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L i t e r a ry St u d i es Around the Book Systems and Literacy Henry Sussman “A splendid addition to the now long list of Professor Sussman’s admirable books.” —J. Hillis Miller, University of California, Irvine 352 Pages, 20 b/w illustrations 978-0-8232-3284-0 Paper, $30.00 978-0-8232-3283-3 Cloth, $99.00 eBook available
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Mourning Modernism Literature, Catastrophe, and the Politics of Consolation Lecia Rosenthal “Lecia Rosenthal’s intricate argument traces the engagement with catastrophe in the work of three exemplary figures, Woolf, Benjamin, and Sebald. She also offers a compelling diagnosis of modernism’s stubborn insistence that catastrophe must offer some form of gain. Rosenthal’s brilliance lies in her refusal to console us. This is a demanding, provocative, and deeply rewarding book.”—Martin Harries, New York University 176 Pages 978-0-8232-3397-7 Cloth, $50.00 e B o o k ava i l a b l e
Answering Auschwitz Primo Levi’s Science and Humanism after the Fall Edited by Stanislao G. Pugliese “This admirable collection of essays, reflecting a variety of academic disciplines, parallels Levi’s own effort to bring all of his scientific and humanistic energies to bear on the task of Holocaust testimony. In so doing, Answering Auschwitz makes a precious contribution to the urgent and growing body of scholarship on Italy’s most renowned witness to the genocide of European Jewry.”—Millicent Marcus, Yale University 224 Pages, 9 b/w illustrations 978-0-8232-3359-5 Paper, $25.00 978-0-8232-3358-8 Cloth, $65.00 e B o o k ava i l a b l e
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Reading the Allegorical Intertext Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton Judith H. Anderson “A landmark contribution to work on the epochal transformations of medieval into Renaissance and early modern writing cultures.”— Theresa Krier, Macalester College 320 Pages 978-0-8232-2848-5 Paper, $28.00 978-0-8232-2847-8 Cloth, $70.00 e B o o k ava i l able
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Literary Studie s The Pleasures of Memory Learning to Read with Charles Dickens Sarah Winter “It is well known that Dickens established an ‘imagined community’ founded on his own writing and authorial presence; in her intriguing book, Sarah Winter reveals how he did it. Analyzing the relation between serialization, reading, and memory, and detailing the extraordinary means by which Dickens made himself an institution by appearing to subvert the very nature of institutions, Winter shows how Dickens installed his works, his memories, his authorial presence, and perhaps most influentially, his method of publication—seriality itself—at the center of our collective modern consciousness.”—Audrey Jaffe, University of Toronto 448 Pages 978-0-8232-3352-6 Cloth, $60.00 eBook available
Go Figure Energies, Forms, and Institutions in the Early Modern World Edited by Judith H. Anderson and Joan Pong Linton “A superb contribution to Renaissance studies that respects the complexity of textual detail as well as social, cultural, and political history.”—William J. Kennedy, Cornell University “A significant contribution to recent New Formalist debates on the relation between aesthetics, historicism, and poststructuralist theory.”—Melissa Sanchez, University of Pennsylvania 240 Pages 978-0-8232-3349-6 Cloth, $55.00 eBook available
Sodometries Renaissance Texts, Modern Sexualities Jonathan Goldberg “Sodometries has decisively shaped work in the history of sexuality for the last decade and remains a critical text for this developing field. . . . Goldberg’s work is already a classic and has not been superceded.”—Karen Newman, New York University “Sodometries is a stunning book: the complexity of its intelligence and the beauty of its stylistic accomplishments take one’s breath away.”—Journal of the History of Sexuailty 320 Pages, 4 b/w illustrations 978-0-8232-3221-5 Paper, $20.00 eBook available
The Seeds of Things Theorizing Sexuality and Materiality in Renaissance Representations Jonathan Goldberg “Goldberg’s new book will be required reading for anyone writing about ‘the material.”—Karen Newman, New York University “This dazzling display of erudition advances studies of materialism. . . . Highly recommended.”—Choice 256 Pages, 4 color illustrations 978-0-8232-3067-9 Paper, $26.00 978-0-8232-3066-2 Cloth, $75.00 eBook available
Succeeding King Lear Literature, Exposure, and the Possibility of Politics Emily Sun “An excellent work of theoretical synthesis applied to thoughtful, continuously challenging readings of texts that at once form an intuitive unity and at the same time consistently resist and correct preconception through Sun’s circumspect, nimble critical strategies.”—Paul Fry, Yale University 176 Pages, 7 b/w illustrations 978-0-8232-3280-2 Cloth, $50.00 eBook available
Impure Worlds The Institution of Literature in the Age of the Novel Jonathan Arac “Jonathan Arac is incapable of writing an essay that is not fresh, engaged, and lucid, and his unsurpassed eye for detail supports a rich and multi-voiced social vision. Impure Worlds, which gathers his finest uncollected essays, confirms his status as a Bakhtin for the twentyfirst century.”—Marshall Brown, University of Washington
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The Value of Worthless Lives Writing Italian American Immigrant Autobiographies Ilaria Serra “Of great interest to students and scholars of Italian-American studies, life-writing, ethnic and immigration studies, and multicultural studies.”—William Boelhower, Louisiana State University, author of Through a Glass Darkly: Ethnic Semiosis in American Literature “Such a book is important to encourage representatives of the many newer immigrant groups to be stewards of their own group’s autobiographical expressions.”—Biography
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Prophecies of Leviathan
Reading Past Melville Peter Szendy Translated and with an Afterword by Gil Anidjar “Szendy uses a dialogical form of criticism to argue that Moby-Dick should be read as a prophetic text; the prophecy of an unspeakable catastrophe turns into the experience of writing from the ‘outside.’ It is the proximity with such an ‘outside’ that frees Melville’s text from its crust of ancient glosses and multiplies amazingly original close readings.”—Jean-Michel Rabaté, University of Pennsylvania 192 Pages 978-0-8232-3154-6 Paper, $26.00 978-0-8232-3153-9 Cloth, $75.00
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Encarnación Illness and Body Politics in Chicana Feminist Literature Suzanne Bost “Innovative, engaging, and eloquent. Bost’s readings of Gloria Anzaldúa, Cherríe Moraga, and Ana Castillo are groundbreaking.”—AnaLouise Keating, Texas Woman’s University “Deeply expressive, intellectually profound, and very moving. It offers new paths into, beside, and through identity politics.”—Katie King, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities 256 Pages, 12 color and 4 b/w illustrations 978-0-8232-3085-3 Paper, $26.00 978-0-8232-3084-6 Cloth, $70.00
Regard for the Other Autothanatography in Rousseau, De Quincey, Baudelaire, and Wilde E. S. Burt “Burt succeeds in the extraordinary task of revising scholarly understanding of the genre of autobiography.”—Marc Redfield, Claremont Graduate School “In an extraordinarily demanding revision of the autobiographical genre, Burt zeroes in on how the subject engages with language not merely to produce an exemplary identity but to write its own demise. . . . Highly recommended.” —K. M. Sibbald, McGill University 288 Pages 978-0-8232-3091-4 Paper, $28.00 978-0-8232-3090-7 Cloth, $75.00 eBook available
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