Books Received--1999

[Notice here does not preclude review in a later issue.]

Giorgio Agamben, The End of the Poem: Studies in Poetics. Translated by Daniel Heller-Roazen. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999.

Derek Alsop & Chris Walsh, The Practice of Reading: Interpreting the Novel. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999.

Charles Altieri, Postmodernisms Now: Essays on Contemporaneity in the Arts. University Park (PA): Penn State University Press, 1999.

Emily Apter, Continental Drift: From National Characters to Virtual Subjects. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.

Kathleen Ashley & Pamela Sheingorn, Writing Faith: Text, Sign, and History in the Miracles of Sainte Foy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.

Moin Ashraf, Come Brother, Lie Down: Multicultural Short Stories. Karachi: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Paul Baepler, editor, White Slaves, African Masters: An Anthology of American Barbary Captivity Narratives. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.

Lee D. Baker, From Savage to Negro: Anthropology and the Construction of Race, Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1998.

Mieke Bal, editor, The Practice of Cultural Analysis: Exposing Interdisciplinary Interpretation. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999.

Mieke Bal, Jonathan Crewe, & Leo Spitzer, Acts of Memory: Cultural Recall in the Present. Hanover: Dartmouth/UPNE, 1999.

Owen Barfield, A Barfield Reader. Edited by C. B. Tennyson. Hanover: Wesleyan/UPNE, 1999.

Christopher Barnes, Boris Pasternak: A Literary Biography: II: 1928–1960. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Stuart Barnett, Hegel After Derrida. London & New York: Routledge, 1998.

Helen Barolini, Chiaroscuro: Essays of Identity. Revised edition. Madison (WI): University of Wisconsin Press, 1999.

Michèle Barrett, Imagination in Theory: Culture, Writing, Words, and Things, New York: New York University Press, 1999.

Anne Clark Bartlett & Thomas H. Bestul, editors, Culture of Piety: Medieval English Devotional Literature in Translation. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999.

Walter Bauman, Roses from the Steel Dust: Collected Essays on Ezra Pound. Orono [ME]: National Poetry Foundation, 1999.

Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in 17th-Century England. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998.

Thomas O. Beebee, Epistolary Fiction in Europe, 1500–1850. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Ilona Bell, Elizabethan Women and the Poetry of Courtship. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Michael Bell & Peter Poellner, editors, Myth and the Making of Modernity: The Problem of Grounding in Early 20th-Century Literature. Amsterdam & Atlanta: Rodopi, 1998.

Dan Ben-Amos & Liliane Weissberg, editors, Cultural Memory and the Construction of Identity. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1999.

Sacvan Bercovitch, editor, The Cambridge History of American Literature: Vol. VII: Prose Writing, 1940-1990. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

David M. Bergeron, King James & Letters of Homoerotic Desire. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1999.

Günter Berghaus, Italian Futurist Theatre, 1909–1944. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998.

Isaiah Berlin, The Roots of Romanticism. Mellon Lectures. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999.

Marshall Berman, Adventures in Marxism. London & New York: Verson/NLB, 1999.

Sarah Bernhardt, My Double Life. Transl. By V. T. Larson. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999.

Charles Bernstein, My Way: Speeches and Poems. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.

Maurizio Bettini, The Portrait of the Lover. Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1999.

David Bevington and Peter Holbrook, editors, The Politics of the Stuart Court Masque. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Gian-Paolo Biasin and Manuela Gieri, editors, Luigi Pirandello: Contemporary Perspectives. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999.

Dana Bielec, Polish: An Essential Grammar. London & New York: Routledge, 1999.

Diane Bjorklund, Interpreting the Self: Two Hundred Years of American Autobiography. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.

Lucy Bland & Laura Doan, editors, Sexology in Culture: Labeling Bodies and Desires. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.

Lucy Bland & Laura Doan, editors, Sexology Uncensored: The Documents of Sexual Science. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.

Edward A. & Lillian D. Bloom, editors, The Piozzi Letters: Volume 5: 1811–1816. Newark (DE): University of Delaware Press, 1999.

Mary L. Bogumil, Understanding August Wilson. Columbia (SC): University of South Carolina Press, 1999.

Chris Bongie, Islands and Exiles: The Creole Identities of Post/Colonial Literature. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998.

Stephen Booth, Precious Nonsense: The Gettysburgh Address, Ben Jonson’s Epitaphs on His Children, and Twelfth Night. Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1998.

Lynda S. Boren & Sara deSaussure Davis, editors, Kate Chopin Reconsidered: Beyond...