Books Received

BOOK REVIEWS image of Davidson as only a minor poet—that and nothing more. Earl Lavender and some of the plays indicate Davidson's comic bent, too, just as they remind us that, like many others from the "nineties," he was an experimenter in several genres, and that he helped by means of his techniques to aid in the larger generic collapses that point the way toward modernism. Sloan's inclusion of a good selection of the theoretical prose adds usefulness to his anthology. The dust jacket may mislead some into anticipations of substantial annotations, which do not follow. Greater annotation, however, might illuminate such poems as "A Runnable Stag," which has been designated a difficult work by many readers. Textual notes are also minimal. The introduction offers a good primer to Davidson's life and work, however. Alas, the high price will keep it from inspiring many readers other than those who frequent academic libraries. Too bad, because the eminently readable biography whets our appetites for further reading in primary and, perhaps, secondary materials. A caveat about the latter, though: Sloan or his Oxford editors should have caught in proofreading Housman for Houseman (94,297), Aline for Alice Harland (101,107,297) and the even more egregious mistake (127, 300) of Henry Higginson's wife as the widow of Herman Melville, when she was Mrs. Whyte Melville. Benjamin F. Fisher University of Mississippi I Books Received I Barfoot, C. C, ed. Beyond Pug's Tour: National and Ethnic Stereotyping in Theory and Literary Practice. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1997. Paper 594 pp. $37.50 Beckett, Sandra L., ed. Reflections of Change: Children's Literature Since 1945. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1997. xi + 203 pp. $55.00 Bewes, Timothy. Cynicism and Postmodemity. New York: Verso, 1997.248 pp. Paper $19.00 Booker, M. Keith. Colonial Power, Colonial Texts: India in the Modern British Novel. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997. 238 pp. $47.50 The Brontes: Interviews and Recollections. Harold Orel, ed. Iowa City: University of Iowa, 1996. xviii + 221 pp. $24.95 Brown, Berit L, ed. Nordic Experiences: Exploration of Scandinavian Cultures. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1997. xiv + 320 pp. $65.00 373 ELT 40:3 1997 Clarke, Marcus. His Natural Life. Graham Tulloch, ed. Michael Meehan, intro. World's Classics series. 1875; New York. Oxford University Press, 1997. xl ii + 482 pp. $14.95 Crawford, Robert, ed. Robert Burns and Cultural Authority. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1997. xiii + 242 pp. $29.95 Gordon, Haim. Fighting Evil: Unsung Heroes in the Novels of Graham Greene. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1997. 160 pp. $55.00 Polowetzky, Michael. Prominent Sisters: Mary Lamb, Dorothy Wordsworth, and Sarah Disraeli. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1996. 151 pp. $49.95 Price, Reynolds. The Collected Poems. New York: Scribner, 1997. 472 pp. $37.50 Priestley, Joseph. Letters to the Right Honourable Edmund Burke. 1791; Poole, England: Woodstock Books, 1997. 152 pp. $65.00 Rasmussen, R. Kent. Mark Twain, A-Z: The Essential Reference to His Life and Writings. 1995; New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. xxiv + 552 pp. Paper $21.50 Richetti, John, ed. The Cambridge Companion to the Eighteenth-Century Novel. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. xiii + 283 pp. Cloth $54.96 Paper $18.95 Rivero, Albert J. New Essays on Samuel Richardson. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996. viii + 232 pp. $39.95 Roof, Judith. Reproductions of Reproductions: Imaging Symbolic Change. New York: Routledge, 1996. 224 pp. Cloth $55.00 Paper $16.95 Sherman, Sandra. Finance and Fictionality in the Early Eighteenth Century: Accounting for Defoe. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. xii + 222 pp. $54.95 Shuttleworth, Sally. Charlotte Brontë and Victorian Psychology. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. xiv + 289 pp. $54.95 Sollors, Werner. Neither Black Nor White Yet Both: Thematic Explorations of Interracial Literature. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. 574 pp. $39.95 Spector, Robert D. Samuel Johnson and the Essay. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1997. 264 pp. $59.95 Traub, Valerie, M. Lindsay Kaplan, Dympna Callaghan, eds. Feminist Readings of Early Modern Culture: Emerging Subjects. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. xv + 301 pp. Cloth $54.95 Paper $18.95 Tricomi, Albert H. Reading Tutor-Stuart Texts Through Cultural Historicism...