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: <aoife.leahy@ireland.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 <aoife.leahy@ireland.com>


Bray, Suzanne and Richard Sturch, eds. Charles Williams and his Contemporaries. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009.

Carruthers, Jo. England's Secular Scripture: Islamophobia and the Protestant Aesthetic. New Directions in Religion and Literature. London and New York: Continuum, 2011.

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

Freed, Mark M. Robert Musil and the NonModern. London and New York: Continuum, 2011.

Fuller, David. The Life in The Sonnets. Shakespeare Now! London and New York: Continuum, 2011.

Gasyna, George Z. Polish, Hybrid and Otherwise: Exilic Discourse in Joseph Conrad and Witold Gombrowicz. London and New York: Continuum, 2011.

Gibbs, James, ed. Nkyin-Kyin: Essays on the Ghanaian Theatre. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2009.

Goh, Robbie B.H. Narrating Race: Asia, (Trans)Nationalism, Social Change. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2011.

Hamilton, Grant. On Representation: Deleuze and Coetzee on the Colonized Subject. Cross Cultures 142. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2011.

Herlihy, Jeffrey. In Paris or Paname: Hemingway's Expatriate Nationalism. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2011.
 
Herrero, Dolores and Sonia Baelo-Allue, ed.s. The Splintered Glass: Facets of Trauma in the Post-Colony and Beyond. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2011.

Hiscock, Andrew, ed. Women Beware Women: A Critical Guide. Continuum Renaissance Drama. London and New York: Continuum, 2011.
 
Huguet, Christine, ed. Charles Dickens: The Inimitable. Democratic Books: Paris, 2011.

Ivanova, Velichke D. Reading Philip Roth's American Pastoral. Toulouse: Presses Universitaires du Mirail, 2011.

Johannessen, Lene M. Threshold Time: Passage of Crisis in Chicano Literature. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2008.

Kohlke, Marie-Luise and Christian Gutleben, ed. Neo-Victorian Families: Gender, Sexual and Cultural Politics. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2011.
 
Legarreta Mentxaka, Aintzane. Kate O' Brien and the Fiction of Identity: Sex, Art and Politics in Mary Lavelle and Other Writings. Jefferson N.C. and London: McFarland, 2011.
 
Longstaffe, Stephen, ed. 1 Henry IV: A Critical Guide. London and New York: Continuum, 2011.
 
Lopez, Maria J. Acts of Visitation: The Narrative of J.M. Coetzee. Cross Cultures 140. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2011.

Luckyj, Christina, ed. The Duchess of Malfi: A Critical Guide. Continuum Renaissance Drama. London and New York: Continuum, 2011.

Marggraf Turley, Richard, ed. The Writer in the Academy: Creative Interfrictions. The English Association Essays and Studies 2011. London: Boydell and Brewer, 2011.

McClure, Derrick. Sangs tae Eimhir. Acair: Stornaway, 2011.

McCuster, Maeve and Anthony Soares, ed. Islanded Identities: Constructions of Postcolonial Cultural Insularity. Cross Cultures 139. Amsterdama dn New York: Rodopi, 2011.
 
Melaney, William D. Material Difference: Modernism and the Allegories of Discourse. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2012.
 
Moura-Kocoglu, Michaela. Narrating Indigenous Modernities: Transcultural Dimensions in Contemporary Maori Literature. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2011.
 
O' Leary, John. Savage Songs and Wild Romances: Settler Poetry and the Indigene, 1830-1880. Cross Cultures 138. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2011.
 
Oakley, Seanna Sumalee. Common Places: The Poetics of African Atlantic Postromantics. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2011.

Robbins, Ruth. Oscar Wilde. London and New York: Continuum, 2011.

Shostak, Debra, ed. Philip Roth: American Pastoral; The Human Stain; The Plot Against America. London and New York: Continuum, 2011.

Spurgeon, Sara L. Cormac McCarthy. All the Pretty Horses. No Country for Old Men. The Road. London and New York: Continuum, 2011.

Steggle, Matthew, ed. Volpone: A Critical Guide. Continuum Renaissance Drama. London and New York: Continuum, 2011.

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

Tancke, Ulrike. 'Bethinke Thy Selfe' in Early Modern England. Costerus New Series 180. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2010.

Wallinger-Schorn, Brigitte. So There It Is: An Exploration of Cultural Hybridity in Contemporary Asian American Poetry. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2011.
 
Walshe, Eibhear, ed. Elizabeth Bowen's Selected Irish Writings. Cork: Cork University Press, 2011.


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


Bassnett, Susan. Reflections on Translation. Multilingual Matters, 2011.

Caridad Casas, Maria. Multimodality in Canadian Black Feminist Writing: Orality and the Body in the Work of Harris, Philip, Allen and Brand. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2009.

Finch, Jason et al., eds. Humane Readings: Essays on Literary Mediation and Communication in Honour of Roger D. Sell. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2009.

Ishihara, Noriko, and Andrew D. Cohen. Teaching and Learning Pragmatics: Where Language and Culture Meet. Harlow: Longman, 2010.

Jucker, Andreas H., and Irma Taavitsainen, eds. Historical Pragmatics. (Handbooks of Pragmatics 8.) Berlin and New York: De Gruyter Mouton, 2010.

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.

Kortmann, Bernd, and Johan van der Auwera, eds. The Languages and Linguistics of Europe: A Comprehensive Guide. (The World of Linguistics I.) Berlin and New York: De Gruyter Mouton, 2011.

Moskowich-Spiegel, Isabel, and Begona Crespo-García, eds. Bells Chiming from the Past: Cultural and Linguistic Studies on Early English. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2008.

Smith, Veronica. Tertiary Language Teaching. Tübingen: Narr Verlag, 2010.

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

Sotirova, Violeta. D. H. Lawrence and Narrative Viewpoint. London: Continuum, 2011.



Home

Istanbul 2012

About ESSE

Calls for papers

Vacant positions

The Messenger

EJES

Publications

Bursaries

Book Award

Books for review

Links

FAQ