Vol. 11 No. 17 · 14 September 1989

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Vol. 11 No. 17 · 14 September 1989

Mary Beard

Loss of the Good Authority: The Cause of Delinquency by Tom Pitt-Aikens and Alice Thomas Ellis. Viking, 264 pp., £14.95, July 1989, 0 670 82493 3

Letters

Patrick Parrinder, Anne Summers, J.R. Fredericks, Hilda Snowden, Peter Campbell, James Smithson, Joseph Nuttgens, Charles Welldon, Jacqueline Castles

Adam Phillips

Anna Freud: A Biography by Elisabeth Young-Bruehl. Macmillan, 527 pp., £18.95, June 1989, 0 333 45526 6

Hugh Tulloch

Namier by Linda Colley. Weidenfeld, 132 pp., £14.95, May 1989, 0 297 79587 2
Hume by Nicholas Phillipson. Weidenfeld, 162 pp., £14.95, May 1989, 0 297 79592 9

Michael Brock

Churchill: 1874-1922 by Frederick Earl of Birkenhead, edited by Sir John Colville. Harrap, 552 pp., £19.95, August 1989, 0 245 54779 7

Rosalind Mitchison

Poets, Polities and the People by V.G. Kiernan, edited by Harvey Kaye. Verso, 239 pp., £29.95, June 1989, 0 86091 245 0
For King and Conscience: John Graham of Claverhouse, Viscount Dundee by Magnus Linklater and Christian Hesketh. Weidenfeld, 244 pp., £16.95, June 1989, 0 297 79540 6

William Doyle

Conflict and Control: Law and Order in 19th-Century Italy by John Davis. Macmillan, 308 pp., £8.95, July 1988, 0 333 28647 2
Feuding, Conflict and Banditry in 19th-Century Corsica by Stephen Wilson. Cambridge, 565 pp., £45, September 1988, 0 521 35033 6

David Underdown

The Tradition of Female Transvestism in Early Modern Europe by Rudolf Dekker and Lotte van de Pol. Macmillan, 128 pp., £27.50, February 1989, 0 333 41252 4

Jonathan Spence

Qian Mu and the World of Seven Mansions by Jerry Dennerline. Yale, 192 pp., £18, March 1989, 0 300 04296 5

Philip Horne

A Short Guide to the World Novel: From Myth to Modernism by Gilbert Phelps. Routledge, 397 pp., £30, September 1988, 0 415 00765 8
The Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction by John Sutherland. Longman, 696 pp., £35, March 1989, 0 582 49040 5
The Haunted Study: A Social History of the English Novel 1875-1914 by Peter Keating. Secker, 533 pp., £30, September 1989, 0 436 23248 0

Anne Rouse

Two Poems

David Trotter

The Rainbow by D.H. Lawrence, edited by Mark Kinkead-Weekes. Cambridge, 672 pp., £55, March 1989, 0 521 22869 7
D.H. Lawrence in the Modern World edited by Peter Preston and Peter Hoare. Macmillan, 221 pp., £29.50, May 1989, 0 333 45269 0
D.H. Lawrence and the Phallic Imagination: Essays on Sexual Identity and Feminist Misreading by Peter Balbert. Macmillan, 190 pp., £27.50, June 1989, 0 333 43964 3

Robert Simpson

Beethoven Essays by Maynard Solomon. Harvard, 375 pp., £23.50, July 1988, 0 674 06377 5

Dinah Birch

Lewis Percy by Anita Brookner. Cape, 261 pp., £11.95, August 1989, 0 224 02668 2
Sexing the cherry by Jeanette Winterson. Bloomsbury, 167 pp., £12.95, September 1989, 0 7475 0464 4
Fludd by Hilary Mantel. Viking, 186 pp., £11.95, September 1989, 0 670 82118 7

Onora O’Neill

Women and Moral Theory edited by Eva Kittay and Diana Meyers. Rowman and Littlefield, 336 pp., $33.50, May 1989, 0 8476 7381 2
Feminism as Critique edited by Seyla Benhabib and Drucilla Cornell. Polity, 200 pp., £25, September 1987, 0 7456 0365 3
The Sexual Contract by Carole Pateman. Polity, 280 pp., £25, June 1988, 0 7456 0431 5
Feminist Perspectives in Philosophy edited by Morwena Griffiths and Margaret Whitford. Indiana, 244 pp., $35, June 1988, 0 253 32172 7

Zvi Jagendorf

Diary: Stone and Water in Jerusalem

Alethea Hayter

Frances Burney: The Life in the Works by Margaret Anne Doody. Cambridge, 441 pp., £30, April 1989, 9780521362580

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