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Vol. 8 No. 3 · 20 February 1986
Brian Pippard
Wranglers and Physicists: Studies in Cambridge Mathematical Physics in the 19th Century edited by P.M. Harman. Manchester, 261 pp., £27.50, November 1985, 0 7190 1756 4
Letters
Boyd Tonkin, Jacques Beauroy, Peter Fryer, Geoffrey Strickland, lmre Salusinszky, J. Sussman, Gabriella Micks, Jane Côté
John Ryle
Sexual Desire by Roger Scruton. Weidenfeld, 428 pp., £18.95, February 1986, 9780297784791 The History of Sexuality. Vol. II: The Use of Pleasure by Michel Foucault, translated by Robert Hurley. Pantheon, 293 pp., $17.95, December 1985, 0 394 54349 1 Western Sexuality: Practice and Precept in Past and Present Times by Philippe Ariès and André Béjin, translated by Anthony Forster. Blackwell, 220 pp., £17.50, April 1985, 9780631134763 No Magic Bullet: A Social History of Venereal Disease in the United States since 1880 by Allan Brandt. Oxford (New York), 245 pp., £18.50, August 1985, 0 19 503469 4 Jealousy by Nancy Friday. Collins, 593 pp., £12.95, January 1986, 0 00 217587 8
Tom Paulin
Poem: ‘Fivemiletown’
Peter Pulzer
The Redefinition of Conservatism: Politics and Doctrine by Charles Covell. Macmillan, 267 pp., £27.50, January 1986, 0 333 38463 6 Thinkers of the New Left by Roger Scruton. Longman, 227 pp., £9.95, January 1986, 0 582 90273 8 The Idea of Liberalism: Studies for a New Map of Politics by George Watson. Macmillan, 172 pp., £22.50, November 1985, 0 333 38754 6 Socialism and Freedom by Bryan Gould. Macmillan, 109 pp., £25, November 1985, 0 333 40580 3
Geoffrey Strickland
Poem: ‘The Dying Scholar’s Confession’
Christopher Norris
Signéponge/Signsponge by Jacques Derrida, translated by Richard Rand. Columbia, 160 pp., $20, March 1984, 0 231 05446 7
Fiona Pitt-Kethley
Three Poems
John Sturrock
Handbook of Russian Literature edited by Victor Terras. Yale, 558 pp., £25, April 1985, 0 300 03155 6 Verbal Art, Verbal Sign, Verbal Time by Roman Jakobson, edited by Krystyna Pomorska and Stephen Rudy. Blackwell, 208 pp., £25, July 1985, 0 631 14262 2 Historic Structures: The Prague School Project 1928-1946 by F.W. Galan. Croom Helm, 250 pp., £22.50, May 1985, 0 7099 3816 0 Mikhail Bakhtin by Katerina Clark and Michael Holquist. Harvard, 398 pp., £19.95, February 1985, 0 674 57416 8 The Formal Method in Literary Scholarship: A Critical Introduction to Sociological Poetics by M.M. Bakhtin and P.M. Medvedev, translated by Albert Wehrle. Harvard, 191 pp., £7.50, May 1985, 0 674 30921 9 Dialogues between Roman Jakobson and Krystyna Pomorska translated by Christian Hubert. Cambridge, 186 pp., £15, August 1983, 0 521 25113 3 The Dialogical Principle by Tzvetan Todorov, translated by Wlad Godzich. Manchester, 132 pp., £25, February 1985, 0 7190 1466 2 Rabelais and his World by Mikhail Bakhtin, translated by Hélène Iswolsky. Indiana, 484 pp., $29.50, August 1984, 0 253 20341 4
Karl Miller
The Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes, translated by Tobias Smollett. Deutsch, 846 pp., £15, January 1986, 0 233 97840 2
Norma Kitson
Story: ‘Masimba’
Stephen Vizinczey
Lucien Leuwen by Stendhal, translated by H.L.R. Edwards. Boydell and Brewer, 624 pp., £6.95, June 1984, 0 85115 228 7
John Sutherland
World’s Fair by E.L. Doctorow. Joseph, 275 pp., £9.95, February 1986, 0 7181 2685 8 The Adventures of Robina edited by Emma Tennant. Faber, 165 pp., £9.95, January 1986, 0 571 13796 2
Michael Church
Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe by Anthony Summers. Gollancz, 414 pp., £12.95, October 1985, 0 575 03641 9 Norma Jeane: The Life and Death of Marilyn Monroe by Fred Lawrence Guiles. Granada, 377 pp., £12.95, June 1985, 0 246 12307 9 Poor Little Rich Girl: The Life and Legend of Barbara Hutton by C. David Heymann. Hutchinson, 390 pp., £12.95, March 1985, 0 09 146010 7 Deams that money can buy: The Tragic Life of Libby Holman by Jon Bradshaw. Cape, 431 pp., £12.95, October 1985, 0 224 02846 4 All Those Tomorrows by Mai Zetterling. Cape, 230 pp., £9.95, November 1985, 0 224 01841 8 Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady by Florence King. Joseph, 278 pp., £8.95, August 1985, 0 7181 2611 4
Peter Robinson
Collected Poems by Charles Tomlinson. Oxford, 351 pp., £15, September 1985, 0 19 211974 5 Selected and New Poems: 1939-84 by J.C. Hall. Secker, 87 pp., £3.95, September 1985, 0 436 19052 4 Burning the knife: New and Selected Poems by Robin Magowan. Scarecrow Press, 114 pp., £13.50, September 1985, 0 8108 1777 2 Englishmen: A Poem by Christopher Hope. Heinemann, 41 pp., £4.95, September 1985, 0 434 34661 6 Selected Poems: 1954-1982 by John Fuller. Secker, 175 pp., £8.95, September 1985, 0 436 16754 9 Writing Home by Hugo Williams. Oxford, 70 pp., £3.95, September 1985, 0 19 211970 2
A.J.P. Taylor
Diary: Save the Round Reading-Room!
John Deathridge
Music and Civilisation: Essays in Honour of Paul Henry Lang edited by Edmond Strainchamps, Maria Rika Maniates and Christopher Hatch. Norton, 499 pp., £35, March 1985, 0 393 01677 3 The Farthest North of Humanness: Letters of Percy Grainger 1901-1914 edited by Kay Dreyfus. Macmillan, 542 pp., £25, December 1985, 0 333 38085 1 Musicology by Joseph Kerman. Collins/Fontana, 255 pp., £10.95, March 1985, 0 00 197170 0
Nicholas Shakespeare
Watching ‘Dallas’: Soap Opera and the Melodramatic Imagination by Ien Ang, translated by Della Couling. Methuen, 148 pp., £10.50, November 1985, 0 416 41630 6
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