BRYN MAWR REVIEW OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE Volume 4, Number 2 (Spring 2004)

REVIEWS:

The Sacred and the Secular:

• Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity.

Reviewed by Marilyn Booth, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
 
• Amy Hollywood, Sensible Ecstasy: Mysticism, Sexual Difference, and the Demands of History.

Reviewed by Maud McInerny, Haverford College.

• Michèle H. Richman, Sacred Revolutions: Durkheim and the College of Sociology.

Reviewed by Sean P. Connolly, Cornell University.

Crossing Borders:

• Thomas Docherty, Criticism and Modernity: Aesthetics, Literature, and Nations in Europe and Its Academies.

Reviewed by Lee Morrissey, Clemson University.
 
• Azade Seyhan, Writing Outside the Nation.

Reviewed by Imed Labidi, University of Minnesota.

• Patrick O'Brien, ed., Urban Achievement in Early Modern Europe: Golden Ages in Antwerp, Amsterdam, and London.
  Reviewed by Alan Stewart, Columbia University.  

Trajectories of Desire:

• Thomas W. Laqueur, Solitary Sex: A Cultural History of Masturbation.

Reviewed by Jennifer Frangos, Texas Tech University.

Moments of Modernism:

• Holly Henry, Virginia Woolf and the Discourse of Science: The Aesthetics of Astronomy.

Reviewed by Peter Naccarato, Marymount Manhattan College.
 
• Victoria Best, An Introduction to Twentieth-Century French Literature
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Reviewed by Nancy Lane, University of South Carolina.