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Vol. 6 No. 20 · 1 November 1984
Christopher Ricks
T.S. Eliot by Peter Ackroyd. Hamish Hamilton, 400 pp., £12.50, September 1984, 0 241 11349 0 Recollections Mainly of Artists and Writers by Geoffrey Grigson. Chatto, 195 pp., £12.50, September 1984, 0 7011 2791 0
Letters
Tobias Abse, Andrew Robinson, R.J. Horesh, Richard Garnett, David Jenkins, Axel Clark
Michael Davie
Public Scandal, Odium and Contempt: An Investigation of Recent Libel Cases by David Hooper. Secker, 230 pp., £12.95, September 1984, 0 436 20093 7
Alan Brinkley
America is back
David Hoy
Philosophy in France Today edited by Alan Montefiore. Cambridge, 201 pp., £20, January 1983, 0 521 22838 7 French Literary Theory Today: A Reader edited by Tzvetan Todorov, translated by R. Carter. Cambridge, 239 pp., £19.50, October 1982, 0 521 23036 5 Histoire de la Sexualité. Vol. II: L’Usage des Plaisirs by Michel Foucault. Gallimard, 285 pp., £8.25, June 1984, 2 07 070056 9 Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics by Hubert Dreyfus and Paul Rabinow. Chicago, 256 pp., $8.95, December 1983, 0 226 16312 1 The Foucault Reader edited by Paul Rabinow. Pantheon, 350 pp., $19.95, January 1985, 0 394 52904 9 Michel Foucault and the Subversion of Intellect by Karlis Racevskis. Cornell, 172 pp., £16.50, July 1983, 0 8014 1572 1 Michel Foucault’s Archaeology of Western Culture: Toward a New Science of History by Pamela Major-Poetzl. Harvester, 281 pp., £22.50, May 1983, 0 7108 0484 9 Michel Foucault: Social Theory as Transgression by Charles Lemert and Garth Gillan. Columbia, 169 pp., £8.50, January 1984, 0 231 05190 5 Foucault, Marxism and Critique by Barry Smart. Routledge, 144 pp., £5.95, September 1983, 0 7100 9533 3
Seamus Heaney
Two Poems
John Willett
Russian Constructivism by Christina Lodder. Yale, 328 pp., £30, September 1983, 0 300 02727 3
David Blackbourn
The Nazi Machtergreifung edited by Peter Stachura. Allen and Unwin, 191 pp., £12.50, April 1983, 0 04 943026 2 Stormtroopers: A Social, Economic and Ideological Analysis 1929-35 by Conan Fischer. Allen and Unwin, 239 pp., £20, June 1983, 0 04 943028 9 The Nazi Party: A Social Profile of Members and Leaders 1919-1945 by Michael Kater. Blackwell, 415 pp., £22.50, August 1983, 0 631 13313 5 Beating the Fascists: The German Communists and Political Violence 1929-1933 by Eve Rosenhaft. Cambridge, 273 pp., £24, August 1983, 9780521236386
Harold James
My Life by Richard Wagner, translated by Andrew Gray, edited by Mary Whittall. Cambridge, 786 pp., £22.50, November 1983, 0 521 22929 4 Untimely Meditations by Friedrich Nietzsche, translated by R.J. Hollingdale, introduced by J.P. Stern. Cambridge, 256 pp., £15, December 1983, 0 521 24740 3 Wagner: A Case-History by Martin von Amerongen. Dent, 169 pp., £8.95, September 1983, 0 460 04618 7
Gareth Stedman Jones
Proletarian Philosophers: Problems in Socialist Culture in Britain 1900-1940 by Jonathan Rée. Oxford, 176 pp., £15, February 1984, 0 19 827261 8
J.M. Winter
The Labour Governments: 1945-51 by Henry Pelling. Macmillan, 313 pp., £25, June 1984, 0 333 36356 6
V.G. Kiernan
A Radical Reader: The Struggle for Change in England 1381-1914 edited by Christopher Hampton. Penguin, 624 pp., £7.95, January 1984, 0 14 022444 0 Riots and Community Politics in England and Wales 1790-1810 by John Bohstedt. Harvard, 310 pp., £12.50, November 1983, 0 674 77120 6 The World We have Lost – Further Explored by Peter Laslett. Methuen, 353 pp., £12.95, December 1983, 0 416 35340 1
Linda Colley
The Origins of Anglo-American Radicalism edited by Margaret Jacob and James Jacob. Allen and Unwin, 333 pp., £18.50, February 1984, 0 04 909015 1 Insurrection: The British Experience 1795-1803 by Roger Wells. Alan Sutton, 312 pp., £16, May 1983, 9780862990190 Radicalism and Freethought in 19th-Century Britain by Joel Wiener. Greenwood, 285 pp., $29.95, March 1983, 0 313 23532 5 For King, Constitution and Country: The English Loyalists and the French Revolution by Robert Dozier. Kentucky, 213 pp., £20.90, February 1984, 9780813114903
Paul Muldoon
Station Island by Seamus Heaney. Faber, 123 pp., £5.95, October 1984, 0 571 13301 0 Sweeney Astray: A Version by Seamus Heaney. Faber, 85 pp., £6.95, October 1984, 0 571 13360 6 Rich by Craig Raine. Faber, 109 pp., £5.95, September 1984, 0 571 13215 4
Michael Ignatieff
Diary: Canadian Elections
D.A.N. Jones
Ironweed by William Kennedy. Viking, 227 pp., £7.95, September 1984, 0 670 40176 5 In Custody by Anita Desai. Heinemann, 204 pp., £9.95, October 1984, 9780434186358 Flaubert’s Parrot by Julian Barnes. Cape, 190 pp., £8.50, October 1984, 0 241 11374 1
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