distribution
distribution
Wiley Distribution - Ordering Trade Customers (Europe, Middle East, Africa): trade@wiley.com
Trade Customers (Asia Pacific): keyaccounts@wiley.com
Telephone (EMEA & APAC): +44 (0)1243 843291
ebooks
ebooks
You can now purchase our client publishers' eBooks on the Combined Academic Publishers website:
https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/
If you have any further enquiries related to eBooks, please contact:
georgialea@combinedacademic.co.uk
eBook titles from Cornell University Press, Fordham University Press, University of Nebraska Press, New York University Press, University of Pennsylvania Press and Rutgers University Press are also available from the following digital vendors:
de gruyter ebsco gardners google
jstor kindle kortext proquest
territories & sales rights
CAP distributes in the UK, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA), and Asia-Pacific (APAC). Please note the exclusions in APAC for the below publishers.
UBC Press - Excludes Japan, SE Asia, Indian SC & ANZ
University of Illinois Press - Excludes Taiwan, Japan, SE Asia & ANZ
University of Minnesota Press - Excludes Japan & ANZ
New York University Press - Excludes Taiwan, Japan, SE Asia & ANZ
Temple University Press - Excludes Asia Pacific
From 1st April 2024
University of Toronto Press - EMEA Only
@CAP_Ltd
subscribe to the cap newsletter
https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/subscribe/
1650-1850 Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era (Volume 29)
Edited by Kevin L. Cope & Samara Anne CahillAugust 2024 352pp 61 b&w images
9781684485239 £143.00/ $160.00 HB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Exploratory, investigative, and energetically analytical, 1650–1850 covers the full expanse of long eighteenth-century thought, writing, and art. Essays on well-known cultural figures combine with studies of emerging topics to unveil a vivid rendering of a dynamic period, simultaneously committed to singular genius and universal improvement.
Addiction and Devotion in Early Modern England
Rebecca Lemon
Haney Foundation Series
February 2024 280pp 4 illus.
9781512826180 £25.99/ $29.95 PB
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Examining canonical texts, Lemon explores the emergence of the cultural awareness of the dangers of drinking in theological, medical, imaginative and legal writings. Argues that the early modern period’s understanding of addiction, as both compulsion and devotion, is relevant to our conception of it as synonymous with drug taking.
An Unholy Rebellion, Killing the Gods
Political Ideology and Insurrection in the Mayan Popul Vuh and the Andean Huarochiri
Manuscript
Sharonah Esther Fredrick
August 2024 368pp Index
9781496236753 £63.00/ $70.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
This groundbreaking work in literature, cultural studies, and history compares the two greatest epics of the Indigenous peoples of Latin America: the Popul Vuh of the Quiché Maya of Guatemala and the Huarochiri Manuscript of Peru’s lower Andean regions.
A Genealogy of the Gentleman
Women Writers and Masculinity in the Eighteenth Century
Mary Beth
HarrisMarch 2024 252pp 1 b&w image
9781644533284 £45.00/ $49.95 PB
9781644533291 £134.00/ $150.00 HB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
A Genealogy of the Gentleman argues that 18thcentury women writers made key interventions in modern ideals of masculinity and authorship through their narrative constructions of the gentleman. Ultimately, this project considers the import of these women writers’ legacy, both progressive and conservative, on hegemonic standards of masculinity that persist to this day.
American Anti-Pastoral Brookside, New Jersey and the Garden State
of Philip Roth
Thomas Gustafson
CERES: Rutgers Studies in History
June 2024 222pp 6 b&w & 10 color images
9781978838024 £27.99/ $32.95 PB
9781978838031 £63.00/ $69.95 HB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
One of the best-known novels taking place in New Jersey, Philip Roth’s 1997 American Pastoral uses the fictional hamlet of Old Rimrock, NJ as a microcosm for a nation in crisis during the cultural upheavals of the 1960s-70s. Critics have called Old Rimrock mythic, but it is based on a very real place: the small Morris county town of Brookside, New Jersey.
Archipelagic Memory and Literatures of the Indian Ocean World
Edited by Ananya Jahanara Kabir & Luca RaimondiMay 2024 75pp 2 illus.
9781478027959 £19.99/ $23.00 PB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Topics covered include the concept of archipelagic memory, and literary critical scholarship on the Indian Ocean world; remembering oceanic pasts in the present; and ecocritical and feminist approaches to Indian Ocean literatures.
Artificial Life After Frankenstein
Eileen M. Hunt
May 2024 306pp
9781512826173 £21.99/ $24.95 NIP UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
What are our obligations to the artificial creatures we make? And what are the rights of those creatures, whether they are learning machines or organisms? In Artificial Life After Frankenstein, Hunt Botting puts Shelley and several classics into dialogue with contemporary political science and philosophy, in order to challenge some of the concerns of AI and genetic engineering.
Bodies beyond Labels
Finding Joy in the Shadows of Imperial Spain
Ed. by Daniel Holcombe & Frederick A. de Armas
July 2024 336pp 25 b&w illus.
9781487556891 £66.00 / $95.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
Bodies beyond Labels presents an affirmative view of joy and non-labelled expressions of gender, sexuality, and performativity in the Spanish empire.
From 1st April 2024
Christianity and Comics
Stories We Tell about Heaven and Hell
Blair Davis
March 2024 314pp 36 b&w and 24 color images
9781978828216 £36.00/ $39.95 PB
9781978828223 £65.00/ $72.95 HB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Comics scholar Blair Davis pays special attention to how the medium’s unique use of panels, word balloons, captions, and serialized storytelling have provided vehicles for telling familiar biblical tales in new ways. Spanning the Golden Age of comics to the present day, this book charts how comics have both reflected and influenced Americans’ changing attitudes towards religion.
As the Dust of the Earth
The Literature of Abandonment in Revolutionary Russia and Ukraine
Harriet Murav
Jews of Eastern Europe
April 2024 330pp 1 b&w illus.
9780253068804 £40.00/ $45.00 PB
9780253068798 £81.00/ $90.00 HB
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
An estimated forty thousand Jews were murdered during the Russian Civil War between 1918 and 1922. Murav examines the Yiddish and Russian literary response to the violence (pogroms) and the relief effort, exploring the poetry of catastrophe and the documentation of catastrophe and care.
Cartographies of Disappearance
Vestiges of Everyday Life in Literature
Enric Bou
October 2024 320pp 13 color illus., 2 b&w illus.
9781487554675 £56.00 / $80.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
Cartographies of Disappearance sheds light on representations of everyday life in an Iberian context.
From 1st April 2024
Clicas
Gender, Sexuality, and Struggle in Latina/o/x Gang Literature and Film
Frank García
Latinx: The Future Is Now
August 2024 256pp 7 b&w photos
9781477329436 £29.99/ $34.95 PB
9781477329429 £94.00/ $105.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
Clicas examines Latina/o/x literature and film by and/or about gay and women gang members challenges to gendered, sexual, racial, and class oppression. Through close readings of literature and film, Frank García reimagines the typical narratives describing gang membership and culture, amplifying and complicating critical gang studies in the social sciences and humanities.
Climate of Denial
Darwin, Climate Change, and the Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century Allen MacDuffie
August 2024 272pp
9781503639546 £27.99/ $32.00 PB
9781503638938 £116.00/ $130.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Many people today experience the climate crisis with a divided state of mind: aware of the extreme effects, but living everyday life as if the crisis is not actually happening. Climate of Denial recontextualizes nineteenth-century texts to offer rich insight into the defensive strategies used—then and now—to avoid confronting the unsettling realities of our situation on this planet.
Consuming Anxieties
Alcohol, Tobacco, and Trade in British Satire, 1660-1751
Dayne C. Riley
Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
June 2024 210pp 2 b&w & 3 color images
9781684485314 £36.00/ $39.95 PB
9781684485321 £125.00/ $140.00 HB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Writers of the late 17th and early 18th centuries recognized the global trade in alcohol and tobacco promised a brighter financial future for England, even as overindulgence at home posed serious moral pitfalls. This engaging and original study explores how literary satirists represented these consumables—and related anxieties about the changing nature of Britishness—in their work.
Defining and Defying Borders
Tracing Hispanism across Literary Magazines
Vanessa Marie Fernández
March 2024 206pp
9781487548629 £56.00 / $80.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
Defining and Defying Borders describes how journals, magazines, and newspapers chart the complex postcolonial relationship between Spain and Latin America during the modernist era.
From 1st April 2024
Common Measures
Romanticism and the Groundlessness of Community
Joseph Albernaz
August 2024 336pp
9781503639720 £72.00/ $80.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
The Romantic period's upheaval cast both traditional communal organizations of life and outgrowths of the new revolutionary age into crisis. In this context, Joseph Albernaz argues that Romantic writers articulate a vital conception of "groundless community," while following this idea through its aesthetic, ecological, political, and philosophical registers into the present.
Coterie Poetics and the Beginnings of the English Literary Tradition
From Chaucer to Spenser
R. D. Perry
The Middle Ages Series
June 2024 344pp 3 b&w illus.
9781512826029 £63.00/ $69.95 HB
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Perry shows that, from Geoffrey Chaucer to Edmund Spenser, the poets who bridged the medieval and early modern periods created a profusion of coterie forms as they sought to navigate their relationships with their contemporaries and to the vernacular literary traditions that preceded them.
Democratic Anarchy
Aesthetics and Political Resistance in U.S. Literature
Matthew Scully
July 2024 256pp 5 b&w illus.
9781531507077 £29.99/ $35.00 PB
9781531507060 £112.00/ $125.00 HB
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
In this dramatic and necessary rethinking of the meaning of Democracy, Matthew Scully grapples with an uncomfortable but obvious truth inimical to democracy: both aesthetics and politics depend on the structuring antagonism of inclusion and exclusion.
The Doctors’ Dinner Party
Ibn Buṭlān
Translated by Philip F.
Kennedy & Jeremy Farrell
March 2024 250pp
9781479827480 £13.99/ $16.00 PB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
The Doctors’ Dinner Party is an eleventh-century satire in the form of a novella, set in a medical milieu. A young doctor from out of town is invited to dinner with a group of older medical men, whose conversation reveals their incompetence. Written by the accomplished physician Ibn Buṭlān, the work satirizes the hypocrisy of quack doctors while displaying Ibn Buṭlān’s own deep technical knowledge of medica
Enlightenment Links
Theories of Mind and Media in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Collin Jennings
Stanford Text Technologies
May 2024 256pp
9781503637979 £63.00/ $70.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Jennings applies computational methods to eighteenth-century fiction, history, and poetry to reveal the nonlinear courses of reading they produce. He argues that emergent print genres combined language and links to bring forward the associative, circular, and multi-sequential ways in which literature makes language work.
Fuzzy Traumas
Animals and Errors in Contemporary Japanese Literature
Tyran Grillo
July 2024 168pp
9781501775994 £22.99/ $26.95 PB
9781501775987 £112.00/ $125.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Grillo critically examines the portrayal of companion animals in Japanese literature in the wake of the 1990s "pet boom." Examining symbiotic concepts of "humanity" and "animality," Grillo challenges negative views of anthropomorphism as something unethical, redefining it as a necessary rupture in, not a bandage on, the thick skin of the human ego.
Eco-Writing in an Age of (Un)Natural Crises
Edited by Ban Wang & Haomin Gong
March 2024 320pp 5 illus.
9781478027973 £13.99/ $16.00 PB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Topics covered include people’s treatment of nature in natural disasters, ecocritical understanding of Chinese science fiction, ethnicity in Chinese ecocriticism, religion and the practice of environmental preservation, and the poetics of nature and crisis.
Exile and the Jews
Literature, History, and Identity
Edited by Nancy E. Berg & Marc SapersteinJPS Anthologies of Jewish Thought
April 2024 330pp index
9780827615557 £29.99/ $35.00 PB UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Anthologizes texts from all genres of Jewish literary creativity, from the Hebrew Bible to the present, exploring how the realities and interpretations of exile have shaped Jewish religion, politics, and identity.
Ghosts, Holes, Rips and Scrapes
Shakespeare in 1619, Bibliography in the Longue Durée Zachary Lesser
Published in cooperation with Folger
Shakespeare Library
April 2024 208pp 7 color imgs and 1 table
9781512826081 £25.99/ $29.95 NIP UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Four years before the publication of the First Folio, a group of London printers and booksellers attempted to produce a "collected works" of William Shakespeare as a series of quarto pamphlets. Zachary Lesser examines more than three hundred surviving copies of these "Pavier Quartos," revealing they are far more mysterious than we thought.
Guardians of Discourse
Journalism and Literature in Porfirian Mexico
Kevin M. Anzzolin
May 2024 286pp 1 photo, 20 illus., index
9781496233370 £54.00/ $60.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Anzzolin analyzes the role and representation of journalism in literary texts from Porfirian Mexico to argue that these writings created a literate, objective, refined, and informed public.
Heroines and Local Girls
The Transnational Emergence of Women's Writing in the Long Eighteenth Century
Pamela L. Cheek
Haney Foundation Series
February 2024 280pp 6 illus.
9781512826166 £25.99/ $29.95 NIP
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Cheek explores the rise of women's writing as a distinct, transnational category in Britain and Europe between 1650 and 1810, characterized by stories about heroines who transcend their gendered destiny. Cheek examines the century-and-a-half literary lineage connecting leading female writers and thinkers.
How to Do Things with Dead People
History, Technology, and Temporality from Shakespeare to Warhol
Alice Dailey
April 2024 264pp 1 b&w photo, 19 color hts.
9781501775895 £22.99/ $26.95 NIP
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Dailey takes as her principal objects of inquiry Shakespeare's English history plays, describing them as reproductive mechanisms by which living replicas of dead historical figures are regenerated in the present and re-killed.
Invisibility and Influence
A Literary History of AfroLatinidades
Regina Marie Mills
Latinx: The Future Is Now
June 2024 256pp
9781477329146 £29.99/ $34.95 PB
9781477329139 £94.00/ $105.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
Invisibility and Influence demonstrates how a century of AfroLatinx writers in the United States shaped life writing, through depictions of a wide range of “AfroLatinidades.” Mills examines the work of writers and creators often excluded from Latinx literary criticism, how these writers confront the distorted visions of AfroLatinxs and expressed AfroLatinx self-identity.
In the Doorway of All Worlds
Gonzalo de Berceo’s Translation of the Saints
Robin M Bower
July 2024 304pp
9781487547875 £52.00 / $75.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
In the Doorway of All Worlds revisits the hagiographical poetry of Gonzalo de Berceo in the context of the emergent vernacular culture of thirteenth-century Iberia.
From 1st April 2024
Land of Sunshine
Race, Gender, and Regional Development in a California Periodical
Sigrid Anderson
July 2024 206pp 16 photos, 22 illus., index
9781496221988 £54.00/ $60.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Sigrid Anderson focuses on the Southern California magazine Land of Sunshine, a publication that featured authors such as Edith Eaton, Mary Austin, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, to explore how regional periodical fiction offered agency to women—and the implications for the region and its populace.
Love among the Poets
The Victorian Poetics of Intimacy
Edited by Pearl ChaozonBauer &
Erik GraySeries in Victorian Studies
April 2024 240pp
9780821425442 £72.00/ $80.00 HB
OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS
Many of the greatest love poems in English date from the Victorian period, yet this is the first scholarly book in decades to consider the whole range of Victorian love poetry by authors such as Christina Rossetti, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Augusta Webster, Thomas Hardy, and William Butler Yeats. It includes contributions by many of the leading scholars of Victorian poetry.
Modernism's Inhuman Worlds
Rasheed Tazudeen
August 2024 276pp 8 b&w hts.
9781501776496 £49.00/ $54.95 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Explores the centrality of ecological precarity, species indeterminacy, planetary change, and the specter of extinction to modernist and contemporary metamodernist literatures. Modernist ecologies, Rasheed Tazudeen argues, emerge in response to the enigma of how to imagine inhuman being—including forests, oceans, and the earth itself—through languages and epistemologies that have only ever been humanist.
Mother of Stories
An Elegy
Alice
Dailey
July 2024 160pp 95 color figures
9781531506476 £21.99/ $24.95 PB
9781531506469 £85.00/ $95.00 HB
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
In a breathtaking blend of lyrical memoir, photographs, and textual artifacts, this tour de force memoir explores the murky boundary between truth and lies and the literary paths to renewal after world-altering loss.
Misrecognitions
Plotting Capital in the Victorian Novel
Ben Parker
March 2024 198pp
9781501774072 £44.00/ $48.95 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Through a meticulous analysis of novels by Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, and Henry James, as well as Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories, Misrecognitions tracks how the Victorian novel translates the financialized abstractions of capital into dramas of buried secrets and disguised relations
Monstrous Fantasies
England's Crusading Imaginary and the Romance of Recovery, 1300-1500
Leila K. Norako
August 2024 300pp
9781501776311 £54.00/ $59.95 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Asks why medieval romances reimagining the crusades ending in a Christian victory circulated in England with such abundance after the Muslim reconquest of Acre, the last of the Latin crusader states in the Holy Land, in 1291, and what these texts reveal about the cultural anxieties of late medieval England.
Nabokov’s Secret Trees
Stephen H. Blackwell
August 2024 320pp 20 b&w illus., 2 b&w tables
9781487554422 £56.00 / $80.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
This book explores how Vladimir Nabokov wove his deep love of trees throughout all his works, granting them a powerful role in the development of his most significant themes. From 1st April 2024
Norman Maclean
A Life of Letters and Rivers
Rebecca McCarthy
May 2024 224pp 15 b&w illus.
9780295752488 £25.99/ $29.95 HB
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Rebecca McCarthy’s intimate portrait of Maclean draws on her long friendship with the author from the time she became a student at the University of Chicago through the rest of his life. Irrepressible as a teacher, Maclean shared guidance, advice, campus and city rambles, and loyal friendship with generations of students.
Object-Oriented Narratology
Marie-Laure Ryan & Tang
Weisheng
Frontiers of Narrative
June 2024 266pp 6 photos, 1 illus., index
9781496238795 £54.00/ $60.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Object-Oriented Narratology explores the representation of objects from a narratological point of view, combining an objectcentered approach with specific text studies and arguing for the cultural meanings of objects and their power and influence on the behavior of characters, while acknowledging the independence of their existence from human perception
Of Memory and the Misplaced
Irish Immigrant Life Writing in the United States
Sarah O'Brien
Irish Culture, Memory, Place
January 2024 344pp
9780253067883 £45.00/ $50.00 PB
9780253067876 £90.00/ $100.00 HB
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Of Memory and the Misplaced considers the endurance and nature of Irish American memory across the twentieth century. Guided by 30 memoirs written between 1900 and 1970, Sarah O'Brien shows the prevalence of intimate and taboo themes in ordinary immigrants' writing, such as domestic violence, same-sex love, and famine-induced trauma.
Nothing Pure
Jewish Law, Christian Supersession, and Bible
Translation in Old English
Mo Pareles
February 2024 270pp
9781487550677 £59.00 / $85.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
Drawing on a wide range of Old English literary and religious texts, Nothing Pure explores the cultural translation of Jewish law in pre-Conquest England. From 1st April 2024
Objects of Liberty
British Women Writers and Revolutionary Souvenirs
Pamela Buck
EARLY MODERN FEMINISMS
March 2024 202pp 13 color and 13 b&w images
9781644533321 £38.00/ $42.95 PB
9781644533338 £134.00/ $150.00 HB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Objects of Liberty explores the prevalence of souvenirs in British women’s writing during the French Revolution and Napoleonic era. It argues that women writers employed the material and memorial object of the souvenir to circulate revolutionary ideas and engage in the masculine realm of political debate.
Performing Parenthood
Non-Normative Fathers and Mothers in Spanish Narrative and Film
Heather Jerónimo
August 2024 256pp 9 b&w illus.
9781487554217 £56.00 / $80.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
Drawing on examples from literature and film, Performing Parenthood explores the multiplicity within non-normative familial constructions in Spain.
From 1st April 2024
Petrarch's Penitential Psalms and Prayers
Edited and translated by
Demetrio S. YocumFrancesco Petrarca
William and Katherine Devers Series in Dante and Medieval Italian Literature
May 2024 146pp
9780268207854 £29.99/ $35.00 PB
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
Intricately crafted poetic and devotional works, presented in facing Latin/English format. In his extensive introduction and commentary, Yocum situates these bold, original compositions within their historical, literary, and religious contexts, deftly drawing connections to classical texts, the Bible and the writings of the church fathers, and Petrarch’s own life, work, and poetics.
Proust's Songbook
Songs and Their Uses
Jennifer Rushworth
Sound in History
June 2024 352pp
9781512825961 £63.00/ $69.95 HB
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
In Proust’s Songbook, Rushworth analyzes and theorizes the presence and role of songs in Marcel Proust’s novel À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time). Rushworth presents detailed readings of Proust’s novel and interprets them through theoretical reflections, pointing to the juxtapositions of songs that are popular and songs that are art.
Reading
Autobiography Now
An Updated Guide for Interpreting Life Narratives, Third Edition
Sidonie Smith & Julia Watson
July 2024 400pp
9781517916886 £22.99/ $27.00 PB
9781517916879 £97.00/ $108.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
A user-friendly guide to reading, writing, and theorizing autobiographical texts and practices for students, scholars, and practitioners of life narrative. Smith and Watson offers both a critical engagement with life narrative in historical perspective and a theoretical framework for interpreting texts and practices in this wide-ranging field.
Portraying Authorship
Juan Manuel and the Rhetoric of Authority
Anita Savo
May 2024 304pp 17 b&w illus.
9781487553234 £66.00 / $95.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
This book investigates how a noted fourteenth-century Castilian writer developed and disseminated a concept of individual authorship.
From 1st April 2024
Reading across Borders
Afghans, Iranians, and Literary Nationalism
Aria Fani
Connected Histories of the Middle East and the Global South
April 2024 264pp 14 b&w photos
9781477328811 £49.00/ $55.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
The dynamic ways Afghans and Iranians invented their modern selves through literature. Reading across Borders demonstrates how Iran and Afghanistan as nation-states arose from their shared Persian heritage and cross-cultural exchange in the twentieth century. In this book, Aria Fani what made this exchange possible, detailing the dynamic and interconnected ways Afghans and Iranians invented their modern selves.
Reading Shakespeare Reading Me
Leonard Barkan
April 2024 256pp 5 color and 6 b&w illus.
9781531507312 £16.99/ $19.95 NIP
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
A gripping, funny, joyful account of how the books you read shape your own life in surprising and profound ways. Full of engrossing stories, and written with humor and genuine excitement about literary experiences worthy of our attention and our love, Reading Shakespeare Reading Me makes Shakespeare’s plays come alive in new ways.
Reading the Impossible
Sexual Difference, Critique, and the Stamp of History
Elizabeth Weed
May 2024 176pp
9781531506797 £21.99/ $25.00 PB
9781531506780 £81.00/ $90.00 HB
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
In reconsidering the question of sexual difference, Weed offers a fresh perspective on what is at stake for critical reading in the neoliberal university.
Recollections
Ivan Bunin
Edited and translated by
Thomas Gaiton Marullo
NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
July 2024 252pp
9781501776144 £25.99/ $29.95 PB
9781501776137 £112.00/ $125.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
In this edited translation of famed writer Ivan Bunin's Recollections translator Thomas Gaiton Marullo provides an intimate look at leading political, social, cultural, and literary figures from late Imperial Russia, through the First World War and the Revolutions of 1905 and 1917 to the birth of the Russian Diaspora and the rise of the Soviet State.
Russian Archaism
Nationalism and the Quest for a Modernist Aesthetic
Irina Shevelenko
NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
August 2024 288pp 12 b&w hts.
9781501776342 £47.00/ $51.95 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Considers the aesthetic quest of Russian modernism in relation to the nation-building ideas spreading in the late imperial period. Shevelenko argues that the cultural milieu in Russia soon became captivated by nationalist indoctrination. Russian Archaism reveals the modernist artistic enterprise as a crucial source of insight into Russia's political and cultural transformation in the early twentieth century and beyond.
Reading Typographically
Immersed in Print in Early Modern France
Geoffrey Turnovsky
Stanford Text Technologies
June 2024 304pp
9781503637214 £63.00/ $70.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Exploring key evolutions in print in 17th- and 18thcentury France, from typeface, print runs, and format to editorial organization and punctuation, this book argues that typographic developments upholding the transparency of the printed medium were decisive for the ascendancy of immersive reading as a dominant paradigm that shaped modern perspectives on reading and literacy.
Rhetoric, Poetics, and Literary Historiography
The Formation of a Discipline at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century
Stefan H. Uhlig
January 2024 272pp
9781512824155 £67.00/ $75.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
In Rhetoric, Poetics, and Literary Historiography, traces current debates in literary studies back to this formative moment, serving as a guide to past and present controversies in the field. Uhlig turns to the decades around 1800 in Europe to reveal that the inception of the literary field was defined by intellectual diversity and contestation.
Sailing without Ahab
Ecopoetic Travels
Steve Mentz
Foreword by Suzanne Conklin Akbari
April 2024 144pp 1 map, 2 b&w illus.
9781531506322 £16.99/ $19.95 PB
9781531506315 £63.00/ $70.00 HB
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Journey through uncharted literary waters and explore Melville’s epic in bold new light. This cycle of one hundred thirty-eight poems—one for each chapter in Moby-Dick, plus the Etymology, Extracts, and Epilogue—launches into oceanic chaos without the stabilizing mad focus of the Nantucket captain.
Saul Bellow
"I Was a Jew and an American and a Writer"
Gerald Sorin
The Modern Jewish Experience
April 2024 582pp 13 b&w photos
9780253069443 £43.00/ $48.00 PB
9780253069436 £90.00/ $100.00 HB
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Saul Bellow: "I Was a Jew and an American and a Writer" provides a new and insightful narrative of the life and works of Saul Bellow. By using Bellow's deeply internalized Jewishness and his remarkable imagination and creativity as a lens, Sorin examines how he captured the shifting atmosphere of postwar American culture.
Ships of State
Literature and the Seaman’s Labour in Proto-Imperial Britain
Laurie Ellinghausen
May 2024 174pp
9781487529475 £52.00 / $75.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
Ships of State analyses representations of seaborne labour across popular literary genres during the early years of British Empire.
From 1st April 2024
Situation Critical Critique, Theory, and Early American Studies
Edited by Max Cavitch & Brian Connolly
April 2024 312pp 8 illus.
9781478030317 £24.99/ $28.95 PB
9781478026082 £97.00/ $107.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Editors Max Cavitch and Brian Connolly bring together essays by a diverse group of historians and literary scholars to argue for the continued importance of critique to Early American studies, pushing back against both reductivist neo-empiricism and so-called postcritique.
Science Fusion in Contemporary Mexican Literature
Brian T. Chandler
Bucknell Studies in Latin American Literature and Theory
March 2024 236pp
9781684485192 £47.00/ $52.95 PB
9781684485208 £134.00/ $150.00 HB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Chandler examines how a range of contemporary Mexican writers “fuse” science and literature in their work to rethink what it means to be human in an age of climate change, mass extinctions, interpersonal violence, femicide, and social injustice.
Singing by Herself
Lonely Poets in the Long Eighteenth Century
Amelia Worsley
August 2024 240pp 2 b&w hts.
9781501776274 £42.00/ $46.95 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Reinterprets the rise of literary loneliness by foregrounding the female and feminized figures who have been overlooked in previous histories of solitude. In dialogue with each other and also with classical figures of feminized lament such as Sappho, Echo, and Philomela, Worsley argues, seemingly solitary lonely voices often dissolve into polyvocal, allusive community.
Smoothing the Jew "Abie the Agent" and Ethnic Caricature in the Progressive Era
Jeffrey A. Marx
June 2024 210pp 3 color and 45 b&w images
9781978836341 £29.99/ $34.95 PB
9781978836358 £108.00/ $120.00 HB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
The turn of the 19th century in the US saw the substantial influx of immigrants and a corresponding increase in anti-immigration and nativist tendencies among longer-settled Americans. Smoothing the Jew investigates how Jewish artists of the time attempted to “smooth over” these demeaning portrayals by focusing on the first Jewish comic strip published in English, Harry Hershfield’s Abie the Agent.
Sound and Silence
My Experience with China and Literature
Lianke Yan
Translated by Carlos Rojas
Introduction by Carlos Rojas
Sinotheory
April 2024 200pp
9781478030393 £21.99/ $25.95 PB
9781478026167 £90.00/ $99.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
World-renowned author of novels, short stories, and essays Yan Lianke describes his literary project, reflects on censorship in China, and his perspectives on life, writing, and literary history.
Storytelling in Kabuki
An Exploration of Spatial Poetics of Comics
Steen Ledet Christiansen
Encapsulations: Critical Comics Studies
April 2024 200pp 10 illus., index
9781496226686 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Storytelling in “Kabuki” explores the series created by David Mack—a slow, recursive narrative that focuses on the death of Kabuki, her past, and the complex use of space on the page.
Speaking Truth to Power
The Legacy of the Young Cid
Matthew Bailey
November 2023 200pp
9781487506872 £46.00 / $65.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
This book traces the evolution of an oral narrative tradition that inspired the Spanish epic poem Mocedades de Rodrigo.
From 1st April 2024
The Arts of Encounter
Christians, Muslims, and the Power of Images in Early Modern Spain
Catherine Infante
May 2023 264pp 18 b&w illus.
9781487556457 £27.99 / $39.95 PB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
The Arts of Encounter uncovers the significant role of religious images in literature, offering a new approach to understanding ChristianMuslim relations in early modern Spain.
From 1st April 2024
