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Titles appearing in Reference — Research Book News — May 2008
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Readings on equal education; v.22: Confronting educational inequality; reframing, building understanding, and making change.

Ed. by Edward P. St. John. (Readings on equal education)
AMS Press, ©2007    410 p.    $137.50    LC214
978-0-404-10122-0

This is the 22nd volume of the series Readings on Equal Education. Editor St. John (education, University of Michigan) states in his summary, "Inequality is not new, nor has it been remedied by education." The articles give reasons for this lack of change, addressing issues of race, economic status and gender. They also suggest methods of improving matters, from national policy to individual classrooms. Examples from post-Katrina New Orleans and Washington State show dramatically different attempts. A chapter is included on teaching tolerance and understanding of others. The authors are all in agreement that much work is needed as more and more children are left behind. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Resources for American literary study; v.31.

Ed. by Jackson R. Bryer and Richard Kopley.
AMS Press, ©2007    416 p.    $187.50    PS507
978-0-404-64631-8

Editors Bryer (U. of Maryland) and Kopley (Pennsylvania State U.) offer a compilation of scholarly writings on the works, stories, and letters (published and unpublished) of noted American authors. The volume includes articles on Emerson, Poe, Hawthorne, Woolson, O'Neill, and Cheever, as well as reviews on authors including Thoreau, Samuel Clemens, Hemingway, Lewis, and Michener. The book also includes chapters on the correspondence of several authors, bibliographic reviews, reviews on books on literary history, and essays on writing by British and American women. This book will interest both scholars and students of literature and literary history. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Spenser studies; a Renaissance poetry annual; v.22.

Ed. by William A. Oram et al.
AMS Press, ©2007    299 p.    $110.00    PR2364
978-0-404-19222-8

These papers are drawn from the conference entitled "Spenser's Civilization" which was held in Toronto in May 2006, and therefore focus on embodiment, the energies of bodily life, affect and sympathy. Topics include Spenser's surprising association with the end of the British empire, memory works and thinking moments in The Fairie Queene, the rhetoric of petition in Harvey and Spenser, Shakespearean music and a Spenserian muse, the art of memory in Sidney and Spencer (focusing on The Runes of Time), the place of commentary. interpretation and Ovidian narrative in The Fairie Queene, violence and the gift of place, elements of demon lovers (including will, personification and character), Spenser's "open," Gryll's mind, and nomadic souls in Spenser and Donne. The result is a definite improvement over endless articles about love poetry, eros and gender politics found in so much Spenser scholarship. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)