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Book Review Editor

Mireille QUIVY
mireille.quivy@univ-rouen.fr

Université de Rouen

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Joel Lane, The Blue Mask (London: Serpent's Tail, 2003)—Steven Marc Jones

Justine Larbalestier, ed. Daughters of Earth: Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century (Middletow, CO: Wesleyan University Press, 2006)—Jamil Khader, Stetson University, Deland, Florida, USA. 2

Philip Larkin, Further Requirements: Interviews, Broadcasts, Statements and Book Reviews (London: Faber and Faber, 2001)—Philippe Romanski

Klaus Larres, Churchill’s Cold War: The Politics of Personal Diplomacy (New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2002)—Antoine Capet

David Lavery, ed., This Thing of Ours: Investigating the Sopranos (London: Wallflower Press, 2002)—Barbara Villez

Steven F. Lawson, Civil Rights Crossroads: Nation, Community, and the Black Freedom Struggle (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2003)—Chris Bell

Daniel Lea & Berthold Schoene, eds., Posting the Male: Masculinities in Post-war and Contemporary British Literature (New York & Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2003)—Bill Phillips

Maurice S. Lee, Slavery, Philosophy, and American Literature, 1830-1860 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005)—Donald P. Gagnon, Western Connecticut State University

Alexander Leggatt, Shakespeare’s Tragedies:  Violation and Identity (Cambridge University Press, 2005)—Andrea Trocha-Van Nort, Université Paris XII Val de Marne, France, US Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, CO, USA. 2    

Stéphane Lerouge, Sophie Loubière, Alain Pierron, 100% compositeurs de bandes originales de films (Paris : MBC, 2002)—Nicolas Magenham

Emmanuelle Le Texier, Quand les exclus font de la politique. Le Barrio mexicain de San Diego, Californie ( Paris : Presses de Sciences Po, 2006)—Susan Trouvé Finding, University of Poitiers, France. 2

Fred M. Leventhal, ed., Twentieth-Century Britain: An Encyclopedia (New York: Peter Lang, 2003)—Antoine Capet

Jean-Paul Levet, Rire pour ne pas pleurer : Le Noir dans l'Amérique blanche / Laughin' Just to Keep from Cryin': Blacks in White America (Marseille : Parenthèses, 2002)—Robert Springer

Caroline Levine, The Serious Pleasures of Suspense: Victorian Realism and Narrative Doubt (Charlottesville & London: University of Virginia Press, 2003)—Nathalie Saudo

Stephen C. Levinson, Space in Language and Cognition : Explorations in Cognitive Diversity (Language, Culture & Cognition 5, Cambridge University Press, 2003)—Yvon Keromnes, University of Metz, France. 2

Geoffrey Lewis, Carson:The Man Who Divided Ireland ( London: Hambledon and London, 2005)—Kevin Matthews, George Mason University Fairfax, Virginia

Jane Lewis, The End of Marriage? Individualism and Intimate Relations (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2001)—Myriam Boussahba-Bravard

Nathaniel Lewis, Authenticity and Authorship (University of Nebraska Press, 2003)—Catherine Chauche

Robert M. Lewis, From Traveling Show to Vaudeville: Theatrical Spectacle in America 1830-1910 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003)—Richard Butsch

Eric Lichtenfeld, Action Speaks Louder: Violence, Spectacle, and the American Action Movie (Wesport, CT, Praeger, 2004, $39.95, 313 pages, ISBN 0-275-98054-5)—Anne Cremieux, Paris X - Nanterre

A.J. Liebling, Chicago: The Second City (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004)—Thomas J. Mayock

Marie Liénard-Yeterian & Gérald Préher, dir., Nouvelles du Sud. Hearing Voices, Reading Stories (Palaiseau : Editions de l'Ecole Polytechnique, 2007)—Amélie Claude Moisy, UNiversity of Paris 12, France. 2 

Fergus Linnane, London: The Wicked City (London, Robson, 2003)—Alain Lauzanne

Toby Litt, Finding Myself (London: Hamish Hamilton, 2003)—Debra Boyle

Penelope Lively, The Photograph (London: Viking, 2003)—Steven Marc Jones

David Lodge, Consciousness and the Novel (London: Secker & Warburg, 2002)—James Friel

Tim Lott, The Seymour Tapes (London: Viking, 2005)—K. J. Hunt, University of Nottingham

Jerome Loving, The Last Titan: A LIfe of Theodore Dreiser (Berkeley:  University of California Press, 2005)—Charles Holdefer, Université de Poitiers, France

Michael Lowenthal, Avoidance (Saint Paul, Minnesota: Graywolf Press, 2002)—Georges-Claude Guilbert

Wm. Roger Louis, ed., Still more Adventures with Britannia: Personalities, Politics and Culture in Britain (London & New York: I.B. Tauris, 2003)—Antoine Capet

Roger Lundin, Emily Dickinson and the Art of Belief (Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co, 1998)—Nephie Christodoulides

Alison Lurie, Boys and Girls Forever: Children’s Classics from Cinderella to Harry Potter (New York: Penguin Books, 2003)—Daniel Opler

Andrew Lycett, Dylan Thomas: A New Life (Woodstock & New York: The Overlook Press, 2004)—Denise Ginfray

Karen Lystra, Dangerous Intimacy: The Untold Story of Mark Twain’s Final Years (Berkeley, University of California Press, 2004, xxi+342 pages, $27.50, ISBN 0-520-23323-9)—Aristie Trendel, Université Marc Bloch - Strasbourg 2

 

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Diarmaid MacCulloch, Reformation: Europe's House Divided 1490-1700 (London & New York: Allen Lane, 2004)—Detlev Mares

Shena Mackay, Heligoland (London: Jonathan Cape, 2003)—Georgina Lock

Catherine MacKinnon, Women’s Lives, Men’s Laws (Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005, $39.95, 558 pages, ISBN 0-674-01540-1)—Kristen Chamberland, California State University, Long Beach

Tony Magistrale, Hollywood’s Stephen King (New York & London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004)—Trudy Bolter

Karen Ward Mahar, Women Filmmakers in Early Hollywood (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006)—Anne Crémieux, Université de Paris X, Nanterre, France. 2

Michael Makovsky, Churchill's Promised Land: Zionism And Statecraft, A New Republic Book (New Haven, Conn. & London: Yale University Press, 2007)—Antoine Capet, University of Rouen, France. 2

Janet Malcolm, Reading Chekhov (London: Granta, 2003)—James Friel

Bertram F. Malle, How the Mind Explains Behavior: Folk Explanations, Meaning, and Social Interaction (Cambridge, MA & London: MIT Press, 2004, $38.00, 328 pages, ISBN 0-262-13445-4)—Craig Hamilton, University of California at Irvine

Peter Mandler, History and National Life (London: Profile Books, 2002)—Detlev Mares

Timothy Mangan & Irene Herrmann, ed., Paul Bowles on Music (Berkeley: The University of California Press, 2003)—Claude Chastagner

Alberto Manguel, Stevenson Under the Palm Trees (Edinburgh: Canongate Books, 2005)—Gregory McCormick

Manning Marable, The Great Wells of Democracy: The Meaning of Race in American Life (New York: BasicCivitas Books, 2002)—Marie Liénard

Greil Marcus, Mystery Train (Paris: Editions Allia, 2001). Nick Tosches, Hellfire (Paris: Editions Allia, 2001) — Claude Chastagner 

Victor Margolin & Patty Carroll, Culture Is Everywhere: The Museum of Corn-temporary Art (London & New York: Prestel, 2002)—Georges-Claude Guilbert

Mike Marqusee, Chimes of Freedom: The Politics of Bob Dylan's Art (New York: The New Press, 2003)—Claude Chastagner

Sophie Marret & Pascale Renaud-Grosbras dir. Lectures et Ecritures du Mythe (Collection Interférences, Rennes : Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2006)—Claude Maisonnat, University of Lyon II Lumière, France. 2

Russell Martin, Picasso’s War: The Destruction of Guernica, and the Masterpiece that Changed the World (New York: Dutton, 2002)—Millard Dunn

Mark Maslan, Whitman Possessed: Poetry, Sexuality and Popular Authority (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001) — Joanny Moulin

Sylvie Mathé et Gilles Teulié, dir., Cultures de la confession. Formes de l’aveu dans le monde anglophone (Aix : Publications de l’Université de Provence, 2006)—Françoise Dupeyron-Lafay, Université Paris 12, France. 2

Peter H. Matthews, Syntactic Relations. A critical survey (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics 114.Cambridge: CUP, 2007)—Olivier Simonin, University of Paris 13, France. 2

Willard C. Matthias, America’s Strategic Blunders: Intelligence Analysis and National Security Policy, 1936-1991 (University Park, Penn.: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001)—Annick Cizel

Fran Mason, American Gangster Cinema: From Little Caesar to Pulp Fiction (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002)—Georges-Claude Guilbert

Kevin Matthews, Fatal Influence: The Impact of Ireland on British Politics, 1920-1925 (Dublin: University College Dublin Press, 2004)—John P. McCarthy

Lary May, The Big Tomorrow: Hollywood and the Politics of the American Way (Chicago & London: The University of Chicago Press, 2000) — Nicolas Magenham

Mary McCarthy, How I Grew: A Memoir of the Early Years (New York: Harcourt / Harvest, 1987/2005, $15.00, 304 pages, ISBN 0-15-602788-7)—Trudy Bolter, Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Bordeaux

Timothy Patrick McCarthy & John Stauffer, eds., Prophets of Protest: Reconsidering the History of American Abolitionism (New York / London: New Press, 2006)—David Waterman, Université de La Rochelle, France. 2

Nick McDonell, Twelve (London: Atlantic Books, 2002)—Georges-Claude Guilbert

Tom McDonough, ed., Guy Debord and the Stituationist International: Texts and Documents (Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2002)—Andrew Hussey

Andrew McKeown & Charles Holdefer, eds., Philip Larkin and the Poetics of Resistance (Paris: L’Harmattan, 2006)—Stephen Sossaman, Westfield State College

Devin McKinney, Magic Circles: The Beatles in Dream and History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2003)—Claude Chastagner

Juliet McMaster, Reading the Body in the Eighteenth-Century Novel (Basingstoke & New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004)—Véronique Alexandre

John McWhorter, Authentically Black: Essays for the Black Silent Majority (New York: Gotham Books, 2003)—Gerald R. Butters Jr.

John McWhorter, Doing Our Own Thing: The Degradation of Language and Music and Why We Should, Like, Care (New York: Gotham Books, 2003)—Adrian Smith

Marijane Meaker, Highsmith: A Romance of the 1950s (San Francisco, CA: Cleis Press, 2003, $14.95, 207 pages, ISBN 1-57344-171-6)—Donald P. Gagnon, Western Connecticut State University

Mitchell Meltzer, Secular Revelations: The Constitution of the United States & Classic American Literature (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2005, $39.95, 204 pages, ISBN 0-674-01912-1)—Alice Béja, Université Paris III

Hélène Menegaldo, dir., Figures de la marge : Marginalité et identité dans le monde contemporain (Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2002)—Hélène Pécot, Université de Rouen

Ismail Merchant, My Passage from India: A Filmaker’s Journey from Bombay to Hollywood and Beyond (New York: Viking Studio / Penguin Putnam, 2002)—Millard Dunn

Jean-Marie Merle & Lucie Gournay (dir.), Contrastes : Mélanges offerts à Jacqueline Guillemin-Flescher (Paris, Gap : Ophrys, 2004)—Mireille Quivy

Mark Merlis, Man about Town (London: Fourth Estate, 2003)—Joanne Hall

John Micklethwait & Adrian Wooldridge, The Right Nation:Why America is Different (New York, Penguin Group (USA) 2004)—Thomas J. Mayock

Sylvie Mikowski, Le Roman contemporain irlandais (Caen: Presses universitaires de Caen, 2004, 20,00€, 293 pages, ISBN 2-84133-299-2)—Shannon Wells-Lassagne, Université de Bretagne Sud

D. A. Miller, Jane Austen, or the Secret of Style (Princeton & Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2003)—Chloé Beccaria

Richard H. Millington, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Nathaniel Hawthorne (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, £45.00, 245 pages, ISBN 0-521-80774-5X)—Denise Ginfray, Université de Clermont II

Jeremy Moon & Campbell Sharman, eds., Australian Politics and Government: The Commonwealth, the States and the Territories (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003)—Susan Ballyn

Michael Moore, Dude, Where's My Country (London: Allen Lane, 2003)—David McBride

Michael Moore, The Official Fahrenheit 9/11 Reader ( New York : Penguin Books, 2004, $20.00, 360 pages, ISBN 0-141-02138-1)—Gerardo Del Guercio, Independent Researcher

Michael Moore, Will They Ever Trust Us Again? (London: Allen Lane, 2004)—Jacques Coulardeau

A. Lloyd Moote & Dorothy C. Moote, The Story of London’s Most Deadly Year (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006)—Alain Lausanne, Université de Rouen, France. 2

Joe Moran, Interdisciplinarity (Routledge, New Critical Idiom Series, 2002)—Craig Hamilton, Université de Haute Alsace, France. 2

Ethan Mordden, One More Kiss: The Broadway Musical in the 1970s (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003)—Daniel Opler

Edmund S. Morgan, Benjamin Franklin (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003)—Thomas J. Mayock

Sue Morgan, ed., Women, Religion, and Feminism in Britain 1750-1900 (London: Palgrave, 2002)—Philippe Chassaigne

Jan Morris, Conundrum (London: Faber and Faber, 2002)—Georges-Claude Guilbert

Pam Morris, Imagining Inclusive Society in Nineteenth-Century Novels: The Code of Sincerity in the Public Sphere ( Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004, $44.95, 272 pages, ISBN 0-8018-7911-6)—Gerardo Del Guercio, Independent Researcher

Donna Morrissey, Downhill Chance (Toronto: Penguin Canada, 2002)—Joelle d’Entremont

Peter Mortensen, British Romanticism and Continental Influences: Writing in an Age of Europhobia (Basingstoke & New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004)—Bill Phillips

John E. Moser, Twisting the Lion's Tail: American Anglophobia Between the World Wars. New York: New York University Press, 1999—Antoine Capet

Andrew Motion, ed., First World War Poems (London: Faber & Faber, 2003)—Min Wild

Constance L. Mui & Julien S. Murphy, eds., Gender Struggles: Practical Approaches to Contemporary Feminism (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002)—Agnieszka Graff

Henri Murger, The Bohemians of the Latin Quarter (Translated by Ellen Marriage & John Selwyn. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004)—Marialana Wittman

Beverley Murphy, Bastard Prince: Henry VIII's Lost Son (Phoenix Mill, Gloucestershire: Sutton Publishing, 2001)—Claire Gheeraert-Graffeuille