Literature and Science 2023

BotanicalPoetics

EarlyModernPlantBooks andtheHusbandryofPrint

JessicaRosenberg

DuringQueenElizabeth’sreign, thenumberofbookspublished withtitlesthatdescribed themselvesasflowers,gardens, orforestsmorethantripled andEnglishprintersturnedout scoresofinstructionalmanualsongardeningand husbandry. BotanicalPoetics bringstogetherstudies ofecology,science,literaryform,andthematerial texttoexplorehowthesedevelopmentstransformed earlymodernconceptionsofnature,poetic language,andtheprintedbook.

UNIVERSITYOFPENNSYLVANIAPRESS

October202220b&willus.376pp

9781512823332 £67.00 HB now£46.90

RadicalBotany PlantsandSpeculative Fiction

NataniaMeeker&Antónia

Szabari

SFTSBookPrize

RadicalBotany uncoversa speculativetraditionthat conjuresnewlanguagesto graspthelifeofplantsinallits specificityandvigor.Plantscomplementand challengenotionsofhumanlife.Thisbooktracesthe implicationsofthespeculativemobilizationofplants withinliteratureandartforfeminism,queerstudies, andposthumanistthought.

FORDHAMUNIVERSITYPRESS

December2019304pp

9780823286621 £29.99 PB now£20.99

PossibleKnowledge

TheLiteraryFormsofEarly ModernScience

DebapriyaSarkar

TheRenaissance,scholarshave longargued,wasaperiod besetbythelossof philosophicalcertainty.

In PossibleKnowledge,Sarkar arguesforthepivotalroleof literatureinthedynamicintellectualcultureofthis eraofprofoundincertitude.Enactingahistoryof ideasthatcentersliterarystudies, Possible Knowledge suggeststhatwhatwehavetermeda historyofsciencemightultimatelybeahistoryofthe imagination.

UNIVERSITYOFPENNSYLVANIAPRESS

April20237b&willus.280pp

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TheEnvironmental Unconscious EcologicalPoeticsfrom SpensertoMilton

StevenSwarbrick

Swarbrickurgesliterarycritics andenvironmentalscholars fluentinthenewmaterialism torethinknotionsof entanglement,animacy,and consciousnessraising.Tracingthepropulsiveforceof theenvironmentalunconsciousfromtheearly modernperiodtoFreudianandpost-Freudian theoriesofdesire,Swarbrickrenewsthe psychoanalytictoolkitinlightofenvironmental collapse.

UNIVERSITYOFMINNESOTAPRESS

April20235b&willus.336pp

9781517913816 £23.99 PB now£16.79

Afrofuturisms

Ecology,Humanity,andFrancophone CulturalExpressions

IsaacVincentJoslin

Asaphilosophical,literary,andvisual aesthetic, Afrofuturism hasbeen predominatelydefinedthrough Anglophone,diasporicexpressions.In Afrofuturisms IsaacVincentJoslinreorients andexpandsthiscriticaldiscoursetoward colonialandpostcolonialFrancophone literatureandfilmoriginatingfrom continentalAfrica.

OHIOUNIVERSITYPRESS

Series:ResearchinInternationalStudies,Africa Series

April2023324pp

9780896803305 £32.00 PB now£22.40

AgainstSustainability

ReadingNineteenth-CenturyAmericain theAgeofClimateCrisis

MichelleNeely

AgainstSustainability respondstotwentyfirstcenturyenvironmentalcrisisby unearthingthenineteenth-centuryU.S. literary,cultural,andscientificcontexts thatgaverisetosustainability,recycling, andpreservation.Throughnovelpairings ofantebellumandcontemporarywriters, thisbookdemonstratesthatsomeofour mostvauntedstrategiestoaddress ecologicalcrisisinfactperpetuate environmentaldegradation.

FORDHAMUNIVERSITYPRESS

June2020224pp

9780823288205 £27.99 PB now£19.59

AngryPlanet

DecolonialFictionandtheAmerican ThirdWorld

AnneStewart

Angryplanetfictioncoalescedinthe1990s anddelineatedthecontoursofa decolonialontology.Stewartusesthis literaturetodevelopatheoretical frameworkforreadingwithandthrough planetarymotionandshowshowthis fictionbroughtBlackandIndigenous thoughtintoconversation.

UNIVERSITYOFMINNESOTAPRESS

January2023264pp

9781517914110 £21.99 PB now£15.39

AquamanandtheWar againstOceans

ComicsActivismandAllegoryinthe Anthropocene RyanPoll

ThereimaginingofAquamanin TheNew 52 transformedthecharacterfromajoke toanimportantfigureofecologicaljustice. In AquamanandtheWaragainstOceans, Pollarguesthatinthistwenty-first-century iteration,Aquamanbecomesanaccessible figureforchartingenvironmentalviolences endemictoglobalcapitalism.

UNIVERSITYOFNEBRASKAPRESS

Series:Encapsulations:CriticalComicsStudies

November202220illus.268pp

9781496225856 £25.99 PB now£18.19

Code

FromInformationTheorytoFrench Theory

BernardDionysiusGeoghegan

In Code Geogheganreconstructshow ProgressiveEratechnocracyaswellas crisesofindustrialdemocracyand colonialismshapedearlyaccountsof cyberneticsanddigitalmedia.Geoghegan offersanewhistoryofFrenchtheoryand thedigitalhumanitiesastranscontinental andpoliticalendeavorslinkinginterwar colonialethnographyinDutchBalito FrenchsciencesinthethroesofColdWareradecolonizationandmodernization.

DUKEUNIVERSITYPRESS

Series:Sign,Storage,Transmission

January202347illus.272pp

9781478019008 £22.99 PB now£16.09

DeathandtheBodyinthe Eighteenth-CenturyNovel JoleneZigarovich

DeathandtheBodyintheEighteenthCenturyNovel demonstratesthatarchives continuallyspeaktotheperiod’srising funeralandmourningculture.Drawingon avarietyofhistoricaldiscoursesthebook contributestoafullerunderstandingofthe historyofdeathintheEnlightenmentand itsnarrativetransformation.

UNIVERSITYOFPENNSYLVANIAPRESS

January202343b&wht.280pp

9781512823776 £58.00 HB now£40.60

JohnJamesAudubon

TheNatureoftheAmericanWoodsman

GregoryNobles

Audubon's TheBirdsofAmerica standsas anunparalleledachievementinAmerican artthatputnaturedramaticallyonthe page.Thisbookshowsthatoneof Audubon'sgreatestcreationswashimself. Noblesexploresthecentralironyof Audubon'struenature:themanwhotook somuchtimeandtroubletodepictbirds socarefullyleftusaboldbutdeceptive pictureofhimself.

UNIVERSITYOFPENNSYLVANIAPRESS

Series:EarlyAmericanStudies

October202211color,14b&willus352pp

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RubberBootsMethodsfor theAnthropocene

DoingFieldworkinMultispeciesWorlds

EditedbyAstridOberborbeck

Andersen,NilsBubandt&Rachel

Cypher

Answeringmethodologicalchallenges posedbytheAnthropocene, RubberBoots MethodsfortheAnthropocene retoolsthe empiricalstudyofthesocioecological chaosofthecontemporarymomentacross thearts,humanscience,andnatural science.Thiscollectionputsforthempirical studiesofthemultispeciesmessinessof contemporarylifethatinvestigatesomeof thecriticalquestionsofourtime.

UNIVERSITYOFMINNESOTAPRESS

April202357b&willus.456pp

9781517911652 £29.99 PB now£20.99

SecretSharers

TheIntimateRivalriesofModernism

andPsychoanalysis

JenniferSpitzer

SecretSharers tracesagenealogyofsecret sharingbetweenliterarymodernismand psychoanalysis,focusingontheproductive entanglementsandintensecompetitive rivalriesthathelpedshapeAnglo-American modernismasafield.

FORDHAMUNIVERSITYPRESS

February2023208pp

9781531502096 £25.99 PB now£18.19

Subsurface KarenPinkus

In Subsurface,KarenPinkuslooksbelow thesurfaceoftextsbyEdgarAllanPoe, ArthurConanDoyle,GeorgeSand,E.T.A. Hoffmann,andJulesVernetofindthe buriedoriginsofcapitalistfantasiesin whichhumanstakewhattheywantfrom theearth.Itasksustoreadliteraturewith andagainstthefigureofthegeological column,withandagainstfossilfuelsand theemissionswarmingourplanet.

UNIVERSITYOFMINNESOTAPRESS Series:Posthumanities

April202322b&willus.240pp

9781517914790 £21.99 PB now£15.39

TheMedievalHospital LiteraryCultureandCommunityin England,1350-1550

NicoleR.Rice

ThehospitalsoflatemedievalEngland wereinstitutionsofcharity,medicalcare, andliturgicalcommemoration.Atthesame time,hospitalswereculturalspaces sponsoringtheperformanceofdrama,the compositionofmedicaltexts,andthe readingofdevotionalproseandvernacular poetry.NicoleRice’s TheMedieval Hospital offersthefirstbook-lengthstudy oftheplaceofhospitalsinEnglishliterary historyandculturalpractice.

UNIVERSITYOFNOTREDAMEPRESS

Series:ReFormations:MedievalandEarly Modern

April202325colorillus.408pp

9780268205119 £85.00 HB now£59.50

TheNaturalLawsofPlot HowThingsHappeninRealistNovels YoonSunLee

In TheNaturalLawsofPlot,Leeconnects thehistoryofthenovelandthehistoryof sciencetoshowhowplotintherealist novelisgivenshapebythecharacteristics ofthephysicalworld—andhowinturn, plotservesastheavenuethroughwhich therealistnovelparticipatesinthesame linesofinquiryabouttheworldaspursued bythenaturalandphysicalsciences.

UNIVERSITYOFPENNSYLVANIAPRESS

Series:Alembics:PennStudiesinLiteratureand Science

October2022272pp

9781512823400 £58.00 HB now£40.60

TheSocialSciencesinthe LookingGlass

StudiesintheProductionofKnowledge

EditedbyDidierFassin&George Steinmetz

Examiningsociology,anthropology, philosophy,politicalscience,legaltheory, andreligiousstudies,thevolume’s contributorsoutlinethepresent transformationsofthesocialsciences, exploretheirconnectionswithcritical humanitiesandinterrogaterecent endeavorstomovebeyondthehuman.

DUKEUNIVERSITYPRESS

April2023416pp

9781478019459 £26.99 PB now£18.89

TheUnknowableinEarly ModernThought

NaturalPhilosophyandthePoeticsof theIneffable

KevinKilleen

Rangingfrom ParadiseLost tothinkersin andaroundtheRoyalSocietyand commentaryonthe BookofJob, The UnknowableinEarlyModernThought exploreshowtheeraofthescientific revolutionwasinpartparalyzedbyandin partenergizedbytheparadoxit encounteredinthinkingabouttheelusive natureofGodandtheunfathomable natureofthenaturalworld.

STANFORDUNIVERSITYPRESS

June2023274pp

9781503635852 £25.99 PB now£18.19

VictorianContingencies ExperimentsinLiterature,Science,and Play

TinaYoungChoi

Contingencyisnotjustafeatureofmodern politics,finance,andculture—bythinking contingently,nineteenth-centuryBritons rewrotefamiliarnarrativesandupended forgoneconclusions. Victorian Contingencies showshowscientists, novelists,andconsumersengagedin formalandmaterialexperimentswith causeandeffect,pastandpresent,that activelyunderminedroutinecertainties.

STANFORDUNIVERSITYPRESS

November2021264pp

9781503629288 £58.00 HB now£40.60

WhatIsExtinction?

ANaturalandCulturalHistoryofLast Animals

JoshuaSchuster

WhatIsExtinction? examinesseveralkey momentsthathavecometodefinethe termsofextinctionoverthepasttwo centuries,exploringinstancesofanimal andhumanfinitudeandtheculturalforms usedtodocumentandinterpretthese events.Schusterofferstimely interpretationsofhowdefinitionsand visionsofextinctionhavechangedinthe pastandcontinuetochangeinthe present.

FORDHAMUNIVERSITYPRESS

February202316b&willus.304pp

9781531501655 £25.99 PB now£18.19

WritingOurExtinction

AnthropoceneFictionandVertical Science

PatrickWhitmarsh

Inthisnewwork,PatrickWhitmarsh analyzespostwarnarrativefictionsthat describe,depict,orexpresstheearthfrom above(theaerial)andbelow(the subterranean),revealingthewaysthat literaturehasengagedthishistoryof verticalscienceandlinkedittoincreasing environmentalprecarity,uptoand includingtheextinctionofhumankind.

STANFORDUNIVERSITYPRESS Series:Post*45

April2023228pp

9781503635548 £21.99 PB now£15.39