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Michael Manheim (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Eugene O'Neill. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998, xviii + 256 pp., ISBN 0-521-55645-7 (paperback) William W. Demastes, Theatre of Chaos: Beyond Absurdism, Into Orderly Disorder. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998, 190 pp., ISBN 0-521-58245-8 (Hardback) 35 Andrew Pepper, The Contemporary American Crime Novel: Race, Ethnicity, Gender, Class, Edinburgh University Press, 2000, ISBN 0-7486-1340-4 (paperback) Michel Delville and Christine Pagnoulle (eds.), The Mechanics of the Mirage: Postwar American Poetry. Lige: Lige Language and Literature, 2000, 320 pp., ISBN 2-87233-025-9 (Paperback) 30 Paul Baepler (ed.), White Slaves, African Masters: An Anthology of American Barbary Captivity Narratives, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999, ISBN 0-226-03403-8 (Hardback) 36.75, and 0-226-03404-6 (Paperback) 15.25 Ward H. Lamon, The Life of Abraham Lincoln: from his birth to his inauguration as President, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999, 592 pp., ISBN 0-8032-7985-X, (Paperback) 14.95 Cornelis A. Van Minnen and Sylvia L. Hilton (eds.), Federalism, Citizenship, and Collective Identities in US History, Amsterdam: VU University Press, 2000, ii + 271 pp., ISBN 90-5383-714-0 (Paperback) 42.50 Patricia Merivale and Susan Elizabeth Sweeney (eds.), Detecting Texts: The Metaphysical Detective Story from Poe to Postmodernism, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999, 304 pp., ISBN 0-8122-3434-0 (paperback) 15.50 Joe Moran, Star Authors: Literary Celebrity in America, London: Pluto Press, 2000, 192 pp., ISBN 0-7453-1524 0 (hardback), 45.00, ISBN 0-7453-1519 4 (paperback) 14.99 John Tallmadge and Henry Harrington, (eds.), Reading Under the Sign of Nature: New Essays in Ecocriticism, Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2000, xv + 368 pp., ISBN 0-87480-648-8 (paperback) 24.95 Bryan LeBeau, Religion in America to 1865, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2000, vi + 209 pp., ISBN 1-85331-233-9 (paperback) 12.95 Elizabeth Young, Disarming the Nation: Women's Writing and the American Civil War, Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1999, xvi + 390 pp., ISBN 0-226-96087-0 (hardback) 33.00, ISBN 0-226-96088-9 (paperback) 13.00 Nancy A. Walker, (ed.), What's So Funny: Humor in American Culture, Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 1998, xi + 284 pp., ISBN 0-8420-2687-8 (hardback) 55.00, ISBN 0-8420-2688-6 (paperback) 17.95 Lisa M. Cuklanz, Rape on Prime Time: Television, Masculinity, and Sexual Violence, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999, 176 pp., ISBN 0-8122-3522-3 (hardback) 33.50, ISBN 0-8122-1710-1 (paperback) 11.95 Jill Andresky Fraser, White-Collar Sweatshop: The Deterioration of Work and Its Rewards in Corporate America, New York and London: W.W. Norton and Co., 2001, 278 pp., ISBN 0-393-04829-2 (hardback) 18.86 David Brauner, Post-War Jewish Fiction: Ambivalence, Self-Explanation and Transatlantic Connections, Hampshire and New York: Palgrave, 2001, ix + 222 pp., ISBN 0-333-74035-1 (hardback) 45.00. James P. Leary, (ed.), Wisconsin Folklore, Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1998, 543 pp., (paperback) 19.95, (hardback) 49.95 Rosella Mamoli Zorzi (ed.), Before Peggy Guggenheim: American Women Art Collectors, Departments of Anglo-American and Latin-American Studies, University Ca'Foscari of Venice, Marsilio, 2001, 254 pp., 17 b&w illus., ISBN 88-317-7737-8 (paperback)