Books Received
July 15, 2002 to October 15, 2002
Alexiou, Margaret. 2002. After Antiquity: Greek Language, Myth, and Metaphor. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press. xvii + 567pp.
Bacon, Jacqueline. 2002. The Humblest May Stand Forth: Rhetoric, Empowerment, and Abolition. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press. $39.95hc. xiv + 291pp.
Barrass, Robert. 2002. Study!: A Guide to Effective Leaning, Revision and Examination Techniques. New York: Routledge. $15.95sc. xiii + 218pp.
Baym, Nina. 2001. American Women of Letters and the Nineteenth-Century Sciences: Styles of Affiliation. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. $60.00hc. $22.00sc. x + 265pp.
Berg, Allison. 2002. Mothering the Race: Women's Narratives of Reproduction, 1890-1930. Chicago: University of Illinois Press. x + 186pp.
Best, Victoria. 2002. An Introduction to Twentieth-Century French Literature. London: Duckworth. $18.95sc. 159pp.
Bowles, Paul. 2002. Paul Bowles: The Sheltering Sky, Let It Come Down, The Spider's House. Ed. Daniel Halpern. $35.00hc. 938 pp.
Bruccoli, Matthew J. 2002. Some Sort of Epic Grandeur: The Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press. $29.95hc. xxx + 659pp.
Brummett, Barry. 1994. Rhetoric in Popular Culture. Ed. Edward Hutchinson. New York: Bedford/St. Martin's. $39.05hc. xi + 243 pp.
Castoriadis, Cornelius. 2002. On Plato's Statesman. Ed. David Ames Curtis. Stanford: Stanford University Press. $21.95sc. xxviii + 227 pp.
Childs, Peter, ed. 2002. A Routledge Literary Sourcebook on E.M. Forster's A Passage to India. New York: Routledge. xiii + 167 pp.
Cole, Jean Lee. 2002. The Literary Voices of Winnifred Eaton: Redefining Ethnicity and Authenticity. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. $60.00hc. $24.00sc. xiii + 204pp.
Cooper, Susan Fenimore. 2002. Essays on Nature and Landscape. Ed. Rochelle Johnson and Daniel Patterson. Athens: University of Georgia Press. $65.00hc. $15.95sc. xxxiv + 131 pp.
Craciun, Adriana, ed. 2002. A Routledge Literary Sourcebook on Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. New York: Routledge. $65.00hc. $15.95sc. xvi + 184 pp.
Cunningham, Valentine. 2002. Reading After Theory. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers. $56.95hc. 194pp. [End Page 197]
Dessen, Alan C. 2002. Rescripting Shakespeare: The Text, the Director, and Modern Productions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. $65.00hc. xi + 268pp.
Dighe, Ranjit, ed. 2002. The Historian's Wizard of Oz. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers. $21.95sc. xi +149 pp.
Due, Casey. 2002. Homeric Variations on a Lament by Briseis. Ed. Gregory Nagy. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield. viii + 140 pp.
Elliott, Anthony. 2002. Psychoanalytic Theory: An Introduction. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. $64.95hc. $21.95sc. xii + 196pp.
Elsaesser, Thomas and Warren Buckland. 2002. Studying Contemporary American Film: A Guide to Movie Analysis. London: Arnold Publishers. $24.95sc. x + 309pp.
Evans, James Allan. 2002. The Empress Theodora: Partner of Justinian. Austin: University of Texas. $29.95hc. xxiv + 146pp.
Ferens, Dominika. 2002. Edith & Winnifred Eaton: Chinatown Missions and Japanese Romances. Chicago: University of Illinois Press. $34.95hc. xii + 221pp.
Finkelstein. 2002. The House of Blackwood: Author-Publisher Relations in the Victorian Era. University Park: Penn State University Press. $55.00hc. viii + 199pp.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. 2002. Tales of the Jazz Age. Ed. James L. W.West III. New York: Cambridge University Press. xxviii + 539 pp.
Fluck, Winfried and Werner Sollors, eds. 2002. German? American? Literature? New Directions in German-American Studies. New York: Peter Lang Publishing Inc. $72.95hc. vii + 419 pp.
Ford, Sara J. 2002. Gertrude Stein and Wallace Stevens: The Performance of Modern Consciousness. New York: Routledge. $60.00hc. xiii + 129pp.
Gagarin, Michael. 2002. Antiphon the Athenian: Oratory, Law, and Justice in the Age of the Sophists. Austin: University of Texas Press. $40.00hc. x + 222pp.
Gidal, Eric. 2002. Poetic Exhibitions: Romantic Aesthetics and the Pleasures of the British Museum. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press. $45.00hc. 284pp.
Gilcrest, David W. 2002. Greening the Lyre: Environmental Poetics and Ethics. Reno: University of Nevada Press. $34.95hc. xii + 169pp.
Giles, Paul. 2002. Virtual Americas: Transnational Fictions and the Transatlantic Imaginary. Durham: Duke University Press. $65.00hc. $21.95sc. xiii + 337pp.
Greenblatt, Stephen. 2001. Hamlet in Purgatory. Princeton: Princeton University Press. pp.
Hadley, Tessa. 2002. Henry James and the Imagination of Pleasure. New York: Cambridge University Press. $55.00hc. viii + 205pp. [End Page 198]
Hand, Sean. 2002. Michel Leiris: Writing the Self. Ed. Michael Sheringham. New York: Cambridge University Press. $65.00hc. xi + 259 pp.
Harpham, Geoffrey Galt. 2002. Language Alone: The Critical Fetish of Modernity. New York: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group. $85.00hc. $22.95sc. x + 261pp.
Harrington, Joseph. 2002. Poetry and the Public: The Social Form of Modern U. S. Politics. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press. $50.00hc. $24.95sc. x + 228pp.
Hart, George L., and Hank Heifetz, eds. 2002. The Four Hundred Songs of War and Wisdom. New York: Columbia University Press. $22.50sc. xxxviii + 397 pp.
Hawes, Donald. 2002. Who's Who in Dickens. New York: Routledge. $14.95sc. xxv + 278pp.
Hendler, Jane. 2001. Best-Sellers and Their Film Adaptations in Postwar America: From Here to Eternity, Sayonara, Giant, Auntie Mame, Peyton Place. New York: Peter Lang. $29.95sc. ix + 276pp.
Hergenhan, Laurie, and Bruce Clunies Ross, eds. 2001. The Poetry of Les Murray: Critical Essays. Queensland, AU: University of Queensland Press. $20.00sc. 176 pp.
Herman, David, ed. 2002. Story Logic: Problems and Possibilities of Narrative. $55.00hc. xvi + 477 pp.
Higgins, Lesley. 2002. The Modernist Cult of Ugliness: Aesthetic and Gender Politics. New York: Palgrave. $59.95hc. xviii + 312pp.
Hix, H. L. 2002. Understanding William H. Gass. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press. $29.95hc. xiv + 189pp.
Hollinger, Veronica, and Joan Gordon, eds. 2002. Edging into the Future: Science Fiction and Contemporary Cultural Transformation. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. viii + 278 pp.
Holzberg, Niklas. 2002. Ovid: the Poet and his Work. Trans. G. M. Goshgarian. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. xvi + 217 pp.
Honigmann, E. A. J. 2002. Shakespeare: Seven Tragedies Revisited: The Dramatist's Manipulation of Response. New York: Palgrave. $21.95sc. ix + 275pp.
Ives, Edward D. 2002. Wilmod Macdonald at the Miramichi Folksong Festival. Orno, ME: Maine Folklife Center. 64pp.
Johnson, Ronna C., and Nancy M. Grace, eds. 2002. Girls Who Wore Black: Writing the Beat Generation. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. $60.00hc. $22.00sc. xvi + 295 pp.
Justice, George. 2002. The Manufacturers of Literature: Writing and the Literary Marketplace in Eighteenth-Century England. Newark, NJ: University of Delaware Press. $46. 50hc. 281pp. [End Page 199]
Kaye, Richard A. 2002. The Flirt's Tragedy: Desire without End in Victorian and Edwardian Fiction. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia. $32.00hc. viii + 246pp.
Kim, Jinyo. 2000. The Pity of Achilles: Oral Style and the Unity of the Iliad. Eds. Gregirt Nagy and Timothy Power. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield. $65.00hc. x+ 203 pp.
Kinservik, Matthew. 2002. Disciplining Satire: The Censorship of Satiric Comedy on the Eighteenth-Century London Stage. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press. $48. 50hc. 301pp.
Kirklighter, Cristina. 2002. Traversing The Democratic Borders Of The Essay. Albany: State University of New York Press. $16.95sc. xii + 160pp.
Larbalestier, Justine. 2002. The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press. $50.00hc. $19.95sc. xv + 295pp.
Lees, Clare A., and Gillian R. Overing. 2001. Double Agents: Women and Clerical Culture in Anglo-Saxon England. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. x + 244pp.
Lehmann, Courtney, and Lisa Starks, eds. 2002. Spectacular Shakespeare:Critical Theory and Popular Cinema. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. $42.50hc. 243 pp.
Lehmann, Courtney. 2002. Shakespeare Remains: Theater to Film, Early Modern to Postmodern. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. xii + 265pp.
Lowy, Michael, and Robert Saye. 2002. Romanticism Against the Tide of Modernity. Durham: Duke University Press. $59.95hc. $19.95sc. vi + 317pp.
Maneos, Pietros. 2001. The Soul of a Young Man. Rome: S. Perrocchi. 160pp.
Maruya, Saiichi. 2002. Grass for my Pillow. New York: Columbia University Press. $24. 50hc. 345pp.
Mateer, John. 2002. Loanwords. Fremantle, AUS: Fremantle Arts Center Press. $17.95sc.95pp.
Maxwell, Richard, ed. 2002. The Victorian Illustrated Book. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press. $45.00hc. xxx + 440 pp.
McGowan, John. 2002. Democracy's Children: Intellectuals and the Rise of Cultural Politics. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. $45.00hc. $17.95sc. xvi + 243pp.
Melton, Jeffrey Alan. 2002. Mark Twain, Travel Books, and Tourism: The Tide of a Great Popular Movement. Ed. Gary Scharnhorst. Tuscaloosa: Univerity of Alabama Press. $34.95hc. xv + 200 pp.
Miller, J. Hillis. 2002. On Literature. Eds. Simon Critchley and Richard Kearney. New York: Routledge. $12.95sc. xii + 164 pp. [End Page 200]
Mortimer, Armine Kotin and Katherine Kolb, eds. 2002. Proust in Perspective: Visions and Revisions. Chicago: University of Illinois Press. $39.95hc. xii + 316 pp.
Morton, Timothy, ed. 2002. A Routledge Literary Sourcebook on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. New York: Routledge. $19.95sc. xiv+ 202 pp.
Myrsiades, Kostas, ed. 2002. The Beat Generation: Critical Essays. New York: Peter Lang Publishing. $29.95sc. x + 352 pp.
Neihardt, John G. 2002. Knowledge & Opinion. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. $39.95hc. xl + 240pp.
Neill, Michael. 2000. Putting History To The Question: Power, Politics, And Society In English Renaissance Drama. New York: Columbia University Press. $24. 50sc. xii + 527pp.
Nelson, Cary, ed. 2002. The Wound and the Dream: Sixty Years of American Poems about the Spanish Civil War. Chicago: University of Illinois Press. $49.95hc. $19.95sc. x + 326 pp.
Olson, Gary. 2002. Justifying Belief: Stanley Fish and the Work of Rhetoric. Albany: State University of New York Press. $65. 50hc. $21.95sc. xx + 178pp.
O'Neill, John. 2002. Incorporating Cultural Theory: Maternity at the Millennium. Albany: State University of New York Press. $17.95sc. xii + 202pp.
Paquet, Sandra Pouchet. 2002. Caribbean Autobiography. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. $60.00hc. $24.95sc. xii + 345pp.
Paskevska, Anna. 2002. Ballet: From the First Plie to Mastery. New York: Routledge Press. $19.95sc. xi + 179pp.
Pavlic, Edward M. 2002. Crossroads Modernism: Descent and Emergence in African-American Literary Culture. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. $19.95sc. xxi + 314pp.
Peck, John, and Martin Coyle. 2002. A Brief History of English Literature. New York: Palgrave Press. $60.00hc. $19.95sc. xiii + 353pp.
Pettman, Dominic. 2002. After the Orgy: Toward a Politics of Exhaustion. Ed. Joseph Natoli. Albany: State University of New York Press. $19.95sc. xiv + 204 pp.
Quennell, Peter, and Hamish Johnson. 2002. Who's Who in Shakespeare. New York: Routledge. $14.95sc. xii + 228pp.
Rabate, Jean-Michael. 2002. The Future of Theory. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers. $54.95hc. v + 170pp.
Raven, James. 2002. London Booksellers and American Customers: Transatlantic Literary Community and the Charleston Library Society. 1748-1811. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press. $59.95hc. xxii + 522pp. [End Page 201]
Reiss, Timothy. 2002. Against Autonomy: Global Dialects of Cultural Exchange. Ed. Mieke Bal and Hent deVries. Stanford: Stanford University Press. $24.95sc. xx + 532 pp.
Reizenstein, Ludwig von. 2002. The Mysteries of New Orleans. Ed. Steven Rowan. $28.00sc. xxxiii + 559 pp.
Reyes, Angelita. 2002. Mothering Across Cultures: Postcolonial Representations. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. $17.95sc. xii + 244pp.
Roberts, Graham, and Heather Wallis. 2002. Key Film Texts. London: Arnold Publishers. $12.95sc. vi + 256pp.
Roof, Judith. 2002. All About Thelma and Eve: Sidekicks and Third Wheels. Chicago: University of Illinois Press. x + 212pp.
Rosendale, Steven, eds. 2002. The Greening of Literary Scholarship: Literature, Theory, and the Environment. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press. $39.95hc. $19.95sc. xxx + 275 pp.
Ryan, Barbara, and Amy M. Thomas, eds. 2002. Reading Acts: U.S. Readers' Interactions with Literature, 1800-1950. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. $36.00hc. xv + 289 pp.
Sanders, Julie. 2002. Novel Shakespeares: Twentieth-Century Women Novelists and Appropriation. New York: Manchester University Press. xi + 258pp.
Santilli, Kristine S. 2002. Poetic Gesture: Myth, Wallace Stevens, and the Motions of Poetic Language. Ed. William E. Cain. New York: Routledge. $65.00hc. xvi+160 pp.
Scott, R. Neil. 2002. Flannery O'Connor: An Annotated Reference Guide to Criticism. Milledgeville, GA: Timberlane Books. $127.95hc. xx + 1061pp.
Shumway, David R., and Craig Dionne, eds. 2002. Disciplining English: Alternative Histories, Critical Perspectives. Albany: State University of New York Press. $57.50hc. $18.95sc. vi + 231 pp.
Siedel, Michael. 2002. James Joyce: A Short Introduction. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers. $54.95hc. ix + 162pp.
Sielke, Sabine. 2002. Reading Rape: The Rhetoric of Sexual Violence in American Literature and Culture, 1790-1990. Princeton: Princeton University Press. $19.95sc. viii + 241pp.
Sirc, Geoffrey. 2002. English Composition as a Happening. Logan, UT: Utah State University Press. 318pp.
Soliday, Mary. 2002. The Politics of Remediation: Institutional and Student Needs. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. $32. 50hc. 224pp.
Street, Sarah. 2002. Transatlantic Crossings: British Feature Films in the USA. Ed. Pam Cook. New York: Continuum. $24.95sc. xii + 280 pp.
Swift, John R., and Joseph R. Urgo, eds. 2002. Willa Cather and the American Southwest. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. $40.00hc. vi + 172pp. [End Page 202]
Tabbi, Joseph. 2002. Cognitive Fictions. Ed. Katherine Hayles, Mark Poster and Samuel Weber. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. $17.95sc. xxvii + 166 pp.
Tambling, Jeremy. 2002. Becoming Posthumous: Life and Death in Literary and Cultural Studies. New York: Columbia University Press. $22.00sc. x + 158pp.
Trigg, Stephanie. 2002. Congenial Souls: Reading Chaucer from Medieval to Postmodern. Ed. Rita Copeland, Barbara A. Hanawalt and David Wallace. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. $22.95sc. xxiv + 280 pp.
Tusmith, Bonnie, and Maureen T. Reddy, eds. 2002. Race in the College Classroom: Pedagogy and Politics. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. $60.00hc. $22.00sc. x + 326 pp.
Van Wienen, Mark W. 2002. Rendezvous With Death: American Poems of the Great War. Ed. Cary Nelson. Chicago: Univerity of Illinois Press. $44.95hc. $19.95sc. xiv + 363 pp.
Wade, Stephen, ed. 2001. Gladsongs and Gatherings: Poetry and its Social Context in Liverpool Since the 1960s. Queensland, AU: University of Queensland Press. $27.95sc. xx + 196 pp.
Whale, John. 2000. Imagination Under Pressure: 1789-1832, Aesthetics, Politics and Utility. Ed. Marilyn Butler and James Chandler. New York: Cambridge University Press. $60.00hc. xii +240 pp.
Wodak, Ruth, and Michael Meyer. 2001. Methods of
Critical Discourse Analysis. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage
Publications. $73.00hc. $27. 50sc. viii + 200pp.
