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The Portable Kristeva. Edited by Kelly Oliver New York: Columbia University Press, 1997), xxix + 410 pp., $21.00, £13.95 paper. The Cambridge Companion to the French Novel: From 1800 to the Present. Edited by Timothy Unwin (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), xxiii + 281 pp. £37.50, $59.95 cloth £13.95, $18.95 paper. Insurgent Identities: Class, Community, and Protest in Paris from 1848 to the Commune. By Roger V. Gould (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995), viii + 253 pp. $40.95, £32.75 cloth $15.95, £12.75 paper. The State of the Nation: Government and the Quest for a Better Society. By Derek Bok (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997), 493 pp. $35.00 cloth. The Darwinian Paradigm: Essays on its History, Philosophy, and Religious Implications. By Michael Ruse (London and New York: Routledge, 1993), 299 pp. £11.99 paper. Economic Laws and Economic History. By Charles P. Kindleberger (Cambrige: Cambridge University Press, 1997), xi + 191 pp. £14.95, $18.95 paper £32.50, $54.95 cloth. An Introduction to the Philosophy of History. By Michael Stanford (Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1998), viii + 292 pp. $54.95, £45.00 cloth $29.95, £14.99 paper. The Illicit Joyce of Postmodernism: Reading Against the Grain. By Kevin J. H. Dettmar (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996) xv + 276 pp. £45.00 cloth £20.50 paper. The Language of Gender and Class: Transformation in the Victorian Novel. By Patricia Ingham (London: Routledge, 1996), ix + 197 pp. n.p.g. The Sorrows of the Quaker Jesus: James Nayler and the Puritan Crackdown on the Free Spirit. By Leo Damrosch (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996), xiv + 384 pp. $39.95, cloth. Sovereignty and the Sword: Harrington, Hobbes, and Mixed Government in the English Civil Wars. By Arihiro Fukudo (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997), xiii + 175 pp. £35.00. Caravaggio and His Two Cardinals. By Creighton E. Gilbert (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995), xiii + 316 pp., $85.00, £76.50. Leaving the Cave: Evolutionary Naturalism in Social‐Scientific Thought. By Pat Duffy Hutcheon (Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1996), xvi + 504 pp. $55.00 cloth. The Culture of Slander in Early Modern England. By M. Lindsay Kaplan (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997) Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature & Culture, xii + 137 pp. £32.50, $49.9 cloth. The Middling Sort: Commerce, Gender, and the Family in England, 1680–1780. By Margaret R. Hunt (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996), xiii + 353 pp.n.p.g. History Continues. By Georges Duby, translated by A. Goldhammer (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1997), xvi + 149 pp. $14.95, £ 11.95 paper. Friedrich Nietzsche: Untimely Meditations. Edited by Daniel Breazeale, translated by R.J. Hollingdale (Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1997). xlvii + 276 pp. $49.95 cloth $15.95 paper. Weakness of the Will in Medieval Thought: From Augustine to Buridan. By Risto Saarinan (Leiden: Brill, 1994), viii + 207 pp. $77.25, £35.00 cloth. Relics, Apocalypse, and the Deceits of History: Ademar of Chabannes, 989–1034. By Richard Landes (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995), Harvard Historical Studies, 117, xii + 404 pp. $55.00 cloth. Chronicles of the Vikings: Records, Memorials and Myths. Edited by R. I. Page. (Toronto and Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 1995), 239 pp. $50.00 cloth $17.95 paper. Ideas and Policies Under Labour 1945–1951. By Martin Francis (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1997), vi + 269 pp. £40.00 cloth. Aesthetics: The Classic Readings. Edited by David E. Cooper (Oxford: Blackwell, 1997), vi + 276 pp. $ 54.95 cloth $ 19.95 paper. Adorno's Aesthetics of Music. By Max Paddison (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), xii + 378 pp. £15.95 paper. Medieval Stereotypes and Modern Antisemitism. By Robert Chazan (Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 1997), xiii + 189 pp. $35.00 cloth. Umwelt‐Lesebuch: Green Issues in Contemporary German Writing. Edited by Axel Goodbody (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1997), ix + 197 pp. £35.00, £9.99 paper. Understanding Contemporary Germany. By Stuart Parkes (London and New York: Routledge, 1997), xxxii + 247 pp., £13.99 paper. Cultural‐Political Interventions in the Unfinished Project of Enlightenment. Edited by Axel Honneth, Thomas McCarthy, Claus Offe, and Albrecht Wellmer (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1996), 314 pp. n.p.g. Reflections of Change: Children's Literature Since 1945. Edited by Sandra L. Beckett (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1997), xi + 203 £ 43.95 cloth. The Arnolfini Betrothal: Medieval Marriage and the Enigma of Van Eyck's Double Portrait. By Edwin Hall (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), xxi + 180 pp. $50.00. Nineteenth‐Century Literary Realism: Through the Looking Glass. By Katherine Kearns (Cambridge University Press, 1996), X + 310 PP. £40.00, $59.95. Socrates and Aristophanes. By Leo Strauss (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996), 332 pp. $15.95, £12.75 paper. The Clock and the Mirror. Girolamo Cardano and Renaissance Medicine. By Nancy G. Siraisi (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997), xiv + 361 pp. cloth $49.50, £37.50 cloth. The Invisible World: Early Modern Philosophy and the Invention of the Microscope. By Catherine Wilson (Princeton University Press, 1998), 280 pp., $18.95, £14.95 paper. Intelligence de l'anticommunisme: Le Congrès pour la liberté de la culture à Paris (1950–1975). By Pierre Grémion (Paris: Fayard, 1995), 645 pp. 240 FF. A City in Conflict: Troyes During the French Wars of Religion. By Penny Roberts (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1996), Studies in Early Modern History, x + 228 pp., £40.00 cloth. Teresa of Avila and the Rhetoric of Femininity. By Alison Weber (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990), xi + 183 pp., $15.95 paper. Heresy and Literacy, 1000–1530. Edited by Peter Biller and Anne Hudson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), xxv + 313 pp., $19.95, £13.95, paper. The Commercialization of English Society, 1000–1500. 2nd ed. By Richard H. Britnell (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1996), Manchester Medieval Studies, xvi + 281 pp. $24.95, £35.00 cloth £12.00 paper. Nationalism Reframed: Nationhood and the National Question in the New Europe. By Rogers Brubaker (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), 202 pp. n.p.g.