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A Harp in the Stars
literature
An Anthology of Lyric Essays Edited by Randon Billings Noble
A Fictional Commons
Natsume Soseki and the Properties of Modern Literature Michael K. Bourdaghs
October 2021 344pp 17 illus. 9781496217745 £18.99/ $24.95 PB
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
September 2021 248pp 2 illus. 9781478014621 £19.99/ $25.95 PB 9781478013693 £80.00/ $99.95 HB
Randon Billings Noble has collected a range of lyric essays in a variety of forms that showcase the essay’s openness to experimenta�on, reliance on authen�c voice, and poten�al to explore complex subject ma�er.
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Bourdaghs presents a radical reframing of the works of Natsume Sōseki—widely considered to be Japan's greatest modern novelist—as cri�cal and crea�ve responses to the emergence of new forms of property ownership in nineteenth-century Japan.
A Planetary Lens
Ahab Unbound
Postwestern Horizons October 2021 354pp 34 photos 9781496225139 £52.00/ $65.00 HB
December 2021 464pp 7 b&w illus. 9781517907556 £20.99/ $28.00 PB 9781517907549 £89.00/ $112.00 HB
The Photo-Poetics of Western Women's Writing Audrey Goodman
Melville and the Materialist Turn Edited by Meredith Farmer & Jonathan D. S. Schroeder
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Delves into the history of the photo-book, the materiality of the photographic image on the page, and the cultural significance of landscape to explore how women writers and photographers revise and reimagine landscape, iden�ty, and history in the U.S. West.
In sixteen essays by leading scholars, Ahab Unbound advances an urgent inquiry into Melville’s emergence as a center of gravity for materialist work, reframing his infamous whaling captain in terms of pressing conversa�ons in animal studies, cri�cal race and ethnic studies, disability studies, environmental humani�es, medical humani�es, poli�cal theory, and posthumanism. Excludes Japan & ANZ
All Future Plunges to the Past
Between Two Millstones, Book 1
James Joyce in Russian Literature José Vergara
Sketches of Exile, 1974–1978 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Translated by Peter Constantine Foreword by Daniel J. Mahoney
NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies October 2021 270pp 9781501759901 £44.00/ $54.95 HB
The Center for Ethics and Culture Solzhenitsyn Series October 2021 480pp 9780268105020 £19.99/ $26.00 NIP
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Explores how Russian writers from the mid-1920s on have read and responded to Joyce's work. José Vergara uncovers the many roles Joyce has occupied in Russia over the last century, demonstra�ng how writers draw from Joyce's texts to address the vola�le ques�ons of lineages in their respec�ve Soviet, émigré, and post-Soviet contexts.
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
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The first of a two-volume memoir, Between Two Millstones, Book 1 explores Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s exile from the Soviet Union and struggles to find a home in the West. I
Big, Ambitious Novels by Twenty-FirstCentury Women Parts I & 2
Bitstreams
The Future of Digital Literary Heritage Matthew G. Kirschenbaum
Edited by Courtney Jacobs & Edited by James Zeigler
Material Texts October 2021 160pp 12 hts. 9780812224955 £18.99/ $24.95 PB 9780812253412 £52.00/ $65.00 HB
Part 1: June 2021 152pp 3 illus. 9781478017554 £10.99/ $15.00 PB Part 2: August 2021 160pp 1 illus. 9781478018049 £10.99/ $15.00 PB
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
In Bitstreams, Ma�hew G. Kirschenbaum dis�lls twenty years of thinking about the intersec�on of digital media, textual studies, and literary archives to argue that bits—the ubiquitous ones and zeros of compu�ng— always depend on the material world that surrounds them to form the bulwark for preserving the future of literary heritage.
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
In a 2000 review of Zadie Smith’s White Teeth, cri�c James Wood dismissed the genre of "big, ambi�ous novels" as "hysterical realism." Takes Wood's derisive claims as a rallying cry to examine encyclopedic or maximalist novels by women published in the past two decades.
Black Age
Black Metaphors
September 2021 272pp 1 b&w illus. 9781479810895 £20.99/ $28.00 PB 9781479810888 £71.00/ $89.00 HB
The Middle Ages Series September 2021 256pp 2 illus. 9780812225068 £18.99/ $24.95 NIP
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Oceanic Lifespans and the Time of Black Life Habiba Ibrahim
How Modern Racism Emerged from Medieval Race-Thinking Cord J. Whitaker
Repeatedly, excuses for police brutality—par�cularly against Black children—concern the vic�m “appearing” a threat. But why is the perceived “appearance” of Black persons so separated from common percep�ons of age and �me? Habiba Ibrahim offers a view of transatlan�c slavery’s a�erlife and modern Blackness through the lens of age.
In Black Metaphors, Cord J. Whitaker argues that rhetoric and theology establish blackness and whiteness as metaphors for sin and purity in medieval English and European wri�ng. Whitaker shows how these metaphors came to guide the development of no�ons of race in the centuries that followed.
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Black Pulp
Catalogue of Irish Manuscripts in Houghton Library, Harvard University
Genre Fiction in the Shadow of Jim Crow Brooks E. Hefner
Cornelius G. Buttimer
December 2021 248pp 15 b&w illus. 9781517911577 £18.99/ $25.00 PB 9781517911560 £80.00/ $100.00 HB
December 2021 490pp 9780268201012 £119.00/ $150.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
A deep dive into mid-century African American newspapers, exploring how Black pulp fic�on reassembled genre formulas in the service of racial jus�ce. As Brooks E. Hefner’s Black Pulp shows, the tradi�on of an�racist genre revision begins even earlier than recent studies of Black superhero comics of the 1960s have revealed.
Harvard University has the largest collec�on of Irishlanguage codices in North America, held in Houghton Library, its rare book repository. This catalogue describes the collec�on in full for the first �me and will be an invaluable aid to research on Irish and Irish American cultural and literary output. The author’s introduc�on examines how the collec�on was formed.
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Charles Bernstein
Chinese Sympathies
The Poetry of Idiomatic Insistences Edited by Paul A. Bové
Media, Missionaries, and World Literature from Marco Polo to Goethe Daniel Leonhard Purdy
October 2021 369pp 1 illus. 9781478014973 £8.99/ $12.00 PB
Signale: Modern German Le�ers, Cultures, and Thought October 2021 420pp 3 b&w hts. 9781501759741 £26.99/ $34.95 PB 9781501759734 £92.00/ $115.00 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
As an acclaimed poet, editor, cri�c, translator, and educator, Charles Bernstein's decades-long commitment to poetry and poe�cs, cri�cism, and literary scholarship reflects a profound understanding of the importance of language to every level of culture-making. This issue includes Bernstein's most informa�ve and significant interna�onal interviews, many published here in English for the first �me.
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Analyzing key German literary texts, Chinese Sympathies examines how Europeans—and German-speaking writers and thinkers in par�cular—iden�fied with Chinese intellectual and literary tradi�ons following the circula�on of Marco Polo's Travels.
Cut/Copy/Paste
Embattled
December 2021 328pp 60 b&w illus., 10 color plates 9781517904098 £20.99/ $28.00 PB 9781517904081 £89.00/ $112.00 HB
September 2021 344pp 9781503628564 £22.99/$30.00 HB
Fragments from the History of Bookwork Whitney Trettien
How Ancient Greek Myths Empower Us to Resist Tyranny Emily Katz Anhalt STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
An incisive explora�on of the way Greek myths empower us to defeat tyranny. Following her highly praised book Enraged, the classicist Emily Katz Anhalt retells tales from key ancient Greek texts and then goes on to interpret the important message they hold for us today. As she reveals, Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Aeschylus's Oresteia, and Sophocles's An�gone encourage us to take responsibility for our own choices and their consequences.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
How do early modern media underlie today’s digital crea�vity? In Cut/Copy/Paste, Whitney Tre�en journeys to the fringes of the London print trade to uncover makerspaces and collaboratories where paper media were cut up and reassembled into radical, bespoke publica�ons. Excludes Japan & ANZ
Empire's Nursery
Fair Copy
Children's Literature and the Origins of the American Century Brian Rouleau
Relational Poetics and Antebellum American Women's Poetry Jennifer Putzi
September 2021 336pp 15 b&w illus. 9781479804474 £26.99/ $35.00 HB
Material Texts October 2021 320pp 7 b&w hts. 9780812253467 £56.00/ $69.95 HB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
America’s empire was not made by adults alone. During the nineteenth and twen�eth centuries, young people became essen�al to its crea�on. Brian Rouleau shows how children’s literature helped to ins�ll the idea of America’s power and the importance of its global prominence.
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UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
Focusing on nineteenth-century poetry wri�en by working-class and African American women, Jennifer Putzi demonstrates how an emphasis on rela�onships between and among people and texts shaped the poems that women wrote, the avenues they took to gain access to print, and the way their poems func�oned within a variety of print cultures.
Fiction Without Humanity
Garden of Eloquence / Shuoyuan說苑
Person, Animal, Thing in Early Enlightenment Literature and Culture Lynn Festa
Liu Xiang Translated by Eric Henry
Classics of Chinese Thought January 2022 1360pp 9780295995199 £100.00/ $125.00 HB
September 2021 364pp 4 color, 11 b&w illus. 9780812225051 £21.99/ $28.95 NIP
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Long popular in China as a source of allusions and quota�ons, Garden of Eloquence (Shuoyuan) preserves late Western Han views concerning history, poli�cs, and ethics. Eric Henry’s unabridged transla�on with facing Chinese text and extensive annota�on will make this important source available for the first �me to Anglophone world historians.
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Drawing on the perspec�ves of nonhuman creatures and inanimate things in riddles, fables, novels, scien�fic trea�ses, and trompe l'oeil and s�ll-life pain�ng, Fic�on Without Humanity offers a literary history of late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century efforts to define the human.
Infinite Variety
Inscrutable Malice
Literary Invention, Theology, and the Disorder of Kinds, 16881730 Wolfram Schmidgen
Theodicy, Eschatology, and the Biblical Sources of "Moby-Dick" Jonathan A. Cook December 2021 384pp 9781501761652 £24.99/ $32.95 NIP
August 2021 288pp 9780812253290 £48.00/ $59.95 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Cook expertly illuminates Melville's abiding preoccupa�on with the problem of evil and the dominant role of the Bible in shaping his best-known novel. Drawing on recent research in the fields of biblical studies, the history of religion, and compara�ve mythology, Cook provides a new interpreta�on of Moby-Dick that places Melville's crea�ve adapta�on of the Bible at the center of the work.
Infinite Variety offers a brilliantly learned analysis of a seventeenth-century aesthe�c framed not by the rise of secularism, but by its opposite, and embraced by English writers including Thomas Hobbes, Richard Blackmore, John Locke, Jonathan Swi�, and Daniel Defoe.
Life in Plastic
Magical Habits
Artistic Responses to Petromodernity Edited by Caren Irr
Monica Huerta
Wri�ng Ma�ers! August 2021 200pp 15 illus. 9781478014171 £18.99/ $24.95 PB 9781478013266 £76.00/ $94.95 HB
November 2021 304pp 25 b&w illus. 9781517909888 £20.99/ $27.00 PB 9781517909871 £86.00/ $108.00 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Monica Huerta draws on her experiences growing up in her family's Mexican restaurants and her life as an academic to sketch out habits of living that allow us to consider what it means to live with history as we are caught up in it and how those histories bear on our capaci�es to make sense of our lives.
With impressive breadth and compelling urgency, the essays in Life in Plas�c examine the arts and literature of the plas�c age. Focusing mainly on post-1960s North America, the collec�on spans a wide variety of genres, including graphic novels, superhero comics, utopic and dystopic science fic�on, poetry, and sa�rical prose, as well as vinyl records and visual arts. Excludes Japan & ANZ
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March 1917
Maroon Choreography
The Red Wheel, Node III, Book 3 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Translated by Marian Schwartz
fahima ife
Black Outdoors: Innova�ons in the Poe�cs of Study August 2021 144pp 9781478014256 £16.99/ $21.95 PB 9781478013341 £68.00/ $84.95 HB
The Center for Ethics and Culture Solzhenitsyn Series October 2021 720pp 9780268201708 £33.00/ $42.00 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
In three long-form poems and a lyrical essay, fahima ife speculates on the a�erlives of Black fugi�vity, unse�ling the historic knowledge of it while moving inside the ongoing a�erlives of those people who disappeared themselves into rural spaces beyond the reach of slavery.
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
One of the masterpieces of world literature, The Red Wheel is Nobel prize–winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s mul�volume epic work about the Russian Revolu�on told in the form of a historical novel.
Moving Home
Narrative Truthiness
Next Wave: New Direc�ons in Women's Studies October 2021 280pp 10 illus. 9781478014553 £20.99/ $26.95 PB 9781478013624 £80.00/ $99.95 HB
Fron�ers of Narra�ve October 2021 276pp 6 illus. 9781496226792 £52.00/ $65.00 HB
Gender, Place, and Travel Writing in the Early Black Atlantic Sandra Gunning
The Logic of Complex Truth in Hybrid (Non)Fiction Annjeanette Wiese
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Presents a new model for understanding truth and shows how a specific vein of postmodern wri�ng engages with the overall goal of enhancing our interpreta�ons of the complexi�es of the human experience. Demonstrates the significance of the complex tensions between what we feel to be true and what is true, and how we are shaped by both.
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Moving Home examines nineteenth-century African diasporic travel wri�ng to expand and complicate understandings of the Black Atlan�c. Gunning draws on the wri�ng of missionaries, aboli�onists, entrepreneurs, and explorers whose work challenges the assump�ons that travel wri�ng is primarily associated with leisure or scien�fic research.
No One's Witness
Old Style
A Monstrous Poetics Rachel Zolf
Unoriginality and Its Uses in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature Claudia Stokes
Black Outdoors: Innova�ons in the Poe�cs of Study August 2021 192pp 15 illus. 9781478014249 £18.99/ $24.95 PB 9781478013334 £76.00/ $94.95 HB
November 2021 288pp 9780812253535 £64.00/ $79.95 HB
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Rachel Zolf ac�vates the last three lines of a poem by Jewish Nazi holocaust survivor Paul Celan—“No one / bears witness for the / witness”—to theorize the poe�cs and im/possibility of witnessing. Drawing on black studies, con�nental philosophy, queer theory, experimental poe�cs, and work by several writers and ar�sts, Zolf asks what it means to witness from the excessive, incalculable posi�on of No One.
We celebrate innova�on and experimenta�on, but Claudia Stokes reminds us that nineteenth-century American writers instead valued familiarity and tradi�onalism, which provided reliable markers of literary quality. Old Style examines the varied uses and expressions of unoriginality, which helped creden�al marginalized writers. 5
Out of This World
Philosophical Siblings
December 2021 328pp 9780252043987 £48.00/ $60.00 HB
November 2021 386pp 5 hts., 1 line 9780812253320 £48.00/ $59.95 HB
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Speculative Fiction in Translation from the Cold War to the New Millennium Rachel S. Cordasco
Varieties of Playful Experience in Alice, William, and Henry James Jane F. Thrailkill
The twenty-first century has witnessed an explosion of specula�ve fic�on in transla�on (SFT). Rachel Cordasco examines specula�ve fic�on published in English transla�on since 1960, ranging from Sovietera fic�on to the Arabic-language dystopias that emerged following the Iraq War.
This collec�ve study of the James siblings—Alice, William, and Henry—lights up their shared intellectual project: showing how minds meet in a world teeming with possibili�es and risks. Philosophical Siblings offers a fresh way of thinking about literary encounters, one that approaches even the most iconic texts with serious lightness.
Excludes SE Asia, Indian sc & ANZ
Philosophy for Spiders
Populating the Novel
September 2021 216pp 9781478014683 £16.99/ $21.95 PB 9781478013754 £76.00/ $94.95 HB
September 2021 294pp 9781501761713 £22.99/ $29.95 NIP
On the Low Theory of Kathy Acker McKenzie Wark
Literary Form and the Politics of Surplus Life Emily Steinlight CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
From the teeming streets of Dickens’s London to the households of domes�c fic�on, nineteenth-century Bri�sh writers constructed worlds crammed beyond capacity with human life. In Popula�ng the Novel, Emily Steinlight contends that rather than simply reflec�ng demographic growth, such pervasive literary crowding contributed to a seismic shi� in Bri�sh poli�cal thought.
It's �me to recognize Kathy Acker as one of the great postwar American writers. Over the decades readers have found a punk Acker, a feminist Acker, a queer Acker, a kink Acker, and an avant-garde Acker. In Philosophy for Spiders, McKenzie Wark adds a trans Acker. Wark recounts her memories of Acker (with whom she had a passionate affair) and gives a comprehensive reading of her published and archived works.
Reading the Obscene
Salvific Manhood
Post*45 November 2021 280pp 9781503629486 £20.99/ $28.00 PB
Expanding Fron�ers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality November 2021 244pp 9781496229052 £22.99/ $30.00 NIP
Transgressive Editors and the Class Politics of U.S. Literature Jordan Carroll
James Baldwin's Novelization of Male Intimacy Ernest L. Gibson
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
The editors who fought the most famous an�censorship ba�les of the twen�eth century o�en catered to elite audiences composed primarily of white men in the professional-managerial class. In this provoca�ve work, Jordan Carroll suggests that when transgression becomes a sign of class dis�nc�on, obscenity may cease to be subversive.
In Salvific Manhood, Gibson offers a new and compelling way to understand the hidden connec�ons between Baldwin’s novels. This thema�cally daring and theore�cally provoca�ve work presents a queering of salva�on, a nuanced approach that views redemp�on through the lenses of gender and sexuality. 6
Speaking for the People
Techno-Magism
Media, Mediation, and the Cut of Romanticism Orrin N. C. Wang
Native Writing and the Question of Political Form Mark Rifkin
Lit Z January 2022 240pp 13 color and 3 b&w illus. 9780823298488 £24.99/ $32.00 PB 9780823298471 £88.00/ $110.00 HB
September 2021 320pp 9781478014331 £21.99/ $27.95 PB 9781478013419 £84.00/ $104.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Mark Ri�in examines nineteenth-century Na�ve wri�ngs by William Apess, Elias Boudinot, Sarah Winnemucca, and Zitkala-Ša to rethink and reframe contemporary debates around recogni�on, refusal, and resurgence for Indigenous peoples.
Explores how Bri�sh Roman�c 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 communica�ve technologies invented a�er the Bri�sh Roman�c period, such as photography, film, video, and digital screens.
The Author as Cannibal
The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1884–1886
Rewriting in Francophone Literature as a Postcolonial Genre, 1969–1995 Felisa Vergara Reynolds
Volume 2
Henry James Edited by Michael Anesko, Greg W. Zacharias & Katie Sommer
January 2022 306pp 1 photo, 4 illus. 9781496218421 £48.00/ $60.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
The Complete Le�ers of Henry James October 2021 368pp 9781496226655 £72.00/ $90.00 HB
A�er French colonial rule ended, Francophone authors began rewri�ng narra�ves from the colonial literary canon. Reynolds presents these textual revisions as figura�ve acts of cannibalism and examines how these literary cannibaliza�ons cri�que colonialism and its legacy in each author’s homeland.
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
This fi�eenth installment in the complete collec�on of Henry James’s more than ten thousand le�ers records James’s ongoing efforts to care for his sister, develop his work, strengthen his professional status, build friendships, and engage �mely poli�cal and economic issues.
The Editor Function
The Ends of Meter in Modern Japanese Poetry
Literary Publishing in Postwar America Abram Foley
Translation and Form Scott Mehl
August 2021 224pp 10 b&w illus. 9781517911676 £18.99/ $25.00 PB 9781517911669 £80.00/ $100.00 HB
January 2022 258pp 5 b&w hts. 9781501761171 £40.00/ $49.95 HB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Follows avant-garde American literary editors and the publishing prac�ces they developed to compete against the postwar corporate consolida�on of the publishing industry. Marking an end to the powerful trope of the editor as gatekeeper, it demonstrates how prac�ces of edi�ng and publishing cons�tute their own kinds of thought, calling on us to rethink what we read and how. Excludes Japan & ANZ
In The Ends of Meter in Modern Japanese Poetry, Sco� Mehl analyzes the complex response of Meijiera Japanese poets and readers to the challenge introduced by European verse and the resul�ng crisis in Japanese poetry.
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The Image of Christ in Russian Literature
The Infrastructure of Emergency
NIU Series in Orthodox Chris�an Studies November 2021 288pp 9781501761669 £22.99/ $29.95 NIP
August 2021 217pp 3 illus. 9781478014966 £10.99/ $14.00 PB
Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Bulgakov, Pasternak John Givens
Edited by Stephanie Foote, John Levi Barnard, Jessica Hurley & Jeffrey Insko DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Contributors to this special issue explore the ways literature and literary studies contribute to historical understandings and imagined futures of infrastructure under condi�ons of planetary ecological emergency. Focusing par�cularly on the infrastructures of empire and capital, the authors consider the roles that literature can play in the theoriza�on of infrastructure.
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
This first study in English of the image of Christ in Russian literature highlights the importance of apopha�cism as a theological prac�ce and a literary method in understanding the Russian Christ.
The Masses Are Revolting
The Places of Modernity in Early Mexican American Literature, 1848–1948
Victorian Culture and the Political Aesthetics of Disgust Zachary Samalin
José F. Aranda
September 2021 342pp 23 b&w hts. 9781501756467 £34.00/ $42.95 HB
Postwestern Horizons February 2022 312pp 9781496229106 £22.99/ $30.00 PB 9781496224132 £79.00/ $99.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
The Masses Are Revol�ng reconstructs a pivotal era in the history of affect and emo�on, delving into an archive of nineteenth-century disgust to show how this nega�ve emo�onal response came to play an outsized, vola�le part in the emergence of modern Bri�sh society.
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Aranda Jr. demonstrates how the burdens of modernity become the dominant discursive logic for understanding why people of Mexican descent nonetheless wrote and invested in print culture without any guarantee of its social, cultural, or poli�cal efficacy.
The Redemption of Things
The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne, Volume 4.2
Collecting and Dispersal in German Realism and Modernism Samuel Frederick
The Songs and Sonets: Part 2: Texts, Commentary, Notes, and Glosses John Donne Edited by Jeffrey S. Johnson
Signale: Modern German Le�ers, Cultures, and Thought January 2022 336pp 5 b&w hts. 9781501761560 £26.99/ $34.95 PB 9781501761553 £92.00/ $115.00 HB
The Variorum Edi�on of the Poetry of John Donne November 2021 1104pp 9780253058317 £68.00/ $85.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Collec�ng is usually conceived as an ac�vity that bestows permanence, unity, and meaning on otherwise sca�ered and ephemeral objects. Samuel Frederick emphasizes that collec�ng things, however, necessarily involves displacing, immobilizing, and poten�ally disfiguring them, too.
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
This volume, the ninth in the series of The Variorum Edi�on of the Poetry of John Donne, presents newly edited cri�cal texts of 25 love lyrics. 8
The Ways of the Word
Thomas Mann's War
January 2022 248pp 9781501761409 £18.99/ $24.95 PB 9781501761393 £92.00/ $115.00 HB
October 2021 378pp 24 b&w hts. 9781501761706 £16.99/ $21.95 NIP
Episodes in Verbal Attention Garrett Stewart
Literature, Politics, and the World Republic of Letters Tobias Boes CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
In The Ways of the Word, Garre� Stewart steps aside from theory to focus on the sheer pleasure of a�en�ve reading and the excitement of recognizing the play of syllables and words upon which the best literary wri�ng is founded.
In Thomas Mann's War, Tobias Boes traces how the acclaimed and bestselling author became one of America's most prominent an�-fascists and the spokesperson for a German cultural ideal that Nazism had perverted.
Three Loves for Three Oranges
To Make Negro Literature
Gozzi, Meyerhold, Prokofiev Edited by Dassia N. Posner & Kevin Bartig With Maria De Simone
Writing, Literary Practice, and African American Authorship Elizabeth McHenry September 2020 320pp 26 illus. 9781478014515 £20.99/ $27.95 PB 9781478013594 £84.00/ $104.95 HB
Russian Music Studies September 2021 460pp 60 b&w illus., 13 printed music items 9780253057884 £40.00/ $50.00 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Elizabeth McHenry locates a hidden chapter in the history of Black literature at the turn of the twen�eth century, revising concepts of Black authorship and offering a fresh account of the development of “Negro literature” focused on the never published, the barely read, and the unconven�onal.
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Three Loves for Three Oranges illuminates the historical development of Modernism in the arts, the ways in which commedia dell'arte's self-referen�al and improvisatory elements have inspired theater and music innova�ons, and how polemical playfulness informs crea�on.
Totality Inside Out
Toward a Sacramental Poetics
Rethinking Crisis and Conflict under Capital Edited by Kevin Floyd, Jen Hedler Phillis & Sarika Chandra
Edited by Regina Schwartz & Patrick McGrath December 2021 284pp 2 b&w illus. 9780268201494 £48.00/ $60.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
January 2022 256pp 9780823298204 £22.99/ $30.00 PB 9780823298198 £84.00/ $105.00 HB
What does a sacramental poe�cs offer that secular cultural theory, for all of its advances, may have missed? How does a sacred understanding of the world differ from a strictly secular one? This volume develops the theory of “sacramental poe�cs” advanced by Regina Schwartz in her 2008 book on English Reforma�on writers, taking the theory in new direc�ons while demonstra�ng how enduring and widespread this poe�cs is.
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
The reimagined account of capitalist totality that appears in this volume illuminates the material interlinkages between discrepant social phenomena, forms of oppression, and group histories, offering mul�ple entry points for readers who are interested in exploring how capitalism shapes integral rela�ons within the social whole.
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Uncertain Refuge
Uncle Tom
The Middle Ages Series October 2021 376pp 10 hts. 9780812253443 £48.00/ $59.95 HB
September 2021 272pp 9781503630628 £18.99/ $25.00 NIP
Sanctuary in the Literature of Medieval England Elizabeth Allen
From Martyr to Traitor Adena Spingarn Foreword by Henry Louis Gates Jr. STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
This book tells the story of how Uncle Tom, the Christ-like protagonist of Harriet Beecher Stowe's an�-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, became a racial epithet and why Americans have been invoking this controversial figure for more than 160 years.
Medieval felons could take sanctuary from prosecu�on in any church, but far from sta�c refuge, sanctuary staged dynamic ac�on, even violence. While sanctuary has usually been analyzed as part of legal history, in Uncertain Refuge Elizabeth Allen explores the symbolic consequences of sanctuary seeking in English literary works.
Victorian Contingencies
Viking Mediologies
A New History of Skaldic Poetics Kate Heslop
Experiments in Literature, Science, and Play Tina Young Choi
Fordham Series in Medieval Studies January 2022 288pp 10 color illus. 9780823298259 £26.99/ $35.00 PB 9780823298242 £100.00/ $125.00 HB
December 2021 264pp 9781503629288 £52.00/ $65.00 HB
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Offering both new readings of both canonical works such as Ynglingatal, Ragnarsdrápa and Há�atal, and examina�ons of lesser known texts like Glymdrápa, Líknarbraut and Sturla Þórðarson’s Hákonarkviða, Viking Mediologies explores the powers and limits of poe�c media�on.
Con�ngency is not just a feature of modern poli�cs, finance, and culture—by thinking con�ngently, nineteenth-century Britons rewrote familiar narra�ves and upended forgone conclusions. Victorian Con�ngencies shows how scien�sts, novelists, and consumers engaged in formal and material experiments with cause and effect, past and present, that ac�vely undermined rou�ne certain�es.
Wit's Treasury
fiction
Renaissance England and the Classics Stephen Orgel
Allegiance
Stories Gurney Norman
August 2021 216pp 44 b&w hts. 9780812253276 £32.00/ $39.95 HB
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
August 2021 203pp 9780967542492 £17.99/ $24.95 HB 9781735224299 £20.99/ $26.95 HB
In Wit's Treasury, Stephen Orgel, one of our foremost interpreters of Renaissance literature and culture, charts how the conflict between Chris�an principles and classical manners and morals yielded the rich crea�ve tension out of which emerged an unprecedented flowering of English drama, lyric, and the arts.
OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS
Part autobiography and part Appalachian folktale, Allegiance follows one man’s transforma�on from a working-class childhood in the mountains of eastern Kentucky and southwestern Virginia to his later struggle with alcoholism and depression. 10
American Gospel
Fine Boys
October 2021 264pp 9781517912741 £12.99/ $16.95 NIP
Modern African Wri�ng September 2021 278pp 9780821424575 £17.99/ $22.95 PB
A Novel Lin Enger
A Novel Eghosa Imasuen
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS
Radically personal and quintessen�ally American, an in�mate drama at the heart of an apocalyp�c vision. On a farm in Minnesota an old man is wai�ng for the Rapture, which God has told him will happen in two weeks. When word gets out, Last Days Ranch becomes ground zero for The End.
Set in Nigeria during the prodemocracy movement and told from the perspec�ve of an eighteen-year-old Gen-Xer, Ewaen, this coming-of-age novel examines the violent university confraterni�es during the mid1990s.
Excludes Japan & ANZ
Impostures
Kalīlah and Dimnah
Foreword by Abdelfattah Kilito
Translated by Michael Fishbein & James E. Montgomery
al-Ḥarīrī Translated by Michael Cooperson
Fables of Virtue and Vice Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ Edited by Michael Fishbein
Library of Arabic Literature September 2021 542pp 1 b&w illus. 9781479810567 £11.99/ $15.00 NIP
Library of Arabic Literature November 2021 300pp 9781479806539 £22.99/ $30.00 HB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
An i�nerant con man. A gullible eyewitness narrator. Voices spanning con�nents and centuries. These elements come together in Impostures, a groundbreaking new transla�on of a celebrated work of Arabic literature. Michael Cooperson transforms Arabic wordplay into English wordplay, using fi�y different registers.
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Excludes SE Asia & ANZ
Excludes SE Asia & ANZ
A collec�on designed for both the moral instruc�on and the entertainment of readers. The stories, which originated in the Sanskrit Panchatantra and Mahabharata, were adapted, augmented, and translated into Arabic by the scholar and state official Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ in the second/eighth century.
My Kingdom for a Guitar
Olav Audunssøn
II. Providence Sigrid Undset Translated by Tiina Nunnally
A Novel Kidi Bebey Translated by Karen Lindo
October 2021 280pp 1 map 9781517911607 £13.99/ $17.95 PB
Global African Voices October 2021 230pp 9780253057853 £14.99/ $20.00 PB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
The second volume in the Nobel Prize–winning writer’s epic of medieval Norway, finely capturing Sigrid Undset’s fluid, natural style in a new English transla�on, the first in nearly a century. It is at once a moving and vivid recrea�on of a vanished world tainted by bloodshed and haunted by sin and retribu�on.
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
My Kingdom for a Guitar is a novel based on the remarkable life of Cameroonian-born writer and musician Francis Bebey. Born in Douala, Cameroon, Bebey found fame when his first novel, Le Fils d'Agatha Moudio (Agatha Moudio's Son), was published in 1967, and that fame con�nued to grow with the release of his first album in 1969.
Excludes Japan & ANZ
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Reeling
Secure the Shadow
September 2021 296pp 9781517908997 £11.99/ $15.95 PB
October 2021 224pp 9780804012355 £17.99/ $22.95 PB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS
A Novel Sarah Stonich
A Novel Michael Henson
RayAnne’s next adventure takes our intrepid heroine, haunted by her beloved grandmother’s death, to New Zealand to film a new season of her all-women fishing talk show.
Set in an unnamed midwestern city and told from mul�ple perspec�ves, Henson’s latest novel about addic�on and the power of community offers an unseen portrait of the far-reaching and some�mes tragic effects of the 1990s drug crisis.
Excludes Japan & ANZ
The Burglar's Christmas
The Streel
Willa Cather
A Deadwood Mystery Mary Logue
November 2021 24pp 1 illus. 9781496228772 £7.99/ $9.95 PB
July 2021 224pp 9781517908607 £11.99/ $15.95 NIP
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
In The Burglar’s Christmas, William, caught mid-burglary, must come to terms with the choices that led him to that moment. Willa Cather provides a heartwarming short story of redemp�on and love at Christmas, a �mely reminder that kindness is in everyone, just wai�ng to be uncovered.
From “the reigning royalty of Minnesota murder mysteries” (The Rake) comes a striking new heroine: a young Irish immigrant caught up in a deadly plot in nineteenth-century Deadwood. Mary Logue brings her signature brio and nerve to this story of a young Irish woman turned reluctant sleuth as she tries to make her way in a strange and o�en dangerous new world. Excludes Japan & ANZ
What Isn't Remembered
poetry
Stories Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry
Awake in the River and Shedding Silence
The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fic�on September 2021 276pp 9781496229137 £14.99/ $19.95 PB
Janice Mirikitani Foreword by Juliana Chang Classics of Asian American Literature December 2021 272pp 9780295749587 £18.99/ $24.95 PB 9780295749570 £79.00/ $99.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
The stories in this collec�on explore the burden, the power, and the nature of love between people who o�en feel misplaced and estranged from their deepest selves and the world, where they cannot find a home.
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Janice Mirikitani’s poetry is as vibrant and resonant today as when these two collec�ons were first published in 1978 and 1987. Now back in print in one volume, Awake in the River and Shedding Silence epitomizes Mirikitani’s singular voice. 12
Bread of the Moment
English Lit
October 2021 72pp 9780804012331 £13.99/ $17.95 PB
August 2021 142pp 9780967542478 £14.99/ $18.95 PB 9781735224275 £14.99/ $18.95 Paperback
Poems David Sanders
Poems Bernard Clay
OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS
David Sanders’s second book of poems mixes free and formal verse to search for wisdom in life’s quiet moments as well as in those jol�ng �mes when our fragility is most apparent.
OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS
Compiled from more than twenty years of poetry, Bernard Clay’s debut collec�on captures the unique complexi�es of Black Appalachian iden�ty.
Her Wilderness Will Be Her Manners
In the Net
Mahmoudan Hawad Translated by Christopher Wise Preface by Helene Hawad
Sarah Mangold Foreword by Cynthia Hogue September 2021 96pp 8 b&w illus. 9780823297702 £14.99/ $19.95 PB
African Poetry Book February 2022 84pp 6 illus. 9781496229694 £13.99/ $17.95 PB
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
An innova�ve 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.
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
In the face of amnesia, how does one exist? In this poem, Hawad speaks directly to Azawad, a silent figure whose name designates a por�on of Tuareg lands divided among five na�on-states created in the 1960s.
Listen to the Mourners
Well Waiting Room
The Essential Poems of Nāzik AlMalā’ika Nāzik Al-Malā’ika Edited & Translated by ‘Abdulwāḥid Lu’lu’a
Stephanie Ellis Schlaifer Poets Out Loud September 2021 112pp 9780823297771 £14.99/ $19.95 PB
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
A collec�on of poems that contemplates the bureaucracy of the mind through interior poli�cal cabinets. Taking its name from the banal, purgatorial space outside (but inside) a doctor’s office, Well Wai�ng Room imagines the conversa�ons we have with ourselves at this liminal site as an exchange between interior bureaucrats, each of whom governs a par�cular aspect of the psyche.
November 2021 160pp 9780268200947 £20.99/ $28.00 PB 9780268200930 £80.00/ $100.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
Un�l now, very li�le of Al-Malā’ika’s poetry has been translated into English. Listen to the Mourners contains forty of her most significant poems selected from six published volumes, including Life Tragedy and a Song for Man, The Woman in Love with the Night, Sparks and Ashes, The Wave’s Nadir, The Moon Tree, and The Sea Alters Its Colours.
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