Book Reviews

The Americas

Keith Byerman • Religious Idiom and the African American Novel, 1952-1998, by Tuire Valkeakari. 371

Samuel Chase Coale • Pynchon and the Political, by Samuel Thomas. 374

Russ Leo • American Exceptionalism in the Age of Globalization, by William V. Spanos. 376

Lisa A. Long • Black Writers, White Publishers: Marketplace Politics in Twentieth-Century African American Literature, by John K. Young. 379

British, Irish, and Postcolonial Literatures

Miranda B. Hickman • The Novel and the Menagerie: Totality, Englishness, and Empire, by Kurt Koenigsberger. 383.

Adam Parkes • British Modernism and Censorship, by Celia Marshik. 387

Theory and Cultural Studies

Christine M. Battista • History, the Human, and the World Between, by R. Radhakrishnan. 391

Nathan Grant • Black Fascisms: African American Literature and Culture between the Wars, by Mark Christian Thompson. 394

Norman W. Jones • Queering the Underworld: Slumming, Literature, and the Undoing of Lesbian and Gay History, by Scott Herring. 397

Paul Lai • Beyond Literary Chinatown, by Jeffery F. L. Partridge. 401

William Marling • Masquerade, Crime, and Fiction: Criminal Deceptions, by Linden Peach. 404

Janet H. Murray • Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the Literary, by N. Katherine Hayles. 407

Paul X. Rutz • The Virtual Life of Film, by D. N. Rodowick. 411