Books Received

Staging Politics: The Lasting Impact of Shakespeare’s Histories. By Wolfgang Iser. Translated by David Henry Wilson. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993. 224 pp.

Desire: Love Stories in Western Culture. By Catherine Belsey. Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell Publishers, 1994. 232 pp. $49.95 (cloth); $21.95 (paper).

Intimate Violence: Reading Rape and Torture in Twentieth-Century Fiction. By Laura E. Tanner. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994. 208 pp. $25.00.

Introduction to Philosophical Hermeneutics. By Jean Grondin. Foreword by Hans-Georg Gadamer. Translated by Joel Weinsheimer. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995. 231 pp. $25.00.

Doris Lessing: Sufi Equilibrium and the Form of the Novel. By Shadia S. Fahim. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1994. 279 pp. $45.00.

Fifteenth-Century Attitudes: Perceptions of Society in Late Medieval England. Edited by Rosemary Horrox. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. 244 pp. $54.95.

The Old English Lives of St. Margaret. By Mary Clayton and Hugh Magennis. Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England 9. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. 239 pp. $59.95.

Roland Barthes: A Biography. By Louis-Jean Calvet. Translated by Sarah Wykes. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995. 296 pp. $35.00.

Place of the Wild: A Wildlands Anthology. Edited by David Clarke Burks. A Shearwater Book. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1994. 320 pp. $29.95 (cloth); $16.95 (paper).

Writing the City: Eden, Babylon and the New Jerusalem. Edited by Peter Preston and Paul Simpson-Housley. New York: Routledge, 1994. 351 pp. $65.00.

National Identities and Post-Americanist Narratives. Edited by Donald E. Pease. New Americanists series. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1994. 326 pp. $39.95 (cloth); $14.95 (paper).

Revisionary Interventions into the Americanist Canon. Edited by Donald E. Pease. New Americanists series. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1994. 342 pp. $39.95 (cloth); $14.95 (paper).

Politics, Ideology, and Literary Discourse in Modern China: Theoretical Interventions and Cultural Critique. Edited by Liu Kang and Xiaobing Tang. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1994. 314 pp. $39.95 (cloth); $17.95 (paper).

Celestial Pantomime: Poetic Structures of Transcendence. New expanded edition. By Justus George Lawler. New York: Continuum Books, 1995. 284 pp. $19.95 (paper).

Tudor and Stuart Women Writers. By Louise Schleiner. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994. 320 pp. $35.00 (cloth); $15.95 (paper).

Rereading Nadine Gordimer. By Kathrin Wagner. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994. 302 pp. $29.95 (cloth).

Lili. Zeitschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik. Zeitschrift der Universität Gesamthochschule Siegen. Heft 95. Die Politische ‘Rechte’: Literatur, Theater, Film. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1994.

New Romanticisms: Theory and Critical Practice. Edited by David L. Clark and Donald C. Goellnicht. Buffalo, N.Y.: University of Toronto Press, 1994. 303 pp. $55.00.

The Ironic Temper and the Comic Imagination. By Morton Gurewitch. Humor in Life and Letters series. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1995. 252 pp. $39.95.

Intertextualität: und Subversivität: Studien zur Romanliteratur der achtziger Jahre in Frankreich. Edited by Wolfgang Asholt. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter, 1994. 364 pp. DM 150; ÖS 1170; SFr 120.

The Rhetoric of Concealment: Figuring Gender and Class in Renaissance Literature. By Rosemary Kegl. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994. 194 pp. $29.95.

Museums of the Mind: Magritte’s Labyrinth and Other Essays in the Arts. By Ellen Handler Spitz. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995. 190 pp. $30.00.

Kafka and Kabbalah. By Karl Erich Grözinger. New York: Continuum Books, 1995. 231 pp. $24.95.

The Poetry of Postmodernity: Anglo/American Encodings. By Dennis Brown. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1995. 146 pp. $45.00.

Wordsworth’s Vagrant Muse: Poetry, Poverty and Power. By Gary Harrison. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1995. 238 pp. $34.95.

Collingwood Studies. Life and Thought. Vol. 1. Edited by David Boucher. Wales: Dinefwr Press, 1994. 212 pp.

The Black Columbiad: Defining Moments in African American Literature and Culture. Edited by Werner Sollors and Maria Diedrich. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995. 390 pp. $39.95 (cloth); $16.95 (paper).

The Scythe of Saturn: Shakespeare and Magical Thinking. By Linda Woodbridge. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1994. 390 pp. $47.50 (cloth); $17.95 (paper).

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