Books Received 4/16/03 - 7/15/03

Agathocleous, Tanya and Ann C. Dean, eds. 2003. Teaching Literature: A Companion . New York: Palgrave McMillan. $23.95 sc. xvi + 197 pp.

Barry, Peter. 2003. English in Practice: In Pursuit of English Studies . London: Arnold Publishers. $49.95 hc. xvi + 213 pp.

Bennett, Paula Bernat. 2003. Poets in the Public Sphere: The Emancipatory Project of American Women ’s Poetry, 1800-1900 . Princeton: Princeton University Press. $22.50 sc. xv + 264 pp.

Branch, Michael P. and Scott Slovic, eds. 2003. The Isle Reader: Ecocriticism, 1993-2003 . Athens: University of Georgia Press. $49.95 hc. $24.95 sc. xxiii + 360 pp.

Bray, Joe. 2003. The Epistolary Novel: Representations of Consciousness . Routledge Studies in 18th Century Literature. 2. New York: Routledge. $80.00 hc. vi + 153 pp.

Brearton, Fran. 2003. The Great War in Irish Poetry: W.B. Yeats to Michael Longley . New York: Oxford University Press. $85.00 hc. $28.95 sc. xii + 315 pp.

Brittan, Simon. 2003. Poetry, Symbol, and Allegory: Interpreting Metaphorical Language from Plato to the Present . Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press. $55.00 hc. $18.50 sc. xiii + 226 pp.

Caillois, Robert. 2003. The Edge of Surrealism: A Roger Caillois Reader . Ed. Claudine Frank. Durham: Duke University Press. $22.95 sc. ix + 423 pp.

Colby, Vineta. 2003. Vernon Lee: A Literary Biography . Victorian Literature and Culture. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press. $39.50 hc. xiv + 390 pp.

Darwish, Mahmoud. 2003. Unfortunately, It Was Paradise . Ed. and trans. by Munir Akash and Carolyn Forche. Berkeley: University of California Press. $39.95 hc. $16.95 sc. xix + 191 pp.

Di Leo, Jeffrey R., ed. 2003. Affiliations: Identity in Academic Culture . Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. $25.00 sc. ix + 265 pp.

Dooley, Gillian, ed. 2003. From a Tiny Corner in the House of Fiction: Conversations with Iris Murdoch . Columbia: University of South Carolina Press. $34.95 hc. xxx +267 pp.

Fenster,Thelma and Clare Lees, eds. 2002. Gender in Debate from the Early Middle Ages to the Renaissance . The New Middle Ages. 20. New York: Palgrave. $55.00 hc. xi + 292 pp.

Finkelberg, Margalit and Guy G. Stroumsa, eds. 2003. Homer, the Bible, and Beyond: Literary and Religious Canons in the Ancient World . Jerusalem Studies in Religion and Culture. 2. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers. $91.00 hc. 283 pp.

Flannagan, Roy. 2002. John Milton: A Short Introduction . Blackwell Introductions to Literature. 14. Malden: Blackwell Publishing. $19.95 sc. viii + 132 pp.

Furman, Jan, ed. 2003. Toni Morrison ’s Song of Solomon: A Casebook . Casebooks in Criticism. New York: Oxford University Press. $39.95 hc. $15.95 sc. ix + 276 pp.

Giannetti, Laura and Guido Ruggiero, ed. and trans. 2003. Five Comedies from the Italian Renaissance . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. $59.95 hc. $19.95 sc. xlii + 321 pp.

Giroux, Henry, ed. 2003. Public Spaces, Private Lives: Democracy Beyond 9/11 . Culture and Politics Series. 11. Lanham. Rowman & Littlefield. $17.95 sc. xviii + 204 pp.

Grossman, Jay. 2003. Reconstituting the American Renaissance: Emerson, Whitman, and the Politics of Representation . New Americanists. Durham: Duke University Press. $59.95 hc. $19.95 sc. xiii + 273 pp.

Guillermo, Artemio R., ed. 2003. Epic Tales of the Philippines: Tribal Lores of Filipinos . Lanham: University Press of America. $40.00 sc. xiv + 232 pp.

Harris, Rivkah. 2003. Gender and Aging in Mesopotamia: The Gilgamesh Epic and Other Ancient Literature . Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. $24.95 sc. xvi + 288 pp.

Hogan, Patrick Colm and Lalita Pandit, eds. 2003. Rabindranath Tagore: Universality and Tradition . Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. $52.50 hc. 297 pp.

Hogan, Patrick Colm. 2003. Cognitive Science, Literature, and the Arts: A Guide for Humanists . New York: Routledge. $19.95 sc. ix + 244 pp.

Jarmon, Laura. 2003. Wishbone: Reference and Interpretation in Black Folk Narrative . Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. $26.00 sc. xxxix + 372 pp.

Kaye, Richard. 2002. The Flirt ’s Tragedy: Desire Without End in Victorian and Edwardian Fiction . Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia. $32.00 hc. viii + 246 pp.

Knab, Timothy, ed. 2003. A Scattering of Jades: Stories, Poems, and Prayers of the Aztecs . Trans. Thelma Sullivan. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. $18.95 sc. 271 pp.

Knapp, John V. and Kenneth Womack, eds. 2003. Reading the Family Dance: Family Systems Therapy and Literary Study . Newark: University of Delaware Press. $55.00 hc. 333 pp.

Knapp, Liza and Amy Mandelker, eds. 2003. Approaches to Teaching Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina. Approaches to Teaching World Literature. New York: Modern Language Association. $37.50 hc. $18.50 sc. ix + 226 pp.

Knight, Denise D. and Cynthia J. Davis, eds. 2003. Approaches to Teaching Gilman ’s "The Yellow Wall-Paper " and "Herland ". Approaches to Teaching World Literature. New York. Modern Language Association. $37.50 hc. $18.50 sc. xvii + 198 pp.

Knight, Stephen. 2003. Robin Hood: A Mythic Biography . Ithaca: Cornell University Press. $25.00 hc. xxi + 247 pp.

Kushner, Eva. 2001. The Living Prism: Itineraries in Comparative Literature . Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press. $75.00 hc. xi + 338 pp.

Lewalski, Barbara. 2000. The Life of John Milton . Blackwell Critical Biographies. 12. Malden: Blackwell Publishing. $29.95 sc. xvii +777 pp.

Lovelace, J. Timothy. 2003. The Artistry and Tradition of Tennyson ’s Battle Poetry . Major Literary Authors. 28. New York: Routledge. $65.00 hc. xi + 187 pp.

MacDiarmid, Laurie J. 2003. T.S. Eliot ’s Civilized Savage: Religious Eroticism and Poetics . Major Literary Authors. 22. New York: Routledge. $70.00 hc. xxv + 190 pp.

Matar, Nabil I., ed. 2002. In the Land of the Christians: Arab Travel Writing in the 17th Century . New York: Routledge. $22.95 sc. xlviii + 229 pp.

McCulloh, Mark R. 2003. Understanding W. G. Sebald . Understanding Modern European and Latin American Literature. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press. $34.95 hc. xxiv + 193 pp.

McHenry, Elizabeth. 2003. Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies . New Americanists. Durham: Duke University Press. $18.95 sc. xiv + 423 pp.

Meyer, Stefan G. 2001. The Experimental Arabic Novel: Postcolonial Literary Modernism in the Levant . SUNY Series in Middle Eastern Studies. Albany: SUNY Press. $24.95 sc. xviii + 323 pp.

Morris, Adelaide. 2003. How to Live/What to Do: H.D. ’s Cultural Poetics . Urbana: University of Illinois Press. $34.95 hc. xiv + 258 pp.

Mostow, Joshua, ed. 2003. The Columbia Companion to Modern East Asian Literature . New York: Columbia University Press. $95.00 hc. x + 803 pp.

Najarian, James. 2003. Victorian Keats: Manliness, Sexuality, and Desire . New York: Palgrave. $62.00 hc. x + 240 pp.

Nunokawa, Jeff. 2003. Tame Passions of Wilde: The Styles of Masculine Desire . Princeton: Princeton University Press. $55.00 hc. $17.95 sc. vii + 169 pp.

Ohman, Richard. 2003. Politics of Knowledge: The Comercialization of the University, the Professions, and Print Culture . Fwd. by Janice Radway. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press. $65.00 hc. $22.95 sc. xxv + 292 pp.

Okpewho, Isidore, ed. 2003. Chinua Achebe ’s Things Fall Apart: A Casebook . Casebooks in Criticism. New York: Oxford University Press. $45.00 hc. $19.95 sc. viii + 275 pp.

Olson, Gary A. and Lynn Worsham, eds. 2003. Critical Intellectuals on Writing . Albany: SUNY Press. $54.50 hc. $17.95 sc. 209 pp.

Paris, Bernard J. 2003. Rereading George Eliot: Changing Responses to Her Experiments in Line . SUNY Series in Psychoanalysis and Culture. Albany: SUNY Press. $57.50 hc. $18.95 sc. xiii + 220 pp.

Roden, Frederick. 2002. Same-Sex Desire in Victorian Religious Culture . New York: Palgrave. $65.00 hc. ix + 254 pp.

Rothenberg, Molly Anne, Dennis Foster and Slavoj Zizek, eds. 2003. Perversion and the Social Relations . SIC. 4. Durham: Duke University Press. $59.95 hc. $19.95 sc. ix +226 pp.

Roy, Arundhati. 2003. War Talk . Cambridge: South End Press. $40.00 hc. $12.00 sc. 142 pp.

Royle, Nicholas. 2003. The Uncanny . New York: Taylor & Francis. $22.95 sc. xi + 340 pp.

Said, Edward. 2003. Freud and the Non-European . Intro. Christopher Bollas. New York: Verso. $19.00 hc. 84 pp.

Scala, Elizabeth. 2002. Absent Narratives, Manuscript Textuality and Literary Structure in Late Medieval England . The New Middle Ages. 20. New York: Palgrave. $59.95 hc. xix + 284 pp.

Shaheen, Mohammad. 2003. The Modern Arabic Short Story . 2nd Edition. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. $75.00 hc. $24.95 sc. xiv +285 pp.

Sherry, Vincent. 2003. The Great War and the Language of Modernism . New York: Oxford University Press. $45.00 hc. xiii + 395 pp.

Smith, Grahame. 2003. Charles Dickens: A Literary Life . Literary Lives. 40. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. $19.95 sc. xiv +190 pp.

Tokarczyk, Michelle M. and Irene Papoulis, eds. 2003. Teaching Composition/Teaching Literature: Crossing Great Divides . Studies in Composition and Rhetoric. 4. New York: Peter Lang. $29.95 sc. vii + 170 pp.

W.-L. Wee, C. J. 2003. Culture, Empire, and the Question of Being Modern . Lanham: Lexington Books. $26.95 sc. xviii + 231 pp.

Weinstock, Jeffrey A. 2003. The Pedagogical Wallpaper: Teaching Charlotte Perkins Gilman ’s The Yellow Wall-paper. New York: Peter Lang. $25.95 sc. viii + 162 pp.

Zilcosky, John. 2003. Kafka ’s Travels: Exoticism, Colonialism, and the Traffic of Writing . New York: Palgrave Macmillan. $59.95 hc. xvi + 289 pp.

Ziolkowski, Theodore. 2003. The Mirror of Justice: Literary Reflections of Legal Crises . Princeton: Princeton University Press. $24.95 sc. xiv + 322 pp.