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Pamphlet Wars: Prose in the English Revolution.
December 1, 1993... Pp. x + 230. London: Frank Cass, 1992. [pounds]22.50. PROFESSOR HOLSTUN's is no arbitrary collection of essays. He explicitly presents it as a retort to what he sees as the lamentable advances made by seventeenth-century revisionist...

Robert South: 1634-1716, An Introduction to His Life and Sermons.
December 1, 1993... Pp. xiii + 171 (Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought). Cambridge, New York, Port Chester, Melbourne, Sydney: Cambridge University Press, 1992. [pounds]30.00. ROBERT SOUTH is not an attractive churchman....

Before Novels: The Cultural Contexts of Eighteenth-Century Fiction.
December 1, 1993... Pp. xxv + 421. New York and London: W. W. Norton, 1990. Paperbound [pounds]8.95. DEFINING Ian Watt's The Rise of the Novel as the proximate cause of his obsession, J. Paul Hunter sets out to write what he calls a new cultural history of...

Pope's Literary Legacy: The Book-Trade Correspondence of William Warburton and John Knapton, with Other Letters and Documents, 1744-1780.
December 1, 1993... Pp. lxxiv + 223 (Oxford Bibliographical Society Publications, New Series, vol. xxiii). Oxford: Oxford Bibliographical Society, 1992. [pounds]25.00. THIS collection has the rare merit of delivering more than it promises. It does indeed...

The British Abroad: The Grand Tour in the Eighteenth Century.
December 1, 1993... Pp. xix + 355. Stroud: Alan Sutton; New York: St Martin's Press, 1992. [pounds]17.99. ~A man who has not been in Italy', said Dr Johnson, ~is always conscious of an inferiority from his not having seen what it is expected a man should...

Seven Gothic Dramas: 1789-1825.
December 1, 1993... Pp. 425. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1992.$45.00. ANYONE with an interest in the Gothic or the theatre will welcome and enjoy this book. Despite much interest in Gothic fiction, scant critical attention has been given to Gothic drama...

From Lancaster to the Lakes: The Region in Literature.
December 1, 1993... Pp. vii + 111 (Occasional Papers from the Centre for North-West Regional Studies). Lancaster: Centre for North-West Regional Studies, University of Lancaster, 1992. Paperbound [pounds]5.95. DISPARATE as these six essays are, indeterminate...

Beyond Romanticism: New Approaches to Texts and Contexts, 1780-1832.
December 1, 1993... Pp. x + 261. London and New York: Routledge, 1992. Hardbound [pounds]40.00; paperbound [pounds]10.99. BOTH the works discussed here are concerned with the philosphies, aesthetics, and ideologies of Romanticism. One is content to remain...

The Knowledge That Endures: Coleridge, German Philosophy and the Logic of Romantic Thought.
December 1, 1993... Pp. xviii + 226. London: Macmillan, 1992. [pounds]42.50. BOTH the works discussed here are concerned with the philosphies, aesthetics, and ideologies of Romanticism. One is content to remain within what Jerome McGann has described as ~the...

English Poetry of the Romantic Period: 1789-1830, 2d ed.
December 1, 1993... Pp. xiii + 424 (Longman Literature in English Series). London and New York: Longman, 1992. Paperbound [pounds]12.50. FIRST published in 1985, this is an excellent introductory text to put into the hands of undergraduates studying Romantic...

Hopkins: A Literary Biography.
December 1, 1993... Pp. xviii + 531. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992. [pounds]35.00. NORMAN WHITE's study of Hopkins is, as the sub-title states, a literary biography, and the events of his subject's fife are considered in relation to the poems which they...

Alice in Wonderland, 2d ed.
December 1, 1993... Pp. viii + 408 (Norton Critical Editions). New York and London: W. W. Norton, 1992. Paperbound [pounds]6.95. IN his second edition of the very useful Norton Lewis Carroll Donald Gray has updated the critical essays, and included much new...

Robert Bridges: A Biography.
December 1, 1993... Pp. xiii + 363. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. 25.00[pounds]. FOR much of his life Robert Bridges was surrounded by writers who left vivid impressions of themselves and whose work has living qualities -- Yeats,...

Joseph Conrad: Betrayal and Identity.
December 1, 1993... Pp. viii + 326. Basingstoke and London: Macmillan; New York: St Martin's Press, 1992. 40.00[pounds]. SINCE Thomas Moser's Joseph Conrad: Achievement and Decline (1957) Conrad studies have been reluctant to deal with the later fiction....

D.H. Lawrence: The Early Philosophical Works, A Commentary.
December 1, 1993... Pp. xi + 476. Basingstoke and London: Macmillan, 1991. 50.00[pounds]. CONCEIVED as a sequel to D. H. Lawrence: The Early Fiction (London, 1986), this companion volume examines the philosophical works which Lawrence wrote during the First...

The Apocalyptic World of D.H. Lawrence.
December 1, 1993... Pp. xi + 198. London and Oxford: Oxford University Press, for Norwegian University Press, 1991. 25.00[pounds]. CONCEIVED as a sequel to D. H. Lawrence: The Early Fiction (London, 1986), this companion volume examines the philosophical...

Yeats and Women.
December 1, 1993... Pp. xxiii + 442 (Yeats Annual No. 9). Basingstoke and Macmillan, 1992. 50.00[pounds]. USING a wide variety of methodologies, the authors of the volume Yeats and Women add considerably to our knowledge of how Yeats related to a succession...

James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
December 1, 1993... Pp. xii + 195 (Critical Studies of Key Texts). New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Tokyo, Singapore: Harvester Wheatsheaf and Simon & Schuster, 1992. Paperbound 7.95[pounds]. DEBATING what books belong in the Modernist canon, critics often...

The Revised Orwell.
December 1, 1993... Pp. vii + 263. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1992. Hardbound $27.95; paperbound $15.95. THE title of this book is misleading and so too are some of the individual essay-titles in the collection (e.g. the analysis of...

Margaret Drabble: A Reader's Guide.
December 1, 1993... Pp. 174. London: Vision; New York: St Martin's Press, 1991. 11.95[pounds]. SHOULD you happen to be a Cambridge English graduate, preferably at Newnham in the nineteen-fifties or sixties, this book may appeal to you. This remark might be...

American Drama of the Twentieth Century.
December 1, 1993... Pp. xii + 300 (Longman Literature in English Series). London and New York: Longman, 1992. Hardbound 30.00[pounds]; paperbound 11.99[pounds]. THIS volume is part of the Longman Literature in English Series which aims to provide a critical...

Ethnocriticism: Ethnography, History, Literature.
December 1, 1993... Pp. xiii + 273. Berkeley and New York: University of California Press, 1992. Hardbound $35.00; paperbound $13.00. IN the beginning there was ethnography, followed by ethnopoetics; Arnold Krupat now provides a supplement: ethnocriticism....

Saul Bellow.
December 1, 1993... Pp. ix + 140 (Macmillan Modern Novelists). Basingstoke and London: Macmillan, 1992. Paperbound [pounds]9.50. THE Macmillan Modern Novelists addresses a first-time reader and, according to the General Editor's Preface, supplies an...

Anglo-German Studies.
December 1, 1993... Pp. v + 174 (Proceedings of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, Literary and Historical Section, Vol. XXII Part 1). Leeds: The Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, 1992. Paperbound [pounds]18.00. THIS volume of nine essays...

The Brothers Grimm and Their Critics: Folktales and the Quest for Meaning.
December 1, 1993... Pp. xi + 377. Athens: Ohio University press, 1992. [pounds]39.95. THE Grimms' fairytales enjoy a curious reputation: they are the most widely translated, adapted, and diffused work of German literature, while at the same time the least...

Hesitant Fire: Selected Prose of Max Jacob.
December 1, 1993... Pp. xxii + 227. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1991. [pounds]19.95. JACOB is an unjustly neglected writer. He was a close friend of Apollinaire and Picasso and his work, like theirs, helped prepare the ground for...

Narrative as Theme: Studies in French Fiction.
December 1, 1993... Pp. x + 161, Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1992. [pounds]21.00. PRINCE sets out to examine fictional views of the relation between narrative and truth through a study of narrative as theme. The first three chapters...

Realist Fiction and the Strolling Spectator.
December 1, 1993... Pp. viii + 182. London and New York: Routledge, 1992. [pounds]35.00. JOHN RIGNALL's concise, lucid, illustrated study, while not amounting to a full-scale defence of realism in the wake of some of the ill-conceived attacks launched...

Christian Fantasy: From 1200 to the Present.
December 1, 1993... Pp. x + 356. Basingstoke and London: Macmillan. 1992. [pounds]40.00. COLIN MANLOVE has produced an interesting and committed survey of the literature of Christian fantasy, up to the 1980s. The study is written in a rugged prose which may...

Paris and the Nineteenth Century.
December 1, 1993... Pp. xii + 283 (Writing the City). Oxford and Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell Publishers, 1992. [pounds]35.00. PARIS AND THE NINETEENTH CENTURY belongs to the series ~Writing the City' which, in the words of its general editor, focuses on...

Theory into Practice: A Reader in Modern Literary Criticism.
December 1, 1993... Pp. viii + 312. Basingstoke and London: Macmillan, 1992. Paperbound [pounds]9.99. IF, like Chakravorty Spivak, we can talk of the ~theory-practice juggling act' then the collection of essays that is Theory into Practice may be said...

Practising Postmodernism: Reading Modernism.
December 1, 1993... Pp. viii + 176. London, New York, Melbourne, Auckland: Edward Arnold, 1992. Paperbound [pounds]10.99. THESE two volumes consist of a study of Post-modernism and Modernism by Patricia Waugh and an anthology of readings on Postmodernism...

Postmodernism: A Reader.
December 1, 1993... Pp. viii + 226. London, New York, Melbourne, Auckland: Edward Arnold, 1992. Paperbound [pounds]10.99. THESE two volumes consist of a study of Post-modernism and Modernism by Patricia Waugh and an anthology of readings on Postmodernism...

Foucault and Literature: Towards a Genealogy of Writing.
December 1, 1993... Pp. ix + 259. London and New York: Routledge, 1992. Hardbound [pounds]35.00; paperbound [pounds]10.99. THIS book offers a comprehensive account of Michel Foucault's work and of its relation to literary studies. During discusses the...

Feminisms: An Anthology of Literary Theory and Criticism.
December 1, 1993... Pp. xviii + 1118. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1992. Paperbound [pounds]14.99. THE object of this collection is a feminist Holy Grail: ~a comprehensive anthology of feminist criticism' for teaching purposes. A...

Dictionary of Old English: Abbreviations for Latin Sources and Bibliography of Editions.
December 1, 1993... Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1991-1992. THE reviewer of a newly-published dictionary of the present-day English language or of a new edition of an existing dictionary often begins with a discussion of the coverage...

Dictionary of Old English: Fascicle AE.
December 1, 1993... Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1991-1992. THE reviewer of a newly-published dictionary of the present-day English language or of a new edition of an existing dictionary often begins with a discussion of the coverage...

Dictionary of Old English: Fascicle Beon.
December 1, 1993... Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1991-1992. THE reviewer of a newly-published dictionary of the present-day English language or of a new edition of an existing dictionary often begins with a discussion of the coverage...