New Literary History

New Literary History 31.2 (2000) 381-384

Books Received

A Century of Sonnets: The Romantic-Era Revival. Edited by Paula R. Feldman and Daniel Robinson. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. 320 pp. $30 (cloth).

What Is a Woman? By Toril Moi. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. 517 pp. No price given.

Midcentury Quartet: Bishop, Lowell, Jarrell, Berrymand and the Making of a Postmodern Aesthetic. Edited by Thomas Travisano. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999. 328 pp. $35 (cloth).

In the Event: Reading Journalism, Reading Theory. By Deborah Esch. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999. 177 pp. $45 (cloth); $16.95 (paper).

Pictures of the Body: Pain and Metamorphosis. By James Elkins. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999. 347 pp. $65 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).

America's Shadow: An Anatomy of Empire. By William V. Spanos. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000. 280 pp. $19.95 (paper).

Women and British Aestheticism. Edited by Talia Schaffer and Kathy Alexis Psomiades. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2000. 320 pp. $68.50 (cloth); $19.50 (paper).

The Mysterious Barricades: Language and Its Limits. Edited by Ann E. Berthoff. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999. 191 pp. $45 (cloth).

In the King's Wake: Post-Absolutist Culture in France. By Jay Kaplan. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. 222 pp. $45 (cloth); $19 (paper).

Seamus Heaney. By Helen Vendler. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000. 188 pp. $12.95 (paper).

The Culture of Paranoia in Postwar America. By Timothy Melley. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000. 239 pp. $45 (cloth); $17.95 (paper).

Virginia Woolf Icon. By Brenda R. Silver. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. 374 pp. $19 (paper).

The Untimely Present: Postdictatorial Latin American Fiction and the Task of Mourning. By Idelber Avelar. Durham: Duke University Press, 2000. 293 pp. $49.95 (cloth); $17.95 (paper).

Objects of Desire. By Beryl Schlossman. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000. 235 pp. $39.95 (cloth).

Unrequited Conquests: Love and Empire in the Colonial Americas. By Roland Greene. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. 304 pp. $47 (cloth); $18 (paper).

Poetry at one Remove: Essays. By John Koethe. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000. 119 pp. $14.95 (paper).

Mikhail Bakhtin. By Kenneth Hirschkop. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. 332 pp. No price given.

Problems of Moral Philosophy. By Theodor W. Adorno. Edited by Thomas Schröder. Translated by Rodney Livingstone. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000. 224 pp. $39.50 (cloth).

Political Culture in the Reign of Elizabeth I: Queen and Commonwealth 1558 - 1585. By A. N. McLaren. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 272 pp. $54.95 (cloth).

Raymond Williams. By John Higgins. New York: Routledge, 2000. 229 pp. $23.99 (paper).

Dead Hands: Fictions of Agency, Renaissance to Modern. By Katherine Rowe. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000. 207 pp. $45 (cloth).

Sade. By Marcel Hénaff. Translated by Xavier Callahan. University of Minnesota Press, 1999. 324 pp. $19.95 (paper).

Tales from the Freudian Crypt: The Death Drive in Text and Context. By Todd Dufresne. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000. 229 pp. $49.50 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

Potentialities: Collected Essays. By Giorgio Agamben. Edited and translated by Daniel Heller-Roazen. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000. 307 pp. $55 (cloth); $18.95 (paper).

Scripts, Grooves, and Writing Machines: Representing Technology in the Edison Era. By Lisa Gitelman. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000. 282 pp. $49.50 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

Marcel Proust: A Life. By William C. Carter. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000. 946 pp. $35 (cloth).

Invisible Relations: Representations of Female Intimacy in the Age of Enlightenment. By Elizabeth S. Wahl. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000. 358 pp. $49.50 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

Nineteenth-Century Writings on Homosexuality: A Sourcebook. Edited by Chris White. New York: Routledge, 2000. 374 pp. $24.99 (paper).

Lacan and the Matter of Origins. By Shuli Barzilai. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000. 300 pp. $55 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

The Child, the State, and the Victorian Novel. By Laura C. Berrv. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2000. 199 pp. $32.50 (cloth).

The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche: Volume 11: Unpublished Writings from the Period...