BOOK REVIEWS

Updated February 15, 2009

GRAAT On-Line favors literary criticism and history (English-speaking countries)

Previously unpublished unsolicited reviews welcome

Book Review Editor Molly O'Brien Castro

molly.obriencastro@orange.fr

Stewart J. Brown, Providence and Empire: Religion, Politics and Society in the United Kingdom, 1815-1914 (Edinburgh: Pearson Education Limited, 2008). UK £19.90, 22.18€, 494 pages, ISBN 978-0-582-29960-3—Stéphanie Prévost, Université François Rabelais - Tours.

David Coad, The Metrosexual: Gender, Sexuality, and Sport (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2008), $16.95, 216 pages, ISBN 9780791474105—Georges-Claude Guilbert, Université François Rabelais – Tours.

Nöelle Cuny, D. H. Lawrence : Le Corps en devenir, Paris, Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2008, 23 €, 189 pages, ISBN 978-2-87854-376-6—Élise Brault, Université de Valenciennes.

Emine Lâle Demitürk: How Black Writers Deal with Whiteness. Characterization through Deconstructing Color (Lewiston, N.Y. : the Edwin Mellen Press, 2008). USA $109.59, UK £69.95, 230 pages, ISBN 978-0-7734-5073-8; 0-7734-5073-4—Claude Julien, Université François Rabelais - Tours.

Damian Duffy & John Jennings, The Hole: Consumer Culture Volume I – A graphic novel (Chicago: Front Forty Press, 2008), $30.00, 168 pages, ISBN 0977868923—Georges-Claude Guilbert, Université François Rabelais – Tours.

Dominik Geppert and Robert Gerwarth, eds., Wilhelmine Germany and Edwardian Britain: Essays on Cultural Affinity (German Historical Institute London, Oxford University Press, 2008). UK £65, 91€, 464 pages, ISBN 13: 978-0-19-955828-5–Trevor Harris, Université François Rabelais, Tours.

Jonah Goldberg, Liberal Fascism or the Secret History of the American Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning (London: Penguin, 2007), 9.99£, 487 pages, ISBN: 978-0-141-03950-3—Priscilla Morin, Université François Rabelais - Tours.

Nigel Hamilton, How To Do Biography: A Primer (Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2008). USA $22.95, 379 pages, ISBN 978-0-674-02796-1—Trevor Harris, Université François Rabelais - Tours.

André-Marie Harmat (dir.), Musique & littérature : jeux de miroir (Toulouse : Éditions Universitaires du Sud, 2009). 25€, 413 pages, ISBN 978-2-7227-0120-0–Éric Athenot, Université François-Rabelais, Tours.

Anne-Cécile Huprelle, Le diable (Coll. Petite Bibliothèque des Spiritualités, Plon: Paris, 2007.) 13 € ,125 pages, ISBN-10: 2259203701/ 13: 978-2259203708—Caroline Bélan-Ménagier, Université François Rabelais - Tours.

Andrekos Varnava, British Imperialism in Cyprus, 1878-1915: The Inconsequential Possession (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2009), UK 60£, 321 pages, ISBN: 978-0-7190-7903-0 - Stéphanie Prévost, Université François Rabelais -Tours.

Sarah Wise, The Blackest Streets: the Life and Death of a Victorian Slum (London: Vintage Books, 2009). UK £9.99 (paperback), 11.75 €, 333 pages, ISBN: 978-1-844-13331-4–Trevor Harris, Université François Rabelais, Tours.