September 2005

Analyzing inequality; life chances and social mobility in comparative perspective; edited by Stefan Svallfors. Stanford Univ. Press 2005 175p (Studies in social inequality) $45.00

ISBN 0-8047-5096-3; LC 2005-3181

Contributors discuss a variety of issues in empirical research on social inequality, life course, and cross-national comparative sociology.

Auto/biography in Canada: critical directions; Julie Rak, editor. Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press 2005 264p pa $32.95

ISBN 0-88920-478-0

Exploring the evolution of life narratives in Canada, this collection of essays covers such topics as queer Canadian autobiography, autism, newspaper death notices as biography, the Holocaust, and Grey Owl and authenticity.

Bohn, Willard

Marvelous encounters; surrealist responses to film, art, poetry, and architecture. Bucknell Univ. Press 2005 252p $50.00

ISBN 0-8387-5611-5; LC 2005-366

The author examines the critical poetry of surrealist poets writing in French, Spanish, and Catalan. Louis Aragon, Philippe Soupault, Benjamin Peret, and Paul Eluard are among the writers studied.

Butling, Pauline and Susan Rudy

Writing in our time; Canada’s radical poetries in English (1957-2003). Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press 2005 290p $37.95

ISBN 0-88920-430-6

The authors discuss such aspects in the genre of radical poetry as deconstructive poetics, concrete and sound poetry, and poetry inflected by gender, class, race, and sexuality.

The Cambridge companion to American judaism; edited by Dana Evan Kaplan. Cambridge Univ. Press 2005 462p $70.00, pa $27.99

ISBN 0-521-82204-1; 0-521-52951-4; LC 2004-24336

Contributors present a variety of perspectives regarding the historical and contemporary state of the American Jewish community. The role of the non-Jew in the synagogue, mixed-marriage ceremonies, and the ordainment of women are among the subjects included.

The Cambridge companion to ancient Greek law; edited by Michael Gagarin, David Cohen. Cambridge Univ. Press 2005 480p $85.00, pa $29.99

ISBN 0-521-81840-0; 0-521-52159-9; LC 2004-23792

The unity of Greek law, the role of writing in law, and aspects of procedural and substantive law in Athens, Crete, and Egypt are some of the topics covered in this study of Greek legal history.

Chen, Tina

Double agency; acts of impersonation in Asian American literature and culture. Stanford Univ. Press 2005 247p (Asian America) $50.00, pa $19.95

ISBN 0-8047-5185-4; 0-8047-5186-2; LC 2005-563

The author discusses how Asian Americans have had to perform articulated roles in mainstream culture in order to validate their identities as Asian Americans.

Darwinism & philosophy; edited by Vittorio Hosle and Christian Illies. University of Notre Dame Press 2005 392p $70.00, pa $35.00

ISBN 0-268-03072-3; 0-268-03073-1; LC 2005-16191

Contributors from the fields of geology, biology, philosophy, and psychology examine the philosophical implications of Darwinism.

A defining moment; the presidential election of 2004; edited by William Crotty. M.E. Sharpe 2005 268p $65.95, pa $25.95

ISBN 0-7656-1561-4; 0-7656-1562-2; LC 2005-3760

The author explores the campaigns and primary races of both John Kerry and George W. Bush in one of the closest and most contentious elections in the history of the United States.

Durham, Carolyn A.

Literary globalism; Anglo-American fiction set in France. Bucknell Univ. Press 2005 265p $47.50

ISBN 0-8387-5608-5; LC 2004-27217

Addressing issues of place and mobility, the author analyzes works by such writers as Rose Tremain, Joanne Harris, Claire Messud, Sarah Smith, and Edmund White.

Germany’s colonial pasts; edited by Eric Ames, Marcia Klotz, and Lora Wildenthal; foreword by Sander L. Gilman. University of Neb. Press 2005 255p (Texts and contexts)

$45.00

ISBN 0-8032-4819-9; LC 2005-9426

This collection of essays examines the legacies produced by Germany’s colonial and postcolonial pasts, and how those pasts continue to shape German culture and society.

Musicology, religion, film, race, the Weimar Republic, and Nazi Germany are among the topics studied.

Hack, Daniel

The material interests of the Victorian novel. University of Va. Press 2005 226p (Victorian literature and culture series) $39.50

ISBN 0-8139-2345-X; LC 2004-30848

Focusing on works by Dickens, Eliot, Thackeray, and Collins, the author investigates such issues of authorship in the mid-nineteenth century as the exchange of texts for money, signification, and the corporeality of writers, readers, and characters.

Jews on trial by Bruce Afran [et al.]; edited by Robert A. Garber. KTAV Publishing House, Inc. 2005 258p $25.00

ISBN 0-88125-868-7; LC 2004-19254

Essays present examples of anti-Semitism in an array of legal settings, including the murder case against Leopold Hilsner, the Supreme Court nomination of Louis Brandeis, the execution of a sixteenth-century Marrano physician, and the reknown case of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.

Keresztesi, Rita

Strangers at home; American ethnic modernism between the World Wars. University of Neb. Press 2005 224p $60.00

ISBN 0-8032-2767-1; LC 2005-3713

The author examines traditional conceptions of modernist literature produced in the period between the two world wars. Among the writers studied are Countee Cullen, Nella Larsen, Zora Neale Hurston, Henry Roth, Mourning Dove, and John Joseph Mathews.

Latin learning and English lore; studies in Anglo-Saxon literature for Michael Lapidge; edited by Katherine O’Brien O’Keeffe and Andy Orchard. University of Toronto Press 2005 (Toronto Old English series) 2v set $150.00

ISBN 0-8020-8919-4 (set)

This collection of essays explores the co-existence of Latin and Old English within the historical, literary, and cultural milieu of Anglo-Saxon England.

Letellier, Rovert Ignatius

Meyerbeer studies; a series of lectures, essays, and articles on the life and work of Giacomo Meyerbeer. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ. Press 2005 238p $47.50

ISBN 0-8386-4063-X: LC 2004-20446

The author, covering the life and career of the French opera singer, details his controversial reputation, his influence upon operatic history, and his complex friendship with Berlioz, his colleague on the Parisian scene.

Lyons, John D.

Before imagination; embodied thought from Montaigne to Rousseau. Stanford Univ. Press 2005 282p $55.00

ISBN 0-8047-5110-2; LC 2005-3042

The author investigates what imagination meant early modern Europe through the writings of such figures as Descartes, Montaigne, Pascal, Francois de Sales, and the Marquise de Sevigne.

Mount, Nick

When Canadian literature moved to New York. University of Toronto Press 2005 217p (Studies in book and print culture) $45.00

ISBN 0-8020-3828-X

The author discusses how and why Canadian literature emerged out of New York during the last decades of the nineteenth century. Among the writers explored are Bliss Carman, Ernest Thompson Seton, and Palmer Cox.

Natives making nation; gender, indigeneity, and the state in the Andes; edited by Andrew Canessa. The University of Arizona Press 2005 201p $45.00

ISBN 0-8165-2469-6; LC 2005-11398

Contributors examine the images and concepts, employed by politicians, the media, and schooling, that are produced and contested by people who populate the rural Andes and have been given the iconic marker of social and racial inferiority.

Ryan, Judylyn S.

Spirituality as ideology in Black women’s film and literature. University of Va. Press 2005 193p $49.50, pa $17.50

ISBN 0-8139-2369-7; 0-8139-2370-0; LC 2005-1760

The author considers how specific philosophical and ethical values have shaped and influenced the literature and cinema written, produced, and directed by Black women. Maria Stewart, Toni Morrison, Ama Ata Aidoo, Zora Neale Hurston, Julie Dash, and Maya Angelou are among the figures studied.

The Spectator; emerging discourses; edited by Donald J. Newman. University of Del. Press 2005 313p $53.50

ISBN 0-87413-910-4; LC 2004-22690

Essays offer various perspectives on the eighteenth-century English periodical’s relation to the society that influenced it, and upon which itself was influential.

Style: essays on Renaissance and Restoration literature and culture in memory of Harriett Hawkins; edited by Allen Michie and Eric Buckley. University of Del. Press 2005 296p $53.50

ISBN 0-87413-909-0; LC 2004-24701

Contributors discuss the different literary techniques used by such authors as William Shakespeare, Henry Vaughan, Denzil Holles, John Donne, and John Milton.

Who we are; on being (and not being) a Jewish American writer; edited by Derek Rubin. Schocken Bks. 2005 345p $25.00

ISBN 0-8052-4239-2; LC 2004-59044

Philip Roth, Saul Bellow, Cynthia Ozick, Erica Jong, Tova Mirvis, Grace Paley, and Chaim Potok are among the Jewish American writers examining issues of identity in their work, as well as its influence in their lives.

Woodman, Ross

Sanity, madness, transformation; the psyche in Romanticism; edited and with an afterword by Joel Faflak. University of Toronto Press 2005 278p $60.00

ISBN 0-8020-3841-7

The author addresses the relationship between sanity and madness as reflected in works by William Blake, Percy Shelley, and William Wordsworth.