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> Series: Romanticism in Perspective: Texts, Cultures, Histories
> 1798: THE YEAR OF THE LYRICAL BALLADS
> [Ed] Richard Cronin
> Macmillan Press Jul 1998, Published in UK
> 288pp, 216 x 138mm, 288, Index
> HARDBACK UK œ45.00 0-333-71408-3
>
> An attempt to re-create and examine the literary culture of 1798,
> the culture on which Wordsworth and Coleridge decided to make
> their "experiment". This is a book in which Wordsworth and
> Coleridge vie for attention, as they did in 1798, with many other
> writers, including Schleiermacher.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> ACTS OF UNION: SCOTLAND AND THE LITERARY NEGOTIATION OF THE
> BRITISH NATION, 1707-1832
> Leith Davis
> Stanford University Press 1 Feb 1999,
> Published in USA
> 232pp
> HARDBACK UK œ25.00 0-8047-3269-8
>
> This text explores the political relationship between Scotland
> and England in the century after the 1707 Act of Union as it was
> negotiated in the literary realm. It examines Britain not as a
> homogeneous stable unit, but as a dynamic process.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought, 12
> THE AGE OF REASONS: QUIXOTISM, SENTAMENTALISM, AND POLITICAL
> ECONOMY IN 18TH CENTURY BRITAIN
> Wendy Motooka
> Routledge Jul 1998, Published in UK
> 296pp, 234 x 156mm
> HARDBACK UK œ50.00 0-415-17941-6
>
> This text aims to revise the understanding of 18th-century
> British culture and its relation to the "rational" culture of
> present-day economics and social science.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Short Oxford History of the Modern World
> ALBION ASCENDANT: ENGLISH HISTORY 1660-1815
> Wilfrid Prest
> Oxford University Press Jun 1998, Published in UK
> 384pp, 230 x 150mm, 4 maps, 4 figures
> HARDBACK UK œ40.00 0-19-820417-5
> Paperback UK œ14.99 0-19-820418-3
>
> Between the return of the Stuart monarchy in 1660 and the battle
> of Waterloo, England emerged as a formidable superpower. This is
> an overview of England's transformation, from domestic
> instability and external weakness to global economic and military
> predominance.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; general
>
> *****
>
> THE ANALYSIS OF BEAUTY
> William Hogarth
> [Ed] Ronald Paulson
> New ed, Yale University Press 1997,
> Published in USA
> 244pp, 216 x 138mm, 224, 24 illustrations
> HARDBACK UK œ20.00 0-300-07335-6
> Paperback UK œ8.95 0-300-07346-1
>
> This edition of Hogarth's 18th-century text includes: an
> introduction that places the work in the tradition of aesthetic
> treatise and Hogarth's own "moral" works; annotation of the text
> and accompanying illustrations; and manuscript passages that the
> artist omitted from the original version.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Penguin Classics
> AUGUSTAN CRITICAL WRITING
> [Ed] David Womersley
> Penguin Books 1997, Published in UK
> 464pp, 198 x 129mm
> PAPERBACK UK œ10.99 0-14-043373-2
>
> Covering the period 1660-1770, this book includes the major texts
> by Dryden, Pope and Johnson on the act and art of poetry, as well
> as less finished reflections and critical essays by a wide
> variety of other practitioners. The anthology also reflects on
> the art of fiction.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; general
>
> *****
>
> AUTHORSHIP, COMMERCE, AND GENDER IN EARLY EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY
> ENGLAND: A CULTURE OF PAPER CREDIT
> Catherine Ingrassia
> Cambridge University Press Nov 1998,
> Published in UK
> 241pp, 236 x 161mm, 2 half-tones, notes, index, bibliography
> HARDBACK UK œ35.00 0-521-63063-0
>
> Examining women's participation in the South Sea Bubble and the
> representations of investors and stockjobbers as "feminized",
> this work discusses cultural resistance to speculative finance
> and hostility to the similarly "feminized" professional writers
> that Alexander Pope depicts in "The Dunciad".
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Literature in History
> BARDIC NATIONALISM: THE ROMANTIC NOVEL AND THE BRITISH EMPIRE
> Katie Trumpener
> Princeton University Press 1997, Published in USA
> 446pp, 229 x 152mm, 10 halftones
> HARDBACK UK œ50.00 0-691-04481-3
> Paperback UK œ17.50 0-691-04480-5
>
> This work links the literary and intellectual history of Britain
> and its Empire during the late-18th and early-19th centuries to
> redraw the picture of the origins of cultural nationalism, the
> lineages of the novel and the literary history of the English-
> speaking world.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> BEHOLD THE HERO: GENERAL WOLFE AND THE ARTS IN THE EIGHTEENTH
> CENTURY
> Alan McNairn
> McGill-Queen's University Press 1997,
> Published in Canada
> 304pp, 234 x 156mm, 60 illustrations
> HARDBACK UK œ25.00 0-7735-1539-9
>
> Exploring the reasons behind General James Wolfe's posthumous
> popularity, this work examines depictions of Wolfe in 18th-
> century literature and visual arts in England and North America
> and their aesthetic and political meaning.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> BEHOLD THE HERO: GENERAL WOLFE AND THE ARTS IN THE EIGHTEENTH
> CENTURY
> Alan McNairn
> Liverpool University Press Feb 1998,
> Published in UK
> 328pp, 234 x 156mm, 56 b&w photographs
> HARDBACK UK œ29.95 0-85323-732-8
>
> James Wolfe's death at the moment of British victory over the
> French on the Plains of Abraham instantly elevated him to the
> pantheon of British heroes. Exploring the reasons behind his
> posthumous popularity, this book analyzes representations of
> Wolfe in both popular culture and high art.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> BLACK ENGLAND: LIFE BEFORE EMANCIPATION
> Gretchen Gerzina
> Allison & Busby 28 Jun 1999, Published in UK
> 268pp, 234 x 152mm, 12pp b&w illustrations
> PAPERBACK UK œ8.99 0-7490-0313-8
>
> A study of black people in England in the 18th century. By this
> time there were pubs and clubs for blacks, churches, black-only
> balls and organizations to help help blacks in trouble. Some were
> wealthy and respected but many more were servants or kidnapped
> and exported to the West Indies.
>
> Readership: general
>
> *****
>
> BLAKE IN THE NINETIES
> [Ed] Steve Clark; David Worrall
> Macmillan Press 2 Apr 1999, Published in UK
> 242pp, 216 x 138mm, 4pp plates, figures, bibliography, index
> HARDBACK UK œ42.50 0-333-68160-6
>
> This text grapples with the implications of the new bibliography
> for Blake studies, in its editorial, interpretative, and
> historical dimensions. It provides an overview of recent Blake
> criticism, and contributes to late-1990s debates in a variety of
> disciplines dealing with the Romantic period.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Subcultures and Subversions
> THE BLOODY REGISTER SET: CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS IN THE
> EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
> [Ed] Nick Groom
> Routledge 30 Jun 1999, Published in UK
> 1420pp, 216 x 138mm, 4 volsSet
> HARDBACK UK œ375.00 0-415-20893-9
>
> Part sensationalist crime literature, part police reports and
> part accounts of judicial proceedings, these volumes cover over
> 60 years of crimes in England. They also give an insight into
> contemporary issues, such as the effectiveness of trial by jury,
> and the extent of a judge's power in court.
>
> Readership: research, professional
>
> *****
>
> BLUESTOCKING FEMINISM: WRITINGS OF THE BLUESTOCKING CIRCLE,
> 1738-1790
> [Ed] Gary Kelly
> Pickering & Chatto 31 May 1999, Published in UK
> 2200pp, 216 x 138mm, 6 vols
> FINE BINDING UK œ450.00 1-85196-514-9
>
> Feminist scholarship and critisism has retrieved the Bluestocking
> women from their marginal position in 18th-century literature.
> This work collects the principal writings of these women,
> together with a selection of their letters. Each volume is
> annotated and all texts are edited and reset.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
> BOLINGBROKE: POLITICAL WRITINGS
> [Ed] David Armitage
> Cambridge University Press 1997, Published in UK
> 352pp, 224 x 144mm
> HARDBACK UK œ50.00 0-521-44393-8
> Paperback UK œ16.95 0-521-58697-6
>
> Henry St John, Viscount Bolingbroke was a political thinker in
> 18th-century Britain. In this volume, modernized and fully
> annotated texts of his most important political works, the
> "Dissertation upon Parties", "On the Spirit of Patriotism", and
> "The Idea of the Patriot King", are brought together.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> BRITAIN IN THE HANOVERIAN AGE, 1714-1837: AN ENCYCLOPAEDIA
> [Ed] Gerald Newman
> Garland Publishing Inc 1997, Published in USA
> 904pp, 385 photographs and illustrations, maps, index
> HARDBACK UK œ104.00 0-8153-0396-3
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Royal Historical Society Studies in History
> BRITANNIA'S GLORIES: THE WALPOLE MINISTRY AND THE 1739 WAR WITH
> SPAIN
> Philip Woodfine
> Royal Historical Society Mar 1998,
> Published in UK
> 272pp, 234 x 156mm
> HARDBACK UK œ45.00 0-86193-230-7
>
> A study of the war between Britain and Spain which began in
> October 1739, of its origins, and of its impact on Britain. The
> book's emphasis is on a detailed analysis of the political
> situation in Britain and the gradual steps by which she and Spain
> arrived at war.
>
> Readership: postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: British Studies Series
> BRITISH HISTORY, 1660-1832: NATIONAL IDENTITY AND LOCAL CULTURE
> Alex Murdoch
> Macmillan Press reissued 29 Jan 1999,
> Published in UK
> 224pp, 216 x 138mm, Notes, bibliography, index
> HARDBACK UK œ45.00 0-333-60031-2
> Paperback UK œ14.50 0-333-60032-0
>
> This interpretative study of the idea of Britain seeks to examine
> constitutional history from a non Anglocentric perspective and to
> relocate it to historiographical developments in social history
> and the history of ideas.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate
>
> *****
>
> Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature
> THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO JANE AUSTEN
> [Ed] Edward Copeland; Juliet McMaster
> Cambridge University Press 1997, Published in UK
> 267pp, 235 x 156mm, Illustrations
> HARDBACK UK œ35.00 0-521-49517-2
> Not currently available: reprint under consideration
> Paperback UK œ12.95 0-521-49867-8
>
> This title presents Jane Austen's works in two broad contexts:
> that of her contemporary world, and that of present-day critical
> discourse. Beside discussions of Austen's novels there are essays
> which describe the world in which the author lived and wrote.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature
> THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO SAMUEL JOHNSON
> [Ed] Gregory Clingham
> Cambridge University Press 1997, Published in UK
> 286pp, 236 x 158mm, 10 half-tones, index
> HARDBACK UK œ40.00 0-521-55411-X
> Not currently available: reprint under consideration
> Paperback UK œ13.95 0-521-55625-2
>
> This volume provides an introduction to the works and
> intellectual life of Samuel Johnson. Essays on his main works are
> complemented by thematic discussion of his views on the
> experience of women in 18th-century politics, imperialism,
> religion, and travel, and by chapters covering his life.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> CATHOLICISM IN THE ENGLISH PROTESTANT IMAGINATION
> : NATIONALISM, RELIGION, AND LITERATURE, 1660-1745
> Raymond D. Tumbleson
> Cambridge University Press Oct 1998,
> Published in UK
> 264pp, 236 x 162mm, 3 half-tones
> HARDBACK UK œ35.00 0-521-62265-4
>
> This study examines the role of anti-Catholic rhetoric in late
> 17th- and early 18th-century England. The author discusses how
> the fear of Popery, a potentially destabilizing force under the
> Stuarts, ultimately became a principal guarantor of the
> Hanoverian oligarchy.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> CHARACTERISTICKS OF MEN, MANNERS, OPINIONS, TIMES: Vol 1
> [Ed] Philip Ayres
> Clarendon Press 31 Jan 1999, Published in UK
> 368pp, 230 x 150mm, Frontispiece and 9 original engravings,
> index
> HARDBACK UK œ65.00 0-19-812376-0
>
> This text is a collection of treatises on interconnected themes
> in moral philosophy, aesthetics, literature, and politics. It was
> influential on 18th-century British taste and manners,
> literature, and thought, and also on the continental
> Enlightenment.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> CHARACTERISTICKS OF MEN, MANNERS, OPINIONS, TIMES: Vol 2
> Anthony Ashley Cooper Shaftesbury
> [Ed] Philip Ayres
> Clarendon Press 31 Jan 1999, Published in UK
> 404pp, 230 x 150mm, 3 original engravings, bibliography, index
> HARDBACK UK œ65.00 0-19-812377-9
>
> This text is a collection of treatises on interconnected themes
> in moral philosophy, aesthetics, literature, and politics. It was
> influential on 18th-century British taste and manners,
> literature, and thought, and also on the continental
> Enlightenment.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> CLASSICAL CULTURE AND THE IDEA OF ROME IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY
> ENGLAND
> Philip Ayres
> Cambridge University Press 1997, Published in UK
> 265pp, 255 x 185mm, 30 half-tones, appendix, bibliography,
> index
> HARDBACK UK œ37.50 0-521-58490-6
> Not currently available: reprint under consideration
>
> This volume looks at the aristocratic adoption of Roman ideals in
> 18th-century English culture and thought. Philip Ayres shows how,
> in the century following the Revolution of 1688, the ruling class
> promoted a classical frame of mind embracing all the arts.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Cultural Formations: the 18th Century
> A COLLECTION OF POEMS BY SEVERAL HANDS
> Michael Suarez
> Routledge 1997, Published in UK
> 2338pp, 216 x 138mm, 6 vols, Illustrations
> HARDBACK UK œ375.00 0-415-14382-9
>
> This anthology of 18th-century poetry was edited by Alexander
> Pope's protege, Robert Dodsley. It includes poems by Samuel
> Johnson, Thomas Gray, David Garrick, Lady Mary Wortley Montague,
> Horace Walpole, Joseph and Thomas Warton, James Thomson,
> Elizabeth Carter, Pope and others.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional;
> general
>
> *****
>
> COMMERCE, MORALITY AND THE 18TH CENTURY NOVEL
> Liz Bellamy
> Cambridge University Press Jul 1998,
> Published in UK
> 229pp, 235 x 161mm
> HARDBACK UK œ37.50 0-521-62224-7
>
> Recognizing the radical cultural changes which took place in 18th-
> century Britain, this text argues that the evolution of the novel
> at this time should be seen in the context of the discursive
> conflict between economics and more traditional systems of social
> analysis.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> COMMON GROUND: EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLISH SATIRIC FICTION AND
> THE POOR
> Judith Frank
> Stanford University Press 1997, Published in USA
> 244pp, 224 x 149mm
> HARDBACK UK œ30.00 0-8047-2908-5
>
> Examining satire and fiction of the English 18th century, this
> book focuses not on the struggle between aristocratic and
> bourgeois values to another set of class relations, but those
> between the gentle classes and the poor.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Consumption and Culture in the 17th and 18th Centuries
> THE CONSUMPTION OF CULTURE 1600-1800: IMAGE, OBJECT, TEXT
> [Ed] Ann Bermingham; John Brewer
> Routledge 1997, Published in UK
> 660pp, 246 x 174mm, Illustrations, 54 line figures, 61 b&w
> photographs
> PAPERBACK UK œ35.00 0-415-15997-0
>
> This work seeks to explore and reinterpret early modern social
> history.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
> CONTESTING THE GOTHIC: FICTION, GENRE AND CULTURAL CONFLICT,
> 1764-1832
> James Watt
> Cambridge University Press 18 Jul 1999,
> Published in UK,
> Bibliography, index
> HARDBACK UK œ35.00 0-521-64099-7
>
> An account of Gothic fiction, this text takes issue with accounts
> of the genre as a stable and continuous tradition. Charting its
> vicissitudes from Walpole to Scott, it shows the Gothic to have
> been a heterogeneous body of fiction, characterized at times by
> antagonistic relations between writers or
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in
> Past Time, 29
> CONTOURS OF DEATH AND DISEASE IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND
> Mary J. Dobson
> Cambridge University Press 1997, Published in UK
> 668pp, 236 x 159mm, 71 line drawings, 57 tables, 6 halftones,
> bibliography
> HARDBACK UK œ65.00 0-521-40464-9
>
> Covering the 17th and 18th centuries, this text provides an
> account of death and disease in England. Using a wide range of
> sources for the south-east of England, the author highlights the
> tremendous variation in levels of mortality across geographical
> contours and across two centuries.
>
> Readership: postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> A CONTRADICTION STILL: REPRESENTATIONS OF WOMEN IN THE POETRY
> OF ALEXANDER POPE
> Christa Knellwolf
> Manchester University Press Dec 1998,
> Published in UK
> 251pp, 216 x 138mm, Bibliography, index
> HARDBACK UK œ40.00 0-7190-5333-1
>
> This text offers a critique of the views concerning gender and
> gender roles in Pope's poetry. It approaches Pope's stylistic
> complexity revealing it as an effect of his engagement with a
> situation in which the position of women was one of the most
> prominent sources of ideological conflict.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Critical Essays on British Literature
> CRITICAL ESSAYS ON HENRY FIELDING
> Albert J. Rivero
> Twayne (an imprint of G.K. Hall) Jul 1998,
> Published in USA,
> 240 x 160mm
> PAPERBACK UK œ31.99 0-7838-0059-2
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Critical Essays on British Literature
> CRITICAL ESSAYS ON LAURENCE STERNE
> Melvyn New
> Twayne (an imprint of G.K. Hall) Jul 1998,
> Published in USA,
> 242 x 162mm
> PAPERBACK UK œ31.99 0-7838-0040-1
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> CROWDS, CULTURE, AND POLITICS IN GEORGIAN BRITAIN
> Nicholas Rogers
> Clarendon Press Oct 1998, Published in UK
> 304pp, 210 x 130mm, Index
> HARDBACK UK œ40.00 0-19-820172-9
>
> Crowds have long been part of the historical landscape. Professor
> Nicholas Rogers examines the changing role and character of
> crowds in Georgian politics through an investigation of some of
> the major crowd interventions in the period 1714-1821.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Romanticism in Perspective: Texts, Cultures, Histories
> CULTURAL POLITICS IN THE 1790S: LITERATURE, ACTIVISM AND THE
> PUBLIC SPHERE
> [Ed] Andrew McCann
> Macmillan Press Dec 1998, Published in UK
> 240pp, 216 x 138mm, 240, Index, illustrations
> HARDBACK UK œ42.50 0-333-73498-X
>
> Examines the relationship between sentimental literature,
> political activism and the public sphere at the end of the 18th
> century. It attempts to demonstrate how major literary and
> political figures of the 1790s can be read in terms of the
> broader dynamics of modernity.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> CULTURE AND SOCIETY IN BRITAIN 1660-1800
> [Ed] Jeremy Black
> Manchester University Press 1997, Published in UK
> 256pp, 234 x 156mm
> HARDBACK UK œ35.00 0-7190-4947-4
>
> From the culture of sex to Titus Oates and "sodomy", from
> Jacobitism to the poetry of Empire, this text offers a wide-
> ranging study of an important period of British cultural history.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> A DICTIONARY OF BRITISH AND IRISH TRAVELLERS IN ITALY 1701-1800
> : COMPILED FROM THE BRINSLEY FORD ARCHIVE
> John Ingamells
> Yale University Press 1997, Published in USA
> Published in association with Paul Mellon Centre for studies in
> British Art
> 1114pp, 234 x 156mm, 1128
> HARDBACK UK œ50.00 0-300-07165-5
>
> This dictionary identifies over 6000 British and Irish travellers
> who toured in Italy in the 18th century. Compiled from the
> archive accumulted by Sir Brinsley Ford, it provides brief formal
> biographies of these travellers, their Italian itineries and
> selective accounts of their experiences.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> EARLY ROMANTICS: PERSPECTIVES IN BRITISH POETRY FROM POPE TO
> WORDSWORTH
> [Ed] Thomas Woodman
> Macmillan Press Nov 1998, Published in UK
> 256pp, 216 x 138mm, 256, Index
> HARDBACK UK œ42.50 0-333-71145-9
>
> This collection discusses the distinctively 18th-century
> romanticism of British poetry during the "Age of Transition",
> between the death of Pope and the "Lyrical Ballads" (1798).
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> THE EAST INDIA COMPANY
> [Ed] Patrick Tuck
> Routledge Apr 1998, Published in UK
> 1984pp, 234 x 156mm, 6 vols, 3 line figures
> HARDBACK UK œ525.00 0-415-15517-7
>
> This set uses reprinted first-hand sources, scholarly surveys,
> and thematically arranged collections of recent journal articles,
> to trace the history of the East India Company and present recent
> interpretations of its development.
>
> Readership: research, professional
>
> *****
>
> THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY: A CURRENT BIBLIOGRAPHY: Vol 15
> [Ed] Jim Springer Borck
> AMS Press 1997, Published in USA,
> Index
> HARDBACK UK œ88.95 0-404-62220-8
>
> Intended as a reference for students of 18th-century studies,
> this text covers many subject areas including English and
> American literature, the history of science, philosophy of
> religion and music. The book is broken down into related
> disciplines to aid study.
>
> Readership: undergraduate
>
> *****
>
> Series: Blackwell Anthologies
> EIGHTEENTH CENTURY POETRY: AN ANNOTATED ANTHOLOGY
> [Ed] David Fairer; Christine Gerrard
> Blackwell Publishers Oct 1998, Published in UK
> 624pp, 229 x 152mm
> HARDBACK UK œ60.00 0-631-20623-X
> Paperback UK œ15.99 0-631-20624-8
>
> This annotated anthology reveals the wide variety of poetic
> output between 1700-1800. All the poems have foot-of-page
> annotation and headnotes and the work of the traditionally
> prominent figures is combined with the work of other writers,
> particularly women.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional;
> general
>
> *****
>
> Series: OPUS
> EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLISH SOCIETY: SHUTTLES AND SWORDS
> Douglas Hay; Nicholas Rogers
> Oxford Paperbacks 1997, Published in UK
> 264pp, 190 x 120mm, Maps
> PAPERBACK UK œ8.99 0-19-289194-4
>
> This text examines English society in the 18th century. It is
> aimed at students (undergraduate) of eighteenth century social
> and political history.
>
> Readership: undergraduate
>
> *****
>
> EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERARY HISTORY: AN MLQ READER
> Marshall Brown
> Duke University Press 30 Apr 1999,
> Published in USA
> 272pp, 230 x 154mm, 7 b&w illustrations
> HARDBACK UK œ34.00 0-8223-2135-1
> Paperback UK œ11.95 0-8223-2267-6
>
> The essays in this volume represent the best studies of
> eighteenth-century literary history published in "Modern Language
> Quarterly". Contributors explore the intersection of literay
> studies with history, philosophy, psychology and the visual arts.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> AN ELECTION BALL
> Cristopher Anstey
> [Ed] Gavin Turner
> [Illus] Coplestone Warre Bampfylde
> Broadcast Books 1997, Published in UK
> 132pp, Illustrations
> PAPERBACK UK œ9.95 1-874092-73-7
>
> As a resident of Bath in the 18th century and member of its
> literary circle, Anstey was a keen observer of the social scene.
> Here three light poetical "epistles" give a satirical yet
> affectionate description of society dress and manners in 1770s
> Bath. This edition includes a detailed introduction.
>
> Readership: general
>
> *****
>
> Series: Neale Colloquium in British History
> EMPIRE AND OTHERS: BRITISH ENCOUNTERS WITH INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
> 1600-1850
> Michael Daunton; Rick Halpern
> UCL Press Dec 1998, Published in UK,
> 234 x 156mm
> HARDBACK UK œ50.00 1-85728-991-9
>
> The forging of a British identity in the 17th and 18th centuries
> was also played out in North America, the Caribbean, Australia
> and New Zealand. In the process, these indigenous people
> redefined their identities. This text integrates the history of
> these areas with British and imperial history.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: The Novel in History
> THE ENGLISH NOVEL IN HISTORY, 1700-1780
> John Richetti
> Routledge Oct 1998, Published in UK
> 300pp, 216 x 138mm
> HARDBACK UK œ50.00 0-415-00950-2
> Paperback UK œ15.99 0-415-19030-4
>
> This text traces the social and moral representations of the
> period in extended readings of the major novelists (Richardson,
> Fielding, Smollett, Burney and Sterne), as well as evaluating the
> importance of lesser known ones. The author traces the shifting
> subject matter of the novel.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY: THOMAS
> SPENCE'S "GRAND REPOSITORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE"
> Joan Beal
> Oxford University Press 31 Mar 1999,
> Published in UK
> 288pp, 230 x 150mm, 2 halftones, 3 tables
> HARDBACK UK œ60.00 0-19-823781-2
>
> Paying particular attention to the actual pronunciations
> advocated by Thomas Spence and his contemporaries, this text aims
> to reconstruct what was felt to be "correct" pronunciation in
> 18th-century Britain.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Social History in Perspective
> ENGLISH SEXUALITIES 1700-1800
> Tim Hitchcock
> Macmillan Press 1997, Published in UK
> 208pp, 216 x 138mm, Index
> HARDBACK UK œ40.00 0-333-61834-3
> Paperback UK œ12.99 0-333-61835-1
>
> This wide-ranging analysis of gender and sexualities brings
> together the disparate literatures on demography, love and
> marriage, the body, homosexuality, lesbianism, and the regulation
> of sexuality.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; advanced secondary
>
> *****
>
> ENLIGHTENMENT PORTRAITS
> [Ed] Michel Vovelle
> University of Chicago Press 1997, Published in USA
> 460pp, 229 x 152mm
> HARDBACK UK œ45.50 0-226-86568-1
> Paperback UK œ15.25 0-226-86570-3
>
> Offers a study of those at the centre of Western civilization's
> vision of the world - the Enlightenment: nobles, priests,
> functionaries, men of letters, artists, explorers, soldiers and
> women. This book examines the fundamental structures of society,
> and attitudes to birth, death and sexuality.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: The Origins of Business Economics
> ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
> [Ed] Mark Casson
> Routledge 1997, Published in UK
> 2082pp, 216 x 138mm, 7 vols
> HARDBACK UK œ475.00 0-415-15086-8
>
> The industrial revolution was the heyday of entrepreneurial
> activity, fuelling an unprecendented expansion of the UK's
> industrial base. This set draws together some of the classic
> studies of this subject which includes historical studies as well
> as discussions of entrepreneurial behaviour.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: AMS Studies in the Eighteenth Century, No. 30
> AN ESSAY UPON PROJECTS
> Daniel Defoe
> [Ed] Joyce D. Kennedy; Michael Seidel; Maximillian E. Novak
> AMS Press Apr 1998, Published in USA
> HARDBACK UK œ69.95 0-404-63530-X
>
> Written during the years immediately following two of Defoe's
> serious brushes with the law, the "Essay" offers a variety of
> wide ranging proposals for radical social reform. The work
> represents new beginnings for Defoe as a political and literary
> figure with new ventures on public terrain.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> ETHNICITY BEFORE NATIONALISM: LINEAGE, LEGITIMACY AND IDENTITY
> IN THE BRITISH ATLANTIC WORLD, 1600-1800
> Colin Kidd
> Cambridge University Press 1 Feb 1999,
> Published in UK
> 296pp
> HARDBACK UK œ35.00 0-521-62403-7
>
> Inspired by debates among political scientists over the strength
> and depth of the pre-modern roots of nationalism, this study
> attempts to gauge the status of ethnic identities in an era whose
> dominant loyalties and modes of political argument were
> confessional, institutional and juridical.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Events That Changed the World Series
> EVENTS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
> F.W. Thackeray; J.E. Finding
> Greenwood Press Mar 1998, Published in USA
> 224pp, 235 x 155mm, Illustrations, bibliography, glossary
> HARDBACK UK œ31.95 0-313-29077-6
>
> This resource offers analysis of significant 18th-century events
> and their impact on 19th- and 20th-century history. The format
> features an introductory essay, followed by an interpretive essay
> that places the event in a broader context.
>
> Readership: undergraduate
>
> *****
>
> THE EVOLUTION OF ENGLISH PROSE, 1700-1800: STYLE, POLITENESS,
> AND PRINT CULTURE
> Carey McIntosh
> Cambridge University Press Nov 1998,
> Published in UK
> 287pp, 236 x 158mm
> HARDBACK UK œ40.00 0-521-62432-0
>
> Between 1700 and 1800 English prose became more polite and less
> closely tied to speech. This book explores oral dimensions of
> written texts not only in writers such as Swift and Astell, who
> have a strong colloquial base, but also in more bookish writers,
> including Shaftesbury, Johnson, and Burke.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> FAMILY FICTIONS: NARRATIVE AND DOMESTIC RELATIONS IN BRITAIN,
> 1688-1798
> Christopher Flint
> Stanford University Press Jul 1998,
> Published in USA
> 408pp, 237 x 161mm
> HARDBACK UK œ35.00 0-8047-3072-5
>
> Revealing the investment of 18th-century British prose fiction in
> contemporary debates about domestic ideology, this book addresses
> the multiple ways in which traditional notions of the family were
> estranged, reconstituted as novel concepts, and then finally
> presented as national social norms.
>
> Readership: postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> FORMAL CHARGES: THE SHAPING OF POETRY IN BRITISH ROMANTICISM
> Susan J. Wolfson
> Stanford University Press 1 Feb 1999,
> Published in USA
> 360pp, 10 half-tones
> PAPERBACK UK œ13.95 0-8047-3662-6
>
> This study examines criticism, applying an historically aware
> formalist reading to poetic form in Romanticism and showing how
> in theory and practice Romantic writers addressed, debated, and
> contested questions about what is at stake in the poetic forming
> of language.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> FOUR GEORGIAN AND PRE-REVOLUTIONARY PLAYS
> [Ed] David Thomas
> Macmillan Press Oct 1998, Published in UK
> 336pp, 216 x 138mm, Notes, bibliography
> HARDBACK UK œ45.00 0-333-63676-7
> Paperback UK œ14.99 0-333-63677-5
>
> These plays offer an introduction to the theatre of the late-18th
> century in England, France and Germany, as it brings together key
> texts revolving around the themes of sex and class. The texts are
> based on earliest editions and translations.
>
> Readership: further, higher; undergraduate
>
> *****
>
> Series: Contributions to the Study of World Literature, No 87
> THE FRENCH REVOLUTION DEBATE IN ENGLISH LITERATURE AND CULTURE
> [Ed] Lisa Plummer Crafton
> Greenwood Press 1997, Published in USA,
> Bibliography, index
> HARDBACK UK œ43.95 0-313-30496-3
>
> The French Revolution fostered one of the largest debates in
> literary and cultural history. Within this volume, contributors
> address the English response to the French Revolution, with
> special attention to the works of Edmund Burke, William Blake,
> William Wordsworth, and Thomas Carlyle.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> FRUITS OF EMPIRE: EXOTIC PRODUCE AND BRITISH TRADE, 1660-1800
> James Walvin
> Macmillan Press 1997, Published in UK
> 208pp, 216 x 138mm, 208, Index
> HARDBACK UK œ16.99 0-333-67062-0
> Paperback UK œ16.99 0-333-67063-9
>
> This text explains how the tastes of the British people were
> transformed by the fruits of distant empire and trade. It also
> links the global impact of Britain's drive for imperial pre-
> eminence to the rise of domestic material consumption which
> helped to define the very nature of Britishness itself.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional;
> general
>
> *****
>
> GENDER AND LANGUAGE IN BRITISH LITERARY CRITICISM, 1660 - 1790
> Laura L. Runge
> Cambridge University Press 1997, Published in UK
> 243pp, 236 x 161mm, Bibliography
> HARDBACK UK œ37.50 0-521-57009-3
>
> The meaning of gendered terms like "manly" or "effeminate"
> changes over time, the author contends in this book, arguing that
> the language of 18th century criticism cannot be fully understood
> without careful analysis of the gendered language of the era.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> GENDER AND THE FORMATION OF TASTE IN 18TH CENTURY BRITAIN: THE
> ANALYSIS OF BEAUTY
> Robert W. Jones
> Cambridge University Press Jul 1998,
> Published in UK
> 288pp, 236 x 159mm, 5 half-tones
> HARDBACK UK œ37.50 0-521-59326-3
>
> This text aims to provide an understanding of how emergent
> critical discourses negotiated with earlier accounts of taste and
> beauty in order to redefine culture in line with the polite
> virtues of the urban middles classes in 18th century Britain.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> GENDER IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND: ROLES, REPRESENTATIONS
> AND RESPONSIBILITIES
> [Ed] Hannah Barker; Elaine Chalus
> Addison Wesley Longman Higher Education 1997,
> Published in UK
> 272pp, 216 x 138mm, Notes, further reading, index
> HARDBACK UK œ40.99 0-582-27827-9
> Paperback UK œ14.50 0-582-27826-0
>
> A collection of essays drawing together recent historical
> research on gender and 18th-century England. The book examines
> the experiences of men and women in public and private life,
> drawing widely on historical sources to show how complex and
> fluid gender relations actually were.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> THE GENTLEMAN'S DAUGHTER: WOMEN'S LIVES IN GEORGIAN ENGLAND
> Amanda Vickery
> Yale University Press May 1998, Published in USA
> 448pp, 234 x 156mm, 446, 66 b&w illustrations
> HARDBACK UK œ19.95 0-300-07531-6
>
> An account of the lives of genteel women in Georgian England. It
> studies the letters, diaries and account books of over 100 women,
> and challenges the view that the period witnessed a division of
> the everyday worlds of privileged men and women into the separate
> spheres of home and work.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> GEORGE III: A PERSONAL HISTORY
> Christopher Hibbert
> Viking Sep 1998, Published in UK
> 480pp, 234 x 153mm, 16pp colour illustrations, 16pp b&w
> illustrations
> HARDBACK UK œ20.00 0-670-86941-4
>
> This text offers a re-examination of King George III's political
> beliefs and aspirations, his relationships with his ministers,
> and also the reasons why he was so widely loved by the British
> but reviled by his American subjects.
>
> Readership: general
>
> *****
>
> Series: British Studies Series
> GOVERNMENT AND COMMUNITY IN THE ENGLISH PROVINCES, 1700-1870
> David Eastwood
> Macmillan Press 1997, Published in UK
> 256pp, 216 x 138mm, Bibliography, index
> HARDBACK UK œ42.50 0-333-55285-7
> Paperback UK œ13.99 0-333-55286-5
>
> This study offers a re-interpretation of politics and public life
> in provincial England. It explores the ways in which power was
> exercised, and reconstructs the social and cultural foundations
> of political authority in provincial England.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Studies in British Art
> HANGING THE HEAD: PORTRAITURE AND SOCIAL FORMATION IN
> EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND
> Marica Pointon
> Yale University Press 1997, Published in USA
> 288pp, 275 x 245mm, 288, 200 b&w illustrations, 50 colour
> plates, notes, bibliography, index
> PAPERBACK UK œ25.00 0-300-07368-2
>
> Seeks to demonstrate how portraiture in 18th-century England
> provided mechanisms for constructing and accessing a national
> past and for controlling a present that appeared increasingly
> unruly.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> HANOVERIAN BRITAIN AND EMPIRE: ESSAYS IN MEMORY OF PHILIP
> LAWSON
> [Ed] Stephen Taylor; Richard Connors; Clyve Jones
> The Boydell Press Oct 1998, Published in UK
> 364pp, 234 x 156mm, 1 b&w halftone, bibliography
> HARDBACK UK œ45.00 0-85115-720-3
>
> A collection of essays which examine the domestic and colonial
> history of Britain in the period between the Hanoverian
> succession and the early-19th century. After two
> historiographical surveys the contributions go on to discuss
> issues at the forefront of historical research and controversy.
>
> Readership: postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Macmillan Literary Lives
> HENRY FIELDING: A LITERARY LIFE
> Harold Pagliaro
> Macmillan Press May 1998, Published in UK
> 212pp, 216 x 138mm, Index
> HARDBACK UK œ42.50 0-333-63322-9
> Paperback UK œ10.99 0-333-63323-7
>
> Characterizes Fielding's personality and details ways in which
> Fielding's attitudes contribute to the subject matter of his
> plays and novels and to the rhetorical strategies that control
> their shape as well. The book shows that his work as lawyer,
> magistrate, and essayist was similarly informed.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> THE HIGH ROAD: ROMANTIC TOURISM, SCOTLAND AND LITERATURE, 1720-
> 1820
> John Glendening
> Macmillan Press 1997, Published in UK
> 240pp, 216 x 138mm, 240
> HARDBACK UK œ30.00 0-333-68023-5
>
> Situates romantic tourism in Scotland by studying texts that
> demonstrate relevant cultural developments and stand out as
> intersections of history and personality.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional;
> general
>
> *****
>
> HIGH SOCIETY: A SOCIAL HISTORY OF THE REGENCY PERIOD, 1788-1820
> Venetia Murray
> Viking Nov 1998, Published in UK
> 336pp, 234 x 153mm, 32pp colour and b&w illustrations
> HARDBACK UK œ20.00 0-670-85758-0
>
> This social history of the Regency Period chronicles the manners,
> the morals and the attitudes of everyone from dandies to
> pugilists, duchesses to courtesans. Also, the art of caricature
> flourished during the Regency and this book contains examples
> from artists such as Gillray and Cruikshank.
>
> Readership: general
>
> *****
>
> HIGHWAYMEN AND OUTLAWS
> Michael Billett
> Cassell Military Jul 1998, Published in UK
> 160pp, 246 x 189mm, 49 colour and 60 b&w illustrations, 7
> colour maps
> PAPERBACK UK œ12.99 1-85409-479-3
>
> Explores the real world of highwaymen and outlaws, covering their
> methods, lairs and weapons, the men who pursued them and brought
> them to justice, the punishments, and the folklore that has grown
> up around them. The text includes coverage of 17th- and 18th-
> century European highwaymen and bandits.
>
> Readership: general
>
> *****
>
> A HISTORY OF AUGUSTAN FABLE
> Mark Loveridge
> Cambridge University Press Nov 1998,
> Published in UK
> 291pp, 236 x 159mm, 15 half-tones, bibliographies
> HARDBACK UK œ40.00 0-521-63062-2
>
> This text explores the tradition of fable across a wide variety
> of written and illustrative media, from its origins in classical
> antiquity to beyond the end of the 18th century. It offers both a
> history and a poetics of the genre, seeking to show the stable
> and transhistorical qualities of fable.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Cambridge Studies in Romanticism, 28
> IDEOLOGY AND UTOPIA IN THE POETRY OF WILLIAM BLAKE
> Nicholas Williams
> Cambridge University Press Apr 1998,
> Published in UK
> 271pp, 236 x 160mm, 11 halftones, notex, index
> HARDBACK UK œ37.50 0-521-62050-3
>
> Scholars often draw attention to William Blake's unusual
> sensitivity to his social context. In this work the author
> situates Blake's thought historically by showing how through the
> decades of a long and productive career Blake consistently
> responded to the ideas, writing and art of contemporaries.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> INDEX TO BOOK REVIEWS IN ENGLAND 1775-1800
> Antonia Forster
> British Library (Humanities & Social Sciences) 1997,
> Published in UK
> 660pp, 246 x 189mm
> HARDBACK UK œ85.00 0-7123-0418-5
>
> An index to reviews of 4982 works of poetry, fiction and drama
> published between 1775 and 1800, this reference tool offers easy
> access to reviews in many 18th-century journals. It includes
> reviews in all the main review journals, the major magazines and
> 13 minor magazines or periodicals.
>
> Readership: postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> INDUSTRIAL ESPIONAGE AND TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER: BRITAIN AND
> FRANCE IN THE 18TH CENTURY
> J. Harris
> Ashgate Publishing Limited Sep 1998,
> Published in UK
> 680pp, 234 x 156mm, 20 b&w illustrations, bibliography, index
> HARDBACK UK œ65.00 0-85967-827-X
>
> Britain and Europe were the leading industrial nations in 18th-
> century Europe. This text examines the rivalry which existed
> between the two nations and the methods used by France to obtain
> the skilled manpower and technology which had given Britain the
> edge.
>
> Readership: postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Longman Critical Readers
> JONATHAN SWIFT
> [Ed] Nigel Wood
> Addison Wesley Longman Higher Education 31 Mar 1999,
> Published in UK
> 312pp, 216 x 138mm, Index
> HARDBACK UK œ40.00 0-582-22573-6
> Paperback UK œ14.99 0-582-22572-8
>
> Provides a collection of theoretical and literary essays on
> Swift's work. The text places an emphasis on his Anglo-Irishness,
> which, it argues, is a key area in understanding his life and
> works. Reference is also made to Swift's gender relations and his
> female imitators.
>
> Readership: undergraduate
>
> *****
>
> LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU: COMET OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT
> Isobel Grundy
> Clarendon Press 31 Mar 1999, Published in UK
> 650pp, 210 x 130mm, 8 pp plates, 3 maps, genealogical table,
> bibliography
> HARDBACK UK œ25.00 0-19-811289-0
>
> With growing interest in the tradition of women's writing, Lady
> Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762) has been transformed from a
> colourful eccentric to an important writer. This account of her
> life considers her writing achievement seriously.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Humor in Life and Letters
> LAUGHING FEMINISM: SUBVERSIVE COMEDY IN FRANCES BURNEY, MARIA
> EDGEWORTH, AND JANE AUSTEN
> Audrey Bilger
> Wayne State University Press Oct 1998,
> Published in USA
> 256pp, 229 x 152mm
> HARDBACK UK œ31.95 0-8143-2722-2
>
> This study focuses on comedy in the works of Frances Burney,
> Maria Edgeworth and Jane Austen, authors who scrutinize the
> subjected prejudices against women in order to expose their
> absurdity and encourage readers to laugh at the folly of sexist
> views.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> LICENSING ENTERTAINMENT: THE ELEVATION OF NOVEL READING IN
> BRITAIN, 1684-1750
> William B. Warner
> University of California Press Oct 1998,
> Published in USA
> 342pp, 229 x 152mm
> HARDBACK UK œ37.50 0-520-20180-9
> Paperback UK œ16.95 0-520-21296-7
>
> The earliest novels in Britain provoked early instances of the
> modern anxiety about the effects of new media on consumers. This
> book presents an analysis of the idea of the novel and how it was
> shaped, arguing for a cultural history of the rise of the novel
> rather than a literary history.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Themes in British Social History
> LITERATURE AND SOCIETY IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND
> : IDEOLOGY, POLITICS AND CULTURE, 1680-1820
> W.A. Speck
> Addison Wesley Longman Higher Education May 1998,
> Published in UK
> 240pp, 216 x 138mm, Bibliography
> HARDBACK UK œ42.00 0-582-26518-5
> Paperback UK œ12.99 0-582-26570-3
>
> This is a broad-ranging study on the 18th century, using a
> variety of contemporary literary texts as historical evidence to
> explain the dominant ideologies and attitudes of the time and
> considering the implications on policy of an increasingly news-
> conscious and articulate society.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Themes in British Social History
> LITERATURE AND SOCIETY IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND
> : IDEOLOGY, POLITICS AND CULTURE, 1680-1820
> W.A. Speck
> Addison Wesley Longman Higher Education May 1998,
> Published in UK
> 230pp, 216 x 138mm, Bibliography
> HARDBACK UK œ42.00 0-582-26518-5
> Paperback UK œ12.99 0-582-26570-3
>
> This is a broad-ranging study on the 18th century, using a
> variety of contemporary literary texts as historical evidence to
> explain the dominant ideologies and attitudes of the time and
> considering the implications on policy of an increasingly news-
> conscious and articulate society.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> LOCKE AND BLAKE: A CONVERSATION ACROSS THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
> Wayne Glausser
> University Press of Florida Feb 1998,
> Published in USA
> 208pp, 229 x 152mm, Notes, bibliography, index
> HARDBACK UK œ39.95 0-8130-1570-7
>
> This text is a composite critical biography of Locke and Blake,
> who were both significant to 18th-century culture. Organized by
> topics of cultural significance for the period, it illuminates
> ideas of Locke and Blake and the cultural contexts and
> transformations of the "period" they shared.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Arnold History of Britain
> THE LONG EIGHTEENTH CENTURY: BRITISH POLITICAL AND SOCIAL
> HISTORY 1688-1832
> Frank O'Gorman
> Arnold 1997, Published in UK
> 426pp, 234 x 156mm, 426
> HARDBACK UK œ45.00 0-340-56752-X
> Paperback UK œ16.99 0-340-56751-1
>
> Acknowledging the many complexities, this study identifies the
> key thematic patterns that constitute much of the consistency of
> the period from 1688 to 1832 in Britain. It examines issues such
> as the role of religion in the life of the state and people, and
> commercial and imperial expansion.
>
> Readership: undergraduate
>
> *****
>
> Series: The Wesleyan Edition of the Works of Henry Fielding
> MISCELLANIES BY HENRY FIELDING, ESQ: Vol 3
> Henry Fielding
> [Ed] Bertrand A. Goldgar; Hugh Amory
> Clarendon Press 1997, Published in UK
> 414pp, 230 x 150mm, 3 b&w halftones, bibliography
> HARDBACK UK œ60.00 0-19-818275-9
>
> This volume is devoted to one of Fielding's major works of
> fiction, "The History of the Life of the Late Mr. Jonathan Wild
> the Great", a political satire on false greatness. The book
> includes a historical introduction, an authoritative text and
> textual introduction, and full explanatory notes.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> MODERN BRITISH UTOPIAS, 1700-1850
> [Ed] Gregory Claeys
> Pickering & Chatto 1997, Published in UK
> 4128pp, 234 x 156mm, 8 vols, Bibliography, index
> FINE BINDING UK œ550.00 1-85196-319-7
>
> In the period 1700-1850, the history of utopian thought cast
> light on ideas of property-holding, community, and social and
> political reform movements, including those for the extension of
> rights to slaves, women and animals. This text includes some of
> the best-known tracts of the period.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English
> Literature and Thought, 34
> NARRATIVES OF ENLIGHTENMENT: COSMOPOLITAN HISTORY FROM VOLTAIRE
> TO GIBBON
> Karen O'Brien
> Cambridge University Press 1997, Published in UK
> 264pp, 236 x 160mm, Bibliography
> HARDBACK UK œ37.50 0-521-46533-8
>
> This text is a study of cosmopolitan approaches to the past. It
> reappraises the work of five narrative historians: Voltaire,
> Hume, Robertson, Gibbon and Ramsay, and investigates the nature
> and degree of their intellectual investment in the idea of a
> common European civilization.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> NEW ESSAYS ON SAMUEL RICHARDSON
> Albert J. Rivero
> Macmillan Press 1997, Published in UK
> 238pp, 216 x 138mm, 238, Notes, index
> HARDBACK UK œ32.50 0-333-65418-8
>
> Approaching Samuel Richardson from different critical
> perspectives and re-examining his works in various historical
> contexts, this collection of essays by 18th-century scholars
> illustrates why he continues to be regarded as a seminal figure
> in the development of the British novel.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Oxford Historical Monographs
> NEWSPAPERS, POLITICS, AND PUBLIC OPINION IN LATE EIGHTEENTH-
> CENTURY ENGLAND
> Hannah Barker
> Clarendon Press Jul 1998, Published in UK
> 226pp, 210 x 130mm, Plates, figures, bibliography, index
> HARDBACK UK œ35.00 0-19-820741-7
>
> An examination of the ways in which both London and provincial
> newspapers operated in the late-18th century, the fashioning of
> their politics, their relationships with politicians and,
> crucially, their readers. It explores the ways in which
> newspapers both represented and shaped public opinion.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> AN OXFORD COMPANION TO THE ROMANTIC AGE: BRITISH CULTURE, 1776-
> 1832
> [Ed] Iain McCalman; Jon Mee; Gillian Russell; Clara Tuite
> Clarendon Press 30 Jun 1999, Published in UK
> 764pp, 240 x 170mm, 110 illustrations, bibliography
> HARDBACK UK œ80.00 0-19-812297-7
>
> A survey of the romantic age, across all aspects of British
> culture. The text presents 42 cross-referenced essays, which
> cover all the principal figures, events and movements in the
> broad culture of the period. The text embraces high and low
> culture in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> PATTERNS OF MADNESS IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY: A READER
> [Ed] Allan Ingram
> Liverpool University Press Apr 1998,
> Published in UK
> 352pp, 234 x 156mm, Chronology, further reading
> HARDBACK UK œ32.00 0-85323-982-7
> Paperback UK œ12.95 0-85323-992-4
>
> An anthology of extracts from both professional and private
> writing about madness, in a chronological sequence that charts
> the history of insanity during the 18th century, while also
> giving an insight into the personal experience of mental
> derangement in relation to official attitudes.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> PATTERNS OF MADNESS IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY: A READER
> [Ed] Allan Ingram
> Liverpool University Press Apr 1998,
> Published in UK
> 295pp, 234 x 156mm, Chronology, further reading
> HARDBACK UK œ32.00 0-85323-982-7
> Paperback UK œ12.95 0-85323-992-4
>
> An anthology of extracts from both professional and private
> writing about madness, in a chronological sequence that charts
> the history of insanity during the 18th century, while also
> giving an insight into the personal experience of mental
> derangement in relation to official attitudes.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> THE PERFIDY OF ALBION: FRENCH PERCEPTIONS OF ENGLAND DURING THE
> FRENCH REVOLUTION
> Norman Hampson
> Macmillan Press Jul 1998, Published in UK
> 192pp, 216 x 138mm, 192, Bibliography, index
> HARDBACK UK œ40.00 0-333-73148-4
>
> Describes how the French Revolution, which seemed to promise an
> era of Franco-British partnership, led to an even more bitter
> estrangement between the two nations. This study illuminates late
> 18th-century nationalism and xenophobia.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English
> Literature and Thought, 31
> PHILOSOPHICAL DIALOGUE IN THE BRITISH ENLIGHTENMENT: THEOLOGY,
> AESTHETICS AND THE NOVEL
> Michael B. Prince
> Cambridge University Press 1997, Published in UK
> 298pp, 236 x 158mm
> HARDBACK UK œ37.50 0-521-55062-9
>
> This study of philosophical dialogue during the English
> Enlightenment sets out to explain why important philosophers
> Shaftesbury, Mandeville, Berkeley and Hume and innumerable minor
> translators, imitators and critics wrote in and about dialogue
> during the 18th century.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> PICTURING IMPERIAL POWER: COLONIAL SUBJECTS IN EIGHTEENTH-
> CENTURY BRITISH ART
> Beth Fowkes Tobin
> Duke University Press 30 Apr 1999,
> Published in USA
> 304pp, 230 x 154mm, 42 b&w illustrations
> HARDBACK UK œ37.00 0-8223-2305-2
> Paperback UK œ12.95 0-8223-2338-9
>
> This study of colonialism and art examines the intersection of
> visual culture and political power in late 18th-century British
> painting. It investigates the role of art in creating and
> maintaining imperial ideologies and practices.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> THE POETICS OF SENSIBILITY: A REVOLUTION IN LITERARY STYLE
> Clarendon Press Apr 1998, Published in UK
> 228pp, 210 x 130mm, Bibliography, index
> PAPERBACK UK œ13.99 0-19-818478-6
>
> A study of 18th-century and Romantic poetry. The book aims to
> explore neglected poetry, principally by women, which qualifies
> as either poetry of "sensibility" or poetry of "sentiment", and
> which exposes the new stylistic devices that writers began to
> discover and exploit.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: New Oxford History of England
> A POLITE AND COMMERCIAL PEOPLE: ENGLAND 1727-1783
> Paul Langford
> Oxford University Press Jul 1998, Published in UK
> 824pp, 230 x 150mm, 28 plates, 12 figures
> HARDBACK UK œ30.00 0-19-820733-6
>
> Part of the "New Oxford History of England", this volume sets out
> an authoritative view of the state of scholarship on the subject,
> presenting a distillation of the knowledge built up by a half-
> century's research and publication of new sources.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional;
> general
>
> *****
>
> THE POLITICS OF JANE AUSTEN
> Edward Neill
> Macmillan Press 12 Feb 1999, Published in UK
> 200pp, 216 x 138mm, 200, Notes, index
> HARDBACK UK œ40.00 0-333-74719-4
>
> Jane Austen is a formative influence on how we think about
> "England" and "Englishness", about class, ideology and gender
> issues. The critical convoy aligns her with the conservative
> views which her texts entertain. In this study, the author
> asserts that this view of "Tory Jane" is largely illusion.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Preface Books
> A PREFACE TO SWIFT
> Keith Crook
> Addison Wesley Longman Higher Education Sep 1998,
> Published in UK
> 272pp, 216 x 138mm, Charts, illustrations, bibliography, index
> HARDBACK UK œ38.00 0-582-28977-7
> Paperback UK œ13.99 0-582-28978-5
>
> This text follows a chronological account of Jonathan Swift's
> life. It focuses on "Gulliver's Travels", but also discusses
> other works including early satires, political writings, poems
> and letters. Detailed chronological charts place Swift's life and
> works in political and cultural context.
>
> Readership: undergraduate
>
> *****
>
> PROPOSING MEN: DIALECTICS OF GENDER AND CLASS IN THE EIGHTEENTH-
> CENTURY ENGLISH PERIODICAL
> Shawn Lisa Maurer
> Stanford University Press Dec 1998,
> Published in USA,
> 238 x 160mm
> HARDBACK UK œ30.00 0-8047-3353-8
>
> Simultaneously challenging conventional male-dominated thought
> and revisionist modern feminism, this book argues that gendered
> roles can best be conceived by looking at the ways in which men
> and women relate to each other in a family environment.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> THE QUAKERS: MONEY AND MORALS
> James Walvin
> John Murray 1997, Published in UK
> 253pp, 240 x 159mm, 16pp b&w illustrations
> HARDBACK UK œ22.00 0-7195-5750-X
>
> This text tells the story of the Quakers and the impact they had
> on British society. It describes how they came to dominate key
> 18th century industries from iron-making to pharmaceuticals to
> banking and were subsequently behind many household names:
> Cadbury, Barclays and Clarks Shoes.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Studies in Rhetoric/Communication
> THE RADICAL RHETORIC OF THE ENGLISH DEISTS: THE DISCOURSE OF
> SKEPTICISM, 1680-1750
> James A. Herrick
> University of South Carolina Press 1997,
> Published in USA
> 248pp, 229 x 152mm
> HARDBACK UK œ23.95 1-57003-166-5
>
> Focusing on the works of lesser-known yet influential Deists, the
> author examines the 70-year polemic between the Church of England
> and the English Deists, illuminating the rhetorical war which
> raged between them. He contends that Deism owes its significance
> to these skilled controversialists.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Bedford Cultural Editions Series
> THE RAPE OF THE LOCK: ALEXANDER POPE
> [Ed] Cynthia Wall
> Macmillan Press Apr 1998, Published in UK
> 224pp, 216 x 138mm, 224, Bibliography, glossary, chronology
> PAPERBACK UK œ8.50 0-333-69097-4
>
> This edition of a classic 18th-century poem reprints both the
> original 1712 version and enlarged 1714 version of the text. The
> poem is accompanied by 150 pages of documents on life in 18th-
> century England.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; advanced secondary
>
> *****
>
> THE REAL RIGHTS OF MAN: POLITICAL ECONOMIES FOR THE WORKING
> CLASS
> Noel Thompson
> Pluto Press Nov 1998, Published in UK
> 192pp, 215 x 135mm, Further reading, index
> HARDBACK UK œ35.00 0-7453-1270-5
> Paperback UK œ12.99 0-7453-1265-9
>
> Between 1775 and 1850, Britain was transformed from a country of
> rural communities into an urbanized, industrial nation built on
> the foundations of capitalism. This volume provides an
> introduction to the critics and political thinkers who were
> opposed to this newly emerging capitalism.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> REFIGURING REVOLUTIONS: AESTHTICS AND POLITICS FROM THE ENGLISH
> REVOLUTION TO THE ROMANTIC REVOLUTION
> [Ed] Kevin Sharpe; Steven N. Zwicker
> University of California Press Aug 1998,
> Published in USA
> 388pp, 229 x 152mm, 23 b&w illustrations
> HARDBACK UK œ40.00 0-520-20919-2
> Paperback UK œ13.95 0-520-20920-6
>
> This text presents a reassessment of the cultural and political
> history of England and suggests alternative approaches to the
> study of 17th and 18th-century England. It sets about returning
> aesthetics to the centre of the master narrative of politics.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> REGULATED HATRED: AND OTHER ESSAYS ON JANE AUSTEN
> D.W. Harding
> [Ed] Monica Lawlor
> The Athlone Press May 1998, Published in UK
> 180pp, 216 x 138mm, Notes, index
> HARDBACK UK œ45.00 0-485-11522-0
> Paperback UK œ14.95 0-485-12136-0
>
> Harding's essay, "Regulated Hatred", is argued to have altered
> the course of Austen criticism. It is included here along with
> some of his other writing about his favourite author.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate
>
> *****
>
> RELIGION AND ENLIGHTENMENT IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND
> : THEOLOGICAL DEBATE FROM LOCKE TO BURKE
> B.W. Young
> Clarendon Press Mar 1998, Published in UK
> 272pp, 210 x 130mm, Bibliography
> HARDBACK UK œ35.00 0-19-826942-0
>
> The intellectual culture of the 18th-century Church of England is
> the focus of this book. It explores developments traditionally
> described as constituting the Enlightenment, challenges
> conventional perceptions and traces the creation of a self-
> consciously enlightened tradition within Anglicanism.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> RELIGION AND SOCIETY IN ENGLAND AND WALES, 1689-1800: A
> SOURCEBOOK
> [Ed] William Gibson
> Leicester University Press Jul 1998,
> Published in UK
> 256pp
> HARDBACK UK œ69.95 0-7185-0162-4
> Paperback UK œ17.99 0-7185-0163-2
>
> Presenting source material for the study of religion in England
> and Wales between the Glorious Revolution and the end of the 18th
> century, this selection of documents includes extracts from
> letters and diaries, acts of parliament, sermons, memoirs,
> religious books, and parish and church records.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> RESHAPING THE SEXES IN "SENSE AND SENSIBILITY"
> Moreland Perkins
> University Press of Virginia Jun 1998,
> Published in USA
> 224pp, 229 x 152mm
> HARDBACK UK œ19.50 0-8139-1800-6
>
> This study explores Jane Austen's revision and reversal of sexual
> stereotypes. It analyzes Austen's "Sense and Sensibility",
> demonstrating how the novel's protagonists deviate from ruling
> ideas of their sexes and reveal Austen's own feminist tendencies.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> REVISION AND ROMANTIC AUTHORSHIP
> Zachary Leader
> Clarendon Press 31 Mar 1999, Published in UK
> 256pp, 210 x 130mm, Bibliography, index
> PAPERBACK UK œ14.99 0-19-818634-7
>
> The Romantic author as spontaneous and autonomous - this text
> suggests - is a fiction much in need of revision. In this volume,
> the author argues that the continuing influence of a Romantic
> preference for what comes naturally, distorts our understanding
> of the actual creative practices.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN: A LIFE
> Linda Kelly
> Pimlico Aug 1998, Published in UK
> 380pp, 233 x 154mm, Portraits
> PAPERBACK UK œ14.00 0-7126-6693-1
>
> The first night of Sheridan's "The School for Scandal", on 8th
> May 1777, was one of the great dates in theatrical history. Linda
> Kelly's biography, drawing on a wide variety of published and
> unpublished sources, gives a comprehensive picture of Sheridan's
> tempestuous career.
>
> Readership: general; undergraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN: A LIFE
> Linda Kelly
> Sinclair Stevenson 1997, Published in UK
> 380pp, Portraits
> HARDBACK UK œ25.00 1-85619-207-5
>
> A biography of Richard Sheridan. For 30 years he was manager of
> the Drury Lane Theatre and a member of Parliament, rising above
> the disadvantages of his early poverty to become one of the
> greatest figures of the age.
>
> Readership: general
>
> *****
>
> RISE OF ENGLISH NATIONALISM: A CULTURAL HISTORY, 1740-1830
> Gerald Newman
> Macmillan Press Jan 1998, Published in UK
> 296pp, 216 x 138mm, 296, Illustrations, bibliography, index
> PAPERBACK UK œ14.99 0-333-73122-0
> Not currently available: reprint under consideration
>
> This text presents a re-interpretation of English history and
> culture in the era of King George III. The author argues that
> England was probably the first modern country to experience
> nationalism, revealing its effect throughout English cultural,
> social, literary, and political life.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> ROGUES, THIEVES AND THE RULE OF LAW: THE PROBLEM OF LAW
> ENFORCEMENT IN NORTH-EAST ENGLAND, 1718-1820
> Gwenda Morgan; Peter Rushton
> UCL Press Apr 1998, Published in UK
> 256pp, 216 x 138mm
> HARDBACK UK œ50.00 1-85728-116-0
>
> A study of crime and law enforcement in the northeastern counties
> between the Transportation Act of 1718 and the "Bloody Code" of
> the 1800s - the key area of debate in the history of English
> crime.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> ROMANTIC WRITING AND PEDESTRIAN TRAVEL
> Robin Jarvis
> Macmillan Press 1997, Published in UK
> 220pp, 216 x 138mm, 220, Notes, bibliography, index
> HARDBACK UK œ45.00 0-333-65814-0
>
> This volume constitutes an exploration of the relationship
> between walking and writing. Robin Jarvis here reconstructs the
> scene of walking, both in Britain and on the Continent, in the
> 1790s, and analyzes the mentality and motives of the early
> pedestrian traveller.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
> ROUSSEAU, ROBESPIERRE AND ENGLISH ROMANTICISM
> Gregory Dart
> Cambridge University Press 1 Feb 1999,
> Published in UK
> 290pp, 5 half-tones
> HARDBACK UK œ37.50 0-521-64100-4
>
> Re-opening the question of Rousseau's influence on the French
> Revolution and on English Romanticism, this text examines the
> relationship between his confessional writings and his political
> theory.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Bibliographies and Indexes in World Literature, No 79
> SAMUEL JOHNSON AND THE ESSAY
> Robert D. Spector
> Greenwood Press 1997, Published in USA
> 272pp, 235 x 155mm, Notes, bibliography, index
> HARDBACK UK œ47.95 0-313-29775-4
>
> This study takes account of the effect of Johnson's essayistic
> talents on the entirety of his writing. It examines those
> qualities of Johnson's thought and methods that naturally led to
> his dependence on the essay form in polemical engagements
> throughout his career.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> SAMUEL JOHNSON AND THE LIFE OF READING
> Robert DeMaria Jr
> The Johns Hopkins University Press 1997,
> Published in USA
> 256pp, 229 x 152mm, 4 illustrations
> HARDBACK UK œ33.00 0-8018-5479-2
>
> Considering the influence of one of the greatest readers of
> English literature, the author of this study shows how Samuel
> Johnson's relationship to books reveals much about his life and
> times. As a practitioner of the "craft" of reading, Johnson
> provides a compelling model of how to read.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> SCIENCE AND EXPLORATION IN THE PACIFIC: EUROPEAN VOYAGES TO THE
> SOUTHERN OCEANS IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
> [Ed] Margarette Lincoln
> The Boydell Press Dec 1998, Published in UK
> 248pp, 234 x 156mm, 18 b&w half-tones, 3 line drawings
> HARDBACK UK œ35.00 0-85115-721-1
>
> Deriving from an initiative of the National Maritime Museum and
> the Royal Society, these are studies of scientific and cultural
> discoveries made on Cook's 1768 voyage to the South Seas in
> "Endeavour", and of issues arising from this and subsequent
> Pacific voyages by European explorers.
>
> Readership: postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: British Ideas and Issues, 1660 - 1820, No 1
> SEDITION AND DEFAMATION DISPLAY'D
> William Yonge
> [Ed] Alexander Pettit
> AMS Press 1997, Published in USA
> PAPERBACK UK œ15.50 0-404-59651-7
>
> This text is a key document in the battle between Walpole's
> apologists and his detractors and, more generally, in the 18th-
> century debate about the liberty of the press. It participates in
> the furore surrounding the government's harassment of the popular
> opposition weekly, the "Craftsman".
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Past and Present Publications
> THE SENSE OF THE PEOPLE: POLITICS, CULTURE AND IMPERIALISM IN
> ENGLAND, 1715-1785
> Wilson
> Cambridge University Press Aug 1998,
> Published in UK
> 475pp, 215 x 139mm, Facsimiles, map
> PAPERBACK UK œ15.95 0-521-63527-6
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> SIBLING LOVE AND INCEST IN JANE AUSTEN'S FICTION
> Glenda A. Hudson
> Macmillan Press 1 Jan 1999, Published in UK
> 160pp, 216x138mm, 160, References, notes, index
> PAPERBACK UK œ14.99 0-333-75207-4
>
> Examines Jane Austen's presentation of sibling love and rivalry
> in the context of the social and historical changes in the late-
> 19th and early-19th centuries. The book does so in a way that
> aims to be of interest to both the general and the academic
> reader.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional;
> general
>
> *****
>
> THE STATE OF IRELAND
> Arthur O'Connor
> [Ed] James Livesey
> The Lilliput Press May 1998,
> Published in Republic of Ireland
> 144pp, Chronology
> HARDBACK UK œ25.00 1-901866-12-2
>
> Arthur O'Connor was one of the leaders of the United Irishmen. He
> brought to the revolutionary movement of the 1790s a mind honed
> on the ideas of Adam Smith and applied it to the political
> economy of 18th-century Ireland. This text, first published in
> 1798 sets forth O'Connor's ideas.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional;
> general
>
> *****
>
> STUDIES IN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY CULTURE: Vol 26
> [Ed] Syndy M. Conger; Julie C. Hayes
> The Johns Hopkins University Press 1997,
> Published in USA
> 352pp, 229 x 152mm, 6 illustrations
> HARDBACK UK œ33.00 0-8018-5627-2
>
> This collection of 16 essays offers an insight into the texts and
> contexts of 18th-century culture in America, Britain and Europe.
> Topics covered include: pastoralism; Augustanism; the aesthetic;
> hysteria; female alienation; German Enlightenment; knowledge;
> charity; and Gothicism.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> STUDIES IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY CULTURE
> Sydny M. Conger
> The Johns Hopkins University Press 1997,
> Published in USA
> HARDBACK UK œ33.00 0-8018-5462-8
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> STUDIES IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY CULTURE: Vol 27
> [Ed] Julie Candler Hayes; Timothy Erwin
> The Johns Hopkins University Press May 1998,
> Published in USA
> 410pp, 229 x 152mm
> HARDBACK UK œ33.00 0-8018-5969-7
>
> The theme of these essays is "identity", not as a fixed, stable
> property whose boundaries may be confidently mapped, but rather
> as a complex and unpredictable process navigating different
> discourses and modes of social insertion.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> TELLING TIME: CLOCKS, DIARIES, AND ENGLISH DIURNAL FORM, 1660-
> 1785
> Stuart Sherman
> University of Chicago Press 1997, Published in USA
> 296pp
> HARDBACK UK œ47.95 0-226-75276-3
> Paperback UK œ15.95 0-226-75277-1
>
> In this text, Stuart Sherman argues that innovations in prose
> emerged simultaneously with the 17th-century revolution in clock
> technology, enabling authors to recount the new kind of time by
> which England was learning to live and work.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> TIME'S ALTERATION: CALENDAR REFORM IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND
> Robert Poole
> UCL Press Jul 1998, Published in UK
> 263pp, 216 x 138mm, Facsimiles
> HARDBACK UK œ45.00 1-85728-622-7
>
> This study uses the episode of reform of the English calendar of
> 1752 as a starting point for a history of scientific, religious
> and social thought about the calendar over two centuries and its
> place in early modern English society.
>
> Readership: research, professional
>
> *****
>
> TOBIAS SMOLLETT: NOVELIST
> Jerry C. Beasley
> University of Georgia Press Mar 1998,
> Published in USA
> 288pp, 229 x 152mm, 17 halftones
> HARDBACK UK œ35.95 0-8203-1971-6
>
> Tobias Smollett believed that what was externally visible
> signified and defined what could be known about the interior
> life. His fiction is therefore distinguished by its intensely
> visual qualities. This book reads these qualities in Smollett's
> novels as exercises of a visual imagination.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English
> Literature and Thought
> THE TRIUMPH OF AUGUSTAN POETICS: ENGLISH LITERARY CULTURE FROM
> BUTLER TO JOHNSON
> Blanford Parker
> Cambridge University Press Jun 1998,
> Published in UK
> 275pp, 236 x 160mm
> HARDBACK UK œ37.50 0-521-59088-4
>
> Offers a re-evaluation of the transition from Baroque to Augustan
> in English literature. The text describes Augustan satire as a
> movement away from the "controversial disputation" of the 17th
> century to a general satire which ridicules Protestant, Anglican
> and Catholic in equal measure.
>
> Readership: undergraduate
>
> *****
>
> THE TYGER, THE LAMB AND THE TERRIBLE DESART: "SONGS OF
> INNOCENCE AND OF EXPERIENCE" IN ITS TIMES AND CIRCUMSTANCE
> Stanley Gardner
> Cygnus Arts Jan 1998, Published in UK
> 264pp, 258 x 201mm, 63 b&w illustrations, 54pp of colour
> illustrations
> HARDBACK UK œ37.50 1-900541-35-1
>
> This work combines an investigation into the political, religious
> and historical background to, and sources of, William Blake's
> "Songs of Innocence and Experience", with a facsimile of two
> copies of the poem, one colour and one black-and-white, together
> with commentary.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain
> URBANE AND RUSTIC ENGLAND: CULTURAL TIES AND SOCIAL SPHERES IN
> THE PROVINCES 1660-1780
> Carl B. Estabrook
> Manchester University Press Nov 1998,
> Published in UK
> 332pp, 234 x 156mm, Tables, bibliography, index
> HARDBACK UK œ49.00 0-7190-5319-6
>
> The growth and renewed vitality of English cities and towns after
> 1660 was remarkable. But what was the effect of this urban
> renaissance on villages and those people whose roots were in the
> countryside? This book shows how an urban-rural divide shaped
> conscious choices in early modern England.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> VIRTUE, GENDER, AND THE AUTHENTIC SELF IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY
> FICTION: RICHARDSON, ROUSSEAU, AND LACLOS
> Christine Roulston
> University Press of Florida Oct 1998,
> Published in USA
> 320pp, 229 x 152mm, Bibliography, index, notes
> HARDBACK UK œ39.95 0-8130-1581-2
>
> This text analyzes the ways in which female virtue was tied to a
> new concept of authenticity in 18th-century sentimental fiction,
> producing a redefinition of gender relations on the one hand and
> re-examination of the value and place of fictional narrative on
> the other.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> VOYAGE OF THE ENDEAVOUR: CAPTAIN COOK AND THE DISCOVERY OF THE
> PACIFIC
> Alan Frost
> Allen & Unwin Nov 1998, Published in Australia
> 151pp, 230 x 152mm, 7 colour and 11 b&w illustrations, 13 maps
> PAPERBACK UK œ12.99 1-86448-188-9
>
> In this volume, the author overturns the idea of Lt James Cook as
> a "tradesman" navigator. He examines what it meant to sail with
> Cook, why the Endeavour sought out the mysterious Great South
> Land, why the manoeuvrings of the French and Spanish mattered,
> and what kind of man Cook was.
>
> Readership: general
>
> *****
>
> Series: Longman Critical Readers
> WILLIAM BLAKE
> [Ed] John Lucas
> Addison Wesley Longman Higher Education May 1998,
> Published in UK
> 288pp, 216 x 138mm, Notes, further reading, index
> HARDBACK UK œ40.00 0-582-23711-4
> Paperback UK œ14.99 0-582-23710-6
>
> This collection of critical essays on William Blake covers a wide
> range to include Marxist, new historicist, feminist and
> psychological approaches. Between them, the essays explore the
> most significant areas and moments of his career as poet and also
> print maker, illustrator and visionary artist.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> WILLIAM BLAKE AND THE DAUGHTERS OF ALBION
> Helen P. Bruder
> Macmillan Press 1997, Published in UK
> 312pp, 216 x 138mm, Illustrations, notes, references,
> bibliography, index
> HARDBACK UK œ45.00 0-333-64036-5
>
> Offering a challenge to the Blake establishment, this text places
> some of Blake's early prophetic works in new historical contexts.
> The book shows what can be achieved when feminist historicism is
> brought to bear on a canonical writer and on now canonized
> interpretations of his work.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> WILLIAM BLAKE AND THE MYTHS OF BRITAIN
> Jason Whittaker
> Macmillan Press 23 Apr 1999, Published in UK
> 212pp, 216 x 138mm, Notes, index
> HARDBACK UK œ40.00 0-333-73896-9
>
> This text is a full-length study of Blake's use of British
> mythology and history. It addresses why the 18th century saw a
> revival of interest in the legends of the British Isles and how
> Blake applied these in his prophetic histories.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> WILLIAM BLAKE'S COMIC VISION
> Nicholas Rawlinson
> Macmillan Press 2 Apr 1999, Published in UK
> 212pp, 216 x 138mm, Bibliography, index
> HARDBACK UK œ40.00 0-333-74565-5
>
> This study should be of interest to the scholar and aficionado
> alike. It uncovers a thematic unity within Blake's early work:
> his far reaching use of humour. Although often dismissed as a
> product of his eccentricity, the author argues the comic was an
> essential key to Blake's concept of Vision.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Ideas in Context, 45
> WILLIAM ROBERTSON AND THE EXPANSION OF EMPIRE
> [Ed] Stewart J. Brown
> Cambridge University Press 1997, Published in UK
> 292pp, 235 x 160mm
> HARDBACK UK œ35.00 0-521-57083-2
>
> William Robertson (1721-1793) was a leading historical figure of
> the 18th-century Enlightenment. This book considers Robertson and
> the expansion of empire. It includes contributions from a number
> of historians and literary scholars who explore aspects of
> Robertson's intellectual achievements.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> WOMEN AND PROPERTY IN THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLISH NOVEL
> April London
> Cambridge University Press 1 Jun 1999,
> Published in UK
> HARDBACK UK œ37.50 0-521-65013-5
>
> This text investigates the critical importance of women to the
> 18th-century debate on property as conducted in the fiction of
> the period. The author argues that contemporary novels advanced
> several, often conflicting, interpretations of the relation of
> women to property.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Oxford Historical Monographs
> THE WRITING OF URBAN HISTORIES IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND
> Rosemary Sweet
> Clarendon Press 1997, Published in UK
> 366pp, 210 x 130mm, 4 maps, bibliography
> HARDBACK UK œ45.00 0-19-820669-0
>
> This text provides an analysis of 18th-century urban culture and
> local historical scholarship. The author shows how a sense of the
> past was crucial not only in instilling civic pride and shaping a
> sense of community, but also in informing contests for power and
> influence in the local community.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
>
>
>
> Please note that this is a bibliographical list only. Whilst every effort
has been
> made to ensure that the information contained in it is accurate, the
price and
> availability of any title may be subject to change by the publisher,
fluctuating
> exchange rates or other circumstances outside our control. Prices do not
unless
> otherwise indicated include tax (where applicable) or postage and
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>
>
>
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> Monstrosity and the Grotesque
>
>
>
> AMERICAN FICTION AND THE METAPHYSICS OF THE GROTESQUE
> Dieter Meindl
> University of Missouri Press 1996,
> Published in USA
> 264pp, 229 x 152mm, Bibliography, index
> HARDBACK UK œ31.95 0-8262-1079-1
>
> By synthesising Kayser's and Bakhtin's views of the grotesque and
> Heidegger's philosophy of "Being", this work demonstrates that
> American fiction has tried to convey the existentialist
> dimension: the pre-individual totality which defines itself
> against the mind and its linguistic capacity.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Cambridge Studies in American Theatre and Drama
> THE AMERICAN STAGE AND THE GREAT DEPRESSION: A CULTURAL HISTORY
> OF THE GROTESQUE
> Mark Fearnow
> Cambridge University Press 1997, Published in UK
> 224pp, 236 x 162mm, 4 halftones
> HARDBACK UK œ37.50 0-521-56111-6
>
> This text proposes a correlation between the divided mind of
> America during the Depression and popular stage works of the era.
> By examining works of theatre as products of particular
> historical circumstances, it argues for a strong connection
> between cultural history and theatre history.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> AUBREY BEARDSLEY: DANDY OF THE GROTESQUE
> Chris Snodgrass
> Oxford University Press Inc, USA 1995,
> Published in USA
> 358pp, 230 x 160mm, xix338, Frontispiece, halftones and line
> illustrations throughout
> HARDBACK UK œ35.00 0-19-509062-4
>
> This analysis of Beardsley's most characteristic works clarifies
> why his art is indispensable to an understanding of fin-de-siecle
> Victorian culture.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> BEARDSLEY, JAPONISME, AND THE PERVERSION OF THE VICTORIAN IDEAL
> [Ed] Linda Gertner Zatlin
> Cambridge University Press 1997, Published in UK
> 318pp, 253 x 199mm, 125 halftones
> HARDBACK UK œ45.00 0-521-58164-8
>
> Explores the influence of Japanese art on Aubrey Beardsley's
> work. The study is both a history of the British and French
> reception of Japanese art, and an examination of the ways
> Beardsley subverted both Victorian notions of the grotesque and
> male habits of viewing women.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> CORPUS OF SPANISH DRAWINGS: Vol 1: SPAIN 1400-1600
> Diego Angulo; A.E. Perez Sanchez
> 2nd ed, Harvey Miller Publishers 1994,
> Published in UK,
> 330 x 230mm, 2 vols, 675 illustrations, bibliographies,
> indexes.
> HARDBACK UK œ95.00 0-905203-88-7
>
> This second edition provides a reference tool, which includes
> over 100 additional drawings by artists already catalogued by
> name or newly researched; and included also is the recently
> discovered "Album of Grotesques" in the Metropolitan Museum in
> New York.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> ETHICS, EVIL, AND FICTION
> Colin McGinn
> Clarendon Press 1997, Published in UK
> 196pp, 210 x 130mm
> HARDBACK UK œ22.50 0-19-823716-2
>
> The central aim of this text is to enrich the domain of moral
> reflection, by showing the value of literary texts as sources of
> moral illumination. It addresses such subjects as the nature of
> goodness, evil character, and the meaning of monstrosity, in the
> context of an aesthetic theory of virtue.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> THE FEMALE GROTESQUE: RISK, EXCESS AND MODERNITY
> Mary Russo
> Routledge 1995, Published in UK
> 250pp, 234 x 156mm
> HARDBACK UK œ40.00 0-415-90164-2
> Paperback UK œ14.99 0-415-90165-0
>
> Cultural associations with the grotesque are deeply embedded in
> western consciousness and culture. Russo examines theoretical,
> visual, autobiographical and performance texts, tracing the
> connections between abjection, the uncanny and the grotesque, and
> focusing on the double logic of the grotesque.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate
>
> *****
>
> Series: Communications and Culture
> FEMALE STORIES, FEMALE BODIES: NARRATIVE, IDENTITY AND
> REPRESENTATION
> Lidia Curti
> Macmillan Press Jan 1998, Published in UK
> 256pp, 216 x 138mm, Bibliography, index
> HARDBACK UK œ42.50 0-333-47164-4
> Paperback UK œ13.99 0-333-47165-2
>
> Explores women's narratives in a wide variety of media and genre,
> from soap opera and film to the postmodern novel and
> Shakespearian drama. Adopting a feminist perspective, the book
> focuses particularly on the themes of hybridity and monstrosity
> in language and the body.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate
>
> *****
>
> Series: New Casebooks
> FRANKENSTEIN
> [Ed] Fred Botting
> Macmillan Press 1995, Published in UK
> 208pp, 216 x 138mm, Further reading, index
> PAPERBACK UK œ11.99 0-333-59959-4
>
> This volume collects together contemporary work on the novel from
> Marxist, psychoanalytic, historicist, feminist, and
> poststructuralist perspectives. It reflects the way monstrosity
> in its literary, philosophical and historical context raises
> crucial questions about many modern issues.
>
> Readership: advanced secondary; undergraduate; research,
> professional; general
>
> *****
>
> Series: Critical Views
> FRANKENSTEIN, CREATION AND MONSTROSITY
> [Ed] Stephen Bann
> Reaktion Books 1994, Published in UK
> 224pp, 234 x 156mm, 60 illustrations, references, bibliography,
> index
> HARDBACK UK œ25.00 0-948462-59-0
> Paperback UK œ10.95 0-948462-60-4
>
> In "Frankenstein" Mary Shelley revived for the Romantic period
> the link between scientific experiment and natural magic, and
> made her own contribution to the debate on the difference between
> "creation" and "production". These essays examine the place of
> the monster in Western visual culture.
>
> Readership: general; undergraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> HOLY TERRORS: GARGOYLES ON MEDIEVAL BUILDINGS
> Janetta Rebold Benton
> Abbeville Press 1997, Published in USA
> 140pp, 210 x 210mm, 108 colour illustrations, 1 b&w
> illustration
> HARDBACK UK œ19.95 0-7892-0182-8
>
> The introduction to this text presents the history, construction
> and purpose of the medieval gargoyle. The chapters that follow
> are devoted to the gargoyles in human, animal, and grotesque form
> and the carvings are considered in the context of medieval life.
> A guide to gargoyle sites is included.
>
> Readership: general
>
> *****
>
> Series: Clarendon Paperbacks
> IN FRANKENSTEIN'S SHADOW: MYTH, MONSTROSITY, AND NINETEENTH-
> CENTURY WRITING
> Chris Baldick
> Clarendon Press 1990, Published in UK
> 218pp, 210 x 130mm, xi207, 5 halftones
> PAPERBACK UK œ14.99 0-19-812249-7
>
> A survey of the early history of a myth: the story of
> Frankenstein as it appeared in fictional and other writings
> before its translation to the cinema screen. The author shows how
> this myth became associated with technological development, and
> human relationships.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> THE INHUMAN RACE: THE RACIAL GROTESQUE IN AMERICAN LITERATURE
> AND CULTURE
> Leonard Cassuto
> Columbia University Press 1996, Published in USA
> 312pp, 24 illustrations
> HARDBACK UK œ40.00 0-231-10336-0
> Paperback UK œ14.00 0-231-10337-9
>
> Considers the ways in which ideas about blackness are central to
> the self-definition of whiteness. Drawing upon literature and
> culture, the text argues that white ideology refused
> accountability for both slavery and the destruction of Native
> Americans, by casting both groups as inhuman.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> INTRODUCING BAKHTIN
> Sue Vice
> Manchester University Press 1997, Published in UK
> 256pp, 216 x 138mm, 3 illustrations, bibliography, index
> HARDBACK UK œ40.00 0-7190-4327-1
> Paperback UK œ12.99 0-7190-4328-X
>
> Explores Bakhtin's central concepts and terms, illustrating what
> is meant by such ideas as carnival, the grotesque body, dialogism
> and heteroglossia. These concepts are then placed in a
> contemporary context by drawing out the implications of Bakhtin's
> writings.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> JOEL PETER WITKIN: A RETROSPECTIVE
> Germano Celant
> Scalo 1995, Published in Switzerland
> 224pp, 216 x 291mm, 100 colour and 30 b&w illustrations
> HARDBACK UK œ47.50 1-881616-20-7
>
> Controversial photographs taken by Joel-Peter Witkin, focusing on
> the grotesque and the physically abnormal in order to reflect how
> we see ourselves. This book examines the significance of his work
> from both the American and the European perspectives
>
> Readership: general; undergraduate
>
> *****
>
> THE MEDIEVAL MENAGERIE: ANIMALS IN THE ART OF THE MIDDLE AGES
> Janetta Rebold Benton
> Abbeville Press 1992, Published in USA
> 192pp, 205 x 225mm, 100 colour illustrations, 50 illustrations
> HARDBACK UK œ11.50 1-55859-133-8
>
> Featuring incredible creatures and grotesque gargoyles, this book
> takes the reader from the improbable to the impossible as it
> traces the depiction and the meaning of real and imaginary
> animals in medieval art.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional;
> general
>
> *****
>
> THE NARRATIVE SECRET OF FLANNERY O'CONNOR: THE TRICKSTER AS
> INTERPRETER
> Ruthann Knechel Johansen
> University of Alabama Press 1994, Published in USA
> 192pp
> HARDBACK UK œ23.95 0-8173-0717-6
>
> This study aims to provide new insight into the complete works of
> Flannery O'Connor, by exploring the intersection of her artistic
> interpretations and her religious occupations. Since O'Connor's
> early death in 1964, her work has been variously labelled as
> regional, Christian, grotesque and Gothic.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Exeter Studies in History
> PHLEGON OF TRALLES' "BOOK OF MARVELS": TRANSLATION AND
> COMMENTARY
> [Ed] William F. Hansen
> University of Exeter Press 1997, Published in UK
> 224pp, Index
> PAPERBACK UK œ12.99 0-85989-425-8
>
> The "Book of Marvels", a compilation of marvellous events of a
> grotesque, bizarre or sensational nature, was composed in the
> second century A.D. by Phlegon of Tralles. This translation
> offers a look at its themes, including ghosts, sex-changers and
> hermaphrodites, and monstrous births.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> THE PORTRAIT OF ECCENTRICITY: ARCIMBOLDO AND THE MANNERIST
> GROTESQUE
> Giancarlo Maiorino
> Penn State University Press 1991, Published in USA
> 160pp, 229 x 152mm, 32 illustrations
> HARDBACK UK œ27.95 0-271-00727-3
>
> An examination of the links between Renaissance and modern
> versions of the grotesque, which discusses the grotesque face of
> 16th-century poetics and rhetoric, and uses the term
> "eccentricity" to refer to styles of playful extravagance both
> then and now.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society
> SUBVERSIVE PLEASURES: BAKHTIN, CULTURAL CRITICISM, AND FILM
> Robert Stam
> The Johns Hopkins University Press 1992,
> Published in USA
> 282pp, 229 x 152mm
> PAPERBACK UK œ13.00 0-8018-4509-2
>
> Applying Bakhtin's critical methods to film, mass-media and
> cultural studies, Stam draws on Bakhtin's corporal semiotics of
> "the grotesque body" to analyze eroticism in the cinema, and
> explores issues including the "translinguistic" critique of
> Saussurean semiotics and Russian formalism.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Literature and Medicine Series, No 2
> THE TYRANNY OF THE NORMAL: AN ANTHOLOGY
> [Ed] Carol Donley; Sheryl Buckley
> Kent State University Press 1995, Published in USA
> 389pp, 235 x 155mm
> PAPERBACK UK œ23.50 0-87338-535-7
>
> A study of the experiences of those who live outside social norms
> for beauty, size and shape, as well as the reactions of "normal"
> people to those who appear grotesque. The text contains essays on
> treating those with disorders or deformities, and over 40
> stories, poems and plays about abnormality.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional;
> general
>
> *****
>
> VICTORIAN CULTURE AND THE IDEA OF THE GROTESQUE
> [Ed] Colin Trodd; Paul Barlow; David Amigoni
> Ashgate Publishing Limited 31 Jan 1999,
> Published in UK
> 224pp, 234 x 156mm, 30 b&w illustrations, bibliography, index
> HARDBACK UK œ45.00 1-85928-380-2
>
> Monstrous, absurd, humorous, demotic and contradictory: the
> Grotesque is a protean force working across different areas of
> Victorian life. This text examines a wide range of sources and
> materials in order to provide new readings of an important force
> that oscillates between "style" and "concept".
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> THE VIOLENT EFFIGY: A STUDY OF DICKENS' IMAGINATION
> John Carey
> New ed, Faber Paperbacks 1991, Published in UK
> 224pp, 198 x 126mm
> PAPERBACK UK œ6.99 0-571-16377-7
>
> Waxworks, locks and living furniture are a few of the obsessions
> the author uncovers while investigating the strange poetry of
> Dickens' imagination. This book sees Dickens, not as a moralist
> or social commentator, but as an anarchic comic genius drawn to
> the sinister and grotesque.
>
> Readership: undergraduate
>
> *****
>
> THE WORLD'S MOST FANTASTIC FREAKS
> Mike Parker
> Bounty Books 1995, Published in UK
> 192pp, 198 x 126mm, b&w photographs
> PAPERBACK UK œ0.99 0-600-58611-1
>
> Describes the unfortunate individuals who have been labelled
> freaks, like the Elephant Man, Siamese twins, and others who have
> been born with a grotesque physical disadvantage. The book
> discusses the lives these individuals led, and the way they were
> treated by their contemporaries.
>
> Readership: general
>
> *****
>
>
>
>
> Please note that this is a bibliographical list only. Whilst every effort
has been
> made to ensure that the information contained in it is accurate, the
price and
> availability of any title may be subject to change by the publisher,
fluctuating
> exchange rates or other circumstances outside our control. Prices do not
unless
> otherwise indicated include tax (where applicable) or postage and
packing.
>
>
>
> Heffers Booksellers 20 Trinity Street, Cambridge, England CB2 3NG
> Telephone (+44 / 0) 1223 568568 FAX (+44 / 0) 1223 568591
>
> History of sex/uality
>
>
>
> THE ALARMING HISTORY OF SEX
> Richard Gordon
> Sinclair Stevenson 1996, Published in UK
> 250pp, 234 x 153mm
> HARDBACK UK œ20.00 1-85619-493-0
>
> An irreverent study of the history of sex from the Garden of Eden
> to modern-day sexual psychologists. The book appraises the
> reproductive urge in what is intended as a humorous and
> enlightening manner.
>
> Readership: general
>
> *****
>
> THE FIRST SEXUAL REVOLUTION: THE EMERGENCE OF MALE
> HETEROSEXUALITY IN MODERN AMERICA
> Kevin White
> New York University Press 1992, Published in USA
> 264pp
> HARDBACK UK œ36.00 0-8147-9256-1
> Paperback UK œ14.00 0-8147-9258-8
>
> This work draws on a wide range of sources (movies,
> advertisements, sex confession magazines, letters, diaries,
> social hygienists, sex manuals and Freudian popularisers) to
> examine the ideology that has defined modern American manhood in
> sexual terms.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate
>
> *****
>
> THE HISTORY OF SEXUALITY: THE WILL TO KNOWLEDGE: Vol 1
> Michel Foucault
> Penguin Books Oct 1998, Published in UK
> 176pp, 198 x 129mm
> PAPERBACK UK œ7.99 0-14-026868-5
>
> Here, one of France's greatest intellectuals explores the
> evolving social, economic and political forces that have shaped
> our attitudes to sex. Foucault describes how we are in the
> process of making a science of sex which is devoted to the
> analysis of desire rather than the increase of pleasure.
>
> Readership: general
>
> *****
>
> Series: Penguin History
> THE HISTORY OF SEXUALITY: THE USE OF PLEASURE: Vol 2
> Michel Foucault
> Reissue, Penguin Books 1988, Published in UK
> 304pp, 198 x 129mm, Notes, bibliography, index
> PAPERBACK UK œ9.99 0-14-013734-3
>
> Offers an account of the emergence of Christianity from the
> Ancient World. Foucault describes the stranger byways of Greek
> medicine (with its advice on the healthiest season for sex and
> exercise and diet), the permitted ways of courting young boys,
> and the economists' ideas about the role of women.
>
> Readership: general; undergraduate
>
> *****
>
> THE HISTORY OF SEXUALITY: THE CARE OF THE SELF: Vol 3
> Michel Foucault
> Penguin Books 1990, Published in UK
> 288pp, 198 x 129mm
> PAPERBACK UK œ8.99 0-14-013735-1
>
> The third volume of Foucault's history of sexuality. A
> sociologist and historian of ideas, Foucault's other works
> include "Madness and Civilization", "The Archaeology of
> Knowledge", "The Birth of the Clinic" and "Discipline and
> Punish".
>
> Readership: general
>
> *****
>
> HOMOSEXUALITY: A HISTORY
> Colin Spencer
> Fourth Estate 1996, Published in UK
> 448pp, 198 x 130mm, 8pp illustrations
> PAPERBACK UK œ8.99 1-85702-447-8
>
> A history of homosexuality, which examines its place within early
> societies, first civilizations, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance,
> and the Victorian era. Spencer concludes that homosexuality is
> only accepted in loosely democratic societies.
>
> Readership: general
>
> *****
>
> INTIMATE MATTERS: A HISTORY OF SEXUALITY IN AMERICA
> John D'Emilio; Estelle B. Freedman
> 2nd ed, University of Chicago Press Feb 1998,
> Published in USA
> 468pp, 204 x 133mm
> PAPERBACK UK œ11.95 0-226-14264-7
>
> A study of the history of sexuality in America, this book offers
> insights into the sexual behaviour of Americans, from colonial
> times to the present. It seeks to provide an understanding of how
> sexuality has influenced politics and culture throughout US
> history.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> LESBIAN SEX: AN ORAL HISTORY
> Susan E. Johnson
> Naiad Press 1996, Published in USA
> 36pp, 215 x 140mm
> PAPERBACK UK œ11.99 1-56280-142-2
>
> An oral history devoted to lesbian sexuality, and a what, how,
> when and why look at every aspect of lesbian sex. This work
> features in-depth interviews with a broad range of women who
> reveal the intimate details of their sex lives, and what sex
> means in their lives as lesbians.
>
> Readership: general
>
> *****
>
> Series: Critical Perspectives on the Past
> PASSION AND POWER: SEXUALITY IN HISTORY
> Kathy Peiss
> [Ed] Robert A. Padgug
> Temple University Press 1989, Published in USA
> PAPERBACK 0-87722-637-7
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> THE PHILOSOPHY OF (EROTIC) LOVE
> [Ed] Robert C. Solomon; Kathleen M. Higgins
> University Press of Kansas 1991, Published in USA
> 448pp, 230 x 152mm
> HARDBACK UK œ35.50 0-7006-0479-0
> Paperback UK œ13.95 0-7006-0480-4
>
> Love, elusive and philosophically intractable as it is, has long
> fascinated philosophers. In this collection of classic and modern
> writings on the topic of erotic love, the editors choose excerpts
> from the great philosophical texts and combine them with works of
> contemporary philosophers.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate
>
> *****
>
> THE PRE-HISTORY OF SEX: FOUR MILLION YEARS OF HUMAN SEXUAL
> CULTURE
> Timothy Taylor
> Fourth Estate 1996, Published in UK
> 368pp, 240 x 156mm, 62 b&w illustrations
> HARDBACK UK œ18.99 1-85702-352-8
>
> Using new techniques to examine archaeological remains and
> evolutionary evidence, this book attempts to answer questions
> about the sexual culture of early humans. Looking at prehistory
> raises questions about our own lives, and the author addresses
> fiercely-debated modern issues about sexuality.
>
> Readership: general
>
> *****
>
> PSYCHONANALYSIS AND MALE HOMOSEXUALITY
> Kenneth Lewes
> Jason Aronson 1995, Published in USA
> 328pp, 210 x 139mm
> PAPERBACK UK œ23.95 1-56821-484-7
>
> This work, containing an updated introduction, offers a
> historical, cultural, and theoretical account of how male
> homosexuality has been viewed - and sometimes misconstrued - by
> the psychoanalytic tradition, from Freud to the 1980s.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> SACRED PLEASURE: SEX, MYTH AND THE POLITICS OF THE BODY: NEW
> PATHS TO POWER AND LOVE
> Riane Eisler
> Element Books Ltd 1996, Published in UK
> 512pp, 234 x 153mm, Notes, bibliography, index
> HARDBACK UK œ16.99 1-85230-780-3
>
> This study of sexual politics charts the course of sexual
> relations from prehistory, through the invasion of Europe by
> Nomadic warriors, to the early Western civilizations and the
> modern era. The book asserts that the war between the sexes is
> not inevitable and that the sexes can be equal.
>
> Readership: general
>
> *****
>
> SCIENCE IN THE BEDROOM: A HISTORY OF SEX RESEARCH
> Vern L. Bullough
> Addison Wesley Longman Higher Education 1994,
> Published in UK
> 288pp
> HARDBACK UK œ16.99 0-465-03020-3
>
> From the first serious sex study ever undertaken (in France in
> 1830 with a group of prostitutes) to the latterday work of
> Masters and Johnson, this book traces the history of more than a
> century of sex research. Bullough also describes the forces that
> have impinged such research.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> SEX IN HISTORY
> Reay Tannahill
> Hamish Hamilton 1980, Published in UK
> 480pp, 240mm, Illustrations, plan, bibliography, index
> HARDBACK UK œ14.95 0-241-10200-6
> Paperback UK œ9.99 0-349-10486-7
>
> Readership: general
>
> *****
>
> SEXOLOGY UNCENSORED: THE DOCUMENTS OF SEXUAL SCIENCE
> [Ed] Lucy Bland; Laura Doan
> Polity Press Oct 1998, Published in UK
> 288pp, 229 x 152mm
> HARDBACK UK œ45.00 0-7456-2112-0
> Paperback UK œ13.95 0-7456-2113-9
>
> Brings together many of the key documents of the modern science
> of sexuality that emerged in the late 19th century. They are
> organized thematically and include: gender and sexual difference;
> homosexualities; transsexuality and bisexuality; heterosexuality;
> and marriage and sex manuals.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> SEXUAL CULTURES IN EUROPE: Vol 1: NATIONAL HISTORIES
> [Ed] Franz X. Eder; Lesley A. Hall; Gert Hekma
> Manchester University Press 31 Jan 1999,
> Published in UK
> 256pp, 216 x 138mm
> HARDBACK UK œ45.00 0-7190-5313-7
> Paperback UK œ14.99 0-7190-5314-5
>
> This volume brings together studies of the sexual cultures in the
> major European countries and shows the commonalities and
> differences between them which are a result of great religious
> divides and different legal and economic systems.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> SEXUAL CULTURES IN EUROPE: Vol 2: THEMES IN SEXUALITY
> [Ed] Franz X. Eder; Lesley A. Hall; Gert Hemka
> Manchester University Press 31 Jan 1999,
> Published in UK
> 256pp, Index
> HARDBACK UK œ14.99 0-7190-5320-X
> Paperback UK œ14.99 0-7190-5321-8
>
> This volume overviews the key themes in the history of European
> sexual cultures, including religion and sexuality, same-sex
> relationships, pornography, sexual perversions, falling
> fertilities and abortion. These themes are explored through a
> range of case studies drawn from across Europe.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> SEXUAL KNOWLEDGE, SEXUAL SCIENCE: THE HISTORY OF ATTITUDES TO
> SEXUALITY
> [Ed] Roy Porter; Mikulcs Teich
> Cambridge University Press 1994, Published in UK
> 422pp, 228 x 152mm
> HARDBACK UK œ45.00 0-521-44434-9
> Paperback UK œ15.95 0-521-44891-3
>
> This text explores attempts to develop bodies of knowledge about
> sex from antiquity to the present day. By looking at the cognate
> sciences like zoology, anatomy, embryology and psychiatry, the
> volume analyzes the shaping over the centuries of disciplines
> which came, by 1900, to be called sexology.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> TEACHING AMERICA ABOUT SEX: MARRIAGE / SEX MANUALS FROM THE
> LATE VICTORIANS TO DR RUTH
> M.E. Melody; Linda M. Peterson
> New York University Press 31 May 1999,
> Published in USA
> 304pp, 229 x 152mm
> HARDBACK 0-8147-5532-1 US$28.95
>
> Offering insights into 20th-century America's vexed relationship
> with sex, this is a study of sex manuals and marriage guides,
> from the late-Victorian obsession with masturbation and hygiene
> to the "if it feels good, do it" ethos of "The Joy of Sex".
>
> Readership: research, professional; general
>
> *****
>
> Series: Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology
> THE TECHNOLOGY OF ORGASM: "HYSTERIA", THE VIBRATOR, AND WOMEN'S
> SEXUAL SATISFACTION
> Rachel P. Maines
> The Johns Hopkins University Press 28 Feb 1999,
> Published in USA
> 129pp, 216 x 139mm, 26 illustrations
> HARDBACK UK œ15.00 0-8018-5941-7
>
> From Hippocrates until the 1920s, massaging "hysterical" female
> patients to orgasm was a staple of medical practice among Western
> physicians. This text traces the vibrator from its beginning as a
> sanctioned therapeutic instrument to its fall from respectability
> and then reappearance as sex aid.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Family, Sexuality and Social Relations in Past Times
> TWENTIETH-CENTURY SEXUALITY: A HISTORY
> Angus Mclaren
> Blackwell Publishers 31 May 1999, Published in UK
> 304pp, 229 x 152mm
> HARDBACK UK œ50.00 0-631-20812-7
> Paperback UK œ15.99 0-631-20813-5
>
> Providing a history of sexuality in 20th-century North America
> and Europe, this text draws upon legal, medical and literary
> sources to demonstrate how modern sexuality has been shaped by
> race, class, gender and generational preoccupations.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> WHAT WILD ECSTASY: THE RISE AND FALL OF THE SEXUAL REVOLUTION
> John Heidenry
> Simon & Schuster (General list, Trade Division) Feb 1998,
> Published in UK
> 448pp, 240 x 160mm
> HARDBACK UK œ17.99 0-684-81037-9
>
> A history of the last three decades of sexual culture. The author
> details the rise of the science of sexology, the burgeoning of
> pornographic works which fanned controversies over freedom of
> expression, the homosexual and other minority lobbies, and the
> effect of all this on society as a whole.
>
> Readership: general; research, professional
>
> *****
>
>
>
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> ABSENT WITHOUT LEAVE: FRENCH LITERATURE UNDER THE THREAT OF WAR
> Denis Hollier
> Harvard University Press 1997, Published in USA
> 244pp, 235 x 155mm
> HARDBACK UK œ30.95 0-674-21270-3
> Paperback UK œ17.50 0-674-21271-1
>
> The aim of this book is to explore the French writers and critics
> of the 1930s and 1940s, who were to shape French literature. It
> studies the prehistory of postmodernism, looking at the main
> figures in French literature before the age of anxiety gave way
> to the era of existentialist commitment.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> AFRICAN AMERICAN NATIONALIST
> Flowers
> Garland Publishing Inc 1997, Published in USA
> HARDBACK UK œ53.00 0-8153-2474-X
>
> *****
>
> AFRICAN VOICES, AFRICAN LIVES: PERSONAL NARRATIVES FROM A
> SWAHILI VILLAGE
> Pat Caplan
> Routledge 1997, Published in UK
> 288pp, 216 x 138mm, 26 b&w photographs
> HARDBACK UK œ47.50 0-415-13723-3
> Paperback UK œ14.99 0-415-13724-1
>
> By utilizing a mixture of styles - narrative and life history,
> ethnographic observation and the diary kept by Mohammed, a
> Swahili peasant - this book grapples with issues raised by
> personal narratives, authorial authority and reflexivity.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate
>
> *****
>
> Series: Contributions to Phenomenology
> ALFRED SCHUTZ'S SOCIOLOGICAL ASPECT OF LITERATURE
> : CONSTRUCTION AND COMPLEMENTARY ESSAYS
> [Ed] Lester Embree
> Kluwer Academic Publishers 1997,
> Published in Netherlands
> 284pp, Index
> HARDBACK UK œ84.00 0-7923-4847-8
>
> Using outlines and scattered passages of relevance, this work
> includes a construction of the work Schutz did not, but was
> clearly prepared to write on how authors and audiences relate to
> one another in lyric poetry, drama, and the novel.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Roman Literature and Its Contexts
> ALLUSION AND INTERTEXT: DYNAMICS OF APPROPRIATION IN ROMAN
> POETRY
> Stephen Hinds
> Cambridge University Press Jan 1998,
> Published in UK
> 171pp, 206 x 134mm
> HARDBACK UK œ32.50 0-521-57186-3
> Paperback UK œ11.95 0-521-57677-6
>
> This volume represents an attempt to find (or recover) some space
> for the study of allusion - as a project of continuing vitality -
> within an enlarged universe of intertexts. Traditional classical
> approaches are combined with modern literary-theoretical ways of
> thinking.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> ALTERED READING: LEVINAS AND LITERATURE
> Jill Robbins
> University of Chicago Press 30 Mar 1999,
> Published in USA
> 216pp, 229 x 152mm
> HARDBACK UK œ33.50 0-226-72112-4
> Paperback UK œ12.95 0-226-72113-2
>
> Examining Levinas's texts and readings by Derrida, Blanchot, and
> Bataille, this text shows how the thread of the literary leads to
> the internal tensions of Levinas's ethical discourse. It provides
> a critical account of Levinas's early and mature philosophy as
> well as later transitional essays.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Religion in America
> AMERICAN MADONNA: IMAGES OF THE DIVINE WOMAN IN LITERARY
> CULTURE
> John Gatta
> Oxford University Press Inc, USA Feb 1998,
> Published in USA
> 192pp, 230 x 150mm, 20 halftones
> HARDBACK UK œ27.50 0-19-511261-X
>
> Focusing on Nathaniel Hawthorne, Margaret Fuller, Harriet Beecher
> Stowe, Harold Federic, Henry Adams and T.S. Eliot, this text
> explores the representation of Mary as mythical Madonna and the
> symbolic compensation this offered Protestant writers for a
> deficiency of psychic feminity.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> APHORISM IN THE FRANCOPHONE NOVEL OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
> Mark Bell
> McGill-Queen's University Press 1997,
> Published in Canada
> 160pp, 234 x 156mm
> HARDBACK UK œ32.00 0-7735-1528-3
>
> In this exploration of 20th-century novels written in French,
> Mark Bell defines aphorism as a literary genre and demonstrates
> how it is used in seven texts that provide a cross-section of
> ideological stances and francophone communities.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> ART AND EMOTION
> Derek Matravers
> Clarendon Press Mar 1998, Published in UK
> 246pp, 210 x 130mm, Bibliography
> HARDBACK UK œ32.50 0-19-823638-7
>
> An examination of how emotions form the bridge between our
> experience of art and of life. The author aims to show that what
> these experiences have in common and what links them to the
> expression of emotion in non-artistic cases, is the role played
> by feeling.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> THE ART OF HUNGER
> Paul Auster
> Faber Paperbacks Nov 1998, Published in UK
> 395pp, 198 x 129mm
> PAPERBACK UK œ9.99 0-571-19510-5
>
> This collection includes essays on Kafka, Beckett and other 20th-
> century literary figures, and reflections by Auster on his own
> work - on the need to break down the boundary between living and
> writing, and on the use of certain genre conventions to penetrate
> matters of memory and identity.
>
> Readership: research, professional; general
>
> *****
>
> THE ARTS AND SCIENCES OF CRITICISM
> [Ed] David Fuller; Patricia Waugh
> Clarendon Press 30 Jun 1999, Published in UK
> 220pp, 210 x 130mm
> HARDBACK UK œ25.00 0-19-818639-8
>
> This collection reflects on developments in criticism which bear
> on a debate between different modes of knowledge: a science model
> and its place in the university versus other ways of conceiving
> knowledge for which the arts have traditionally been seen as
> vehicles.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> ASPECTS OF BLOOMSBURY: STUDIES IN MODERN ENGLISH LITERARY AND
> INTELLECTUAL HISTORY
> S.P. Rosenbaum
> Macmillan Press Jun 1998, Published in UK
> 272pp, 216 x 138mm, 272, Notes, index
> HARDBACK UK œ42.50 0-333-72042-3
> Not currently available: reprint under consideration
>
> The studies in the literary and intellectual history of the
> Bloomsbury Group collected in this text include essays on the
> philosophical backgrounds of Virginia Woolf's work, Bertrand
> Russell's embodiments as a literary symbol and the significance
> of Bloomsbury's letters.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Pittsburgh Series in Composition, Literacy and Culture
> ASSUMING THE POSITIONS: CULTURAL PEDAGOGY AND THE POLITICS OF
> COMMONPLACE WRITING
> Susan Miller
> University of Pittsburgh Press 1997,
> Published in USA
> HARDBACK UK œ39.95 0-8229-3991-6
> Paperback UK œ18.50 0-8229-5637-3
>
> In this study, writing ordinarily considered trivial is used to
> show how the writers used it to reinforce or revise the roles
> imposed on them by gender and social conventions. It makes a case
> for the usefulness of commonplace writing, arguing that to ignore
> it distorts our view of the past.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> AUGUSTINE THE READER: MEDITATION, SELF-KNOWLEDGE, AND THE
> ETHICS OF INTERPRETATION
> Brian Stock
> Harvard University Press (The Belknap Press) Mar 1998,
> Published in USA
> 476pp, 235 x 161mm
> PAPERBACK UK œ11.95 0-674-05277-3
>
> Augustine of Hippo, a central figure in the history of Western
> thought, is also the author of a theory of reading that has had a
> profound influence on Western letters. In the union of
> philosophy, psychology, and literary insights the reader emerges
> as the dominant model of the reflective self.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics and Culture
> AUSTRIA AND OTHER MARGINS: READING CULTURE
> Katherine Arens
> Camden House 1997, Published in USA
> 240pp, 228 x 152mm
> HARDBACK UK œ40.00 1-57113-109-4
>
> A series of case studies which seek to redefine what "reading
> culture" can mean in literary and cultural studies. They trace
> the ways in which authors borrow and rewrite literary traditions
> across national lines, and then set out to show how literature
> can cross other kinds of cultural boundaries.
>
> Readership: postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> AUTHORIZING READERS: RESISTANCE AND RESPECT IN THE TEACHING OF
> LITERATURE
> Peter J. Rabinowitz; Michael W. Smith
> Teachers College Press 1997, Published in USA
> 192pp
> HARDBACK UK œ35.95 0-8077-3690-2
> Paperback UK œ17.50 0-8077-3689-9
>
> A discussion of a central paradox faced by literature teachers -
> have teachers taught well if their students have not learned to
> recognize the way authors expect them to read? But shouldn't
> students be taught the skills of resisting what authors expect
> and what teachers see as the right to reading?
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> AUTHORSHIP, ETHICS AND THE READER: STUDIES IN BLAKE, DICKENS
> AND JOYCE
> Dominic Rainsford
> Macmillan Press 1997, Published in UK
> 256pp, 216 x 138mm, 256, Notes, index
> HARDBACK UK œ40.00 0-333-66971-1
> Not currently available: reprint under consideration
>
> This work examines ways in which literary texts may seem to
> comment on their authors' ethical status. Its argument develops
> through readings of Blake, Dickens, and Joyce, three authors who
> find ways of casting doubt on their own moral authority, at the
> same time as they expose wider social ills.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> AUTO/BIOGRAPHICAL DISCOURSE: CRITICISM, THEORY AND PRACTICE
> Laura Marcus
> Manchester University Press Nov 1998,
> Published in UK
> 256pp, 216 x 138mm, Bibliography, index
> PAPERBACK UK œ14.99 0-7190-3642-9
>
> Explores autobiography as a genre and as an organizing concept in
> 19th- and 20th-century thought. Laura Marcus shows how
> autobiography and biography have been crucial in debates over
> subject and object, public and private, fact and fiction -
> debates now refigured in feminist theory.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> AUTO/BIOGRAPHICAL DISCOURSES: CRITICISM, THEORY, PRACTICE
> Laura Marcus
> Manchester University Press Sep 1998,
> Published in UK
> 322pp, 216 x 138mm, Bibliography, index
> PAPERBACK UK œ11.99 0-7190-5530-X
>
> This work explores the significance of the genre of
> autobiography. Drawing on a range of writings, both literary and
> theoretical the text shows how biography and autobiography have
> been crucial in debates over subject and object, public and
> private - debates now figured in feminist theory.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: South Atlantic Quarterly, Vol 97, no 3 (special issue)
> BAKHTIN/"BAKHTIN": STUDIES IN THE ARCHIVE AND BEYOND
> [Ed] Peter Hitchcock
> Duke University Press Oct 1998, Published in USA
> 250pp, 230 x 154mm
> PAPERBACK UK œ8.95 0-8223-6461-1
>
> This special issue of "South Atlantic Quarterly" both celebrates
> the centennial of Mikhail Bakhtin's birth and elaborates
> significant strains in Bakhtinian thinking. Questions explored
> include can there be a real Bakhtin, and can this simply be the
> relevant Bakhtin?
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> BARBAROUS DISSONANCE AND IMAGES OF VOICE IN MILTON'S EPICS
> Elizabeth Sauer
> McGill-Queen's University Press 1997,
> Published in Canada
> 223pp, 234 x 156mm, Notes, index
> HARDBACK UK œ35.00 0-7735-1428-7
>
> A multivocal, transhistorical approach to "Paradise Lost" and
> "Paradise Regained". The author argues that Milton's epics
> accommodate a variety of interpretive voices, episodes, and
> dramatic and discursive exchanges that resist the monological
> containment of the poems' dominant narratives.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate
>
> *****
>
> BAUDELAIRE AND THE AESTHETICS OF BAD FAITH
> Susan Blood
> Stanford University Press 1997, Published in USA
> 224pp, 225 x 147mm
> HARDBACK UK œ30.00 0-8047-2809-7
>
> This is a study of Baudelaire's canonization in the critical
> debates of the 20th century, focusing particularly on his role in
> the development of a modernist consciousness. Throughout,
> Baudelaire's poetry is examined in detail.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> BEARING ACROSS: STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND SCIENCE
> Steven Carter
> International Scholars Publications Nov 1998,
> Published in USA
> 150pp, 216 x 136mm, Diagrams, bibliography, index
> HARDBACK UK œ59.95 1-57309-328-9
> Paperback UK œ43.95 1-57309-327-0
>
> The author of this text develops the themes of field theory,
> quanta (quantum theory), and chaos in modern American poetry and
> fiction.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> BECKETT AND POSTSTRUCTURALISM
> Anthony Uhlmann
> Cambridge University Press 12 Aug 1999,
> Published in UK
> HARDBACK UK œ35.00 0-521-64076-8
>
> This text offers a reading of Beckett in the light of recent
> French philosophy, particularly the work of Foucault, Deleuze and
> Guattari, Levinas, and Derrida. Anthongy Uhlmann provides a work
> discussing the relationship between Beckett's texts and their
> French philosophical context.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: The Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
> BEFORE READING: NARRATIVE CONVENTIONS AND THE POLITICS OF
> INTERPRETATION
> Peter J. Rabinowitz
> Ohio State University Press 1997, Published in USA
> 272pp, 229 x 152mm
> PAPERBACK UK œ15.50 0-8142-0759-6
>
> Starting from the premise that any productive theory of narrative
> must take into account the presuppositions the reader brings to
> the text, this work explores how our prior knowledge of literary
> conventions influences the processes of interpretation and
> evaluation.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> BEGINNINGS
> Edward Said
> Granta Books Jan 1998, Published in UK
> 427pp
> PAPERBACK UK œ12.99 1-86207-160-8
>
> Asking, "What is a beginning?", this book brings together
> history, philosophy, structuralism and critical theory in a work
> of literary criticism. It differentiates beginning from origin;
> the latter is divine and mythical, the former secular, humanly
> produced and ceaselessly re-examined.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional;
> general
>
> *****
>
> THE BIBLE IN HISTORY: HOW WRITERS CREATE A PAST
> Thomas L. Thompson
> Jonathan Cape 25 Feb 1999, Published in UK
> 480pp, 234 x 153mm, 8pp b&w halftones, 2 maps
> HARDBACK UK œ25.00 0-224-03977-6
>
> For centuries, archaeologists, historians and biblical scholars
> believed that the stories of the Bible described real historical
> events. In this text, Professor Thompson shows that we
> misunderstand the Bible if it is read as history, rather than
> literature.
>
> Readership: general; undergraduate; postgraduate; research,
> professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Twayne's Studies in Literary Themes and Genres
> BIOGRAPHY
> Catherine N. Parke
> Twayne (an imprint of G.K. Hall) 1997,
> Published in USA,
> 235 x 178mm
> HARDBACK UK œ17.95 0-8057-0965-7
>
> Discussing biography from Classical times to the present, this
> work describes major changes in the practice of the genre.
> Analysis of several biographies, including those of Virginia
> Woolf, Samual Johnson, and Langston Hughes, illustrate the
> development of the biography from the 18th century.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Biography and Source Studies, Vol 3
> BIOGRAPHY AND SOURCE STUDIES: Vol 3
> [Ed] Frederick R. Karl
> AMS Press Jul 1998, Published in USA,
> Index
> HARDBACK UK œ43.95 0-404-63413-3
>
> This work on the art of biographical writing encompasses source
> material (authorial persona, enigma); the intersection of
> biography with other disciplines (history, psychoanalysis, legal
> aspects); and an ex-biographer's view. A contributor argues that
> biographers must be critics of the genre.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> THE BIRTH OF LITERARY FICTION IN ANCIENT GREECE
> Margalit Finkelberg
> Clarendon Press Apr 1998, Published in UK
> 234pp, 210 x 130mm
> HARDBACK UK œ40.00 0-19-815095-4
>
> A study of how and why the "poetics of fiction" arose, its
> sources, and the materials from which it was created. The book
> explores cultural choices made in archaic and classical Greece,
> which caused the eventual succession of the "poetics of fiction"
> and created a framework of Western literature.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> BLACK HOLES: J. HILLIS MILLER, OR BOUSTROPHEDONIC READING
> J. Hillis Miller; Manuel Asensi
> Stanford University Press 1 Apr 1999,
> Published in USA
> HARDBACK UK œ35.00 0-8047-3243-4
> Paperback UK œ11.95 0-8047-3244-2
>
> This work sets two separate texts by two different authors on
> facing pages. Both texts were written independently of one
> another. Boustrophedonic reading refers to the way in which the
> text turns from left to right and from right to left.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> BLANK FICTIONS: CONSUMERISM, CULTURE AND THE CONTEMPORARY
> AMERICAN NOVEL
> James Annesley
> Pluto Press Apr 1998, Published in UK
> 184pp, 215 x 135mm, Notes, references, bibliography, index
> HARDBACK UK œ40.00 0-7453-1091-5
> Paperback UK œ12.99 0-7453-1090-7
>
> This study of the work of young American writers focuses on a
> group who value superficiality over complexity, and "pulp"
> culture over the highbrow. Previously dismissed as nihilist
> Generation X no-hopers, Annesley attempts to position their work
> as an analysis of late 20th-century culture.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; general
>
> *****
>
> THE BRAZEN FACE OF HISTORY: STUDIES IN THE LITERARY
> CONSCIOUSNESS IN AMERICA
> Lewis P. Simpson
> University of Georgia Press 1997, Published in USA
> 296pp, 229 x 152mm
> PAPERBACK UK œ15.95 0-8203-1923-6
>
> In this work, the author contemplates the shaping motive of
> American literature. Locating its origins in the age of Bacon,
> Shakespeare and Donne, he also discusses in depth the writings of
> Benjamin Franklin, Henry James, Mark Twain, Thomas Jefferson,
> Kate Chopin and others.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Index to British Literary Bibliography VIII & IX
> BRITISH LITERARY BIBLIOGRAPHY, 1980-1989: A BIBLIOGRAPHY
> (VOLUMES VIII AND IX)
> T.H. Howard-Hill
> Clarendon Press 31 Jan 1999, Published in UK
> 1096pp, 230 x 150mm, 2 vols, Index
> HARDBACK UK œ120.00 0-19-818643-6
>
> This two-volume set lists enumerative and descriptive
> bibliographies of British (non-scientific) subjects, as well as
> bibliographical and textual studies, published 1980-1989, of
> British books and authors.
>
> Readership: research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Advance Notification of Title
> C.G.JUNG AND LITERARY THEORY: THE CHALLENGE FROM FICTION
> Susan Rowland
> Macmillan Press 30 Apr 1999, Published in UK
> 248pp, 216x138mm
> HARDBACK UK œ40.00 0-333-74720-8
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> CAMUS: LOVE AND SEXUALITY
> Anthony Rizzuto
> University Press of Florida Jun 1998,
> Published in USA
> 240pp, 229 x 152mm, Bibliography, index
> HARDBACK UK œ39.95 0-8130-1589-8
>
> Combining biographical material with literary and psychological
> analysis, this text focuses on Camus' distinctions between love
> and sex alongside his evolving concepts of masculinity and
> femininity, the relationships between sexuality and social class,
> and his complex relationship with his mother.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> CAMUS: THE CHALLENGE OF DOSTOEVSKY
> Ray Davison
> University of Exeter Press 1997, Published in UK
> 208pp
> HARDBACK UK œ35.00 0-85989-531-9
> Paperback UK œ11.99 0-85989-532-7
>
> Presenting a study of Camus's life-long fascination with the
> works of the Russian writer Feodor Dostoevsky, this book aims to
> demonstrate the ways in which Dostoevsky's thought and fiction
> served to stimulate and crystallize Camus's own thinking.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Oxford Classical Monographs
> CANONS OF STYLE IN THE ANTONINE AGE: IDEA-THEORY AND ITS
> LITERARY CONTEXT
> Ian Rutherford
> Clarendon Press Nov 1998, Published in UK
> 174pp, 210 x 130mm, Bibliography
> HARDBACK UK œ30.00 0-19-814729-5
>
> A study of the relationship between Greek prose literature of the
> Antonine Age in the 2nd century AD (the Second Sophistic) and
> idea-theory, a type of literary stylistics best known from the
> Peri Ideon of Hermogenes of Tarsus.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> CASSELL DICTIONARY OF ITALIAN LITERATURE
> [Ed] Peter Bondanella; Julia Conway Bondanella
> 2nd ed, Cassell Aug 1998, Published in UK
> 727pp, 234 x 156mm, Index, bibliographies
> PAPERBACK UK œ18.99 0-304-33841-9
>
> This volume provides 400 entries on: Italian writers, from the
> 12th to the 20th centuries; Italian metrics, and poetic forms or
> genres; literary or critical schools, periods, problems and
> movements; and feminism, postmodernism and other topics of
> contemporary interest.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Literary Criticism in Perspective
> THE CHANGING IMAGE OF THEODOR FONTANE
> Helen Chambers
> Camden House 1997, Published in USA
> 170pp, 228 x 152mm
> HARDBACK UK œ40.00 1-57113-084-5
>
> A review of the literary scholarship on Germany's major realist
> novelist, Theodor Fontane (1819-1898). Significant developments
> in Fontane criticism are traced in historical context, from their
> beginnings in contemporary commentary to the present, with
> special emphasis on scholarship since 1980.
>
> Readership: postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: New Casebooks
> CHAUCER
> [Ed] Valerie Allen; Ares Axiotis
> Macmillan Press 1997, Published in UK
> 240pp, 216 x 138mm, Index
> HARDBACK UK œ37.50 0-333-56502-9
> Paperback UK œ11.99 0-333-56503-7
>
> "The Canterbury Tales" boasts a diverse body of criticism from
> the New Critical to the postmodern. This text offers readings of
> the "Tales" as well as a wide range of critical approaches set
> against the background of the history of literary criticism
> itself.
>
> Readership: advanced secondary; further, higher; undergraduate
>
> *****
>
> Series: Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
> CHEKHOV AND RUSSIAN RELIGIOUS CULTURE: THE POETICS OF THE
> MARIAN PARADIGM
> Julie W. de Sherbinin
> Northwestern University Press 1997,
> Published in USA
> 218pp, 234 x 156mm
> HARDBACK UK œ41.00 0-8101-1404-6
>
> This semiotic reading of Chekhov explores questions of female
> identity as it probes the mindset of Russian Orthodox popular
> culture.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Literature, Culture, Theory, 23
> CHRONOSCHISMS: TIME, NARRATIVE, AND POSTMODERNISM
> Ursula K. Heise
> Cambridge University Press 1997, Published in UK
> 298pp, 224 x 143mm, Bibliography
> HARDBACK UK œ40.00 0-521-55486-1
> Paperback UK œ14.95 0-521-55544-2
>
> Developments in transportation, communication and information
> technology have led to the emergence of a new culture of time in
> Western societies and these are explored in this book. This in-
> depth study offers a new opinion of postmodernist theory and the
> relationship between literature and science.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Writing Science
> CINEMATOGRAPH OF WORDS: LITERATURE, TECHNIQUE, AND
> MODERNIZATION IN BRAZIL
> Flora S. Ssekind
> Stanford University Press 1997, Published in USA
> 146pp, 236 x 160mm
> HARDBACK UK œ30.00 0-8047-2913-1
> Paperback UK œ10.95 0-8047-3063-6
>
> This work analyzes the relations between literature and technique
> in Brazil from the 1880s to the 1920s. It argues that in these
> relations we can see the shape of a period that is usually
> defined from a literary perspective as "pre" or "post", rather
> than in terms of its own characteristics.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> CLEANTH BROOKS AND ROBERT PENN WARREN: A LITERARY
> CORRESPONDENCE
> [Ed] James A. Grimshaw Jr
> University of Missouri Press Apr 1998,
> Published in USA
> 472pp, 235 x 155mm, Chronology, index
> HARDBACK UK œ31.95 0-8262-1165-8
>
> This collection of letters exchanged by Cleanth Brooks and Robert
> Penn Warren - two scholars who altered the way literature is
> taught in the US - focuses on the development of their five major
> textbooks. It provides an insight into their literary minds and
> also presents their human qualities.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> CLEAR AND SIMPLE AS THE TRUTH: WRITING CLASSIC PROSE
> Francis-Noel Thomas; Mark Turner
> Princeton University Press 1997, Published in USA
> 234pp, 204 x 127mm
> PAPERBACK UK œ11.95 0-691-02917-2
>
> This work provokes the reader to consider style not as an elegant
> accessory of effective prose, but as its very heart. In the first
> half of the book, the authors introduce a range of styles,
> contrasting them to classic styles. The second half of the book
> contains examples of what has worked.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: The New Critical Idiom
> COLONIALISM/POSTCOLONIALISM
> Ania Loomba
> Routledge Mar 1998, Published in UK
> 320pp, 198 x 129mm
> HARDBACK UK œ30.00 0-415-12808-0
> Paperback UK œ8.99 0-415-12809-9
>
> This volume provides an introduction to the historical dimensions
> and theoretical concepts associated with colonial and post-
> colonial discourses. It examines the ideologies and history of
> colonialism, as well as the relationship of colonial discourse to
> literature.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> THE COMMITTED WORD: LITERATURE AND PUBLIC VALUES
> James Engell
> Penn State University Press 31 Aug 1999,
> Published in USA
> 208pp, 229 x 152mm, 11 illustrations
> HARDBACK UK œ25.95 0-271-01890-9
>
> A call to move beyond polemics and renew the application of
> literature and rhetoric to public debates and cultural life. In
> these essays, Engell argues that a more complete literary
> training can foster a heightened sense of social experience and
> an awareness of diverse views.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism
> A COMPANION TO JAMES JOYCE'S "ULYSSES"
> [Ed] Margot Norris
> Macmillan Press Aug 1998, Published in UK
> 266pp, 216 x 135mm, 266, Bibliography, glossary
> PAPERBACK UK œ8.50 0-333-75330-5
>
> This companion volume to Joyce's "Ulysses" offers students an
> avenue into the novel and also introduces them to five
> contemporary critical approaches: deconstruction; reader response
> criticism; feminist and gender criticism; psychoanalytic
> criticism; and Marxist criticism.
>
> Readership: undergraduate
>
> *****
>
> COMPANION TO NEO-LATIN STUDIES: LITERARY, LINGUISTIC,
> PHILOLOGICAL AND EDITORIAL QUESTIONS: Vol 2
> Jozef Ijsewijn; Dirk Sacre
> Leuven University Press May 1998,
> Published in Belgium
> 562pp
> HARDBACK UK œ52.95 90-6186-859-9
>
> In this volume an attempt is made to cover the relevant literary
> forms and genres of Neo-Latin literature; their characteristics
> and evolution are described and bibliographical aids have been
> added; and the method is descriptive rather than theoretical.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Comparative Criticism, 19
> COMPARATIVE CRITICISM
> Cambridge University Press Apr 1998,
> Published in UK
> 447pp, 236 x 160mm
> HARDBACK UK œ55.00 0-521-59251-8
>
> This work addresses the questions of literary theory and
> criticism; comparative studies in terms of theme, genre movement
> and influence; and interdisciplinary perspectives. It takes
> "Literary Devolution: Writing Now in Scotland, Ireland, Wales and
> England" as its central theme.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Comparative Literature Series
> CONCEPTS OF REALISM
> Luc Herman
> Camden House 1997, Published in USA
> 200pp, 228 x 152mm
> HARDBACK UK œ40.00 1-57113-053-5
>
> "Realism" came to prominence as a literary term in the 1850s in
> Europe. This book surveys the central episodes in the development
> of the discourse surrounding the movement from its inception,
> with substantial reference to developments in the United States.
>
> Readership: postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> A CONCISE GLOSSARY OF CONTEMPORARY LITERARY THEORY
> Jeremy Hawthorn
> 3rd ed, Arnold May 1998, Published in UK
> 285pp, 234 x 156mm, 285
> PAPERBACK UK œ13.99 0-340-69222-7
>
> This text is a condensation of the full "Glossary", focussing on
> those terms students are most likely to encounter on their
> courses. The third edition covers areas previously unrepresented
> and provides coverage of new late-1990s terms in established
> fields and revision of existing entries.
>
> Readership: undergraduate
>
> *****
>
> Series: Young Adult Literature
> CONFLICT AND CONNECTION: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF YOUNG ADULT
> LITERATURE
> Sharon A. Stringer
> Boynton/Cook Publishers 1997, Published in USA
> 97pp
> PAPERBACK UK œ15.50 0-86709-415-X
>
> The author offers a cross-disciplinary view of how the lives of
> characters in fiction reflect the growth and behavioural stages
> of adolescence as described in psychological studies in this
> book. It focuses on developmental psychology and how it could
> allow teachers to help their students.
>
> Readership: postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Topics in Translation, No 11
> CONSTRUCTING CULTURES: ESSAYS ON LITERARY TRANSLATION
> Susan Bassnett; Andre Lefevere
> Multilingual Matters Apr 1998, Published in UK
> 168pp, 210 x 148mm
> HARDBACK UK œ43.00 1-85359-353-2
> Paperback UK œ14.95 1-85359-352-4
>
> This collection brings together two international figures in the
> discipline of translation studies. The essays cover a range of
> fields, and combine theory with practical case studies involving
> the translation of literary texts.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Language in Social Life
> THE CONSTRUCTION OF PROFESSIONAL DISCOURSE
> Britt-Louise Gunnarsson; Per Linell; Bengt Nordberg
> Addison Wesley Longman Higher Education 1997,
> Published in UK
> 336pp, 216 x 138mm, Index
> HARDBACK UK œ44.00 0-582-25942-8
> Paperback UK œ18.99 0-582-25941-X
>
> An amalgam of research from sociolinguistics, ethnography,
> anthropology and sociology, giving a cohesive analysis of
> professional discourse. This text covers the theoretical issues
> of the construction of language and written and spoken discourse,
> and offers historical and linguistic perspectives.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture
> CONTRARY THINGS: EXEGESIS, DIALECTIC, AND THE POETICS OF
> DIDACTICISM
> Catherine Brown
> Stanford University Press Dec 1998,
> Published in USA
> 246pp, 237 x 162mm
> HARDBACK UK œ27.50 0-8047-3009-1
>
> This work seeks to understand the recurring connection of
> teaching with contradiction in some major texts of the European
> Middle Ages. It explores Christian exegesis, in which biblical
> contradiction is the textual incarnation of a Truth that is at
> once singular and multiple.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> CONVERSATION
> Theodore Zeldin
> Harvill Press Nov 1998, Published in UK
> 96pp, 170 x 120mm, 36 illustrations
> HARDBACK UK œ6.99 1-86046-662-1
>
> Based on a series of talks given on Radio 4, this text argues
> that conversation is essential to our development as fully
> civilised human beings. It is both a sourcebook of ideas about
> what conversation is and has been and a manual for improving how
> we talk to one another.
>
> Readership: general; undergraduate
>
> *****
>
> Series: Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
> CORPOREAL WORDS: MIKHAIL BAKHTIN'S THEOLOGY OF DISCOURSE
> Alexander Mihailovic
> Northwestern University Press 1997,
> Published in USA
> 336pp, 234 x 156mm
> HARDBACK UK œ41.00 0-8101-1459-3
>
> Alexander Mihailovic discusses the elaborately wrought subtextual
> imagery, wordplay, and palpable orality of Bakhtin's theology of
> discourse, and explores the role that theology plays in
> supporting Bakhtin's ideas about the anti-hierarchical drift of
> language and culture.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> CREATIVITY: PSYCHOANALYSIS, SURREALISM AND CREATIVE WRITING
> Kevin Brophy
> Melbourne University Press Jun 1998,
> Published in Australia
> 256pp, 216 x 140mm
> PAPERBACK UK œ16.99 0-522-84786-2
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> CRITICAL CONFRONTATIONS: LITERARY THEORIES IN DIALOGUE
> Meili Steele
> University of South Carolina Press 1997,
> Published in USA
> 154pp, 229 x 152mm
> HARDBACK UK œ23.95 1-57003-141-X
> Paperback UK œ10.50 1-57003-161-4
>
> To broaden the interpretive scope of critical theory and increase
> its usefulness, this text draws tradition-based views of language
> and anti-humanistic theories from their abstract frameworks into
> the field of cultural studies. It examines major thinkers and
> contemporary writers.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> CRITICAL ETHICS: TEXT, THEORY AND RESPONSIBILITY
> [Ed] Dominic Rainsford; Tim Woods
> Macmillan Press 1 Jan 1999, Published in UK
> 304pp, 216 x 138mm, 304
> HARDBACK UK œ45.00 0-333-71885-2
>
> Addresses the current "return to ethics" in relation to a variety
> of theories and texts, covering substantial areas of ethical
> debate, particularly in relation to queer politics, biography,
> history, postmodernism, atrocity literature, utilitarianism,
> pedagogy and the philosophy of science.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> CRITICAL LITERACY IN THE CLASSROOM: THE ART OF THE POSSIBLE
> Wendy Morgan
> Routledge 1997, Published in UK
> 232pp, 234 x 156mm
> HARDBACK UK œ42.50 0-415-14247-4
> Paperback UK œ13.99 0-415-14248-2
>
> Teachers are finding ways to help their students understand and
> act on critical literacy theories. This text asks how language
> might be put to different, more equitable uses, and how texts
> might be recreated in a way that would tell a different story.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Garland Reference Library of the Humanities
> CRITICAL THEORY TODAY: A USER-FRIENDLY GUIDE
> Lois Tyson
> Garland Publishing Inc Sep 1998, Published in USA
> 456pp, 234 x 156mm, Index
> HARDBACK UK œ47.00 0-8153-2880-X
> Paperback UK œ13.95 0-8153-2879-6
>
> This text offers an introduction to contemporary critical theory.
> It provides coverage of the most common approaches to literary
> analysis and aims to show what critical theory can offer in terms
> of practical understanding of ourselves and the world around us.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> CRITICISM AND MODERNITY: AESTHETICS, LITERATURE, AND NATIONS IN
> EUROPE AND ITS ACADEMIES
> Thomas Docherty
> Oxford University Press 30 Apr 1999,
> Published in UK
> 256pp, 210 x 130mm, Index
> HARDBACK UK œ37.50 0-19-818501-4
>
> This work traces the conditions under which criticism emerged as
> a socio-cultural practice within the institutionalized forms of
> European modernity and democracy. It argues that criticism was
> born out of anxieties about national supremacy in the late-17th
> century.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> CRITICISM AND TRUTH
> Roland Barthes
> [Ed] Katrine Pilcher Keuneman
> The Athlone Press Apr 1998, Published in UK
> 96pp, 216 x 138mm, Notes, index
> PAPERBACK UK œ12.95 0-485-12144-1
>
> In this English translation of the 1966 text, Dr Keuneman has
> provided a full range of notes on the issues and people alluded
> to in Barthes's text.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> A CRITIQUE OF POSTCOLONIAL REASON: TOWARD A HISTORY OF THE
> VANISHING PRESENT
> Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
> Harvard University Press 30 Jun 1999,
> Published in USA
> 448pp, 1 line illustration
> HARDBACK UK œ30.95 0-674-17763-0
> Paperback UK œ15.50 0-674-17764-9
>
> Are the "culture wars" over? What is their relationship to gender
> struggle and the dynamics of class? Gayatari Spivak poses these
> questions and attempts to understand and describe a more
> responsible role for the postcolonial critic, tracking the figure
> of the "native informant".
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> CROSSPATHS IN LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM: ITALY AND THE
> UNITED STATES
> Gregory L. Lucente
> Stanford University Press 1997, Published in USA
> 206pp, 224 x 147mm
> HARDBACK UK œ30.00 0-8047-2829-1
> Paperback UK œ12.95 0-8047-2830-5
>
> Tracing trends in Italian and American critical traditions, this
> text explores where the two intersect or fail to intersect.
> Covering theoretical trends, it discusses the views of Italian
> writers who have engaged the historical imagination, and the
> depiction of social life in historical novels.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Parallax: Re-visions of Culture
> THE CRYPTOGRAPHIC IMAGINATION: SECRET WRITING FROM EDGAR POE TO
> THE INTERNET
> Shawn Rosenheim
> The Johns Hopkins University Press 1997,
> Published in USA
> 312pp, 229 x 152mm
> HARDBACK UK œ39.50 0-8018-5331-1
> Paperback UK œ14.00 0-8018-5332-X
>
> This text uses the writings of Edgar Allen Poe to pose a set of
> questions pertaining to literary genre, cultural modernity and
> technology. The author argues that Poe's cryptographic writings
> requires a rethink of the relation of poststructural criticism to
> Poe's texts.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics and Culture
> CULTURAL CODES IN FLUX: NEW APPROACHES TO THEODOR FONTANE
> [Ed] Marion Doebeling
> Camden House 1 May 1999, Published in USA
> 210pp, 228 x 152mm
> HARDBACK UK œ45.00 1-57113-143-4
>
> A collection of essays providing ten perspectives on the novels
> and essays of Theodor Fontane (1819-1898). The contributors focus
> on crucial points in Fontane's narratives where "realism" breaks
> down, and where some of the most repressed and excluded aspects
> of Fontane's culture can be uncovered.
>
> Readership: postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Romanticism in Perspective: Texts, Cultures, Histories
> CULTURAL POLITICS IN THE 1790S: LITERATURE, ACTIVISM AND THE
> PUBLIC SPHERE
> [Ed] Andrew McCann
> Macmillan Press Dec 1998, Published in UK
> 240pp, 216 x 138mm, 240, Index, illustrations
> HARDBACK UK œ42.50 0-333-73498-X
>
> Examines the relationship between sentimental literature,
> political activism and the public sphere at the end of the 18th
> century. It attempts to demonstrate how major literary and
> political figures of the 1790s can be read in terms of the
> broader dynamics of modernity.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> CULTURAL STUDIES AND THE NEW HUMANITIES: CONCEPTS AND
> CONTROVERSIES
> Patrick Fuery; Nick Mansfield
> OUP Australia and New Zealand 1997,
> Published in Australia
> 248pp, 210 x 130mm, Bibliography
> PAPERBACK UK œ14.99 0-19-553959-1
>
> This text explores some of the ways of thinking about the
> traditional arts and human sciences, providing historical
> background, defining key terms, and introducing the ideas of the
> important personalities.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> THE CULTURE AND COMMERCE OF TEXTS: SCRIBAL PUBLICATION IN
> SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND
> Harold Love
> University of Massachusetts Press Mar 1998,
> Published in USA
> 329pp
> PAPERBACK UK œ14.50 1-55849-134-1
>
> Long after the establishment of printing in England, many writers
> and composers still chose to publish their work in handwritten
> form. This text considers the trade in manuscripts as an
> important supplement to printed books and examines those that met
> the need for rapid duplication of key texts.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> DANGEROUS WOMEN, DEADLY WORDS: PHALLIC FANTASY AND MODERNITY IN
> IZUMI KYSKA, ENCHI FUMIKO, AND NAKAGAMI KENJI
> Nina Cornyetz
> Stanford University Press 1 Apr 1999,
> Published in USA
> 335pp
> HARDBACK UK œ30.00 0-8047-3212-4
>
> This study is a materialist-feminist, psychoanalytic analysis of
> a modern Japanese literary trope - the dangerous woman - in the
> works of three 20th-century writers. The author reads the
> dangerous woman as connected with 20th-century Japanese
> epistemological upheavals.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> THE DEBATE BETWEEN SARTRE AND MERLEAU-PONTY
> [Ed] Jon Stewart
> Northwestern University Press Nov 1998,
> Published in USA
> 496pp, Bibliography
> HARDBACK UK œ64.95 0-8101-1531-X
>
> This collection of essays provides a portrait of the intellectual
> relationship between these two men. It addresses several points
> of contact and covers themes of the debate from the different
> periods in their shared history.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> THE DEBATE BETWEEN SARTRE AND MERLEAU-PONTY
> [Ed] Jon Stewart
> Northwestern University Press Nov 1998,
> Published in USA
> 496pp
> PAPERBACK UK œ17.95 0-8101-1532-8
>
> This collection of essays provides a portrait of the intellectual
> relationship between these two men. It addresses several points
> of contact and covers themes of the debate from the different
> periods in their shared history.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> DECOLONIZATION AGNOSTICS IN POSTCOLONIAL FICTION
> Chidi Okonkwo
> Macmillan Press reissued 1997, Published in UK
> 256pp, 216 x 138mm, Bibliography, index
> HARDBACK UK œ42.50 0-333-63869-7
>
> This text explores through theory and in-depth textual criticism
> how novelists from formerly colonized societies have exploited
> indigenous codes and conventions of aesthetic representation to
> transform the novel into an effective medium for cultural and
> political resistance to (neo)colonialism.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> DECONSTRUCTING THE HERO: LITERARY THEORY AND CHILDREN'S
> LITERATURE
> Margery Hourihan
> Routledge 1997, Published in UK
> 264pp, 234 x 156mm
> HARDBACK UK œ42.50 0-415-14419-1
> Paperback UK œ13.99 0-415-14186-9
>
> Exploring the structure and meaning of the adventure story, this
> work offers analytical readings of some of the most popular
> adventure stories and looks at their influence on children.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies, Vol 16
> DECONSTRUCTING THE STARSHIPS: ESSAYS AND REVIEWS
> Gwyneth Jones
> Liverpool University Press 28 Feb 1999,
> Published in UK
> 240pp, 234 x 156mm
> HARDBACK UK œ27.50 0-85323-783-2
> Paperback UK œ11.95 0-85323-793-X
>
> These essays and reviews have been selected by a practising
> Science Fiction (SF) writer produced during a decade in which the
> stuff of SF became part of everyday life. The subject matter of
> this collection is varied, but displays from Jones' stance as a
> practising SF writer and a feminist.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Transitions
> DECONSTRUCTION * DERRIDA
> Julian Wolfreys
> Macmillan Press Jul 1998, Published in UK
> 256pp, 216 x 138mm, 240, Bibliographies, index
> HARDBACK UK œ37.50 0-333-68776-0
> Paperback UK œ10.99 0-333-68777-9
>
> In this introductory study to the work of Jacques Derrida, the
> reader is introduced to a range of the theorist's interests and
> concerns, while offering readings, informed by Derrida's thought,
> of canonical and less well-known literary works.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate
>
> *****
>
> THE DEGRADATION OF AMERICAN HISTORY
> David Harlan
> University of Chicago Press 1997, Published in USA
> 328pp, 229 x 152mm, 1 halftone
> HARDBACK UK œ32.75 0-226-31616-5
> Paperback UK œ12.75 0-226-31617-3
>
> American historical writing has traditionally been a form of
> moral reflection. However this study argues that, in the
> disillusionment following the 1960s, history abandoned its
> redemptive potential, and adopted the methodology of the social
> sciences. It describes the reasons for this change.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> A DERRIDA READER: BETWEEN THE BLINDS
> Jacques Derrida
> [Ed] Peggy Kamuf
> Columbia University Press Jan 1998,
> Published in USA
> 625pp
> PAPERBACK UK œ20.00 0-231-06659-7
>
> A collection of Jacques Derrida's contributions to philosophy,
> presented with a comprehensive introduction. From "Speech and
> Phenomena" to "Signature Event Context", each excerpt includes an
> overview and brief summary.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> THE DERRIDA READER: WRITING PERFORMANCES
> [Ed] Julian Wolfreys
> Edinburgh University Press May 1998,
> Published in UK
> 294pp, 234 x 156mm, Bibliography
> HARDBACK UK œ40.00 0-7486-0965-2
> Paperback UK œ14.95 0-7486-0964-4
>
> This work draws together a number of Derrida's most interesting
> and idiosyncratic essays which deal with literary language, the
> idea of the literary and questions of poetics and poetry drawn
> from the range of his published works in translation.
>
> Readership: undergraduate
>
> *****
>
> DIALOGUE AND CRITICAL DISCOURSE: LANGUAGE, CULTURE, CRITICAL
> THEORY
> [Ed] Michael Macovski
> Oxford University Press Inc, USA 1997,
> Published in USA
> 284pp, 230 x 150mm
> HARDBACK UK œ40.00 0-19-507063-1
>
> This is a collection of previously unpublished essays, by both
> linguists and literary critics, on the relationship between
> spoken language and written text in the light of the thought of
> the influential Russian formalist Mikhail Bakhtin.
>
> Readership: postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> DIALOGUE AND CRITICAL DISCOURSE: LANGUAGE, CULTURE, CRITICAL
> THEORY
> [Ed] Michael Macovski
> Oxford University Press Inc, USA 31 Jul 1999,
> Published in USA
> 284pp, 230 x 150mm
> PAPERBACK UK œ15.95 0-19-508124-2
>
> This is a collection of previously unpublished essays, by both
> linguists and literary critics, on the relationship between
> spoken language and written text in the light of the thought of
> the influential Russian formalist Mikhail Bakhtin.
>
> Readership: postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> A DICTIONARY OF CULTURAL AND CRITICAL THEORY
> [Ed] Michael Payne
> Blackwell Publishers 1997, Published in UK
> 864pp, 246 x 171mm, Bibliography, index
> PAPERBACK UK œ16.99 0-631-20753-8
>
> This is a guide to modern ideas in the broad, interdisciplinary
> fields of cultural and critical theory. All strands of theory are
> represented in a volume that reflects the dissolution during the
> past 20 years of many of the traditional boundaries separating
> disciplines of study.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> DIFFERENCES THAT MATTER: FEMINIST THEORY AND POSTMODERNISM
> Sara Ahmed
> Cambridge University Press Nov 1998,
> Published in UK
> 260pp, 236 x 156mm
> HARDBACK UK œ35.00 0-521-59225-9
> Paperback UK œ12.95 0-521-59761-7
>
> Challenges existing ways of theorising the relationship between
> feminism and postmodernism which ask "is or should feminism be
> modern or postmodern?". The book suggests that postmodernism has
> been allowed to dictate feminist debates and calls for feminist
> theorists to speak (back) to postmodernism.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture,
> 24
> DISCOVERING THE SUBJECT IN RENAISSANCE ENGLAND
> Elizabeth Hanson
> Cambridge University Press May 1998,
> Published in UK
> 204pp, 234 x 160mm, Notes
> HARDBACK UK œ35.00 0-521-62021-X
>
> Attempting to locate the emergence of modern subjectivity in the
> Renaissance, this work argues that the construction of other
> people as objects of discovery signalled a reconceptualizing of
> the "subject" in both the political and philosophical sense of
> the term.
>
> Readership: postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> DISSEMBLING FICTIONS: ELIZABETH GASKELL AND THE VICTORIAN
> SOCIAL TEXT
> Deirdre d' Albertis
> Macmillan Press 1997, Published in UK
> 225pp, 216 x 138mm, 225, Notes, index
> HARDBACK UK œ30.00 0-333-72026-1
>
> Uncovers the tactics of disguise which Elizabeth Gaskell employed
> in order to evade the prescribed notions of what a woman writer
> should be. The text unveils the complex patterns existent in
> Gaskell's works, and examines her use of dissembling as a
> narrative practice.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: New York Public Library Lectures in Humanities
> DOING DOCUMENTARY WORK
> Robert Coles
> Oxford University Press Inc, USA 1997,
> Published in USA
> 278pp, 200 x 130mm, 18 halftones
> HARDBACK UK œ21.00 0-19-511629-1
>
> This work offers a look at the nature of documentary work.
> Utilizing the documentaries of writers, photographers and others,
> Coles shows how their prose and pictures are influenced by the
> observer's frame of reference: their social and educational
> background, personal morals, and political beliefs.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> DOROTHY RICHARDSON'S "ART OF MEMORY": SPACE, IDENTITY, TEXT
> Elisabeth Bronfen
> Manchester University Press Feb 1998,
> Published in UK
> 368pp, 234 x 156mm, Bibliography, index
> HARDBACK UK œ45.00 0-7190-4808-7
>
> Mapping Dorothy Richardson's modernist text cycle "Pilgrimage"
> against our postmodern interest in real and imagnined
> geographies, Bronfen addresses the question of how identity is
> formed as a result of corporeal and cultural positioning.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Theatre Symposium, Vol 5
> DRAMA AS RHETORIC/RHETORIC AS DRAMA: AN EXPLORATION OF DRAMATIC
> AND RHETORICAL CRITICISM
> [Ed] Stanley Vincent Longman
> University of Alabama Press Feb 1998,
> Published in USA
> 144pp, 229 x 152mm
> PAPERBACK UK œ19.95 0-8173-0887-3
>
> Inasmuch as drama seeks to keep an audience engaged, it takes on
> rhetorical qualities. Similarly, rhetorical endeavour may employ
> dramatic appeal. Centuries ago, Aristotle's pieces, "The
> Rhetoric" and "The Poetic" generated thought on the subject,
> explored here by contemporary theorists.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> DRAMA TRAUMA: SPECTERS OF RACE AND SEXUALITY IN PERFORMANCE,
> VIDEO AND ART
> Timothy Murray
> Routledge 1997, Published in UK
> 320pp, 234 x 156mm, Bibliography
> HARDBACK UK œ50.00 0-415-15788-9
> Paperback UK œ16.99 0-415-15789-7
>
> In this cross-disciplinary study, Timothy Murray examines the
> artistic struggle over traumatic fantasies of race, gender,
> sexuality, and power. This work links the impact of trauma on
> recent political projects in performance and video with the
> specters of difference haunting Shakespeare's plays.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate
>
> *****
>
> ECHOES OF TRANSLATION: READING BETWEEN TEXTS
> Rainer Nagele
> The Johns Hopkins University Press 1997,
> Published in USA
> 120pp, 229 x 152mm
> HARDBACK UK œ25.00 0-8018-5545-4
>
> In a series of readings of Sophocles, Holderlin, Baudelaire,
> Nietzsche and Benjamin, the author investigates the territory
> that lies not merely between texts, but between languages - in
> translations. This space is represented by the figure of the
> echo.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> THE ECONOMY OF CHARACTER: NOVELS, MARKET CULTURE, AND THE
> BUSINESS OF INNER MEANING
> Deidre Shauna Lynch
> University of Chicago Press May 1998,
> Published in USA
> 320pp, 229 x 152mm, 8 halftones
> HARDBACK UK œ35.95 0-226-49819-0
> Paperback UK œ14.50 0-226-49820-4
>
> At the start of the 18th century, literary "characters" referred
> as much to letters and typefaces as it did to persons in books.
> However, this text shows how, by the 19th century, readers used
> transactions with characters to accommodate themselves to newly-
> commmercialized social relations.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> EDITORIAL GAZE
> Eggert
> Garland Publishing Inc Aug 1998, Published in USA
> HARDBACK UK œ39.00 0-8153-2575-4
>
> *****
>
> THE ELSEWHERE COMMUNITY
> Hugh Kenner
> Allen & Unwin Oct 1998, Published in Australia
> 208pp, 195 x 130mm
> PAPERBACK 1-86448-872-7 Aus$16.95
>
> This study examines the idea that Western culture has a constant
> need for stimulation encountered "elsewhere". Kenner traces the
> trend from the 18th-century's Grand Tour, to the self-imposed
> exile of modernist writers, to the disembodied global journeys
> the Internet offers today.
>
> Readership: general; undergraduate; postgraduate; research,
> professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Cultural Front
> THE EMPLOYMENT OF ENGLISH: THEORY, JOBS, AND THE FUTURE OF
> LITERARY STUDIES
> Michael Berube
> New York University Press 1997, Published in USA
> 272pp, 229 x 152mm
> HARDBACK UK œ44.00 0-8147-1300-9
> Paperback UK œ14.50 0-8147-1301-7
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF FEMINISTS LITERARY THEORY
> [Ed] Elizabeth Kowaleski-Wallace
> Garland Publishing Inc 1997, Published in USA
> 472pp, Index
> HARDBACK UK œ73.00 0-8153-0824-8
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> THE END OF THE ART WORLD
> Robert C. Morgan
> Allworth Press 25 Feb 1999, Published in USA
> 256pp, 229 x 152mm
> PAPERBACK UK œ13.95 1-58115-010-5
>
> This is a collection of writings calling for an end to today's
> art world, as we know it, which is governed by the trends of
> fashion, media and popular entertainment. It proposes a return to
> aesthetics and a new inner-directedness in art, literature,
> music, video and photography.
>
> Readership: general; undergraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
> THE END OF THE POEM
> Giorgio Agamben
> Stanford University Press 1 Jul 1999,
> Published in USA
> HARDBACK UK œ30.00 0-8047-3021-0
> Paperback UK œ8.95 0-8047-3022-9
>
> This work, by one of Italy's most important contemporary
> philosophers, is an attempt to rethink the nature of poetic
> language and to rearticulate relationships among theology,
> poetry, and philosophy in a tradition of literature initiated by
> Dante.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT: A PERSONAL AND INSTITUTIONAL HISTORY
> W. Ross Winterowd
> Southern Illinois University Press Apr 1998,
> Published in USA
> 288pp, 229 x 152mm, 3 illustrations
> HARDBACK UK œ39.95 0-8093-2169-6
> Paperback UK œ15.95 0-8093-2170-X
>
> The author of this study asserts that, to understand the history
> of "English", one must understand how literary studies,
> composition-rhetoric studies and influential textbooks
> interrelate. Stressing this interrelationship, Winterowd presents
> a history of university English since the Enlightenment.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> THE EROTIC BIRD: PHENOMENOLOGY IN LITERATURE
> Maurice Natanson
> Princeton University Press Jan 1998,
> Published in USA
> 190pp, 229 x 152mm
> HARDBACK UK œ25.00 0-691-01219-9
>
> How does literature illuminate the way we live? Natanson, a
> prominent champion of phenomenology, draws upon this method's
> power to show how fiction can highlight aspects of experience
> that are normally left unexamined.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> ESSENTIALS OF THE THEORY OF FICTION
> [Ed] Michael J. Hoffman; Patrick D. Murphy
> 2nd ed, Leicester University Press 1997,
> Published in UK
> 528pp, 229 x 152mm, Index
> HARDBACK UK œ47.50 0-7185-0119-5
> Paperback UK œ19.99 0-7185-0120-9
>
> This text seeks to provide a comprehensive view of the theory of
> fiction from the 19th-century through modernism and postmodernism
> to the present.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> THE ESTABLISHMENT OF MODERN ENGLISH PROSE IN THE REFORMATION AND
> THE ENLIGHTENMENT
> Ian Robinson
> Cambridge University Press Dec 1998,
> Published in UK
> 233pp, 236 x 159mm
> HARDBACK UK œ37.50 0-521-48088-4
>
> This text traces the legacy of prose writing as an art form that
> was theorized and propagated in a manner distinct from verse. The
> author argues that the history of English prose has been
> misrepresented by critics who have failed to understand the
> grammatical complexities of the language.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> ETHICAL CRITICISM: READING AFTER LEVINAS
> Robert Eaglestone
> Edinburgh University Press 1997, Published in UK
> 224pp, 234 x 156mm
> HARDBACK UK œ40.00 0-7486-0967-9
> Paperback UK œ14.95 0-7486-0955-5
>
> What is the relationship between literary criticism and ethics?
> This book attempts to answer that question, setting out the
> issues in context by analyzing the historical development of the
> ethics of criticism against what is known as "theory".
>
> Readership: research, professional
>
> *****
>
> THE ETHICS OF LITERATURE
> [Ed] Andrew Hadfield; Dominic Rainsford; Tim Woods
> Macmillan Press 1 Jan 1999, Published in UK
> 304pp, 216 x 138mm, 304, Notes, index
> HARDBACK UK œ45.00 0-333-71886-0
>
> The question of ethics has dominated developments within the
> humanities. This volume brings together the recent theories of
> ethics and reading, and applies them to a wide variety of
> literary texts.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> ETHNICITY AND THE AMERICAN SHORT STORY
> Brown
> Garland Publishing Inc 1997, Published in USA
> HARDBACK UK œ39.00 0-8153-2105-8
>
> *****
>
> EXILES AND MIGRANTS: CROSSING THRESHOLDS IN EUROPEAN CULTURE
> AND SOCIETY
> [Ed] Anthony Coulson
> Sussex Academic Press 1997, Published in UK
> 240pp, 229 x 152mm
> HARDBACK UK œ45.00 1-898723-69-9
>
> Examines the ways in which literary texts act not just as a
> filter of experience of exile, but also as an aid to mediation in
> the associated problems of identity. This collection of essays
> traces the fundamental presuppositions of socio-cultural
> encounters arising from migration.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Cambridge Reading
> EXPLORING TEXTS
> Richard Brown
> Cambridge University Press Sep 1998,
> Published in UK
> 128pp, 298 x 228mm, Illustrations
> PAPERBACK UK œ29.95 0-521-63410-5
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
> FABLES OF RESPONSIBILITY: ABERRATIONS AND PREDICAMENTS IN
> ETHICS AND POLITICS
> Thomas Keenan
> Stanford University Press 1997, Published in USA
> 270pp, 224 x 149mm
> HARDBACK UK œ32.50 0-8047-2826-7
> Paperback UK œ11.95 0-8047-2827-5
>
> An analysis is offered with this book of the ways a linked set of
> ethico-political concepts, responsibility, rights, freedom,
> equality, and justice might be re-thought, in view of the
> linguistic deconstruction of their underlying principle, the
> individual human subject.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Cultural Memory in the Present
> FANTASM AND FICTION: ON TEXTUAL ENVISIONING
> Peter Schwenger
> Stanford University Press 1 Apr 1999,
> Published in USA
> 188pp
> HARDBACK UK œ30.00 0-8047-3343-0
> Paperback UK œ9.95 0-8047-3472-0
>
> This text analyzes the complex relationship between the fantasmal
> experience and the material text, reading a wide range of works,
> by people such as Coleridge, Rimbaud and Calvino, that treat this
> theme explicitly.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> FATAL AUTONOMY: ROMANTIC DRAMA AND THE RHETORIC OF AGENCY
> William Jewett
> Cornell University Press 1997, Published in USA
> 256pp, 229 x 152mm
> HARDBACK UK œ35.50 0-8014-3352-5
>
> Seeking to explain how an enduring moral puzzle shaped a key
> moment in the history of poetic drama, this text presents
> Romanticism as a reckoning with the costs of individual agency.
> The author argues that stubborn belief in the relation between
> events and individual action gives rise to tragedy.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Cultural Memory in the Present
> FAULT LINES: CULTURAL MEMORY AND JAPANESE SURREALISM
> Minyam Sas
> Stanford University Press 1 May 1999,
> Published in USA
> 210pp, 11 half-tones
> HARDBACK UK œ35.00 0-8047-3413-5
> Paperback UK œ11.95 0-8047-3649-9
>
> Traces the creative dialogue between France and Japan in the
> early-20th century, focusing on Surrealist and avant-garde
> writings. The text opens a theoretical treatment of cultural
> memory, influence, visuality, writing, nostalgia, and nation to
> suggest new ways of reading Japanese culture.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> FEMINISM AND THE POLITICS OF READING
> Lynne Pearce
> Arnold 1997, Published in UK
> 288pp, 234 x 156mm
> HARDBACK UK œ45.00 0-340-70062-9
> Paperback UK œ14.99 0-340-61413-7
>
> This work theorizes the processes and practices of reading within
> a gendered context. Looking at what it is to be a self-conscious
> "feminist reader" and at what happens when feminism is "off-
> duty", the author explores the personal and political
> implications of what one does when one reads.
>
> Readership: undergraduate
>
> *****
>
> FEMINIST INTERPRETATIONS OF JACQUES DERRIDA
> [Ed] Nancy J. Holland
> Penn State University Press 1997, Published in USA
> 224pp, 229 x 152mm
> HARDBACK UK œ39.95 0-271-01634-5
> Paperback UK œ15.50 0-271-01635-3
>
> The 11 thinkers whose ideas are presented in this volume take a
> deep look at Derrida's work to consider its specific strengths
> and weaknesses as a model for feminist theory and practice. The
> problems addressed include the status of the female object, civil
> disobedience and AIDS.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Cambridge Studies in Philosophy
> FICTION AND METAPHYSICS
> Amie Thomasson
> Cambridge University Press 1 Jan 1999,
> Published in UK
> 192pp, Notes, bibliography
> HARDBACK UK œ35.00 0-521-64080-6
>
> Places fiction at the centre of the discussion of metaphysics.
> Philosophers have traditionally treated fiction as involving a
> set of narrow problems in logic or the philosophy of language.
> However, Thomasson argues that fiction has far-reaching
> implications for central problems of metaphysics.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Ethnographic Alternatives, 4
> FICTION AND SOCIAL RESEARCH: BY ICE OR BY FIRE
> [Ed] Stephen P. Banks; Anna Banks
> Sage Publications Ltd Oct 1998, Published in UK
> Published in association with AltaMira Press
> 272pp, 229 x 152mm, Bibliography, index
> HARDBACK UK œ30.00 0-7619-9034-8
> Paperback UK œ14.99 0-7619-9035-6
>
> This volume brings together writers from a variety of disciplines
> to explore and illustrate the possibilities of new narrative
> forms in social research. The book is arranged into four areas of
> concern: representation, subjectivity, critique, and postmodern
> discourse.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> THE FICTIONS OF BUSINESS: INSIGHTS ON MANAGEMENT FROM GREAT
> LITERATURE
> Bob Brawer
> John Wiley and Sons reissued Sep 1998,
> Published in USA
> 255pp, 229 x 152mm
> HARDBACK UK œ14.95 0-471-17999-X
>
> Weaving together the "real" world of business with the way
> business is written about in fiction, to show how business life
> mirrors art, this text consists of five essays that discuss
> common business problems and compare them to examples from works
> of fiction.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> FIELDS OF PLAY: CONSTRUCTING AN ACADEMIC LIFE
> Laurel Richardson
> Rutgers University Press 1997, Published in USA
> 256pp
> HARDBACK UK œ39.95 0-8135-2378-8
> Paperback UK œ14.50 0-8135-2379-6
>
> How do the circumstances in which we write affect what we write?
> In a series of traditional and experimental writings, the author
> records an intellectual journey, creating new ways of reading and
> writing. The sociological imagination is applied to the act of
> writing, as life is connected to work.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> FIGURAL REALISM: STUDIES IN THE MIMESIS EFFECT
> Hayden White
> The Johns Hopkins University Press 28 Feb 1999,
> Published in USA
> 224pp, 229 x 152mm
> HARDBACK UK œ31.50 0-8018-5997-2
>
> In this volume, the author collects eight of his interrelated
> essays primarily concerned with the treatment of history in
> recent literary critical discourse. He asserts that history is
> not only a subject we can study, but also a relationship to "the
> past" mediated by written discourse.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society
> FOOD FOR THOUGHT
> Louis Marin
> The Johns Hopkins University Press 1997,
> Published in USA
> 273pp, 229 x 152mm
> PAPERBACK UK œ13.00 0-8018-5613-2
>
> In this volume, the author explores the body as represented in
> text and image. From fairy tales to biblical narrative, the
> relationship between verbal and oral functions - speaking and
> eating, boasting and gluttony, lying and cannibalism - is viewed,
> using methodologies from many disciplines.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> THE FOOTNOTE: A CURIOUS HISTORY
> Anthony Grafton
> Faber reissued Aug 1998, Published in UK
> 176pp, 210 x 139mm
> PAPERBACK UK œ7.99 0-571-19601-2
>
> The footnote emerges in this book as a singular resource which
> reveals much about the progress of knowledge in written form. The
> book explores the origins and gradual development of the footnote
> from antiquity to the work of Leopold von Ranke in the 19th
> century and on to 20th century developments.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Advance Notification of Title
> THE FOREMOTHER FIGURE IN EARLY BLACK WOMEN'S LITERATURE
> Jacqueline K. Bryant
> Garland Publishing Inc 30 Jun 1999,
> Published in USA
> HARDBACK UK œ35.95 0-8153-3380-3
>
> *****
>
> FORMAL CHARGES: THE SHAPING OF POETRY IN BRITISH ROMANTICISM
> Susan J. Wolfson
> Stanford University Press 1 Feb 1999,
> Published in USA
> 360pp, 10 half-tones
> PAPERBACK UK œ13.95 0-8047-3662-6
>
> This study examines criticism, applying an historically aware
> formalist reading to poetic form in Romanticism and showing how
> in theory and practice Romantic writers addressed, debated, and
> contested questions about what is at stake in the poetic forming
> of language.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: The New Critical Idiom
> FORMALISM
> George Hyde
> Routledge May 1998, Published in UK
> 152pp, 198 x 129mm
> HARDBACK UK œ30.00 0-415-12265-1
> Paperback UK œ6.99 0-415-06375-2
>
> An introduction to the concept of "formalism", its historical
> development, and the contemporary debates around the term. This
> text illustrates the theory with specific textual examples and
> explains how the term has been used in a variety of disciplines.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> FRAE FREMMIT LEIDS: ESSAYS ON TRANSLATION INTO SCOTS
> [Ed] Bill Findlay
> Scottish Cultural Press 30 Apr 1999,
> Published in UK
> 254pp
> PAPERBACK UK œ14.99 1-898218-75-7
>
> This text discusses various aspects of Scots translations of some
> of literature's greatest works from Italian, Chinese, German,
> Greek, Latin, and Russian.
>
> Readership: general
>
> *****
>
> Series: Maryland Paperback Bookshelf
> THE FRIDAY BOOK: ESSAYS AND OTHER NONFICTION
> John Barth
> The Johns Hopkins University Press 1997,
> Published in USA
> Published in association with Hardcover first published in 1984
> 281pp, 229 x 152mm
> PAPERBACK UK œ13.00 0-8018-5557-8
>
> In this "arrangement of essays and lectures", Barth speculates on
> the future of literature and the literature of the future. He
> also looks back upon historical fiction and fictitous history.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
> FRIENDSHIP
> Maurice Blanchot
> Stanford University Press 1997, Published in USA
> 326pp, 224 x 148mm
> HARDBACK UK œ35.00 0-8047-2758-9
> Paperback UK œ12.95 0-8047-2759-7
>
> A collection of 22 critical essays and reviews on art, politics,
> literature and philosophy, which documents the wide range of
> Blanchot's interests, from the enigmatic paintings in the Lascaux
> caves to the atomic era.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> THE FULL-KNOWING READER: ALLUSION AND THE POWER OF THE READER
> IN THE WESTERN LITERARY TRADITION
> Joseph Pucci
> Yale University Press Aug 1998, Published in USA
> 280pp, 234 x 156mm, 256
> HARDBACK UK œ25.00 0-300-07152-3
>
> This study of literary allusion, in any language, contends that
> the key to grasping the meaning of an allusive text is in the
> hands of the "full-knowing" reader. The author shows how allusion
> authorizes the desires of such a reader at the expense of the
> author.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> THE GENDER OF DEATH: A CULTURAL HISTORY IN ART AND LITERATURE
> Karl S. Guthke
> Cambridge University Press 1 Mar 1999,
> Published in UK
> 260pp, 30 half-tones
> HARDBACK UK œ37.50 0-521-59195-3
>
> Tracing the gender of representations of death in art and
> literature from medieval times to the present day, Karl Guthke
> offers insights into the nature and perception of the Western
> self in its cultural, intellectual, and literary context.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> GENEALOGY AND FICTION IN HARDY: FAMILY LINEAGE AND NARRATIVE
> LINES
> Tess O'Toole
> Macmillan Press 1997, Published in UK
> 224pp, 216 x 138mm, 224, Notes, index
> HARDBACK UK œ40.00 0-333-68163-0
>
> This text uncovers Hardy's career-long fascination with the
> points of intersection between genealogy and fiction, and argues
> that this relationship fuels much of his writing. As well as
> analyzing characteristic treatment of family history, this volume
> revises existing accounts of the narrative.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate
>
> *****
>
> GENRE AND WRITING: ISSUES, ARGUMENTS, ALTERNATIVES
> [Ed] Wendy Bishop; Hans Ostrom
> Boynton/Cook Publishers 1997, Published in USA
> 272pp
> PAPERBACK UK œ23.50 0-86709-421-4
>
> This work takes a look at the concepts and applications of
> "genre", presenting theoretical, critical and pedagogical
> perspectives. It includes essays that take into account student
> writing, essays exploring links between "process" pedagogy and
> genre, and between social-epistemic pedagogy and genre.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Critical Readers
> GEORGES BATAILLE: A CRITICAL READER
> [Ed] Fred Botting; Scott Wilson
> Blackwell Publishers 1997, Published in UK
> 272pp, 229 x 152mm
> HARDBACK UK œ45.00 0-631-19956-X
> Paperback UK œ14.99 0-631-19957-8
>
> An introduction to Georges Bataille's major concepts and
> concerns, it also underlines the impact his work has had, in
> different ways, on an entire generation of thinkers. The book
> presents essays by recent theorists.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Cambridge Studies in German
> THE GERMAN "BILDUNGSROMAN": INCEST AND INHERITANCE
> Michael Minden
> Cambridge University Press 1997, Published in UK
> 303pp, 223 x 144mm
> HARDBACK UK œ40.00 0-521-49573-3
>
> Addressing the "Bildungsroman" - the story of the development or
> formation of a young man - as literature, this work offers
> detailed readings of some of the best-known novels in the German
> language, including works from Goethe, Mann, Wilhelm Meisters
> Lehrjahre, and Anton Reiser.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> A GLOSSARY OF CONTEMPORARY LITERARY THEORY
> Jeremy Hawthorn
> 3rd ed, Arnold Jan 1998, Published in UK
> 404pp, 234 x 156mm
> HARDBACK UK œ45.00 0-340-69221-9
>
> Revised and expanded to include new late-1990s terms in the field
> of literary theory. They come from the areas of post-colonialism,
> previously unremarked terms in the field as a whole, and from the
> fact that our understanding of the terminology has evolved to
> need redefinition.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> GLOSSARY OF LITERARY TERMS
> [Ed] Ross C. Murfin; Supryia Ray
> Macmillan Press Apr 1998, Published in UK
> 467pp, 216X138mm, 467
> PAPERBACK UK œ12.50 0-333-69096-6
>
> Over 700 traditional and contemporary critical and literary terms
> are presented in this volume. Cross-referenced, the
> alphabetically arranged entries are defined with brevity and
> extensively illustrated with examples from canonical literature
> and contemporary popular culture.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; advanced secondary
>
> *****
>
> Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
> THE GRAY BOOK
> Aris Fioretos
> Stanford University Press 1 Dec 1999,
> Published in USA
> 161pp
> HARDBACK UK œ30.00 0-8047-3537-9
> Paperback UK œ8.95 0-8047-3538-7
>
> Generally considered the least lively and most bleak of casts,
> grey is the taint of vagueness and uncertainty. This text
> postulates a kind of grey writing, from Homer to Beckett, one in
> which distinctions - form and content, writer and reader - tend
> to dissolve.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> THE GREEN BREAST OF THE NEW WORLD: LANDSCAPE, GENDER, AND
> AMERICAN FICTION
> Louise H. Westling
> University of Georgia Press Oct 1998,
> Published in USA
> 222pp, 232 x 152mm
> PAPERBACK UK œ14.50 0-8203-2080-3
>
> Examining the American literary tradition in terms of gender and
> ecology, this study considers symbolic landscapes in 20th-century
> American fiction, the characters who inhabit those landscapes,
> and the gendered traditions that can influence the figuration of
> both these fictional elements.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> A HANDBOOK OF CRITICAL APPROACHES TO LITERATURE
> Wilfred L. Guerin; Earle G. Labor; Lee Morgan; Jeanne C. Reesman;
> John R. Willingham
> 4th ed, Oxford University Press Inc, USA Nov 1998,
> Published in USA
> 496pp, 210 x 130mm, Bibliography
> PAPERBACK UK œ20.50 0-19-509955-9
>
> This text presents a discussion of nearly all the popular
> critical literary theories and gives examples of their
> application to a few well-known literary works. Major approaches
> include traditional, formal, psychological, mythological and
> archetypal, feminist and cultural.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> A HANDBOOK TO LITERARY RESEARCH
> [Ed] Simon Eliot; W.R. Owens
> Routledge 4 Feb 1999, Published in UK
> 224pp, 234 x 156mm, Glossary, references
> HARDBACK UK œ50.00 0-415-19859-3
> Paperback UK œ14.99 0-415-19860-7
>
> Designed for those beginning an MA in Literature, this text
> provides an introduction to research techniques, methodologies
> and information sources relevant to the study of literature at
> postgraduate level. Contemporary theoretical approaches are also
> outlined.
>
> Readership: postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> HENRI BERGSON AND BRITISH MODERNISM
> Mary Ann Gillies
> McGill-Queen's University Press 1997,
> Published in Canada
> 224pp, 234 x 156mm, Notes, bibliography, index
> HARDBACK UK œ31.00 0-7735-1427-9
>
> Focusing on various modernist writers, the author of this volume
> demonstrates that Bergson's theories underlie the literary
> aesthetics of the period that forms the intellectual basis of
> modern literature. Such writers as Woolf, Eliot and Joyce are
> included in the discussion.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate
>
> *****
>
> HENRY JAMES AND THE LANGUAGE OF EXPERIENCE
> Collin Meissner
> Cambridge University Press 27 Jun 1999,
> Published in UK
> HARDBACK UK œ37.50 0-521-62398-7
>
> This text examines the political dimension to the representation
> of experience as it unfolds throughout James's work. Collin
> Meissner argues that, for James, experience was a private and
> public event, a dialectical process that registered and expressed
> his consciousness of the external world.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate
>
> *****
>
> HETEROCOSMICA: FICTION AND POSSIBLE WORLDS
> Lubomir Dolezel
> The Johns Hopkins University Press Jun 1998,
> Published in USA
> 260pp, 216 x 133mm, 8 illustrations
> HARDBACK UK œ37.00 0-8018-5749-X
>
> Begins with a discussion of the semantics and pragmatics of
> fictionality, and relates them to literature, literary theory and
> narratology. Dolezel investigates theories of action, intention
> and literary communication to develop concepts that allow him to
> reinterpret many fictional narratives.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> HISPANO-ARABIC LITERATURE AND THE EARLY PROVENCAL LYRICS
> J.A. Abu-Haidar
> Curzon Press Oct 1998, Published in UK
> 260pp
> HARDBACK UK œ37.50 0-7007-1015-9
>
> In this work, the author offers a semantic study of Hispano-
> Arabic strophic poetry of the 11th and 12th centuries and the
> Provencal lyrics of the slightly earlier period, and the
> immiscible relationship between them.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: The History of Civilization
> THE HISTORY AND LITERATURE OF CHRISTIANITY
> Pierre de Labriolle
> Routledge 1997, Published in UK
> 580pp, 240 x 156mm
> HARDBACK UK œ70.00 0-415-15599-1
>
> This series was originally published between 1920-70. The aim of
> the general editor, C.K. Ogden, was to summarize the most up-to-
> date findings and theories of historians, anthropologists,
> archaeologists and sociologists. This reprinted material is
> available in a number of different sets.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate
>
> *****
>
> A HISTORY OF READING
> Alberto Manguel
> Flamingo 1997, Published in UK
> 384pp, 234 x 169mm, 140 b&w illustrations
> PAPERBACK UK œ9.99 0-00-654681-1
>
> This history of reading goes from the earliest examples of the
> clay tablets and cuneiform of ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt to
> today's digital revolution. It argues that it is the demands of
> the reader, acting alongside the will of the writer, that is the
> evolutionary motor of literary genres.
>
> Readership: general
>
> *****
>
> HORACE AND THE RHETORIC OF AUTHORITY
> Ellen Oliensis
> Cambridge University Press May 1998,
> Published in UK
> 253pp, 236 x 159mm
> HARDBACK UK œ37.50 0-521-57315-7
>
> Explores how Horace's poems construct the literary and social
> authority of their author. Bridging the traditional distinction
> between "persona" and "author", the text considers Horace's
> poetry as one dimension of his "face" - the projected self-image
> that is the currency of social interaction.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> HOT PROPERTY: THE STAKES AND CLAIMS OF LITERARY ORIGINALITY
> Francoise Meltzer
> University of Chicago Press 1997, Published in USA
> 184pp, 216 x 139mm
> PAPERBACK UK œ15.25 0-226-51976-7
>
> This text examines the anxiety of origins about the literary
> enterprise. Using case studies, Meltzer reveals the tenuous
> status of originality as a basic principle of the critical
> establishment. She shows how a threat to a writer's status as
> creator betrays the originality myth itself.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> HOUSEHOLDS OF THE SOUL
> Vincent P. Pecora
> The Johns Hopkins University Press 1997,
> Published in USA
> 344pp, 229 x 152mm
> HARDBACK UK œ41.50 0-8018-5427-X
>
> In this text, the author surveys the progress of an idea he sees
> at the centre of social controversy and political struggle - the
> fascination with real and imaginary households whose resonances
> recall the patron-client relations of the past. A range of
> examples, literary and critical, are given.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> HUMOUR THEORISTS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
> John Parkin
> Edwin Mellen Press Jan 1998, Published in USA
> 324pp
> HARDBACK UK œ59.95 0-7734-8459-0
>
> Examines the six theorists of humour who have emerged as
> particularly influential in the 20th century: Henri Bergson,
> Sigmund Freud, Mikhail Bakhtin, Arthur Koestler, Northop Frye and
> Helene Cixous. Their major theories are reviewed and tested, and
> set in context with each other.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> THE IDEA OF ANCIENT LITERARY CRITICISM
> Yun Lee Too
> Clarendon Press Nov 1998, Published in UK
> 336pp, 210 x 130mm, Bibliography
> HARDBACK UK œ45.00 0-19-815076-8
>
> This text offers a reading of the social function of the body of
> texts we identify as "ancient literary criticism" with
> implications for how we understand this discourse and also modern
> criticism and literary theory. It shows the participation of law,
> history and rhetoric in the critical process.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> IDEOLOGY AND DESIRE IN RENAISSANCE POETRY: THE SUBJECT OF DONNE
> Ronald Corthell
> Wayne State University Press 1997,
> Published in USA
> 304pp, 229 x 152mm
> HARDBACK UK œ31.95 0-8143-2676-5
>
> This work analyzes both Donne's texts and criticism of Donne from
> historicist, feminist and psychoanalytic perspectives, and argues
> that the combination of Donne's poetry and Donne criticism
> produces a discourse on literary subjectivity that underlies
> debates on literature and ideology.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> THE IDEOLOGY OF IMAGINATION: SUBJECT AND SOCIETY IN THE
> DISCOURSE OF ROMANTICISM
> Forest Pyle
> Stanford University Press 1997, Published in USA
> 240pp, 216 x 141mm
> PAPERBACK UK œ12.95 0-8047-2862-3
>
> Exploring how the concept of the imagination is figured in
> principal texts of English Romanticism, this book argues that
> this figuring is an ideological activity that reveals a deep
> social and political investment. It examines Coleridge,
> Wordsworth, Shelley and Keats.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> IMAGES OF EXCELLENCE: PLATO'S CRITIQUE OF THE ARTS
> Christopher Janaway
> Clarendon Press Feb 1998, Published in UK
> 236pp, 210 x 130mm, Bibliography, glossary, index
> PAPERBACK UK œ13.99 0-19-823792-8
>
> Plato argued that traditionally accepted forms of poetry, drama,
> and music are unsound, as they are conducive to warped ethical
> standards. This view has been widely rejected; but the author
> here argues that Plato's case is a more coherent and profound
> challenge to the arts than has been supposed.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> IMAGINATION IN THEORY: ESSAYS ON CULTURE AND WRITING
> Michele Barrett
> Polity Press Dec 1998, Published in UK
> 224pp, 229 x 152mm, 14 illustrations, index
> HARDBACK UK œ45.00 0-7456-1666-6
> Paperback UK œ13.95 0-7456-1667-4
>
> Taking culture, theory and writing as its themes, this text
> explores these through work on aesthetics, cultural politics,
> subjectivity, developments in feminist thought, psychoanalysis,
> and ideas on cultural studies and social theory.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> THE "IMPROPER" FEMININE: THE WOMEN'S SENSATION NOVEL AND THE
> NEW WOMAN WRITING
> Lyn Pykett
> Routledge 1997, Published in UK
> 240pp, 216 x 138mm, Notes, references, index
> PAPERBACK UK œ12.99 0-415-16262-9
>
> By exploring the "improper" feminine and the material and
> discursive conditions in which the women's sensation novel and
> the New Woman fiction were produced, the author investigates the
> nature of this irruption of the feminine.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate
>
> *****
>
> IN DEFENSE OF HUMANISM: VALUE IN THE ARTS AND LETTERS
> Richard A. Etlin
> Cambridge University Press Jun 1998,
> Published in UK
> 303pp, 254 x 179mm, 8 line drawings, 40 halftones, index
> PAPERBACK UK œ15.95 0-521-47672-0
>
> This text offers a response to the critique of traditional
> humanism, and particularly its cultural dimension, that has been
> at the heart of intellectual discourse of the past decade. It
> articulates the nature of aesthetic experience through analysis
> of works in a wide variety of media
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
> IN PRAISE OF NONSENSE: KANT AND BLUEBEARD
> Winifried Menninghaus
> Stanford University Press 1 Jul 1999,
> Published in USA
> HARDBACK UK œ35.00 0-8047-2951-4
> Paperback UK œ11.95 0-8047-2952-2
>
> Basing itself on Kant's "Critique of Judgment", this book
> develops a theory of the varieties of nonsense in literature. It
> elaborates this theory in a close reading of Ludwig Tieck's "The
> Seven Wives of Bluebeard", a work in the genre of the German
> fairy tale.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
> IN THE EVENT: READING JOURNALISM, READING THEORY
> Deborah Esch
> Stanford University Press 1 Jul 1999,
> Published in USA,
> 8 halftones
> HARDBACK UK œ32.50 0-8047-3250-7
> Paperback UK œ10.95 0-8047-3251-5
>
> Assuming the burden of reading imposed by the correlation of the
> order of language and the order of events, this book argues that
> the possibility of reading and writing history is tied to the
> endurance of traces of the past and their coming to legibility,
> allegorically, at a given time.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> INFORMATION MULTIPLICITY: AMERICAN FICTION IN THE AGE OF MEDIA
> SATURATION
> John Johnston
> The Johns Hopkins University Press Jun 1998,
> Published in USA
> 296pp, 229 x 152mm
> HARDBACK UK œ45.50 0-8018-5704-X
>
> Beginning with Thomas Pynchon's "The Crying of Lot 49", fiction
> writers have adopted a literary style that assembles diparate
> bits of information and narrative in works saturated with data.
> Johnston describes how this "fractalized realism" has redefined
> thought itself.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> THE INFORMED ARGUMENT: BRIEF EDITION
> Robert K. Miller
> Harcourt Brace & Co Dec 1998, Published in UK
> 384pp, 233 x 162mm
> PAPERBACK UK œ16.95 0-15-503185-6
>
> An introduction to the principles of argument, critical reading
> and research, this work contains readings designed to help
> students use argument as a means of conflict resolution. It
> includes both classic arguments (such as "A Modest Proposal" and
> "Letter from Birmingham Jail") and student essays.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate
>
> *****
>
> Series: Writing Science
> INSCRIBING SCIENCE: SCIENTIFIC TEXTS AND THE MATERIALITY OF
> COMMUNICATION
> [Ed] Timothy Lenoir
> Stanford University Press Aug 1998,
> Published in USA
> 480pp, 236 x 162mm, Map
> HARDBACK UK œ40.00 0-8047-2776-7
> Paperback UK œ14.95 0-8047-2777-5
>
> Metaphors of inscription and writing figure in all levels of
> discourse in and about science. This volume seeks common ground
> among these approaches by juxtaposing work from historically
> focused science and literature studies with work inspired by
> poststructuralist philosophy and semiotics.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Literature and Philosophy Series
> INTENTIONS: NEGOTIATED, CONTESTED, AND IGNORED
> Arabella Lyon
> Penn State University Press Nov 1998,
> Published in USA
> 208pp, 229 x 152mm, 208
> HARDBACK UK œ35.95 0-271-01797-X
> Paperback UK œ14.50 0-271-01798-8
>
> This text combines philosophy, literary criticism, hermeneutics,
> and rhetoric in order to construct a theory of intention for a
> postmodern rhetoric. It recovers and renovates central concepts
> in rhetorical theory - not only intention but also deliberation,
> politics and judgement.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Young Adult Literature
> INTERPRETING YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE: LITERARY THEORY IN THE
> SECONDARY CLASSROOM
> John Noell Moore
> Boynton/Cook Publishers 1997, Published in USA
> 202pp
> PAPERBACK UK œ21.95 0-86709-414-1
>
> This work explores the complex interpretive possibilities of
> young adult novels in the classroom. The author examines new ways
> to know literature, new understandings of literary
> interpretation, and new literatures to teach.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: New Critical Idiom
> INTERTEXTUALITY
> Graham Allen
> Routledge 31 Mar 1999, Published in UK
> 200pp
> HARDBACK UK œ30.00 0-415-17474-0
> Paperback UK œ8.99 0-415-17475-9
>
> Following all the major turns in intertextuality's history, this
> volume explains how intertextuality is employed in: structuralism;
> post-structuralism; semiotics; deconstructivism; reader response;
> Marxism; feminism; and psychoanalytic theory.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate
>
> *****
>
> INTRODUCING BAKHTIN
> Sue Vice
> Manchester University Press 1997, Published in UK
> 256pp, 216 x 138mm, 3 illustrations, bibliography, index
> HARDBACK UK œ40.00 0-7190-4327-1
> Paperback UK œ12.99 0-7190-4328-X
>
> Explores Bakhtin's central concepts and terms, illustrating what
> is meant by such ideas as carnival, the grotesque body, dialogism
> and heteroglossia. These concepts are then placed in a
> contemporary context by drawing out the implications of Bakhtin's
> writings.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> AN INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE, CRITICISM AND THEORY
> Andrew Bennett; Nicholas Royle
> 2nd ed, Prentice Hall Europe 1 Feb 1999,
> Published in UK
> 288pp, 248 x 174mm
> PAPERBACK UK œ14.95 0-13-010914-2
>
> The second edition of this text includes four new chapters as
> well as revision of existing chapters, offering a fuller account
> of the interrelations between world and text, a more historical
> contextualized account of tragedy and an updated account of
> debates around the concept of postmodernism.
>
> Readership: undergraduate
>
> *****
>
> AN INTRODUCTION TO TWENTIETH-CENTURY POETRY IN ENGLISH
> R.P. Draper
> Macmillan Press 2 Apr 1999, Published in UK
> 272pp, 216x138mm, Index, notes, further reading
> HARDBACK UK œ45.00 0-333-60669-8
> Paperback UK œ15.99 0-333-60670-1
>
> This critical survey of modern poetry from Thomas Hardy to Seamus
> Heaney considers both the self-consciously revolutionary
> innovations of Modernism and more traditional developments,
> taking fully into account the extent to which "English" can no
> longer be equated solely with England.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> IRIS MURDOCH: THE RETROSPECTIVE FICTION
> Bran Nicol
> Macmillan Press 12 Feb 1999, Published in UK
> 220pp, 216 x 138mm, 220, Notes, bibliography, index
> HARDBACK UK œ42.50 0-333-68839-2
>
> This study argues that Murdoch's plots and characters are
> motivated by the question of the past. Providing an analysis of
> her "first person retrospective" novels, the author also
> considers Murdoch's relation to key currents within 20th-century
> thought, such as modernism and psychoanalysis.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> JAMESON ON POSTMODERNISM
> Fredric Jameson
> Blackwell Verso 1997, Published in UK
> 128pp, 234 x 156mm
> HARDBACK UK œ30.00 1-85984-876-1
> Paperback UK œ10.00 1-85984-182-1
>
> Designed as a short introduction to Fredric Jameson's thought for
> both the student and the general reader, this reader gives
> coverage to his writings on postmodernism. He is also the author
> of "Late Marxism: Adorno, or, The Persistence of Dialectic".
>
> Readership: undergraduate; general
>
> *****
>
> JANE AUSTEN, FEMINISM AND FICTION
> Margaret Kirkham
> Revised ed, The Athlone Press 1997,
> Published in UK
> 204pp, 216 x 138mm
> PAPERBACK UK œ14.95 0-485-12129-8
>
> An account of Jane Austen in the context of 18th-century feminist
> ideas. The author shows that Austen's views on the status of
> women, female education, marriage, the family and the
> representation of women in literature were remarkably similar to
> those of feminists in her own day.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Women Writers
> JEAN RHYS
> Sylvie Maurel
> Macmillan Press Oct 1998, Published in UK
> 200pp, 186 x 123mm, 200, Bibliography, index
> HARDBACK UK œ40.00 0-333-68393-5
> Paperback UK œ12.50 0-333-68394-3
>
> Jean Rhys's writings are examined through the frames of feminist
> criticism and literary theory, providing close readings of the
> texts and their language. The book explores the various forms of
> feminine dissent at work in Jean Rhys's fiction.
>
> Readership: advanced secondary; undergraduate
>
> *****
>
> JEWISH WRITERS OF LATIN AMERICA
> Lockhart
> Garland Publishing Inc 1997, Published in USA
> HARDBACK UK œ64.00 0-8153-1495-7
>
> *****
>
> JOB THE SILENT: A STUDY IN HISTORICAL COUNTERPOINT
> Bruce Zuckerman
> Oxford University Press Inc, USA Oct 1998,
> Published in USA
> 304pp, 230 x 150mm
> PAPERBACK UK œ16.99 0-19-512127-9
>
> This study of the Book of Job argues that it was intended as a
> parody of the stereotypical, righteous sufferer, portrayed as
> patient and silent. This example is used to demonstrate how texts
> become separated from the intentions of their authors, and can
> evolve quite different meanings for readers.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Advance Notification of Title
> JOSEPH BRODSKY AND THE BAROQUE
> David Macfayden
> McGill-Queen's University Press 31 Mar 1999,
> Published in Canada
> HARDBACK UK œ41.95 0-7735-1779-0
>
> *****
>
> Series: Literary Criticism in Perspective
> KARL KRAUS AND HIS CRITICS
> Harry Zohn
> Camden House 1997, Published in USA
> 220pp, 228 x 152mm
> HARDBACK UK œ50.00 1-57113-181-7
>
> Karl Kraus, widely regarded as one of the most talented and
> influential satirists of the 20th century, set out to provide an
> imperishable profile of his age. This is a history of the
> reception of Kraus's poems, essays and articles which reveals the
> attitudes of pre-World War II Vienna.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> KATHERINE MANSFIELD AND VIRGINIA WOOLF: A PUBLIC OF TWO
> Angela Smith
> Clarendon Press 31 Mar 1999, Published in UK
> 240pp, 210 x 130mm, Bibliography
> HARDBACK UK œ25.00 0-19-818398-4
>
> Long after the death of Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923), Virginia
> Woolf (1882-1941) described being haunted by her in dreams.
> Through detailed comparative reading of their fiction, letters
> and diaries, Smith explores the intense affinity between the
> writers and their shared experience of modernism.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> LANDMARKS IN ENGLISH LITERATURE
> Philip Gaskell
> Edinburgh University Press Mar 1998,
> Published in UK
> 183pp, 216 x 138mm
> PAPERBACK UK œ9.99 0-7486-1060-X
>
> A survey of writers and their works, this work offers a guide to
> important books from Chaucer to T.S. Eliot, together with
> explanations of the history and techniques of fiction, poetry and
> drama. The book ends with an appendix on creative writing as a
> way of learning about literature.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; general
>
> *****
>
> Series: History of Linguistic Thought
> LANDMARKS IN LINGUISTIC THOUGHT: THE WESTERN TRADITION FROM
> SOCRATES TO SAUSSURE: Vol 1
> Talbot Taylor; Roy Harris
> 2nd ed, Routledge 1997, Published in UK
> 256pp, 216 x 138mm
> HARDBACK UK œ45.00 0-415-15361-1
>
> Introduces the reader to the main issues and themes that have
> determined the development of the Western linguistic tradition.
> Each chapter in this volume contains a short extract from a
> "landmark" text followed by a commentary which places the text in
> its social and intellectual context.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate
>
> *****
>
> Series: Scottish Language and Literature, Vol 2
> LANGUAGE AND SCOTTISH LITERATURE: TEACHING SCOTTISH LANGUAGE
> AND LITERATURE
> John Corbett
> Edinburgh University Press 1997, Published in UK
> 240pp, 234 x 156mm
> PAPERBACK UK œ16.00 0-7486-0826-5
>
> An introduction to ways of using language theories to explore
> different aspects of Scottish literature. This book aims to
> provide clear explanations of linguistic theories and techniques
> using examples that demonstrate the applications of these
> theories to a wide range of diverse texts.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Textual Explorations
> LANGUAGE AND WORLD CREATION IN POEMS AND OTHER TEXTS
> Elena Semino
> Addison Wesley Longman Higher Education 1997,
> Published in UK
> 288pp, 216 x 138mm, References, index
> HARDBACK UK œ42.00 0-582-30199-8
> Paperback UK œ14.99 0-582-30354-0
>
> This is an interdisciplinary and practical approach to the
> analysis of poetry which focuses on text worlds, namely the
> contexts, scenarios or types of reality that readers construct in
> their interaction with the language of texts.
>
> Readership: undergraduate
>
> *****
>
> THE L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E BOOK
> [Ed] Bruce Andrews; Charles Bernstein
> Southern Illinois University Press 1997,
> Published in USA
> 309pp, 216 x 139mm
> PAPERBACK UK œ15.50 0-8093-1106-2
>
> This source book provides an understanding of contemporary
> writing which articulates the multidisciplinary and polytextual
> nature of this writing's core investigations.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Intertext
> THE LANGUAGE OF FICTION
> Keith Sanger
> Routledge Feb 1998, Published in UK
> 128pp, 246 x 174mm, Glossary
> PAPERBACK UK œ8.99 0-415-14599-6
>
> What makes literature? How does it work? How do we read it? This
> work explores these questions and varying literary styles and
> authorship. It deals with openings, point of view, speech, gender
> and pop fiction. The book includes a wide-range of literary
> extracts.
>
> Readership: advanced secondary; undergraduate
>
> *****
>
> LANGUAGE OF THE NOVEL
> Andre Brink
> Macmillan Press May 1998, Published in UK
> 384pp, 222 x 141mm, 388
> HARDBACK UK œ40.00 0-333-68408-7
>
> The postmodernist novel has become famous for the extremes of its
> narcissistic involvement with language. Andre Brink argues that
> this self-consciousness has been a characteristic of the novel
> since its earliest stirrings.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> LANGUAGE OF THE SELF: THE FUNCTION OF LANGUAGE IN
> PSYCHOANALYSIS
> Jacques Lacan
> The Johns Hopkins University Press 1997,
> Published in USA
> 368pp, 229 x 152mm, Notes
> PAPERBACK UK œ13.00 0-8018-5817-8
>
> Lacan's commentaries on Freud had revolutionary implications for
> philosophy and literary criticism. He held that if the
> unconscious exists, it functions linguistically rather than
> symbolically. Includes a study that explains his work and relates
> it to the context of contemporary thought.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> THE LAST ONE WHO REMEMBERS
> Patti Miller
> Allen & Unwin 1997, Published in Australia
> 240pp, 195 x 130mm
> PAPERBACK 1-86448-394-6 Aus$16.95
>
> This text explores the stories which shape lives: from the
> murmurings of family and childhood landscape and religion,
> through the certainty of intellectual knowledge, the confusions
> of sex fictions and the romance of bohemian tales, to the eastern
> teachings of silence and spirituality.
>
> Readership: general
>
> *****
>
> LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE: SYMPTOMS, RISKS AND STRATEGIES OF
> POSTSTRUCTURALIST CRITICISM
> Bernard McGuirk
> Routledge 1997, Published in UK
> 288pp
> HARDBACK UK œ55.00 0-415-07755-9
>
> An analysis of literary history through poststructuralist
> analysis. Focusing on Latin American literary and critical
> production, the author highlights the confrontation between
> politics and literature throughout Latin America which has
> particular resonance on postmodernity.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate
>
> *****
>
> Series: Crosscurrents: Comparative Studies in European Literature
> and Philosophy
> LEVINAS, BLANCHOT, JABES: FIGURES OF ESTRANGEMENT
> Gary D. Mole
> University Press of Florida 1997, Published in USA
> 240pp, 229 x 152mm, Notes, bibliography, index
> HARDBACK UK œ39.95 0-8130-1505-7
>
> In this study of Emmanuel Levinas, Maurice Blanchot and Edmond
> Jabes, the author demonstrates and compares the ways in which
> these writers have been instrumental in raising those issues of
> Jewishness that have been so central to contemporary postmodern
> thought.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> LIBERTY AGAINST THE LAW: SOME SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY CONTROVERSIES
> Christopher Hill
> Penguin Books 1997, Published in UK
> 368pp, 198 x 129mm, Index
> PAPERBACK UK œ9.99 0-14-024033-0
>
> There seems to be a continuing theme in English literature on the
> freedom of beggars and highwaymen. Contracting out of the state
> and its laws is complemented by religious dissenters contracting
> out of the state church. The author explores these linked themes,
> in literature and historical reality.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; general
>
> *****
>
> Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, 31
> LIES, SLANDER AND OBSCENITY IN MEDIEVAL ENGLISH NARRATIVE
> : PASTORAL RHETORIC AND THE DEVIANT SPEAKER
> Edwin David Craun
> Cambridge University Press 1997, Published in UK
> 271pp, 236 x 161mm
> HARDBACK UK œ37.50 0-521-49690-X
>
> Drawing on manuscript sources, this book examines how the
> medieval clergy developed the authority and persuasive force to
> attempt to govern the day-to-day speech of Western Christians. It
> shows how attempts were made to portray some political, social
> and private speech as deviant and destructive.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate
>
> *****
>
> Series: Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics
> LINGUISTICS AND LITERATURE
> Nigel Fabb
> Blackwell Publishers 1997, Published in UK
> 352pp, 229 x 152mm, 50 figures
> HARDBACK UK œ50.00 0-631-19242-5
> Paperback UK œ15.99 0-631-19243-3
>
> This textbook provides a basic introduction to the application of
> linguistics to the study of literature. Part of the book's aim is
> to present an account of literary linguistics along the lines of
> generative linguistics by looking for universals.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> LIT ED
> Anthony Curtis
> Carcanet Press Feb 1998, Published in UK
> 384pp, 216 x 135mm
> HARDBACK UK œ25.00 1-85754-149-9
>
> An investigation into the art of "Lit Ed-ing". Describing the
> qualities needed to run the literary pages of the broadsheets,
> this book recalls the work of literary editors and reviewers over
> the past 100 years.
>
> Readership: general; undergraduate
>
> *****
>
> THE LITERARY MIND
> Mark Turner
> Oxford University Press Inc, USA Nov 1998,
> Published in USA
> 198pp, 230 x 150mm, Illustrations
> PAPERBACK UK œ9.99 0-19-512667-X
>
> Mark Turner claims that the basic issue for cognitive science is
> the nature of literary thinking. Using tools of modern
> linguistics, the work of neuroscientists, and masterpieces from
> Shakespeare, Homer, and Dante, the text explains how story and
> projection are fundamental to everyday thought.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Very Short Introductions
> LITERARY THEORY: A VERY SHORT INTRODUCTION
> Jonathan Culler
> Oxford Paperbacks 1997, Published in UK
> 152pp, 190 x 120mm, Line drawings
> PAPERBACK UK œ5.99 0-19-285318-X
>
> Addresses questions such as the nature of literary theory and the
> relationship between literature and culture. This book discusses
> whether literature is a form of self-expression or a method of
> appeal to an audience, and outlines the ideas behind a number of
> different schools of thought.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; general
>
> *****
>
> LITERARY THEORY: A PRACTICAL INTRODUCTION
> Rivkin; Ryan
> Blackwell Publishers Nov 1998, Published in UK
> 350pp, 229 x 152mm
> HARDBACK UK œ50.00 0-631-17275-0
>
> A comprehensive practical introduction to the major schools of
> criticism, from formalism and Marxism to post-structuralism and
> feminism. Each method is brought to bear in readings of four
> texts: "King Lear"; "The Aspen Papers"; Elizabeth Bishop's poem
> "The Moose"; and the film "Mildred Pierce".
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> LITERARY THEORY: A PRACTICAL INTRODUCTION
> Rivkin; Ryan
> Blackwell Publishers Nov 1998, Published in UK
> 350pp, 229 x 152mm
> PAPERBACK UK œ13.99 0-631-17276-9
>
> A comprehensive practical introduction to the major schools of
> criticism, from formalism and Marxism to post-structuralism and
> feminism. Each method is brought to bear in readings of four
> texts: "King Lear"; "The Aspen Papers"; Elizabeth Bishop's poem
> "The Moose"; and the film "Mildred Pierce".
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> LITERARY THEORY: AN ANTHOLOGY
> [Ed] Michael Ryan; Julie Rivkin
> Blackwell Publishers Jan 1998, Published in UK
> 1100pp, 229 x 152mm
> HARDBACK UK œ60.00 0-631-20028-2
> Paperback UK œ15.99 0-631-20029-0
>
> A combination of the classic statements in criticism and the new
> theories that have revolutionized literary study. This collection
> should be a reference tool for students interested in acquiring
> knowledge of the most recent tradition from which the new
> theories derive.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate
>
> *****
>
> Advance Notification of Title
> LITERARY THEORY FROM PLATO TO BARTHES
> Richard Harland
> Macmillan Press 18 Jun 1999, Published in UK
> 320pp, 216x138mm
> HARDBACK UK œ45.00 0-333-71421-0
> Paperback UK œ14.99 0-333-71422-9
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: The New Critical Idiom
> LITERATURE
> Peter Widdowson
> Routledge Dec 1998, Published in UK
> 240pp, 126 x 198mm
> HARDBACK UK œ30.00 0-415-16913-5
> Paperback UK œ8.99 0-415-16914-3
>
> This volume provides an overview of the history of literature as
> a cultural concept, and reflects on the contemporary nature,
> place and function of what the literature might mean for us
> today.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> LITERATURE AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF INTENTION
> Patrick Swinden
> Macmillan Press 22 Jan 1999, Published in UK
> 256pp, 216 x 138mm, 256, Notes, index
> HARDBACK UK œ42.50 0-333-73499-8
>
> This study attempts to reinstate the importance of authorial
> intention by examining arguments against it from a variety of
> sources: American new criticism, European structuralism and other
> postmodern theories. It draws on Kantian aesthetics and
> contemporary philosophy of language and action.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> LITERATURE LOST: SOCIAL AGENDAS AND THE CORRUPTION OF THE
> HUMANITIES
> John M. Ellis
> Yale University Press 1997, Published in USA
> 268pp, 210 x 140mm, 272
> HARDBACK UK œ17.50 0-300-06920-0
>
> An analysis of the new regime in humanistic studies, this text
> considers the apparent weaknesses of notions that are currently
> fashionable in the humanities and speaks out against the
> orthodoxy that has installed race, gender and class perspectives
> at the centre of college humanities curricula.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> THE LITERATURE MACHINE
> Italo Calvino
> Vintage 1997, Published in UK
> 15pp, 198 x 129mm
> PAPERBACK UK œ7.99 0-7493-9994-5
>
> A collection of essays in which Calvino juggles with ideas,
> interchanging the roles of reader, author and character, giving
> the impression that he is seeking a literary form that has not
> yet been defined.
>
> Readership: general
>
> *****
>
> LITERATURE, POLITICS AND CULTURE IN POSTWAR BRITAIN
> Alan Sinfield
> 2nd ed, The Athlone Press 1997, Published in UK
> 367pp, 216 x 138mm
> PAPERBACK UK œ16.95 0-485-12132-8
>
> Extending Professor Sinfield's cultural criticism through to the
> 1990s, this edition offers both an historical account of the
> political change since 1945 and a political approach to the
> literary and other cultural production that has been, in part,
> the agent and vehicle of that change.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> THE LITERATURE WORKBOOK
> Clara Calvo; Jean Jacques Weber
> Routledge Jul 1998, Published in UK
> 176pp, 246 x 174mm, 3 line figures, 1 b&w photograph, glossary,
> indices
> HARDBACK UK œ40.00 0-415-16986-0
> Paperback UK œ12.99 0-415-16987-9
>
> A practical introductory textbook for literary studies, which can
> be used either for independent study or as part of a taught
> class. It lays the ground for further literary study by teaching
> analytic and interpretative skills.
>
> Readership: undergraduate
>
> *****
>
> Series: German Literary Theory and Cultural Studies Series
> LOCATING THE ROMANTIC SUBJECT: NOVALIS WITH WINNICOTT
> Gail M. Newman
> Wayne State University Press 1997,
> Published in USA
> 264pp, 229 x 152mm
> HARDBACK UK œ27.95 0-8143-2650-1
>
> This work explores the analogical relationship between early
> German Romantic subjectivity and the British psychoanalyst D.W.
> Winnicott's notion of the "intermediate area". The author views
> Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenberg 1772-1801) through the lens of
> Winnicott's theories.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Critical Voices in Art, Theory, Culture
> LOOKING IN: THE ART OF VIEWING
> Mieke Bal; Norman Bryson
> G&B Arts International Oct 1998, Published in UK
> 240pp, 230 x 150mm
> HARDBACK UK œ24.95 90-5701-102-6
> Paperback UK œ15.95 90-5701-112-3
>
> The essays in this collection provide a feminist approach to art
> history and cultural studies. The author offers an understanding
> of how literature represents visuality and how the ethics and
> aesthetics present within museums affect the cultural artifacts
> displayed. A commentary is provided.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> LOVE AND THE NOVEL: CONTEMPORARY ROMANTIC FICTION AND SOCIETY
> George Paizis
> Macmillan Press Sep 1998, Published in UK
> 256pp, 216 x 138mm, 256, Illustrations
> HARDBACK UK œ42.50 0-333-72049-0
>
> This look at romantic fiction seeks to discover the reason for
> its appeal by combining analysis of the poetics of the genre with
> a study of the real reader's intervention.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> MAKING THE ENGLISH CANON: PRINT-CAPITALISM AND THE CULTURAL
> PAST, 1700-1770
> Jonathan Brody Kramnick
> Cambridge University Press 28 Jan 1999,
> Published in UK
> 308pp, 237 x 160mm
> HARDBACK UK œ35.00 0-521-64127-6
>
> While the rise of the English canon has been a topic of
> continuous and fraught interest during the 1980s and 90s,
> Jonathan Kramnick offers a coherent and detailed discussion of
> what is arguably its crucial historical moment: the middle
> decades of the 18th century.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
> THE MAN WITHOUT CONTENT
> Giorgio Agamben
> Stanford University Press 1 Jun 1999,
> Published in USA
> HARDBACK UK œ30.00 0-8047-3553-0
> Paperback UK œ8.95 0-8047-3554-9
>
> In this book, one of Italy's most important contemporary
> philosophers considers the status of art in the modern era. He
> takes seriously Hegel's claim that art has exhausted its
> spiritual vocation. He argues, however, that Hegel by no means
> proclaimed the death of art.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> THE MANUSCRIPTS OF "PIERS PLOWMAN": THE B-VERSION
> C. David Benson; Lynne S. Blanchfield
> D.S. Brewer 1997, Published in UK
> 350pp, 276 x 219mm, 18 b&w illustrations
> HARDBACK UK œ60.00 0-85991-501-8
>
> This catalogue of the 18 extant manuscripts offers both
> individual manuscript descriptions and a record of the
> annotations. The detailed codicological descriptions include
> information on provenance and ownership, and a description of the
> physical make-up and presentation of the manuscripts.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> MARK TWAIN'S ETHICAL REALISM: THE AESTHETICS OF RACE, CLASS,
> AND GENDER
> Joe B. Fulton
> University of Missouri Press 1997,
> Published in USA
> 192pp, 229 x 152mm, Bibliography, index
> HARDBACK UK œ21.95 0-8262-1144-5
>
> This study of Mark Twain's interest in the relationship between
> ethics and aesthetics, examines criticism of Twain and American
> realism and explores the scepticism associated with terms such as
> "realism" that has led scholars to ignore Twain's view of how a
> writer achieves probability in writing.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: The New Critical Idiom
> MATERIALISMS
> Jenny Bourne Taylor
> Routledge 30 Sep 1999, Published in UK
> 152pp, 198 x 129mm
> PAPERBACK UK œ6.99 0-415-09811-4
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate
>
> *****
>
> Series: The Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
> MATTERS OF FACT: READING NONFICTION OVER THE EDGE
> Daniel W. Lehman
> Ohio State University Press Jan 1998,
> Published in USA
> 208pp, 229 x 152mm
> HARDBACK UK œ31.95 0-8142-0760-X
> Paperback UK œ15.50 0-8142-0761-8
>
> Examining what happens when writers and readers encounter texts
> presented as nonfiction which have an element of truth from
> experiences. The author argues that reading and writing
> nonfiction is different from reading and writing realistic
> fiction, examining the "inside/outside" elements involved.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> MEN OF LETTERS, WRITING LIVES
> Trev Lynn Broughton
> Routledge Dec 1998, Published in UK
> 224pp, 216 x 138mm
> HARDBACK UK œ55.00 0-415-08211-0
>
> This volume looks at the developments within Victorian
> auto/biography, asking what can be learned from the limits of
> male literary authority. It focuses on two case studies: Sir
> Leslie Stephens and James Anthony Goude's account of the Carlyle
> marriage.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate
>
> *****
>
> MEN OF LETTERS, WRITING LIVES
> Trev Lynn Broughton
> Routledge Dec 1998, Published in UK
> 224pp, 216 x 138mm
> PAPERBACK UK œ18.99 0-415-08212-9
>
> This volume looks at the developments within Victorian
> auto/biography, asking what can be learned from the limits of
> male literary authority. It focuses on two case studies: Sir
> Leslie Stephens and James Anthony Goude's account of the Carlyle
> marriage.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate
>
> *****
>
> MEREDITH AND THE NOVEL
> Neil Roberts
> Macmillan Press 1997, Published in UK
> 224pp, 216 x 138mm, 224, Bibliography, index
> HARDBACK UK œ47.50 0-333-67594-0
>
> The novelist Meredith is renowned for his radical portrayal of
> social and personal relations, especially of gender. This work
> examines Meredith's novels in the light of 20th-century literary
> theory, especially the work of Mikhail Bakhtin.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Rethinking Theory Series
> MIDRASH AND THEORY: ANCIENT JEWISH EXEGESIS AND CONTEMPORARY
> LITERARY STUDIES
> David Stern
> Northwestern University Press Mar 1998,
> Published in USA
> 126pp
> PAPERBACK UK œ15.95 0-8101-1574-3
>
> This is an approach to midrashic literature that is responsive to
> the principles of contemporary literary theory. David Stern
> examines its revival in the larger Jewish community from the
> perspective of its cultural relevance and connection to its
> original historical and literary contexts.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Rethinking Theory
> MIMESIS AND THE HUMAN ANIMAL: ON THE BIOGENETIC FOUNDATIONS OF
> LITERARY REPRESENTATION
> Robert Storey
> Northwestern University Press 1997,
> Published in USA
> 352pp, 234 x 156mm, Figures, notes
> HARDBACK UK œ65.00 0-8101-1457-7
> Paperback UK œ17.95 0-8101-1458-5
>
> In this study, the author argues that human culture derives from
> human biology and that literary representation therefore must
> have a biological basis. As he ponders the question "What does it
> mean to say that art imitates life?" he must consider both "What
> is life?" and "What is art?".
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> MIMESIS GENRES AND POST-COLONIAL DISCOURSE: DECONSTRUCTING
> MAGIC REALISM
> Jean-Pierre (Professor of English Durix
> Macmillan Press Aug 1998, Published in UK
> 208pp, 216 x 138mm, 208, Bibliography, index
> HARDBACK UK œ42.50 0-333-73224-3
>
> Through a broad-ranging survey of the allegory, utopia, the
> historical novel and the epic in post-colonial literature, the
> author proposes a critical reassessment of the theory of genres.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> MISSING PERSONS: THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF AUTO/BIOGRAPHY
> Mary Evans
> Routledge Dec 1998, Published in UK
> 176pp, 216 x 138mm
> HARDBACK UK œ45.00 0-415-09975-7
>
> Auto/biography is supposed to illuminate the study of the
> individual and her or his personal circumstances. This volume is
> an introductory analysis of the genre which suggests that it is,
> in fact, based on fictions, both about the person and about what
> is possible to know about any one individual.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> MISSING PERSONS: THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF AUTO/BIOGRAPHY
> Mary Evans
> Routledge Dec 1998, Published in UK
> 176pp, 216 x 138mm
> PAPERBACK UK œ13.99 0-415-09976-5
>
> Auto/biography is one of the most popular literary genres, the
> study of the individual. This book, however, suggests that
> auto/biography is based on fictions, both about the person and
> about what it is possible to know about any one individual.
>
> Readership: further, higher; undergraduate; research,
> professional
>
> *****
>
> MODELS OF NARRATIVE: THEORY AND PRACTICE
> David K. Danow
> Macmillan Press 1997, Published in UK
> 192pp, 216 x 138mm, 192, Notes
> HARDBACK UK œ30.00 0-333-71357-5
>
> In analyzing the concept and practice of literary modelling, this
> text leads the reader on a search for order, patterns, and
> familiar concepts in literary works. Authors studied include
> Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and Garcia Marquez.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> THE MODERN SCOTTISH NOVEL: NARRATIVE AND THE NATIONAL
> IMAGINATION
> Cairns Craig
> Edinburgh University Press 31 Oct 1999,
> Published in UK
> 256pp, 234 x 156mm
> PAPERBACK UK œ14.95 0-7486-0893-1
>
> Argues that the writing of many Scottish novelists has been
> formed by a powerful nation tradition, whose distinctive thematic
> concerns have changed the shape of the novel in English. Craig
> traces the influence of Scotland's social and political history
> on its novelists in the last century.
>
> Readership: undergraduate
>
> *****
>
> MODERN THEORIES OF DRAMA: A SELECTION OF WRITINGS ON DRAMA AND
> THEATRE, 1840-1990
> [Ed] George W. Brandt
> Clarendon Press Nov 1998, Published in UK
> 345pp, 230 x 150mm, Bibliography, index
> PAPERBACK UK œ15.99 0-19-871139-5
>
> This text focuses on developments in dramatic theory over the
> last 150 years. From Aristotle's "Poetics" onwards drama has been
> encased in a framework of theory, but theoretical questioning of
> the "rules" has grown in scope and strength. This century new
> concepts have arisen.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> MODERN THEORIES OF DRAMA: A SELECTION OF WRITINGS ON DRAMA AND
> THEATRE, 1840-1990
> [Ed] George W. Brandt
> Clarendon Press Nov 1998, Published in UK
> 360pp, 230 x 150mm, Bibliography, index
> HARDBACK UK œ50.00 0-19-871140-9
>
> A changing sense of the purposes of drama and of its
> philosophical content have resulted in the striking instability
> of theory which confronts us today. Concentrating on the
> developments in dramatic theory over the last 150 years, this
> book aims to provide a questioning of the "rules".
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> MODERNISM: AN ANTHOLOGY OF SOURCES AND DOCUMENTS
> Vassiliki Kolocotroni; Olga Taxidou; Jane Goldman
> Edinburgh University Press May 1998,
> Published in UK
> 576pp, 244 x 172mm
> HARDBACK UK œ60.00 0-7486-0974-1
> Paperback UK œ19.95 0-7486-0973-3
>
> This is a guide to the Modernist movement in literature, offering
> a comprehensive documentary resource to students and researchers.
> It covers a wide range of intellectual concerns for the period
> 1850 to 1940 in Britain, Europe and America, drawing on
> contemporary reviews, essays and articles.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> MODERNIST PATTERNS: IN LITERATURE AND THE VISUAL ARTS
> Murray Roston
> Macmillan 31 Mar 1999, Published in UK
> 220pp, 229 x 152mm
> HARDBACK UK œ42.50 0-333-68170-3
>
> An exploration of the relationships between modernist artists and
> writers, and their responses to the immediate challenges of their
> time, to the implications of Freudian psychology, to molecular
> theory, to relativist theory, and to the general weakening of
> religious faith.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: The New Critical Idiom
> MYTH
> Laurence Coupe
> Routledge 1997, Published in UK
> 240pp, 198 x 129mm
> HARDBACK UK œ30.00 0-415-13493-5
> Paperback UK œ8.99 0-415-13494-3
>
> An introductory volume providing an overview of the evolution of
> "myth" from Greek definitions to those of contemporary thinkers.
> This text explores the uses made of the term in feminist, Marxist
> and "new historicist" theories within various fields and
> disciplines.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Literature and Psychoanalysis
> NARCISSISM AND THE LITERARY LIBIDO: RHETORIC, TEXT, AND
> SUBJECTIVITY
> Marshall W. Alcorn Jr
> New York University Press 1997, Published in USA
> 243pp, 229 x 152mm
> PAPERBACK UK œ16.00 0-8147-0665-7
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: The New Critical Idiom
> NARRATIVE
> John Coyle
> Routledge Jun 1998, Published in UK
> 152pp, 216 x 138mm, HB
> PAPERBACK UK œ7.99 0-415-08493-8
>
> A guide to the concept of narrative. This accessible work ranges
> over fiction, poetry and autobiography and is a basis for further
> study.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate
>
> *****
>
> Series: The New Critical Idiom
> NARRATIVE
> John Coyle
> Routledge Jun 1998, Published in UK
> 152pp, 216 x 138mm
> HARDBACK UK œ30.00 0-415-13479-X
>
> A guide to the concept of narrative. This accessible work ranges
> over fiction, poetry and autobiography and is a basis for further
> study.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate
>
> *****
>
> Series: Routledge Studies in Memory and Narrative, 1
> NARRATIVE AND GENRE
> [Ed] Mary Chamberlain; Paul Thompson
> Routledge 1997, Published in UK
> 224pp, 234 x 156mm
> HARDBACK UK œ50.00 0-415-15198-8
>
> This colleciton of essays draws on a wide range of disciplines in
> the social sciences and humanities to examine how far the
> expectations and forms of genre shape different kinds of
> autobiography and influence what messages they can convey.
>
> Readership: research, professional
>
> *****
>
> NARRATIVE COMPREHENSION: A DISCOURSE PERSPECTIVE
> Catherine Emmott
> Clarendon Press 1997, Published in UK
> 336pp, 210 x 130mm, 5 text-figures, bibliography
> HARDBACK UK œ45.00 0-19-823649-2
>
> This text draws on insights from discourse analysis and
> artificial intelligence to explore how readers construct and
> maintain mental representations of fictional characters and
> contexts. The implications of cognitive modelling for grammatical
> theory are also discussed.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> NARRATIVE COMPREHENSION: A DISCOURSE PERSPECTIVE
> Catherine Emmott
> Clarendon Press 28 Feb 1999, Published in UK
> 336pp, 210 x 130mm, 5 text-figures, bibliography
> PAPERBACK UK œ14.99 0-19-823868-1
>
> Drawing on insights from discourse analysis and artificial
> intelligence, this book presents a model of how readers build,
> maintain, and use mental representations of fictional contexts,
> and how they keep track of characters and contexts within a
> complex, changing, fictional world.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> NARRATIVE ETHICS
> Adam Zachary Newton
> Harvard University Press 1997, Published in USA
> 352pp, 234 x 156mm
> PAPERBACK UK œ10.95 0-674-60088-6
>
> This text makes a case for understanding narrative as ethics.
> Assuming an intrinsic and necessary connection between the two,
> it explores the ethical consequences of telling stories and
> fictionalizing character, and the reciprocal claims binding
> teller, listener, witness, and reader in the process.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> NATIONALISM AND DESIRE IN EARLY HISTORICAL FICTION
> Ian Dennis
> Macmillan Press 1997, Published in UK
> 260pp, 216 x 138mm, 210, Notes, index
> HARDBACK UK œ35.00 0-333-68161-4
>
> This text analyzes a sequence of early-19th-century British and
> American texts from a perspective informed by Rene Girard's
> theory of triangular "mimetic" desire. Jane Porter's "The
> Scottish Chiefs" and Sydney Owenson's "The Wild Irish Girl" are
> among the works featured.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> NEUTRAL GROUND: NEW TRADITIONALISM AND THE AMERICAN ROMANCE
> CONTROVERSY
> G.R. Thompson; Eric Carl Link
> Louisiana State University Press 31 Aug 1999,
> Published in USA
> 256pp, 229 x 152mm
> HARDBACK UK œ37.95 0-8071-2351-X
>
> A literary history and critical analysis of the romance
> controversy. Supported by writing from the 19th and 20th
> centuries, it argues that the distinction between the meanings of
> novel and romance, far from being aberrant, was a central issue
> in American letters from the 1790s to the 1890s.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Transitions
> NEW HISTORICISM AND CULTURAL MATERIALISM
> John Brannigan
> Macmillan Press Jul 1998, Published in UK
> 272pp, 216x138mm, 272, Bibliography, index
> HARDBACK UK œ37.50 0-333-68780-9
> Paperback UK œ10.99 0-333-68781-7
>
> New historicism and cultural materialism emerged in the early
> 1980s as prominent literary theories. This study explains the
> development of these theories and demonstrates both their uses
> and weaknesses as critical practices.
>
> Readership: undergraduate
>
> *****
>
> NEW IDOLS OF THE CAVE: ON THE LIMITS OF ANTI-REALISM
> Christopher Norris
> Manchester University Press 1997, Published in UK
> 224pp, 216 x 138mm, Index
> HARDBACK UK œ35.00 0-7190-5092-8
> SimPub: Hardback UK œ14.99 0-7190-5093-6
>
> This text offers a broad-based critical survey of recent anti-
> realist arguments in the philosophy of science, cultural theory,
> hermeneutics, the sociology of knowledge and the interpretation
> of quantum mechanics.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> NEW IDOLS OF THE CAVE: ON THE LIMITS OF ANTI-REALISM
> Christopher Norris
> Manchester University Press 1997, Published in UK
> 224pp, 216 x 138mm, Index
> HARDBACK UK œ14.99 0-7190-5093-6
> SimPub: Hardback UK œ35.00 0-7190-5092-8
>
> This text offers a broad-based critical survey of recent anti-
> realist arguments in the philosophy of science, cultural theory,
> hermeneutics, the sociology of knowledge and the interpretation
> of quantum mechanics.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> THE NEW NOVEL IN LATIN AMERICA: POLITICS AND POPULAR CULTURE
> AFTER THE BOOM
> Philip Swanson
> Manchester University Press Mar 1998,
> Published in UK
> 208pp, 216 x 138mm, Bibliography
> PAPERBACK UK œ12.99 0-7190-5361-7
>
> This study examines renowned Latin American writers to discover
> the nature of and reasons for the changes in fiction at the time.
> It challenges many new orthodoxies around the so-called "Boom",
> and reassesses the notion of the "new novel", seeing a pattern of
> contradiction rather than consistency.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Liverpool English Texts and Studies, Vol 32
> "THE NEW POET": NOVELTY AND TRADITION IN SPENSER'S "COMPLAINTS"
> Richard Danson Brown
> Liverpool University Press 31 Jan 1999,
> Published in UK
> 320pp, 234 x 156mm
> HARDBACK UK œ32.00 0-85323-803-0
>
> This study deals with a neglected collection of poems by Spenser
> which was issued in 1591, at the height of his career. While much
> has been written about "Mother Hubberd's Tale" and "Muiopotmos",
> Dr Brown urges the reader to see that Spenser planned the whole
> collection with a consistent design.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Liverpool English Texts and Studies, Vol 32
> "THE NEW POET": NOVELTY AND TRADITION IN SPENSER'S "COMPLAINTS"
> Richard Danson Brown
> Liverpool University Press 31 Jan 1999,
> Published in UK
> 320pp, 234 x 156mm
> PAPERBACK UK œ14.95 0-85323-813-8
>
> This study deals with a neglected collection of poems by Spenser
> which was issued in 1591, at the height of his career. While much
> has been written about "Mother Hubberd's Tale" and "Muiopotmos",
> Dr Brown urges the reader to see that Spenser planned the whole
> collection with a consistent design.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Synthese Library
> THE NEW THEORY OF REFERENCE: KRIPKE, MARCUS, AND ITS ORIGINS
> [Ed] Paul W. Humphreys
> Kluwer Academic Publishers May 1998,
> Published in Netherlands
> 304pp
> HARDBACK UK œ66.00 0-7923-4898-2
> Paperback UK œ29.00 0-7923-5578-4
>
> This text is a debate over the origins of the "New Theory of
> Reference." Quentin Smith and Scott Soames, the original
> participants in the debate, elaborate their positions on who was
> responsible for the ideas that Saul Kripke presented in his
> "Naming and Necessity".
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: A Special Issue of "American Literature", Vol 70 No 3
> NO MORE SEPARATE SPHERES!
> [Ed] Cathy N. Davidson
> Duke University Press Oct 1998, Published in USA
> 275pp
> PAPERBACK UK œ8.95 0-8223-6462-X
>
> Much criticism of 19th-century American literature in the late
> 20th century has been structured by the concept of "separate
> spheres". This text examines and contest the way the category of
> gender has organized discussion regarding the formulation of
> American literature.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> NO PASSION SPENT: ESSAYS 1978-1995
> George Steiner
> Faber and Faber 1997, Published in UK
> 441pp, 198 x 129mm, Col. port.
> HARDBACK UK œ9.99 0-571-19032-4
>
> Spanning nearly two decades, these essays turn on a central
> theme: what is meant by reading a serious text at a time when
> theories of language and literature question the very possibility
> of any agreed meaning, and at a time when new technologies are
> seen as a possible replacement for books?
>
> Readership: general; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Theorists of Myth
> NORTHROP FRYE ON MYTH: AN INTRODUCTION
> Ford Russell
> Garland Publishing Inc Jul 1998, Published in USA
> 284pp, 20 charts, bibliography
> HARDBACK UK œ37.00 0-8240-3446-5
>
> This work discusses Northrop Frye's theories of myth. It compares
> them with those of Frazer, Jung and others. It also compares
> Frye's ideas with those of the philosophers Cassirer and Ricoeur,
> and the metahistorians Spengler and Toynbee. Included are 20
> charts which schematize Frye's thought.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> THE NOVEL: LANGUAGE AND NARRATIVE FROM CERVANTES TO CALVINO
> Andre Brink
> Macmillan Press May 1998, Published in UK
> 388pp, 216 x 138mm, 388, Bibliography, index
> PAPERBACK UK œ12.99 0-333-68409-5
>
> In this wide-ranging study, Andre Brink argues that the self-
> consciousness has been a characteristic of the novel since its
> earliest stirrings.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate
>
> *****
>
> NOVELISTIC LOVE IN THE PLATONIC TRADITION: FIELDING, FAULKNER,
> AND THE POSTMODERNISTS
> Jennie Wang
> Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 1997,
> Published in USA
> 240pp
> HARDBACK UK œ46.50 0-8476-8622-1
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> NOVELISTIC LOVE IN THE PLATONIC TRADITION: FIELDING, FAULKNER,
> AND THE POSTMODERNISTS
> Jennie Wang
> Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 1997,
> Published in USA
> 240pp
> PAPERBACK UK œ14.95 0-8476-8623-X
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> OBJECTIVE DESCRIPTION OF THE SELF: THE LITERARY THEORY OF IWANO
> HOMEI
> Yoichi Nagashima
> Aarhus University Press 1997, Published in Denmark
> 240pp, 240 x 170mm
> HARDBACK UK œ25.00 87-7288-611-0
>
> This study provides a comprehensive overview of Iwano Homei's
> life and his distinctive body of literary work. It then
> introduces the reader to Iwano's theory of literature, its
> development and content, as well as reactions to the theory.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> ODYSSEY OF THE PSYCHE: JUNGIAN PATTERNS IN JOYCE'S "ULYSSES"
> Jean Kimball
> Southern Illinois University Press 1997,
> Published in USA
> 256pp, 216 x 139mm
> HARDBACK UK œ31.95 0-8093-2110-6
>
> The author argues that the interaction between Bloom and Dedalus
> in Joyce's "Ulysses" is the development of a relationship between
> two protagonists that parallels C.G. Jung's descriptions of the
> encounter between the Ego and the Shadow. She also notes
> parallels in the lives of Joyce and Jung.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> OF GRAMMATOLOGY
> Jacques Derrida
> In English
> Corrected ed, The Johns Hopkins University Press Mar 1998,
> Published in USA
> 448pp, 229 x 152mm, Index
> PAPERBACK UK œ16.50 0-8018-5830-5
>
> This corrected edition of Derrida's "De la grammatologie" adds a
> new index of the philosophers cited in the text, and makes the
> work more accessible and usable.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Re-visions of Culture and Society
> ON THE EDGE OF THE CLIFF: HISTORY, LANGUAGE, AND PRACTICES
> Roger Chartier
> The Johns Hopkins University Press 1997,
> Published in USA
> 288pp, 229 x 152mm, French
> HARDBACK UK œ37.00 0-8018-5435-0
> Paperback UK œ14.00 0-8018-5436-9
>
> Roger Chartier engages several writers of cultural history whose
> works have become part of a contemporary cultural argument. He
> studies the relationship between history and fiction, and
> proposes foundations for establishing history as a specific kind
> of knowledge.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> OPPOSING CENSORSHIP IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS: RELIGION, MORALITY, AND
> LITERATURE
> June Edwards
> Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc Jan 1998,
> Published in USA
> 144pp
> PAPERBACK UK œ16.95 0-8058-2546-0
>
> This study confronts the charges made by the Religious Right (RR)
> in the USA, against the literature used in public schools. It
> presents opposing views on democracy, secular humanism, religion,
> the Bible and the purposes of literature, and analyzes six books
> vilified by the RR as "immoral".
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> THE ORIGINS OF POSTMODERNITY
> Perry Anderson
> Blackwell Verso Sep 1998, Published in UK
> 149pp, 216 x 139mm
> PAPERBACK UK œ11.00 1-85984-222-4
>
> Traces the genesis, consolidation and consequences of the
> postmodern idea. Beginning in the Hispanic world of the 1930s,
> the text takes the reader through to the 70s, when Lyotard and
> Habermas gave the idea of postmodernism wider currency and
> finally the 90s, with the work of Fredric Jameson.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> THE ORIGINS OF POSTMODERNITY
> Perry Anderson
> Blackwell Verso Sep 1998, Published in UK
> 160pp, 216 x 139mm
> HARDBACK UK œ35.00 1-85984-864-8
>
> Traces the genesis, consolidation and consequences of the
> postmodern idea. Beginning in the Hispanic world of the 1930s,
> the text takes the reader through to the 70s, when Lyotard and
> Habermas gave the idea of postmodernism wider currency and
> finally the 90s, with the work of Fredric Jameson.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Performing Arts Journal
> THE OTHER AMERICAN DRAMA
> Marc Robinson
> Performing Arts Journals 1997, Published in USA
> 216pp, 229 x 152mm, 6 illustrations
> PAPERBACK UK œ12.50 0-8018-5630-2
>
> Proposing an alternative to the received history of American
> drama, the author of this text begins with a study of Gertrude
> Stein and then rethinks the work of such figures as Tennessee
> Williams and Sam Shepard. He shows their experiments with form
> and the redefinition of emotion and psychology.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Rhetoric, Knowledge, and Society
> OTHER FLOORS, OTHER VOICES: A TEXTOGRAPHY OF A SMALL UNIVERSITY
> BUILDING
> John M. Swales
> Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc May 1998,
> Published in USA
> 240pp
> HARDBACK UK œ47.95 0-8058-2087-6
> Paperback UK œ23.95 0-8058-2088-4
>
> The author describes this volume as a "textography" because it
> combines elements of text analysis and elements of ethnography.
> Through analysis of texts, textual forms, and systems of texts,
> it shows the lives, commitments and projects of people embedded
> in the literate culture of the university.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> THE PALE OF WORDS: REFLECTIONS ON THE HUMANITIES AND
> PERFORMANCE
> James Anderson Winn
> Yale University Press Dec 1998, Published in USA
> 152pp, 210 x 140mm, 12 musical examples
> HARDBACK UK œ14.95 0-300-07412-3
>
> In this study, Winn contends that the disciplines we call the
> humanities have identified themselves excessively with the
> written word. He exposes the hostility and fear with which
> writers and philosophers throughout Western history have regarded
> forms of expression not couched in words.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> PARIS DANCES: TEXTUAL CHOREOGRAPHIES IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
> FRENCH NOVEL
> Sarah Davies Cordova
> International Scholars Publications Sep 1998,
> Published in USA
> 462pp, 216 x 139mm, Illustrations, bibliography, index
> HARDBACK UK œ59.95 1-57309-335-1
>
> This interdisciplinary work is a study of social dancing, culture
> and French literature in the 19th century. The juxtaposition of
> dance history and literary text reveals how discourse
> incorporates principles of social dancing and illuminates the
> poetics, plot and dynamics of French writing.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Analecta Husserliana
> PASSION FOR PLACE: BETWEEN THE VITAL SPACING AND THE CREATIVE
> HORIZONS OF FULFILMENT: Part II
> [Ed] A. Tymieniecka
> Kluwer Academic Publishers 1997,
> Published in Netherlands
> 280pp
> HARDBACK UK œ72.00 0-7923-4146-5
>
> Among the multiple, subliminal passions that inspire our life in
> innumerable ways, literature shows us one that seems to play a
> particularly penetrating role in human concerns. This passion,
> according to Tymieniecka, finds its projection and
> crystallization in space.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society
> THE PAST AS TEXT: THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF MEDIEVAL
> HISTORIOGRAPHY
> Gabrielle M. Spiegel
> The Johns Hopkins University Press 1997,
> Published in USA
> 320pp, 216 x 133mm
> HARDBACK UK œ33.00 0-8018-5555-1
>
> Postmodernism has encouraged historians to be sceptical of the
> claim that "facts" can be retrieved from historical writings,
> ignoring the context in which they were written. In this text,
> the author sets out to re-read medieval histories in the light of
> these critical-theoretical problems.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Interface
> PATTERNS IN LANGUAGE: STYLISTICS FOR STUDENTS OF LANGUAGE AND
> LITERATURE
> Joanna Thornborrow; Shan Wareing
> Routledge Feb 1998, Published in UK
> 280pp, 234 x 156mm, Illustrations
> HARDBACK UK œ40.00 0-415-14063-3
> Paperback UK œ12.99 0-415-14064-1
>
> Investigates the use of language in literary and non-literary
> texts using the principles of linguistic analysis. This work
> shows how linguistic knowledge can enhance and enrich the
> analysis of texts. Borrowing from stylistics, it focuses on
> recurring linguistic patterns used by writers.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> PATTERNS OF ORDER AND UTOPIA
> Dorothy F. Donnelly
> Macmillan Press 15 Jan 1999, Published in UK
> 160pp, 216 x 138mm, 160, Notes
> HARDBACK UK œ35.00 0-333-74150-1
>
> This text looks at how an historical shift in attitude regarding
> the notion of order directly influenced both the tradition of
> utopian thought and additional "other worldly" concepts of an
> ideal existence.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Rhetoric and Composition
> A PEDAGOGY OF POSSIBILITY: BAKHTINIAN PERSPECTIVES ON
> COMPOSITION STUDIES
> Kay Halasek
> Southern Illinois University Press 30 Apr 1999,
> Published in USA
> 288pp, 229 x 152mm
> HARDBACK UK œ39.95 0-8093-2226-9
> Paperback UK œ15.95 0-8093-2227-7
>
> The author reconceives composition studies from a Bakhtinian
> perspective, focusing on both the discipline's theoretical
> assumptions and its pedagogies. Halasek explores the implications
> of Bakhtin's work and provides a model of scholarship balanced
> between practice and theory.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and the Arts
> PERFORMANCE AND AUTHENTICITY IN THE ARTS
> Salim Kemal; Ivan Gaskell
> Cambridge University Press 27 Jul 1999,
> Published in UK,
> 1 table
> HARDBACK UK œ37.50 0-521-45419-0
>
> This text brings together a group of scholars from music, drama,
> poetry, performance art, religion, classics, and philosophy to
> investigate the complex and developing interaction between
> performance and authenticity in the arts.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> PERFORMANCE RESEARCH: ISSUE 1 - ON AMERICA: Vol 3
> [Ed] Richard Gough; Claire MacDonald; Ric Allsopp
> Routledge Sep 1998, Published in UK
> 128pp, 270 x 210mm, 56 b&w photographs
> PAPERBACK UK œ10.99 0-415-18201-8
>
> This issue of "Performance Research" is a response to the
> powerful presence in contemporary culture of aesthetic forms and
> political strategies derived from North America.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate
>
> *****
>
> PHANTOM COMMUNITIES: THE SIMULACRUM AND THE LIMITS OF
> POSTMODERNISM
> Scott Durham
> Stanford University Press Sep 1998,
> Published in USA
> 272pp, 237 x 161mm, Illustrations
> HARDBACK UK œ30.00 0-8047-3071-7
> Paperback UK œ10.95 0-8047-3336-8
>
> This work reconsiders the status of the simulacrum - sometimes
> defined as a copy of a copy, but more rigorously defined as a
> copy that subverts the legitimacy and authority of its model - in
> light of recent debates in literature, art, philosophy, and
> cultural studies.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English
> Literature and Thought, 31
> PHILOSOPHICAL DIALOGUE IN THE BRITISH ENLIGHTENMENT: THEOLOGY,
> AESTHETICS AND THE NOVEL
> Michael B. Prince
> Cambridge University Press 1997, Published in UK
> 298pp, 236 x 158mm
> HARDBACK UK œ37.50 0-521-55062-9
>
> This study of philosophical dialogue during the English
> Enlightenment sets out to explain why important philosophers
> Shaftesbury, Mandeville, Berkeley and Hume and innumerable minor
> translators, imitators and critics wrote in and about dialogue
> during the 18th century.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Accents on Shakespeare
> PHILOSOPHICAL SHAKESPEARES
> [Ed] John Joughin
> Routledge 30 Jun 1999, Published in UK
> 240pp, 198 x 129mm
> HARDBACK UK œ40.00 0-415-17388-4
> Paperback UK œ14.99 0-415-17389-2
>
> This text focuses on the dissolution of boundaries between
> literature and philosophy. It presses the continual claim that
> Shakespeare's work situates and articulates the most central
> problems of our intellectual inheritance, and is still
> fundamental to our understanding and experience of modernity.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> PHILOSOPHY OF LITERATURE: AN INTRODUCTION
> Christopher New
> Routledge 4 Feb 1999, Published in UK
> 160pp, 234 x 156mm
> HARDBACK UK œ40.00 0-415-14485-X
> Paperback UK œ12.99 0-415-14486-8
>
> This work introduces the philosophy of literature from an
> analytic perspective. Topics include: the definition of
> literature; the distinction between oral and written literature
> and the identity of literary works; and the nature of fiction.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> THE PHILOSOPHY OF MODERN LITERARY THEORY
> Peter V. Zima
> The Athlone Press 31 May 1999, Published in UK
> 250pp, 216 x 138mm, Notes, bibliography, index
> HARDBACK UK œ40.00 0-485-11540-9
> Paperback UK œ14.99 0-485-12150-6
>
> This text presents an introduction to the theories and concepts
> of literary criticism. The book argues that modern theories can
> only be properly understood when placed in the philosophical and
> aesthetic context in which they originated and evolved.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> THE PHOTOGRAPH: A STRANGE, CONFINED SPACE
> Mary Price
> Stanford University Press 1997, Published in USA
> 220pp, 217 x 154mm, 30 half-tones
> PAPERBACK UK œ10.95 0-8047-2964-6
> Not currently available: reprint under consideration
>
> This study of photography has two major emphases. The first is
> that the language of description (be it title, caption, or text)
> is deeply implicated in how a viewer looks at photographs. The
> second emphasis is that the use of a photograph determines its
> meaning.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> PLATONIC ERRORS: PLATO, A KIND OF POET
> Gene Fendt; David Rozema
> Greenwood Press Dec 1998, Published in USA,
> References
> HARDBACK UK œ47.95 0-313-30765-2
>
> This volume focuses on a selection of Plato's dialogues to find
> the thread that unifies them from a literary point of view. The
> conclusions are diametrically opposed to Platonic scholarship and
> show the fallacy of metaphysical, epistemological, political and
> ethical positions attributed to Plato.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> THE PLAY OF REASON: FROM THE MODERN TO THE POSTMODERN
> Linda Nicholson
> Open University Press 31 Jan 1999,
> Published in UK
> 240pp, 240
> PAPERBACK UK œ14.99 0-335-20328-0
>
> This collection of essays makes a contribution to debates on the
> meaning of reason in postmodern times. It offers an insight into
> the evolution in social theory since the early 1990s, and
> provides a way of understanding that evolution.
>
> Readership: postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> THE PLEASURES OF READING IN A IDEOLOGICAL AGE
> Robert Alter
> W.W. Norton 1997, Published in USA
> 256pp
> PAPERBACK UK œ9.95 0-393-31499-5
>
> This text, with a new preface by its author, charts the conflict
> between the proponents of popular culture on the one hand and the
> defenders of high art on the other. Robert Alter argues cogently
> for great literature, and using examples from world literature,
> illustrates the pleasures of reading.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Avant-garde and Modernism Studies
> THE POETIC AVANT-GARDE: THE GROUPS OF BORGES, AUDEN AND BRETON
> Beret E. Strong
> Northwestern University Press 1997,
> Published in USA
> 384pp, 234 x 156mm
> HARDBACK UK œ70.00 0-8101-1508-5
> Paperback UK œ21.95 0-8101-1509-3
>
> A literary and cultural study of three diverse manifestations in
> artistic exploration in the 1920s and 1930s - the groups
> surrounding Jorge Luis Borges, W.H. Auden, and Andre Breton.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> POETIC JUSTICE: THE LITERARY IMAGINATION AND PUBLIC LIFE
> Martha Nussbaum
> Beacon Press 1997, Published in USA
> 128pp, 215 x 140mm
> PAPERBACK UK œ9.99 0-8070-4109-2
>
> This text shows that literature can contribute to a just society,
> and if we draw exclusively on economic self interest, in the
> public arena we fail to see each other as human. This book shows
> how literary imagination is a part of public discourse and how
> private reading enters the public sphere.
>
> Readership: general
>
> *****
>
> THE POETICS OF MYTH
> Eleazar M. Meletinsky
> Garland Publishing Inc Jan 1998, Published in USA
> 516pp
> HARDBACK UK œ67.00 0-8153-2134-1
>
> This work traces the development of world literature from its
> mytho-poetic base. It looks at modern theories of myth such as
> the French sociological school, the symbolic theories, and
> structuralism, the forms of myth in folklore, and the use of myth
> in 20th-century literature.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> POETICS OF TRANSITION: EMERSON, PRAGMATISM, AND AMERICAN
> LITERARY MODERNISM
> Jonathan Levin
> Duke University Press 31 May 1999,
> Published in USA
> 280pp, 230 x 154mm
> HARDBACK UK œ34.00 0-8223-2277-3
> Paperback UK œ11.95 0-8223-2296-X
>
> This text examines the connection between American pragmatism and
> literary modernism by focusing on the concept of transition as a
> theme common to both movement. It draws on the pragmatist and
> neopragmatist writings of William James and Richard Rorty to
> illuminate the work of modernist literature.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> POETRY AS EXPERIENCE
> Philippa Lacoue-Labarthe; Andrea Tarnowski
> Stanford University Press 1 Mar 1999,
> Published in USA
> 180pp
> HARDBACK UK œ25.00 0-8047-3426-7
> Paperback UK œ8.95 0-8047-3427-5
>
> This work analyzes the poetry of Paul Celan, arguably the most
> important German-language poet since World War II - a Jew, a
> Holocaust survivor, and a displaced person who chose to write in
> the very language of the annihilators.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> PORTALS: READING, WRITING, AND CRITICAL THINKING
> Mary Threfethen Segall; William R. Brown
> Harcourt Brace College Publishers Dec 1998,
> Published in USA
> 736pp, 233 x 176mm, Glossary, index
> PAPERBACK UK œ24.95 0-15-505474-0
>
> A rhetoric-reader designed for a range of English courses. The
> rhetoric chapters sequentially integrate thinking into both the
> reading process and the writing process, and feature journal
> writing and writing from sources in addition to essay writing.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
> POSTHUMOUS PEOPLE: VIENNA AT THE TURNING POINT
> Massimo Cacciari
> Stanford University Press 1997, Published in USA
> 238pp, 225 x 146mm
> HARDBACK UK œ30.00 0-8047-2709-0
> Paperback UK œ10.95 0-8047-2710-4
>
> In this work, the author isolates fin-de-siecle Vienna as the
> European capital of posthumous people at a turning point in
> Western thinking. He analyzes the work of cultural and
> philosophical figures of the period, including Wittgenstein's
> struggle to carry philosophy beyond the barrier of language.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> POSTMODERN LITERARY THEORY: AN INTRODUCTION
> Niall Lucy
> Blackwell Publishers 1997, Published in UK
> 288pp, 229 x 152mm, Notes, bibliography, index
> HARDBACK UK œ45.00 0-631-20000-2
> Paperback UK œ13.99 0-631-20001-0
>
> An introduction to postmodern literary theory as influenced by
> such thinkers as Barthes, Baudrillard and Lyotard. The book
> traces the intellectual history of recent literary theoretical
> developments, through discussions of Kristeva, Rorty and Hassan.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Transitions
> POSTMODERN NARRATIVE THEORY
> Mark Currie
> Macmillan Press Jun 1998, Published in UK
> 184pp, 216x138mm, 208, Bibliography, index
> HARDBACK UK œ37.50 0-333-68778-7
> Paperback UK œ10.99 0-333-68779-5
>
> In its theoretical discussions and critical readings, this book
> plots the connections between fiction, criticism and ideology
> that represent the contribution of narrative theory to an
> understanding of postmodern culture.
>
> Readership: undergraduate
>
> *****
>
> Series: Literature and Philosophy Series
> POSTMODERNISMS NOW: ESSAYS ON CONTEMPORANEITY IN THE ARTS
> Charles Altieri
> Penn State University Press Dec 1998,
> Published in USA
> 304pp, 229 x 152mm, 304, 8 illustrations
> HARDBACK UK œ39.95 0-271-01803-8
> Paperback UK œ17.95 0-271-01804-6
>
> The author of this book defines five basic contradictions in
> postmodern theory and outlines specific artistic strategies for
> dwelling with and within those contradictions.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> POSTMODERNITY, ETHICS AND THE NOVEL: FROM LEAVIS TO LEVINAS
> Andrew Gibson
> Routledge 27 May 1999, Published in UK
> 224pp
> HARDBACK UK œ45.00 0-415-19895-X
> Paperback UK œ14.99 0-415-19896-8
>
> Exploring the possibility of a postmodern ethics of reading, this
> text sets out to demonstrate that postmodern theory has actually
> made possible an ethical discourse around fiction.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> POST-MARXISM: A READER
> [Ed] Stuart Sim
> Edinburgh University Press Apr 1998,
> Published in UK
> 192pp, 244 x 172mm
> HARDBACK UK œ40.00 0-7486-1043-X
> Paperback UK œ15.95 0-7486-1044-8
>
> From philosophy, politics and sociology, to human geography,
> international relations and feminist studies, this work takes
> students through a range of readings. It reproduces statements
> from such 20th-century thinkers as Derrida, Baudrillard, and
> Laclau and Mouffe.
>
> Readership: undergraduate
>
> *****
>
> POST-PROCESS THEORY: BEYOND THE WRITING-PROCESS PARADIGM
> [Ed] Thomas Kent
> Southern Illinois University Press 31 Aug 1999,
> Published in USA
> 272pp, 229 x 152mm
> HARDBACK UK œ39.95 0-8093-2243-9
> Paperback UK œ18.50 0-8093-2244-7
>
> This volume contains contributions on post-process theory, which
> endorses the fundamental idea that no codifiable or generalizable
> writing process exists or could exist. Theorists hold that the
> practice of writing cannot be captured by a generalized process
> or a "big" theory.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> POST-THEORY: NEW DIRECTIONS IN CRITICISM
> [Ed] Martin McQuillan; Robin Purves; Graeme Macdonald; Stephen
> Thoman
> Edinburgh University Press 31 Mar 1999,
> Published in UK
> 224pp, 234 x 156mm
> HARDBACK UK œ40.00 0-7486-1066-9
> Paperback UK œ16.95 0-7486-1065-0
>
> The first part of this work addresses the current state of
> critical theory, and questions the "post-ness" of the
> epistemological space after the event of theory as an
> institutional practice. The second part contains examples of the
> type of work theory has made possible.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> THE PRACTICE OF CULTURAL ANALYSIS: EXPOSING INTERDISCIPLINARY
> INTERPRETATION
> [Ed] Mieke Bal
> Stanford University Press 1 Apr 1999,
> Published in USA
> 435pp, 47 half-tones
> HARDBACK UK œ35.00 0-8047-3066-0
> Paperback UK œ12.95 0-8047-3067-9
>
> This volume presents an interdisciplinary approach to humanistic
> scholarship, one that can be situated somewhere between cultural
> studies and cultural history while being more specific than
> either.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> THE PRACTICE OF READING
> Denis Donoghue
> Yale University Press Nov 1998, Published in USA
> 316pp, 234 x 156mm, 320
> HARDBACK UK œ20.00 0-300-07466-2
>
> In this study, Donoghue argues that texts should be read closely
> and imaginatively, as opposed to merely or mistakenly theorizing
> about them. He shows what serious reading entails in discussing
> texts that range from Shakespeare's plays to a novel by Cormac
> McCarthy.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> THE PRACTICE OF WRITING
> David Lodge
> Penguin Books 1997, Published in UK
> 352pp, 198 x 129mm, Index
> PAPERBACK UK œ7.99 0-14-026106-0
>
> In his first critical work since "The Art of Fiction", David
> Lodge writes principally about Graham Greene, Kingsley Amis and
> James Joyce, and from there goes on to tackle two questions: the
> value of creative writing, and the task of dramatizing literary
> works for television and the stage.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; general
>
> *****
>
> PROBLEMS IN LITERARY RESEARCH: A GUIDE TO SELECTED REFERENCE
> WORKS
> Dorothea Kehler
> 4th, Scarecrow Press 1997, Published in USA
> 232pp
> PAPERBACK UK œ19.00 0-8108-3217-8
>
> Readership: research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Writing Science
> PROBLEMS OF FORM
> [Ed] Dirk Baecker
> Stanford University Press 1 May 1999,
> Published in USA
> HARDBACK UK œ37.50 0-8047-3423-2
> Paperback UK œ13.95 0-8047-3424-0
>
> Sociology has long sought to consider both acting in a situation
> and observing that situation as a single operation. This work
> makes sociological use of George Spencer-Brown's mathematical
> calculus of form in order to do so.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Oxford English Monographs
> PROPORTIONAL FORM IN THE SONNETS OF THE SIDNEY CIRCLE: LOVING
> IN TRUTH
> Tom Parker
> Clarendon Press Feb 1998, Published in UK
> 268pp, 210 x 130mm, 15 diagrams of sonnet sequences,
> bibliography, index
> HARDBACK UK œ40.00 0-19-818443-3
>
> A study of the complex structure of the sonnets of Philip Sidney
> and writers influenced by him. The book argues that construction
> of such intricate mathematical patterns suggests the patterns
> themselves had significance, and offers cosmological explanations
> which challenge orthodox criticism.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> PROVERBS, TEXTUALITY, AND NATIVISM IN AFRICAN LITERATURE
> Adeleke Adeeko
> University Press of Florida Apr 1998,
> Published in USA
> 208pp, 229 x 152mm, Notes, bibliography, index
> PAPERBACK UK œ39.75 0-8130-1562-6
>
> This study connects anglophone literary criticism with African
> localist tendencies of nativism. The author argues that nativism
> is a highly productive and generative category in the formation
> of African literature and criticism.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Race and American Culture
> PSYCHOANALYSIS AND BLACK NOVELS: DESIRE AND THE PROTOCOLS OF
> RACE
> Claudia Tate
> Oxford University Press Inc, USA Apr 1998,
> Published in USA
> 254pp, 230 x 150mm, 4 halftones, bibliography
> HARDBACK UK œ38.00 0-19-509682-7
>
> The author of this text argues that psycholanalytic paradigms can
> produce rich readings of African-American desire, alienation, and
> subjectivity. Summarizing the work of such figures as Freud and
> Lacan, she makes references to their contemporary literary
> proponents.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> A QUEST FOR THE ETERNAL: POETRY, PHYSICS AND PHILOSOPHY
> J.N. Dhamija
> Element Books Ltd Aug 1998, Published in UK
> 240pp, 216 x 135mm
> PAPERBACK UK œ8.99 1-86204-360-4
>
> Dhamija argues that poetry is the best reflection and expression
> of a universal truth; it is essential "goodness" which generates
> liberality and goodwill, and gives strength and power to our
> existence. This text looks at this idea and draws on examples of
> the author's own poetry.
>
> Readership: general
>
> *****
>
> THE QUEST OF THE HISTORICAL GOSPEL: "MARK", "JOHN" AND THE
> ORIGINS OF THE GOSPEL GENRE
> Lawrence M. Wills
> Routledge 1997, Published in UK
> 296pp, 216 x 138mm
> HARDBACK UK œ47.50 0-415-15093-0
>
> Explores the nature and origin of the gospel genre. The text
> offers an analysis of the figure of Jesus and the gospels
> depicting his life, perspectives on the origins of gospel genre
> and the analogies between Jewish and Graeco-Roman literature and
> gospel narrative.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate
>
> *****
>
> Series: Race and American Culture
> RACE: THE HISTORY OF AN IDEA IN AMERICA
> Thomas F. Gossett
> New ed, Oxford University Press Inc, USA 1997,
> Published in USA
> 544pp, 210 x 140mm, Bibliography
> PAPERBACK UK œ17.50 0-19-509778-5
>
> When this text first appeared, more than a generation ago, it
> explored the impact of race theory on literature in a way that
> anticipated much of the current scholarly discourse on the
> subject. This new edition includes an afterword, by and about the
> author.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> RAIDS ON HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS: WRITING, ANARCHISM, AND VIOLENCE
> Arthur F. Redding
> University of South Carolina Press May 1998,
> Published in USA
> HARDBACK UK œ27.95 1-57003-230-0
>
> In this volume, the author contends that violence is the ballast
> of ideologies. He argues that violence, whether the product of
> revolutionary uprising, or a private experimentation in
> sadomasochism, inoculates its agents with the capacity for
> radical change, encouraging baptism by blood.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> RAISING THE TONE OF PHILOSOPHY: LATE ESSAYS BY IMMANUEL KANT,
> TRANSFORMATIVE CRITIQUE BY JACQUES DERRIDA
> [Ed] Peter Fenves
> The Johns Hopkins University Press 31 Jan 1999,
> Published in USA
> 192pp, 229 x 152mm
> PAPERBACK UK œ13.00 0-8018-6101-2
>
> Fenves expands the context of Derrida's work on voice and
> tonality by presenting English translations of two of Kant's late
> essays and a revised translation of another. He observes that
> Derrida continues the speculation Kant begins, revealing the
> "end" of philosophy to be perennial compulsion.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> READING CULTURES: THE CONSTRUCTION OF READERS IN THE TWENTIETH
> CENTURY
> Molly Abel Travis
> Southern Illinois University Press Jan 1998,
> Published in USA
> 208pp, 229 x 152mm
> HARDBACK UK œ31.95 0-8093-2146-7
> Paperback UK œ14.50 0-8093-2147-5
>
> This text seeks to unite reader theory with an analysis of
> historical conditions and various cultural contexts in this
> discussion of the reading and reception of 20th-century
> literature in the United States.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: The Florida James Joyce Series
> READING DERRIDA READING JOYCE
> Alan Roughley
> University Press of Florida 31 Jul 1999,
> Published in USA
> 176pp, 229 x 152mm, Bibliography, index
> HARDBACK UK œ39.95 0-8130-1684-3
>
> This work analyzes Derrida's uses of Joyce within his own work
> and demonstrates how Joyce's writings operate deconstructively.
> Alan Roughley offers readings of both Joyce and Derrida texts, in
> particular "Finnegan's Wake" and "Glas".
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> READING IN AN AGE OF THEORY
> [Ed] Bridget Gellert Lyons
> Rutgers University Press 1997, Published in USA
> 256pp
> HARDBACK UK œ35.95 0-8135-2430-X
>
> Focusing on the work of Richard Poirier, a proponent of close
> reading, the contributors explore both the theoretical dimensions
> of the subject and practical applications to works by
> Shakespeare, Frost, James and others.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> READING OLD ENGLISH TEXTS
> [Ed] Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe
> Cambridge University Press 1997, Published in UK
> 243pp, 236 x 158mm, Illustrations
> HARDBACK UK œ40.00 0-521-46575-3
> Paperback UK œ14.95 0-521-46970-8
>
> Focusing on the critical methods currently being used and
> developed for reading and analyzing writings in Old English, this
> collection examines the theory, method and practice of critical
> reading. Each chapter engages with current work on Old English
> texts from a particular methodological stance.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate
>
> *****
>
> REALISM AND CONSENSUS IN THE ENGLISH NOVEL: TIME, SPACE AND
> NARRATIVE
> Elizabeth Deeds Ermarth
> Edinburgh University Press Mar 1998,
> Published in UK
> 296pp, 234 x 156mm
> PAPERBACK UK œ14.95 0-7486-1070-7
>
> Explores how the common denominators of modernity - neutral time
> and neutral space - were constructed from the Renaissance to the
> late 19th century. Central to this development was the
> normalizing of certain grammar perspectives evident across a
> range of practices from art to politics.
>
> Readership: undergraduate
>
> *****
>
> RECEPTION HISTORIES: RHETORIC, PRAGMATISM, AND AMERICAN
> CULTURAL POLITICS
> Steven Mailloux
> Cornell University Press Oct 1998,
> Published in USA
> 224pp, 229 x 152mm, Cartoon
> HARDBACK UK œ31.95 0-8014-3505-6
> Paperback UK œ11.95 0-8014-8506-1
>
> In his earlier work, "Rhetorical Power", the author presented a
> challenging strategy for combining critical theory and cultural
> studies. In this text, he situates, defends and elaborates this
> theory in a series of reception histories and explores the use of
> rhetoric in rhetorical hermeneutics.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> RECLAIMING THE CANON: ESSAYS ON PHILOSOPHY, POETRY, AND HISTORY
> Herman L. Sinaiko
> Yale University Press Apr 1998, Published in USA
> 348pp, 234 x 156mm, 384
> HARDBACK UK œ25.00 0-300-06529-9
>
> This volume brings to general readers Sinaiko's thoughts on, and
> invitations to read or reread, a selection of major literary and
> philosophical works, from ancient Greek to Chinese to modern. The
> book deals with the perennial questions that thinking people have
> always raised.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> RECONCEPTUALIZING AMERICAN LITERARY/CULTURAL STUDIES
> wellesley
> Garland Publishing Inc 1997, Published in USA
> HARDBACK UK œ39.00 0-8153-2391-3
>
> *****
>
> RECONFIGURING MODERNISM: REVOLUTION ON ART AND LITERATURE
> Daniel R. Schwarz
> Macmillan Press 1997, Published in UK
> 244pp, 216 x 138mm, 244, Index
> HARDBACK UK œ30.00 0-333-66257-1
>
> Bringing together 30 years of work on modernism, the author
> proposes interrelationships - influences, parallels, affinities -
> between modern literature and modern painting and sculpture.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> RECONSTITUTING SOCIAL CRITICISM: POLITICAL MORALITY IN AN AGE
> OF SCEPTICISM
> Iain MacKenzie; Shane O'Neill
> Macmillan Press 29 Jan 1999, Published in UK
> 256pp, 216 x 138mm, 256, Index
> HARDBACK UK œ45.00 0-333-71984-0
>
> Concerned to construct a convincing basis for incisive criticism,
> the contributors to this text represent such contemporary
> critical perspectives as egalitarian liberalism, socialism,
> poststructuralism, psychoanalysis, hermeneutics and critical
> theory.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> RECONSTRUCTING CONTEXTS: THE AIMS AND PRINCIPLES OF ARCHAEO-
> HISTORICISM
> Robert Hume
> Clarendon Press 31 Mar 1999, Published in UK
> 234pp, 210 x 130mm, Bibliography, index
> HARDBACK UK œ35.00 0-19-818632-0
>
> An attempt to justify and theorize old historicism, defining
> archaeo-historicism as reconstructing past contexts in order to
> interpret works and events of that time. The book identifies
> legitimate objects for reconstruction and proposes principles by
> which such interpretation may be pursued.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Cambridge Studies in Romanticism, 22
> REINVENTING ALLEGORY
> Theresa M. Kelley
> Cambridge University Press 1997, Published in UK
> 363pp, 236 x 161mm, 23 half-tones
> HARDBACK UK œ37.50 0-521-43207-3
>
> How and why allegory has survived as a literary mode from the
> late Renaissance to the postmodern present are the questions
> raised by this book. Included are three chapters on Romanticism
> which present this era as the pivotal moment in allegory's modern
> survival.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Literature, Culture, Theory
> THE RENEGOTIATING ETHICS IN LITERATURE, PHILOSOPHY, AND THEORY
> [Ed] Jane Adamson; Richard Freadman; David Parker
> Cambridge University Press Dec 1998,
> Published in UK
> 260pp
> HARDBACK UK œ35.00 0-521-62079-1
> Paperback UK œ12.95 0-521-62938-1
>
> In this text philosophers and literary scholars address the
> reconceptualizations involved in the turn towards ethics . An
> important feature of this has been a renewed interest in the
> literary text as a focus for the exploration of ethical issues.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and
> Culture, 9
> REREADING WALTER PATER
> William F. Shuter
> Cambridge University Press 1997, Published in UK
> 174pp, 236 x 159mm
> HARDBACK UK œ35.00 0-521-57221-5
>
> Walter Pater is increasingly gaining recognition as a pivotal
> figure in 19th-century culture. Drawing extensively on
> unpublished manuscript material, the text reveals that Pater
> himself authorized rereadings of his work in an effort to rewrite
> his own literary past and the past of his culture.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics, Vol 34
> RESISTANT STRUCTURES: PARTICULARITY, RADICALISM, AND
> RENAISSANCE TEXT
> Richard Strier
> University of California Press 1997,
> Published in USA
> 254pp, 229 x 152mm
> PAPERBACK UK œ12.95 0-520-20905-2
>
> This text argues against the application of priori schemes to
> Renaissance (and all) texts. It argues for the possibility and
> desirability of rigorously attentive but "pre-theoretical"
> reading, taking an approach that privileges particularity and
> respects "resistant structures" of texts.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Children's Literature and Culture, Vol 5
> RETELLING STORIES, FRAMING CULTURE: TRADITIONAL STORY AND
> METANARRATIVES IN CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
> John Stephens; Robyn McCallum
> Garland Publishing Inc Jun 1998, Published in USA
> 350pp
> HARDBACK UK œ52.00 0-8153-1298-9
>
> This study discusses a range of stories, including Bible stories,
> classical myths, Arthurian romances, Robin Hood lore and other
> stories derived from European cultures. The authors offer a
> general theory of what motivates the retelling of stories, and
> evaluate the process of interpretation.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Garland Studies in Medieval Literature, Vol 16
> REVISING ORAL THEORY: FORMULAIC COMPOSITION IN OLD ENGLISH AND
> OLD ICELANDIC VERSE
> Paul Acker
> Garland Publishing Inc Jan 1998, Published in USA
> 160pp, Index, bibliography
> HARDBACK UK œ32.00 0-8153-3102-9
>
> Focusing on the Old English poem "Beowulf", on various Old Norse
> rune poems, and on the Old Icelandic mythological and legendary
> poems of the Elder Edda, this study uses linguistically-based
> stylistic criticism to investigate the use of fixed and flexible
> language in the poetry.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> THE RHETORIC CANON
> [Ed] Brenda Deen Schildgen
> Wayne State University Press 1997,
> Published in USA
> 280pp, 229 x 152mm
> PAPERBACK UK œ19.95 0-8143-2632-3
>
> Reconsidering rhetoric's role throughout history, this work
> questions whether a list of canonical texts actually holds
> authority in the discussion of rhetoric, including views on
> figures such as Homer and Dante. It argues that rhetoric and its
> intellectual practices remain crucial to education.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> THE RHETORIC OF DIVERSITY AND THE TRADITIONS OF AMERICAN LITERARY
> STUDY: CRITICAL MULTICULTURALISM IN ENGLISH
> Leslie Antonette
> Bergin & Garvey Oct 1998, Published in USA,
> Bibliography, index
> HARDBACK UK œ47.95 0-89789-546-0
>
> This text advocates a critical multicultural literacy theory that
> investigates the construction of categories of cultural identity
> and the ways in which relationships are set up among those
> identities.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
> RILKE'S RUSSIA: A CULTURAL ENCOUNTER
> Anna A. Tavis
> Northwestern University Press 1997,
> Published in USA
> 196pp, 234 x 156mm, Notes, bibliography, index
> PAPERBACK UK œ12.95 0-8101-1466-6
>
> Explores the importance of Russia in shaping Rainer Maria Rilke's
> aesthetics. This work traces Rilke's actual and symbolic
> encounters with Russian culture and its prose masters between
> 1898 and 1926.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> ROLAND BARTHES, PHENOMENON AND MYTH: AN INTELLECTUAL BIOGRAPHY
> Andy Stafford
> Edinburgh University Press Jul 1998,
> Published in UK
> 271pp, 216 x 156mm
> PAPERBACK UK œ15.95 0-7486-0867-2
>
> This work sets out to find Barthes somewhere in the dialogue
> between the writer and his time. Starting from the beginning, the
> author attempts to explain the work by an earlier Barthes,
> suggesting influences and investigating the reception of his work
> along the way.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; general
>
> *****
>
> ROMAN ELOQUENCE: RHETORIC IN SOCIETY AND LITERATURE
> [Ed] William J. Dominik
> Routledge 1997, Published in UK
> 280pp, 216 x 138mm, Bibliography, index
> HARDBACK UK œ47.50 0-415-12544-8
> Paperback UK œ15.99 0-415-12545-6
>
> An analysis of the role played by rhetoric in Roman culture.
> Utilizing a variety of critical approaches and methodologies,
> this volume examines not only the role of rhetoric in Roman
> society, but also the relationship between rhetoric and Rome's
> major literary genres.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate
>
> *****
>
> THE ROMAN HISTORIANS
> Ronald Mellor
> Routledge Dec 1998, Published in UK
> 224pp, 216 x 138mm
> HARDBACK UK œ40.00 0-415-11773-9
> Paperback UK œ12.99 0-415-11774-7
>
> The author of this book seeks to show that Roman historical
> writing was regarded by its authors as a literary not a scholarly
> exercise, and how it must be evaluated in that context. This book
> examines in detail the ideas and presentation of the major Roman
> historians as well as other genres.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Cambridge Studies in Romanticism, 27
> ROMANTIC IMPERIALISM: UNIVERSAL EMPIRE AND THE CULTURE OF
> MODERNITY
> Saree Makdisi
> Cambridge University Press Apr 1998,
> Published in UK
> 266pp, 236 x 158mm, Notes, bibliography
> HARDBACK UK œ37.50 0-521-58438-8
> Paperback UK œ13.95 0-521-58604-6
>
> This work traces the emergence of new forms of imperialism and
> capitalism as part of a culture of modernization in the late-18th
> and early-19th centuries, and looks at the ways in which they
> were identified with and contested in Romanticism.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Horizons in Theory and American Culture
> THE ROMANTIC THEORY OF THE NOVEL: GENRE AND REFLECTION IN
> CERVANTES, MELVILLE, FLAUBERT, JOYCE AND KAFKA
> Piotr Parlej
> Louisiana State University Press 1997,
> Published in USA
> 344pp, 229 x 152mm
> HARDBACK UK œ39.95 0-8071-2141-X
>
> In a synthesis of literary theory and criticism this text links
> the romantic origins of the novel to postmodern philosophy
> analyzing five texts: "Don Quixote", "Pierre", "Madame Bovary"
> and "The Trial". It concludes that romantic theory helped usher
> in the concept of postmodernity.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> ROMANTIC VISUALITIES: LANDSCAPE, GENDER AND ROMANTICISM
> Jacqueline M. PhD Labbe
> Macmillan Press Jul 1998, Published in UK
> 230pp, 216 x 138mm, 230, Illustrations, notes, bibliography,
> index
> HARDBACK UK œ40.00 0-333-71449-0
>
> Offers a culturally-informed analysis of the literary
> significance of landscape in the Romantic period. This book
> discusses the cultural construction of gender as defined through
> landscape viewing, and includes an investigation of property law,
> aesthetic tracts and conduct books.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and
> Literatures
> RONSARD'S CONTENTIOUS SISTERS: THE PARAGONE BETWEEN POETRY AND
> PAINTING IN THE WORKS OF PIERRE DE RONSARD
> Roberto Campo
> The University of North Carolina Press Jun 1998,
> Published in USA
> 200pp, 229 x 152mm
> PAPERBACK UK œ21.50 0-8078-9261-0
>
> Examining Ronsard's participation in the "paragone" debate
> between poets and painters, this text is broadly concerned with
> his notions about the differences between poems and pictures -
> whether therefore it is the poet or painter who holds the highest
> station in the hierarchy of human creativity.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Avebury Series in Philosophy
> THE ROOTS OF METAPHOR: A MULTIDISCIPLINARY STUDY IN AESTHETICS
> Norman Kreitman
> Ashgate Publishing Limited 31 Jan 1999,
> Published in UK
> 218pp, 219 x 153mm, Index
> HARDBACK UK œ35.00 1-84014-519-6
>
> The aim of this work is to consider aesthetic experience,
> especially that derived from poetry, as a natural phenomenon and
> hence amenable to study within a scientific framework as
> contrasted with the kind of purely conceptual analysis favoured
> by most philosophers.
>
> Readership: research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: The Harriman Lectures
> THE RUSSIAN INTELLIGENTSIA
> Andrei Sinyavsky
> Columbia University Press 1997, Published in USA
> 112pp, 216 x 139mm
> HARDBACK UK œ15.95 0-231-10726-9
>
> In three essays, Sinyavsky creates a picture of today's Russian
> intelligentsia and its role as a conscience and critic of the
> fall of communism, as well as a portrait of economic and
> political stagnation under Yeltsin.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> THE SAGE OF VALLOMBROSA: HERMENEUTIC THEORY AND COMPARATIVE
> EXPLANATION
> E.S. Shaffer
> The Athlone Press 31 Dec 1999, Published in UK
> 180pp, 216 x 138mm
> HARDBACK UK œ42.00 0-485-11396-1
> Paperback UK œ10.95 0-485-80105-1
>
> Considers recent developments in the modes of close reading of
> literary texts, placing current theoretical issues into a broader
> historical context. Schaffer's other publications include
> "Erewhons of the Eye: Samuel Butler as Painter, Photographer and
> Art Critic".
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Language, Discourse, Society
> SALVAGING SPENSER: COLONIALISM, CULTURE AND IDENTITY
> Willy Maley
> Macmillan Press 1997, Published in UK
> 224pp, 216 x 138mm, Notes, index
> HARDBACK UK œ42.50 0-333-62942-6
> Paperback UK œ12.99 0-333-62943-4
>
> This text draws on innovations in Renaissance literary theory and
> advances in early modern Irish history, to construct a powerful
> case for the placing of Ireland in the foreground of Spenser
> studies.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> SAMUEL JOHNSON AND THE LIFE OF READING
> Robert DeMaria Jr
> The Johns Hopkins University Press 1997,
> Published in USA
> 256pp, 229 x 152mm, 4 illustrations
> HARDBACK UK œ33.00 0-8018-5479-2
>
> Considering the influence of one of the greatest readers of
> English literature, the author of this study shows how Samuel
> Johnson's relationship to books reveals much about his life and
> times. As a practitioner of the "craft" of reading, Johnson
> provides a compelling model of how to read.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> THE SCANDAL OF PLEASURE: ART IN AN AGE OF FUNDAMENTALISM
> Wendy Steiner
> Paperback ed, University of Chicago Press 1997,
> Published in USA
> 258pp, 229 x 158mm, 27 halftones
> PAPERBACK UK œ10.25 0-226-77224-1
>
> Surveys a wide range of cultural controversies, from the
> Mapplethorpe affair to Salman Rushdie's death sentence. This book
> seeks to show that the fear and outrage these events inspired
> were the result of dangerous misunderstandings about the
> relationship between art and life.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> THE SCOTTISH INVENTION OF ENGLISH LITERATURE
> [Ed] Robert Crawford
> Cambridge University Press Jul 1998,
> Published in UK
> 271pp, 236 x 161mm
> HARDBACK UK œ35.00 0-521-59038-8
>
> Explores the origins of the teaching of English literature in the
> academy. The text demonstrates how the subject began in 18th-
> century Scottish universities before being exported to America
> and other countries.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> SECOND THOUGHTS: A FOCUS ON REREADING
> [Ed] David Galef
> Wayne State University Press Jul 1998,
> Published in USA
> 352pp, 229 x 152mm
> PAPERBACK UK œ19.95 0-8143-2647-1
>
> How does our perspective change after the first reading? What
> distortions emerge through repetition? How do we determine what's
> worth rereading and what is the role of such repetition in our
> lives? What are the gains and losses? This work investigates the
> rereading of texts from various genres.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> SELVES AND OTHERS: EXPLORING LANGUAGE AND IDENTITY
> Myles Holloway; Gwen Kane; Riana Roos; Michael Titlestad
> Oxford University Press (South Africa) 15 Jan 1999,
> Published in South Africa
> 240pp, 240 x 170mm, Bibliography
> PAPERBACK 0-19-571683-3
>
> An introduction to issues of identity and representation for
> students new to literary analysis and literary studies. It
> focuses on self-representation, characterization, gender and
> culture, bringing students a range of contemporary arguments,
> theories and positions in these areas.
>
> Readership: undergraduate
>
> *****
>
> THE SENSE OF FORM IN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE
> Michael Shapiro
> Macmillan Press Oct 1998, Published in UK
> 224pp, 216 x 138mm, 224, Notes, bibliography
> HARDBACK UK œ40.00 0-333-74915-4
>
> This text demonstrates how form in language participates in and
> determines the meaning of literary texts. This entails seeing
> verse and prose as a structure, of which the building blocks are
> primarily linguistic and taking the form of these building blocks
> to be part of the content.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Early Modern Literature in History
> SHAKESPEARE AND CARNIVAL: AFTER BAKHTIN
> [Ed] Ronald Knowles
> Macmillan Press May 1998, Published in UK
> 212pp, 216 x 138mm, 212, Index
> HARDBACK UK œ42.50 0-333-71141-6
> Paperback UK œ16.99 0-333-71142-4
>
> This collection of essays reassesses a range of Shakespeare's
> plays in relation to carnivalesque theory. The plays discussed
> include: "Henry IV"; "Romeo and Juliet"; "A Midsummer Night's
> Dream"; "The Merry Wives of Windsor"; "Hamlet"; "Measure For
> Measure"; "The Winter's Tale"; and "Henry VIII".
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: New Casebooks
> SHAKESPEARE ON FILM
> Catherine Belsey; Curt Breight; John Collick
> [Ed] Robert Shaughnessy
> Macmillan Press Aug 1998, Published in UK
> 240pp, 216 x 138mm, 240, Index
> HARDBACK UK œ37.50 0-333-72016-4
> Paperback UK œ11.99 0-333-72017-2
>
> This collection of criticism highlights the extent to which
> recent discussion of Shakespeare on film has drawn upon the
> theoretical perspectives of Marxism, feminism, psychoanalysis and
> post-modernism, generating a radical reappraisal of a
> Shakespearean cinema.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> SHAKESPEARE'S THEORY OF DRAMA
> Pauline Kiernan
> Cambridge University Press Jul 1998,
> Published in UK
> 232pp, 217 x 139mm, 24 half-tones
> PAPERBACK UK œ13.95 0-521-63358-3
>
> Why did Shakespeare write drama? Did he have specific reasons for
> his choice of this art form? Did he have clearly defined
> aesthetic aims in what he wanted drama to do - and why? In this
> text, Kiernan opens an area of debate for Shakespearean criticism
> through her discussion of these questions.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: New Casebooks
> SHAKESPEARE'S TRAGEDIES
> [Ed] Susan Zimmerman
> Macmillan Press Sep 1998, Published in UK
> 304pp, 216 x 138mm, Notes, index
> HARDBACK UK œ40.00 0-333-63218-4
> Paperback UK œ12.99 0-333-63219-2
>
> Shakespeare's tragedies are crucial to the postmodern study of
> early modern subjectivity. In this collection of essays, eminent
> Shakespearean scholars examine ten of these tragedies through a
> variety of postmodern frameworks: historical, linguistic and
> psychoanalytical.
>
> Readership: advanced secondary; undergraduate; postgraduate;
> research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Curzon Studies in Arabic and Middle Eastern Literatures
> SHEHERAZADE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS: THE METAMORPHOSIS OF THE
> "THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS"
> Eva Sallis
> Curzon Press Aug 1998, Published in UK
> 288pp
> HARDBACK UK œ40.00 0-7007-1099-X
>
> Works of literature change as people and cultures who read them
> change. This study explores the "Nights" with reference to this
> view of literature.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Texts in Culture
> SIGMUND FREUD'S "THE INTERPRETATION OF DREAMS": NEW
> INTERDISCIPLINARY ESSAYS
> [Ed] Laura Marcus
> Manchester University Press 28 Feb 1999,
> Published in UK
> 240pp, 216 x 138mm, Chronology, bibliography, index
> HARDBACK UK œ40.00 0-7190-3973-8
> Paperback UK œ13.99 0-7190-3974-6
>
> This collection of essays examine the reaction of Freud's "The
> Interpretation of Dreams" to theories if interpretation,
> autobiography and literary production. They aim, as a whole, to
> give a sense both of the context of Freud's text and of its
> influence throughout the 20th century.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional;
> general
>
> *****
>
> THE SILENT WORLD: TEXTUAL MEANING AND THE UNWRITTEN
> Robert J.C. Young; Robbie B.H. Goh
> World Scientific Publishing Jun 1998,
> Published in Singapore
> 188pp
> PAPERBACK UK œ13.00 9971-69-211-2
>
> Presenting papers from an international conference on "Meaning as
> Production: the Role of the 'Unwritten'" (Singapore, 1995), this
> work takes textual analysis beyond the traditional boundaries of
> literary studies into a more culturally dynamic field of social
> semiotics and rhetorical studies.
>
> Readership: postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> "SINCE AT LEAST PLATO..." AND OTHER POSTMODERNIST MYTHS
> Mary J. Devaney
> Macmillan Press 1997, Published in UK
> 220pp, 216 x 138mm, 220, Notes, references, index
> HARDBACK UK œ42.50 0-333-68164-9
> Paperback UK œ12.99 0-333-68165-7
>
> This text surveys the fields of theories of postmodernism and
> criticizes some of the most common claims found in them about
> philosophy, science, and the relationship and literary techniques
> to metaphysics, epistemology, and political ideologies.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Literature, Culture, Theory, 22
> SINGULARITIES: EXTREMES OF THEORY IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
> Thomas Pepper
> Cambridge University Press 1997, Published in UK
> 267pp, 223 x 146mm
> HARDBACK UK œ40.00 0-521-57382-3
> Paperback UK œ13.95 0-521-57478-1
>
> In this work, the author addresses the relationship between
> textuality, value and critical difficulty, in answer to the
> question "What is literature?". A sequence of readings of
> demanding literary and philosophical texts consider the
> possibility of a literary theory.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> SITUATED STORIES: VALUING DIVERSITY IN COMPOSITION RESEARCH
> [Ed] Emily Decker; Kathleen Geissler
> Boynton/Cook Publishers Apr 1998,
> Published in USA
> 240pp
> PAPERBACK UK œ20.95 0-86709-440-0
>
> This text seeks to enlarge the research community by expanding on
> both the questions we ask and the way they are answered. The
> authors believe that writing courses are sites for mutual
> negotiation, places where people from all kinds of backgrounds
> confront the dominant institutional values.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> SITUATING SARTRE IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY THOUGHT AND CULTURE
> [Ed] Jean-Francois Fourny; Charles D. Minahen
> Macmillan Press 1997, Published in UK
> 224pp, 216 x 138mm, 224, Notes, index
> HARDBACK UK œ30.00 0-333-71358-3
>
> Sheds light on Sartre's contribution to critical trends that have
> been developing over the last 20 years, including feminism,
> gender studies, and post-colonial studies. In addition, this text
> reassesses Sartre's importance in such traditional fields as
> literature, philosophy, and psychoanalysis.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> SOCIAL FORMALISM: THE NOVEL IN THEORY FROM HENRY JAMES TO THE
> PRESENT
> Dorothy J. Hale
> Stanford University Press Dec 1998,
> Published in USA
> 264pp, 237 x 159mm
> HARDBACK UK œ30.00 0-8047-3355-4
>
> In recent decades, novel theory has left its formalist (Jamesian)
> roots and defined the novel as a social discourse vehicle (the
> Bakhtin school of thought). This work argues that the
> compatibility of Bakhtin with James prompted Anglo-American
> theorists to embrace the former with such enthusiasm.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> SOCIAL FORMALISM: THE NOVEL IN THEORY FROM HENRY JAMES TO THE
> PRESENT
> Dorothy J. Hale
> Stanford University Press Nov 1998,
> Published in USA
> 264pp, 229 x 153mm
> PAPERBACK UK œ10.95 0-8047-3356-2
>
> In recent decades, novel theory has left its formalist (Jamesian)
> roots and defined the novel as a social discourse vehicle (the
> Bakhtin school of thought). This work argues that the
> compatibility of Bakhtin with James prompted Anglo-American
> theorists to embrace the former with such enthusiasm.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Cultural Memory in the Present
> THE SOLID LETTER: READINGS OF FRIEDRICH HSLDERLIN
> [Ed] Aris Fioretos
> Stanford University Press 1 Jun 1999,
> Published in USA,
> 9 half-tones
> HARDBACK UK œ40.00 0-8047-2942-5
> Paperback UK œ14.95 0-8047-2943-3
>
> Demonstrating the renewed critical interest in Friedrich
> Hslderlin, the essays in this book both map the present-day nexus
> of philosophy and literature (for which Hslderlin is a historical
> exemplar) and reveal shifting allegiances among a group of
> critics at the cutting edge of contemporary theory.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> SOUND STATES: INNOVATIVE POETICS AND ACOUSTICAL TECHNOLOGIES
> [Ed] Adalaide Morris
> The University of North Carolina Press Jan 1998,
> Published in USA,
> hbk & compact disc, 5 illustrations, notes, bibliography,
> index
> MIXED-MEDIA PACK UK œ43.95 (inc.VAT) 0-8078-2364-3
> Paperback 0-8078-4670-8 (Sterling price not available)
>
> The essays in this text investigate the relationship between
> acoustical technologies and 20th-century experimental poetics,
> aiming to rethink how we read, hear and talk about literary texts
> composed after telephones, radios and tape recorders became part
> of everyday life. Examples are provided.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> SPEAKING FROM MEMORY: A GUIDE TO AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL ACTS AND
> PRACTICES
> Harold Rosen
> Trentham Books Sep 1998, Published in UK
> 220pp, 250 x 168mm
> HARDBACK UK œ48.00 1-85856-119-1
> Paperback UK œ14.95 1-85856-082-9
>
> Maps out the diversity of autobiographical practices and seeks to
> introduce them to teachers and educators. It explores
> autobiographical memory and reviews the feminist argument that
> women's autobiographies speak their lives "from the margins",
> ending with suggestions for student activities.
>
> Readership: postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> SPEECH AND SYSTEM
> Peter Bornedal
> Museum Tusculanum Press 1997, Published in Denmark
> 381pp
> HARDBACK UK œ49.99 87-7289-352-4
>
> This work posits the thesis that creative writing and philosophy
> emerge as certain specific forms of language-games which are
> distinct from speech, as used in communicative interaction
> between individuals. Peter Bornedal deals with, respectively,
> thinking, speech and systems.
>
> Readership: postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> STANLEY CAVELL: PHILOSOPHY'S RECOUNTING OF THE ORDINARY
> Stephen Mulhall
> Clarendon Press Dec 1998, Published in UK
> 376pp, 210 x 130mm, Bibliography, index
> PAPERBACK UK œ15.99 0-19-823850-9
>
> This text presents a philosophical study of the work of Stanley
> Cavell, best known for his highly influential contributions to
> the fields of film studies, Shakespearian literary criticism, and
> the confluence of psychoanalysis and literary theory.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Clarendon Lectures in English
> STATES OF FANTASY
> Jacqueline Rose
> Clarendon Press Oct 1998, Published in UK
> 184pp, 230 x 150mm, Index
> PAPERBACK UK œ12.99 0-19-818327-5
>
> This text argues for an expansion of the boundaries of "English"
> and the importance of psychoanalysis in understanding literary
> and historical lives. It also explores the place of
> Israel/Palestine and South Africa in the English literary and
> cultural imagination.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> STIGMATA: SURVIVING TEXTS
> Helene Cixous
> Routledge Oct 1998, Published in UK
> 208pp, 216 x 138mm, Illustrations
> HARDBACK UK œ40.00 0-415-17978-5
> Paperback UK œ12.99 0-415-17979-3
>
> This collection of essays explores a broad range of poetico-
> philosophical questions that have long been circulating in the
> cixousian universe: love's labours lost and found, feminine
> hours, autobiographies of writing, and animal-human family ties.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate
>
> *****
>
> Series: Reflective Bioethics
> STORIES AND THEIR LIMITS
> Hilde Lindemann Nelson
> Routledge Jan 1998, Published in UK
> 288pp, 152 x 229mm
> HARDBACK UK œ45.00 0-415-91909-6
> Paperback UK œ13.99 0-415-91910-X
>
> Narratives have always played a prominent role in both bioethics
> and medicine. What kind of ethical work can stories do and what
> are the limits to this work? The essays in this volume offer
> reflections on the relationship between narratives and ethics.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> STORYTRACKING: TEXTS, STORIES, AND HISTORIES IN CENTRAL
> AUSTRALIA
> Sam D. Gill
> Oxford University Press Inc, USA Apr 1998,
> Published in USA
> 288pp, 230 x 150mm, Bibliography
> HARDBACK UK œ35.00 0-19-511587-2
> Paperback UK œ15.50 0-19-511588-0
>
> This work takes the narrative technique of "storytracking", as
> practised by Australian aboriginal peoples, and applies it to the
> academic study of their culture. The author proposes to get as
> close as possible to the perceptions and beliefs of the peoples
> by expunging European interpretation.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Contributions to the Study of World Literature, No 93
> STYLES OF RUIN: JOSEPH BRODSKY AND THE POSTMODERNIST ELEGY
> David Rigsbee
> Greenwood Press 28 Feb 1999, Published in USA
> 208pp, 235 x 155mm, Index
> HARDBACK UK œ43.95 0-313-30419-X
>
> This volume analyzes the key elegies of the Russian-American poet
> Joseph Brodsky and investigates the role of elegiac thinking in
> postmodernist poetics. It demonstrates that Brodsky saw language
> as both the origin and the final repository of values and truths.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: New Critical Idiom
> STYLISTICS
> Richard Bradford
> Routledge 1997, Published in UK
> 240pp, 198 x 129mm
> HARDBACK UK œ30.00 0-415-09768-1
> Paperback UK œ8.99 0-415-09769-X
>
> An introductory guide to modern critical ideas on literary style
> and stylistics. This volume provides students with a basic grasp
> of stylistics and literary analysis, and examines such areas as
> the terminology of literary form and how literary style has
> evolved since the 16th century.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Literature, Culture, Theory
> THE SUBJECT AND THE TEXT: ESSAYS IN PHILOSOPHY AND LITERARY
> THEORY
> [Ed] Manfred Frank; Andrew Bowie
> Cambridge University Press Feb 1998,
> Published in UK
> 249pp, 224 x 143mm, Bibliography
> HARDBACK UK œ45.00 0-521-56121-3
>
> This collection brings together some of the important essays of
> German philosopher Manfred Frank, on subjects as diverse as
> Schleiermacher's hermeneutics, the status of the literary text,
> and the response to the work of Derrida and Lacan.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> SUBJECTS OF DESIRE: HEGELIAN REFLECTIONS IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY
> FRANCE
> Judith Butler
> Columbia University Press 30 Jan 1999,
> Published in USA
> 268pp
> PAPERBACK UK œ15.00 0-231-06451-9
>
> This work charts the trajectory of desire and its genesis from
> Hegel's formulation in "Phenomenology of Spirit" through its
> appropriation by Kojeve, Hyppolite, Sartre, Lacan, Deleuze and
> Foucault. The text provides an account of post-Hegelian tradition
> that has predominated in modern France.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> SUBJECTS OF TERROR: NERVAL, HEGEL, AND THE MODERN SELF
> Jonathan Strauss
> Stanford University Press 1 Jan 1999,
> Published in USA
> HARDBACK UK œ32.50 0-8047-3122-5
>
> "Subjects of Terror" uses a reading of the French poet Nerval to
> elucidate and critique a death-based ideology of subjectivity
> that has remained in force from Kant to Lacan.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> SURPRISED BY SIN: THE READER IN "PARADISE LOST"
> Stanley Fish
> 2nd ed, Macmillan Press 1997, Published in UK
> 375pp, 216 x 138mm, Index
> HARDBACK UK œ50.00 0-333-62515-3
> Paperback UK œ16.99 0-333-62516-1
>
> This text claims that John Milton's "Paradise Lost" is a poem
> about how its readers came to be the way they are and therefore
> the fact of their divided responses makes perfect sense.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Contemporary Artists and Their Critics
> SURREALIST ART AND WRITING, 1919-1939: THE GOLD OF TIME
> Jack J. Spector
> Cambridge University Press 1997, Published in UK
> 331pp, 261 x 185mm, 22 half-tones
> HARDBACK UK œ37.50 0-521-55311-3
>
> This work offers a current analysis of Surrealism, the avant-
> garde movement that, in its search for contemporary lyricism and
> imagery, united literature and art to politics and psychology.
> The study offers a coherent overview of the important inter-war
> period in Europe.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Contemporary Artists and Their Critics
> SURREALIST ART AND WRITING, 1919-1939: THE GOLD OF TIME
> Jack J. Spector
> Cambridge University Press 1 Apr 1999,
> Published in UK
> 331pp, 261 x 185mm, 22 half-tones
> PAPERBACK UK œ15.95 0-521-65739-3
>
> This work offers a current analysis of Surrealism, the avant-
> garde movement that, in its search for contemporary lyricism and
> imagery, united literature and art to politics and psychology.
> The study offers a coherent overview of the important inter-war
> period in Europe.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> SURVIVING LITERARY SUICIDE
> Jeffrey Berman
> In English
> University of Massachusetts Press 30 Jun 1999,
> Published in USA
> 288pp
> HARDBACK UK œ47.95 1-55849-195-3
>
> An examination of the effect of "suicidal literature" on readers -
> novels and poems that depict, and sometimes glorify, the act of
> suicide. In particular it explores the work of Sylvia Plath,
> Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, Anne Sexton, Kate Chopin and
> William Styron.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> SURVIVING LITERARY SUICIDE
> Jeffrey Berman
> In English
> University of Massachusetts Press 30 Jun 1999,
> Published in USA
> 288pp
> PAPERBACK UK œ15.50 1-55849-211-9
>
> An examination of the effect of "suicidal literature" on readers -
> novels and poems that depict, and sometimes glorify, the act of
> suicide. In particular it explores the work of Sylvia Plath,
> Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, Anne Sexton, Kate Chopin and
> William Styron.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> SYSTEM, STRUCTURE, AND CONTRADICTION: EVOLUTION OF ASIATIC
> SOCIAL FORMATIONS
> Jonathan Friedman
> 2nd ed, Sage Publications Ltd Jul 1998,
> Published in UK
> 360pp
> PAPERBACK UK œ14.99 0-7619-8934-X
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> TALKING ABOUT BOOKS: LITERATURE DISCUSSION GROUPS IN K-8
> CLASSROOMS
> [Ed] Kathy Gnagey Short; Kathryn Mitchell Pierce
> Heinemann USA Sep 1998, Published in USA
> 209pp
> PAPERBACK UK œ18.95 0-325-00073-5
>
> Despite the call for systematic, intensive phonics instruction,
> phonemic awareness and decodeable texts, many educators continue
> to bring students and books together in transforming ways. This
> text focuses on dialogue about books within a literate community
> that is still important to teachers.
>
> Readership: research, professional
>
> *****
>
> THE TEL QUEL READER
> [Ed] Patrick French; Roland-Francois Lack
> Routledge Feb 1998, Published in UK
> 288pp, 234 x 156mm, Bibliography, index
> HARDBACK UK œ47.50 0-415-15713-7
> Paperback UK œ15.99 0-415-15714-5
>
> This title presents, in English, essays written by members of the
> Tel Quel group. Further, it aims to provide an insight into the
> poststructuralist movement with respect to literature, culture,
> film, and psychoanalysis. It includes essays by Michel Foucault,
> Roland Barthes, and Julia Kristeva.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate
>
> *****
>
> TEXTS AND CONTEXTS: WRITING ABOUT LITERATURE WITH CRITICAL
> THEORY
> Steven Lynn
> 2nd ed, Addison Wesley Longman Higher Education Feb 1998,
> Published in UK
> 300pp, 300
> PAPERBACK UK œ13.99 0-321-01979-2
>
> This updated edition offers expanded explanations of many of the
> critical theories, step-by-step reference guides to using each
> approach, and more examples of students applying critical theory
> to their own writing. The texts that are analyzed include
> Hemingway, Shakespeare and Milton.
>
> Readership: undergraduate
>
> *****
>
> Series: Wellesley Studies in Critical Theory, Literary History
> and Culture, Vol 13
> TEXTS AND TEXTUALITY: TEXTUAL INSTABILITY, THEORY, AND
> INTERPRETATION
> [Ed] Philip Cohen
> Garland Publishing Inc 1997, Published in USA
> 360pp, Illustrations, index
> HARDBACK UK œ57.00 0-8153-1956-8
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Textual Practice, Volume 12, Issue 3
> TEXTUAL PRACTICE: ISSUE 3: Vol 12
> [Ed] Alan Sinfield; Lindsay Smith; Jean E. Howard
> Routledge Dec 1998, Published in UK
> 192pp, 234 x 156mm
> PAPERBACK UK œ9.99 0-415-18424-X
>
> This literary theory text considers: representational language
> for the Holocaust; "forgetting" through Gillian Rose and Kafka;
> the social impact of economics on "Mansfield Park"; and the
> trivialization of domesticity.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate
>
> *****
>
> TEXTUAL VEHICLES
> Casey
> Garland Publishing Inc 1997, Published in USA
> HARDBACK UK œ41.00 0-8153-3050-2
>
> *****
>
> Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
> THAT IS TO SAY: HEIDEGGER'S POETICS
> Marc Froment-Meurice
> Stanford University Press Dec 1998,
> Published in USA
> 292pp
> HARDBACK UK œ30.00 0-8047-3374-0
>
> This work examines what Heidegger called thinking poetics. "That
> Is To Say" contextualizes its analysis of Heideggerian poetics
> not only by evoking Heidegger's conception of philosophy in
> general, but especially by expounding, through readings of "Being
> and Time", what language amounts to.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> THEATRICAL AND NARRATIVE SPACE: STUDIES IN IBSEN, STRINDBERG
> AND J.P. JACOBSEN
> Erik Osterud
> Aarhus University Press Sep 1998,
> Published in Denmark
> 160pp, 240 x 170mm
> HARDBACK UK œ19.95 87-7288-658-7
>
> This study examines how Henrik Ibsen, August Stringberg and J.P.
> Jacobsen struggled with the classical themes of myth and
> religion, and the modern concepts of Freud and Darwin. The
> reconciliation of these counterpoints in their work forms the
> focus of this analysis.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Magill Bibliographies
> THEORIES OF MYTH: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY
> Thomas J. Sienkewicz
> Scarecrow Press 1997, Published in USA
> Published in association with Salem Press
> 240pp
> HARDBACK UK œ30.40 0-8108-3388-3
>
> Readership: general; undergraduate; research, professional;
> advanced secondary
>
> *****
>
> THEORIES OF THE TEXT
> D.C. Greetham
> Clarendon Press Nov 1998, Published in UK
> 340pp, 230 x 150mm, Bibliography
> HARDBACK UK œ50.00 0-19-811993-3
>
> This introduction to the history of textual debate also provides
> a comprehensive account of the changing practice of bibliography,
> textual criticism and scholarly editing in the light of the
> diverse currents of contemporary critical theory.
>
> Readership: postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Literature, Culture, Theory, 21
> THEORISING TEXTUAL SUBJECTS: AGENCY AND OPPRESSION
> Meili Steele
> Cambridge University Press 1997, Published in UK
> 233pp, 223 x 143mm
> HARDBACK UK œ37.50 0-521-57185-5
> Paperback UK œ13.95 0-521-57679-2
>
> Addresses the central crisis in critical theory: how to theorize
> the subject as both a construct of oppressive discourse and a
> dialogical agent. The text proposes linking language with human
> agency in order to develop an alternative textual and ethical
> theory of the subject.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Literature, Culture, Theory, 30
> THEORISING THE AVANT-GARDE: MODERNISM, EXPRESSIONISM, AND THE
> PROBLEM OF POSTMODERNITY
> Richard Murphy
> Cambridge University Press 1 Mar 1999,
> Published in UK
> 260pp, Bibliography
> HARDBACK UK œ37.50 0-521-63291-9
> Paperback UK œ13.95 0-521-64869-6
>
> Mobilizing theories of the postmodern to challenge our
> understanding of the avant-garde, this text assesses the
> importance of the avant-garde for contemporary culture and for
> the debates among theorists of postmodernism such as Jameson,
> Eagleton, Lyotard and Habermas.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> THEORRHOEA AND AFTER
> Raymond Tallis
> Macmillan Press Dec 1998, Published in UK
> 272pp, 216 x 138mm, 272, Index
> HARDBACK UK œ45.00 0-333-73357-6
>
> This text completes the work of the author's previous critiques
> which refuted post-Saussurean thought, and observes the tactics
> used by theorists to keep theory alive. An examination of
> literature and the other arts is included.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Literature, Culture, Theory, 28
> THEORY AND THE NOVEL: NARRATIVE REFLEXIVITY IN THE BRITISH
> TRADITION
> Jeffrey J. Williams
> Cambridge University Press Dec 1998,
> Published in UK
> 219pp, 236 x 160mm, Bibliography
> HARDBACK UK œ37.50 0-521-43039-9
>
> Narrative features such as frames, digressions, or authorial
> intrusions have traditionally been viewed as distractions from or
> anomalies in the narrative proper. Here, Jeffrey Williams exposes
> these elements as more than simple disruptions, analysing them as
> registers of narrative reflexivity.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Oxford Theological Monographs
> THEORY AND THEOLOGY IN GEORGE HERBERT'S POETRY: "DIVINITIE, AND
> POESIE, MET"
> Elizabeth Clarke
> Oxford University Press 1997, Published in UK
> 306pp, 210 x 130mm, Bibliography
> HARDBACK UK œ40.00 0-19-826398-8
>
> This work explores the relationship between the poetry of George
> Herbert and the concept of divine inspiration rooted in
> devotional texts of the time. It concentrates on three authors
> who saw literary production as implicit in a theological argument
> about the workings of the Holy Spirit.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> THE THEORY OF INSPIRATION: COMPOSITION AS A CRISIS OF
> SUBJECTIVITY IN ROMANTIC AND POST-ROMANTIC WRITING
> Timothy Clark
> Manchester University Press 1997, Published in UK
> 320pp, 234 x 156mm, Index
> HARDBACK UK œ45.00 0-7190-5064-2
>
> Declaring inspiration as a basic concept of Western poetics, this
> text considers readings of the theory of inspiration in Western
> poetics since the Enlightenment: the place, for instance of mass
> "enthusiasm" or crowd psychology in Romantic conceptions of
> inspiration.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> THEORY/THEATRE: AN INTRODUCTION
> Mark Fortier
> Routledge 1997, Published in UK
> 208pp, 198 x 129mm
> HARDBACK UK œ40.00 0-415-16164-9
> Paperback UK œ11.99 0-415-16165-7
>
> This text provides an introduction to literary theory as it
> relates to theatre and performance. Mark Fortier examines current
> theoretical approaches, from semiotics and poststructuralism to
> cultural materialism, postcolonial studies and feminist theory.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> THOMAS HARDY, FEMININITY AND DISSENT: REASSESSING THE "MINOR"
> NOVELS
> Jane Thomas
> Macmillan Press Nov 1998, Published in UK
> 192pp, 216 x 138mm, Notes, bibliography, index
> HARDBACK UK œ42.50 0-333-56701-3
>
> Drawing on aspects of Foucauldian feminist theory, this book
> offers readings of six Hardy novels including "Desperate
> Remedies", "A Pair of Blue Eyes", "The Hand of Ethelberta", and
> "A Laodicean", and traces his interest in the evolutionary debate
> and the woman question.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> TOWARD A PHENOMENOLOGICAL RHETORIC: WRITING, PROFESSION, AND
> ALTRUISM
> Barbara Couture
> Southern Illinois University Press Mar 1998,
> Published in USA
> 288pp, 229 x 152mm
> HARDBACK UK œ27.95 0-8093-2033-9
>
> This work presents a case for a phenomenological rhetoric. It
> shows how phenomenological philosophy might guide the theory and
> practice of rhetoric, reanimating its role in the human
> enterprise of seeking a shared truth.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> TRANSCENDENT INDIVIDUAL: ESSAYS TOWARD A LITERARY AND LIBERAL
> ANTHROPOLOGY
> Nigel Rapport
> Routledge 1997, Published in UK
> 232pp, 216 x 138mm
> HARDBACK UK œ47.50 0-415-16966-6
> Paperback UK œ14.99 0-415-16967-4
>
> This volume argues for a reappraisal of the place of the
> individual in anthropological theory and ethnographic writing. It
> discusses ways in which individuals creatively "write", narrate
> and animate cultural and social life.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate
>
> *****
>
> Series: English Association: Essays and Studies, 50
> TRANSLATING LITERATURE
> [Ed] Susan Bassnett
> D.S. Brewer 1997, Published in UK
> 160pp, 216 x 138mm
> HARDBACK UK œ27.50 0-85991-522-0
>
> The aim of this collection is to bring together different kinds
> of work in the field, both theoretical approaches and practical
> case studies. A range of topics are covered including the history
> of translation in Scotland, Renaissance theories of translation,
> and George Eliot's translations.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Translation Theories Explained, Vol 6
> TRANSLATION AND LITERARY CRITICISM: TRANSLATION AS ANALYSIS
> Marilyn Gaddis Rose
> St Jerome Publishing 1997, Published in UK
> 112pp, Glossary, bibliography
> PAPERBACK UK œ17.50 1-900650-04-5
>
> Translation and literary criticism have always been
> interdependent. But in the late 20th century, postmodernist
> literary criticism and European philosophy have used translation
> as a key to literary theory. This text shows how translation may
> be used as a tool for critical analysis and teaching.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> TROPICOPOLITANS: COLONIALISM AND AGENCY, 1688-1804
> Srinivas Aravamudan
> Duke University Press 31 May 1999,
> Published in USA
> 384pp, 230 x 154mm, 28 b&w photographs
> HARDBACK UK œ40.00 0-8223-2283-8
> Paperback UK œ13.95 0-8223-2315-X
>
> This text explores representations of cultures subjected to
> colonial discourse, and makes a case that those oppressed during
> this period had the capacity to resist domination. It analyzes
> texts such as Addison's "Cato" to show the development of
> anticolonial consciousness prior to the 19th-century.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> TROPICS OF HISTORY: CUBA IMAGINED
> Alan West
> Bergin & Garvey 1997, Published in USA
> Published in association with Woodrow Wilson International Center
> for Scholars, Washington DC
> 240pp, 235 x 155mm, Bibliography
> HARDBACK UK œ44.95 0-89789-338-7
>
> This study offers a perspective for interpreting the cultural
> politics of Cuba's complex history through an exploration of the
> country's literature. Cuba's eminent voices are introduced
> through the historical tropes of major writers, using approaches
> from mythopoetic analysis to phenomenology.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Contributions to the Study of World Literature, No 85
> TRUE RELATIONS: ESSAYS ON AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND THE POSTMODERN
> [Ed] G. Thomas Couser; Joseph Fichtelberg
> Greenwood Press 1997, Published in USA
> Published in association with Hofstra University
> 224pp, 235 x 155mm
> HARDBACK UK œ43.95 0-313-30509-9
>
> Examining the state of autobiography in the postmodern world,
> this volume demonstrates how writers use the experience of
> fragmentation to forge new kinds of collaborative identities. The
> essays examine a wide range of texts from narratives of suicide
> survivors to those of cross-dressers.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> THE TRUTH OF UNCERTAINTY: BEYOND IDEOLOGY IN SCIENCE AND
> LITERATURE
> Edward L. Galligan
> University of Missouri Press Nov 1998,
> Published in USA
> 208pp, 229 x 152mm, Bibliography, index
> HARDBACK UK œ23.95 0-8262-1192-5
>
> A challenge to the literary community to embrace truth, even the
> tentative truth, rather than make-believe. Galligan examines the
> work of writers including Josef Skvorecky, George V. Higgins and
> Mary Lee Settle, presenting interpretations of concepts such as
> that language is grounded in talk.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> TWENTIETH-CENTURY LITERARY THEORY: A READER
> [Ed] K.M. Newton
> 2nd ed, Macmillan Press 1997, Published in UK
> 336pp, 216 x 138mm, 336
> HARDBACK UK œ40.00 0-333-67741-2
> Paperback UK œ12.99 0-333-67742-0
>
> A revised edition of this undergraduate introduction to literary
> theory, this text includes core pieces by leading theorists from
> Russian formalists to postmodernist and post-colonial critics. An
> ideal teaching resource, with helpful introductory notes to each
> chapter.
>
> Readership: undergraduate
>
> *****
>
> UMBERTO ECO AND THE OPEN TEXT: SEMIOTICS, FICTION, POPULAR
> CULTURE
> Peter Bondanella
> Cambridge University Press 1997, Published in UK
> 234pp, 224 x 147mm, Bibliography
> HARDBACK UK œ30.00 0-521-44200-1
>
> This study of Umberto Eco's work considers not only his most
> famous texts, but also many occasional essays not yet translated
> into English. The study shows how Eco's own fiction grows out of
> his literary and cultural theories. All texts are cited in
> English.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Understanding Contemporary American Literature
> UNDERSTANDING CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN LITERARY THEORY
> Michael P. Spikes
> University of South Carolina Press 1997,
> Published in USA
> 150pp, 178 x 127mm
> HARDBACK UK œ19.95 1-57003-134-7
>
> Introducing readers to the careers, key texts and central
> assumptions of six theorists who significantly influenced
> American literary theory over the last three decades. The
> theorists are: Paul de Man; Henry Louis Gates Jr; Elaine
> Showalter; Edward W. Said; Stephen Greenblatt; and Richard Rorty.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> UNSPEAKABLE SUBJECT: THE GENEALOGY OF THE EVENT IN EARLY MODERN
> EUROPE
> Jacques Lezra
> Stanford University Press 1997, Published in USA
> 424pp, 244 x 166mm, 11 illustrations, halftones
> HARDBACK UK œ40.00 0-8047-2778-3
>
> Linking works of Descartes, Shakespeare and Cervantes with
> contemporary revisions of Freud and Nietzsche, this work argues
> that the concepts and discourses that have defined European
> modernity arise as strategies for evading a profound redefinition
> of the nature of events in early modern Europe.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Warwick Studies in European Philosophy
> VERY LITTLE...ALMOST NOTHING: DEATH, PHILOSOPHY, LITERATURE
> Simon Critchley
> Routledge 1997, Published in UK
> 232pp, 234 x 156mm
> HARDBACK UK œ47.50 0-415-12821-8
> Paperback UK œ15.99 0-415-12822-6
>
> This volume accounts for philosophy's lack of response to the
> issue of finitude through an exploration of Blanchot's conception
> of literature, Levinas' notion of the "il y a", Cavell's reading
> of romanticism and the presence of death in Beckett's work.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate
>
> *****
>
> VICTORIANS IN THEORY: FROM DERRIDA TO BROWNING
> John Schad
> Manchester University Press 28 Jan 1999,
> Published in UK
> 192pp, 216 x 138mm, Index
> HARDBACK UK œ40.00 0-7190-5134-7
>
> In a departure from critical convention, Schad re-reads post-
> structuralist theory through Victorian poetry to explore the
> conceit that 19th century poetry is amazed by 20th century
> literary theory.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> THE VIRTUES OF THE VICIOUS: JACOB RIIS, STEPHEN CRANE, AND THE
> SPECTACLE OF THE SLUM
> Keith Gandal
> Oxford University Press Inc, USA Feb 1998,
> Published in USA
> 216pp, 230 x 150mm, 5 halftones, bibliography
> HARDBACK UK œ37.50 0-19-511063-3
>
> In this study, the author demonstrates how, in the last decade of
> the 19th century, the slum became a source of spectacle as never
> before - in newspapers, photographs and literature. With close
> readings of texts by Crane and Riis, he argues that this amounted
> to a revolution of ethics.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> VOICE LESSONS: ON BECOMING A (WOMAN) WRITER
> Nancy Mairs
> Beacon Press 1997, Published in USA
> 176pp, 210 x 140mm
> PAPERBACK UK œ7.99 0-8070-6007-0
>
> In a series of essays on writing and "finding a voice" as a woman
> writer, Nancy Mairs, takes the reader through the journey she
> made towards becoming a writer, as well as exploring
> autobiography, Virginia Woolf, Doris Lessing and French literary
> theory.
>
> Readership: general
>
> *****
>
> Series: Kritik: German Literary Theory and Culture Series
> WALTER BENJAMIN: AN INTELLECTUAL BIOGRAPHY
> Bernd Witte
> Wayne State University Press 1997,
> Published in USA
> 226pp, 229 x 152mm, 67 b&w illustrations
> PAPERBACK UK œ13.50 0-8143-2018-X
>
> This biography of Walter Benjamin provides an introduction to his
> thought.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism, No 15
> WALTER BENJAMIN'S OTHER HISTORY: OF STONES, ANIMALS, HUMAN
> BEINGS, AND ANGELS
> Beatrice Hanssen
> University of California Press Mar 1998,
> Published in USA
> 220pp, 229 x 152mm
> HARDBACK UK œ30.00 0-520-20841-2
>
> This study of Benjamin's "The Origin of German Tragic Drama"
> views it as a critique of anthropocentric historical thinking,
> which introduces an ethico-theological dimension. It reconstructs
> this dimension by analyzing the stones, animals and angels that
> are scattered throughout his writings.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> THE WAY OF OBLIVION: HERACLITUS AND KAFKA
> David Schur
> Harvard University Press Sep 1998,
> Published in USA
> 280pp, References, index
> HARDBACK UK œ15.50 0-674-94802-5
>
> An examination of a philosophical metaphor: the way or path of
> method. Schur follows the development of a rhetorical commonplace
> into a Heraclitean paradox of method, concluding that Kafka's
> account of the way beyond mortal existence renews Hericlitus's
> emphasis on oblivion in search of the truth.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature
> THE WAY OF OBLIVION: HERACILTUS AND KAFKA
> David Schur
> Harvard University Press Sep 1998,
> Published in USA
> 280pp, 210 x 139mm
> PAPERBACK UK œ9.50 0-674-94803-3
>
> An examination of a philosophical metaphor: the way or path of
> method. Schur follows the development of a rhetorical commonplace
> into a Heraclitean paradox of method, concluding that Kafka's
> account of the way beyond mortal existence renews Hericlitus's
> emphasis on oblivion in search of the truth.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> WHAT IS PASTORAL?
> Paul Alpers
> University of Chicago Press 1997, Published in USA
> 444pp, 229 x 152mm
> PAPERBACK UK œ11.95 0-226-01517-3
>
> This work argues that pastoral is based upon a fundamental
> fiction - that the lives of shepherds or other socially humble
> figures represent the lives of human beings in general. It
> explores texts ranging from Shakespeare and Cervantes to Hardy
> and Frost.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Literature and Philosophy Series
> WHAT'S HECUBA TO HIM?: FICTIONAL EVENTS AND ACTUAL EMOTIONS
> E.M. Dadlez
> Penn State University Press 1997, Published in USA
> 224pp, 229 x 152mm
> HARDBACK UK œ27.95 0-271-01650-7
> Paperback UK œ13.50 0-271-01651-5
>
> This work discusses the seeming irrationality or inauthenticity
> of our emotional response to fiction. Using Shakespeare's
> "Hamlet" as an example, the book argues that we can understand
> the relation between cognition and emotion without devaluing our
> emotional responses to fiction.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> WHEN A YOUNG MAN FALLS IN LOVE: THE SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF
> WOMEN IN NEW COMEDY
> Vincent J. Rosivach
> Routledge Apr 1998, Published in UK
> 224pp, 234 x 156mm
> HARDBACK UK œ45.00 0-415-18448-7
>
> Examines the plays of new comedy to reveal how the sexual
> relationships between the male and female protagonists are
> essentially exploitative. The book poses important questions
> about the dramatic portrayal of women in the Greek and Roman
> worlds.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate
>
> *****
>
> "WHY ASK MY NAME?": ANONYMITY AND IDENTITY IN BIBLICAL
> NARRATIVE
> Adele Reinhartz
> Oxford University Press Inc, USA Dec 1998,
> Published in USA
> 224pp, 230 x 150mm, Bibliography
> HARDBACK UK œ27.99 0-19-509970-2
>
> Anonymous characters, such as Lot's wife, are common in the
> Hebrew Bible, appearing in a variety of roles. This book examines
> whether there is a "poetics of anonymity", if so, what its
> contours are, and how anonymity affects readers' responses to
> unnamed characters, particularly female characters.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> THE WILD CARD OF READING: ON PAUL DE MAN
> Rodolphe Gasche
> Harvard University Press Sep 1998,
> Published in USA
> 316pp, 235 x 155mm
> HARDBACK UK œ27.95 0-674-95295-2
> Not currently available: reprint under consideration
> Paperback UK œ12.50 0-674-95296-0
>
> Demonstrates the systematic coherence the Paul de Man's work,
> insisting that he continues to merit close attention. The author
> shows that de Man's "reading" centres on a dimension of the texts
> that is irreducible to any possible meaning, a dimension
> characterized by the "absolutely singular".
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> WILLIAM BLAKE'S COMIC VISION
> Nicholas Rawlinson
> Macmillan Press 2 Apr 1999, Published in UK
> 212pp, 216 x 138mm, Bibliography, index
> HARDBACK UK œ40.00 0-333-74565-5
>
> This study should be of interest to the scholar and aficionado
> alike. It uncovers a thematic unity within Blake's early work:
> his far reaching use of humour. Although often dismissed as a
> product of his eccentricity, the author argues the comic was an
> essential key to Blake's concept of Vision.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Approaching Literature
> WOMEN AND POETRY
> Routledge 1997, Published in UK,
> 90 minute audio cassette
> AUDIO CASSETTE UK œ15.26 (inc.VAT) 0-415-14663-1
>
> This cassette includes a variety of readings of poems followed by
> discussions about the way in which gender affects the reading and
> interpretation of poems. Included are works by Emily Dickinson,
> Robert Browning, Sylvia Plath and Elizabeth Bishop.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> WORDS OF LIGHT: THESES ON THE PHOTOGRAPHY OF HISTORY
> Eduardo Cadava
> Princeton University Press Sep 1998,
> Published in USA
> 204pp, 229 x 152mm, 30 halftones
> PAPERBACK UK œ12.95 0-691-00268-1
>
> Focusing on Walter Benjamin's discussions of the flashes and
> images of history, this book argues that the questions raised by
> this link between photography and history touch on issues that
> belong to the entire trajectory of Benjamin's writings.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> THE WORK OF WRITING: LITERATURE AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN BRITAIN,
> 1700-1830
> Clifford Siskin
> The Johns Hopkins University Press Jan 1998,
> Published in USA
> 360pp, 229 x 152mm
> HARDBACK UK œ33.00 0-8018-5696-5
>
> As today's technologies challenge the reign of writing, author
> Siskin puts current concerns into the context of history. He
> argues that in the 18th and 19th centuries, the "new" technology
> was writing itself, and explores how its proliferation coalesced
> into literary modernity.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> WRITING AND SOCIETY: LITERACY, PRINT AND POLITICS IN BRITAIN
> 1590-1660
> Nigel Wheale
> Routledge 31 Jul 1999, Published in UK
> 208pp, 138 x 216mm
> HARDBACK UK œ55.00 0-415-08497-0
> Paperback UK œ15.99 0-415-08498-9
>
> Explores the relationship between the growth in popular literacy
> and the development of new readerships and the authors addressing
> them. The book provides a year-by-year chronology of political
> events in relation to cultural production.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate
>
> *****
>
> WRITING LONDON: THE TRACE OF THE URBAN TEXT FROM BLAKE TO
> DICKENS
> Julian Wolfreys
> Macmillan Press Aug 1998, Published in UK
> 260pp, 216 x 138mm, 272, 12 photographs, bibliography, index
> HARDBACK UK œ45.00 0-333-73686-9
>
> Beginning with an introductory survey of the variety of literary
> representations and responses to the city, this text follows the
> shaping of the urban consciousness from Blake to Dickens, through
> Shelley, Barbauld, Byron, De Quincey, Engels and Wordsworth.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> WRITING THE LIVES OF WRITERS
> [Ed] Warwick Gould; Thomas F. Staley
> Macmillan Press Jun 1998, Published in UK
> Published in association with Centre for English Studies, School
> of Advanced Study, University of London
> 339pp, 216 x 138mm, 300, Notes, index
> HARDBACK UK œ47.50 0-333-68461-3
>
> A study of the dialogue that takes place between biographers and
> the writers who are their subjects. The text features 22 essays
> by scholars and biographers including Hermione Lee and Lawrence
> Lipking, tackling the lives of writers such as Virginia Woolf and
> Chaucer.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> WRITING THE SELF: AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL WRITING IN MODERN ARABIC
> LITERATURE
> [Ed] Ed de Moor; Robin Ostie; Stefan Wild
> Saqi Books Jun 1998, Published in UK
> 342pp, 240 x 170mm
> HARDBACK UK œ35.00 0-86356-727-4
>
> Covers a broad spectrum of autobiographical material and ranges
> in time from the 17th century to the present day. The chapters
> include travelogues as a category of autobiographical writing, as
> well as a wide variety of the more traditional retrospective
> prose histories of the self.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: The William E. Massey Sr Lectures in the History of
> American Civilization
> WRITING WAS EVERYTHING
> Alfred Kazin
> Harvard University Press 30 Apr 1999,
> Published in USA
> 160pp, 196 x 135mm
> PAPERBACK UK œ7.50 0-674-96238-9
>
> A blend of autobiography, history and criticism, this book
> emerges as a reaffirmation of literature in an age of
> deconstruction and critical dogma. The author, a well-known
> literary critic, shows how great writing "matters" and how it
> involves the reader morally, socially and personally.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
> WRITINGS ON ART AND LITERATURE
> Freud
> Stanford University Press 1997, Published in USA
> 320pp, 214 x 141mm
> PAPERBACK UK œ10.95 0-8047-2973-5
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: Topics in Translation, No 14
> WRITTEN IN THE LANGUAGE OF THE SCOTTISH NATION: A HISTORY OF
> LITERARY TRANSLATION INTO SCOTS
> John Corbett
> Multilingual Matters Dec 1998, Published in UK
> 200pp, 210 x 148mm, Bibliography, index
> HARDBACK UK œ29.95 1-85359-431-8
>
> This text is a survey of Scots literary translations from the
> 15th to the 20th century. It argues that translation has played a
> central role in the development of literature in Scots, lending
> authority to the vernacular and extending the stylistic range
> open to writers in Scots.
>
> Readership: postgraduate; research, professional; undergraduate
>
> *****
>
> Series: Yale French Studies, 92
> YALE FRENCH STUDIES: EXPLORING THE CONVERSIBLE WORLD: TEXT AND
> SOCIABILITY FROM THE CLASSICAL AGE TO THE ENLIGHTENMENT: 92
> [Ed] Elena Russo
> Yale University Press Jan 1998, Published in USA
> 212pp
> HARDBACK UK œ12.00 0-300-07329-1
>
> The essays in this text explore the discourse and the practice of
> sociability in pre-Revolutionary France from an interdisciplinary
> standpoint, at the intersection of cultural history, philosophy
> and literary criticism.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
> Series: The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory
> THE YEAR'S WORK IN CRITICAL AND CULTURAL THEORY: Vol 4
> [Ed] Kate McGowan
> Blackwell Publishers 1997, Published in UK
> 384pp, 216 x 138mm
> HARDBACK UK œ70.00 0-631-20523-3
>
> This is an annual publication derived from its companion volume,
> "The Year's Work in English Studies". The book provides a
> comprehensive collection of theoretical essays, with
> bibliographies for work published in 1994. It reviews over 300
> titles in 17 chapters divided into two parts.
>
> Readership: undergraduate; postgraduate; research, professional
>
> *****
>
>
>
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