Books Received

Writing War in the Twentieth Century. By Margot Norris. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2000. 320 pp. $59.50 (cloth); $19.50 (paper).

Translating Words, Translating Cultures. By Lorna Hardwick. Dulles, Virginia: Duckworth Publishing, 2000. 128 pp. $17.95 (paper).

Wallace Stevens' Poetics: The Neglected Rhetoric. By Angus J. Cleghorn. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. 236 pp. $49.95 (paper).

Brecht's Poetry of Political Exile. Edited by Ronald Speirs. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 257 pp. $59.95 (cloth).

Self-knowledge and the Self. By David A. Jopling. New York: Routledge, 2000. 193 pp. $80 (cloth); $18.95 (paper).

The Difference Satire Makes. By Frederic V. Bogel. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000. 262 pp. $35 (cloth).

Desiring Whiteness: A Lacanian Analysis of Race. By Kalpana Seshadri-Crooks. New York: Routledge, 2000. 182 pp. $75 (cloth); $22.99 (paper).

Willa Cather: The Writer and Her World. By Janis P. Stout. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2000. 381 pp. $35.95 (cloth).

Victorian Sensation: The Extraordinary Publication, Reception, and Secret Authorship of Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation. By James A. Secord. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. 624 pp. $35 (cloth).

Human Vices and Human Worth in Dante's Comedy. By Patrick Boyde. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. 323 pp. $64.95 (cloth).

Labor's Text: The Worker in American Fiction. By Laura Hapke. Piscataway: Rutgers University Press, 2001. 544 pp. $60 (cloth); $30 (paper).

Jean Toomer and the Harlem Renaissance. Edited by Genevieve Fabre and Michel Feith. Piscataway: Rutgers University Press, 2001. 256 pp. $52 (cloth); $22 (paper).

Invisible Fences: Prose Poetry as a Genre in French and American Literature. By Steven Monte. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000. 298 pp. $50 (cloth).

Gumshoe America: Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction and the Rise and Fall of New Deal Liberalism. By Sean McCann. Durham: Duke University Press, 2001. 370 pp. $59.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

New Deal Modernism: American Literature and the Invention of the Welfare State. By Michael Szalay. Durham: Duke University Press, 2001. 243 pp. $59.95 (cloth); $18.95 (paper).

The Waning of the Renaissance, 1550-1640. By William J. Bouwsma. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001. 288 pp. $29.95 (cloth).

Reflection on Exile and Other Essays. By Edward W. Said. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001. 576 pp. $35 (cloth).

Matrices of Genre: Authors, Canons, and Society. Edited by Mary Depew and Dirk Obbink. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000. 346 pp. $50 (cloth).

Class, Critics, and Shakespeare. By Sharon O'Dair. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000. 166 pp. $17.95 (paper).

Genders, Races, and Religious Cultures in Modern American Poetry, 1908-1934. By Rachel B. DuPlessis. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. 238 pp. $64.95 (cloth); $22.95 (paper).

Nietzsche and the Philology of the Future. By James I. Porter. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. 449 pp. $60 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

Exploration and Exchange: A South Seas Anthology, 1680-1900. Edited by Jonathan Lamb, Vanessa Smith, and Nicholas Thomas. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. 359 pp. $18 (paper).

Threads of Life: Autobiography and the Will. By Richard Freadman. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. 394 pp. $55 (cloth); $19 (paper).

Niklas Luhmann's Modernity: The Paradoxes of Differentiation. By William Rasch. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000. 246 pp. $55 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

The Story of A: The Alphabetization of America from The New England Primer to The Scarlet Letter. By Patricia Crain. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. 315 pp. $45 (cloth).

Infant Figures: The Death of the Infans and Other Scenes of Origin. By Christopher Fynsk. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. 199 pp. $49.50 (cloth); $18.95 (paper).

Bodily Narrative Forms: The Influence of Medicine on American Literature, 1845-1915. By Cynthia J. Davis. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. 256 pp. $49.50 (cloth).

Theaters of Intention: Drama and the Law in Early Modern England. By Luke Wilson. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000. 362 pp. $49.50 (cloth).

Rewriting the Jew: Assimilation Narratives in the Russian Empire. By Gabriella Safran. Stanford: Stanford University...