Books Received 10/15/02 - 1/15/03

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Abbott, Megan E. 2003. The Street Was Mine: White Masculinity in Hardboiled Fiction and Film Noir. New York: Palgrave. ISBN 0-312-29481-6.

Alcorn Jr., Marshall W. 2002. Changing the Subject in English Class: Discourse and the Constructions of Desire. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press. ISBN 0-8093-2427-X.

Amber, Rob. 2002. Sodom Laurel Album. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 0-8078-2742-8.

Anderson, William S. and Lorina N. Quartarone, ed. 2002. Approaches to Teaching Vergil's Aeneid. New York: Modern Language Association. ISBN 0-87352-772-0.

Beaumont, Daniel. 2002. Slave of Desire: Sex, Love, and Death in The 1001 Nights. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. ISBN 0-8386-3874-0.

Belot, Adolphe. 2002. Mademoiselle Giraud, My Wife. New York: The Modern Language Association of America. ISBN 0-87352-799-2.

Black, J. David. Jodey Casticano, ed. 2002. The Politics of Enchantment: Romanticism, Media, and Cultural Studies. Waterloo, ONT: Wilfrid Laurier University Press. ISBN 0-88920-404-7.

Blamires, Alcuin & Gail C. Holian, ed. 2002. The Romance of the Rose Illuminated. Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studie. ISBN 0-86698-265-5.

Blanton, DeAnne and Lauren M. Cook. 2002. They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers in the American Civil War. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. ISBN 0-8071-2806-6.

Boyle, Anne. 2002. Strange and Lurid Bloom: A Study of the Fiction of Caroline Gordon. Teaneck: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. ISBN 0-8386-3932-1.

Burns, E. Jane. 2002. Courtly Love Undressed: Reading Through Clothes in Medieval French Culture. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 0-8122-3671-8.

Burrow, J.A. 2002. Gestures and Looks in Medieval Narrative. New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-81564-9.

Burt, Stephen. 2002. Randall Jarrell and His Age. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 0-231-12594-1.

Canagarajah, A. Suresh. 2002. A Geopolitics of Academic Writing. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. ISBN 0-8229-5794-9.

Casper, Scott E., Chaison, Joanne D., Groves, Jeffrey D., ed. 2002. Perspectives on American Book History: Artifacts and Commentary. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press. ISBN 1-55849-317-4.

Cottin, Sophie. Cohen, Margaret, ed. 2002. Claire D'Albe: An English Translation. New York: The Modern Language Association of America. ISBN 0-87352-926-x.

Crawford, Paul. 2002. Politics and History in William Golding: The World Turned Upside Down. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press. ISBN 0-8262-1416-9.

Debnath, Rupak. 2002. Introducing Stylistics. Kolkata, INDIA: The Modern Publishing Company. ISBN 81-7525-338-X.

DeCastro, Juan. 2002. Mestizo Nations: Culture, Race, & Conformity in Latin American Literature. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press. ISBN 0-8165-2192-1.

Duvall, John N. and Ann J. Abadie, ed. 2002. Faulkner and Postmodernism. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 1-57806-459-7.

Eaglestone, Robert. 2002. Doing English: A Guide for Literature Students. New York: Routledge Taylor & Francis. ISBN 0-415-28423-6.

Edwards, Justin D. 2003. Gothic Passages: Racial Ambiguity and the American Gothic. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press. ISBN 0-87745-824-3.

Eeckhout, Bart. 2002. Wallace Stevens and the Limits of Reading and Writing. Columbia: University of Missouri Press. ISBN 0-8262-1427-4.

Elliott, Michael A. and Claudia Stokes, ed. 2002. American Literary Studies: A Methodological Reader. New York: New York University Press. ISBN 0-8147-2216-4.

Fishkin, Shelley Fisher, ed. 2002. A Historical Guide to Mark Twain. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-513293-9.

Foley, John Miles. 2002. How to Read an Oral Poem. Chicago: University of Illinois Press. ISBN 0-252-07082-8.

Folsom, Ed, ed. 2002. Whitman East & West. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press. ISBN 0-87745-821-9.

Freeman, Elizabeth. 2002. The Wedding Complex: Forms of Belonging in Modern American Culture. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. ISBN 0-8223-2989-1.

Friedman, James, ed. 2002. Reality Squared: Televisual Discourse on the Real. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. ISBN 0-8135-2989-1.

Gallop, Jane. 2002. Anecdotal Theory. Durham: Duke University Press. ISBN 0-8223-3038-5.

Galperin, William H. 2002. The Historical Austen. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 0-8122-3687-4.

Glancy, Diane. 2002. Designs of the Night Sky. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 0-8032-2190-8.

Grant, Patrick. 2002. Literature, Rhetoric and Violence in Northern Ireland, 1968-98: Hardened to Death. New York: Palgrave. ISBN 0-333-79412-5.

Greenbaum, Andrea. 2002. Emancipatory Movements in Composition: A Rhetoric of Possibility. New York: State University of New York Press. ISBN 0-7914-5438-X.

Greenblatt, Stephen. 2001. Hamlet in Purgatory. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-10257-0.

Griffin, Nicholas, ed. 2001. The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell: The Private Years, 1884-1914. New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-26014-0.

Griffin, Nicholas, ed. 2001. The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell: The Public Years, 1914-1970. New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-26012-4.

Hammons, Pamela S. 2002. Poetic Resistance: English Women Writers and the Early Modern Lyric. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing. ISBN 0-7546-0780-1.

Harris, Susan K. 2002. The Cultural Work of the Late Nineteenth-Century Hostess. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 0-312-29529-4.

Harris-Lopez, Trudier. 2002. South of Tradition: Essays on African American Literature. Athens: University of Georgia Press. ISBN 0-8203-2433-7.

Henderson, Carol E. 2002. Scarring the Black Body: Race and Representation in African American Literature. Columbia: University of Missouri Press. ISBN 0-8262-1421-5.

Higgins, Lesley. 2002. The Modernist Cult of Ugliness: Aesthetic and Gender Politics. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 0-312-24037-6.

Hill, Daniel Delis. 2002. Advertising to the American Woman: 1900-1999. Columbus: Ohio State University Press. ISBN 0-8142-0890-8.

Hirschmann, Nancy J. 2002. The Subject of Liberty: Toward a Feminist Theory of Freedom. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-09625-2.

Hobson, Fred, ed. 2002. South to the Future: An American Region in the Twenty-First Century. Athens: University of Georgia Press. ISBN 0-8203-2411-6.

Hodgson-Wright, Stephanie, ed. 2003. Women's Writing of the Early Modern Period, 1588-1688: An Anthology. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 0-231-12785-5.

Hoover, Sharon, ed. 2002. Willa Cather Remembered. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 0-8032-7333-9.

Jenkins, Henry; Tara McPherson, Jane Shattuc, ed. 2003. HOP ON POP: the Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture. Durham: Duke University Press. ISBN 0-8223-2737-6.

Joseph, Miranda. 2002. Against the Romance of Community. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 0-8166-3796-2.

Klock, Geoff. 2002. How to Read Superhero Comics and Why. New York: Continuum. ISBN 0-8264-1419-2.

Kolin, Philip, ed. 2002. The Undiscovered Country: The Later Plays of Tennessee Williams. New York: Peter Lang. ISBN 0-8204-51304.

Landon, Brooks. 2002. Science Fiction After 1900: From the Steam Man to the Stars. New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-93888-0.

Lane, Jim. Andrews, William L., ed. 2002. The Autobiographical Documentary in America. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 0-299-17654-1.

Lanier, Douglas. 2002. Shakespeare and Modern Popular Culture. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-818706-8.

Levine, Robert S., ed. 2003. Martin R. Delany: A Documentary Reader. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 0-8078-2763-0.

Lipkin, Steven N. 2002. Real Emotional Logic: Film and Television Docudrama as Persuasive Practice. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press. ISBN 0-8093-2409-1.

Loomba, Ania. 2002. Shakespeare, Race, and Colonialism. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-871174-3.

Lopez, Kimberle S. 2002. Latin American Novels of Conquesst: Reinventing the New World. Columbia: University of Missouri Press. ISBN 0-8262-1408-8.

Lykogiannis, Athanasios. 2002. Britain and the Greek Economic Crisis 1944-1947: From Liberation to the Truman Doctrine. Columbia: University of Missouri Press. ISBN 0-8262-1422-3.

Mack, Stephen John. 2002. The Pragmatic Whitman. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press. ISBN 0-87745-822-7.

Marks, Kathleen. 2002. Toni Morrison's Beloved and the Apotropaic Imagination. Columbia: University of Missouri Press. ISBN 0-8262-1437-1.

Marrs, Suzanne. 2002. One Writer's Imagination: The Fiction of Eudora Welty. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. ISBN 0-8071-2801-5.

Marshall, Gail. 2002. Victorian Fiction: Contexts. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-3407-6329-9.

McDonald, Christina Russell and Robert L. McDonald, ed. 2002. Teaching Writing: Landmarks and Horizons. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press. ISBN 0-8093-2454-7.

McGill, Meredith. 2002. American Literature and the Culture of Reprinting 1834-1853. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 0-8122-3698-X.

McKeon, Michael. Intro. Michael McKeon, ed. 2002. The Origins of the English Novel 1600-1740 (15th Anniversary Edition). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0-8018-6959-5.

McWilliams, Dean. 2002. Charles W. Chestnutt and the Fictions of Race. Athens: The University of Georgia Press. ISBN 0-8203-2435-3.

Miller, Dean A. 2002. The Epic Hero. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0-8018-7094-1.

Miyoshi, Masao and Harootunian, H.D., ed. 2002. Learning Places: The Afterlives of Area Studies. Durham: Duke University Press. ISBN 0-8223-2840-2.

Morgan, Jack. 2002. The Biology of Horror: Gothic Literature and Film. Carbondale, Il: Southern Illinois University Press. ISBN 0-8093-2471-7.

Nayder, Lillian. 2002. Unequal Partners: Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, & Victorian Authorship. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. ISBN 0-8014-3925-6.

Nochimson, Martha P. 2002. Screen Couple Chemistry: The Power of 2. Austin: University of Texas Press. ISBN 0-292-75579-1.

Olson, Gary A. 2002. Justifying Belief: Stanley Fish and the Work of Rhetoric. Ithaca, NY: State University of New York Press. ISBN 0-7914-5612-9.

Owens, Derek. Downing, David B., ed. 2002. Composition and Sustainability: Teaching for a Threatened Generation. Urbana: National Council of Teachers of English. ISBN 0-8141-0037-6.

Pease, Bob and Keith Pringle, ed. 2001. A Man's World? Changing Men's Practices in a Globalized World. New York: Zed Books. ISBN 1-85649-912-X.

Pease, Donald E. and Robyn Wiegman, ed. 2002. The Futures of American Studies. Durham: Duke University Press. ISBN 0-8223-2965-4.

Pifer, Ellen, ed. 2002. Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita: A Casebook. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-515033-3.

Prats, Armando Jose. 2002. Invisible Natives: Myth & Identity in the American Western. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. ISBN 0-8014-8754-4.

Reddy, Maureen T. 2002. Traces, Codes, and Clues: Reading Race in Crime Fiction. Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers University Press. ISBN 0-8135-3202-7.

Roscoe, Jane and Craig Hight. 2001. Faking It: Mock-documentary and the subversion of factuality. New York: University of Manchester Press. ISBN 0-7190-5640-3.

Said, Edward W. 2002. Reflections on Exile and Other Essays. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-00997-5.

San Juan, Jr., E. Pease, Donald E., ed. 2002. Racism and Cultural Studies: Critiques of Multiculturalist Ideology and the Politics of. Durham: Duke University Press. ISBN 0-8223-2866-6.

Schrempp, Gregory and Hansen, William, ed. 2002. Myth: A New Symposium. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. ISBN 0-253-34158-2.

Sifuentes-Jauregui, Ben. 2002. Transvestism, Masculinity, and Latin American Literature. New York: Palgrave. ISBN 0-312-29441-7.

Stanfield, Peter. 2002. Horse Opera: The Strange History of the 1930s Singing Cowboy. Chicago: University of Illinois Press. ISBN 0-252-07049-6.

Stewart, Matthew. 2001. Modernism and Tradition in Ernest Hemingway's "In Our Time": A Guide for Students and Readers. Rochester, NY: Camden House. ISBN 1-57113-017-9.

Testa, Carlo. 2002. Master of Two Arts: Re-Creation of European Literatures in Italian Cinema. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 0-802-03640-6.

Trout, Steven. 2002. Memorial Fictions: Willa Cather and the First World War. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 0-8032-4442-8.

Tuana, Nancy, William Cowling, Maurice Hamington, Greg Johnson, and Terrance MacMullan, ed. 2002. Revealing Male Bodies. Indianapolis: Indiana University Press. ISBN 0-253-33991-X.

Tymoczko, Maria and Edwin Gentzler, ed. 2002. Translation and Power. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press. ISBN 1-55849-358-1.

Ulea, V. 2002. A Concept of Dramatic Genre and the Comedy of a New Type. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press. ISBN 0-8093-2452-0.

Varnum, Robin and Gibbons, Christina T., ed. 2002. The Language of Comics: Word and Image. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 1-57806-414-7.

Wallace, Maurice O. 2002. Constructing the Black Masculine: Identity and Ideality in African American Men's Literature and Culture, 1775-1995. Durham: Duke University Press. ISBN 0-8223-2869-0.

Wegner, Phillip E. 2002. Imaginary Communities: Utopia, the Nation, and the Spatial Histories of Modernity. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-22829-4.

Weiss, Allen. 2002. Breathless: Sound Recording, Disembodiment, and the Transformation of Lyrical Nostalgia. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press. ISBN 0-8195-6592-X.

West, Thomas R. 2002. Signs of Struggle: The Rhetorical Politics of Cultural Difference. New York: State University of New York Press. ISBN 0-7914-5298-0.

Wexman, Virginia Wright, ed. 2002. Film and Authorship (Depth of Film). New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. ISBN 0-8135-3193-4.

Whited, Lana, ed. 2003. The Ivory Tower and Harry Potter: Perspectives on a Literary Phenomenon. Columbia: University of Missouri Press. ISBN 0-8262-1443-6.

Wiegman, Robin, ed. 2002. Women's Studies on Its Own. Durham: Duke University Press. ISBN 0-8223-2986-7.

Wilson, Donna F. 2002. Ransom, Revenge, and Heroic Identity in the Iliad. New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-5218-0660-7.

Wolosky, Shira. 2001. The Art of Poetry: How to Read a Poem. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-1951-3870-8.