Books Received

IMAGINARY ETHNOGRAPHIES: Literature, Culture, and Subjectivity. By Gabriele Schwab. New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 2012. 240 pp. $82.50 (cloth); $27.50 (paper); $21.99 (e-book).

THE POETRY OF THE POSSIBLE: Spontaneity, Modernism, and the Multitude. By Joel Nickels. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2012. 288 pp. $75 (cloth); $25 (paper).

FEVER READING: Affect and Reading Badley in the Early American Sphere. By Michael Millner. Lebanon: Univ. of New Hampshire Press, 2012. 216 pp. $85 (cloth); $35 (paper); $29.99 (e-book).

LIBERALISM AND THE CULTURE OF SECURITY: The Nineteenth-Century Rhetoric of Reform. By Katherine Henry. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama press, 2011. 213 pp. Cloth. No price given.

C. S. LEWIS AND THE MIDDLE AGES. By Robert Boenig. Kent, OH: Kent State Univ. Press, 2012. 181 pp. Cloth. No price given.

OUTLAW RHETORIC: Figuring Vernacular Eloquence in Shakespeare's England. By Jenny C. Mann. Ithaca, NY: Cornell Univ. Press, 2012. 249 pp. Cloth. No price given.

VEERING: A Theory of Literature. By Nicholas Royle. Edinburgh: Edinburgh Univ. Press, 2012. 221 pp. $32.50 (paper).

THE MOTHERLESS CHILD IN THE NOVELS OF PAULINE HOPKINS. By Jill Bergman. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press, 2012. 216 pp. $38.95 (cloth).

POETIC FORM: An Introduction. By Michael Hurley and Michael O'Neill. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2012. 245 pp. $25.99 (paper).

LOST SON: Hermann Broch's Letters to His Son, 1925-1928. Translated by John Hargraves. Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint Press, 2012. 240 pp. $26 (cloth).

PHILOSOPHY OF COMMUNICATION. Edited by Briankle G. Chang and Garnet C. Butchart. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2012. 674 pp. $65 (paper).

EVE ESCAPES. By Hélène Cixous. Malden, MA: Wiley, 2012. 166 pp. Paper. No price given.

THE CONCISE OXFORD COMPANION TO ENGLISH LITERATURE, 4^TH EDITION. Edited by Dinah Birch and Katy Hooper. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2012. 816 pp. $19.95 (paper).

ACTIVISM AND THE AMERICAN NOVEL: Religion and Resistance in Fiction by Women of Color. By Channette Romero. Charlottesville: Univ. of Virginia Press, 2012. 232 pp. $55 (cloth); $22.50 (paper); $55 (e-book).

HOW TO UNDERSTAND LITERARY THEORY BY WATCHING MOVIES. By Edward Tomarken. New York: Bloomsbury USA, 2012. 157 pp. $29.95 (paper).

THE WORLDS OF LANGSTON HUGHES: Modernism and Translation in the Americas. By Vera M. Kutzinski. Ithaca, NY: Cornell Univ. Press, 2012. 344 pp. $79.95 (cloth); $26.95 (paper).

ECOPOETICS: The Language of Nature, the Nature of Language. By Scott Knickerbocker. Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press, 2012. 208 pp. $26.95 (paper).

DICKENS AND MODERNITY: Essays and Studies. Edited by Juliet John. Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer, 2012. 232 pp. Cloth. No price given.

OXFORD DICTIONARY OF HUMOROUS QUOTATIONS, 4^TH EDITION. Edited by Ned Sherrin. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2012. 576 pp. $17.95 (paper).

BETWEEN PAGE AND SCREEN: Remaking Literature Through Cinema and Cyberspace. Edited by Kiene Brillenburg Wurth. Bronx, NY: Fordham Univ. Press, 2012. 330 pp. $90 (cloth); $35 (paper).

ANTEBELLUM AT SEA: Maritime Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century America. By Jason Berger. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2012. 352 pp. $75 (cloth); $25 (paper).

BORGES, BETWEEN HISTORY AND ETERNITY. By Hernán Díaz. New York: Continuum, 2012. 208 pp. $90 (cloth); $27.95 (paper).

THE OXFORD BOOK OF AMERICAN SHORT STORIES, 2^ND EDITION. Edited by Joyce Carol Oates. 873 pp. $21.95 (paper).

CHARLES BUKOWSKI. By David Stephen Calonne. London: Reaktion Books, 2012. 224 pp. $16.95 (paper).

FEMINISM, THE LEFT, AND POSTWAR LITERARY CULTURE. By Kathlene McDonald. Jackson: Univ. Press of Mississippi, 2012. 132 pp. $55 (cloth).

REDACTED: The Archives of Censorship in Transwar Japan. By Jonathan E. Abel. Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press, 2012. 376 pp. Cloth. No price given.

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