Reviews: Animal Encounters: Contacts and Concepts in Medieval Britain,Reading Literature Historically: Drama and Poetry from Chaucer to the Reformation,Rethinking Historicism from Shakespeare to Milton,Travel Writing and the Natural World,1768–1840,Female Gothic Histories: Gender,History and the Gothic,Roomscape: Women Writers in the British Museum from George Eliot to Virginia Woolf,Conrad's Secrets,British Writers and MI5 Surveillance,1930–1960,the Covert Sphere: Secrecy,Fiction & the National Security State,on the Ruins of Modernity: New Chicago Renaissance from Wright to Fair,the Black Chicago Renaissance,Reading the Ruins: Modernism,Bombsites and British Culture

Derrida Jacques , L'animal que donc je suis (Paris, 2006).

Mann Jill , ‘Courtly Aesthetics and Courtly Ethics in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight’ Studies in the Age of Chaucer 31 (2009), 231–65.

Staley Lynn , Languages of Power in the Age of Richard II (University Park, PA, 2006).

Jameson Fredric , ‘Marxism and Historicism’, New Literary History, 11:1 (1979), 41–73, 70.

Latour Bruno , Science in Action (Milton Keynes, 1987).

Levy Amy , ‘Readers at the British Museum’, rpt. in The Romance of a Shop, ed. Bernstein Susan David (Peterborough, ONT, 2006), pp. 220–7, p. 227.

Žižek Slavoj , Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture (Cambridge, MA, 1992), pp. 27–35.

Agamben Giorgio , State of Exception (Illinois, 2005).

Bontemps Arna , ‘Famous WPA Writers’, Negro Digest (June 1950), 43–7, 46.

Ellison Ralph , An American Dilemma: A Review’, Shadow and Act (New York, 1964), pp. 303–17, pp. 315–16.