Books Received

Problems of Form. Edited by Dirk Baecker. Translated by Michael Irmscher, with Lean Edwards. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999. 248 pp. $55.00 (cloth); $22.95 (paper).

American Culture, American Tastes: Social Change and the 20th Century. By Michael Kammen. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1999. 293 pp. $30 (cloth).

"Harlem Gallery" and Other Poems of Melvin B. Tolson. Edited by Raymond Nelson. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999. 473 pp. $60 (cloth); $18.95 (paper).

The Poetics of Disappointment: Wordsworth to Ashbery. By Laura Quinney. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999. 200 pp. $30 (cloth).

Royalties: The Queen and Victorian Writers. By Gail Turley Houston. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999. 192 pp. $32.50 (cloth).

I See A Voice. By Jonathan Rée. New York: Metropolitan Books, 1999. 399 pp. No price given (cloth).

Narrating Reality. By Harry E. Shaw. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999. 280 pp. $35 (cloth).

Bachelors, Manhood, and the Novel. By Katherine V. Snyder. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 285 pp. $59.95 (cloth).

Ancestral Houses: Virginia Woolf and the Aristocracy. By Sonya Rudi-koff. Palo Alto: Society for the Promotion of Science and Scholarship, 1999. 290 pp. No price given.

Fetish. By Henry Krips. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999. 200 pp. $39.95 (cloth); $17.95 (paper).

The Clothes That Wear Us. Edited by J. Munns and P. Richards. Cranbury: University of Delaware Press, 1999. 362 pp. $49.50 (cloth).

After Rhetoric: The Study of Discourse Beyond Language and Culture. By Stephen R. Yarbrough. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1999. 272 pp. $39.95 (cloth).

History and Memory in the Two Souths: Recent Southern and Spanish American Fiction. By Deborah N. Cohn. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1999. 236 pp. $39.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

Traditions of Victorian Women's Autobiography: The Poetics and Politics of Life Writing. By Linda H. Peterson. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999. 272 pp. $38.50 (cloth).

Beckett and Poststructuralism. By Anthony Uhlmann. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 202 pp. $59.95 (cloth).

In Praise of Nonsense: Kant and Bluebeard. By Winfried Menninghaus. Translated by Henry Pickford. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999. 257 pp. $49.50 (cloth); $18.95 (paper).

Henry James's Thwarted Love. By Wendy Graham. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999. 289 pp. $49.50 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

Defacement: Public Secrecy and the Labor of the Negative. By Michael Taussig. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999. 311 pp. $55.00 (cloth); $18.95 (paper).

Ritualized Violence Russian Style: The Duel in Russian Culture and Literature. By Irina Reyfman. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999. 364 pp. $49.50 (cloth).

Liminal Acts: A Critical Overview of Contemporary Performance Theatre. By Susan Broadhurst. London: Continuum International Publishing Group, 1999. 197 pp. £17.99 (paper).

Shakespeare After Theory. By David Scott Kastan. New York: Routledge, 1999. 264 pp. $65.00 (cloth); $18.99 (paper).

Neo-slave Narratives. By Ashraf H. A. Rushdy. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. 286 pp. $45.00 (cloth).

Shakespeare's Twenty-first Century Economics. By Frederick Turner. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. 223 pp. $35.00 (cloth).

Black Imagination and the Middle Passage. Edited by Maria Diedrich, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Carl Pedersen. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. 320 pp. $55.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

Lanyer: A Renaissance Woman Poet. By Susanne Woods. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. 198 pp. $39.95 (cloth).

The Midwives Book. By Jane Sharp. Edited by Elaine Hobby. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. 323 pp. $49.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

Theodor Fontane. By Gordon A. Craig. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. 232 pp. $35.00 (cloth).

Reading Desire. By Debra A. Moddelmog. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999. 189 pp. $45.00 (cloth); $17.95 (paper).

Pirate Novels: Fictions of Nation Building in Spanish America. By Nina Gerassi-Navarro. Durham: Duke University Press, 1999. 251 pp. $49.95 (cloth); $17.95 (paper).

Mutual Impressions: Writers from the Americas Reading One Another. Edited by Ilan Stavans. Durham: Duke...