. 2016. Irish Women's Writing 1878–1922: Advancing the Cause of Liberty. Manchester: Manchester University Press. $110.00 hc. 260 pp.
Qutaybah, Ibn. 2017. The Excellence of the Arabs. Edited by James E. Montgomery and Peter Webb. Translated by Sarah Bowen Savant and Peter Webb. New York: New York University Press. $40.00 hc. 400 pp.
Romanska, Magda and Alan Ackerman, eds. 2016. Reader in Comedy: An Anthology of Theory & Criticism. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing. $39.95 sc. 392 pp.
Sinoto, Yoshihiko and Hiroshi Aramata. 2016. Curve of the Hook: An Archaeologist in Polynesia. Edited by Frank Stewart. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. $29.00 sc. 205 pp.
Shakespeare, William. 2016. The Comedy of Errors. Edited by Kent Cartwright. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing. $102.00 hc. $13.95 sc. 424 pp.
Shakespeare, William. 2017. Cymbeline. Edited by Valerie Wayne. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing. $17.00 sc. 474 pp.
Smith, Cassander L. 2016. Black Africans in the British Imagination: English Narratives of the Early Atlantic World. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. $45.00 hc. 223 pp.
Van Renen, Denys. 2017. The Other Exchange: Women, Servants, & The Urban Underclass In Early Modern English Literature. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press. $55.00 hc. 282 pp.
Weissman, Gary. 2016. The Writer in the Well: On Misreading and Rewriting Literature. Columbus: Ohio State Press. $84.95 hc. 219 pp.
Wexler, Joyce. 2016. Violence Without God: The Rhetorical Despair of Twentieth-Century Writers. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing...

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