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Books Received

(updated 4/7/08)

Parrinder, Patrick. Nation and Novel: The English Novel from Its Origins to the Present Day. New York: Oxford UP, 2006. 512 pp. $45.00.

Mission, Ray and Wendy Morgan. Critical Literacy and the Aesthetic: Transforming the English Classroom. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 2006. 259 pp. $29.95.

Wainwright, Valerie. Ethics and the English Novel from Austen to Forster. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2007. 222 pp. $99.95.

Davis, Garrick, editor. Praising It New: The Best of the New Criticism. Athens: Ohio UP, 2007. 288 pp. $18.95.

Cusset, Francois. French Theory: How Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze & Co. Transformed the Intellectual Life of the United States. Trans. Jeff Fort. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2008. $24.95.

Welch, Nancy. Living Room: Teaching Public Writing in a Privatized World. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2008. 184 pp. $21.50.

Micciche, Laura. Doing Emotion: Rhetoric, Writing, Teaching. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2007. 144 pp. $18.00.

Howard, Rebecca Moore and Amy E. Robillard, editors. Pluralizing Plagiarism: Identities, Contexts, Pedagogies. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2008. 192 pp. $22.00.

Call for Review Essays

Members who would be interested in writing review essays are invited to contact the editors. Suggested topics might include a reconsideration of classic or seminal works in the fields of English studies, teaching literature and writing, etc.; a consideration of a series, such as the Cambridge Companion series or those produced by Routledge, etc.; other ideas may be proposed by potential contributors.