Books Recently Reviewed in MHRA Journals

Reviews published in April to June 2025

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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 April to June 2025, alphabetized by the first-named author or editor of the book being reviewed.

Arena, Alessio, La famiglia Rame: storia, tradizioni e repertorio di una compagnia di attori tra XIX e XX secolo: reviewed by Joseph Farrell in MLR 120.2 (text at JSTOR)

Beringer, Alex, Lost Literacies: Experiments in the Nineteenth-Century US Comic Strip: reviewed by Francesca Benatti in MLR 120.2

Birus, Hendrik, Gesammelte Schriften: reviewed by Jeremy Adler in MLR 120.2 (text at JSTOR)

Brecciaroli, Giulia, Mapping Post-War Italian Literature: Boom and Aftermath (1976-1979): reviewed by Luciano Parisi in MLR 120.2 (text at JSTOR)

Cairns, Lucille, Eating Disorders in Contemporary French Women's Writing: reviewed by Sandra Daroczi in MLR 120.2 (text at JSTOR)

Callison, Jamie et al. (ed.), The Bloomsbury Handbook of Modernist Archives: reviewed by Daniel Hughes in MLR 120.2 (text at JSTOR)

Cavallaro, Daniela, Il teatro di Alba de Céspedes: testi e materiali d'archivio: reviewed by Alice Parrinello in MLR 120.2 (text at JSTOR)

Cavallo, Jo Ann (ed.), Teaching World Epics: reviewed by Buffy Turner in MLR 120.2 (text at JSTOR)

Giles-Watson, Maura, Performing Arguments: Debate in Early English Poetry and Drama: reviewed by Wu Lin in MLR 120.2 (text at JSTOR)

Hadfield, Andrew, Literature and Class: From the Peasants' Revolt to the French Revolution: reviewed by Adam Hansen in MLR 120.2 (text at JSTOR)

Haustein, Katja, Alone with Others: An Essay on Tact in Five Modernist Encounters: reviewed by Suzanne Guerlac in MLR 120.2 (text at JSTOR)

Islert, Camille, Renée Vivien: une poétigue sous influence?: reviewed by Rebecca Boyd in MLR 120.2 (text at JSTOR)

Josi, Mara, Rome, 16 October 1943: History, Memory, Literature: reviewed by Simon Levis Sullam in MLR 120.2 (text at JSTOR)

Jöttkandt, Sigi, The Nabokov Effect: Reading in the Endgame: reviewed by Hanna Gabriella Miles in MLR 120.2 (text at JSTOR)

Jung, Sandro, Eighteenth-Century Illustration and Literary Material Culture: Richardson, Thomson, Defoe: reviewed by Xiaowen Liu in MLR 120.2

Kaminski, Johannes, Lives and Deaths of Werther: Interpretation, Translation, and Adaptation in Europe and East Asia: reviewed by Birgit Tautz in MLR 120.2 (text at JSTOR)

Kunakhovich, Kyrill, Communism's Public Sphere: Culture as Politics in Cold War Poland and East Germany: reviewed by Elizabeth M. Ward in MLR 120.2 (text at JSTOR)

Maguire, Muireann, and Cathy McAteer (ed.), Translating Russian Literature in the Global Context: reviewed by Gaëtan C. Regniers in MLR 120.2 (text at JSTOR)

Meyer, Jochen (ed.), Dem Traum folgen: Christoph Meckel und Lilo Fromm im Briefwechsel mit Johannes Bobrowski 1960–1965: reviewed by Ronald Speirs in MLR 120.2 (text at JSTOR)

Ostler, Rosemarie, The United States of English: The American Language from Colonial Times to the Twenty-First Century: reviewed by Huaqian He in MLR 120.2 (text at JSTOR)

Sánchez-Ferrer, Guillermo Gómez, and Claudia Jacobi (ed.), 'Que todo lo feo es malo / y todo lo bueno hermoso': aproximaciones a la estética de lo feo en Lope de Vega: reviewed by Almudena García González in MLR 120.2 (text at JSTOR)

Segnini, Elisa, and Michael Subialka (ed.), Gabriele D'Annunzio and World Literature: Multilingualism, Translation, Reception: reviewed by Giuliana Pieri in MLR 120.2

Steadman, John L., Horror as Racism in H. P. Lovecraft: White Fragility in the Weird Tales: reviewed by Antonio Alcalá González in MLR 120.2

Webb, Heather, Dante, Artist of Gesture: reviewed by Katherine McKee in MLR 120.2 (text at JSTOR)

Williams, Abigail, Reading it Wrong: An Alternative History of Early Eighteenth-Century Literature: reviewed by James Ward in MLR 120.2 (text at JSTOR)

Wolting, Monika, and Oliver Ruf (ed.), Gegenwart aufnehmen: Zum Werk und Wirken von Ulrike Draesner: reviewed by Nicola Thomas in MLR 120.2 (text at JSTOR)