Harvard University Press

January 29, 2015

Books Reviewed by Canadian Literature

Eyewitness to History by John Carey
Dictionary of American Regional English by Joan Houston Hall
Reverse Tradition: Postmodern Fictions and the Nineteenth Century Novel by Robert Kiely
Shanghai Modern: The Flowering of a New Urban Culture in China 1930-1945 by Leo Ou-fan Lee
We Are What We Eat: Ethnic Food and the Making of Americans by Donna R. Gabaccia
Imperial Ecology: Environmental Order in the British Empire by Peder Anker
Biography: A Brief History by Nigel Hamilton
Who Owns Academic Work?: Battling for Control of Intellectual Property by Corynne McSherry
Who Owns Native Culture? by Michael F. Brown
We Are What We Eat: Ethnic food and the Making of Americans
The Gender of History: Men, Women,and Historical Practice by Bonnie G. Smith
Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race by Matthew Frye Jacobson
Northern Passage: American Vietnam War Resisters in Canada by John Hagan
Madness and Modernism: Insanity in the Light of Modern Art, Literature, and Thought by Louis A. Sass
The Return of Thematic Criticism by Werner Sollors
Inventions of Difference: On Jacques Derrida by Rodolphe Gasché
Timewalkers: The Prehistory of Global Colonization by Clive Gamble
Embodiment of a Nation: Human Form in American Places by Cecelia Tichi
Shanghai Modern: The Flowering of a New Urban Culture in China 1930-1945
The Encyclopedia of the Chinese Overseas by Lynn Pan
Engendering China: Women, Culture and the State by Christina K. Gilmartin, Gail Hershatter, Lisa Rofel and Tyrene White
I-VI by John Cage
A History of Women in the West III. Renaissance and Enlightenment Paradoxes by Natalie Zemon Davis and Arlette Farge
Trauma and Dreams by Deirdre Barrett
A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Living Narrative: Creating Lives in Everyday Storytelling by Elinor Ochs and Lisa Capps
The University in Ruins by Bill Readings
The Mobilization of Intellect: French Scholars and Writers in the Great War by Martha Hanna
Race Mixing: Black-White Marriage in Postwar America by Renee C. Romano
Imperial Ecology: Environmental Order in the British Empire, 1895-1945 by Rachel Poliquin and Peder Anker
The Chinese Overseas by Wang Gungwu
Abolitionists Abroad: American Blacks and the Making of Modern West Africa by Lamin Sanneh
Subjects without Selves: Transitional Texts in Modern Fiction by Gabriele Schwab
Special Sorrows: The Diasporic Imagination of Irish, Polish, and Jewish Immigrants in the United States by Matthew Frye Jacobson
Off Center: Power and Culture Relations Between Japan and the United States by Masao Miyoshi
The Japanese Woman: Traditional Image and Changing Reality by Sumiko Iwao
Body Work: Objects of Desire in Modern Narrative by Peter Brooks
Elizabeth Bishop: Questions of Mastery by Bonnie Costello
Awash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People by Jon Butler
Empire by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri
Countertraditions in the Bible: A Feminist Approach by Ilana Pardes
Disseminating Whitman: Revision and Corporeality in "Leaves of Grass" by Michael Moon
Minor Prophecies: The Literary Essay in the Culture Wars by Geoffrey H. Hartman
The Culture of Redemption by Leo Bersani
The Predicament of Culture: Essays on Twentieth-Century Ethnography, Literature, and Art by James Clifford
An Appetite for Poetry by Frank Kermode
Sources of the Self by Charles Taylor
The Music of What Happens by Helen Vendler
Fictional Worlds by Thomas Pavel
Nietzsche: Life as Literature by Alexander Nehamas
The Canadian Imagination: Dimensions of a Literary Culture by David Staines
The Marriage of Contraries by J. L. Wisenthal
Pan, the Goat-God, His Myth in Modern Times by Patricia Merivale
Pre-Raphaelitism: A Bibliocritical Study by William E. Fredeman
Dictionary of American Regional English, Volume V: Sl-Z by Joan Houston Hall