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Mare Nostrum Group
......And the Dogs Were Silent/......Et les chiens se taisaient
Aimé Césaire
Translated by Alex Gil
Foreword by Brent Hayes Edwards
August 2024 320pp 2 illus.
9781478030645 £24.99/ $28.95 PB
9781478026419 £97.00/ $107.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Available to readers for the first time, Aimé Césaire’s three-act drama—written during the Vichy regime in Martinique in 1943 and lost until 2008—dramatizes the Haitian Revolution and the rise and fall of Toussaint Louverture as its heroic leader. This bilingual English and French edition stands apart from Césaire’s more widely known 1946 closet drama.
Abolition Time
Grammars of Law, Poetics of Justice
Jess A. Goldberg
December 2024 264pp 5 b&w illus.
9781517917890 £22.99/ $27.00 PB
9781517917883 £97.00/ $108.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Abolition Time is an invitation to reenvision abolitionist justice through literary studies. Placing critical race theory, queer theory, critical prison studies, and antiprison activism in conversation with an archive of Black Atlantic literatures of slavery, Jess A. Goldberg reveals how literary studies can help undo carceral epistemologies embedded in language and poetics.
Alternative Temporalities
The Emancipatory Power of Narrative
Edited by Teresa Valentini, Angela Wesier and John Zilcosky
November 2024 272pp 2 b&w illus.
9781487551919 £56.00/ $70.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
Alternative temporalities have often emerged as a reaction to the normativizing force of time, demonstrating that time can be used as an instrument of power and oppression, but also as a means to resist this very oppression. Alternative Temporalities draws on analyses of modern literature to examine this often-neglected role of time.
A Demon Spirit
Arabic Hunting Poems
Abū Nuwās
Edited and translated by James E. Montgomery
Library of Arabic Literature
November 2024 488pp
9781479834129 £29.99/ $35.00 HB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Montgomery renders Abū Nuwās’s hunting poetry, or ṭardiyyāt, translated for the first time in vivid English. Nuwās’s poems radiate brilliance, ingenuity, and lyrical attentiveness to both nature and body. These poems convey the crackling energy of ruthless predators and wily prey, the worryingly uncertain outcome of perilous pursuits, and the mythic perfection of warriors both human and animal.
All the Fun’s in How You Say a Thing An Explanation of Meter and Versification
Timothy Steele
September 2024 384pp
9780821425725 £22.99/ $26.95 PB OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS
25th Anniversary Edition, with a new preface by the author.
Not only is this a valuable handbook on technique; it is also a wide-ranging study of English verse and a mine of entertaining information for anyone wishing more fully to write, enjoy, understand, or teach poetry. Perfect for the general reader of poetry, students and teachers of literature, and aspiring poets.
American Contact
Objects of Intercultural Encounters and the Boundaries of Book History
Edited by Rhae Lynn Barnes and Glenda Goodman
Material Texts
August 2024 456pp 60 b&w halftones
9781512825770 £67.00/ $74.95 HB
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
American Contact explores the dynamics of intercultural encounters through the medium of material texts. Taken together, the essays shed new light on the material practices of communicating power and resistance, subjection and survivance, in contact zones of America.
Arabian Hero
Oral Poetry and Narrative Lore from Northern
Arabia
Shāyiʿ al-Amsaḥ
Edited and translated by Marcel Kurpershoek
Library of Arabic Literature
October 2024 320pp
9781479834167 £25.99/ $30.00 HB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
In this bilingual Arabic-English edition, Kurpershoek vividly translates into English for the first time the deeds and verses of this compelling poet, based on recordings of late-twentieth century reciters, a testament to Shāyiʿ’s prominence as an embodiment of Bedouin virtue, courage, wiliness, and generosity.
¡Ay Tú!
Critical Essays on the Life and Work of Sandra Cisneros
Edited by Sonia Saldívar-Hull and Geneva M. Gano
October 2024 240pp 11 b&w illus.
9781477329900 £29.99/ $34.95 PB
9781477329894 £94.00/ $105.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
Sandra Cisneros (b. 1954), author and recipient of the National Medal of the Arts, a MacArthur “Genius Grant” and more, was the first Chicana to be majorly published. ¡Ay Tú! is the first book to offer a comprehensive, critical examination of her life and work.
Blank Splendour
Mere Existence in British Romanticism
David Collings
August 2024 184pp
9781487556044 £42.00/ $55.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
Certain moments in British Romantic poetry depict a state from which the attributes of existence – time and space, subject and object, language and visuality – have fallen away, leaving a domain prior to the world and to thought, the condition of mere existence. As Collings demonstrates, poems by Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, and Clare evoke a condition that transpires in a time without time.
Atrocity
A Literary History
Bruce Robbins
February 2025 320pp
9781503640559 £29.99/ $35.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
With penetrating insight, Robbins takes up literary representations of atrocity as Bartolomé de las Casas's account of his fellow Spaniards' atrocities, Slaughterhouse-Five, Simplicissimus, Cloud Atlas, and more. Robbins pursues the proposition, that, in the midst of relentlessly repetitive slaughter, humanity's moral history might include a cosmopolitan arc.
Barroco and Other Writings
Severo Sarduy
Translated by Iván Hofman and Alex Verdolini
Cultural Memory in the Present November 2024 160pp
9781503641136 £20.99/ $24.00 PB
9781503640573 £85.00/ $95.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Severo Sarduy was among the most important figures in twentieth-century Latin American fiction and a major representative of the literary tendency to which he gave the name Neobaroque. While most of Sarduy's literary work is available in English, his theoretical writings have largely remained untranslated. This volume remedies that oversight.
Books Are Made Out of Books
A Guide to Cormac McCarthy's Literary Influences
Michael Lynn Crews
October 2024 392pp
9781477330845 £40.00/ $45.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
Cormac McCarthy told an interviewer that "books are made out of books," but has been unwilling to discuss how his own writing draws on other works. In this book, Crews mines McCarthy's literary archive to identify nearly 150 thinkers that McCarthy references. For each work, Crews identifies the cultural figures referenced and provides context for the reference as it appears.
British Romanticism and Prison Reform
Jonas Cope
Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
December 2024 238pp 1 b&w image
9781684485352 £45.00/ $49.95 PB
9781684485369 £134.00/ $150.00 HB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
In eighteenth-century Britain, criminals were routinely whipped, branded, hanged, or transported to America. Only in the last quarter of the century— with the War of American Independence and legal and sociopolitical challenges to capital punishment —did the criminal justice system change, resulting in the reformed prison, or penitentiary, meant to educate, rehabilitate, and spiritualize even hardened felons.
Cather Studies, Volume 14
Unsettling Cather
Cather Studies
Edited by Marilee Lindemann and Ann Romines
Cather Studies
February 2025 350pp 15 photos, 3 illus., index
9781496241290 £36.00/ $40.00 PB
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Contributors frame fresh discussions of Cather’s literary influences and cultural engagements in the first decade of her career as a novelist through the lens of sex and gender and examine her engagements with region as a geopolitical, sociolinguistic, and literary site. The essays offer compelling ways of seeing and situating Cather’s texts—both unsettling and advancing Cather scholarship.
Created in the Image?
Holocaust Perpetrators in Israeli Fiction
Or Rogovin
McGill-Queen’s Azrieli Institute of Israel Studies Series
August 2024 288pp
9780228022107 £67.00/ $75.00 HB
MCGILL-QUEENS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Or Rogovin situates Israeli literary responses to the Holocaust in the canon of perpetrator fiction for the first time. Anchored in theoretical and comparative perspectives, it presents a groundbreaking analysis of the poetic mechanisms, moral implications, and historical contexts of this paradigm shift in the Israeli literary response to the Shoah.
Caribbean Inhospitality
The Poetics of Strangers at Home
Natalie Lauren Belisle
Critical Caribbean Studies
December 2024 182pp 1 color image
9781978838291
£24.99/ $28.95 PB
9781978838307 £108.00/ $120.00 HB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
The Caribbean has a global reputation for extending unparalleled hospitality to foreign guests. Yet local citizens express feeling alienated from the Caribbean nations they call home. Here, Natalie Lauren Belisle probes the relationship between these incompatible narratives of Caribbean life.
Colonialism and Literature
An Affective Narratology
Patrick Colm Hogan
Frontiers of Narrative
January 2025 308pp 19 illus., 1 chart, index
9781496241047 £58.00/ $65.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Hogan has argued that a few story genres—heroic, romantic, sacrificial, and others—recur prominently across separate literary traditions and play a prominent role in the fashioning of poltcolonization literature. Crucially, colonizers and colonized people commonly understand and explain their situation in terms of these narrative structures. Hogan explores this with theoretical and literary analysis.
Creature Needs
Writers
Respond
to the Science of Animal Conservation
Edited by Christopher Kondrich, Lucy Spelman and Susan Tacent
January 2025 184pp 6 b&w illus. 9781517918316 £16.99/ $19.95 PB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
A collaboration with the nonprofit organization Creature Conserve, Creature Needs is a path-setting fusion of literary art and scientific research that deepens our understanding of the interdependence between life and habitat, illuminating the stark choices we face to conserve resources and ensure that the basic needs of all species are met.
Diana A Strange Autobiography
Diana Frederics and Julie L. Abraham
The Cutting Edge: Lesbian Life and Literature Series
June 1995 282pp
9780814726358 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
This is the unusual and compelling story of Diana, a tantalizingly beautiful woman who sought love in the strange by-paths of Lesbos. Fearless and outspoken, it dares to reveal that hidden world where perfumed caresses and half-whispered endearments constitute the forbidden fruits in a Garden of Eden where men are never accepted.
Fate the Hunter
Early Arabic Hunting Poems
Translated by James E. Montgomery
Foreword by Alice Oswald
Library of Arabic Literature
November 2024 184pp
9781479834259 £12.99/ $15.00 PB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
In these poems, many of them translated into English for the first time, trained cheetahs chase oryx, and goshawks glare from falconers’ arms, while archers stalk their prey across the desert plains and mountain ravines of the Arabian peninsula. Montgomery, acclaimed translator, offers a new edition and translation of twenty-six early works of hunting poetry, or ṭardiyyāt.
Fyodor Dostoevsky–Darkness and Dawn (1848–1849)
A Life in Letters,
Memoirs, and Criticism
Thomas Gaiton Marullo
NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
November 2024 384pp
9781501778131 £53.00/ $58.95 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
The third and final volume on the writer's childhood, adolescence, and youth, seeks to disclose, in a detailed and intimate way, Dostoevsky's last two years before his exile to Siberia. Together with the first two volumes, it presents for the first time a complete picture of the writer's first 28 years.
Digital Victorians From Nineteenth-Century Media to Digital Humanities
Paul Fyfe
Stanford Text Technologies
October 2024 272pp
9781503640948 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9781503639911 £108.00/ $120.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
In this authoritative new work, Fyfe argues that writing about Victorian new media continues to shape reactions to digital change. Engaging with writers such as Thomas De Quincey, George Eliot, and George du Maurier, he explores how we have inherited Victorian anxieties about machine-driven reading and new technology.
Food and Emotions in Italian Women's Writing
A Reassessment
Patrizia Sambuco
Toronto Italian Studies
December 2024 224pp 7 b&w illus.
9781487506834 £49.00/ $65.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
Discusses the relevance of food imaginaries in the writing of Italian women over a period of one hundred years, from the 1920s to the present day, while offering new ways to narrate women’s history and creativity. Sambuco shows how food imaginaries in different historical periods challenge established political discourses by conveying unexpressed, alternative, or transgressive emotions.
Ghost Stories On Writing Biography
Judith Adamson
Footprints Series
April 2024 192pp
9780228021032 £21.99/ $24.95 PB MCGILL-QUEENS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Judith Adamson’s memoir reveals the questions Adamson asked as she researched her biographies of literary luminaries, and the personal challenges she faced along the way. Uncovering new information about her famous subjects, from Graham Greene to Max Reinhardt, Ghost Stories is a fascinating account of a twentieth-century career in literature.
Gothic Italy
Crime, Science, and Literature after Unification, 1861-1914
Stefano Serafini
Toronto Italian Studies
November 2024 224pp
9781487558635 £45.00/ $60.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
The Gothic permeated and influenced the project of Italian nation-building, casting a dark and pervasive shadow on Italian history. Gothic Italy explores the nuances, contradictions, and implications of the conflict between what the Gothic embodies in postunification Italy and the values that a supposedly secular, modern country tries to uphold and promote.
Histories of the Future
On Shakespeare and Thinking Ahead
Edited by Carla Mazzio
September 2024 304pp 8 b&w illus.
9781512825282 £58.00/ $65.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Joining conversations about “the future” as an object of analysis and theorization in early modern history, this volume brings together essays that draw on early modern modes of “thinking ahead.” This volume explores the ways in which the teaching and reading of Shakespeare help shape how one imagines the future.
I Am Your Dust
Representations of the Israeli Experience in Yiddish Prose, 1948–1967
Gali Drucker Bar-Am
Translated by Natalie Melzer
Olamot Series in Humanities and Social Sciences
November 2024 398pp 29 b&w photos
9780253071514 £35.00/ $39.00 PB
9780253071507 £72.00/ $80.00 HB
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
The first socioliterary investigation of Yiddish-Israeli culture, I Am Your Dust explores how Yiddish-Israeli writers played a vital role in shaping the country's cultural identity in its early years.
Hell-Bent for Leather
Sex and Sexuality in the Weird Western
Edited by Kerry Fine, Michael K. Johnson, Rebecca M. Lush and Sara L. Spurgeon
This new collection takes a deep dive into the myriad ways sex and sexuality are imagined in weird western literature, film, television, and video games, paying special attention to portrayals of power and privilege. Explores how the western can reinforce existing gender and sexual paradigms or overturn them in delightful, terrifying, or unexpected ways.
Julia de Burgos (1914–1953) is best known for her poetry, but she is also an important cultural figure famous for her commitment to the independence of Puerto Rico. Beginning with a critical introduction to Burgos's life and work, Pérez-Rosario offers a glimpse into this formidable talent and intellect.
Covering the long historical arc of the twentieth to the 21 centuries, Inside Tenement Time uses Jamaica as a case study to examine moments of crisis and particular spaces, especially urban yard enclaves and their environs, in the Caribbean encounter with surveillance.
Jane Austen and Masculinity
Edited by Michael Kramp
Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
November 2024 338pp 6 b&w images and 6 tables
9781684485437 £36.00/ $39.95 PB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Encompassing the novels, juvenilia, and popular adaptations of her work, Jane Austen and Masculinity makes an important intervention, building on established scholarship in masculinity studies and inviting further research on gender and sexuality within Austen’s corpus.
John Banville
Neil Murphy
Contemporary Irish Writers
January 2025 230pp 6 color images
9781684485482 £29.99/ $34.95 PB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
John Banville offers a close analysis of most of Banville’s major novels, his Quirke crime novels, and his dramatic adaptations of Heinrich von Kleist’s plays. Banville’s work has been marked by an embedded discourse about the significance of art and by a concurrent self-consciousness of its own status as art.
Masculinities and Representation
The Eroticized Male in Early Modern Italy and England
Edited by Konrad Eisenbichler
October 2024 304pp 40 b&w illus.
9781487556976 £69.00/ $90.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
In studies on premodern masculinities that have enriched scholarship in recent years, relatively little attention has been paid to the eroticizing of the male body. Masculinities and Representation seeks to fill this lacuna, illustrating how gender construction served to affirm but also diversify premodern masculinity.
Jimmy's Faith
James Baldwin, Disidentification, and the Queer Possibilities of Black Religion
The relationship of James Baldwin’s life and work to Black religion is in many ways complex and confounding. What is he doing through his literary deployment of religious language and symbols?
Making Pagans
Theatrical Practice and Comparative Religion in Early Modern England
John Kuhn
Published in cooperation with the Folger Shakespeare Library
December 2024 240pp 11 b&w illus.
9781512825091 £49.00/ $55.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Drawing together theater history, Atlantic studies, and the history of comparative religion, Making Pagans reconceptualizes the material and iterative practices of the theater as central to the construction of radical religious difference in early modernity and of the category of paganism as a tool of European selfdefinition and colonial ambition.
Medbh McGuckian
Borbála Faragó
Contemporary Irish Writers
February 2025 234pp
9781684485499 £29.99/ $34.95 PB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
This wide-ranging study of one of the most innovative, daring, and important poetic voices in contemporary Ireland analyzes Mebdh McGuckian’s entire corpus, offering both an original contribution to the field of contemporary Irish literary studies and a readable synthesis of existing criticism that will be useful to academics and students.
Monstrous Work and Radical Satisfaction
Black Women Writing under Segregation
Eve Dunbar
November 2024 192pp 4 b&w illus.
9781517917876 £22.99/ $27.00 PB
9781517917869 £97.00/ $108.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Radical Black feminist refusal through the works of mid-twentieth-century African American women writers. Monstrous Work and Radical Satisfaction offers new and insightful readings of African American women’s writings in the 1930s–1950s, illustrating how these writers centered Black women’s satisfaction as radical resistance to the false and incomplete promise of liberal racial integration.
Nonbinary Jane Austen
Chris Washington
Forerunners: Ideas First
January 2025 106pp
9781517917586 £9.00/ $10.00 PB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Chris Washington reads Jane Austen differently than we have classically understood her: rather than the doyen of the cisheteronormative marriage plot, the author theorizes how Austen envisions a nonbinary future that traverses the two-sex model of gender that we can supposedly see solidifying in the eighteenth century.
Old Norse Folklore
Magic, Witchcraft, and Charms in Medieval Scandinavia
Stephen A. Mitchell
Myth and Poetics II
February 2025 336pp 10 b&w halftones
9781501777509
£24.99/ $28.95 PB
9781501777493
£116.00/ $130.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
The second volume of Old Norse Folklore explores medieval and early modern Nordic magic and witchcraft, covering syncretism, continuity, survival, and the reconstruction of pagan beliefs and cultic practices in this last area of western Europe to be Christianized.
New Sincerity
American Fiction in the Neoliberal Age
Adam Kelly Post*45
October 2024 386pp
9781503640696 £29.99/ $35.00 PB
9781503640269 £125.00/ $140.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
The years 1989–2008 were an era of neoliberal hegemony in US politics, economy, and culture. Post*45 scholar Adam Kelly argues that American novelists who began their careers during these years responded to the times by developing in their fiction an aesthetics of sincerity.
Of Lost Cities
The Maghribī Poetic Imagination
Nizar F. Hermes
November 2024 288pp
9780228022299 £99.00/ $110.00 HB
MCGILL-QUEENS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Containing the first translations into English of many poetic gems of premodern and precolonial Maghribī poetry, Of Lost Cities reveals the enduring power of poetry in capturing the essence of lost cities and the complex interplay of loss, remembrance, and longing.
On Revival
Hebrew Literature Between Life and
Death
Roni Henig
Jewish Culture and Contexts
November 2024 256pp
9781512826609
£49.00/ $54.95 HB
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
On Revival is a critique of one of the tenets of Zionist thinking: “Hebrew revival,” the idea that Hebrew was revitalized which led to the establishment of the Israel. Henig explores the loaded discourse of revival in the work of Hebrew authors and thinkers working between 1890 and 1920.
On the Colors of Vowels
Thinking through Synesthesia
Liesl Yamaguchi
Verbal Arts: Studies in Poetics
January 2025 240pp 2 color and 19 b&w illus.
9781531509057 £27.99/ $32.00 PB
9781531509040 £99.00/ $110.00 HB
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Treatments of synesthesia in the arts and humanities generally assume a clear distinction between the neurological condition and the literary device. Synesthetes’ descriptions of colors seen in connection with music, for example, are thought to differ fundamentally from common expressions that rely on transpositions across sensory dimensions (“bright vowels”).
Poor Things
How Those with Money Depict Those without It
Lennard J. Davis
November 2024 312pp 34 illustrations
9781478031024 £23.99/ $27.95 PB
9781478026747 £94.00/ $104.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Lennard J. Davis shows how “poornography”— distorted narratives of poverty written by and for the middle and upper classes — creates harmful and dangerous stereotypes that build barriers to social justice and change. To remedy this, Davis argues, poor people should write realistic depictions of themselves. Only then can the lived experience of poverty be more fully realized.
Prolific Ground
Landscape and British Women's Writing, 1690-1790
Nicolle Jordan
Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
November 2024 192pp 2 color and 4 b&w images
9781684485390 £36.00/ $39.95 PB
9781684485406 £134.00/ $150.00 HB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Because political citizenship was restricted to male property owners, women could not wield political power in the way propertied men did. Given its foundational socio-political function, land necessarily generated copious writing that vested it with considerable aesthetic and economic value.
Poet-Monks
The Invention of Buddhist Poetry in Late Medieval
China
Thomas J. Mazanec
November 2024 348pp 3 b&w halftones, 2 b&w line drawings, 4 maps, 2 charts
9781501778780 £27.99/ $31.95 NIP
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Combining large-scale quantitative analysis with close readings of important literary texts, Thomas J. Mazanec describes how Buddhist poet-monks, who first appeared in the latter half of Tang-dynasty China, asserted a bold new vision of poetry that proclaimed the union of classical verse with Buddhist practices of repetition, incantation, and meditation.
By highlighting authors, activists, and environments of the global South, Precarious Eating joins with scholarship from postcolonial, decolonial, Indigenous, and Black studies to underscore how capitalism and empire shape our planetary environmental crisis.
Raritan on War An Anthology
Edited by Jackson Lears and Karen Parker Lears
Raritan Skiff Books
January 2025 218pp 5 color images, 19 b&w images
9781978841611 £63.00/ $69.95 HB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Raritan On War gathers together some of the finest writing on that troubling subject published in Raritan between 2003 and 2022. The editors, Jackson Lears and Karen Parker Lears, have selected work that typifies Raritan’s wide-ranging sensibility--focusing on a topic that is aesthetically rich, intellectually challenging, and morally disturbing. It is also all too timely.
Reading the Archival Revolution
Declassified Stories and Their Challenges
Cristina Vatulescu
Square One: First-Order Questions in the Humanities
November 2024 320pp
9781503641020 £27.99/ $32.00 PB
9781503640276 £116.00/ $130.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
The opening of classified documents from the Soviet era has been dubbed the "archival revolution" due to its unprecedented scale, drama, and impact. With a storyteller's sensibility, Cristina Vatulescu identifies and takes on the main challenges of reading in these archives.
9781477329788
Searching for Feminist Superheroes
Gender, Sexuality, and Race in Marvel Comics
Sam Langsdale
World Comics and Graphic Nonfiction Series
September 2024 240pp 16 b&w illus.
£40.00/ $45.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
Searching for Feminist Superheroes recognizes that female-led superhero comics, with diverse casts of characters, exist on the margins of the mainstream superhero genre. But rather than focusing on these stories as marginalized, Sam Langsdale’s work on heroes locates the margins as a site of innovation and productivity.
Shakespearean Issues
Agency, Skepticism, and Other Puzzles
Richard Strier
November 2024 368pp
9781512826968 / $29.95 NIP
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Richard Strier has written a set of linked essays bound by a learned view of how to think about Shakespeare’s plays and also how to write literary criticism on them. Strier treats the political, social, and philosophical themes of Shakespeare’s plays through recursive and revisionary close reading, revisiting plays from different angles and often contravening prevailing views.
Redrawing the Western
A History of American Comics and the Mythic West
William Grady
World Comics and Graphic Nonfiction Series
November 2024 304pp 75 b&w illus.
9781477329986 £45.00/ $50.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
Redrawing the Western charts a history of the Western genre in American comics from the late 1800s through the 1970s and beyond. Encompassing the core years in which the genre was forged and prospered in a range of popular media, Grady engages with several key historical timeframes.
Seeking the Mothers in Ovid's "Heroides"
Simona Martorana
September 2024 294pp
9781501777066 £53.00/ $58.95 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Seeking the Mothers in Ovid's "Heroides" reveals how the irony, ambiguity, and polyphony intrinsic to Ovid's poetry are amplified by the heroines' poetic voices. Martorana breaks new ground by incorporating contemporary feminist theories within the analysis of the Heroides and provides an original comprehensive analysis of motherhood that encompasses other Ovidian works, Latin poetry, and classical literature more broadly.
Singular Sensations
A Cultural History of One-Panel Comics in the United States
Michelle Ann Abate
September 2024 254pp 18 color and 40 b&w images
9781978840683 £27.99/ $32.95 PB
9781978840690 £67.00/ $74.95 HB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Engaging with a wide range of historical time periods, socio-political subjects, and aesthetic styles, Singular Sensations demonstrates how comics as we know and love them would not be the same without singlepanel titles. Abate’s book brings the single-panel comic out of the margins and into the foreground.
Speculative Whiteness
Science Fiction and the Alt-Right
Jordan S. Carroll
Forerunners: Ideas First
October 2024 120pp
9781517917081 £9.00/ $10.00 PB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Fascists such as Richard Spencer interpret science fiction films and literature as saying only white men have the imagination required to invent a high-tech future. Other white nationalists envision racist utopias filled with Aryan supermen and all-white space colonies. Speculative Whiteness traces these ideas through the entangled histories of science fiction culture and white supremacist politics.
State of Shock
The Kibbutz in Israel from Avant-Garde to Fetish, 1948-1955
Lior Libman
Jewish Culture and Contexts
November 2024 272pp
9781512826661 £54.00/ $59.95 HB
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
State of Shock decodes one of the most iconic images of Zionism and Israel: the kibbutz. Libman offers original theoretical and historiographical insights into the imagery of the kibbutz, and Israeli culture. This book defines the kibbutz’s as a cultural trauma which robbed it of interpreting historical experience.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer
Volume 46
Edited by Michelle Karnes and Misty Schieberle
NCS Studies in the Age of Chaucer
January 2025 506pp
9780933784482 £54.00/ $60.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
Studies in the Age of Chaucer is the annual yearbook of the New Chaucer Society, publishing articles on the writing of Chaucer and his contemporaries, their antecedents and successors, and their intellectual and social contexts. More generally, articles explore the culture and writing of later medieval Britain (1200–1500).
Spirals in the Caribbean
Representing Violence and Connection in Haiti and the Dominican Republic
Sophie Maríñez
August 2024 320pp 8 b&w halftones
9781512826401 £49.00/ $54.95 HB
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Spirals in the Caribbean responds to key questions elicited by the human rights crisis accelerated in 2013 by the Dominican Constitutional Court’s Ruling 168-13, which denationalized hundreds of thousands of Dominicans of Haitian descent.
Stories of the Street
Reimagining Found Texts
David Lazar
November 2024 176pp 62 color photos
9781496238498 £21.99/ $24.95 PB
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
When walking down the street, it is not uncommon to see lost items that have escaped their proper receptacles, but how often does one stop to read the messages left behind? Stories of the Street is a series of imaginative meditations—through prose poems, short-short essays, microfictions, and prose pieces without precise genre distinction—of what it means to encounter lost or discarded texts.
Supervillains
The Significance of Evil in Superhero Comics
Nao Tomabechi
January 2025 244pp 11 color illus. 9781978839373 £25.99/ $29.95 PB 9781978839380 £108.00/ $120.00 HB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Alongside superheroes, supervillains, too, have become one of today’s most popular and globally recognizable figures. However, it is not merely their popularity that marks their significance. Supervillains are also central to superhero storytelling to the extent that the superhero genre cannot survive without supervillains.
Swallowing a World Globalization and the Maximalist Novel
Benjamin Bergholtz
Frontiers of Narrative
October 2024 252pp Index
9781496231284 £49.00/ $55.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Swallowing a World offers a new theorization of the maximalist novel. Though it’s typically cast as a (white, male) genre of U.S. fiction, maximalism, Benjamin Bergholtz argues, is an aesthetic response to globalization and a global phenomenon in its own right.
The Claremont Run Subverting Gender in the X-Men
J. Andrew Deman
Introduction by Jay Edidin
World Comics and Graphic Nonfiction Series
September 2024 176pp 14 b&w illus.
9781477330753 £29.99/ $34.95 NIP
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
A data-driven deep dive into a legendary comics author’s subversion of gender norms within the bestselling comic of its time. The Claremont Run compares several hundred issues of Uncanny X-Men with a thousand other Marvel comics to provide a comprehensive account of Claremont’s sophisticated and progressive gender politics.
The Early Printed Illustrations of Dante’s "Commedia"
Matthew Collins
William and Katherine Devers Series in Dante and Medieval Italian Literature
December 2024 490pp 232 b&w illus., 9 tables
9780268208387 £58.00/ $65.00 PB
9780268208370 £134.00/ $150.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
Provides the first systematic overview of the earliest illustrated editions of Dante’s poem, stretching from 1481 through 1596, and features over 230 illustrations. Collins explores the visual sources for the first illustrated editions of the Commedia, their narrative qualities, and their influence on Renaissance readers.
The Brontës and the Fairy Tale
Jessica Campbell
Series in Victorian Studies
October 2024 256pp
9780821425640 £72.00/ $80.00 HB OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS
The first comprehensive study devoted to the role of fairy tales and folklore in the work of Charlotte, Emily, Anne, and Branwell Brontë. It intervenes in debates on genre, literary realism, the history of the fairy tale, and the position of women in the Victorian period.
October 2024 432pp
The Complete Letters of Henry James: 1888–1891
Volume
1
Henry James
Edited by Michael Anesko, Greg W. Zacharias and Katie Sommer
The Complete Letters of Henry James
9781496240965 £85.00/ $95.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Contains 171 letters, of which 119 are published for the first time. These letters continue to mark Henry James’s ongoing efforts to care for his sister, develop his work, strengthen his professional status, build friendships, engage timely political and economic issues, and maximize his income.
The Emergence of Arabic Poetry
From Regional Identities to Islamic Canonization
Nathaniel A. Miller
August 2024 376pp 6 b&w illus., 2 maps
9781512825305 £58.00/ $65.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
In combining a reconstruction of pre-Islamic poetry’s social function, The Emergence of Arabic Poetry offers an urgently needed reappraisal of a significant but underexamined poetic corpus, as well as a new literary history of the origins of Arabic poetry from 500 to 750 CE.
The Great Commentary on the Documents Classic / Shangshu
dazhuan
尚書大傳
Translated by Fan Lin and Griet Vankeerberghen Series edited by Michael Nylan and Andrew Plaks
With facing pages of Chinese and English text, this volume provides a comprehensive introduction to the Great Commentary along with detailed annotations on its value as a source for studying early Chinese history.
The Joyce of Everyday Life
Vicki Mahaffey
Contemporary Irish Writers
September 2024 276pp 8 color and 7 b&w images
9781684485260 £25.99/ $29.95 PB
9781684485277 £72.00/ $79.95 HB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Acclaimed Joyce scholar Vicki Mahaffey demonstrates how Joyce’s writing might prompt us to engage in a different kind of reading, treating words and fiction as tools for expanding the boundaries of the self with humor and feeling. A book for everyone who loves language, The Joyce of Everyday Life is a lyrical romp through quotidian existence.
The Poetics of Translation
A
Thinking
Structure
Geneviève Robichaud
July 2024 198pp
9780228021957 £40.00/ $44.95 PB
9780228021940 £85.00/ $95.00 HB
MCGILL-QUEENS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Combines close readings of literary texts alongside astute critical observations from works by Avital Ronell and Walter Benjamin, amongst others. Situated at the juncture of translation poetics and literary studies, the book celebrates the uncertainty of translation, the plasticity of language and ideas, and the desire to interpret rather than reiterate.
The
Inwardness of Things
Joseph Conrad and the Voice of Poetry
Debra Romanick Baldwin
December 2024 320pp 16 b&w illus. 9781487558055 £59.00/ $75.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
The book traces Conrad’s poetic voice from the rhetoric of his private letters to the narrative techniques of his fiction and finally to his explicit engagement with abstract approaches to truth. Mindful of the colonial, late Victorian, Polish Romantic, and cosmopolitan contexts in which Conrad wrote, Baldwin nevertheless situates him in a broader human conversation that he himself invited and argues for the enduring value of his art.
The Location of Experience
Victorian Women Writers, the Novel, and the Feeling of Living
We tend to feel that works of fiction give us special access to lived experience. But how do novels cultivate that feeling? Where exactly does experience reside? The Location of Experience argues that, paradoxically, novels create experience for us not by bringing reality up close, but by engineering environments in which we feel constrained from acting.
The Rough Poets
Reading Oil-Worker Poetry
Melanie Dennis Unrau
McGill-Queen's Rural, Wildland, and Resource Studies
October 2024 240pp 16 photos
9780228022947 £29.99/ $34.95 PB
9780228022930 £99.00/ $110.00 HB
MCGILL-QUEENS UNIVERSITY PRESS
How does it feel to be a worker in the oil and gas industry in a climate emergency, facing an energy transition that threatens your way of life? Unrau takes up this question with the respect, care, and imagination necessary to be an environmentalist reader in solidarity with oil workers.
The Sense of the Sacred in the Early Novels of Quebec
Lisa
M. Gasbarrone
October 2024 304pp
9780228022459 £99.00/ $110.00 HB
MCGILL-QUEENS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Reintroduces readers to seven classic works of French-Canadian literature. Through chapters that focus on sacred themes, character analysis, narrative temporalities, and the hermeneutics of the sacred, Lisa Gasbarrone demonstrates that these novels are more nuanced and innovative than their reputation has allowed
Twenty-Nine Goodbyes
An Introduction to Chinese Poetry
Timothy Billings
December 2024 224pp 1 b&w illus.
9781531508357 £21.99/ $24.95 HB
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
A primer for those with no previous knowledge of Chinese, this book introduces readers to the fundamentals of classical Chinese poetry through twenty-nine ways of understanding a single poem. “Seeing Off a Friend,” by the great Tang poet Li Bai (701–762) has long been praised for its vividness, subtlety, and poignancy.
Universality and Translation
Sites of Struggle in Philosophy and Politics
Edited by Gavin Arnall and Katie Chenoweth
January 2025 320pp 1 b&w illus.
9781531508579 £29.99/ $35.00 PB
9781531508562 £112.00/ $125.00 HB
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Drawing from multiple intellectual traditions and orientations, with a special emphasis on deconstruction and Marxism, this volume both reveals and participates in a subterranean current of thought committed to theorizing the dynamic, plural, and ultimately inextricable relationship between translation and universality.
The Waiting Water Order, Sacrifice, and Submergence in German Realism
Alexander Sorenson
Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
September 2024 282pp 3 b&w halftones
9781501777103 £28.99/ $33.95 PB
9781501777097 £116.00/ $130.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
The Waiting Water addresses one of the most recurrent and troubling motifs in German Realist literature—death by drowning. Characters find themselves before bodies of water, presented with the familiar realm above the surface and the unobservable, uncanny domain beneath it.
Unfinished Spirit
Muriel Rukeyser's Twentieth Century
Rowena Kennedy-Epstein
October 2024 228pp 13 b&w halftones
9781501778773 £22.99/ $26.95 NIP
CORNELL UNIVERSITY 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.
Unsettling Sexuality
Queer Horizons in the Long Eighteenth Century
Edited by Jeremy Chow and Shelby Johnson
October 2024 196pp 6 color and 5 b&w images
9781644533482 £36.00/ $39.95 PB
9781644533499 £108.00/ $120.00 HB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Drawing from recent and emerging criticisms in Middle-Eastern and Asian studies, Black studies, and Native American and Indigenous studies, the collected authors perform intersectional queer readings, reimagine queer historiographic methods, and spearhead new citational models that can invigorate the field.
Vernacular Edens
Tropes of Translation in Medieval European Fictions
Simone Marchesi
December 2024 316pp
9781487558307 £62.00/ $80.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
Presents the representation of gardens in medieval fictions as a lens to understand the theories and practices of translation from Latin to the vernaculars. The book argues that the prominent narrative space that works composed in Old French, Italian, and Middle English give to garden-visit scenes is connected to their vindication of translation as an always-enriching practice.
Worldwise Édouard Roditi’s Twentieth Century
Edited by Robert Schwartzwald and Sherry Simon
October 2024 288pp
9780228022923 £27.99/ $32.95 PB
9780228022916 £99.00/ $110.00 HB
MCGILL-QUEENS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Bringing together a wide range of Roditi’s writings, Worldwise highlights the crucial role Roditi played as a cultural mediator and broker, while revealing his trenchant views on art and history in the twentieth century, views that remain salient and enduring in our time.
Worlds at the End
Los Angeles, Infrastructure, and the Apocalyptic Imagination
Pacharee Sudhinaraset
Critical Race, Indigeneity, and Relationality
November 2024 250pp
9781439925515 £29.99/ $34.95 PB
9781439925508 £112.00/ $125.50 HB
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Attends to a body of literature that renders Los Angeles’s infrastructure, or its material foundations, as central to the rise and consolidation of colonial life. Pacharee Sudhinaraset employs a women-ofcolor feminist methodology to examine Indigenous, Black, Asian American, and Latinx literary works about apocalypse and the end times.
Writing Ukraine
Myrna
Kostash
June 2024 48pp 8 b&w images
9781771994224 £16.99/ $19.95 PB
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA PRESS
Based on her writer-in-residence lecture at Athabasca University, which began began shortly after the escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War in 2022, Kostash offers a self-critical reflection on her past writing and considers how her visits to Ukraine and the ongoing war have nuanced her writing about and understanding of Ukrainian Canadian identity.
