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31:3 Book Reviews most telling insight is his notion that a modem Maugham, writing now the stories the old one did about the relationships of men and women, would never achieve print. Richard Hauer Costa Texas A&M University ____________________Briefer Mention____________________ Adams, Hazard, and Leroy Searle, eds. Critical Theory Since 1965. Tallahassee : Florida State University Press [University Presses of Florida], 1986. Paper $29.95 This is the sequel to Critical Theory Since Plato (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1971), 1965 marking the ending date for selections in the earlier anthology. Here again works of critical practice—"so-called practical criticism, structural analysis, hermeneutics, etc."—are excluded. A large appendix includes selections from 16 writers not represented in Critical Theory Since Plato. Says Hazard and Searle: "we have attempted to be eclectic and to aUow a wide hearing. . . . Our choices of texts have been sometimes for historical import and influence as well as for representation of certain kinds of theory." Limitations are obvious, but the editors trast the bibliography compensates for the unavoidable omissions. The anthology contains a 22-page introduction. Preceding each selection is a brief preface. Altick, Richard D. The Scholar Adventurers. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1987. Paper $9.95 This is a reprint of Altick's 1950 classic about literary sleuthing. A short preface provides updated information about some of the "adventures" chronicled in the book. Etherington, Norman. Rider Haggard. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1984. $15.95 Unfortunately the powers that be at G. K. Hall & Company seem reluctant to send ELT review copies of the latest additions to the Twayne Series, those pertinent to the 1880-1920 era. This volume anived too late for a full-fledged review, but we do want to give it notice. Within the customary Twayne format, Etherington addresses two related problems: why have Haggard's "first dozen 'romances' retained a durable popularity and why were his later works scorned by readers of his own and later generations?" The answer may be found in Haggard's "use of the quest into unknown regions as a metaphor for the discovery of new facets of the human psyche in late Victorian England." Etherington contends that as long as Haggard "stuck to that theme, he captivated both intellectuals and men on the street. When he strayed from it, his audience shrank drastically." 388 Books Received Abbey, Chérie D., and Janet Mullane, eds. Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism : Excerpts from Criticism of the Works of Novelists, Poets, Playwrights , Short Story Writers, Philosophers, and Other Creative Writers Who Died between 1800 and 1899. Vol.16. Detroit: Gale Research, 1987. $90.00 Bradbury, Malcolm. No, Not Bloomsbury. New York: Columbia University Press, 1988. $27.50 Friedman, Alan Wanen, Charles Rossman, and Dina Sherzer, eds. Beckett Translating / Translating Beckett. University Park and London: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1987. $24.95 Kinney, Arthur F., and Dan S. Collins, eds. Renaissance Historicism: Selections from 'English Literary Renaissance'. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1987. Paper $12.95 Harrison, Antony H. Swinburne's Medievalism: A Study in Victorian Love Poetry. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1988. $27.50 Hinnant, Charles H. Purity and Defilement in 'Gulliver's Travels'. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987. $29.95 Jay, Gregory S., ed. Modern American Critics Since 1955. Dictionary of Literary Biography. Vol. 67. Detroit: Gale Research, 1988. $92.00 Johnston, Wilham M. In Search of Italy: Foreign Writers in Northern Italy Since 1800. University Park and London: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1988. $24.95 Marowski, Daniel G., and Roger Matuz, eds. Contemporary Literary Criticism: Excerpts from Criticism of the Works of Today's Novelists, Poets, Playwrights, Short Story Writers, Scriptwriters, and Other Creative Writers. Vol. 45. Detroit: Gale Research, 1987. $90.00 Mullaney, Steven. The Place of the Stage: License, Play, and Power in Renaissance England. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988. $24.95 Nokes, David. Raillery and Rage: A Study of Eighteenth Century Satire. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987. $35.00 Nolte, William H., ed. H. L. Mencken's Smart Set Criticism. Washington, D.C.: Gateway Editions, 1987. Paper $10.95 389 ...

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