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ThereAreNoHispanic Stars!”
CollectedWritingsofaLatino FilmCriticinHollywood, 1921–1939
GabrielNavarro,Editedby ColinGunckel&LauraIsabel Serna
October 2023 336pp 11b&willus.
9780895512048£18.99 / $21.95PB UNIVERSITYOFWASHINGTONPRESS
Thebookassemblesthenovellasandarticlesthat representNavarro’sextensivebodyoffilmand culturalcriticismandexploresthefilmculturethat emergedintheSouthwest'sMexicanimmigrant community.
AfterlivesofEndor
Witchcraft,Theatricality,and Uncertaintyfromthe"Malleus Maleficarum"toShakespeare
LauraLevine
November 2023 192pp
9781501772184£22.99 / $26.95PB
9781501772085£112.00/$125.00 HB
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AfterlivesofEndor offersananalysisofthewayEarly ModernEnglishliteratureaddressedtheperiod's anxietiesaboutwitchcraftandtheatricality. Levineexaminesthewayliterarytextssuch asShakespeare's TheWinter'sTale and The Tempest,Spenser's TheFaerieQueene,and Marlowe's TragicallHistoryofDoctorFaustus address anxietiesaboutwitchcraft,illusion,andtheatricality.
BeautifulUgliness
Christianity,Modernity,andthe Arts
MarkWilliamRoche
October 2023 520pp 63colorillus.,2
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Manygreatartworksinclude elementsofugliness.Roche’sauthoritative monographchallengescurrentpracticesofthe dominantaestheticschoolsbyexploringtheroleof uglinessinartandliterature.Rocheoffersa comprehensiveanduniqueframeworkthat integratesphilosophicalandtheologicalreflection.
AftertheRoundup EscapeandSurvivalinHitler's France
JosephWeismannTranslated byRichardKutner
September 2023 130pp 128colorillus.
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OnthenightsofJuly16and17,1942,Frenchpolice roundedup11-year-oldJosephWeismann,his family,and13,000otherJews. AftertheRoundup is astoryofhope,friendship,andcourageintheface repression,hatred,andfear.Thisgraphicnovel, originallypublishedinFrench,isbasedon Weismann'smemoirofthesamename.
AtthePivotofEastand West
Ethnographic,Literary,andFilmic Arts
MichaelM.J.Fischer
ExperimentalFutures
August 2023 368pp 15illus.
9781478019893£25.99 / $29.95PB
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Examinesdocumentaryfilmmaking,literature,and innovativedancefromSoutheastAsiaandSingapore fortheirpara-ethnographicinsightsintopolitics, culture,andaesthetics.Fischerexemplifieshowart andfictiontracethewaysinwhichtaken-for-granted commonsensechangesovertime.
BetweenTwoMillstones,
ExileinAmerica,1978-1994
AleksandrSolzhenitsyn
TranslatedbyClareKitson&
MelanieMooreForewordby
DanielJ.Mahoney
TheCenterforEthicsandCulture SolzhenitsynSeries
September 2023 584pp
9780268109011£24.99 / $29.00NIP
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ThiscompellingaccountconcludesNobelPrize–winnerAleksandrSolzhenitsyn’sliterarymemoirsof hisyearsintheWestafterhisforcedexilefromthe USSRfollowingthepublicationofTheGulag Archipelago.
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BeyondHostileIslands
ThePacificWarinAmericanand
NewZealandFictionWriting
DanielMcKayForewordby
JoannaBourke
WorldWarII:TheGlobal,Human,and EthicalDimension
February 2024 240pp
9781531505165£25.99 / $30.00PB
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ContributestoongoingeffortsbyAustralasian scholarstoplacetheirnationalculturesin conversationwiththoseoftheUnitedStates. Throughout,thecentralissuepivotsaroundthe questionofhoworwhetheratallNewZealand fictionwritingdiffersfromthatoftheUnitedStates.
CatastrophicHistoricism
ReadingJuliadeBurgos
Dangerously
RonaldMendoza-deJesús
Idiom:InventingWritingTheory
November 2023 272pp
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CatastrophicHistoricism showsthathistoricismisa transcendentalontologythatmustbechallengedby endangeringthereductionofthepasttoa possession.Thebookthenendangersthehistoricist receptionofJuliadeBurgos,PuertoRico’smosticonic writer,interpretingherworkasthepoeticsofPuerto Ricanmodernity.
Conflicts
ThePoeticsandPoliticsof
Palestine-Israel
LironMor
December 2023 288pp 6b&willus.
9781531505448£27.99 / $32.00PB
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Conflicts engagesHebrewand Arabicliteraturetocriticallyreassesstheconceptof conflict.Drawingonadiversearchive,rangingfrom the1930stothepresentandfromproseandpoetry tofilmandtelevision,itrevealsindigenousliterary conceptsthatbettertheorizetheregion’s antagonismsandmediations,itscolonial technologiesandanticolonialpractices.
BorderConditions
Russian-SpeakingLatvians betweenWorldOrders
KevinM.F.Platt
NIUSeriesinSlavic,EastEuropean,and EurasianStudies
February 2024 348pp 29b&whalftones
9781501773709£51.00 / $56.95HB
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Combineshistoryandmemorystudieswithliterary andculturalstudiestoexaminelivesatthelimitsof contemporaryEurope—thoseofthehalf-million Russian-speakerswholiveinLatvia.Plattdescribes howthemembersofthispopulationhaveworked todefinethemselvesthroughart,literature,cultural institutions,film,andmusic—andhowothershave soughttodefinethem.
ColoringintoExistence
QueerofColorWorldmakingin
Children’sLiterature
IsabelMillán
December 2023 352pp 41b&willus.
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ColoringintoExistence investigatestheroleofauthors,illustrators,and independentpublishersinproducingalternative narrativesthatdisruptcolonial,heteropatriarchal notionsofchildhood.Millánexploresthecurious waysthatqueerandtransofcolorpublications“color outsidethelines”—mobilizingalternativemodesof productionanddistributiontocreatenewworlds.
Dante's"VitaNova"
ACollaborativeReading
EditedbyZygmuntG.Baranski &HeatherWebb
WilliamandKatherineDeversSeriesin DanteandMedievalItalianLiterature
December 2023 510pp
9780268207403£58.00 / $65.00PB
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Thisgroundbreakingvolumerepresentsthefruitofa two-year-longseriesofinternationalseminarsaimed atdevelopingafreshwayofreadingDante’s Vita nova.Focusisconcentratedonthe Vitanova inits textualandhistoricalcontext.Thevolumelikewise offersinsightsintoDante’ssocialenvironment,his relationshipswithotherpoets,andDante’sevolving visionofhispoetry’sscope.
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Dickens'sIdiomatic Imagination
TheInimitableandVictorian BodyLanguage PeterJ.Capuano
December 2023 282pp 15b&w halftones,8graphs
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Dickenswasfamouslydrawntothevernacular languageofLondon'sstreets,butthisbookisthe firsttocallattentiontohowheemployedphrases thatembodyactions,ideas,andsocialrelationsfor specificnarrativepurposes.Capuanodemonstrates howDickenscametorelishusingcommonidiomsin uncommonwaysandthepossibilitiestheyopened upforartisticexpression.
EmpiricalEcocriticism
EnvironmentalNarrativesfor SocialChange
EditedbyMatthewSchneider-
Mayerson,AlexaWeikvon
Mossner,W.P.Malecki&Frank Hakemulder
August 2023 408pp 27b&willus.and7
tables
9781517915353£25.99 / $30.00PB
9781517915346£108.00/$120.00 HB
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Providesanapproachableintroductiontothis growingfield’smainmethodsanddemonstratestheir potentialthroughcasestudiesontopicsrangingfrom theimpactofclimatefictiononreaders’willingness toengageinactivismtothepoliticalempowerment thatresultsfromparticipatinginenvironmental theater.
EverythingIsSampled DigitalandPrintMediationsin AfricanArtsandLetters
AkinwumiAdesokan
April 2023 396pp 12colorillus.
9780253065667£40.00 / $45.00PB
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EverythingIsSampled examines theshiftingmodesofproductionandcirculationof Africanartisticformssincethe1980s,focusingon digitalcultureasthemostcurrentlydecisivesetting forthesechanges.Thisbookoffersanabsorbingly complexyetnuancedapproachtoappreciatingthe workofseveralgenerationsofAfricanwriters, directors,andartists.
EightDogs,or "Hakkenden"
PartTwo—HisMaster'sBlade KyokuteiBakinTranslatedby GlynneWalley
February 2024 592pp 104b&w halftones,17colorplates
9781501773907£32.00 / $36.95PB
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ThesecondpartofHakkendenbeginsthestoryof theeightDogWarriors.ThefirstisInuzukaShino, orphaneddescendentofproudwarriors.Shinoand theotherDogWarriorsaredrawnintoaworldof vendettasandquests,gallants,androgues,aseach strivestolearnhistruenatureandfindhisplacein theeight-manfraternity.
Environmental HumanitiesontheBrink
TheVanitasHypothesis
VincentBruyere
September 2023 176pp
9781503630505£76.00 / $85.00HB
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Inthisexperimentalworkof ecocriticism,VincentBruyere confrontstheseemingpointlessnessofthe humanitiesamidspectacularlynegativefuture projectionsofenvironmentalcollapse.Considering questionsofquieterasureandenvironmental memory,thisbookarguesweoughttokeepreading, evenbytheflickeringlightofextinction.
F.ScottFitzgerald
ACompositeBiography
EditedbyNiklasSalmose& DavidRennie
January 2024 448pp 78b&willus.
9781517915858£25.99 / $29.95HB
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Bringingtogethertwenty-three leadingwritersandscholarson Fitzgerald,eachfocusingontwoyearsofhislife,this volumetakesitscuefromHenryJames’sremark, citedbypreeminentFitzgeraldbiographerScott Donaldson:“Thewholeofanythingisnevertold;you canonlytakewhatgroupstogether.”
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FictionsofPleasure
ThePutainMemoirsof PrerevolutionaryFrance
AlistaireTallent
EARLYMODERNFEMINISMS
December 2023 238pp
9781644533239£38.00 / $42.95PB
9781644533246£116.00/$130.00 HB
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OutofthelibertineliterarytraditionofeighteenthcenturyFranceemergedoveradozenmemoir novelsoffemalelibertineswhoeagerlytakeupsex workasameansofescapefromthepatriarchal controloffathersandhusbandstopursuepleasure, wealth,andpersonalindependenceoutsidethe private,domesticsphere.
HauntedEmpire
GothicandtheRussianImperial
Uncanny
ValeriaSobol
NIUSeriesinSlavic,EastEuropean,and EurasianStudies
October 2023 216pp 4b&whalftones,1 map
9781501770104£23.99 / $27.95NIP
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ShowsthatGothicelementsinRussianliterature frequentlyexpresseddeep-setanxietiesaboutthe Russianimperialandnationalidentity.Focusingon twospacesoftheimperialuncanny—theBaltic north/FinlandandtheUkrainiansouth—Haunted Empire reconstructsapowerfuldiscursivetradition thatrevealsthemechanismsoftheRussianimperial imaginationthatarestillatworktoday.
HumanitarianFictions
Africa,Altruism,andthe NarrativeImagination
MeganColePaustian
January 2024 288pp
9781531505486£29.99 / $35.00PB
9781531505479£112.00/$125.00 HB
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Fartoooften,aidtoAfricais envisionedthroughataleofWesternheroessaving Africansufferers. HumanitarianFictions aimsto understandtheworkingsofhumanitarianliterature, astheyengagewithandcritiquenarrativesofAfrica. Paustianshowshowthenovelcanenrichthecritique ofwhitesaviorismwhilealsoimaginingalternatives thatgiveAfricanagencyitsdue.
ForPleasure
Race,Experimentalism,and Aesthetics
RachelJaneCarroll
MinoritarianAesthetics
December 2023 304pp 6b&willus.
9781479826735£25.99 / $30.00PB
9781479826728£80.00/$89.00 HB
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Proposesthatexperimentalaestheticsshapedrace inthetwentieth-centuryUnitedStatesbycreating transformativescenesofpleasure.Carrollexplains howaestheticpleasureisfundamentaltothe productionandcirculationofracialmeaninginthe UnitedStatesthroughastudyofexperimentalwork byauthorsandartistsofcolor.
HowRussianLiterature BecameGreat
RolfHellebust
NIUSeriesinSlavic,EastEuropean,and EurasianStudies
January 2024 264pp
9781501773419£45.00 / $49.95HB
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Explorestheculturalandpolitical roleofamodernnationalliterature,orchestratedina SlavonickeybutresonatingfarbeyondRussia's borders.Hellebustinvestigatesarangeofliterary tendencies,philosophies,andtheoriesfromantiquity tothepresent.BesidestheusualRussiansuspects fromPushkintoChekhov,Hellebustincludes Europeanwriters:ByronandShelley,Goetheand Schiller,andmore.
ILoveBillandOther Stories
AnyiWangTranslatedbyTodd
FoleyForewordbyXudong
Zhang
September 2023 260pp
9781501771064£27.99 / $31.95PB
9781501771057£112.00/$125.00 HB
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ShowcasestheworkofWangAnyi,oneofChina's mostprolificandhighlyregardedwriters,intwo novellasandthreeshortstories.Inthisthoughtful translation, ILoveBillandOtherStories offers poignantandnuancedportrayalsoflifeduring China'seconomicandculturaltransitionattheturn ofthemillennium.
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IntheMeanTime
TemporalColonizationandthe MexicanAmericanLiterary
Tradition
ErinMurrah-Mandril
PostwesternHorizons
November 2023 186ppindex
9781496237477£25.99 / $30.00NIP
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TakingacuefromLatina/oandborderlandsspatial theories, IntheMeanTime arguesthattime,like space,isasociallyconstructed,ideologically chargedmediumofpowerintheSouthwest.This bookdrawsonliterature,autobiography,political documents,andhistoricalnarrativescomposed between1870and1940toexaminethewayU.S. colonizationalteredtimeintheborderlands.
LiteratureandtheArts
InterdisciplinaryEssaysin
MemoryofJamesAnderson
Winn
EditedbyAnnaBattigelli
October 2023 226pp 6colorand28b&w illus.
9781644533116£36.00 / $39.95PB
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Thetenessaysin LiteratureandtheArts explorethe intermedialplenitudeofeighteenth-centuryEnglish culture,honoringthememoryofJamesAnderson Winn,whoseworkdemonstratedhowseeingthat interplayoftheartsandliteraturewasessentialtoa fullunderstandingofRestorationandeighteenthcenturyEnglishculture.
Luck
MargaretRandallIllustrated byBarbaraByers
October 2023 256pp 17b&wimages
9781613322192£19.99 / $22.95PB
9781613322208£80.00/$89.00 HB
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Fearlesspersonalessaysfroma treasuredfeministpoetand activist. Luck isacollectionofessayscoveringsuch topicsasmemory,language,landscape,poetry, anger,sex,food,pandemics,war,violence,feminism, lies,imagination,death,power,identity,andof courseluck.
JaneKenyon
TheMakingofaPoet
DanaGreene
October 2023 224pp 15b&wphotos
9780252045387£25.99 / $29.95HB
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Demystifyingthe“PoetLaureate ofDepression”.DanaGreene drawsonawealthofpersonal correspondenceandothernewlyavailable materialstodelveintotheorigins,achievement, andlegacyofKenyon’spoetryandseparatethe artist’slifestoryfromthatofherhusband,the award-winningpoetDonaldHall.
LouisSébastienMercier
RevolutionandReformin
Eighteenth-CenturyParis
MichaelJ.Mulryan
September 2023 272pp 6b&willus.,2 colorillus.
9781684484874£40.00 / $44.95PB
9781684484881£134.00/$150.00 HB
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Inthispenetratingstudy—thefirstinEnglishdevoted toMercierindecades—MichaelMulryanexploreshis unpublishedwritingsandurbanchronicles,Tableau deParis(1781-88)andLeNouveauParis(1798),in whichheidentifiedthecityasamicrocosmof nationalsocietalproblems,detailedtheconditionsof thelaboringpoor,encouragededucationalreform, andconfronteduniversalsocialills.
MakingModernSpain Religion,Secularization,and CulturalProduction
AzariahAlfante
November 2023 254pp 5colorimages
9781684484959£36.00 / $39.95PB
9781684484966£116.00/$130.00 HB
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Inthiselegantly-writtenstudy, Alfanteexplorestheworkofselectnineteenthcenturywriters,intellectuals,journalists,politicians, andclergywhorespondedtoculturalandspiritual shiftscausedbythemovementtowardsecularization inSpain.Focusingonthesocialexperience,thisbook probesthetensionsbetweentraditionalismand liberalismthatinfluencedpublicopinionoftheclergy, sacredbuildings,andreligiousorders.
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MakingNo Compromise
MargaretAnderson,JaneHeap, andthe"LittleReview"
HollyA.Baggett
October 2023 312pp 21b&whalftones
9781501771446£32.00 / $36.95HB
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Thefirstbook-lengthaccountofthelivesand editorialcareersofMargaretAndersonandJane Heap,thewomenwhofoundedtheavant-garde journaltheLittleReviewin1914.Baggettexamines therolesofradicalpolitics,sexuality,modernism, andspiritualityandsuggeststhatAndersonand Heap'sinterestinesotericquestionswasevident fromtheearlydaysoftheLittleReview.
MasculinityinTransition
K.AllisonHammer
October 2023 312pp 19b&willus.
9781517914356£21.99 / $24.95PB
9781517914349£90.00/$100.00 HB
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Analyzesshiftingrelationshipsto masculinityincanonicalworksof twentieth-centuryliteratureand film,aswellasintwenty-first-centurymedia, performance,andtransgenderpoetics. Masculinityin Transition movesthestudyofmasculinityawayfrom anoverridingpreoccupationwithcisnormativity, whiteness,andheteronormativity,andtowarda widerandmoregenerativerangeofembodiments, identifications,andideologies.
MelodramaticImperial Writing
FromtheSepoyRebellionto CecilRhodes
NeilHultgren
SeriesinVictorianStudies
September 2023 256pp
9780821426050£27.99 / $32.95NIP
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MelodramaticImperialWriting positionsmelodrama asavitalaspectofworksthatunderscoredthe contradictionsandinjusticesofBritishimperialism. Hultgrenexploresarangeoftexts,fromDickens’s writingaboutthe1857SepoyRebelliontoW.E. Henley’simperialistpoetryinordertotraceanew andcomplexhistoryofBritishimperialismandthe melodramaticmodeinlate-Victorianwriting.
ManuscriptPoetics
MaterialityandTextualityin MedievalItalianLiterature
FrancescoMarcoAresu
WilliamandKatherineDeversSeriesin
DanteandMedievalItalianLiterature
November 2023 552pp 19colorillus.,2 b&willus.
9780268206499£58.00 / $65.00PB
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Investigatesthecorrespondencesbetween textualityandmateriality,contentandmedium,and visual-verbalmessagesandtheirphysicalsupport throughreadingsofDanteAlighieri’s Vitanova, GiovanniBoccaccio’s Teseida,andFrancesco Petrarca’s canzoniere (Rerumvulgariumfragmenta).
MediatingViolencefrom Africa
FrancophoneLiterature,Film, andTestimonyaftertheColdWar GeorgeMacLeod
October 2023 256pp 2illus.,1appendix, index
9781496230638£58.00 / $65.00HB
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ExamineshowbothAfricanandnon-AfricanFrenchspeakingauthors,filmmakers,editors,andscholars havepackaged,interpreted,andfilmedtheviolent historiesofpost–ColdWarFrancophoneAfrica. MacLeodanalyzesthewaysFrancophoneAfrican authorsandfilmmakers,aswellastheireditorsand scholarlycritics,negotiatetheaesthetic,political, cultural,andethicalimplicationsofmakingthese traumaticstoriesvisible.
MidnightRambles
H.P.LovecraftinGotham
DavidJ.Goodwin
November 2023 272pp 22b&willus. 9781531504410£25.99 / $29.95HB
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GoodwinpresentsamicrobiographyofHowardPhillips Lovecraft’sNewYorkyears emphasizingLovecraft’sexplorationofthecity environment,thegreatermetropolitanregion,and otherlocalesandhowtheymoldedhimasawriter andasanindividual. MidnightRambles developsa portraitofatalentedandtroublingauthorandoffers insightsintohisunsettlingbeliefsonrace,ethnicity, andimmigration.
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NatureFantasies
DecolonizationandBiopolitics inLatinAmerica
GabrielHorowitz
October 2023 200pp
9781684484997£29.99 / $34.95PB
9781684485000£116.00/$130.00 HB
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Inthisoriginalstudy,Horowitzexaminesthework ofselectnineteenth-andtwentieth-centuryLatin Americanwritersthroughthelensofcontemporary theoreticaldebatesaboutnature,postcoloniality, andnationalidentity. NatureFantasies traces historicalconstructionsofnatureinJoséMartí, GertrudisGómezdeAvellaneda,JorgeLuisBorges, AugustoRoaBastos,CesarAira,andotherswriting.
OldNorseFolklore Tradition,Innovation,and PerformanceinMedieval Scandinavia
StephenA.Mitchell
MythandPoeticsII
December 2023 306pp 13b&w halftones
9781501773402£24.99 / $28.95PB
9781501773396£112.00/$125.00 HB
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ProvidescriticalnewperspectivesontheOldNorse world,someofwhichappearinthisvolumeforthe firsttimeinEnglish.Heexamines,interprets,andreinterpretsthemedievaldatabequeathedtousby posterity,targetinglargelyoverlooked,yetimportant sourcesofculturalinsighalftones
PasturesoftheEmpty Page
FellowWritersontheLifeand
LegacyofLarryMcMurtry
EditedbyGeorgeGetschow
September 2023 272pp 10b&wphotos
9781477327876£25.99 / $29.95HB
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Acollectionofessaysthatoffersanintimateviewof LarryMcMurtry,America’spreeminentwestern novelist,throughtheeyesofapantheonofwritershe helpedshapethroughhisworkoverthecourseofhis unparalleledliterarylife.Incontrasttohis curmudgeonlypersona,LarryMcMurtryemergesasa trustworthyfriendandsupportivementor.
NewCriticalNostalgia
RomanticLyricandtheCrisisof AcademicLife
ChristopherRovee
LitZ
January 2024 272pp 7b&willus. 9781531505127£27.99 / $32.00PB
9781531505110£99.00/$110.00 HB
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NewCriticalNostalgia exploresliterarystudy’s nostalgicattachmentstoitspastbyrecastingan essentialepisodeinthehistoriographyofEnglish— thevigorousrejectionofromanticismbyAmerican NewCritics—inthenewlightofthemidcentury Americanuniversity’stectonicgrowth.
OntheTurtle'sBack
StoriestheLenapeToldTheir Grandchildren
CamillaTownsend&NickyKay
Michael
CERES:RutgersStudiesinHistory
September 2023 250pp 4color&31 b&wimages
9781978819146£16.99 / $19.95PB
9781978819153£45.00/$49.95 HB
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OntheTurtle’sBack isthefirstcollectionofLenape folklore,originallycompiledbyanthropologistM.R. Harringtonoveracenturyago,butneverpublished untilnow.Init,theDelawaresharetheircherished talesabouttheworld’screation,epicheroes,and ordinaryhumanfoibles.
Poet-Monks
TheInventionofBuddhistPoetry
inLateMedievalChina
ThomasJ.Mazanec
February 2024 318pp 3b&whalftones,2 b&wlinedrawings,4maps,2charts
9781501773839£58.00 / $64.95HB
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Focusesontheliteraryand
religiouspracticesofBuddhistpoet-monksinTangdynastyChinatoproposeanalternativehistoricalarc ofmedievalChinesepoetry.Mazanecdescribeshow Buddhistpoet-monksassertedaboldnewvisionof poetrythatproclaimedtheunionofclassicalverse withBuddhistpracticesofrepetition,incantation, andmeditation.
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QueerCallings
UntimelyNotesonNamesand Desires MarkD.Jordan
November 2023 176pp
9781531504533£23.99 / $27.95HB
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Twenty-fiveyearsago,Jordan publishedhisbookontheearly historyofthecategory“sodomy”,onethathelped todecriminalizecertainsexualactsintheUnited States.Here,Jordanpresentsusesof“identity”with regardtosexualdifferencebyre-readingtextsin variousgenresthathavebeenpreoccupiedwith namingsex/genderdiversitybeyondaschemeof LGBTQ+identities.
SensesWith/out Subjects
EditedbyEricaFretwell& HsuanL.Hsu
August 2023 170pp 8illus.
9781478024743£11.99 / $14.00PB
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Topicscoveredincludesensory studies;posthumanism;critical ethnicstudies;automaticwritinganddisabled authorship;Vietnamesediasporicaesthetics;Black feministecologies;synesthesia,addiction,and personhood;andtheinfluenceofpeyoteonaltered sentienceandhistoricalformation.
Readingthe ContemporaryAuthor Narrative,Authority,Fictionality
EditedbyAlisonGibbons& ElizabethKing
FrontiersofNarrative
December 2023 290pp 4illus.,5 diagrams,index
9781496234612£58.00 / $65.00HB
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Bringstogetherleadingscholarsinculturaltheory, literarycriticism,stylistics,narratology,comparative literature,andautobiographystudiestointerrogate howwereadthecontemporaryauthorinpublic andculturallife.
SentimentalEducation
TheStoryofaYoungMan
GustaveFlaubertTranslatedby RaymondN.MacKenzie
December 2023 480pp
9781517914134£16.99 / $19.95PB
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Afreshandvividtranslationof Flaubert’sinfluential bildungsroman. SentimentalEducation intertwines thepersonal,theintimate,andthesubjectivewith thepolitical,social,andcultural,embedding Frédéric’sstoryinthelargerarcofwhatFlaubertsaw asFrance’sdeclineintomediocrityandimbecilityin itspoliticsandmanners.
Shakespearean
Intersections
Language,Contexts,Critical
Keywords
PatriciaParker
HaneyFoundationSeries
October 2023 424pp 12illus.
9781512825558£25.99 / $29.95PB
UNIVERSITYOFPENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Parkerexplorescriticalkeywordslike“continence”in Love’sLabor’sLost,“quince”in AMidsummerNight’s Dream and“Brabant”in Othello.Parker'sdeeply evocativereadingsdemonstratehoweasy-tooverlooktextualorsemanticdetailsreverberate withinandbeyondtheShakespeareantext,and suggestthattheboundarybetweenlanguageand contextisanincontinentdivide.
ShapesofTime
HistoryandEschatologyinthe ModernistImagination
MichaelMcGillen
Signale:ModernGermanLetters, Cultures,andThought
December 2023 336pp 6b&whalftones
9781501772825£27.99 / $32.95PB
9781501772818£112.00/$125.00 HB
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McGillenlocateseffortsinGermanmodernismto conceiveofalternativeshapesoftimeatthe boundarybetweensecularandtheological discourses.Heidentifiesthewaysinwhichspatial imageryandmetaphorswereemployedtoboth separatetheendofhistoryfromanarrative frameworkandtomaptheliminalrelationbetween historyandeschatology.
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Solzhenitsynand AmericanCulture
TheRussianSoulintheWest
EditedbyDavidP.Deavel&
JessicaHootenWilson
TheCenterforEthicsandCulture
SolzhenitsynSeries
July 2023 392pp 1b&willus.
9780268108267£40.00 / $45.00NIP
UNIVERSITYOFNOTREDAMEPRESS
DeavelandWilsonhavecollectedessaysfromthe foremostscholarsandthinkersofcomparative studieswhohavebeentrackingwhatAmericans haveborrowedandlearnedfromSolzhenitsynand hisfellowRussians.Thebookoffersaconsideration ofwhatwehaveincommon.
StylesofSeriousness
StevenConnor
October 2023 248pp
9781503636866£21.99 / $26.00PB
9781503636453£76.00/$85.00 HB
STANFORDUNIVERSITYPRESS
Beingseriousdemandsserious kindsofwork.In Stylesof Seriousness,StevenConnor reflectsonthesurprisinglyvariouswaysinwhicha senseoftheseriousismadeandmaintained, revealingthatwhileseriousnessisthemostpowerful feeling,itisalsothemostpoignantlyindeterminate, perhapsbecauseoftheimpossibilityofbeing completelyserious.
That'saPrettyThingto CallIt
ProseandPoetrybyArtists
TeachinginCarceralInstitutions
EditedbyLeighSugar
October 2023 304pp 10b&wimages
9781613322116£21.99 / $24.95PB
9781613322123£80.00/$89.00 HB
NEWYORKUNIVERSITYPRESS
Poetryandprosebyartists,writers,andactivists who’vetaughtworkshopsinU.S.criminallegal institutionsincludingacclaimedwritersEllenBass, JoshuaBennett,JillMcDounoughandmore.Abook foranyoneseekingtounderstandtheprison industrialcomplexfromahumanperspective.
Space,Drama,and Empire MappingthePastinLopede Vega'sComedia
JavierLorenzo
September 2023 242pp 1colorphoto and4b&wphotos
9781684484911£36.00 / $39.95PB
9781684484928£116.00/$130.00 HB
RUTGERSUNIVERSITYPRESS
FélixLopedeVega(1562-1635)wasakeyfigureof GoldenAgeSpanishliterature,secondonlyin staturetoCervantes,andisconsideredthefounder ofSpain’sclassicaltheater.Lorenzoinvestigatesthe symbolicuseofspaceinLope’sdrama,andits functionasanideologicaltooltopromotean imaginedSpanishnationalpast.
TedKooser
MoreThanaLocal Wonder CarlaKetner
November 2023 40pp Color illus.
9781496236777£14.99 / $17.95HB
UNIVERSITYOFNEBRASKA PRESS
Longbefore TedKooser wonaPulitzerPrizefor Poetry,servedastheU.S.PoetLaureate,andwrote award-winningbooksforchildren,hewasan unathleticchildgrowingupinIowa,yearningtofitin. Thisbookcelebratesthepowerofstoriesandof findingoneselfthroughwords.
TheClaremontRun
SubvertingGenderintheX-Men
J.AndrewDemanIntroduction byJayEdidin
WorldComicsandGraphicNonfiction Series
October 2023 184pp 14b&willus.
9781477325452£40.00 / $45.00HB
UNIVERSITYOFTEXASPRESS
Adata-drivendeepdiveintoalegendarycomics author’ssubversionofgendernormswithinthe bestsellingcomicofitstime.J.AndrewDeman’s investigationpairsclosereadingandquantitative analysistoexaminegenderrepresentation,content, characters,andstorystructure.
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TheColonial ConstructionofIndian Country
NativeAmericanLiteraturesand FederalIndianLaw
EricCheyfitz
December 2023 256pp
9781517911331£22.99 / $27.00PB
9781517911324£97.00/$108.00 HB
UNIVERSITYOFMINNESOTAPRESS
Withafocusonresistancetothecolonialregimeof federalIndianlaw,thisbookelucidateshowNative AmericanliteraturesandfederalIndianlawareeach crucialtoanyreadingoftheotherandalsoguides readerstobetterunderstandthegenocidalassault onIndigenouspeoples.
TheCounterhuman Imaginary
Earthquakes,Lapdogs,and TravelingCoinageinEighteenthCenturyLiterature
LauraBrown
November 2023 162pp 5b&whalftones
9781501773242£18.99 / $21.95PB
9781501772559£112.00/$125.00 HB
CORNELLUNIVERSITYPRESS
Proposesthatalongsidethehistorical,social,and institutionalstructuresofhumanrealitythatseemto bethesolesubjectoftheliterarytext,another-thanhumanworldiseverywhereinevidence.Brownfinds thatwithineighteenth-centuryBritishliterature,the humanculturalimaginarycanbeseen,equally,asa counterhumanimaginary.
TheEffluentEye
NarrativesforDecolonialRightMaking
RosemaryJ.Jolly
January 2024 264pp
9781517915698£22.99 / $27.00PB
9781517915681£97.00/$108.00 HB
UNIVERSITYOFMINNESOTAPRESS
Arguesforthedecolonizationof humanrights,attributingtheirfailurenotsimplyto stateandinstitutionalmalfeasancebuttothevery conceptofhumanrightsasanthropocentric—and, therefore,fatallyshortsighted.Inanengagingmixof literaryandculturalcriticism,IndigenousandBlack critique,andsubstantiveforaysintothemedical humanities,Jollyproposesright-makinginthedemise ofhumanrighalftones
October 2023 480pp
TheCompleteLettersof HenryJames,
1887–1888
Volume2
HenryJamesEditedby MichaelAnesko,GregW.
Zacharias&KatieSommer
TheCompleteLettersofHenryJames
9781496237521£85.00 / $95.00HB
UNIVERSITYOFNEBRASKAPRESS
Thisseventeenthinstallmentinthecomplete collectionofHenryJames’sknownandextant lettersrecordsJames’songoingeffortstocarefor hissister,develophiswork,strengthenhis professionalstatus,engagetimelypoliticaland economicissues,andmaximizehisincome.
TheCzechManuscripts Forgery,Translation,andNational Myth
DavidL.Cooper
NIUSeriesinSlavic,EastEuropean,and EurasianStudies
October 2023 276pp 4b&whalftones,3 colorhalftones,1chart
9781501771934£54.00 / $59.95HB
CORNELLUNIVERSITYPRESS
TheCzechManuscripts isdedicatedtooneofthe mostimportantliteraryforgeriesonthemodelof Macpherson'sOssianicpoetry.TheQueen'sCourt andGreenMountainManuscripts,discoveredin1817 and1818,wentontoplayanoutsizedroleinthe CzechNationalRevival.Cooperanalyzeswhatmade theManuscriptsaconvincingimitationoftheir SerbianandRussianmodels.
TheEthicsofNarrative EssaysonHistory,Literature,and Theory,2007–2017
HaydenWhiteEditedby RobertDoranForewordby MiekeBal
January 2024 312pp
9781501773594£25.99 / $29.95PB
9781501773587£112.00/$125.00 HB
CORNELLUNIVERSITYPRESS
Thesecondvolumecompletestheprojectofbringing togethernearlyallofHaydenWhite'suncollected essaysfromthelasttwodecadesofhislife.Thebook featuresWhite'strenchantarticulationsofhis influentialtheories,aswellashisexplorationsofa widerangeofideasatthefrontiersofcriticaltheory, literature,andhistoricalstudies.
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TheGroundsofthe Novel DanielWright
January 2024 216pp
9781503637559£21.99 / $26.00PB
9781503636835£76.00/$85.00 HB
STANFORDUNIVERSITYPRESS
Inapowerfulengagementwith thelatestdebatesinnovel theory,DanielWrightinvestigateshownovelists reckonwiththeontologicalstatusoftheirworks. Philosopherswhodebatewhetherfictionalworlds existtakethenovelasanontologicalproblemtobe solved;instead,Wrightrevealsthenovelasagenre ofimmanentontologicalcritique.
TheMurielRukeyserEra SelectedProse
MurielRukeyserEditedbyEric
Keenaghan&Rowena
Kennedy-Epstein
November 2023 360pp 1b&wht.
9781501771750£25.99 / $29.95PB
9781501771743£44.00/$48.95 HB
CORNELLUNIVERSITYPRESS
MakesavailableforthefirsttimearangeofMuriel Rukeyser'sprose,arichanddiversearchiveof political,social,andaestheticwritings.Keenaghan andKennedy-Epsteinassembleaselectionof unpublishedandout-of-printtexts,demonstrating thediversity,brilliance,andpossibilitiesofmidtwentieth-centurywomen'sintellectuallifeand sociopoliticalengagement.
TheNewNancy
FlexibleandRelatableDaily ComicsintheTwenty-First Century
JeffKarnicky
Encapsulations:CriticalComicsStudies
September 2023 214pp 5illus.,index
9781496235862£25.99 / $30.00PB
UNIVERSITYOFNEBRASKAPRESS
ExploreshowOliviaJaimes’s2018rebootofthe legacycomicstripexemplifiestheadaptabilityof contemporaryflexiblecomicstoservedivergent audiences,fromnostalgicfanswhoreadthedaily comicsinnewspaperstonewerwebcomicreaders. RebootedcomicstripslikeNancydirectlyconfront thestereotypicalrepresentationsthathauntthepast ofcomics.
TheK-Effect Romanization,Modernism,and theTimingandSpacingofPrint Culture
ChristopherGoGwilt
December 2023 240pp 12b&willus.
9781531505080£27.99 / $32.00PB
9781531505073£94.00/$105.00 HB
FORDHAMUNIVERSITYPRESS
Takingupthephenomenonofromanization,this book’scomparativereadingofJosephConrad, JamesJoyce,LuXun,FranzKafka,andPramoedya AnantaToer,proposesanimportantnewwayto assessthemulti-lingual,multi-scriptcoordinatesof transnationalmodernismandmodernprintculture.
TheNarrator
AProbleminNarrativeTheory
SylviePatronTranslatedby
CatherinePorter
FrontiersofNarrative
September 2023 384pp 4illus.,2 appendixes,2indexes
9781496231406£67.00 / $75.00HB
UNIVERSITYOFNEBRASKAPRESS
Questionsthedominanceofthecommunicational paradigminthetheoryandanalysisoffictional narratives. TheNarrator offersanoriginalandcritical synthesisoftheproblemofthenarratorinthework ofnarratologistsandothertheoreticiansofnarrative communicationfromtheFrench,Czech,German,and Americantraditionsandinrepresentationsofthe noncommunicationaltheoriesoffictionalnarrative.
TheRetrospectiveMuse
PathwaysthroughAncientGreek LiteratureandCulture
FromaI.ZeitlinForewordby
SimonGoldhill
MythandPoeticsII
December 2023 360pp 6b&whalftones
9781501772962£51.00 / $56.95HB
CORNELLUNIVERSITYPRESS
ShowcasesthecelebratedworkofFromaZeitlin.Her instantlyrecognizableworkopenedaseries ofancienttextsandideastonewformsof understanding.Aselectionoftheseessays arebroughttogetherforthefirsttimeinavolume whichshowsthefullrangeandflairofher remarkableintellect.
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TheSociologyof Literature
GisèleSapiroTranslatedby MadelineBedecarré&Ben
Libman
October 2023 144pp
9781503637597£21.99 / $25.00PB
9781503633179£76.00/$85.00 HB
STANFORDUNIVERSITYPRESS
TheSociologyofLiterature isapithyprimeronthe history,affordances,andpotentialfuturesofthis growingfieldofstudy,whichfindsitsoriginsinthe FrenchEnlightenment,anditsmostsalient expressionasasociologicalpursuitintheworkof PierreBourdieu.
Unfelt
TheLanguageofAffectinthe BritishEnlightenment
JamesNoggle
December 2023 282pp 3charts
9781501770128£24.99 / $28.95NIP
CORNELLUNIVERSITYPRESS
Unfelt offersanewaccountof feelingduringtheBritish Enlightenment,findingthatthepassionsand sentimentslongconsideredaspreoccupationsofthe eradependonapotentinsensibility,thesecret emergenceofpronouncedemotionsthatonly becomeapparentwithtime.Noggleexploresliterary evocationsofimperceptibilityandunfeelingthat pervadeandsupporttheperiod'sunderstandingof sensibility.
WallaceStegner's UnsettledCountry Ruin,Realism,andPossibilityin theAmericanWest
EditedbyMarkFiege,Leisl CarrChilders&MichaelJ.
Lansing
February 2024 344pp 27photos,2illus., 2maps,index
9781496236173£25.99 / $29.95PB
UNIVERSITYOFNEBRASKAPRESS
AssessesStegner’slife,work,andlegacyinlightof contemporaryissuesandcrises.Thecontributors showhowhisfailuresofferequallycrucialwaysto assessthepast,present,andfutureoftheregion. Thisbookisaneven-handedreclamationofStegner’s enduringrelevancetoanyoneconcernedaboutthe AmericanWest’suncertainfuture.
UglyWhitePeople
WritingWhitenessin
ContemporaryAmerica
StephanieLi
October 2023 272pp
9781517915742£23.99 / $28.00PB
9781517915735£100.00/$112.00 HB
UNIVERSITYOFMINNESOTAPRESS
Exploresrepresentationsofwhitenessfromtwentyfirst-centurywhiteAmericanauthors,revealing whiterecognitionoftheuglyformswhitenesscan take.Theresultisliteraturethatmoredirectly grappleswithwhitenessasitsownconstructrather thanawronglyassumednorm.Licontextualizesa seriesofliterarynovelsascollectivelyinfluencedby changesinracialandpoliticalattitudes.
UrbanHomelands
WritingtheNativeCityfrom Oklahoma
LindseyClaireSmith
October 2023 260pp 15photos,index
9781496215536£58.00 / $65.00HB
UNIVERSITYOFNEBRASKAPRESS
ExploreswritingbyNative Oklahomansthatconnectsurban homelandsinOklahomaandbeyondandrevealsthe needforanewmethodologyofurbanIndianstudies. UrbanHomelands,whileexaminingtheoverlooked historiesofOklahomaIndigenousurbanization relativetotheseregions,engagesliteratureandfilm asnotjustmirrorsofexperiencebutasproducersof it.
WhoWouldYouKillto SavetheWorld?
ClaireColebrook
Provocations
September 2023 190pp
9781496234988£16.99 / $20.00PB
UNIVERSITYOFNEBRASKAPRESS
ClaireColebrookexamineshow postapocalypticcinemauses imagesfromthepastandpresenttodepictwhatit meanstopreservetheworld—andwhoisleftoutof thenarrativeofrebuildingsociety.Thisbookisa provocativeadditiontothefieldofextinctionstudies andchallengestheconceptualframesweuseto defineourselves.
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WhoWroteThis?
HowAIandtheLureof EfficiencyThreatenHuman Writing
NaomiS.Baron
September 2023 336pp
9781503633223£25.99 / $30.00HB
STANFORDUNIVERSITYPRESS
Funny,informed,andconversational, WhoWrote This? urgesusasindividualsandascommunitiesto makeconsciouschoicesabouttheextenttowhich wecollaboratewithAI.Thetechnologyishereto stay.BaronshowsushowtoworkwithAIandhow tospotwhereitrisksdiminishingthevaluable cognitiveandsocialbenefitsofbeingliterate.
WritingTime StudiesinSerialLiterature, 1780–1850
SeanFranzel
Signale:ModernGermanLetters, Cultures,andThought
November 2023 408pp 25b&w halftones,1chart
9781501772450£32.00 / $36.95PB
9781501772443£112.00/$125.00 HB
CORNELLUNIVERSITYPRESS
WritingTime showshowserialliteraturebasedin journalsandanthologiesshapedtheawarenessof timeatatransformativemomentintheEuropean literaryandpoliticallandscapes.SeanFranzel exploreshowGerman-speakingauthorsandeditors "writetime"bothbywritingabouttimeandby mappingtimeitselfthroughspecificliteraryformats.
BestMinds
HowAllenGinsbergMade RevolutionaryPoetryfrom Madness
StevanM.Weine
March2023 304pp37 b&willus., 9781531502669£29.99/$34.95 HB
FORDHAMUNIVERSITYPRESS
Withaforty-yearcareerstudying andaddressingtrauma,Weineprovidesa groundbreakingexplorationofAllenGinsbergandhis creativeprocessespeciallyinrelationtomadness.
BestMinds examinesthecomplexrelationships betweenmentalillness,psychiatry,trauma,poetry, andprophecy—usingtheaccessGinsberggenerously sharedtooffernew,lively,andindispensableinsights intoanAmericanicon.
Writingthrough BoyhoodintheLong EighteenthCentury Age,Gender,andWork
ChantelLavoie
November 2023 240pp 5colorand4 b&wimages
9781644533192£36.00 / $39.95PB
9781644533208£108.00/$120.00 HB
RUTGERSUNIVERSITYPRESS
WritingthroughBoyhood exploreshowboyhood wasconstructedindifferentcreativespacesthat reflectedthelivedexperienceofyoungboys throughthelongeighteenthcentury—notsimplyin children’sliteraturebutinnovels,poetry,medical advice,criminalbroadsides,andautomaton exhibitions.
CritiqueofCritique
RoyBen-Shai
SquareOne:First-OrderQuestionsinthe Humanities
February 2023 264pp
9781503633827£23.99 / $28.00PB
9781503632684£76.00/$85.00 HB
STANFORDUNIVERSITYPRESS
RoyBen-Shaiinspectscritiqueasanorientationof criticalthinking,probingitsstructuresand assumptions,itslimitsanditsrisks,itshistoryandits possibilities. CritiqueofCritique setsthegroundfor anexaminationofalternativeorientationsofcritical thinking,otherwaysofinhabitingandgraspingthe world.
DeathandtheBodyin theEighteenth-Century Novel
JoleneZigarovich
January 2023 280pp
9781512823776£58.00/$64.95 HB
UNIVERSITYOFPENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Drawingonavarietyofhistorical discourses—suchaswills,undertakinghistories, medicaltreatisesandtextbooks,anatomicalstudies, philosophicaltreatises,andreligioustractsand sermons—thebookcontributestoafuller understandingofthehistoryofdeathinthe Enlightenmentanditsnarrativetransformation.
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