January 2004

The Apocalyptic year 1000: religious expectation and social change, 950-1050; edited by Richard Landes, Andrew Gow, and David C. Van Meter. Oxford Univ. Press 2003 360p $72.00; pa $35.00

ISBN 0-19-511191-5; 0-19-516162-9; LC 2002-42550

Contributors include Umberto Eco, Johannes Fried, Yves Christe, and Malcolm Godden

Art and essence; edited by Stephen Davies and Ananta Ch. Sukla. Praeger 2003 253p (Studies in art, culture, and communities) $69.95

ISBN 0-275-97766-8; LC 2002-190813

Essays discuss philosophical definability of art through theoretical, historical, cross-cultural, and evolutionary perspectives.

Clayton, Jay

Charles Dickens in cyberspace: the afterlife of the nineteenth century in postmodern culture. Oxford Univ. Press 2003 270p il

$35.00

ISBN 0-19-516051-7; LC 2002-11755

Examines link between the Victorian era and the present through literature, science, popular culture, and postmodern thinkers.

Children’s literature and the fin de siecle; edited by Roderick McGillis. Praeger 2003 217p (Contributions to the study of world literature no. 113) $59.95

ISBN 0-313-32120-5; LC 2001-57727

Topics include poetry, series books, pacifist fiction, gender issues, ecocriticism, minority experiences, fantasy, science fiction, and computer culture.

Creative dissent: psychoanalysis in evolution; edited by Alan Roland, Barry Ulanov, and Claude Barbre. Praeger 2003 280p $59.95

ISBN 0-275-98061-8; LC 2003-53026

Essayists discuss analyst's freedom and imagination, the use of humor and play, and the importance of small talk, as well as new perspectives on understanding and working with trauma.

Everly, Kathryn A.

Catalan women writers and artists: revisionist views from a feminist space. Bucknell Univ. Press; Associated University Presses 2003 234p $45.00

ISBN 0-8387-5530-5; LC 2002-26177

Discusses the works of Merce Rodoreda, Remedios Varo, Montserrat Roig, and Carme Riera.

The Grand permission: new writings on poetics and motherhood; edited by Patricia Dienstfrey and Brenda Hillman. Wesleyan Univ. Press 2003 278p $70.00; pa $24.95

ISBN 0-8195-6643-8; 0-8195-6644-6

Contributors include poets Toi Derricotte, Kimiko Hahn, Alicia Ostriker, and Susan Griffin.

Haidu, Peter

The subject medieval/modern: text and governance in the Middle Ages. Stanford Univ. Press 2004 446p (Figurae) $65.00 pa $27.95

ISBN 0-8047-4743-1; 0-8047-4744-X; LC 2003-20557

Explores the works of Chretien de Troyes, Christine de Pizan and Francois Villon.

Jarrell, Bishop, Lowell, & Co.: middle-generation poets in context; edited by Suzanne Ferguson. University of Tenn. 2003 335p $38.00

ISBN 1-572-33229-8; LC 2003-4105

Essays discuss the literary, personal, and political affiliations of Randall Jarrell, Elizabeth Bishop, and Robert Lowell.

John Dryden (1631-1700): his politics, his plays, and his poets; edited by Claude Rawson and Aaron Santesso. University of Del; Associated Univ. Presses 2004 301p $52.50

ISBN 0-87413-842-6; LC 2003-9220

Examines the politics of Dryden’s plays and his position between ancient and modern influences.

Kallendorf, Hilaire

Exorcism and its texts: subjectivity in early modern literature of England and Spain. University of Toronto Press 2003 327p il (University of Toronto romance series) $65.00

ISBN 0-8020-8817-1

Includes analysis of works of Shakespeare, Cervantes, Ben Johnson, and Lope de Vega.

Living with the genie: essays on technology and the quest for human mastery; edited by Alan Lightman, Daniel Sarewitz, and Christina Desser. Island Press 2003 347p $27.00

ISBN 1-55963-419-7; LC 2003-16782

Richard Rhodes, Ray Kurzweil, Richard Powers, and Christina Desser are among the contributing essayists.

McManus, Donald

No kidding!: clown as protagonist in twentieth-century theater. University of Del. Press; Associated Univ. Presses 2003 190p $39.50

ISBN 0-87413-808-6; LC 2003-4112

Looks at experiments with the clown in the works of Fo, Begnini, Strehler, Beckett, Brecht, Cocteau, and Myerhold.

Medieval virginities; edited by Anke Bernau, Ruth Evans, and Sarah Salih. University of Toronto Press 2003 296p $50.00; pa $24.95

ISBN 0-8020-8960-7; 0-8020-8637-3

Discusses mysticism and the erotic, masculinity and knighthood, the medieval physician, the cult of St. Edmund, chastity tests, the St. Barbara Altar, the Eucharist, virginity in legal records, and the sheela-na-gig figure.

The Mind of modernism: medicine, psychology, and the cultural arts in Europe and America, 1880-1940; edited and introduced by Mark S. Micale. Stanford Univ. Press 2004 455p il $65.00; pa $26.95

ISBN 0-8047-4577-3; 0-847-4797-0; LC 2003-18430

French cabaret, early cinema, Freud, Marinetti, Bergson, and Kafka are among the topics discussed.

Monuments to the lost cause: women, art, and the landscapes of southern memory; edited by Cynthia Mills and Pamela H. Simpson. University of Tenn. Press 2003 265p il $45.00

ISBN 1-57233-272-7; 2002-155367

Traces the origins, objectives, and changing consequences of Confederate monuments over time and the dynamics of individuals and organizations that sponsored them.

Music and mathematics: from Pythagoras to fractals; edited by John Fauvel, Raymond Flood, and Robin Wilson. Oxford Univ. Press 2003 189p $74.50

ISBN 0-19-851187-6

Topics include musical sound, Kepler, Helmholtz, and microtones.

Myers, David N.

Resisting history: historicism and its discontents in German-Jewish thought. Princeton Univ. Press 2003 253p (Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the ancient to the modern world) $29.95

ISBN 0-691-11593-1; LC 2003-49790

Examines the new historicist thinking in the nineteenth century, and analyzes the critical responses of Hermann Cohen, Franz Rosenzweig, Leo Strauss, and Isaac Breuer.

Re-visions of Shakespeare: essays in honor of Robert Ornstein; edited by Evelyn Gajowski. University of Del. Press; Associated Univ. Presses 2004 298p $52.50

ISBN 0-87413-855-8; LC 2003-13600

Analyzes such works as Titus Andronicus, Cymbeline, As you like it, and Richard II.

September 11 in history: a watershed moment? edited by Mary L. Dudziak. Duke Univ. Press 2003 240p il (American encounters global interactions) $79.95; pa $22.95

ISBN 0-8223-3229-9; 0-8223-3242-6; LC 2003-10840

Essays analyze terms like Ground Zero, Homeland, and "the Axis of Evil" , as well as discussing the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay and other topics.

Taketani, Etsuko

U.S. women writers and the discourses of colonialism, 1825-1861. University of Tenn. Press 2003 236p il $30.00

ISBN 1-572-33227-1; LC 2003-4039

Childhood and domestic colonialism, heterosexual national economy, opium addiction, and postcolonial Liberia are among the topics discussed.

Translation and ethnography: the anthropological challenge of intercultural understanding; edited by Tullio Maranhao and Bernard Streck. University of Arizona Press 2003 220p $50.00

ISBN 0-8165-2303-7; LC 2003-4707

Illustrates the translation process in less-common contexts: cultural, religious, and the translation of pain. Topics include mis-translations of Amerindian conceptions and practices in the Amazon, and dreams and clowns as translation media among the Gamk of Sudan.

Waddington, Raymond B.

Aretino’s satyr: sexuality, satire and self-protection in sixteenth-century literature and art. University of Toronto Press 2004 279p il (Toronto Italian studies) $60.00

ISBN 0-8020-8814-7

Looks at Aretino’s work through print culture, painting, bronze work, and other media.

Wallace, Anthony F. C.

Revitalizations and mazeways: essays on culture change, volume 1; edited by Robert S. Grumet. University of Neb. Press 2003 339p $60.00; pa $29.95

ISBN 0-8032-9836-6; 0-8032-4792-3; LC 2003-4579

Essays discuss how revitalization movements have shaped our understanding of the processes of change in religious and political organizations—from the nineteenth-century code of the Seneca prophet known as Handsome Lake to the origins of world religions and political faiths.

The War on our freedoms: civil liberties in an age of terrorism; edited by Richard C. Leone and Greg Anrig, Jr. Public Affairs 2003 317p pa $15.00

ISBN 1-58648-210-6; LC 2003-46681

Contributors include Alan Brinkley, Anthony Lewis, Kathleen Sullivan, and Roberto Suro.