Humanities

James E. Côté and Anton L. Allahar, Lowering Higher Education: The Rise of Corporate Universities and the Fall of Liberal Education, reviewed by glen a. jones Daniel Coleman and Smaro Kamboureli, editors, Retooling the Humanities: The Culture of Research in Canadian Universities, reviewed by brian corman Jalal Barzanji, The Man in Blue Pyjamas: A Prison Memoir, reviewed by muli amaye Stan Persky, Reading the 21st Century: Books of the Decade, 2000–2009, reviewed by allan hepburn Willem H. Vanderburg, Our War on Ourselves: Rethinking Science, Technology, and Economic Growth, reviewed by edward andrew Graeme Nicholson, Justifying Our Existence: An Essay in Applied Phenomenology, reviewed by david morris Amelia DeFalco, Uncanny Subjects: Aging in Contemporary Narrative, reviewed by sally chivers Peter G. Bietenholz, Encounters with a Radical Erasmus: Erasmus’ Work as a Source of Radical Thought in Early Modern Europe, reviewed by bruce mansfield Julia Creet and Andreas Kitzmann, editors, Memory and Migration: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Memory Studies, reviewed by dina georgis Ralph Heintzman, Rediscovering Reverence: The Meaning of Faith in a Secular World, reviewed by harvey white Lawrin Armstrong and Julius Kirshner, editors, The Politics of Law in Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy, reviewed by bradin cormack Béla Szabados, Ludwig Wittgenstein on Race, Gender, and Cultural Identity: Philosophy as Personal Endeavor, reviewed by peg o’connor Theresa Kishkan, Mnemonic: A Book of Trees, reviewed by di brandt Pierre Claude Reynard, Ambitions Tamed: Urban Expansion in Pre-revolutionary Lyon, reviewed by william doyle Sheryl N. Hamilton, Impersonations: Troubling the Person in Law and Culture, reviewed by maneesha deckha Rhonda L. Hinther and Jim Mochoruk, editors, Re-imagining Ukrainian Canadians: History, Politics, and Identity, reviewed by andriy nahachewsky Hugh A. Dempsey, Always an Adventure: An Autobiography, reviewed by rod macleod Amy J. Shaw, Crisis of Confidence: Conscientious Objection in Canada during the First World War, reviewed by david mackenzie Laura Levin, editor, Theatre and Performance in Toronto: Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English, vol. 21, reviewed by bruce barton Michel S. Beaulieu, Labour at the Lakehead: Ethnicity, Socialism, and Politics, 1900–35, reviewed by eric w. sager H.D. (writing as Delia Alton), White Rose and the Red, reviewed by miranda hickman Terence L. Donaldson, Jews and Anti-Judaism in the New Testament, reviewed by shaul magid Michael K. Carroll, Pearson’s Peacekeepers: Canada and the United Nations Emergency Force, 1956–67, reviewed by kevin a. spooner Margot Francis, Creative Subversions: Whiteness, Indigeneity, and the National Imaginary, reviewed by dana claxton Gwyn Campbell, Suzanne Miers, and Joseph C. Miller, editors, Children in Slavery through the Ages, reviewed by gary craig Donald Harman Akenson, Ireland, Sweden and the Great European Migration 1815–1914, reviewed by bronwen walter Patricia A. McCormack, Fort Chipewyan and the Shaping of Canadian History, 1788–1920s: ‘We Like to Be Free in This Country’, reviewed by r. scott sheffield Jody Berland, North of Empire: Essays on the Cultural Technologies of Space, reviewed by michel s. beaulieu Tilottama Rajan, Romantic Narrative: Shelley, Hays, Godwin, Wollstonecraft, reviewed by gary handwerk Daniel Bender, American Abyss: Savagery and Civilization in the Age of Industry, reviewed by steven conn Tasos Kazepides, Education as Dialogue: Its Prerequisites and Its Enemies, reviewed by andrew stables Robert D. Denham, editor, Remembering Northrop Frye: Recollections by His Students and Others in the 1940s and 1950s, reviewed by germaine warkentin Sofie Lachapelle, Investigating the Supernatural: From Spiritism and Occultism to Psychical Research and Metaphysics in France, 1853–1931, reviewed by leon surette Mary-Ellen Kelm, A Wilder West: Rodeo in Western Canada, reviewed by liam haggarty Elizabeth Herbert, The Art of John Snow, reviewed by kathy e. zimon John D. Meehan, Chasing the Dragon in Shanghai: Canada’s Early Relations with China 1858–1952, reviewed by brian l. evans Julie Salverson, editor, Popular Political Theatre and Performance, reviewed by maria dicenzo Gerald Friesen and Doug Owram, editors, Thinkers & Dreamers: Historical Essays in Honour of Carl Berger, reviewed by suzanne morton Dan Azoulay, Hearts and Minds: Canadian Romance at the Dawn of the Modern Era, 1900–1930, reviewed by christina burr Paul F. Grendler, The University of Mantua, the Gonzaga, and the Jesuits, 1584–1630, reviewed by gerald mckevitt Chad Reimer, Writing British Columbia History, 1784–1958, reviewed by emma battell lowman Don McKay, The Shell of the Tortoise: Four Essays & an Assemblage, reviewed by nicholas bradley Zubeda Jalalzai and David Jefferess, editors, Globalizing Afghanistan: Terrorism, War and the Rhetoric of Nation Building, reviewed by kent roach Donna Coates and George Melnyk, editors, Wild Words: Essays on Alberta Literature, reviewed by jon gordon Y.A. Bennett, editor, Kiss the Kids for Dad, Don’t Forget to Write: The Wartime Letters of George Timmins, 1916–18, reviewed by patrick brennan Lorri Neilsen Glenn, Threading Light: Explorations in Loss and Poetry, reviewed by george elliott clarke Julie Salverson, editor, Community Engaged Theatre and Performance, reviewed by jane heather Kim Kippen and Lori Woods, editors, Worth and Repute: Valuing Gender in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Essays in Honour of Barbara Todd, reviewed by christine neufeld Michael John DiSanto, Under Conrad’s Eyes: The Novel as Criticism, reviewed by amar acheraiou David Williams, Saints Alive: Word, Image, and Enactment in the Lives of the Saints, reviewed by devon fisher Magdalena Kazubowski-Houston, Staging Strife: Lessons from Performing Ethnography with Polish Roma Women, reviewed by ian hancock Timothy Balzer, The Information Front: The Canadian Army and News Management during the Second World War, reviewed by gene allen Eli MacLaren, Dominion and Agency: Copyright and the Structuring of the Canadian Book Trade 1867–1918, reviewed by lee baxter Benjamin Isitt, From Victoria to Vladivostok: Canada’s Siberian Expedition, 1917–1919, reviewed by r.e. johnson J. Brooks Bouson, editor, Margaret Atwood: The Robber Bride, The Blind Assassin, Oryx and Crake, reviewed by shelley boyd Dorothy Haines, Sunday Observance and the Sunday Letter in Anglo-Saxon England, reviewed by joseph grossi Linda Avril Burnett, Theatre in Atlantic Canada, reviewed by barry freeman Sharon Wall, The Nurture of Nature: Childhood, Antimodernism, and Ontario Summer Camps, 1920–55, reviewed by bryan s.r. grimwood Jenn Stephenson, editor, Solo Performance, reviewed by piet defraeye Brian Russell Graham, The Necessary Unity of Opposites: The Dialectical Thinking of Northrop Frye, reviewed by joseph adamson Robert Mellin, Newfoundland Modern: Architecture in the Smallwood Years, 1949–1972, reviewed by ted cavanagh Cyril Dabydeen, editor, Beyond Sangre Grande: Caribbean Writing Today, reviewed by stephanie mckenzie Len Early and Michael Peterman, editors, Collected Short Stories of Isabella Valancy Crawford, reviewed by ceilidh hart George Grant, Collected Works of George Grant, Volume 4: 1970–1988, reviewed by h.d. forbes Daniel C. Goodwin, Into Deep Waters: Evangelical Spirituality and Maritime Calvinistic Baptist Ministers, 1790–1855, reviewed by gary thorne Ann Davis, editor, Cover and Uncover: Eric Cameron, reviewed by kristy a. holmes Stuart Henderson, Making the Scene: Yorkville and Hip Toronto in the 1960s, reviewed by bryan d. palmer Carl Peters, textual vishyuns: image and text in the work of bill bissett, reviewed by karl e. jirgens Shelley Scott, Nightwood Theatre: A Woman’s Work Is Always Done, reviewed by kym bird John C. Lehr, Community and Frontier: A Ukrainian Settlement in the Canadian Parkland, reviewed by jars balan Katharine T. von Stackelberg, The Roman Garden: Space, Sense, and Society, reviewed by john henderson Laura Wittman, The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Modern Mourning, and the Reinvention of the Mystical Body, reviewed by jay winter Kim Anderson, Life Stages and Native Women: Memory, Teaching, and Story Medicine, reviewed by rita shelton deverell Bill Bissett, Novel, reviewed by gregory betts Zachariah Pickard, Elizabeth Bishop’s Poetics of Description, reviewed by cynthia messenger Robert Boschman, In the Way of Nature: Ecology and Westward Expansion in the Poetry of Anne Bradstreet, Elizabeth Bishop and Amy Clampitt, reviewed by bethany hicok Sofia Andreevna Tolstaya, My Life, reviewed by myroslav shkandrij Emma Wilson, Atom Egoyan, reviewed by jennifer burwell Nayibe Bermúdez Barrios, editor, Latin American Cinemas: Local Views and Transnational Connections, reviewed by christine forster Dimitry Anastakis and P.E. Bryden, editors, Framing Canadian Federalism: Historical Essays in Honour of John T. Saywell, reviewed by donna e. wood Jene M. Porter, editor, Perspectives of Saskatchewan, reviewed by j. william brennan Barry Stephenson, Veneration and Revolt: Hermann Hesse and Swabian Pietism, reviewed by gunther gottschalk Wendy Gay Pearson, Veronica Hollinger, and Joan Gordon, editors, Queer Universes: Sexualities in Science Fiction, reviewed by w. michael johnstone Brenda Austin-Smith and George Melnyk, editors, The Gendered Screen: Canadian Women Filmmakers, reviewed by barbara evans Mary F. Williamson and Tom Sharp, editors, Just a Larger Family: Letters of Marie Williamson from the Canadian Home Front, 1940–1944, reviewed by aldona sendzikas Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, Poetry, Pictures, and Popular Publishing: The Illustrated Gift Book and Victorian Visual Culture 1855–1875, reviewed by keith wilson David R. Carlson, editor, and A.G. Rigg, translator, John Gower: Poems on Contemporary Events: The Visio Anglie (1381) and Cronica tripertita (1400), reviewed by misty schieberle Ross Woodman with Joel Faflak, Revelation and Knowledge: Romanticism and Religious Faith, reviewed by emma mason Janet Miron, Prisons, Asylums, and the Public: Institutional Visiting in the Nineteenth Century, reviewed by david j. rothman Sean Kane, editor, Inward of Poetry: George Johnston & Wm Blissett in Letters, reviewed by yuri cowan Gerard Brender à Brandis and F. David Hoeniger, Concord of Sweet Sounds: Musical Instruments in Shakespeare, reviewed by christopher r. wilson Susan Knutson, editor, Canadian Shakespeare: Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English, vol. 18, reviewed by kailin wright John O’Brian and Jeremy Borsos, Atomic Postcards: Radioactive Messages from the Cold War, reviewed by alison rowley William Robins, editor, Textual Cultures of Medieval Italy, reviewed by bella mirabella Dena Davida, editor, Fields in Motion: Ethnography in the Worlds of Dance, reviewed by modesto mawulolo amegago Lissa Paul, The Children’s Book Business: Lessons from the Long Eighteenth Century, reviewed by andrew o’malley Suzanne Conklin Akbari, Idols in the East: European Representations of Islam and the Orient, 1100–1450, reviewed by leila anna ouji Susanna Egan, Burdens of Proof: Faith, Doubt, and Identity in Autobiography, reviewed by robert mcgill Lisa Narbeshuber, Confessing Cultures: Politics and the Self in the Poetry of Sylvia Plath, reviewed by william k. buckley Lara Campbell, Respectable Citizens: Gender, Family and Unemployment in Ontario’s Great Depression, reviewed by katrina srigley Daniel O’Quinn, Entertaining Crisis in the Atlantic Imperium, 1770–1790, reviewed by peter a. davis Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski and Bruce L. Venarde, editors and translators, Two Women of the Great Schism: The Revelations of Constance de Rabastens by Raymond de Sabanac and Life of the Blessed Ursulina of Parma by Simone Zanacchi, reviewed by alison williams lewin Siân Echard, editor, The Arthur of Medieval Latin Literature: The Development and Dissemination of the Arthurian Legend in Medieval Latin, reviewed by ralph norris Joanne Rochester, Staging Spectatorship in the Plays of Philip Massinger, reviewed by nova myhill Bruce Stovel, Jane Austen & Company: Collected Essays, reviewed by frances beer Dale Barbour, Winnipeg Beach: Leisure and Courtship in a Resort Town, 1900–1967, reviewed by reinhold kramer Deanna Reder and Linda M. Morra, editors, Troubling Tricksters: Revisioning Critical Conversations, reviewed by julia v. emberley Jerry White, Revisioning Europe: The Films of John Berger and Alain Tanner, reviewed by emile fromet de rosnay Barbara M. Freeman, Beyond Bylines: Media Workers and Women’s Rights in Canada, reviewed by linda kay Claire Elizabeth Campbell, editor, A Century of Parks Canada, 1911–2011, reviewed by sean kheraj Olga Zorzi Pugliese and Ethan Matt Kavaler, editors, Faith and Fantasy in the Renaissance: Texts, Images, and Religious Practices, reviewed by cathleen hoeniger Leon Surette, Dreams of a Totalitarian Utopia: Literary Modernism and Politics, reviewed by john mcintyre Joy Parr, Sensing Changes: Technologies, Environments, and the Everyday, 1953–2003, reviewed by jocelyn thorpe David A. Wilson, Thomas D’Arcy McGee, Volume 2: The Extreme Moderate, 1857–1868, reviewed by daniel o’leary Frederick E. Crowe, Lonergan and the Level of Our Time, reviewed by jeremy d. wilkins Irene Gammel and Susan Zelazo, editors, Body Sweats: The Uncensored Writings of Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, reviewed by klaus martens Lloyd H. Howard, Virgil the Blind Guide: Marking the Way through the Divine Comedy, reviewed by john m. fyler David J. Norton, Rebellious Younger Brother: Oneida Leadership and Diplomacy, 1750–1800, reviewed by rick monture R. Douglas Francis, The Technological Imperative in Canada: An Intellectual History, reviewed by michael s. cross Faiza Hirji, Dreaming in Canadian: South Asian Youth, Bollywood, and Belonging, reviewed by paul mcewan Jamie Dopp and Richard Harrison, editors, Now Is the Winter: Thinking about Hockey, reviewed by brandon mcfarlane