Books Received January 16, 2006 to April 15, 2006

Ackroyd, Peter. 2005. Shakespeare: The Biography. New York: Nan A. Talese/ Doubleday. $32.50 hc. xvii + 572 pp.

Alexander, M. Jacqui. 2005. Pedagogies of Crossing: Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory and the Sacred. Perverse Modernities. Durham: Duke University Press. $23.95 sc. xii + 410 pp.

Barnes, Djuna. 2005. Collected Poems; with Notes toward the Memoirs. Selected and ed. Phillip Herring and Osias Stutman. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. $65.00 hc. xix + 285 pp.

Baucom, Ian. 2006. Specters of the Atlantic: Finance Capital, Slavery, and the Philosophy of History. Durham: Duke University Press. $23.95 sc. x + 387 pp.

Bosco, Ronald, and Joel Myerson. 2005. The Emerson Brothers: A Fraternal Biography in Letters. New York: Oxford University Press. $49.95 hc. xxv + 416 pp.

Chase, Karen, ed. 2006. Middlemarch in the 21st Century. New York: Oxford University Press. $65.00 hc. $24.95 sc. xi + 208 pp.

Chen, Tina. 2005. Double Agency: Acts of Impersonation in Asian American Literature and Culture. Asian America. 15. Stanford: Stanford University Press. $50.00 hc. $19.95 sc. xxvi + 247 pp.

Cheney, Patrick. 2004. Shakespeare, National Poet-Playwright. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. $80.00 hc. xv + 319 pp.

Cohen, Barbara, and Dragan Kujundzic, eds. 2005. Provocations to Reading: J. Hillis Miller and the Democracy to Come. New York: Fordham University Press. $85.00 hc. $26.00 sc. xi + 313 pp.

Davis, Rocio, and Sue-Im Lee, eds. 2005. Literary Gestures: The Aesthetic in Asian American Writing. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. $69.50 hc. $24.95 sc. vi + 239 pp.

Davis, Todd F. 2006. Kurt Vonnegut's Crusade: Or, How a Postmodern Harlequin Preached a New Kind of Humanism. The SUNY Series in Postmodern Culture. Albany: SUNY Press. $55.00 hc. ix + 166 pp.

Dewald, Carolyn. 2005. Thucydides' War Narrative: A Structural Study. The Joan Palevsky Imprint in Classical Literature. Berkeley: University of California Press. $49.95 hc. xiv + 258 pp.

Docherty, Thomas. 2006. Aesthetic Democracy. Stanford: Stanford University Press. $19.95 sc. xix + 185 pp.

Doolen, Andy. 2005. Fugitive Empire: Locating Early American Imperialism. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. $19.95 sc. xxvii + 254 pp.

Early, Frances, and Kathleen Kennedy, eds. 2003. Athena's Daughters: Television's New Women Warriors. The Television Series. 11. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press. $39.95 hc. $19.95 sc. xvi + 175 pp.

Engles, Tim, and John Duvall, eds. 2006. Approaches to Teaching DeLillo's White Noise. Approaches to Teaching World Literature. 85. New York: Modern Language Association. $37.50 hc. $19.75 sc. vi + 240 pp.

Geok-Lin Lim, Shirley, et. al., eds. 2006. Transnational Asian American Literature: Sites and Transits. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. $74.50 hc. $24.95 sc. ix + 306 pp.

Gibson, George Cinclair. 2006. Wake Rites: The Ancient Irish Rituals of Finnegans Wake. Fwd. Sebastian D.G. Knowles. The Florida James Joyce Series. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. $59.95 hc. xv + 277 pp.

Gosciak, Josh. 2006. The Shadowed Country: Claude McKay and the Romance of the Victorians. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. $24.95 sc. x + 205 pp.

Greenblatt, Stephen. 2004. Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare. New York: W.W. Norton. 14.95 sc. 430 pp.

Gulati, Leela, and Jasodhara Bagchi, eds. 2005. A Space of Her Own: Personal Narratives of Twelve Women. New Delhi: Sage Publishing. $25.95 sc. 275 pp.

Harris, Oliver, ed. and intro. 2006. The Yage Letters Redux. City Lights Books. San Francisco: City Lights Publishers. $13.95 sc. lii + 126 pp.

Henderson, Diana E., ed. 2006. A Concise Companion to Shakespeare on Screen. Blackwell Concise Companions to Literature and Culture. 10. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing. $29.95 sc. xxiv + 264 pp.

Herrnstein Smith, Barbara. 2006. Scandalous Knowledge: Science, Truth, and the Human. Science and Cultural Theory. Durham: Duke University Press. $74.95 hc. $21.95 sc. viii + 198 pp.

Hutchings, Peter. 2004. The Horror Film. Inside Film. 5. Essex: Pearson/Longman. $16.95 sc. x + 244 pp.

Inness, Sherrie A. 2004. Action Chicks: New Images of Tough Women in...