Books Recently Reviewed in MHRA Journals

Reviews published in October to December 2023

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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 2023, alphabetized by the first-named author or editor of the book being reviewed.

Armas, Frederick A. de, and James Mandrell (ed.), The Gastronomical Arts in Spain: Food and Etiquette: reviewed by Rebecca Earle in MLR 118.4 (text at JSTOR)

Biskup, Thomas et al. (ed.), Enlightenment at Court: Patrons, Philosophes, and Reformers in Eighteenth-Century Europe: reviewed by Roberto Quirós Rosado in MLR 118.4 (text at JSTOR)

Brady, Lindy (ed.), Old English Tradition: Essays in Honor of J. R. Hall: reviewed by Andrew Breeze in MLR 118.4 (text at JSTOR)

Brizio, Elena, and Marco Piana (ed.), Idealizing Women in the Italian Renaissance: reviewed by Alex E. Tadel in MLR 118.4 (text at JSTOR)

Bullock, Philip Ross (ed.), Rachmaninoff and His World: reviewed by Arnold McMillin in SEER 101.3 (text at JSTOR)

Carroll, Jane Suzanne, British Children's Literature and Material Culture: Commodities and Consumption 1850–1914: reviewed by Catherine Butler in MLR 118.4 (text at JSTOR)

Cartmell, Deborah, and Imelda Whelehan (ed.), Adaptations: Critical and Primary Sources: reviewed by Kate Griffiths in MLR 118.4 (text at JSTOR)

Cartwright, Jane (ed.), Delw y Byd: A Medieval Welsh Encyclopedia ed. by Natalia I. Petrovskaia, and: Hystoria Gweryddon yr Almaen: The Middle Welsh Life of St Ursula and the 11,000 Virgins: reviewed by Helen Fulton in MLR 118.4 (text at JSTOR)

Cecchi, Giovan Maria, Five Plays for the Archangel Raphael: reviewed by Richard Andrews in MLR 118.4 (text at JSTOR)

Chinca, Mark, and Christopher Young (ed.), Literary Beginnings in the European Middle Ages: reviewed by Wendy Scase in MLR 118.4 (text at JSTOR)

Colonna, Vittoria, Selected Letters: A Bilingual Edition, 1523–1546: reviewed by Maria Serena Sapegno in MLR 118.4 (text at JSTOR)

Cooper, Ian, Poetry and the Question of Modernity: From Heidegger to the Present: reviewed by Rüdiger Cörner in MLR 118.4 (text at JSTOR)

Daniel, Michelle S., The DJ Who 'Brought Down' the USSR: The Life and Legacy of Seva Novgorodtsev: reviewed by Andrei Rogatchevski in SEER 101.3 (text at JSTOR)

Davies, Abe, Imagining the Soul in Premodern Literature: reviewed by David Parry in MLR 118.4 (text at JSTOR)

Docherty, Thomas, The Politics of Realism: reviewed by Charlotte Jones in MLR 118.4 (text at JSTOR)

Douglas-Fairhurst, Robert, The Turning Point: A Year that Changed Dickens and the World: reviewed by John Batchelor in MLR 118.4 (text at JSTOR)

Duttlinger, Carolin, Attention and Distraction in Modern German Literature, Thought, and Culture: reviewed by Anne Fuchs in MLR 118.4 (text at JSTOR)

Exeler, Franziska, Ghosts of War: Nazi Occupation and Its Aftermath in Soviet Belarus: reviewed by Mark Edele in SEER 101.3 (text at JSTOR)

Finnin, Rory, Blood of Others: Stalin's Crimean Atrocity and the Poetics of Solidarity: reviewed by Marko Pavlyshyn in SEER 101.3 (text at JSTOR)

Finnin, Rory, Blood of Others: Stalin's Crimean Atrocity and the Poetics of Solidarity: reviewed by Katya Jordan in MLR 118.4 (text at JSTOR)

Firsberg, Tuomas, and Sirke Mäkinen (ed.), Russia's Cultural Statecraft: reviewed by Muireann Maguire in MLR 118.4 (text at JSTOR)

Gentes, Andrew A., Russia's Sakhalin Penal Colony, 1849–1917: Imperialism and Exile: reviewed by Sarah J. Young in SEER 101.3 (text at JSTOR)

Gordienko, Anastasia, Outlaw Music in Russia: The Rise of an Unlikely Genre: reviewed by Philip Bullock in SEER 101.3 (text at JSTOR)

Grant, Susan, Soviet Nightingales: Care Under Communism: reviewed by Melissa L. Miller in SEER 101.3 (text at JSTOR)

Greenslade, William, and Emanuela Ettorre (ed.), Hubert Crackanthorpe: Selected Writings: reviewed by Jessica Gossling in MLR 118.4 (text at JSTOR)

Guillory, John, Professing Criticism: Essays on the Organization of Literary Study: reviewed by Ritchie Robertson in MLR 118.4 (text at JSTOR)

Gustafson, Thane, Klimat: Russia in the Age of Climate Change: reviewed by Ryan Jones in SEER 101.3 (text at JSTOR)

Holland, Mary K., and Heather Hewett (ed.), : reviewed by Julie Anne Taddeo in MLR 118.4 (text at JSTOR)

Huehls, Mitchum, Art, Theory, Revolution: The Turn to Generality in Contemporary Literature: reviewed by Peter Sloane in MLR 118.4 (text at JSTOR)

Iuvachev, Ivan P., Eight Years on Sakhalin: A Political Prisoner's Memoir: reviewed by Sarah J. Young in SEER 101.3 (text at JSTOR)

Karpukhin, Sara, and José Vergara (ed.), : reviewed by Alisa Ballard Lin in MLR 118.4 (text at JSTOR)

Kostovicova, Denisa, Reconciliation by Stealth: How People Talk about War Crimes: reviewed by James Gow in SEER 101.3 (text at JSTOR)

LeDonne, John P., Forging a Unitary State: Russia's Management of the Eurasian Space, 1650–1850: reviewed by Alexander Morrison in SEER 101.3 (text at JSTOR)

Lethbridge, Robert, Zola's Painters: reviewed by Claire Moran in MLR 118.4 (text at JSTOR)

Leveque, James P., Words like Fire: Prophecy and Apocalypse in Apollinaire, Marinetti, and Pound: reviewed by Willard Bohn in MLR 118.4 (text at JSTOR)

Mchenry, Elizabeth, To Make Negro Literature: Writing, Literary Practice, and African American Authorship: reviewed by Rachel Farebrother in MLR 118.4 (text at JSTOR)

Menely, Tobias, Climate and the Making of Worlds: Toward a Geohistorical Poetics: reviewed by Sophie Fordham in MLR 118.4 (text at JSTOR)

Milne, Anna-Louise, and Russell Williams (ed.), Contemporary Fiction in French: reviewed by Maeve McCusker in MLR 118.4 (text at JSTOR)

Murmu, Maroona, Words of her Own: Women Authors in Nineteenth-Century Bengal: reviewed by Máire Ní Fhlathúin in MLR 118.4 (text at JSTOR)

Offord, Derek, Ayn Rand and the Russian Intelligentsia: The Origins of an Icon of the American Right: reviewed by Matic Kocijančič in SEER 101.3 (text at JSTOR)

Oliveira, Cassio de, Writing Rogues: The Soviet Picaresque and Identity Formation, 1921–1938: reviewed by Mark Lipovetsky in SEER 101.3 (text at JSTOR)

Ortner, Jessica, Transcultural Memory and European Identity in Contemporary German-Jewish Migrant Literature: reviewed by Stuart Taberner in MLR 118.4 (text at JSTOR)

Panteli, Georgia, From Puppet to Cyborg: Pinocchio's Posthuman Journey: reviewed by Kelly Mckisson in MLR 118.4 (text at JSTOR)

Parker, Luke, Nabokov Noir: Cinematic Culture and the Art of Exile: reviewed by Roman Utkin in MLR 118.4 (text at JSTOR)

Peterson, Nadya L., Chekhov's Children: Context and Text in Late Imperial Russia: reviewed by Melissa L. Miller in MLR 118.4 (text at JSTOR)

Petri, Olga, Places of Tenderness and Heat: The Queer Milieu of Fin-de-Siècle St. Petersburg: reviewed by Nick Mayhew in SEER 101.3 (text at JSTOR)

Potter, Franz J., Gothic Chapbooks, Bluebooks and Shilling Shockers, 1797–1830: reviewed by Jimmy Packham in MLR 118.4 (text at JSTOR)

Przebinda, Grzegorz, From Chaadayev to Solovyov: Russian Modern Thinkers Between East and West: reviewed by James Day in SEER 101.3 (text at JSTOR)

Rieber, Alfred J., Stalin as Warlord: reviewed by Richard Bidlack in SEER 101.3 (text at JSTOR)

Riegg, Stephen Badalyan, Russia's Entangled Embrace: The Tsarist Empire and the Armenians, 1801–1914: reviewed by Steven A. Usitalo in SEER 101.3 (text at JSTOR)

Robbins, Jeremy, Incomparable Realms: Spain during the Golden Age, 1500–1700: reviewed by Roy Norton in MLR 118.4 (text at JSTOR)

Romaniello, Matthew P., Alison K. Smith, and Tricia Starks (ed.), The Life Cycle of Russian Things: From Fish Guts to Fabergé, 1600–Present: reviewed by Diane P. Koenker in SEER 101.3 (text at JSTOR)

Round, Julia, Rikke Platz Cortsen, and Maaheen Ahmed, Comics and Graphic Novels: reviewed by Lise Tannahill in MLR 118.4 (text at JSTOR)

Sáez-Hidalgo, Ana, and Berta Cano-Echevarría (ed.), Exile, Diplomacy and Texts: Exchanges between Iberia and the British Isles, 1500–1767: reviewed by Andrew Hiscock in MLR 118.4 (text at JSTOR)

Sagramoso, Domitilla, Russian Imperialism Revisited: From Disengagement to Hegemony: reviewed by Peter J. S. Duncan in SEER 101.3 (text at JSTOR)

Shkandrij, Myroslav, In the Maelstrom: The Waffen-SS 'Galicia' Division and Its Legacy: reviewed by Kai Struve in SEER 101.3 (text at JSTOR)

Terrell, Katherine H., Scripting the Nation: Court Poetry and the Authority of History in Late Medieval Scotland: reviewed by Emily Wingfield in MLR 118.4 (text at JSTOR)

Torigian, Joseph, Prestige, Manipulation, and Coercion: Elite Power Struggles in the Soviet Union and China after Stalin and Mao: reviewed by Sophie Smith in SEER 101.3 (text at JSTOR)

Tyerman, Edward, Internationalist Aesthetics: China and Early Soviet Culture: reviewed by Arnold McMillin in SEER 101.3 (text at JSTOR)

Vaninskaya, Anna (ed.), London Through Russian Eyes, 1896–1914: An Anthology of Foreign Correspondence: reviewed by Michael Hughes in SEER 101.3 (text at JSTOR)

Washburne, Christopher, Latin Jazz: The Other Jazz: reviewed by Jessica Sequeira in MLR 118.4 (text at JSTOR)

West, Elizabeth, The Women Who Invented Twentieth-Century Children's Literature: reviewed by Yuanyuan Zhang in MLR 118.4 (text at JSTOR)

Williams, Helen, Laurence Sterne and the Eighteenth-Century Book: reviewed by Shaun Regan in MLR 118.4 (text at JSTOR)

Williams, Raymond, Who Speaks for Wales? Nation, Culture, Identity: The Centenary Edition: reviewed by M. Wynn Thomas in MLR 118.4 (text at JSTOR)