From Lyric to Epic and Back: Joachim Du Bellay's Epic Regrets– Marc Bizer
Going Mundial: What It Really Means to Desire Paris– Jaime Hanneken
The Privilege of Contemporary Life: Periodization in the Bret Easton Ellis Decades– Theodore Martin
Not the Witness We Wished For: Testimony in Jonathan Littell's Kindly Ones– Liran Razinsky
Review Essay
Middletown, Middle-Class, Middlebrow
By Gordon Hutner. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. xi + 450 pp.–Martha Banta
Reviews
Music, Madness, and the Unworking of Language
By John T. Hamilton. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008. xviii + 252 pp.–
Herbert Lindenberger
The Story of Joy: From the Bible to Late Romanticism
By Adam Potkay. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xiii + 304 pp.– Nicholas Halmi
The Genealogy of the Romantic Symbol
By Nicholas Halmi. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. viii + 206 pp.– Charles Rzepka
Milton and the Victorians
By Erik Gray. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2009. ix + 183 pp.– Klaus Hofmann
The Dark Side of Literacy: Literature and Learning Not to Read
By Benjamin Bennett. New York: Fordham University Press, 2008. ix + 347 pp.– John T. Hamilton