Journal

Books for Review

The titles below have been received in the M/MLA office for possible review. If you are interested in reviewing any of these books or if you have a different book in mind, you may e-mail our office at mmla@luc.edu. Please be sure to attach a copy of your curriculum vitae. You can access our book review guidelines here.

Academic Cultures: Professional Preparation and the Teaching Life, ed. Sean P. Murphy (MLA P, 2008)

The Alphabet, by Ron Silliman (U of Alabama P, 2008)

An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century Women's Poetry from Spain, ed. Anna-Marie Aldaz, trans. Anna-Marie Aldaz and W. Robert Walker (MLA P, 2009)

Approaches to Teaching Grass's The Tin Drum, ed. Monika Shafi (MLA, 2008)

Approaches to Teaching Wiesel's Night, ed. Alan Rosen (MLA, 2007)

The Body in Medical Culture, ed. Elizabeth Klaver (SUNY P, 2009)

Body [in] Parts: Bodies and Identity in Sade and Guibert, by Clara Orban (Associated UP, 2008)

The Cambridge Introduction to William Faulkner, ed. Theresa M. Towner (Cambridge UP, 2008)

Capital Letters: Authorship in the Antebellum Literary Market, by David Dowling (U of Iowa P, 2009)

Clear-Cutting Eden: Ecology and the Pastoral in Southern Literature, by Christopher Rieger (U of Alabama P, 2009)

Constraining Chance: Georges Perec and the Oulipo, by Alison James (Northwestern UP, 2009)

Everything Lost: The Latin American Notebook of William Burroughs, ed. Oliver Harris (The Ohio State UP, 2008)

Fanning the Spark: A Memoir by Mary Ward Brown (U of Alabama P, 2009)

French Women Poets of Nine Centuries: The Distaff and the Pen, sel.and trans. Norman R. Shapiro; introds. Roberta L. Krueger, Catherine LaFarge, and Catherine Perry; forew. Rosanna Warren (Johns Hopkins UP, 2008)

A Genealogy of Literary Multiculturalism, by Christopher Douglas (Cornell UP, 2009)

Language and the Declining World in Chaucer, Dante, and Jean de Meun, by John M. Fyler (Cambridge UP, 2007)

A Life of Learning: Charles Homer Haskins Prize Lecture for 2008, by Theodor Meron (ACLS Occasional Paper, No. 65) (ACLS, 2008)

Literary Minstrelsy, 1770-1830: Minstrels and Improvisers in British, Irish, and American Literature, by Erik Simpson (Palgrave, 2008)

Miton Studies 47, ed. Albert C. Labriola (U of Pittsburgh P, 2008)

Milton Studies 48, ed. Albert C. Labriola (U of Pittsburgh P, 2008)

Milton Studies 49, ed. Albert C. Labriola (U of Pittsburgh P, 2008)

The Modern Age: Turn-of-the-Century American Culture and the Invention of Adolescence, by Kent Baxter (U of Alabama P, 2008)

MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing, 3rd ed. (MLA, 2008)

Prehistoric Digital Poetry: An Archaeology of Forms, 1959-1995, by C. T. Funkhouser (U of Alabama P, 2007)

Principes Linguistiques en pédagogie des langues: Un traité de linguistique appliquée, by Moshé Starets (Les Presses de L'Université Laval, 2008)

Radical Vernacular: Lorine Niedecker and the Poetics of Place, ed. Elizabeth Willis (U of Iowa P, 2008)

Reading Network Fiction, by David Ciccoricco (U of Alabama P, 2007)

Reporting Results: A Practical Guide for Engineers and Scientists, by David C. Van Aken and William F. Hosford (Cambridge UP, 2008)

Robert Altman's McCabe and Mrs. Miller: Reframing the American West, by Robert T. Self (UP of Kansas, 2007)

Spanish for Veterinarians: A Practical Introduction, 2nd ed., by Bonnie Frederick and Juan Mosqueda (Blackwell,2008)

The Structuralist Controversy: The Languages of Criticism and the Sciences of Man, eds. Richard Macksey and Eugenio Donato (Johns Hopkins UP, 2007)

Translating Modernism: Fitzgerald and Hemingway, by Ronald Berman (U of Alabama P, 2009)

Understanding T.C. Boyle, by Paul Gleason (U of South Carolina P, 2009)

Walden by Haiku, by Ian Marshall (U of Georgia P, 2009)