Book Reviews

John Donne: Essays in Celebration (A. J. Smith) (Reviewed by Arthur F. Marotti, Wayne State University)Samuel Johnson and Neoclassical Dramatic Theory: The Intellectual Context of the Preface to Shakespeare (R. D. Stock) (Reviewed by Eugene Hnatko, State University College, Cortland, New York)The Spanish Plays of Neoclassical England (John Loftis) (Reviewed by Eugene Hnatko, State University College, Cortland, New York)Keats the Poet (Stuart M. Sperry) (Reviewed by Barry Gradman, Wayne State University)On Modern German Literature (Paul Konrad Kurz) (Reviewed by Robert Spaethling, University of Massachusetts at Boston)Franz Kafka (Ronald Gray) (Reviewed by Stanley Corngold, Princeton University

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The Gate of Darkness: Studies on the Leftist Literary Movement in China (Tsi-an Hsia) (Reviewed by Irving Lo, Indiana University)Byron and the Dynamics of Metaphor (W. Paul Elledge) (Reviewed by Robert F. Gleckner, The University of California, Riverside)Fiery Dust: Byron\u27s Poetic Development (Jerome J. McGann) (Reviewed by Robert F. Gleckner, The University of California, Riverside)The Pillar of the World: Antony and Cleopatra in Shakespeare\u27s Development (Julian Markel) (Reviewed by Judd B. Arnold, Pennsylvania State University)Shakespeare and the Outer Mystery (Robert H. West) (Reviewed by Judd B. Arnold, Pennsylvania State University)Henry Fielding and The Language of Irony (Glenn W. Hatfield) (Reviewed by Philip Stevick, Temple University)Fielding and the Nature of the Novel (Robert Alter) (Reviewed by Philip Stevick, Temple University)Melville\u27s Thematics of Form: The Great Art of Telling the Truth (Edgar A. Dryden) (Reviewed by Wendell Glick, University of Minnesota at Duluth)Shaw the Dramatist (Louis Crompton) (Reviewed by Alan P. Barr, Indiana University, Northwest)Bernard Shaw and the Art of Destroying Ideals (Charles A. Carpenter) (Reviewed by Alan P. Barr, Indiana University, Northwest)The Passages of Thought: Psychological Representation in the American Novel 1870-1900 (Gordon O. Taylor) (Reviewed by Motley F. Deakin, University of Florida

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Nostalgia and Recollection in Victorian Culture (Ann C. Colley) (Reviewed by William A. Kumbier, Missouri Southern State College) The Linguistic Turn in Hermeneutic Philosophy (Cristina Lafont; trans. José Medina) (Reviewed by Moshe Gold, Fordham University) Closed Encounters: Literary Politics and Public Culture (Jeffrey Wallen) (Reviewed by C. Jon Delogu, Université de Toulouse-Le Mirail) The Arts and Sciences of Criticism (Ed. David Fuller and Patricia Waugh) (Reviewed by Jeffrey Wallen, Hampshire College) Origins of Democratic Culture: Printing, Petitions, and the Public Sphere in Early-Modern England (David Zaret) (Reviewed by David Cressy, Ohio State University) Shakespeare and Social Dialogue: Dramatic Language and Elizabethan Letters (Lynne Magnusson) (Reviewed by Gary Schneider, Wayne State University) The Gothic Family Romance: Heterosexuality, Child Sacrifice, and the Anglo-Irish Colonial Order (Margot Gayle Backus) (Reviewed by Kellie Donovan Wixson, Tufts University

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Feeling in Theory: Emotion after the ‘‘Death of the Subject’’ (Rei Terada) (Reviewed by Don Kuiken, University of Alberta) Situatedness, or, Why We Keep Saying Where We’re Coming From (David Simpson) (Reviewed by Steve Newman, Temple University) Mammon’s Music: Literature and Economics in the Age of Milton (Blair Hoxby) (Reviewed by Elizabeth Hanson, Queen’s University) In Praise of Poverty: Hannah More Counters Thomas Paine and the Radical Threat (Mona Scheuermann) (Reviewed by Tim Burke, St. Mary’s College, Strawberry Hill

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Against Deconstruction (John M. Ellis) (Reviewed by Jeffrey Williams, East Carolina University)When the Moon Waxes Red. Representation, Gender and Cultural Politics (Trinh T. Minh-ha) (Reviewed by Charles J. Stivale, Wayne State University)Crusoe\u27s Footprints: Cultural Studies in Britain and America (Patrick Brantlinger) (Reviewed by Ajay Heble, University of Guelph)Homosexual Desire in Shakespeare\u27s England: A Cultural Poetics (Bruce R. Smith) (Reviewed by Jonathan Crewe, Dartmouth College)Prayer and Power: George Herbert and Renaissance Courtship (Michael C. Schoenfeldt) (Reviewed by Claude J. Summers, University of Michigan-Dearborn)Disseminating Whitman: Revision and Corporeality in Leaves of Grass (Michael Moon) (Reviewed by Patrick Horrigan, Columbia University)Do the Americas Have a Common Literature? (Gustavo P@eacute;rez Firmat) (Reviewed by Leslie Bary, Louisiana State University)The Bible as Rhetoric: Studies in Biblical Persuasion and Credibility (Martin Warner) (Reviewed by Phyllis H. Karminski, Saint Mary\u27s College)And tile View from the Shore: Literary Traditions of Hawai\u27i (Stephen H. Sumida) (Reviewed by Elton Fukumoto, Honolulu, Hawaii

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The Book, the Ring, and the Poet: A Biography of Robert Browning (William Irvine and Park Honan) (Reviewed by Thomas J. Collins, The University of Western Ontario)The Incarnate Word: Literature as Verbal Space (Cary Nelson) (Reviewed by Murray M. Schwartz, State University of New York at Buffalo)Victorian Stage Pulpiteer: Bernard Shaw\u27s Crusade (Allan P. Barr) (Reviewed by Arthur Ganz, City University of New York)The Drama of Power: Studies in Shakespeare\u27s History Plays (Moody E. Prior) (Reviewed by Matthew N. Proser, University of Connecticut)Rudyard Kipling: Activist and Artist (Vasant A. Shahane) (Reviewed by Hugh B. Andrews, Northern Michigan University

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Psychoanalysis and the Postmodern Impulse: Knowing and Being Since Freud\u27s Psychology (Barnaby B. Barrat) (Reviewed by Peter L. Rudnytsky, University of Florida)Ends of Empire: Women and Ideology in Early Eighteenth-Century Literature (Laura Brown) (Reviewed by Elizabeth A. Bohls, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)Philip Larkin (Andrew Motion) (Reviewed by Daniel Hughes, Wayne State University)Telling Glances: Voyeurism in the French Novel (Dorothy Kelly) (Reviewed by Charles J. Stivale, Wayne State University

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The Pastoral Art of Robert Frost (John F. Lynen) (Reviewed by Hyatt H. Waggoner, Brown University) Theme and Structure in Swift\u27s Tale of a Tub (Ronald Paulson) Smollett and the Scottish School (M. A. Goldberg) (Reviewed by S. A. Golden, Wayne State University) The Idea of Poetry in France (Margaret Gilman) The Writer\u27s Way in France (Robert Greer Cohn) (Reviewed by J. L. Salvan, Wayne State University) Mark Twain and Huck Finn (Walter Blair) (Reviewed by Vivian C. Hopkins, College of Education, Albany, State University of New York) Myth and Mythmaking (ed. Henry A. Murray) (Reviewed by George Ross Ridge, Georgia State College) The Style of Don Juan (George M. Ridenour) (Reviewed by Robert F. Gleckner, Wayne State University