Fall 2021 Catalog by Fordham University Press

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“Ron Howell has written a much-needed work on the Reverend Al Sharpton. This book provides readers a fair and balanced examination of the most visible and talked-about civil rights leader of the past twenty years. We learn from Howell about Sharpton’s rise to prominence as a civil rights and media figure, his relationships with Black and white journalists, and his skillful use of the media and his politically influential National Action Network. It is a must-read for anyone interested in the role of journalism in the city, New York politics, and the Rev. Al Sharpton.”

— C LARE NC E TAY LOR, PROFE SSOR E ME RITU S OF HISTORY, BARUCH COLLEGE AND THE GRADUATE C E NTE R, C U NY, AND AU THO R O F FI GHT THE POWE R: A FRI CA N A MERI C A N S A N D TH E LON G H I STORY OF POL I CE BRUTALITY IN NE W YORK C I TY

The incredible story of the man and legend who has come to symbolize the continuing pursuit of justice for Blacks in the United States

King Al

How Sharpton Took the Throne R ON HOW ELL 178 pages 9780823298877, Hardback, $24.95, £18.99 (HC) Simultaneous electronic edition available S E P T E MB ER New York City & Regional | Politics | Race & Ethnic Studies

Through the 1980s, the mainstream press portrayed the Reverend Al Sharpton as a buffoon, a fake minister, a hustler, an opportunist, a demagogue, a race traitor, and an anti-Semite. Today, Sharpton occupies a throne that would have shocked the white newspaper reporters who covered him forty years ago. A mesmerizing story of astounding transformation, craftiness, and survival, King Al follows Reverend Sharpton’s life trajectory, from his early life as a boy preacher to his present moment as the most popular Black American activist/minister/cable news host. In the 1980s, Rev. Al created controversies that would have doomed a lesser man to the dustbin of history. Among these controversies were his work with the FBI as the agency attempted to locate Black Liberation Army leader Assata Shakur; and his involvement in the 1987 Tawana Brawley episode. Regarding the Brawley matter, a white prosecutor sued Sharpton, successfully, for falsely accusing him of having raped the then-fifteen-year-old Brawley. It was the white press, in its glory days, that created the podium from which Sharpton became both famous and infamous. Those reporters would joke that the most dangerous place in New York was between Al Sharpton and a television camera. But it was those reporters who made Sharpton the media figure he is today. Today, as host of MSNBC’s PoliticsNation news program, Sharpton has more news viewers than those reporters ever had readers. The Reverend Al’s rise to respectability is a testament to an endurance and boldness steeped in Black American history. Born in Brooklyn to parents from the old slave-holding South, he transformed himself into one of the most respected and politically influential Blacks in the United States. In his in-depth coverage, author Ron Howell tells the stories of Sharpton’s ascendance to the throne. He tells us about the glory years of American newspapers, when Sharpton began his rise. And he tells us about the politicians who intersected with Sharpton as he climbed the ladder. King Al is an engaging read about the late-twentieth-century history of New York City politics and race relations, as well as about the remarkable staying power of the colorful, politically skillful, and enigmatic Sharpton. RON HOWELL is an Associate Professor at Brooklyn College, a journalist, and the author of Boss of Black Brooklyn: The Life and Times of Bertram L. Baker and One Hundred Jobs: A Panorama of Work in the American City. He has written thousands of articles over many decades for numerous journals, books, magazines, and newspapers.

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Rosenzweig

PHIL ROSENZWEIG

REGINALD ROSE A ND T H E JO UR N E Y O F

AND T HE JOUR NEY OF

REGINALD ROSE

12 ANGRY MEN

The first biography of a great television writer and the story of his magnum opus

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In early 1957, a low-budget black-and-white movie opened across the United States. Consisting of little more than a dozen men arguing in a dingy room, it was a failure at the box office and soon faded from view. Today, 12 Angry Men is acclaimed as a movie classic, revered by the critics and beloved by the public, and widely performed as a stage play, touching audiences around the world. It is also a favorite of the legal profession for its portrayal of ordinary citizens reaching a just verdict and is widely taught in management courses for its depiction of group dynamics and human relations. Few twentieth-century American dramatic works have had the acclaim and impact of 12 Angry Men. Reginald Rose and the Journey of “12 Angry Men” — G LE NN FRANKE L, AU THOR O F SH OOTI N G “MI D N I G H T COWBOY”: ART, tells two stories: the life of a great writer and the LON EL I N ESS , L I BERATI ON , A N D TH E MA K I N G OF A DA RK C LASSIC journey of his most famous work, one that ultimately outshined its author. More than any writer in the Golden Age of Television, Reginald Rose took up vital social issues of the day—from racial prejudice to juvenile delinquency to civil liberties—and made them accessible to a wide audience. His 1960s series, The Defenders, was the finest television drama of its — Blegal E Vshows. E RLY GRAY, AU THO R O F SEDU CED BY MRS . ROBI N SON : HOW “ THE age, and it set the standard for future This book brings Rose’s long and successful G RAcareer, DUATE ” BEC A ME TH E TOU C H STON E OF A G EN ERATI ON its origins and accomplishments, into view at last. By placing 12 Angry Men in its historical and social context—the rise of television, the blacklist, and the struggle for civil rights—author Phil Rosenzweig traces the story of this brilliant jury-room drama, beginning with the chance experience that inspired Rose, to its performance on CBS’s Westinghouse Studio One in 1954, to the feature film starring Henry Fonda. The book describes director Sidney Lumet’s casting, the sudden death of one actor, and the contribution of cinematographer Boris Kaufman. It explores the various drafts of the drama, with characters modified and scenes added and deleted, with Rose settling on the shattering climax only days before filming was to begin. Drawing on extensive research and brimming with insight, it casts new light on one of America’s great dramas—and about its author, a man of immense talent and courage.

“Reginald Rose was one of the architects of an exciting era of powerful, socially conscious dramas using the new medium of television. Phil Rosenzweig’s compelling book recounts the struggles and successes of a time that brought issues like human rights, urban poverty, abortion, and racial justice into our living rooms and daily conversations.” SE X,

“An engaging, insightful study of a landmark film and its surprisingly long-term impact.”

The first biography of a great television writer and the story of his magnum opus

Reginald Rose and the Journey of 12 Angry Men P H I L R O SENZWE I G 314 pages, 48 black-and-white illustrations 9780823297740, Hardback, $27.95, £20.99 (HC) Simultaneous electronic edition available SE P T E MB E R Biography | Cinema & Media Studies | New York City & Regional

In early 1957, a low-budget black-and-white movie opened across the United States. Consisting of little more than a dozen men arguing in a dingy room, it was a failure at the box office and soon faded from view. Today, 12 Angry Men is acclaimed as a movie classic, revered by the critics, beloved by the public, and widely performed as a stage play, touching audiences around the world. It is also a favorite of the legal profession for its portrayal of ordinary citizens reaching a just verdict and widely taught for its depiction of group dynamics and human relations. Few twentieth-century American dramatic works have had the acclaim and impact of 12 Angry Men. Reginald Rose and the Journey of “12 Angry Men” tells two stories: the life of a great writer and the journey of his most famous work, one that ultimately outshined its author. More than any writer in the Golden Age of Television, Reginald Rose took up vital social issues of the day—from racial prejudice to juvenile delinquency to civil liberties—and made them accessible to a wide audience. His 1960s series, The Defenders, was the finest drama of its age and set the standard for legal dramas. This book brings Reginald Rose’s long and successful career, its origins and accomplishments, into view at long last. By placing 12 Angry Men in its historical and social context—the rise of television, the blacklist, and the struggle for civil rights—author Phil Rosenzweig traces the story of this brilliant courtroom drama, beginning with the chance experience that inspired Rose, to its performance on CBS’s Westinghouse Studio One in 1954, to the feature film with Henry Fonda. The book describes Sidney Lumet’s casting, the sudden death of one actor, and the contribution of cinematographer Boris Kaufman. It explores the various drafts of the drama, with characters modified and scenes added and deleted, with Rose settling on the shattering climax only days before filming began. Drawing on extensive research and brimming with insight, this book casts new light on one of America’s great dramas—and about its author, a man of immense talent and courage. (Ph.D., The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania) is a Professor who served on the faculty of Harvard Business School and IMD, where he has taught 12 Angry Men for many years. He is the author of an award-winning book, The Halo Effect . . . and the Eight Other Delusions That Deceive Managers, which has been translated into fourteen languages. PHIL ROSENZWEIG

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GENERAL INTEREST “This is an important book! We are floundering up to our necks in oil, and Simon Orpana explains how we got here, points out the dire consequences of our dependence on fossil fuel, and posits ways forward to get out of the pool. It’s in-depth, academic, and playful and examines petroculture through multiple cultural lenses coupled with visually inventive imagery, creating an incredibly readable book.” —J OE OLLMANN, AU THOR/ARTIST OF FI CTI ON A L FATH ER

“When I began reading Gasoline Dreams, I was immediately mesmerized. Our fossil fuels, in all of their smoggy reality, have never been so clearly interwoven with the abstract systems that maintain their hold on our lives. At once personal and in conversation with theories of the Anthropocene, Orpana’s Gasoline Dreams is a landmark work in nonfiction comics. Like Guy Delisle, Ebony Flowers, Sarah Glidden, and Joe Sacco, Simon Orpana uses the comics medium to represent our reality in all of its complexity. Gasoline Dreams transforms the major insights of the environmental humanities into a moving account of how urgent it is to transition from fossil fuels, right now.” —DANIE L WORD E N, AU THOR O F N EOL I BERA L N ON FI CTI ON S: THE D OCU MEN TA RY A ESTH ETI C FROM JOA N D I D I ON TO JAY-Z

“Anyone trying to understand how settler states, petroculture, and climate change shape everyday life as well as movements that imagine what the world might look like in a post-oil future needs to read this powerful book by a brilliant theorist, storyteller, and artist.” — S HE LLE Y STRE E BY, AU THO R O F I MAG I N I N G TH E FU TU RE OF CLIM ATE CH A N G E: WORL D -MA K I N G TH ROU G H SCI EN C E FI C TI ON A ND ACTIVISM

Gasoline Dreams Waking Up from Petroculture SI M O N O R PA NA Foreword by IMRE SZ EM A N Afterword by MARK SIMPS ON 208 pages, 180 black-and-white illustrations 9780823297726, Paperback, $15.95, £11.99 (TP) 9780823297719, Hardback, $65.00, £52.00 (SDT) S E P T E MB ER Environment | Politics | American Studies General Interest

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A graphic novel that confronts our habits, narratives, and fantasies head-on to help break our petroleum dependency What if the biggest barriers to responding to climate change are not technological or governmental but, rather, cultural? In other words, what if we ourselves could help to enact change through a deeper understanding of our petroleum dependency? In a provocative graphic format that draws widely from history, critical theory, and popular culture, Gasoline Dreams explores and challenges the ways fossil fuels have shaped our identities, relationships, and our ability to imagine sustainable, equitable futures. As our rapidly warming planet is pushed toward ecological collapse, we might often feel helpless or paralyzed by the enormity of the challenges confronting us. However, reflecting upon the cultural dimensions of our predicament helps reveal the great potential for social transformation inherent in the multiplying crises. Author and artist Simon Orpana engages with contemporary scholarship in the emergent field of Energy Humanities to confront the habits, narratives, and fantasies that support our attachment to fossil fuels. By revealing the many ways petroculture repeatedly fails to deliver on its promises of “the good life,” Gasoline Dreams calls us to the difficult work of waking up from the fantasies that inhibit us from working toward a global transition to renewable energy. Written in an engaging graphic format that makes relevant historical, cultural, and political analyses of global warming and petrol dependency important to a wide audience, Gasoline Dreams refutes the progress narratives that depict contemporary, energy-intensive societies as the inevitable product of human history. By revealing the contingencies, coercions, and compulsions this myth disguises, the book allows us to imagine truly progressive alternatives. Rather than casting climate change as a problem for technological elites to solve, the book

confronts the everyday realities that reinforce our dependence on fossil fuels, offering a space of hope and engagement from which concerned people can work to build a more sustainable future. On the threshold of the single greatest transformation the human species has yet faced, Gasoline Dreams challenges us to start living, working, and dreaming differently to become less culturally dependent on petroleum. SIMON OR PA N A is an artist and educator. His work explores the political and historical dimensions of popular culture, and his writing has appeared in such collections as Zombie Theory: A Reader and Skateboarding: Subcultures, Sites, and Shifts. He is also the co-author of Showdown! Making Modern Unions, a graphic history of labor organizing. I M RE SZ E M A N is University Research Chair of Environmental Communication and Professor of Communication Arts at the University of Waterloo. MA RK S IM PSO N is Professor of English and Film Studies and Principal Investigator for Transition in Energy, Culture and Society at the University of Alberta.

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“Jonathan Alexander’s Stroke Book is a fascinating auto-theoretical essay on illness and queer sexuality through the prism of his own health crisis that occurred after he had a minor stroke, causing visual impairment and anxiety about his own mortality. Alexander’s aphoristic style combines bits and pieces of phenomenological reflection with social and cultural analysis, creating a kaleidoscopic portal into the experience of stroke and its aftermath.”

—LISA D IE D RIC H, AU THO R O F I N D I REC T AC TI ON : SCH I ZOPHRE NIA, E PILE PSY, A I DS , A N D TH E COU RSE OF H EA LTH AC TI V I SM

An archive of personal trauma that addresses how a culture still toxic to queer people can reshape a body

Stroke Book The Diary of a Blindspot

J O NAT HA N ALE XAN DE R 96 pages, 5 × 8, 8 black-and-white illustrations 9780823297665, Hardback, $19.95, £14.99 (HC) Simultaneous electronic edition available OC TOB E R LGBTQ Studies | Biography | Health & Medicine

In the summer of 2019, Jonathan Alexander had a minor stroke, what his doctors called an “eye stroke.” A small bit of cholesterol came loose from a vein in his neck and instead of shooting into his brain and causing damage, it lodged itself in a branch artery of his retina, resulting in a permanent blindspot in his right eye. In Stroke Book, Alexander recounts both the immediate aftermath of his health crisis, which marked deeper health concerns, as well as his experiences as a queer person subject to medical intervention. A pressure that the queer ill contend with is feeling at fault for their condition, of having somehow chosen illness as punishment for their queerness, however subconsciously. Queer people often experience psychic and somatic pressures that not only decrease their overall quality of life but can also lead to shorter lifespans. Emerging out of a medical emergency and a need to think and feel that crisis through the author’s sexuality, changing sense of dis/ability, and experience of time, Stroke Book invites readers on a personal journey of facing a health crisis while trying to understand how one’s sexual identity affects and is affected by that crisis. Pieceing and stitching together his experience in a queered diary form, Alexander’s lyrical prose documents his ongoing, unfolding experience in the aftermath of the stroke. Through the fracturing of his text, which almost mirrors his fractured sight post-stroke, the author grapples with his shifted experience of time, weaving in and out, while he tracks the aftermath of what he comes to call his “incident” and meditates on how a history of homophobic encounters can manifest in embodied forms. The book situates itself within a larger queer tradition of writing—first, about the body, then about the body unbecoming, and then, yet further, about the body ongoing, even in the shadow of death. Stroke Book also documents the complexities of critique and imagination while holding open a space for dreaming, pleasure, intimacy, and the unexpected. is a writer living in southern California, where he is also Professor of English at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author, co-author, or co-editor of sixteen previous books. His nonfiction has been widely published, especially in the Los Angeles Review of Books, and his critical memoir, Creep: A Life of Theory, an Apology, was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. JONATHAN ALEXANDER

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GENERAL INTEREST “Marianna Torgovnick looks back without anger, but with compassion and acceptance, even for herself, at her life and successful career. Re-examining key elements of her past, including ethnic mobility, family quarrels, unfinished grieving, professional crises, moves, separations, and re-inventions, she writes a new life narrative. A generous, and relatable memoir that will chime with the feelings of many readers at this post-pandemic time of reflection and emergence.” —E LAINE SHOWALTE R, PRO FE SSO R E ME RITA OF E NGLISH, PRINCETON U NIV E RSITY

“We face mortality with frenetic energy: in turns, protesting its injustice, delaying its arrival, and organizing in its aftermath. As the most ordinary of events and the most spectacular, death measures the erosion of the social fabric. Atlanta spas, Black Lives Matter, COVID-19, and many more terms have come to signify loss not only of individuals but also of the civic structures that we inhabit. Crossing Back demonstrates how we grieve in this time of mourning. Ornately detailing practices like reading and meditation as responses to personal bereavement, the memoir movingly demonstrates how to hang on and to let go of the people and things we love.” —SE AN ME TZGE R, U C LA SC HO O L O F THE ATE R, FILM, AND TELEVISION

From the award-winning author of Crossing Ocean Parkway, a personal memoir about adjusting to loss through books, meditation, and the process of memory itself

Crossing Back Books, Family, and Memory without Pain

MARIANNA DE MARCO TORGOVNICK 144 pages 9780823297788, Hardback, $29.95, £22.99 (HC) Simultaneous electronic edition SE P T E M B E R Memoir | Gender & Sexuality | Health & Medicine

Marianna De Marco Torgovnick experienced the rupture of two of her life’s most intimate relations when her mother and brother died in close proximity. Mourning rocked her life, but it also led to the solace and insight offered by classic books and the practice of meditation. Her resulting journey into the past imagines a viable future and raises questions acute for Italian Americans but pertinent to everyone, about the nature of memory and the meanings of home at a time, like ours, marked by cultural disruption and wartime. Crossing Back: Books, Family, and Memory without Pain presents a personal perspective on death, mourning, loss, and renewal. A sequel to her award-winning and much-anthologized Crossing Ocean Parkway, Crossing Back is about close familial ties and personal loss, written after the death of her remaining birth family, who had always been there, and now were not. After their loss, she entered a spiritual and psychological state of “transcendental homelessness”: the feeling of being truly at home nowhere, of being spiritually adrift. In a grand act of symbolic reenactment, she found herself moving apartments repeatedly, not realizing she did so subconsciously to keep busy, to stave off grief. By reading and studying great books, she opened up to mourning, a process she constitutionally resisted as somehow shameful. Over time, she discovered that a third death colored and prolonged her feelings of grief: her first child’s death in infancy, which, in the course of a happier lifetime, had never been adequately acknowledged. Her new losses led her finally to take stock of her son’s death too. Reading and meditating, followed by writing, became daily her healing rituals. A warm and intimate user’s guide to books, family, and memory in the mourning process, the end-point being memory without pain, Crossing Back is a wide-ranging memoir about growing older and learning to ride the waves of change. Lively and conversational, Torgovnick is masterful at tracking the moment-to-moment, day-to-day challenges of sudden or protracted grief and the ways in which the mind and the body seem to search for—and sometimes find—solutions. A tenured Professor at Duke University, MARIANNA DE MARCO TORG OV NI C K teaches in Durham, North Carolina, during most Spring terms a very popular course called “America Dreams American Movies,” also the title of her anthology/textbook. She is the author of many books, including, Crossing Ocean Parkway: Readings by an Italian American Daughter. F O R D H A M P R E S S .C O M

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“Stunning. Sarah Mangold’s poetry gives voice to the care, beauty, and expertise these naturalists devoted to their craft—an attention to detail historically overlooked, but thankfully gaining wider appreciation within the words of Her Wilderness Will Be Her Manners.” — E MILY GRASLIE, FO RME R C HIE F C U RIOSITY CORRE SPONDENT AT THE C HIC AGO FIE LD MU SE U M, C RE ATO R O F TH E BRA I N SCOO P, AND HOST OF PBS’ S PRE-H I STORI C ROA D TRI P

“[This] volume radiates with incisive insight. The power of its ‘arrested moments,’ the collages of thought and image in this lyric long poem, is cumulative. Here and there among passages of careful erasure and resonant assemblage are direct statements, scraps of fact that Mangold has mined from her material, which leap out at a reader, fresh and startling.” —C Y NTHIA HO GU E, FROM THE FORE WO RD

Her Wilderness Will Be Her Manners S A RA H M ANG O L D

Foreword by CYNTHIA H OGU E 96 pages, 8 black-and-white illustrations 9780823297702, Paperback, $19.95, £14.99 (TP) Poets Out Loud OC TOB E R Poetry | Gender & Sexuality | Environment

“Sarah Mangold’s poetry is intelligent, buoyant, and wise; you will read it and re-read it.” — B RIAN RE E D, AU THOR O F N OBODY’ S BU SI N ESS: TWEN TY-FIRST- CE NTURY AVA N T-G A RD E POETI C S

An electrifying feminist poetics combining language and visual collage to explore gender, landscape, taxidermy, and the idea of a “natural body” An innovative book-length poem that delves into the intricacies of natural history dioramas, taxidermy, landscape, and women naturalists, Her Wilderness Will Be Her Manners is an experience of looking for “Woman’s Work” in American natural history museums. Why, for instance, have the contributions of taxidermist and naturalist Martha Maxwell, the first person to create a “habitat group” display in the United States, and Delia Akeley, the wife of the “father of modern taxidermy,” been largely erased? Sarah Mangold mines language from natural history texts and taxidermy manuals from the 1800s to explore the perception and the reception of women in male-dominated scientific pursuits, as well as the doctrine of nature as pure, unpopulated, and outside historical and political time. A stunning work of visual and textual collage, Her Wilderness Will Be Her Manners creates a vibrant textual ecology that utilizes language as landscape while reshaping notions of nature and the natural. is an NEA fellow and author of Giraffes of Devotion, Electrical Theories of Femininity, and Household Mechanics (New Issues, selected by C. D. Wright for the New Issues Poetry Prize). SARAH MANGOLD

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GENERAL INTEREST “In this riveting collection of deftly mercurial poems, Schlaifer casts a net woven from the linguistic materiality of red tape into the cultural froth and foment of our twenty-first-century wine-dark seas. Weathering bizarre climactic storms and profoundly corrupt and cynical political leaders, these poems sift out—from the overwhelming static of our information age—surreal fish, cultural refuse, and piercing moments of self-reflection within the uncertainty, absurdity, and terror of our current political moment. These are poems of fierce wit, intense grief, and immense linguistic beauty that pose—in tones alternately harrowing, savage, heartbreaking, and droll—the most urgent philosophical, moral, and spiritual questions of our time.” —LE E ANN RORIPAU GH, AU THO R O F TSU N A MI V S . TH E FU KU SHIM A 50

“Drawing a parallel between the collapse of a national governing body and an ungovernable self, Schlaifer’s dazzling and poignant book evokes the lyrical mystery of Elizabeth Bishop while finding its truer heir in the exacting eye of Marianne Moore. Moving between the chaos of the political news cycle and the extreme weather induced by the ecological crisis, Well Waiting Room bureaucratizes the mind in an effort to control these surreal realities — finding greater reason in dreams, in art, in animals than in the inscrutable cruelties of man or God.” —J E SSIC A BARAN, AU THOR O F EQU I VA L EN TS

A collection of poems that contemplate the bureaucracy of the mind through interior political cabinets

Well Waiting Room

STEPH A NIE ELLI S S CHLAIFE R 112 pages 9780823297771, Paperback, $19.95, £14.99 (TP) Poets Out Loud O C TOB E R Poetry

Taking its name from the banal, purgatorial space outside (but inside) a doctor’s office, Well Waiting Room imagines the conversations we have with ourselves at this liminal site as an exchange between interior bureaucrats, each of whom governs a particular aspect of the psyche. The poems explore the dynamics of this political ministry, which includes the Cabinets of Desire, Indulgences, Self-Preservation, Ordinary Affairs, Ambivalence, Confrontations, and many others—there’s even a press secretary, a curator, and a general counsel. Like a cabinet of curiosity wrapped in red tape, the poems examine the compartmentalization of the mind and the confounding news of the day. Formally, the poems range from dramatic monologues to combative sonnets, quippy memos to voice-y prose blocks, incantatory interludes to dreamlike visual landscapes. Sometimes, the poems address a purely internal conflict: Why do we lie to ourselves, indulge in schadenfreude, repeat the same mistakes? Other times, the poetic lens points outward like a spear, confronting the external universe: social injustice, polar ice melt, the Trump administration, and other man-made disasters. But in both universes, the poems find joy: the first observation of gravitational waves, the otherworldly beauty of rare marine species, the discovery that you are your own best way out. For Schlaifer, the underlying question is an epistemological one, an ontological one, a theological one. Why are we here, how do we know things, and why does God—so often—seem to be working against us? In Schlaifer’s bureaucratic vision of the mind, readers will see their own internal voices affectingly (and often humorously) reflected. The book traverses unknowable terrain in sturdy boots. It unearths not answers but better questions for our time. STEPHANIE ELLIS SCHLAIFER is a poet and installation artist in St. Louis. She is the author of the poetry collection Cleavemark and the children’s book The Cloud Lasso. Her poems and art have appeared in Bomb, Bennington Review, Georgia Review, Harvard Review, Iowa Review, AGNI, Washington Square, At Length, The Offing, Denver Quarterly, LIT, and Colorado Review, and on PoetryNow and the Poetry Foundation website, among others. Her work can be viewed at stephanieschlaifer.com. F O R D H A M P R E S S .C O M

Announcing the reissue of Peter Quinn's acclaimed Fintan Dunne Trilogy PETER QUINN is a novelist, political historian, and foremost chronicler of New York City. He is the author of Looking for Jimmy: In Search of Irish America and a trilogy of historical detective novels.

Hour of the Cat PETE R QUINN

400 pages 9780823297955, Paperback, $15.95, £11.99 (TP) The Fintan Dunne Trilogy SEPTEMBER Fiction | History | Politics

“The pacing is tight, the descriptions of New York in the 1930s are rich, the characters are engaging, and the dialogue is pitch-perfect. Only a churl could resist.” — BOS TO N G LO BE

“A chilling history lesson wrapped in a murder mystery. . . . It is the best kind of historical novel, driven by memorable characters, a suspenseful plot, and real-life questions.” — U SA TO DAY “Extremely readable. . . . A Gotham version of Philip Marlowe.” — C H IC AG O T R IBU N E

“Hour of the Cat is the hour of Peter Quinn’s genius. It’s been said a million times but I’ll say it again: I couldn’t put it down.” — F R A N K M CCO U RT

“Noir to the core . . . . Smart and evocative.” — M INN EAP O L IS S TAR-T RI BU N E

“A tingling thriller about a small but significant war between streetwise Yanks and those mean old Nazis.” — ENT ERTAIN M EN T W EE K LY

It’s just another murder, one of the hundreds of simple homicides in 1939: A spinster nurse is killed in her apartment; a suspect is caught with the murder weapon and convicted. Fintan Dunne, the P.I. lured onto the case and coerced by conscience into unraveling the complex setup that has put an innocent man on Death Row, will soon find that this is a murder with tentacles which stretch far beyond the crime scene . . . to Nazi Germany, in fact; following it to the end leads him into a murder conspiracy of a scope that defies imagination. The same clouds are rolling over Berlin, where F O R D H A M P R E S S .C O M

plans for a military coup are forming among a cadre of Wehrmacht officers. Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, head of the Military Intelligence, is gripped by a deadly paralysis: He is neither with the plotters nor against them. Joining them in treason would violate every value he holds as an officer. Betraying the plotters to the Gestapo Chief, Reinhard Heydrich, might just forsake the country’s last hope to avert utter destruction and centuries of shame. Heydrich is suspicious. With no limits to Hitler’s manic pursuit of territorial expansion, with crimes against the people candy-coated as racial purification, the “hour of the cat” looms when every German conscience must make a choice. When Canaris receives an order to assist in a sinister covert operation on foreign shores, his hour has come. Hour of the Cat is a stunning achievement: tautly suspenseful, hauntingly memorable, and brilliantly authentic.

The Man Who Never Returned P ET E R QU INN

333 pages 9780823297979, Paperback, $15.95, £11.99 (TP) The Fintan Dunne Trilogy S EP T EM BER Fiction | New York City & Regional | History

“In The Man Who Never Returned, Peter Quinn shapes a tantalizing tale around the enduring mystery of Judge Joseph Force Crater, whose disappearance remains a major mystery. Quinn knows New York and its politics better than anyone. The talk and the story are as sharp and hard-edged as the city they embody. This is noir fiction at its finest.” —W ILLIAM KE NNEDY “Peter Quinn just might make it into the history books himself. He is perfecting, if not actually creating, a genre you could call the history-mystery. The Man Who Never Returned is a dazzling story by a fine writer. Fintan Dunne is a memorable hero whom you want to meet again and again.” JAME S PATTE R SON

“This is the rarest of books, one that hooks you on the first page and doesn’t unhook you on the last page—you wind up going over the whole story in your head for days, trying to figure out where history stops and fiction begins. Absolutely beguiling.” — RO B E RT L I TTE LL “A masterful and evocative tale, set in a beautifully rendered 1950s New York, that combines true crime with vivid imagining. This is that rare book: a first-rate thriller that seamlessly weaves together pageturning narrative with richly detailed characters whose motivations— complex, suspect, hidden— always ring true.” —THOMAS KELLY “Peter Quinn writes about the old New York the way that Alan Furst writes about Paris. The Man Who Never Returned is not only a gripping take on one of the city’s most enduring mysteries but also a world in and of itself. You may never want to leave.” — K E VI N BAKE R “The Man Who Never Returned is an utterly compelling story with a charismatic, flawed protagonist in Fintan Dunne. Gripping from the first page to the last, Peter Quinn’s book creates a unique and utterly believable world, part history, part fiction. He is an enviably wonderful writer.” — G ABR I E L BY R N E “Peter Quinn brings wit, panache, and a deep knowledge of the Big Apple to his latest Fintan Dunne novel. The Man Who Never Returned is a taut thriller but also a meditation on life in the big city, where a well-connected municipal judge can disappear overnight and leave behind a mystery that transforms lives, confounds investigators, and—fortunately for lovers of detective fiction—provides Quinn with a fascinating plotline that fully utilizes his skills as a storyteller.” —T. J. E N G L I S H “Freely mixing history, mystery, and novelistic license, Quinn offers a noir-ish tale of Tammany Hall politics, sex, crime, Broadway moguls, and cops, populated by more than a dozen interesting characters. Quinn’s rich, insightful, evocative descriptions of New York, both in Crater’s time and in 1955, will certainly please fans of historical crime novels.” — BO O K LIS T “A novel that suggests a fictional resolution to a historical mystery. The disappearance of New York’s Judge Joe Crater in 1930 sparked for decades speculation that has never completely dissipated. Quinn plainly knows the lay of the land through experience and research. This hybrid of mystery and history builds a compelling case.” —KI R K US REV IEWS

Peter Quinn’s The Man Who Never Returned is a noir-ish, stylized detective narrative set in 1950s New York. It follows Fintan, a retired detective turned private investigator who has been given the job of finding Judge Crater, who just went missing in 1930. Based on a real story, it is quite an intriguing tale that was even more so for people living at the time. The famous missing-person case is comparable to the Amelia Earhart missing-person case, though it could have been an even more interesting one. It was alleged that the missing judge may have had information about underhanded dealings in the New York judiciary. It was believed that if such information came to light, Franklin D. Roosevelt, then governor of New York, would have had a hard time becoming the president of

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the United States. There were also rumors that the judge, who was a known ladies’ man, had either decided to disappear or had fallen afoul of the mafia. Featuring hardboiled characters and a beautiful re-creation of New York from the ’50s, it is quite a compelling read.

Dry Bones P ET E R QU INN

352 pages 9780823297931, Paperback, $15.95, £11.99 (TP) The Fintan Dunne Trilogy S EP T EM BER Fiction | History | Politics

“A well-constructed thriller . . . brilliantly researched.” —PU BL I SH ERS WEEK LY

“Peter Quinn is a poet and an historian and one of our finest storytellers. He sits at the fireside of the American imagination. He can carve mystery out of mystery. The work is generous and agile and profound.” —CO LU M MCC ANN “Ten Top Books of the Year” (2013)

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“Dry Bones is a savvy, suspenseful tale of World War II espionage and Cold War skullduggery in which Fintan Dunne cements his place in the P.I. pantheon alongside Philip Marlowe and Sam Spade. Dunne can be misled and mishandled, but he can’t be deterred. Every bit as unpredictable as Quinn’s first two installments, this riveting conclusion to the trilogy leaves no doubt that Dunne is an ace of Spades who knows when to hold ’em and when to fold ’em.” —W ILLIAM KE NNE DY

Dry Bones, the third novel of the Fintan Dunne series by Peter Quinn, follows Fintan, who works for the OSS, the forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The novel is set during World War II, when Fintan teams up with several of his colleagues working to rescue several intelligence officers who had been fighting the Nazis inside Czechoslovakia. Things go awry and the team soon uncovers a huge conspiracy that may change the course of their careers and their lives. After the end of the war, many of his colleagues have bad things happen to them. The common thing about his friends who either go missing or end up dead is that they were trying to unearth the mystery of an infamous doctor who had gone missing. It seems the CIA is determined to ensure that what happened to the infamous doctor who had made his name experimenting on prisoners of war remained a secret. F O R D H A M P R E S S .C O M

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GENERAL INTEREST NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE WEEK BY THE NEW YORK POST A from-the-trenches view of New York Daily News and New York Post runners and photographers as they stop at nothing to break the story and squash their tabloid archrivals “The circulation battle between the New York Daily News and the New York Post— the Hatfields and the McCoys of American media—was an epic tabloid fight, waged as digital media was on the rise and print on the decline. Jaccarino’s book is a lively, no-holds-barred account of a fight where staffers stopped at nothing to beat their rivals.” —N EW YORK POST “Mike Jaccarino delivers a street-level view of the ultimately unwinnable tabloid war between the Daily News and the New York Post. A richly detailed account from a reporter who was born to run.” —LARRY MC SHANE, DA I LY NE WS “The book is called America’s Last Great Newspaper War. In it, Mike Jaccarino shows himself to be a first-rate war correspondent. He does what reporters are supposed to do: gets the story right.” —MIKE LU PIC A , BE STSE LLING AU THO R O F MI L L I ON -D OL L A R THROW

“This one’s for all the newbies who will never run, shoot, or duck and dive. This one’s for all the vets who cared less about the dough than about the run, shoot, duck, and dive. This one’s for everyone who thinks that ‘news’ means TV talking heads with hairspray and prepared scripts, or those who don flak jackets to report from the outskirts of disaster. This one’s for everyone who ever uttered the words ‘fake news.’ Mike Jaccarino’s tale of the tabloids is the real deal and should be required reading not just for every journalism student but every news junkie who never got what it took—and what it still takes—to get that great ‘get.’ A wondrous read.”

America’s Last Great Newspaper War The Death of Print in a Two-Tabloid Town M I KE JAC CA R INO 336 pages, 50 color illustrations 9780823298518, Paperback, $19.95, £14.99 (TP) [Hardback edition available: 9780823287383] eBook Available Audiobook Available F E B R UA RY Journalism | Media | New York

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“. . . A cinematic, action-packed closeup of the last of the great New York street reporters and photographers from the Daily News and the Post as they chase down blackmailed beauty queens, cheating athletes, disgraced pols, scamming financiers, and murderers on the lam—all while fighting their own tabloid death match. Mike Jaccarino paints them as part private detectives, part Special Ops but with only one holy passion—getting the get. He proves, here, the story behind the headlines is actually the best one of them all.” —J OANNA MO LLOY, AU THO R O F TH E G REATEST BEER RU N E VE R

“This book isn’t just hella fun to read, but it is also an incisive, thorough, meticulously documented and superbly written account of life on NYC streets for the papers that covered daily news at a time of unprecedented change and upheaval in the industry. Excellent work.” —AARON SHOWALTE R , JOURNALIST “Jaccarino, a writer with a vibrant, zingy style, presents the nitty-gritty of tabloid journalism from the front lines, speeding down expressways, racing to the scenes of murder, fire, and general mayhem. A typical chapter in America’s Last Great Newspaper War is like a strong cup of coffee.” —BOW E RY BOYS is a New York City–based journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Daily News, FoxNews.com, The Press of Atlantic City, The Jersey Journal of Jersey City, N.J., The Asbury Park Press, and The Week magazine. MIKE JACCARINO

Funding for this book was provided by Furthermore: a program of the J. M. Kaplan Fund

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“Weinstock and Hansen have collected (a lucky) thirteen new essays exploring the Devil’s cinematic avatars, from his earliest appearances in the films of George Méliès to the deliciously living Black Phillip in The Witch (2015). Including discussions of generically diverse films like Faust (1926), Prince of Darkness (1987), and The Passion of the Christ (2004), this volume will be of interest to theologians and film scholars alike.” — H ARRY M. BE NSHOFF, PRO FE SSOR O F ME D IA ARTS, U NIV E RSITY O F NORTH TE XAS

The first collection of essays to address Satan’s ubiquitous and popular appearances in film

Giving the Devil His Due Satan and Cinema

J E F F R EY A ND R EW WE I NSTOCK and R E G INA M . H ANSE N, Editors 256 pages, 13 black-and-white illustrations 9780823297900, Paperback, $30.00, £22.99 (AC) 9780823297894, Hardback, $105.00, £80.00 (SDT) Simultaneous electronic edition available O C TOB E R Cinema & Media Studies | Religion

Lucifer and cinema have been intertwined since the origins of the medium. As humankind’s greatest antagonist and the incarnation of pure evil, the cinematic devil embodies our own culturally specific anxieties and desires, reflecting moviegoers’ collective conceptions of good and evil, right and wrong, sin and salvation. Giving the Devil His Due is the first book of its kind to examine the history and significance of Satan onscreen. This collection explores how the devil is not just one monster among many, nor is he the “prince of darkness” merely because he has repeatedly flickered across cinema screens in darkened rooms since the origins of the medium. Satan is instead a force active in our lives. Films featuring the devil, therefore, are not just flights of fancy but narratives, sometimes reinforcing, sometimes calling into question, a familiar belief system. From the inception of motion pictures in the 1890s and continuing into the twenty-first century, these essays examine what cinematic representations tell us about the art of filmmaking, the desires of the film-going public, what the cultural moments of the films reflect, and the reciprocal influence they exert. Loosely organized chronologically by film, though some chapters address more than one film, this collection studies such classic movies as Faust, Rosemary’s Baby, The Omen, Angel Heart, The Witch, and The Last Temptation of Christ, as well as the appearance of the Devil in Disney animation. Guiding the contributions to this volume is the overarching idea that cinematic representations of Satan reflect not only the hypnotic powers of cinema to explore and depict the fantastic but also shifting social anxieties and desires that concern human morality and our place in the universe. Simon Bacon, Katherine A. Fowkes, Regina Hansen, David Hauka, Russ Hunter, Barry C. Knowlton, Eloise R. Knowlton, Murray Leeder, Catherine O’Brien, R. Barton Palmer, Carl H. Sederholm, David Sterritt, J. P. Telotte, Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock

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is Professor of English at Central Michigan University and an associate editor for The Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts. His most recent books include The Monster Theory Reader and The Mad Scientist’s Guide to Composition.

JEFFREY ANDREW WEINSTOCK

REGINA M. HANSEN is Master Lecturer of Rhetoric at Boston University’s College of General Studies. She is the co-editor of Supernatural, Humanity, and the Soul and author of the young adult novel, The Coming Storm. F O R D H A M P R E S S .C O M

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What Is Theology?

Christian Thought and Contemporary Life A DA M KOTSKO 192 pages 9780823297825, Paperback, $27.95, £20.99 (AC) 9780823297818, Hardback, $95.00, £76.00 (SDT) Simultaneous electronic edition available Perspectives in Continental Philosophy S E P T E M B ER Theology | Religion | Philosophy & Theory

“Kotsko’s dynamic work restores to us a theology that is human, humane: something alive to the fractures in our ailing collectivities, and aspiring toward new ones.” —PE TE R COV IE LLO, AU THOR O F MA K E YOU RSELV ES G ODS: M ORM ONS AND TH E U N FI N I SH ED BU SI N ESS OF A MERI CA N SECU L A RI SM

“Without subsuming theology within politics, Kotsko creatively demonstrates the importance of theology for political concerns.” —E LAINE PAD ILLA , U NIV E RSITY O F LA V E RNE

The secular world may have thought it was done with theology, but theology was not done with it. Recent decades have seen a resurgence of religion on the social and political scene that has driven thinkers across many disciplines to grapple with the Christian theological inheritance of the modern world. Adam Kotsko provides a unique guide to this fraught terrain. What Is Theology? makes the case for the continued relevance of Christian theology for contemporary intellectual life, demonstrating its vibrancy as a creative and constructive pursuit outside the Church, rethinking its often rivalrous relationship with philosophy, and tracing the theological roots of modern models of governance and racial oppression. Kotsko’s book ultimately shows that theology is not a scholarly game or an edifying spiritual discipline but a world-shaping force of great power. Lives are at stake when we do theology— and if we don’t do it, someone else will. teaches in the Shimer Great Books School at North Central College. His most recent books are Agamben’s Philosophical Trajectory and Neoliberalism’s Demons: On the Political Theology of Late Capital. ADAM KOTSKO

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“Marked by extensive and deep knowledge, care, and clarity, this book masterfully examines the epistemology of genocide. The book is striking in Rechtman’s capacity to present the most gruesome acts of killing we can imagine without ever exploiting, dismissing, or bypassing insights that have been available to us all along.” —ANN LAU RA STO LE R, THE NE W SC HOO L FOR SOC IAL RE SE A RCH

“A work that is both passionate and subtle, written with inexhaustible tact and compassion.” —V E E NA DAS, FRO M THE FORE WO RD

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Living in Death

Genocide and Its Functionaries R I CH AR D R EC HTMAN Translated by LIND SAY T U RNER Foreword by VEENA DAS 192 pages, 5 × 8 9780823297863, Paperback, $24.95, £18.99 (AC) 9780823297856, Hardback, $90.00, £72.00 (SDT) Simultaneous electronic edition available Thinking from Elsewhere NOV E MB E R Anthropology | Human Rights | History

When we speak of mass killers, we may speak of radicalized ideologues, mediocrities who only obey orders, or bloodthirsty monsters. Who are these men who kill on a mass scale? What is their consciousness? Do they not feel horror or compassion? Richard Rechtman’s Living in Death offers new answers to a question that has haunted us at least since the Holocaust. For Rechtman, it is not ideologies that kill, but people. This book descends into the ordinary life of people who execute hundreds every day, the same way others go to the office. Bringing philosophical sophistication to the ordinary, the book constitutes an anthropology of mass killers. Turning away from existing psychological and philosophical accounts of genocide’s perpetrators, Rechtman instead explores the conditions under which administering death becomes a job like any other. Considering Cambodia, Rwanda, and other sites of mass killings, Living in Death draws on a vast array of archival research, psychological theory, and anecdotes from the author’s clinical work with refugees and former participants in genocide. Rechtman mounts a compelling case for reframing and refocusing our attempts to explain—and preempt— acts of mass torture, rape, killing, and extermination. What we must see, Rechtman argues, is that for genocidaires (those who carry out acts that are or approach genocide), there is nothing extraordinary, unusual, or world-historical about their actions. On the contrary, they are preoccupied with the same mundane things that characterize any other job: interactions with colleagues, living conditions, a drink and a laugh at the end of the day. To understand this is to understand how things came to be the way they are—and how they might be different. RICHARD RECHTMAN is an anthropologist and psychiatrist and director of studies at EHESS in Paris. Since 1990, he has directed a transcultural outpatient clinic for refugees in central Paris. He is the author of several books in French and co-author, with Didier Fassin, of The Empire of Trauma: An Inquiry into the Condition of Victimhood, which won the William A. Douglass Book Prize. F O R D H A M P R E S S .C O M

“Drawing connections between geology, agriculture, medicine, food, sex, print culture, and war, The Corpse in the Kitchen provides a materialist analysis of North American settler colonialism. Waterman moves between the concrete and psychic dimensions of settler colonialism, providing methodological breakthroughs for the field.” —MANU KARU KA , AU THO R O F EMPI RE ’ S TRACK S: I N D I G EN OUS NATIONS , C H I N ESE WORK ERS , A N D TH E TRA N SCON TI N EN TA L RA I L ROAD

The Corpse in the Kitchen Enclosure, Extraction, and the Afterlives of the Black Hawk War A DA M JO HN WATE RMAN 288 pages 9780823298778, Paperback, $30.00, £22.99 (SDT) 9780823298761, Hardback, $105.00, £80.00 (SDT) Simultaneous electronic edition available N OV E MB ER Native & Indigenous Studies | American Studies | History

Reassessing the archive of the Black Hawk War, The Corpse in the Kitchen explores relationships between the enclosure of Indigenous land, histories of resource extraction, and the literary culture of settler colonialism. While conventional histories of the Black Hawk War have long treated the conflict as gratuitous, Adam John Waterman argues that the war part of a struggle over the dispensation of mineral resources—specifically, mineral lead—and the emergence of new cultures of killing and composition. The elemental basis for the fabrication of bullets, lead drawn from the mines of the upper Mississippi, contributed to the dispossession of Indigenous peoples through the consolidation of U.S. control over a vital military resource. Rendered as metallic type, Mississippian lead contributed to the expansion of print culture, providing the occasion for literary justifications of settler violence, and promulgating the fiction of Indigenous disappearance. Treating the theft and excarnation of Black Hawk’s corpse as coextensive with processes of mineral extraction, Waterman explores ecologies of racial capitalism as forms of inscription, documentary traces written into the land. Reading the terrestrial in relation to more conventional literary forms, he explores the settler fetishization of Black Hawk’s body, drawing out homoerotic longings that suffuse representations of the man and his comrades. Moving from print to agriculture as modes of inscription, Waterman looks to the role of commodity agriculture in composing a history of settler rapine, including literal and metaphoric legacies of anthropophagy. Traversing mouth and stomach, he concludes by contrasting forms of settler medicine with Black Hawk’s account of medicine as an embodied practice, understood in relation to accounts of dreaming and mourning, processes that are unforgivably slow and that allow time for the imagination of other futures, other ways of being. ADAM JOHN WATERMAN

American University of Beirut.

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is Assistant Professor of American literature and culture at the

Reconstruction and Empire

The Legacies of Abolition and Union Victory for an Imperial Age DAV I D PR IO R ,

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352 pages 9780823298655, Paperback, $35.00, £26.99 (SDT) 9780823298648, Hardback, $125.00, £100.00 (SDT) Simultaneous electronic edition available Reconstructing America F E B RUA RY History | Politics | Race & Ethnic Studies

This volume examines the historical connections between the United States’ Reconstruction and the country’s emergence as a geopolitical power a few decades later. It shows how the processes at work during the postbellum decade variously foreshadowed, inhibited, and conditioned the development of the United States as an overseas empire and regional hegemon. In doing so, it links the diverse topics of abolition, diplomacy, Jim Crow, humanitarianism, and imperialism. In 1935, the great African American intellectual W. E. B. Du Bois argued in his Black Reconstruction in America that these two historical moments were intimately related. In particular, Du Bois averred that the nation’s betrayal of the South’s fledgling interracial democracy in the 1870s put reactionaries in charge of a country on the verge of global power, with world-historical implications. Working with the same chronological and geographical parameters, the contributors here take up targeted case studies, tracing the biographical, ideological, and thematic linkages that stretch across the postbellum and imperial moments. With an Introduction, eleven chapters, and an Afterword, this volume offers multiple perspectives based on original primary source research. The resulting composite picture points to a host of countervailing continuities and changes. The contributors examine topics as diverse as diplomatic relations with Spain, the changing views of radical abolitionists, African American missionaries in the Caribbean, and the ambiguities of turn-of-the-century political cartoons. Collectively, the volume unsettles familiar assumptions about how we should understand the late-nineteenth-century United States, conventionally framed as the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. It also advances transnational approaches to understanding America’s Reconstruction and the search for the ideological currents shaping American power abroad. CONTRIBUTORS: Adrian Brettle , Christina C. Davidson, Rebecca Edwards, Mark Elliott, Andre M. Fleche, Gregg French, Lawrence B. Glickman, Reilly Ben Hatch, David V. Holtby, Justin F. Jackson, DJ Polite, David Prior, Brian Shott DAV ID PRIOR is Associate Professor of History at the University of New Mexico. He is the author of Between Freedom and Progress and the editor of Reconstruction in a Globalizing World (Fordham). He edits the online forums H-Nationalism and H-Slavery. F O R D H A M P R E S S .C O M

Freedoms Gained and Lost Reconstruction and Its Meanings 150 Years Later A DA M H. D O MBY and S I M O N LEW IS, Editors 272 pages 9780823298167, Paperback, $35.00, £26.99 (SDT) 9780823298150, Hardback, $125.00, £100.00 (SDT) Simultaneous electronic edition available Reconstructing America D EC E MB E R Civil War | African American Studies | Political Science

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Reconstruction is one of the most complex, overlooked, and misunderstood periods of American history. The thirteen essays in this volume address the multiple struggles to make good on President Abraham Lincoln’s promise of a “new birth of freedom” in the years following the Civil War, as well as the counter-efforts—including historiographical ones—to undermine those struggles. The forms these struggles took varied enormously, extended geographically beyond the former Confederacy, influenced political and racial thought internationally, and remain open to contestation even today. The fight to establish and maintain meaningful freedoms for America’s Black population led to the apparently concrete and permanent legal form of the three key Reconstruction Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, as well as the revised state constitutions, but almost all of the latter were overturned by the end of the century, and even the former are not necessarily out of jeopardy. And it was not just the formerly enslaved who were gaining and losing freedoms. Struggles over freedom, citizenship, and rights can be seen in a variety of venues. At times, gaining one freedom might endanger another. How we remember Reconstruction and what we do with that memory continues to influence politics, especially the politics of race, in the contemporary United States. Offering analysis of educational and professional expansion, legal history, armed resistance, the fate of Black soldiers, international diplomacy post-1865 and much more, the essays collected here draw attention to some of the vital achievements of the Reconstruction period while reminding us that freedoms can be won, but they can also be lost is an award-winning Civil War historian. He is an Assistant Professor of history at the College of Charleston. He is the author of The False Cause: Fraud, Fabrication, and White Supremacy in Confederate Memory. ADAM H. DOMBY

has taught African and postcolonial literature at the College of Charleston since 1996. In addition to having published two monographs on African literature, he has co-edited collections of essays on the banning of the international slave trade, the U.S. Civil War as a global conflict, and the immigration of Jewish intellectuals to the United States in the age of fascism. SIMON LEWIS

The Book of Negroes

African Americans in Exile after the American Revolution Edited by GRAHAM

RUSSELL GAO HODGES and A L AN EDWARD B ROWN With a New Introduction and a Teacher’s Guide 334 pages, 8 black-and-white illustrations 9780823298808, Paperback, $35.00, £26.99 (SDT) Simultaneous electronic edition available NOV E MB E R History | African American Studies | Political Science

“This new edition of The Book of Negroes provides historians, genealogists, and history enthusiasts with an invaluable primary resource that demonstrates the extent to which self-emancipated and free African Americans valued freedom and endeavored to keep their families intact at the conclusion of the American Revolutionary War. Significantly, the passenger lists of The Book of Negroes underscore the centrality of Black women who comprised 30 percent of the 3,000 Black Loyalists who departed the United States with the British, an indication that Black women put their lives on the line for freedom and were an essential part of the early abolitionist movement.” — K ARE N CO O K BE LL, ASSOC IATE PROFE SSO R O F HISTO RY, BOWIE STATE U NIV E RSITY, AND AU THO R O F RU N N I N G FROM BON DAG E: E NSLAVE D WOM E N A N D TH EI R REMA RK A BL E FI G H T FOR FREED OM I N REVOLU T IONARY AM E RICA

Since publication of The Black Loyalist Directory in 1996, the primary component, The Book of Negroes, has become one of the most-cited of American Revolutionary primary sources. This new edition salutes The Book of Negroes by using the original title of this famous accounting of Black freedom. On the surface, The Book of Negroes is a laconic, ledger-style enumeration of 3,000 self-emancipated and free Blacks who departed as part of the British evacuation of Loyalists from New York City in the summer and fall of 1783 for Nova Scotia, England, Germany, and other parts of the world. Created under orders from Sir Guy Carleton (Lord Dorchester), Commander-in-Chief of British forces in North America, to placate an angry George Washington, Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army (USA), who regarded the Black Loyalists as fugitive slaves, The Book of Negroes is, as Alan Gilbert has observed, a “roll of honor.” GRAHAM RUSSELL GAO HODGES is George Dorland Langdon Jr. Professor of History and Africana and Latin American Studies at Colgate University. ALAN EDWARD BROWN

is an attorney in Minneapolis and Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy. F O R D H A M P R E S S .C O M

“Arriving in New York City from small-town Ohio in 1847, William Walcutt produced prints, paintings, and public sculptures that Wendy Katz argues were supported by circles hostile to ‘foreign’ influences. Skillfully examining the output of this little-known figure against a society divided by slavery, immigration, and religion, she makes a case for a ‘nativist iconography’ pervading the broad swath of his output: from periodical illustrations to his Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry Monument (Cleveland). Uniting artisan culture with elite patronage, Walcutt’s career provides Katz with an ideal lens for her fresh, insightful, and timely study of antebellum American art.” — K ATHE RINE MANTHO RNE, PRO FE SSOR O F AME RIC AN ART, GRADUATE C E NTE R, C ITY U NIV E RSITY OF NE W YO RK

“Art history, cultural history, and political history are often taken as separate fields of inquiry. Professor Katz highlights their intersections. This resourcefully researched study of mid-nineteenth-century American artist and illustrator William Walcutt and his circle of New York City artists, artisans, and publishers traces the development of nationalist themes in antebellum popular art. It also reminds us that the creators and purveyors of art were, like many contemporaneous craftsmen, facing challenges posed by mechanization and emerging corporate power that led some of them to connect with the nationalist and nativist urges that helped fracture the traditional political landscape.” —DALE T. KNOBE L, PRO FE SSOR O F HISTORY E ME RITU S, D E N ISON UNIVERSITY

A True American William Walcutt, Nativism, and Nineteenth-Century Art WEN DY J EAN KATZ 176 pages, 79 color illustrations 9780823298570, Paperback, $30.00, £22.99 (SDT) 9780823298563, Hardback, $105.00, £80.00 (SDT) Simultaneous electronic edition available F E B R UA RY Art & Visual Culture | History | Immigration & Migration

This book argues that nativism, the hostility especially to Catholic immigrants that led to the organization of political parties like the Know-Nothings, affected the meaning of nineteenthcentury American art in ways that have gone unrecognized. In an era of industrialization, nativism’s erection of barriers to immigration appealed to artisans, a category that included most male artists at some stage in their careers. But as importantly, its patriotic message about the nature of the American republic also overlapped with widely shared convictions about the necessity of democratic reform. Movements directed toward improving the human condition, including anti-slavery and temperance, often consigned Catholicism, along with monarchies and slavery, to a repressive past, not the republican American future. To demonstrate the impact of this political effort by humanitarian reformers and nativists to define a Protestant character for the country, this book tracks the work and practice of artist William Walcutt. Though he is little known today, in his own time his efforts as a painter, illustrator and sculptor were acclaimed as masterly, and his art is worth reconsidering in its own right. But this book examines him as a case study of an artist whose economic and personal ties to artisanal print culture and cultural nationalists ensured that he was surrounded by and contributed to anti-Catholic publications and organizations. Walcutt was not anti-immigrant himself, nor a member of a nativist party, but his kin, friends, and patrons publicly expressed warnings about Catholic and foreign political influence. And that has implications for better-known nineteenth-century historical and narrative art. Precisely because Walcutt’s profile and milieu were so typical for artists in this period, this book is able to demonstrate how central this supposedly fringe movement was to viewers and makers of American art. is Professor of Art History at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. The most recent of her books are Humbug! The Politics of Art Criticism in New York City’s Penny Press (Fordham University Press) and The Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition of 1898: Art, Anthropology, and Popular Culture at the Fin de Siècle. WENDY JEAN KATZ

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Filipino Time Affective Worlds and Contracted Labor

A L L A N PUNZ A LAN ISAAC 192 pages, 4 black-and-white illustrations 9780823298532, Paperback, $25.00, £18.99 (SDT) 9780823298525, Hardback, $95.00, £76.00 (SDT) Simultaneous electronic edition available NOV E MB E R Asian American Studies | American Studies | Literary Studies

“Filipino Time is at once immensely prescient and supremely timely. With deeply erudite insight and fierce eloquence, Allan Isaac brings to light the intimate and irresolvable entanglement of time and vitality. This book trenchantly reminds us that the seemingly very contemporary experience of distance, isolation, and separation associated with the globalized present, as well as the exigencies and modalities for offering care across distance, are longstanding conditions for diasporic—specifically Filipina and Filipino—subjects. This book provides luminous understanding of Philippine labor migrations and migrants as it crucially helps us historicize the present.” — K AND IC E C HU H, AU THO R O F TH E D I FFEREN C E A ESTH ETI C S M AKE S: ON THE H U MA N I TI ES “A FTER MA N ”

From spectacular deaths in a drag musical to competing futures in a call center, Filipino Time examines how contracted service labor performed by Filipinos in the Philippines, Europe, the Middle East, and the United States generates vital affects, multiple networks, and other lifeworlds as much as it disrupts and dislocates human relations. Affective labor and time are re-articulated in a capacious archive of storytelling about the Filipino labor diaspora in fiction, musical performance, ethnography, and documentary film. Exploring these cultural practices, Filipino Time traces other ways of sensing, making sense of, and feeling time with others, by weaving narratives of place and belonging out of the hostile but habitable textures of labortime. Migrant subjects harness time and the imagination in their creative, life-making capacities to make communal worlds out of one steeped in the temporalities and logics of capital. is Associate Professor of American Studies and English at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. He is the author of American Tropics: Articulating Filipino America. ALLAN PUNZALAN ISAAC

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“Emerging from a civil war that destabilized the very ground of living and rendered familiar social terrain obscure, people turned to images as moorings and markers to reorient them in a newly disfigured world. Orphaned Landscapes is a profound book that will richly reward anyone interested in the aftermaths of violence and the potency of images.” —KARE N STRASSLE R, QU E E NS CO LLEGE AND THE GRADUATE CENTER, CUNY

Orphaned Landscapes

Violence, Visuality, and Appearance in Indonesia PAT RIC IA SPY ER 336 pages, 119 color illustrations 9780823298693, Paperback, $35.00, £26.99 (SDT) 9780823298686, Hardback, $125.00, £100.00 (SDT) Simultaneous electronic edition available N OV E MB ER Anthropology | Art & Visual Culture | Religion

“A work of great subtlety and insight, Orphaned Landscapes charts the desperate operations of the image to hold together a world spiraling toward chaos and religious violence. Spyer’s superb analysis of the conditions of blindness and visibility that produce and accompany the fog of war is an immense intellectual accomplishment.” —C HARLE S HIRSC HKIND, U NIV E RSITY OF C ALIFORNIA , BE RKELEY

Less than a year after the end of authoritarian rule in 1998, huge images of Jesus Christ and other Christian scenes proliferated on walls and billboards around a provincial town in eastern Indonesia where conflict had arisen between Muslims and Christians. A manifestation of the extreme perception that emerged amid uncertainty and the challenge to seeing brought on by urban warfare, the street paintings erected by Protestant motorbike-taxi drivers signaled a radical departure from the aniconic tradition of the old colonial church, a desire to be seen and recognized by political authorities from Jakarta to the UN, an aim to reinstate the Christian look of a city amid the country’s widespread Islamicization, and an opening to a more intimate relationship to the divine through the bringing-into-vision of the Christian God. Stridently assertive, these affectively charged mediations of religion, masculinity, Christian privilege, and subjectivity are among the myriad ephemera of war, from rumors, graffiti, incendiary pamphlets, and Video CDs, to Peace Provocateur text-messages and children’s reconciliation drawings. Orphaned Landscapes theorizes the production of monumental street art and other visual media as part of a wider work on appearance in which ordinary people, wittingly or unwittingly, refigure their urban surroundings. The work on appearance, Spyer shows, is inherent to sociopolitical change, and her book richly demonstrates the importance of an attunement to elusive, ephemeral phenomena for their palpable and varying effects in the world. is Professor of Anthropology at the Graduate Institute, Geneva. She is the author of The Memory of Trade: Modernity’s Entanglements on an Eastern Indonesian Island. PATRICIA SPYER

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“Provocative and gripping. You won’t look at life and politics—and the wedge in between them—in the same way again.” —C RISTINA RIV E RA GARZA , AU THO R O F G RI EV I N G : D I SPATCHE S FROM A WOU N D ED COU N TRY

Infrapolitics A Handbook

A L B E RTO MO R E IRAS 272 pages 9780823298365, Paperback, $30.00, £22.99 (SDT) 9780823298358, Hardback, $105.00, £80.00 (SDT) Simultaneous electronic edition available O C TOB E R Philosophy & Theory | Latin American Studies | Literary Studies

“Moreiras’s Infrapolitics gives flesh and blood to a concept that subverts liberal individualism, on the one hand, and collective communitarianism—reactionary, progressivist, or communist—on the other. Infrapolitics challenges the very notion of the political, while appreciating concrete and ontic uses the ancient and modern concept once envisioned but failed to realize.” —HE NT D E V RIE S, NE W YO RK U NIV E RSITY

“One of the most important books concerning contemporary thought written this century.” —BRE TT LE V INSO N, SU NY BINGHAMTO N

The personal is not political, even if politics marks it and, in many cases, determines it. Infrapolitics seeks to understand conditions of existence that are not reducible to political life and that exceed any definition of world bound to political determinations. It seeks to mobilize an exteriority without which politics could be only business or administration—that is, oppression. It demands a change in seeing and an everyday practice that subtracts from political totalization in the name of a new production of desire, of a new emancipation, and of a conception of experience that can breach the general captivation of life. In this book, Alberto Moreiras describes a form of thought aiming to provide content for a form of life and to offer a new theoretical practice for concrete existence. The book provides a genealogy of the notion of infrapolitics and places it within contemporary philosophical reflection, examining its deployment in the wake of postphenomenology and deconstruction, Lacanian analysis, the principle of anarchy, and an egalitarian symbolization of social life. In doing so, Moreiras elaborates Infrapolitics as both a general critique of the political apparatus and as an imperative horizon for existential self-understanding. is Professor of Hispanic Studies at Texas A&M University. He is the author of The Exhaustion of Difference: The Politics of Latin American Cultural Studies, Against Abstraction: Notes from an Ex–Latin Americanist, and Sosiego siniestro. ALBERTO MOREIRAS

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“Strongly interdisciplinary, Totality Inside Out crosses the disciplines of history, philosophy, political theory, art, sociology, political economy, literature, and climate science, reconceptualizing the force of capitalism to account for the irreducible complexity of contemporary social formations.” —C INZIA ARRU ZZA , THE NE W SC HOO L FOR SOC IAL RE SE ARCH

Totality Inside Out

Rethinking Crisis and Conflict under Capital KEV I N F LOY D, J EN H ED LER PHI LLIS, and S A RI KA C HA NDRA, Editors 256 pages 9780823298204, Paperback, $30.00, £22.99 (SDT) 9780823298198, Hardback, $105.00, £80.00 (SDT) Simultaneous electronic edition available JA N UA RY Philosophy & Theory | Political Science | Literary Studies

However divergent their analyses may be in other ways, some prominent anti-capitalist critics have remained critical of contemporary debates over reparative justice for groups historically oppressed and marginalized on the basis of race, gender, sexual identity, sexual preference, and/ or ability, arguing that the most these struggles can hope to produce is a more diversity-friendly capital. Meanwhile, scholars of gender and sexuality as well as race and ethnic studies maintain that, by elevating the socioeconomic above other logics of domination, anti-capitalist thought fails to acknowledge specific forms and experiences of subjugation. The thinkers and activists who appear in Totality Inside Out reject this divisive logic altogether. Instead, they aim for a more expansive analysis of our contemporary moment to uncover connected sites of political struggle over racial and economic justice, materialist feminist and queer critique, climate change, and aesthetic value. The re-imagined account of capitalist totality that appears in this volume illuminates the material interlinkages between discrepant social phenomena, forms of oppression, and group histories, offering multiple entry points for readers who are interested in exploring how capitalism shapes integral relations within the social whole. Brent Ryan Bellamy, Sarah Brouillette, Sarika Chandra, Chris Chen, Joshua Clover, Tim Kreiner, Arthur Scarritt, Zoe Sutherland, Marina Vishmidt CONTRIBUTORS:

(1967–2019) was an Associate Professor of English at Kent State University and author of The Reification of Desire: Toward a Queer Marxism. KEV IN FLOYD

is an editor and the author of Poems of the American Empire: The Lyric Form in the Long Twentieth Century. JEN HEDLER PHILLIS

is an Associate Professor of English at Wayne State University and author of Dislocalism: The Crisis of Globalization and the Remobilizing of Americanism. SARIKA CHANDRA

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“Cavalletti is one of the most innovative Italian philosophers. Everything is unsettled and illuminated by his gaze.” —GIO RGIO AGAMBE N

“Andrea Cavalletti’s style induces traces of the vertigo it portrays. Starting with an account of Hitchcock’s film, this superb book works upon us through its engagements with the anxious attractions of vertigo. For vertigo—when the dose is right—challenges identity. As you slip and slide away from yourself, an adventure of thinking commences. An indispensable book for intellectuals today and for all those worried about the closures of identity politics.” —W ILLIAM E. CONNO LLY, AU THO R O F RESOU N D I N G EV EN TS: ADVE NTURE S OF A N AC A D EMI C FROM TH E WORK I N G C L A SS

“A timely argument, challenging readers to overcome the fear of falling into the yawning abyss of otherness and to resist the siren call of identitarian fantasies.” —ALE SSIA RICC IARD I, NO RTHW E STE RN U NIV E RSITY

Vertigo

The Temptation of Identity A N D R EA CAVALLETTI Translated by MAX MATU KH I N Foreword by DANIEL HELLER -ROAZEN 224 pages 9780823298044, Paperback, $30.00, £22.99 (SDT) 9780823298037, Hardback, $105.00, £80.00 (SDT) Simultaneous electronic edition available D EC E M B E R Cinema & Media Studies | Philosophy & Theory | Political Science

“An exemplary illustration of the extraordinary potential that an artwork can hold for thinking. In Cavalletti’s Vertigo, a classic of Hollywood cinema functions as the point of departure for an exceptionally stimulating account of the ‘collaboration of security and violence’ in ‘the modern meaning of politics.’” —DANIE L HE LLE R-ROAZE N, FRO M THE FORE WO RD

Reading philosophy through the lens of Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo, Andrea Cavalletti shows why, for two centuries, major philosophers have come to think of vertigo as intrinsically part of philosophy itself. Fear of the void, terror of heights: everyone knows what acrophobia is, and many suffer from it. Before Freud, the so-called “sciences of the mind” reserved a place of honor for vertigo in the domain of mental pathologies. The fear of falling—which is also the fear of giving in to the temptation to let oneself fall—has long been understood as a destabilizing yet intoxicating element without which consciousness itself was inconceivable. Vertigo also staked its claim in philosophy as a phenomenon intrinsic to reason, such that identity manifests itself as tottering, kinetic, opaque, and, indeed, vertiginous. Andrea Cavalletti’s stunning book sets this critique of stable consciousness beside one of Hitchcock’s most famous thrillers, a drama of identity and its abysses. From classical medicine to Heidegger, to Hollywood, Cavalletti brings out the vertiginous nature of identity. ANDREA CAVALLETTI

Class (2019).

MAX MATUKHIN

teaches philosophy at the University of Verona. He is the author of

is a doctoral student in comparative literature at Princeton University.

is Arthur W. Marks ’19 Professor of Comparative Literature and the Council of the Humanities at Princeton University. DANIEL HELLER-ROAZEN

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“This new book challenges us to rethink who we are, to what world we belong, and how best to engage the challenge to change and create in a world in which state powers continue to exercise forms of cruelty in the name of exclusion and destruction. Martínez asks us to consider what it means to be a battalion of lovers, those who seek and enact love in public space to defeat the forces of destruction that so often cover their traces. This theory asks us to practice proactive resistance as a collectivity, to take up negation, erotically and ethically, to dismantle sovereign cruelty and to oppose, in all its forms, annihilation.” —J U D ITH BU TLE R, FROM THE FORE WO RD

Eros

Beyond the Death Drive RO SAUR A M ARTÍ NE Z RU IZ Translated by RAMSEY McGLAZER Foreword by JUD ITH BUTLER 208 pages, 5 × 8 9780823298280, Paperback, $25.00, £18.99 (SDT) 9780823298273, Hardback, $90.00, £72.00 (SDT) Simultaneous electronic edition available OC TOB E R Philosophy & Theory | Psychoanalysis | Gender & Sexuality

Eros considers a promise left unfulfilled in Sigmund Freud’s Beyond the Pleasure Principle. Rosaura Martínez Ruiz argues that when the pleasure principle comes into contact with the death drive (the human tendency toward aggression or cruelty), the psyche can take detours that, without going beyond the limit of the pleasure principle, can nevertheless defer it. Eros reflects on these deviations of the pleasure principle, in the political sphere and in the intimate realm. Following these erotic paths, Martínez argues that the forces of the death drive can be resisted only if resistance is understood as an ongoing process. In such an effort, erotic action and the construction of pathways for sublimation are never-ending ethical and political tasks. We know that these tasks cannot be finally accomplished, yet they remain imperative and undeniably urgent. If psychoanalysis and deconstruction teach us that the death drive is insurmountable, through aesthetic creation and political action we can nevertheless delay, defer, and postpone it. Calling for the formation and maintenance of a “community of mourning duelists,” this book seeks to imagine and affirm the kind of “erotic battalion” that might yet be mobilized against injustice. This battalion’s mourning, Martínez argues, must be ongoing, open-ended, combative, and tenaciously committed to the complexity of ethical and political life. is Professor of Philosophy at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. She is the author of two books in Spanish and is a member of the advisory board of the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs. ROSAURA MARTÍNEZ RUIZ

is Assistant Professor of Critical Theory in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Old Schools: Modernism, Education, and the Critique of Progress. RAMSEY McGLAZER

is Maxine Elliot Professor of Comparative Literature and in the Program of Critical Theory at the University of California, Berkeley. Their most recent book is The Force of Nonviolence. JUDITH BUTLER

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“Class Acts is a masterful and highly engaging work that has much to teach readers of Derrida about the philosopher’s relation to speech act theory, his thinking of the event, and many other questions. At once elegant and playful, pedagogical yet attentive to the nuance and subtle turns in Derrida’s work, the book is itself a masterclass in deconstructive reading.” —KATIE C HE NOW E TH, PRINC E TON U NIV E RSITY

Class Acts

Derrida on the Public Stage M I C H AEL NA A S 192 pages, 1 black-and-white illustration 9780823298402, Paperback, $28.00, £20.99 (SDT) 9780823298396, Hardback, $95.00, £76.00 (SDT) Simultaneous electronic edition available Perspectives in Continental Philosophy O C TOB E R Philosophy & Theory | Literary Studies

“Naas brings to this book an encyclopedic knowledge of Derrida’s immense corpus, which he conveys with his signature lucidity and modesty. Class Acts reflects all of these virtues in tracing Derrida’s abiding preoccupation with the nature of the speech act from the early 1970s to his death and linking this persistence to an understanding of Derrida’s pedagogy and the teaching of philosophy on two continents.” —AND RE W PARKE R, RU TGE RS U NIV E RSITY

Class Acts examines two often neglected aspects of Jacques Derrida’s work as a philosopher, his public presentations at lectures and conferences and his teaching, along with the question of the “speech act” that links them. What, Michael Naas asks, is one doing when one speaks in public in these ways? The book follows Derrida’s itinerary with regard to speech act theory across three public lectures, from 1971 to 1997, all given, for reasons the book seeks to explain, in Montreal. In these lectures, Derrida elaborated his critique of J. L. Austin and his own subsequent redefinition of speech act theory. The book then gives an overview of Derrida’s teaching career and his famous “seminar” presentations, along with his own explicit reflections on pedagogy and educational institutions beginning in the mid-1970s. Naas then shows through a reading of three recently published seminars—on life death, theory and practice, and forgiveness—just how Derrida the teacher interrogated and deployed speech act theory in his seminars. Whether in a conference hall or a classroom, Naas demonstrates, Derrida was always interested in the way spoken or written words might do more than simply communicate some meaning or intent but might give rise to something like an event. Class Acts bears witness to the possibility of such events in Derrida’s work as a pedagogue and a public intellectual. is Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University. His most recent books include The End of the World and Other Teachable Moments: Jacques Derrida’s Final Seminar; Plato and the Invention of Life; and Don DeLillo, American Original: Drugs, Weapons, Erotica, and Other Literary Contraband. MICHAEL NAAS

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From Life to Survival

Derrida, Freud, and the Future of Deconstruction RO BERT T RUMBULL 224 pages 9780823298730, Paperback, $30.00, £22.99 (SDT) 9780823298723, Hardback, $105.00, £80.00 (SDT) Simultaneous electronic edition available JA N UA RY Philosophy & Theory | Psychoanalysis

Contemporary continental thought is marked by a move away from the “linguistic turn” in twentieth-century European philosophy, as new materialisms and ontologies seek to leave behind the thinking of language central to poststructuralism as it has been traditionally understood. At the same time, biopolitical philosophy has brought critical attention to the question of life, examining new formations of life and death. Within this broader turn, Derridean deconstruction, with its apparent focus on language, writing, and textuality, is generally set aside. This book, by contrast, shows the continued relevance of deconstruction for contemporary thought’s engagement with resolutely material issues and with matters of life and the living. Trumbull elaborates Derrida’s thinking of life across his work, specifically his recasting of life as “life death,” and in turn, survival or living on. Derrida’s activation of Freud, Trumbull shows, is central to this problematic and its consequences, especially deconstruction’s ethical and political possibilities. The book traces how Derrida’s early treatment of Freud and his mobilization of Freud’s death drive allow us to grasp the deconstructive thought of life as constitutively exposed to death, the logic subsequently re-articulated in the notion of survival. Derrida’s recasting of life as survival, Trumbull demonstrates, allows deconstruction to destabilize inherited understandings of life, death, and the political, including the dominant configurations of sovereignty and the death penalty. ROBERT TRUMBULL

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teaches philosophy at Seattle University.

“Act ‘as’ the world wants, or act ‘as if’ the will of the ethical subject were worth the world? We can, I think, escape the trap of this alternative by considering some of the confusion surrounding the notion of ‘necessity.’ All in all, everything is necessary, except the necessity of this necessariness.” —ALAIN BAD IO U, FROM THE FORE WO RD

“We live in uncertainty, and we are not afraid to admit it, but can we say we know that uncertainty—know it well enough to act responsibly in it? This volume boldly re-interprets uncertainty as a symptom of social exclusion, a product of the otherness outside community. Not content to identify justice with the incalculable, Claviez and Marchi explore the mystery of how mere contingencies can give rise to real ethical imperatives. The volume makes an unusual and powerful claim on all serious readers.” —BRU C E ROBBINS, CO LU MBIA U NIV E RSITY

Throwing the Moral Dice Ethics and the Problem of Contingency T H O MA S C LAVIEZ and V I OL A M AR C HI, Editors Foreword by ALAIN BAD I OU 288 pages, 2 black-and-white illustrations 9780823298082, Paperback, $35.00, £26.99 (SDT) 9780823298075, Hardback, $110.00, £88.00 (SDT) Simultaneous electronic edition available Just Ideas D EC E M B E R Philosophy & Theory | Political Science | Literary Studies

“Throwing the Moral Dice treats the question of ethics, and thus of community, as intrinsically bound up with contingency in a new and inspiring manner. The scholarship that went into the chapters is erudite and remarkable.” —E LISABE TH W E BE R, U NIV E RSITY OF C ALIFORNIA , SANTA BA RBARA

“This book invites us to listen to contingency without judgment and fear by showing us how to disentangle subjecthood from responsibility for agency.” —TIMOTHY C . C AMPBE LL, CORNE LL U NIV E RSITY

Contingency seems to have become today the very horizon of our everyday life. Often used as a synonym for the precariousness of working conditions under neoliberalism, for the unknown threats posed by terrorism, or for the uncertain future of the planet itself, contingency needs to be calculated and controlled in the name of the protection of life. But contingency is also a philosophical problem, straddling the ambivalent terrain between necessity and impossibility. From deconstruction to feminism to ecological thought, some of today’s most influential thinkers come together in this book to rethink contingency in its relation to ethics, re-shaping many of the most debated concepts in moral philosophy. Étienne Balibar, Rosi Braidotti, Thomas Claviez, Drucilla Cornell, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Viola Marchi, Michael Naas, Cary Wolfe, Slavoj Žižek

CONTRIBUTORS:

is Professor of Literary Theory at the University of Bern. He is the author of Aesthetics & Ethics: Otherness and Moral Imagination from Aristotle to Levinas and from “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” to “House Made of Dawn.” THOMAS CLAV IEZ

V IOLA MARCHI

is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Bern.

teaches philosophy at the École normale supérieure and the Collège international de philosophie in Paris. He is the author, most recently, of The Pornographic Age.

ALAIN BADIOU

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“Political Theology on Edge engages discussions in the subfield of political theology—insightfully and critically—in order to respond to intersecting crises of our contemporary world: climate change, global religious conflict, and racial injustice. More than extending political theology beyond Schmitt and beyond European political concepts, the book pushes it to the edge, where it is transformed into a vibrant site of interrogation and re-imaginings. A very timely and important work.”

—MAY RA RIV E RA , AND RE W W. ME LLO N PROFE SSOR O F RE LIGION AND LATINX STU D IE S, HARVARD U NIV E RSITY.

Political Theology on Edge Ruptures of Justice and Belief in the Anthropocene CL AY TO N C R O CKETT and CATHER INE K ELLE R, Editors 288 pages 9780823298129, Paperback, $35.00, £26.99 (SDT) 9780823298112, Hardback, $125.00, £100.00 (SDT) Simultaneous electronic edition available Transdisciplinary Theological Colloquia D EC E MB E R Religion | Theology | Philosophy & Theory

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In Political Theology on Edge, the discourse of political theology is seen as situated on an edge— that is, on the edge of a world that is grappling with global warming, a brutal form of neoliberal capitalism, protests against racism and police brutality, and the COVID-19 pandemic. This edge is also a form of eschatology that forces us to imagine new ways of being religious and political in our cohabitation of a fragile and shared planet. Each of the essays in this volume attends to how climate change and our ecological crises intersect and interact with more traditional themes of political theology. While the tradition of political theology is often associated with philosophical responses to the work of Carl Schmitt—and the critical attempts to disengage religion from his rightwing politics—the contributors to this volume are informed by Schmitt but not limited to his perspectives. They engage and transform political theology from the standpoint of climate change, the politics of race, and non-Christian political theologies including Islam and Sikhism. Important themes include the Anthropocene, ecology, capitalism, sovereignty, Black Lives Matter, affect theory, continental philosophy, destruction, and suicide. This book features world-renowned scholars and emerging voices that together open up the tradition of political theology to new ideas and new ways of thinking. Gil Anidjar, Balbinder Singh Bhogal, J. Kameron Carter, William E. Connolly, Kelly Brown Douglas, Seth Gaiters, Lisa Gasson-Gardner, Winfred Goodwin, Lawrence Hillis, Mehmet Karabela, Michael Northcott, Austin Roberts, Noëlle Vahanian, Larry L. Welborn CONTRIBUTORS:

is Professor and Director of Religious Studies at the University of Central Arkansas. He is the author or editor of a number of books, including most recently Derrida After the End of Writing (Fordham) and Doing Theology in the Age of Trump: A Critical Report on Christian Nationalism. CLAYTON CROCKETT

is George T. Cobb Professor of Constructive Theology in the Graduate Division of Religion of Drew University. She is author of Political Theology of the Earth: Our Planetary Emergency and the Struggle for a New Public; Facing Apocalypse: Climate, Democracy, and Other Last Chances; and Intercarnations: Exercises in Theological Possibility (Fordham). CATHERINE KELLER

“The Body of the Cross represents a major rethinking of a most important topic. I find it stunning in its exposure of what the ‘Tradition’ has excluded. This is no ‘grand narrative,’ yet it possesses the heft and sweep (against the grain) of such work. Scholars, university and divinity school professors, and doctoral students will find this book immensely helpful.” —M. SHAW N CO PE LAND, PRO FE SSOR O F THEOLO GY E ME RITA , BOSTON CO LLEGE

The Body of the Cross

Holy Victims and the Invention of the Atonement T RAV IS E. A BLES 304 pages, 14 black-and-white illustrations 9780823298006, Paperback, $35.00, £26.99 (SDT) 9780823297993, Hardback, $125.00, £100.00 (SDT) Simultaneous electronic edition available D EC E M B E R Religion | Theology

“In The Body of the Cross, Travis Ables explores the concrete ways in which the notion that Christ served as a substitute for believers—the ‘logic of vicarity’— emerged in popular devotion and practice, revealing that the idea of Christ as the ultimate ‘holy victim’ at the center of penal substitutionary thought emerges only late in the day. In doing so, Ables reveals the complex ways in which Christians came to terms with the meaning of death and resurrection for their faith. It will undoubtedly serve to engender further innovative discussions on this crucial aspect of Christian theology, life, and practice.” — C Y NTHIA C RYSDALE, PROFE SSOR E ME RITA OF C HRISTIAN ETHIC S AND THEO LO GY, U NIV E RSITY O F THE SO U TH

The Body of the Cross is a study of holy victims in Western Christian history and how the uses of their bodies in Christian thought led to the idea of the cross as a substitutionary sacrifice. Since its first centuries, Christianity has traded on the suffering of victims—martyrs, mystics, and heretics—as substitutes for the Christian social body. These victims secured holiness, either by their own sacred power or by their reprobation and rejection. Just as their bodies were mediated in eucharistic, social, and Christological ways, so too did the flesh of Jesus Christ become one of those holy substitutes. But it was only late in Western history that he took on the function of the exemplary victim. In tracing the story of this embodied development, The Body of the Cross gives special attention to popular spirituality, religious dissent, and the writing of women throughout Christian history. It examines the symbol of the cross as it functions in key moments throughout this history, including the parting of the ways of Judaism and Christianity, the gnostic debates, martyr traditions, and medieval affective devotion and heresy. Finally, in a Reformation era haunted by divine wrath, these themes concentrated in the unique concept that Jesus Christ died on the cross to absorb divine punishment for sin: a holy body and a rejected body in one. is currently affiliate faculty at Regis University. He has taught at Vanderbilt Divinity School and Eden Theological Seminary, and he has served as managing editor of the Anglican Theological Review. He is also the author of Incarnational Realism: Trinity and the Spirit in Augustine and Barth. TRAV IS E. ABLES

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“Techno-Magism is an incisive intervention in the growing conversation about the relevance of Romanticism to media studies and media theory. Wang’s book is finely attuned to those latter disciplines’ go-to theoretical touchstones (from Hegel to Adorno and Benjamin to Kittler and Guillory), as well as to the usual histories it paints. But it is equally alive to what Romanticism—as historical period, a constellation of literary texts or modes, and a still-developing set of theoretical and philosophical commitments—has surreptitiously brought and might yet bring to the broader discussion of what media are and do.”

Techno-Magism Media, Mediation, and the Cut of Romanticism OR RI N N. C. WANG 240 pages, 13 color and 3 black-and-white illustrations 9780823298488, Paperback, $32.00, £24.99 (SDT) 9780823298471, Hardback, $110.00, £88.00 (SDT) Simultaneous electronic edition available Lit Z JA N UA RY Literary Studies | Cinema & Media Studies

—AND RE W WARRE N, HARVARD U NIV E RSITY

Techno-Magism explores how British Romantic literature abuts and is organized around both print and non-print media. The book explores not only the print, pictorial art, and theater of early-nineteenth-century England and Europe but also communicative technologies invented after the British Romantic period, such as photography, film, video, and digital screens. This proleptic abutting points to one way we can understand the implicit exceptionality wagered by reading Romanticism through media studies and media theory. Techno-Magism argues that both media studies and the concept of mediation in general can benefit from a more robust confrontation with, or recovery of, the arguments of deconstruction, an unavoidable consequence of thinking about the relationship between Romanticism and media. The book thinks that relationship through the catachrestic practice of a technomagism, a technics of inscription always outside the causalities of a dialectical economy. The book further pursues two interrelated ideas: the structural incommensurability of the cut and the unapologetic presentism of the constellation. Marked by its late-capitalist moment of composition, the book explores the continuity between the social character of Romantic and post-Romantic media, in terms of commodity culture, revolution, and the ecological devastation of the anthropocene. is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is the author of Fantastic Modernity: Dialectical Readings in Romanticism and Theory and author of Romantic Sobriety: Sensation, Revolution, Commodification, History, which won the 2011 Jean-Pierre Barricelli Prize, and editor of “Frankenstein” in Theory: A Critical Anatomy. He is the General Editor of Romantic Circles and recipient of the 2020 Keats Shelley Association of America Distinguished Scholar Award. ORRIN N. C. WANG

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“In Viking Mediologies, Kate Heslop approaches skaldic texts through a wholly new interpretive framework. She repositions the texts, opening them up to larger and vital interdisciplinary questions about the poems’ place in Viking and medieval Scandinavian culture. Quite simply, this is one of the most exhilarating and provocative books about Old Norse literature and culture that it has ever been my privilege to read.” —C ARO LY NE LARRINGTON, U NIV E RSITY O F OXFO RD

“Kate Heslop’s Viking Mediologies is simply one of the most original and important studies of Old Norse–Icelandic poetry written this century. Rather than focusing on form, this book reads skaldic poetry for how it preserves and transmits memories between composers and audiences, how it represents visual or auditory stimuli, and how the committal of this originally oral form of poetry to parchment alters relationships between texts and readers. It is without question entirely original.” —C HRISTO PHE R ABRAM, AU THOR O F EV ERG REEN A SH : ECOLOGY AND CATA STROPH E I N OL D N ORSE MYTH A N D L I TERATU RE

Viking Mediologies

A New History of Skaldic Poetics KAT E HESLO P 288 pages, 10 color illustrations 9780823298259, Paperback, $35.00, £26.99 (SDT) 9780823298242, Hardback, $125.00, £100.00 (SDT) Simultaneous electronic edition available Fordham Series in Medieval Studies JA NUA RY Medieval Studies | Cinema & Media Studies | Literary Studies

Viking Mediologies is a study of pre-modern multimedia rooted in the embodied poetic practice of Viking Age skalds. Prior study of the skaldic tradition has focused on authorship—distinctions of poetic style, historical contexts, and attention to the oeuvres of the skalds whose names are preserved in the written tradition. Kate Heslop reconsiders these not as texts but as pieces in a pre-modern media landscape, focusing on poetry’s medial capacity to embody memory, visuality, and sound. Mobile, hybrid, diasporic social formations—bands of raiders and traders, petty kingdoms, colonial expeditions—achieved new prominence in the Viking Age. Skalds offered the leaders of these groups something uniquely valuable. With their complicated poetry, they claimed to be able to capture shared contingent meanings and re-mediate them in named, memorable, reproducible works. The commemorative poetry in kviðuháttr remembers histories of ruin and loss. Skaldic ekphrasis discloses and reproduces the presence of the gods. Dróttkvætt encomium evokes for the leader’s retinue the soundscape of battle. As writing arrived in Scandinavia in the wake of Christianization, the media landscape shifted. In the poetry of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, skalds adjusted to the demands of a literate audience, while the historical and poetological texts of the Icelandic High Middle Ages opened a dialogue between Latin Christian ideas of mediation and local traditions. In the Second Grammatical Treatise, for example, the literate technology of the grid is used to analyze the complex resonances of dróttkvætt as the output of a syllable-spewing hurdy-gurdy—a poetry machine. Offering both new readings of both canonical works such as Ynglingatal, Ragnarsdrápa, and Háttatal, and examinations of lesser-known texts like Glymdrápa, Líknarbraut, and Sturla Þórðarson’s Hákonarkviða, Viking Mediologies explores the powers and limits of poetic mediation. KATE HESLOP is an Associate Professor in the Scandinavian Department at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on memory, mediality, and the senses in Old Norse textual culture. Recent edited volumes include (with Jürg Glauser) RE:writing: Medial Perspectives on Textual Culture in the Icelandic Middle Ages and (with Klaus Müller-Wille and others) Skandinavische Schriftlandschaften / Scandinavian Textscapes.

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A Reader in Early Franciscan Theology The Summa Halensis Edited and Translated by

LY D I A S C H UMACHE R and OL EG BYC H KOV 288 pages 9780823298846, Paperback, $35.00, £26.99 (SDT) 9780823298839, Hardback, $125.00, £100.00 (SDT) Simultaneous electronic edition available Medieval Philosophy: Texts and Studies D EC E M B E R Philosophy & Theory | Medieval Studies

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A Reader in Early Franciscan Theology presents for the first time in English key passages from the Summa Halensis, one of the first major installments in the summa genre for which scholasticism became famous. This systematic work of philosophy and theology was collaboratively written mostly between 1236 and 1245 by the founding members of the Franciscan school, such as Alexander of Hales and John of La Rochelle, who worked at the recently founded University of Paris. Modern scholarship has often dismissed this early Franciscan intellectual tradition as unoriginal, merely systematizing the Augustinian tradition in light of the rediscovery of Aristotle, paving the way for truly revolutionary figures like John Duns Scotus. But as the selections in this reader show, it was this earlier generation that initiated this break with precedent. The compilers of the Summa Halensis first articulated many positions that eventually become closely associated with the Franciscan tradition on issues like the nature of God, the proof for God’s existence, free will, the transcendentals, and Christology. This book is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand the ways in which medieval thinkers employed philosophical concepts in a theological context as well as the evolution of Franciscan thought and its legacy to modernity.

A Reader in Early Franciscan Theology is available from the publisher on an openaccess basis. LYDIA SCHUMACHER is Reader in Historical and Philosophical Theology at King’s College London, Department of Theology and Religious Studies, and Principal Investigator of the European Research Council project on “Authority and Innovation in Early Franciscan Thought.” She has published four monographs, including Divine Illumination: The History and Future of Augustine’s Theory of Knowledge; Rationality as Virtue and Theological Philosophy, and Early Franciscan Theology.

is Professor of Theology at Saint Bonaventure Unviersity, New York. The most recent of his books are the edition/translation John Duns Scotus: The Report of the Paris Lecture, vols. 1.1, 1.2 and Aesthetic Theology in the Franciscan Tradition: The Senses and the Experience of God in Art, co-written with Xavier Seubert. OLEG BYCHKOV

Guides to the Eucharist in Medieval Egypt Three Arabic Commentaries on the Coptic Liturgy Edited and Translated by

R AME Z MIKHAIL

Texts by YŪH ANNĀ IBN S A B B Ā‘, A BŪ AL-B A RA KĀT ˙ I BN KABAR, and P O PE G A B RI EL V 240 pages, 1 black-and-white illustration 9780823298327, Paperback, $30.00, £22.99 (SDT) 9780823298310, Hardback, $105.00, £80.00 (SDT) Simultaneous electronic edition available Christian Arabic Texts in Translation F E B R UA RY Theology | Medieval Studies

The fourteenth and fifteenth centuries witnessed a rising interest in Arabic texts describing and explaining the rituals of the Coptic Church of Egypt. This book provides readers with an English translation of excerpts from three key texts on the Coptic liturgy by Abū al-Barakāt ibn Kabar, Yūh.annā ibn Sabbā‘, and Pope Gabriel V. With a scholarly introduction to the works, their authors, and the Coptic liturgy, as well as a detailed explanatory apparatus, this volume provides a useful and needed introduction to the worship tradition of Egypt’s Coptic Christians. Presented for the first time in English, these texts provide valuable points of comparison to other liturgical commentaries produced elsewhere in the medieval Christian world. is Professor of Liturgical Studies at St. Athanasius and St. Cyril Theological School in Los Angeles and Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Liturgical Studies at the University of Regensburg, Germany. He is the author of The Presentation of the Lamb: The Prothesis and Preparatory Rites of the Coptic Liturgy. RAMEZ MIKHAIL

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Women and Religiosity in Orthodox Christianity fills a significant gap in the sociology of religious practice: Studies focused on women’s religiosity have overlooked Orthodox populations, while studies of Orthodox practice (operating within the dominant theological, historical, and sociological framework) have remained gender-blind. The essays in this collection shed new light on the women who make up a considerable majority of the Orthodox population by engaging women’s lifeworlds, practices, and experiences in relation to their religion in multiple, varied localities, discussing both contemporary and pre-1989 developments. These contributions critically engage the pluralist and changing character of Orthodox institutional and social life by using feminist epistemologies and drawing on original ethnographic research to account for Orthodox women’s previously ignored perspectives, knowledges, and experiences. Combining the depth of ethnographic analysis with geographical breadth and employing a variety of research methodologies, this book expands our understanding of Orthodox Christianity by examining Orthodox women of diverse backgrounds in different settings: parishes, monasteries, and the secular spaces of everyday life, and under shifting historical conditions and political regimes. In defiance of claims that Orthodox Christianity is immutable and fixed in time, these essays argue that continuity and transformation can be found harmoniously in social practices, demographic trends, and larger material contexts at the intersection between gender, Orthodoxy, and locality. Kristin Aune, Milica Bakić-Hayden, Maria Bucur, Ketevan Gurchiani, James Kapaló, Helena Kupari, Ina Merdjanova, Sarah Riccardi-Swartz, Eleni Sotiriou, Tatiana Tiaynen-Qadir, Detelina Tocheva CONTRIBUTORS:

is Visiting Professor at Coventry University’s Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations & Senior Researcher and Adjunct Assistant Professor in Religious Studies at the Irish School of Ecumenics, Trinity College Dublin. She has held visiting fellowships at Oxford University, New York University, The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C., the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences, and Aleksanteri Institute at Helsinki University, among others. She is author of four books and numerous articles on religion and politics in post-communist society. Her recent publications include Religion as a Conversation Starter: Interreligious Dialogue for Peacebuilding in the Balkans, and Rediscovering the Umma: Muslims in the Balkans between Nationalism and Transnationalism. INA MERDJANOVA

Women and Religiosity in Orthodox Christianity I NA M ER DJANOVA,

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J OYCE ST U D IE S A N N UAL 2 02 1 P HI L I P T. S I C K E R and MO S HE G O L D, Editors 9780823298907, Hardback, $65.00 (SDT) JAN UARY

336 pages, 4 black-and-white illustrations 9780823298617, Paperback, $35.00, £26.99 (SDT) 9780823298600, Hardback, $125.00, £100.00 (SDT) Simultaneous electronic edition available Orthodox Christianity and Contemporary Thought N OV E MB ER Anthropology | Religion | Gender and Sexuality

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An indispensable resource for scholars and students of James Joyce, Joyce Studies Annual gathers essays by foremost scholars and emerging voices in the field is Professor of English at Fordham University, specializing in late nineteenth- and twentieth-century British and European fiction. PHILIP T. SICKER

is Associate Professor of English and the Director of the Rose Hill Writing Program at Fordham University. MOSHE GOLD

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