Books Recently Reviewed in MHRA Journals

Reviews published in January to March 2018

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MHRA journals have been reviewing new additions to the scholarly literature since 1905. This page lists the reviews published by us in the quarter January to March 2018, alphabetized by the first-named author or editor of the book being reviewed.

Ardizzone, Maria Luisa, Reading as the Angels Read: Speculation and Politics in Dante's ‘Banquet’: reviewed by John Took in MLR 113.1 (text at JSTOR)

Atkins, G. Douglas, On Keats's Practice and the Poetics of Responsibility: Beauty and Truth in the Major Poems: reviewed by Paul Wright in MLR 113.1 (text at JSTOR)

Braese, Stephan, Jenseits der Pässe: Wolfgang Hildesheimer — Eine Biographie: reviewed by Alexis Radisoglou in MLR 113.1 (text at JSTOR)

Burdett, Charles, Italy, Islam, and the Islamic World: Representations and Reflections, from 9/11 to the Arab Uprisings: reviewed by Marino Forlino in MLR 113.1 (text at JSTOR)

Burgess, Glyn S., and Leslie C. Brook, Twenty-Four Lays from the French Middle Ages: reviewed by Alison Williams in MLR 113.1 (text at JSTOR)

Carstensen, Thorsten, and Marcel Schmid, Die Literatur der Lebensreform: Kulturkritik und Aufbruchsstimmung um 1900: reviewed by Ina Linge in MLR 113.1 (text at JSTOR)

Coulton, Richard, Matthew Mauger, and Christopher Reid, Stealing Books in Eighteenth-Century London: reviewed by Meaghan J. Brown in MLR 113.1 (text at JSTOR)

Davies, Mererid Puw, Writing and the West German Protest Movements: The Textual Revolution: reviewed by Gerrit-Jan Berendse in MLR 113.1 (text at JSTOR)

Degner, Uta, Hans Weichselbaum, and Norbert Christian Wolf, Autorschaft und Poetik in Texten und Kontexten Georg Trakls: reviewed by Theodore Fiedler in Celebrations (text at JSTOR)

Denzel, Valentina, Les Mille et Un Visages de la virago: Marphise et Bradamante entre continuation et variation: reviewed by Maria Pavlova in MLR 113.1 (text at JSTOR)

Dodd, Elizabeth S., and Cassandra Gorman, Thomas Traherne and Seventeenth-Century Thought: reviewed by Rachel Willie in MLR 113.1 (text at JSTOR)

Douthwaite, Julia V., Rousseau and Dignity: Art Serving Humanity: reviewed by Masano Yamashita in MLR 113.1 (text at JSTOR)

Empson, William, and Rupert Arrowsmith, The Face of the Buddha: reviewed by John Batchelor in MLR 113.1 (text at JSTOR)

Fauth, Søren R., and Rolf Parr, Neue Realismen in der Gegenwartsliteratur: reviewed by Svenja Frank in MLR 113.1 (text at JSTOR)

Feldman, Paula R., and Brian C. Cooney, The Collected Poetry of Mary Tighe: reviewed by Penny Bradshaw in MLR 113.1 (text at JSTOR)

Fetz, Bernhard, Michael Hansel, and Hannes Schweiger, Franz Grillparzer: Ein Klassiker für die Gegenwart: reviewed by W. E. Yates in Celebrations (text at JSTOR)

Frenk, Joachim, and Lena Steveker, Charles Dickens as an Agent of Change: reviewed by Ian Middlebrook in MLR 113.1 (text at JSTOR)

Fuchs, Anne, and J. J. Long, Time in German Literature and Acceleration, 1900–2015: Between Acceleration and Slowness: reviewed by Michael Mack in MLR 113.1 (text at JSTOR)

Grabenweger, Elisabeth, Germanistik in Wien: Das Seminar für Deutsche Philologie und seine Privatdozentinnen (1897–1933): reviewed by Deborah Holmes in Celebrations (text at JSTOR)

Grenaud-Tostain, Céline, and Olivier Lumbroso, Naturalisme. — Vous avez dit naturalismes?: reviewed by Claire White in MLR 113.1 (text at JSTOR)

Haberich, Max, Arthur Schnitzler: Anatom des Fin de Siècle: reviewed by Tobias Heinrich in Celebrations (text at JSTOR)

Hales, Barbara, Mihaela Petrescu, and Valerie Weinstein, Continuity and Crisis in German Cinema, 1928–1936: reviewed by Laurence Carr in MLR 113.1 (text at JSTOR)

Herford, Oliver, Henry James's Style of Retrospect: Late Personal Writings 1890–1915: reviewed by Hazel Hutchison in MLR 113.1 (text at JSTOR)

Hofmannsthal, Hugo von, and Alexander Stillmark, An Impossible Man: reviewed by Edward Saunders in Celebrations (text at JSTOR)

Hubble, Nick, and Philip Tew, London in Contemporary British Fiction: The City beyond the City: reviewed by Neal Alexander in MLR 113.1 (text at JSTOR)

Jean-François, Emmanuel Bruno, Poétiques de la violence et récits francophones contemporains: reviewed by Benjamin Hiramatsu Ireland in MLR 113.1 (text at JSTOR)

Johnson, Samuel, Nicholas Seager, and Lance Wilcox, The Life of Mr Richard Savage: reviewed by Joe Lines in MLR 113.1 (text at JSTOR)

Kucher, Primus-Heinz, Verdrängte Moderne — vergessene Avantgarde: Diskurskonstellationen zwischen Literatur, Theater, Kunst und Musik in Österreich 1918–1938: reviewed by Florian Krobb in Celebrations (text at JSTOR)

Labrousse, Elisabeth, Antony McKenna, Wiep Van Bunge, Edward James, Bruno Roche, and Fabienne Vial-Bonacci, Correspondance de Pierre Bayle, vol. XIII: Janvier 1703–décembre 1706. Lettres 1591–1741: reviewed by Anton M. Matytsin in MLR 113.1 (text at JSTOR)

Laroussi, Farid, Postcolonial Counterpoint: Orientalism, France, and the Maghreb: reviewed by Joseph Ford in MLR 113.1 (text at JSTOR)

Lay, Jenna, Beyond the Cloister: Catholic Englishwomen and Early Modern Literary Culture: reviewed by Andrew Breeze in MLR 113.1 (text at JSTOR)

Leitner, Maria, Helga W. Schwarz, Helga, and Wilfried Schwarz, Amerikanische Abenteuer: Eine Dokumentation. Originaltexte von 1925 bis 1935, Episoden, Reportagen und der Urwald-Roman Wehr dich, Akato!: reviewed by Julian Preece in Celebrations (text at JSTOR)

Leitner, Maria, Helga, and Wilfried Schwarz, Mädchen mit drei Namen: Reportagen aus Deutschland und ein Berliner Roman 1928–1933: reviewed by Julian Preece in Celebrations (text at JSTOR)

Lynch, Jack, The Oxford Handbook of British Poetry, 1660–1800: reviewed by Jane Darcy in MLR 113.1 (text at JSTOR)

Manutius, Aldus, and N. G. Wilson, The Greek Classics: reviewed by Brian Richardson in MLR 113.1 (text at JSTOR)

Martínez, Miguel, Front Lines: Soldiers' Writing in the Early Modern Hispanic World: reviewed by David Arbesú in MLR 113.1 (text at JSTOR)

Mendicino, Kristina, Prophecies of Language: The Confusion of Tongues in German Romanticism: reviewed by Kaltërina Latifi in MLR 113.1 (text at JSTOR)

Milthorpe, Naomi, Evelyn Waugh's Satire: Texts and Contexts: reviewed by Barbara Cooke in MLR 113.1 (text at JSTOR)

Murray, Jennifer, Reading Alice Munro with Jacques Lacan: reviewed by Diane Warren in MLR 113.1 (text at JSTOR)

Nicholls, Angus, Myth and the Human Sciences: Hans Blumenberg's Theory of Myth: reviewed by Joe Paul Kroll in MLR 113.1 (text at JSTOR)

O'Neil, Joseph D., Figures of Natality: Reading the Political in the Age of Goethe: reviewed by Osman Durrani in MLR 113.1 (text at JSTOR)

Orton, Peter, Writing in a Speaking World: The Pragmatics of Literacy in Anglo-Saxon Inscriptions and Old English Poetry: reviewed by Hannah M. Bailey in MLR 113.1 (text at JSTOR)

Parish, Nina, and Emma Wagstaff, Writing the Real: A Bilingual Anthology of Contemporary French Poetry: reviewed by Robin Purves in MLR 113.1 (text at JSTOR)

Pepper, Andrew, and David Schmid, Globalization and the State in Contemporary Crime Fiction: A World of Crime: reviewed by Maurizio Ascari in MLR 113.1 (text at JSTOR)

Pierce, James, The Life and Work of William Salesbury: A Rare Scholar: reviewed by Andrew Hiscock in MLR 113.1 (text at JSTOR)

Piron, Alexis, and Derek Connon, Gustave-Wasa: reviewed by Síofra Pierse in MLR 113.1 (text at JSTOR)

Rathkolb, Oliver, Die paradoxe Republik, Österreich 1945 bis 2015: reviewed by Rebecca Wismeg in Celebrations (text at JSTOR)

Ringgaard, Dan, and Mads Rosendahl Thomsen, Danish Literature as World Literature: reviewed by Anja Tröger in MLR 113.1 (text at JSTOR)

Rüsenberg, Irmgard, Liebe und Leid, Kampf und Grimm: Gefühlswelten in der deutschen Literatur des Mittelalters: reviewed by Mary Boyle in MLR 113.1 (text at JSTOR)

Schütte, Uwe, Über W. G. Sebald: Beiträge zu einem anderen Bild des Autors: reviewed by Julian Preece in MLR 113.1 (text at JSTOR)

Sherry, Samantha, Discourses of Regulation and Resistance: Censoring Translation in the Stalin and Khrushchev Era Soviet Union: reviewed by Emily Lygo in MLR 113.1 (text at JSTOR)

Stetler, Pepper, Stop Reading! Look! Modern Vision and the Weimar Photographic Book: reviewed by Matthias Uecker in MLR 113.1 (text at JSTOR)

Swift, Helen J., Representing the Dead: Epitaph Fictions in Late-Medieval France: reviewed by Alice Hazard in MLR 113.1 (text at JSTOR)

Tabachnikova, Olga, Russian Irrationalism from Pushkin to Brodsky: Seven Essays in Literature and Thought: reviewed by Ruth Coates in MLR 113.1 (text at JSTOR)

Vermeiren, Jan, The First World War and German National Identity: The Dual Alliance at War: reviewed by Matthew Stibbe in Celebrations (text at JSTOR)

Welch, Rhiannon Noel, Vital Subjects: Race and Biopolitics in Italy, 1860–1920: reviewed by Fabrizio DeDonno in MLR 113.1 (text at JSTOR)

Zelić, Tomislav, Traditionsbrüche: Neue Forschungsansätze zu Hermann Bahr: reviewed by Andrew Barker in Celebrations (text at JSTOR)