Books Recently Reviewed in MHRA Journals

Reviews published in October to December 2024

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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 October to December 2024, alphabetized by the first-named author or editor of the book being reviewed.

Aresu, Francesco Marco, Manuscript Poetics: Materiality and Textuality in Medieval Italian Literature: reviewed by Brian Richardson in MLR 119.4 (text at JSTOR)

Averis, Kate, Margaret Littler, and Godela Weiss-Sussex (ed.), Contested Communities: Small, Minority and Minor Literatures in Europe: reviewed by Alice Flinta in MLR 119.4 (text at JSTOR)

Bartlett, Roger, The Bentham Brothers and Russia: The Imperial Russian Constitution and the St Petersburg Panopticon: reviewed by Robert Collis in SEER 102.3 (text at JSTOR)

Berman, Anna A. (ed.), Tolstoy in Context: reviewed by Muireann Maguire in SEER 102.3 (text at JSTOR)

Buchenau, Barbara, Jens Martin Gurr, and Maria Sulimma (ed.), City Scripts: Narratives of Postindustrial Urban Futures: reviewed by Jamin Creed Rowan in MLR 119.4 (text at JSTOR)

Burry, Alexander, Legacies of the Stone Guest: The Don Juan Legend in Russian Literature: reviewed by Arnold McMillin in SEER 102.3 (text at JSTOR)

Ciobanu, Monica, Repression, Resistance and Collaboration in Stalinist Romania, 1944–1964: Post-communist Remembering: reviewed by Stefan Cristian Ionescu in SEER 102.3 (text at JSTOR)

Clark, Elena Pedigo, Trauma and Truth: Teaching Russian Literature on the Chechen Wars: reviewed by Adrienne M. Harris in SEER 102.3 (text at JSTOR)

Cox, Virginia et al, Drama, Poetry and Music in Late-Renaissance Italy: The Life and Works of Leonora Bernardi: reviewed by Taro Kobayashi in MLR 119.4 (text at JSTOR)

Daiber, Thomas, Vita des Konstantin-Kyrill. Altkirchenslavischer Text, Übersetzung, Kommentar: reviewed by Andrii Danylenko in SEER 102.3 (text at JSTOR)

Deganutti, Marianna, Literary Multilingualism in the Borderlands: The Challenge of Trieste: reviewed by Jadranka Cergol in MLR 119.4 (text at JSTOR)

Deletant, Dennis, Romania, 1916–1941: A Political History: reviewed by Rebecca Ann Haynes in SEER 102.3 (text at JSTOR)

Diazzi, Alessandra, Psychoanalysis, Ideology and Commitment in Italy 1945–1975: Edoardo Sanguineti, Ottiero Ottieri, Andrea Zanzotto: reviewed by Roberta Passaghe in MLR 119.4 (text at JSTOR)

Dobrenko, Evgeny, and Natalia Jonsson-Skradol, State Laughter: Stalinism, Populism, and Origins of Soviet Culture: reviewed by Seth Graham in SEER 102.3 (text at JSTOR)

Dumančić, Marko, Men out of Focus: The Soviet Masculinity Crisis in the Long Sixties: reviewed by Charlie Walker in SEER 102.3 (text at JSTOR)

Favaro, Maiko (ed.), Interpreting and Judging Petrarch’s ‘Canzoniere’ in Early Modern Italy: reviewed by Nicolò Morelli in MLR 119.4 (text at JSTOR)

Feldman, Daniel, and Efraim Sicher, Poesis in Extremis: Literature Witnessing the Holocaust: reviewed by Helena Duffy in MLR 119.4 (text at JSTOR)

Fitzpatrick, Sheila, The Shortest History of the Soviet Union: reviewed by Nikolay Koposov in SEER 102.3 (text at JSTOR)

Florczyk, Piotr, and K. A. Wisniewski (ed.), Polish Literature as World Literature: reviewed by Kasia Szymańska in SEER 102.3 (text at JSTOR)

Hamed-Troyansky, Vladimir, Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State: reviewed by Enes Şamil Kiraz in SEER 102.3 (text at JSTOR)

Henderson, Jane, The Constitution of the Russian Federation: A Contextual Analysis: reviewed by William Pomeranz in SEER 102.3 (text at JSTOR)

Ide, Arata, Localizing Christopher Marlowe: His Life, Plays and Mythology, 1575–1593: reviewed by Lisa Hopkins in MLR 119.4 (text at JSTOR)

Japaridze, Tinatin, Stalin's Millennials: Nostalgia, Trauma, and Nationalism: reviewed by Hanna Gabriella Miles in SEER 102.3 (text at JSTOR)

Levine, Caroline, The Activist Humanist: Form and Method in the Climate Crisis: reviewed by Adam Hansen in MLR 119.4 (text at JSTOR)

Phillips, Barry, In Search of Tito’s Punks: On the Road in a Country that No Longer Exists: reviewed by Christopher Spinks in MLR 119.4 (text at JSTOR)

Pinkus, Karen, Subsurface: reviewed by Timothy Clark in MLR 119.4 (text at JSTOR)

Refini, Eugenio, Staging the Soul: Allegorical Drama as Spiritual Practice in Baroque Italy: reviewed by Valentina Mirabella in MLR 119.4 (text at JSTOR)

Ryan, Marie-Laure, A New Anatomy of Storyworlds: What Is, What If, As If: reviewed by Denise Wong in MLR 119.4 (text at JSTOR)

Santo-Tomás, Enríque García, María de Zayas y la imaginación crítica: bibliografía razonada y comentada: reviewed by Hayley O’Kell in MLR 119.4 (text at JSTOR)

Seifrid, Thomas, Staging the Absolute: Ritual in Russia's Modern Era: reviewed by Simon Morrison in SEER 102.3 (text at JSTOR)

Senderovich, Sasha, How the Soviet Jew Was Made: reviewed by Katharine Hodgson in MLR 119.4 (text at JSTOR)

Smith, Alison K., Cabbage and Caviar: A History of Food in Russia: reviewed by Cathy McAteer in MLR 119.4 (text at JSTOR)

Sutcliffe, Benjamin M., Empire of Objects: Iurii Trifonov and the Material World of Soviet Culture: reviewed by Miquel Cabal-Guarro in MLR 119.4 (text at JSTOR)

Swain, Geoffrey et al. (ed.), The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Russian Revolution: reviewed by Christopher Read in SEER 102.3 (text at JSTOR)

Swanson, Lucy, The Zombie in Contemporary French Caribbean Fiction: reviewed by Laura Kennedy in MLR 119.4 (text at JSTOR)

Wilson, Elizabeth, Playing With Fire: The Story of Maria Yudina, Pianist in Stalin's Russia: reviewed by Rebecca Mitchell in SEER 102.3 (text at JSTOR)

Wood, Michael, Marcel Proust: reviewed by Richard Mason in MLR 119.4 (text at JSTOR)

Woods, Livia Arndal, Pregnancy in the Victorian Novel: reviewed by Jessica Cox in MLR 119.4 (text at JSTOR)

Zak, Gur, Boccaccio and the Consolation of Literature: reviewed by Nicola Esposito in MLR 119.4 (text at JSTOR)