Book Reviews

The Use and Abuse of History: Recent Developments in Feminist Theory Uneven Developments: The Ideological Work of Gender in Mid-Victorian England (Mary Poovey) (Reviewed by Rita Felski, Murdoch University, Western Australia) Am I that Name? : Feminism and the Category of \u27\u27Women\u27\u27 in History (Denise Riley) (Reviewed by Rita Felski, Murdoch University, Western Australia)Feminist Literary History (Janet Todd) (Reviewed by Rita Felski, Murdoch University, Western Australia)Sor JuanaSor Juana or, The Traps of Faith (Octavio Paz) (Reviewed by Electa Arenal, College of Staten Island, C.U.N.Y.)A Sor Juana Anthology (Alan S. Trueblood) (Reviewed by Electa Arenal, College of Staten Island, C.U.N.Y.)Sor Juana\u27s Dream (Luis Harss) (Reviewed by Electa Arenal, College of Staten Island, C.U.N.Y.)Medieval Texts and Contemporary Readers(Laurie A. Finke and Martin B. Shichtman) (Reviewed by Jennifer Summit, The John Hopkins University)Puzzling Shakespeare: Local Reading and Its Discontents(Leah S. Marcus) (Reviewed by James R. Siemon, Boston University)Ben Jonson\u27s Parodic Strategy: Literary Imperalism il1 the Comedies(Robert N. Watson) (Reviewed by Richard S. Ide, University of Southern California)One Flesh: Paradisal Marriage and Sexual Relations in the Age of Milton(James Grantham Turner) (Reviewed by Marilyn L. Williamson, Wayne State University)Virtue of Necessity: English Women\u27s Writings, 1649-1688(Elaine Jobby) (Reviewed by Christopher Hill, Sibford Ferris, Oxon.)Divided Fictions: Fanny Burney and Feminine Strategy(Kristina Straub) (Reviewed by Julia Epstein, Haverford College)Sexual Underworlds of the Enlightenment(G. S. Rousseau and Roy Porter) (Reviewed by Hero A. Chalmers, Brasenose College, Oxford)Blake and Spenser(Robert F. Gleckner) (Reviewed by Andrew Elfenbein, Yale University)Tennyson and the Doom of Romanticism(Herbert F. Tucker) (Reviewed by John Jay Baker, The University of Tulsa)The Historicity of Romantic Discourse(Clifford Siskin) (Reviewed by Daniel P. Watkins, Duquesne University)Stealing the Language: The Emergence of Women\u27s Poetry in America(Alicia Suskin Ostriker) (Reviewed by Amy Kaminsky, University of Minnesota)No Man\u27s Land: The Place of the Woman Writer in the Twentieth Century(Sandra M. Gilbert) (Reviewed by Anne Hermann, University of Michigan)Contingencies of Value: Alternative Perspectives for Critical Theory(Barbara Hernstein Smith) (Reviewed by Linda Howe, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ.)History and Value: The Clarendon Lectures and Northcliffe Lectures(Frank Kermode) (Reviewed by Linda Howe, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ.)Where the Meanings Are: Feminism and Cultural Spaces(Catharine R. Stimpson) (Reviewed by Catherine Belsey, University of Wales College of Cardiff