Bryn Mawr Review of comparative Literature Vol 6 n°2 2007

Bryn Mawr Review of comparative Literature Vol. 6, n°2 (2007)

The Bryn Mawr Review of Comparative Literature is an on-line journal whose purpose is to make available in a timely fashion reviews of new books in the field. It is modeled on its sister journal, the Bryn Mawr Classical Review, which has been highly successful in circulating reviews soon after publication. The editors hope to reflect the evolving, dynamic nature of Comparative Literature in the range of books covered, from studies of national literatures to theoretical, interdisciplinary and cultural inquiries. Subscriptions are free of charge. To subscribe, please go to http://mailman.brynmawr.edu and follow the link to "subscription page." Scroll through the list to find/click on "complitr"; enter your email address and create a password. As each issue is published, we will announce it by e-mail, with table of contents.

Recensions:

Rethinking Emotion:

• Catherine Gallagher, The Body Economic: Life, Death, and Sensation in Political Economy and the Victorian Novel.
  Reviewed by Tamara Ketabgian, Beloit College.

• Victoria Kahn, Neil Saccamano, and Daniela Coli, eds., Politics and the Passions, 1500-1850.
  Reviewed by John D. Staines, John Jay College.

• Sianne Ngai, Ugly Feelings.
  Reviewed by Eu Jin Chua, The London Consortium, University of London.
  

• Catherine Labio, Origins and the Enlightenment: Aesthetic Epistemology from Descartes to Kant.
  Reviewed by Jennifer J. Davis, University of Oklahoma.

Constructing Literary Contexts:

• Pascale Casanova, The World Republic of Letters.
  Reviewed by Bali Sahota, University of Minnesota.

• James F. English, The Economy of Prestige: Prizes, Awards, and the Circulation of Cultural Value.
  Reviewed by Peter Briggs, Bryn Mawr College.
  

Colonialism and After:

• Peter Kitson and Debbie Lee, eds., Slavery, Abolition and Emancipation: Writings in the British Romantic Period.
  Reviewed by Robin Blackburn, New School for Social Research; University of Essex, UK.
  
• Jon Smith and Deborah Cohn, eds., Look Away! The U.S. South in New World Studies.
  Reviewed by Jessica Adams.
  

The Francophone Connection:

• Réda Bensmaïa, Experimental Nations: Or, the Invention of the Maghreb.
  Reviewed by Jeanne Garane, University of South Carolina.
  
• Rachel Gabara, From Split to Screened Selves: French and Francophone Autobiography in the Third Person.
  Reviewed by Fazia Aitel, Claremont McKenna College.