Vol. 8 No. 9 · 22 May 1986
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Vol. 8 No. 9 · 22 May 1986
Frank Kermode
Pound, Yeats, Eliot and the Modernist Movement by C.K. Stead. Macmillan, 393 pp., £27.50, March 1986, 0 333 37457 6 The Myth of Modernism and 20th-century Literature by Bernard Bergonzi. Harvester, 216 pp., £25, January 1986, 0 7108 1002 4 The Innocent Eye: On Modern Literature and the Arts by Roger Shattuck. Faber, 362 pp., £15, March 1986, 0 571 12071 7
Letters
Dieter Schamp, Hilton Kelliher, D.M.E. Roskies, John Marks, John Murray, A. John Murray
Michael Neve
Sexual Selection and Animal Genitalia by William Eberhard. Harvard, 244 pp., £21.25, January 1986, 0 674 80283 7 Females of the Species by Bettyann Kevles. Harvard, 270 pp., £16.95, May 1986, 0 674 29865 9 A Concise History of the Sex Manual by Alan Rusbridger and Posy Simmonds. Faber, 204 pp., £10.95, April 1986, 0 571 13519 6
W.R. Mead
The past is a foreign country by David Lowenthal. Cambridge, 489 pp., £27.50, November 1985, 0 521 22415 2
Rosalind Mitchison
Marriage and Love in England: Modes of Reproduction 1300-1840 by Alan Macfarlane. Blackwell, 380 pp., £19.50, January 1986, 0 631 13992 3 For Better, For Worse: British Marriages 1600 to the Present by John Gillis. Oxford, 417 pp., £19.50, February 1986, 9780195036145 Labour and Love: Women’s Experience of Home and Family 1850-1940 edited by Jane Lewis. Blackwell, 274 pp., £25, February 1986, 0 631 13957 5
Angela Carter
The History and Social Influence of the Potato by Redcliffe Salaman, edited by J.G. Hawkes. Cambridge, 729 pp., £35, November 1985, 0 521 07783 4
John Dodgson
Domesday: 900 Years of England’s Norman Heritage edited by Kate Allen. Millbank in association with the National Domesday Committee, 192 pp., £3, March 1986, 0 946171 49 1 The Normans and the Norman Conquest by R. Allen Brown. Boydell, 259 pp., £19.50, January 1985, 0 85115 427 1 The Domesday Book: England’s Heritage, Then and Now edited by Thomas Hinde. Hutchinson, 351 pp., £14.95, October 1985, 0 09 161830 4 Domesday Heritage edited by Elizabeth Hallam. Arrow, 95 pp., £3.95, February 1986, 0 09 945800 4 Domesday Book through Nine Centuries by Elizabeth Hallam. Thames and Hudson, 224 pp., £12.50, March 1986, 0 500 25097 9 Domesday Book: A Reassessment edited by Peter Sawyer. Arnold, 182 pp., £25, October 1985, 0 7131 6440 9
Blake Morrison
Poem: ‘The Kiss’
Denton Fox
Alexander Montgomerie by R.D.S. Jack. Scottish Academic Press, 140 pp., £4.50, June 1985, 0 7073 0367 2 Letters of King James VI and I edited by G.P.V. Akrigg. California, 546 pp., £32.75, November 1984, 0 520 04707 9 The Concise Scots Dictionary by Mairi Robinson. Aberdeen University Press, 819 pp., £17.50, August 1985, 0 08 028491 4
Alexander Nehamas
Contest of Faculties: Philosophy and Theory after Deconstruction by Christopher Norris. Methuen, 247 pp., £16, November 1985, 0 416 39939 8 Philosophical Profiles by Richard Bernstein. Polity, 313 pp., £25, January 1986, 0 7456 0226 6 Against Theory: Literary Studies and the New Pragmatism edited by W.J.T. Mitchell. Chicago, 146 pp., £12.75, November 1985, 0 226 53226 7
E.P. Thompson
Memories of Tagore
Denis Arnold
The Cambridge Music Guide edited by Stanley Sadie and Alison Latham. Cambridge, 544 pp., £15, October 1985, 0 521 25946 0 Tudor Music by David Wulstan. Dent, 378 pp., £20, October 1985, 0 460 04412 5 The Music Profession in Britain since the 18th Century: A Social History by Cyril Ehrlich. Oxford, 269 pp., £22.50, January 1986, 0 19 822665 9 Clara Schumann: The Artist and the Woman by Nancy Reich. Gollancz, 346 pp., £15.95, October 1985, 0 575 03755 5 Lorenzo Da Ponte: The Life and Times of Mozart’s Librettist by Sheila Hodges. Granada, 274 pp., £12.95, October 1985, 0 246 12001 0
Asa Briggs
Victorian News and Newspapers by Lucy Brown. Oxford, 305 pp., £32.50, November 1985, 0 19 822624 1
Douglas Johnson
Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell. Secker, 260 pp., £12.95, April 1986, 0 436 35028 9 The Spanish Civil War by Hugh Thomas. Hamish Hamilton, 1115 pp., £20, March 1986, 0 241 89450 6 The Triumph of Democracy in Spain by Paul Preston. Methuen, 274 pp., £14.95, April 1986, 0 416 36350 4
Nicholas Spice
If not now, when? by Primo Levi, translated by William Weaver. Joseph, 331 pp., £10.95, April 1986, 0 7181 2668 8 The Afternoon Sun by David Pryce-Jones. Weidenfeld, 214 pp., £8.95, March 1986, 0 297 78822 1 August in July by Carlo Gebler. Hamish Hamilton, 188 pp., £9.95, March 1986, 0 241 11787 9
Paul Driver
The Lamberts: George, Constant and Kit by Andrew Motion. Chatto, 388 pp., £13.95, April 1986, 0 7011 2731 7
David Saunders-Wilson
Diary: The Prison Officers’ Strike
Carol Rumens
Poem: ‘Seroyeshky’
John Levett
Poem: ‘Steam’
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