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Literary Studies
A Best-Selling Hebrew Book of the Modern Era
A Horse’s Tale
Mark Twain Edited by Charles C. Bradshaw & Frank Christianson Afterword by Shelley Fisher Fishkin
The Book of the Covenant of Pinhas Hurwitz and Its Remarkable Legacy David B. Ruderman
Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies July 2020 192pp 9780295748061 £27.99 / $35.00 PB UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
The Papers of William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody December 2020 224pp 6 photos, 17 illus. 9781496223746 £15.99 / $19.95 PB 9781496223678 £62.00 / $75.00HB UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Ruderman offers a literary and intellectual history of Book of the Covenant, a 1797 compendium of scientific knowledge and manual for moral living.
An annotated edition of Twain’s comic tale, frontier adventure, and political diatribe.
Artificial Life After Frankenstein
At Penpoint
African Literatures, Postcolonial Studies, and the Cold War Monica Popescu
Eileen Hunt Botting
December 2020 306pp 9780812252743 £27.99 / $34.95 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Theory in Forms September 2020 272pp 12 illus. 9781478009405 £20.99 / $26.95 PB 9781478008514 £83.00 / $99.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Beginning with Mary Shelley's great novels, Frankenstein and The Last Man, Eileen Hunt Botting’s Artificial Life After Frankenstein reveals the techno-political stakes of modern political science fiction and brings them to bear upon the ethics and politics of making artificial life and intelligence in the twenty-first century.
Traces the development of African literature during the second half of the twentieth century, showing how the United States and the Soviet Union’s efforts to further their geopolitical and ideological goals influenced literary practices and knowledge production on the African continent.
Author Under Sail
Behind the Times
The Imagination of Jack London, 1902-1907 Jay Williams
Virginia Woolf in Late-Victorian Contexts Mary Jean Corbett
February 2021 804pp 9780803249929 £83.00 / $100.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
November 2020 324pp 9781501752469 £40.00 / $48.95 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Investigates the life of Jack London as a professional writer at the turn of the 1900s. Documenting key life events, especially his rising fame, this biography explores London’s need to illustrate the inner workings of his own vast imagination through his socialist essays and fiction.
Rereads and revises Woolf’s creative works, politics, and criticism in relation to women writers including Sarah Grand, Lucy Clifford, and Mary Augusta Ward. Explores Woolf’s attitudes to late-Victorian women’s philanthropy, the social purity movement, and women’s suffrage.
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Between Two Millstones, Book 2
Mahoney
Black Queer Flesh
Rejecting Subjectivity in the African American Novel Alvin J. Henry
Exile in America, 1978-1994 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Translated by Clare Kitson & Melanie Moore Foreword by Daniel J.
January 2021 264pp 1 b&w illus. 9781517910068 £20.99 / $27.00 PB 9781517910051 £89.00 / $108.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Black Queer Flesh reinterprets key African American novels from the Harlem Renaissance to Black Modernism to contemporary literature, showing how authors have imagined a new model of black queer selfhood. Excludes Japan & ANZ
The Center for Ethics and Culture Solzhenitsyn Series November 2020 680pp 9780268109004 £27.99 / $39.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s literary memoirs of his years in the West after his exile from the USSR.
Book Traces
Capture
Nineteenth-Century Readers and the Future of the Library Andrew M. Stauffer
American Pursuits and the Making of a New Animal Condition
Material Texts January 2021 288pp 36 illus. 9780812252682 £40.00 / $49.95 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
ANTOINE TRAISNEL September 2020 256pp 28 b&w illus., 4 color plates 9781517909642 £20.99 / $27.00 PB 9781517909635 £89.00 / $108.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
In Book Traces, Andrew M. Stauffer reads nineteenth-century poetry through the clues and objects earlier readers left behind in their books and defends the value of the physical, circulating collections of nineteenth-century volumes in academic libraries.
Reveals how the drive to contain and record disappearing animals was an organizing pursuit of the U.S. cultural canon. Excludes Japan & ANZ
Disruptions of Daily Life
Failures of Feeling
Japanese Literary Modernism in the World Arthur M. Mitchell
Insensibility and the Novel Wendy Anne Lee
October 2020 248pp 9781503615014 £20.99 / $26.00 PB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University October 2020 270pp 3 b&w hts., 4 color hts., 2 charts 9781501752919 £46.00 / $55.00 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
This book examines the unexpected power of dispassion to incite the passions of sentimental literature, restoring the conversation between Explores the mass media landscape of early Enlightenment philosophy and fiction to the twentieth century in order to uncover the history of emotions, and reframing our subversive societal impact of four major Japanese contemporary theories of mind and of the novel. authors: Tanizaki Jun’ichirō, Yokomitsu Riichi, Kawabata Yasunari, and Hirabayashi Taiko.
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Forms of Life
From Slave Cabins to the White House
Aesthetics and Biopolitics in German Culture Andreas Gailus
Homemade Citizenship in African American Culture Koritha Mitchell
Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought September 2020 408pp 9781501749810 £23.99 / $29.95 PB 9781501749803 £95.00 / $115.00 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
New Black Studies Series August 2020 272pp 9780252043321 £26.99 / $34.95 HB UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Analyzes canonical texts by and about African American women to lay bare the hostility these women face as they invest in traditional domesticity. Excludes SE Asia, Indian SC & ANZ
Argues that the neglect of aesthetics in most contemporary theories of biopolitics has resulted in an overly restricted conception of life; it should instead be attuned to the interplay and conflict between its many dimensions and forms.
Further Adventures on the Journey to the West
Fyodor Dostoevsky—The Gathering Storm (1846–1847)
Master of Silent Whistle Studio, Translated by Qiancheng Li & Robert E. Hegel, Introduction by Qiancheng Li
A Life in Letters, Memoirs, and Criticism Thomas Gaiton Marullo
October 2020 272pp 16 b&w illus. 9780295747729 £22.99 / $30.00 PB 9780295747712 £76.00 / $95.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies November 2020 270pp 9781501751851 £36.00 / $42.95 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Building on the 16th-century novel Journey to the West, this sequel is a parable of self-delusion that Second of three volumes; a diary-portrait of his early years drawn from the letters, memoirs, and explores the tension between desire and criticism of the writer, plus others’ testimony. emptiness from a Buddhist perspective.
Graphic Migrations
Heaven’s Interpreters
Precarity and Gender in India and the Diaspora Kavita Daiya
Women Writers and Religious Agency in Nineteenth-Century America Ashley Reed
Asian American History & Culture October 2020 258pp 9781439920251 £26.99 / $34.95 PB 9781439920244 £88.00 / $110.50 HB TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS
September 2020 280pp 9781501751363 £15.99 / $19.95 PB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Reveals how women writers of the antebellum period embraced theological concepts to gain access to the literary sphere, challenging the notion that theological discourse was exclusively oppressive and served to deny women their own voice.
Graphic Migrations demands that we redraw the boundaries of how we tell the story of modern world history and the intricately interwoven, intimate production of statelessness and citizenship across the world’s communities. Excludes Asia Pacific
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Honey on the Page
Hunting Nature
A Treasury of Yiddish Children’s Literature Edited and translated by Miriam Udel Foreword by Jack Zipes
Ivan Turgenev and the Organic World Thomas P. Hodge September 2020 320pp 2 b&w hts., 17 color plates 9781501750847 £33.00 / $39.95 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
October 2020 352pp 81 b&w illus. 9781479874132 £23.99 / $29.95 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
An ecocritical perspective, with observations grounded thoroughly in Russian cultural and linguistic context and a wide range of Ivan Turgenev’s fiction, poetry, correspondence, and other writings. Included within the book are some of Turgenev’s important writings on nature—never previously translated into English.
An unprecedented treasury of Yiddish children’s stories and poems complemented by whimsical, humorous, original illustrations by Paula Cohen, an acclaimed children’s illustrator. Excludes SE Asia & ANZ
Ideal Minds
Imperial Romance
Raising Consciousness in the Antisocial Seventies Michael Trask
Fictions of Colonial Intimacy in Korea, 1905–1945 Su Yun Kim
Trask presents a boldly revisionist argument about the revival of subjectivity in postmodern American culture, connecting familiar figures within the seventies intellectual landscape who share a commitment to what he calls “neoidealism” as a weapon in the struggle against discredited materialist and behaviorist worldviews.
Argues that the idea of colonial intimacy within the Japanese empire of the early twentieth century had a far broader and more popular influence on discourse makers, social leaders, and intellectuals than previously understood.
November 2020 264pp 9781501752438 £33.00 / $39.95 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
November 2020 210pp 10 b&w hts. 9781501751882 £41.00 / $49.95 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Incremental Realism
Indigenous Textual Cultures
Postwar American Fiction, Happiness, and Welfare-State Liberalism Mary Esteve
Reading and Writing in the Age of Global Empire Edited by Tony Ballantyne, Lachy Paterson & Angela Wanhalla
Post*45 January 2021 312pp 9781503614376 £23.99 / $30.00 PB 9781503613942 £74.00 / $90.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
September 2020 376pp 15 illus. 9781478010814 £22.99 / $28.95 PB 9781478009764 £87.00 / $104.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Mary Esteve offers a bold, revisionist literary and cultural history of efforts undertaken by literary realists, public intellectuals, and policy activists to advance the value of public institutions and the claims of socioeconomic justice.
Examines the ways in which indigenous peoples created textual cultures to navigate, shape, and contest empire, colonialism, and modernity.
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Indonesians and Their Arab World
Infrastructures of Apocalypse
Guided Mobility among Labor Migrants and Mecca Pilgrims Mirjam Lücking
American Literature and the Nuclear Complex Jessica Hurley
January 2021 282pp 12 b&w hts., 2 maps 9781501753121 £22.99 / $28.95 PB 9781501753114 £95.00 / $115.00 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
October 2020 272pp 2 b&w illus. 9781517908744 £20.99 / $27.00 PB 9781517908737 £89.00 / $108.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
A new approach to the vast nuclear infrastructure and the apocalypses it produces, focusing on Black, queer, Indigenous, and Asian American literatures. Excludes Japan & ANZ
How personal relationships, public discourse, and religious self-understanding guide Indonesians who travel to the Arabian Peninsula in becoming mobile and in making their mobility meaningful.
John Berryman and Robert Giroux
Inter-imperiality
Vying Empires, Gendered Labor, and the Literary Arts of Alliance Laura Doyle
A Publishing Friendship Patrick Samway S.J.
October 2020 298pp 9780268108410 £37.00 / $45.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
December 2020 368pp 9781478011095 £22.99 / $28.95 PB 9781478010043 £87.00 / $104.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
This engaging study provides new perspectives on the lives and work of two major figures in American poetry and publishing in the second half of the twentieth century: Robert Giroux (1914–2008) and John Berryman (1914–1972).
Weaving together feminist, decolonial, and dialectical theory, Doyle theorizes the coemergence of empires, institutions, language regimes, stratified economies, and literary cultures over the longue durée.
Knowing Fictions
Love, Power, and Gender in SeventeenthCentury French Fairy Tales
Picaresque Reading in the Early Modern Hispanic World Barbara Fuchs
Haney Foundation Series November 2020 208pp 3 hts. 9780812252613 £44.00 / $55.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Bronwyn Reddan
Women and Gender in the Early Modern World December 2020 270pp 1 illus., 2 tables, 2 graphs, 6 appendixes 9781496216151 £54.00 / $65.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Barbara Fuchs engages the picaresque as a set of literary strategies that interrogate the mechanisms of truth-telling itself and shows how picaresque texts effectively encouraged readers to adopt a critical stance toward the truth claims implicit in the forms of authoritative discourse proliferating in Imperial Spain.
How the women writers who dominated the first French fairy-tale vogue used the genre to critique the power dynamics of courtship and marriage.
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Lyric as Comedy
March 1917
The Poetics of Abjection in Postwar America Calista McRae
The Red Wheel, Node III, Book 1 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Translated by Marian Schwartz
October 2020 224pp 9781501750977 £40.00 / $47.95 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
The Center for Ethics and Culture Solzhenitsyn Series October 2020 688pp 9780268102661 £22.99 / $29.00 NIP UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
Explores the unexpected comic opportunities within recent American poems about deeply personal, often embarrassing, experiences. Provides new insight into the theory and aesthetics of comedy, taking in the indirect, glancing comic affordances of poetry.
Nobel Prize-winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s epic work, published to commemorate the centenary of the Russian Revolution.
Meter and Modernity in English Verse, 13501650
Misanthropoetics
Social Flight and Literary Form in Early Modern England Robert Darcy
Eric Weiskott
Early Modern Cultural Studies January 2021 282pp 1 illus. 9781496222626 £54.00 / $65.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
November 2020 352pp 9780812252644 £64.00 / $79.95 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Examines the uses and misuses of three metrical forms as markers of literary periodization: alliterative meter, tetrameter, and pentameter. Rejecting the traditional division between medieval and modern, Weiskott's analysis renegotiates the trajectories of English literary history between 1350 and 1650.
Explores efforts by Renaissance writers to represent social flight as a fictional escape from the incongruous demands of culture. Investigates the literary misanthrope in a number of key examples from Shakespeare, Jonson, Spenser, and the satirical milieu of Marston to exemplify the seemingly unresolvable paradoxes of social life.
Olav Audunssøn
One Left
I. Vows Sigrid Undset Translated by Tiina Nunnally
A Novel
Kim Soom, Translated by Bruce Fulton & Ju-Chan Fulton Foreword by Bonnie Oh
November 2020 336pp 1 Map 9781517910488 £13.99 / $17.95 PB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
September 2020 192pp 9780295747668 £14.99 / $19.95 PB 9780295747651 £76.00 / $95.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
In the first book in the powerful Olav Audunssøn tetralogy, Undset presents a richly imagined world split between pagan codes of retribution and the constraints of Christian piety—all of which threaten to destroy the lives of two young people torn between desires of the heart and the dictates of family and fortune. Excludes Japan & ANZ
Kim Soom tells the story of a woman who was kidnapped at the age of thirteen during the Pacific War. This first-ever English translation recovers the overlooked and disavowed stories of Korea’s most marginalized women.
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Optional-Narrator Theory
Radioactive Ghosts Gabriele Schwab
Posthumanities October 2020 320pp 23 b&w illus. 9781517907839 £21.99 / $28.00 PB 9781517907822 £93.00 / $112.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Principles, Perspectives, Proposals Edited by Sylvie Patron
Frontiers of Narrative February 2021 336pp 3 illus. 9781496223371 £54.00 / $65.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
A pioneering examination of nuclear trauma, the continuing and new nuclear peril, and the subjectivities they generate. Focusing on the legacies of the Manhattan Project, Hiroshima, and nuclear energy politics, Radioactive Ghosts takes us on a tour of the littleseen sides of our nuclear world. Excludes Japan & ANZ
Makes a strong intervention in (or against) narratology, pushing back against the widespread belief among narrative theorists that the presence of a fictional narrator is a defining feature of fictional narratives.
Rationalist Empiricism
Ray Bradbury Unbound Jonathan R. Eller
A Theory of Speculative Critique Nathan Brown
August 2020 352pp 9780252085628 £18.99 / $24.95 PB UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory January 2021 272pp 9780823290017 £26.99 / $35.00 PB 9780823290000 £100.00 / $125.00 HB FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Ray Bradbury entered the autumn of 1953 as a literary figure transcending fantasy and science fiction. Eller continues the story begun in his acclaimed Becoming Ray Bradbury, following the beloved writer’s evolution from a short story master to a multi-media creative force and outspoken visionary. Excludes SE Asia, Indian SC & ANZ
Rationalist Empiricism is a study of the dialectical relation between reason and experience in ancient, modern, and contemporary philosophy, engaging as well with political theory, the science of measurement, and experimental photography.
Sex, Love, and Letters
Shibboleth
Writing Simone de Beauvoir Judith G. Coffin
Judges, Derrida, Celan Marc Redfield
September 2020 334pp 4 b&w hts. 9781501750540 £25.99 / $32.95 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Looks at virtually unexplored letters to Simone de Beauvoir from her international readers. Traces the relationship between Beauvoir and her audience, from the publication of The Second Sex to the release of the last volume of her memoirs, offering an unfamiliar perspective on one of the most magnetic and polarizing philosophers of the twentieth century.
Lit Z December 2020 176pp 9780823289073 £20.99 / $28.00 PB 9780823289066 £76.00 / $95.00 HB FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Working from the Bible to contemporary art, Shibboleth surveys the politics of border crossings, the policing of identities, and the linguistic performances on which such actions depend.
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Solzhenitsyn and American Culture
Sonata
Charles Bowden
November 2020 152pp 9781477322239 £18.99 / $24.95 HB UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
The Russian Soul in the West Edited by David P. Deavel & Jessica Hooten Wilson
Sonata marks the sixth and final installment of Charles Bowden’s towering “Unnatural History of America” series. While his earlier volumes were suffused with violence and war, Bowden offers here a celebration of rebirth and regrowth.
The Center for Ethics and Culture Solzhenitsyn Series
October 2020 400pp 9780268108250 £50.00 / $60.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
Reconsiders Solzhenitsyn’s work from a variety of perspectives—his faith, his politics, the influences and context of his literature. Provides a prophetic vision for current confusion over universal ideals.
Stranger Fictions
Studies in the Age of Chaucer
A History of the Novel in Arabic Translation Rebecca C. Johnson
Volume 42 Edited by Sebastian Sobecki & Michelle Karnes
January 2021 300pp 9 b&w halftones 9781501753060 £40.00 / $47.95 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
NCS Studies in the Age of Chaucer February 2021 576pp 9780933784444 £50.00 / $60.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
From the 1835 publication of Qisòsòat Rūbinsòun Kurūzī (The Story of Robinson Crusoe) to translated crime stories appearing in early 20th century Egyptian magazines, affirms the central place of translation and mistranslation not only in the history of the novel in Arabic but of the novel as a transnational form itself.
Articles on the writing of Chaucer and his contemporaries, their antecedents and successors, and their intellectual and social contexts. Also includes an annotated bibliography and reviews of Chaucer-related publications.
The Audacious Raconteur
The Book of Books
Biblical Interpretation, Literary Culture, and the Political Imagination from Erasmus to Milton Thomas Fulton
Sovereignty and Storytelling in Colonial India Leela Prasad
November 2020 220pp 16 b&w hts., 4 maps 9781501752278 £15.99 / $19.95 PB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
December 2020 400pp 30 illus. 9780812252668 £60.00 / $75.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Scrutinizes the oral and written narrations of four Indian authors in colonial India. Argues that even the most hegemonic circumstances cannot suppress skilled narrators who fashion narrative spaces where they remain beyond subjugation.
Fulton charts the recovery, interpretation, and reuse of scripture in early modern English literary culture, exploring uses of the Bible as a combination of text and paratext that was continually transformed for political purposes.
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The Broadside Ballad in Early Modern England
The Child Sex Scandal and Modern Irish Literature
Moving Media, Tactical Publics Patricia Fumerton
Writing the Unspeakable Joseph Valente & Margot Gayle Backus Foreword by Fintan O’Toole
Material Texts September 2020 512pp 83 illus. 9780812252316 £72.00 / $89.95 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Featuring more than 80 illustrations and easy access to related music files, this magisterial work argues that a ballad cannot be read as a fixed artifact, independent of its illustrations, tune, and movement across time and space.
Irish Culture, Memory, Place December 2020 296pp 4 color illus., 16 b&w illus. 9780253053183 £21.99 / $28.00 PB 9780253053176 £58.00 / $70.00 HB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Valente and Backus examine modern cultural responses to child sex abuse in Ireland.
The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1884– 1886
The Dangers of Poetry
Culture, Politics, and Revolution in Iraq Kevin M. Jones
Volume 1 Henry James, Edited by Michael Anesko, Greg W. Zacharias & Katie Sommer, Introduction by Adrian Poole
September 2020 320pp 9781503613393 £58.00 / $70.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
The Dangers of Poetry is the first book to narrate the social history of poetry in the modern Middle East. Moving beyond the The Complete Letters of Henry James October 2020 496pp analysis of poems as literary and intellectual 9781496221124 £79.00 / $95.00 HB texts, Kevin M. Jones shows how poems UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS functioned as social acts that critically shaped the Fourteenth installment of the complete collection cultural politics of revolutionary Iraq. of James’s more than ten thousand letters.
The Dark Fantastic
The Death of Things
Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games Ebony Elizabeth Thomas
Ephemera and the American Novel Sarah Wasserman
October 2020 272pp 30 b&w illus. 9781517909789 £20.99 / $27.00 PB 9781517909772 £89.00 / $108.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Postmillennial Pop September 2020 240pp 1 b&w illus. 9781479806072 £12.99 / $16.95 PB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
In The Death of Things, author Sarah Wasserman delivers the first comprehensive study addressing the role ephemera played in twentieth-century fiction and its relevance to contemporary digital culture. Excludes Japan & ANZ
In response to the diversity crisis in children’s and young adult media, Thomas uncovers and builds upon a tradition of fantasy and radical imagination in Black feminism and Afrofuturism. Excludes SE Asia & ANZ
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The Edge of Knowing
The Erotics of Materialism
Dreams, History, and Realism in Modern Chinese Literature Roy Bing Chan
Lucretius and Early Modern Poetics Jessie Hock
July 2020 233pp 9780295748115 £22.99 / $30.00 PB UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Realism and the rhetoric of dreams intersected in modern Chinese literature from the May Fourth Era in the early twentieth century through the period just following the end of the Cultural Revolution in 1976. Chan shows how writers’ attention to dreams demonstrates the multiple influences of Western psychology and utopian desire for revolutionary change.
December 2020 288pp 9780812252729 £48.00 / $59.95 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Hock maps the intersection of poetry and natural philosophy in the early modern reception of Lucretius and his De rerum natura. Focusing on poets including John Donne and Margaret Cavendish, Hock shows how they read De rerum natura as a treatise on the poetic imagination.
The Lady of Linshui Pacifies Demons
The Moxon Tennyson
A Seventeenth-Century Novel Translated by Kristin Ingrid Fryklund, Introduction by Mark Edward Lewis & Brigitte Baptandier
February 2021 328pp 9780295748351 £26.99 / $35.00 PB 9780295748344 £76.00 / $95.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Narrates Chen Jinggu’s lifelong struggle with and eventual triumph over her spirit double and rival, the White Snake demon.
A Landmark in Victorian Illustration Simon Cooke
Series in Victorian Studies January 2021 264pp 9780821424261 £64.00 / $80.00 HB OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS
Cooke’s analysis of this milestone Victorian publication reveals the fluctuating harmony and dissonance between Tennyson’s poems and their illustrations, the technical challenges and occupations involved in its manufacture, its contemporary reception, and its later influence as a variously revered and reviled publication.
The Novel and the New Ethics
The Objectionable Li Zhi
Fiction, Criticism, and Dissent in Late Ming China Edited by Rivi Handler-Spitz, Pauline C. Lee & Haun Saussy
Dorothy J. Hale Post*45
November 2020 368pp 9781503614062 £23.99 / $30.00 PB 9780804794053 £74.00 / $90.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
In The Novel and the New Ethics, literary critic Dorothy J. Hale investigates how the contemporary emphasis on literature’s social relevance sparks a new ethical description of the novel’s social value that is in fact rooted in the modernist notion of narrative form.
January 2021 296pp 1 map 9780295748382 £22.99 / $30.00 PB 9780295748375 £76.00 / $95.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Leading China scholars demonstrate the interrelatedness of seemingly discrete aspects of Li Zhi’s thought and emphasize his far-reaching impact on his contemporaries and successors.
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The Power of the Brush
The Refugee Aesthetic
Epistolary Practices in Chosŏn Korea Hwisang Cho, Series Edited by Clark W. Sorensen
Reimagining Southeast Asian America Timothy K. August
Asian American History & Cultu February 2021 184pp 9781439915318 £20.99 / $27.95 PB 9781439915301 £79.00 / $99.50 HB TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Korean Studies of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies November 2020 280pp 28 b&w illus., 3 tables 9780295747811 £22.99 / $30.00 PB 9780295747804 £76.00 / $95.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
In his book, The Refugee Aesthetic, Timothy August investigates how and why a number of Southeast Asian American artists and writers have Examines the “epistolary revolution” in sixteenth recently embraced the figure of the refugee as a century Korea. Adds a Korean perspective to the particularly transformative position. international discourse on the materiality of texts. Excludes Asia Pacific
The Rise and Fall of Jewish American Literature
The Space That Remains
Reading Latin Poetry in Late Antiquity Aaron Pelttari
Ethnic Studies and the Challenge of Identity Benjamin Schreier
Cornell Studies in Classical Philology December 2020 210pp 1 figure 9781501752056 £20.99 / $26.95 PB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Jewish Culture and Contexts October 2020 224pp 9780812252576 £40.00 / $49.95 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
In a polemic against the unexamined foundations and stagnant state of the field, Schreier critically analyzes a series of professionally powerful clichés about Jewish American literary history.
The first systematic study of the major fourthcentury poets since Michael Robert’s foundational The Jeweled Style. It is the first book to give equal attention to both Christian and Pagan poetry and the first to take seriously the issue of readership.
The Story of King Lo
The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne
Lilit Phra Lo Translated by Robert J. Bickner
September 2020 323pp 9786162151606 £18.99 / $24.95 PB UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Highly regarded as an important part of the poetic heritage of Thailand, The Story of King Lo received royal acclaim in 1914. Bickner uses comparative and historical linguistics as the foundation for his examination and interpretation of the poem and with this translation guides readers through the many complexities of this fascinating text.
The Divine Poems John Donne, Edited by Jeffrey S. Johnson
The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne January 2021 1012pp 9780253050380 £74.00 / $90.00 HB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Presents newly edited critical texts of thirteen Divine Poems. Details the genealogical history of each, along with a thorough prose discussion.
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Theory for Beginners
Ways of the World
Children’s Literature as Critical Thought Kenneth B. Kidd
Theater and Cosmopolitanism in the Restoration and Beyond Laura J. Rosenthal
October 2020 224pp 9780823289608 £22.99 / $30.00 PB 9780823289592 £84.00 / $105.00 HB FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
November 2020 324pp 16 b&w hts. 9781501751585 £39.00 / $46.95 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Theory for Beginners explores how philosophy and theory draw on children’s literature and have even come to resemble it in their strategies for cultivating the child and/or the beginner.
Reveals an otherwise elusive consistency between Restoration genres (comedy, tragedy, heroic plays, and tragicomedy), disrupts conventional understandings of the rise and reception of early capitalism, and offers a fresh perspective on theatrical culture in the context of the shifting political realities of 17th- and 18thcentury Britain.
Who Is a Muslim?
Wild Visionary
Orientalism and Literary Populisms Maryam Wasif Khan
January 2021 288pp 9780823290130 £26.99 / $35.00 PB 9780823290123 £100.00 / $125.00 HB FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
This book destabilizes traditional constructions of postcolonial literary histories through the specific example of Urdu by suggesting that this NorthIndia vernacular, far from secular or progressive, has been shaped as the authority designate around the intertwined questions of piety, national identity, and citizenship.
Maurice Sendak in Queer Jewish Context Golan Y. Moskowitz
Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture December 2020 280pp 9781503614086 £23.99 / $30.00 PB 9781503613812 £74.00 / $90.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Wild Visionary reconsiders Maurice Sendak’s life and work in the context of his experience as a Jewish gay man. Maurice (Moishe) Bernard Sendak (1928 2012) was a fierce, romantic, and shockingly funny.
World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth Anticolonial Aesthetics, Postcolonial Politics J. Daniel Elam
December 2020 208pp 9780823289806 £20.99 / $28.00 PB 9780823289790 £76.00 / $95.00 HB FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
This book foregrounds anticolonial theories of reading to reveal an alternative strain of anticolonialism committed not to the forms of authority but to inexpertise and inconsequence, and to collective cultivation rather than mastery.
Writing Occupation
Jewish Émigré Voices in Wartime France Julia Elsky
Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture December 2020 304pp 9781503613676 £56.00 / $65.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
This book examines the Jewish émigré writers who continued to write in their adopted language during the Nazi occupation of France. Elsky argues that these writers reexamined both their Jewishness and their place as authors in France through the language in which they wrote.
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Xurt’an
The End of the World and Other Myths, Songs, Charms, and Chants by the Northern Lacandones of Naha’ Suzanne Cook
Native Literatures of the Americas and Indigenous World Literatures November 2020 720pp 3 photos, 1 illus., 5 maps, 2 tables, 2 appendixes 9781496222244 £33.00 / $40.00 PB UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Fiction & Poetry
Literary traditions of the Northern Lacandones, translated by a foremost linguist of the language.
Yiddish Writers in Weimar Berlin
A Fugitive Modernism Marc Caplan
German Jewish Cultures January 2021 344pp 9780253052001 £33.00 / $40.00 PB 9780253051981 £82.00 / $95.00 HB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Explores the encounter between Eastern European Jews and German culture following World War I. Concentrating on a group of avantgarde Yiddish writers working in Berlin during the Weimar Republic, Caplan examines how these writers became central to modernist aesthetics.
A Bed for the King’s Daughter
A Field Guide to the Poetry of Theodore Roethke
Shahla Ujayli Translated by Sawad Hussain
January 2021 60pp 9781477322284 £11.99 / $16.00 PB UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
A groundbreaking collection of experimental short fiction by award-winning Syrian author and Booker International Prize for Arabic Fiction nominee Shahla Ujayli.
Edited by William Barillas Foreword by Edward Hirsch
December 2020 364pp 9780804012317 £27.99 / $36.95 PB OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS
Timely and accessible companion to the work of American poet Theodore Roethke (1908–1963). Gathers forty-four essays illuminating his poetics, themes, and the contexts of his poems through five decades’ diverse critical approaches.
Familiarity Is the Kingdom of the Lost
Mahagony
A Novel Édouard Glissant Translated by Betsy Wing
Dugmore Boetie Edited and Introduced by Benjamin N. Lawrance & Vusumuzi R. Kumalo, Foreword by Nadine Gordimer, Afterword by Barney Simon
January 2021 192pp 9781496201782 £15.99 / $19.95 PB UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Glissant identifies both the malaise of and the potential within Martinican November 2020 220pp society through a powerful collective narrative of 9780821424353 £18.99 / $24.95 PB geographic identity explored through multiple OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS narrators. These characters’ lives are viewed back New edition of Boetie’s out-of-print classic and forth over centuries of time and through featuring an introduction with previously tales of resistance, linked always by the nowunpublished research and numerous annotations. ancient mahogany tree.
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Cathay
Ramy al-Asheq Translated by Levi Thompson January 2021 80pp 9781477322260 £11.99 / $16.00 PB UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
The first collection of poetry by Syrian-Palestinian poet Ramy al-Asheq to be translated into English. Poignant and raw, these poems take the reader along a path of forced emigration from Bashar al-Assad’s prisons in Syria to Amsterdam to Auschwitz to Berlin, Germany, where Al-Asheq is now creating a new home.
A Critical Edition Ezra Pound Edited by Timothy Billings Introduction by Christopher Bush Foreword by Haun Saussy June 2020 364pp 9780823288687 £22.99 / $29.95 PB 9780823281060 £26.99 / $105.00 HB FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Extensively annotated edition of Pound’s Chinese translations in Cathay (1915) and Lustra (1916), complete with the Chinese originals.
Every Day I Write the Book
Lost Illusions
Honoré de Balzac Translated by Raymond N. MacKenzie
Notes on Style Amitava Kumar
March 2020 264pp 24 illus. 9781478006275 £19.99 / $24.95 PB 9781478005827 £82.00 / $94.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
A writing manual as well as a manifesto, Every Day I Write the Book combines Amitava Kumar's practical writing advice with interviews with prominent writers, offering guidance and inspiration for academic writers at all levels.
April 2020 624pp 9781517905439 £15.99 / $19.95 PB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Presents a new annotated translation of the keystone of Balzac’s Comédie Humaine. Captures the tone of Balzac’s incomparable prose—a style that is alternatingly impassioned, overheated, angry, moving, tender, wistful, digressive, chatty, intrusive, and hectoring. Excludes Japan & ANZ
The Cape Cod Bicycle War
What a Library Means to a Woman
and Other Stories Billy Kahora
Modern African Writing March 2020 304pp 9780821424162 £18.99 / $24.95 PB OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS
The Cape Cod Bicycle War and Other Stories is Billy Kahora’s long-awaited debut collection. Stories in this volume have appeared in Granta and McSweeney’s and have been shortlisted for the Caine Prize for African Writing.
Edith Wharton and the Will to Collect Books Sheila Liming
April 2020 272pp 14 b&w photos 9781517907044 £20.99 / $27.00 PB 9781517907037 £93.00 / $108.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Explores the connection between libraries and self-making in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American culture, from the 1860s to the 1930s. Excludes Japan & ANZ
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