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Literary Theory and History How Literature Plays with the Brain
The Lyric Theory Reader
The Neuroscience of Reading and Art
A Critical Anthology
Paul B. Armstrong
edited by Virginia Jackson and Yopie Prins
“Armstrong explores the ways that neuroscience
“The Lyric Theory Reader is a worthy counterpart
and literary theory can be mutually illuminating
to Michael McKeon’s Theory of the Novel. It will
about the processes of reading and about the
be essential reading for anyone interested in the
aesthetics of literary response.”—G. Gabrielle
lyric, in poetry.”—Frances Ferguson,
Starr, New York University
University of Chicago
2013 240 pp., 23 b&w illus. 978-1-4214-1002-9 $49.95 hc Also available as an e-book
2014 680 pp., 3 b&w illus. 978-1-4214-1200-9 $49.95 pb
Literature in the Ashes of History
Musica Naturalis
Cathy Caruth
Speculative Music Theory and Poetics, from Saint Augustine to the Late Middle Ages in France
“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 $22.95 pb Also available as an e-book
Philipp Jeserich translated by Michael J. Curley and Steven Rendall “A wide-ranging and meticulously documented study of a fundamental question in medieval aesthetics, which sheds new light on the relation between poetics and music theory in the Middle Ages.”—Daniel Heller-Roazen, Princeton
Black Soundscapes White Stages
University
The Meaning of Francophone Sound in the Black Atlantic
2013 568 pp., 2 b&w photos, 12 line drawings 978-1-4214-1124-8 $80.00 hc
Edwin C. Hill Jr. “Hill breaks new ground in the field of Francophone studies with his nuanced intersection of film studies, musicology, and literary criticism.”—Jennifer Margaret
Wilks, University of Texas at Austin 2013 192 pp., 19 halftones 978-1-4214-1059-3 $39.95 hc Also available as an e-book
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Stanley Cavell and the Claim of Literature
Mathematics in Twentieth-Century Literature and Art
David Rudrum
Content, Form, Meaning
“This is an original and exciting book, true to Cavell’s trailblazing work in the Emersonian
Robert Tubbs “Tubbs’s focus on artists whose mathematical
categories both of instruction and of provoca-
intentions are made clear by the artists
tion.”—William Flesch, Brandeis University
themselves is original.”—Janice Sklensky,
2013 304 pp. 978-1-4214-1048-7 $45.00 hc
Wheaton College Also available as an e-book
The Johns Hopkins Guide to Digital Media edited by Marie-Laure Ryan, Lori Emerson, and Benjamin J. Robertson
2014 160 pp., 9 halftones, 10 line drawings 978-1-4214-1380-8 $29.95 pb Also available as an e-book
Optical Impersonality Science, Images, and Literary Modernism
The first systematic, comprehensive reference
Christina Walter
covering the ideas, genres, and concepts behind
Examines modernist writers’ efforts to map
digital media.
the social implications of an evolving science
2014 560 pp., 2 b&w illus. 978-1-4214-1224-5 $44.95 pb Also available as an e-book
My Silver Planet A Secret History of Poetry and Kitsch Daniel Tiffany “Tiffany’s irreverent challenge to modernist
of vision and visual culture. 2014 352 pp., 30 halftones, 8 line drawings 978-1-4214-1363-1 $59.95 hc Also available as an e-book
Lure of the Arcane The Literature of Cult and Conspiracy
critique of kitsch generates a new story
Theodore Ziolkowski
about the development of modern poetry.”
Ziolkowski traces the evolution of cults, orders,
—Jonathan Culler, Cornell University 2014 312 pp. 978-1-4214-1145-3 $45.00 hc
lodges, secret societies, and conspiracies through various literary manifestations from
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Euripides’s Bacchae to the thrillers of the twenty-first century. 2013 248 pp. 978-1-4214-0958-0 $39.95 hc
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British Literature The Online Complete Prose of T. S. Eliot Ronald Schuchard, General Editor The result of a multi-year collaboration, this eight-volume critical edition will dramati-
Rakes, Highwaymen, and Pirates The Making of the Modern Gentleman in the Eighteenth Century Erin Mackie “The book impresses with its attentive close
cally expand access to one of the greatest
readings of important texts, and makes a
literary minds of the twentieth century. The
valuable contribution to gender studies of
volumes will be released in sequence and published on Project MUSE, with an archival print edition to be published once all eight volumes have been released. Volumes 1 and 2 will be published in 2014.
Volume 1 Apprentice Years, 1905–1918 edited by Jewel Spears Brooker and Ronald Schuchard
eighteenth-century Britain.”
—Times Literary Supplement 2009 248 pp. 978-1-4214-1385-3 $29.95 pb Also available as an e-book
Literary Advertising and the Shaping of British Romanticism Nicholas Mason “This book will become required reading for anyone interested in the rich connections
Volume 2 The Perfect Critic, 1919–1926 edited by Anthony Cuda and Ronald Schuchard
Matters of Fact in Jane Austen
between advertising, cultures of modernity, and Romantic literature.”—Paul Keen,
Carleton University 2013 216 pp., 26 b&w illus. 978-1-4214-0998-6 $49.95 hc Also available as an e-book
History, Location, and Celebrity
Experimental Life
Janine Barchas
Vitalism in Romantic Science and Literature
“Unlike any previous work of Austen criticism, both in its attention to minute historical detail and in its pioneering claims.”
—Los Angeles Review of Books 2012 336 pp., 48 b&w illus. 978-1-4214-1191-0 $24.95 pb Also available as an e-book
Robert Mitchell Experimental Life establishes the multiple ways in which Romantic authors appropriated the notion of experimentation from the natural sciences. 2013 320 pp., 2 line drawings 978-1-4214-1088-3 $55.00 hc Also available as an e-book
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European and Comparative Literature
The Fairy Way of Writing Shakespeare to Tolkien Kevin Pask “Pask’s effort to bring the realm of fantasy into academic consideration alongside more
Rethinking the New Medievalism
standard canonical writing is no small achievement.”—Jonathan V. Crewe,
Dartmouth College 2013 192 pp., 12 b&w illus. 978-1-4214-0982-5 $39.95 hc Also available as an e-book
Twenty years after Stephen Nichols transformed the study of medieval
Reform Acts
literature, leaders in the field pay tribute to his work and expand on it.
Chartism, Social Agency, and the Victorian Novel, 1832–1867
2014 288 pp., 7 halftones 978-1-4214-1241-2 $29.95 pb Also available as an e-book
Chris R. Vanden Bossche “At once boldly revisionist and meticulously argued, Reform Acts re-orients our approach to class politics and ideological criticism.”
—Ellen Rosenman, University of Kentucky 2014 264 pp. 978-1-4214-1208-5 $49.95 hc
edited by R. Howard Bloch, Alison Calhoun, Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet, Joachim Küpper, and Jeanette Patterson
Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture Volume 43 edited by Timothy Erwin and Michelle Burnham
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From Little London to Little Bengal Religion, Print, and Modernity in Early British India, 1793–1835 Daniel E. White
These annual volumes reflect new and highly promising directions of research in the field. 2014 300 pp., 24 figures 978-1-4214-1376-1 $45.00 hc
Proust’s Latin Americans
“Theoretically nuanced, carefully researched,
Rubén Gallo
and beautifully argued, From Little London
“An original addition to Proustian studies.”
to Little Bengal is an important book.”
—Leo Bersani, University of California, Berkeley
—Lynn Festa, Rutgers University 2013 288 pp., 13 b&w illus. 978-1-4214-1164-4 $49.95 hc Also available as an e-book
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American Literature Literary Executions Capital Punishment and American Culture, 1820–1925 John Cyril Barton
Hart Crane’s Poetry “Appollinaire lived in Paris, I live in Cleveland, Ohio” John T. Irwin
Examines literary and legal sources to docu-
“Crane and his admirers are beneficiaries of
ment thoughts and feelings about capital
Irwin’s fine book, the most learned, percep-
punishment in the United States over the
tive, comprehensive analysis of the work
long nineteenth century.
ever published . . . Essential.”—Choice
2014 384 pp., 1 b&w photo 978-1-4214-1332-7 $49.95 hc Also available as an e-book
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Collecting Shakespeare The Story of Henry and Emily Folger Stephen H. Grant “This book will fill a major gap in our understanding of how one of America’s most influential institutions came to be.”
—John F. Andrews, President, The Shakespeare Guild 2014 264 pp., 32 halftones 978-1-4214-1187-3 $29.95 hc Also available as an e-book
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Fiction “An Almost Theatrical Innocence” John T. Irwin
Over the River and Through the Wood An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century American Children’s Poetry edited by Karen L. Kilcup and Angela Sorby “It is said that the nineteenth century invented children’s literature and in doing so reinvented childhood. An amazing act of (deft, almost invisible) scholarly recuperation.”—Robert Hass, U.S. Poet Laureate, 1995–1997 2013 592 pp., 62 b&w illus. 978-1-4214-1140-8 $29.95 pb Also available as an e-book
“Irwin’s superb and visionary vista upon Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald extends the
Being Cool
extraordinary panorama of critical insights
The Work of Elmore Leonard
into American literature for which Irwin is renowned.”—Harold Bloom 2014 248 pp. 978-1-4214-1230-6 $39.95 hc
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Charles J. Rzepka “Rzepka’s close reading of Leonard’s fiction is an insightful, thorough and timely addition to scholarship on the author.”
—Library Journal 2013 248 pp., 12 b&w illus. 978-1-4214-1015-9 $29.95 hc Also available as an e-book
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Theater and Film Studies
Poetry and Fiction The Night Guard at the Wilberforce Hotel
Music in the Shadows Noir Musical Films
poems by Daniel Anderson
Sheri Chinen Biesen
“Anderson’s fine new poems are plain spo-
Some musical films use film noir style and
ken, and yet their outwardness turns subtly
jazz to reveal the dark side of fame and the
inward as we read and endows each subject
American Dream. 2014 224 pp., 21 halftones 978-1-4214-0838-5 $29.95 pb Also available as an e-book
with depth and discovery.”
—Richard Wilbur
Performing the Temple of Liberty
2014 80 pp. 978-1-4214-1347-1 $19.95 pb Also available as an e-book
Slavery, Theater, and Popular Culture in London and Philadelphia, 1760–1850
The Lousy Adult stories by William J. Cobb
Jenna M. Gibbs
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How popular theater, including blackface characters, reflected and influenced attitudes toward race, the slave trade, and ideas of
cagey, hilarious, filled with Cobb’s trademark killer dialogue and tragicomic characters wanting and needing impossible things from
liberty in early America. 2014 352 pp., 22 b&w photos 978-1-4214-1338-9 $55.00 hc Also available as an e-book
each other.”—Heather Sellers,
author of Georgia Under Water 2013 216 pp. 978-1-4214-1147-7 $19.95 pb Also available as an e-book
A Cinema of Poetry Aesthetics of the Italian Art Film Joseph Luzzi Explores the poetics and aesthetics of Rossellini, Antonioni, Fellini, and other groundbreaking directors. 2014 256 pp., 34 b&w illus. 978-1-4214-1166-8 $49.95 hc Also available as an e-book
Nightmare Alley Film Noir and the American Dream Mark Osteen “Only a few of the many books on film noir are essential. This is one of them.”—Choice 2012 336 pp., 21 halftones 978-1-4214-1388-4 $29.95 pb Also available as an e-book
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