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Agnew, Jean-Christophe. Worlds Apart: The Market and the Theater in Anglo-American Thought, 1550-1750. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986.
Reviewer: Steve Deng | March 27, 2003
Alexander, Catherine M.S. and Stanley Wells, eds. Shakespeare and Race. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Reviewer: Rachel Williams | March 19, 2004
Aravamudan, Srinivas. Tropicopolitans: Colonialism and Agency, 1688-1804. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1999.
Reviewer: Jeen Yu | August 14, 2001
Beebee, Thomas O. Epistolary Fiction in Europe, 1500-1850. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Reviewer: E. Cook | July 19, 2000
Bruster, Douglas. Drama and the Market in the Age of Shakespeare. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Reviewer: Steve Deng | March 27, 2003
Cary, Elizabeth, and Stephanie Hodgson-Wright. The Tragedy of Mariam: The Fair Queen of Jewry. Peterborough, Ont.: Broadview Press, 2000.
Reviewer: Bill Gahan | March 23, 2003
Clery, E.J. The Rise of Supernatural Fiction, 1762-1800. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Reviewer: William Warner | July 12, 2000
Cunnally, John. Images of the Illustrious: The Numismatic Presence in the Renaissance. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999.
Reviewer: Stephen Deng | December 3, 2001
Daston, Lorraine and Katharine Parks. Wonders and the Order of Nature. New York: Zone Books, 2001.
Reviewer: Tassie Gniady | March 18, 2004
Eisenstein, Elizabeth L. The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983.
Reviewer: Jeen Yu | March 26, 2000
Engell, James. The Committed Word: Literature and Public Values. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999.
Reviewer: William Warner | July 12, 2000
Ezell, Margaret J.M. Social Authorship and the Advent of Print. Baltimore, MA: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.
Reviewer: William Warner | July 12, 2000
Frushell, Richard C. Edmund Spenser in the Early Eighteenth Century: Education, Imitation, and the Making of a Literary Model. Pittsburgh, PA: Duquesne University Press, 1994.
Reviewer: William Warner | July 12, 2000
Fulton, Gordon D. Styles of Meaning and Meanings of Style in Richardson’s Clarissa. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1999.
Reviewer: William Warner | July 12, 2000
Gardiner, Ellen. Regulating Readers: Gender and Literary Criticism in the Eighteenth-Century Novel. Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press, 2000.
Reviewer: William Warner | July 12, 2000
Goldberg, Jonathan. Tempest in the Caribbean. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2004.
Reviewer: Liberty Stanavage | March 19, 2004
Grossman, Michael, ed. Aemilia Lanyer: Gender, Genre, and the Canon. Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Press, 1998.
Reviewer: Donna Beth Ellard | March 22, 2003
Haggerty, George E. Men in Love: Masculinity and Sexuality in the Eighteenth Century. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999.
Reviewer: William Warner | July 12, 2000
Hall, Kim F. Things of Darkness: Economies of Race and Gender in Early Modern England. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1995.
Reviewer: Caroline Hong | March 24, 2003
Hammond, Paul. Dryden and the Traces of Classical Rome. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Reviewer: William Warner | July 12, 2000
Hart, Kevin. Samuel Johnson and the Culture of Property. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Reviewer: William Warner | July 12, 2000
Hume, Robert. Reconstructing Contexts: The Aims and Principles of Archaeo-Historicism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Reviewer: William Warner | July 12, 2000
Irlam, Shawn. Elations: The Poetics of Enthusiasm in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999.
Reviewer: William Warner | July 12, 2000
Jardine, Lisa. Worldly Goods: A New History of the Renaissance. New York: Norton, 1996.
Reviewer: Jeen Yu | March 26, 2000
Jenkins, Hugh. Feigned Commonwealths: The Country House Poem and the Fashioning of Ideal Community. Pittsburgh, PA: Duquesne University Press, 1998.
Reviewer: Tassie Gniady | March 23, 2003
Kewes, Paulina. Authorship and Appropriation: Writing for the Stage in England, 1660-1710. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.
Reviewer: William Warner | July 12, 2000
Linebaugh, Peter and Marcus Rediker. The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic. Boston: Beacon Press, 2000.
Reviewer: Mac Test | March 18, 2004
London, April. Women and Property in the Eighteenth-Century English Novel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Reviewer: William Warner | July 12, 2000
MacDonald, Joyce Green. Women and Race in Early Modern Texts. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Reviewer: Simone Chess | March 23, 2003
Marcus, Leah. The Politics of Mirth: Jonson, Herrick, Milton, Marvell, and the Defense of Old Holiday Pastimes. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987.
Reviewer: Bill Gahan | March 21, 2004
Marotti, Arthur F. Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1995.
Reviewer: Eric Nebeker | March 20, 2003
Martin Gurr, Jens. Tristram Shandy and the Dialectic of Enlightenment. Heidelberg Universitatsverlog, 1999.
Reviewer: William Warner | July 12, 2000
Maus, Katharine Eisaman. Inwardness and Theater in the English Renaissance. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.
Reviewer: Patricia Fumerton | August 14, 2001
McAdam, Ian. “The Jew of Malta: The Failure of Carnal Identity.” In The Irony of Identity: Self and Imagination in the Drama of Christopher Marlowe. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1999.
Reviewer: Shanna Salinas | March 19, 2004
McKenzie, D.F. Bibliography and the Sociology of Texts. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Reviewer: William Warner | July 12, 2000
McManus, Caroline. Spenser’s Faerie Queene and the Reading of Women. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2002.
Reviewer: Jeen Yu | March 24, 2003
Money, D. K. The English Horace: Anthony Alsop and the Tradition of British Latin Verse. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.
Reviewer: William Warner | July 12, 2000
Motooka, Wendy. The Age of Reasons: Quixotism, Sentimentalism and Political Economy in Eighteenth-Century Britain. London: Routledge, 1998.
Reviewer: William Warner | July 12, 2000
Moulton, Ian Frederick. Before Pornography: Erotic Writing in Early Modern England. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.
Reviewer: Kris McAbee | March 20, 2004
Orgel, Stephen. Impersonations: The Performance of Gender in Shakespeare’s England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Reviewer: Tassie Gniady | January 8, 2002
Pearson, Jacqueline. Women’s Reading in Britain, 1750-1835: A Dangerous Recreation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Reviewer: William Warner | July 12, 2000
Pinkus, Karen. Picturing Silence: Emblem, Language, Counter-Reformation. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996.
Reviewer: Andreas Zachrau | December 7, 2001
Piper, William Bowman. Reconcilable Differences in Eighteenth-Century English Literature. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1999.
Reviewer: William Warner | July 12, 2000
Potter, Tiffany. Honest Sins: Georgian Libertinism and the Plays and Novels of Henry Fielding. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1998.
Reviewer: William Warner | July 12, 2000
Prest, John. The Garden of Eden: The Botanic Garden and the Re-Creation of Paradise. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1981.
Reviewer: Sören Hammerschmidt | March 20, 2003
Richter, David H. Ideology and Form in Eighteenth-Century Literature. Lubbock, TX: Texas Tech University Press, 1999.
Reviewer: William Warner | July 12, 2000
Schmidt, Rachael. Critical Images: The Canonization of “Don Quixote” through Illustrated Editions of the Eighteenth Century. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1999.
Reviewer: William Warner | July 12, 2000
Schwartz, Kathryn. Tough Love: Amazon Encounters in the English Renaissance. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2000.
Reviewer: Simone Chess | March 20, 2004
Sondergard, Sidney L. Sharpening Her Pen: Strategies of Rhetorical Violence by Early Modern English Women Writers. Selinsgrove: Susquehanna University Press, 2002.
Reviewer: Kris McAbee | March 22, 2003
Spencer, Jane. Aphra Behn’s Afterlife. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.
Reviewer: Vanessa Coloura | March 23, 2003
St. Clair, William and Irmgard Maassen, eds. Conduct Literature for Women, 1640-1710. 6 volumes. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2002.
Reviewer: Jessica Murphy | March 23, 2003
Vickery, Amanda. The Gentleman’s Daughter: Women’s Lives in Georgian England. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998.
Reviewer: William Warner | July 12, 2000
Wahl, Elizabeth Susan. Invisible Relations: Representations of Female Intimacy in the Age of Enlightenment. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999.
Reviewer: William Warner | July 12, 2000
Wahl, Elizabeth Susan. Invisible Relations: Representations of Female Intimacy in the Age of Enlightenment. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999.
Reviewer: Rachel Mann | April 9, 2003
Wall, Wendy. Staging Domesticity: Household Work and English Identity in Early Modern Drama. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Reviewer: Weiwei Ren | March 20, 2004
Waller, Gary. The Sidney Family Romance: Mary Wroth, William Herbert, and Early Modern Construction of Gender. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1993.
Reviewer: Andreas Zacharau | March 24, 2003
Waller, Maureen. 1700: Scenes from London Life. New York and London: Four Walls Eight Windows, 2000.
Reviewer: Diana Solomon | March 12, 2001
Woodbridge, Linda. Money and the Age of Shakespeare: Essays in New Economic Criticism. New York: Palgrave, 2003.
Reviewer: Eric Nebeker | March 21, 2004