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New Literary History 32.1 (2001) 219-221



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Rethinking Writing. By Roy Harris. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000. 270 pp. $39.95 (cloth).

The Western Theory of Tradition: Terms and Paradigms of the Cultural Sublime. By Sanford Budick. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000. 294 pp. $40 (cloth).

The Insatiability of Human Wants: Economics and Aesthetics in Market Society. By Regenia Gagnier. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. 352 pp. $16 (paper).

Consuming Anxieties: Consumer Protest, Gender & British Slavery, 1713-1833. By Charlotte Sussman. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000. $45 (cloth).

Locations of Literary Modernism: Region and Nation in British and American Modernist Poetry. Edited by Alex Davis and Lee M. Jenkins. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 296 pp. $59.95 (cloth).

A Probable State: The Novel, the Contract, and the Jews. By Irene Tucker. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. 320 pp. $42 (cloth); $16 (paper).

Damned Women: Lesbians in French Novels. By Jennifer Waelti-Walters. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2000. 270 pp. $60 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).

Other Traditions. By John Ashbery. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000. 168 pp. $22.95 (paper).

The Crisis of Reason: European Thought, 1848-1914. By J. W. Burrow. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000. 271 pp. $29.95 (paper).

Peter Greenaway: Interviews. Edited by Vernon Gras and Marguerite Gras. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2000. 256 pp. $45 (cloth); $18 (paper).

Tracing the Round: The Astrological Framework of Moby Dick. By John F. Birk. London: Minerva Press, 2000. 360 pp. $29.95 (paper).

The Private Rod: Marital Violence, Sensation, and the Law in Victorian Britain. By Marlene Tromp. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2000. 288 pp. $37.50 (cloth).

The Modern Androgyne Imagination: A Failed Sublime. By Lisa Rado. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2000. 226 pp. $57.50 (cloth); $18.50 (paper).

Verbal Art: A Philosophy of Literature and Literary Experience. By Anders Pettersson. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2000. 374 pp. $65 (cloth).

Canon and Creativity: Modern Writing and the Authority of Scripture. By Robert Alter. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000. 198 pp. $18.50 (cloth).

Cormac McCarthy's Western Novels. By Barcley Owens. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2000. 136 pp. $35 (cloth); $17.95 (paper).

Faulkner at 100: Retrospect and Prospect. Edited by Donald M. Kartiganer and Ann J. Abadie. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2000. 336 pp. $50 (cloth); $24 (paper).

Hero Myths: A Reader. Edited by Robert A. Segal. Williston, VT: Blackwell Publishers, 2000. 219 pp. No price given.

Embodying Technesis: Technology Beyond Writing. By Mark Hansen. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000. 334 pp. $59.50 (cloth); $24.50 (paper).

Willa Cather's Southern Connections: New Essays on Cather and the South. Edited by Ann Romines. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2000. 249 pp. $59.50 (cloth); $18.50 (paper).

Best Poems of Trinidad. Edited by A. M. Clarke. Dover, MA: The Majority Press, 2000. 66 pp. $10.95 (paper).

Song: Poems. By Paloma Mohamed. Dover, MA: The Majority Press, 2000. 55 pp. $9.95 (paper).

Scare Quotes From Shakespeare: Marx, Keynes, and the Language of Reenchantment. By Martin Harries. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000. 209 pp. $45 (cloth).

The Fiction of Geopolitics: Afterimages of Culture, from Wilkie Collins to Alfred Hitchcock. By Christopher GoGwilt. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000. 265 pp. $49.50 (cloth); $18.95 (paper).

Remnants of Song: Trauma and the Experience of Modernity in Charles Baudelaire and Paul Celan. By Ulrich Baer. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000. 343 pp. $55 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).

Making America: The Cultural Work of Literature. Edited by Susanne Rohr, Peter Schneck, and Sabine Sielke. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter, 2000. 251 pp. No price given.

Symbolism: An International Journal of Critical Aesthetics, Volume I. Edited by Rüdiger Ahrens. New York: AMS Press, Inc., 2000. 410 pp. $87.50.

Latent Destinies: Cultural Paranoia and Contemporary U.S. Narrative. By Patrick O'Donnell. Durham: Duke University Press, 2000. 164 pp. $49.95 (cloth); $17.95 (paper).

A Babel of Bottles. Edited by James Nicholls and Susan J. Owens. Sheffield, England: Sheffield Academic Press, 2000. $55 (cloth).

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