August 2004

Athenian democracy; edited by P. J. Rhodes. Oxford Univ. Press 2004 358p (Edinburgh readings on the ancient world) $85.00; pa $16.00

ISBN 0-19-522139-7; 0-19-522140-0; LC 20042169

Focuses on the political institutions, political activity, history, and nature of Athenian democracy.

Celluloid couches, cinematic clients: pyschoanalysis and psychotherapy in the movies. State University of New York Press 2004 250p il (SUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture) $73.50; pa $24.95

ISBN 0-7914-6081-9; 0-7914-6082-7; LC 2003-59573

Explores how therapy and therapists have been portrayed in the movies over the last seventy-five years. Includes discussions of films such as Secrets of a soul, Spellbound, and Girl, interrupted.

Conroy, Mark

Muse in the machine: American fiction and mass publicity. The Ohio State Univ. Press 232p $42.95; pa $42.95

ISBN 0-8142-0962-9; LC 2004-2172

Henry James, Don DeLillo, Nathanael West, Vladimir Nabokov, and Thomas Pynchon are the authors discussed.

Critical essays on contemporary European culture and society; edited by Ursula E. Beitter. Lang, P.2003 234p $65.95

ISBN 0-8204-6748-0; LC 2003-11713

Examines the challenges involved in immigration to Europe raised by efforts to integrate minorities into the fabric of European society.

Eco-man: new perspectives on masculinity and nature; edited by Mark Allister. University of Virginia Press 2004 273p (Under the sign of nature) $59.50; pa $22.50

ISBN 0-8139-2304-2; 0-8139-2305-0; LC 2004-2631

Essays discuss whether the notion of manhood can be constructed around ecological principles and practices, what this would look like, and how it would enrich men's studies.

Elsden, Annamaria Formichella

Roman fever: domesticity and nationalism in nineteenth-century American women’s writing. The Ohio State University Press 2004 155p $49.95; pa $21.95

ISBN 0-8142-0946-7; 0-8142-5117-X; LC 2003-25904

Discusses the works of Catherine Maria Sedgewick, Margaret Fuller, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Sophia Peabody Hawthorne, and Constance Fenimore Woolson.

Enduring legacies: Native American treaties and contemporary controversies; edited by Bruce E. Johansen; foreword by Vine Deloria, Jr. Praeger 2004 365p $49.95

ISBN 0-313-32104-3; LC 2003-64908

Topics include Wounded Knee, the Iroquois land claims, the Treaty of Canandaigua, and the Antitreaty Movement.

Framing public memory; edited by Kendall R. Phillips. The University of Alabama Press 2004 269p (Rhetoric, culture, and social critique) $42.50

ISBN 0-8173-1389-3; LC 2003-22013

Essays discuss the scope of public memory, the ways we forget, the relationship between politics and memory, and the material practices of memory.

Hegel and contemporary continental philosophy; edited by Dennis King Keenan. State University of New York Press 2004 457p (SUNY series in contemporary Continental philosophy) $86.50; pa $29.95

ISBN 0-7914-6091-6; 0-7914-6092-4; LC 2004-6978

Analyzes the works of Georg Lukacs, Jacques Lacan, Theodore W. Adorno, Jacques Derrida, and others.

Jeffs, William Patrick

Feminism, manhood, and homosexuality: intersections in psychoanalysis and American poetry. Lang, P. 2003 172p (Sexuality and literature, vol. 3) $57.95

ISBN 0-8204-1999-0; LC 2003-5874

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Allen Ginsberg, and Adrienne Rich are the authors discussed.

Leadership and responsibility in the Second World War: essays in honour of Robert Vogel; edited by Brian P. Farrell. McGill-Queen’s Univ. Press 2004 273p $75.00; pa $22.95

ISBN 0-7735-2643-9; 0-7735-2731-1

Discusses the role of Neville Chamberlain and his Conservative Party at the outbreak of the war, the reasons why the British failed to reach an alliance with the Soviet Union in 1939, and the motives that drove Claus von Stauffenberg to attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler.

Levine, Caroline

The serious pleasures of suspense: Victorian realism and narrative doubt. University of Virginia Press 2003 237p (Victorian literature and culture series) $39.50

ISBN 0-8139-2217-8; LC 2003-797

Ruskin, Bronte, Eliot, and Dickens are among the authors analyzed.

Melville & Milton: an edition and analysis of Melville’s annotations on Milton; edited by Robin Grey. Duquesne Univ. Press 2004 210p $58.00

ISBN 0-8207-0352-4; LC 2003-22996

Contributors include Bryan C. Short, Leslie E. Sheldon, Robin Grey, John T. Showcross, and David V. Urban.

The Ongoing Civil War: new versions of old stories; edited with an introduction by Herman Hattaway and Ethan S. Rafuse. University of Missouri Press 2004 164p (Shades of blue and grey series) $32.50

ISBN 0-8262-1524-6; LC 2004-5310

Includes discussions on McClellan, von Clausewitz, Franklin Pierce, and Sherman.

Out of context: American artists abroad; edited by Laura Felleman Fattal and Carol Salus. Praeger 2004 176p il (Contributions to the study of art and architecture, no. 8) $65.95

ISBN 0-313-31649-X; LC 2002-24478

Looks at the works of Whistler, Cassatt, Klumpke, Sargent, Kitaj, and others.

P/herversions: critical studies of Ana Rossetti; edited by Jill Robbins. Bucknell Univ. Press 2004 275p $52.50

ISBN 0-8387-5567-4; LC 2004-1396

Silvia Bermudez, Tina Escaja, Andrew P. Debicki, Sharon Keefe Ugalde, and John C. Wilcox are among the contributing essayists.

Power and responsibility in world affairs: reformation versus transformation; edited by Cathal J. Nolan. Praeger 2004 251p (Humanistic perspectives on international relations) $79.95

ISBN 0-275-96669-0; LC 2004-44386

Topics include international law, sovereignty, American interests during the Cold War, China under Deng and Mao, and international criminal law.

Ranciere, Jacques

The flesh of words: the politics of writing. Stanford Univ. Press 2004 169p (Atopia) $50.00; pa $19.95

ISBN 0-8047-4078-X; 0-8047-4069-0; LC 2003-25734

Authors discussed include Wordsworth, Rimbaud, Balzac, and Proust.

Rios-Font, Wadda C.

Configuring literature in modern Spain. Bucknell University Press 2004 275p $49.00

ISBN 0-8387-5554-2; LC 2003-60691

Includes discussions on the works of Benito Galdos, Agustin de Foxa, Ramon J. Sender, and Manuel Vasquez Montalban.

Salomon, Nanette

Shifting priorities: gender and genre in seventeenth-cnetury Dutch painting. Stanford Univ. Press 2004 163p il $65.00; pa $27.95

ISBN 0-8047-4476-9; 0-8047-4477-7; LC 2003-25165

Vermeer, Molenaer, Steen, and van Ostade are among the artists discussed.

Shifting the scene: Shakespeare in European culture; edited by Ladina Bezzola Lambert and Balz Engler. University of Delaware Press 2004 308p $55.00

ISBN 0-87413-860-4; LC 2003-20073

Contributors explore the impact of Shakespeare’s work on European national literatures since the late eighteenth century.

Solie, Ruth A.

Music in other words: victorian conversations. University of Calif. Press 2004 223p (California studies in 19th-century music; 12) $39.95

ISBN 0-520-23845-1; LC 2003-3889

Examines journalism, novels, etiquette manuals, religious tracts, and teenagers' diaries for conversations that reveal what music meant to the Victorians.

Voskuil, Lynn M.

Acting naturally: Victorian theatricality and authenticity. University of Virginia Press 2004 268p (Victorian literature and culture series) $35.00

ISBN 0-8139-2269-0; LC 2003-20183

The conduct of audiences at sensation theater in the 1860s, political debates over the Eastern Question in the 1870s, and the cult of personality that shaped the popularity of stage actors Henry Irving and Ellen Terry in the late 1880s are among the topics analyzed.

Women, property, and the letters of the law in early modern England; edited by Nancy E. Wright, Margaret W. Ferguson, A.R. Buck. University of Toronto Press 2004 316p $65.00

ISBN 0-8020-8757-4

Contributors explore women’s complex roles as subjects and agents in commercial and domestic economies, and as objects shaped by a network of social and legal relationships.

Wonham, Henry B.

Playing the races: ethnic caricature and American literary realism. Oxford Univ. Press 2004 196p il $45.00

ISBN 0-19-516194-7; LC 2003-12834

Looks at ethnic abstractions within works by Mark Twain, Henry James, Edith Wharton, and Charles Chesnutt.