Books Recently Reviewed in MHRA Journals

Reviews published in July to September 2026

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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 July to September 2026, alphabetized by the first-named author or editor of the book being reviewed.

Araujo, Ana Lucia, Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery: reviewed by Joseph da Costa in MLR 121.3 (text at JSTOR)

Barański, Zygmunt G., Theodore J. Cachey, and Jr (ed.), American Dantes: Traditions, Translations, Transformations: reviewed by Katherine McKee in MLR 121.3 (text at JSTOR)

Brook, Clodagh, Florian Mussgnug, and Giuliana Pieri, Intermedia in Italy: From Futurism to Digital Convergence: reviewed by Clara Ramazzotti in MLR 121.3 (text at JSTOR)

Camps, Jacobo de, Walter Benjamin’s Calderón: Literary Criticism and the Baroque: reviewed by Rasmus Vangshardt in MLR 121.3 (text at JSTOR)

Chu, Jinyi, Fin-de-siècle Russia and Chinese Aesthetics: The Other is the Universal: reviewed by Rui Zhu in MLR 121.3 (text at JSTOR)

Crisanti, Giulia, Europeans Are Lovin’ It? Coca-Cola, McDonald’s and Responses to American Global Businesses in Italy and France, 1886–2015: reviewed by Luca Cottini in MLR 121.3 (text at JSTOR)

Curran, Kevin, Shakespeare’s Theatre of Judgment: Six Keywords: reviewed by Adam Hansen in MLR 121.3 (text at JSTOR)

DeCoste, Mary-Michelle, Hopeless Love: Boiardo, Ariosto, and Narratives of Queer Female Desire: reviewed by Alessandro Giammei in MLR 121.3 (text at JSTOR)

Dellacasa, Claudia, Italo Calvino and Japan: A Journey through the Shallow Depths of Signs: reviewed by Ida Duretto in MLR 121.3 (text at JSTOR)

DeWaal, Jeremy, Geographies of Renewal: Heimat and Democracy in West Germany, 1945–1990: reviewed by Thomas Herold in MLR 121.3 (text at JSTOR)

Goldberg, Stuart, An Indwelling Voice: Sincerities and Authenticities in Russian Poetry: reviewed by Katharine Hodgson in MLR 121.3 (text at JSTOR)

Hanegraaff, Wouter J., Rejected Knowledge: reviewed by Paul Bishop in MLR 121.3 (text at JSTOR)

Jacobs, Adriana X., and Claire Williams (ed.), After Clarice: Reading Lispector's Legacy in the Twenty-First Century: reviewed by Lingchen Huang in Portuguese Studies 42.1 (text at JSTOR)

Lurz, John, The Barthes Fantastic: Literature, Criticism, and the Practice of Language: reviewed by Emily Ainley-Zoll in MLR 121.3 (text at JSTOR)

Mazzucchelli, Chiara, Bastimenti d’inchiostro: la Grande Emigrazione nella letteratura siciliana (1876–1924): reviewed by Alice Gussoni in MLR 121.3 (text at JSTOR)

Meyer, Matthew, Guidebook to Nietzsche’s ‘Thus Spoke Zarathustra’: reviewed by Paul Bishop in MLR 121.3 (text at JSTOR)

Ralston, Kenneth M., Thinking through German Literature with Andrew Jaszi: A Foundational Approach Applied to Goethe and Kafka: reviewed by Elliot Sturdy in MLR 121.3 (text at JSTOR)

Reed, Eleanor, ‘Woman’s Weekly’ and Lower-Middle-Class Domestic Culture in Britain, 1918–1958: Making Homemakers: reviewed by Tanya Izzard in MLR 121.3 (text at JSTOR)

Ripollés, Carmen, Josefa de Óbidos: reviewed by Jean Andrews in Portuguese Studies 42.1 (text at JSTOR)

Ruiz, Ricardo Marín, Knowledge and Art in Ernest Hemingway’s Vision of Bullfighting: An Introduction: reviewed by Duncan Wheeler in MLR 121.3 (text at JSTOR)

Santos, Emanuelle Rodrigues dos, The Late Postcolonial Condition: Twenty-First-Century Reconfigurations in the Literatures of Portuguese-Speaking Africa: reviewed by Mário César Lugarinho in Portuguese Studies 42.1 (text at JSTOR)

Schelling, F. W. J., On the Deities of Samothrace: reviewed by Paul Bishop in MLR 121.3 (text at JSTOR)

Seguín, Bécquer, The Op-Ed Novel: A Literary History of Post-Franco Spain: reviewed by Samuel O'Donoghue in MLR 121.3 (text at JSTOR)

Stewart, Jon, A History of Nihilism in the Nineteenth Century: Confrontations with Nothingness: reviewed by Paul Bishop in MLR 121.3 (text at JSTOR)

Stromboli, Carolina (ed.), Un ricettario meridionale del primo Cinquecento: edizione e glossario di ‘Apparecchi diversi da mangiare’: reviewed by Diego Zancani in MLR 121.3 (text at JSTOR)

Ware, Owen, Return of the Gods: Mythology in Romantic Philosophy and Literature: reviewed by Paul Bishop in MLR 121.3 (text at JSTOR)

Wendland, Aaron James, and Tobias Keiling, Heidegger’s ‘Being and Time’: A Critical Guide: reviewed by Paul Bishop in MLR 121.3 (text at JSTOR)

Zambrano, María, Antigone’s Tomb/La tumba de Antígona: reviewed by Xon de Ros in MLR 121.3 (text at JSTOR)