Books Received

ELT: Volume 34:4, 1991 "revisionist" feminist interest in her work emerging in England and France, initiated in the early 1980s by Hilary Simpson's study, D. H. Lawrence and Feminism, and embroidered lately by nostalgically supportive comments on Millett's criticism by a wide variety of prominent feminists, including Sandra Gilbert, whom Cushman is so intent on protecting in his review. As I clearly demonstrate in my book, Gilbert's generally sympathetic understanding of Lawrence is occasionally compromised by the manipulative passion of her reworking of his themes; her own adamant approval of Millett's characteristic misreading of "The Woman Who Rode Away" indicates that Cushman is unaware of notions of admiration and influence that still afflict feminist criticism, and that still receive inadequate counter-response from the academy. Cushman believes that my analysis of an unusual marriage theme in The Rainbow, and of Ursula's function as "female corrective" in Women in Love, is "not news"; yet as the related footnotes in my study document, it would be impossible for him to locate any comparable and integrated findings in Lawrencian scholarship on how the cautions of Lawrence's conservative ethics affect the visionary radicalism of his art and sexual doctrines. In addition, Cushman's sneering reference to my own consistent use of Mailer's supportive interpretation of Lawrence's achievement is offensive on two fronts: it ironically recapitulates the defensive shrillness that Lawrence and Mailer often encountered in reactions to their own work, and it in no way suggests the scope and significance of my argument about the similar metaphors and beliefs embraced by both writers. Finally, Cushman's sophomoric fear and warning that "seminal" is "a dangerous word" to use in certain contexts today bespeaks a critic's fashionable timidity that, quite frankly, may never be comfortable with any reading of Lawrence's "phallic imagination." Peter Balbert Trinity University ¿*> Books Received ï*> The Gissing Journal [formerly The Gissing Newsletter], 27:1 (January 1991). Individuals £8/ Libraries £12. Published quarterly by The Gissing Trust. Submissions to Pierre Coustillas, Editor, 10 rue Gay-Lussac, 59110 La Madeleine, France. Horsman, Alan. The Victorian Novel. New York: Clarendon Press, 1991. 465 pp. $59.00 Inge, Tonette Bond. Southern Women Writers: The New Generation. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1990. viii + 397 pp. Paper $28.95 510 Book Reviews Jones, Vivien, ed. Women in the Eighteenth Century: Constructions of Femininity. New York: Routledge, Chapman & Hall, 1990. xi + 257 pp. Cloth $54.00 Paper $18.50 Kenny, Anthony, ed. The Oxford Diaries of Arthur Hugh Clough. New York: Clarendon Press, 1990. lxvii + 283 pp. $49.95 Lernout, Geert. The French Joyce. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1990. vi + 291 pp. $29.95 The Letters of Alfred Lord Tennyson: III, 1871-1892. Cecil Y. Lang and Edgar F. Shannon, Jr., eds. New York: Clarendon Press, 1991. xii + 522 pp. $125 Manganaro, Marc, ed. Modernist Anthropology: From Fieldwork to Text. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990. xii + 337 pp. Cloth $45.00 Paper $14.95 Morgan, Thai's E. Victorian Sages and Cultural Discourse: Renegotiating Gender and Power. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1990. vii + 330 pp. Paper $29.50 The Penguin Book of First World War Prose. Jon Glover and Jon Silken, eds. New York: Viking, 1989. xvi + 620 pp. $35.00 Petrey, Sandy. Speech Acts and Literary Theory. New York: Routledge, Chapman & Hall, 1990. 175 pp. Cloth $37.50 Paper $13.95 Pizer, Donald, ed. Critical Essays on Stephan Crane's "The Red Badge of Courage". Boston: G. K. Hall, 1990. vii + 269 pp. $39.00 Richards on Rhetoric: I. A. Richards Selected Essays 1929-1974. Ann E. Berthoff, ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. xin + 287 pp. Paper $16.95 Rose, Margaret. The Symbolist Theatre Tradition from Maeterlinck and Yeats to Beckett and Pinter. Milan: Umcopli, 1989. 241 pp. Paper $20.00 Rose, Mary Beth, ed. Renaissance Drama as Cultural History: Essays from the "Renaissance Drama" 1977-1987. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1990. vi + 514 pp. $39.95 Schirmer, Gregory A. William Trevor: A Study of His Fiction. New York: Routledge, Chapman & Hall, 1990. vii + 180 pp. $52.00 Schleifer, Ronald. Rhetoric and Death: The Language of Modernism and Postmodern Discourse Theory. Urbana: University of...