List of Books/Media Available for Review
RMMLA members are encouraged to choose an item from the following list of books and
media (educational software or other multimedia instructional materials) that we
have received from publishers and to do a review of the item for The Rocky
Mountain Review.
Members may also request that we order a book or media item to review, and we will do
our best to obtain it from the publisher.
Email all requests to Sabine Davis at davissj@wsu.edu.
New Titles
Anthony, David W. Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from
the Euroasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World. Princeton: Princeton University
Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0-691-05887-0.
Antonsen, Elmer H. Elements of German: Phonology and Morphology. Tuscaloosa:
University of Alabama Press, 2007. ISBN: 978-0-8173-5450-3.
Balderston, Daniel and Francine Masiello, eds. Approaches to Teaching Puig's
Kiss of the Spider Woman. NY: MLA, 2007. ISBN 978-0-87352-818-4.
Benson, Jackson J. The Ox-Bow Man: A Biography of Walter Van Tilburg Clark. Reno:
University of Nevada Press, 2004. ISBN 0-87417-691-3.
Berlant, Lauren. The Female Complaint: The Unfinished Business of
Sentimentality in American Culture. Durham: Duke University Press,
2008. ISBN 978-0-8223-42-2-1.
Browder, Laura. Slippery Characters: Ethnic Impersonators and American Identities.
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. ISBN 0-8078-4859-X.
Brown, Jane K. The Persistence of Allegory: Drama and Neoclassicism from
Shakespeare to Wagner. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press,
2007. ISBN 978-0-8122-3966-9.
Cook, Richard M. Alfred Kazin: A Biography. New Haven: Yale University Press,
2008. ISBN 978-0-300-11505-5.
Cuffel, Alexandra. Gendering Disgust in Medieval Religious Polemic. Notre Dame,
IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0-268-02367-6.
Davies, David. Aesthetics and Literature. NY: Continuum, 2007.
ISBN 978-0-8264-9612-6.
Dimension2: Contemporary German-Language Literature. Focus:
Young Swiss Writers. Volume 8.2-3 (2007).
Dimension2: Contemporary German-Language Literature. Focus:
Voices of Cultural Diversity. Volume 9.1-2 (2007).
Donoghue, Denis. On Eloquence. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007.
ISBN 978-0-300-12541-2.
Doyle, Laura. Freedom's Empire: Race and the Rise of the Novel in Atlantic
Modernity, 1640-1940. Durham: Duke University Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-8223-4159-8.
DuBois, Thomas A. Lyric, Meaning, and Audience in the Oral Tradition of
Northern Europe. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2006.
ISBN 0-268-02589-4.
Goodlad, Lauren M.E. and Michael Bibby, eds. Goth: Undead Subculture.
Durham: Duke University Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0-8223-3921-2.
Gruzinska, Aleksandra. New Interpretations in the History of French Literature.
Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-7734-5140-4.
Herendeen, Wyman H. William Camden: A Life in Context. Rochester, NY:
Boydell Press, 2007. ISBN 978-1-84383-126-6.
Herman, Peter C. Approaches to Teaching Milton's Shorter Poetry and Prose.
NY: MLA, 2007. ISBN 978-0-87352-594-7.
Himmelfarb, Gertrude. The Spirit of the Age: Victorian Essays. New Haven:
Yale University Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0-300-12330-2.
Hodson, Jane. Language and Revolution in Burke, Woolstonecraft, Paine, and
Godwin. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2007. ISBN 978-0-7546-5403-2.
Jameson, Fredric. Jameson on Jameson. Ed. Ian Buchanan. Durham: Duke
University Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-8223-4109-3.
Joyce, Simon. The Victorians in the Rearview Mirror. Athens: Ohio University
Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0-8214-1762-1.
Laughlin, Charles A. The Literature of Leisure and Chinese Modernity.
Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-8248-3125-7.
Leaños, Jaime. Piccolomini en Iberia. Potomac, MD: Scripta Humanistica, 2007.
ISBN 1-882528-49-2.
Lin, Sylvia Li-Chun. Representing Atrocity in Taiwan: The 2/28 Incident and White
Terror in Fiction and Film. NY: Columbia University Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0-231-14360-8.
Lupke, Christopher, ed. New Perspectives on Contemporary Chinese Poetry.
NY: Palgrave McMillan, 2008. ISBN 978-1-4039-7607-9.
McGann, Jerome. The Point Is to Change It: Poetry and Criticism in the Continuing
Present. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2007. ISBN 798-0-8173-5408-4.
McGill, Lisa D. Constructing Black Selves: Caribbean American Narratives and the
Second Generation. New York University Press, 2005. ISBN 978-0-8147-5691.
Millás, Juan José. "Personality Disorders" and Other Stories.
Trans. Gregory B. Kaplan. NY: MLA, 2007. ISBN 978-0-87352-938-9.
Miller, Christopher L. The French Atlantic Triangle: Literature and Culture of
the Slave Trade. Durham: Duke University Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-8223-4151-2.
Milton Studies 48 (2008). University of Pittsburg Press.
MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing. 3rd ed. NY: MLA, 2008.
ISBN 978-0-87352-297-7. [Request the accompanying thin-fabric tote bag!]
Moloney, Karen Marguerite. Seamus Heany and the Emblems of Hope. Columbia, MO:
University of Missouri Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0-8262-1744-8.
Orlando: Women's Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present.
Cambridge University Press Online, 2006.
http://www.cambridge.org/online/orlandoonline.
[This is an electronic text in literary and cultural history, and also a
groundbreaking text in humanities computing.]
Parry, Amie Elizabeth. Interventions into Modernist Cultures: Poetry from Beyond
the Empty Screen. Durham: Duke University Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0-8223-3818-5.
Pedrick, Victoria. Euripides, Freud, and the Romance of Belonging. Baltimore:
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0-8018-8595-5.
Riley, Glenda. Confronting Race: Women and Indians on the Frontier, 1815-1915.
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2006. ISBN 0-8263-3625-6.
Sartain, Lee. Invisible Activists: Women of the Louisiana NAACP and the Struggle
for Civil Rights 1915-1945. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007.
ISBN 978-0-8071-3221-0.
Scharnhorst, Gary, ed. Mark Twain: The Complete Interviews. Tuscaloosa:
University of Alabama Press, 2006. ISBN 0-8173-1522-5.
Schaub, Thomas H., ed. Approaches to Teaching Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49
and Other Works. NY: MLA, 2007. ISBN 978-0-87352-814-6.
Schiff, James, ed. Updike in Cincinnati: A Literary Performance. Athens, OH:
Ohio University Press, 2007. ISBN 0-8214-1748-7.
Scott, Virginia, and Sara Sturm-Maddox. Performance, Poetry, and Politics on the
Queen's Day: Catherine de Medicis and Pierre de Ronsard at Fontainbleau.
Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2007. ISBN O-7546-5839-2.
Shafi, Monika, ed. Approaches to Teaching Grass's The Tin Drum. NY: MLA, 2008.
ISBN 978-0-87352-816-0.
Soto, Michael. The Modernist Vision: Generation, Renaissance, and Twentieth-Century
American Literature. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2004. ISBN 978-0-8173-5467-1.
Swift, Simon. Romaniticism, Literature and Philosophy: Expressive Rationality in
Rousseau, Kant, Woolstonecraft and Contemporary Theory. NY: Continuum, 2006.
ISBN 0-8264-8644-4.
Totten, Gary, ed. Memorial Boxes and Guarded Interiors: Edith Wharton and Material
Culture. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0-8173-5419-0.
Tyler, William J. Modanizumu: Modernist Fiction from Japan, 1913-1938.
Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-8248-3242-1.
Urdang, Laurence. The Last Word. The English Language: Opinions and
Prejudices. Detroit: Omnigraphics, 2008. ISBN 978-0-7808-1047-1.
Wang, David Der-wei, and Carlos Rojas, eds. Writing Taiwan: A New Literary History.
Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0-8223-3867-3.
Whalen, Logan E. Marie de France and the Poetics of Memory. Washington, DC: The
Catholic University of America Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-8132-1509-9.
Williams, Deanne. The French Fetish from Chaucer to Shakespeare. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Xingjian, Gao. The Case for Literature. Trans. Mabel Lee. New Haven: Yale University
Press, 2007. ISBN 0-300-12421-X.
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