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2014–2015
Literary Theory and History Listening to Trauma Conversations with Leaders in the Theory and Treatment of Catastrophic Experience interviews and photography by Cathy Caruth Interviews and intimate photographic portraits of witnesses to the collective and cultural significance of trauma.
2014 392 pp., 19 halftones 978-1-4214-1445-4 $24.95 paperback
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Literature in the Ashes of History Cathy Caruth “Caruth’s analyses call for nothing less than a ‘rethinking of the very nature of history around the possibility of its erasure’—a most urgent appeal in our days.”—Elisabeth Weber, University of California, Santa Barbara
2013 144 pp. 978-1-4214-1155-2
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Writing History, Writing Trauma Dominick LaCapra with a new preface “Insightful and compassionate . . . LaCapra both uses and transcends contemporary critical theory in assessing the influence of trauma on present-day historical writing.”—Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society, Stephen G. Nichols, Gerald Prince, and Wendy Steiner, Series Editors 2014 264 pp. 978-1-4214-1400-3
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Audacious Kids The Classic American Children’s Story revised edition Jerry Griswold The definitive book-length study of the great classics of American children’s literature, now updated for a new century.
2014 368 pp., 17 halftones 978-1-4214-1457-7 $24.95 paperback
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The Afterlife of “Little Women” Beverly Lyon Clark This innovative study uncovers the surprising ways in which audiences responded to—and were influenced by—Little Women.
2014 288 pp., 2 halftones, 10 line drawings 978-1-4214-1558-1 $44.95 hardcover
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Literary Theory and History Metahistory
Freedom Time
The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe
The Poetics and Politics of Black Experimental Writing
Fortieth-anniversary Edition Hayden White with a new preface foreword by Michael S. Roth “This is a daring, ingenious . . . tour de force. White has produced a profoundly original ‘critique of historical reason.’”—American Historical Review
2014 480 pp. 978-1-4214-1560-4 $29.95 paperback Also available as an e-book
Anthony Reed “A distinctive take on the political implications of experimental writing by neglected African American writers. This important book has started a conversation that we must have, and it will anchor that conversation for some time.” —Keith D. Leonard, American University
The Callaloo African Diaspora Series Charles Henry Rowell, Series Editor 2014 280 pp., 17 line drawings 978-1-4214-1520-8 $44.95 hardcover Also available as an e-book
Sublime Noise
The Calendar of Loss
Musical Culture and the Modernist Writer
Race, Sexuality, and Mourning in the Early Era of AIDS
Josh Epstein “An original, intellectually capacious, and
Dagmawi Woubshet
frequently brilliant analysis of the theoretical
A revelatory examination of AIDS mourning at
and material relationships between writers
the intersection of black and queer studies.
of the modernist period and the music of their cultures.”—Scott W. Klein, Wake Forest University
Hopkins Studies in Modernism, Douglas Mao, Series Editor 2014 384 pp., 3 b&w illus., 9 line drawings 978-1-4214-1523-9 $54.95 hardcover Also available as an e-book
The Callaloo African Diaspora Series Charles Henry Rowell, Series Editor 2015 192 pp., 19 halftones 978-1-4214-1655-7 $38.95 hardcover Also available as an e-book
Putting Modernism Together Literature, Music, and Painting, 1872–1927 Daniel Albright “This indispensable study of modernist artistic culture will appeal to students and to the expert as well as the common reader.”—Maria DiBattista, coeditor of High and Low Moderns: British Literature and Culture, 1889–1939
Hopkins Studies in Modernism, Douglas Mao, Series Editor 2015 384 pp., 47 b&w illus. 978-1-4214-1644-1 $29.95 paperback Also available as an e-book
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Literary Theory and History Genealogical Fictions Cultural Periphery and Historical Change in the Modern Novel Jobst Welge “A mature, distinguished contribution to the history of the novel that establishes Welge as one of the leading comparativists of his generation.”—Jeffrey T. Schnapp, Harvard University
2014 272 pp. 978-1-4214-1435-5
$54.95 hardcover
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Losing Touch with Nature Literature and the New Science in Sixteenth-Century England Mary Thomas Crane “A lucid, well-argued account of the prehistory of the scientific revolution in England.”—Shankar Raman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2014 248 pp. 978-1-4214-1531-4
$49.95 hardcover
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Metaphors of Mind An Eighteenth-Century Dictionary Brad Pasanek A pathbreaking introduction to eighteenth-century metaphors of the mind that recasts the grand narrative of the Enlightenment in terms of its tropes and figures.
2015 384 pp., 6 halftones, 4 line drawings 978-1-4214-1688-5 $49.95 hardcover
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Empire Films and the Crisis of Colonialism, 1946—1959 Jon Cowans “This is a terrific book. Jon Cowans has a gift for concise and lucid summation; his cinematic analysis is consistently illuminating, engaging, and plausible.”—Stephen J. Whitfield, Brandeis University
2015 448 pp. 978-1-4214-1641-0
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Poetry and Fiction The Empire of the Dead Tracy Daugherty “A superb book of stories that will burnish Daugherty’s already formidable reputation as a contemporary master of short fiction.” —Greg Johnson, author of Women I’ve Known: New and Selected Stories
Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction, John T. Irwin, General Editor 2014 272 pp., 1 halftone 978-1-4214-1580-2 $24.95 paperback
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Couldn’t Prove, Had to Promise poems by Wyatt Prunty “Wyatt Prunty is a classic poet in the tradition of Frost, Wilbur, Merrill, and Justice. His work involves a wry sanity toward the world and an impeccable ear for both prosody and the rhythms of American speech.”—Robert Hass, author of Time and Materials
Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction, John T. Irwin, General Editor 2015 72 pp. 978-1-4214-1714-1
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Now in Paperback How Literature Plays with the Brain The Neuroscience of Reading and Art Paul B. Armstrong “Armstrong explores the ways that neuroscience and literary theory can be mutually illuminating about the processes of reading and about the aesthetics of literary response.”—G. Gabrielle Starr, New York University
2014 240 pp., 23 b&w illus. 978-1-4214-1576-5 $29.95 paperback
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Dead Women Talking Figures of Injustice in American Literature Brian Norman “Insightful and powerfully affecting, Dead Women Talking deepens our understanding of how the dead remain a vital presence and social force in American life and literature.”—Women’s Studies
2014 240 pp. 978-1-4214-1572-7
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Now in Paperback Writings of the Luddites edited by Kevin Binfield An invaluable collection of texts written between 1811 and 1816 by members of the Luddite movement and their sympathizers.
2015 312 pp., 6 halftones 978-1-4214-1696-0 $29.95 paperback
Revolutionary Acts Theater, Democracy, and the French Revolution Susan Maslan “Maslan’s thought-provoking book makes a distinctive contribution to the understanding of the literary and cultural history of the French Revolution.”—Modern Language Review
Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society Stephen G. Nichols, Gerald Prince, and Wendy Steiner, Series Editors 2015 288 pp., 15 halftones 978-1-4214-1694-6 $29.95 paperback
Harlequin Britain Pantomime and Entertainment, 1690–1760 John O’Brien “This well-argued text on pantomime offers a fascinating investigation of a subgenre of British theater.”—Scriblerian
2015 304 pp., 13 halftones, 6 line drawings 978-1-4214-1693-9 $29.95 paperback
Wordsworth’s Ethics Adam Potkay “A nuanced and carefully argued book that will command attention and respect from all romanticists. . . its author is able to outline a system of thought that Wordsworth would almost certainly have endorsed.” —Modern Philology
2015 272 pp. 978-1-4214-1702-8
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My Silver Planet A Secret History of Poetry and Kitsch Daniel Tiffany “Tiffany’s irreverent challenge to modernist critique of kitsch generates a new story about the development of modern poetry.”—Jonathan Culler, Cornell University
Hopkins Studies in Modernism, Douglas Mao, Series Editor 2014 312 pp. 978-1-4214-1698-4
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THE COMPLETE PROSE OF T. S. ELIOT The Critical Edition • Ronald Schuchard, General Editor
Rediscover the full intellectual life of T. S. Eliot with unprecedented digital access to material that had been restricted or inaccessible for almost fifty years. The first two volumes are now available. APPRENTICE YEARS, 1905–1918 Volume 1 edited by Jewel Spears Brooker and Ronald Schuchard THE PERFECT CRITIC, 1919–1926 Volume 2 edited by Anthony Cuda and Ronald Schuchard
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