BRYN MAWR REVIEW OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE Volume 10, Number 1 (Fall 2012)

REVIEWS:

Language, Culture, Power:

• Sheldon Pollock, The Language of the Gods in the World of Men.
  Reviewed by Ashley Thompson, University of Leeds.
  

The Affective Lives of the Non-Human:

• Anat Pick, Creaturely Poetics: Animality and Vulnerability in Literature and Film.
  Reviewed by Carlo Salzani, Monash University. 
  

• Mark Payne, The Animal Part: Human and Other Animals in the Poetic Imagination.
  Reviewed by Carlo Salzani, Monash University.
  

• Susan McHugh, Animal Stories: Narrating across Species Lines.
  Reviewed by Carlo Salzani, Monash University.

• Tamara Ketabgian, The Lives of Machines: The Industrial Imaginary in Victorian Literature and Culture.
  Reviewed by Stella Pratt-Smith, University of Oxford.

The Literary and the Political--A Critical Problem:

William Watkin, The Literary Agamben.
Reviewed by Arne De Boever, California Institute of the Arts.

Shakespeare, Queer Theory, and Historicism:

• Madhavi Menon, Shakesqueer: A Queer Companion to the Complete Works of Shakespeare.
  Reviewed by Graham Hammill, University at Buffalo, SUNY.