Tristan Major. Undoing Babel: The Tower of Babel in Anglo-Saxon Literature. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018, xiv + 292 pp., $ 70.00.

Articles in the same Issue

1. Frontmatter
2. Frontmatter
3. Scytel: A New Old English Word for ‘Penis’
4. Zelotes and elnvnges: The Extension of Genitive Singular ‑es in the Gloss to the Durham Collectar
5. The Cambridge and the Exeter Book Physiologi: Associative Imagery, Allegorical Circularity, and Isidorean Organization
6. Framing the Romantic Artist: Goethe’s Torquato Tasso and James’s Roderick Hudson
7. “The sad, proud old man stared eternally out of his canvas...”: Media Criticism, Scopic Regimes and the Function of Rembrandt’s “Self-Portrait with Two Circles” in John Fowles’s Novel Daniel Martin
8. Reviews
9. Judith Huber. Motion and the English Verb: A Diachronic Study. Oxford Studies in the History of English. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017, xvi + 363 pp., £ 64.00.
10. Review
11. Rebecca Shapiro (ed.). Foreword by Jack Lynch. Fixing Babel: An Historical Anthology of Applied English Lexicography. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2017, xl + 608 pp., $ 150.00/£ 100.00.
12. Tristan Major. Undoing Babel: The Tower of Babel in Anglo-Saxon Literature. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018, xiv + 292 pp., $ 70.00.
13. Elise Louviot. Direct Speech in Beowulf and Other Old English Narrative Poems. Anglo-Saxon Studies 30. Cambridge: Brewer, 2016, vii + 285 pp., 5 figures, £ 65.00.
14. Joshua Byron Smith. Walter Map and the Matter of Britain. The Middle Ages Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017, xi + 254 pp., $ 69.95/£ 58.00.
15. Ian Cornelius. Reconstructing Alliterative Verse: The Pursuit of a Medieval Meter. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature 99. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017, x + 219 pp., 6 tables, £ 75.00.
16. Frank Wilker. Cultural Memories of Origin: Trauma, Memory and Imagery in African American Narratives of the Middle Passage. American Studies: A Monograph Series 241. Heidelberg: Winter, 2017, 302 pp., 12 illustr., € 42.00.
17. Carsten Junker. Patterns of Positioning: On the Poetics of Early Abolition. American Studies – A Monograph Series 271. Heidelberg: Winter, 2016, 515 pp., 9 illustr., € 48.00.
18. Gero Guttzeit. The Figures of Edgar Allan Poe: Authorship, Antebellum Literature, and Transatlantic Rhetoric. Anglia Book Series 56. Berlin/Boston: DeGruyter, 2017, 256 pp., 99.95 €.
19. Andrew S. Gross. The Pound Reaction: Liberalism and Lyricism in Midcentury American Literature. Heidelberg: Winter, 2015, 262 pp., € 36.00.
20. John Parham and Louise Westling (eds.). A Global History of Literature and Environment. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017, 459 pp., £ 78.99.
21. Books Received