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ELT 39:2 1996 Précis Louise Kennelly University of North Carolina, Greensboro The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies. Fred D. Crawford, ed. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995. χ + 278 pp. $32.50 Volume 15 of this distinguished annual includes essays on the playwright's relationship with Katie Samuel and his friendship with G. K. Chesterton. It also includes articles that attempt to place Shaw in the context of postmodernist criticism, accounts of Shavian productions, as well as revelations regarding his travels and the influence his travel had on his writing. Barrie, J. M. Peter Pan and Other PL·ys. Peter Hollindale, ed. and intro. The World's Classics New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. xxxvi + 338 pp. $12.95 The text of the plays have been newly edited under the direction of Michael Cordner and are supplemented with an introduction and detailed annotations by Peter Hollindale. Barrie enjoyed commercial success for many of his plays but most especially for Peter Pan. Also included here are When Wendy Grew Up, Mary Rose, The Admirable Crichton, and What Every Woman Knows. These last two address the politics of class and gender and are not only entertaining but should be of interest to anyone studying Victorian social mores. British Short-Fiction Writers, 1880-1914: The Realist Tradition. William B. Thesing, ed. Dictionary of Literary Biography, 135. Detroit: A. Gale Research, 1994. xix + 442 pp. $110.00 This is an especially valuable addition to Gale Research's Dictionary of Literary Biography series. ELT readers of all interests will want to make certain their library purchases this volume. Editor Thesing offers a concise, perceptive overview of the realist tradition as reflected in 37 bio-critical entries written by experts in the field. Of course some authors will be familiar: Bennett, Gissing, Hardy, Moore and Morrison. Others are not so well-known but no doubt that unfamiliarity is cause for particular interest. In this regard a number of women writers are featured: Ada Nield Chew, Lucy Lane Clifford, Ella D'Arcy, Sarah Grand, lorence Henniker, Mabel Greenhow Kitcat, Charlotte Mew, Louisa Molesworth, and Netta Syrett, among others. Splendid 278 BOOK REVIEWS photographs accent virtually every entry, and short bibliographies will prove helpful for further research. The Cambridge Companion to T. S. Eliot. A. David Moody, ed. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. xix + 259pp. Cloth $59.95 Paper $16.95 While a third of the 17 essays here are devoted to Eliot as poet and playwright, many are primarily concerned with Eliot as philosopher, literary critic, and social commentator. Some of the essays address his interest in religion as well as other aspects of his personal biography. Moody writes, "Under our examination of his many sides from our diverse points of view Eliot appears more various, less readily formulated and pinned down, than some of his critics thought." Elfenbein, Andrew. Byron and the Victorians. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. xi + 285 pp. $54.95 Concentrating on Wilde, Emily Brontë, Carlyle and Tennyson, among others, Elfenbein explores Byron's influence on Victorian writers via institutions of cultural production that determined what Byron supposedly represented . Instead of rejecting an authorial career as it was presented and the values attached to it, many writers, according to Elfenbein, created fictions of personal development that best suited them. Gossy, Mary S. Freudian Slips: Woman, Writing the Foreign Tongue. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1995.112 pp. Cloth $32.50 Paper $12.95 Gossy provides a critique of language, sexuality and the female body in Freud's The Psychopathohgy of Everyday Life. She gives a feminist psychoanalytic reading of Freud's work and shows what can be gleaned from the slips made when writing theory. Arguing that the dominant metaphor in Psychopathology is that of the female body as foreign text, and that this body, writing, and the foreign tongue are identified with a feminized unconscious that threatens authoritative discourse, Freudian Slips attempts to fashion a feminist theory that free rather than sacrifice the bodies of women. Haggard, H. Rider. Allan Quatermain. Denis Butts, ed. and intro. The World's Classics New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. xxviii + 301 pp. $8.95 The text is that of the...

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