Books Received

DEFINING LITERARY CRITICISM: Scholarship, Authority, and the Possession of Literary Knowledge, 1880–2002. By Carol Atherton. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. 240 pp. $65 (cloth).

THE SCHOLAR'S ART: Literary Studies in a Managed World. By Jerome McGann. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. 208 pp. $55 (cloth); $22 (paper).

COMPLETE POETRY AND PROSE: A Bilingual Edition. By Louis Labé. Translated by Annie Finch. Edited and translated by Deborah Lesko Baker. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. 296 pp. $62 (cloth); $25 (paper).

CONVERSATIONS WITH AUGUST WILSON. Edited by Jackson R. Bryer and Mary C. Hartig. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2006. $50 (cloth); $20 (paper).

MULTIETHNIC LITERATURE AND CANON DEBATES. Edited by Mary Jo Bona and Irma Maini. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2006. $74.50 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).

PHILOSTRATUS—APOLLONIUS OF TYANA: Letters of Apollonius; Ancient Testimonia; Eusebius's Reply to Hierocles. Edited and translated by Christopher P. Jones. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006. 264 pp. $21.50 (paper).

GUARDING CULTURAL MEMORY: Afro-Cuban Women in Literature and the Arts. By Flora González Mandri. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2006. 256 pp. $55 (cloth); $21.50 (paper).

BAD MODERNISMS. Edited by Douglas Mao and Rebecca L. Walkowitz. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006. $89.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).

CRISES OF MEMORY AND THE SECOND WORLD WAR. By Susan Rubin Suleiman. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006. 286 pp. $29.95 (paper).

THE ELEPHANTS TEACH: Creative Writing Since 1880. By D. G. Myers. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. 240 pp. $17 (paper).

NABOKOV AND THE ART OF PAINTING. By Gerard de Vries, D. Barton Johnson, and Liana Ashenden. Distributed by University of Chicago Press, 2006. 384 pp. $59.50 (paper).

IMAGINING THE GALLERY: The Social Body of British Romanticism. By Christopher Rovee. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2006. $55 (cloth).

AGAINST VOLUPTUOUS BODIES: Late Modernism and the Meaning of Painting. By J. M. Bernstein. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2006. $70 (cloth); $27.95 (paper).

A THOUSAND WORDS: Portraiture, Style, and Queer Modernism. By Jaime Hovey. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2006. $34.95 (cloth); $9.95 (CD).

"SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT" AND THE ORDER OF THE GARTER. By Francis Ingledew. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2006. 320 pp. $40 (paper).

PANIC!: Markets, Crises, and Crowds in American Fiction. By David A. Zimmerman. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. 312 pp. $59.95 (cloth); $22.50 (paper).

THE PROSE OF THINGS: Transformations of Description in the Eighteenth Century. By Cynthia Sundberg Wall. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. 288 pp. $35 (cloth).

FICTIONS AND FAKES: Forging Romantic Authenticiy, 1760–1845. By Margaret Russett. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. $85 (cloth).

DRAMATURGY: A Revolution in Theatre. By Mary Luckhurst. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. $85 (cloth).

SHAKESPEARE AND MODERNISM. By Cary DiPietro. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. $85 (cloth).

BOSPHOROUS NIGHTS: The Complete Lyric Poems of Bedros Tourian. Translated by James R. Russell. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006. 383 pp. $39.95 (cloth).

THE VIRGIN GIPSY AND OTHER STORIES. By D. H. Lawrence. Edited by Michael Herbert, Bethan Jones, and Lindeth Vasey. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. $125 (cloth).

TOUCH AND INTIMACY IN FIRST WORLD WAR LITERATURE. By Santanu Das. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. $80 (cloth).

SISTERS IN SIN: Brothel Drama in America, 1900–1920. By Katie N. Johnson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. $85 (cloth).

THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO BAUDELAIRE. Edited by Rosemary Lloyd. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. $75 (cloth); $27.99 (paper).

THE WORLD OF PERVERSION: Psychoanalysis and the Impossible Absolute of Desire. By James Penney. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2006. $65 (cloth).

EMOTIONAL COMMUNITIES IN THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES. By Barbara H. Rosenwein. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2006. 228 pp. $39.95 (cloth).

THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO SYLVIA PLATH. Edited by Jo Gill. Albany: State University of New York, 2006. $75 (cloth); $24.99 (paper).

WRITING RUMBA: The Afrocubanista Movement in Poetry. By Miguel Arnedo-Gómez...