Responsable
Book Review Editor

Antoine CAPET 
antcapet@aol.com

Université de Rouen

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

F—G—H


 

F

Normal Fairclough, New Labour, New Language (London & New York: Routledge, 2000)—Joseph Pearson

Linda Fairstein, Death Dance (New York: Scribner & London: Little Brown, 2006)—Nicole Décuré, UNiversity of Toulouse, France. 2

Grant Farred, What’s My Name? Black Vernacular Intellectuals (Minneapolis: University Press of Minnesota, 2003)—Chris Bell

David Fée & Sylvie Nail (eds.) Vers une renaissance anglaise ? Dix ans de politique travailliste de la ville (Paris : Presses de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2008) — Reviewed by Timothy Whitton, Université de Clermont-Ferrand  2

Heidi Carolyn Feldman, Black Rhythms of Peru. Reviving African Musical Heritage in the Black Pacific (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2006)—Claude Chastagner, Université de Montpellier, France. 2

Jean-Philippe Feldman, La Bataille américaine du fédéralisme, John C. Calhoun et l’annulation, 1828-1833 (Paris : Presses Universitaires de France, 2004, 30,00€, 294 pages, ISBN 2-13-052403-6)—Rahma Jerad, Université Paris VII - Denis Diderot

Helen Fielding, Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination (Basingstoke & Oxford: Picador, 2003)—Kevin Hunt

Claudette Fillard & Colette Collomb-Boureau, Les Mouvements féministes américains (Paris: Ellipses, 2003); Melinda Tims, Perspectives on the Making of America: An Introduction to U.S. Civilization (Paris: Ellipses, 2002)—Georges-Claude Guilbert

David Hackett Fischer, Washington's Crossing (New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004)—Gerardo Del Guercio

Richard Fletcher, Bloodfeud: Murder and Revenge in Anglo-Saxon England (London: Penguin, 2002)—Cher Holt-Fortin

Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (London: Hamish Hamilton, 2005)—Jim Friel

Wendy Fonarow, Empire of Dirt: The Aesthetics and Rituals of British Indie Music (Wesleyan University Press, 2006)—Elsa Grassy, University of Paris IV, Sorbonne, France

Brian Foss, War Paint: Art, War, State and Identity in Britain, 1939-1945 (Published for The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art—Yale University Press, 2007)—Antoine Capet, Université de Rouen, France. 2

Nigel Fountain ed., Women at War. Voices from the Twentieth Century: Eyewitness Accounts from the Imperial War Museum Sound Archive (London: Michael O’Mara in Association with the Imperial War Museum, 2002); Nigel Fountain ed., The Battle of Britain and the Blitz. Voices from the Twentieth Century: Eyewitness Accounts from the Imperial War Museum Sound Archive (London: Michael O’Mara in Association with the Imperial War Museum, 2002)—Antoine Capet

Ford Madox Ford, Max Saunders & Richard Stang, eds., Critical Essays (Manchester: Carcanet, 2002)—Stacy Gillis

Nicole Fouché, Benjamin Franklin & Thomas Jefferson : aux Sources de l’amitié franco-américaine, 1776-1808 (Paris : Michel Houdiard, 2000); Annick Foucrier, Meriwether Lewis & William Clark : La Traversée d’un continent, 1803-1806 (Paris : Michel Houdiard, 2000)—Anne Wicke

Jean-Paul Fourmentraux, Art et Internet – Les nouvelles figures de la création (CNRS édition, 2005)—Marjorie Vanbaelinghem, University of Nantes, France

Santiago Fouz-Hernández & Freya Jarman-Ivens, eds., Madonna’s Drowned Worlds: New Approaches to her Cultural Transformations, 1983-2003 (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2004)—Chris Bell

Karen Joy Fowler, The Jane Austen Book Club: A Novel (New York: Putnam, 2004)—Cher Holt-Fortin

Ronald Frame, Permanent Violet (Edinburgh: Polygon / Edinburgh University Press, 2002)—Mireille Quivy

Marie France, Elle était une fois (Paris: Denoël, 2003)—Georges-Claude Guilbert

Al Franken, Lies (And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them): A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right (New York: Dutton, 2003)—David McBride

Divina Frau-Meigs, Médiamorphoses américaines : dans un espace privé unique au monde (Paris : Economica, 2001)—Caroline Bélan

Carl Freedman, The Incomplete Projects: Marxism, Modernity and the Politics of Culture (Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 2002)—Mercedes Cuenca

Estelle B. Freedman, No Turning Back: The History of Feminism and the Future of Women (London: Profile Books, 2002)—Georges-Claude Guilbert

[Freeman & Nelson] W.T. Stead. The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon : Report of the Secret Commission. Originally published in the Pall Mall Gazette in 1885. Edited and with annotations and an introductory essay by Antony E.Simpson.

Witnesses to the Scaffold : English Literary Figures as Observers of Public Executions : Pierce Egan, Thackeray, Dickens, Alexander Smith, G.A. Sala, Orwell. Edited, with annotations, commentaries, and an introductory essay by Antony E. Simpson.

Vicarious Vagrants : Incognito Social Explorers and the Homeless in England, 1860-1910. Edited, with annotations and an introductory essay by Mark Freeman & Gillian Nelson (Lambertville, NJ: The True Bill Press, 2007-2008) — Reviewed by Antoine Capet, Université de Rouen 2

Simon Frith, Will Straw & John Street eds., The Cambridge Companion to Pop and Rock (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001)—Georges-Claude Guilbert

 

G

Javier Gascueña Gahete & Paula Mártin Salván, eds, Figures of Belatedness: Postmodernist Fiction in English (Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Córdoba, 2006)—Bent Sørensen, Denmark. 2

Katherine Gallagher, Circus Apprentice (Todmorden: Arc Publications, 2006)—Susan Ballyn, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain. 2

Joshua Gamson, The Fabulous Sylvester: The Legend, The Music, The Seventies in San Francisco ( New York : Henry Holt & Company, 2005, $26.00, 306 pages, ISBN 0-8050-7250-0—Chris Bell, Nottingham Trent University

Kyle Gann, Music Downtown; Writings from the Village Voice (University of California Press , 2006)—Elsa Grassy, University of Paris IV, Sorbonne, France

Jim Gasteen, Under the Mulga: A Bush Memoir (St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 2005, AUD$27.18, 318 Pages, ISBN 0-7022-3445-1-1)—Susan Ballyn, Universitat de Barcelona

David Gere, How to Make Dances in an Epidemic: Tracking Choreography in the Age of AIDS (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2004, $24.95, 341 pages, 0-299-20084-1)—Chris Bell, Nottingham Trent University

Nelson George, The Death of Rhythm & Blues (New York: Penguin, 2004 [p. Reprint of the 1988 Pantheon edition])—Claude Chastagner

Robert Gibbons (with a preface by Claire Barbetti), Body of Time (Pittsburgh: Mise Publications, 2004, $29.95, xii + 193 pages, ISBN 0-9749086-0-6)—Camelia Elias, Aalborg University

William Gibson, Pattern Recognition (London: Penguin / Viking, 2003)—Bill Phillips

Elizabeth Gilbert, The Last American Man (New York: Viking, 2002)—Valerie Palmer-Mehta

Martin Gilbert, Churchill and America (London: Free Press, London, 2005, £26.38, 528 pages, ISBN 0743275543)—François Kersaudy, Université de Paris I

Richard Gill & Susan Gregory, Mastering the Novels of Jane Austen (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003)—Cher Holt-Fortin

Howard Gillman, The Votes that Counted: How the Court Decided the 2000 Presidential Election (Chicago & London: The University of Chicago Press, 2001); Cass R. Sunstein & Richard A. Epstein eds., The Vote: Bush, Gore & the Supreme Court (Chicago & London: The University of Chicago Press, 2001); Jack N. Rakove, ed., The Unfinished Election of 2000: Leading Scholars Examine America’s Strangest Election (New York: Basic Books, 2001)— Georges-Claude Guilbert

Sander L. Gilman, Fat Boys: A Slim Book (Lincoln & London: University of Nebraska Press, 2004)—Kevin Hunt

G. Russell Girardin & William J. Helmer, Dillinger: The Untold Story (Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 2004, $19.95, 378 pages, ISBN-0-32556-0)—Thomas J. Mayock, Annandale, Virginia

Kevis Goodman, Georgic Modernity and British Romanticism: Poetry and the Mediation of History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004)—Sylvie Crinquand

Philomena Goodman, Women, Sexuality and War (New York: Palgrave, 2002)—Wendy O’Brien

Thomas Goodrich. The Darkest Dawn: Lincoln, Booth, and the Great American Tragedy. (Bloomington & Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2005) — Reviewed by Gerardo Del Guercio, Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf, Montréal  2  

 

Jean-Marc Gouanvic. Pratique sociale de la traduction : Le roman réaliste américain dans le champ littéraire français (1920-1960). (Arras : Artois Presses Université, 2007) —  Recension d’Isabelle Génin, Université Sorbonne-Nouvelle Paris III  2

Robert Grant, Imagining the Real: Essays on Politics, Ideology and Literature (Basingstoke & New York: Palgrave, 2003)—Marjorie Vanbaelinghem

Joseph L. Graves, Jr., The Race Myth: Why We Pretend Race Exists in America (New York: Dutton, 2004)—Chris Bell

William Gray, Robert Louis Stevenson: A Literary Life (Basingstoke & New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004)—Nathalie Saudo

Cheryl Lynn Greenberg, Troubling the Waters, Black-Jewish Relations in the American Century (Princeton University Press, 2006)—Jean Szlamowicz, University of Orléans, France. 2

Fred I. Greenstein, The Presidential Difference: Leadership Style from FDR to George W. Bush (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004)—Hajer Ben Gouider Trabelsi

Fred I. Greenstein, ed., The George W. Bush Presidency: An Early Assessment ( Baltimore & London : The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003, $19.95, xiii-314 pages, ISBN 0-8018-7846-2)—Michael Meyer, Universität Koblenz-Landau

William Griffin, G.K. Chesterton, Essential Writings, Modern Spiritual Masters (Orbis Books, Maryknoll, N.Y., 2003)—Alain Blayac

John Grigg, Lloyd George, Vol. 1 - The Young Lloyd George (London: Penguin, 2002), Vol. 2 - The People's Champion, 1902-1911 (London: Penguin, 2002), Vol. 3 - From Peace to War, 1912-1916 (London: Penguin, 2002), Vol. 4 - Lloyd George : War Leader, 1916-1918. London: Penguin, 2003)—Antoine Capet

David Gritten, Fame: Stripping Celebrity Bare (London: Allen Lane, 2002)—Georges-Claude Guilbert

Georges-Claude Guilbert, Madonna as Postmodern Myth: How One Star's Self-Construction Rewrites Sex, Gender, Hollywood and the American Dream (Jefferson & London: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2002)—Nicolas Magenham

Bénédicte Guillaume, Approche énonciative des question tags en anglais contemporain (Paris : Ophrys, Cahiers de recherche, 2006)—I. Gaudy-Campbell, Université de Metz, France. 2

Matthew Pratt Guterl, The Color of Race in America, 1900-1940 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001) — Miriam Miranda Chitiga

 

H

Andrew Hadfield, ed., Literature and Censorship in Renaissance England ( Basingstoke & New York: Palgrave 2001)—Bill Phillips

Andrew Hadfield, Shakespeare and Republicanism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005)—Guillaume Coatalen, Université de Cergy-Pontoise, France. 2

Joy Hakim, Freedom: A History of US (Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 2002/2003)—Cher Holt-Fortin

David D. Hall, Puritans in the New World: A Critical Anthology (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004)—Gerardo Del Guercio

Mark Hallett & Christine Riding, Hogarth, w ith Contributions by Olivier  Meslay, Frédéric  Ogée & Tim Batchelor (London: Tate Enterprises, 2006)—Antoine Capet, University of Rouen, France. 2

Laurell K. Hamilton, Narcissus in Chains (New York: Berkley Books, 2001—Megan O’Neill

Ellen Hampton, Women of Valor: The Rochambelles on the World War II Front  (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006)—Charles L. Robertson, Smith College, USA. 2

Claire Hancock, Paris et Londres au XIXe siècle, Représentations dans les guides et récits de voyage (Paris : CNRS Editions, 2003)—Jacques Carré, Université Paris IV-Sorbonne

Neil Hanson, The Dreadful Judgement: The True Story of the Great Fire of London, 1666 (London: Doubleday, 2001)—Alain Lauzanne

François Happe, dir., Profils Américains n° 16 : Don DeLillo (Montpellier : Publications Montpellier 3 - Université Paul Valéry, 2005, 13,00€, 290 pages, ISBN 2-84269-649-2.)—Georges-Claude Guilbert, Université de Rouen

Wendy Harding & Eric Doumerc & al., Introduction to Poetry in English (Toulouse: PUM, 2007)—Claire Hélie, University of Perpignan, France. 2

Robert Pogue Harrison, The Dominion of the Dead (Chicago & London: The University of Chicago Press, 2003)—James Friel

Kevin Hart & Geoffrey Hartman, Eds., The Power of Contestation. Perspectives on Maurice Blanchot (Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004)—Emmanuelle Le Texier, University of Lille 3, France. 2

Victoria K. Haskins, One Bright Spot (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005)—Susan Ballyn, University of Barcelona, Spain. 2

Darryl Hattenhauer, Shirley Jackson’s American Gothic (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2003)—Nephie Christodoulides

Nathaniel Hawthorne,Twenty Days with Julian and Little Bunny (By Papa) (New York: The New York Review of Books, 2003)—Nephie Christodoulides

Dominic Head, The Cambridge Introduction to Modern British Fiction, 1950-2000 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002)—Marylin Mell

Michael J. Heale, The Sixties in America : History, Politics and Protest (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press / Bass Paperbacks, 2001)—Georges-Claude Guilbert

Anthony Hecht, Melodies Unheard: Essays on the Mysteries of Poetry (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003)—Geneviève Cohen-Cheminet

Anita Helle ed.,The Unraveling Archive: Essays on Sylvia Plath (Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2006)—Carol Bere, freelance writer and independent scholar, USA. 2

Daniel Heller-Roazen, Echolalias: On the Forgetting of Language ( New York : Zone Books, $28.00, 288 pages, ISBN 1890951498)—Graham Ranger, Université d'Avignon

Nicholas Henderson, The Private Office Revisited (London: Profile Books, 2001)—Antoine Capet

Peter Hennessy, The Secret State (London: Penguin, 2003)—Antoine Capet

Peter Hennessy, Never Again: Britain 1945-51 (London: Penguin, 2006)—Antoine Capet, University of Rouen, France

Nat Hentoff, American Music Is (New York: Da Capo, 2004)—Claude Chastagner

Allan Hepburn (ed.) People, Places, Things : Essays by Elizabeth Bowen. (Edinburgh: University Press, 2008) — Christine Reynier 2


T. Walter Herbert, Sexual Violence and American Manhood (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2002)—James Friel

Jill Heydt-Stevenson, Austen’s Unbecoming Conjunctions: Subversive Laughter, Embodied History ( New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, $69.95, 288 pages, ISBN 1403964106) —Chloé Beccaria, Université de Provence

Dominic Hibberd, Wilfred Owen: A New Biography (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2002)—Cher Holt-Fortin

Roger Highfield, The Science of Harry Potter: How Magic Really Works (New York: Penguin Books, 2002)—Donna Spalding Andréolle

Christopher Hill, Cabinet Decisions on Foreign Policy: The British Experience - October 1938-June 1941 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002)—Antoine Capet

Darrious D. Hilmon, Divalicious (New York: New American Library, 2004)—Gerardo Del Guercio, Independent researcher

Walter Hirtle, Language in the Mind: An Introduction to Guillaume's Theory (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2007)—Dennis Philps, University of Toulouse Le Mirail, France. 2

Christopher Hitchens, Letters to a Young Contrarian (New York & Cambridge, MA: Basic Books / Perseus, 2001)—Valentin Locoge

Henry Hitchings, Dr. Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book that Defined the World (London: John Murray, 2005)—Diana Dominguez, The University of Texas-Brownsville/Texas Southmost College

Eric Hobsbawm, Interesting Times: A Twentieth-Century Life (London: Allen Lane, 2002)—Antoine Capet

Ingerborg Hoesterey, Pastiche: Cultural Memory in Art, Film, Literature (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001) — Georges-Claude Guilbert

Gerhard Hoffmann, From Modernism to Postmodernism, Concepts and Strategies of Postmodern American Fiction (Amsterdam-New York: Rodopi B. V., 2005)—Aristie Trendel, University of Montpellier 1, France. 2

Richard Hogg & David Denison eds., A History of the English Language (London: Cambridge University Press, 2006)—Megan O'Neill, Stetson University, USA. 2

Melvin Holland, Irish Peacock and Scarlett Marquess: The Real Trial of Oscar Wilde (London, Fourth Estate, 2003)—Philippe Chassaigne

Richard Holmes, In the Footsteps of Churchill (London: BBC Books, 2005)—Antoine Capet

bell hooks, Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics (London: Pluto Press, 2000) — Georges-Claude Guilbert

Michael F. Hopkins, Michael D. Kandiah & Gillian Staerck, eds., Cold War Britain, 1945-1964: New Perspectives (Basingstoke & New York: Palgrave, 2002/2003) — Antoine Capet

Masahiro Hori, Investigating Dickens’ Style: A Collocational Analysis (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004)—Jacqueline Fromonot, Université Paris VIII Saint-Denis

Gérard Hugues, Une Théorie de l’Etat esclavagiste. John Caldwell Calhoun (Aix-en-Provence : Publication de l’Université de Provence, 2004, 20,00€, 199 pages, ISBN 2-85399-575-5)—Rahma Jerad, Université Paris VII - Denis Diderot

N.E.H. Hull & Peter Charles Hoffer, Roe v. Wade: The Abortion Rights Controversy in American History (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2002)—Céline Van Kets

Douglas Hurd, Memoirs (London: Little, Brown, 2003)—Antoine Capet