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New Literary History 35.1 (2004) 163-165



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THE PARTICULARS OF RAPTURE:An Aesthetics of the Affects. By Charles Altieri. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2004. 299 pp. $49.95 (cloth); $22.50 (paper).

THE FINER GRAIN:Essays in Honor of Mihály Szegedy-Maszák. Vol. 169, Uralic and Altaic Series. Edited by Richard Aczel and Péter Nemes. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University, Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies, 2003. 317 pp. $49 (cloth).

THE DEATH OF COMEDY. By Erich Segal. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003. 589 pp. $24.95 (paper).

THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO THE ITALIAN NOVEL. Edited by Peter Bondanella and Andrea Ciccarelli. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. $65 (cloth); $23 (paper).

MARK TWAIN & COMPANY:Six Literary Relations. By Leland Krauth. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2003. $34.95 (cloth).

THE CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY OF COLONIAL AMERICAN LITERATURES:Empire, Travel, Modernity. By Ralph Bauer. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. $65 (cloth).

BORDERS OF A LIP: Romanticism, Language, History, Politics. By Jan Plug. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2003. $55 (cloth).

DEAD FROM THE WAIST DOWN:Scholars and Scholarship in Literature and the Popular Imagination. By A. D. Nuttall. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003. 240 pp. $26 (paper).

IMAGES OF THE WOMAN READER IN VICTORIAN BRITISH AND AMERICAN FICTION. By Catherine J. Golden. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003. $55 (cloth).

EXPOSÉS AND EXCESSES:Muckraking in America, 1900-2000. By Cecelia Tichi. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003. 248 pp. $29.95 (cloth).

THE CLERK'S TALE. By Thomas Augst. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. $25 (paper).

SPIRITUAL SONNETS:A Bilingual Edition. By Gabrielle De Coignard. Translated by Melanie E. Gregg. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. 256 pp. $21 (paper).

JUREK BECKER:A Life in Five Worlds. By Sander Gilman. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. $30 (cloth). [End Page 163]

PROUST, BECKETT, AND NARRATION. By James H. Reid. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. $60 (cloth).

GENDER AND THE VICTORIAN PERIODICAL. By Hilary Fraser, Judith Johnston, Stephanie Green. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. $65 (cloth).

SELECTED WRITINGS OF AN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY VENETIAN WOMAN OF LETTERS. By Elisabetta Caminer Turra. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. 232 pp. $21 (paper).

THE LIFE OF WALTER DE LA MARE:Imagination of the Heart. By Theresa Whistler. Dulles, VA: Duckworth, 2004. 478 pp. $14.95 (paper).

ALEXANDER PUSHKIN:A Critical Study. By A. D. P. Briggs. Dulles, VA: Duckworth, 2003. 258 pp. $27 (paper).

EROTICISM IN ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL GREEK POETRY. By J. C. B. Petropoulos. Dulles, VA: Duckworth, 2004. 216 pp. $60 (cloth).

IMAGES OF BECKETT. By James Knowlson. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. $30 (cloth).

PATERNAL TYRANNY. By Arcangela Tarabotti. Translated by Letizia Panizza. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. 184 pp. $18 (paper).

KNOWLEDGE, POWER, AND DISCIPLINE:German Studies and National Identity. By Pier Carlo Bontempelli. Translated by Gabrielle Poole. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003. 304 pp. $68.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).

TEMPEST IN THE CARIBBEAN. By Jonathan Goldberg. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003. 240 pp. $52.95 (cloth); $18.95 (paper).

THE POETRY OF ASHER REICH:Portrait of a Hebrew Poet. By Yair Mazor. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2004. $39.95 (cloth); $17.95 (paper).

IDEALISM WITHOUT ABSOLUTES:Philosophy and Romantic Culture. Edited by Tilottama Rajan and Arkady Plotnitsky. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2004. $50 (cloth).

PAUL MOREL/D. H. LAWRENCE. Edited by Helen Baron. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. 324 pp. $100 (cloth).

NEW READINGS IN THEATRE HISTORY. By Jacky Bratton. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. $55 (cloth); $24 (paper).

A TIME TO EVERY PURPOSE:The Four Seasons in American Culture. By Michael Kammen. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. 400 pp. $39.95 (cloth). [End Page 164]

RACE AND TIME:American Women's Poetics from Antislavery to Racial Modernity. By Janet Gray. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2004. 332 pp. $44.95 (cloth).

CAMUS:The Stranger. By Patrick McCarthy. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. $43 (cloth); $15 (paper).

BECOMING BLACK:Creating Identity in the African Diaspora. By Michelle...

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