Books Received

APRIL 16, 2014, TO JULY 15, 2014

Barton, John Cyril. 2014. Literary Executions: Capital Punishment and American Culture, 1820–1925. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. $49.95 hc. 330 pp.

Baxter, Jeannette, and David James, eds. 2014. Andrea Levy: Contemporary and Critical Perspectives. New York: Bloomsbury. $100.00 hc. $29.95 sc. 176 pp.

Bennett, Tanya Long. 2014. “I Have Been So Many People”: A Study of Lee Smith’s Fiction. Athens: University of Georgia Press. $29.95 sc. 120 pp.

Boisseron, Bénédicte. 2014. Creole Renegades: Rhetoric of Betrayal and Guilt in the Caribbean Diaspora. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. $74.95 hc. 225 pp.

Catani, Damian. 2014. Evil: A History in Modern French Literature and Thought. New York: Bloomsbury. $110.00 hc. 224 pp.

Chatterjee, Piya, and Sunaina Maira. 2014. The Imperial University: Academic Repression and Scholarly Dissent. Minneapolis: Univerisy of Minnesota Press. $90.00 hc. $29.95 sc. 400 pp.

Cofer, Jordan. 2014. The Gospel According to Flannery O’Connor: Examining the Role of the Bible in Flannery O’Connor’s Fiction. New York: Bloomsbury. $100.00 hc. 224 pp.

Das, Veena, et al., eds. 2014. The Ground Between: Anthropologists Engage Philosophy. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. $94.95 hc. $26.95 sc. 351 pp.

Drexler, Michael, and Ed White. 2014. The Traumatic Colonel: The Founding Fathers, Slavery, and the Phantasmatic Aaron Burr. New York: New York University Press. $79.00 hc. $24.00 sc. 288 pp.

Evans, Robert C. 2014. Perspectives on World War I Poetry. New York: Bloomsbury. $90.00 hc. $27.95 sc. 240 pp.

Fadda-Conrey, Carol. 2014. Contemporary Arab-American Literature: Transnational Reconfigurations of Citizenship and Belonging. New York: New York University Press. $75.00 hc. $23.00 sc. 272 pp.

Fahy, Thomas. 2014. Understanding Truman Capote. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press. $39.95 hc. 184 pp.

Fisher, Jay. 2014. The Annals of Quintus Ennius and the Italic Tradition. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. $69.95 hc. 206 pp.

Hubble, Nick, Philip Tew, and John McLeod. 2014. The 1970s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction. New York: Bloomsbury. $140.00 hc. 288 pp.

Alexander, Simone A. James. 2014. African Diasporic Women’s Narratives: Politics of Resistance, Survival, and Citizenship. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. $74.95 hc. 239 pp.

Jones, Catherine. 2014. An Introduction to the Chansons de Geste. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. $69.95 hc. 220 pp.

King, Lovalerie, and Shirley Moody-Turner. 2014. Contemporary African American Literature: The Living Canon. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. $85.00 hc. $30.00 sc. 392 pp.

King, Rosamond S. 2014. Island Bodies: Transgressive Sexualities in the Caribbean Imagination. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. $74.95 hc. 261 pp.

Lounsberry, Barbara. 2014. Becoming Virginia Woolf: Her Early Diaries and the Diaries She Read. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. $74.95 hc. 260 pp.

Morrison, James. 2014. Four Thousand Years of Shipwrecks in Literature and Film. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. $75.00 hc. 256 pp.

Moses, Omri. 2014. Out of Character: Modernism, Vitalism, Psychic Life. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. $65.00 hc. 296 pp.

Nash, Jennifer C. 2014. The Black Body in Ecstasy: Reading Race, Reading Pornography. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. $84.94 hc. $23.95 sc. 219 pp.

Pacheco, Anita, and David Johnson, eds. 2014. The Renaissance and Long Eighteenth Century. New York: Bloomsbury. $112.00 hc. $29.95 sc. 400 pp.

Phu, Thy, and Elspeth H. Brown, eds. 2014. Feeling Photography. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. $99.95 hc. $27.95 sc. 397 pp.

Potts, Jason, and Daniel Stout, eds. 2014. Theory Aside. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. $94.95 hc. $24.95 sc. 320 pp.

Roeder, Katherine. 2014. Wide Awake in Slumberland: Fantasy, Mass Culture, and Modernism in the Art of Winsor McCay. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi. $60.00 hc. 220 pp.

Sapiro, Gisèle. 2014. The French Writers’ War, 1940–1953. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. $119.95 hc. $34.95 sc. 740 pp.

Srivastava, Prem Kumari. 2014. Leslie Fiedler: Critic, Provocateur, Pop Culture Guru. Jefferson, NC: McFarland. $55.00 sc. 256 pp.

Stamant, Nicole. 2014. Serial Memoir: Archiving American Lives. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. $85.00...