LITERATURE Spring 2020
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A Democratic Enlightenment
A Violent Peace
Race, Militarism, and Cultures of Democratization in Cold War Asia and the Pacific Christine Hong
The Reconciliation Image, Aesthetic Education, Possible Politics Morton Schoolman
Post*45 July 2020 328pp 9781503612914 £24.99/$30.00 PB 9781503603134 £77.00/$90.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
April 2020 336pp 1 illus. 9781478008033 £22.99/$27.95 PB 9781478007654 £90.00/$104.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
A Violent Peace offers a radical cultural account of the midcentury transformation of the United States into a total-war state. Christine Hong examines the centrality of U.S. militarism to the Cold War cultural imagination.
Proposes aesthetic education through film as a way to redress the political violence inflicted on difference society constructs as its racialized, gendered, Semitic, and sexualized other.
Against Sustainability
An Archive of Taste
Reading Nineteenth-Century America in the Age of Climate Crisis Michelle Neely
Race and Eating in the Early United States Lauren F. Klein
May 2020 232pp 21 b&w photos 9781517905095 £20.99/$25.00 PB 9781517905088 £86.00/$100.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
June 2020 224pp 9780823288205 £23.99/$30.00 PB 9780823288229 £87.00/$105.00 HB FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
The first book to examine the gustatory origins of aesthetic taste in early American literature. Shows how thinking about eating can help to tell new stories about the range of people who worked to establish a cultural foundation for the United States. Excludes Japan & ANZ
Against Sustainability responds to twenty-first century environmental crisis by unearthing the nineteenth-century U.S. literary, cultural, and scientific contexts that gave rise to sustainability, recycling, and preservation.
Arabian Satire
Cathay
Poetry from 18th-Century Najd Hmedan al-Shwe’ir Translated by Marcel Kurpershoek Foreword by Jane Tylus
A Critical Edition Written by Ezra Pound Edited by Timothy Billings Introduction by Christopher Bush Foreword by Haun Saussy
Library of Arabic Literature April 2020 160pp 9781479885169 £11.99/$15.00 NIP NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Spring 2020 364pp 9780823288687 £23.99/$29.99 NIP FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
This is the first full translation of Hmēdān alShwēʿir, a remarkable poet known for his ribald humor and self-deprecation. Excludes SE Asia & ANZ
This fully annotated critical edition focuses on Pound’s astonishing Chinese translations without forgetting that the original Chinese poems are masterpieces in their own right.
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Comics and Stuff
Dictionary Poetics
Henry Jenkins
Toward a Radical Lexicography Craig Dworkin
April 2020 352pp 104 full color 9781479800933 £25.99/$32.00 PB 9781479852741 £77.00/$89.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Verbal Arts: Studies in Poetics May 2020 272pp 9780823287963 £27.99/$35.00 PB 9780823287987 £103.00/$125.00 HB FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Moves through anthropology, material culture, literary criticism, and art history to resituate comics in the cultural landscape. With over 100 hundred illustrations, explores how comics depict stuff and exposes the central role that stuff plays in how we curate our identities, sustain memory, and make meaning. Excludes SE Asia & ANZ
Analyses book-length poems from a number of writers who have used particular editions of specific dictionaries to structure their work. This book demonstrates that new ways of reading can yield significant interpretive payoffs and transform our understanding of literary texts at their most fundamental levels.
Dub
Dynamic Form
Finding Ceremony Alexis Pauline Gumbs
How Intermediality Made Modernism Cara L. Lewis
February 2020 296pp 30 illus. 9781478006459 £20.99/$24.95 PB 9781478005414 £86.00/$99.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
July 2020 328pp 28 b&w halftones 9781501749179 £47.00/$55.00 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
The concluding volume in a poetic triptych, Alexis Pauline Gumbs’s Dub: Finding Ceremony takes inspiration from theorist Sylvia Wynter, dub poetry, and ocean life to offer a catalog of possible methods for remembering, healing, listening, and living otherwise.
Dynamic Form traces how intermedial experiments shape modernist texts from 1900 to 1950. Considering literature alongside painting, sculpture, photography, and film, Cara Lewis examines how these arts inflect narrative movement, contribute to plot events, and configure poetry and memoir. Excludes ANZ
Eat a Bowl of Tea
Every Day I Write the Book
Louis Chu Foreword by Fae Myenne Ng Introduction by Jeffery Paul Chan
Classics of Asian American Literature April 2020 264pp 9780295747057 £17.99/$22.95 PB UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
A groundbreaking and influential work, the first novel to capture the tone and sensibility of everyday life in an American Chinatown. Portrays Chinese America on the brink of change.
Notes on Style Amitava Kumar
March 2020 264pp 24 illus. 9781478006275 £20.99/$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.
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Giving Form to an Asian and Latinx America
Haiku History
The American Saga Three Lines at a Time H. W. Brands
Long Le-Khac
Stanford Studies in Comparative Race and Ethnicity March 2020 264pp 9781503612181 £22.99/$28.00 PB 9781503611467 £77.00/$90.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
May 2020 148pp 9781477320327 £17.99/$21.95 HB UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
For the past nine years, acclaimed historian H. W. Brands has been Crossing distinct literatures, histories, and politics, tweeting the history of the United States in the Giving Form to an Asian and Latinx America form of haikus. A history book like no other, Haiku reveals the intertwined story of contemporary History injects both fun and poetry into the story Asian Americans and Latinxs through a shared of America—three lines at a time. literary aesthetic.
Haiti’s Paper War
History and the Written Word
Post-Independence Writing, Civil War, and the Making of the Republic, 1804-1954 Chelsea Stieber
Documents, Literacy, and Language in the Age of the Angevins Henry Bainton
America and the Long 19th Century August 2020 368pp 11 hts 9781479802159 £24.99/$30.00 PB 9781479802135 £85.00/$99.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
The Middle Ages Series January 2020 272pp 2 illus. 9780812251906 £60.00/$69.95 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Picking up where most historians conclude, Stieber explores the critical internal challenge to Haiti’s post-independence sovereignty: a civil war between monarchy and republic. Excludes SE Asia & ANZ
Argues that members of an administrative elite demonstrated their mastery of the rules of literate political behavior by producing and consuming history-writing and its documents.
Household Horror
Impostures
Written by Al-Ḥarīrī Translated by Michael Cooperson, Foreword by Abdelfattah Kilito
Cinematic Fear and the Secret Life of Everyday Objects Marc Olivier
The Year’s Work March 2020 344pp 9780253046567 £33.00/$38.00 PB 9780253046550 £82.00/$95.00 HB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Library of Arabic Literature May 2020 534pp 1 map 9781479800841 £24.99/$29.95 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
In Household Horror: Cinematic Fear and the Secret Life of Everyday Objects Marc Olivier highlights the wonder, fear, and terrifying dimension of objects in horror cinema.
Follows the roguish Abū Zayd al-Sarūjī in his adventures around the medieval Middle East— impersonating a preacher, pretending to be blind, and lying to a judge. Excludes SE Asia & ANZ
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In the Mean Time
In Your Eyes I See My Words
Temporal Colonization and the Mexican American Literary Tradition Erin Murrah-Mandril
Homilies and Speeches from Buenos Aires, Volume 2: 2005–2008 Pope Francis Translated by Marina A. Herrera, Edited by Antonio Spadaro
Postwestern Horizons April 2020 204pp 9781496211828 £43.00/$50.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Taking a cue from Latina/o and borderlands spatial theories, Murrah-Mandril argues that time, like space, is a socially constructed, ideologically charged medium of power in the Southwest.
April 2020 576pp 9780823287598 £27.99/$34.95 HB FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Contains Pope Francis’s homilies and speeches spanning from 2005 to 2008.
Indigenous Narratives of Territory and Creation
Influx and Efflux
Writing Up with Walt Whitman Jane Bennett
Hemispheric Perspectives Edited by Penelope Kelsey & Leila Gómez
May 2020 224pp 33 color illus. 9781478008309 £20.99 /$25.95 PB 9781478007791 $86.00/$99.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
March 2020 224pp 8 illus. 9781478008712 £17.99/$22.00 PB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Continuing a theme opened but not pursued in her influential book Vibrant Matter, Jane Bennett draws upon Whitman, Thoreau, Caillois, Whitehead, and other poetic writers to link a non-anthropocentric model of self to a democratic pluralism and a syntax and style of writing appropriate to the entangled world in which we live.
Indigenous activism in the Americas has long focused on the symbolic reclamation of land. Drawing on interdisciplinary perspectives, contributors to this issue explore narratives of territory and origin that provide a foundation for this political practice.
Isherwood in Transit
John Fante’s Ask the Dust
Edited by James J. Berg & Chris Freeman
A Joining of Voices and Views Edited by Stephen Cooper & Clorinda Donato
June 2020 296pp 7 b&w photos 9781517909109 £21.99/$27.00 PB 9781517909093 £93.00/$108.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Critical Studies in Italian America April 2020 288pp 9780823287857 £33.00/$40.00 PB 9780823287864 £116.00/$140.00 HB FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
New perspectives on Christopher Isherwood as a searching and transnational writer. Isherwood in Transit considers the writer not as an English, continental, or American writer but as a transnational one. Excludes Japan & ANZ
Assembles for the first time a multiplicity of reflections and readings of John Fante’s 1939 classic, Ask the Dust, a true testament to the work’s present and future impact.
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Listening
Literary Bioethics
Interviews, 1970–1989 Jonathan Cott
Animality, Disability, and the Human Maren Tova Linett
April 2020 360pp 9781517909017 £24.99/$29.95 HB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Crip July 2020 208pp 9781479801251 £22.99/$28.00 PB 9781479801268 £77.00/$89.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Collected here are twenty-two of Jonathan Cott’s most illuminating interviews that encourage readers to listen to film directors and musicians, actors and writers, scientists and visionaries. These conversations affirm the transformative powers of the imagination and offer us new ways to view these lives and their worlds. Excludes Japan & ANZ
Uses literature to understand and remake our ethics regarding nonhuman animals, old and disabled human beings, and cloned posthumans. Excludes SE Asia & ANZ
Lost Illusions
Making Love in the Twelfth Century
Honoré de Balzac Translated by Raymond N. MacKenzie
“Letters of Two Lovers” in Context Edited & translated by Barbara Newman
April 2020 624pp 9781517905439 £16.99/$19.95 PB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
The Middle Ages Series February 2020 392pp 9780812224665 £22.99/$27.50 NIP UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Lost Illusions is an essential text within Balzac’s Comédie Humaine, his sprawling, interconnected fictional portrait of French society in the 1820s and 1830s comprising nearly one hundred novels and short stories. Excludes Japan & ANZ
This book presents a new literary translation of the collection of the Letters of Two Lovers, which were discovered in the late twentieth century.
Maqamat Abi Zayd alSaruji
Merleau-Ponty’s Poetic of the World
al-Ḥarīrī Edited by Michael Cooperson
Philosophy and Literature Galen A. Johnson, Mauro Carbone & Emmanuel de Saint Aubert
Library of Arabic Literature May 2020 352pp 9781479800896 £34.00/$40.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Perspectives in Continental Philosophy August 2020 256pp 9780823287703 £24.99/$32.00 PB 9780823288137 £91.00/$110.00 HB FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Maqāmāt Abī Zayd al-Sarūjī is a scholarly, Arabiconly edition of the celebrated work by al-Ḥarīrī, which is also available in English translation from the Library of Arabic Literature as Impostures. Excludes SE Asia & ANZ
This book focuses on Merleau-Ponty’s extensive engagement with literature.
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Middling Romanticism
Millennial Cervantes
Reading in the Gaps, from Kant to Ashbery Zachary Sng
New Currents in Cervantes Studies Edited by Bruce R. Burningham
Lit Z June 2020 224pp 9780823288410 £45.00/$55.00 HB FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
New Hispanisms June 2020 300pp 8 photos, 7 illus., 2 graphs 9781496217622 £47.00/$55.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
In Middling Romanticism, Zachary Sng examines various forms of the middle (such as the medium, moderation, and mediocrity) that re-negotiated Millennial Cervantes explores some of the most in the writings of British and German important recent trends in Cervantes scholarship romanticism, along with a consideration of how in the twenty-first century. our own relationship to romanticism is influenced by its medial thinking.
Monsters by Trade
Noir Affect
Edited by Christopher Breu & Elizabeth A. Hatmaker Afterword by Paula Rabinowitz
Slave Traffickers in Modern Spanish Literature and Culture Lisa Surwillo
March 2020 264pp 9781503613645 £24.99/$30.00 NIP STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
June 2020 304pp 9780823287666 £27.99/$35.00 PB 9780823287802 £103.00/$125.00 HB FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Explains how modern Spain was literally made by its Cuban colony. Long after the transatlantic slave trade had been abolished, it continued to smuggle thousands of Africans to Cuba to work the sugar plantations. Nearly a third of the royal income came from Cuban sugar, and these profits underwrote Spain's modernization even as they damaged its international standing.
Featuring an afterword by celebrated noir scholar, Paula Rabinowitz, and essays by an array of leading scholars, Noir Affect proposes a new understanding of noir as defined by negative affect.
Peopling the World
Radical Ambivalence
Representing Human Mobility from Milton to Malthus Charlotte Sussman
Race in Flannery O’Connor Angela Alaimo O’Donnell
Studies in the Catholic Imagination: The Flannery O’Connor Trust Series June 2020 192pp 9780823287659 £23.99/$30.00 PB 9780823288243 £87.00/$105.00 HB FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
March 2020 304pp 9780812252026 £60.00/$69.95 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Sussman argues that a shift in thinking about population and mobility occurred in the third quarter of the eighteenth century. Before that point, both political and literary texts were preoccupied with “useless” populations that could be made useful by being dispersed over Britain’s domestic and colonial territories.
Radical Ambivalence is the first book-length study of O’Connor’s attitude towards race in her fiction and correspondence. It is also the first study to include controversial material from unpublished letters that reveals the complex and troubling nature of O’Connor’s thoughts on the subject.
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Shakespeare and Trump
Stories of the Self
Jeffrey R. Wilson
Life Writing after the Book Anna Poletti
April 2020 232pp 9781439919422 £19.99/$25.00 PB TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Postmillennial Pop August 2020 240pp 8 halftones 9781479836666 £23.99/$29.00 PB 9781479863600 £77.00/$89.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Should we draw an analogy between Shakespeare's tyrants—Richard III, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, and King Lear—and Donald Trump? Jeffrey Wilson applies literary criticism to real life, examining plot, character, villainy, soliloquy, tragedy, myth, and metaphor to identify the formal features of the Trump phenomenon, and its hidden causes, structure, and meanings. Excludes Asia Pacific
Argues that while there is a strong emphasis on the importance of personal storytelling in contemporary culture and politics, mediation is just as important in establishing the credibility and legibility of life writing. Excludes SE Asia & ANZ
Talking Books with Mario Vargas Llosa
Tasting Difference
Food, Race, and Cultural Encounters in Early Modern Literature Gitanjali Shahani
A Retrospective Edited by Raquel Chang-Rodríguez & Carlos Riobó
May 2020 222pp 7 b&w halftones 9781501748707 £34.00/$39.95 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
New Hispanisms August 2020 258pp 15 photos, 9781496220257 £52.00/$60.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Tasting Difference examines early modern discourses of racial, cultural, and religious difference that emerged in wake of contact with foreign peoples and exotic foods from across the globe. Excludes ANZ
Inspired by his visits to City College of New York, offers readers an opportunity to learn about Llosa’s work through his own perspective and those of key fiction writers and literary critics.
Teaching Western American Literature
The Aesthetics of Resistance, Volume II
Postwestern Horizons June 2020 348pp 4 tables, 9781496220387 £24.99/$30.00 PB UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
March 2020 360pp 9781478006992 £22.99/$27.95 PB 9781478006145 £90.00/$104.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Edited by Brady Harrison & Randi Lynn Tanglen
Teaching Western American Literature reflects the cutting edge of western American literary study, featuring diverse approaches allied with women’s, gender, queer, environmental, disability, and indigenous studies and providing instructors with entrée into classrooms of leading scholars in the field.
A Novel Peter Weiss
Originally published in German in 1978 and appearing here in English for the first time, the second volume of Peter Weiss’s three-volume novel The Aesthetics of Resistance depicts antifascist resistance, radical proletarian political movements, and the relationship between art and resistance from the late 1930s to WWII.
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The Cape Cod Bicycle War
The Case of Literature
Forensic Narratives from Goethe to Kafka Arne Höcker
and Other Stories Billy Kahora
Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought June 2020 240pp 9781501749360 £23.99/$28.95 PB 9781501749353 £99.00/$115.00 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Modern African Writing March 2020 304pp 9780821424162 £19.99/$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.
Offers a radical reassessment of the modern European literary canon as contributing to the development of human sciences and the medium for a modern style of case-based reasoning. Excludes ANZ
The Converso’s Return
The Diary
Conversion and Sephardi History in Contemporary Literature and Culture Dalia Kandiyoti
The Epic of Everyday Life Edited by Batsheva Ben-Amos & Dan Ben-Amos
Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture August 2020 320pp 9781503612433 £21.99/$26.00 PB 9781503612297 £73.00/$85.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
April 2020 440pp 9780253046994 £33.00/$38.00 PB 9780253046987 £82.00/$95.00 HB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
As a genre, the diary is found in all literate societies, and these autobiographical accounts are written by persons of all ranks and positions. Offers an exploration of the form in its social,historical, and cultural-literary contexts.
The Converso’s Return explores the cultural politics and literary impact of the reawakened interest in converso and crypto-Jewish history.
The Experimental Imagination
The Fact of Resonance
Modernist Acoustics and Narrative Form Julie Beth Napolin
Literary Knowledge and Science in the British Enlightenment Tita Chico
Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory June 2020 288pp 9780823288168 £23.99/$30.00 PB 9780823288175 £87.00/$105.00 HB FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
March 2020 256pp 9781503613591 £21.99/$26.00 NIP STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
The Fact of Resonance returns to the colonial and technological contexts in which theories of the novel developed, seeking in sound an alternative premise for theorizing modernist narrative form. The book shows how the experience of reading is undergirded by the sonic.
This book shows how British Enlightenment writers and thinkers used science as a metaphor to reconfigure evidence and authority, to reimagine the self and society, and to present literary knowledge as a form of truth.
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The Geological Unconscious
The Metabolist Imagination
German Literature and the Mineral Imaginary Jason Groves
Visions of the City in Postwar Japanese Architecture and Science Fiction William O. Gardner
July 2020 208pp 9780823288090 £23.99/$30.00 PB 9780823288106 £87.00/$105.00 HB FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
April 2020 224pp 4 b&w photos, 16 color plates 9781517906245 £21.99/$27.00 PB 9781517906238 £93.00/$108.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
The Geological Unconscious traces the withdrawal of the lithosphere as a reliable setting, unobtrusive backdrop, and stable point of William O. Gardner explores the unique reference for literature written well before the Metabolism movement. current climate breakdown. Excludes Japan & ANZ
The Mosquito Bite Author
The Nature of the Page
Poetry, Papermaking, and the Ecology of Texts in Renaissance England Joshua Calhoun
Bariş Biçakçi Translated by Matthew Chonavec
Material Texts January 2020 288pp 30 illus. 9780812251890 £47.00/$55.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
June 2020 180pp 9781477321096 £12.99/$16.00 PB CENTER FOR MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN
The Nature of the Page tells the story of handmade paper in Renaissance England and prompts readers to reconsider the role of the natural world in everything from old books to new smartphones.
Originally published in 2011, The Mosquito Bite Author is the seventh novel by the acclaimed Turkish author Barış Bıçakçı. It follows the daily life of an aspiring novelist in the months after he submits his manuscript to a publisher in Istanbul.
The Peculiar Afterlife of Slavery
The Running Boy and Other Stories
Megumu Sagisawa Translated by Tyran Grillo
The Chinese Worker and the Minstrel Form Caroline H. Yang
New Japanese Horizons April 2020 132pp 9781501749889 £16.99/$19.95 PB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Asian America April 2020 304pp 9781503612051 £22.99/$28.00 PB 9781503610378 £77.00/$90.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
With this translated version of The Running Boy, the fiction of Megumu Sagisawa makes its first appearance in English. This collection sits on the The Peculiar Afterlife of Slavery explores how antiblack racism lived on through the figure of the thinnest part of Japan’s economic bubble and provides and cautionary glimpse into the malaise Chinese worker in US literature after of its impending collapse. emancipation. Excludes ANZ
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The Shapes of Fancy
The United States of India
Reading for Queer Desire in Early Modern Literature Christine Varnado
Anticolonial Literature and Transnational Refraction Manan Desai
May 2020 328pp 7 b&w photos 9781517907778 £24.99/$30.00 PB 9781517907761 £103.00/$120.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Demonstrates a practice of critical attunement to the psychic and historical circulations of affect across time within texts, from texts to readers, and among readers. Stages an impassioned defense of the inherently desirous nature of reading. Excludes Japan & ANZ
Asian American History & Culture March 2020 284pp 9781439918906 £27.99/$34.95 PB 9781439918890 £82.00/$99.50 HB TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Shows how Indian and American writers in the USA helped the development of anticolonial thought in the years during and after WWI. Excludes Asia Pacific
The Visceral Logics of Decolonization
Unfelt
The Language of Affect in the British Enlightenment James Noggle
Neetu Khanna
February 2020 200pp 9781478008170 £20.99/$24.95 PB 9781478007739 £82.00/$94.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Focusing on the work of a Marxist anticolonial literary group active in India between the 1930s and 1950s, Neetu Khanna rethinks the project of decolonization by showing how embodied and affective responses to colonial subjugation provide the catalyst for developing revolutionary consciousness.
March 2020 282pp 3 charts 9781501747120 £41.00/$47.95 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Unfelt offers a new account of feeling during the British Enlightenment, finding that the passions and sentiments long considered as preoccupations of the era depend on a potent insensibility, the secret emergence of pronounced emotions that only become apparent with time. Excludes ANZ
Urban Formalism
We Who Work the West
The Work of City Reading David Faflik
Polis April 2020 144pp 9780823287680 £23.99/$30.00 PB 9780823288045 £87.00/$105.00 HB FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Urban Formalism radically reimagines what it meant to “read” a brave new urban world during the transformative middle decades of the nineteenth century. Faflik posits a new form of urban history, comprised of the representative rituals of interpretation that have helped give meaningful shape to metropolitan life.
Class, Labor, and Space in Western American Literature Kiara Kharpertian, Carlo Rotella & Christopher P. Wilson
Postwestern Horizons June 2020 288pp 9781496208842 £52.00/$60.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Examines literary representations of class, labor, and space in the American West from 1885 to 2012.
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Weird Westerns
Race, Gender, Genre Edited by Kerry Fine, Michael K. Johnson, Rebecca M. Lush & Sara L. Spurgeon Postwestern Horizons
August 2020 462pp 9781496221780 £28.99/$35.00 PB 9781496221162 £60.00/$70.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Weird Westerns is an exploration of the hybrid genre that blends Western themes with other genres such as science fiction and fantasy.
What a Library Means to a Woman
Edith Wharton and the Will to Collect Books Sheila Liming
April 2020 272pp 14 b&w photos 9781517907044 £21.99/$27.00 PB 9781517907037 £93.00/$108.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
What a Library Means to a Woman examines personal libraries as technologies of self-creation in modern America, focusing on Edith Wharton and her remarkable collection of books. Excludes Japan & ANZ
Who Wrote That?
Xenocitizens
Authorship Controversies from Moses to Sholokhov Donald Ostrowski June 2020 264pp 9781501750823 £20.99/$24.95 PB 9781501749704 £99.00/$115.00 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Examines nine authorship controversies, providing an introduction to particular disputes and teaching students how to assess historical documents, archival materials, and apocryphal stories, as well as internet sources and news. Excludes ANZ
Illiberal Ontologies in Nineteenth-Century America Jason Berger
June 2020 304pp 9780823287673 £27.99/$35.00 PB 9780823287758 £103.00/$125.00 HB FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
In Xenocitizens, Jason Berger returns to the antebellum United States in order to challenge a scholarly tradition based on liberal-humanist perspectives.
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