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  • Books Received
American Niceness: A Cultural history. By Carrie Tirado Bramen. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, 2017. 384 pp. $45 (cloth).
Books are Made Out of Books: A Guide to Cormac McCarthy’s Literary Influences. By Michael Lynn Crews. Austin: Univ. of Texas Press, 2017. 342 pp. $35 (cloth); $25 (ebook).
Why Theory? Cultural Critique in Film and Television. By Edward Tomarken. Manchester: Manchester Univ. Press, 2017. 179 pp. No price given.
English Literature in Context. 2nd ed. Edited by Paul Poplawski. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2017. 735 pp. $28.99 (paper).
James Baldwin: The FBI File. By William J. Maxwell. New York: Arcade, 2017. 430 pp. $22.99 (paper).
Theory of the Novel. By Guido Mazzoni. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, 2017. 392 pp. No price given.
Whitmans Drift: Imaging Literary Distribution. By Matt Cohen. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press, 2017. 326 pp. $65 (paper).
Proust and His Banker. In Search of Time Squandered. By Gian Balsamo. 288 pp. Columbia: Univ. of South Carolina Press, 2017. $39.99 (cloth); $39.99 (ebook).
The Collected Stories of Ray Bradbury: A Critical Edition. Vol. 3, 1944–1945. Edited by Jonathan R. Eller. Kent, OH: Kent State Univ. Press, 2017. 550 pp. $75 (cloth).
Sodomscapes: Hospitality in the Flesh. By Lowell Gallagher. New York: Fordham Univ. Press, 2017. 300 pp. $95 (cloth); $28 (paper).
The Writing of Spirit: Soul, System, and the Roots of Language Science. By Sarah M. Pourciau. New York: Fordham Univ. Press, 2017. 373 pp. $90 (cloth); $25 (paper).
Tar Baby: A Global History. By Bryan Wagner. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press, 2017. 280 pp. $29.95 (cloth).
Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace. By Janet Murray. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2017. 440 pp. $24.95 (paper).
The Great Tower of Elfland: The Mythopoeic Worldview of J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, G. K. Chesterton, and George MacDonald. By Zachary A Rhone. Kent, OH: Kent State Univ. Press, 2017. 200 pp. $45 (cloth). [End Page 607]
Members of His Body: Shakespeare, Paul, and a Theology of Nonmonogamy. By Will Stockton. New York: Fordham Univ. Press, 2017. 178 pp. No price given. [End Page 608]
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