In Memoriam �� �This�listing�contains�names�received�by�the� membership�office�since�the�March�2008� issue.�A�cumulative�list�for�the�academic� year�2007–08�appears�at�the�MLA�Web�site� (www�.mla�.org/in_memoriam). Aimé�Césaire,�Paris,�France,�17�April�2008 Paul�Debreczeny,�University�of�North�Carolina,�Chapel�Hill,�18�March�2008 Robert�Fagles,�Princeton�University,�26�March�2008 Joseph�A.�Feehan,�Granada�Hills,�California,�22�March�2008 William�W.�Grant,�University�of�Edinburgh,�Scotland,�11�January�2008 Richard�Helgerson,�University�of�California,�Santa�Barbara,�26�April�2008 Paul�M.�Lloyd,�University�of�Pennsylvania,�6�December�2007 Helen�L.�Sehrt,�George�Mason�University,�16�May�2008 S.�Samuel�Trifilo,�Marquette�University,�30�March�2008 Ralph�Vitello,�East�Stroudsburg�University,�11�September�2007 [  P M L A 830  [  © 2 008 by t h e mode r n l a nguage a s s o ci at ion of a m e r ic a  ] Paradoxes and pedestals The Johns hopkins University press 1-800-537-5487 • www.press.jhu.edu Women’s Writing in Italy, 1400–1650 Virginia Cox “the most sub- stantive study written to date on the relations between italian humanism and the emergence of the female intellectual. Authoritative, wide-ranging, and persuasive, this book sets a new benchmark for scholarship on early modern women’s writ- ings.” —Deanna shemek, University of California, santa Cruz $50.00 hardcover Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture volume 37 edited by Linda Zionkowski and Downing Thomas the essays in this volume share a common concern with investigating enlightenment categories of historical understanding and determining how these categories helped shape enlightenment culture. the contributors address the question of how eighteenth- century writers make sense of the past—how they interpret it, give it meaning and form, and deploy it for their own practical, aesthetic, and ideological purposes. $45.00 hardcover Strange Concepts and the Stories They Make Possible Cognition, Culture, narrative Lisa Zunshine From Short Circuit to I, Robot, from The Parent Trap to Big Business, fantastic tales of rebellious robots, ani- mated artifacts, and twins mistaken for each other are a permanent fixture in popular culture and have been since antiquity. 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