Recent Books of Interest

Ackerman, Alan, ed. Reading Modern Drama. Buffalo, NY: University of Toronto, 2012. Pp. vii + 306. $29.95 (paper).

Acland, Charles R. Swift Viewing: The Popular Life of Subliminal Influence. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012. Pp. xiv + 307. $24.95 (paper).

Anthony, Scott. Public Relations and the Making of Modern Britain: Stephen Tallents and the Birth of a Progressive Media Profession. New York: Manchester University Press, 2012. Pp. x + 265. $95.00 (cloth).

Anthony, Susan and James G. Mansell. The Projection of Britain: A History of the GPO Film Unit. London: British Film Institute, 2011. Pp. viii + 358. $31.00 (paper).

Artese, Brian. Testimony on Trial: Conrad, James and the Contest of Modernism. Buffalo, NY: University of Toronto Press, 2012. Pp. vii + 207. $45.00 (cloth).

Blackman, Cally. 100 Years of Fashion Illustration. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2007. Pp. 384. $40.00 (paper).

Blau Duplessis, Rachel. Purple Passages: Pound, Eliot, Zukofsky, Olson, Creely, and the Ends of Patriarchal Poetry. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2012. Pp. ix + 243. $39.95 (paper).

Bronner, Stephen Eric. Modernism at the Barricades: Aesthetics, Politics, Utopia. New York: Columbia University Press, 2012. Pp. xvii + 190. $32.50 (paper).

Bru, Sascha, Laurence van Nuijs, Benedikt Hjartarson, Peter Nicholls, Tania Ørum, Hubert van den Berg, eds. Regarding the Popular: Modernism, the Avant-Garde and High and Low Culture. Boston: de Gruyter, 2012. Pp. xii + 487. $140.00 (cloth).

Brunczel, Balázs. Disillusioning Modernity: Niklas Luhmann's Social and Political Theory. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2010. Pp. 311. $72.95 (paper).

Buch, Robert. The Pathos of the Real: On the Aesthetics of Violence in the Twentienth Century. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. Pp. vii + 217. $60.00 (cloth).

Budnitskii, Oleg. Russian Jews Between the Reds and the Whites, 1917-1920. Translated by Timothy J. Portice. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. Pp. x + 508. $79.95 (cloth).

Calonne, David Stephen. Critical Lives: Charles Bukowski. London: Reaktion Books, 2012. Pp. 221. $16.95 (paper).

Campt, Tina M. Image Matters: Archive, Photography, and the African Diaspora in Europe. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012. Pp. xi + 241. $24.95 (paper).

Delegard, Kirsten Marie. Battling Miss Bolsheviki: The Origins of Female Conservatism in the United States. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. Pp. 313. $65.00 (cloth).

Di Bello, Patrizia and Gabriel Koureas. Art, History and the Senses: 1830 to the Present. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2010. Pp. 24 + 199. $124.95 (cloth).

Diamonstein-Spielvogel, Barbaralee. The Landmarks of New York: An Illustrated Record of the City's Historic Buildings. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2011. Pp. ix + 750. $75.00 (cloth).

Dierkes-Thrun, Petra. Salome's Modernity: Oscar Wilde and the Aesthetics of Transgression. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2011. Pp. x + 247. $65.00 (cloth).

Dolinar, Brian. The Black Cultural Front: Black Writers and Artists of the Depression Generation. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2012. Pp. x + 277. $60.00 (cloth).

Eastham, Andrew. Aesthetic Afterlives: Irony, Literary Modernity and the Ends of Beauty. New York: Continuum, 2011. Pp. ix + 257. $120.00 (cloth).

Ebeling, Florian. The Secret History of Hermes Trismegistus: Hermeticism from Ancient to Modern Times. Trans. David Lorton. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2011. Pp. xiii + 158. $19.95 (paper).

Gasyna, George Z. Polish, Hybrid, and Otherwise: Exilic Discourse in Joseph Conrad and Witold Gombrowicz. New York: Continuum, 2011. Pp. xii + 276. $120.00 (cloth).

Gavin, Adrienne E. And Carolyn W. de la L. Oulton, eds. Writing Women of the "Fin de Siècle: Authors of Change. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. Pp. xviii + 228. $85.00 (cloth).

Getsy, David J., ed. From Diversion to Subversion: Games, Play, and Twentieth-Century Art. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2011. Pp. xvi + 215. $74.95 (paper).

Gibson, Andrew. Samuel Beckett. London: Reaktion Books, 2010. Pp. 205. $16.75 (paper).

Gibson, Andrew. Intermittency: The Concept of Historical Reason in Recent French Philosophy. With a Foreword by Jean-Jacques Lecercle. Pp. xvii + 327. $105.00 (cloth).

Gillespie, Michael Patrick. Foundational Essays in James Joyce Studies. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2011. Pp. xi + 277. $74.95 (cloth).

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