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Books received: July 16, 2007 to October 15, 2007.(Appendix)(Bibliography)
Abbott, Craig. 2007. Forging Fame: The Strange Career of Scharmel Iris. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press. $34.00 hc. 192 pp.
Aleman, Jessie, and Shelley Streeby, eds. and intro. 2007. Empire and the Literature of Sensation: An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century Popular Fiction. Piscataway: Rutgers University Press. $28.95 sc. 320 pp.
Blair, Sara. 2007. Harlem Crossroads: Black Writers and the Photograph in the Twentieth Century. Princeton: Princeton University Press. $35.00 hc. xxi + 353 pp.
Blakemore, Steven. 2007. Joel Barlow's Columbiad: A Bicentennial Reading. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press. $45.00 he. 392 pp.
Brodzki, Bella. 2007. Can These Bones Live? Translation, Survival, and Cultural Memory. Stanford: Stanford University Press. $21.95 sc. 250 pp.
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