University of Chicago Press 2022 Literature and Criticism Subject Catalog

On Not Knowing

How to Love and Other Essays

Emily Ogden

“Ranging among subjects as various as parenthood and desire, psychoanalysis and poetry, the essays in On Not Knowing move by surprise, often veering in directions they hadn’t let you see they were going. The only certainty in reading them is that every arrival is worth it. . . . [Ogden’s] anecdotes are as unexpected, her sentences as exquisite, and her conclusions as moving as Emerson’s. Surely this book secures Ogden’s place as one of our finest writers: thinking with her is exhilarating.”—Erica McAlpine, author of The Poet’s Mistake

2022 144 p. 51/2 x 81/2

1 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-75135-1 $16.00 Your Price: $11.20

Victories Never Last Reading

and Caregiving in a Time of

Robert Zaretsky

Plague

“Literary-minded readers will find much to consider.”—Publishers Weekly

“It’s magical how much Zaretsky covers while zigzagging swiftly and deftly through the literature, history, and philosophy of plagues. Interludes about his volunteer work in a nursing home add a real-life, charming, absurdist atmosphere to the big ideas of thinkers like Marcus Aurelius or Albert Camus.”—Scott Samuelson, author of Seven Ways of Looking at Pointless Suffering

2022 208 p. 51/2 x 81/2

2 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-80349-4 $22.50 Your Price: $15.75

Keats’s Odes

A Lover’s Discourse

Anahid Nersessian

2021 160 p. 51/2 x 81/2

3 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-76267-8 $20.00 Your Price: $14.00

Apropos of Something

A History of Irrelevance and Relevance Elisa Tamarkin

“Apropos of Something is a phenomenal achievement—lucid, urgent, and rampantly intelligent. Tamarkin’s readings of art and literature emerge, like a leaping trout in a Winslow Homer painting, from the ground of careful philosophical explication to capture that feeling of surprise when we truly pay attention to something. Tamarkin does not simply analyze; she teaches us how to see. . . . This book possesses an Emersonian power to realize one of our great abstractions.”—Gavin Jones, author of Reclaiming John Steinbeck: Writing for the Future of Humanity

2022 448 p. 6 x 9 62 color plates, 5 halftones 4 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-45312-5 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50

Emergency Reading the Popol Vuh in a Time of Crisis Edgar Garcia

“In this brilliant exegesis, Garcia reveals the Popol Vuh as a living document, a dialogical story of creation crafted in conditions of colonial emergency, which still bears urgent relevance today. Consisting of a series of short and lyrical essays on a wide range of topics, Emergency is a thought-provoking commentary essential for anyone who engages with this foundational text.”—Claudia Brittenham, author of The Murals of Cacaxtla: The Power of Painting in Ancient Central Mexico

Critical Antiquities

2022 144 p. 51/2 x 81/2 1 halftones 5 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81859-7 $22.50 Your Price: $15.75

Black Paper

Writing in a Dark Time

Teju Cole

“In essays ranging on topics from Edward Said to the US-Mexico border to Black Panther, Cole interrogates what it means to bear witness in a turbulent world.”—New York Times

“In this erudite collection of observations written over the past three years, art historian Cole meditates on art, identity, politics, and literature to decipher ‘the fractured moment in our history.’ . . . Offering a window into his articulate worldview, Cole brings into sharp relief the very humanity he seeks.”—Publishers Weekly

Berlin Family Lectures

2021 288 p. 5 x 8 8 color plates, 6 halftones

6 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-64135-5 $22.50 Your Price: $15.75

Outside Literary Studies

Black Criticism and the University

Andy Hines

“Outside Literary Studies deftly weaves literary, cultural, and political history together in a refreshing and provocative reinterpretation of postwar literary criticism. Hines carefully reconstructs the arguments that Black critics, poets, and writers advanced in order to challenge the dominant hold of New Criticism, and he shows how the legacy of those arguments led to the development of alternative pedagogical models for the modern university. The result is a book that is timely, deeply engaged, and illuminating.”—Jesse McCarthy, Harvard University

2022 256 p. 51/2 x 81/2

7 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81858-0 $27.50 Your Price: $19.25

The Nutmeg’s Curse

Parables for a Planet in Crisis

Amitav Ghosh

2021 336 p. 6 x 9 6 halftones

8 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-81545-9 $25.00 Your Price: $17.50

The Matter of Black Living

The Aesthetic Experiment of Racial Data, 1880–1930

Autumn Womack

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The Matter of Black Living elucidates the breadth and the reach of Black ontological possibility and the historical trajectory of Black selfexpression that (white) modernist practices forgot. Womack cogently presents the unwieldy negotiations of social knowledge and data collection that have impacted African American cultural productions. . . . It will be essential for readers of modernist African American literature, visual culture studies, and American studies.”—Kimberly Juanita Brown, Dartmouth College

2022 288 p. 51/2 x 81/2 7 color plates, 18 halftones

9 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-80691-4 $27.50 Your Price: $19.25

Climate and the Making of Worlds

Toward a Geohistorical Poetics

Tobias Menely

“

Climate and the Making of Worlds is a stunning book. . . . An ambitious and important intervention into literary studies [which] decisively shows that the sociopolitical analysis of texts is more powerful and more comprehensive when critics acknowledge the Earth system that underlies all human activity.”—Modern Philology

2021 272 p. 6 x 9 2 halftones

10 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-77628-6 $27.50 Your Price: $19.25

The Climate of History in a Planetary Age

Dipesh Chakrabarty

2021 296 p. 6 x 9 2 halftones

11 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-73286-2 $25.00 Your Price: $17.50

The Thinking Literature Series

Nan Z. Da and Anahid Nersessian, Series Editors Alan Thomas, Acquiring Editor

Thinking Literature publishes books committed to the intensive, expansive exploration of how literature thinks, and to the refinement of literary criticism as a mode of reasoning in and about the world.

Joy of the Worm

Suicide and Pleasure in Early Modern English Literature

Drew Daniel

“Brilliant. . . . Before the emergence of suicide as the pathologized act we currently understand it to be, self-killing enabled a wider set of affective and aesthetic responses. Alert to the difficulty of this topic, Daniel moves deftly back and forth between our twenty-first-century present and the early modern past so that we can understand our own assumptions.”—Timothy M. Harrison, author of Coming To 2022 288 p. 6 x 9 3 halftones

12 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81650-0 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00

The Science of Character

Human Objecthood and the Ends of Victorian Realism

S. Pearl Brilmyer

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The Science of Character is learned and continuously intelligent, a model of philosophically informed criticism. Brilmyer makes a theoretical advance in the conceptualization of character, realism, and the novel itself. . . . The Science of Character redraws late-century Victorian literary history.”—Andrew Miller, Johns Hopkins University

2022 304 p. 6 x 9 5 halftones

13 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81578-7 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00

Strange Likeness

Description and the Modernist Novel Dora Zhang

2020 240 p. 6 x 9

14 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-72252-8 $27.50 Your Price: $19.25

Phenomenal Blackness

Black Power, Philosophy, and Theory Mark Christian Thompson

“Phenomenal Blackness is a text long awaited by many Black scholars—and essential to all of us—seeking to understand the complex origins of postwar Black cultural and aesthetic thought. Thompson’s deep and holistic dive into an entangled and phenomenal Blackness gives us back an intellectual history well-nigh lost.” —Michelle M. Wright, Emory University 2022 208 p. 6 x 9

15 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81642-5 $26.00 Your Price: $18.20

Cartesian Poetics

The Art of Thinking

Andrea Gadberry

“An intricate, gripping new book. . . . There is a strangeness—an uncanniness, even—to the Descartes emerging from Gadberry’s treatment. It is a reading that is at once convincing and utterly unexpected: Descartes as upside-down, inside-out love poet. . . . Cartesian Poetics is a coup all its own. It ought to change the way we read Descartes.”—Los Angeles Review of Books 2020 224 p. 6 x 9

16 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-72302-0 $27.50 Your Price: $19.25

Radium of the Word A Poetics of

Materiality

Craig Dworkin

2020 264 p. 6 x 9 21 halftones

17 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-74356-1 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00

On Revision

The Only Writing That Counts

William Germano

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On Revision is about the process of writing and its last steps, those of shaping a text and turning a manuscript into a well-argued and readable book it wants to be. With On Revision at your side, you will have a superb guide to gaining the skills and experience needed to finish your own project, all the while enjoying the elegance and wit of Germano’s prose.”—Liliane Weissberg, University of Pennsylvania

Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing

2021 208 p. 51/2 x 81/2 1 halftones, 6 line drawings

18 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-41065-4 $20.00 Your Price: $14.00

Getting It Published, Third Edition

A Guide for Scholars and Anyone Else Serious about Serious Books

William Germano

“This endlessly useful and expansive guide is every academic’s pocket Wikipedia: a timely, relevant, and ready resource on scholarly publishing, from the traditional monograph to the digital e-book. I regularly share it, teach it, and consult it myself, whenever I have a question on titling a chapter, securing a permission, or negotiating a contract. Professional advice simply does not get any savvier than this pitch-perfect manual on how to think like a publisher.”

—Diana Fuss, Princeton University

Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing

2016 304 p. 6 x 9 5 halftones

19 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-28140-7 $20.00 Your Price: $14.00

From Dissertation to Book, Second Edition

William Germano

Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing

2013 184 p. 5 x 8 4 line drawings, 3 tables

20 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-06204-4 $18.00 Your Price: $12.60

Limits of the Numerical

The Abuses and Uses of Quantification

Edited by Christopher Newfield, Anna Alexandrova, and Stephen John “The availability and power of numbers in our ‘data-driven world’ have never been greater, and, for just that reason, are greatly contested. Limits of the Numerical explores the paradoxes of quantitative reasoning that have arisen as a corollary of its power and recognizes that a blind reverence for numbers undermines expertise as much as it supports it. These stories of numbers are inescapably human ones.”

—Theodore M. Porter, University of California, Los Angeles

2022 304 p. 6 x 9 2 halftones, 5 tables

21 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81715-6 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00

Artful Truths

The Philosophy of Memoir Helena de Bres

“Artful Truths is wonderful, beautifully written, consistently amusing, and very useful. De Bres unpacks all the philosophical and ethical questions imaginable surrounding the genre of memoir and charges fearlessly into accusations against the form, examining and dissecting each doubt before celebrating the genre with panache. How she is able to discuss the viewpoints of Kant or Nietzsche in such conversational language is a wonder, and the examples she invents to bring these sometimes abstruse matters to life are wryly amusing.”—Phillip Lopate, author of The Art of The Personal Essay 2021 248 p. 51/2 x 81/2 22 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-79380-1 $22.50 Your Price: $15.75

Permanent Crisis

The Humanities in a Disenchanted Age

Paul Reitter and Chad Wellmon Studies in the History of the University 2021 320 p. 6 x 9 23 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-73806-2 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50

American Mediterraneans

A Study in Geography, History, and Race

Susan Gillman

“With Humboldt and Braudel as her main compass points, Gillman charts the ‘strange career’ of her title phrase across the Caribbean and California, disrupting settled ideas about geography, race, and climate. Methodologically innovative and teeming with insights, highly speculative and yet grounded in textual detail, American Mediterraneans offers a compelling new model for comparative studies. Cultural history doesn’t get any better than this.”

—Peter Hulme, author of Colonial Encounters: Europe and the Native Caribbean, 1492–1797

2022 208 p. 6 x 9 26 halftones

24 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81966-2 $27.50 Your Price: $19.25

Culture and Language at Crossed Purposes

The Unsettled Records of American Settlement

Jerome

McGann

“Culture and Language at Crossed Purposes is a sophisticated rethinking of both the American literary tradition and the methods that have been used to study it. There is a lesson in this book for those who would study truth and beauty today: study of the human record requires a rigor tempered with a profoundly human sense of the failure immanent to the historiographical enterprise.”—Matt Cohen, author of Colonial Mediascapes

2022 272 p. 6 x 9 11 halftones

25 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81846-7 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00

The Dream of Absolutism

Louis XIV and the Logic of Modernity Hall Bjørnstad

2021 256 p. 6 x 9

26 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-80383-8 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00

Figuring Jerusalem

Politics and Poetics in the Sacred Center

Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi

“This stunning literary archeology aims an unflinching—but loving—gaze at the world’s most desired, and therefore contested, city. A modern guide for the perplexed, this book opens the gates of Jerusalem anew, revealing the literal and figurative touchstone of religious imagination, political longing, and artistic invention. A tour de force.”—James Carroll, author of Jerusalem, Jerusalem: How the Ancient City Ignited our Modern World 2022 352 p. 6 x 9 11 halftones

27 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-78746-6 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50

The Jewish Decadence

Jews and the Aesthetics of Modernity

Jonathan Freedman

“Freedman reconceives of Jews as architects rather than victims of modernity. Although Jews were often demonized as sexual and artistic deviants, they also entered into dialogue with their detractors by contesting or reshaping the prejudices of the day. Most important, Jews played a central role in European culture as artists, critics, sponsors, networkers, and entrepreneurs; throughout the book, Freedman spots Jews where none have been discerned before, testifying to their ubiquity among the avantgarde.”—Maud Ellman, University of Chicago 2021 304 p. 6 x 9 41 halftones

28 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-58108-8 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00

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Inventing the Alphabet

The Origins of Letters from Antiquity to the Present

Johanna

Drucker

“With Inventing the Alphabet, Drucker—scholar, interpreter, and designer of printed words and letters—sheds light on that which has brought humankind out of darkness.”—Steven Heller, cochair of the SVA MFA Design Department

“Provides a rich, detailed account of how western thinkers have understood the origins and development of the alphabet. . . . Drucker’s study opens up a fascinating realm of ideas and scholarship into its origins and meaning.”

BBC History Magazine

2022 384 p. 7 x 10 100 halftones

29 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-81581-7 $40.00 Your Price: $28.00

Lives of the Great Languages

Arabic and Latin in the Medieval Mediterranean Karla Mallette

“Lives of the Great Languages weaves a fascinating comparative poetics championing Classical Arabic and Latin as cosmopolitan languages. Tracing their circulation and connectivity in the medieval Mediterranean and beyond, Mallette flips the script on the modern ideology of national languages. . . . This book prompts us to reconsider what we thought we knew about mother tongues and learned languages, translation movements, and literary expression.”

—Sharon Kinoshita, University of California, Santa Cruz

2021 264 p. 6 x 9

30 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-79606-2 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50

Deconstruction

An American Institution

Gregory Jones-Katz

2021 320 p. 6 x 9 20 halftones

31 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-53605-7 $32.50 Your Price: $22.75

What Proust Heard

Novels and the Ethnography of Talk

Michael Lucey

“The Proust Lucey evokes in What Proust Heard is a certain type of listener, someone who attends not only to words but also to how words function in particular interactions—what Lucey calls ‘language-in-use.’”—Los Angeles Review of Books

“What Proust Heard is the work of a scholar at the peak of his powers. . . . The result is a new genre of literary criticism that helps us understand how and why we experience reading (of all things) as a conversation outside our own heads.’”—Virginia Jackson, University of California, Irvine 2022 352 p. 6 x 9

32 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81667-8 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50

The Naked Truth

Viennese Modernism and the Body Alys X.

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George

The Naked Truth offers a brilliant challenge to popular myths about fin-de-siècle Vienna. In its cross-disciplinary focus on the dissected, gendered, classed, and moving body in Viennese culture, it reads Gustav Klimt’s famous icon Nuda Veritas as a purloined image: always in plain sight but consistently overlooked. By including noncanonical women and expanding the frame beyond the political divide of 1918, George gives us a supplemental and alternative genealogy of Viennese modernism.”

—Andreas Huyssen, Columbia University

2022 328 p. 6 x 9 43 halftones 33 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81996-9 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50

Sound Writing

Experimental Modernism and the Poetics of Articulation

Tobias Wilke

2022 272 p. 6 x 9 5 color plates, 39 halftones 34 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81777-4 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50

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My Three Dads

Patriarchy on the Great Plains

Jessa Crispin

“Crispin’s erudite analysis and biting wit make this multifaceted history unmissable. Searing and intelligent, this delivers on all counts.”

Publishers Weekly

Blending personal narrative with social commentary, Crispin meditates on why the American Midwest still enjoys an esteemed position in our country’s mythic self-image. Ranging from The Wizard of Oz to race, from chastity to rape, from radical militias and recent terrorist plots to Utopian communities, My Three Dads upends the romanticism of the Great Plains and the patriarchy at the core of its ideals.

2022 256 p. 51/2 x 81/2

35 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82010-1 $19.00 Your Price: $13.30

Vulgar Genres

Gay Pornographic Writing and Contemporary Fiction

Steven Ruszczycky

“Vulgar only in the best possible sense, and by no means generic in its analytic sharpness, Ruszczycky’s Vulgar Genres gives us a vitally important account of how gay pornographic writing—though largely ignored in the scholarship of queer literary history and of porn studies—facilitated, enriched, and helped make possible both contemporary gay literary fiction and lively gay counterpublics in the late twentieth century.”—Darieck Scott, University of California, Berkeley

2022 224 p. 6 x 9 8 halftones

36 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-78875-3 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00

The Chastity Plot

Lisabeth During

2021 392 p. 6 x 9

37 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-74146-8 $45.00 Your Price: $31.50

Underdogs

Social Deviance and Queer Theory

Heather Love

“What might we learn about queer studies by exploring its intellectual debts to midcentury social scientists’ interest in underdogs, underworlds, and the dynamics of stigma? Love’s provocative and defamiliarizing analysis asks us to see queer studies—its limitations and its transformational possibilities—anew. A critical intellectual history, teeming with ideas and unlikely engagements.”—Regina Kunzel, Yale University

2021 248 p. 51/2 x 81/2 2 halftones

38 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-76110-7 $26.00 Your Price: $18.20

Untying Things Together

Philosophy, Literature, and a Life in Theory

Eric L. Santner

“It is said that a great work of literature either concludes a genre or initiates one. Untying Things Together invents its own fascinating form. A brilliant work of literary criticism, it is also an incisive genealogy of what the author calls, tragicomically, ‘Odradek studies,’ as well as an often hilarious portrait of the philosopher as a no-longer-young man. . . . Untying Things Together urges us to enjoy our ideas as much as we do our symptoms—and to delight in the fact that we can’t always tell the two apart.”—Hal Foster, Princeton University

2022 256 p. 6 x 9 39 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81647-0 $25.00 Your Price: $17.50

Devotion

Three Inquiries in Religion, Literature, and Political Imagination

Constance M. Furey, Sarah Hammerschlag, and Amy Hollywood TRIOS

2021 200 p. 51/2 x 81/2 3 halftones 40 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81612-8 $25.00 Your Price: $17.50

Bette Davis Black and White

Julia A. Stern

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Bette Davis Black and White sparkles with indepth archival research and refreshing insights that shed new light on Davis as a citizen and on African American actors’ contributions to Hollywood cinema. Stern gracefully combines her profound empathy, comprehensive erudition, and lifelong reflections on Bette Davis films to illuminate the craft of Black artists and the complexity of African American audiences’ engagement with Davis’s portrayals.”

—Cynthia Baron, author of Modern Acting: The Lost Chapter of American Film and Theatre

2022 256 p. 51/2 x 81/2 40 halftones

41 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81386-8 $22.50 Your Price: $15.75

Accident

A Philosophical and Literary History Ross Hamilton

“Sigmund Freud told us there were no accidents. Everything that could happen to us was already ourselves. Ross Hamilton’s extraordinary book both confirms and subtly extends Freud by showing that his was only a partial truth. In Hamilton’s vision, we are a living labyrinth in which accidents do happen but are never as gratuitous as they may seem.”—Harold Bloom

2022 320 p. 6 x 9 6 halftones

42 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82104-7 $32.50 Your Price: $22.75

The Modern Myths

Audubon at Sea

The Coastal and Transatlantic Adventures of John James Audubon

Edited by Christoph Irmscher and Richard J. King

“These excellent selections are a wonderful reminder of why Audubon’s writing deserves to be more widely read. Audubon at Sea is a delightful, captivating book, one that ranges to different regions and seasons, and features not only birds but fish, marine mammals, and many passages of interest concerning fishing, hunting, and collecting practices. Irmscher and King’s expertise is impressive, and their introductions are helpful, informative, and beautifully written.

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. . This is a superb read.”—Michael P. Branch, author of On the Trail of the Jackalope

2022 352 p. 6 x 9 20 color plates, 38 halftones

44 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-75667-7 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00

Objects in Air

Artworks and Their Outside around 1900 Margareta

Ingrid Christian

“In this thoroughly original book, Christian traces discourses on the external spaces and atmospheres that surround works of art. She thereby elucidates the artwork’s ec-stasis —its reaching out into its environment—as an aesthetic category in its own right. A stylistic and intellectual pleasure to read, Objects in Air adds significantly to our understanding of early twentieth-century aesthetic thought.”

Adventures

in the Machinery of the Popular Imagination

Philip Ball

2021 368 p. 6 x 9 60 halftones

43 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-71926-9 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00

—Lucia Ruprecht, author of Gestural Imaginaries

2021 304 p. 6 x 9 69 halftones

45 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-76477-1 $45.00 Your Price: $31.50

Ahab’s Rolling Sea

A Natural History of Moby-Dick

Richard J. King

2021 448 p. 6 x 9 12 color plates, 71 halftones, 1 table

46 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-78987-3 $21.00 Your Price: $14.70

Decay and Afterlife

Form, Time, and the Textuality of Ruins, 1100 to 1900

Aleksandra Prica

“Decay and Afterlife is a brilliant study that offers a veritable contribution to the library on ruins, ruination, debris, and decay. Through a series of deep readings on ruins-related texts from several European literary traditions, Prica makes a case that ruins manifest a textuality that productively troubles chronologies, histories, and meaning making. Ruins, we learn, are double-edged: they both invite and undo efforts to make sense of them.”—Helmut Puff, University of Michigan

2022 304 p. 6 x 9 8 halftones

47 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81159-8 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50

The Ruins Lesson

Meaning and Material in Western Culture

Susan Stewart

“[Stewart] charts the West’s fascination with decayed remains, from Egyptian relics to contemporary monuments of destruction and trauma. The Ruins Lesson is a sweeping cultural history that draws in Renaissance humanism, eighteenth-century changes in representing the past, and the Romantic reconfiguration of memory. . . . Stewart writes with poetic grace and a nonspecialist’s appreciation of printmaking, painting, literature and architecture. Readers outside the academy will find much to value in this lovely book.”—Washington Post

2021 400 p. 7 x 10 11 color plates, 80 halftones

48 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-79220-0 $28.00 Your Price: $19.60

Dark Lens Imaging Germany, 1945

Françoise Meltzer

2021 256 p. 6 x 9 4 color plates, 41 halftones

49 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81685-2 $27.50 Your Price: $19.25

Posterity

Inventing Tradition from Petrarch to Gramsci Rocco Rubini

“Rubini is remarkable in his double competence, both as a historian of literary art who is sensitive to aesthetic creation and as an intellectual historian who defines novel trends and modes of inquiry practices. With considerable ingenuity, Rubini describes the autobiographical as defining Italian Humanism, drawing a distinction between Humanism as inquiry and Renaissance as domain.”—Nancy S. Struever, Johns Hopkins University 2022 360 p. 6 x 9 50 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-80755-3 $45.00 Your Price: $31.50

Of Bridges

A Poetic and Philosophical Account

Thomas Harrison

“Keenly erudite, imaginative, interdisciplinary, and lyrical, Of Bridges is a monumental piece of scholarship. Harrison has written a Calvinoesque tale of bridges both invisible and visible, ontological and epistemological. Harrison draws upon his vast knowledge of Italian art and literature to offer a genealogy of thought reflected through and with bridges. In this work, Harrison himself becomes the bridge that he writes about, bringing together events and forms in unique and insightful ways.”

—Timothy Campbell, Cornell University 2021 304 p. 6 x 9 3 color plates, 73 halftones 51 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-73529-0 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50

Harold Rosenberg

A Critic’s Life

Debra Bricker Balken

2021 656 p. 6 x 9 38 halftones

52 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-03619-9 $40.00 Your Price: $28.00

Infrathin

An Experiment in Micropoetics

Marjorie Perloff

“In Infrathin, the superb new book by one of America’s most engaging, irreverent, and original literary critics, Perloff returns to some of the main questions that have preoccupied her during her more than five decades of writing on twentieth- and twenty-first-century poetry and poetics. . . . Perloff’s book is an exercise in attention to difference, to the smallest, subliminal variations that give a particular poetic passage its texture.”—Los Angeles Review of Books

2021 240 p. 6 x 9 25 halftones

53 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-79850-9 $25.00 Your Price: $17.50

A Defense of Judgment

Michael W. Clune

“A Defense of Judgment [attempts] to revivify a version of what Northrop Frye called ‘literary experience’ as the basis on which judgments of value can be made. His timing is propitious: the scholarly landscape is more favorable to the aesthetic than it has been in decades. . . . In a way that much academic criticism is not, [this book] is refreshingly alive to the necessity of helping people learn how to appreciate works of art.”— Chicago Review

2021 256 p. 51/2 x 81/2

54 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-77015-4 $27.50 Your Price: $19.25

Thinking Out of Sight

Writings on the Arts of the Visible

Jacques Derrida

The France Chicago Collection

2021 328 p. 6 x 9 7 halftones

55 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-14061-2 $45.00 Your Price: $31.50

Metamodernism

The Future of Theory

Jason

Ananda Josephson Storm

“A vigorous—and rigorous—intellectual workout! Metamodernism is not only an astute diagnosis of the confusions and contradictions of contemporary thought; it also offers compelling alternatives. Ambitious, lucid, and erudite, this is a book that demands to be read and argued over.”—Rita Felski, author of The Limits of Critique

2021 328 p. 6 x 9 56 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-78665-0 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00

Music’s Monisms

Disarticulating Modernism

Daniel Albright

“If modernism, as Albright says, is a testing of the limits of aesthetic construction, then monism becomes for him a key to the deconstructive work that works of art can do. In a feast of erudition, playfulness, and referential breadth, Albright offers revelatory readings of music and words, expository as well as creative work, remastering the genealogies from Wagner to Maeterlinck to Beckett and from Schoenberg back to Donizetti.”—Michael P. Steinberg, author of The Trouble with Wagner

2021 296 p. 6 x 9 24 musical examples

57 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-79122-7 $45.00 Your Price: $31.50

The Cosmic Zoom

Scale, Knowledge, and Mediation

Zachary Horton

2021 288 p. 6 x 9 40 halftones

58 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-74244-1 $27.50 Your Price: $19.25

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The Subversive Simone Weil A Life in Five Ideas

Robert Zaretsky

“After an introduction that contextualizes Weil’s short, unusual life, Zaretsky dedicates chapters— each written in an elegant, accessible prose—to five essential columns that brace her philosophy: affliction, attention, resistance, rootedness, and goodness.”—Los Angeles Review of Books

“In treating both her life and her writings, The Subversive Simone Weil displays a subject who, by going too far toward goodness, reminds so many of us that we have not gone far enough. In Zaretsky’s hands, her courage stands as a complicated but necessary lesson for us all.”

—Todd May, author of A Decent Life

2021 200 p. 51/2 x 81/2

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Philosophy, Writing, and the Character of Thought

John T. Lysaker

“This book is a profound meditation on what it means to write philosophy in all the remarkable diversity of ways in which this has happened. Examples abound from a rich tapestry composed of figures from Plato through Emerson and Thoreau, into Heidegger, Cavell, Nietzsche, and Wittgenstein. . . . Lysaker shows that philosophy at its best is an experimentation and a provocation; and his own text . . . is both of these at once.”—Edward S. Casey, State University of New York at Stony Brook

2021 224 p. 6 x 9

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Philosophy by Other Means

The Arts in Philosophy and Philosophy in the Arts

Robert B. Pippin

2021 304 p. 6 x 9 7 halftones

61 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-77080-2 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00

Domestic Georgic

Labors of Preservation from Rabelais to Milton

Katie Kadue

“As Katie Kadue points out in Domestic Georgic, a wonderful book on early modern writers and the kitchen arts, Eve’s independent forays into drying and preserving the fruits of Eden yield a counterintuitive understanding of perfection itself, not as a fixed state from which one must not swerve but as a dynamic process of trial, innocent error, and gradual improvement.”

New York Review of Books

2021 232 p. 6 x 9 62 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-79749-6 $27.50 Your Price: $19.25

Medieval Marvels and Fictions in the Latin West and Islamic World

Michelle

Karnes

“Few scholars of medieval Europe have sought to put the body of writings on marvels produced in the Latin West in dialogue with currents in Arabic letters. Karnes navigates this terrain with sophistication and erudition. The breadth is stunning, and the comfort and ease that Karnes exhibits throughout a broad swath of intellectual endeavors are truly remarkable. . . . We need more scholarship just like this: willing to take risks, to explore distant terrain, and to open new conversations.”—Travis Zadeh, Yale University 2022 272 p. 6 x 9 63 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81975-4 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00

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Four Shakespearean Period Pieces

Margreta de Grazia

“Teasing out the origin and intention of terms that have been central to discussions of Shakespeare, de Grazia discloses a tangle of problems, misleading assumptions, blind confidence, and distortion. An exercise of scholarly demolition, at once relentless, resourceful, and cunning, this book will shake the grand house of literary criticism.”

—Stephen Greenblatt, Harvard University

2021 224 p. 51/2 x 81/2 22 halftones

64 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-78522-6 $27.50 Your Price: $19.25

Common Understandings, Poetic Confusion

Margery Kempe

A Mixed Life

Anthony

Bale

“Margery Kempe of Lynn Norfolk took pains in the decades of her prime to have her life as mother, wife, and pilgrim recorded for posterity. With erudition and sympathy, Bale frames Margery—a doubting, aching, troubled, and fiercely independent woman—within the European cities that staged her life, and so makes her more familiar than any fifteenth-century woman has ever been.”—Miri Rubin, author of Cities of Strangers: Making Lives in Medieval Europe

Medieval Lives

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2022 256 p. 51/2 x 81/2 23 color plates, 6 halftones

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Playhouses

and Playgoers in Elizabethan England

William N. West

“This exhilarating book reveals, in vivid detail, what early modern theater was like as an experience. By investigating not playing itself, but metaphors about it, West shows how theater was viewed at the time—as a place of fear or wonder, described in terms of chaos, fighting, being in a siege, eating, dancing. Common Understandings, Poetic Confusion enables us to understand, as never before, the edginess, thrill, and danger of plays and performance in the time of Shakespeare.”—Tiffany Stern, author of Documents of Performance in Early Modern England

2021 320 p. 6 x 9

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Lines of Thought

Branching Diagrams and the Medieval Mind

Ayelet Even-Ezra

2021 272 p. 81/4 x 11 4 color plates, 27 halftones, 86 line drawings, 3 tables

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Cartographic Humanism

The Making of Early Modern Europe

Katharina N. Piechocki

“Cartographic Humanism is a tour de force. Impeccably researched and beautifully written, this major intervention into the histories of cartography and literature asks what we mean when we say ‘Europe.’ . . . Drawing from a rich multilingual archive of humanists from Germany, Poland, France, Italy, and Portugal, Cartographic Humanism shows that Europe is not a monolith and never was.”—Phillip John Usher, author of The Exterranean

2021 304 p. 6 x 9 23 halftones

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The Indies of the Setting Sun

How Early Modern Spain Mapped the Far East as the Transpacific West

Ricardo Padrón

2022 352 p. 6 x 9 35 halftones

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The Complete Tragedies

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Translated by Shadi Bartsch et al.

Now available in paperback, the Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca offer authoritative, modern English translations of the writings of the Stoic philosopher and playwright.

Volume 1

Medea, The Phoenician Women, Phaedra, The Trojan Women, Octavia

2022 274 p. 51/2 x 81/2

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Volume 2

Oedipus, Hercules Mad, Hercules on Oeta, Thyestes, Agamemnon

2022 320 p. 51/2 x 81/2

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Democratic Swarms

Ancient Comedy and the Politics of the People Page duBois

“This book made me stand up and cheer. . . . [DuBois] shows what comedy and its swarming choruses did that Greek tragedy did not do: mock the powerful, spread visions of the equal distribution of wealth, and present Athens whole, as a polyvocal buzz of conflicting voices. Democratic Swarms upholds the pertinence of comedy for today, enabling a politics that goes beyond the tragic individual. DuBois’s critique eviscerates current antidemocratic rhetoric and sees the swarm rise again in Occupy and Black Lives Matter.”—Amy Richlin, University of California, Los Angeles

2022 312 p. 6 x 9

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Martial

The World of the Epigram

William Fitzgerald

2021 268 p. 51/4 x 8

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Seneca

Fifty Letters of a Roman Stoic Lucius Annaeus

Seneca

In the year 62, the Roman philosopher Seneca withdrew from public service and devoted his time to writing. This selection of fifty letters brings out the essentials of Seneca’s thought and elucidates key elements of Stoic philosophy.

“In 2015 Chicago did the great service of publishing Graver and Long’s magisterial translation and commentary on all 124 surviving letters to Lucilius (Seneca: Letters on Ethics to Lucilius). . . . With this volume, Graver and Long have now produced a very reasonably priced soft covered selection of slightly under half of the full corpus of Letters to Lucilius.”— Classics for All 2021 320 p. 51/2 x 81/2 74 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-78293-5 $16.00 Your Price: $11.20

Homer The Very Idea James I. Porter

“This book is a reckoning with who or what we understand Homer to be and how we have reinvented him for our own ends. Porter makes clear the impossibility of Homer both as a concept and as a person, revealing him as the illusion of a perfectly formed whole that has been kept alive for millennia, a ghost in the machine, a phantom both alive and dead. . . . An original, compelling, and eye-opening book.” —Alex C. Purves, author of Homer and the Poetics of Gesture 2021 280 p. 6 x 9 14 halftones 75 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-67589-3 $27.50 Your Price: $19.25

The Aeneid

Virgil

Translated by David Ferry

2022 480 p. 6 x 9 2 halftones 76 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81728-6 $18.00 Your Price: $12.60

Hardy’s Wessex

The Landscapes that Inspired a Writer

Harriet Still

Thomas Hardy is best known for his evocative depictions of the West Country landscape and its people, a region that he called “Wessex.” What is lesser known is that this landscape also inspired him in many other aspects of his life, from campaigning for animal welfare to questioning the way society viewed women. This publication accompanies a multi-venue exhibition of the largest collection of Thomas Hardy memorabilia ever to be displayed at once, exploring the impact that Wessex had on Hardy’s works.

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Freedom from Violence and Lies

Anton Chekhov’s Life and Writings

Michael C. Finke

“Finke’s book offers both a superb introduction for the uninitiated and a substantive contribution to the scholarly corpus. . . . In this deft movement between part and whole, Finke uncovers productive strategies for juxtaposing and integrating the disparate elements of Chekhov’s textual world, for discerning resonance, forging connections, and letting the music sound. . . . Truly, in every respect, Finke’s treatment of Chekhov’s literary work is a tour de force.”

—Cathy Popkin, emerita, Columbia University

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2021 256 p. 61/4 x 91/4 27 halftones

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Aldous Huxley

Jake Poller

Critical Lives

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Mina Loy

Apology of Genius

Mary Ann Caws

“Much like its subject, Mina Loy: Apology of Genius runs on restlessness, fervor, and open-endedness. With it, Caws has gifted us yet another stirring assemblage that teaches and excites, this time blessedly dilating on a singularly complex, singularly wild figure at the heart of the modern and so much else.”—Maggie Nelson, author of The Argonauts

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The Invention of Oscar Wilde

Nicholas

Frankel

“Oscar the man, Oscar the life, Oscar the tragedy, Oscar the standard bearer for art, Irishness, queerness, intellect and wit we all know. But there is Oscar the idea too: the symbol, the representative, the totem, the global icon which looms above the other identities. . . . There is no one better to unwrap the mystery and challenge of this Oscar than Frankel, whose previous work has already established him as one of the world’s foremost Wildeans. This book is such an invaluable and permanent addition to the literature.”

—Stephen Fry

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Blaise Cendrars

The Invention of Life

Eric Robertson

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Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

Thomas Gray

Illustrated by Agnes Miller Parker

“

The Curfew tolls the knell of parting day . . .”

Thomas Gray’s Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard has been loved and admired throughout the centuries. This new edition reproduces Agnes Miller Parker’s exquisite wood engravings inspired by the poem, which were completed in 1938. All 32 stanzas of the poem are accompanied by detailed full-page illustrations. Commemorating the 250th anniversary of the poet’s death, this edition will not only bring new readers to the Elegy but will also appeal to those already familiar with its riches.

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Aesop’s Fables

Illustrated by Agnes Miller Parker

For 25 centuries, the animal stories that go by the name of Aesop’s Fables have amused and instructed generations of children and adults alike. This beautifully illustrated edition contains some of the best-loved fables alongside many of the lesser-known tales. These timeless stories are illustrated with 37 woodcuts by Agnes Miller Parker (1895–1980), one of the greatest British wood engraving artists of the twentieth century.

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New Blood

Critical Approaches to Contemporary Horror

Edited by Eddie Falvey, Joe Hickinbottom, and Jonathan Wroot Horror Studies

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The Rabbit Between Us

Victor Menza

Through philosophy, history, education, art, and personal musing on everyday uncanny experiences, Menza reveals why people have long found rabbits our special kin and emblems of love. Menza considers human nature and how we are undone by separation—both from one another and from our childhood selves. Surprising allies in these non-traditional philosophical wanderings include Ludwig Wittgenstein, William Shakespeare, and Beatrix Potter—to name just a few. Gentle and political at once, this unique book will appeal to any intellectually curious reader.

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Yours Very Sincerely C. L. Dodgson (Alias “Lewis Carroll”)

Jon A. Lindseth

This catalogue accompanied a 1998 Grolier Club exhibition commemorating the hundredth anniversary of Lewis Carroll’s death. In addition to describing 70 books, photographs, letters, and ephemera from the Jon A. Lindseth collection of C. L. Dodgson and Lewis Carroll, the book features articles by nine Lewis Carroll scholars. Distributed for The Grolier Club 2022 127 p. 8 x 11 114 halftones, 4 color plates 87 Paper ISBN: 978-0-910672-23-8 $20.00 Your Price: $14.00

Beatrix Potter & Peter Rabbit

A Centenary Celebration from the Collections of Grolier Club Members

Mark Samuels Lasner

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2022 47 p. 51/4 x 63/4 88 Paper ISBN: 978-0-910672-39-9 $10.00 Your Price: $7.00

Magazines and the American Experience

Highlights from the Collection of Steven Lomazow, M.D.

Steven Lomazow

“Lomazow’s expertise on the subject is inarguably magisterial. . . . The book is adorned with dozens of stunning photographs, some immediately recognizable as iconic and others tantalizingly esoteric and rare. This is a remarkable history—thoughtful, granularly meticulous, and comprehensive—as well as a visually spectacular showpiece. One needn’t be a magazine collector to thoroughly enjoy this refreshingly original overview of American history.”—Kirkus

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2022 325 p. 81/2 x 11 435 color plates

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Sherlock Holmes in 221 Objects

From the Collection of Glen S. Miranker

Cathy Miranker and Glen Miranker

As one of the most beloved characters in the English language, Sherlock Holmes sometimes seems to have a life of his own, one that leaps beyond the pages of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s mystery stories. Sherlock Holmes in 221 Objects aims its magnifying glass toward a host of overlooked extra-literary objects, bringing to light exhibits ranging from original manuscripts, handwritten letters, business correspondence, vintage book art, pirated editions, and more.

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2022 168 p. 9 x 12 238 color plates

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This Perpetual Fight

Love and Loss in Virginia Woolf’s Intimate Circle

Sarah Funke and William Beekman

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2022 152 p. 81/2 x 11 32 color plates, 16 halftones

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The Great Tales Never End

Essays in Memory of Christopher Tolkien

Edited by Richard Ovenden and Catherine McIlwaine

“Ovenden, head of the Bodleian Library, and Tolkien archivist McIlwaine take an illuminating look in this superior anthology at the work of J.R.R. Tolkien’s son Christopher (1924–2020), who played a major part in his father’s literary legacy. . . . Taken together, the pieces are a great testament to what Christopher’s ‘extraordinary editorial efforts have brought to light.’ This is a must-read for fans of Tolkien’s classic epic fantasies.”—Publishers Weekly

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Poet of the Body

New York’s Walt Whitman

Susan Jaffe Tane and Karen Karbiener

Published in conjunction with an eponymous Grolier Club exhibition, this catalogue presents the story of Walt Whitman’s coming of age as a poet through a unique assemblage of rare books, manuscripts, and artifacts, many never before seen, from the Whitman Collection of Susan Jaffe Tane, archives such as the Feinberg Collection at the Library of Congress and the New York Public Library’s Berg Collection, private family collections, and forgotten treasures from Bryn Mawr College’s Special Collections and the Brooklyn College Library.

Distributed for The Grolier Club 2022 224 p. 8 x 11 color plates

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The Extraordinary Life of Charles Dickens

Ralph J. Crawford Jr. and Bruce J. Crawford

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Living Translation

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Living Translation offers a powerful perspective on the work of distinguished thinker and writer Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, bringing together her wide-ranging writings on translation and revealing how, throughout her long career, she has made translation a central concern of the comparative humanities.

“At a time when the humanities are expected to genuflect before the sciences and privatization and professionalization displace knowledge, Spivak urges us not only to stand tall but to insist that ethical solidarities are only possible through the rigorous training of the imagination.”—Angela Davis

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The Language of Languages Ngugi Wa Thiong’O

Through his many critically acclaimed novels, stories, essays, plays, and memoirs, Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o has been at the forefront of world literature for decades. Having begun his writing career in English, Ngũgĩ shifted to writing in his native language Gikũyũ in 1977, a stance both creatively and politically significant. This volume brings together for the first time Ngũgĩ’s essays and lectures about translation, making an outspoken case for the value of literature without borders.

The Africa List

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Abysses

Pascal Quignard

The French List

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The Seagull Sartre Library

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Translated by Chris Turner

The Seagull Sartre Library now presents some of Jean-Paul Sartre’s most incisive philosophical, cultural, and literary critical essays in newly designed and affordable editions.

On Poetry

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Political Fictions

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On Merleau-Ponty

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On Camus

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On Bataille and Blanchot

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On Novels and Novelists

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On American Fiction

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Cox or, The Course of Time

Christoph Ransmayr

The world’s most powerful man, Qiánlóng, emperor of China, invites the famous eighteenthcentury clockmaker Alister Cox to his court in Beijing. There, in the heart of the Forbidden City, the Englishman and his assistants are to build machines that mark the passing of time and that capture the many shades of happiness, suffering, love, and loss that come with that passing. This richly imagined book is a stunning illustration of Ransmayr’s talent for crafting a captivating tale.

The Seagull Library of German Literature

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2022 280 p. 5 x 8

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The Last Country

Svenja Leiber

Now in paperback, this is the epic tale of a Ruven Preuk, a violinist who must navigate the fractious world of early twentieth-century Germany. In The Last Country, Svenja Leiber spins a tale that moves from the mansions of a disappearing aristocracy to a communist rebellion, from a joyous village wedding to a Nazi official’s threats, from the First World War to the Second. As the world Ruven knows disappears, the gifted musician must grapple with an important question: to what end has he devoted himself to his art?

The German List

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2022 264 p. 5 x 8 106 Paper ISBN: 978-1-80309-001-6 $14.50 Your Price: $10.15

The Book of Sleep

Haytham El Wardany

The Arab List

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The Crime of Jean Genet

Dominique Eddé

Dominique Eddé met novelist and playwright Jean Genet in the 1970s. And she never forgot him. “His presence,” she writes, “gave me the sensation of icy fire. Like his words, his gestures were full, calculated, and precise. . . . Genet’s movements mimicked the movement of time, accumulating rather than passing.” Now in paperback, The Crime of Jean Genet is a powerful personal account of the influence of one writer on another.

“Eddé’s book is an intelligent but not reverential account of the way in which Jean Genet fascinated and intimidated her.”

Times Literary Supplement

The French List

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All Who Belong May Enter

Nicholas Ward

“In All Who Belong May Enter, Ward thoughtfully and honestly interrogates aspects of masculinity and how it affects his relationships and how he moves through the world. He expands his personal story to explore how gentrification has changed cities like Detroit and Chicago, considering white silence and complicity. An introspective, beautifully written work.” —Jaquira Díaz, author of Ordinary Girls

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The Avant-Postman

Experiment in Anglophone and Francophone Fiction in the Wake of James Joyce

David Vichnar

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Play On! Shakespeare from ACMRS Press

The Play On! Shakespeare project was an ambitious undertaking from the Oregon Shakespeare Festival that commissioned new translations of 39 Shakespeare plays. Enlisting the talents of a diverse group of contemporary playwrights, screenwriters, and dramaturges from diverse backgrounds, these translations present the Bard’s work in language accessible to modern audiences while never losing the beauty of Shakespeare’s verse.

“If you need a Shakespeare script that’s not cloaked with Renaissance arcana nor slathered with modern slang, try these editions.”—Washington Post

King Lear

Translated by Marcus Gardley

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Othello

Translated by Mfoniso Udofia

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The Comedy of Errors

Translated by Christina Anderson

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Romeo and Juliet

Translated by Hansol Jung

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Much Ado About Nothing

Translated by Ranjit Bolt

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Henry VIII

Translated by Caridad Svich

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Taming of the Shrew

Translated by Amy Freed

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The Merchant of Venice

Translated by Elise Thoron

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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Hamlet

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The Tempest

Translated by Kenneth Cavander

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As You Like It

Translated by David Ivers

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Macbeth

Translated by Migdalia Cruz

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A Journal Devoted to Research in Classical Antiquity

Critical Inquiry

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An Interdisciplinary Journal

New to Chicago

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International Journal of American Linguistics

Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes

New to Chicago

Modern Philology

Critical and Historical Studies in Literature, Medieval through Contemporary

The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America Renaissance Drama

Signs

Journal of Women in Culture and Society

Signs and Society

Speculum

A Journal of Medieval Studies

Spenser Studies

A Renaissance Poetry Annual

I Tatti Studies in the Italian Renaissance The Wordsworth Circle

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