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Affirming Limits: Essays on Mortality, Choice, and Poetic Form. Robert Pack. cloth, $40.00; paper, $24.95.

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American Architects and Their Books to 1848.Kenneth Hafertepe & James F. O'Gorman, eds. cloth, $32.50.

American Foreign Policy and the Utopian Imagination. Susan M. Matarese. cloth, $32.50.

American Poetry: The Puritans through Walt Whitman. Alan Shucard. paper, $19.95.

Anarchy and Culture: The Aesthetic Politics of Modernism. David Weir. cloth, $60.00; paper, $20.95.

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Autobiography and Postmodernism. Kathleen Ashley, Leigh Gilmore & Gerald Peters, eds. paper, $24.95.

Becoming Wordsworthian: A Performative Aesthetic. Elizabeth A. Fay. cloth, $40.00.

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Black and White in American Culture: An Anthology from "The Massachusetts Review." Jules Chametzky & Sidney Kaplan, eds. cloth, $45.00.

The Blinding Torch: Modern British Fiction and the Discourse of Civilization. Brian W. Shaffer. cloth, $35.00.

Brutal Choreographies: Oppositional Strategies and Narrative Design in the Novels of Margaret Atwood. J. Brooks Bouson. cloth, $35.00.

The Call of Human Nature: The Role of Scatology in Modern German Literature. Dieter Rollfinke & Jacqueline Rollfinke. cloth, $40.00.

Calling from Diffusion: Hermeneutics of the Promenade. Thomas M. Greene. paper, $19.95.

Cast by Means of Figures: Herman Melville's Rhetorical Development. Bryan C. Short. cloth, $35.00.

Cather, Canon, and the Politics of Reading. Deborah S. Carlin. cloth, $35.00.

The Celestial Twins: Poetry and Music through the Ages.H. T. Kirby-Smith. cloth, $45.00.

Coleridge's American Disciples: Selected Correspondence of James Marsh. John Duffy, ed. cloth, $40.00.

The Comedy of Language: Studies in Modern Comic Literature. Fred Miller Robinson. cloth, $35.00.

Constructing the Little House: Gender, Culture, and Laura Ingalls Wilder. Ann Romines. cloth, $55.00; paper, $24.95.

The Contemporary African American Novel: Its Folk Roots and Modern Literary Branches. Bernard W. Bell. library cloth, $80.00; paper, $27.95.

Contemporary Literary Theory. G. Douglas Atkins & Laura Morrow, eds. paper, $24.95.

Contemporary Women Writers in Italy: A Modern Renaissance. Santo L. Aricò, ed. cloth, $40.00.

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Cultural Semantics: Keywords of Our Time. Martin Jay. cloth, $50.00; paper, $24.95.

Cultures of Print: Essays in the History of the Book. David D. Hall. cloth, $45.00; paper, $22.95.

The Dean of American Letters: The Late Career of William Dean Howells. John W. Crowley. cloth, $30.00.

Decadence and the Making of Modernism. David Weir. cloth, $50.00; paper, $21.95.

The Depictive Image: Metaphor and Literary Experience. Phillip Stambovsky. cloth, $25.00.

D. H. Lawrence and Tradition. Jeffrey Meyers, ed. cloth, $27.50.

"The Dial": Arts and Letters in the 1920s. Gaye L. Brown, ed. Michael True, intro. paper, $20.95.

Diaries to an English Professor: Pain and Growth in the Classroom. Jeffrey Berman. Maryanne Hannan, afterword. cloth, $45.00; paper, $24.95.

Dickinson: Strategies of Limitation. Jane Donahue Eberwein. cloth, $35.00; paper, $24.95.

Dream Song: The Life of John Berryman. (2d ed.) Paul Mariani. paper, $29.95.

Emily Dickinson and the Problem of Others. Christopher E. G. Benfey. cloth, $30.00.

Emily Dickinson, Daughter of Prophecy. Beth Maclay Doriani. cloth, $40.00.

The Emily Dickinson Handbook. Gudrun Grabher, Roland Hagenbüchle & Cristanne Miller, eds. cloth, $40.00; paper, $29.95.

Emily Dickinson: Monarch of Perception. Domhnall Mitchell. cloth, $45.00.

The Empathic Reader: A Study of the Narcissistic Character and the Drama of the Self. J. Brooks Bouson. cloth, $35.00.

Empathic Teaching: Education for Life. Jeffrey Berman. library cloth, $80.00; paper, $27.95.

The Father: A Life of Henry James, Sr. Alfred Habegger. paper, $29.95.

Faulkner's Narrative Poetics: Style as Vision. Arthur F. Kinney. cloth, $40.00.

"The Female Marine" and Related Works: Narratives of Cross-Dressing and Urban Vice in America's Early Republic. Daniel A. Cohen, ed. cloth, $40.00; paper, $22.95.

Fictions of the Past: Hawthorne and Melville. Alide Cagidemetrio. paper, $22.95

Freud on Schreber: Psychoanalytic Theory and the Critical Act. C. Barry Chabot. cloth, $35.00.

Frost: A Literary Life Reconsidered. (2d ed.) William H. Pritchard. paper, $22.95.

Georg Lukács and Thomas Mann: A Study in the Sociology of Literature. Judith Marcus. cloth, $40.00.

Gestures of Healing: Anxiety and the Modern Novel. John J. Clayton. cloth, $40.00.

Getting at the Author: Reimagining Books and Reading in the Age of American Realism. Barbara Hochman. cloth, $29.95.

Giving Their Word: Conversations with Contemporary Poets. Steven Ratiner, ed. cloth, $37.50; paper, $24.95.

Harold Bloom: The Rhetoric of Romantic Vision. David Fite. cloth, $40.00.

Hawthorne and Women: Engendering and Expanding the Hawthorne Tradition.John L. Idol Jr. & Melinda M. Ponder, eds. cloth, $60.00; paper, $24.95.

Hawthorne's Fuller Mystery. Thomas R. Mitchell. cloth, $39.95.

The Heart Is an Instrument: Portraits in Journalism. Madeleine Blais. cloth, $40.00; paper, $24.95.

Henry David Thoreau as a Source for Artistic Inspiration. Francine Amy Koslow. paper, $16.95.

A History of American Literary Journalism: The Emergence of a Modern Narrative Form. John Hartsock. paper, $24.95.

A History of Reading in the West. Guglielmo & Roger Chartier, eds. Lydia G. Cochrane, trans. cloth, $45.00; paper, $27.95s.

A History of the "Atlantic Monthly," 1857-1909: Yankee Humanism at High Tide and Ebb. Ellery Sedgwick. cloth, $45.00.

The Holocaust and the Book: Destruction and Preservation.Jonathan Rose, ed. cloth, $45.00.

The Home Plot: Women, Writing, and Domestic Ritual. Ann Romines. paper, $24.95.

Home Remedies. Martin Pops. cloth, $30.00; paper, $20.95.

Hungry Heart: The Literary Emergence of Julia Ward Howe.Gary Williams. cloth, $40.00.

Illuminating Letters: Typography and Literary Interpretation. Paul C. Gutjahr & Megan L. Benton, eds. cloth, $34.95.

In a Closet Hidden: The Life and Work of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman. Leah Blatt Glasser. cloth, $45.00; paper, $24.95.

Individualism and Its Discontents: Appropriations of Emerson, 1880-1950. Charles E. Mitchell. cloth, $40.00.

Inscribing the Daily: Critical Essays on Women's Diaries. Suzanne L. & Cynthia A. Huff, eds. cloth, $55.00; paper, $24.95.

The Interior Castle: The Art and Life of Jean Stafford. Ann Hulbert. paper, $27.95.

In the Master's Eye: Representations of Women, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Antebellum Southern Literature. Susan J. Tracy. cloth, $45.00.

The Ivory Leg in the Ebony Cabinet: Madness. Race, and Gender in Victorian America. Thomas W. Cooley. cloth, $40.00.

Jack London's Women. Clarice Stasz. cloth, $39.95.

James Laughlin, New Directions, and the Remaking of Ezra Pound. Gregory Barnhisel. cloth, $34.95.

John Berryman and the Thirties: A Memoir. E. M. Halliday. Paul Mariani, afterword. cloth, $40.00; paper, $22.95.

Labyrinths: Explorations in the Critical History of Ideas. Richard Wolin. cloth, $50.00; paper, $20.95.

Laughing Matters: The Paradox of Comedy. Scott Cutler Shershow. cloth, $30.00.

Legacy of Rage: Jewish Masculinity, Violence, and Culture. Warren Rosenberg. cloth, $40.00.

Lillie Devereux Blake: Retracing a Life Erased. Grace Farrell. cloth, $40.00.

Literary Inheritance. Roger Sale. cloth, $40.00.

Literary Publishing in America, 1790-1850. William Charvat. Michael Winship, afterword. paper, $16.95.

Literary Wit. Bruce Michelson. cloth, $35.00; paper, $21.95.

The Long View: Essays on the Discipline of Hope and Poetic Craft. Robert Pack. cloth, $40.00.

Looking Backward, 1988-1888: Essays on Edward Bellamy. Daphne Patai, ed. cloth, $40.00; paper, $22.95.

MacDiarmid: A Critical Biography. Alan Bold. cloth, $45.00.

Makers of the City. Lewis Fried. cloth, $40.00.

Making Meaning: "Printers of the Mind" and Other Essays. D. F. McKenzie. Peter D. McDonald & Michael F. Suarez, S.J., eds. cloth, $70.00; paper, $27.50.

Making the News: Modernity and the Mass Press in Nineteenth-Century France. Dean de la Motte & Jeannene M. Przyblyski, eds. cloth, $70.00; paper, $24.95.

Mark Twain and "Life on the Mississippi." Horst H. Kruse. Everett Emerson, foreword. cloth, $35.00.

Mark Twain on the Loose: A Comic Writer and the American Self. Bruce Michelson. paper, $24.95.

Marketing Modernism between the Two World Wars. Catherine Turner. cloth, $39.95.

The Mask of Fiction: Essays on W. D. Howells. John W. Crowley. cloth, $40.00.

The Master Letters of Emily Dickinson. R. W. Franklin, ed. paper, $11.95.

Mastery and Escape: T. S. Eliot and the Dialectic of Modernism. Jewel Spears Brooker. paper, $24.95.

Measures of Possibility: Emily Dickinson's Manuscripts. Domhnall Mitchell. lib. cloth, $80.00; paper, $29.95.

Melville: A Biography. Laurie Robertson-Lorant. paper, $29.95.

The Metamorphoses of Ovid. Michael Simpson, trans. cloth, $39.95.

Michelet's Poetic Vision: A Romantic Philosophy of Nature, Man, and Woman. Edward K. Kaplan. cloth, $40.00.

The Mind's Eye: Image and Memory in Writing about Trauma. Marian Mesrobian MacCurdy. paper, $24.95.

Minerva and the Muse: A Life of Margaret Fuller. Joan von Mehren. cloth, $45.00; paper, $23.95.

Modern American Poetry, 1865-1950. Alan Shucard, Fred Moramarco & William Sullivan. paper, $19.95.

More Day to Dawn: Thoreau's 'Walden' for the Twenty-first Century. Sandra Harbert Petrulionis and Laura Dassow Walls, eds. paper, $28.95.

The Mutilating God: Authorship and Authority in the Narrative of Conversion. Gerald Peters. cloth, $35.00.

My Friend, My Friend: The Story of Thoreau's Relationship with Emerson.Harmon Smith. cloth, $35.00; paper, $18.95.

The Mysteries of Elizabeth I: Selections from English Literary Renaissance. Kirby Farrell and Kathleen Swaim, eds. paper, $24.95.

The Nature of the Beast. Milton Mayer. W. Eric Gustafson, ed. cloth, $45.00.

The Novels of Nadine Gordimer: History from the Inside. (2d ed.) Stephen Clingman. paper, $24.95.

The Orwell Mystique: A Study in Male Ideology. Daphne Patai. cloth, $45.00; paper, $24.95.

The Other Ariel. Lynda K. Bundtzen. cloth, $40.00.

Our Decentralized Literature: Cultural Mediations in Selected Jewish and Southern Writers. Jules Chametzky. paper, $20.95.

Ousmane Sembène: Dialogues with Critics and Writers. Samba Gadjigo, Ralph Faulkingham, Thomas Cassirer & Reinhard Sander, eds. paper, $14.95.

Out of Bounds: Male Writers and Gender(ed) Criticism. Laura Claridge & Elizabeth Langland, eds. cloth, $42.50; paper, $24.95.

Patterns of Consciousness: An Essay on Coleridge. Richard Haven. cloth, $30.00.

The Persistence of Poetry: Bicentennial Essays on Keats. Robert M. Ryan & Ronald A. Sharp, eds. cloth, $40.00.

Perspectives on American Book History: Artifacts and Commentary. Scott E. Casper, Joanne D. Chaison, & Jeffrey D. Groves, eds. cloth, $70.00; paper, $39.95.

Phantoms of a Blood-Stained Period: The Complete Civil War Writings of Ambrose Bierce. Russell Duncan & David J. Klooster, eds. cloth, $60.00; paper, $24.95.

Planets in Peril: A Critical Study of C. S. Lewis's Ransom Trilogy. David C. Downing. paper, $21.95.

The Poetry of Indifference: From the Romantics to the Rubáiyát. Erik Gray. cloth, $24.95.

The Poet's Other Voice: Conversations on Literary Translation. Edwin Honig. cloth, $30.00.

Playing It by Ear: Literary Essays and Reviews. William H. Pritchard. cloth, $45.00; paper, $24.95.

Princes, Peasants, and Other Polish Selves: Ethnicity in American Literature. Thomas S. Gladsky. cloth, $40.00.

Race Passing and American Individualism. Kathleen Pfeiffer. cloth, $34.95.

Reading Books: Essays on the Material Text and Literature in America. Michele Moylan & Lane Stiles, eds. cloth, $50.00; paper, $24.95.

Reading on the Middle Border: The Culture of Print in Late-Nineteenth-Century Osage, Iowa. Christine Pawley. cloth, $39.95.

Readings from the New Book on Nature: Physics and Metaphysics in the Modern Novel. Robert L. Nadeau. cloth, $35.00.

Reading "The Waste Land": Modernism and the Limits of Interpretation. Jewel Spears Brooker & Joseph Bentley. paper, $24.95.

Reconfigured Spheres: Feminist Explorations of Literary Space. Margaret Higonnet & Joan Templeton, eds. cloth, $40.00; paper, $22.95.

Remarkable Modernisms: Contemporary American Authors on Modern Art. Daniel Morris. cloth, $37.50.

Remembering Elizabeth Bishop: An Oral Biography. Gary Fountain & Peter Brazeau. Bonnie Costello, afterword. cloth, $45.00; paper, $27.95.

Risky Writing: Self-Disclosure and Self-Transformation in the Classroom. Jeffrey Berman. cloth, $60.00; paper, $24.95.

Romantic Cyborgs: Authorship and Technology in the American Renaissance. Klaus Benesch. cloth, $40.00.

Rousing the Nation: Radical Culture in Depression America.Laura Browder. cloth, $40.00.

Sacramental Commodities: Gift, Text, and the Sublime in De Quincey. Charles J. Rzepka. cloth, $55.00; paper, $24.95.

The Serpent in the Cup: Temperance in American Literature. David S. Reynolds & Debra J. Rosenthal, eds. cloth, $55.00; paper, $24.95.

Shelf Life: Literary Essays and Reviews. William H. Pritchard. cloth, $40.00.

Sobering Tales: Narratives of Alcoholism and Recovery. Edmund B. O'Reilly. cloth, $50.00; paper, $24.95.

The Stowe Debate: Rhetorical Strategies in "Uncle Tom's Cabin." Mason I. Lowance Jr., Ellen E. Westbrook & R. C. De Prospo, eds. paper, $24.95.

A "Strange Sapience": The Creative Imagination of D. H. Lawrence. Daniel Dervin. cloth, $40.00.

Supernatural Forces: Belief, Difference, and Power in Contemporary Works by Ethnic Women. Bonnie Winsbro. cloth, $40.00; paper, $19.95.

Surviving Literary Suicide. Jeffrey Berman. cloth, $60.00. paper, $24.95.

Talking Back to Emily Dickinson, and Other Essays.William H. Pritchard. cloth, $32.50.

Tapestries of Life: Women's Work, Women's Consciousness, and the Meaning of Daily Experience. Bettina Aptheker. paper, $24.95.

Teaching One Moment at a Time: Disruption and Repair in the Classroom. Dawn Skorczewski. cloth, $24.95.

Thoreau's Seasons. Richard Lebeaux. cloth, $45.00.

Toward a Genealogy of Individualism. Daniel Shanahan. cloth, $30.00.

A Tradition of Subversion: The Prose Poem in English from Wilde to Ashbery. Margueritte S. Murphy. cloth, $40.00.

Translation and Power. Maria Tymoczko & Edwin Gentzler, eds. cloth, $50.00; paper, $20.95.

Traveling with Hermes: Hermeneutics and Rhetoric. Bruce Krajewski. cloth, $25.00.

The Trouble with Francis. Robert Francis. cloth, $40.00.

The Truman Nelson Reader. William J. Schafer, ed. cloth, $40.00; paper, $24.95.

Uncritical Theory: Postmodernism, Intellectuals, and the Gulf War. Christopher Norris. cloth, $35.00.

A Usable Past: Essays on Modern and Contemporary Poetry. Paul Mariani. cloth, $40.00.

Utopian Audiences: How Readers Locate Nowhere. Kenneth M. Roemer. cloth, $39.95.

Van Wyck Brooks: In Search of American Culture. James Hoopes. cloth, $40.00.

Venus in Boston and Other Tales of Nineteenth-Century City Life. George Thompson. David S. Reynolds & Kimberly R. Gladman, eds., intro. cloth, $70.00; paper, $22.95.

A Vice for Voices: Reading Emily Dickinson's Correspondence. Marietta Messmer. cloth, $40.00.

Victims and Heroes: Racial Violence in the African American Novel. Jerry H. Bryant. paper, $24.95.

The Viet Nam War/The American War: Images and Representations in Euro-American and Vietnamese Exile Narratives. Renny Christopher. cloth, $55.00; paper, $24.95

War Games: Richard Harding Davis and the New Imperialism. John Seelye. cloth, $80.00; paper, $24.95.

What a Book Can Do: The Publication and Reception of Silent Spring. Priscilla Coit Murphy. cloth, $34.95.

Where the Wild Grape Grows: Selected Writings, 1930–1950. Dorothy West. Verner D. Mitchell & Cynthia Davis, eds. cloth, $29.95.

The Whispered Meanings: Selected Essays of Simon O. Lesser. Simon O. Lesser. Robert Sprich & Richard W. Noland, eds. paper, $24.95.

The White Logic: Alcoholism and Gender in American Modernist Fiction. John W. Crowley. paper, $22.95.

Wilbur's Poetry: Music in a Scattering Time. Bruce Michelson. cloth, $40.00.

Women and Discourse in the Fiction of Marguerite Duras: Love, Legends, Language. Susan D. Cohen. cloth, $40.00; paper, $24.95.

Word against Word: Shakespearean Utterance. James R. Siemon. cloth, $39.95.

"The World's Best Books": Taste, Culture, and the Modern Library. Jay Satterfield. cloth, $37.50.

Writing between the Lines: An Anthology on War and Its Social Consequences. Kevin Bowen & Bruce Weigl, eds. cloth, 55.00; paper, $24.95.

Writing War: Fiction, Gender, and Memory. Lynne Hanley. cloth, $30.00; paper, $20.95.

Yeats at Songs and Choruses. David R. Clark. cloth, $40.00.

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