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Book Review Editor

Mireille QUIVY
mireille.quivy@univ-rouen.fr

Université de Rouen

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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A

Sinikka Aapola, Marnina Gonick, & Anita Harris, Young Femininity: Girlhood, Power and Social Change (Basingstoke & New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004)—Malie Montagutelli

Jack L. Abecassis, Albert Cohen: Dissonant Voices (Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004)—Nadia Malinovich

Peter Ackroyd (Thomas Wright, ed.), The Collection: Journalism, Reviews, Essays, Short Stories, Lectures (London: Vintage / Random House, 2002)—Georges-Claude Guilbert

Peter Ackroyd, Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination (London: Chatto & Windus, 2002)—Megan O'Neill

Peter Ackroyd, The Clerkenwell Tales (London: Chatto & Windus, 2003)—Ann Skea

W. Royce Adams, Teacher, Teacher, I Declare! and other Little Tattle Tales (Santa Barbara: Rairarubia Books, 2002)—Megan O'Neill

Tim Adler, The Producers. Money, Movies, and Who Really Calls the Shots (London: Methuen, 2004)—Anne Cremieux, Paris X Nanterre, France.

Richard Alba & Victor Nee, Remaking the American Mainstream: Assimilation and Contemporary Immigration (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003)—Dominique Daniel

Christine Alexander & Juliet McMaster eds.,The Child Writer from Austen to Woolf ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005)—Claire Bazin, University of Paris X Nanterre, France.2

Alexander Alland, Race in Mind: Race, IQ, and Other Racisms (New York & Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2004)—George D. Oberle III

Eric Alterman & Mark Green, The Book on Bush: How George W. (Mis)leads America (New York: Viking, 2004)—Sergio A. Ruano

Dee E. Andrews, The Methodists and Revolutionary America, 1700-1800: The Shaping of an Evangelical Culture (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002)—Caroline Bélan

Libby Angel, Robert J Bloomfield & Rob Walker, Friendly Street: New Poets Ten (Kent Town: Wakefield Press, 2005, AUD$19.95, 90 pages, ISBN 1862546703)—Susan Ballyn, Universitat de Barcelona

Gwen Ansell, Soweto Blues—Jazz, Popular Music & Politics in South Africa (Continuum Intl Pub Group, 2004)—Bernard Cros, University of Paris X, France

Franco Antonetti, I Wouldn’t Die, A Memoir (Gilbert, Arizona: Via Novi Press, 2004)—Mireille Quivy

Joyce Appleby, Inheriting the Revolution: The First Generation of Americans (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000)—Bill Mohr

Oliver Arnold, The Third Citizen, Shakespeare’s Theater and the Early Modern House of Commons (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007)—Marie-Dominique Garnier, Université Paris 8, France. 2

Anthony Arthur, Literary Feuds: A Century of Celebrated Quarrels—From Mark Twain to Tom Wolfe (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2002)—Thomas J. Mayock

Mary Arseneau, Recovering Christina Rossetti: Female Community and Incarnational Poetics (Basingstoke & New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004)—Elisabeth Lamothe

Neil Astley, ed., Staying Alive: Real Poems for Unreal Times (Highgreen: Boodaxe Books, 2002, £10.95, 496 pages, ISBN 1-85224-588-3)—Joanny Moulin, Université de Provence, Aix-Marseille I

Eric Athenot, Walt Whitman : poète-cosmos (Paris : Belin, 2002) — Joanny Moulin

Margaret Atwood, Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002)—Millard Dunn

Philip Auslander, Performing Glam Rock (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2006)—Charles Holdefer, Université de Poitiers, France. 2

Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies (Picador, Henry Holt and Company, New York, 2006)—Frédéric Dumas, University of Grenoble 3, Stendhal, France. 2

Brenda Ayres, ed., The Emperor's Old Groove: Decolonizing Disney's Magic Kingdom (New York: Peter Lang, 2003)—Debra Boyle

B

Gil Bailie, La Violence révélée : l’humanité à l’heure du choix (Castelnau-le-Lez : Climats, 2004)—Marie Liénard

Michel Ballard, Versus : La Version réfléchie – Repérages et paramètres (Paris, Ophrys, 2003, 18,00€, 283 pages, ISBN 2-7080-1059-X)—Denis Jamet, Université Jean Moulin – Lyon 3

Michel Ballard, Versus : La Version réfléchie  –  Des signes au texte ( Paris : Ophrys, 2004)—Denis Jamet, Université Jean Moulin, Lyon 3, France, University of Auckland, New Zealand.

Stuart Banner, The Death Penalty: An American History (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2002)—Philippe Chassaigne

Stuart Banner, How the Indians Lost Their Land: Land and Power on the Frontier (Cambridge, Mass. & London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005)—Malie Montagutelli, Université Paris III

Samantha Barbas, Movie Crazy: Fans, Stars and the Cult of Celebrity (New York & London: Palgrave, 200)—Dominique Sipière

Michael Barkun, A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003)—Thomas J. Mayock

Aaron Barlow, The DVD Revolution: Movies, Culture, & Technology (Wesport, CT, Praeger, 2005, $44.95, 179 pages, ISBN 0-275-98387-0)—Anne Cremieux, Université Paris X - Nanterre

Dagmar Barnouw, Naipaul's Strangers (Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2003)—Judie Newman

John Barth, Coming Soon!!! A Narrative (Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2001)— Emmanuelle Delanoë-Brun

Samuel Bawlf, The Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake (London, Allen Lane. The Penguin Press, 2003)—Jacques Coulardeau

Christopher Alan Bayly, The Birth of the Modern World, 1780-1914. Global Connections and Comparisons (Malden, M.A./Oxford, 2004, Blackwell Publishing)—Detlev Mares, Institute of History, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany

Christopher Beach, Class, Language, and American Film Comedy (Cambridge University Press, 2002)—Nicolas Magenham

Steve Beard, Aftershocks: The End of Style Culture (London: Wallflower Press, 2002)—Richard Butsch

P. M. H. Bell, France and Britain, 1940-1994: The Long Separation ( London and New York: Longman, 1997)—Antoine Capet

Bellin de La Liborlière La Nuit anglaise, édition et préface de Maurice Lévy (Toulouse: Anacharsis, 2006)—Élizabeth Durot-Boucé, Université Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle, France. 2

Catherine Belsey, Shakespeare and the Loss of Eden: The Construction of Family Values in Early Modern Culture (London: Palgrave, 2001)—Frédérique Menant

James C. Bennett, The Anglosphere Challenge: Why the English-Speaking Nations Will Lead the Way in the Twenty-First Century (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.: Lanham, MD, 2004, $39.95, 337 pages, ISBN 0-7425-3332-8)—Trevor Harris, Université François Rabelais – Tours

Paul Bensimon (dir.), Palimpsestes N°13 : Le cliché en traduction. Revue du centre de recherche en traduction et communication transculturelle anglais-français / français-anglais (TRACT) (Paris : Presse de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2001)—Mireille Quivy

Michael Bentley, Lord Salisbury's World. Conservative Environments in Late-Victorian Britain (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001)—Alain Lauzanne

Sacvan Bercovitch General Ed., The Cambridge History of American Literature, Volume Three: Prose Writing, 1860-1920 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005)—Robert Sayre, University of Marne la Vallée, France. 2

Harris Berger & Giovanna Del Negro, Identity and Everyday Life: Essays in the Study of Folklore, Music, and Popular Culture (Middleton, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2004, $65.00, 185 pages, ISBN 0-8195-6686-1)—Marylin Mell, University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh

Bernard Bergonzi, A Study in Greene (OUP, 2006)—François Gallix, University of Paris IV, Sorbonne, France

Ira Berlin, Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press / Harvard University Press, 2003)—Gerald Butters

Bernadette Bertrandias, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre : la parole orpheline (Paris: Ellipses, 2004, 12,50€, 120 pages, ISBN 2-7298-1931-2)—Shannon Wells-Lassagne, Université de Bretagne Sud

Geoffrey Best, Churchill: A Study in Greatness (London: Penguin, 2002)—Antoine Capet

Kevin Binfield ed., Writings of the Luddites (Baltimore & London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004)—Catherine Heyrendt

Bob Blaisdell (Selected and Edited by-), The Wit and Wisdom of Anthony Trollope (Pickering: Blackthorn Press, 2003)—Laurent Bury

Angela M. Blake, How New York Became American, 1890-1924 (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006)—Daniel Opler, College of Mount St Vincent, New York, USA. 2

Erik Bleich, Race Politics in Britain and France: Ideas and Policymaking since the 1960s (Cambridge University Press, 2003)—Bernard Cros

James E. Block, A Nation of Agents: The American Path to a Modern Self and Society (Cambridge, MA & London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2002)—Lincoln Geraghty

Jan Blommaert, Discourse, A Critical Introduction (Key Topics in Sociolinguistics, Cambridge University Press, 2005)—Albert Hamm, Marc Bloch University, Strasbourg, France

Clive Bloom, Bestsellers: Popular Fiction Since 1900 (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002)—Georges-Claude Guilbert

Kristin Bluemel, George Orwell and the Radical Eccentrics: Intermodernism in Literary London (New York & Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, £45.00, xi-246 pages, ISBN 1403965102)—Antoine Capet, Université de Rouen

Sidney Blumenthal, The Clinton Wars: An Insider’s Account of the White House Years (Penguin Books, 2003)—Mokhtar Ben Barka

John Bodnar, Blue-collar Hollywood: Liberalism, Democracy, and Working People in American Film (Baltimore & London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003)—Nicolas Magenham

Ronald Bogue, Deleuze’s Way, Essays in Tranverse Ethics and Aesthetics (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Ltd, 2007)—Françoise Baillet, University of Cergy-Pontoise, IUFM, France. 2

Christine van Boheemen-Saaf, Joyce, Derrida, Lacan, and the Trauma of History: reading, narrative, and Postcolonialism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006)—Marie-Dominique Garnier, University of Paris 8, France. 2

Derek Bok, Universities in the Marketplace: The Commercialization of Higher Education (Princeton & Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2003/2005)—Olivier Frayssé

Drummond Bone, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Byron (Cambridge: Cambridge U. P., 2004)—Yann Tholoniat

Stéphanie Bonnefille & Sébastien Salbayre, éd., « La négation – formes, figures, conceptualisation », La revue du GRAAT, n° 35/2006 (Presses universitaires François Rabelais, Tours, 2006)—Albert Hamm, Marc Bloch University, Strasbourg, France

Christopher Booker, The Seven Basic Plots. Why we tell stories ([2004] London and New York: Continuum, 2005)—Isabelle Roblin, Université de Boulogne, France. 2

Alison Booth, How to Make It as a Woman: Collective Biographical History from Victoria to the Present (Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press , 2004, $25.00, 424 pages, ISBN 0-226-06546-4)—Diana Dominguez, The University of Texas-Brownsville/Texas Southmost College

Kristina Borjesson, ed., Into the Buzzsaw: Leading Journalists Expose the Myth of a Free Press (Amherst: Prometheus Books, 2002)—Sergio A. Ruano

Marc Bosco, Graham Greene’s Catholic Imagination (American Academy of Religion, Academy Series, London & Oxford, OUP, 2005)—Alain Blayac, University of Montpellier III, France

Patricia Bosworth, Marlon Brando (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2001)—James Friel

Stephen Bottoms, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Edward Albee (London: Cambridge University Press, 2005)—Geneviève Chevallier, University of Nice, France. 2

David Boucher & Gary Browning, eds., The Political Art of Bob Dylan (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004)—Claude Chastagner

Joanna Bourke, The Second World War: A People’s History (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 200)—Antoine Capet

Myriam Boussahba-Bravard, ed., Suffrage Outside Suffragism Britain 1880-1914 (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2007)—Bradley Kadel, Fayetteville State University, USA. 2

John R. Bradley, Henry James’s Permanent Adolescence (Basingstoke & New York: Palgrave, 2000)—James Friel

David Bradshaw, ed., The Cambridge Companion to E. M. Forster (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007)—Laurent Mellet, Université de Bourgogne, France. 2

John Channing Briggs, Lincoln’s Speeches Reconsidered (Baltimore & London : The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005)—Marie-Jeanne Rossignol, University of Paris 7, France. 2

André Brink, The Other Side of Silence (London: Secker & Warburg, 2002)—Mélanie Joseph-Vilain

Douglas Brinkley, Wheels for the World: Henry Ford, His Company, and a Century of Progress, 1903-2003 (New York: Penguin Books, 2004)—Thomas J. Mayock

Robert Alan Brookey, Reinventing the Male Homosexual: The Rhetoric and Power of the Gay Gene (Bloomington & Indianapolis, Indiana University Press, 2002)—Guillaume Marche

Anita Brookner, Leaving Home (London: Viking, 2005, £12.99, 168 pages, ISBN 0-670-91568-8)—Aileen La Tourette, Liverpool John Moores University

Anita Brookner, The Next Big Thing (London: Penguin Books, 2003); The Rules of Engagement (London: Viking, 2003)—Carol Bere

Mikita Brottman, ed., Car Crash Culture (New York: Palgrave, 2001)—Wendy O’Brien

David Brown, Foreword by Contre-amiral Jean Kessler, Introduction by Geoffrey Till, The Road to Oran: Anglo-French Naval Relations - September 1939 - July 1940 (London & New York: Frank Cass, 2004, £65.00, 216 pages, ISBN 0-7146-5461-2)—Richard Davis, Université Charles de Gaulle - Lille III

Clare Brown & Don Paterson, eds., Don't Ask Me What I Mean: Poets in Their Own Words (London : Picador, 2004, £8.99, 335 pages, ISBN 0-330-41281-7)—Charles Holdefer, Université de Poitiers

Gabriel Brownstein, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Apt. 3w. (New York: W.W. Norton, 2002)—Steven Marc Jones

W. Fitzhugh Brundage, The Southern Past: A Clash of Race and Memory (Cambridge, MA, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005)—Jennifer Kilgore, Université de Caen

Fiona Buckland, Impossible Dance: Club Culture and Queer World-Making (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2002)—Guillaume Marche

Lawrence Buell, Writing for an Endangered World: Literature, Culture, and Environment in the U.S. and Beyond, London: Harvard University Press, 2001/2003, £12.95, 365 pages, ISBN 0-674-01232-1)—Charles Mitchell, Elmira College

Elizabeth Buettner, Empire Families: Britons and Late Imperial India (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004)—Antoine Mioche

Paul Buhle & Dave Wagner, Blacklisted: The Film Lover’s Guide to the Hollywood Blacklist (Basingstoke & New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003)—Daniel Opler

Kathleen Burk, Troublemaker: The Life and History of A.J.P. Taylor (Newhaven & London: Yale University Press, 2002)—Antoine Capet

Kathleen Burk, ed., The British Isles since 1945 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002)—Antoine Capet

Sarah Burns, Painting the Dark Side, Art and the Gothic Imagination in Nineteenth-Century America (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004, $33.37, 326 pages, ISBN 0-520-23821-4)—Caroline Bélan, Université de Rouen

William Burroughs, Ghost of Chance (London: Serpent's Tail, 2002)—Georges-Claude Guilbert

John A. Burrow, Gestures and Looks in Medieval Narrative (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002)—Diana Dominguez

Daniel Burston, Erik Erikson and the American Psyche: Ego, Ethics, and Evolution (Lanham, MD.: Jason Aronson, 2007)—David Waterman, Université de La Rochelle, France. 2

Daniel Burston, & Rebecca I. Denova, ed., Passionate Dialogues: Critical Perspectives on Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Mise Publications, 2005, $37.95, 262 pages, ISBN 978-0-9749086-1-8)—Jean-François Baillon, Université Michel de Montaigne - Bordeaux III

Daniel Burston & Roger Frie, Psychotherapy as a Human Science (Pittsburgh, Pa.: Duquesne University Press, 2006)—Patrick Favro, University of French Polynesia, Tahiti. 2

Tim Butler with Garry Robson, London Calling: The Middle Classes and the Re-making of Inner London (Oxford & New York: Berg, 2003)—Detlev Mares

Richard Butsch, The Making of American Audiences: From Stage to Television, 1750-1990 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000 [reprint 2004])—Megan O'Neill

A. S. Byatt, The Whistling Woman (London: Chatto & Windus, 2001)—James Friel

A.S. Byatt, Little Black Book of Stories (London: Chatto & Windus, 2003, New York: Knopf, 2004)—James Friel