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New Literary History 38.3 (2007) 603-605

Books Received
MODES OF FAITH: Secular Surrogates for Lost Religious Belief. By Theodore Ziolkowski. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2007. 296 pp. $35 (cloth).
NEW WORLD POETICS: Nature and the Adamic Imagination of Whitman, Neruda, and Walcott. By George B. Handley. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press, 2007. $39.95 (cloth).
THE MODERNIST PAPERS. By Fredric Jameson. New York: Verso, 2007. $34.95 (cloth).
THE PILGRIM AND THE BEE: Reading Rituals and Book Culture in Early New England. By Matthews P. Brown. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. 272 pp. $65 (cloth).
AMERICAN CULTURE IN THE 1950S. By Martin Halliwell. Edinburgh: Edinburgh Univ. Press, 2007. £50 (cloth); £16.99 (paper).
THEORIES OF MEMORY: A Reader. Edited by Michael Rossington and Anne Whitehead. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2007. $65 (cloth); $29.95 (paper).
EMPIRE AND THE LITERATURE OF SENSATION: An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century Popular Fiction. Edited by Jesse Alemán and Shelly Streeby. Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers Univ. Press, 2007. 320 pp. $28.95 (paper).
SWAHILI BEYOND THE BOUNDARIES: Literature, Language, and Identity. Athens: Ohio Univ. Press, 2007. 216 pp. $24 (paper).
THE SELF IN EARLY MODERN LITERATURE: For the Common Good. By Terry G. Sherwood. Pittsburgh, PA: Duquesne Univ. Press, 2007. $60 (cloth).
WITH THE WEATHERMAN: The Personal Journal of a Revolutionary Woman. By Susan Stern. Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers Univ. Press, 2007. 440 pp. $24.95 (paper).
RACE AND FORM. By Susan Stern. Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers Univ. Press, 2007. 440 pp. $24.95 (paper).
RACE AND FORM: Towards a Contextualized Narratology of African American Autobiography. By Dejin Xu. New York: Peter Lang, 2007. 226 pp. $47.95 (cloth). [End Page 603]
HISTORY OF THE LITERARY CULTURES OF EAST-CENTRAL EUROPE: Juncture and Disjunctures in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Vol. 3: The Making and Remaking of Literary Institutions). Edited by Marcel Cornis-Pope and John Neubauer. Philadelphia, PA: John Benjamins, 2007. 522 pp. $228 (cloth).
LANGUAGE AND REVOLUTION IN BURKE, WOLLSTONECRAFT, PAINE, AND GODWIN. By Jane Hodson. Williston, VT: Ashgate, 2007. 226 pp. $99 (cloth).
ROTTEN ENGLISH: A Literary Anthology. Edited by Dohra Ahmad. New York: Norton, 2007. 352 pp. $15.95 (paper).
THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO THE AFRICAN AMERICAN SLAVE NARRATIVE. Edited by Audrey Fisch. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2007. $80 (cloth); $24.99 (paper).
A FREEDOM BOUGHT WITH BLOOD: African American War Literature from the Civil War to World War II. By Jennifer C. James. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 2007. 336 pp. $65 (cloth); $22.50 (paper).
THE CAMBRIDGE INTRODUCTION TO MODERNISM. Edited by Pericles Lewis. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2007. $70 (cloth); $24.99 (paper).
MADMEN AND OTHER SURVIVORS: Reading Lu Xun's Fiction. By Jeremy Tambling. Hong Kong: Hong Kong Univ. Press, 2007. 136 pp. $21.95 (paper).
SENSATIONAL MODERNISM: Experimental Fiction and Photography in Thirties America. By Josehp B. Entin. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 2007. 344 pp. $59.95 (cloth); $22.50 (paper).
WRITING DEAFNESS: The Hearing Line in Nineteenth-Century American Literature. By Christopher Krentz. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 2007. 264 pp. $59.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).
BEGIN HERE: Reading Asian North American Autobiographies of Childhood. By Rocio G. Davis. Honolulu: Univ. of Hawaii Press, 2007. $42 (cloth).
AMERICAN CULTURE IN THE 1980S. By Graham Thompson. Edinburgh: Edinburgh Univ. Press, 2007. £50 (cloth); £16.99 (paper).
READING THE GLOBAL: Troubling Perspectives on Britains Empire in Asia. By Sanjay Krishnan. New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 2007. 256 pp. $39.50 (cloth).
GEORGES BATAILLE. By Stuart Kendall. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2007. $16.95 (paper).
DIASPORA CRITICISM. By Sudesh Mishra. New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 2007. $80 (cloth); $25 (paper). [End Page 604]
UNRULY BODIES: Life Writing by Women with Disabilities. By Susannah B. Mintz. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 2007. 264 pp. $59.95 (cloth); $21.95 (paper).
REFRAMING LATIN AMERICA: A Cultural Theory Reading of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. By Erik Ching, Christina Buckley, and Angélic Lozano-Alonso. Austin: Univ. of Texas Press, 2007. $70 (cloth); $29.95 (paper).
A TURBULENT DECADE...

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