Books for review


Books available for review are listed in alphabetical order by author. Potential reviewers are cordially invited to contact one of the two Reviews Editors, indicating the title(s) in which they are interested:

- Aoife Leahy: <aoifebleahy@hotmail.com> (RE for Literature and Cultural Studies)

- Päivi Pahta: <paivi.pahta@uta.fi> (RE for Language Studies)

Readers are also encouraged to email the REs offering to review a book that is not listed in the abovementioned page. If the book in question has not been previously received, the REs may contact the press and request a review copy.

The deadlines for reviews (approx. 1,000 words) are 1 April and 1 September of each year.

When submitting a review, please provide full details of the book, followed by your name and affiliation e.g.:
 
Name and surname of the author/editor of the book, Title of the book. Place of publication: name of the publisher, year of publication. Number of pages, price(s), ISBN(s).

Name and surname of the reviewer (affiliation, country)

Please provide your contact details and postal address in an accompanying message.

Potential reviewers are also encouraged to email us offering to review a book that is not listed here. If the book in question has not been previously received, the Reviews Editors may contact the press and request a review copy.



The following books are currently available for review in The European English Messenger


For the following books, contact Aoife Leahy <aoifebleahy@hotmail.com> (new email address)
 

Burn, Stephen J. David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest: A Reader's Guide. Second Edition. New York and London: Continuum, 2012.

Chambers, Eddie. Things Done Change: The Cultural Politics of Recent Black Artists in Britain. Cross Cultures 144. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2012.

Class, Monika. Coleridge and Kantian Ideas in England, 1796-1817. London: Bloomsbury, 2012.

Coleman, Philip and Maria Johnston, eds. Reading Pearse Hutchinson: From Findrum to Fisterra. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2011.

Collier, Gordon, Marc Delrez, Anne Fuchs and Benedicte Ledent. Engaging with Literature of Commitment Volume 2: The Wordly Scholar. Cross.

Cooke, Stuart. Speaking the Earth's Languages: A Theory for Australian-Chilean Postcolonial Poetics. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2013.

Cox, Jessica, ed. New Perspectives on Mary Elizabeth Braddon. DQR 50. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2012.

Delourme, Chantal and Richard Pedot, eds. Le langage en effet (Language in deed): textes en l'honneur de Jean-Jacques Lecercle. Paris: Presses Universitaires de Paris Ouest, 2012.

Freitag, Barbara. Hy Brasil: The Metamorphosis of an Island From Cartographic Error to Celtic Elysium. Textxet 69. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2013.

Fu, Bennett Yu-Hsiang. Transgressive Transcripts: Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Chinese Canadian Women's Writing. Cross Cultures 150. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2012.

Genet, Jacqueline. W.B. Yeats: Essais et Introductions. Paris: PUPS, 2012.

Grossman, Michele. Entangled Subjects: Indigenous/Australian Cross-Cultures of Talk, Text, and Modernity. Cross Cultures 158. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2013. 
 
Guignery, Vanessa, ed. Novelists in the New Millenium: Conversations with Writers. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Huguet, Christine and Fabienne Dabrigeon-Garcier, ed.s. George Moore: Across Borders. DQR 51. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2013.

Karayanni, Stavros S., managing ed. Cademces: A Journal of Literature and the Arts in Cyprus. Vol 7 (Fall 2011).

Lenz, Karmen. Ræd and Frofer: Christian Poetics in the Old English Froferboc Meters. Costerus New Series 195. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2012.

McClure, Derrick. Sangs tae Eimhir. Acair: Stornaway, 2011.
 
Moura-Kocoglu, Michaela. Narrating Indigenous Modernities: Transcultural Dimensions in Contemporary Maori Literature. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2011.
 
Oakley, Seanna Sumalee. Common Places: The Poetics of African Atlantic Postromantics. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2011.

Ozyurt Kilic, Mine. Maggie Gee: Writing the Condition-of-England Novel. London: Bloomsbury, 2013.

Pustz, Matthew, ed. Comic Books and American Cultural History: An Anthology. New York: Continuum, 2012.

Regan, Shaun, ed. Reading 1759: Literary Culture in Mid-Eighteenth Century Britain and France. Plymouth: Bucknell UP, 2013.

Rowland Smith, Robert. On Modern Poetry: From Theory to Total Criticism. New York and London: Continuum, 2012.

Scraggs, Leah. Galatea by John Lyly. Revels Student Editions. Manchester: Manchester UP, 2012.

Skinner, Stephen, ed. Dr John Dee's Spiritual Journeys (1583-1608) being a fully revised rest and edited edition of A True and Faithful Revelation of what passed for Many Yeers between Dr John Dee...and Some Spirits... Preface by Meric Casaubon. Singapore: Goldman, 2011.

Sobral, Ana. Opting Out: Deviance and Generational Identities in American Post-War Cult Fiction. Costerus New Series 197. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2012.

Stevenson, W.H. King James's Bible: A Selection. Second Edition. Harlow: Longman, 2010.

Tucker, David. Samuel Beckett and Arnold Geulincx: Tracing a Literary Fantasia. London: Continuum, 2013.

Viljoen, Hein, ed. Crossing Borders. Crossing Boundaries. Cross Cultures 157. Rodopi: Amsterdam and New York, 2013.


For the following books, contact Päivi Pahta: <paivi.pahta@uta.fi>


Aijmer, Karin. Contrastive Pragmatics. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2011.

Culpeper, Jonathan. Historical Sociopragmatics. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2011.

Depraetere, Ilse, and Chad Langford. Advanced English Grammar: A Linguistic Approach. London: Continuum, 2012.

Fetzer, Anita, and Etsuko Oishi, eds. Context and Contexts. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2011.

Finch, Jason et al., eds. Humane Readings: Essays on Literary Mediation and Communication in Honour of Roger D. Sell. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2012.

Frazer, Gregory, and Chad Davidson. Analyze Anything: A Guide to Critical Reading and Writing. London: Continuum, 2012.

Furiassi, Cristiano, Virginia Pulcini, and Félix Rodríguez Gonzáles, eds. The Anglicization of European Lexis. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2012.

Fusari, Sabrina. "Flying into uncharted territory": Alitalia's Crisis and Privatization in the Italian, British and American Press. Labirinti 136. Università degli Studi di Trento, 2011.

Kirk, John, and Dónall P. Ó Baoill. Sustaining Minority Language Communities: Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, and Scotland. Belfast: Cló Ollscoil na Banríona, 2011.

Montoro, Rocío. Chick Lit: The Stylistic of Cappuccine Fiction. London: Continuum, 2012.

Piazza, Roberta. The Discourse of Italian Cinema and Beyond: Let Cinema Speak. London: Continuum, 2011.

Verspoor, Marjolijn H., Kees de Boot, and Wander Lowie, eds. A Dynamic Approach to Second Language Development: Methods and Techniques. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2011.