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Antoine CAPET 
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John Iceland, Poverty in America (Berkeley: UCP, 2006)—Emmanuelle Le Texier, Université Lille 3, France 2

Raphaël Ingelbien, Misreading England: Poetry and Nationhood Since the Second World War (Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi, 2002)—Jo Gill

Robert Ingham & Duncan Brack (eds.), Peace, Reform and Liberation : A History of Liberal Politics in Britain, 1679-2011 (London: Biteback Publishing, 2011)—Reviewed by Kenneth O. Morgan, The Queen’s College, Oxford 2

Ronald Inglehart & Pippa Norris, eds., Rising Tide: Gender Equality and Cultural Change Around the World (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003)Chris Bell

Billy Ingram, TV Party! Television's Untold Tales (Chicago: Bonus Books, 2002)—Barbara Villez

William Henry Ireland, L’Abesse (Edition d’Élizabeth Durot-Boucé, Lettres & Langues, Lettres Modernes, Éditions Publibook, Paris, 2006)—Pierre Morère, Grenoble 3

John H. Irsfeld, Radio Elvis and Other Stories (Fort Worth, Texas: Texas Christian University Press, 2002)—Lincoln Geraghty

Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go ( London , Faber & Faber, 2005, 282 pages, £6.99, ISBN 0571224113)—Alain Blayac, Université Paul Valéry - Montpellier III

Jonathan I. Israel Enlightenment Contested: Philosophy, Modernity, and the Emancipation of Man 1670-1752 (Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2006)—Franck Lessay, Université Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle, France 2

Velichka D. Ivanova (ed.), Reading Philip Roth’s American Pastoral (Presses Universitaires du Mirail, 2011)—Reviewed by Françoise Palleau-Papin, Université Paris Nord-13 2

Velichka D. Ivanova, Architecture d’un rêve : American Pastoral de Philip Roth : Une étude narrative (Toulouse : Presses Universitaires du Mirail, 2012)—Recension de Françoise Palleau-Papin, Université Paris Nord-13 2

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Ashley Jackson & David Tomkins, Illustrating Empire : A Visual History of British Imperialism (Oxford: The Bodleian Library, 2011)—Reviewed by Adam Stephenson, Université de Picardie Jules-Verne, Amiens 2

Robert H. Jackson, That Man: An Insider’s Portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt (John Q. Barrett, ed.)Thomas J. Mayock

Troy Jackson, Becoming King : Martin Luther King Jr. and the Making of a National Leader (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2011)—Reviewed by Cécile Cottenet, Université de Provence, Aix-Marseille 2

Nathalie Jaëck. Charles Dickens : L’écriture comme pouvoir, l’écriture comme résistance. (Paris : Ophrys, 2008)Recension de Marc Porée, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3 2

Pierre Jamet. Shakespeare et Nietzsche : La volonté de joie. (Paris : Publibook, 2008)  Recension de François Laroque, Université Paris III -Sorbonne Nouvelle  2

Beth Kiyoko Jamieson, Real Choices: Feminism, Freedom, and the Limits of the Law (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001)—Diana Dominguez

Mark Jancovich, The Cultural Politics of New Criticism ([1993] Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2006)—Jamil Khader, Stetson University, Deland, Florida, USA. 2

Philip Jenkins, Dream Catchers: How Mainstream America Discovered Native Spirituality (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004, $16.95, 306 pages, ISBN 0-19-518910-8)—Malie Montagutelli, Université Paris III

David Fraser Jenkins, John Piper : The Forties (London: Philip Wilson 2012 [2000])—Reviewed by Sophie Aymes, Université de Bourgogne (Dijon) 2

Deborah Jermyn & Sean Redmond, eds., The Cinema of Kathryn Bigelow: Hollywood Transgressor (London & New York: Wallflower Press, 2003)—Diana Dominguez

Devin Johnston, Precipitations; Contemporary American Poetry as Occult Practice (Middleton: Wesleyan University Press, 2002)—Joanny Moulin

Mark Johnston & Peter Stanley, eds., Alamein: The Australian Story (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 2002)Susan Ballyn

E. Patrick Johnson & Mae G. Henderson, eds., Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology ( Durham :  Duke University Press, 2005, $23.95, 377 pages, ISBN 0-8223-3618-9)—Chris Bell, Nottingham Trent University

David R. Jones & Monika L. McDermott. Americans, Congress and Democratic Responsiveness: Public Evaluations of Congress and Electoral Consequences (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2009)Reviewed by Pierre Sicard, Université de Picardie-Jules Verne (Amiens) 2

Nicholas Jose (ed.) The Literature of Australia (London & New York: Norton, 2009). Peter Pierce (ed.) The Cambridge History of Australian Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009) Reviewed by Jean-François Vernay 2


Sheri Joseph, Bear Me Safely Over (London: Virago Press, 2003)—Georges-Claude Guilbert

Davis D. Joyce, Howard Zinn: A Radical American Vision (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2003)Daniel Opler

Denis Judd, The Lion and the Tiger: The Rise and Fall of the British Raj 1600-1947 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004)Thomas J. Mayock

 

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Robyn Karney, ed., Cinema Year by Year: 1894-2002 (London: Dorling Kindersley, 2002)—Nicolas Magenham

Jennie A. Kassanoff, Edith Wharton and the Politics of Race (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, $70.00, 226 pages, ISBN 0-521-83089-3)Chris Bell,Nottingham TrentUniversity

Burton Kaufman. The Post-Presidency from Washington to Clinton (Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 2013)—Reviewed by Jeffrey H. Bloodworth, Gannon University (Erie, Pennsylvania) 2

Eric P. Kaufmann, The Rise and Fall of Anglo-America (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004, $49, 95, 384 pages, ISBN 0-674-01303-4)—Gerardo Del Guercio, Independent Researcher

Stanley Kauffmann, Regarding Film: Criticism and Comment (Baltimore: Performing Arts Journal Books / The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001)—Nicolas Magenham

Melba Cuddy Keane, Virginia Woolf, the Intellectual & the Public Sphere (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003)—Nephie Christodoulides

Evelien Keizer. The English Noun Phrase: The Nature of Linguistic Categorization (Cambridge: University Press, 2007 [2010])—Reviewed by Evelyne Chabert, Université Stendhal – Grenoble 3 2

James R. Keller, Anne Rice and Sexual Politics: The Early Novels (Jefferson & London: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2000)—Georges-Claude Guilbert

Jim Kelly (ed.), Ireland and Romanticism : Publics, Nations and Scenes of Cultural Production (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011)—Reviewed by Sylvie Mikowski, Université de Reims 2

Patrick J. Kelly. Tirpitz and the Imperial German Navy (Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press 2011)—Reviewed by Michael Epkenhans, Militärgeschichtliches Forschungsamt, Potsdam 2

Randall Kennedy, Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word (New York: Pantheon Books, 2002)—Françoise Clary

Nigel KeohaneThe Party of Patriotism : The Conservative Party and the First World War (Farnham: Ashgate, 2010)—Reviewed by Jules Gehrke, Saginaw Valley State University 2

Frank Kermode, Pieces of My Mind ( Allen Lane: London, 2003)Ann Skea

François Kersaudy, De Gaulle et Roosevelt : Le duel au sommet (Paris : Librairie Académique Perrin, 2004) & David Stafford, Roosevelt and Churchill: Men of Secrets (Woodstock, N.Y.: Overlook Press, 2000)Antoine Capet

Thomas Keymer, Sterne, the Moderns and the Novel (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002)—Min Wild

Daniel Keyes, Algernon, Charlie, and I (New York: Harvest/Harcourt, 2000/2004, 220 pages, $13.00, 220 pages, ISBN 0-15-602999-5)—Megan O'Neill, Stetson University

Desmond King, Robert C. Lieberman, Gretchen Ritter & Laurence Whitehead, (Eds.) Democratization in America : A Comparative-Historical Analysis (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009)—Reviewed by Michael L. Krenn, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC  2

Geoff King, New Hollywood Cinema: An Introduction (London & New York: I.B. Tauris Publishers, 2002)—Nicolas Magenham

Geoff King, Film Comedy (London & New York: Wallflower Press, 2002)—Nicolas Magenham

Geoff King, American Independent Cinema (London: I.B. Tauris, 2005, $14.95, 294 pages, ISBN 1850439389)—Thomas Aiello,University ofArkansas

Peter King. The New Politics : Liberal Conservatism or same old Tories? (Bristol: Policy Press, 2011)—Reviewed by Nicholas Deakin, London School of Economics & Political Science 2

Stephen King, Écriture : mémoires d’un métier (Paris: Albin Michel, 2001)—Philippe Romanski, Université de Rouen

Steven King & Geoffrey Timmins, Making Sense of the Industrial Revolution: English Economy and Society 1700-1850 ( Manchester & New York: Manchester University Press, 2001) — Alain Lauzanne

Miles Kington, Le Bumper Book of Franglais (Tiverton: Old Street, 2010)—Reviewed by Peter Catterall, Queen Mary University of London 2

David L. Kirp, Shakespeare, Einstein, and the Bottom Line: The Marketing of Higher Education (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003)—George D. Oberle III

Judith Kitchen, The House on Eccles Road (New York: Penguin Books, 2003)—Janne Stigen Drangsholt

Bakari Kitwana, The Hip Hop Generation: Young Blacks and the Crisis in African-American Culture (New York: BasicCivitas Books, 2002)—Joycelyn A. Wilson

Bakari Kitwana, Why White Kids Love Hip-Hop: Wankstas, Wiggers, Wannabes, and the New Reality of Race in America (New York: BasicCivitas, 2005, $23.00, 222 pages, ISBN 0-465-03746-1)—Chris Bell, Nottingham Trent University

Ethan Knapp, The Bureaucratic Muse, Thomas Hoccleve and the Literature of Late Medieval England( Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001)—Blaise Douglas

 

Charles A. Knight, The Literature of Satire (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004)—Véronique Alexandre, Université de Caen, France. 2

 

Louise W. Knight, Citizen: Jane Addams and the Struggle for Democracy (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2005, $35.00, xvi-582 pages, ISBN 0-226-44699-9)—Alain Suberchicot, Université Jean-Moulin - Lyon 3

 

U.C. Knoepflmacher & Logan D. Browning, Victorian Hybridities : Cultural Anxiety and Formal Innovation (Baltimore, The John Hopkins University Press, 2010)—Recension de Yann Tholoniat, Université de Lorraine 2

Peter Knox-Shaw, Jane Austen and the Enlightenment (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2004)—Chloé Beccaria, Université de Provence, France —Caroline Bertonèche, Université de Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle, France. 2

Wayne Koestenbaum, Andy Warhol (New York: Lipper / Viking, 2001); Annette Michelson, ed., Andy Warhol: October Files #2 (Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2002)—Georges-Claude Guilbert, Université de Rouen

Yusef Komunyakaa, Pleasure Dome (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2001, $24.95, 445 pages, ISBN 0-8195-6739-6)—Aileen La Tourette, Liverpool John Moores University

Nicole Krauss, The History of Love ( London : Penguin, 2006, £7.99, 272 pages, ISBN 0141019972)—Toni Saldivar, Mount Saint Mary College

Stephan Kraitsowits, J.G. Ballard : Inventer la réalité (Rouen : Publication des Universités de Rouen et du Havre, 2012)—Recension d’Hélène Machinal, Université de Bretagne Occidentale (Brest) 2

Theodora Kroeber, Ishi in Two Worlds: A Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North America (Berkeley &London:University ofCalifornia Press, 2002, $50.00, 255 pages, ISBN 0-520-00674-7)Roger E. Chapman,LincolnTrail College

Bruce Kuklick, Blind Oracles: Intellectuals and War from Kennan to Kissinger (Princeton & Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2006)Céline Letemplé, Université du Maine, Le Mans, France

Krishan Kumar, The Making of English National Identity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003)—Steven Guilbert

Harshan Kumarasingham.  A Political Legacy of the British Empire : Power and the Parliamentary System in Post-Colonial India and Sri Lanka (London: I.B. Tauris, 2013)—Reviewed by Bérénice Guyot-Réchard, Cambridge University 2

Josh Kun, Audiotopia. Music, Race and America (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005)Emmanuelle Le Texier, Université de Lille 3, France