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ThereAreNoHispanic Stars!”

CollectedWritingsofaLatino FilmCriticinHollywood, 1921–1939

GabrielNavarro,Editedby ColinGunckel&LauraIsabel Serna

October 2023 336pp 11b&willus.

9780895512048£18.99 / $21.95PB UNIVERSITYOFWASHINGTONPRESS

Thebookassemblesthenovellasandarticlesthat representNavarro’sextensivebodyoffilmand culturalcriticismandexploresthefilmculturethat emergedintheSouthwest'sMexicanimmigrant community.

AfterlivesofEndor

Witchcraft,Theatricality,and Uncertaintyfromthe"Malleus Maleficarum"toShakespeare

LauraLevine

November 2023 192pp

9781501772184£22.99 / $26.95PB

9781501772085£112.00/$125.00 HB

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AfterlivesofEndor offersananalysisofthewayEarly ModernEnglishliteratureaddressedtheperiod's anxietiesaboutwitchcraftandtheatricality. Levineexaminesthewayliterarytextssuch asShakespeare's TheWinter'sTale and The Tempest,Spenser's TheFaerieQueene,and Marlowe's TragicallHistoryofDoctorFaustus address anxietiesaboutwitchcraft,illusion,andtheatricality.

BeautifulUgliness

Christianity,Modernity,andthe Arts

MarkWilliamRoche

October 2023 520pp 63colorillus.,2

b&willus.

9780268207014£54.00 / $60.00HB

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Manygreatartworksinclude elementsofugliness.Roche’sauthoritative monographchallengescurrentpracticesofthe dominantaestheticschoolsbyexploringtheroleof uglinessinartandliterature.Rocheoffersa comprehensiveanduniqueframeworkthat integratesphilosophicalandtheologicalreflection.

AftertheRoundup EscapeandSurvivalinHitler's France

JosephWeismannTranslated byRichardKutner

September 2023 130pp 128colorillus.

9780253066480£13.99 / $16.00PB

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OnthenightsofJuly16and17,1942,Frenchpolice roundedup11-year-oldJosephWeismann,his family,and13,000otherJews. AftertheRoundup is astoryofhope,friendship,andcourageintheface repression,hatred,andfear.Thisgraphicnovel, originallypublishedinFrench,isbasedon Weismann'smemoirofthesamename.

AtthePivotofEastand West

Ethnographic,Literary,andFilmic Arts

MichaelM.J.Fischer

ExperimentalFutures

August 2023 368pp 15illus.

9781478019893£25.99 / $29.95PB

9781478017189£98.00/$109.95 HB

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Examinesdocumentaryfilmmaking,literature,and innovativedancefromSoutheastAsiaandSingapore fortheirpara-ethnographicinsightsintopolitics, culture,andaesthetics.Fischerexemplifieshowart andfictiontracethewaysinwhichtaken-for-granted commonsensechangesovertime.

BetweenTwoMillstones,

ExileinAmerica,1978-1994

AleksandrSolzhenitsyn

TranslatedbyClareKitson&

MelanieMooreForewordby

DanielJ.Mahoney

TheCenterforEthicsandCulture SolzhenitsynSeries

September 2023 584pp

9780268109011£24.99 / $29.00NIP

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ThiscompellingaccountconcludesNobelPrize–winnerAleksandrSolzhenitsyn’sliterarymemoirsof hisyearsintheWestafterhisforcedexilefromthe USSRfollowingthepublicationofTheGulag Archipelago.

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BeyondHostileIslands

ThePacificWarinAmericanand

NewZealandFictionWriting

DanielMcKayForewordby

WorldWarII:TheGlobal,Human,and EthicalDimension

February 2024 240pp

9781531505165£25.99 / $30.00PB

9781531505158£94.00/$105.00 HB

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ContributestoongoingeffortsbyAustralasian scholarstoplacetheirnationalculturesin conversationwiththoseoftheUnitedStates. Throughout,thecentralissuepivotsaroundthe questionofhoworwhetheratallNewZealand fictionwritingdiffersfromthatoftheUnitedStates.

CatastrophicHistoricism

ReadingJuliadeBurgos

Dangerously

RonaldMendoza-deJesús

Idiom:InventingWritingTheory

November 2023 272pp

9781531505646£27.99 / $32.00PB

9781531505639£99.00/$110.00 HB

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CatastrophicHistoricism showsthathistoricismisa transcendentalontologythatmustbechallengedby endangeringthereductionofthepasttoa possession.Thebookthenendangersthehistoricist receptionofJuliadeBurgos,PuertoRico’smosticonic writer,interpretingherworkasthepoeticsofPuerto Ricanmodernity.

Conflicts

ThePoeticsandPoliticsof

Palestine-Israel

LironMor

December 2023 288pp 6b&willus.

9781531505448£27.99 / $32.00PB

9781531505431£99.00/$110.00 HB

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Conflicts engagesHebrewand Arabicliteraturetocriticallyreassesstheconceptof conflict.Drawingonadiversearchive,rangingfrom the1930stothepresentandfromproseandpoetry tofilmandtelevision,itrevealsindigenousliterary conceptsthatbettertheorizetheregion’s antagonismsandmediations,itscolonial technologiesandanticolonialpractices.

BorderConditions

Russian-SpeakingLatvians betweenWorldOrders

KevinM.F.Platt

NIUSeriesinSlavic,EastEuropean,and EurasianStudies

February 2024 348pp 29b&whalftones

9781501773709£51.00 / $56.95HB

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Combineshistoryandmemorystudieswithliterary andculturalstudiestoexaminelivesatthelimitsof contemporaryEurope—thoseofthehalf-million Russian-speakerswholiveinLatvia.Plattdescribes howthemembersofthispopulationhaveworked todefinethemselvesthroughart,literature,cultural institutions,film,andmusic—andhowothershave soughttodefinethem.

ColoringintoExistence

QueerofColorWorldmakingin

Children’sLiterature

IsabelMillán

December 2023 352pp 41b&willus.

9781479816989£25.99 / $30.00PB

9781479816972£80.00/$89.00 HB

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ColoringintoExistence investigatestheroleofauthors,illustrators,and independentpublishersinproducingalternative narrativesthatdisruptcolonial,heteropatriarchal notionsofchildhood.Millánexploresthecurious waysthatqueerandtransofcolorpublications“color outsidethelines”—mobilizingalternativemodesof productionanddistributiontocreatenewworlds.

Dante's"VitaNova"

ACollaborativeReading

EditedbyZygmuntG.Baranski &HeatherWebb

WilliamandKatherineDeversSeriesin DanteandMedievalItalianLiterature

December 2023 510pp

9780268207403£58.00 / $65.00PB

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Thisgroundbreakingvolumerepresentsthefruitofa two-year-longseriesofinternationalseminarsaimed atdevelopingafreshwayofreadingDante’s Vita nova.Focusisconcentratedonthe Vitanova inits textualandhistoricalcontext.Thevolumelikewise offersinsightsintoDante’ssocialenvironment,his relationshipswithotherpoets,andDante’sevolving visionofhispoetry’sscope.

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Dickens'sIdiomatic Imagination

TheInimitableandVictorian BodyLanguage PeterJ.Capuano

December 2023 282pp 15b&w halftones,8graphs

9781501772863£27.99 / $31.95PB

9781501772856£112.00/$125.00 HB

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Dickenswasfamouslydrawntothevernacular languageofLondon'sstreets,butthisbookisthe firsttocallattentiontohowheemployedphrases thatembodyactions,ideas,andsocialrelationsfor specificnarrativepurposes.Capuanodemonstrates howDickenscametorelishusingcommonidiomsin uncommonwaysandthepossibilitiestheyopened upforartisticexpression.

EmpiricalEcocriticism

EnvironmentalNarrativesfor SocialChange

EditedbyMatthewSchneider-

Mossner,W.P.Malecki&Frank Hakemulder

August 2023 408pp 27b&willus.and7

tables

9781517915353£25.99 / $30.00PB

9781517915346£108.00/$120.00 HB

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Providesanapproachableintroductiontothis growingfield’smainmethodsanddemonstratestheir potentialthroughcasestudiesontopicsrangingfrom theimpactofclimatefictiononreaders’willingness toengageinactivismtothepoliticalempowerment thatresultsfromparticipatinginenvironmental theater.

EverythingIsSampled DigitalandPrintMediationsin AfricanArtsandLetters

AkinwumiAdesokan

April 2023 396pp 12colorillus.

9780253065667£40.00 / $45.00PB

9780253065650£81.00/$90.00 HB

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EverythingIsSampled examines theshiftingmodesofproductionandcirculationof Africanartisticformssincethe1980s,focusingon digitalcultureasthemostcurrentlydecisivesetting forthesechanges.Thisbookoffersanabsorbingly complexyetnuancedapproachtoappreciatingthe workofseveralgenerationsofAfricanwriters, directors,andartists.

EightDogs,or "Hakkenden"

PartTwo—HisMaster'sBlade KyokuteiBakinTranslatedby GlynneWalley

February 2024 592pp 104b&w halftones,17colorplates

9781501773907£32.00 / $36.95PB

9781501773891£112.00/$125.00 HB

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ThesecondpartofHakkendenbeginsthestoryof theeightDogWarriors.ThefirstisInuzukaShino, orphaneddescendentofproudwarriors.Shinoand theotherDogWarriorsaredrawnintoaworldof vendettasandquests,gallants,androgues,aseach strivestolearnhistruenatureandfindhisplacein theeight-manfraternity.

Environmental HumanitiesontheBrink

TheVanitasHypothesis

VincentBruyere

September 2023 176pp

9781503630505£76.00 / $85.00HB

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Inthisexperimentalworkof ecocriticism,VincentBruyere confrontstheseemingpointlessnessofthe humanitiesamidspectacularlynegativefuture projectionsofenvironmentalcollapse.Considering questionsofquieterasureandenvironmental memory,thisbookarguesweoughttokeepreading, evenbytheflickeringlightofextinction.

F.ScottFitzgerald

ACompositeBiography

EditedbyNiklasSalmose& DavidRennie

January 2024 448pp 78b&willus.

9781517915858£25.99 / $29.95HB

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Bringingtogethertwenty-three leadingwritersandscholarson Fitzgerald,eachfocusingontwoyearsofhislife,this volumetakesitscuefromHenryJames’sremark, citedbypreeminentFitzgeraldbiographerScott Donaldson:“Thewholeofanythingisnevertold;you canonlytakewhatgroupstogether.”

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FictionsofPleasure

ThePutainMemoirsof PrerevolutionaryFrance

AlistaireTallent

EARLYMODERNFEMINISMS

December 2023 238pp

9781644533239£38.00 / $42.95PB

9781644533246£116.00/$130.00 HB

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OutofthelibertineliterarytraditionofeighteenthcenturyFranceemergedoveradozenmemoir novelsoffemalelibertineswhoeagerlytakeupsex workasameansofescapefromthepatriarchal controloffathersandhusbandstopursuepleasure, wealth,andpersonalindependenceoutsidethe private,domesticsphere.

HauntedEmpire

GothicandtheRussianImperial

Uncanny

ValeriaSobol

NIUSeriesinSlavic,EastEuropean,and EurasianStudies

October 2023 216pp 4b&whalftones,1 map

9781501770104£23.99 / $27.95NIP

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ShowsthatGothicelementsinRussianliterature frequentlyexpresseddeep-setanxietiesaboutthe Russianimperialandnationalidentity.Focusingon twospacesoftheimperialuncanny—theBaltic north/FinlandandtheUkrainiansouth—Haunted Empire reconstructsapowerfuldiscursivetradition thatrevealsthemechanismsoftheRussianimperial imaginationthatarestillatworktoday.

HumanitarianFictions

Africa,Altruism,andthe NarrativeImagination

MeganColePaustian

January 2024 288pp

9781531505486£29.99 / $35.00PB

9781531505479£112.00/$125.00 HB

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Fartoooften,aidtoAfricais envisionedthroughataleofWesternheroessaving Africansufferers. HumanitarianFictions aimsto understandtheworkingsofhumanitarianliterature, astheyengagewithandcritiquenarrativesofAfrica. Paustianshowshowthenovelcanenrichthecritique ofwhitesaviorismwhilealsoimaginingalternatives thatgiveAfricanagencyitsdue.

ForPleasure

Race,Experimentalism,and Aesthetics

RachelJaneCarroll

MinoritarianAesthetics

December 2023 304pp 6b&willus.

9781479826735£25.99 / $30.00PB

9781479826728£80.00/$89.00 HB

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Proposesthatexperimentalaestheticsshapedrace inthetwentieth-centuryUnitedStatesbycreating transformativescenesofpleasure.Carrollexplains howaestheticpleasureisfundamentaltothe productionandcirculationofracialmeaninginthe UnitedStatesthroughastudyofexperimentalwork byauthorsandartistsofcolor.

HowRussianLiterature BecameGreat

RolfHellebust

NIUSeriesinSlavic,EastEuropean,and EurasianStudies

January 2024 264pp

9781501773419£45.00 / $49.95HB

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Explorestheculturalandpolitical roleofamodernnationalliterature,orchestratedina SlavonickeybutresonatingfarbeyondRussia's borders.Hellebustinvestigatesarangeofliterary tendencies,philosophies,andtheoriesfromantiquity tothepresent.BesidestheusualRussiansuspects fromPushkintoChekhov,Hellebustincludes Europeanwriters:ByronandShelley,Goetheand Schiller,andmore.

ILoveBillandOther Stories

AnyiWangTranslatedbyTodd

FoleyForewordbyXudong

Zhang

September 2023 260pp

9781501771064£27.99 / $31.95PB

9781501771057£112.00/$125.00 HB

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ShowcasestheworkofWangAnyi,oneofChina's mostprolificandhighlyregardedwriters,intwo novellasandthreeshortstories.Inthisthoughtful translation, ILoveBillandOtherStories offers poignantandnuancedportrayalsoflifeduring China'seconomicandculturaltransitionattheturn ofthemillennium.

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IntheMeanTime

TemporalColonizationandthe MexicanAmericanLiterary

Tradition

ErinMurrah-Mandril

PostwesternHorizons

November 2023 186ppindex

9781496237477£25.99 / $30.00NIP

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TakingacuefromLatina/oandborderlandsspatial theories, IntheMeanTime arguesthattime,like space,isasociallyconstructed,ideologically chargedmediumofpowerintheSouthwest.This bookdrawsonliterature,autobiography,political documents,andhistoricalnarrativescomposed between1870and1940toexaminethewayU.S. colonizationalteredtimeintheborderlands.

LiteratureandtheArts

InterdisciplinaryEssaysin

MemoryofJamesAnderson

Winn

EditedbyAnnaBattigelli

October 2023 226pp 6colorand28b&w illus.

9781644533116£36.00 / $39.95PB

9781644533123£108.00/$120.00 HB

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Thetenessaysin LiteratureandtheArts explorethe intermedialplenitudeofeighteenth-centuryEnglish culture,honoringthememoryofJamesAnderson Winn,whoseworkdemonstratedhowseeingthat interplayoftheartsandliteraturewasessentialtoa fullunderstandingofRestorationandeighteenthcenturyEnglishculture.

Luck

MargaretRandallIllustrated byBarbaraByers

October 2023 256pp 17b&wimages

9781613322192£19.99 / $22.95PB

9781613322208£80.00/$89.00 HB

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Fearlesspersonalessaysfroma treasuredfeministpoetand activist. Luck isacollectionofessayscoveringsuch topicsasmemory,language,landscape,poetry, anger,sex,food,pandemics,war,violence,feminism, lies,imagination,death,power,identity,andof courseluck.

JaneKenyon

TheMakingofaPoet

DanaGreene

October 2023 224pp 15b&wphotos

9780252045387£25.99 / $29.95HB

UNIVERSITYOFILLINOISPRESS

Demystifyingthe“PoetLaureate ofDepression”.DanaGreene drawsonawealthofpersonal correspondenceandothernewlyavailable materialstodelveintotheorigins,achievement, andlegacyofKenyon’spoetryandseparatethe artist’slifestoryfromthatofherhusband,the award-winningpoetDonaldHall.

LouisSébastienMercier

RevolutionandReformin

Eighteenth-CenturyParis

MichaelJ.Mulryan

September 2023 272pp 6b&willus.,2 colorillus.

9781684484874£40.00 / $44.95PB

9781684484881£134.00/$150.00 HB

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Inthispenetratingstudy—thefirstinEnglishdevoted toMercierindecades—MichaelMulryanexploreshis unpublishedwritingsandurbanchronicles,Tableau deParis(1781-88)andLeNouveauParis(1798),in whichheidentifiedthecityasamicrocosmof nationalsocietalproblems,detailedtheconditionsof thelaboringpoor,encouragededucationalreform, andconfronteduniversalsocialills.

MakingModernSpain Religion,Secularization,and CulturalProduction

AzariahAlfante

November 2023 254pp 5colorimages

9781684484959£36.00 / $39.95PB

9781684484966£116.00/$130.00 HB

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Inthiselegantly-writtenstudy, Alfanteexplorestheworkofselectnineteenthcenturywriters,intellectuals,journalists,politicians, andclergywhorespondedtoculturalandspiritual shiftscausedbythemovementtowardsecularization inSpain.Focusingonthesocialexperience,thisbook probesthetensionsbetweentraditionalismand liberalismthatinfluencedpublicopinionoftheclergy, sacredbuildings,andreligiousorders.

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MakingNo Compromise

MargaretAnderson,JaneHeap, andthe"LittleReview"

HollyA.Baggett

October 2023 312pp 21b&whalftones

9781501771446£32.00 / $36.95HB

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Thefirstbook-lengthaccountofthelivesand editorialcareersofMargaretAndersonandJane Heap,thewomenwhofoundedtheavant-garde journaltheLittleReviewin1914.Baggettexamines therolesofradicalpolitics,sexuality,modernism, andspiritualityandsuggeststhatAndersonand Heap'sinterestinesotericquestionswasevident fromtheearlydaysoftheLittleReview.

MasculinityinTransition

K.AllisonHammer

October 2023 312pp 19b&willus.

9781517914356£21.99 / $24.95PB

9781517914349£90.00/$100.00 HB

UNIVERSITYOFMINNESOTAPRESS

Analyzesshiftingrelationshipsto masculinityincanonicalworksof twentieth-centuryliteratureand film,aswellasintwenty-first-centurymedia, performance,andtransgenderpoetics. Masculinityin Transition movesthestudyofmasculinityawayfrom anoverridingpreoccupationwithcisnormativity, whiteness,andheteronormativity,andtowarda widerandmoregenerativerangeofembodiments, identifications,andideologies.

MelodramaticImperial Writing

FromtheSepoyRebellionto CecilRhodes

NeilHultgren

SeriesinVictorianStudies

September 2023 256pp

9780821426050£27.99 / $32.95NIP

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MelodramaticImperialWriting positionsmelodrama asavitalaspectofworksthatunderscoredthe contradictionsandinjusticesofBritishimperialism. Hultgrenexploresarangeoftexts,fromDickens’s writingaboutthe1857SepoyRebelliontoW.E. Henley’simperialistpoetryinordertotraceanew andcomplexhistoryofBritishimperialismandthe melodramaticmodeinlate-Victorianwriting.

ManuscriptPoetics

MaterialityandTextualityin MedievalItalianLiterature

FrancescoMarcoAresu

WilliamandKatherineDeversSeriesin

DanteandMedievalItalianLiterature

November 2023 552pp 19colorillus.,2 b&willus.

9780268206499£58.00 / $65.00PB

UNIVERSITYOFNOTREDAMEPRESS

Investigatesthecorrespondencesbetween textualityandmateriality,contentandmedium,and visual-verbalmessagesandtheirphysicalsupport throughreadingsofDanteAlighieri’s Vitanova, GiovanniBoccaccio’s Teseida,andFrancesco Petrarca’s canzoniere (Rerumvulgariumfragmenta).

MediatingViolencefrom Africa

FrancophoneLiterature,Film, andTestimonyaftertheColdWar GeorgeMacLeod

October 2023 256pp 2illus.,1appendix, index

9781496230638£58.00 / $65.00HB

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ExamineshowbothAfricanandnon-AfricanFrenchspeakingauthors,filmmakers,editors,andscholars havepackaged,interpreted,andfilmedtheviolent historiesofpost–ColdWarFrancophoneAfrica. MacLeodanalyzesthewaysFrancophoneAfrican authorsandfilmmakers,aswellastheireditorsand scholarlycritics,negotiatetheaesthetic,political, cultural,andethicalimplicationsofmakingthese traumaticstoriesvisible.

MidnightRambles

H.P.LovecraftinGotham

DavidJ.Goodwin

November 2023 272pp 22b&willus. 9781531504410£25.99 / $29.95HB

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GoodwinpresentsamicrobiographyofHowardPhillips Lovecraft’sNewYorkyears emphasizingLovecraft’sexplorationofthecity environment,thegreatermetropolitanregion,and otherlocalesandhowtheymoldedhimasawriter andasanindividual. MidnightRambles developsa portraitofatalentedandtroublingauthorandoffers insightsintohisunsettlingbeliefsonrace,ethnicity, andimmigration.

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NatureFantasies

DecolonizationandBiopolitics inLatinAmerica

GabrielHorowitz

October 2023 200pp

9781684484997£29.99 / $34.95PB

9781684485000£116.00/$130.00 HB

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Inthisoriginalstudy,Horowitzexaminesthework ofselectnineteenth-andtwentieth-centuryLatin Americanwritersthroughthelensofcontemporary theoreticaldebatesaboutnature,postcoloniality, andnationalidentity. NatureFantasies traces historicalconstructionsofnatureinJoséMartí, GertrudisGómezdeAvellaneda,JorgeLuisBorges, AugustoRoaBastos,CesarAira,andotherswriting.

OldNorseFolklore Tradition,Innovation,and PerformanceinMedieval Scandinavia

StephenA.Mitchell

MythandPoeticsII

December 2023 306pp 13b&w halftones

9781501773402£24.99 / $28.95PB

9781501773396£112.00/$125.00 HB

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ProvidescriticalnewperspectivesontheOldNorse world,someofwhichappearinthisvolumeforthe firsttimeinEnglish.Heexamines,interprets,andreinterpretsthemedievaldatabequeathedtousby posterity,targetinglargelyoverlooked,yetimportant sourcesofculturalinsighalftones

PasturesoftheEmpty Page

FellowWritersontheLifeand

LegacyofLarryMcMurtry

EditedbyGeorgeGetschow

September 2023 272pp 10b&wphotos

9781477327876£25.99 / $29.95HB

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Acollectionofessaysthatoffersanintimateviewof LarryMcMurtry,America’spreeminentwestern novelist,throughtheeyesofapantheonofwritershe helpedshapethroughhisworkoverthecourseofhis unparalleledliterarylife.Incontrasttohis curmudgeonlypersona,LarryMcMurtryemergesasa trustworthyfriendandsupportivementor.

NewCriticalNostalgia

RomanticLyricandtheCrisisof AcademicLife

ChristopherRovee

LitZ

January 2024 272pp 7b&willus. 9781531505127£27.99 / $32.00PB

9781531505110£99.00/$110.00 HB

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NewCriticalNostalgia exploresliterarystudy’s nostalgicattachmentstoitspastbyrecastingan essentialepisodeinthehistoriographyofEnglish— thevigorousrejectionofromanticismbyAmerican NewCritics—inthenewlightofthemidcentury Americanuniversity’stectonicgrowth.

OntheTurtle'sBack

StoriestheLenapeToldTheir Grandchildren

CamillaTownsend&NickyKay

Michael

CERES:RutgersStudiesinHistory

September 2023 250pp 4color&31 b&wimages

9781978819146£16.99 / $19.95PB

9781978819153£45.00/$49.95 HB

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OntheTurtle’sBack isthefirstcollectionofLenape folklore,originallycompiledbyanthropologistM.R. Harringtonoveracenturyago,butneverpublished untilnow.Init,theDelawaresharetheircherished talesabouttheworld’screation,epicheroes,and ordinaryhumanfoibles.

Poet-Monks

TheInventionofBuddhistPoetry

inLateMedievalChina

ThomasJ.Mazanec

February 2024 318pp 3b&whalftones,2 b&wlinedrawings,4maps,2charts

9781501773839£58.00 / $64.95HB

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Focusesontheliteraryand

religiouspracticesofBuddhistpoet-monksinTangdynastyChinatoproposeanalternativehistoricalarc ofmedievalChinesepoetry.Mazanecdescribeshow Buddhistpoet-monksassertedaboldnewvisionof poetrythatproclaimedtheunionofclassicalverse withBuddhistpracticesofrepetition,incantation, andmeditation.

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QueerCallings

UntimelyNotesonNamesand Desires MarkD.Jordan

November 2023 176pp

9781531504533£23.99 / $27.95HB

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Twenty-fiveyearsago,Jordan publishedhisbookontheearly historyofthecategory“sodomy”,onethathelped todecriminalizecertainsexualactsintheUnited States.Here,Jordanpresentsusesof“identity”with regardtosexualdifferencebyre-readingtextsin variousgenresthathavebeenpreoccupiedwith namingsex/genderdiversitybeyondaschemeof LGBTQ+identities.

SensesWith/out Subjects

EditedbyEricaFretwell& HsuanL.Hsu

August 2023 170pp 8illus.

9781478024743£11.99 / $14.00PB

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Topicscoveredincludesensory studies;posthumanism;critical ethnicstudies;automaticwritinganddisabled authorship;Vietnamesediasporicaesthetics;Black feministecologies;synesthesia,addiction,and personhood;andtheinfluenceofpeyoteonaltered sentienceandhistoricalformation.

Readingthe ContemporaryAuthor Narrative,Authority,Fictionality

EditedbyAlisonGibbons& ElizabethKing

FrontiersofNarrative

December 2023 290pp 4illus.,5 diagrams,index

9781496234612£58.00 / $65.00HB

UNIVERSITYOFNEBRASKAPRESS

Bringstogetherleadingscholarsinculturaltheory, literarycriticism,stylistics,narratology,comparative literature,andautobiographystudiestointerrogate howwereadthecontemporaryauthorinpublic andculturallife.

SentimentalEducation

TheStoryofaYoungMan

GustaveFlaubertTranslatedby RaymondN.MacKenzie

December 2023 480pp

9781517914134£16.99 / $19.95PB

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Afreshandvividtranslationof Flaubert’sinfluential bildungsroman. SentimentalEducation intertwines thepersonal,theintimate,andthesubjectivewith thepolitical,social,andcultural,embedding Frédéric’sstoryinthelargerarcofwhatFlaubertsaw asFrance’sdeclineintomediocrityandimbecilityin itspoliticsandmanners.

Shakespearean

Intersections

Language,Contexts,Critical

Keywords

PatriciaParker

HaneyFoundationSeries

October 2023 424pp 12illus.

9781512825558£25.99 / $29.95PB

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Parkerexplorescriticalkeywordslike“continence”in Love’sLabor’sLost,“quince”in AMidsummerNight’s Dream and“Brabant”in Othello.Parker'sdeeply evocativereadingsdemonstratehoweasy-tooverlooktextualorsemanticdetailsreverberate withinandbeyondtheShakespeareantext,and suggestthattheboundarybetweenlanguageand contextisanincontinentdivide.

ShapesofTime

HistoryandEschatologyinthe ModernistImagination

MichaelMcGillen

Signale:ModernGermanLetters, Cultures,andThought

December 2023 336pp 6b&whalftones

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McGillenlocateseffortsinGermanmodernismto conceiveofalternativeshapesoftimeatthe boundarybetweensecularandtheological discourses.Heidentifiesthewaysinwhichspatial imageryandmetaphorswereemployedtoboth separatetheendofhistoryfromanarrative frameworkandtomaptheliminalrelationbetween historyandeschatology.

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Solzhenitsynand AmericanCulture

TheRussianSoulintheWest

EditedbyDavidP.Deavel&

TheCenterforEthicsandCulture

SolzhenitsynSeries

July 2023 392pp 1b&willus.

9780268108267£40.00 / $45.00NIP

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DeavelandWilsonhavecollectedessaysfromthe foremostscholarsandthinkersofcomparative studieswhohavebeentrackingwhatAmericans haveborrowedandlearnedfromSolzhenitsynand hisfellowRussians.Thebookoffersaconsideration ofwhatwehaveincommon.

StylesofSeriousness

StevenConnor

October 2023 248pp

9781503636866£21.99 / $26.00PB

9781503636453£76.00/$85.00 HB

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Beingseriousdemandsserious kindsofwork.In Stylesof Seriousness,StevenConnor reflectsonthesurprisinglyvariouswaysinwhicha senseoftheseriousismadeandmaintained, revealingthatwhileseriousnessisthemostpowerful feeling,itisalsothemostpoignantlyindeterminate, perhapsbecauseoftheimpossibilityofbeing completelyserious.

That'saPrettyThingto CallIt

ProseandPoetrybyArtists

TeachinginCarceralInstitutions

EditedbyLeighSugar

October 2023 304pp 10b&wimages

9781613322116£21.99 / $24.95PB

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Poetryandprosebyartists,writers,andactivists who’vetaughtworkshopsinU.S.criminallegal institutionsincludingacclaimedwritersEllenBass, JoshuaBennett,JillMcDounoughandmore.Abook foranyoneseekingtounderstandtheprison industrialcomplexfromahumanperspective.

Space,Drama,and Empire MappingthePastinLopede Vega'sComedia

JavierLorenzo

September 2023 242pp 1colorphoto and4b&wphotos

9781684484911£36.00 / $39.95PB

9781684484928£116.00/$130.00 HB

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FélixLopedeVega(1562-1635)wasakeyfigureof GoldenAgeSpanishliterature,secondonlyin staturetoCervantes,andisconsideredthefounder ofSpain’sclassicaltheater.Lorenzoinvestigatesthe symbolicuseofspaceinLope’sdrama,andits functionasanideologicaltooltopromotean imaginedSpanishnationalpast.

TedKooser

MoreThanaLocal Wonder CarlaKetner

November 2023 40pp Color illus.

9781496236777£14.99 / $17.95HB

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Longbefore TedKooser wonaPulitzerPrizefor Poetry,servedastheU.S.PoetLaureate,andwrote award-winningbooksforchildren,hewasan unathleticchildgrowingupinIowa,yearningtofitin. Thisbookcelebratesthepowerofstoriesandof findingoneselfthroughwords.

TheClaremontRun

SubvertingGenderintheX-Men

J.AndrewDemanIntroduction byJayEdidin

WorldComicsandGraphicNonfiction Series

October 2023 184pp 14b&willus.

9781477325452£40.00 / $45.00HB

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Adata-drivendeepdiveintoalegendarycomics author’ssubversionofgendernormswithinthe bestsellingcomicofitstime.J.AndrewDeman’s investigationpairsclosereadingandquantitative analysistoexaminegenderrepresentation,content, characters,andstorystructure.

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TheColonial ConstructionofIndian Country

NativeAmericanLiteraturesand FederalIndianLaw

EricCheyfitz

December 2023 256pp

9781517911331£22.99 / $27.00PB

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Withafocusonresistancetothecolonialregimeof federalIndianlaw,thisbookelucidateshowNative AmericanliteraturesandfederalIndianlawareeach crucialtoanyreadingoftheotherandalsoguides readerstobetterunderstandthegenocidalassault onIndigenouspeoples.

TheCounterhuman Imaginary

Earthquakes,Lapdogs,and TravelingCoinageinEighteenthCenturyLiterature

LauraBrown

November 2023 162pp 5b&whalftones

9781501773242£18.99 / $21.95PB

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Proposesthatalongsidethehistorical,social,and institutionalstructuresofhumanrealitythatseemto bethesolesubjectoftheliterarytext,another-thanhumanworldiseverywhereinevidence.Brownfinds thatwithineighteenth-centuryBritishliterature,the humanculturalimaginarycanbeseen,equally,asa counterhumanimaginary.

TheEffluentEye

NarrativesforDecolonialRightMaking

RosemaryJ.Jolly

January 2024 264pp

9781517915698£22.99 / $27.00PB

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Arguesforthedecolonizationof humanrights,attributingtheirfailurenotsimplyto stateandinstitutionalmalfeasancebuttothevery conceptofhumanrightsasanthropocentric—and, therefore,fatallyshortsighted.Inanengagingmixof literaryandculturalcriticism,IndigenousandBlack critique,andsubstantiveforaysintothemedical humanities,Jollyproposesright-makinginthedemise ofhumanrighalftones

October 2023 480pp

TheCompleteLettersof HenryJames,

1887–1888

Volume2

HenryJamesEditedby MichaelAnesko,GregW.

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Thisseventeenthinstallmentinthecomplete collectionofHenryJames’sknownandextant lettersrecordsJames’songoingeffortstocarefor hissister,develophiswork,strengthenhis professionalstatus,engagetimelypoliticaland economicissues,andmaximizehisincome.

TheCzechManuscripts Forgery,Translation,andNational Myth

DavidL.Cooper

NIUSeriesinSlavic,EastEuropean,and EurasianStudies

October 2023 276pp 4b&whalftones,3 colorhalftones,1chart

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TheCzechManuscripts isdedicatedtooneofthe mostimportantliteraryforgeriesonthemodelof Macpherson'sOssianicpoetry.TheQueen'sCourt andGreenMountainManuscripts,discoveredin1817 and1818,wentontoplayanoutsizedroleinthe CzechNationalRevival.Cooperanalyzeswhatmade theManuscriptsaconvincingimitationoftheir SerbianandRussianmodels.

TheEthicsofNarrative EssaysonHistory,Literature,and Theory,2007–2017

HaydenWhiteEditedby RobertDoranForewordby MiekeBal

January 2024 312pp

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Thesecondvolumecompletestheprojectofbringing togethernearlyallofHaydenWhite'suncollected essaysfromthelasttwodecadesofhislife.Thebook featuresWhite'strenchantarticulationsofhis influentialtheories,aswellashisexplorationsofa widerangeofideasatthefrontiersofcriticaltheory, literature,andhistoricalstudies.

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TheGroundsofthe Novel DanielWright

January 2024 216pp

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Inapowerfulengagementwith thelatestdebatesinnovel theory,DanielWrightinvestigateshownovelists reckonwiththeontologicalstatusoftheirworks. Philosopherswhodebatewhetherfictionalworlds existtakethenovelasanontologicalproblemtobe solved;instead,Wrightrevealsthenovelasagenre ofimmanentontologicalcritique.

TheMurielRukeyserEra SelectedProse

MurielRukeyserEditedbyEric

Keenaghan&Rowena

Kennedy-Epstein

November 2023 360pp 1b&wht.

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MakesavailableforthefirsttimearangeofMuriel Rukeyser'sprose,arichanddiversearchiveof political,social,andaestheticwritings.Keenaghan andKennedy-Epsteinassembleaselectionof unpublishedandout-of-printtexts,demonstrating thediversity,brilliance,andpossibilitiesofmidtwentieth-centurywomen'sintellectuallifeand sociopoliticalengagement.

TheNewNancy

FlexibleandRelatableDaily ComicsintheTwenty-First Century

JeffKarnicky

Encapsulations:CriticalComicsStudies

September 2023 214pp 5illus.,index

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ExploreshowOliviaJaimes’s2018rebootofthe legacycomicstripexemplifiestheadaptabilityof contemporaryflexiblecomicstoservedivergent audiences,fromnostalgicfanswhoreadthedaily comicsinnewspaperstonewerwebcomicreaders. RebootedcomicstripslikeNancydirectlyconfront thestereotypicalrepresentationsthathauntthepast ofcomics.

TheK-Effect Romanization,Modernism,and theTimingandSpacingofPrint Culture

ChristopherGoGwilt

December 2023 240pp 12b&willus.

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Takingupthephenomenonofromanization,this book’scomparativereadingofJosephConrad, JamesJoyce,LuXun,FranzKafka,andPramoedya AnantaToer,proposesanimportantnewwayto assessthemulti-lingual,multi-scriptcoordinatesof transnationalmodernismandmodernprintculture.

TheNarrator

AProbleminNarrativeTheory

SylviePatronTranslatedby

CatherinePorter

FrontiersofNarrative

September 2023 384pp 4illus.,2 appendixes,2indexes

9781496231406£67.00 / $75.00HB

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Questionsthedominanceofthecommunicational paradigminthetheoryandanalysisoffictional narratives. TheNarrator offersanoriginalandcritical synthesisoftheproblemofthenarratorinthework ofnarratologistsandothertheoreticiansofnarrative communicationfromtheFrench,Czech,German,and Americantraditionsandinrepresentationsofthe noncommunicationaltheoriesoffictionalnarrative.

TheRetrospectiveMuse

PathwaysthroughAncientGreek LiteratureandCulture

FromaI.ZeitlinForewordby

SimonGoldhill

MythandPoeticsII

December 2023 360pp 6b&whalftones

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ShowcasesthecelebratedworkofFromaZeitlin.Her instantlyrecognizableworkopenedaseries ofancienttextsandideastonewformsof understanding.Aselectionoftheseessays arebroughttogetherforthefirsttimeinavolume whichshowsthefullrangeandflairofher remarkableintellect.

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TheSociologyof Literature

GisèleSapiroTranslatedby MadelineBedecarré&Ben

Libman

October 2023 144pp

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TheSociologyofLiterature isapithyprimeronthe history,affordances,andpotentialfuturesofthis growingfieldofstudy,whichfindsitsoriginsinthe FrenchEnlightenment,anditsmostsalient expressionasasociologicalpursuitintheworkof PierreBourdieu.

Unfelt

TheLanguageofAffectinthe BritishEnlightenment

JamesNoggle

December 2023 282pp 3charts

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Unfelt offersanewaccountof feelingduringtheBritish Enlightenment,findingthatthepassionsand sentimentslongconsideredaspreoccupationsofthe eradependonapotentinsensibility,thesecret emergenceofpronouncedemotionsthatonly becomeapparentwithtime.Noggleexploresliterary evocationsofimperceptibilityandunfeelingthat pervadeandsupporttheperiod'sunderstandingof sensibility.

WallaceStegner's UnsettledCountry Ruin,Realism,andPossibilityin theAmericanWest

EditedbyMarkFiege,Leisl CarrChilders&MichaelJ.

Lansing

February 2024 344pp 27photos,2illus., 2maps,index

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AssessesStegner’slife,work,andlegacyinlightof contemporaryissuesandcrises.Thecontributors showhowhisfailuresofferequallycrucialwaysto assessthepast,present,andfutureoftheregion. Thisbookisaneven-handedreclamationofStegner’s enduringrelevancetoanyoneconcernedaboutthe AmericanWest’suncertainfuture.

UglyWhitePeople

WritingWhitenessin

ContemporaryAmerica

StephanieLi

October 2023 272pp

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Exploresrepresentationsofwhitenessfromtwentyfirst-centurywhiteAmericanauthors,revealing whiterecognitionoftheuglyformswhitenesscan take.Theresultisliteraturethatmoredirectly grappleswithwhitenessasitsownconstructrather thanawronglyassumednorm.Licontextualizesa seriesofliterarynovelsascollectivelyinfluencedby changesinracialandpoliticalattitudes.

UrbanHomelands

WritingtheNativeCityfrom Oklahoma

LindseyClaireSmith

October 2023 260pp 15photos,index

9781496215536£58.00 / $65.00HB

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ExploreswritingbyNative Oklahomansthatconnectsurban homelandsinOklahomaandbeyondandrevealsthe needforanewmethodologyofurbanIndianstudies. UrbanHomelands,whileexaminingtheoverlooked historiesofOklahomaIndigenousurbanization relativetotheseregions,engagesliteratureandfilm asnotjustmirrorsofexperiencebutasproducersof it.

WhoWouldYouKillto SavetheWorld?

ClaireColebrook

Provocations

September 2023 190pp

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ClaireColebrookexamineshow postapocalypticcinemauses imagesfromthepastandpresenttodepictwhatit meanstopreservetheworld—andwhoisleftoutof thenarrativeofrebuildingsociety.Thisbookisa provocativeadditiontothefieldofextinctionstudies andchallengestheconceptualframesweuseto defineourselves.

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WhoWroteThis?

HowAIandtheLureof EfficiencyThreatenHuman Writing

NaomiS.Baron

September 2023 336pp

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Funny,informed,andconversational, WhoWrote This? urgesusasindividualsandascommunitiesto makeconsciouschoicesabouttheextenttowhich wecollaboratewithAI.Thetechnologyishereto stay.BaronshowsushowtoworkwithAIandhow tospotwhereitrisksdiminishingthevaluable cognitiveandsocialbenefitsofbeingliterate.

WritingTime StudiesinSerialLiterature, 1780–1850

SeanFranzel

Signale:ModernGermanLetters, Cultures,andThought

November 2023 408pp 25b&w halftones,1chart

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WritingTime showshowserialliteraturebasedin journalsandanthologiesshapedtheawarenessof timeatatransformativemomentintheEuropean literaryandpoliticallandscapes.SeanFranzel exploreshowGerman-speakingauthorsandeditors "writetime"bothbywritingabouttimeandby mappingtimeitselfthroughspecificliteraryformats.

BestMinds

HowAllenGinsbergMade RevolutionaryPoetryfrom Madness

StevanM.Weine

March2023 304pp37 b&willus., 9781531502669£29.99/$34.95 HB

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Withaforty-yearcareerstudying andaddressingtrauma,Weineprovidesa groundbreakingexplorationofAllenGinsbergandhis creativeprocessespeciallyinrelationtomadness.

BestMinds examinesthecomplexrelationships betweenmentalillness,psychiatry,trauma,poetry, andprophecy—usingtheaccessGinsberggenerously sharedtooffernew,lively,andindispensableinsights intoanAmericanicon.

Writingthrough BoyhoodintheLong EighteenthCentury Age,Gender,andWork

ChantelLavoie

November 2023 240pp 5colorand4 b&wimages

9781644533192£36.00 / $39.95PB

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WritingthroughBoyhood exploreshowboyhood wasconstructedindifferentcreativespacesthat reflectedthelivedexperienceofyoungboys throughthelongeighteenthcentury—notsimplyin children’sliteraturebutinnovels,poetry,medical advice,criminalbroadsides,andautomaton exhibitions.

CritiqueofCritique

RoyBen-Shai

SquareOne:First-OrderQuestionsinthe Humanities

February 2023 264pp

9781503633827£23.99 / $28.00PB

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RoyBen-Shaiinspectscritiqueasanorientationof criticalthinking,probingitsstructuresand assumptions,itslimitsanditsrisks,itshistoryandits possibilities. CritiqueofCritique setsthegroundfor anexaminationofalternativeorientationsofcritical thinking,otherwaysofinhabitingandgraspingthe world.

DeathandtheBodyin theEighteenth-Century Novel

JoleneZigarovich

January 2023 280pp

9781512823776£58.00/$64.95 HB

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Drawingonavarietyofhistorical discourses—suchaswills,undertakinghistories, medicaltreatisesandtextbooks,anatomicalstudies, philosophicaltreatises,andreligioustractsand sermons—thebookcontributestoafuller understandingofthehistoryofdeathinthe Enlightenmentanditsnarrativetransformation.

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