Book Reviews

The Poetry of Chaucer (John Gardner) (Reviewed by Russell A. Peck, University of Rochester)The Matter at Araby in Medieval England (Dorothee Metlitzki) (Reviewed by Russell A. Peck, University of Rochester)Time, Space, and Value: The Narrative Structure of the New Arcadia (Arthur K. Amos, Jr.) (Reviewed by Richard A. Lanham, University of California, Los Angeles)Elizabethan Erotic Narratives: Irony and Pathos in the Ovidian Poetry of Shakespeare, Marlowe, and Their Contemporaries (William Keach) (Reviewed by Richard A. Lanham, University of California, Los Angeles)Imagining a Self: Autobiography and Novel in Eighteenth-Century England (Patricia Meyer Spacks) (Reviewed by Lawrence Lipking, Princeton University)Transformations of Romanticism in Yeats, Eliot, and Stevens (George Bornstein) (Reviewed by Gerald L. Bruns, University of Iowa)The Limits of Imagination: Wordsworth, Yeats, and Stevens (Helen Regueiro) (Reviewed by Gerald L. Bruns, University of Iowa)The Adventurous Muse: the Poetics of American Fiction 1789-1900 (William C. Spengemann) (Reviewed by Russel B. Nye, Michigan State University)The New England Girl: Cultural Ideals in Hawthorne, Stowe, Howells, and James (Paul John Eakin) (Reviewed by Judith Fryer, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio)Dimity Convictions: The American Woman in the Nineteenth Century (Barbara Welter) (Reviewed by Judith Fryer, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio)Victorian Murderesses: A True History of Thirteen Respectable French and English Women Accused of Unspeakable Crimes (Mary S. Huartman) (Reviewed by Richard D. Altick, The Ohio State University)Browning\u27s Youth (John Maynard) (Reviewed by Lawrence Poston, III, University of Illinois at Chicago Circle)The Reader\u27s Art: Virginia Woolf as Literary Critic (Mark Goldman) (Reviewed by Harold Fromm, Indiana University Northwest)Alejo Carpentier: The Pilgrim at Home (Roberto Gonzáles Echevarría) (Reviewed by Alfred J. Mac Adam, Ezra Stiles College, Yale University)Frank O\u27Hara: Poet Among Painters (Marjorie Perloff) (Reviewed by James Mazzaro, State University of New York at Buffalo)The Philosophical Anarchism of William Godwin (John P. Clark) (Reviewed by Michael H. Scrivner, Wayne State University)The Literature of Memory: Modern Writers of the American South (Richard Gray) (Reviewed by John Bassett, Wayne State University)Pilgrimage and Storytelling in the Canterbury Tales: The Dialectic of Ernest and Game. (Charles A. Owen Norman) (Reviewed by Donald MacDonald, Wayne State University)The Spirit of Reform: British Literature and Politics, 1832-1867 (Patrick Brantlinger) (Reviewed by John R. Reed, Wayne State University)Langston Hughes: An Introduction to the Poetry (Onwuchekwa Jernie) (Reviewed by Todd Duncan, Wayne State University)Rediscovering Hawthorne (Kenneth Duaber) (Reviewed by John Franzosa, Wayne State University