Books Received

ELT 40:2 1997 better book than it is, but this study of Hardy's novel is valuable nonetheless. The more it moves beyond its initial thesis, the better it gets. Kristin Brady University of Western Ontario I Books Received I Kaufman, Peter Iver. Prayer, Despair, and Drama: Elizabethan Introspection. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1996. xii + 166 pp. $24.95 Knowles, Ronald. Gulliver's Travels: The Politics of Satire. New York: Twayne, 1996. xiii + 169 pp. Paper $23.95 Kraye, Jill, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Humanism. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. xviii + 320 pp. Cloth $54.95 Paper $18.95 Lamb, Mary and Charles. Mrs. Leicster's School: or, The History of Several Young Ladies, Related by Themselves. Jonathan Wordsworth, intro. 1809; New York: Woodstock Books, 1996. 179 pp. $55.00 Landon, Letitia Elizabth. The Improvisatrice and Other Poems. Jonathan Wordsworth, intro. 1825; New York: Woodstock Books, 1996. 326 pp. $65.00 Liebman, Herbert. The Dramatic Art of David Storey: The Journey of a Playwright . Westport: Greenwood Press, 1996. 200 pp. $45.00 MacDonald, Gina. James Clavell: A Critical Companion. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1996. 240 pp. $29.95 McCormick Coger, Greta M. K, ed. New Perspectives on Margaret Laurence: Poetic Narrative, Multiculturalism, and Feminism. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1996. 264 pp. $59.95 Mitford, Mary Russell. Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery. Jonathan Wordsworth, intro. 1824; New York: Woodstock Books, 1996. 292 pp. $55.00 Owenson, Sydney (Lady Morgan). The Wild Irish Girl; A National Tale. Jonathan Wordsworth, intro. 1807;New York: Woodstock Books, 1996. 262pp. $65.00 Radcliffe, Ann. A Sicilian Romance. Jonathan Wordsworth, intro. 1792;NewYork: Woodstock Books, 1996. 126 pp. $65.00 Rogers, Pat. The Samuel Johnson Encyclopedia. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1996. 512 pp. $85.00 Shad, John, ed. Dickens Refigured: Bodies, Desires and other Histories. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996. xiii + 240 pp. Cloth $79.95 Paper $24.95 250 ...