BOOK REVIEWS

Updated May 12, 2013

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Previously unpublished unsolicited reviews welcome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

Jonathan Bignell, Beckett on Screen: The Television Plays (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2009), £50, 208 pages, ISBN: 978-0719064203—Anthony Cordingley, Université Paris VIII —Vincennes-Saint-Denis.

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.

George Craig, Martha Dow Fehsenfeld, Dan Gunn, and Lois More Overbeck (Editors), The Letters of Samuel Beckett: 1941-1956 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011).  £30.00, 886 pages, ISBN: 9780521867948 —  Gerardo Del Guercio, Royal Military College of Canada, St-Jean. 

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.

Neil Davie, L’évolution de la condition féminine en Grande-Bretagne à travers les textes juridiques fondamentaux de 1830 à 1975 (Lyon : Collection Les fondamentaux du féminisme anglo-saxon, ENS Editions, 2011), 23€, 224 pages, ISBN 978-284788-242-1—Martine Monacelli Faraut, Université Sophia Antipolis, Nice.

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.

Kenneth L. Deutsch and Ethan Fishman (Editors), The Dilemmas of American Conservatism (Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2010). $40, 232 pages, ISBN: 9780813125961—Gerardo Del Guercio, Independent Researcher, Canada.

Diana Dominguez, Historical Residues in the Old Irish Legends of Queen Medb: An Expanded Interpretation of the Ulster Cycle (Lewiston: The Edward Mellen Press, 2010). $119.95, 320 pages, ISBN: 978-0-7734-3649-7—James Friel, Liverpool John Moores University.

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.

Michael J. Franklin, Orientalist Jones. Sir William Jones, Poet, Lawyer, and Linguist, 1746-1794 ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011). UK £35 (hardback), 408 pages, ISBN 978-0-19-953200-1 –Pierre Dubois, Université François Rabelais, Tours.

Peter Gay, Modernism: The Lure of Heresy from Baudelaire to Beckett and Beyond (London: Vintage Books, 2007), £10.99, 640 pages, ISBN: 978-0-099-44196-0—Eric Athenot, 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.

Daniel Gorman, Imperial Citizenship: Empire and the Question of Belonging (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2006). UK £55 (hardback), 56€, 243 pages, ISBN 978-0-7190-7529-2 —Trevor Harris, Université François Rabelais, Tours.

David Gowland, Arthur Turner & Alex Wright, Britain and European Integration since 1945: On the Sidelines (London: Routledge, 2010). UK £17.99 (paperback), 31€, 312 pages, ISBN 978-0-415-322133—Trevor Harris, 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.

Ulrike Hillemann, Asian Empire and British Knowledge: China and the Networks of British Imperial Expansion (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009). £52.55 (hardback), 60,80€, 262 pages, ISBN 978-0-230-20046-3—Trevor Harris, Université François Rabelais, Tours.

Eva Johanna Holmberg, Jews in the Early Modern Imagination. A Scattered Nation. Transculturalisms 1400-1700 (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2011) $98, 180 pages, ISBN: 978-1409411918─ Frédérique Fouassier, 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.

Miloš Kovic, Disraeli and the Eastern Question (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010). UK £ 60 (hardback), 68,09 €, 339 pages, ISBN 978-0-19-957460-5—Stéphanie Prévost, Université François Rabelais, Tours.

Madhavi Menon, ed., Shakesqueer: A Queer Companion to the Complete Works of Shakespeare (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2011), $27.95, 494 pages, ISBN 978-0-8223-4845-0 — Sarah Hatchuel, Université du Havre.

Cherrie L. Morraga, A Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness (Durham & London: Duke University Press, 2011), $22.95, 280 pages, 978-0-8223-4977-8—Christiane Grimal, Université François Rabelais – Tours

James Penner, Pinks, Pansies, and Punks: The Rhetoric of Masculinity in American Literary Culture (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2011). $24.95, 318 pages, ISBN 978-0-253-22251-0—Georges-Claude Guilbert, Université François Rabelais, Tours.

Charles R. Pigden, ed., Hume on Motivation and Virtue (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), £55, 303 pages, ISBN: 978-0-230-20527-7–Pierre Dubois, Université François Rabelais, Tours.

John E. Seery, ed., A Political Companion to Walt Whitman (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2011). $40, 373 pages, ISBN 978-0-8131-2654-8—Eric Athenot, Université François Rabelais, Tours.

Agnès Tachin, Amie et rivale. La Grande-Bretagne dans l’imaginaire français à l’époque gaullienne (Bruxelles : Peter Lang, 2009). UK £35.20, 46.90 €, 411 pages, ISBN: 978-90-5201-495-1—Trevor Harris, Université François Rabelais, Tours.

Ulrike Tancke, “Bethinke Thy Selfe” in Early Modern England. Writing Women’s Identities (Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi, 2010). $85, 276 pages, ISBN: 9789042028081-Frédérique Fouassier, 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.

Brenda R. Weber, Makeover TV: Selfhood, Citizenship, and Celebrity (Durham & London: Duke University Press, 2010). $23.95, 344 pages, ISBN 978-0-8223-4568-8—Georges-Claude Guilbert, 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.