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African Americans Doing Feminism: Putting Theory into Everyday Practice, ed. Aaronette M. White (SUNY P, 2010)

Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing, ed. Craig Dworkin and Kenneth Goldsmith (Northwestern UP, 2011)

Albert Murray and the Aesthetic Imagination of a Nation, ed. Barbara A. Baker (Pebble Hill, 2010)

Anthems, Sonnets, and Chants: Recovering the African American Poetry of the 1930s, by Jon Woodson (The Ohio State UP, 2011)

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

Approaches to Teaching Duras's Ourika, eds. Mary Ellen Birkett and Christopher Rivers (MLA P, 2009)

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

Beyond Political Correctness: Remapping German Sensibilities in the 21st Century, ed. Christine Anton and Frank Pilipp (Rodopi, 2010)

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

Boston: Voices and Visions, ed. Shaun O'Connell (U of Massachusetts P, 2010)

Broadcasting Modernism, eds. Debra Rae Cohen, Michael Coyle, & Jane Lewty (UP of Florida, 2009)

A Change in the Weather: Modernist Imagination, African American Imaginary, by Geoffrey Jacques (U of Massachusetts P, 2009)

A Companion to Anglo-Saxon Literature, eds. Phillip Pulsiano and Elaine Treharne (Wiley-Blackwell, 2008)

A Companion to the History of the Book, eds. Simon Eliot and Jonathan Rose (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009)

A Companion to Romantic Poetry, ed. by Charles Mahoney (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011)

A Companion to T. S. Eliot, ed. by David E. Chinitz (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009)

Confessions of a Poisoner: Written by Herself, trans. by Raleigh Whitinger and Diana Spokiene (MLA P, 2009)

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

The Development from Case-Forms to Prepositional Constructions in Old English Prose, by Kiriko Sato (Peter Lang AG, 2008)

Displaced Memories: The Poetics of Trauma in Argentine Women's Writing, by M. Edurne Portela (Bucknell UP, 2009)

The Encyclopedia of Literary and Cultural Theory, vol. I, ed. Michael Ryan (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011)

The Encyclopedia of Literary and Cultural Theory, vol. II, ed. Michael Ryan (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011)

The Encyclopedia of Literary and Cultural Theory, vol. III, ed. Michael Ryan (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011)

The Encyclopedia of the Novel: A-Li, ed. Peter Melville Logan (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011)

The Encyclopedia of the Novel: Lo-Z, ed. Peter Melville Logan (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011)

The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction, vol. I, ed. Brian W. Shaffer (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011)

The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction, vol. II, ed. Brian W. Shaffer (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011)

The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction, vol. III, ed. Brian W. Shaffer (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011)

Enduring Words: Literary Narrative in a Changing Media Ecology, by Michael Wutz (U of Alabama P, 2009)

Eugene Jolas: Critical Writings, 1924-1951, eds. Klaus H. Kiefer and Rainer Rumold (Northwestern UP, 2009)

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

Faulkner and His Critics, ed. John N. Duvall (Johns Hopkins UP, 2010)

Field o'My Dreams: The Poetry of Gene Stratton-Porter, ed. Mary DeJong Obuchowski (The Kent State UP, 2007)

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)

From the Modernist Annex: American Women Writers in Museums and Libraries, by Karin Roffman (U of Alabama P, 2010)

A Future for Criticism, by Catherine Belsey (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011)

A Guide to Early Printed Books and Manuscripts, by Mark Bland (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010)

Joyce, Medicine, and Modernity, by Vike Martina Plock (UP of Florida, 2010)

Katherine Anne Porter Remembered, ed. Darlene Harbour Unrue (U of Alabama P, 2010)

A Keener Perception: Ecocritical Studies in American Art History, eds. Alan C. Braddock and Christoph Irmscher (U of Alabama P, 2009)

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

Literature, Analytically Speaking: Explorations in the Theory of Interpretation, Analytic Aesthetics, and Evolution, by Peter Swirski (U of Texas P, 2010)

Mainly the Truth: Interviews with Mark Twain, ed. Gary Scharnhorst (U of Alabama P, 2009)

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

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

Milton Studies 50, ed. Albert C. Labriola (U of Pittsburgh P, 2009)

Minimal Old Chinese and Later Han Chinese: A Companion to Grammata Serica Recensa, by Alex Schuessler (U of Hawai'i P, 2009)

Mommy Angst: Motherhood in American Popular Culture, eds. Ann C. Hall and Mardia J. Bishop (ABC-CLIO, 2009)

Muriel Spark: Twenty-First Century Perspectives, ed. David Herman (The Johns Hopkins UP, 2010)

The Myth of Popular Culture: From Dante to Dylan, by Perry Meisel (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010)

No University is an Island: Saving Academic Freedom, by Cary Nelson (New York UP, 2010)

Novel Characters: A Genealogy, by Maria DiBattista (Blackwell Publishing, 2010)

On the Cusp: Stephen Crane, George Bellows, and Modernism by John Fagg (U of Alabama P, 2009)

On Mount Vision: Forms of the Sacred in Contemporary American Poetry, by Norman Finkelstein (U of Iowa P, 2010)

The Passing of Postmodernism: A Spectroanalysis of the Contemporary, by Josh Toth (SUNY P, 2010)

Philosophy of Literature, ed. Severin Schroeder (Blackwell Publishing, 2010)

Pilar de Zubiaurre: Evocaciones. Articulos y diario (1909-1958), ed. Iker Gonzalez-Allende (Editorial Saturraran, S.L., 2009)

Pinter Et Cetera, ed. Craig N. Owens (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009)

The Point is to Change It: Poetry and Criticism in the Continuing Present, by Jerome McGann (U of Alabama P, 2007)

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 Affections: Essays on the Poetics of Outside, by Miriam Nichols (U of Alabama P, 2010)

Radical Poetics and Secular Jewish Culture, ed. Stephen Paul Miller (U of Alabama P, 2010)

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

Renaissance Literature: An Anthology of Poetry and Prose, ed. by John C. Hunter (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010)

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

Romances of the White Man's Burden: Race, Empire, and the Plantation in American Literature, 1880-1936 by Jeremy Wells (Vanderbilt UP, 2011)

The Seventeenth-Century Literature Handbook, by Marshall Grossman (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011)

Sold on Language: How Advertisers Talk to You & What This Says About You, by Julie Sedivy and Greg Carlson (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011)

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

Symploke: Cinema without Borders (15.1-2), ed. Jeffrey R. Di Leo (U of Nebraska P, 2007)

Symploke: Anonymity (16.1-2), ed. Jeffrey R. Di Leo (U of Nebraska P, 2008)

Three Women: A Novel by the Abbe de la Tour, by Isabelle de Charriere, trans. by Emma Rooksby (MLA P, 2007)

Thinking Poetics: Essays on George Oppen, ed. Steve Shoemaker (U of Alabama P, 2009)

Thoreau the Land Surveyor, by Patrick Chura (UP Florida, 2010)

T.S. Eliot's Parisian Year, by Nancy Duvall Hargrove (UP of Florida, 2009)

Understanding Gerald Vizenor, by Deborah L. Madsen (U of South Carolina P, 2009)

Understanding Lorrie Moore, by Alison Kelly (U of South Carolina P, 2009)

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

The Uses of Phobia: Essays on Literature and Film, by David Trotter (Blackwell Publishing, 2010)

Why Victorian Literature Still Matters, by Philip Davis (Wiley-Blackwell, 2008)

Word Origins and How We Know Them: Etymology for Everyone, by Anatoly Liberman (Oxford UP, 2005)