Angela M Laflen

Offering a largely overlooked perspective, Wright (family medicine, Keck School of Medicine, USC) adds to growing body of scholarship in the medical humanities by considering what she terms "hygienic" Victorian novels. She argues that in contrast to the familiar therapeutic narrative arc of "prelude, crisis, and cure," hygienic narratives are premised on maintenance and prevention.

The publication of this exploration of the rhetoricity of reflection is timely, given the prominent role that reflective writing plays in such largescale national assessment efforts as the 2014 National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE).

[CIP Belknap]'s postumously published book on literary plots evolved from his 2011 Leonard Hastings Schoff Memorial Lecture Series at Columbia's University Seminars.

[MARC Kurup] (William Rainey Harper College) presents a comprehensive guide to the work of [Louise Erdrich] (b. 1954), a leading figure in what has been called the Native American renaissance. Through six chapters, Kurup traces the theme of colonization in all of Erdrich's works, from her first novel, Love Medicine (1984), to her most recent novels and also her children's books, poetry, and nonfiction.

Laflen reviews Fifties Ethnicities: The Ethnic Novel and Mass Culture at Midcentury by Tracy Floreani.

During the past two decades, digital rhetoric has emerged as an interdisciplinary field of study; however, ascertaining what exactly constitutes digital rhetoric and how to define it has been difficult. [Eyman] (George Mason Univ.) points out that "no comprehensive digital rhetoric text has yet been published"-and this is a gap he aims to fill.