Book review
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Arni Brownstone. War Paintings of the Tsuu T’ina Nation
Arni Brownstone. War Paintings of the Tsuu T’ina Nation. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2015. xii, 143p., ill. ISBN 9781772120523. CAD 35.00 War Paintings of the Tsuu T’ina Nation builds…
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Nicole N. Aljoe and Ian Finseth, eds. Journeys of the Slave Narrative in the Early Americas
Nicole N. Aljoe and Ian Finseth, eds. Journeys of the Slave Narrative in the Early Americas. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2014. 256p. ISBN 9780813936383. US $29.50 (paperback and ebook);…
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Jaime Harker and Cecilia Konchar Farr, eds. This Book Is an Action: Feminist Print Culture and Activist Aesthetics
Jaime Harker and Cecilia Konchar Farr, eds. This Book Is an Action: Feminist Print Culture and Activist Aesthetics. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2016. ix, 250p. ISBN 9780252081347. US $28.00…
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Wendy Wall. Recipes for Thought: Knowledge and Taste in the Early Modern English Kitchen
Wendy Wall. Recipes for Thought: Knowledge and Taste in the Early Modern English Kitchen. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. xii, 312p., black and white ill. ISBN 9780812247589. US $69.95…
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Ashley Baynton-Williams. The Curious Map Book
Ashley Baynton-Williams. The Curious Map Book. London: The British Library, 2015. 240p., ill. ISBN 9780712356190. £25.00 (hardback). This beautifully-illustrated book is divided into sections that chronologically address the creation and…
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Vittore Branca. Merchant Writers: Florentine Memoirs from the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Trans. by Murtha Baca
Vittore Branca. Merchant Writers: Florentine Memoirs from the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Trans. by Murtha Baca. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015. x, 407p. ISBN 9781442637146. CAN $75.00 (hardback). Students,…
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Anita Starosta. Form and Instability: Eastern Europe, Literature, Postimperial Difference
Anita Starosta. Form and Instability: Eastern Europe, Literature, Postimperial Difference. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2016. x, 222 p. ISBN 9780810132023. US $34.95 (paperback). Europe – that is, its Western…
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Mark Allen and Stephanie Amsel, eds. Annotated Chaucer Bibliography, 1997-2010
Mark Allen and Stephanie Amsel, eds. Annotated Chaucer Bibliography, 1997-2010. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2016. xx, 806p. ISBN 9780719096099. £75.00 (hardback). In many ways, my review header would seem…
