BRYN MAWR REVIEW OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE Volume 5, Number 1 (Spring 2005)

REVIEWS:

American Literature through a Comparative Lens:

• Bill Brown, A Sense of Things: The Object Matter of American Literature.
  Reviewed by Gustavus Stadler, Haverford College.
   
• Amy Schrager Lang, The Syntax of Class: Writing Inequality in Nineteenth-Century America.
  Reviewed by Martha L. Sledge, Marymount Manhattan College.

• Joel Pfister, Individuality Incorporated: Indians and the Multicultural Modern.
  Reviewed by Bethany Schneider, Bryn Mawr College.

Versions of Modernism:

• Jed Esty, A Shrinking Island: Modernism and National Culture in England.
  Reviewed by James Campbell, University of Central Florida.
   
• David Adams, Colonial Odysseys: Empire and Epic in the Modernist Novel.
  Reviewed by Jonathan Greenberg, Montclair State University.  

Aesthetics and Fiction:

• Phillipe Lacoue-Labarthe, Heidegger: La politique du poème.
  Reviewed by Morgan Gaulin, University of Montreal.



• Jeff Nunokawa, Tame Passions of Wilde: The Styles of Manageable Desire.
  Reviewed by Kate Thomas, Bryn Mawr College.

Early Modern Sites:

• Margaret W. Ferguson, Dido's Daughters: Literacy, Gender, and Empire in Early Modern England and France.
  Reviewed by Jane Hedley, Bryn Mawr College.
   
• William Kennedy, The Site of Petrarchism: Early Modern National Sentiment in Italy, France, and England.
  Reviewed by Maria Cristina Quintero, Bryn Mawr College.