Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature

 

Books Reviews / Review Essays


Tulsa Studies publishes both Book Reviews and Review Essays. Book Reviews are solicited by the Book Review Editor; Review Essays are commissioned by the Editor.

Publishers may send review copies to the following address:

Attn: Book Review Editor
Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature
University of Tulsa
800 South Tucker Drive
Tulsa, Oklahoma 74104

 
 

Current List of Books Received

Amazons of the Huk Rebellion: Gender, Sex, and Revolution in the Philippines. By Vina A. Lanzona. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2009.

And The World Changed: Contemporary Stories by Pakistani Women. Edited and Introduction by Muneeza Shamsie. New York: The Feminist Press at The City University of New York, 2008.

Anna Letitia Barbauld: Voice of the Enlightenment. By William McCarthy. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2008.

An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century Women’s Poetry from France in English Translation, with French Text. Edited by Gretchen Schultz. Translated by Anne Atik et al. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2008.

An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century Women’s Poetry from Spain in English Translation, with Original Text. Edited by Anna-Marie Aldaz. Translated by Anna-Marie Aldaz et al. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2009.

Apollonian and Dionysian: Patterns of Imagery in Edith Wharton’s Tragic Novels. By Hong Zeng. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2009.

As Affecting the Fate of My Absent Husband: Selected Letters of Lady Franklin Concerning the Search for the Lost Franklin Expedition, 1848-1860. Edited by Erika Behrisch Elce. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2009.

At Home and Abroad in the Empire: British Women Write the 1930s. Edited by Robin Hackett, Freda Hauser, and Gay Wachman. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2009.

The Cambridge Companion to Kate Chopin. Edited by Janet Beer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.

The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jane Austen: Later Manuscripts. Edited by Janet Todd and Linda Bree. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.

The Cambridge Introduction to Sylvia Plath. By Jo Gill. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Captive Bodies: American Women Writers Redefine Pregnancy and Childbirth. By Mary Ruth Marotte. Toronto: Demeter Press, 2008.

Corra Harris and the Divided Mind of the New South. By Catherine Oglesby. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2008.

Earth, Air, Fire, and Water: A Memoir of the Sixties and Beyond. By Mary Susannah Robbins. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2008.

Dear Helen: Wartime Letter from a Londoner to Her American Pen Pal. Edited by Russell M. Jones and John H. Swanson. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2009.

Defiant Dads: Fathers’ Rights Activists in America. By Jocelyn Elise Crowley. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2008.

Diary of a Wave Outside the Sea. By Dunya Mikhail. Translated by Elizabeth Winslow and Dunya Mikhail. New York: New Directions Books, 2009.

Domestic Affairs: Intimacy, Eroticism, and Violence Between Servants and Masters in Eighteenth-Century Britain. By Kristina Straub. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2009.

The Feminist Utopian Novels of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Themes of Sexuality, Marriage, and Motherhood. By Chloé Avril. Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen, 2008.

Figuring Modesty in Feminist Discourse Across the Americas, 1633-1700. By Tamara Harvey. Burlington: Ashgate, 2008.

The Fowl and the Pussycat: Love Letters of Michael Field, 1876-1909. Edited by Sharon Bickle. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2008.

Framed: The New Woman Criminal in British Culture at the Fin de Siècle. By Elizabeth Carolyn Miller. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2008.

Gender in the Garden in Early Modern English Literature. By Jennifer Munroe. Burlington: Ashgate, 2008.

Heretical Hellenism: Women Writers, Ancient Greece, and the Victorian Popular Imagination. By Shanyn Fiske. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2008.

Histories, Cultures, and National Identities: Women Writing Spain, 1877-1984. By Christine Arkinstall. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2009.

A History of Women’s Political Thought in Europe, 1400-1700. By Jacqueline Broad and Karen Green. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.

I Go to America: Swedish American Women and the Life of Mina Anderson. By Joy K. Lintelman. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2009.

I, The Worst of All. By Estela Lamat. Translated by Michael Leong. Buffalo: BlazeVOX [books], 2009.

In My Father’s House: A Memoir in Polygamy. By Dorothy Allred Solomon. Foreword by Andy Wilkinson. Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2009.

‘Michael Field’: Poetry, Aestheticism and the Fin de Siècle. By Marion Thain. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Modernism and the Locations of Literary Heritage. By Andrea Zemgulys. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.

A Narrative Compass: Stories That Guide Women’s Lives. Edited by Betsy Hearne and Roberta Seelinger Trites. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009.

The Oprah Affect: Critical Essays on Oprah’s Book Club. Edited by Cecilia Konchar Farr and Jaime Harker. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2008.

Other Mothers: Beyond the Maternal Ideal. Edited by Ellen Bayuk Rosenman and Claudia C. Klaver. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2008.

Ouida the Phenomenon: Evolving Social, Political, and Gender Concerns in Her Fiction. By Natalie Schroeder and Shari Hodges Holt. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2008.

Paul Ferroll. By Caroline Clive. Edited by Adrienne E. Gavin. Kansas City: Valancourt Books, 2008.

The Plath Cabinet. By Catherine Bowman. New York: Four Way Books, 2009.

The Prose of Life: Russian Women Writers from Khrushchev to Putin. By Benjamin M. Sutcliffe. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2009.

Race, Gender, and Comparative Black Modernism: Suzanne Lacascade, Marita Bonner, Suzanne Césaire, Dorothy West. By Jennifer Wilks. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Press, 2008.

A Rain of Words: A Bilingual Anthology of Women’s Poetry in Francophone Africa. Edited by Irène Assiba d’Almeida. Translated by Janis A. Mayes. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2009.

The River Flows North. By Graciela Limón. Houston: Arte Público Press, 2009.

Representation and Restistance: Indian and African Women’s Texts at Home and in the Diasporas. By Jaspal Kaur Singh. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2008.

A Sandhills Ballad. By Ladette Randolph. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2009.

Searching for Tamsen Donner. By Gabrielle Burton. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009.

Seeing Suffering in Women’s Literature of the Romantic Era. By Elizabeth Dolan. Burlington: Ashgate, 2008.

The Seine Was Red: Paris, October 1961. By Leïla Sebbar. Translated by Mildred Mortimer. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008.

Sensibility and the American Revolution. By Sarah Knott. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009.

Sonata for Miriam. By Linda Olsson. New York: Penguin, 2008.

Statistical Panic: Cultural Politics and Poetics of the Emotions. By Kathleen Woodward. Durham, Duke University Press, 2009.

Strange Business. By Rilla Askew. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992.

Subversive Silences: Nonverbal Expression and Implicit Narrative Strategies in the Works of Latin American Women Writers. By Helene Carol Weldt-Basson. Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2009.

Thinking through the Mothers: Reimagining Women’s Biographies. By Janet Beizer. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2009.

Transatlantic Women’s Literature. By Heidi Slettedahl Macpherson. Edinburgh Studies in Transatlantic Literature. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2008.

Transcending the New Woman: Multiethnic Narratives in the Progressive Era. By Charlotte J. Rich. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2009.

The Unit. By Ninni Holmqvist. Translated by Marlaine Delargy. New York: Other Press, 2008.

The Visibles. By Sara Shepard. New York: Free Press, 2009.

Western Echoes of the Harlem Renaissance: The Life and Writings of Anita Scott Coleman. Edited by Cynthia Davis and Verner D. Mitchell. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2008.

Where We Find Ourselves: Jewish Women around the World Write about Home. Edited by Miriam Ben-Yoseph and Deborah Nodler Rosen. Albany: State University of New York, 2009.

Woman’s Songs in Ancient Greece. By Anne L. Klinck. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2008.

Women Writing the Home Tour, 1682-1812. By Zoe Kinsley. Burlington: Ashgate, 2008.

 
 

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