In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:

New Literary History 38.4 (2007) 779-780

Books Received
SECOND ARRIVALS:Landscape and Belonging in Contemporary Writing of the Americas. By Sarah Phillips Casteel. Charlottesville: Univ. of Virginia Press, 2007. 256 pp. $59 (cloth); $22.50 (paper).
WORRYING ABOUT CHINA:The Language of Chinese Critical Inquiry. By Gloria Davies. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, 2007. 312 pp. $39.95 (cloth).
FEELING BACKWARD:Loss and the Politics of Queer History. By Heather Love. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, 2007. 196 pp. $39.95 (cloth).
DEATH AND THE MAIDENS: Fanny Wollstonecraft and the Shelley Circle. By Janet Todd. Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, 2007. 315 pp. $26 (cloth).
THE SPIRIT OF THE AGE: Victorian Essays.Edited by Gertrude Himmelfarb. New Haven, CT: Yale Univ. Press, 2007. 336 pp. $35 (cloth).
A DICTIONARY OF LITERARY SYMBOLS. BY MICHAEL FERBER. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2007. $99 (cloth); $24.99 (paper).
THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE. Edited by George Hutchinson. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2007. $85 (cloth); $24.99 (paper).
THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO MODERNIST POETRY. Edited by Alex Davis and Lee M. Jenkins. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2007. $85 (cloth); $29.99 (paper).
THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO PRIMO LEVI. Edited by Robert S. C. Gordon. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2007. $85 (cloth); $29.99 (paper).
THE OFFENSE OF POETRY. By Hazard Adams. Seattle: Univ. of Washington Press, 2008. 248 pp. $75 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).
THE POSTAL AGE: The Emergence of Modern Communications in Nineteenth-Century America. By David M. Henkin. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2007. 238 pp. $20 (paper).
BEAUTIFUL DEMOCRACY: Aesthetics and Anarchy in a Global Era. By Russ Castronovo. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2007. 272 pp. $60 (cloth); $24 (paper).
MODERNISM AND COLONIALISM: British and Irish Literature, 1899–1939. Edited by Richard Begam and Michael Valdex Moses. Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press, 2007. $89.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). [End Page 779]
THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO GEORGE ORWELL. Edited by John Rodden. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2007. $80 (cloth); $24.99 (paper).
"ANNA KARENINA" IN OUR TIME:Seeing More Wisely. By Gary Saul Morson. New Haven, CT: Yale Univ. Press, 2007. 288 pp. $35 (cloth).
THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO E. M. FORSTER. Edited by David Bradshaw. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2007. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2007. $80 (cloth); $24.99 (paper).
POSTMODERN SPIRITUAL PRACTICES: The Construction of the Subject and the Reception of Plato in Lacan, Derrida, and Foucault. By Paul Allen Miller. Columbus: Ohio State Univ. Press, 2007. $59.95 (cloth); $9.95 (CD).
THE INTELLECTUAL DEVOTIONAL:American History. By David S. Kidder and Noah Oppenheim. New York: Rodale Books, 2007. $24 (paper).
THE RECEPTION OF PLUTARCH'S LIVES IN FIFTEENTH CENTURY ITALY. By Marianne Pade. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2007. 2 vol. set. $105 (cloth).
THEORIES OF READING: Books, Bodies, and Bibliomania. By Karin Littau. Boston, MA: Blackwell, 2007. $26.95 (paper).
MODERN ITALIAN LITERATURE. By Ann Caesar and Michael Caesar. Boston, MA: Blackwell, 2007. $24.95 (paper).
ROMANCE WRITING. By Lynne Pearce. Boston, MA: Blackwell, 2007. $24.95 (paper).
THE POSTCOLONIAL NOVEL. By Richard J. Lane. Boston, MA: Blackwell, 2007. $23.95 (paper).
SHAKESPEARE AND MUSIC: Afterlives and Borrowings. By Julie Sanders. Boston, MA: Blackwell, 2007. $24.95 (paper).
NEW WAVE SHAKESPEARE ON SCREEN. By Thomas Cartelli and Katherine Rowe. Boston, MA: Blackwell, 2007. $24.95 (paper).
THE EVOLUTION OF FILM:Rethinking Film Studies. By Janet Harbord. Boston, MA: Blackwell, 2007. $22.95 (paper).
CREATIVE WRITING: A Guide and Glossary to Fiction Writing. By Colin Bulman. Boston, MA: Blackwell, 2007. $26.95 (paper).
...

pdf

Share