Robert Gildea, Marianne in Chains – In Search of the German Occupation, 1940–1945 (Henry Holt: New York, 2002) 524 pp., £20.00 (hb), ISBN 0-33-378230-5.Michael Curtis, Verdict on Vichy: Power and Prejudice in the Vichy France Regime (Arcade Publishing: New York, 2003) 419 pp., $27.95 (hb), ISBN: 1-55-970689-9.Julian Jackson, France: The Dark Years, 1940–1944 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003), 690 pp., £12.99 (pb), ISBN 0-19-925457-5.Andrew Shennan, The Fall of France, 1940 (Harlow: Longman, 2000), 181 pp., $22.99 (pb), ISBN 0-582-29081-3.Henry Rousso, The Haunting Past. History, Memory, and Justice in Contemporary France (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002), 136 pp., $29.95 (hb), ISBN 0-8122-3645-9.
Review essay:Social Reform in Gothic Writing: Fantastic Forms of Change, 1764–1834by Ellen Malenas Ledoux;Gothic Subjects: The Transformation of Individualism in American Fiction, 1790–1861by Siân Silyn Roberts; andEpisodic Poetics: Politics and Literary Form after the Constitutionby Matthew GarretSocial Reform in Gothic Writing: Fantastic Forms of Change, 1764–1834by Ellen Malenas Ledoux New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. x+238pp. US$90. ISBN 978-1-137-30267-0.Gothic Subjects: The Transformation of Individualism in American Fiction, 1790–1861by Siân Silyn Roberts Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. 239pp. US$59.95. ISBN 978-0-8122-4613-1.Episodic Poetics: Politics and Literary Form after the Constitutionby Matthew Garret New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. 232pp. US$65.00. ISBN 978-0-19-934653-0.