BRYN MAWR REVIEW OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE Volume 6, Number 2 (Fall 2007)

REVIEWS:

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.