...Gerald L. Bruns Fiction Sets You Free: Literature, Liberty, and Western Culture . By Russell A. Berman. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2007. xxi + 238 pp. University of Washington 2009 Gerald L. Bruns is William P. and Hazel B. White Emeritus Professor at the University...

...Tamara S. Wagner Portable Property: Victorian Culture on the Move .By John Plotz. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008. xvii + 268 pp. University of Washington 2010 Reviews Romantic Europe and the Ghost of Italy. By Joseph Luzzi. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press...

... to the New and old Worlds” (Winter 2011), which looks at how the de Bry volumes influenced Europe's view of Asia by seeing the ancient cultures of the latter through the lens of “primitive” civilizations in the New World. The Key of Green: Passion and Perception in Renaissance Culture . By Smith...

.... Translation, Subjectivity, and Culture in France and England, 1600 - 1800 . By Hayes Julie Candler . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2009 . x + 321 pp. © 2011 by University of Washington 2011 Reviews A New Literary History of America. Edited by Greil Marcus and Werner...

... and metrical vestiges. He is also coediting, with Jonathan Culler, a collection of essays tentatively titled Critical Rhythm . The Rise and Fall of Meter: Poetry and English National Culture, 1860-1930 . By Martin Meredith . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2012 . 274 pp . ©...

... and Postcolonial Theory (2009). Trading Places: Colonization and Slavery in Eighteenth-Century French Culture . By Dobie Madeleine . Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press , 2010 . xv + 336 pp. © 2013 by University of Washington 2013 References Aravamudan Srinivas . 2012...

.... . 1906 . “ The Arts Faculty .” In The University of Toronto and Its Colleges, 1827-1906 , edited by Alexander W. J. , 78 – 99 . Toronto : Librarian, University Library . Alexander and After: Browning Culture, Natural Method, and National Education, 1889 – 1914 Heather Murray...

... of Pittsburgh. She is author of Reading for Realism: The History of a U.S. Literary Institution, 1850-1910 (1997) and recent essays about literary culture, print culture, and civil society. Her book Literature in the Making: A History of U.S. Literary Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century is forthcoming...

... . Given the widespread reshaping of the Americas by the institution of slavery, how can Gikandi’s powerful study make common cause with students of slavery and the culture of taste in francophone, hispanophone, lusophone, and other diasporic contexts to avoid reinforcing yet another hegemonic Anglo...

...Seth Lerer Music, Body, and Desire in Medieval Culture: Hildegard of Bingen to Chaucer . By Bruce W. Holsinger. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2001. xviii + 472 pp. © 2003 University of Washington 2003 380 MLQ September 2003...

...Blakey Vermeule Fables of Modernity: Literature and Culture in the English Eighteenth Century . By Laura Brown. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2001. xii + 273 pp. © 2003 University of Washington 2003 Reviews Staging Domesticity: Household Work and English Identity in Early...

...Wilson T. Bell; Thomas Lahusen The Making of the State Writer: Social and Aesthetic Origins of Soviet Literary Culture . By Evgeny Dobrenko. Translated by Jesse M. Savage. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001. xxi + 484 pp. © 2004 University of Washington 2004 Wilson T...

...Pamela Cheek Libertines and Radicals in Early Modern London: Sexuality, Politics,and Literary Culture, 1630-1685. By James Grantham Turner. Cambridge:Cambridge University Press, 2002. xxii + 343 pp.; Schooling Sex:Libertine Literature and Erotic Education in Italy, France, and England,1534-1685...

...Elisa Tamarkin Transatlantic Insurrections: British Culture and the Formation of American Literature, 1730-1860 . By Paul Giles. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001. 262 pp. © 2004 University of Washington 2004 Elisa Tamarkin is assistant professor of English...

...Claire F. Fox Ambassadors of Culture: The Transamerican Origins of Latino Writing . By Kirsten Silva Gruesz. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002. 293 pp. © 2004 University of Washington 2004 Claire F. Fox is associate professor of English and codirector of Latin...

...Henry Schwarz In Another Country: Colonialism, Culture, and the English Novel in India . By Priya Joshi. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. xix +363 pp. © 2005 University of Washington 2005 Henry Schwarz is associate professor of English at Georgetown University...

... series and is at work on a book titled Hollowed Voices: Reformulations of the Classical Oracle in Eighteenth-Century British Print Culture . Fielding’s Fallen Oracles: Print Culture and the Elusiveness of Common Sense Laura McGrane f all the subjects Henry Fielding considered in his...

...Lisa Lowe An Absent Presence: Japanese Americans in Postwar American Culture,1945–1960 . By Caroline Chung Simpson. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2001. xi + 234 pp. © 2005 University of Washington 2005 Lisa Lowe is professor of comparative literature at the University...

... of comparative literature at the University of California, Davis. He is author, editor, and coeditor of half a dozen books, including Chinese Modernity and Global Biopolitics: Studies in Literature and Visual Culture (2007). Popular Culture and Body Politics: Beauty Writers in Contemporary China...

... Victorian Poetry and the Culture of the Heart. By Kirstie Blair. Oxford: Clarendon, 2006. vi + 273 pp. Marshaling an impressive array of evidence both literary and medical, Kirstie Blair’s Victorian Poetry and the Culture of the Heart paints an intriguing portrait of a culture anxious...