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Reviewed Work: Mr. Polk's Army: The American Military Experience In The Mexican War, George W. Geib Nov 2015

Reviewed Work: Mr. Polk's Army: The American Military Experience In The Mexican War, George W. Geib

George W. Geib

Book review of Mr. Polk's Army: The American Military Experience in the Mexican War. By Richard Bruce Winders. (College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 1997. Pp. xvi, 284. Illustrations. Paper, $17.95.)


Review Of Nagihan Haliloğlu’S Narrating From The Margins: Self-Representation Of Female And Colonial Subjectivities In Jean Rhys’S Novels, Lee Garver Nov 2015

Review Of Nagihan Haliloğlu’S Narrating From The Margins: Self-Representation Of Female And Colonial Subjectivities In Jean Rhys’S Novels, Lee Garver

Lee Garver

Book review of: Narrating from the Margins: Self-Representation of Female and Colonial Subjectivities in Jean Rhys’s Novels by Nagihan Haliloğlu. 222 pages, 2011, $64.00 USD (hardcover) Amsterdam, Rodopi


Review Of "Bernard Shaw And Gabriel Pascal." Edited By Bernard F. Dukore., Lee Garver Nov 2015

Review Of "Bernard Shaw And Gabriel Pascal." Edited By Bernard F. Dukore., Lee Garver

Lee Garver

Dr. Lee Garver's review of Bernard Shaw and Gabriel Pascal. Edited by Bernard F. Dukore. Volume 3 of Selected Correspondence of Bernard Shaw. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996. Pp. 224. $40.00.


Review Of Martha Fodeski Black’S Shaw And Joyce: “The Last Word In Stolentelling.”, Lee Garver Nov 2015

Review Of Martha Fodeski Black’S Shaw And Joyce: “The Last Word In Stolentelling.”, Lee Garver

Lee Garver

Dr. Lee Garver's review of Shaw and Joyce: "The Last Word in Stolentelling." Martha Fodasky Black. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1995. Pp. 445. $49.95.


Sean Shesgreen, Images Of The Outcast: The Urban Poor In The Cries Of London, John D. Ramsbottom Sep 2015

Sean Shesgreen, Images Of The Outcast: The Urban Poor In The Cries Of London, John D. Ramsbottom

John D. Ramsbottom

Dr. Ramsbottom's review of "Images of the Outcast: The Urban Poor in the Cries of London"


Tim Hitchcock And John Black, Eds., Chelsea Settlement And Bastardy Examinations, 1733-1766, John D. Ramsbottom Sep 2015

Tim Hitchcock And John Black, Eds., Chelsea Settlement And Bastardy Examinations, 1733-1766, John D. Ramsbottom

John D. Ramsbottom

Dr. Ramsbottom's review of "Tim Hitchcock and John Black, eds., Chelsea Settlement and Bastardy Examinations, 1733-1766"


Lydia Murdoch, Imagined Orphans: Poor Families, Child Welfare, And Contested Citizenship In London, John D. Ramsbottom Sep 2015

Lydia Murdoch, Imagined Orphans: Poor Families, Child Welfare, And Contested Citizenship In London, John D. Ramsbottom

John D. Ramsbottom

Dr. Ramsbottom's review of "Imagined Orphans: Poor Families, Child Welfare, and Contested Citizenship in London"


M.J. Daunton, Ed., Charity, Welfare And Self-Interest In The English Past, John D. Ramsbottom Sep 2015

M.J. Daunton, Ed., Charity, Welfare And Self-Interest In The English Past, John D. Ramsbottom

John D. Ramsbottom

Dr. Ramsbottom's review of "Charity, Welfare and Self-Interest in the English Past"


(Review) Jones, Christine A. And Jennifer Schacker, Eds., Marvelous Transformations: An Anthology Of Fairy Tales And Contemporary Critical Perspectives And Raynard, Sophie, Ed., The Teller’S Tale: Lives Of The Classic Fairy Tale Writers, Jeana Jorgensen Jul 2015

(Review) Jones, Christine A. And Jennifer Schacker, Eds., Marvelous Transformations: An Anthology Of Fairy Tales And Contemporary Critical Perspectives And Raynard, Sophie, Ed., The Teller’S Tale: Lives Of The Classic Fairy Tale Writers, Jeana Jorgensen

Jeana Jorgensen

Jeana Jorgensen's review of: Marvelous Transformations: An Anthology of Fairy Tales and Contemporary Critical Perspectives. Ed. Christine A. Jones and Jennifer Schacker. (Peterborough, ON : Broadview Press, 2013. Pp. 580, introduction, notes on contributors, sources.) The Teller’s Tale: Lives of the Classic Fairy Tale Writers. Ed. Sophie Raynard. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2012. Pp. vi + 183, introduction, list of contributors, index.)


Geller, Pamela L. And Miranda K. Stockett, Eds., Feminist Anthropology: Past, Present, Future And Lavender, Catherine J., Scientists And Storytellers: Feminist Anthropologists And The Construction Of The American Southwest, Double Review, Jeana Jorgensen Jul 2015

Geller, Pamela L. And Miranda K. Stockett, Eds., Feminist Anthropology: Past, Present, Future And Lavender, Catherine J., Scientists And Storytellers: Feminist Anthropologists And The Construction Of The American Southwest, Double Review, Jeana Jorgensen

Jeana Jorgensen

No abstract provided.


2013 Propp, Vladimir, The Russian Folktale And Chandler, Robert, Russian Magic Tales: From Pushkin To Platonov, Jeana Jorgensen Jul 2015

2013 Propp, Vladimir, The Russian Folktale And Chandler, Robert, Russian Magic Tales: From Pushkin To Platonov, Jeana Jorgensen

Jeana Jorgensen

No abstract provided.


Zipes, Jack, The Enchanted Screen: A History Of Fairy Tales On Film, Jeana Jorgensen Jul 2015

Zipes, Jack, The Enchanted Screen: A History Of Fairy Tales On Film, Jeana Jorgensen

Jeana Jorgensen

No abstract provided.


Pemberton, Marilyn. Enchanted Ideologies: A Collection Of Rediscovered Nineteenth-Century Moral Fairy Tales, Jeana Jorgensen Jul 2015

Pemberton, Marilyn. Enchanted Ideologies: A Collection Of Rediscovered Nineteenth-Century Moral Fairy Tales, Jeana Jorgensen

Jeana Jorgensen

No abstract provided.


Bottigheimer, Ruth B., Fairy Tales: A New History, Jeana Jorgensen Jul 2015

Bottigheimer, Ruth B., Fairy Tales: A New History, Jeana Jorgensen

Jeana Jorgensen

No abstract provided.


Sabry, Somaya Sami, Arab-American Women’S Writing And Performance: Orientalism, Race, And The Idea Of The Arabian Nights, Jeana Jorgensen Jul 2015

Sabry, Somaya Sami, Arab-American Women’S Writing And Performance: Orientalism, Race, And The Idea Of The Arabian Nights, Jeana Jorgensen

Jeana Jorgensen

No abstract provided.


Bacchilega, Cristina, Fairy Tales Transformed? Twenty-First-Century Adaptations And The Politics Of Wonder, Jeana Jorgensen Jul 2015

Bacchilega, Cristina, Fairy Tales Transformed? Twenty-First-Century Adaptations And The Politics Of Wonder, Jeana Jorgensen

Jeana Jorgensen

No abstract provided.


Bobby, Susan Redington, Ed., Fairy Tales Reimagined: Essays On New Retellings, Jeana Jorgensen Jul 2015

Bobby, Susan Redington, Ed., Fairy Tales Reimagined: Essays On New Retellings, Jeana Jorgensen

Jeana Jorgensen

No abstract provided.


Book Review: American Jezebel: The Uncommon Life Of Anne Hutchinson, The Woman Who Defied The Puritans, Marla Kohlman Jun 2015

Book Review: American Jezebel: The Uncommon Life Of Anne Hutchinson, The Woman Who Defied The Puritans, Marla Kohlman

Marla Kohlman

Review of American Jezebel: The Uncommon Life of Anne Hutchinson, the Woman Who Defied the Puritans by Eve LaPlante


Review: The Death Of A Confederate Colonel: Civil War Stories And A Novella, Crystal Renfro Jun 2015

Review: The Death Of A Confederate Colonel: Civil War Stories And A Novella, Crystal Renfro

Crystal L Renfro

Review of the short story collection "The Death of a Confederate Colonel: Civil War Stories and a Novella," by Pat Carr.


Neighbours And Strangers: Literary And Cultural Relations In Germany, Austria And Central Europe Since 1989 (Book Review), Kathrin Bower Apr 2015

Neighbours And Strangers: Literary And Cultural Relations In Germany, Austria And Central Europe Since 1989 (Book Review), Kathrin Bower

Kathrin M. Bower

In this collection of fifteen papers inspired by a 2002 conference held in Salford, England, the reader will find wide variations on the broadly stated theme of neighbors and strangers in the European context. Pulling together the diversity of essays is the main problem with the volume and one that the editors have done little to alleviate in their haphazard introduction. While they allude to the unification of Germany as the impetus and point of departure for the anthology, they offer no coherent argument for the selection and sequence of the essays included in the book. The reader is left …


Moore, T. 2012. Roman Theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Christopher Bungard Mar 2015

Moore, T. 2012. Roman Theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Christopher Bungard

Christopher Bungard

Christopher Bungard's review of Roman Theatre, by Timothy Moore.


Supplying Salt And Light By Lorna Goodison, Pamela Herron Jan 2015

Supplying Salt And Light By Lorna Goodison, Pamela Herron

Pamela Herron

Review of Supplying Salt and Light by Lorna Goodison.