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Vested Voices II. Creating with Transvestism: from Bertolucci to Boccaccio. Ed. Federica G. Pedrali & Rossella Riccobono. Ravenna: Longo, 2007. xviii + 147 pp. {euro}18.00. ISBN 978–88–8063–549–9
Forum for Modern Language Studies Advance Access published on June 23, 2009.
doi:10.1093/fmls/cqp100
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YEE, JENNIFER. Exotic Subversions in Nineteenth-Century French Fiction. Oxford: Legenda, 2008. ix + 124 pp. £40.00. ISBN 978–1–905981–51–9
Forum for Modern Language Studies Advance Access published on May 21, 2009.
doi:10.1093/fmls/cqp104
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WHYMAN, ROSE. The Stanislavsky System of Acting: Legacy and Influence in Modern Performance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xviii + 297 pp. £55.00/$99.00. ISBN 978–0–521–88696–3
Forum for Modern Language Studies Advance Access published on May 21, 2009.
doi:10.1093/fmls/cqp103
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WALLACE, CLARE. Suspect Cultures: Narrative, Identity and Citation in 1990s New Drama. Prague: Litteraria Pragensia, 2006. vi + 337 pp. {euro}14.00. ISBN 0–7308–124–5
Forum for Modern Language Studies Advance Access published on May 21, 2009.
doi:10.1093/fmls/cqp102
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WAIDELICH, TILL GERRIT. "Torupson" und Franz von Schober – Leben und Wirken des von Frauen, Freunden und Biographen umworbenen Schubert- und Schwind-Freundes. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag (Schubert-Perspektiven 6. Jahrgang 2006, Heft 1 & 2), 2008. 237 pp. {euro}68.00. ISSN 1617–6340
Forum for Modern Language Studies Advance Access published on May 21, 2009.
doi:10.1093/fmls/cqp101
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TURBERFIELD, PETER JAMES. Pierre Loti and the Theatricality of Desire. Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi, 2008. 264 pp. {euro}53.00/US$77.00 ISBN 978–90–420–2363–5
Forum for Modern Language Studies Advance Access published on May 21, 2009.
doi:10.1093/fmls/cqp099
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Thinking With Shakespeare: Comparative and Interdisciplinary Essays. Ed. William Poole & Richard Scholar. London: Legenda (Modern Humanities Research Association and Manley Publishing), 2007. 154 pp. £45.00/$69.00. ISBN 978–1–904350–84–2
Forum for Modern Language Studies Advance Access published on May 21, 2009.
doi:10.1093/fmls/cqp098
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SUPERVIELLE, JULES. Les amis inconnus/Unknown Friends. Trans. Philip Cranston. Potomac, MD: Scripta Humanistica, 2008. xiii + 217 pp. $69.95. ISBN 1–882528–53–0
Forum for Modern Language Studies Advance Access published on May 21, 2009.
doi:10.1093/fmls/cqp097
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SCOTT, PADDY. Women in the Novels of Benito Perez Galdos and Eca de Queiroz. Lampeter: Edwin Mellen Press, 2007. viii + 295 pp. £57.58. ISBN 978–0–7734–522–0
Forum for Modern Language Studies Advance Access published on May 21, 2009.
doi:10.1093/fmls/cqp096
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ROSENBAUM, SUSAN B. Professing Sincerity: Modern Lyric Poetry, Commercial Culture, and the Crisis in Reading. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2007. xii + 283 pp. $39.50. ISBN 978–0–8139–2610–0
Forum for Modern Language Studies Advance Access published on May 21, 2009.
doi:10.1093/fmls/cqp095
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Rethinking Tragedy. Ed. Rita Felski. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press University Press, 2008. x + 368 pp. £43.50 (hardback); £16.50 (paperback). ISBN 978–0–8018–8739–0/8740–6
Forum for Modern Language Studies Advance Access published on May 21, 2009.
doi:10.1093/fmls/cqp094
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READ, PETER. Picasso & Apollinaire: The Persistance of Memory. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. 318 pp., 98 illustrations. £35.00. ISBN 0–5202–4361–3
Forum for Modern Language Studies Advance Access published on May 21, 2009.
doi:10.1093/fmls/cqp093
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Political Violence and the Construction of National Identity in Latin America. Ed. William Fowler & Peter Lambert. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. xii + 244 pp. £40.00. ISBN 1–4039–7388–7/7388–1
Forum for Modern Language Studies Advance Access published on May 21, 2009.
doi:10.1093/fmls/cqp092
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PITTOCK, MURRAY. Scottish and Irish Romanticism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. 292 pp. £45.00. ISBN 978–0–19–923279–6
Forum for Modern Language Studies Advance Access published on May 21, 2009.
doi:10.1093/fmls/cqp091
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PITTOCK, MURRAY. James Boswell. Aberdeen: AHRC Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies, 2007. viii + 126 pp. £11.99. ISBN 978–1–906108–01–4
Forum for Modern Language Studies Advance Access published on May 21, 2009.
doi:10.1093/fmls/cqp090
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PEITER, ANNE D. Komik und Gewalt. Zur literarischen Verarbeitung der beiden Weltkriege und der Shoah. Köln, Weimar & Wien: Böhlau Verlag, 2007. 454 pp. {euro}59.90. ISBN 978–3–412–24206–0
Forum for Modern Language Studies Advance Access published on May 21, 2009.
doi:10.1093/fmls/cqp089
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PARKES, STUART. Writers and Politics in Germany 1945–2008. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2009. 251 pp. £30.00. price ISBN 10: 0709940076; 13: 9780709940074
Forum for Modern Language Studies Advance Access published on May 21, 2009.
doi:10.1093/fmls/cqp088
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PARISH, NINA. Henri Michaux: Experimentation with Signs. Amsterdam: Rodopi (Faux titre), 2007. 346 pp. £49.70. ISBN 978–90–420–2270–6
Forum for Modern Language Studies Advance Access published on May 21, 2009.
doi:10.1093/fmls/cqp087
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ORR, MARY. Flaubert's "Tentation": Remapping Nineteenth-Century French Histories of Religion and Science. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008, xi + 352 pp. £50.00. ISBN 9780199258581
Forum for Modern Language Studies Advance Access published on May 21, 2009.
doi:10.1093/fmls/cqp086
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MOTTE, WARREN. Fiction Now: The French Novel in the Twenty-First Century. Champaign, IL & London: Dalkey Archive Press, 2008. 237 pp. $29.95. ISBN 978–1–56478–503–9
Forum for Modern Language Studies Advance Access published on May 21, 2009.
doi:10.1093/fmls/cqp085
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Modernism and Colonialism: British and Irish Literature 1899–1939. Ed. Richard Begam & Michael Valdez Moses. Durham & London: Duke University Press, 2007. viii + 326 pp. $89.95/£54.00 (hardback) $24.95; £13.99 (paperback). ISBN 978–0–8223–4019–5/4038–6
Forum for Modern Language Studies Advance Access published on May 21, 2009.
doi:10.1093/fmls/cqp084
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MEWS, SIEGFRIED. Günter Grass and his Critics: From "The Tin Drum" to "Crabwalk". Rochester, NY: Camden House (Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture: Literary Criticism in Perspective), 2008. 426 pp. £50.00. ISBN 10: 1571130624; 13: 9781571130624
Forum for Modern Language Studies Advance Access published on May 21, 2009.
doi:10.1093/fmls/cqp083
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MARGERRISON, CHRISTINE. "Ces forces obscures de l'âme": Women, Race and Origins in the Writings of Albert Camus. Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi, 2008. 356 pp. {euro}72.00/$104.00. ISBN 978–90–420–2379–6
Forum for Modern Language Studies Advance Access published on May 21, 2009.
doi:10.1093/fmls/cqp082
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