Books Received

Derrida:A Biography. By Benoît Peeters. Translated by Andrew Brown. Cambridge: Polity, 2013. 629 pp. Cloth. No price given.

The Properties of Violence:Claims to Ownership in Representations of Lynching. By Sandy Alexandre. Jackson: Univ. Press of Mississippi, 2013. 235 pp. $55 (cloth).

Visionary Women Writers of Chicago’s Black Arts Movement. By Carmen L. Phelps. Jackson: Univ. Press of Mississippi, 2013. 188 pp. $55 (cloth).

Constellation:Friedrich Nietzsche and Walter Benjamin in the Now-Time of History. By James McFarland. Bronx, NY: Fordham Univ. Press, 2012. 323 pp. $45 (cloth).

Encounters:Conversations of Life and Writing. By Hélène Cixous and Frédéric-Yves Jeannet. Translated by Beverley Bie Brahic. Malden, MA: Polity, 2013. 155 pp. Paper. No price given.

Formative Fictions:Nationalism, Cosmopolitanism, and the Bildungsroman. By Tobias Boes. Ithaca, NY: Cornell Univ. Press, 2012. 216 pp. $65 (cloth); $21 (paper).

Poe and the Remapping of Antebellum Print Culture. By J. Gerald Kennedy and Jerome McGann. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press, 2012. 296 pp. $45 (cloth).

Askenov and the Environs. edited by Lars Kleberg and Aleksei Semenenko. Stockholm: Södertörn Univ. Press, 2012. 242 pp. Paper. No Price given.

The Logic of Slavery:Debt, Technology, and Pain in American Literature. By Tim Armstrong. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2012. 252 pp. $27.99 (paper).

On Literary Worlds. By Eric Hayot. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2012. 202 pp. $27.95 (cloth).

Bestial Traces:Race, Sexuality, Animality. By Christopher Peterson. Bronx, NY: Fordham Univ. Press, 2012. 200 pp. $75 (cloth); $24 (paper).

The Great American Songbooks:Musical Texts, Modernism, and the Value of Popular Culture. By T. Austin Graham. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2013. 293 pp. $65 (cloth).

Modern Minority: Asian American Literature and Everyday Life. By Yoon Sun Lee. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2013. 226 pp. $74 (cloth).

The Battle of Britishness:Migrant Journeys, 1685 to Present. By Tony Kushner. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. 318 pp. $105 (cloth).

Rural Fictions, Urban Realities:A Geography of Gilded Age American Literature. By Mark Storey. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2013. 200 pp. $74 (cloth).

Locating Science Fiction. By Andrew Milner. Liverpool, UK: Liverpool Univ. Press, 2012. 244 pp. £70 (cloth).

Eudora Welty, Whiteness, and Race. edited by Harriet Pollack. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press, 2013. 288 pp. $69.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).

Thoreauvian Modernities:Transatlantic Conversations on an American Icon. Edited by François Specy, Laura Daddow Walls, and Michel Granger. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press, 2013. 296 pp. $69.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper); $24.95 (ebook).

A History of American Literature:From 1950 to the Present. By Linda Wagner-Martin. Malden, MA: John Wiley, 2013. 393 pp. Cloth. No price given.

Cardenio Between Cervantes and Shakespeare:The Story of a Lost Play, 2013. By Roger Chartier. Translated by Janet Lloyd. Malden, MA: Polity, 2013. 238 pp. Cloth. No price given.

Before the Law:Humans and Other Animals in a Biopolitical Frame. By Cary Wolfe. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2012. 143 pp. $20 (paper).

How Soon Is Now?Medieval Texts, Amateur Readers, and the Queerness of Time. By Carolyn Dinshaw. Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press, 2012. 251 pp. $84.95 (cloth); $23.95 (paper).

At the Borders of Sleep:On Liminal Literature. By Peter Schwenger. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2012. 184 pp. $22.50 (paper).

The Romance of Race:Incest, Miscegenation, and Multiculturalism in the United States, 1880–1930. By Jolie A. Sheffer. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers Univ. Press, 2013. 240 pp. $72 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).

Continuity and Change in Irish Poetry, 1966–2010. By Eric Falci. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2012. 233 pp. $90 (cloth).

The Covert Sphere:Secrecy, Fiction, and the National...