Books Received

October 16, 2008 to January 15, 2009

Abate, Michelle Ann. 2008. Tomboys: A Literary and Cultural History. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. $52.00 hc. 328 pp.

Allen, Nicola. 2008. Marginality in the Contemporary British Novel. New York: Continuum. $120.00 hc. xi + 191 pp.

Armitage, Simon. 2006. The Odyssey: A Dramatic Retelling of Homer's Epic. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, Inc. $14.95 sc. 266 pp.

Blake, Debra J. 2009. Chicana Sexuality and Gender: Cultural Refiguring in Literature, Oral History, and Art. Durham: Duke University Press. $23.95 sc. xiii + 296 pp.

Christensen, Laird, Mark C. Long, and Fred Waage, eds. 2008. Teaching North American Environmental Literature. New York: Modern Language Association. $22.00 sc. ix + 502 pp.

Collins, John. 2008. Chomsky: A Giude for the Perplexed. New York: Continuum. $90.00 hc. $19.95 sc. xii + 229 pp.

Corelle, Laurel Snow. 2008. A Poet's High Argument: Elizabeth Bishop and Christianity. Columbia: The University of South Carolina Press. $34.95 hc. 152 pp.

Currey, James. 2008. Africa Writes Back: The African Writers Series & the Launch of African Literature. Athens: Ohio University Press. $55.00 hc. $26.95 sc. xxxi + 318 pp.

Drexler, Michael J., and Ed White, eds. 2008. Beyond Douglas: New Perspectives on Early African-American Literature. Cranbury: Associated University Press. $25.00 sc. vii + 176 pp.

Durand, Alain-Philippe, and Naomi Mandel, eds. 2008. Novels of the Contemporary Extreme. New York: Continuum. $49.99 sc. xi + 178 pp.

Eakin, Paul John. 2008. Living Autobiographically: How We Create Identity in Narrative. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. $17.95 sc. 208 pp.

Faggen, Robert. 2008. The Cambridge Introduction to Robert Frost. New York: Cambridge University Press. $70.00 hc. $19.99 sc. ix + 189 pp.

Ferris, David S. 2008. The Cambridge Introduction to Walter Benjamin. New York: Cambridge University Press. $70.00 hc. $19.99 sc. xii + 160 pp.

Fisher, Benjamin F. 2008. The Cambridge Introduction to Edgar Allan Poe. New York: Cambridge University Press. $60.00 hc. $19.99 sc. viii + 136 pp.

Hagood, Taylor. 2008. Faulkner's Imperialism: Space, Place, and the Materiality of Myth. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. $45.00 hc. 264 pp.

Hammer, Dean. 2008. Roman Political Thought and the Modern Theoretical Imagination. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. $39.95 hc. 360 pp.

Harris, Jonathan Gil. 2009. Untimely Matter in the Time of Shakespeare. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. $47.19 hc. 278 pp.

King, Lovalerie. 2008. The Cambridge Introduction to Zora Neale Hurston. New York: Cambridge University Press. $70.00 hc. $19.99 sc. xiii + 137 pp.

Lovell, Glenn. 2008. Escape Artist:The Life and Films of John Sturges. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. $60.00 hc. $26.95 sc. 352 pp.

McCance, Dawne. 2008. Sleights Of Hand: Derrida Writing. Mackie Lecture and Reading Series. Vernon: Kalamalka Press. $15.00 sc. xiv + 118 pp.

Milburn, Colin. 2008. Nanovision: Engineering the Future. Durham: Duke University Press. $22.95 sc. 296 pp.

Nuttall, Sarah, and Achille Mbembe, eds. 2008. Johannesburg: The Elusive Metropolis. Durham: Duke University Press. $27.95 sc. viii + 398 pp.

Porter, David. 2008. On the Divide: The Many Lives of Willa Cather. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. $50.00 hc. 416 pp.

Seung Ah Oh. 2008. Recontextualizing Asian American Domesticity: From Madame Butterfly to My American Wife! Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. $65.00 hc. 208 pp.

Sokmen, Muge Gursoy, and Basak Ertur. 2008. Waiting for the Barbarians: A Tribute to Edward W. Said. Brooklyn: Verso. $29.95 sc. 204 pp.

Spanos, William V. 2009. The Legacy of Edward W. Said. Champaign: University of Illinois Press. $70.00 hc. $25.00 sc. 288 pp.

Statius. 2008. Thebaid: A Song of Thebes. Trans. Jane Wilson Joyce. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. $65.00 hc. $27.95 sc. 232 pp.

Taylor, John. 2008. Into the Heart of European Poetry. Edison: Transaction Books. $49.95 hc. xii + 405 pp.

Vernon, Alex. 2008. On Tarzan. Athens: The University of Georgia Press. $22.95 sc. 226 pp.

Vickers, Michael. 2008. Sophocles and Alcibiades: Athenian Politics in Ancient Greek Literature. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. $45.00 hc. 224 pp.

Wilkinson, Marta L. 2008. Antigone's Daughters: Gender, Family, and Expression...