Responsable Book Review Editor Antoine CAPET antcapet@aol.com  Université de Rouen

S—T   S Roger Sabin, ed., Punk Rock: So What? The Cultural Legacy of Punk (London & New York: Routledge, 1999)—Georges-Claude Guilbert Elizabeth Sabiston, Private Sphere to World Stage from Austen to Eliot (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008)—Reviewed by Robin Ganev, University of Regina (Canada) Celia Sandys & Jonathan Littman, We Shall Not Fail : The Inspiring Leadership of Winston Churchill (New York: Portfolio, 2004)—Antoine Capet C.J. Sansom, Dissolution (New York: Penguin Books, 2003)—Marialana Wittman James Robert Saunders & Renae Nadine Shackelford, eds., The Dorothy West Martha’s Vineyard: Stories, Essays and Reminiscences by Dorothy West Writing in the Vineyard Gazette (Jefferson & London: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2001)—Anne Wicke Scott Saul, Freedom Is, Freedom Ain’t: Jazz and the Making of the Sixties (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2003)—Robert Springer Frances Stonor Saunders, Hawkwood: Diabolical Englishman ( London : Faber, 2005, £8.99, 366 pages, ISBN 0-571-21909-8)—Nicholas Deakin, London School of Economics. Dan Savage, Skipping Towards Gomorrah: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Pursuit of Happiness in America (New York: Dutton, 2002)—Michael Langan Joe Saward. The Grand Prix Saboteurs : The Grand Prix Drivers who became British Secret Agents during World War II. (London: Morienval Press, 2006) — Reviewed by Antoine Capet, Université de Rouen June Skinner Sawyers, ed., Racing in the Street: The Bruce Springsteen Reader (New York: Penguin, 2004)—Claude Chastagner Robert Sayre, La modernité et son autre : Récits de la rencontre avec l’Indien en Amérique du Nord au XVIIIe siècle (Bécherel : Les Perséides, 2008)—Bernadette Rigal-Cellard, Université de Bordeaux Elizabeth Schafer & Susan Bradley Smith, eds., Playing Australia. Australian theatre and the international stage (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2003)—Susan Ballyn Daniel Scroop. Mr. Democrat: Jim Farley, the New Deal, and the Making of Modern American Politics. (Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2006) — Reviewed by Terry Golway, Kean University   James T. Sears, Rebels, Rubyfruit, and Rhinestones: Queering Space in the Stonewall South (New Brunswick, N. J.: Rutgers University Press, 2001)—Guillaume Marche Alice Sebold, Lucky: A Memoir (New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2002); Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones (New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2002)—Joelle d'Entremont Steven Seidman, Beyond the Closet: The Transformation of Gay and Lesbian Life (New York & London: Routledge, 2002)—Georges-Claude Guilbert Robert C. Self, Neville Chamberlain: A Biography (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006)—Antoine Capet, Université de Rouen, France. Will Self, Feeding Frenzy (London: Penguin, 2001)—Cher Holt-Fortin Adriana Serban & Jean-Marc Lavaur (dir.), Traduction et médias audiovisuels (Villeneuve d’Ascq : Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 2011)—Recension de Fabrice Antoine, Université Charles-de-Gaulle Lille 3   John Sergeant, Maggie: Her Fatal Legacy (London: Macmillan, 2005, £20.00, 368 pages, ISBN 1405005262)—Richard Davis, Université Charles de Gaulle - Lille III Mohammad Shaheen, E.M. Forster and the Politics of Imperialism (Basingstoke & New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004)—Shannon Wells-Lassagne Aurelie Sheehan, The Anxiety of Everyday Objects (New York: Penguin Books, 2004)—Catherine Heyrendt Sam Shepard, Great Dream of Heaven (London: Secker and Warbug, 2002)—Mireille Quivy Ben Shephard, After Daybreak: The Liberation of Belsen, 1945 ( London : Jonathan Cape , 2005, £17.99, viii-260 pages, ISBN 0224073559)—Antoine Capet, Université de Rouen Andrée Shepherd, Le Cinéma Britannique, Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique (CRECIB), volume XI, numéro 2 (Paris: Presses de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, Juin 2001)— Nicolas Magenham Carol Shields, Unless (Toronto: Random House of Canada, 2002)—Joelle d'Entremont Leonard Shlain, Sex, Time and Power: How Women's Sexuality Shaped Human Evolution (New York: Penguin, 2003)—Amélie Moisy Carol Loeb Shloss, Lucia Joyce. To Dance in the Wake. Tragic Muse and Wild Beauty: The Story of James Joyce's Only Daughter (London: Bloomsbury, 2003)—Caroline Marie Gary Shteyngart, The Russian Debutante’s Handbook (New York: Riverhead Books, 2002)—Steven Marc Jones John Shepherd & Keith Laybourn, Britain’s First Labour Government (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006)—Antoine Capet, Université de Rouen, France. Ruth Sidel, Unsung Heroines: Single Mothers and the American Dream (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006)—Diana Dominguez, The University of Texas-Brownsville/Texas Southmost College, USA. Fred Siegel, The Prince of the City: Giuliani, New York and the Genius of American Life (San Francisco: Encounter Books, 2005, $26.95, xv-386 pages, ISBN 1-59403-084-7)—Stefano Luconi, University of Florence Stuart Sillars, Painting Shakespeare: The Artist as Critic, 1720-1820 ([2006] Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006)—Samuel Baudry, Université Lumière-Lyon 2, France. Michael J. Silverstein & Neil Fiske, Trading Up: The New American Luxury (New York: Portfolio, 2003)—Zachary Lamm Brendan Simms, Unfinest Hour: How Britain Helped to Destroy Bosnia (London: Allen Lane/Penguin Press, 2001)—Joseph Pearson [Simpson] 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 Michael Simpson (ed.) Anglo-American Naval Relations, 1919-1939 (Farnham: Ashgate, for the Naval Records Society, 2010)—Reviewed by Alan Sharp, University of Ulster Michael Sims. Dracula’s Guest: A Connoisseur’s Collection of Victorian Vampire Stories (London:Bloomsbury, 2010)—Reviewed by Nathalie Saudo-Welby, Université de Picardie, Amiens Iain Sinclair ed., London: City of Disappearances (London: Hamish Hamilton, 2006)—Hugh Clout, University College London, Great-Britain. Irving Singer, Three Philosophical Filmmakers: Hitchcock, Welles, Renoir (Cambridge, MA. &London : The MIT Press, 2004, 29.00€, 279 pages, ISBN 0-262-19501-1)—Marjorie Vanbaelinghem, Université de Poitiers Carol J. Singley, ed., Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth (Oxford: O.U.P., 2003)—Denise Ginfray C. Edward Skeen, 1816: America Rising (Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2003)—Gerardo Del Guercio John D. Skrentny, The Minority Rights Revolution (Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 2002, $35.00, 473 pages, ISBN 0-674-00899-5)—Guillaume Marche, Université de Paris 12 Andrew L. Slap. The Doom of Reconstruction: The Liberal Republicans in the Civil War Era (New York: Fordham University Press, 2006 [2010])—Reviewed by Évelyne Payen-Variéras, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3 Marcia Slatkin, A Woman Milking (Cincinnati: Word Press, 2006)—Charles Holdefer, University of Poitiers, France. Ali Smith, The Accidental (London:  Hamish Hamilton, 2005, also published in paperback, London: Penguin, 2006)—Shirley Jones, Liverpool Hope University, England. Anne-Marie Smith (ed.) Culture Is… Australian Stories Across Cultures – An Anthology. (Kent Town, South Australia: Wakefield Press, 2008) — Reviewed by Ingeborg van Teeseling, University of Wollongong   Curtis Smith. Sound + Noise (Sacramento: Casperian Books, 2008) — Reviewed by Charles Holdefer, Université de Poitiers   Zadie Smith, The Autograph Man (London: Penguin, 2002)—Adrian Smith Rebecca Solnit, River of Shadows: Eadward Muybridge and the Technological Wild West (New York: Penguin Books, 2003, $15.00, 305 pages, ISBN 0-14-200410-3)—Jeff Filipiak, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design Gerald Sorin, Irving Howe: A Life of Passionate Dissent (New York: New York University Press, 2002)—Geneviève Cohen-Cheminet Muriel Spark, The Finishing School (London: Viking, 2004)—James Friel Martine Spensky (dir.), Citoyenneté(s), perspectives internationales (Clermont-Ferrand : Presses Universitaires Blaise Pascal, 2003)—Jacques Carré Art Spiegelman, The Complete Maus (London: Penguin Books, 2003 [reprint])—Joanne Hall Hortense J. Spillers, Black, White, and in Color: Essays on American Literature and Culture (Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press, 2003)—Adrian Smith Arvid F. Sponberg, ed., A. R. Gurney: A Casebook (New York & London: Routledge, 2004)—Robert F. Gross David Stafford, Roosevelt and Churchill: Men of Secrets (Woodstock, N.Y.: Overlook Press, 2000) & François Kersaudy, De Gaulle et Roosevelt : Le duel au sommet (Paris : Librairie Académique Perrin, 2004)—Antoine Capet Robert Henry Stanley, Making Sense of Movies: Filmmaking in the Hollywood Style (New York: McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2003); Joseph M. Boggs & Dennis W. Petrie, The Art of Watching Films (New York: McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2003)—Nicolas Magenham David E. Stannard, Honor Killing: How the Infamous “Massie Affair” TransformedHawaii (New York, Penguin, 2005, $29.95, 467 pages, ISBN 0-670-03399-5)—Thomas J. Mayock,Annandale,Virginia Peter Stansky, The First Day of the Blitz: September 7, 1940 ( New Haven, Conn. & London: Yale University Press, 2007)—Antoine Capet, University of Rouen, France. M.L. Stapleton, Admired and Understood: The Poetry of Aphra Behn (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2004, £28.43, 247 pages, ISBN 0-87413-849-3)—Bill Phillips, Universitat de Barcelona G. Gabrielle Starr, Lyric Generations: Poetry and the Novel in the Long Eighteenth Century (Baltimore & London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004)—Bill Phillips William St Clair, The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2004)—Robert Mankin, University of Paris-Diderot, France 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 George Steiner, Lessons of the Masters (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003)—Véronique Alexandre Iain Stevenson. Book Makers : British Publishing in the Twentieth Century. (London: British Library, 2010) —  Reviewed by Antoine Capet, Université de Rouen   John Allen Stevenson, The Real History of Tom Jones (Basingstoke & New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005)—Reviewed by Laura Miller, University of West Georgia Peter Stoneley, Consumerism and American Girls’ Literature, 1860-1940 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003)—Daniel Opler Colin Storer, Britain and the Weimar Republic : The History of a Cultural Relationship (London: I.B. Tauris 2010)— Reviewed by Stefan Berger, Ruhr-Universität Bochum Randall Strahan. Leading Representatives : The Agency of Leaders in the Politics of the U.S. House (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007)—Reviewed by Bernard Genton, Université de Strasbourg Michael Strangelove, The Empire of Mind. Digital Piracy and the Anti-Capitalist Movement (Toronto, The University of Toronto Press, 2005)—Claude Chastagner, University of Montpellier 3, Paul-Valéry, France. Kim C. Sturgess, Shakespeare and the American Nation (Cambridge: C.U.P., 2004)—Michèle Vignaux Morag Styles, Louise Joy & David Whitley (eds). Poetry and Childhood (Stoke on Trent: Trentham Books, 2010)—Reviewed by Jennifer Kilgore-Caradec, Université de Caen    Jane Sunderland, Gendered Discourses (Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, $26.95, 248 pages, ISBN 1-4039-1345-5)—Chris Bell, Nottingham Trent University Anita M. Superson & Ann E. Cudd, eds., Theorizing Backlash: Philosophical Reflections on the Resistance to Feminism (Lanham & Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002)—Georges-Claude Guilbert Carol M. Swain, The New White Nationalism in America: Its Challenge to Integration (New York & Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002 [reprint 2004])—Malie Montagutelli Mark Evan Swartz, Oz Before the Rainbow: L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz on Stage and Screen to 1939 (Baltimore & London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000, paperback 2002)—Diana Dominguez Graham Swift, The Light of Day (London: Hamish Hamilton, 2003)—Leigh Kirkland   T Barbara Taylor, Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003)—Alain Lauzanne D.J. Taylor, Orwell: The Life (London: Chatto & Windus, 2003), Gordon Bowker, George Orwell (London: Little, Brown, 2003)—Antoine Capet Ian Taylor. Music in London and the Myth of Decline from Haydn to the Philharmonic. (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2010) — Reviewed by Pierre Dubois, Université François Rabelais (Tours, France) John Taylor, Cognitive Grammar (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002/2003)—Jean-Charles Khalifa John R. Taylor, Linguistic Categorization (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003/2005)—Craig Hamilton Pam Tent, Midnight at the Palace: My Life as a Fabulous Cockette (Los Angeles: Alyson, 2004, $17.95, 274 pages, ISBN 1-55583-874-X)—Chris Bell, Nottingham Trent University Rei Terada, Feeling in Theory, Emotion after the "Death of the Subject" (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001)—Geneviève Cohen-Cheminet Audrey Thomas, Isobel Gunn: A Novel (Toronto: Penguin Canada, 2000); The Path of Totality: New and Selected Stories (Toronto: Penguin Canada, 2002)—Cécile Fouache George Thomas. The Madisonian Constitution (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008)—Reviewed by Raymond Richards, University of Waikato Greg Thomas, The Sexual Demon of Colonial Power—Pan-African Embodiment and Erotic Schemes of Empire (Bloomington (Ind.): Indiana University Press, 2007)—Xavier Pons, Université de Toulouse-Le Mirail, France. George J. Thompson. Hammett’s Moral Vision (San Francisco: Vince Emery, 2007) — J.A. Zumoff, City College of New York Hunter S. Thompson, Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century (London: Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, 2003)—David McBride Colm Tóibín, Love in a Dark Time: Gay Lives from Wilde to Almodóvar (London: Picador, 2002)—James Friel Claire Tomalin, Jane Austen: A Life (London: Penguin Books, 2000 (reprint))—Diana Dominguez Michael Toolan & Jean-Jacques Weber eds., The Cognitive Turn: Papers in Cognitive Literary Studies (European Journal of English Studies (EJES) Volume 9, Number 2, August 2005, London: Routledge)—Manuel Jobert, University of Lyon 3, Jean Moulin, France. Nicolas Tredell, ed., Cinemas of the Mind: a Critical History of Film Theory (Cambridge: Icon Books UK, 2002)—Nicolas Magenham Scott Turow, Limitations (New York, Picador, 2006)—Nicole Terrien, Université de Rouen, France. Penelope Tuson, Playing the Game: Western Women in Arabia (London: I.B. Tauris, 2003)—Mélanie Torrent Raleigh Trevelyan, Sir Walter Raleigh (London: Penguin-Allen Lane, 2002)—Detlev Mares Joe W. Trotter, Earl Lewis & Tera W. Hunter, eds., The African American Urban Experience (Perspectives from the Colonial Period to the Present) (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004)—Françoise Clary Tevi Troy, Intellectuals and the American Presidency: Philosophers, Jesters or Technicians? 1960 to Present (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002); Lewis Gould, The Modern American Presidency (Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 2003)—Romain Huret Lynne Truss, Eats, Shoots and leaves (London: Profile Books, 2003)—Mireille Quivy Paul Trynka, Editor-in-Chief / Mojo, The Beatles. Ten Years That Shook the World (London: Dorling Kindersley, 2004)—Claude Chastagner Frank Miller Turner, Contesting Cultural Authority : Essays in Victorian Intellectual Life (Cambridge: University Press, 2008)—Reviewed by Philippe Vervaecke, Université Charles de Gaulle-Lille-III Robert Twigger, Being A Man… in the Lousy Modern World (London: Phoenix, 2002)—Georges-Claude Guilbert