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Antoine CAPET
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Université de Rouen

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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Carmel Quinlan, Genteel Revolutionaries, Anna and Thomas Haslam and the Irish Women’s Movement (Cork: Cork University Press, 2002)Alexandra Poulain

Malcolm Quinn, Utilitarianism and the Art School in Nineteenth-Century Britain (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2013)—Reviewed by Anne Brunon-Ernst, Université Paris 2, Panthéon-Assas & Centre Bentham (IEP, Paris) 2

Robin Quinn, Hitler’s Last Army : German POWs in Britain (Stroud: History Press, 2015)—Reviewed by S.P. MacKenzie, University of South Carolina 2

 

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Ronald Radano, Lying up a Nation: Race and Black Music (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2003)Jacques Coulardeau

Ann Radcliffe, Le Roman de la forêt. Édition de Jérémie Grangé (Paris : Éditions Classiques Garnier, 2011)—Recension d’Élizabeth Durot-Boucé, Université du Havre 2

Paul Raffield, The Art of Law in Shakespeare (Oxford: Hart, 2017)—Reviewed by Dominique Goy-Blanquet, Université de Picardie Jules-Verne (Amiens) 2

Craig Raine,T. S. Eliot (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006)—Marylin Mell, Dillard University, New Orleans, USA. 2

Colin Rallings & Michael Thrasher, British Electoral Facts (London: Total Politics, 2009)—Reviewed by Trevor Harris, Université François-Rabelais (Tours) 2

Annie Ramel. The Madder Stain : A Psychoanalytic Reading of Thomas Hardy (Leiden: Brill, 2015)—Reviewed by Stéphanie Bernard, Université de Rouen 2

Sheldon Rampton & John Stauber, Banana Republicans: How the Right Wing Is Turning America into a One-Party State ( New York : Tarcher, 2004, $11.95, viii-264 pages, ISBN 1-58542-342-4)Stefano Luconi, University of Florence

John Ramsden, ed., The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century British Politics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002)—Antoine Capet, Université de Rouen

John Ramsden, Man of the Century: Winston Churchill and his legend since 1945 (London: HarperCollins, 2002)—Monica Charlot.

RANAM – ESSE 6 – Volume 3 – Cultural Studies, General editor: Albert Hamm (Strasbourg: Université Marc Bloch, N° 36/2003)Marie-José Arquié

Graham Ranger, Discourse Markers : An Enunciative Approach (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)—Reviewed by Wilfrid Rotgé, Sorbonne Université, Paris  2

David C. Rankin, Diary of a Christian Soldier: Rufus Kinsley and the Civil War (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004)Gerardo Del Guercio

Helen Rappaport, Magnificent Obsession : Victoria, Albert and the Death that Changed the Monarchy (London: Hutchinson, 2011)—Reviewed by Monika Wienfort, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg 2

Nigel Rapport, ed., British Subjects: An Anthropology of Britain (Oxford: Berg, 2002)—Bernard Cros

Petra Rau (ed.), Long Shadows : The Second World War in British Fiction and Film (Evanston (Illinois): Northwestern University Press, 2016)—Reviewed by Steve Ellis, University of Birmingham 2

James Raven, What is the History of the Book? (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2018)—Recension d’Isabelle Baudino, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon 2

Elizabeth Rawitsch, Frank Capra's Eastern Horizons : American Identity and the Cinema of International Relations (London: I.B. Tauris, 2015)—Reviewed by Allister Mactaggart, Chesterfield College 2

Joad Raymond, Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003)—Claire Gheeraert-Graffeuille

Claudine Raynaud (traduction, introduction et notes), Récit de Sojourner Truth (Presses Universitaires de Rouen et du Havre, 2016)—Recension de Nathalie Dessens, Université de Toulouse-Jean Jaurès 2

Geoffrey Rayner, Richard Chamberlain, & Annamarie Stapleton, POP! Design Culture Fashion 1956-1976 (London: ACC Editions, 2012)—Reviewed by Georges-Claude Guilbert, Université François Rabelais (Tours) 2

Gerri Reaves, Mapping the Private Geography: Autobiography, Identity, and America (Jefferson & London: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2001)—Ada Savin

Maureen T. Reddy, Traces, Codes, and Clues: Reading Race in Crime Fiction (New Brunswick, N.J., and London: Rutgers University Press, 2003)—Ulrike Erichsen

Jennifer Redmond, Sonja Tiernan, Sandra McAvoy & Mary McAuliffe (eds.), Sexual Politics in Modern Ireland (Sallins: Irish Academic Press, 2015)—Reviewed by Sylvie Mikowski, Université de Reims 2

Jeremy Reed, Heartbreak Hotel: A Tribute to the King in Verse (London: Orion Books, 2002)—Georges-Claude Guilbert

Deborah Reed-Danahay, Locating Bourdieu (Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 2005, £21.95, 208 pages, ISBN 0-253-21732-6)—Claude Chastagner, Université Paul Valéry - Montpellier III

 

Frédéric Regard (dir.), De Drake à Chatwin : Rhétoriques de la découverte. (Lyon : ENS Éditions, 2007)Recension de Claire Gallien, Université Denis-Diderot, Paris VII  2

Jean-Paul Régis & Fabienne Toupin (dir.),Travaux de diachronie, 3 : Histoire de la langue anglaise : Évolution et système (Tours : Université François Rabelais, 2006)Recension de Paul Larreya, Université Paris XIII 2

David A. Rennie, American Writers and World War I (Oxford: University Press, 2020)—Reviewed by Lucie Jammes, Université de la Polynésie française (Tahiti) 2

Humphry Repton, Enquête sur les fluctuations du goût dans le jardin paysager, augmentée de quelques observations sur sa théorie et sa pratique, et comprenant une défense de cet art (1806). Introduction et traduction de Jacques Carré (Paris : Klincksieck, 2020)—Recension de Laurent Châtel, Université de Lille 2

Christine Reynier. Virginia Woolf’s Ethics of the Short Story (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009)—Reviewed by Camille Fort, Université de Picardie-Jules Verne (Amiens) 2

Christine Reynier (dir.), Les Artistes anglo-américains et la Méditerranée (Paris : Michel Houdiard, collection «Essais sur l'art », 2010)Recension de Jean Viviès, Université de Provence Aix-Marseille 1 2

Christine Reynier (ed.), Cross-Cultural Encounters between the Mediterranean and the English-Speaking Worlds (Bern: Peter Lang, 2011)—Reviewed by Claire Gallien, Université Paris-Diderot 2

Christine Reynier & Jean-Michel Ganteau (eds.), Autonomy and Commitment in Twentieth-Century British Literature (Montpellier : Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée, 2010)—Reviewed by André Topia, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris III 2

Christine Reynier & Jean-Michel Ganteau, eds., Ethics of Alterity, Confrontation and Responsibility in 19th- to 21st-Century British Literature [Montpellier : Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée, 2013]—Reviewed by Vanessa Guignery, École normale supérieure de Lyon / Institut universitaire de France 2

Christine Reynier & Marie-Ève Thérenty (dir.), Les Médiateurs de la Méditerranée (Montpellier : Maison des Sciences de l’Homme / Paris : Geuthner, 2013)—Recension de Laurent Bury, Université Lumière – Lyon 2 2

David Reynolds, In Command of History: Churchill Fighting and Writing the Second World War (London: Allen Lane, 2004, £30.00, xxvi-646 pages, ISBN 0-713-99819-9)—Paul Addison, University of Edinburgh

Frank Rexroth (Translated by Pamela Selwyn). Deviance and Power in Late Medieval London (Cambridge: University Press, 2007)—Reviewed by Ian W. Archer (Keble College, Oxford) 2

Dan Rhodes, Timoleon Vertu Come Home (Edinburgh & New York: Canongate, 2003)—James Friel

Anne Rice, Blackwood Farm (New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2002)—Georges-Claude Guilbert

Jeffrey Richards, The Golden Age of Pantomime : Slapstick, Spectacle and Subversion in Victorian England (London: I.B. Tauris, 2015)—Reviewed by Jacqueline Banerjee, The Victorian Web  2

 

John Richardson, Sacred Monsters, Sacred Masters: Beaton, Capote, Dali, Picasso, Freud, Warhol, and More (London: Jonathan Cape, 2001)—Georges-Claude Guilbert

Bertrand Richet (dir.), Le Tour du monde d’Astérix (Paris : Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2011)—Recension de Fabrice Antoine, Université Charles-de Gaulle, Lille III 2

Christopher Ricks, Reviewery (London: Penguin, 2003)—Jennifer Kilgore

Fern Riddell, The Victorian Guide to Sex : Desire and Deviance in the 19th Century (Barnsley : Pen & Sword, 2014)—Reviewed by D.C. Rose, The Oscholars2

Diana Ridley, The Literature Review : A Step-by-Step Guide for Students (London:  SAGE Publications, 2nd Revised Edition, 2012)— Reviewed by Robin Ganev, University of Regina (Canada) 2

Laurie Viera Rigler. Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict (London: Bloomsbury 2009 - Paperback reissue, 2010)Reviewed by D.C. Rose 2

 

Laurie Viera Rigler. Rude Awakenings of a Jane Austen Addict (London: Bloomsbury 2009 - Paperback reissue, 2011)Reviewed by Nicole Terrien, Université de Haute-Bretagne Rennes II 2

Catherine Riley, The Virago Story : Assessing the Impact of a Feminist Publishing Phenomenon (Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2018)—Reviewed by Krista Cowman, University of Lincoln 2

David L. Rinear, Stage, Page, Scandals, and Vandals: William E. Burton and Nineteenth-Century American Theatre (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2005, $55.00, 272 pages, ISBN 0-8093-2572-1)—Gerardo Del Guercio, Independent Researcher

Peter M. Rinaldo, Atheists, Agnostics and Deists in America: A Brief History (New York, Briarcliff Manor: DorPete Press)—Caroline Bélan

John Paul Riquelme (ed.), Gothic and Modernism : Essaying Dark Literary Modernity (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008) —Reviewed by Christine Berthin, Université de Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense 2

Alistair Ritch, Sickness in the Workhouse : Poor Law Medical Care in Provincial England, 1834-1914 (University of Rochester Press, 2019)—Reviewed by Ginger Frost, Samford University 2

Jonathan Templin Ritter. Stilwell and Mountbatten in Burma : Allies at War, 1943-1944 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2017)— Reviewed by Alan Jeffreys, Imperial War Museum, London 2

Kathryn Rix, Parties, Agents and Electoral Culture in England, 1880-1910 (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2016)—Reviewed by Mark Klobas, Scottsdale Community College (Arizona) 2

Andrew Roberts, Hitler & Churchill: Secrets of Leadership (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2003)—Antoine Capet

Andrew Roberts, Churchill : Walking with Destiny (London: Allen Lane, 2018)—Reviewed by Antoine Capet, Université de Rouen 2

Ian Roberts, Diachronic Syntax (Oxford: University Press, 2007)—Reviewed by Jean-Charles Khalifa, Université de Poitiers 2

Michèle Roberts, The Mistressclass (London: Little, Brown, 2003)—Jenny Newman

Neil Roberts. A Lucid Dreamer : The Life of Peter Redgrove (London : Jonathan Cape, 2012)—Reviewed by Paul Bentley, University College Plymouth St. Mark & St. John 2

Isabelle Roblin, Harold Pinter, la liberté artistique et ses limites : Approches des scénarios (Paris : L’Harmattan, 2012)—Recension d’Élisabeth Angel-Perez, Université de Paris-Sorbonne 2

David Roche, Making and Remaking Horror in the 1970s and 2000s : Why Don’t They Do It Like They Used To? (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2014)— Reviewed by Georges-Claude Guilbert, Université François Rabelais (Tours) 2

David Roche & Isabelle Schmitt-Pitiot (eds.), Intimacy in Cinema : Critical Essays on English Language Films (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland, 2014)—Reviewed by Sébastien Lefait, Université de Corse 2

David Roche & Isabelle Schmitt-Pitiot (dir.), De l’intime dans le cinéma anglophone (Condé-sur-Noireau : Charles Corlet, 2015)—Recension de Sébastien Lefait, Université Paris 8 2

François de la Rochefoucauld & Norman Scarfe. A Frenchman’s Year in Suffolk, 1784 (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2011 [1988])—Reviewed by Isabelle Bour, Université de la Sorbonne nouvelle – Paris III 2

Sarah Roddy, Julie-Marie Strange & Bertrand Taithe, The Charity Market and Humanitarianism in Britain, 1870-1912 (London: Bloomsbury, 2019)—Reviewed by Pat Thane, King’s College London 2

Richard T. Rodríguez. Next of Kin : The Family in Chicano/a Cultural Politics (Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 2009)—Reviewed by Elyette Benjamin-Labarthe, Université Michel de Montaigne, Bordeaux III 2

Philippe Roger, The American Enemy. A Story of French Anti-Americanism (Chicago & London : The University of Chicago Press, 2005, $35.00, 518 pages, ISBN: 0-226-72368-2)—Richard Davis, Université Charles de Gaulle - Lille III

Ben Rogers, Beef and Liberty: Roast Beef, John Bull and the English Nation (London: Chatto & Windus, 2003)—David McBride

 

Jane Rogers, ed., Good Fiction Guide (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002)—Georges-Claude Guilbert

Fabio Rojas, From Black Power to Black Studies :  How a Radical Social Movement Became an Academic Discipline (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007)Reviewed by Hélène Christol, Université de Provence (Aix) 2 

Chris Rojek, Celebrity ( London: Reaktion Books, 2001)—Georges-Claude Guilbert

Peter C. Rollins & John E. O’Connor, eds., Hollywood’s White House: The American Presidency in Film and History (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2003)—Thomas J. Mayock

Alistair Rolls & Rachel Franks (eds.), Private Investigator (Bristol: Intellect, 2016)—Reviewed by Charles Brownson, Arizona State University 2

Nicholas Rombes. A Cultural Dictionary of Punk 1974-1982 (London: Continuum, 2009)—Reviewed by Carey Fleiner, University of Delaware 2

Jerry Rosco, Glenway Wescott Personally: a Biography (Madison; The University of Wisconsin Press, 2002)—Jim Friel

David Charles Rose, Oscar Wilde's Elegant Republic : Transformation, Dislocation and Fantasy in Fin-de-Siècle Paris (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2015)—Recension de Marie-Noëlle Zeender, Université Côte d’Azur (Nice) 2

Jonathan Rose, The Literary Churchill : Author, Reader, Actor (Yale University Press, 2014)—Reviewed by Antoine Capet, Université de Rouen 2

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Movie Wars: How Hollywood and the Media Limit What Films We Can See (London: Wallflower Press, 2002)—Nicolas Magenham

Julia Rosenbaum & Sven Beckert (eds.), The American Bourgeoisie : Distinction and Identity in the Nineteenth Century (Basingstoke & New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010)—Reviewed by Hélène Quanquin, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris III 2

Benita Roth, Separate Roads to Feminism: Black, Chicana, and White Feminist Movements in America’s Second Wave (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004)Guillaume Marche

Laura Rotunno, Postal Plots in British Fiction, 1840-1898 : Readdressing Correspondence in Victorian Culture (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013)—Reviewed by Nathalie Saudo-Welby, Université de Picardie–Jules Verne (Amiens) 2

Emmanuel Roudaut (dir.), Affiches politiques britanniques du premier XXe siècle / Early Twentieth-Century British Political Posters (Paris : Mare & Martin, 2016)—Recension d’Emmanuelle de Champs, Université de Cergy-Pontoise 2

Sharon M. Rowley, The Old English Version of Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica (Cambridge: D.S.Brewer, 2011)—Reviewed by Roger Collins, University of Edinburgh 2

Nicholas Royle (ed.), The Best British Short Stories 2012 (London: Salt, 2012)—Reviewed by Nicole Terrien, Université Rennes II – UEB 2

Trevor Royle, Patton: Old Blood and Guts (Great Commanders Series. London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2005)—Dennis Showalter, Colorado College, USA 2

Daniel Royot & Vera Guenova, Les aventuriers du Missouri :Sacagawea, Lewis et Clark à la découverte d’un nouveau monde (Paris : Vendémiaire, 2015)—Recension d’Anne Garrait-Bourrier, Université Blaise-Pascal, Clermont II 2

Paul Rozenberg, Le Romantisme anglais : Le défi des vulnérables et les dissidences du bonheur (Toulouse : Presses universitaires du Mirail, 2011)—Recension de Jean-Marie Fournier, Université Paris Diderot 2

Philip F. Rubio, A History of Affirmative Action, 1619-2000 (University Press of Mississippi, 2001)—Bernard Cros

Patricia Spence Rudden (ed.) Singing for Themselves : Essays on Women in Popular Music. (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007)  Reviewed by Claude Chastagner, Université Paul-Valéry, Montpellier 3   2 

Jean-Christophe Rufin, Rouge Brésil (Paris : Gallimard, 2001)—Cécile Fouache

Joanna Russ, The Country You Have Never Seen : Essays and Reviews. Edited by David Seed (Liverpool: University Press, 2007)Reviewed by Frédérique Spill, Université de Picardie Jules Verne (Amiens) 2

James Russell, Ravilious (London: Dulwich Picture Gallery / Philip Wilson Publishers, 2015)—Reviewed by Charlotte Gould, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3 2

James Russell, Ravilious (London: Dulwich Picture Gallery / Philip Wilson Publishers, 2015)—Reviewed by Sam Smiles, University of Plymouth 2

Katheryn Russell-Brown, Underground Codes: Race, Crime and Related Fires (New York: New York University Press, 2004)Gerardo Del Guercio

Nichole Rustin-Paschal, The Kind of Man I Am : Jazzmasculinity and the World of Charles Mingus Jr. (Middleton (Connecticut): Wesleyan University Press, 2017)—Reviewed by Eric Lewis, McGill University (Montreal) 2

Tom Rutter, The Cambridge Introduction to Christopher Marlowe (Cambridge: University Press, 2012)—Reviewed by Jean-Jacques Chardin, Université de Strasbourg 2

Deborah Sugg Ryan, Ideal Homes, 1918-39 : Domestic Design and Suburban Modernism (Manchester: University Press, 2018)—Reviewed by Dr Caitríona Beaumont, London South Bank University 2

Isadore Ryan, The Irish in Wartime France, 1939-1945 (Cork: The Mercier Press, 2017)—Reviewed by Gearóid Barry, National University of Ireland, Galway 2

Vanessa L. Ryan, Thinking Without Thinking in the Victorian Novel (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012)—Reviewed by Wendy O’Brien, University of Melbourne 2

Sten Rynning, NATO In Afghanistan : The Liberal Disconnect (Stanford: University Press, 2012)—Reviewed by Jeffrey H. Bloodworth, Gannon University, Erie (Pennsylvania) 2

Charles J. Rzepka, Being Cool : The Work of Elmore Leonard (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013)—Reviewed by Marie-Christine Agosto, Université de Brest 2