Books Received

WALLACE STEVENS AND THE DEMANDS OF MODERNITY: Toward a Phenomenology of Value. By Charles Altieri. Ithaca, NY: Cornell Univ. Press, 2013. 296 pp. $75 (cloth); $29.95 (paper).

ON HISTORICAL DISTANCE. By Mark Salber Phillips. New Haven, CT: Yale Univ. Press, 2013. 312 pp. $50 (cloth).

LITERATURE, RELIGION, AND THE EVOLUTION OF CULTURE, 1660-1780. By Howard D. Weinbrot. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2013. 371 pp. $60 (cloth); $60 (e-book).

DYING MODERN: A Meditation on Elegy. By Diana Fuss. Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press, 2013. 160 pp. $74.95 (cloth); $21.95 (paper).

SAMUEL BECKETT IN CONTEXT. Edited by Anthony Uhlmann. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2013. 456 pp. $99 (cloth).

THE BIRTH OF A JUNGLE: Animality in Progressive-Era U.S. Literature and Culture. By Michael Lund. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2013. 218 pp. Cloth. No price given.

RIVER INSIDE THE RIVER: Poems. By Gregory Orr. New York: Norton, 2013. 124 pp. $25.95 (cloth).

UNDER THE SHADOW: The Atomic Bomb and Cold War Narratives. By David Seed. Kent, OH: Kent State Univ. Press, 2013. 312 pp. $60 (cloth).

COMMON PRECEDENTS: The Presentness of the Past in Victorian Law and Fiction. By Ayelet Ben-Yishai. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2013. 191 pp. Cloth. No price given.

CIVIL RIGHTS IN THE WHITE LITERARY IMAGINATION: Innocence by Association. By Jonathan W. Gray. Oxford: Univ. Press of Mississippi, 2013. 164 pp. $55 (cloth).

NEOBAROQUE IN THE AMERICAS: Alternative Modernities in Literature, Visual Art, and Film. By Monika Kamp. Charlottesville: Univ. of Virginia Press, 2012. 392 pp. $69.50 (cloth); $29.50 (paper); $69.50 (e-book).

UNTOUCHABLE FICTIONS: Literary Realism and the Crisis of Caste. By Toral Jatin Gajarawala. Bronx, NY: Fordham Univ. Press, 2012. 258 pp. $85 (cloth); $24 (paper).

FICTIONS OF AUTONOMY: Modernism from Wilde to de Man. By Andrew Goldstone. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2013. 204 pp. Cloth. No price given.

RECLAIMING NOSTALGIA: Looking for Nature in American Literature. By Jennifer K. Ladino. Charlottesville: Univ. of Virginia Press, 2012. 288 pp. $59.50 (cloth); $24.50 (paper); $59.50 (e-book).

EMPIRE'S WAKE: Postcolonial Irish Writing and the Politics of Modern Literary Form. By Mark Quigley. Bronx, NY: Fordham Univ. Press, 2012. 250 pp. $45 (cloth).

AFTER TRANSLATION: The Transfer and Circulation of Modern Poetics Across the Atlantic. By Ignacio Infante. Bronx, NY: Fordham Univ. Press, 2012. 217 pp. $45 (cloth).

AN AESTHETIC EDUCATION IN THE ERA OF GLOBALIZATION. By Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, 2013. 624 pp. $19.95 (paper).

POETIC COMMUNITY: Avant Garde Activism and Cold War Culture. By Stephen Voyce. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 2013. 352 pp. $65 (cloth).

TONI MORRISON: An Ethical Poetics. BY YVETTE CHRISTIANSË. BRONX, NY: FORDHAM UNIV. PRESS, 2012. 307 pp. $85 (CLOTH); $28 (PAPER).

ON RELIGION AND MEMORY. Edited by Babette Hellemans, Willemien Otten, and Burcht Pranger. Bronx, NY: Fordham Univ. Press, 2012. 271 pp. $85 (cloth); $28 (paper).

SIGNATURE DERRIDA: Jacques Derrida. Edited and with a preface by Jay Williams. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2013. 435 pp. $27.50 (paper).

AESTHETIC ILLUSION IN LITERATURE AND OTHER MEDIA. Edited by Werner Wolf, Walter Bernhart, and Andreas Mahler. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2013. 390 pp. $114.75 (cloth).

BECOMING JOHN UPDIKE: Critical Reception, 1958-2010. By Laurence W. Mazzeno. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2013. 259 pp. $85 (cloth).

REPRESENTING THE "GOOD GERMAN" IN LITERATURE AND CULTURE AFTER 1945: Altruism and Moral Ambiguity. Edited by Pól Ó Dochartaigh and Christiane Schönfeld. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2013. 261 pp. $85 (cloth).

DOUBLE OBLIVION OF THE OURANG-OUTANG. By Hélène Cixous. Cambridge: Polity, 2013. 172 pp. No price given.