concentration on the former, the choice of the title The Hymnal for the volume is curious (the subtitle does help in understanding the principal thrust of the volume). It is certainly easy for titles to become overly long and cumbersome by trying to include everything that a monograph is or is not about, but one would not guess by the title or subtitle that this book deals almost exclusively with Englishlanguage hymnbooks of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, with a largely American focus. The Hymnal: A Reading History is a work that demonstrates the profound impact of hymnbooks on British and American society during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The author reminds us that the hymnbook pervaded many areas of cultural life and that it played an important role in developing a taste for and appreciation of poetry in the United States. Students of hymnody and literature in general will find this to be a fascinating contribution to scholarship on two centuries of Englishlanguage literary culture.

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逃犯、走私者和小偷：美国文学中的盗版和人格，莎拉达·巴拉坎德兰·奥里韦拉 (Sharada Balachandran Orihuela)

专注于前者，该卷的标题选择《赞美诗》很奇怪（副标题确实有助于理解该卷的主旨）。试图囊括一本专着所涉及或不涉及的所有内容，当然很容易使标题变得过长和冗长，但人们不会从标题或副标题中猜到这本书几乎只涉及第 18 和 19 世纪的英语赞美诗书几个世纪以来，主要集中在美国。The Hymnal: A Reading History 是一部展示赞美诗在十八、十九世纪对英美社会产生深远影响的作品。作者提醒我们，赞美诗遍及文化生活的许多领域，它在培养美国诗歌品味和欣赏方面发挥了重要作用。