Books Recently Reviewed in MHRA Journals

Reviews published in July to September 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 July to September 2023, alphabetized by the first-named author or editor of the book being reviewed.

Ahearn, Barry, Pound, Frost, Moore, and Poetic Precision: Science in Modernist American Poetry: reviewed by Massimo Bacigalupo in MLR 118.3 (text at JSTOR)

Allen, Julie K. (ed.), The Silent Muse: The Memoirs of Asta Nielsen: reviewed by Diana Holmes in MLR 118.3 (text at JSTOR)

Andersson, Jenny, and Sandra Kemp (ed.), Futures: reviewed by Maxim Shadurski in MLR 118.3 (text at JSTOR)

Baraban, Elena V., and Stephen M. Norris (ed.), The Akunin Project: The Mysteries and Histories of Russia’s Bestselling Author: reviewed by Muireann Maguire in MLR 118.3 (text at JSTOR)

Barański, Zygmunt G., and Maria Antonietta Terzoli (ed.), Voci sull’‘Inferno’ di Dante: una nuova lettura della prima cantica: reviewed by Giulia Gaimari in MLR 118.3 (text at JSTOR)

Blackmore, Lisa, Rebecca Jarman, and Penélope Plaza (ed.), The Politics of Culture in the Chávez Era: reviewed by Katie Brown in MLR 118.3 (text at JSTOR)

Boes, Tobias, Thomas Mann’s War: Literature, Politics, and the World Republic of Letters: reviewed by Paul Bishop in MLR 118.3 (text at JSTOR)

Bollig, Ben, Moving Verses: Poetry on Screen in Argentine Cinema: reviewed by Erin Graff Zivin in MLR 118.3 (text at JSTOR)

Burrow, Colin, Imitating Authors: Plato to Futurity: reviewed by Margaret Tudeau-Clayton in MLR 118.3 (text at JSTOR)

Bylander, Cindy, Engaging Cultural Ideologies: Classical Composers and Musical Life in Poland, 1918–1956: reviewed by Marta Beszterda Van Vliet in SEER 101.2 (text at JSTOR)

Colombo, Duccio, The Soviet Spy Thriller: Writers, Power, and the Masses, 1938–2002: reviewed by Valery Vyugin in MLR 118.3 (text at JSTOR)

Crawford, Christina E., Spatial Revolution: Architecture and Planning in the Early Soviet Union: reviewed by Deirdre Ruscitti Harshman in SEER 101.2 (text at JSTOR)

d’Arconville, Marie-Geneviève-Charlotte Thiroux, Selected Philosophical, Scientific, and Autobiographical Writings: reviewed by Emma Marie Dunne in MLR 118.3 (text at JSTOR)

Desanges, Gerard, Marcel Proust et la politique: une conscience française: reviewed by Richard Mason in MLR 118.3 (text at JSTOR)

Dixon, Gavin, The Routledge Handbook to the Music of Alfred Schnittke: reviewed by Arnold McMillin in SEER 101.2 (text at JSTOR)

Dobrenko, Evgeny, and Natalia Jonsson-Skradol, State Laughter: Stalinism, Populism, and Origins of Soviet Culture: reviewed by Jonathan Waterlow in MLR 118.3 (text at JSTOR)

Dominioni, Maria Valeria, and Luca Chiurchiù (ed.), Leopardi e la cultura del Novecento: modi e forme di una presenza. Atti del XIV Convegno internazionale di studi leopardiani (Recanati 27–30 settembre 2017): reviewed by Luca Costa in MLR 118.3 (text at JSTOR)

Druzhinin, Petr A., The Soviet Suppression of Academia: The Case of Konstantin Azadovsky: reviewed by Martin Dewhirst in SEER 101.2 (text at JSTOR)

Eils, Colleen G., The Politics of Privacy in Contemporary Native, Latinx, and Asian American Metafictions: reviewed by Victoria Carroll in MLR 118.3 (text at JSTOR)

Eisner, Martin, Dante’s New Life of the Book: A Philology of World Literature: reviewed by Federica Coluzzi in MLR 118.3 (text at JSTOR)

Ellison, Ian, Late Europeans and Melancholy Fiction at the Turn of the Millennium: reviewed by Ritchie Robertson in MLR 118.3 (text at JSTOR)

Ettlin, Annick, Poétiques de la volonté de croire: Rimbaud, Mallarmé, Valéry: reviewed by David Evans in MLR 118.3 (text at JSTOR)

Fomeshi, Behnam M., The Persian Whitman: Beyond a Literary Reception: reviewed by Delphine Rumeau in MLR 118.3 (text at JSTOR)

Foot, John, Blood and Power: The Rise and Fall of Italian Fascism: reviewed by Joseph Kelly in MLR 118.3 (text at JSTOR)

Foster, Samuel, Yugoslavia in the British Imagination: Peace, War and Peasants before Tito: reviewed by Natasha Stoyce in MLR 118.3 (text at JSTOR)

Gamble, Cynthia, Voix entrelacées de Proust et de Ruskin: reviewed by Richard Mason in MLR 118.3 (text at JSTOR)

Garvin, Diana, Feeding Fascism: The Politics of Women’s Food Work: reviewed by Karima Moyer-Nocchi in MLR 118.3 (text at JSTOR)

Garzaniti, Marcello, Gli slavi: Storia, culture e lingue dalle origini ai nostri giorni: reviewed by Andrii Danylenko in SEER 101.2 (text at JSTOR)

George, David, and Jordi Lladó, La commedia dell’arte a Catalunya: reviewed by Enric Gallén in MLR 118.3 (text at JSTOR)

Gérin, Annie, Devastation and Laughter: Satire, Power, and Culture in the Early Soviet State (1920s–1930s): reviewed by Seth Graham in SEER 101.2 (text at JSTOR)

Gömöri, György, Magyar vándorok Angliában, 1572–1750: reviewed by Peter Sherwood in SEER 101.2 (text at JSTOR)

Henderson, Robert, The Spark that Lit the Revolution: Lenin in London and the Politics that Changed the World: reviewed by Ian D. Thatcher in SEER 101.2 (text at JSTOR)

James, Erin, Narrative in the Anthropocene: reviewed by Emily Baker in MLR 118.3 (text at JSTOR)

Jordan, Julia, Late Modernism and the Avant-Garde British Novel: Oblique Strategies: reviewed by Adam Guy in MLR 118.3 (text at JSTOR)

Kerber, Hannes, Die Aufklärung der Aufklärung: Lessing und die Herausforderung des Christentums: reviewed by Osman Durrani in MLR 118.3 (text at JSTOR)

Khagi, Sofya, Pelevin and Unfreedom: Poetics, Politics, Metaphysics: reviewed by Meghan Vicks in SEER 101.2 (text at JSTOR)

LeMenager, Stephanie, and Teresa Shewry (ed.), Literature and the Environment: Critical and Primary Sources: reviewed by Timothy Clark in MLR 118.3 (text at JSTOR)

Longhurst, C. A., Unamuno, Berdyaev, Marcel: A Comparative Study in Christian Existentialism: reviewed by Katrine Helene Andersen in MLR 118.3 (text at JSTOR)

Louth, Charlie, Rilke: The Life of the Work: reviewed by Ian Cooper in MLR 118.3 (text at JSTOR)

Mao, Douglas (ed.), The New Modernist Studies: reviewed by Abbie Garrington in MLR 118.3 (text at JSTOR)

Martelo, Rosa Maria, Devagar, a Poesia: reviewed by Jerónimo Pizarro in Portuguese Studies 39.1 (text at JSTOR)

Mathieu, Patrick, Voyage et scandale: reviewed by Mathilde Poizat-Amar in MLR 118.3 (text at JSTOR)

Mazurkiewicz, Anna (ed.), East Central European Migrations During the Cold War: A Handbook: reviewed by Jan Musekamp in SEER 101.2 (text at JSTOR)

Montanari, Massimo, A Short History of Spaghetti with Tomato Sauce: reviewed by Ailsa Maxwell in MLR 118.3 (text at JSTOR)

Montinaro, Gianluca, and Giovanni Puglisi (ed.), Niccolò Machiavelli: storia e politica: reviewed by Matteo Favaretto in MLR 118.3 (text at JSTOR)

Moore, Michelle E., Chicago and the Making of American Modernism: Cather, Hemingway, Faulkner, and Fitzgerald in Conflict: reviewed by Sarah Anderson Wood in MLR 118.3 (text at JSTOR)

Muratori, Cecilia, Renaissance Vegetarianism: The Philosophical Afterlives of Porphyry’s ‘On Abstinence’: reviewed by E. Giada Capasso in MLR 118.3 (text at JSTOR)

Murray, Jacqueline (ed.), The Male Body and Social Masculinity in Premodern Europe: reviewed by Caitlin Dahl in MLR 118.3 (text at JSTOR)

Noguerol, Francisca, and Javier San José Lera (ed.), Entre versos y notas: canción de autor en español: reviewed by Stuart Green in MLR 118.3 (text at JSTOR)

Oushakine, Serguei, and Marina Balina (ed.), The Pedagogy of Images: Depicting Communism for Children: reviewed by E. Susanna Weygandt in SEER 101.2 (text at JSTOR)

Parker, Luke, Nabokov Noir: Cinematic Culture and the Art of Exile: reviewed by Barbara Wyllie in SEER 101.2 (text at JSTOR)

Pizarro, Jerónimo, Fernando Pessoa: A Critical Introduction: reviewed by Paulo de Medeiros in Portuguese Studies 39.1 (text at JSTOR)

Puchalski, Piotr, Poland in a Colonial World Order: Adjustments and Aspirations, 1918–1939: reviewed by Paweł Markiewicz in SEER 101.2 (text at JSTOR)

Real, Miguel, and Filomena Oliveira, As 7 Vidas de José Saramago: reviewed by David G. Frier in Portuguese Studies 39.1 (text at JSTOR)

Roberts, Geoffrey, Stalin’s Library: A Dictator and his Books: reviewed by Colin Higgins in MLR 118.3 (text at JSTOR)

Robertson, Eric, Blaise Cendrars: The Invention of Life: reviewed by Claire Moran in MLR 118.3 (text at JSTOR)

Samalin, Zachary, The Masses Are Revolting: Victorian Culture and the Political Aesthetics of Disgust: reviewed by Matthew P. M. Kerr in MLR 118.3 (text at JSTOR)

Starikov, Konstantin, and Melissa L. Miller (ed.), The Russian Medical Humanities: Past, Present and Future: reviewed by Claire Shaw in MLR 118.3 (text at JSTOR)

Sterling, Brett E., Hermann Broch and Mass Hysteria: Theory and Representation in the Age of Extremes: reviewed by Andrew Barker in MLR 118.3 (text at JSTOR)

Talairach, Laurence, Animals, Museum Culture and Children’s Literature in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Curious Beasties: reviewed by Anna McCullough in MLR 118.3 (text at JSTOR)

Tane, Susan Jaffe, and Karen Karbiener (ed.), Poet of the Body: New York’s Walt Whitman: reviewed by Delphine Rumeau in MLR 118.3 (text at JSTOR)

Teague, Jessica E., Sound Recording Technology and American Literature: From the Phonograph to the Remix: reviewed by Robert Lawson-Peebles in MLR 118.3 (text at JSTOR)

Thorpe, Andrea, South African London: Writing the Metropolis after 1948: reviewed by Peter Blair in MLR 118.3 (text at JSTOR)

Underwood, James, Early Larkin: reviewed by Tim Hancock in MLR 118.3 (text at JSTOR)

Wasson, Sara, Transplantation Gothic: Tissue Transfer in Literature, Film, and Medicine: reviewed by Barry Murnane in MLR 118.3 (text at JSTOR)

Wolkowicz, Vera, Inca Music Reimagined: Indigenist Discourses in Latin American Art Music, 1910–1930: reviewed by Jessica Sequeira in MLR 118.3 (text at JSTOR)

Zibrak, Arielle (ed.), Edith Wharton’s ‘The Age of Innocence’: New Centenary Essays: reviewed by Emily Coit in MLR 118.3 (text at JSTOR)