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Clemson books are broadly reviewed in scholarly journals, in the newsletters of author societies, and in the popular press. We have highlighted extracts from recent reviews below.<\/p>\n

If you are a book reviews editor interested in commissioning a review of one of our scholarly books, please contact Lydia Osborne<\/a>; for our general-interest list, please contact John Morgenstern<\/a>. If you are a reviewer, we welcome the opportunity to work with you to place a review in a suitable venue.<\/p>\n

\"\"Samuel Johnson Among the Modernists
\nEdited <\/em>by Anthony Lee
\n<\/strong>Read more about this book and order your copy here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n


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\n\u201cThese consistently informative, persuasive, and provocative essays should reshape notions of both literary history and Johnson’s place in that history.\u201d
\n\u2014E. Kraft, CHOICE<\/em><\/p>\n

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\"\"Locating the Gothic in British Modernity
\nBy Sam Wiseman
\nRead more about this book and order your copy here<\/a>.
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201c[Wiseman] reinvigorates discussion of the gothic in literature by showing its persistence from the late Victorian period into the modernist period. . . . The writing is clear and purposeful throughout, rendering the book accessible to nonspecialists interested in 20th-century British literature.\u201d
\n\u2014J. W. Moffett, CHOICE
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\u201cLocating the Gothic in British Modernity is a scholarly achievement of great distinction, wide ranging, generously attentive to detail and genuinely manages to break new ground exploring this fascinating literary territory.\u201d
\n\u2014Alan Price, Magonia Review of Books<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"The Fire that Breaks: Gerard Manley Hopkins\u2019s Poetic Legacies<\/em>
\nEdited by Daniel Westover and Thomas Alan Holmes<\/em>
\nRead more about this book and order your copy here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

“A perennial problem in Hopkins scholarship is that the seemingly unending process of explicating his highly idiosyncratic oeuvre has prevented a serious consideration of the formal and thematic continuities between his writings and those of his contemporaries and successors… Consequently, this collection makes a very welcome contribution to the scholarly conversation.”
\n\u2014J. Nickerson, Review 19<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"John Dos Passos and Cinema
\nBy Lisa Nanney
\nRead more about this book and order your copy here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cLisa Nanney\u2019s fine book adds considerable new detail and chronological range to the account of Dos Passos\u2019s lifelong relationship with cinema. . . . John Dos Passos and Cinema<\/em> will be the authoritative work on this aspect of Dos Passos\u2019s career and aesthetics for some time. But it also provides fresh insights into the perennial topic of his political biography and his shift to the right, as well as providing superb detail on the specifics of the networks and aesthetics of transnational, intermedial experiment on the left that galvanized modernist culture in the 1920s and 1930s.\u201d
\n\u2014Mark Whalen, Modernism\/modernity<\/em><\/p>\n

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\"\"Gastro-Modernism: Food, Literature, Culture
\nEdited by Derek Gladwin
\nRead more about this book and order your copy here<\/a>.
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThe emergent modernist food studies which [Gastro-Modernism<\/em>] represent[s] then is very much of its moment and is a logical next step in our continued critical exploration of the legacy of new modernist studies and its political, cross-cultural, and material turn.\u201d
\n\u2014Rebecca Bowler, Modernism\/modernity<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"Ezra Pound, Italy, and the Cantos
\nBy Massimo Bacigalupo
\nRead more about this book and order your copy here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cEzra Pound, Italy and the Cantos comes from the pen of one of the foremost Pound critics… as a guide to the Cantos so rooted in Italy and Italian history, and as an exploration of the people and forces that shaped Pound and his poetry, it would be hard to better this book. It should be of interest to both the general reader of poetry and to the academic specialist.\u201d
\n\u2014William Wall, Dublin Review of Books<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cOne couldn\u2019t ask for a better tour guide of Pound\u2019s Italy. . . . it not only clarifies hundreds of details in The Cantos, bringing us that much closer to the ideal of a completely annotated text, but is filled with fascinating anecdotes and revealing trivia. . . . a major contribution to Pound studies.\u201d
\n\u2014Steven Moore, Literary Matters
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\u201cBacigalupo offers many perspectives on Pound and his relation to Italy and is especially helpful in prompting questions about the relation of real to imagined places.\u201d
\n\u2014Peter Nicholls, Studies in Travel Writing<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cEzra Pound, Italy, and The Cantos unveils an intimate portrait of both poet and poem. Massimo Bacigalupo\u2019s study is conversational in tone, yet nevertheless scholarly and astute.\u201d
\n\u2014Patrick James Dunagan, Rain Taxi
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\u201cWith delicate sensitivity and absolute mastery of the subject, Bacigalupo leads the reader into the labyrinth of the Cantos and along the troubles of Pound’s life, studded with encounters with extraordinary men and wonderful women, shedding a little light to help the reader see Beauty and to appreciate what is right.\u201d
\n\u2014Luca Gallesi, Il Giornale<\/em><\/p>\n

Bacigalupo \u201cis an informative but not obtrusive guide; not only in his exploration of the significance of Italian locations (especially Rapallo, where, as he notes, many of the cantos were actually written), but also in his comments on Pound\u2019s less-than-perfect grasp of Italian as reader, translator and practitioner. He brings to bear a knowledge that few other of Pound\u2019s critics can equal.\u201d
\n\u2014Tony Sharpe, The Review of English Studies<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cBacigalupo\u2019s study is, overall, a sensitive, erudite, and very approachable collection of essays that assumes a fair degree of knowledge about Pound\u2019s life and work, but does not require it.\u201d
\n\u2014Michael Kindellan, The Wallace Stevens Journal<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"Gendered Ecologies
\nEdited by Dewey W. Hall and Jillmarie Murphy
\nRead more about this book and order your copy here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cA fresh and invigorating contribution to the field of environmental humanities. . . . The \u2018diversity\u2019 of the collection allows for a picture to emerge here of the many, complex and fascinating engagements with natural history made by women writers during the long nineteenth century.\u201d
\n\u2014Penny Bradshaw, Green Letters<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cA wonderful addition to the field of environmental humanities that will undoubtedly appeal to human geographers, social ecologists, literary scholars, and philosophers of science. . . . The editors have gathered a scholarship that will forge fruitful bridges between literature and science and incite readers to revisit their favorite novels with new awareness and sensitivity that are very timely.\u201d
\n\u2014H\u00e9l\u00e8ne B. Ducros, EuropeNow<\/em><\/p>\n

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\"\"Granville Bantock: A Guide to Research
\nBy John C. Dressler
\nRead more about this book and order your copy here<\/a>.
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cA triumph for the advancement of Bantock scholarship, appreciation, and reappraisal. . . . an invaluable reference document which will become the standard reference work and enrich Bantock Studies for many years to come.\u201d
\n\u2014John France, MusicWeb International<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cDressler has produced a monumental work . . . an essential tool for anyone contemplating a major book on Bantock\u2019s music.\u201d
\n\u2014Musical Opinion<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"The Sensuous Pedagogies of Virginia Woolf and D. H. Lawrence
\nBy Benjamin Hagen
\nRead more about this book and order your copy here<\/a>.
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cThe risks Hagen takes\u2014by pairing two writers whose pedagogy strikes one at first as unreconcilable and by addressing his readers directly with unapologetic questions about our own investments in the texts we read and teach\u2014ultimately pay off and produce a refreshingly sensitive reading of each author\u2019s openness to their readers\u2019 active engagement with the scenarios or spaces made possible by their prose. . . . The Sensuous Pedagogies of Virginia Woolf and D. H. Lawrence <\/em>is a good book. What\u2019s more, it is good pedagogy.\u201d
\n\u2014Madelyn Detloff, Woolf Studies Annual<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201c[W]e must start to practice \u2018sensuous pedagogies\u2019 right away. In this way Lawrence and Woolf\u2019s ideas will continue to come into closer contact.\u201d
\n\u2014Michael Black, The Modernist Review<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"Madeleine Dring: Lady Composer
\nBy Wanda Brister and Jay Rosenblatt
\nRead more about this book and order your copy here<\/a>.
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWanda Brister and Jay Rosenblatt have done a meticulous job bringing Dring\u2019s remarkable story to life. . . . This welcome new biography sheds light on an iconoclastic composer’s brilliant musical mind, and compels us to reconsider her compositional output. The lady composer Madeleine Dring certainly deserves our greater attention.\u201d
\n\u2014Stephen Caplan, The Double Reed<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cA fulfilling and insightful book on multiple levels that will appear to anyone interested in the byways of light music as well as to those wishing to make a study.\u201d
\n\u2014Dan Adams, The Magazine of the Light Music Society<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201c[T]his thoroughly researched collaboration is a valuable addition to the literature about Madeleine Dring.\u201d
\n\u2014Debra Greschner, Journal of Singing<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"In The Rebel Cafe: Interviews with Ed Sanders
\nEdited by Jennie Skerl
\n<\/em>Read more about this book and order your copy here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

“A must for anyone with interest in Ed Sanders.”
\n\u2014Marc Olmsted, Sensitive Skin<\/em><\/p>\n

“Sanders seems to be something of a polymath, learned in ancient texts and languages, politically astute and still up for a fight…. A man for all seasons. These extended interviews capture an agile mind. An American treasure.”
\n\u2014Colin Cooper, Beat Scene<\/em><\/p>\n

“Anyone with half an eye to 1960s US counterculture would be hard-pressed not to acknowledge the role played by Ed Sanders. . . . Skerl has shown a keen not to say timely hand, one to put us considerably in her debt.”
\n\u2014A. Robert Lee, European Beat Studies Network<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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