Fordham University Press - Fall 2022 Catalogue

Fordham University Press

FALL 2022

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“In this long-awaited, searing memoir, Ron Goldberg, a central figure in early AIDS activism, takes us to the crackling inner-sanctum of ACT UP, the directaction protest group that demanded—and won—steep increases in government spending and scientific action against the disease. Written as to an old friend, with warmth and dark humor, the book recalls the chaotic strategizing sessions and bruising internal battles that put ACT UP in headlines for nearly a decade, and the band of street protesters the author rallied onward with his bullhorn. This is political history at its most raw. But it is also Goldberg’s own unthinkable coming-of-age story, set in the darkest of eras. In his story, students of this groundbreaking organization finally have the definitive, 3-D account: every demonstration, drug trial, victory, and setback; plus the men and women who gave Goldberg the courage to survive and the reason to love. Buckle your seatbelts, readers. It’s a wild ride.”

Boy with the Bullhorn A Memoir and History of ACT UP New York R ON G O LD BER G 512 pages, 32 b/w illustrations 9781531500979, Hardback, $36.95 (HC), £31.00 Simultaneous electronic edition available S E P T E MB ER Memoir | LGBTQ Studies | History

—DAV ID FRANC E, AU THOR O F H OW TO SU RV I V E A PL AG U E

“In Boy with the Bullhorn, Ron Goldberg offers a stirring perspective on one of the most important social movements of the twentieth century as he recounts his coming of age in—and through—the tumult and triumphs of ACT UP. Whether describing the productive contentiousness of Monday night floor meetings, the thrill of civil disobedience actions, the impact of a queer Passover seder with fellow activists, the relentless sorrow of too many funerals and memorial services or his birth as ACT UP’s rousing ‘chant queen,’ Goldberg details how grief, fury, rigorous labor, and deep love fueled his own, and the group’s, actions.

Told with insight, humor, a huge heart, and abundant dramatic flair, this is a story about the pleasures, power, and necessity of activism.”

—ALISA SO LO MO N, AU THO R AND J OU RNALIST

“Ron Goldberg’s Boy with the Bullhorn is an essential coming-of-age memoir, as a nice Jewish boy finds his way in the world as an impassioned gay man and as a movement coalesces in the face of the defining plague of the late twentieth century. Goldberg tells his own story with great passion and healthy doses of humor, and he presents the sprawling history of ACT UP activism with the thoughtful rigor of a historian. Deeply personal, refreshingly modest, and as hopeful and optimistic as it is, as warranted, moving, and elegiac, this is a marvelous work of living history, and I’m sure that readers who lived through the Age of AIDS and those for whom it feels like someone else’s history will find it hugely rewarding.”

—BE NJAMIN D RE Y E R, N EW YORK TI MES BE STSE LLING AU THOR OF DRE YE R’S EN G L I SH

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A coming-of-age memoir of life on the front lines of the AIDS crisis with ACT UP New York.

From the moment Ron Goldberg stumbled into his first ACT UP meeting in June 1987, the AIDS activist organization became his life. For the next eight years, he chaired committees, planned protests, led teach-ins, and facilitated their Monday night meetings. He cruised and celebrated at ACT UP parties, attended far too many AIDS memorials, and participated in more than a hundred zaps and demonstrations, becoming the group’s unofficial “Chant Queen,” writing and leading chants for many of their major actions. Boy with the Bullhorn is both a memoir and an immersive history of the original New York chapter of ACT UP, the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, from 1987 to 1995, told with great humor, heart, and insight.

Using the author’s own story, “the activist education of a well-intentioned, if somewhat naïve nice gay Jewish theater queen,” Boy with the Bullhorn intertwines Goldberg’s experiences with the larger chronological history of ACT UP, the grassroots AIDS activist organization that confronted politicians, scientists, drug companies, religious leaders, the media, and an oftenuncaring public to successfully change the course of the AIDS epidemic.

Diligently sourced and researched, Boy with the Bullhorn provides both an intimate look into how activist strategies are developed and deployed and a snapshot of life in New York City during the darkest days of the AIDS epidemic. On the occasions where Goldberg writes outside his personal experience, he relies on his extensive archive of original ACT UP documents, news articles, and other published material, as well as activist videos and oral histories, to help flesh out actions, events, and the background stories of key activists. Writing with great candor, Goldberg examines the group’s triumphs and failures, as well as the pressures and bad behaviors that eventually tore ACT UP apart.

A story of ordinary people doing extraordinary things, from engaging in outrageous, media-savvy demonstrations, to navigating the intricacies of drug research and the byzantine bureaucracies of the FDA, NIH, and CDC, Boy with the Bullhorn captures the passion, smarts, and evanescent spirit of ACT UP—the anger, grief, and desperation, but also the joy, camaraderie, and sexy, campy playfulness—and the exhilarating adrenaline rush of activism.

RON G OL D B E RG is a writer and activist. His articles have appeared in OutWeek and POZ magazines, Central Park, and The Visual AIDS Blog. He served as a research associate for filmmaker and journalist David France on his award-winning book How to Survive a Plague and enjoys speaking at high schools and colleges about the history of AIDS and the lessons and legacy of ACT UP. F O R D H A M P R E S S .C O M

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Our Laundry, Our Town

My Chinese American Life from Flushing to the Downtown Stage and Beyond A LV I N ENG 212 pages, 51⁄2 × 8 1⁄2, 24 black & white images 9781531500368, Hardback, $27.95 (HC), £22.99 Simultaneous electronic edition available AVA ILA B LE Memoir | Asian American Studies | Theater & Performance

“Powerful, funny at times, and consistently inspiring, . . . Alvin Eng’s engaging memoir looks back on the past to envision a better future.”

—DAV ID HE NRY HWANG, TONY AWARD –W INNING PLAY W RIGHT OF M. BU TTERFLY

“Second-generation Asian American youth always feel like they’re the first to not belong. How liberating, then, to encounter Our Laundry, Our Town. The book tells a moving tale of the distances that separate you from your immigrant parents, as well as a Toisanese labor history set in a laundry, but there’s a surprising twist. The protagonist is a young punk who hates math, loves The Who, and finds himself navigating the late-twentieth-century multicultural bohemia of rock and hip-hop, Asian American film and theater, and avant-garde queer performance. In this humorous, amiable, and deeply heartfelt memoir, Eng seems to have achieved the Asian American dream: honoring his mother and father before him while also creating a community where he can be his whole self and finally belong.”

—KE N C HE N, ASSO C IATE D IREC TO R O F C RE ATIV E W RITING AT BARNARD COLLEGE; FORME R E XEC U TIV E D IREC TOR, ASIAN AME RIC AN WRITERS’ WORKSHOP

“Alvin Eng’s fascinating, funny, aching, searching, loving memoir derives its power from that key element of New York City’s dynamism and magic: that behind every apartment door and scrappy storefront, in every far-flung outerborough neighborhood, lie vast worlds, sweeping histories, and epic tales of questing souls melding the old ways into something meaningful and new.”

—LISA KRON, PLAY W RIGHT, AC TO R, AND TO NY AWARD –W INNING BO O KW RITE R AND LY RIC IST O F FU N H OME

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With humor and grace, the memoir of a first-generation Chinese American in New York City.

Our Laundry, Our Town is a memoir that decodes and processes the fractured urban oracle bones of Alvin Eng’s upbringing in Flushing, Queens, in the 1970s. Back then, his family was one of the few immigrant Chinese families in a far-flung neighborhood in New York City. His parents had an arranged marriage and ran a Chinese hand laundry. From behind the counter of his parents’ laundry and within the confines of a household that was rooted in a different century and culture, he sought to reconcile this insular home life with the turbulent yet inspiring street life that was all around them––from the faux martial arts of TV’s Kung Fu to the burgeoning underworld of the punk rock scene.

In the 1970s, NYC, like most of the world, was in the throes of regenerating itself in the wake of major social and cultural changes resulting from the counterculture and civil rights movements. And by the 1980s, Flushing had become NYC’s second Chinatown. But Eng remained one of the neighborhood’s few Chinese citizens who did not speak fluent Chinese.

Finding his way in the downtown theater and performance world of Manhattan, he discovered the under-chronicled Chinese influence on Thornton Wilder’s foundational Americana drama, Our Town. This discovery became the unlikely catalyst for a psyche-healing pilgrimage to Hong Kong and Guangzhou, China—his ancestral home in southern China—that led to writing and performing his successful autobiographical monologue, The Last Emperor of Flushing. Learning to tell his own story on stages around the world was what proudly made him whole.

As cities, classrooms, cultures, and communities the world over continue to re-examine the parameters of diversity, equity, and inclusion, Our Laundry, Our Town will reverberate with a broad readership. is a native NYC playwright, performer, acoustic punk rock raconteur, and educator. His plays and performances have been seen Off-Broadway and throughout the United States as well as in Paris, Hong Kong, and Guangzhou, China. Eng is the editor of the oral history/play anthology, Tokens? The NYC Asian American Experience on Stage. His plays, lyrics, and memoir excerpts have also been published in numerous anthologies. His storytelling and commentary have been broadcast and streamed on National Public Radio, among others.

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“Master storyteller Peter Quinn takes readers on a beautifully told journey through Bronx streets, political backrooms, and corporate boardrooms. Along the way you’ll meet characters you won’t soon forget, from governors to CEOs to a charming young woman who beguiled Peter just as surely as this lovely book will beguile you.”

—TE RRY GO LWAY, POL I TI CO

“Funny and entertaining on every page, Cross Bronx: A Writing Life is a witty tap dance from the streets of the Irish Bronx to the suites of corporate and government chieftains. Along the way, Peter Quinn makes important contributions to the historical record.”

—PAU L MOSE S, AU THOR O F A N U N L I K ELY U N I ON : TH E LOV E- HATE STORY OF N EW YORK ’ S I RI SH A N D I TA L I A N S

Cross Bronx A Writing Life

PETER Q UINN FOR EWO RD BY DAN BARRY, REP ORT ER AN D CO LUMNIST FO R T HE N E W YO R K T IME S 256 pages, 25 b/w illustrations 9781531500948, Hardback, $29.95 (HC), £24.99 Simultaneous electronic edition available S E P T E MB ER Memoir | New York City & Regional | History

In his inimitable prose, master storyteller Peter Quinn chronicles his odyssey from the Irish Catholic precincts of the Bronx to the arena of big-league politics and corporate hardball.

Cross Bronx is Peter Quinn’s one-of-a-kind account of his adventures as ad man, archivist, teacher, Wall Street messenger, court officer, political speechwriter, corporate scribe, and award-winning novelist. Like Pete Hamill, Quinn is a New Yorker through and through. His evolution from a childhood in a now-vanished Bronx, to his exploits in the halls of Albany and swish corporate offices, to then walking away from it all, is evocative and entertaining and enlightening from first page to last. Cross Bronx is bursting with witty, captivating stories.

Quinn is best known for his novels (all recently reissued by Fordham University Press under its New York ReLit imprint), most notably his American Book Award–winning novel Banished Children of Eve. Colum McCann has summed up Quinn’s trilogy of historical detective novels as “generous and agile and profound.” Quinn has now seized the time and inspiration afforded by “the strange interlude of the pandemic” to give his up-close-and-personal accounts of working as a speechwriter in political backrooms and corporate boardrooms: “In a moment of upended expectations and fear-prone uncertainty, the tolling of John Donne’s bells becomes perhaps not as faint as it once seemed. Before judgment is pronounced and sentence carried out, I want my chance to speak from the dock. Let no man write my epitaph. In the end, this is the best I could do.” (from the Prologue) From 1979 to 1985 Quinn worked as chief speechwriter for New York Governors Hugh Carey and Mario Cuomo, helping craft Cuomo’s landmark speech at the 1984 Democratic Convention and his address on religion and politics at Notre Dame University. Quinn then joined Time Inc. as chief speechwriter and retired as corporate editorial director for Time Warner at the end of 2007. As eyewitness and participant, he survived elections, mega-mergers, and urban ruin. In Cross Bronx he provides his insider’s view of high-powered politics and highstakes corporate intrigue.

Incapable of writing a dull sentence, the award-winning author grabs our attention and keeps us enthralled from start to finish. Never have his skills as a storyteller been on better display than in this revealing, gripping memoir. is a novelist, political historian, and foremost chronicler of New York City. He is the author of Banished Children of Eve, American Book Award winner; Looking for Jimmy: In Search of Irish America; and a trilogy of historical detective novels—Hour of the Cat, The Man Who Never Returned, and Dry Bones.

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“For many Americans, COVID was a revelation, exposing shocking racial and economic injustices all too familiar to residents of the South Bronx. This update, chronicling the past two decades of struggle and defiant hope, provides an essential addition to a seminal work. Jonnes again builds her story around the formidable, unbeatable, savvy citizens of the Bronx and their deep love for the place they saved and rebuilt. This is not a simple story of resurrection and accomplishment, nor one of despair and deprivation. Rather, Jonnes’s work grapples with the complexity and difficulty of building a just society inside an unjust one.”

—E ILE E N MARKE Y, ASSISTANT PROFE SSOR O F J O U RNALISM AT LEHMAN CO LLEGE O F THE C ITY U NIV E RSITY O F NE W YO RK

South Bronx Rising

The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of an American City, Third Edition J I L L J O NNES FOR EWO RD BY NILKA M ARTELL 608 pages, 48 b/w illustrations 9781531501211, Paperback, $34.95 (TP), £28.99 Simultaneous electronic edition available O C TOB E R Urban Studies | New York City & Regional

“In this third edition of South Bronx Rising, Jill Jonnes continues to acknowledge the indomitable spirit that defines what it means to be a Bronxite by exploring the borough’s rapid gentrification and the COVID-19 pandemic that claimed the lives of more than 5,000 Bronx residents. This timely update on how we got here tells the story of the unsung heroes, the Bronx residents and activists who continue to defend and protect this corner of New York City and the world they call home.”

—E D GARC ÍA COND E, FO U ND E R AND E D ITOR O F W E LCOME 2THEBRONX .COM

“Jill Jonnes gives flesh and bone to ‘gentrification.’ Instead of abstract theory, she offers real people and real communities that profoundly illuminate what happens when money begins rolling into a neighborhood. This is an indispensable street-level narrative.”

—DW GIBSO N, AU THO R O F TH E ED G E BECOMES TH E CEN TER: AN ORAL H I STORY OF G EN TRI FI C ATI ON I N TH E 2 1 ST CEN TU RY

Thirty-five years after this landmark of urban history first captured the rise, fall, and rebirth of a once-thriving New York City borough—ravaged in the 1970s and ’80s by disinvestment and fires, then heroically revived and rebuilt in the 1990s by community activists—Jill Jonnes returns to chronicle the ongoing revival of the South Bronx. Though now globally renowned as the birthplace of hip-hop, the South Bronx remains America’s poorest urban congressional district.

In this new edition, we meet the present generation of activists who are transforming their communities with the arts and greening, notably the restoration of the Bronx River. For better or worse, real estate investors have noticed, setting off new gentrification struggles. holds an M.S. from Columbia Journalism School and a Ph.D. in American History from Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World; Conquering Gotham: Building Penn Station and Its Tunnels; and Urban Forests: A Natural History of Trees and People in the American Cityscape.

JILL JONNES

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“Heaven on the Hudson is a fascinating account of the rise, fall, and rise again of Riverside Drive. Azzarone’s deep research and skillful storytelling makes this a brisk, lively read for New York natives and out-of-towners alike.”

—E STHE R C RAIN, AU THO R O F TH E G I L D ED AG E I N N EW YOR K, 1870-1910

A colorful tale of a singular New York City neighborhood and the personalities who make it special.

Heaven on the Hudson

Mansions, Monuments, and Marvels of Riverside Park STEPH A NIE AZZARON E W ITH PHOTO G RAPHY BY ROB ERT F. RODRIGU EZ 240 pages, 7 × 10, 107 b/w illustrations 9781531501006, Hardback, $39.95 (HC), £34.00 Simultaneous electronic edition available S E P T E MB ER New York City & Regional | Architecture | History

To outsiders or East Siders, Riverside Park and Riverside Drive may not have the star status of Fifth Avenue or Central Park West. But at the city’s westernmost edge, there is a quiet and beauty like nowhere else in all of New York. There are miles of mansions and monuments, acres of flora, and a breadth of wildlife ranging from Peregrine falcons to goats. It’s where the Gershwins and Babe Ruth once lived, William Randolph Hearst ensconced his paramour, and Amy Schumer owns a penthouse. Told in the uniquely personal voice of a longtime resident, Heaven on the Hudson is the only New York City book that features the history, architecture, and personalities of this often overlooked neighborhood, from the eighteenth century through the present day.

Combining an extensively researched history of the area and its people with an engaging one-on-one guide to its sights, author Stephanie Azzarone sheds new light on the initial development of Riverside Park and Riverside Drive, the challenges encountered—from massive boulders to “maniacs”—and the reasons why Riverside Drive never became the “new Fifth Avenue” that promoters anticipated. From grand “country seats” to squatter settlements to multi-million-dollar residences, the book follows the neighborhood’s roller-coaster highs and lows over time. Readers will discover a trove of architectural and recreational highlights and hidden gems, including the Drive’s only freestanding privately owned villa, a tomb that’s not a tomb, and a sweet memorial to an eighteenth-century child. Azzarone also tells the stories behind Riverside’s notable and forgotten residents, including celebrities, murderers, a nineteenth-century female MD who launched the country’s first anti-noise campaign, and an Irish merchant who caused a scandal by living with an Indian princess.

While much has been written about Central Park, little has focused exclusively on Riverside Drive and Riverside Park until now. Heaven on the Hudson is dedicated to sharing this West Side neighborhood’s most special secrets, the ones that, without fail, bring both pleasure and peace in a city of more than 8 million. is a native New Yorker who has lived on Riverside Drive most of her adult life. A former journalist (freelancer for the New York Times and New York magazine, among others), she also ran an award-winning Manhattan public relations agency. Currently, she is studying for her tour guide certification to share her knowledge of Upper West Side life along the Hudson River with natives and tourists alike.

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“Scrupulously researched, objectively presented, and compellingly written . . . a major and timely contribution to the literature of the civil rights movement.”

—HE NRY LO U IS GATE S, J R.

Documents the life of a gifted African American leader whose contributions were pivotal to the movement for social justice and racial equality

A Bridge to Justice

The Life of Franklin H. Williams EN I D G O RT A ND JOHN M. CAHE R 288 pages, 25 b/w illustrations 9781531500863, Paperback, $34.95 (HC), £28.99 Simultaneous electronic edition available O C TOB E R Biography | History | Race & Ethnic Studies

Franklin Hall Williams was a visionary and trailblazer who devoted his life to the pursuit of civil rights—not through acrimony and violence and hatred but through reason and example.

A Bridge to Justice sheds new light on this practical, pragmatic bridge-builder and brilliant, complex individual whose life reflected the opportunities and constraints of an intellectually elite Black man in the twentieth century.

Franklin H. Williams was considered a “bridge” figure, someone whose position outside the limelight allowed him to navigate both Black and white circles, span the more turbulent racial waters below, and persuade people to see the world in a new way. During his prolific lifetime, he was a civil rights leader, lawyer, diplomat, organizer of the Peace Corps, United Nations representative, foundation president, and associate of Thurgood Marshall on some of the seminal civil liberties cases of the past hundred years, though their relationship was so fraught with tension that Marshall had Williams sent to California. He worked in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, served as a diplomat, and became an exceptionally persuasive advocate for civil rights. Even after enduring the segregated Army, suffering cruel discrimination, and barely escaping a murderous lynch mob eager to make him pay for zealously representing three innocent Black men falsely accused of rape, Franklin was not a hater. He believed that Americans, in general, were good people who were open to reason and, in their hearts, sympathetic to fairness and justice.

Dr. Enid Gort, an anthropologist and Africanist who conducted hundreds of hours of exclusive interviews with Williams, his family, friends, colleagues, and compatriots, and John M. Caher, a professional writer and legal journalist, have co-written an exhaustively researched and scrupulously documented account of this civil rights champion’s life and impact. His story is an object lesson to help this nation heal and advance through unity rather than tribalism.

ENID GORT, PH.D. , is an anthropologist and Africanist. Her articles have appeared in numerous academic journals, including the Journal of African Studies and Social Science and Medicine. She was a consultant on, and appeared in, an award-winning PBS documentary on Ambassador Williams. Dr. Gort holds a degree in education from Kean College and a master’s and doctorate degrees from Columbia University.

is the author or co-author of seven books and the principal writer of a PBS documentary on Franklin H. Williams, A Bridge to Justice. Mr. Caher has degrees from Syracuse University and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. His reporting has garnered more than twenty awards, including prestigious honors from the American Bar Association, the New York State Bar Association, and the Erie County Bar Association.

JOHN M. CAHER

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“A terrific poet, in both senses of the word. . . . Like Blake, she can evoke innocence and experience in a way that blurs the ambiguous boundary between them.”

—ROBE RT PINSKY

“ ‘The Ghetto’ is representative of the best of . . . Ridge’s endowments. In some aspects, it is like a miniature Comedie humaine, with the dominant note of sadness that runs through Balzac’s narratives so insistently.”

—HART C RANE

“This edition, aided by reader-friendly notes, will bring significant attention to these important poems and Ridge’s world.”

—SU SAN STE WART

At last recovered in this enriching annotated edition, this important but neglected work of American modernism offers a unique poetic encounter with the Jewish communities on New York’s Lower East Side.

The Ghetto, and Other Poems An Annotated Edition LO L A R ID G E E DITED, AND WITH AN I NTRODUCTION,

BY LAW RENCE KRAME R 170 pages, 5 × 8, 8 b/w illustrations 9781531500900, Paperback, $24.95 (TP), £20.99 9781531500917, Hardback, $90.00 (SDT), £77.00 Simultaneous electronic edition available JA NUA RY Poetry | New York City & Regional | Jewish Studies

Long forgotten on account of her gender and left-wing politics, Lola Ridge is finally being re-discovered and read alongside such celebrated contemporaries as Hart Crane, William Carlos Williams, and Marianne Moore—all of whom knew her and admired her work. In her time Ridge was considered one of America’s leading poets, but after her death in 1941 she and her work effectively disappeared for the next seventy-five years. Yet The Ghetto, and Other Poems is a key work of American modernism.

The long title poem is a detailed and sympathetic account of life in the Jewish ghetto of New York’s Lower East Side, with particular emphasis on the struggles and resilience of women.

Subsequent sections delve further into city life, immigrant experience, and the labor movement.

This critical edition seeks to recover the attention The Ghetto, and Other Poems lost after Ridge’s death. The poems in the volume are as aesthetically strong as they are historically revealing. Their language combines strength and directness with startling metaphors, and their form embraces both panoramic sweep and lyrical intensity.

Expertly edited and annotated by Lawrence Kramer, this first modern edition to reproduce the full 1918 publication of The Ghetto and Other Stories offers all the background and context needed for a rich, informed reading of Lola Ridge’s masterpiece.

LOLA RIDGE (1873, Dublin–1941, Brooklyn) was a poet and editor active in many radical causes and in avant-garde literary circles in New York in the decades between the world wars.

She published five volumes of poetry between 1918 and 1935 and edited two leading modernist journals, The Broom and Others.

LAWRENCE KRAMER is Distinguished Professor of English and Music at Fordham University. He is the author of fifteen books, as well as editor of two previous annotated editions of poetry: Walt Whitman’s Drum-Taps: The Complete 1865 Edition and Hart Crane’s ‘The Bridge’: An Annotated Edition (Fordham).

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“Alison Powell’s Boats in the Attic weaves the personal and intimate with religion, history, ecology, and etymology, criss-crossing these threads until they are difficult to tease apart—and who would want to? The tangle is the truth. This is a brilliant book.

—MAGGIE SMITH, AU THOR O F G OL D EN ROD

Boats in the Attic A L I S ON P OW ELL

102 pages, 51⁄2 × 8 1⁄2 9781531500856, Paperback, $19.95 (TP), £16.99 Poets Out Loud S E P T E MB ER Poetry

“What crawls from the pages of this book is nothing less than dizzying and dynamic, mythic and mind-probing, begging us to question what it means to call a thing by name or to know the world as anything other than mysterious.”

—PE TE R MARKU S, AU THOR O F WH EN OU R FATH ERS RETU RN TO US AS BIRDS

Boats in the Attic is a sweeping, poignant exploration of what it means to be an individual and, in particular, what it means to be a parent of young children, in our current time of crisis.

Errands must be run, the radio plays, and the child wants the birthday girl’s balloon—all while sea levels are rising and wild wolves roam the acres of Chernobyl, “developing a cryptography to a century / to which we are not invited.”

In this dynamic collection, Powell intersperses lyric flight and prose fragments with metacommentary, nuance, and a beguiling sense of humor. At the same time, these pieces are securely tethered to the material difficulties of being a human in today’s world, where a child must participate in a lockdown drill at his preschool and a dying woman turns to Reddit to fund her efforts to be cryogenetically preserved. Conversations between the speaker and her children trace the beauty and terror of existential indeterminacy: “We begin to consider other planets — / Will they have us?” In a long piece titled “Book of Revelation,” the speaker dreams that “below the bed / is an encyclopedia of lost things,” a phrase that captures the collection’s wide range and its categorizing eye. Powell turns to astronomy, Alice in Wonderland, Millerism, and culinary cruelty, with a uniquely celebratory and elegiac voice, all in an effort to understand the depths, and effects, of the human appetite for pleasure, power, and escape. is Associate Professor of English at Oakland University. Her other collections include a chapbook titled The Art of Perpetuation and a collection of poetry titled On the Desire to Levitate. Her work has appeared in the Boston Review, PBS NewsHour, poets. org, A Public Space, and Michigan Quarterly Review, among others.

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“When anyone else describing the wind across snow would have told of its noise or its bitter cold, Jennifer Atkinson attends to its fragrance. Again and again in A Gray Realm the Ocean, Atkinson detects the more muted presence informing a scene through which busier presences bluster. Because her attention to experience is lush with her love of experience, Jennifer Atkinson’s exquisite poems consistently “override / the visible to sound the depths of the felt.”

—H. L. HIX

“Lines under, lines over . . . lines after lines. So poetry goes, so painting. A chalkboard, a mountain, the tideline, an ocean. Look, look again, says Jennifer Atkinson in A Gray Realm the Ocean, a reading experience most worthy of repetition. ‘Is it life catching up with form? Or vice versa?’ I don’t know, or I didn’t, but what carried me through felt beautifully infinitesimal and larger than life at once. Again and again, I will return to this cherished book.”

A Gray Realm the Ocean J E N N IFER AT K INS ON

FOR EWO RD BY PATRIC IA S PEA RS J ONES 96 pages, 51⁄2 × 8 1⁄2 9781531500894, Paperback, $19.95 (TP), £16.99 Poets Out Loud SE P T E M B E R Poetry

—SALLY KE ITH

The poems in Jennifer Atkinson’s A Gray Realm the Ocean were all written under the influence of art—specifically twenty- and twenty-first-century abstract visual art. All the art referenced in the poems was done by women. Although many of these painters, sculptors, performance artists, ceramicists, and fabric artists have earned international reputations, albeit late in their lives or even after their deaths, most have only recently been given the notice and gallery space they deserve.

Composed in response to the artists’ multiplicity of forms, styles, modes, and moods, the poems are variously experimental. Drunk on color and language, line and lines, they don’t so much describe the art as revel in it. No patriarchal anxiety here—the poet actively seeks to join in conversation with the artists, listening closely and seeking their influence. She ponders, interrogates, and celebrates the work, taking each artist on her own terms—respecting the achieved calm of Agnes Martin’s “Night Sea” and the flare and smolder of Ana Mendieta’s “earth-body” work, the lyric voluptuousness of Joan Mitchell and the intellectual geometries of Carmen Herrera, the arrested explosions of Cornelia Parker and Ruth Asawa’s cool embodiments of shadow, the sun-drenched reveries of Emmi Whitehorse and Pat Steir’s un-skied star falls. Yet A Gray Realm the Ocean not only seeks to honor these artists—their work, their courage, and their curiosity. Taken together, the collection is also a meditation on looking— conscious, attentive looking—and the mysterious nature of abstraction. published five books of poetry before A Gray Realm the Ocean, most recently The Thinking Eye and Canticle of the Night Path, both from Free Verse Editions/ Parlor Press. She is recently retired from George Mason University, where she taught in the MFA and BFA programs in Poetry Writing. She lives in northern Virginia.

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PRAISE FOR JAME S PURDY

“James Purdy was out of category, out of this world, and, hence, often out of print. He was also, without question, one of the most original American writers of the twentieth century.”

—FRAN LE BOW ITZ

“One of the most undervalued and underread writers in America.”

—J O NATHAN FRANZE N

“James Purdy’s characters and situations linger in the memory.”

—LANGSTO N HU GHE S

“[Purdy’s] style is impulsive and prodding, uniquely his own, and uniquely haunting.”

—J O NATHAN LE THE M

“An authentic American genius.”

—GORE V IDAL

“A writer of the highest rank in originality, insight, and power.”

—D OROTHY PARKE R

“One of the very best writers we have.”

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“Anything Purdy writes is a literary event of importance.”

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I Am Elijah Thrush JA M E S PUR DY

FOR EWO RD BY RO BERT J. C ORB ER 126 pages, 51⁄2 × 8 1⁄2 9781531501198, Paperback, $15.95 (TP), £12.99 Simultaneous electronic edition available O C TOB E R Fiction

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“In his very best stories and novels Purdy has invented a poetic dreamscape where evil and naïveté collide. He is an enchanter of lost souls who delights and disturbs us with his wayward, winsome ghosts.”

—J E RO ME C HARY N, DA I LY BEA ST

“Mr. Purdy astonishes us with the vividness and fluency that he imparts to an extremely fanciful story. . . . The effects are dazzling!”

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“Exquisitely camp, deliberately decadent, heartless and overripe, I Am Elijah Thrush is recommended to all queer fish, black swans, prodigies, and hybrids.”

—TH E DA I LY TEL EG RA PH

On its surface, I Am Elijah Thrush is the story of Millicent De Frayne and her sensational halfcentury campaign to win the love of Elijah Thrush. Elijah, after ruining the lives of countless men and women, is finally in love “incorrectly, if not indecently,” with his great-grandson, Bird of Heaven. To support an unusual habit, a young Black man, Albert Peggs, reluctantly agrees to tell their remarkable story. It is in this telling that the ambitions, desires, and true natures of Elijah, Millicent, and Albert come to light. With a delicately controlled balance of whimsy and pathos, James Purdy gives us this comedy of the heroic, the tragic, and the truly bizarre.

Met with critical bewilderment upon its initial publication fifty years ago, this new edition offers a Foreword by Robert J. Corber illuminating Purdy’s “complicated allegory” of objectification, desire, and race in the immediate post–civil rights moment.

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“Highly successful, suspended from the high ceiling of Purdy’s prime, like a dazzling chandelier. Purdy has certainly never been funnier, his writing never more self-assured.”

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Out with the Stars JA M E S PUR DY

FOR EWO RD BY RO BERT J. C ORB ER 200 pages, 51⁄2 × 8 1⁄2 9781531501204, Paperback, $15.95 (TP), £12.99 Simultaneous electronic edition available O C TOB E R Fiction | LGBTQ Studies | New York City & Regional

“A well-established maverick who can still find room in his fiction for the truly bizarre and unpredictable. There is certainly fun to be had in this convoluted story with prose of crystalline beauty.”

— LON D ON REV I EW OF BOOK S

Following the discovery of an anonymous libretto, Abner Blossom comes out of retirement to write an opera based on the life of infamous novelist-turned-photographer Cyril Vane. But those who knew Vane and his Russian-born wife, the silent-screen star Madame Olga Petrovna, are prepared to go to any length to suppress the truth about them. Vane’s dark secret follows him to the grave. But his jealous and vengeful widow and her faded cronies employ all the means at their disposal to prevent the opening of Blossom’s opera. Out with the Stars is peopled by the Gothic characters readers of James Purdy have come to anticipate and relish, from Val Sturgis, Kentucky boy made good and now Blossom’s protégé to Francis X. Beauregard, aging star of the silver screen now living surrounded by streetwise hustlers in his Brooklyn mansion.

Back in print for the first time since 1993, Purdy’s flamboyant tale of New York City’s preStonewall bohemia includes an incisive Foreword by Robert J. Corber, placing the work within its rich social and cultural context.

(1914–2009) was an American novelist, short-story writer, poet, and playwright who published more than a dozen novels, including Malcolm and Eustace Chisholm and the Works, as well as many collections of poetry, short stories, and plays. His work has been translated into many languages. In 2013, his short stories were collected in The Complete Short Stories of James Purdy.

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ROBERT J. CORBER is the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor in American Institutions and Values at Trinity College. He is the author and editor of several books, including, most recently, Cold War Femme: Lesbianism, National Identity, and Hollywood Cinema.

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Aud u bo n Pa rk a nd the Fa milies Who Sha ped It

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Audubon Park’s journey from farmland to cityscape

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“For $4,938, [Audubon] bought 14 acres of of picturesque woodland along the Hudson River in the area now known as Washington Heights. Thus began the humanization of the area’s natural landscape, a process that would inexorably lead—with considerable irony—to the transformation of the With a colorful cast of characters drawnnaturalist’s from renowned beloved country holdings into a densely populated urban the upper crust of nineteenth-century New neighborhood York City, this fully illustrated history peels of cheek-by-jowl apartment buildings. The story of the area’s back the many layers of a rural society evolvevolution from ing into an urban community, enlivened by hinterland to suburb to city is comprehensively told in Matthew the people who propelled it forward: property written new history.”

Spady’s fluidly owners, tenants, laborers, and servants. Thoroughly researched through primary —TH EandNsecEW ondary sources, as well as private collections, The Neighborhood Manhattan Forgot tells the intricate tale of how individual choices in the face of family dysfunction, economic crises, technological developments, and the myriad daily occurrences that elicit personal reflection and change of course pushed Audubon Park forward to the cityscape that distinguishes the neighborhood today.

“As a historian, Matthew Spady is a superb tour guide—and vice versa. His vivid chronicle of the evolution of Audubon Park is confident and enlightening, a primer on how to excavate and assemble a portrait of a neighborhood. From Manhattan’s vest pocket he plucks the tales of two extraordinary families—the Audubons and the Grinnells—and deftly weaves a thousand revealing threads A longtime evangelist for Manhattan’s Audubon Park neighborhood, author Matthew Spady into the grander tapestry that is New York.” delves deep into the lives of the two families —JtheOHN TALIAFE RRO, AU THOR O F G RI N N EL L : A MERI CA’ S most responsible over time for anomalous arrangement of today’s streetscape: the AuduPI ON EER A N D H I S RESTL ESS D RI V E TO SAV E TH E WEST bons and the Grinnells. Buoyed by his extensive

The Neighborhood Manhattan Forgot Audubon Park and the Families Who Shaped It M ATT H EW SPADY 320 pages, 100 b&w illustrations 9781531501921, Paperback, $19.95 (TP), £16.99 [Hardcover edition available: 9780823289424] S E P T E MB ER History | Environment | Urban Studies

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—E RIC K. WASHINGTO N, AU THO R O F MA N H ATTA N V I L L E: OLD HE ART OF WE ST H A RL EM

“Matthew Spady’s deeply researched and well-written history of the origins and growth of what came to be known as Audubon Park sets a very high bar for historians and scholars.”

—DANIE L PATTE RSON, E ME RITU S PRO FE SSO R O F E NGLISH, C E NTRAL MIC HIGAN U NIV E RSITY

“This rich history, presented in a varied and memorable architectural framework, attests not just to the abilities of little-known designers like George and Edward Blumm or Emory Roth. Relating our shared multicultural heritage, The Neighborhood Manhattan Forgot is one wonderful book that celebrates everyone.”

—MIC HAE L HE NRY ADAMS, IND E PE ND E NT ARC HITEC TU RAL , SOCIAL, AND C U LTU RAL SC HO LAR FOC U SE D O N HARLE M, NE W PORT, AND LGBT+ HISTORY.

“Thoroughly, The Neighborhood Manhattan Forgot tells the story of how individual choices in the face of family dysfunction, economic crises, and technological developments pushed Audubon Park forward to the cityscape that distinguishes the neighborhood today.”

—N EW YORK A L MA N AC K

MATTHEW SPADY is the creator of the virtual walking tour AudubonParkNY.com and curator for AudubonParkPerspectives.org, a news site that reflects on the constant intersection of past and present in a vibrant and historic neighborhood. He was a leader in the decade-long community effort that culminated in the Audubon Park Historic District.

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ANTIQUITY IN GOTHAM The Ancient Architecture of New York City This first detailed study of “Neo-Antique” architecture applies an archaeological lens to the study of New York City’s structures

Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis

“Antiquity in Gotham: The Ancient Architecture of New York City by Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis looks at how ancient architecture was reconceived in New York City and places it within larger American architectural trends.”

—PU BL I SH ERS WEEK LY

Antiquity in Gotham

EL I Z ABET H M ACAULAY-LEWI S 288 pages, 7 × 10, 72 color and 43 b&w illustrations 9781531502423, Paperback, $22.95 (TP), £17.60 [Hardcover available: 9780823293841] eBook Available SE P T E M B E R New York City & Regional | Architecture | Art & Visual Culture

“Seeking evidence of the ancient world in 400-year-old New York might seem like a fool’s errand, but Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis unearths a trove of examples— from Federal Hall, which evokes the Parthenon, to the San Remo’s towers, inspired by the Choragic Monument of Lysicrates—that delivered gravitas and timelessness to the incipient American city.”

—SAM ROBE RTS, TH E N EW YORK TI MES

“Making the very new from the very old: Macaulay-Lewis’s exploration of the long fashioning of New York in Neo-Antique shapes wonderfully illuminates the metropolis, lucidly explicating how quotation and transformation of ancient models served New Yorkers’ needs and aims thanks to a range of architects, artists, and patrons, starting from the earliest years of the United States.

Monuments known even far outside Manhattan shine here in new ways, and so do less-traveled street corners; lost buildings, and monuments reconstructed, beckon too, as the book moves between bank and arch, skyscraper and lobster palace. Valuable, naturally, to anyone interested in the post-antique world’s reception of ancient Old World architecture, it has much to give anyone studying American history and society. Macaulay-Lewis’s guidance is a welcome gift also to anyone studying the ancient paradigms; their understanding is enriched in seeing how ancient forms and esthetics could signify in such multiplex ways in the early modern and modern city.”

—ANN KU TTNE R, U NIV E RSITY O F PE NNSY LVANIA

is Associate Professor of Liberal Studies and Middle Eastern Studies and the Executive Officer of the MA Program in Liberal Studies at The Graduate Center, The City University of New York.

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The Kingdom Began in Puerto Rico Neil Connolly’s Priesthood in the South Bronx

How the South Bronx and Puerto Rican migration defined Fr. Neil Connolly’s priesthood as he learned to both serve and be part of his community

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South Bronx, 1958. Change was coming. Some of it much-needed, some inevitable. Guidance was sorely needed to bridge the old and the new, for enunciating and implementing a vision. It was a unique place and time in history where Father Neil Connolly found his true calling and spiritual awakening. The Kingdom Began in Puerto Rico captures the spirit of the era and the spirit of this great man.

Set in the historical context of a changing world and a changing Catholic Church, The Kingdom Began in Puerto Rico follows Fr. Neil Connolly’s path through the South Bronx, which began with a special Church program to address the postwar great Puerto Rican migration. After an immersion summer in Puerto Rico, Fr. Neil served the largest concentration of Puerto Ricans in the Bronx from the 1960s to the 1980s as they struggled for a decent life. Through the teachings of Vatican II, Connolly assumed responsibility for creating a new Church and world. In the war against drugs, poverty, and crime, Connolly created a dynamic organization and chapel run by the people and supported Unitas, a nationally unique peer-driven mental health program for youth. Frustrated by the lack of institutional responses to his community’s challenges, Connolly challenged government abandonment and spoke out against ill-conceived public plans. Ultimately, he realized that his priestly mission was in developing new leaders among people, in the Church and the world, supporting two nationally unique lay leadership programs, the Pastoral Center and People for Change.

Telling a timely story about discovering the real mission of priesthood, urban ministry, and the Catholic Church in the United States, author Angel Garcia ably blends the dynamic forces of Church and world that transformed Fr. Connolly as he grew into his vocation. The book presents a rich history of the South Bronx and calls for all urban policies to begin with the people, not for the people. It also affirms the continuing relevance of Vatican II and Medellin for today’s Church and world, in the United States and Latin America.

How the South Bronx and Puerto Rican migration defined Fr. Neil Connolly’s priesthood as he learned to both serve and be part of his community

Angel Garcia

“Garcia tells the story of a man growing into his vocation as he explores what role there is for a priest in the church, among believers and in the world. Based on a series of long interviews the author conducted with the Rev. Neil Connolly before the priest’s 2017 death, the book is bolstered by contextual reporting. Like the Bronx, like the church, this story is at times heartwarming, at times tragic.”

—A MERI CA MAGAZINE

The Kingdom Began in Puerto Rico Neil Connolly’s Priesthood in the South Bronx A NG EL G AR C IA 336 pages, 30 black & white illustrations 9781531501914, Paperback, $19.95 (TP), £16.99 [Hardcover edition available: 9780823289264] eBook Available NOV E MB E R Biography | Urban Studies | Catholic Studies

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“The Kingdom Began in Puerto Rico is a story of how a priest struggled to live the call of the Second Vatican Council and how he worked alongside laypeople for social justice in the Bronx. It joins books like The Virgin of El Barrio and Guadalupe in New York in bringing readers into a world of grassroots Catholic activism and a church that lives in protest and community organization.”

— N ATI ON A L C ATH OL I C REPORTER

“The Kingdom Began in Puerto Rico: Neil Connolly’s Priesthood in the South Bronx follows Fr. Connolly’s career within the South Bronx, which began with a special church program to address the postwar Great Puerto Rican Migration.”

—PU BL I SH ERS WEEK LY

“Angel Garcia captures the spirit of the era, and the spirit of the man.”

—JAME S MARTIN, S.J., AU THOR O F JESU S: A PI LG RI MAG E AND MY L I FE WI TH TH E SA I N TS

“This biography affords valuable lessons for urban parish community organizers in the United States and for the dialog with the Church in Latin America and the Caribbean.”

—ROBE RTO O. GO NZÁLE Z NIE V E S, OFM, ARC HBISHOP O F SAN J UAN D E PU E RTO RICO

was a community organizer and Executive Director of South Bronx People for Change, a Church-based direct action and membership organization co-founded by Fr. Connolly. Born in Puerto Rico and a graduate of Regis High School, Princeton University, and Pace University, Garcia is a longtime resident of the South Bronx and has been active on social justice issues and worker cooperatives.

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“Zupančič writes with rare lucidity and patience for exposition, helped along by a talent for turning peculiar phrases or seemingly senseless jokes into full-blown insights. Her ideas are fresh, as if they hailed from some open air beyond the clutter of current theoretical quarrels. This brilliant account of Antigone breaks new ground for philosophy, psychoanalysis, and political and feminist theory.”

—J OAN COPJ EC , BROW N U NIV E RSITY

A provocative, highly accessible journey to the heart of Sophocles’ Antigone elucidating why it keeps resurfacing as a central text of Western thought and Western culture.

Let Them Rot Antigone’s Parallax

A L E N KA Z UPA NČI Č 96 pages, 51⁄2 × 8 1⁄2 9781531501044, Paperback, $19.95 (AC), £16.99 9781531501037, Hardback, $70.00 (SDT), £60.00 Simultaneous electronic edition available Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory JA NUA RY Psychoanalysis | Philosophy & Theory | Theater & Performance

Probably no classical text has inspired more interpretation, critical attention, and creative response than Sophocles’ Antigone. The general perspective from which the book is written could be summarized with this simple question: What is it about the figure of Antigone that keeps haunting us? Why do all these readings and rewritings keep emerging? To what kind of always contemporary contradiction does the need, the urge to re-read and re-imagine Antigone—in all kinds of contexts and languages—correspond?

The violence in Antigone is the opposite of “graphic” as we have come to know it in movies and in other media; rather, it is sharp and piercing, it goes straight to the bone. It is the violence of language, the violence of principles, the violence of desire, the violence of subjectivity. From this question of violence, the author turns to questions of funerary rites and of the relation of Antigone’s singularizing claims to her universal appeal. What, Zupančič asks, does this particular (Oedipal) family’s misfortune, of which Antigone chooses to be the guardian, share with the general condition of humanity? This forces us to confront the seemingly self-evident question: “What is incest?”

Let Them Rot is Alenka Zupančič’s absorbing and succinct guided tour of the philosophical and psychoanalytic issues arising from the Theban trilogy. Her original and surprising intervention into the broad and prominent field of study related to Sophocles’ Antigone illuminates the classical text’s ongoing relevance and invites a wide readership to become captivated by its themes. is a Slovenian philosopher and social theorist. She is Professor of Philosophy and Psychoanalysis at the European Graduate School and a researcher at the Institute of Philosophy at the Slovene Academy of Sciences and Arts. She is the author of many books, including What IS Sex?, The Odd One In: On Comedy, and Ethics of the Real: Kant and Lacan.

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Queer God de Amor M I G UEL H . D ÍA Z

160 pages, 51⁄2 × 8 1⁄2 9781531502485, Paperback, $25.95 (AC) 9781531502478, Hardback, $90.00 (SDT) Simultaneous electronic edition available Disruptive Cartographers: Doing Theology Latinamente S E P T E MB ER Theology | Religion | LGBTQ Studies

“With this intensely scholarly and profoundly personal book, Miguel Díaz has set a radical trajectory for a fresh, grace-filled flowering of our understanding of God and the divine gift of sexuality, capable of consigning to history the damage inflicted by centuries of brutal legalism, sin, and shame. His fresh interpretations of the mystical and sensual writings of John of the Cross offer reassurance to those who believe in an omnisexual God who embraces all, who is always and ever the lover and beloved of all.”

—MARY MC ALE E SE, FO RME R PRE SID E NT O F IRE LAND AND AUTHOR OF QUO VA D I S? COL L EG I A L I TY I N CA N ON L AW

“Only Miguel Díaz could have written such a vivid and potent mixture of Catholic, Latinx, and LGBTQ theologies and experiences, seen through the lens of the mystical tradition of San Juan de la Cruz. Professor Díaz’s new book will push at some boundaries and maybe even disturb a few people, but we must remember that that is what the mystical tradition always does: invites us to see God in new ways and through surprising images, challenges us to imagine fresh paradigms, and encourages us to meet one another not as strangers but as friends and fellow believers.”

—JAME S MARTIN, SJ, AU THOR, L EA RN I N G TO PRAY AND BU I LDING A BRIDGE

“Miguel H. Díaz entices us to venture into the landscape of divine and human relationalities and desires. He does so through an examination of the life and work of San Juan de la Cruz. By queering faith, sexuality, and mysticism in de la Cruz’s work, this book spurs new conversations that actualize and (re)contextualize Christian traditioning in manifold ways. Thus, Díaz takes spirituality to a new level by incarnating it into the daily-lived experiences of sexuality and desire.”

—HU GO CÓ RD OVA Q U E RO, ASSO C IATE PRO FE SSOR O F C RITICAL THEORIES AND QU E E R THEO LO GIE S, STARR KING SC HOO L FOR THE MINISTRY

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“This creative and stimulating exploration of San Juan de la Cruz’s ‘Living Flame of Love’ will help the reader re-imagine the possible intimacy of God, self, and sexuality. Building on San Juan’s awareness of erotic experience as a potential opening to the divine, Díaz highlights how queer, Latin@, and Catholic approaches to the mystery of sexual love might lead us into a deeper relationship with our Queer God de Amor.”

—B RIAN F LAN AG AN , PR E S I D E N T, CO L L EG E T H EO LO GY SOC IE TY

Queer God de Amor explores the mystery of God and the relationship between divine and human persons. It does so by turning to the sixteenth-century writings of John of the Cross on mystical union with God and the metaphor of sexual relationship that he uses to describe this union. Juan’s mystical theology, which highlights the notion of God as lover and God’s erotic-like relationship with human persons, provides a fitting source for rethinking the Christian doctrine of God, in John’s own words, as “un no sé qué,” “an I know not what.”

In critical conversations with contemporary queer theologies, it retrieves from John a preferential option for human sexuality as an experience in daily life that is rich with possibilities for re-sourcing and imagining the Christian doctrine of God. Consistent with other liberating perspectives, it outs God from heteronormative closets and restores human sexuality as a resource for theology. This outing of divine queerness—that is, the ineffability of divine life— helps to align reflections on the mystery of God with the faith experiences of queer Catholics.

By engaging Juan de la Cruz through queer Latinx eyes, Miguel Díaz continues the objective of this series to disrupt the cartography of theology latinamente.

MIG UEL H . D Í A Z is the John Courtney Murray, SJ, University Chair in Public Service at Loyola University Chicago. Dr. Díaz, who served under President Barack Obama as the ninth U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See, is co-editor of the series Disruptive Cartographers: Doing Theology Latinamente (Fordham University Press). The series opened in 2021 with his edited volume The Word Became Culture. He is also the author of the third book in this series, Queer God de Amor. As a public theologian, Professor Díaz regularly engages print, radio, and television media. He also contributes to writing a column for the National Catholic Reporter titled “Theology en la Plaza.” As part of his ongoing commitment to advance human rights globally, he participates in a number of diplomatic initiatives in Washington, D.C., including being a member of the Atlantic Council and a member of the Ambassadors Circle at the National Democratic Institute (NDI).

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Series editors: Carmen M. NankoFernández (Catholic Theological Union in Chicago), Miguel H. Díaz (Loyola University Chicago), and Gary Riebe-Estrella, S.V.D. (Catholic Theological Union in Chicago).

This multi-volume series re-maps theology and pushes out in new directions from varying coordinates across a spectrum of latinidad as lived in the United States. Authors reconfigure and disrupt key areas like revelation, eschatology, and trinity. Other volumes complicate and advance even further key themes of significance in Latin@ theologies, including the option for culture, religious diversity, and Mary.

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“Christopher Prener offers a razor-sharp analysis of social marginality through a case study of emergency medical services. Medicine at the Margins is an essential read not only for those interested in a growing ‘sociology of the ambulance’ but also for those with broader interests in urban sociology, medical sociology, and the sociology of work.”

—J OSH SE IM, AU THO R O F BA N DAG E, SORT, A N D H U STL E: A M BULANCE CRE WS ON TH E FRON T L I N ES OF U RBA N SU FFERI N G

Presents a unique view of social problems and conflicts over urban space from the cab of an ambulance.

Medicine at the Margins

EMS Workers in Urban America C H RI STO PHER PRE N E R 304 pages, 25 b/w illustrations 9781531501082, Paperback, $35.00 (AC), £28.99 9781531501075, Hardback, $125.00 (SDT), £108.00 Simultaneous electronic edition available Polis: Fordham Series in Urban Studies NOV E MB E R Urban Studies | Health & Medicine | Sociology

While we imagine ambulances as a site for critical care, the reality is far more complicated.

Social problems, like homelessness, substance abuse, and the health consequences of poverty, are encountered every day by Emergency Medical Services (EMS) workers. Written from the lens of a sociologist who speaks with the fluency of a former Emergency Medical Technician (EMT), Medicine at the Margins delves deeply into the world of EMTs and paramedics in American cities, an understudied element of our health care system.

Like the public hospital, the EMS system is a key but misunderstood part of our system of last resort. Medicine at the Margins presents a unique prism through which urban social problems, the health care system, and the struggling social safety net refract and intersect in largely unseen ways. Author Christopher Prener examines the forms of marginality that capture the reality of urban EMS work and showcases the unique view EMS providers have of American urban life. The rise of neighborhood stigma and the consequences it holds for patients who are assumed by providers to be malingering is critical for understanding not just the phenomenon of non- or sub-acute patient calls but also why they matter for all patients.

This sense of marginality is a defining feature of the experience of EMS work and is a statement about the patient population whom urban EMS providers care for daily. Prener argues that the pre-hospital health care system needs to embrace its role in the social safety net and how EMSs’ future is in community practice of paramedicine, a port of a broader mandate of pre-hospital health care. By leaning into this work, EMS providers are uniquely positioned to deliver on the promise of community medicine.

At a time when we are considering how to rely less on policing, the EMS system is already tasked with treating many of the social problems we think would benefit from less involvement with law involvement. Medicine at the Margins underscores why the EMS system is so necessary and the ways in which it can be expanded.

CHRISTOPHER PRENER was Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Saint Louis University. In addition to researching stigma, mental health, and neighborhood disorder in a variety of settings, he has produced recent work exploring the consequences of historical segregation for contemporary health in St. Louis, Missouri. He is also a former Emergency Medical Technician and EMS dispatcher. Prener is now working as a research scientist in the pharmaceutical industry.

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ACADEMIC TRADE “Quite possibly the first of its kind, Allergic Intimacies is a thorough and incisive cultural exploration of how we need to think about allergies via a disability studies framework. Part of the acuity of Michael Gill’s Allergic Intimacies is that it reminds us why we so urgently need this kind of analysis to better understand food-related allergies. In light of the current contemporary public-health global pandemic, there is an even greater urgency to foreground how food studies and disability studies think, not just about Covid-19, but also about health issues that affect immune-compromised people. Gill’s book is a cultural history of food allergies, but it is also so much more than that.”

—ANITA MANNU R, PRO FE SSOR O F E NGLISH, MIAMI U NIV E RSITY; AUTHOR, I N TI MATE EATI N G : RACI A L I ZED SPAC ES A N D RA D I C A L FU TU RE S

“Allergic Intimacies offers a queer crip analysis of food allergies, revealing their fundamentally relational and temporal dimensions. Blurring the boundaries between individuals, their immune systems, and their desires, Gill argues for interdependence and solidarity across allergies and dietary needs.”

—ALISON KAFE R, U NIV E RSITY OF TE XAS AT AU STIN

The first book to explore food allergies in the United States from the perspective of disability and race

Allergic Intimacies

Food, Disability, Desire, and Risk M I C H AEL G ILL 160 pages 9781531501167, Paperback, $25.00 (AC), £20.99 9781531501150, Hardback, $90.00 (SDT), £77.00 Simultaneous electronic edition available JA NUA RY Disability Studies | Food Studies | Health & Medicine

Are food allergies disabilities? What structures and systems ensure the survival of some with food allergies and not others? Allergic Intimacies is a groundbreaking critical engagement with food allergies in their cultural representations, advocacy, law, and stories about personal experiences from a disability studies perspective. Author Michael Gill questions the predominantly individualized medical approaches to food allergies, pointing out that these approaches are particularly problematic where allergy testing and treatments are expensive, inconsistent, and inaccessible for many people of color.

This thought-provoking book explores the multiple meanings of food allergies and eating in the United States, demonstrating how much more is at stake than we realize, at a critical time when food allergies are on the rise: An estimated 32 million Americans, including one in thirteen children, have food allergies. Diagnoses of food allergies in children have increased by 50 percent since 1997. Yet as the author makes clear, the whiteness of the food allergy community and single-identity disability theory is inherently limiting and insufficient to address the complex choices that those with food allergies make. Gill argues that racism and ableism create unique precarity for disabled people of color that food allergic communities are only beginning to address. There is a huge disparity in access to testing and treatment, with African American and Latinx children having higher risk of adverse outcomes than white children, including more rates of anaphylaxis. Food allergy professionals have a responsibility to move beyond individualized approaches to more robust coalitional efforts grounded in disability and racial justice to undo these patterns of exclusion.

Allergic Intimacies celebrates the various creative ways food allergic communities are challenging historical and current practice of exclusion, while identifying the depth of work that still needs to be done to shift focus from a white allergic experience toward a more representative understanding of the racial, ethnic, religious, and economic diversity of those in the United States. Gill’s book is a discerning and vital exploration of the key debates about risks, dangers, safety, representations, and political concerns affecting the lives of individuals with food allergies.

MICHAEL GILL is Associate Professor of Disability Studies in the Department of Cultural Foundations of Education at Syracuse University, where he is the Disability Studies Program Coordinator. He is the author of Already Doing It: Intellectual Disability and Sexual Agency.

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“This wonderfully economical text gives us Nancy’s elaborate arguments regarding the body, touch, plurality, globalization, and worldliness. At stake for Nancy is an urgent reformulation of what it means to live together.”

—TIMOTHY MU RRAY, AU THOR O F TECH N I C S I MPROV I SED : ACTI VATI N G TOU CH I N G LOBA L MED I A A RT

“In this important last volume, Jean-Luc Nancy eloquently and powerfully returns to the nature of bodies and their singularities from a new and original perspective. Nancy’s focus has shifted from the ‘in between’ of bodies in sex to spilled blood that colors the suffering of bodies and attests to cruelty through the violence—physical, psychological, political, economic, and technological— endemic to our times.”

—DALIA J U D OV ITZ, E MORY U NIV E RSITY

A beautiful, profound series of reflections on the body by one of the most prominent and consequential philosophers of continental Europe.

Corpus III

Cruor and Other Writings J E A N- LUC NA NCY TR ANSLATED BY JEF F FORT AND OT H ERS 160 pages, 1 b/w illustration 9781531501129, Paperback, $24.95 (AC), £20.99 9781531501112, Hardback, $90.00 (SDT), £77.00 Simultaneous electronic edition available JA NUA RY Philosophy & Theory | Psychoanalysis | Poetry

This landmark volume brings into English Jean-Luc Nancy’s last completed work and concludes his remarkable philosophical reflections on the body, a project he began almost thirty years ago.

Taking the body as an intersection of pulsing life and destructive cruelty on a global scale, Nancy’s account becomes more vivid, more physical than ever, even as it ventures into language that is as lyrical as it is profound. This vividness is manifest in blood: as it flows, in all its pulsing and forceful circulation, and as it spills, in the cruelty of existences confronted daily by countless destructions.

This can be described as sanguis and cruor, the two Latin words for blood’s intermingled but distinct aspects. This distinction allows Nancy to highlight an almost mystical sense of the body (yet one that remains soberly on this side of its manifest insistence), alongside the cruelty that pervades our world—a world whose very existence is threatened by its reduction to mere objects.

The exceptional writings brought together in Corpus III constitute a masterful work of philosophy that marries rigorous erudition—on Freud, Nietzsche, and others—with rich poetic language and an actual poem. Nancy’s thought opens the body onto its own unaccountable origins, its plural singularities, its enmeshed instantiations, and its excessive irreducibles, which are also the elusive excesses of language. Bringing into English the last book Nancy completed before his death, Corpus III offers an evocative meditation by a great thinker on the complex conditions of his own—and our—singular survival.

(1940–2021) was Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Université Marc Bloch, Strasbourg. His wide-ranging thought runs through many books, including The Literary Absolute, Being Singular Plural, The Ground of the Image, Listening, Corpus, The Disavowed Community, and Sexistence.

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is Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of California, Davis, and translator of more than a dozen books by Jean Genet, Jacques Derrida, Maurice Blanchot, Jean-Luc Nancy, and others.

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The Possibility of a World: Conversations with Pierre-Philippe Jandin

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Jean-Luc Nancy Translated by Richard A. Rand 208 pages 9780823229628, Paperback, $28.00 (SDT), £22.99 9780823229611, Hardback, $75.00 (SDT), £65.00 eBook available Perspectives in Continental Philosophy Philosophy & Theory | Religion | Health & Medicine

“Jean-Luc Nancy is a thinker of astonishing daring who, in some of the most scintillating prose ever gifted to us in philosophy, explores the limits of what it is to reject all hope of transcendence and to live, love, and think in the world of the immanent. One does not read Nancy, one engages in battle with him and with all the assumptions we’ve allowed ourselves to accept.”

The Disavowed Community

Jean-Luc Nancy Translated by Philip Armstrong 144 pages 9780823273850, Paperback, $24.95 (SDT), £20.99 9780823273843, Hardback, $90.00 (SDT), £77.00 eBook Available Commonalities Philosophy & Theory | Political Science

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Jean-Luc Nancy Translated by Sarah Clift and Simon Sparks Introduction by Jeffrey S. Librett 144 pages 9780823279951, Paperback, $25.00 (SDT), £20.99 9780823279944, Hardback, $90.00 (SDT), £77.00 eBook Available Lit Z Philosophy & Theory | Art & Visual Culture | Literary Studies

—PE TE R SALMON, AU THO R O F A N EV EN T, PE RHAPS: A BI OG RA PH Y OF JACQU ES D ERRIDA

For a full listing of Jean-Luc Nancy’s books, visit https://www.fordhampress.com/nancy

Sexistence

Jean-Luc Nancy Translated by Steven Miller 160 pages, 5 x 8, 1 b/w illustration 9780823293995, Paperback, $28.00 (AC), £22.99 9780823294008, Hardback, $95.00 (SDT), £82.00 eBook Available Philosophy & Theory | Gender & Sexuality | Literary Studies

God, Justice, Love, Beauty: Four Little Dialogues

Jean-Luc Nancy Translated by Sarah Clift 150 pages, 8 x 5 1⁄4 9780823234264, Paperback, $25.00 (SDT), £20.99 9780823234257, Hardback, $90.00 (SDT), £77.00 Philosophy & Theory | Religion | Political Science

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Jean-Luc Nancy among the Philosophers I RV I NG G O H , EDITOR 224 pages 9781531501990, Paperback, $35.00 (SDT), £28.99 9781531501969, Hardback, $125.00 (SDT), £108.00 Simultaneous electronic edition available Perspectives in Continental Philosophy F E B RUA RY Philosophy & Theory | Literary Studies

“This is an excellent and erudite collection of well-written essays on a philosopher whose output continues to have timely relevance for wider social, political, and cultural issues. The chapters are organized to form a coherent arc with successive pairs of chapters providing elegant supplements to one another and bringing out certain thematic issues in Nancy’s work (worlding, his relation to phenomenology, metaphysics). The topics are also carefully chosen, adding new dimensions on Nancy and extending previous scholarship on him in novel and thought-provoking ways.”

—NAOMI WALTHAM-SMITH, AU THO R O F SH ATTERI N G BI OPOLITIC S: M ILITANT L I STEN I N G A N D TH E SOU N D OF L I FE

This volume focuses on the relational aspect of Jean-Luc Nancy’s thinking. As Nancy himself showed, thinking might be a solitary activity, but it is never singular in its dimension. Building on or breaking away from other thoughts, especially those by thinkers who had come before, thinking is always plural, relational. This “singular plural” dimension of thought in Nancy’s philosophical writings demands explication.

In this book, some of today’s leading scholars in the theoretical humanities shed light on how Nancy’s thought both shares with and departs from those of Descartes, Hegel, Marx, Heidegger, Weil, Lacan, Merleau-Ponty, and Lyotard, elucidating “the sharing of voices,” in Nancy’s phrase, between Nancy and these thinkers.

Georges Van Den Abbeele, Emily Apter, Rodolphe Gasché, Werner Hamacher, Eleanor Kaufman, Marie-Eve Morin, Timothy Murray, Jean-Luc Nancy, and John H. Smith

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is Associate Professor of Literature at the National University of Singapore. He is the author of The Reject: Community, Politics, and Religion after the Subject (Fordham), which won the MLA’s Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for French and Francophone Studies, and L’Existence prépositionnelle. He is co-author, with Jean-Luc Nancy, of The Deconstruction of Sex. IRV ING GOH

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“Susan Bigelow Reynolds’s People Get Ready is a probing, deeply moving, and inspiring study of a culturally diverse twenty-first-century city parish that at the same time offers a lens for rethinking twentieth-century U.S. Catholic history more broadly as well. Learned in modern Catholic thought and an exquisitely attentive ethnographer, Reynolds brings the two together—conciliar and postconciliar theologies and the lived experience of the parishioners of St. Mary of the Angels/Santa Maria de los Ángeles in Roxbury—in a way that richly amplifies both. People Get Ready joins a short shelf of books absolutely essential for understanding U.S. Catholicism after Vatican II in the cross-currents of race, emigration, religious conflict, and the rise of the neoliberal city. With this work, Catholic Studies finds a powerful new voice and a model for future scholarship.”

—ROBE RT ORSI, GRAC E C RAD D O C K NAGLE C HAIR IN C ATHOLIC STUDIES AT NORTHW E STE RN U NIV E RSITY; AU THO R, H I STORY A N D PRESE NCE

“People Get Ready is a beautifully written, sensitive, and timely book. Susan Reynolds is a gifted ethnographer-theologian and writer who makes important contributions to our understanding of multi-ethnic, multi-national migrant Catholic parishes. She introduces her reader to St. Mary of the Angels parish in Roxbury, where rituals are the ‘language of community’ and a powerful vector for a radical love that transcends divisions. I predict that this deeply moving book becomes a go-to primer for academics, community groups, and church leaders alike in how to build, maintain, and sustain beloved community.”

People Get Ready Ritual, Solidarity, and Lived Ecclesiology in Catholic Roxbury SU SA N BIG ELOW REYNOLDS 240 pages 9781531502010, Paperback, $30.00 (SDT), £24.99 9781531502003, Hardback, $105.00 (SDT), £90.00 Simultaneous electronic edition available Catholic Practice in the Americas JA NUA RY Religion | Theology | Catholic Studies

—KRISTY NABHAN-WARRE N, AU THO R O F MEATPAC K I N G A MERICA: HOW MI G RATI ON , WORK , A N D FA I TH U N I TE A N D D I V I D E TH E H EARTLAND

What does it mean to be a community of difference?

St. Mary of the Angels is a tiny underground Catholic parish in the heart of Boston’s Egleston Square. More than a century of local, national, and international migrations has shaped and reshaped the neighborhood, transforming streets into borderlines and the parish into a waystation. Today, the church sustains a community of Black, Caribbean, Latin American, and Euro-American parishioners from Roxbury and beyond.

In People Get Ready, Susan Reynolds draws on six years of ethnographic research to examine embodied ritual as a site of radical solidarity in the local church. Weaving together archived letters, oral histories, stories, photographs, newspaper articles, and newly examined archdiocesan documents, Reynolds traces how the people of St. Mary’s constructed rituals of solidarity as a practical foundation for building bridges across difference. She looks beyond liturgy to unexpected places, from Mass announcements to parish council meetings, from the Good Friday Via Crucis through neighborhood streets to protests staged in and around the church in the wake of Boston’s 2004 parish shutdowns. Through ethnography and Catholic ecclesiology, Reynolds argues for a retrieval of Vatican II’s notion of ecclesial solidarity as a basis for the mission of the local church in an age of migration, displacement, and change.

It is through the work of ritual, the story of St. Mary’s reveals, that we learn to negotiate the borders in our midst—to cultivate friendships, exercise power, build peace, and, in a real way, to survive.

SUSAN BIGELOW REYNOLDS is Assistant Professor of Catholic Studies at Candler School of Theology at Emory University, where her research focuses on public ritual, culture, and questions of marginality and suffering in local communities.

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“This book is sublime. Michael Muhammad Knight shows how key Deleuzian concepts can illuminate a rich texture of often-overlooked religious experimentation. In this territory he is a trustworthy, even masterful guide.

Perhaps more importantly, Knight uses Deleuzian thought to challenge and explode received concepts in the study of religion and to challenge what religion is in itself, disturbing the sense of what is orthodox or heretical, mainstream or marginal, textual or material, immanent or transcendent. And Knight does this not only for the case of Islam (in itself a major contribution to undoing our civiliizational and political-theological impasses) but potentially for the world’s many other so-called religions, as well. Essential work.”

—J OSHUA RAME Y, AU THO R O F TH E H ERMETI C D EL EU ZE: PH I LOSOPHY AND SPI RI TUA L ORD EA L AND POL I TI C S OF D I V I N ATI ON : N EOL I BERAL E NDGAM E A N D TH E REL I G I ON OF CON TI N G EN C Y

Sufi Deleuze

Secretions of Islamic Atheism M I C HA EL MUH AMMAD KN IGHT 208 pages, 4 b/w illustrations 9781531501815, Paperback, $25.00 (SDT), £20.99 9781531501808, Hardback, $90.00 (SDT), £77.00 Simultaneous electronic edition available JA NUA RY Theology | Philosophy & Theory | Islamic Studies

“There is always an atheism to be extracted from a religion,” Deleuze and Guattari write in their final collaboration, What Is Philosophy? Their claim that Christianity “secretes” atheism “more than any other religion,” however, reflects the limits of their archive. Theological projects seeking to engage Deleuze remain embedded within Christian theologies and intellectual histories; whether they embrace, resist, or negotiate with Deleuze’s atheism, the atheism in question remains one extracted from Christian theology, a Christian atheism. In Sufi Deleuze, Michael Muhammad Knight offers an intervention, engaging Deleuzian questions and themes from within Islamic tradition.

Even if Deleuze did not think of himself as a theologian, Knight argues, to place Deleuze in conversation with Islam is a project of comparative theology and faces the challenge of any comparative theology: It seemingly demands that complex, internally diverse traditions can speak as coherent, monolithic wholes. To start from such a place would not only defy Islam’s historical multiplicity but also betray Deleuze’s model of the assemblage, which requires attention to not only the organizing and stabilizing tendencies within a structure but also the points at which a structure resists organization, its internal heterogeneity, and unpredictable “lines of flight.”

A Deleuzian approach to Islamic theology would first have to affirm that there is no such thing as a universal “Islamic theology” that can speak for all Muslims in all historical settings, but rather a multiplicity of power struggles between major and minor forces that contest each other over authenticity, authority, and the making of “orthodoxy.” The discussions in Sufi Deleuze thus highlight Islam’s extraordinary range of possibilities, not only making use of canonically privileged materials such as the Qur’an and major hadith collections, but also exploring a variety of marginalized resources found throughout Islam that challenge the notion of a singular “mainstream” interpretive tradition. To say it in Deleuze’s vocabulary, Islam is a rhizome.

MICHAEL MUHAMMAD KNIGHT is Assistant Professor of Religion and Cultural Studies at the University of Central Florida. He is the author of numerous books, including, most recently, Muhammad’s Body: Baraka Networks and the Prophetic Assemblage.

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“Ophir’s analysis of violence in the Bible goes beyond any I’ve seen. Not everyone will agree with Ophir’s conclusions, but the book must be read, digested, and confronted by anyone interested in political theology.”

—DANIE L BOYARIN, U NIV E RSITY OF C ALIFORNIA , BE RKE LE Y

In the Beginning Was the State

Divine Violence in the Hebrew Bible A DI M. O PH IR 336 pages 9781531501419, Paperback, $35.00 (SDT), £28.99 9781531501402, Hardback, $125.00 (SDT), £108.00 Simultaneous electronic edition available Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory O C TOB E R Political Science | Jewish Studies | Religion

This book explores God’s use of violence as depicted in the Hebrew Bible. Focusing on the Pentateuch, it reads biblical narratives and codes of law as documenting formations of theopolitical imagination. Ophir deciphers the logic of divine rule that these documents betray, with a special attention to the place of violence within it. The book draws from contemporary biblical scholarship, while also engaging critically with contemporary political theory and political theology, including the work of Walter Benjamin, Giorgio Agamben, Jan Assmann, Regina Schwartz, and Michael Walzer.

Ophir focuses on three distinct theocratic formations: the rule of disaster, where catastrophes are used as means of governance; the biopolitical rule of the holy, where divine violence is spatially demarcated and personally targeted; and the rule of law, where divine violence is vividly remembered and its return is projected, anticipated, and yet postponed, creating a prolonged lull for the text’s present.

Different as these formations are, Ophir shows how they share an urform that anticipates the main outlines of the modern European state, which has monopolized the entire globe. A critique of the modern state, the book argues, must begin in revisiting the deification of the state, unpacking its mostly repressed theological dimension. is Professor Emeritus at Tel Aviv University and Visiting Professor at the Cogut Institute for the Humanities and the Center for Middle East Studies at Brown University.

He is the author of Goy: Israel’s Multiple Others and the Birth of the Gentile (with Ishay Rosen-Zvi); The One-State Condition: Democracy and Occupation in Israel/Palestine (with Ariella Azoulay); The Order of Evils: Toward an Ontology of Morals; and Plato’s Invisible Cities: Discourse and Power in the ‘Republic’ and co-editor (with J. M. Bernstein and Ann Laura Stoler) of Political Concepts: A Critical Lexicon (Fordham).

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On the Medieval Structure of Spirituality Thomas Aquinas

PAST LI GHT ON P R E S E NT L IF E : THE OLOGY, ETH IC S, AND S P IR IT UALIT Y These volumes are offered to the academic community of teachers and learners in the fields of Christian history, theology, ethics, and spirituality. They introduce classic texts by authors whose contributions have markedly affected the development of Christianity, especially in the West. The texts are accompanied by an introductory essay on context and key themes and followed by an interpretation that dialogically engages the original message with the issues of ethics, theology, and spirituality in the present.

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of Chicago, he is a past president of the Catholic Theological Society of America.

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Cassian, Caesarius of Arles, and Benedict

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Grace and Gratitude Spirituality in Martin Luther

Edited and with Commentary by

Roger Haight, S.J., Alfred Pach III, and Amanda Avila Kaminski

Western Monastic Spirituality presents three authors as individuals, certainly, but also as textual informants who, like road markers, represent a line of the development of a Western monastic spiritual tradition. John Cassian (ca. 360–435) helped bring the wisdom of northern Egyptian ascetical life of the late fourth century to southern France in the early fifth century. Caesarius of Arles (468/470–542), drawing on his own monastic experience and Augustine’s monastic rule, composed a rule for a women’s monastery in the city of Arles. Not many years later, Benedict wrote the most influential rule in Western monasticism, one that still regulates the lives of monks today all over the world. These three texts, when looked at serially and together, offer a theology of monastic spirituality, an example of a relatively short but comprehensive early monastic rule, and a present-day Benedictine interpretation of how Benedict’s monastic spirituality can be summed up in a short present-day digest of his rule. Reflection on early Western monasticism retrieves some basic Christian spiritual values that should inform life today outside the monastery in a busy, secular culture. is a Visiting Professor at Union Theological Seminary in New York. He has written several books in the area of fundamental theology. A graduate of the University RO GER H AI GH T, S.J.

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is an Assistant Professor of Theology at Texas Lutheran University, where she also leads the faith, diversity, and culture track in Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship. She has written extensively in this area of Christian spirituality.

On the Medieval Structure of Spirituality Thomas Aquinas

E D I T E D A N D WI T H C O MME N TA RY BY R O G E R HA I G HT, SJ, A L F R E D PAC H III, A N D A MA N DA AV I L A KA MI N S KI 120 pages, 51⁄2 × 8 1⁄2 9781531502195, Paperback, $9.95 (AC), £7.99 Simultaneous electronic edition available AVAI L ABL E Religion | Theology | History

If Thomas Aquinas was born in 1225, as is commonly thought, then he died before reaching the age of fifty after producing the single most influential systematic theology of the Western Christian tradition. He did this with a formula: He internalized the thought of Aristotle as it was being introduced into western Europe and translated into Latin, and he in turn “translated” Christianity into this Aristotelian language. One can use the principles of hermeneutics outlined in Retrieving the Spiritual Teaching of Jesus of this series to analyze what was going on as Aquinas went through some of the basic doctrines of the Church in his Summa Theologiae. He laid out their contents by answering

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an exhaustive series of questions and responding to each of them in intricate detail. The model for each question and answer was drawn directly from the pattern of learning at the University of Paris. Although systematic and abstract, it also enabled an extensive conversation with the tradition of classical theologians and his own contemporaries. This may seem quite distant from spiritual life on the ground, but the method produced a clear understanding of the structure of spiritual life in terms of its goal and the means of attaining it. Aquinas’s analysis of grace—how it enabled genuine Christian spirituality, empowered the virtues, and led to eternal life—constitutes a classic substructure of Western Christian spirituality that became all the more distinctive when Reformation spiritualities offered alternatives to it.

Christian. These texts do not represent all there is to say about spirituality in Luther’s thought by any means, and this part should not be taken for the whole. But the coupling of these texts penetrates deeply into what may be called Luther’s Christian spirituality of gratitude.

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A CIVIC SPIRITUALITY OF SANCTIFICATION: John Calvin

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ENLIGHTENED SPIRITUALITY: Immanuel Kant, Paul Tillich, and Reinhold Neibuhr

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Martin Luther (1483–1546) is a classic Christian author who spearheaded the Reformation and whose witness has relevance for life in the present-day world. Grace and Gratitude presents two texts that represent his spirituality. Because Luther wrote so much in so many different genres, the choice of only two texts provides a limited taste of his spirituality. But they open up a specific, central, and distinctive mark of his conception of the structure of Christian life. The name of the theme, justification by grace through faith, often spontaneously correlates with Luther’s name and his theology. The phrase points to a key theological doctrine that centered his thinking; it lay so deeply ingrained in his outlook that it sometimes explicitly but always tacitly shaped all his early theological views and bestowed a distinctive character to his ethics and spirituality. The two texts are chosen to illustrate how the conviction represented by the phrase draws its authority from scripture, especially Paul, and was discursively analyzed in an early foundational work on Christian life, The Freedom of a

ENCULTURATING CHRISTIAN SPIRITUALITY: Clement of Alexandria

FINDING GOD IN A WORLD COME OF AGE: Karl Rahner and Johann Baptist Metz FROM THE MONASTERY TO THE CITY: Hildegard of Bingen and Francis of Assisi LATE MEDIEVAL SPIRITUALITY: Catherine of Siena and Thomas à Kempis LIBERATION SPIRITUALITY: Gustavo Gutiérrez, James Cone, and M. Shawn Copeland MYSTICAL CONSCIOUSNESS AND MISSIONAL SPIRITUALITY: Teresa of Ávila MYSTICISM AND POLITICS: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Dorothee Soelle RETRIEVING THE SPIRITUAL TEACHING OF JESUS: Sandra Schneiders, William Spohn, and Lisa Sowle Cahill SPIRITUALITIES OF SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT: Walter Rauschenbusch and Dorothy Day SPIRITUALITY OF CREATION, EVOLUTION, AND WORK: Catherine Keller and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin F O R D H A M P R E S S .C O M

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“Mayur Suresh’s fascinating book is brilliant in its theoretical clarity, ethnographically dazzling, and beautifully written. Where law and the state often efface those they target, Suresh makes his subjects visible actors in their own trials.”

—J INE E LOKANE E TA , D RE W U NIV E RSITY

Terror Trials

Life and Law in Delhi’s Courts M AY UR R . SUR E SH 272 pages, 4 b/w illustrations 9781531501778, Paperback, $32.00 (SDT), £25.99 9781531501761, Hardback, $110.00 (SDT), £95.00 Simultaneous electronic edition available Thinking from Elsewhere JA NUA RY Anthropology | Asian Studies | Law

“Terror Trials is an illuminating and novel legal ethnography that engages terrorism not as spectacular but rather as a quotidian bureaucratic legal terrain that Suresh unknots with keenness and patience.”

—SAME E NA MU LLA , E MORY U NIV E RSITY

An ethnography of terrorism trials in Delhi, India, this book explores what modes of life are made possible in the everyday experience of the courtroom. Mayur Suresh shows how legal procedures and technicalities become the modes through which courtrooms are made habitable. Where India’s terror trials have come to be understood by way of the expansion of the security state and displays of Hindu nationalism, Suresh elaborates how they are experienced by defendants in a quite different way, through a minute engagement with legal technicalities.

Amidst the grinding terror trials—which are replete with stories of torture, illegal detention, and fabricated charges—defendants school themselves in legal procedures, became adept petition writers, build friendships with police officials, cultivate cautious faith in the courts, and express a deep sense of betrayal when this trust is belied. Though seemingly mundane, legal technicalities are fraught and highly contested, and they acquire urgent ethical qualities in the life of a trial: The file becomes a space in which the world can be made or unmade, the petition becomes a way of imagining a future, and investigative and courtroom procedures enable the unexpected formation of close relationships between police and the terror-accused.

In attending to the ways in which legal technicalities are made to work in everyday interactions among lawyers, judges, accused terrorists, and police, Suresh shows how human expressiveness, creativity, and vulnerability emerge through the law.

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“Spectacles and Specters is a superior achievement in the application of critical theory to law and politics. Ertür’s grasp and deft engagement with political and legal theory surrounding the received (largely liberal) idea of political trials provides precisely the right framework to situate her novel conceptualization, centered as it is on both the generative character of law’s performativity and the performative failures, contradictions, and excesses of law that produce unintended political effects.”

—ASLI Ü. BÂLI, PRO FE SSOR, U C LA SC HOO L O F LAW

Spectacles and Specters A Performative Theory of Political Trials BA Ş A K ERT Ü R 272 pages 9781531501860, Paperback, $30.00 (SDT), £24.99 9781531501853, Hardback, $105.00 (SDT), £90.00 Simultaneous electronic edition available O C TOB E R Law | Philosophy & Theory | Political Science

“Offering an exquisite and impressive weave of theory, legal history, trial drama, and political storytelling, Spectacles and Specters is a highly nuanced critical legal study of the modern political trial. Grounded in a set of detailed readings of several trials concerning the 1915 Armenian genocide, the book displaces Nuremberg as the model of the modern political trial and offers a sophisticated theorization of the performativity of the law and state sovereignty.”

—AV E RY GORD O N, AU THO R O F THE H AWTH ORN A RCH I V E: LE TTE RS FROM THE U TOPI A N MA RG I N S

Spectacles and Specters draws on theories of performativity to conceptualize the entanglements of law and political violence, offering a radical departure from accounts that consider political trials as instrumental in exercising or containing political violence. Legal scholar Başak Ertür argues instead that making sense of the often incalculable interpenetrations of law, politics, and violence in trials requires shifting the focus away from law’s instrumentality to its performativity.

Ertür develops a theory of political trials by reconstructing and building on a legacy of critical thought on Nuremberg in close engagement with theories of performativity. She then offers original case studies that introduce a new perspective by looking beyond the Holocaust trials, to the Armenian genocide and its fragmentary legal aftermaths. These cases include the 1921 trial of Soghomon Tehlirian, the 2007-21 Hrant Dink Murder Trial, and the 2015 case before the European Court of Human Rights concerning the denial of the Armenian genocide.

Enabling us to capture the various modalities in which the political emerges in, through and in relation to legal forms on the stage of the trial, this focus on law’s performativity also allows us to account for how sovereign schemes can misfire and how trials can come to have unintended political lives and afterlives. Further, it reveals how law is entangled with and perpetuates certain histories of violence, rather than simply ever mastering these histories or providing closure.

BAŞAK ERTÜR teaches at the School of Law, and co-directs the Centre for Law & the Humanities at Birkbeck, University of London. She is a Research Fellow at Forensic Architecture, Goldsmiths, University of London.

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“This is the best study I know of the role of Russia and the Russian Orthodox Church in the global culture wars. Now that Russian religious culture has become an instrumental weapon in a catastrophic war of aggression against Ukraine, it is of utmost importance that all publics understand the tragic sacrilegious dynamics of The Moralist International.”

—J OSE C ASANOVA , E ME RITU S GEO RGE TOW N U NIV E RSITY

The Moralist International

Russia in the Global Culture Wars K R I STINA STO ECKL A N D DM IT RY UZLANE R 208 pages 9781531502157, Paperback, $30.00 (SDT), £24.99 9781531502133, Hardback, $105.00 (SDT), £90.00 Simultaneous electronic edition available Orthodox Christianity and Contemporary Thought D EC E M B E R Political Science | Religion

The Moralist International analyzes the role of the Russian Orthodox Church and the Russian state in the global culture wars over gender and reproductive rights and religious freedom. It shows how the Russian Orthodox Church in the past thirty years first acquired knowledge about the dynamics, issues, and strategies of Right-Wing Christian groups; how the Moscow Patriarchate has shaped its traditionalist agenda accordingly; and how the close alliance between church and state has turned Russia into a norm entrepreneur for international moral conservativism. Including detailed case studies of the World Congress of Families, anti-abortion activism, and the global homeschooling movement, the book identifies the key factors, causes, and actors of this process. Kristina Stoeckl and Dmitry Uzlaner then develop the concept of conservative aggiornamento to describe Russian traditionalism as the result of conservative religious modernization and the globalization of Christian social conservatism.

The Moralist International continues a line of research on the globalization of the culture wars that challenges the widespread perception that it is only progressive actors who use the international human rights regime to achieve their goals by demonstrating that conservative actors do the same. The book offers a new, original perspective that firmly embeds the conservative turn of post-Soviet Russia in the transnational dynamics of the global culture wars.

The Moralist International is available from the publisher on an open-access basis.

KRISTINA STOECKL is Professor of Sociology at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. The most recent of her books are The Russian Orthodox Church and Human Rights and Russian Orthodoxy and Secularism.

DMITRY UZLANER is Research Fellow at the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences, Russia. The most recent of his books are The Postsecular Turn: How to Think about Religion in the Twenty-First Century (in Russian); The End of Religion? A History of the Theory of Secularization (in Russian); and Contemporary Russian Conservatism: Problems, Paradoxes, and Perspectives (co-edited with Mikhail Suslov).

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“What Is Extinction? A Natural and Cultural History of Last Animals provides a much-needed, in-depth examination of the paradox of extinction—which both signifies the ultimate threat to any given species, as well as serves as its inevitable conclusion—through a wide range of case studies that roughly chart the development of Eurowestern settler colonialism. Schuster makes an important contribution to the recent development of extinction studies, particularly by engaging and extending discussions of the multiform ways in which the histories of mass killings of human and nonhuman animals intertwine.”

—SU SAN MC HU GH, AU THO R O F LOV E I N A TI ME OF SL AU G H T E RS: HUM AN– A N I MA L STORI ES AG A I N ST G EN OC I D E A N D EXTI N C TI ON

“How are we to understand the unknowable, the extinction of humans? Joshua Schuster helps us grapple with the end by framing extinction broadly to encompass genocides (Native American Indian populations and European Jews), animal extinctions (as documented in photography), speculative extinctions (the last human as in H. G. Wells’s The Time Machine), and gestured solutions such as re-wilding as de-extinction. Schuster’s detailed investigation into each shattering event provides lessons we have poorly learned that bear correction.

With its novel framing, What Is Extinction? provides a breadth and depth for rethinking this pressing question. Schuster concludes with a hopeful possibility and pressing imperative: to live on a shared Earth that demands an ecological lives of hospitality.”

What Is Extinction?

A Natural and Cultural History of Last Animals J OSH UA S C H USTE R 304 pages, 16 black & white illustrations 9781531501655, Paperback, $30.00 (SDT), £24.99 9781531501648, Hardback, $105.00 (SDT), £90.00 Simultaneous electronic edition available F E B RUA RY Animal Studies | Philosophy & Theory | Environment

—RON BRO GLIO, AU THO R O F A N I MA L REVOLU TI ON

Life on Earth is facing a mass extinction event of our own making. Human activity is changing the biology and the meaning of extinction. What Is Extinction? examines several key moments that have come to define the terms of extinction over the past two centuries, exploring instances of animal and human finitude and the cultural forms used to document and interpret these events.

Offering a critical theory for the critically endangered, Joshua Schuster proposes that different discourses of limits and lastness appear in specific extinction events over time as a response to changing attitudes toward species frailty. Understanding these extinction events also involves examining what happens when the conceptual and cultural forms used to account for species finitude are pressed to their limits as well. Schuster provides close readings of several case studies of extinction that bring together environmental humanities and multispecies methods with media-specific analyses at the terminus of life.

What Is Extinction? delves into the development of last animal photography, the anthropological and psychoanalytic fascination with human origins and ends, the invention of new literary genres of last fictions, the rise of new extreme biopolitics in the Third Reich that attempted to change the meaning of extinction, and the current pursuit of de-extinction technologies. Schuster offers timely interpretations of how definitions and visions of extinction have changed in the past and continue to change in the present. is Associate Professor of English and core faculty member of the Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism at Western University. He is the author of The Ecology of Modernism: American Environments and Avant-Garde Poetics and co-author of Calamity Theory: Three Critiques of Existential Risk.

JOSHUA SCHUSTER

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“Having spent much of the last two decades writing nonfiction books and articles about what Shreiber calls the Jewish Christian Borderzone, I feel a strong kinship with this beautiful and significant work. This book, the first of its kind, complements my work on biblical texts by exploring the same topic through magnificently explicated modern novels and poems. In Holy Envy, Shreiber moves from Krister Stendahl’s concept of holy envy to her own innovative notion of holy insecurity, giving us powerful language for inter-religious dialogue and a wonderful set of tools for anyone trying to appreciate the religion of the other.”

—MARC ZV I BRE TTLE R, MORTO N AND BE RNIC E LE RNE R D ISTINGUISHED PROFE SSOR O F J E W ISH STU D IE S, DU KE U NIV E RSITY; CO-AUTHOR, WITH AMY-J ILL LE V INE, OF TH E BI BL E WI TH A N D WI TH OU T JESU S: HOW JE WS AND C H RI STI A N S REA D TH E SA ME STORI ES D I FFEREN TLY

“Anyone who has stepped up to a border holding questionable legal papers knows the feelings these sites can summon: anxiety, desire, hope, and defiance, among others. Maeera Shreiber bravely pitches her camp at one of the most contested and troublesome of such borderzones, the one where Judaism and Christianity meet, and invites readers in to explore the intensities and paradoxes she finds swirling there. With dazzling readings of the works of Mina Loy, Karl Shapiro, Denise Levertov, Leonard Cohen, and others, Holy Envy demonstrates how modernist and postmodernist poets draw inspiration from doubt and belief, alienation and belonging.”

—J OSH LAMBE RT, SO PHIA MOSE S ROBISON ASSOC IATE PROF ESSOR OF JEWISH STU D IE S AND E NGLISH, W E LLE SLE Y COLLEGE

Holy Envy

Writing in the Jewish Christian Borderzone M A E ER A Y. SH RE IB E R 208 pages, 1 b/w illustration 9781531501730, Paperback, $30.00 (SDT), £24.99 9781531501723, Hardback, $105.00 (SDT), £90.00 Simultaneous electronic edition available NOV E MB E R Religion | Jewish Studies | Literary Studies

“What is between us and the Christians is a deep dark affair which will go for another hundred generations . . .” (Amos Oz, Judas) Among the great social shifts of the post–World War II era is the unlikely sea-change in Jewish Christian relations. We read each other’s scriptures and openly discuss differences as well as similarities. Yet many such encounters have become rote and predictable. Powerful emotions stirred up by these conversations are often dismissed or ignored. Demonstrating how such emotions as shame, envy, and desire can inform these encounters, Holy Envy: Writing in the Jewish Christian Borderzone charts a new way of thinking about interreligious relations.

Moreover, by focusing on modern and contemporary writers (novelists and poets) who traffic in the volatile space between Judaism and Christianity, the book calls attention to the creative implications of these intense encounters.

While recognizing a long-overdue need to address a fundamentally Christian narrative underwriting twentieth-century American verse, Holy Envy does more than represent Christianity as an aesthetically coercive force, or as an adversarial other. For the book also suggests how literature can excavate an alternative interreligious space, at once risky and generative. In bringing together recent accounts of Jewish Christian relations, affect theory, and poetics, Holy Envy offers new ways into difficult and urgent, conversations about interreligious encounters.

Holy Envy is sure to engage readers who are interested in literature, religion, and, above all, interfaith dialogue.

MAEERA Y. SHREIBER is Associate Professor of English, and former Director of Religious Studies, at the University of Utah, where she teaches and writes about poetry, Jewish American literature, ethnic American studies, religious studies, and interfaith relations. Professor Shreiber is the author of, among other books, Singing in a Strange Land: A Jewish American Poetics.

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The World and God Are Not-Two A Hindu–Christian Conversation DA N I EL S OAR S 256 pages 9781531502058, Paperback, $35.00 (SDT), £28.99 9781531502041, Hardback, $135.00 (SDT), £116.00 Simultaneous electronic edition available Comparative Theology: Thinking Across Traditions F E B RUA RY Religion | Theology

“This is the most precise and comprehensive treatment available on non-duality in Hindu–Christian perspective. Soars offers the strongest case that has ever been made for the deep and surprising convergence of the writings of Shankara and Thomas Aquinas on the mystery of creation, which is the mystery of nonduality. The World and God Are Not-Two thus represents a milestone in Hindu– Christian philosophical–theological engagement and will be useful for any person interested in pondering the mystery of their own existence before God.” —BRAD LE Y MALKOV SKY, U NIV E RSITY OF NOTRE DAME, FORMER EDITOR OF TH E JOU RN A L OF H I N DU – CH RI STI A N STU D I ES

The World and God Are Not-Two is a book about how the God in whom Christians believe ought to be understood. The key conceptual argument that runs throughout is that the distinctive relation between the world and God in Christian theology is best understood as a non-dualistic one. The “two”—“God” and “World”—cannot be added up as separate, enumerable realities or contrasted with each other against some common background because God does not belong in any category and creatures are ontologically constituted by their relation to the Creator.

In exploring the unique character of this distinctive relation, Soars turns to Sara Grant’s work on the Hindu tradition of Advaita Vedānta and the metaphysics of creation found in Thomas Aquinas. He develops Grant’s work and that of the earlier Calcutta School by drawing explicit attention to the Neoplatonic themes in Aquinas that provide some of the most fruitful areas for comparative engagement with Vedānta. To the Christian, the fact that the world exists only as dependent on God means that “world” and “God” must be ontologically distinct because God’s existence does not depend on the world. To the Advaitin, this simultaneously means that “World” and “God” cannot be ontologically separate either. The language of non-duality allows us to see that both positions can be held coherently together without entailing any contradiction or disagreement at the level of fundamental ontology. What it means to be “world” does not and cannot exclude what it means to be “God.” DANIEL SOARS teaches in the Divinity Department at Eton College and is book reviews editor for the Journal of Hindu–Christian Studies.

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“A major critical voice in our time, Jonathan Goldberg tracks proliferating antinomies in the texts of early modern lyric poets from Shakespeare to Donne and, triumphantly, Herbert. He does so through readings of visionary twentiethcentury critics, notably Empson, on how poetry opens life to ontic states beyond the scope of life itself.”

—GO RD O N TE SKE Y, HARVARD U NIV E RSITY

“In this succinct and lyrical study, Jonathan Goldberg examines how three critics—T. S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, and William Empson—found inspiration in early modern literature for the central ideas we now associate with modernism.

Goldberg’s ingenious close reading of these writers’ influential essays brings out fresh and unexpected implications with regard to gender, sexuality, subjectivity, and poetics. In the spirit of Ezra Pound’s famous rallying cry ‘make it new,’ Goldberg renews and revitalizes the early modern canon along with the masterworks of modernist criticism.”

—MAU D E LLMANN, U NIV E RSITY O F C HIC AGO

Being of Two Minds

Modernist Literary Criticism and Early Modern Texts J ONAT H A N G O LDB E RG 208 pages, 5 × 8 9781531501617, Paperback, $30.00 (SDT), £24.99 9781531501600, Hardback, $110.00 (SDT), £95.00 Simultaneous electronic edition available S E P T E MB ER Literary Studies | Renaissance Studies | Queer Theory

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Being of Two Minds examines the place that early modern literature held in Modernist literary criticism. For T. S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, and William Empson, the early modern period helps model a literary future. At stake in their engagements across time were ontological questions about literature and its ability to mediate between the one and the many, the particular and the general, life and death, the past and the present. If reading and writing literature enable the mind to be in two places at once, creative experience serves as a way to participate in an expanded field of consciousness alongside mortality.

Goldberg reads the readings that these modernists performed on texts that Eliot claimed for the canon like the metaphysical poets and Jacobean dramatists, but also Shakespeare, Milton, Montaigne, and Margaret Cavendish. Ontological concerns are reflected in Eliot’s engagement with Aristotle’s theory of the soul and Empson’s Buddhism. These arguments about being affect minds and bodies and call into question sexual normativity: Eliot glances at a sodomitical male–male mode of literary transmission; Woolf produces a Judith Shakespeare to model androgynous being; Empson refuses to distinguish activity from passivity to rewrite gender difference.

The work of one of our leading literary and cultural critics, Being of Two Minds spans centuries to show how the most compelling and surprising ideas about mind, experience, and existence not only move between early modernity, high modernism, and our own moment but are also constituted through that very movement between times and minds. is Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Emory University. His many books include Come as You Are, After Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick; Saint Marks: Words, Images, and What Persists; Melodrama: An Aesthetics of Impossibility; and Sodometries: Renaissance Texts, Modern Sexualities. His writing centers on early modernity but ranges from Sappho and Willa Cather to Patricia Highsmith and Todd Haynes in exploring questions of materiality and sexuality.

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“A top-notch book. Brehm’s well-synthesized and in-depth research contributes to a recent critical shift toward the cultural history of sound. The outcome is a fresh take, one that escapes the pre-set ‘grooves’ of critical inquiry.”

Kaleidophonic Modernity

Transatlantic Sound, Technology, and Literature BR ETT BR EHM 288 pages, 16 color and 14 b/w illustrations 9781531501495, Paperback, $35.00 (SDT), £28.99 9781531501488, Hardback, $125.00 (SDT), £108.00 Simultaneous electronic edition available F E B RUA RY Literary Studies | Science Studies | Cinema & Media Studies

—AND RE A GOU LE T, U NIV E RSITY O F PE NNSY LVANIA

What stories remain hidden behind one of the most significant inventions of the nineteenth century? Kaleidophonic Modernity re-examines the development of mechanical sound recording technology by charting the orbits of writers, scientists, and artists in France and the United States. Working between comparative literature, the history of science, and urban studies, Brehm builds a bridge between visual culture and sound studies.

Kaleidophonic Modernity places the poet and inventor Charles Cros and his lover, the celebrated concert pianist and salonnière Nina de Villard, at the heart of modern aesthetic and scientific vanguards. Cros’s scientific endeavors ranged from color photography, to telecommunications, to mechanical sound reproducibility. In his poetry the Surrealists found an ancestor and inspiration. His literary and scientific works prove startling and relevant to predicaments of technological media in his own time and ours. For nearly twenty years Nina de Villard presided over a supremely daring intellectual salon. There, she welcomed manifold literary, artistic, and musical luminaries into a veritable crucible of the artistic avant-garde and precursor to the famous Chat Noir cabaret. Together, these two forgotten but pivotal figures, Cros and Villard, help reframe our thinking on Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Baudelaire, and Walt Whitman, icons of urban modernity who can now be seen and heard in a kaleidophonic light, one that offers a compelling new perspective on modern mediascapes.

In elaborating this transatlantic phenomenon, Kaleidophonic Modernity illuminates the prehistory of the phonograph as it intersects with the aesthetics of sound reproducibility, Franco-American literary exchange, Poe’s aesthetic and intellectual legacy, the sounds of modern cities and technologies, and the genealogy of audiovisual experimentation found in such movements as Dada, Futurism, and the sound art of today.

BRETT BREHM

is Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies at William & Mary.

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The Intimate Rivalries of Modernism and Psychoanalysis J E N N IFER SPITZE R 208 pages 9781531502096, Paperback, $30.00 (SDT), £24.99 9781531502089, Hardback, $105.00 (SDT), £90.00 Simultaneous electronic edition available F E B RUA RY Literary Studies | Psychoanalysis

Secret Sharers traces a genealogy of secret sharing between literary modernism and psychoanalysis, focusing on the productive entanglements and intense competitive rivalries that helped shape Anglo-American modernism as a field. As Jennifer Spitzer reveals, such rivalries played out in explicit criticism, inventive misreadings, and revisions of Freudian forms—from D. H. Lawrence’s re-descriptions of the unconscious to Vladimir Nabokov’s parodies of the psychoanalytic case study. While some modernists engaged directly with Freud and Freudian psychoanalysis with unmistakable rivalry and critique, others wrestled in more complex ways with Freud’s legacy. The key protagonists of this study—D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, W. H. Auden, and Vladimir Nabokov—are noteworthy for the way they engaged with, popularized, and revised the terms of Freudian psychoanalysis, while also struggling with it as an encroaching discourse. Modernists read psychoanalysis, misread psychoanalysis, and sometimes refused to read it altogether, while expressing anxiety about being read by psychoanalysis—subjecting themselves and their art to psychoanalytic interpretations.

As analysts, such as Freud, Ernest Jones, and Alfred Kuttner, turned to literature and art to illustrate psychoanalytic theories, modernists sought to counter such reductive narratives by envisioning competing formulations of the relationship between literature and psychic life. Modernists often expressed ambivalence about the probing, symptomatic style of psychoanalytic interpretation and responded with a re-doubling of arguments for aesthetic autonomy, formal self-consciousness, and amateurism. Secret Sharers reveals how modernists transformed the hermeneutic and diagnostic priorities of psychoanalysis into novel aesthetic strategies and distinctive modes of epistemological and critical engagement. In reassessing the historical and intellectual legacies of modernism, this book suggests that modernist responses to psychoanalytic criticism anticipate more recent critical debates about the value of “symptomatic” reading and the “hermeneutics of suspicion.” is Associate Professor of English at Ithaca College. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Modernism/modernity, Journal of Modern Literature, Studies in the Novel, Modern Language Quarterly, Los Angeles Review of Books, Avidly, the New York Times, and other venues.

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“Spragins’s emphasis on corpses and the specific functions they take on in historical and diplomatic accounts is original and truly fascinating. A Grammar of the Corpse will be of interest not only to scholars of the region and period but also to those interested in a range of theoretical problems, including affect theory, new materialism, and new media theory.”

A Grammar of the Corpse

Necroepistemology in the Early Modern Mediterranean EL I Z ABET H SPRAGI NS 224 pages, 4 b/w illustrations 9781531501570, Paperback, $32.00 (SDT), £25.99 9781531501563, Hardback, $110.00 (SDT), £95.00 Simultaneous electronic edition available F E B RUA RY Literary Studies | Renaissance Studies | Middle Eastern Studies

—KATHARINA PIEC HO C KI, U NIV E RSITY O F BRITISH CO LU MB IA

No matter when or where one starts telling the story of the battle of al-Qasr al-Kabir (August 4, 1578), the precipitating event for the formation of the Iberian Union, one always stumbles across dead bodies—rotting in the sun on abandoned battlefields, publicly displayed in marketplaces, exhumed and transported for political uses. A Grammar of the Corpse: Necroepistemology in the Early Modern Mediterranean proposes an approach to understanding how dead bodies anchored the construction of knowledge within early modern Mediterranean historiography.

A Grammar of the Corpse argues that the presence of the corpse in historical narrative is not incidental. It fills a central gap in testimonial narrative: providing tangible evidence of the narrator’s reliability while provoking an affective response in the audience. The use of corpses as a source of narrative authority mobilizes what cultural historians, philosophers, and social anthropologists have pointed to as the latent power of the dead for generating social and political meaning and knowledge. A Grammar of the Corpse analyzes the literary, semiotic, and epistemological function these bodies serve within text and through language. It finds that corpses are indexically present and yet disturbingly absent, a tension that informs their fraught relationship to their narrators’ own bodies and makes them useful but subversive tools of communication and knowledge.

A Grammar of the Corpse complements recent work in medieval and early modern Iberian and Mediterranean studies to account for the confessional, ethnic, linguistic, and political diversity of the region. By reading Arabic texts alongside Portuguese and Spanish accounts of this key event, the book responds to the fundamental provocation of Mediterranean studies to work beyond the linguistic limitations of modern national boundaries.

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is Assistant Professor of Spanish at the College of the Holy Cross.

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“The ‘literary’ Tourgée of this tour-de-force collection emerges kaleidoscopically, as both neglected and multi-faceted, a lifelong advocate for racial justice, historian of the afterlives of slavery, and a writer specializing in the stillunfinished history of emancipation. The nineteen essays compellingly historicize Tourgée in all those spheres of influence through his hetero-generic writing career, from the 1870s through 1900. The result reveals Tourgée in little-known close interrelations with prominent Black and white writers of the time and, vice versa, opens out those literary networks to unexpected developments from a Tourgée vantage point. The unlikely result: Nineteenthcentury U.S. literary history, with its ossified divides between antebellum romance and postbellum realism, even the revisionist divides between slavery and emancipation, can’t look quite the same again. A literary recovery project of canon-busting and expansion at its best.”

—SU SAN GILLMAN, D ISTINGU ISHE D PRO FE SSOR O F LITE RATURE, UNIVERSITY OF C ALIFORNIA , SANTA C RU Z

Reimagining the Republic

Race, Citizenship, and Nation in the Literary Work of Albion W. Tourgée SA N D R A M . G USTAFS ON AN D R OBERT S. LEVI NE , E DITORS FOR EWO RD BY CARO LY N L. KA RC H ER 336 pages, 6 b/w illustrations 9781531501372, Paperback, $35.00 (SDT), £28.99 9781531501365, Hardback, $125.00 (SDT), £108.00 Simultaneous electronic edition available Reconstructing America D EC E M B E R Civil War | History | Literary Studies

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Albion W. Tourgée (1838–1905) was a major force for social, legal, and literary transformation in the second half of the nineteenth century. Best known for his Reconstruction novels A Fool’s Errand (1879) and Bricks without Straw (1880), and for his key role in the civil rights case Plessy v.

Ferguson (1896), challenging Louisiana’s law segregating railroad cars, Tourgée published more than a dozen novels and a volume of short stories, as well as nonfiction works of history, law, and politics. This volume is the first collection focused on Tourgée’s literary work and intends to establish his reputation as one of the great writers of fiction about the Reconstruction era—arguably the greatest for the wide historical and geographical sweep of his novels and his ability to work with multiple points of view. As a white novelist interested in the rights of African Americans, Tourgée was committed to developing not a single Black perspective but multiple Black perspectives, sometimes even in conflict. The challenge was to do justice to those perspectives in the larger context of the story he wanted to tell about a multiracial America.

The seventeen essays in this volume are grouped around three large topics: race, citizenship, and nation. The volume also includes a Preface, Introduction, Afterword, Bibliography, and Chronology providing an overview of his career.

This collection changes the way that we view Tourgée by highlighting his contributions as a writer and editor and as a supporter of African American writers. Exploring the full spectrum of his literary works and cultural engagements, Reimagining the Republic: Race, Citizenship, and Nation in the Literary Work of Albion Tourgée reveals a new Tourgée for our moment of renewed interest in the literature and politics of Reconstruction.

SANDRA M. GUSTAFSON is Professor of English and Concurrent Professor of American Studies at the University of Notre Dame, as well as a faculty affiliate of Notre Dame’s Center for Civil and Human Rights and a Faculty Fellow at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. She is the author of Imagining Deliberative Democracy in the Early American Republic and Eloquence Is Power: Oratory and Performance in Early America and editor of The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Vol. A. ROBERT S. LEV INE is Distinguished University Professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park. His recent books are The Failed Promise: Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson; Race, Transnationalism, and NineteenthCentury American Literary Studies; and The Lives of Frederick Douglassh. Levine is the general editor of The Norton Anthology of American Literature and the editor and co-editor of a number of volumes.

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“McLaughlin’s book is a model of literary studies in which the idea of life becomes a primary focal point. This life is neither the typical material of literary biography nor the ‘mere life’ that comes under discussion in assessments and critiques of biopolitics. By presenting the question of life as fundamentally a matter of reading, McLaughlin’s biophilology makes an invaluable contribution to our understanding of Benjamin’s early work as well as the theory of literature in general.”

—PE TE R FE NV E S, NO RTHW E STE RN U NIV E RSITY

“This is a rare book that addresses Benjamin as reader of literature, as a failed academic Literaturwissenschaftler but a highly successful, even prophetic reader.

The manuscript is marked by a lapidary quality that speaks to the expertise and depth of the author’s approach.”

The Philology of Life

Walter Benjamin’s Critical Program K EV I N MC LAUGHLIN 208 page, 51⁄2 × 8 1⁄2 9781531501693, Paperback, $32.00 (SDT), £25.99 9781531501686, Hardback, $110.00 (SDT), £95.00 Simultaneous electronic edition available Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory JA NUA RY Philosophy & Theory | Literary Studies

—LE IF W E ATHE RBY, NE W YO RK U NIV E RSITY

The Philology of Life retraces the outlines of the philological project developed by Walter Benjamin in his early essays on Hölderlin, the Romantics, and Goethe. This philological program, McLaughlin shows, provides the methodological key to Benjamin’s work as a whole.

According to Benjamin, German literary history in the period roughly following the first World War was part of a wider “crisis of historical experience”—a life crisis to which Lebensphilosophie (philosophy of life) had instructively but insufficiently responded. Benjamin’s literary critical struggle during these years consisted in developing a philology of literary historical experience and of life that is rooted in an encounter with a written image.

The fundamental importance of this “philological” method in Benjamin’s work seems not to have been recognized by his contemporary readers, including Theodor Adorno, who considered the approach to be lacking in dialectical rigor. This facet of Benjamin’s work was also elided in the postwar publications of his writings, both in German and English. In recent decades, the publication of a wider range of Benjamin’s writings has made it possible to retrace the outlines of a distinctive philological project that starts to develop in his early literary criticism and that extends into the late studies of Baudelaire and Paris. By bringing this innovative method to light, this study proposes “the philology of life” as the key to the critical program of one of the most influential intellectual figures in the humanities.

KEV IN MCLAUGHLIN is Dean of Faculty at Brown University, where he serves as George Hazard Crooker University Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and German Studies.

He is the author of Poetic Force: Poetry after Kant; Paperwork: Literature and Mass Mediacy in the Age of Paper; and Writing in Parts: Imitation and Exchange in Nineteenth-Century Literature and the co-translator of Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project.

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“Moroccan Other-Archives will be of great interest to scholars of the region and the Global South, of human rights studies, comparative literature, archives, and library sciences.”

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“El Guabli’s book joins the growing field of ‘archive studies’ in questioning an official historiography that silences other histories not only by virtue of its methodological precepts but also by the partnership between the state apparatus and archives. As El Guabli shows, what has been written out of official archives has nevertheless left marks on unofficial memory, and it is to the excavation of this other archive that his work is dedicated. The book is written in a fluid and accessible prose that can be read with ease and pleasure.”

—NASRIN QAD E R, NORTHW E STE RN U NIV E RSITY

Moroccan Other-Archives History and Citizenship after State Violence BR A HIM EL G UAB LI 272 pages, 6 b/w illustrations 9781531501457, Paperback, $35.00 (SDT), £28.99 9781531501440, Hardback, $125.00 (SDT), £108.00 Simultaneous electronic edition available F E B RUA RY Literary Studies | Middle Eastern Studies | Human Rights

Moroccan Other-Archives investigates how histories of exclusion and silencing are written and rewritten in a postcolonial context that lacks organized and accessible archives. The book draws on cultural production concerning the “years of lead”—a period of authoritarianism and political violence between Morocco’s independence in 1956 and the death of King Hassan II in 1999—to examine the transformative roles memory and trauma play in reconstructing stories of three historically marginalized groups in Moroccan history: Berbers/Imazighen, Jews, and political prisoners.

The book shows how Moroccan cultural production has become an other-archive: a set of textual, sonic, embodied, and visual sites that recover real or re-imagined voices of these formerly suppressed and silenced constituencies of Moroccan society. Combining theoretical discussions with close reading of literary works, the book re-envisions both archives and the nation in postcolonial Morocco. By producing other-archives, Moroccan cultural creators transform the losses state violence inflicted on society during the years of lead into a source of civic engagement and historiographical agency, enabling the writing of histories about those Moroccans who have been excluded from official documentation and state-sanctioned histories.

This book is multilingual and interdisciplinary, examining primary sources in Amazigh/Berber, Arabic, Darija, and French, and drawing on memory studies, literary theory, archival studies, anthropology, and historiography. In addition to showing how other-archives are created and operate, El Guabli elaborates how language, gender, class, race, and geographical distribution are co-constitutive of a historical and archival unsilencing that is foundational to citizenship in Morocco today.

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“Bryce Rich undertakes an ambitious re-interpretation of Eastern Orthodox doctrines about fixed gender dualism. Returning to Orthodox sources while sharing their deepest commitments, he finds many credible warrants for alternate teachings and more generous pastoral approaches. Since the practice is humanly urgent, it calls for serious theoretical attention. As Rich proposes better-grounded conclusions about sex and gender, he reminds readers of the incarnate diversity of their sanctification—and the tender humility needed to witness it or to assist it.”

—MARK D. J O RDAN, HARVARD D IV INITY SC HOO L

“Women, gender, and sexuality have been deeply divisive issues for Orthodox Christians, especially in recent decades. In this book, Bryce Rich offers a constructive way forward. He brings sound learning, clear thinking, and patient explication. With discernment and wisdom, he guides the reader through an honest treatment of biblical and patristic foundations, considers the impact of major scientific findings, and assesses questions raised by trajectories in modern theology. The results are illuminating and profoundly significant for us all. This is a game-changer, and one for which we can be grateful.”

Gender Essentialism and Orthodoxy Beyond Male and Female BRYC E E. R IC H 272 pages 9781531501532, Paperback, $35.00 (SDT), £28.99 9781531501525, Hardback, $125.00 (SDT), £108.00 Simultaneous electronic edition available Orthodox Christianity and Contemporary Thought F E B RUA RY Religion | Gender & Sexuality

—SU SAN ASHBRO O K HARV E Y, BROW N U NIV E RSITY

Within contemporary orthodoxy, debates over sex and gender have become increasingly polemical over the past generation. Beginning with questions around women’s ordination, arguments have expanded to include feminism, sexual orientation, the sacrament of marriage, definitions of family, adoption of children, and care of transgender individuals. Preliminary responses to each of these topics are shaped by gender essentialism, the idea that male and female are ontologically fixed and incommensurate categories with different sets of characteristics and gifts for each sex. These categories, in turn, delineate gender roles in the family, the church, and society.

Gender Essentialism and Orthodoxy offers an immanent critique of gender essentialism in the stream of the contemporary Orthodox Church influenced by the “Paris School” of Russian émigré theologians and their heirs. It uses an interdisciplinary approach to bring into conversation patristic reflections on sex and gender, personalist theological anthropology, insights from gender and queer theory, and modern biological understandings of human sexual differentiation. Though these are seemingly unrelated discourses, Gender Essentialism and Orthodoxy reveals unexpected points of convergence, as each line of thought eschews a strict gender binary in favor of more open-ended possibilities.

The study concludes by drawing out some theological implications of the preceding findings as they relate to the ordination of women to the priesthood, same-sex unions and sacramental understandings of marriage, definitions of family, and pastoral care for intersex, transgender, and nonbinary parishioners.

BRYCE E. RICH holds a Ph.D. in Theology from the University of Chicago. He has participated in six conferences on orthodoxy and sexuality in Finland, Norway, and England.

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“Much has been written about the U.S. Civil War and its aftermath. Continent in Crisis tells a different story. By expanding the war’s geographic and chronological scope, the book traces the transnational conflicts, reverberations, and fractures that shaped historical processes in a large, complex, densely connected region during a critical period. It brings together the fascinating stories of diverse actors: fugitive slaves, empire builders, filibusters and privateers, soldiers and politicians, indigenous leaders and British officeholders. It explores their ideas of what the nation was and what it should become and reveals how their alternative visions shaped the history of North America.”

—E RIKA PANI, E L COLEGIO D E MÉ XICO

Continent in Crisis

The U.S. Civil War in North America BR I A N S C H O EN, J EW E L L. SPA NGLE R, A N D FR ANK TOWE RS, E DI TORS 272 pages, 3 b/w illustrations 9781531501297, Paperback, $35.00 (SDT), £28.99 9781531501280, Hardback, $125.00 (SDT), £108.00 Simultaneous electronic edition available Reconstructing America D EC E M B E R Civil War | History | Politics

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Written by leading historians of the mid–nineteenth century United States, this book focuses on the continental dimensions of the U.S. Civil War. It joins a growing body of scholarship that seeks to understand the place of America’s mid-nineteenth-century crisis in the broader sweep of world history. However, unlike other studies that have pursued the Civil War’s connections with Europe and the Caribbean, this volume focuses on North America, particularly Mexico, British Canada, and sovereign indigenous states in the West.

As the United States went through its Civil War and Reconstruction, Mexico endured its own civil war and then waged a four-year campaign to expel a French-imposed monarch.

Meanwhile, Britain’s North American colonies were in complex and contested negotiations that culminated in confederation in 1867. In the West, indigenous nations faced an onslaught of settlers and soldiers seeking to conquer their lands for the United States. Yet despite this synchronicity, mainstream histories of the Civil War mostly ignore its connections to the political upheaval occurring elsewhere in North America.

By reading North America into the history of the Civil War, this volume shows how battles over sovereignty in neighboring states became enmeshed with the fratricidal conflict in the United States. Its contributors explore these entangled histories in studies ranging from African Americans fleeing U.S. slavery by emigrating to Mexico to Confederate privateers finding allies in Halifax, Nova Scotia. This continental perspective highlights the uncertainty of the period when the fate of old nations and possibilities for new ones were truly up for grabs.

CONTRIBUTORS: Alice L. Baumgartner, Beau Cleland, Susan Mary Grant, Amy S. Greenberg, John Craig Hammond, John W. Quist, Brian Schoen, Andrew Slap, Frank Towers BRIAN SCHOEN is the James Richard Hamilton / Baker and Hostetler Professor of Humanities and Chair of the Department of History at Ohio University. He is author of The Fragile Fabric of Union: Cotton, Federal Politics, and the Global Origins of the Civil War and several recent book chapters, articles, and edited anthologies on the early American Republic and Civil War era.

is Associate Professor of History and Department Head at the University of Calgary. She is the author of Virginians Reborn: Anglican Monopoly, Evangelical Dissent, and the Rise of the Baptists in the Late Eighteenth Century and co-editor of Remaking North American Sovereignty: State Transformation in the 1860s (Fordham).

JEWEL L. SPANGLER

FRANK TOWERS is Professor of History at the University of Calgary. He is the author of The Urban South and the Coming of the Civil War as well as co-editor of anthologies including The Old South’s Modern Worlds: Slavery, Region, and Nation in the Age of Progress; Confederate Cities: The Urban South During the Civil War Era; and Remaking North American Sovereignty: State Transformation in the 1860s (Fordham).

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“Updated scholarship and an excellent bibliographic essay make the current volume worth the price. . . . In all, a worthwhile purchase, handsomely produced and well written. Summing up: recommended. All academic levels/libraries.”

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“The Northern Home Front During the Civil War would be an excellent book to assign to undergrads in a class on the Northern experience of the war and possibly a Civil War survey.”

—CI V I L WA R BOOK REV I EW, O N THE FIRST E D ITIO N

“Paul Cimbala and Randall Miller are editors extraordinaire. . . . In this short volume, the authors provide ample evidence of how much the lives Northerners were eager to get on with, as well as the nation they inhabited, were changed. A synthesis of recent scholarship on the war, The Northern Home Front During the Civil War also features original research that highlights how everyday Americans in Northern communities sought to make sense of a war that came into their homes and communities and stayed there too long.”

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With a new Preface and updated historiographical essay

The Northern Home Front during the Civil War PAU L A. C IMBALA AND R A N DA LL M . MILLE R 262 pages, 61⁄8 × 91⁄4, 19 black & white illustrations 9781531501938, Paperback, $30.00 (SDT), £24.99 Simultaneous electronic edition available The North’s Civil War F E B RUA RY Civil War | History | Politics

Based on recent scholarship and deep research in primary sources, especially the letters and diaries of “ordinary people,” The Northern Home Front during the Civil War is the first full narrative history and analysis of the northern home front in almost a quarter-century. It examines the mobilization, recruitment, management, politics, costs, and experience of war from the perspective of the home front, with special attention to the ways the war affected the ideas, identities, interests, and issues shaping people’s lives, and vice versa. The book looks closely at people’s responses to war’s demands, whether in supporting the Union cause or opposing it, and it measures the ways the war transformed society and economy or simply reconfirmed ideas and reinforced practices already underway. As The Northern Home Front during the Civil War reveals, issues and concerns of emancipation, conscription, civil liberties, economic policies and practices, religion, party politics, war management, popular culture, and work were all part of what Lincoln rightly termed “a People’s Contest” and as much as the armies in the field determined the outcome of the nation’s ordeal by fire. As The Northern Home Front during the Civil War shows, understanding the experience of the women and men on the home front is essential to realizing Walt Whitman’s oft-quoted call to get “the real war” into the books.

PAUL A . CIMBALA is Professor Emeritus of History at Fordham University, The Bronx, New York. His published works include Under the Guardianship of the Nation: The Freedmen’s Bureau and the Reconstruction of Georgia, 1865–1870 and Veterans North and South: The Transition from Soldier to Civilian after the American Civil War. With Randall M. Miller, he has edited several essay collections dealing with the Civil War and Reconstruction.

RANDALL M. MILLER is Professor Emeritus of History at Saint Joseph’s University, Philadelphia. He is the author or editor of numerous books on a variety of subjects, including the Civil War, Reconstruction, slavery, religion, and politics. Among his Civil War–related books are, as co-editor, Religion and the American Civil War; The Birth of the Grand Old Party: The Republicans’ First Generation; and Women and the American Civil War: North–South Counterpoints.

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“General education, the deadly term for introducing students to the varied wonders of academic discovery and learning, may well be a college’s most important task. Sadly we often fail, as the political process results in dull compromises. The faculty at Boston College sought a different route to a better outcome, collaborating with a design firm to forge consensus on a truly fresh set of efforts. It’s a great and heartening story, told with extraordinary frankness by several lead participants and concluding with several examples of the faculty’s trials in trying something authentically new. And what the BC faculty and administration describe should be of crucial interest to every college seeking greater engagement of students with their own education, and with the faculty and the institution itself.”

—ROBE RT W E ISBU C H, FORME R PRE SID E NT O F D RE W U NIV E R SITY

Curriculum by Design

Innovation and the Liberal Arts Core M A RY C R A NE, DAVID QU IGLEY, A N D ANDY B OY NTON 272 pages 9781531501334, Paperback, $30.00 (SDT), £24.99 9781531501327, Hardback, $105.00 (SDT), £90.00 Simultaneous electronic edition available F E B RUA RY Education | Catholic Studies | Sociology

This book tells the story of how a team of colleagues at Boston College took an unusual approach (working with a design consultancy) to renewing their core and in the process energized administrators, faculty, and students to view liberal arts education as an ongoing process of innovation. It aims to provide insight into what they did and why they did it and to provide a candid account of what has worked and what has not worked. Although all institutions are different, they believe their experiences can provide guidance to others who want to change their general education curriculum or who are being asked to teach core or general education courses in new ways.

The book also includes short essays by a number of faculty colleagues who have been teaching in BC’s new innovative core courses, providing practical advice about the challenges of trying interdisciplinary teaching, team teaching, project- or problem-based learning, intentional reflection, and other new structures and pedagogies for the first time. It will also address some of the nuts and bolts issues they have encountered when trying to create structures to make curriculum change sustainable over time and to foster ongoing innovation.

MARY THOMAS CRANE is the Thomas F. Rattigan Professor of English and Director of the Institute for the Liberal Arts at Boston College. She is the author of books and articles on early modern English literature and culture, including Shakespeare’s Brain: Reading with Cognitive Theory and Losing Touch with Nature: Literature and the New Science in Sixteenth-Century England.

DAV ID QUIGLEY has served since 2014 as Provost and Dean of Faculties at Boston College, where he is also Professor of history. Among his scholarly works are Second Founding: New York City, Reconstruction, and the Making of American Democracy and Jim Crow New York: A Documentary History of Race and Citizenship, 1777–1877.

is Dean of Boston College’s Carroll School of Management. He is the co-author of The Idea Hunter: How to Find the Best Ideas and Make Them Happen and Virtuoso Teams: Lessons from Teams That Changed Their Worlds.

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“This important book deserves a wide audience and should be of interest to scholars working on a variety of topics. Kaag effectively exposes the Kantian roots of pragmatism, especially the link between Kant and Peirce. Against that background he articulates a pragmatic theory of the imagination that underscores its character both as fully embodied and as vitally central to human cognition and inquiry. Kaag’s own insightful account plays out in a conceptual space far removed from the dangerous extremes of either biological reductionism or what he himself labels a ‘naive panpsychism.’ The result is really quite impressive, a virtuoso philosophical performance.”

—MIC HAE L L. RAPOSA , LE HIGH U NIV E RSITY

Thinking Through the Imagination Aesthetics in Human Cognition J OH N KAAG 272 pages 9781531501846, Paperback, $28.00 (SDT), £22.99 [Hardback available: 9780823254934] eBook Available American Philosophy F E B RUA RY Philosophy & Theory | Science Studies

“This is a splendid contribution, not to be ignored by cognitive scientists, scholars of American philosophy, and philosophers and critics interested in imagination.”

—ROBE RT NE V ILLE, BOSTO N U NIV E RSITY

Use your imagination! The demand is as important as it is confusing. What is the imagination?

What is its value? Where does it come from? And where is it going in a time when even the obscene seems overdone and passé?

This book takes up these questions and argues for the centrality of imagination in human cognition. It traces the development of the imagination in Kant’s critical philosophy (particularly the Critique of Aesthetic Judgment) and claims that the insights of Kantian aesthetic theory, especially concerning the nature of creativity, common sense, and genius, influenced the development of nineteenth-century American philosophy.

The book identifies the central role of the imagination in the philosophy of Peirce, a role often overlooked in analytic treatments of his thought. The final chapters pursue the observation made by Kant and Peirce that imaginative genius is a type of natural gift (ingenium) and must in some way be continuous with the creative force of nature. It makes this final turn by way of contemporary studies of metaphor, embodied cognition, and cognitive neuroscience. is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell.

He is the author of Sick Souls, Healthy Minds: How William James Can Save Your Life (Finalist, 2021 PROSE Award); Hiking with Nietzsche: On Becoming Who You Are (NPR Book of the Year); American Philosophy: A Love Story (NPR Book of the Year; New York Times Editors’ Choice); and Idealism, Pragmatism, and Feminism: The Philosophy of Ella Lyman Cabot and co-author with Sarah Kreps of Drone Warfare (Choice Outstanding Title).

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Joyce Studies Annual 2022

M O SH E G O LD AND KE RI WALSH, ED I TO R S 9781531502430, Hardback, $65.00 (SDT)

Townies

W IL LIAM O’S H AUGH NE S SY 240 pages 9781531502447, Hardback, $29.95 (HC), £24.99 Whitney Media Publishing Group N OV EM BER Cinema & Media Studies | Memoir | New York City & Regional

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An indispensable resource for scholars and students of James Joyce, Joyce Studies Annual gathers essays by foremost scholars and emerging voices in the field.

MOS H E G O L D is Associate Professor of English and the Director of the Rose Hill Writing Program at Fordham University, where he teaches courses in literary and critical theory, pedagogy theory and practice, and horror films.

KERI WA L S H is the Director of the Institute of Irish Studies at Fordham University and founder of Fordham’s annual Irish Women Writers Symposium.

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Townies, by William O’Shaughnessy, is an unabashed paean of acclamation and admiration for the leading lights of Westchester County and beyond without high estate, standing, stature, or national reputation—the sidemen in orchestras long dispersed. This collection of character studies, tributes, appreciations, interviews, and eulogies derives its power to inform and captivate from the radiance of these good people, their good will, and their good deeds, which shine brighter than the lights of Broadway on a Saturday night.

WILLIAM O’ SHAUGHNESSY (1938–2022) was president and editorial director of Whitney Global Media, parent company of Westchester community radio stations WVOX and WVIP. In addition to Townies, he is the author of Radio Active; Airwaves: A Collection of Radio Editorials from the Golden Apple; It All Comes Back to Me Now: Character Portraits from the Golden Apple; More Riffs, Rants, and Raves; VOX POPULI: The O’Shaughnessy Files; and Mario Cuomo: Remembrances of a Remarkable Man.

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