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American Fragments
Arabic Disclosures
The Political Aesthetic of Unfinished Forms in the Early Republic Daniel Diez Couch
The Postcolonial Autobiographical Atlas Muhsin J. al-Musawi
June 2022 472pp 9780268201647 £80.00 / $100.00 HB
April 2022 320pp 8 b&w illus. 9780812253795 £56.00 / $69.95 HB
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Arabic Disclosures presents readers with a compara�ve analysis of Arabic postcolonial autobiographical wri�ng. This book draws a map of Arab thought and culture in its mul�ple engagements with other cultures and will be useful for scholars and students of compara�ve literature, Arabic studies, and Middle Eastern studies, intellectual thought, and historical studies.
Between the independence of the colonies and the start of the Jacksonian age, American readers consumed an enormous number of literary texts called "fragments." This book argues that this archive of deliberately unfinished wri�ng reimagined the place of marginalized individuals in a country that was itself s�ll unfinished.
Avidly Reads Poetry
Balaam's Ass: Vernacular Theology Before the English Reformation
Jacquelyn Ardam
April 2022 176pp 4 b&w illus. 9781479813582 £10.99 / $14.95 PB 9781479813551 £63.00 / $79.00 HB
Volume 1: Frameworks, Arguments, English to 1250 Nicholas Watson
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
An ode to poetry and the worlds that come into play around the different ways it is wri�en and shared. With the singular blend of personal reflec�on and cultural cri�cism featured in the series, Avidly Reads Poetry sha�ers the wall between poetry and “the rest of us.”
The Middle Ages Series May 2022 640pp 5 tables 9780812253726 £72.00 / $89.95 HB
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
A�empts the first comprehensive overview of religious wri�ng in Old English, Insular French, and Middle English, between the ninth and sixteenth centuries. Focuses on the first genera�on of these wri�ngs, in Old English and early Middle English.
Excludes Taiwan, Japan, SE Asia & ANZ
Beyond Coloniality
Biographical Dictionary of Tang Dynasty Literati
Citizenship and Freedom in the Caribbean Intellectual Tradition Aaron Kamugisha
Edited by William H. Nienhauser, Jr. and Michael E. Naparstek
April 2022 270pp 9780253062635 £22.99 / $30.00 PB
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
April 2022 616pp 9780253060266 £44.00 / $55.00 HB
An extended medita�on on Caribbean thought and freedom at the beginning of the 21st century and a profound rejec�on of the pos�ndependence social and poli�cal organiza�on of the Anglophone Caribbean and its contentment with neocolonial arrangements of power. Provides a dazzling reading of two towering figures of the Caribbean intellectual tradi�on: C. L. R. James and Sylvia Wynter.
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
This book is the first comprehensive dic�onary of writers during the Tang dynasty. In addi�on to individual entries, it includes an overview of Tang literature, a literary �meline of the Tang, and an explana�on of official �tles and ranks, making it an indispensable resource for anyone interested in classical Chinese poetry. 1
Brian W. Aldiss
Cacaphonies
Paul Kincaid
The Excremental Canon of French Literature Annabel L. Kim
Modern Masters of Science Fic�on July 2022 216pp 9780252086557 £18.99 / $25.00 PB 9780252044489 £88.00 / $110.00 HB
April 2022 264pp 9781517910884 £20.99 / $27.00 PB 9781517910877 £86.00 / $108.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Brian W. Aldiss wrote classic science fic�on novels like Report on Probability A and Hothouse. Billion Year Spree, his groundbreaking study of the field, defined the very meaning of SF. Yet Aldiss’s discomfort with being a guiding spirit of the Bri�sh New Wave and his pursuit of mainstream success characterized a lifelong ambivalence toward the genre. Kincaid explores the many contradic�ons that underlay the dis�nc�ve quali�es of Aldiss’s wri�ng.
Readers and cri�cs have too long overlooked excrement’s vital role in the twen�eth- and twentyfirst-century French canon. In a stark challenge to the tendency to view this literature through sani�zing abstrac�ons, Kim undertakes close readings of key authors to argue for feces as a figure of radical equality, without which literary studies is impoverished and sterile. Excludes Japan & ANZ
Excludes SE Asia, Indian sc & ANZ
Chromatic
Troeung
Climate Lyricism
Ten Meditations on Crisis in Art and Letters Purang Abolmaesumi, Jennifer Black, Lara Boyd, Carrie Jenkins, Hoi Kong, M.V. Ramana, Steven Reynolds, Michelle Stack, Sheila Teves and Y-Dang
Min Hyoung Song
February 2022 256pp 5 illus. 9781478017738 £19.99 / $25.95 PB 9781478015116 £80.00 / $99.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Ar�culates a climate changecentered reading prac�ce that foregrounds how literature, poetry, and essays help us to be�er grapple with our everyday encounters with climate change and its disastrous effects, which are inextricably linked to the legacies of racism, colonialism, and extrac�on.
December 2021 78pp 31 full page orginal artworks 9781775276654 £11.99 / $15.95 PB
UBC PRESS
Asks what it means to be in crisis and grapples with the personal and societal impacts of crisis during a �me of unprecedented global upheaval. Excludes SE Asia, Indian sc & ANZ
Dante's "Other Works"
Dark Scenes from Damaged Earth
Assessments and Interpretations Edited by Zygmunt G. Baranski and Theodore J. Cachey, Jr.
The Gothic Anthropocene Edited by Justin D. Edwards, Rune Graulund and Johan Höglund
William and Katherine Devers Series in Dante and Medieval Italian Literature May 2022 504pp 2 b&w illus. 9780268202392 £36.00 / $45.00 PB 9780268202385 £100.00 / $125.00 HB
July 2022 392pp 17 b&w illus. 9781517911232 £22.99 / $29.95 PB 9781517911225 £95.00 / $120.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
Rather than speak of Dante’s “minor works,” this volume puts forward the designa�on “other works” both in light of their enhanced status and as part of a general effort to reaffirm their value as autonomous works. This volume will interest Dan�s�, medievalists, and literary scholars at every stage of their career.
This volume moves beyond longstanding perspec�ves on the Anthropocene—such as science fic�on and apocalyp�c narra�ves—to show that the Gothic offers a unique interpreta�on of events like climate change, diminished ecosystems, and mass ex�nc�on. Excludes Japan & ANZ
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Discovering Fiction
Dockside Reading
Sinotheory June 2022 160pp 9781478018308 £17.99 / $23.95 PB 9781478015673 £72.00 / $89.95 HB
February 2022 136pp 3 illus. 9781478017745 £17.99 / $22.95 PB 9781478015123 £68.00 / $84.95 HB
Lianke Yan, Translated by Carlos Rojas
Hydrocolonialism and the Custom House Isabel Hofmeyr
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
A�er emerging as one of the most important writers in the world, eminent Chinese novelist Lianke offers insights into his views on literature and realism, the major works that inspired him, and his theories of wri�ng. Revealing and instruc�ve, this book gives readers an unprecedented look into the mind and art of a literary giant.
Traces the rela�onship between print culture, colonialism, and the ocean through the ins�tu�on of the late-nineteenth- and early twen�eth-century Bri�sh colonial custom houses, which acted as censors and pronounced on copyright and checked imported printed ma�er for piracy, sedi�on, or obscenity. Explores how imperialism colonizes water and examines this theme through the concept of hydrocolonialism.
Eliot's Angels
Elusive Kinship
June 2022 440pp 9780268202644 £76.00 / $95.00 HB
April 2022 203pp 9781439922224 £22.99 / $29.95 PB 9781439922217 £88.00 / $110.50 HB
George Eliot, René Girard, and Mimetic Desire Bernadette Waterman Ward
Disability and Human Rights in Postcolonial Literature Christopher Krentz
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Offers an original rereading of George Eliot’s work through the lens of René Girard’s theories of mime�c desire, violence, and the sacred. It will appeal to the community of scholars in mime�c theory, literary scholars, Victorianists, and and students of the novel.
Krentz is the first to put the fields of postcolonial studies, studies of human rights and literature, and literary disability in conversa�on with each other in a book-length study. He enhances our apprecia�on of key texts of Anglophone postcolonial literature of the global South, including Things Fall Apart and Midnight's Children. Excludes Asia Pacific
Feminine Singularity
Feminist Formalism and Early Modern Women's Writing
The Politics of Subjectivity in Nineteenth-Century Literature Ronjaunee Chatterjee
Readings, Conversations, Pedagogies Edited by Lara Dodds and Michelle M. Dowd
August 2022 208pp 9781503630802 £48.00 / $60.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
What happens if we read nineteenth-century and Victorian texts not for the autonomous liberal subject, but for singularity—for what is par�al, con�ngent, and in rela�on, rather than what is merely "alone"? Feminine Singularity offers a powerful feminist theory of the subject—and shows us paths to thinking subjec�vity, race, and gender anew in literature and in our wider social world.
Women and Gender in the Early Modern World May 2022 310pp 6 illus., index 9781496220424 £48.00 / $60.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Reexamines the rela�onship between gender and form in early modern women’s wri�ng in essays that elaborate the specific literary strategies of women writers and that examine women’s debts to and appropria�ons of different literary genres. 3
Fictions of Consent
Figures of Possibility
RaceB4Race: Cri�cal Race Studies of the Premodern March 2022 328pp 25 hal�ones 9780812253658 £52.00 / $65.00 HB
Cultural Memory in the Present March 2022 312pp 9781503631045 £20.99 / $28.00 PB 9781503630437 £72.00 / $90.00 HB
Slavery, Servitude, and Free Service in Early Modern England Urvashi Chakravarty
PRESS
Aesthetic Experience, Mysticism, and the Play of the Senses Niklaus Largier
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
From medieval contempla�on to the early modern cosmopoe�c imagina�on, to the inven�on of aesthe�c experience, to nineteenth-century decadent literature, and to early-twen�eth century essayis�c forms of wri�ng and film, Niklaus Largier shows that mys�cal prac�ces have been reinvented across the centuries, genera�ng a no�on of possibility with unexpected cri�cal poten�al.
Although early modern England claimed to have "too pure an Air for Slaves to breathe in," slavery was a quintessen�ally English phenomenon, writes Chakravarty. She argues that England laid the conceptual groundwork for racialized slavery as it interrogated the classical inheritances and contemporary contexts for bondage.
Fyodor Dostoevsky—In the Beginning (1821–1845)
Genres of Privacy in Postwar America Palmer Rampell
A Life in Letters, Memoirs, and Criticism Thomas Gaiton Marullo
Post*45 June 2022 240pp 9781503631892 £22.99 / $30.00 PB 9781503629219 £72.00 / $90.00 HB
NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies August 2022 370pp 9781501764592 £24.99 / $32.95 NIP
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
With this incisive work, Palmer Rampell reveals the surprising role genre fic�on played in redefining the category of the private person in the postwar period. Especially a�er the Supreme Court established a cons�tu�onal right to privacy in 1965, legal scholars, judges, and the public scrambled to understand the scope of that right.
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
More than a century a�er his death in 1881, Fyodor Dostoevsky con�nues to fascinate readers and reviewers. In this important new work, Thomas Marullo provides a diary-portrait of Dostoevsky's early years drawn from the le�ers, memoirs, and cri�cism of the writer.
Grammatology of Images
Holy Digital Grail
A Medieval Book on the Internet Michelle R. Warren
A History of the A-Visible Sigrid Weigel, Translated by Chadwick Truscott Smith
Stanford Text Technologies March 2022 304pp 9781503631168 £22.99 / $30.00 PB 9781503608009 £72.00 / $90.00 HB
Commonali�es May 2022 320pp 71 b&w illus. 9781531500276 £26.99 / $35.00 PB 9781531500153 £100.00 / $125.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Medieval books that survive today have been through a lot: singed by fire, mo�led by mold, eaten by insects, annotated by readers, cut into fragments, or damaged through well-inten�oned preserva�on efforts. In this book, Michelle Warren tells the story of one such manuscript— an Arthurian romance with textual origins in twel�h-century England now diffused across the twenty-first century internet.
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Instead of asking for the history, power, or essence of images, Weigel addresses imaging as such. Considers how something a-visible gets transformed into an image. Weigel scru�nizes the moment of mis-en-appari�on, of making an appearance, and the process of concealment that accompanies any imaging. 4
How to Do Things with Dead People
Ideal Minds
Raising Consciousness in the Antisocial Seventies Michael Trask
History, Technology, and Temporality from Shakespeare to Warhol Alice Dailey
May 2022 258pp 9781501764639 £18.99 / $24.95 NIP
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
June 2022 256pp 20 color hal�ones 9781501763656 £32.00 / $39.95 HB
In Ideal Minds, Michael Trask presents a boldly revisionist argument about the revival of subjec�vity in postmodern American culture, connec�ng familiar figures within the seven�es intellectual landscape who share a commitment to what he calls "neoidealism" as a weapon in the struggle against discredited materialist and behaviorist worldviews.
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
How to Do Things with Dead People studies human contrivances for represen�ng and rela�ng to the dead. Alice Dailey takes as her principal objects of inquiry Shakespeare's English history plays, describing them as reproduc�ve mechanisms by which living replicas of dead historical figures are regenerated in the present and re-killed.
If Babel Had a Form
Inventing William of Norwich
Translating Equivalence in the Twentieth-Century Transpacific Tze-Yin Teo
Thomas of Monmouth and Literary Culture, 1150 - 1200 Heather Blurton
April 2022 256pp 9781531500191 £24.99 / $32.00 PB 9781531500184 £88.00 / $110.00 HB
The Middle Ages Series May 2022 296pp 3 b&w hal�ones 9780812253924 £48.00 / $59.95 HB
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
“The likeness of form between Chinese and English sentences,” writes the American Sinologist Ernest Fenollosa around 1906, “renders transla�on from one to the other excep�onally easy.” If Babel Had a Form asks not if his claim may be true, but what its phantasmic surprise may yet do.
PRESS
Offers a revisionist reading of Thomas Monmouth's account of the saint's life that contains the earliest account of a Chris�an child ritually murdered by Jews. She demonstrates how innova�ons in literary forms in the twel�h century shaped the ar�cula�on of medieval an�semi�sm.
Jewish Literary Eros
Look Round for Poetry
Between Poetry and Prose in the Medieval Mediterranean Isabelle Levy, Foreword by Raymond P. Scheindlin
Untimely Romanticisms Brian McGrath
Lit Z May 2022 192pp 9780823299799 £20.99 / $28.00 PB 9780823299805 £76.00 / $95.00 HB
Sephardi and Mizrahi Studies June 2022 202pp 9780253060150 £36.00 / $45.00 HB
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Explores the originality and complexity of medieval Jewish wri�ngs. Levy explores Jewish authors' treatments of love in prosimetra and finds them crea�ve, complex, and innova�ve.This book compares the mixed-form composi�ons by Jewish authors of the medieval Mediterranean with their Arabic and European counterparts to find the par�cular moments of innova�on among textual prac�ces by Jewish authors.
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
Poetry is dead. Poetry is all around us. Both are trite truisms that this book exploits and challenges. By placing tropes and figures common to Roman�c and Post-Roman�c poems in conjunc�on with contemporary economic, technological, and poli�cal discourse, Look Round for Poetry iden�fies poetry’s un�mely echoes in discourses not always read as poetry or not always read poe�cally. 5
Love against Substitution
Making the Marvelous Marie-Catherine d’Aulnoy, Henriette-Julie de Murat, and the Literary Representation of the Decorative Arts Rori Bloom
Seventeenth-Century English Literature and the Meaning of Marriage Eric B. Song
Early Modern Cultural Studies June 2022 254pp 1 appendix, index 9781496222671 £52.00 / $65.00 HB
Cultural Memory in the Present April 2022 336pp 9781503631403 £20.99 / $28.00 PB 9781503630444 £72.00 / $90.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
The fairy tales of Marie-Catherine d’Aulnoy and Henrie�e-Julie de Murat gave pride of place to richly detailed descrip�ons of palaces, gardens, and clothing. Shows how these prac��oners of a supposedly minor genre made a major contribu�on as chroniclers and cri�cs of the decora�ve arts in Old Regime France.
The wri�ngs studied in this book elevate a love between two individuals who deem each other to be unique to the point of being irreplaceable, and this vocabulary allows writers to put affec�ve pressure on the meaning of marriage as Pauline theology defines it.
Myriad Intimacies
Obscene Gestures
Lata Mani
Counter-Narratives of Sex and Race in the Twentieth Century Patrick Lawrence
July 2022 128pp 8 illus. 9781478018278 £17.99 / $22.95 PB 9781478015659 £68.00 / $84.95 HB
June 2022 240pp 3 b&w illus. 9781531500092 £22.99 / $30.00 PB 9781531500085 £84.00 / $105.00 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Oscillates between poetry and prose, genre and form, register and voice, and secular and sacred to meditate on the ways in which everyone and everything exists in mutually cons�tu�ve interrela�ons. Addressing issues ranging from desire, the body, nature, and love, to otherness, iden�ty poli�cs, social jus�ce, #MeToo, and the COVID-19 pandemic, Mani foregrounds the power and necessity of recognizing rela�onality as founda�onal.
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Provides important considera�ons of difference and exclusion to enrich recep�on studies and American canon-forma�on while focusing on challenging, transgressive texts. Blends rigorous scholarship and provoca�ve content to offer a deeper understanding of how works are deemed either avant-garde or obscene.
Of Sunken Islands and Pestilence
Poetic Form and Romantic Provocation
Restoring the Voice of Edward Taylor Fletcher to NineteenthCentury Canadian Literature James Gifford
Carmen Faye Mathes
June 2022 232pp 9781503630246 £48.00 / $60.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Poe�c Form and Roman�c Provoca�on argues that being moved contrary to one's will is itself an aesthe�c phenomenon explored by Roman�c poets whose experiments with poe�c form and genre provoke unan�cipated feelings through verse. Mathes shows how provoca�ons disrupt and invite, disturb and compel—interrup�ng or suspending or retrea�ng in ways that ask readers to orient themselves, materially and socially, in rela�on to literary experiences that are at once virtual and embodied.
April 2022 220pp 9781771993449 £29.99 / $37.95 PB
UBC PRESS
Taylor Fletcher was a literary figure almost completely forgo�en by history. Poet, travel writer, essayist, surveyor, philologist, and translator, he shared many characteris�cs with the great literary figures of the �me. Gifford uncovers a unique Canadian literary voice who explored content, style, and concerns unlike the popular colonial narra�ves of his �me. Excludes SE Asia, Indian sc & ANZ 6
Posthumous Lives
Reading Shakespeare Reading Me
World War I and the Culture of Memory Bette London
Leonard Barkan
April 2022 256pp 5 color and 6 b&w illus. 9780823299195 £22.99 / $29.95 HB
April 2022 288pp 30 b&w hal�ones 9781501762352 £37.00 / $45.95 HB
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
A gripping, funny, joyful account of how the books you read shape your own life in surprising and profound ways. Drawing on fi�y years as a Shakespearean, Leonard Barkan’s uniquely cap�va�ng book traces the many surprising and profound ways reading, teaching, ac�ng, direc�ng, and wri�ng about Shakespeare has informed and shaped his life.
Posthumous Lives explores the shi�ing significance of public and private efforts to commemorate Bri�sh soldiers killed in World War I—as well as the less wellremembered casual�es of the war, including Voluntary Aid Detachments, nurses, conscien�ous objectors, civilians, and soldiers executed for deser�on or cowardice—and the compelling hold the First World War has had on the Bri�sh imagina�on for more than a century.
Scales of Captivity
Slow Narrative and Nonhuman Materialities
Racial Capitalism and the Latinx Child Mary Pat Brady
Marco Caracciolo
April 2022 312pp 5 illus. 9781478017936 £20.99 / $27.95 PB 9781478015314 £84.00 / $104.95 HB
Fron�ers of Narra�ve March 2022 264pp 2 photographs, 15 illus., index 9781496229090 £48.00 / $60.00 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Traces the figure of the cap�ve and cast-off child over 150 years of La�nx/Chicanx literature as a cri�que of colonial modernity and the forms of confinement that underpin racialized ci�zenship. By showing how representa�ons of the cap�ve child cri�que the entrenched logic undergirding colonial power, Brady challenges racialized modes of ci�zenship while offering visions for living beyond borders.
Marco Caracciolo inves�gates how the experience of slowness in contemporary narra�ve prac�ces can create a vision of interconnectedness between human communi�es and the nonhuman world in an era marked by drama�cally shi�ing climate pa�erns.
Sonic Bodies
Soviet Samizdat
Text, Music, and Silence in Late Medieval England Tekla Bude
Imagining a New Society Ann Komaromi NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies May 2022 318pp 20 b&w hal�ones 9781501763595 £40.00 / $49.95 HB
Sound in History March 2022 336pp 11 b&w hal�ones, 1 table 9780812253702 £56.00 / $69.95 HB
PRESS
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
Based on extensive research of the underground journals, bulle�ns, art folios and other periodicals produced in the Soviet Union from the mid-1950s to the mid-1980s, Soviet Samizdat traces the emergence and development of samizdat, one of the most significant and dis�nc�ve phenomena of the late Soviet era as an uncensored system for making and sharing texts.
Starts from a simple premise—that music requires a body to perform it—to rethink the rela�onship between music, ma�er, and the body in the late medieval period. Sonic Bodies argues that writers thought of "music" and "the body" as mutually dependent and historically determined processes that called each other into being. 7
Taking Form, Making Worlds
The Afterlife of Moses Exile, Democracy, Renewal Michael Steinberg
Cartonera Publishers in Latin America Lucy Bell, Alex Ungprateeb Flynn and Patrick O'Hare
Cultural Memory in the Present July 2022 224pp 9781503632295 £20.99 / $28.00 PB 9781503631144 £72.00 / $90.00 HB
April 2022 360pp 9781477324950 £36.00 / $45.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
In this elegant and personal new work, Michael Steinberg reflects on the story of Moses and the Exodus as a founda�onal myth of poli�cs—of the forma�on not of a na�on but of a poli�cal community grounded in universal law.
The first comprehensive study of cartonera. By showcasing such diverse authors and bookmakers, cartonera publishers have encouraged varied works while making a home for an aesthe�cs of resistance, for experimenta�on, and for those living on the fringes of capitalist socie�es in which poverty, eccentricity, and crea�vity itself, are suspect.
The Comic Book Western
The Ethics of Narrative
Essays on History, Literature, and Theory, 1998–2007 Hayden White, Edited by Robert Doran, Foreword by Judith Butler
New Perspectives on a Global Genre Edited by Christopher Conway and Antoinette Sol
August 2022 278pp 9781501764745 £20.99 / $27.95 PB 9781501764738 £100.00 / $125.00 HB
Postwestern Horizons June 2022 342pp 34 figures, index 9781496231642 £22.99 / $30.00 PB 9781496218995 £79.00 / $99.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Hayden White is widely considered to be the most influen�al historical theorist of the twen�eth century. The Ethics of Narra�ve brings together nearly all of White's uncollected essays from the last two decades of his life, revealing a lesserknown side of White: that of the public intellectual.
This book centers comics in the Western’s interna�onal success. The vibrant themes uncovered here teach us that interna�onal comic book Westerns are not hollow imita�ons but complex and aesthe�cally powerful statements about iden�ty, culture, and poli�cs.
The Etiquette of Early Northern Verse
The Forbidden Body
Sex, Horror, and the Religious Imagination Douglas E. Cowan
Roberta Frank
Conway Lectures in Medieval Studies May 2022 320pp 9780268202521 £52.00 / $65.00 HB
May 2022 336pp 16 b&w illus. 9781479803118 £22.99 / $30.00 PB 9781479803101 £71.00 / $89.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
By declu�ering and stripping away excess, by drawing words through a �ght mesh of meter, allitera�on, and rhyme, the early northern poet filtered out dross and s�tched together a poe�cs of stark contrasts and forebodings. Poets and lovers of poetry of all periods and places will find much to enjoy here.
Examines how horror culture treats bodies that have le�, or been forced out of, their “proper” place, exploring the dark spaces where sex and the sexual body come together with religious belief and tales of terror. This book offers a fascina�ng look at how and why we imagine bodies in all the wrong places. Excludes Taiwan, Japan, SE Asia & ANZ
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The Invention of Shakespeare, and Other Essays
The Medical Imagination
Literature and Health in the Early United States Sari Altschuler
Stephen Orgel
March 2022 176pp 7 hal�ones 9780812253740 £32.00 / $39.95 HB
Early American Studies March 2022 312pp 12 illus. 9780812225204 £20.99 / $27.50 PB
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
In his own �me, Shakespeare was not a monument, but a man of the theater whose plays were less finished ar�facts than works in process. This book brings together twelve essays that consider the complex nature of Shakespearean texts, which o�en include errors or confusions, and the editorial and interpre�ve strategies for dealing with them in commentary or performance.
Traces the prac�ce of using imagina�on and literature to cra�, test, and implement theories of health in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century America. This history of imagina�ve experimenta�on provides a usable past for conversa�ons about the role of the humani�es in health research and prac�ce today.
The Mysterious Romance of Murder
The Paranoid Chronotope
May 2022 296pp 9781501763625 £20.99 / $27.95 HB
May 2022 296pp 9781503631601 £20.99 / $28.00 PB 9781503630482 £72.00 / $90.00 HB
Crime, Detection, and the Spirit of Noir David Lehman
Power, Truth, Identity Frida Beckman
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
From Sherlock Holmes to Sam Spade and Nick and Nora Charles to Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin— crime and crime-solving in fic�on and film cap�vate us. Why do we keep going back to Agatha Chris�e's ingenious puzzles and Raymond Chandler's hardboiled murder mysteries? David Lehman explores a wide variety of outstanding books and movies with style, wit, and passion.
This book iden�fies and illuminates paranoia as a significant feature of contemporary American society and culture. It explores and explains the increasing influence of paranoid thinking in American society during the second half of the twen�eth century and first decades of the twentyfirst, a period that has seen the rise of control systems and neoliberal ascendency.
The Poetics of Cruising
The Textual Effects of David Walker's "Appeal"
Queer Visual Culture from Whitman to Grindr Jack Parlett
Print-Based Activism Against Slavery, Racism, and Discrimination, 1829-1851 Marcy J. Dinius
February 2022 256pp 9781517911041 £20.99 / $27.00 PB 9781517911034 £86.00 / $108.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Material Texts April 2022 360pp 16 hal�ones 9780812253788 £44.00 / $55.00 HB
A groundbreaking new history of urban cruising through the lenses of urban poets. The Poe�cs of Cruising explores the rela�onship between cruising, photography, and the visual in the work of leading poets, from Walt Whitman in the nineteenth century to Eileen Myles in the twenty-first.
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Excludes Japan & ANZ
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Offers the first in-depth analysis of Walker's argumenta�vely and typographically radical pamphlet and its direct influence on five Black and Indigenous ac�vist authors, Maria W. Stewart, William Apess, William Paul Quinn, Henry Highland Garnet, and Paola Brown.
The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne, Volume 4.3
The Yeshiva and the Rise of Modern Hebrew Literature
The Songs and Sonets: Part 3: Texts, Commentary, Notes, and Glosses John Donne, Edited by Jeffrey S. Johnson
Marina Zilbergerts
Jews in Eastern Europe April 2022 184pp 9780253059437 £26.99 / $35.00 PB 9780253059444 £64.00 / $80.00 HB
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
The Variorum Edi�on of the Poetry of John Donne June 2022 1050pp 9780253058300 £68.00 / $85.00 HB
Depar�ng from the conven�onal interpreta�on of the origins of Hebrew literature in secular culture, Zilbergerts points to the prac�ces and metaphysics of Talmud study as its essen�al anima�ng forces. This book reveals the las�ng engagement of modern Jewish le�ers with the hallowed tradi�on of rabbinic learning.
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
This final volume in the series presents newly edited cri�cal texts of 32 love lyrics, detailing the genealogical history of each poem, accompanied by a thorough prose discussion.
Three Centuries of Travel Writing by Muslim Women
Translating Christ in the Middle Ages Gender, Authorship, and the Visionary Text Barbara Zimbalist
Edited by Siobhan LambertHurley, Daniel Majchrowicz and Sunil Sharma
February 2022 350pp 9780268202200 £40.00 / $50.00 PB 9780268202194 £100.00 / $125.00 HB
August 2022 520pp 40 b&w illus. 9780253062390 £52.00 / $65.00 PB 9780253062048 £84.00 / $105.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Explores how women’s visionary transla�on of Christ’s speech ini�ated larger transforma�ons of gendered authorship and religious authority within medieval culture. Medieval women turned themselves into authors and devo�onal guides, and formed their readers into textual communi�es shaped by gendered visionary experiences and spoken imita�o Chris�.
The contributors recover, translate, annotate, and provide historical and cultural context for the 17thto 20th-century wri�ngs of Muslim women travelers in ten different languages. The stunning firsthand accounts in this collec�on completely upend preconceived no�ons of who was exploring the world.
Unfinished Spirit
Visual Translation
March 2022 224pp 13 b&w hal�ones 9781501762321 £24.99 / $32.95 HB
Conway Lectures in Medieval Studies April 2022 480pp 183 color illus., 1 table 9780268202279 £64.00 / $80.00 HB
Illuminated Manuscripts and the First French Humanists Anne D. Hedeman
Muriel Rukeyser's Twentieth Century Rowena Kennedy-Epstein CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
In Unfinished Spirit, Rowena Kennedy-Epstein brings to light the extraordinary archive of Muriel Rukeyser's (1913–1980) unpublished and incomplete literary works, revealing the ways in which misogyny influences the kinds of texts we read and value.
Breaks new ground in the study of French manuscripts, contribu�ng to the fields of French humanism, textual transla�on, and the recep�on of the classical tradi�on in the first half of the fi�eenth century. With over 180 color images, this will appeal to students and scholars of French, compara�ve literature, art history, history of the book, and transla�on studies. 10
Vital Strife
Warring Genealogies
August 2022 312pp 9781501764509 £52.00 / $64.95 HB
Cri�cal Race, Indigeneity, and Rela�onality June 2022 171pp 9781439920589 £20.99 / $27.95 PB 9781439920572 £79.00 / $99.50 HB
Sleep, Insomnia, and the Early Modern Ethics of Care Benjamin Parris
Race, Kinship, and the Korean War Joo Ok Kim
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Vital Strife examines the close yet puzzling rela�onship between sleep and ethical care in early modernity. The plays, poems, and philosophical essays at the heart of this book—by Jasper Heywood, William Shakespeare, Edmund Spenser, John Milton, and Margaret Cavendish—explore the unconscious mo�ons of corporeal life and the drowsy forms of sen�ence at the boundaries of human thought and inten�onality.
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Examines kinships between Chicano/a and Asian American cultural produc�on, such as the 1954 proxy adop�on of a Korean boy by Leavenworth prisoners. Unpacks wri�ngs by Rolando Hinojosa and Valdez to show the counter-representa�ons of the Korean War and the problema�c depic�on of the US as a benevolent savior. Excludes Asia Pacific
Why the Assembly Disbanded
Won in Translation
Textual Mobility in Early Modern Europe Roger Chartier, Translated by John H. Pollack
Roberto Tejada
March 2022 88pp 8 color and 8 b&w photos 9780823299256 £12.99 / $16.95 PB
Material Texts April 2022 160pp 10 hal�ones 9780812253832 £44.00 / $55.00 HB
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Throughout Roberto Tejada’s body of work, the renowned poet and celebrated cri�c has explored themes of La�nx culture, poli�cs, history, language, and ecologies. In his latest collec�on, Why the Assembly Disbanded, he presents a unique contribu�on to La�nx le�ers that reflects on the rela�ons between the U.S. and La�n America, especially their real and symbolic borderlands.
PRESS
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
Considers the mobility of the early modern text and the plurality of circula�ng versions of the same work. The agent for both is transla�on, for through their lexical, aesthe�c, and cultural decisions, translators always assign new meaning or new status to what they translate.
Writing the Mind
fiction
Social Cognition in NineteenthCentury American Fiction Hannah Walser
148 Charles Street A Novel Tracy Daugherty
July 2022 248pp 9781503630079 £48.00 / $60.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
April 2022 146pp 9781496229748 £14.99 / $19.95 PB
Nineteenth-century U.S. literature reveals how li�le we know about other minds–and inves�gates whether social life can work without them. Through readings of authors such as Charles Brockden Brown, Herman Melville, Mar�n Delany, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Charles Chesnu�, and Mark Twain, Hannah Walser explains how experimental models of cogni�on lead to some of the strangest formal features of canonical American texts.
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
This short novel explores Willa Cather’s friendship with journalist Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant, tracing the aesthe�c arguments that shaped much of their rela�onship: art versus poli�cs and tradi�on versus innova�on.
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Casablanca Story
In the Year of the Rabbit
In Koli Jean Bofane, Translated by Bill Johnston
A Novel Terrance A. Harkin
Global African Voices May 2022 166pp 9780253058799 £18.99 / $25.00 PB
March 2022 316pp 9786162151767 £14.99 / $18.95 PB
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
The author trains his razor-sharp observa�ons of a bi�er reality and his mordant humor on corrup�on among the powerful, shady property deals, and the vulnerable situa�on of migrants and male sexual desire, and he succeeds in transforming a desperate contemporary reality into engrossing and entertaining fic�on.
In the Year of the Rabbit tells a story of healing and redemp�on and honors three groups missing from accounts of the Vietnam War—the air commandos who risked death flying nightly over the Ho Chi Minh Trail, the ac�ve-duty airmen who risked prison by joining the GI an�war movement, and the people of neutral Laos, whose lives and country were devastated.
Our Shared Storm
Red and Black
April 2022 224pp 2 b&w illus. 9780823299546 £14.99 / $19.95 PB 9780823299539 £56.00 / $70.00 HB
June 2022 504pp 9781517911447 £18.99 / $24.95 PB
A Novel of Five Climate Futures Andrew Dana Hudson
A Chronicle of 1830 Stendhal, Translated by Raymond N. MacKenzie
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Combining fic�on and nonfic�on and employing specula�ve tools for scholarly purposes, Our Shared Storm explores not just one poten�al climate future but five possible outcomes dependent upon our ac�ons today. Wri�en by specula�ve fic�on writer and sustainability researcher Andrew Dana Hudson, Our Shared Storm features five overlapping fic�ons to employ a futurist technique called “scenarios thinking.”
Shocking at the �me of its original publica�on, startling in its relevance today, Stendhal’s masterpiece is a scorching social sa�re, a remarkably detailed portrait of a fraught moment in history and, as perhaps the first psychological novel, a brilliant precursor to modern literature at once comical and tragic, cerebral and passionate. This new transla�on faithfully reproduces the nimble wit, emo�onal depth, and social acuity of Stendhal’s text. Excludes Japan & ANZ
Strike Patterns
The Book of Charlatans
Notes from Postwar Laos Leah Zani
Jamāl al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm al-Jawbarī , Translated by Humphrey Davies, Foreword by S. A. Chakraborty
March 2022 208pp 9781503611733 £18.99 / $25.00 HB
Library of Arabic Literature May 2022 300pp 9781479813247 £11.99 / $16.00 PB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
A strike pa�ern is a signature of violence carved into the land— bomb craters or fragments of explosives le� behind, forgo�en. Leah Zani journeys to a Lao river community where people live alongside such relics of a secret war. With sensi�ve and arres�ng prose, Zani reveals the layered reali�es that se�le atop one another in Laos—from its French colonial history to today's authoritarian state—all blown open by the war.
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
A comprehensive guide to trickery and scams as prac�ced in the thirteenth century in the ci�es of the Middle East, especially in Syria and Egypt. Covering everything from invisible wri�ng to doctoring gemstones and quack medicine, this book opens a fascina�ng window into a subculture of beggars’ guilds and professional con ar�sts in the medieval Arab world. 12
Excludes Taiwan, Japan, SE Asia & ANZ
Thunderbird
Troll Magic
Book One Sonia Nimr, Translated by M. Lynx Qualey
Hidden Folk from the Mountains and Forests of Norway Theodor Kittelsen, Translated by Tiina Nunnally
March 2022 128pp 9781477325810 £11.99 / $16.00 PB
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
June 2022 96pp 24 b&w illus. 9781517911393 £16.99 / $21.95 HB
A fast-paced �me-traveling fantasy adventure centered on a Pales�nian girl who travels to the past in a magical quest to save the world. Noor begins her journey, through different historical periods, striving to keep the wall between worlds intact.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Published as Troldskab in 1892, Ki�elsen spins tales of wonder around creatures rumored to haunt the fields, forests, and waterfalls of Norway. Tailoring his whimsical ar�s�c style to each tale, Ki�elsen’s stories, in Nunnally’s nimble transla�on, reveal a Nordic world of wonder, myth, and magic as real as the imagina�on allows. Excludes Japan & ANZ
Love, Death, Fame
poetry
Good night the pleasure was ours David Grubbs
Poetry and Lore from the Emirati Oral Tradition al-Māyidī ibn Ẓāhir, Edited and translated by Marcel Kurpershoek
May 2022 168pp 3 illus. 9781478018179 £16.99 / $21.95 PB 9781478015543 £72.00 / $89.95 HB
Library of Arabic Literature March 2022 400pp 9781479806577 £26.99 / $35.00 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
In this book-length poem Grubbs melts down and recasts three decades of playing music on tour, capturing the daily life of touring as a world unto itself. And yet, over the course of the book’s mul�decade arc, Grubbs depicts music-making as an irreversible process—one reason for loving it so.
Features the poetry of al-Māyidī ibn Ẓāhir, who has been embraced as the earliest poet in what would later become the United Arab Emirates. The tales included portray him as a wi�y, resourceful, scruffy poet, at �mes comba�ve and at �mes kindhearted. Offers a glimpse of what life was like four centuries ago in the region that is now the UAE. Excludes Taiwan, Japan, SE Asia & ANZ
Terra Incognita
The Difference Is Spreading
Poems Sara Henning
Fifty Contemporary Poets on Fifty Poems Edited by Al Filreis and Anna Strong Safford
Hollis Summers Poetry Prize March 2022 84pp 9780821424759 £13.99 / $17.95 PB
OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS
April 2022 272pp 9780812253238 £22.99 / $29.95 PB 9780812253962 £44.00 / $55.00 HB
This poignant collec�on of masterful elegies centers on the revelatory ways in which the speaker reconciles love, loss, and grief’s legacy. Following her mother’s ba�le with colon cancer and her own crisis of meaning, Henning culminates the collec�on with her rediscovery of joy in life’s small moments.
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Al Filreis, creator and lead teacher of the open online course on modern and contemporary poetry known as ModPo, and Anna Strong Safford invite fi�y poets to select and comment upon a poem by another writer, demonstra�ng how poetry happens when a reader and a poet come in contact with one another. 13
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