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
Mike Ashley. Transformations :
The Story of the Science-Fiction Magazines, From 1950 to 1970 (The History of
the Science-Fiction Magazine Vol. II) (Liverpool: University Press, 2005)—Reviewed by Claude Chastagner, Université Paul-Valéry, Montpellier 3
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
Didier Aubert & Hélène Quanquin (dir.), Refaire l’Amérique : Imaginaire et
histoire des États-Unis (Paris : Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2011)—Recension
d’Arlette Frund, Université François-Rabelais, Tours 
Philip Auslander, Performing Glam Rock (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2006)—Charles Holdefer, Université de Poitiers, France.
Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies (Picador, Henry Holt and Company, New York, 2006)—Frédéric Dumas, University of Grenoble 3, Stendhal, France.
Brenda
Ayres, ed., The Emperor's Old Groove: Decolonizing Disney's
Magic Kingdom (New York: Peter Lang, 2003)—Debra Boyle
B
Matthew Baerman,
Dunstan Brown & Greville G. Corbett. The Syntax-Morphology Interface :
A Study of Syncretism (Cambridge : University Press, 2005)—Reviewed by Laure Gardelle, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon 
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
Michel Banniard & Dennis Philps (dir.) La fabrique du signe : Linguistique de l’émergence entre micro- et
macro-structures (Toulouse : Presses Universitaires du Mirail, 2010)—Recension
de Bénédicte Guillaume en collaboration avec Pedro Duarte, Université de
Nice-Sophia Antipolis 
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 
Robert Bartlett. The Natural and the Supernatural in the Middle Ages.: The Wiles Lecture
given at the Queen's University of Belfast, 2006. — Reviewed by Wendy Harding, Université de Toulouse - Le Mirail 
Tim Batchelor, Cedar Lewisohn & Martin Myrone (eds). Rude Britannia : British Comic Art (London: Tate Publishing, 2010)—Reviewed
by Gilbert Millat, Université Charles-de-Gaulle – Lille 3 
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
Laura Beers. Your Britain : Media and the Making of the
Labour Party (Cambridge, Massachusetts & London, England: Harvard
University Press, 2010)—Reviewed by Michael Parsons, Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour 
Stephen C. Behrendt. British Women Poets and the
Romantic Writing Community. (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press,
2009)—Reviewed by Aurora Barsalou, York
University (Toronto, Ontario)
Philip
D. Beidler,
The Victory Album: Reflections on the
Good Life after the Good War (Tuscaloosa, Alabama: University of AlabamaPress, 2010)—Reviewed by Mark Meigs, Université Denis-Diderot Paris VII
Melanie Bell, Femininity in
the Frame : Women and 1950s British Popular Cinema (London: I.B. Tauris, 2010)—Reviewed by Christine
Etherington-Wright, University of Portsmouth 
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. 
Saul Bellow. Dangling Man (London: Penguin Modern Classics, 2007)—Reviewed by Armand
Terrien, École normale supérieure, Paris 
Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift (New York: Penguin Modern Classics, 2007)—Aristie Trendel, Robert Schuman University 
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
Phillippa
Bennett & Rosie Miles (eds.) William
Morris in the Twenty-First Century (Bern: Peter Lang, 2010)—Reviewed by
Gilbert Bonifas, Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis 
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.
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 ofWisconsin
-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
James Bieri, Percy Bysshe Shelley : A Biography (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008 [2004])—Reviewed by Rowland Weston, University of Waikato
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.
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
John Bodnar. The “Good War” in American Memory (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010)—Reviewed
by Emily S. Rosenberg, University of California, Irvine
Ronald Bogue, Deleuze’s Way, Essays in Tranverse Ethics and Aesthetics (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Ltd, 2007)—Françoise Baillet, University of Cergy-Pontoise, IUFM, France.
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.
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.
Alison Booth, How to Make It as a Woman: Collective Biographical
History fromVictoria to the Present
(Chicago &London:
University
ofChicago 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
Suzanne Bosman. The National Gallery in Wartime (London: National Gallery, 2008)—Antoine Capet (Université de Rouen)
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.
David
Boucher & Gary Browning, eds., The Political Art
of Bob Dylan (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004)—Claude
Chastagner
George Boulukos. The Grateful Slave : The Emergence of Race in Eighteenth-Century British and American Culture. (Cambridge: University Press, 2008) — Marie-Jeanne Rossignol
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.
[Bowen] Allan Hepburn (ed.), Listening
In : Broadcasts, Speeches, and Interviews by Elizabeth Bowen (Edinburgh:University Press, 2010)—Reviewed by Christine Reynier, Université Paul-Valéry-Montpellier III
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.
John Channing Briggs, Lincoln’s Speeches Reconsidered (Baltimore & London : The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005)—Marie-Jeanne Rossignol, University of Paris 7, France.
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 
Joseph Bristow (ed.), Oscar
Wilde and Modern Culture: The Making of a Legend (Athens (Ohio): Ohio
University Press, 2008)—Reviewed by Emily Eells, Université de
Paris-Ouest-Nanterre 
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,LiverpoolJohn
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
Spike
Bucklow & Sally Woodcock (eds.), Sir
John Gilbert, Art and Imagination in the Victorian Age (Farnham: Lund
Humphries, 2011)—Reviewed by Laurent Bury, Université Lumière–Lyon 2 
Lawrence Buell, Writing for an Endangered
World: Literature, Culture, and Environment in theU.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.
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. 
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