Books Received: 1997

The following books have been recently received; listing here does not preclude a review in a later issue of the journal.

Espen Aarseth, Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergotic Literature. Baltimore & London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.

Joseph Alkana, The Social Self: Hawthorne, Howells, William James, and Nineteenth-Century Psychology. Lexington (KY): University Press of Kentucky, 1997.

Michael Anesko, Letters, Fictions, Lives: Henry James and William Dean Howells. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Rudolf Arnheim, Film Essays and Criticism. Translated by Brenda Benthien. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1997.

Mieke Bal, The Mottled Screen: Reading Proust Visually. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997.

Ermando Bencivenga, A Theory of Language and Mind. Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1997.

James Biester, Lyric Wonder: Rhetoric and Wit in Renaissance English Poetry. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997.

Rudolph Binion, Sounding the Classics: From Sophocles to Thomas Mann. Westport (CT): Greenwood Press, 1997.

Jan Bondeson, A Cabinet of Medical Curiosities. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997.

Richard Bradford, Stylistics. London & New York: Routledge, 1997.

Michael Braun, Stefan Andres: Leben und Werk. Bonn: Bouvier, 1997.

Rachel Feldhay Brenner, Writing as Resistance: Four Women Confronting the Holocaust. University Park (PA): Penn State University Press, 1997.

Joseph Bristow, Sexuality. London & New York, Routledge, 1997.

Frances Brooke, The Excursion. Edited by P. R. Backscheider & H. D. Cotton. Lexington (KY): University Press of Kentucky, 1997.

Julia Prewitt Brown, Cosmopolitan Criticism: Oscar Wilde’s Philosophy of Art. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1997.

Robert Burgoyne, Film Nation: Hollywood Looks at U.S. History. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997.

Peter Burke, Varieties of Cultural History. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997.

Massimo Cacciari, Posthumous People: Vienna at the Turning Point. Translated by Robert Friedman. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997.

Eduardo Cadava, Emerson and the Climates of History. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997.

Eduardo Cadava, Words of Light: Theses on the Photography of History. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997.

Gregg Camfield, Necessary Madness: The Humor of Domesticity in Nineteenth-Century American Literature. New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Rocco Capozzi, editor, Reading Eco: An Anthology. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997.

Roger Chartier, Alain Boureau, and Cécile Dauphin, Correspondence: Models of Letter Writing from the Middle Ages to the Nineteenth Century. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1997.

Donald J. Childs, T. S. Eliot: Mystic, Son & Lover. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997.

A. Kenneth Ciongoli and Paul Parini, editors, Beyond the Godfather: Italian American Writers on the Real Italian American Experience. Hanover: University Press of New England, 1997.

Charles Colbert, A Measure of Perfection: Phrenology and the Fine Arts in America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997.

Romand Coles, Rethinking Generosity: Critical Theory and the Politics of Caritas. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997.

Margaret W. Conkey, et al., editors, Beyond Art: Pleistocene Image and Symbol. Berkeley (CA): University of California, 1997.

Paul Crumbley, Inflections of the Pen: Dash and Voice in Emily Dickinson. Lexingtom (KY): University Press of Kentucky, 1997.

Leslie Midkiff DeBauche, Reel Patriotism: The Movies and World War I. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1997.

Robert DeMaria, Jr., Samuel Johnson and the Life of Reading. Baltimore & London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.

Jacques Derrida, Politics of Friendship. Translated by George Collins. London & New York: Verso, 1997.

Richard Doyle, On Beyond Living: Rhetorical Transformations of the Life Sciences. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997.

John M. Dunaway, The Double Vocation: Christian Presence in Twentieth-Century French Fiction. Birmingham (AL): Summa Publications, 1996.

Mark Edmundson, Nightmare on Main Street: Angels, Sadomasochism, and the Culture of the Gothic. Cambridge (MA): Harvard University Press, 1997.

Paula R. Feldman, editor, British Women Poets of the Romantic Era: An Anthology. Baltimore & London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.

Bruce Fink, A Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Theory and Technique. Cambridge [MA]: Harvard University Press, 1997.

Alain Finkielkraut, The Wisdom of Love. Translated by Kevin O’Neill & David Suchoff. Lincoln (NE): University of Nebraska Press, 1997.

Dominique D. Fisher and Lawrence R. Schehr, editors, Articulations of Difference: Gender Studies and Writing in French. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997.

John Forrester, Truth Games: Lies, Money, and Psychoanalysis. Cambridge (MA): Harvard University Press, 1997.

Judith Frank, Common Ground: Eighteenth-Century English Satiric Fiction and the Poor. Stanford...