In Print

Gregg A. Hecimovich's edition of Anthony Trollope's Phineas Redux has been published by Penguin Classics UK (April 2003). The book is scheduled to be published in America by Penguin USA in August 2003.  This new edition includes an introduction by Hecimovich, a corrected and corroborated text of the novel, notes on the text, explanatory notes, a chronology of Trollope's life, and a bibliography. Phineas Redux is the fourth of six works in what Trollope termed his 'parliamentary novels', also known as the Palliser series. Published over the course of fifteen years, Trollope regarded the series as his 'greatest work' and scholars frequently cite the two Phineas novels, Phineas Finn (1869) and Phineas Redux (1874), as the greatest political novels in the English language.

English major Jessica Ezzelle's short story, "Walking on Water," will appear in the inaugural 2003 edition of the Susquehanna Review, a national literary magazine based at Susquehanna University in Selingsgrove, PA, publishing the creative work of undergraduates.

Sandra Tawake's essay, "Bilinguals' Creativity: Patricia Grace and Maori Cultural Context" was published in World Englishes 22.1 (2003). Tawake considers two works by Grace -- Cousins (1992) and Baby No-Eyes (1998) -- and explores "Grace's innovations in language and the narrative structures associated with Standard English in order to offer a way of reading the novels that does not distort their representations of reality." World Englishes is published by Blackwell Publishers for the International Association for World Englishes founded in 1978. The journal is "committed to the study of global varieties of English in their distinctive cultural and sociolinguistic contexts. It is integrative in its approach to the study and teaching of English literature and provides an international outlook on three areas of research: language; literature; and the methodology of English teaching."

Peter Makuck's review, "Sex, Lies, and Psychoanalysis," of Frederick Busch's novel, A Memory of War (W.W. Norton, 2002) appeared Sunday, April 27 in the Raleigh News & Observer. From the publisher: "Psychologist Alexander Lescziak savors a life of quiet sophistication on Manhattan's Upper West Side, turning a blind eye to the past of his Polish émigré parents. Then a new patient declares that he is the doctor's half-brother, the product of a union between Lescziak's Jewish mother and a German prisoner of war. The confrontation jolts Lescziak out of his complacency: suddenly, his failing marriage, his wife's infatuation with his best friend, and the disappearance of his young lover and suicidal patient, Nella, close in on him. Lescziak escapes into the recesses of his imagination, where his mother's affair with the German prisoner comes to life in precise, gorgeous detail. The novel unfolds into a romance set in England's Lake District in wartime, as Busch shows how our past presses on the present."

Rick Taylor's essay, "The Schoolmaster's Assistant:  Pedagogic Ethos in Mid-Eighteenth Century England," was published in North Carolina English Teacher 59 (Winter 2003). This essay "examines how eighteenth-century schoolbooks constructed and authorized a sort of teacher in the text, as a model and crutch for the frequently underqualified itinerant schoolteacher." Another essay by Taylor, "Composing Lives: A Review of Recent Scholarship on Early Women Writers," appeared in NWSA Journal 15.2 (Summer 2003), a publication of the National Women's Studies Association. This review essay discusses "post-recovery" feminist scholarship on early modern women writers, such as Mary Wollstonecraft, Lady Mary Wortley Montague, Aphra Behn, Eliza Haywood, Jane Barker, Mary Davys, and Charlotte Charke.