R&L Academic - Literature, Theatre & Film Studies 2021

2021 literature, theatre & film studies

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African Literature American Literature Children’s Literature Comparative Literature Ethnic Studies Feminism Film and TV Studies Linguistics

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Literature History & Criticism Ancient Literature Pre-16th Century 16th Century 17th Century 18th Century 19th Century 20th Century 21st Century Colonialism Gender Studies Medieval Migration Nature Political Literature Psychology of Authors Religion & Literature Romanticism Science Fiction Theatre

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Philosophical Literature Poetry Popular Literature Russian Literature Semantics Sociolinguistics Theatre Studies Young Adult Literature Recent Backlist

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Chinua Achebe and the Igbo-African World Between Fiction, Fact, and Historical Representation Edited by Chima J. Korieh and Ijeoma C. Nwajiaku

November 2021 334 pages Hardback 9781793652690 £92.00 / $120.00

CHINUA ACHEBE AND THE IGBO-AFRICAN WORLD

This book examines how Chinua Achebe presented the Igbo-African world in his writing by analyzing his engagement with critical issues like historical representation, gender, and indigenous political institutions. Contributors study how his work draws from African historical reality and identity while challenging Western epistemological hegemony.

Chima J. Korieh is professor of African History at Marquette University.

Ijeoma C. Nwajiaku teaches English and African literature in the Languages Department of Federal Polytechnic, Oko, Nigeria.

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Francophone African Narratives and the AngloAmerican Book Market

Lupenga Mphande Eco-Critical Poet and Political Activist

By Dike Okoro Series: Ecocritical Theory and Practice

Ferment on the Fringes

By Vivan Steemers March 2021 276 pp

Series: After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France

9781793617781 £81.00 / $105.00 HB Imprint: Lexington Books Audiences: Professional and scholarly

April 2021 244 pp 9781793637512 £77.00 / $100.00 HB

Post-Apartheid Gothic

Precarious Lives and Marginal Bodies in North Africa

White South African Writers and Space

Homo Expendibilis

By Mélanie Joseph-Vilain

March 2021 268 pp

Imprint: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Audiences: Professional and scholarly

9781683932451 £81.00 / $105.00 HB

By Hervé Anderson Tchumkam March 2021 194 pp

Series: After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France

9781793640758 £73.00 / $95.00 HB

Imprint: Lexington Books Audiences: Professional and scholarly

Visions of Womanhood in Contemporary African Literature

Writing the Black Decade Conflict and Criticism in Francophone Algerian Literature

By Blessing Diala-Ogamba

September 2021 186 pp

Imprint: Lexington Books Audiences: Professional and scholarly

9781793644381 £73.00 / $95.00 HB

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By Joseph Ford January 2021 178 pp

Series: After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France

9781498581868 £73.00 / $95.00 HB

Imprint: Lexington Books Audiences: Professional and scholarly

AFRICAN LITERATURE

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Charles H. Thompson on Desegregation, Democracy, and Education 1953–1963

By Louis Ray

October 2021 178 pages Paperback 9781611479935 £31.00 / $39.99

Charles H. Thompson on Desegregation, Democracy, and Education captures the evolving struggle for civil rights from the perspective of Charles H. Thompson, an education insider, brilliant scholar-activist, and arguably the leading dean in African American higher education between 1938 and 1963.

Louis Ray is associate professor at Fairleigh Dickinson University’s Peter Sammartino School of Education.

Hardback 9781611479911 £73.00 / $95.00

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Depictions of Home in African American Literature

By Trudier Harris

November 2021 226 pages Hardback 9781793649638 £77.00 / $100.00

DEPICTIONS OF HOME IN AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE

This book studies fictional homespaces in African American literature from those set in the time of slavery to modern urban configurations of the homespace. The author examines the factors that influence homespaces in African American literature and analyzes why African American writers often portray troubling and dysfunctional homespaces.

Trudier Harris is University Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of English at the University of Alabama.

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AMERICAN LITERATURE

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Nationhood and Improvised Belief in American Fiction

By Ann Genzale

January 2021 166 pages Hardback 9781793605528 £73.00 / $95.00

Nationhood and Improvised Belief in American Fiction highlights how religious beliefs intersect with questions of national belonging in the work of contemporary American novelists. Religious practices serve as a means of critiquing exclusionary constructions of national identity and provide models for alternate ways of belonging.

nn M. Genzale is assistant professor of English at Hostos Community College, City AAnn University of New York.

Table of Contents Introduction: Postsecularism and Contemporary American Fiction Chapter 1: Religious Syncretization and Survivance in Louise Erdrich’s Reservation Novels Chapter 2: Unchurched Preachers and Wanton Women: Spirituality, Community, and Nationhood in Toni Morrison’s Beloved and Paradise Chapter 3: Religious Performance in Diaspora in the Novels of Cristina García Afterward: Toward a Global Postsecular Studies

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Native American Mystery Writing Indigenous Investigations

By Mary Stoecklein

July 2021 156 pages Paperback 9781498585798 £31.00 / $39.99

This book analyzes Native-authored detective fiction to consider how Native authors use a popular literary genre to make social, cultural, and political critiques by shedding light on settler-colonial crimes, arguing for strengthened tribal sovereignty, and illustrating the resilience of Indigenous peoples.

Mary Stoecklein is adjunct instructor of writing at Pima Community College.

Hardback 9781498585774 £73.00 / $95.00

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Willa Cather and E. M. Forster Transatlantic Transcendence

By Alan Blackstock

October 2021 160 pages Paperback 9781611479812 £31.00 / $39.99

Willa Cather and E. M. Forster examines the novels of these influential twentieth-century writers in the context of liberal humanism and modernism, as well as the important questions their work continues to raise about being in the world, connections with the Other, and gender and sexuality.

Al Alan an Blackstock is professor of English at Utah State University.

Hardback 9781611479799 £69.00 / $90.00

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Ghost Words and Invisible Giants

June 2021 308 pp

H.D., Djuna Barnes, and the Language of Suffering

Masculinity and Place in American Literature since 1950

By Lheisa Dustin

By Vidya Ravi

Imprint: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Audiences: Professional and scholarly

Series: Ecocritical Theory and Practice

9781683932307 £92.00 / $120.00 HB

July 2021 172 pp 9781498587327 £73.00 / $95.00 HB 9781498587341 £31.00 / $39.99 PB

Mixed-Race Identity in the American South

May 2021 236 pp

Pedagogic Encounters

Roots, Memory, and Family Secrets

Master and Disciple in the American Novel After the 1980s

By Julia Sattler

By Aristi Trendel

Series: New Studies in Southern History

Imprint: Lexington Books 9781793627063 Audiences: Professional £77.00 / $100.00 and scholarly HB

February 2021 174 pp 9781498562157 £73.00 / $95.00 HB

Rewriting Early America

By Christopher K. Coffman Imprint: Lehigh University Press Audiences: Professional and scholarly

9781611462555 £73.00 / $95.00 HB 9781611462579 £31.00 / $39.99 PB

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Series: Politics, Literature, & Film Imprint: Lexington Books Audiences: Professional and scholarly

Women Writing the American Artist in Novels of Development from 1850-1932

The Prenational Past in Postmodern Literature

April 2021 186 pp

Imprint: Lexington Books Audiences: Professional and scholarly

The Artist Embodied

By Rickie-Ann Legleitner May 2021 244 pp 9781793610348 £77.00 / $100.00 HB

Imprint: Lexington Books Audiences: Professional and scholarly

AMERICAN LITERATURE

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Childhood, Agency, and Fantasy Walking in Other Worlds Edited by Ingrid E. Castro

January 2021 290 pages Hardback 9781498594295 £85.00 / $110.00

Childhood, Agency, and Fantasy: Walking in Other Worlds draws on childhood studies scholarship to contextualize children’s agentic entanglements with fantasy. Fantasy offers children opportunities for greater peer connectivity, identity exploration, holistic citizenry, and creative empowerment.

Ingrid E. Castro is professor of sociology and chair of the Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work Department at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts.

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Democracy in Picturebooks from Sweden and United States, 2000– 2020

By Mary Alice Barksdale and Getahun Yacob Abraham

October 2021 218 pages Hardback 9781793651402 £73.00 / $95.00

DEMOCRACY IN PICTUREBOOKS FROM SWEDEN AND UNITED STATES, 2000–2020

This study is a critical contribution toward the development of global conceptions of how picturebooks present democracy to young children. Picturebooks provide an essential opportunity for children who are future leaders and citizens to gain understanding of democratic principles and practices.

Mary Alice Barksdale is professor emeritus at the School of Education at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

Getahun Yacob Abraham is senior lecturer at Borås and Karlstad Universities.

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Educational Theory in British Children’s Literary Classics Teaching and Learning Down the Rabbit Hole

By Thomas Albritton

June 2021 154 pages Hardback 9781793616319 £69.00 / $90.00

This book analyzes iconic British children's literature through the lens of formal educational theory, policy, and practice. Examining themes like growth mindset and project-based learning alongside educational philosophers like Plato, Rousseau, and Dewey, the author sheds new light on children’s classics from Alice in Wonderland to Harry Potter.

homas Albritton is associate professor of English education at High Point University.

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Representing Agency in Popular Culture Children and Youth on Page, Screen, and In Between Edited by Ingrid E. Castro and Jessica Clark

April 2021 322 pages Paperback 9781498574969 £33.00 / $42.99 Hardback 9781498574945 £93.00 / $121.00

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Representing Agency in Popular Culture addresses the intersection of child and youth agency and popular culture. Here, scholars expand understandings of agency, power, and voice in children’s lives, identifying popular culture as an important source of inspiration and inquiry within the future of childhood studies.

Ingrid E. Castro is professor of sociology and director of women, gender, and sexuality studies at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts.

Jessica Clark is senior lecturer in sociology and childhood studies at the University of Suffolk.

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Critical Essays on English and Bengali Detective Fiction Edited by Debayan Deb Barman

November 2021 246 pages Hardback 9781793649577 £77.00 / $100.00

CRITICAL ESSAYS ON ENGLISH AND BENGALI DETECTIVE FICTION

The book brings together three strains of detective fiction: British, American, and Bengal.

The essays explore varied aspects of detective fiction, offering new avenues of critical thought from a Postcolonial perspective.

Debayan Deb Barman is assistant professor at THLH Mahavidyalay University of Burdwan.

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Essays in Honor of Lois Parkinson Zamora From the Americas to the World Edited by John Ochoa and Monika Kaup

October 2021 252 pages Hardback 9781793636669 £77.00 / $100.00

ESSAYS IN HONOR OF LOIS PARKINSON ZAMORA

Honoring the lifework of comparatist Lois Parkinson Zamora, this collection traces artistic pathways that connect Latin American culture to the Americas, and to the world beyond. Its essays range from canonical writers like Roberto Bolaño and Gabriel García Márquez to non-canonical forms such as contemporary developments of Mexican folk Baroque.

Monika Kaup is professor of English at the University of Washington.

John Ochoa is associate professor of Spanish at Pennsylvania State University.

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Culture and the Literary

Poetics and Justice in America, Japan, and Taiwan

Matter, Metaphor, Memory

Configuring Change and Entitlement

By Avishek Parui

December 2021 178 pp

Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Audiences: College/higher education

9781786616005 £31.00 / $39.95 PB

By Dean Anthony Brink June 2021 352 pp 9781793627902 £92.00 / $120.00 HB

Representing Kink

Writers and Nations

Fringe Sexuality and Textuality in Literature, Digital Narrative, and Popular Culture

The Case of American and Saudi Literatures

By Mohammed Ghazi Alghamdi

Edited by Sara K. Howe and Susan E. Cook July 2021 194 pp

Imprint: Lexington Books Audiences: Professional and scholarly

Imprint: Lexington Books Audiences: Professional and scholarly

9781498590853 £73.00 / $95.00 HB 9781498590877 £31.00 / $39.99 PB

October 2021 190 pp

Imprint: Lexington Books Audiences: Professional and scholarly

9781793650832 £73.00 / $95.00 HB

Writing for Inclusion Literature, Race, and National Identity in Nineteenth-Century Cuba and the United States

By Karen Ruth Kornweibel July 2021 174 pp 9781683930976 £73.00 / $95.00 HB 9781683930990 £31.00 / $39.99 PB

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Imprint: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Audiences: Professional and scholarly

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African American Literature of the Twenty-First Century and the Black Arts

African American Novels in the Black Lives Matter Era Transgressive Performativity of Black Vulnerability as Praxis in Everyday Life

The Case of John Edgar Wideman

By Stephen Casmier June 2021 230 pp 9781793614605 £77.00 / $100.00 HB

Imprint: Lexington Books Audiences: Professional and scholarly

By E. Lâle Demirtürk

July 2021 292 pp

Imprint: Lexington Books Audiences: Professional 9781498596213 £77.00 / $100.00 and scholarly HB 9781498596237 £31.00 / $39.99 PB

African Women Writing Diaspora

Afrofuturism in Black Panther

Transnational Perspectives in the Twenty-First Century

Gender, Identity, and the Re-Making of Blackness Edited by Renée T. White and Karen A. Ritzenhoff

Edited by Rose A. Sackeyfio April 2021 146 pp

Imprint: Lexington Books Audiences: Professional and scholarly

9781793642431 £69.00 / $90.00 HB

9781793623577 £96.00 / $125.00 HB

American Trickster

Black Bodies and Transhuman Realities

Trauma, Tradition and Brer Rabbit

Scientifically Modifying the Black Body in Posthuman Literature and Culture

By Emily Zobel Marshall

February 2021 182 pp

Imprint: Lexington Books Audiences: Professional and scholarly

August 2021 382 pp

Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Audiences: Professional and scholarly

9781783481095 £93.00 / $121.00 HB 9781783481101 £31.00 / $40.00 PB

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October 2021 236 pp

Edited by Melvin G. Hill

Imprint: Lexington Books Audiences: Professional 9781498583800 £77.00 / $100.00 and scholarly HB 9781498583824 £31.00 / $39.99 PB

ETHNIC STUDIES

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BLACK FOLKLORISTS IN PURSUIT OF EQUALITY

Black Folklorists in Pursuit of Equality

Black-Native Autobiographical Acts

African American Identity and Cultural Politics, 1893–1943

Navigating the Minefields of Authenticity

By Ronald LaMarr Sharps October 2021 386 pp

Series: Studies in Folklore and Ethnology: Traditions, Practices, and Identities

9781498586139 Imprint: Lexington Books £92.00 / $120.00 Audiences: Professional HB and scholarly

By Sarita Cannon June 2021 198 pp 9781793630575 £73.00 / $95.00 HB

Critical Race Studies Across Disciplines

Critical Responses About the Black Family in Toni Morrison's God Help the Child

Resisting Racism through Scholactivism Edited by Jonathan Chism, Stacie Craft DeFreitas, Vida Robertson and David Ryden April 2021 318 pp 9781793635884 £92.00 / $120.00 HB

Imprint: Lexington Books Audiences: Professional and scholarly

Conflicts in Comradeship October 2021 232 pp

The Minoritarian and Black Reason A Philosophico-Literary Investigation

Immigrants in the Golden Age

By D. Nandi Odhiambo

By Valerie Estelle Frankel June 2021 230 pp

Imprint: Lexington Books 9781793637123 Audiences: Professional £77.00 / $100.00 and scholarly HB

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Edited by Rhone Fraser and Natalie King-Pedroso

Imprint: Lexington Books 9781793603982 Audiences: Professional £77.00 / $100.00 and scholarly HB 9781793604002 £31.00 / $39.99 PB

Jewish Science Fiction and Fantasy through 1945

Series: Jewish Science Fiction and Fantasy

Imprint: Lexington Books Audiences: Professional and scholarly

May 2021 124 pp

Imprint: Lexington Books Audiences: Professional and scholarly

9781793603951 £65.00 / $85.00 HB

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Alternative Masculinities in Feminist Speculative Fiction

Creating Your Own Space The Metaphor of the House in Feminist Literature

A New Man

By María Davis

By Michael Pitts June 2021 168 pp

Imprint: Lexington Books Audiences: Professional and scholarly

9781793636607 £73.00 / $95.00 HB

June 2021 188 pp

March 2021 84 pp

Series: Innovation and Activism in American Women's Writing

9781793615350 £65.00 / $85.00 HB

Imprint: Lexington Books Audiences: Professional and scholarly

Gender and Identity in Franz Grillparzer’s Classical Dramas

Feminist and Queer Ethnographies of Folk Practices

Figuring the Female

By Amy K. Milligan

By Alicia E. Ellis

Series: Studies in Folklore and Ethnology: Traditions, Practices, and Identities

Imprint: Lexington Books Audiences: Professional and scholarly

9781793631718 £73.00 / $95.00 HB

Jewish Bodylore

April 2021 140 pp

Imprint: Lexington Books 9781498595797 Audiences: Professional £73.00 / $95.00 and scholarly HB 9781498595810 £31.00 / $39.99 PB

Representing Rural Women

Teaching Nabokov's Lolita in the #MeToo Era

Edited by Whitney Womack Smith and Margaret Thomas-Evans

Edited by Elena RakhimovaSommers

Imprint: Lexington Books Audiences: Professional and scholarly July 2021 256 pp

March 2021 198 pp

9781498595520 £77.00 / $100.00 HB 9781498595544 £31.00 / $39.99 PB

9781793628381 £73.00 / $95.00 HB

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FEMINISM

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David Fincher's Zodiac Cinema of Investigation and (Mis)Interpretation Edited by Matthew Sorrento and David Ryan

December 2021 276 pages Hardback 9781683933267 £81.00 / $105.00

DAVID FINCHER'S ZODIAC

David Fincher's Zodiac, the first book-length study of the critically acclaimed 2007 release, offers various critical approaches to the film ranging from early influences, studies in genre and narrative, and media analysis including cinema history, game theory, musicology, and extensions in television studies.

Sorrento ento teaches film studies at Rutgers University-Camden.

Matthew Sorr David Ryan is academic director and faculty chair of the Master of Arts of Professional Communication program at the University of San Francisco.

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The Paths of Zatoichi The Global Influence of the Blind Swordsman

By Jonathan Wroot

October 2021 202 pages Hardback 9781793601216 £73.00 / $95.00

The Paths of Zatoichi charts the history and continuing influence of the Japanese film and TV franchise about Zatoichi the blind swordsman, both within the Japanese media industriesand within global popular culture.

Jonathan Wroot is senior lecturer and program leader for film studies at the University of Greenwich.

Table of Contents Chapter One – Zatoichi’s Path Begins Chapter Two – Zatoichi’s Path on the Silver Screen Chapter Three – Zatoichi’s Path on the Small Screen Chapter Four – The Global Paths of Zatoichi Chapter Five – Zatoichi’s Remade Global Paths and Their Impact

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Social Order and Authority in Disney and Pixar Films Edited by Kellie Deys and Denise F. Parrillo

November 2021 200 pages Hardback 9781793622105 £73.00 / $95.00

SOCIAL ORDER AND AUTHORITY IN DISNEY AND PIXAR FILMS

Social Order and Authority in Disney and Pixar Films initiates an essential conversation about how power dynamics are questioned, reinforced, and disrupted in the Disneyverse.

Using various theoretical lenses, authors critique underlying ideologies and help readers understand how Disney’s output both reflects and impacts our contemporary moment.

Kellie Deys is associate professor of English at Nichols College where she chairs the English department and the Honors program.

Denise F. Parrillo is associate professor of English at the Community College of Rhode Island.

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Television Dramas and the Global Village Storytelling through Race and Gender Edited by Diana I. Ríos and Carolyn A. Lin

October 2021 326 pages Hardback 9781793613523 £92.00 / $120.00

This book analyzes the ways in which television dramas allow audiences to vicariously experience fantasy-indulging, escapism-satisfying, and reality-reckoning stories.

Contributors discuss how our innate desire to tell human stories both binds us together and motivates us to persevere as a community on a global scale.

Diana I. Ríos is associate professor in the Department of Communication and El Instituto: Latino/Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University of Connecticut.

Carolyn A. Lin is professor of communication at the University of Connecticut.

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African American Women in the Oprah Winfrey Network's Queen Sugar Drama

January 2021 274 pp

Exemplary Representations On Screen and Behind the Scenes

By Ollie L. Jefferson 9781793628862 £81.00 / $105.00 Imprint: Lexington Books HB Audiences: Professional and scholarly

The Coen Brothers and the Comedy of Democracy

Cinematography of Carl Theodor Dreyer Performative Camerawork, Transgressing the Frame

By Paul Matthew St. Pierre July 2021 310 pp

Series: The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press 9781683931003 Series in Communication £97.00 / $126.00 Studies HB 9781683931027 Imprint: Fairleigh £33.00 / $42.99 PB Dickinson University Press Audiences: Professional and scholarly

Ecomobilities ECOMOBILITIES

By Sara MacDonald and Barry Craig

By Michael W. Pesses Series: Environment and Society

Series: Politics, Literature, & Film January 2021 132 pp 9781498555166 £73.00 / $95.00 HB 9781498555180 £31.00 / $39.99 PB

February 2021 174 pp 9781793612779 £73.00 / $95.00 HB

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Driving the Anthropocene in Popular Cinema

October 2021 136 pp

Imprint: Lexington Books Audiences: Professional and scholarly

9781498598194 £69.00 / $90.00 HB

Fairy Tales in Contemporary American Culture

Film Genres in Hungarian and Romanian Cinema

How We Hate to Love Them

History, Theory, and Reception

By Kate Christine Moore Koppy

By Andrea Virginás

Imprint: Lexington Books Audiences: Professional and scholarly

FILM AND TV STUDIES

April 2021 352 pp

Imprint: Lexington Books Audiences: Professional and scholarly

9781793613431 £92.00 / $120.00 HB

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Gothic Afterlives

Italian Americans on Screen

Reincarnations of Horror in Film and Popular Media

Challenging the Past, ReTheorizing the Future

Edited by Lorna PiattiFarnell

Edited by Ryan CalabrettaSajder and Alan J. Gravano

Series: Remakes, Reboots, and Adaptations July 2021 246 pp 9781498578226 £77.00 / $100.00 HB 9781498578240 £31.00 / $39.99 PB

Imprint: Lexington Books Audiences: Professional and scholarly

February 2021 254 pp

Series: Media, Culture, and the Arts

9781793611543 £73.00 / $95.00 HB

Imprint: Lexington Books Audiences: Professional and scholarly

Martial Arts in Indonesian Cinema and Television

Polish Cinema Today A Bold New Era in Film

Pencak Silat, Mediation, and Mediatization

By Helena Goscilo and Beth Holmgren

By Patrick Keilbart June 2021 364 pp

Series: Modern Southeast Asia

Imprint: Lexington Books 9781793627155 Audiences: Professional £92.00 / $120.00 and scholarly HB

August 2021 382 pp 9781793641656 £92.00 / $120.00 HB

Screening Gender in Shakespeare's Comedies

Seeing the Apocalypse Essays on Bird Box

Film and Television Adaptations in the Twenty-First Century

Edited by Brandon R. Grafius and Gregory Stevenson

By Magdalena Cie�lak July 2021 294 pp

Series: Remakes, Reboots, and Adaptations

9781498563741 Imprint: Lexington Books £77.00 / $100.00 Audiences: Professional HB 9781498563765 and scholarly £31.00 / $39.99 PB

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Imprint: Lexington Books Audiences: Professional and scholarly

April 2021 182 pp 9781611462982 £73.00 / $95.00 HB

Series: Critical Conversations in Horror Studies Imprint: Lehigh University Press Audiences: Professional and scholarly

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Slow Places in Béla Tarr's Films

Soviet Science Fiction Cinema and the Space Age

The Intersection of Geography, Ecology and Slow Cinema

Memorable Futures

By Natalija Majsova

By Clara Orban September 2021 222 pp

Imprint: Lexington Books Audiences: Professional and scholarly

9781793645647 £77.00 / $100.00 HB

June 2021 152 pp

April 2021 256 pp

Imprint: Lexington Books Audiences: Professional and scholarly

9781793609311 £77.00 / $100.00 HB

Superheroes and Masculinity

Theology and the Marvel Universe

Unmasking the Gender Performance of Heroism

Edited by Gregory Stevenson

Edited by Sean Parson and J.L. Schatz

Series: Theology and Pop Culture

Imprint: Lexington Books Audiences: Professional and scholarly

9781498591492 £73.00 / $95.00 HB 9781498591515 £31.00 / $39.99 PB

October 2021 278 pp

Imprint: Fortress Academic Audiences: Professional and scholarly

9781978706156 £81.00 / $105.00 HB 9781978706170 £31.00 / $39.99 PB

Violence in the Films of Stephen King Edited by Tony Magistrale and Michael J. Blouin Series: Lexington Books Horror Studies July 2021 232 pp 9781793635792 £73.00 / $95.00 HB

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Education and Language in the Philippines

By Lorraine Pe Symaco and Francisco P. Dumanig

December 2021 142 pages Hardback 9781793602954 £69.00 / $90.00

This book critically discusses the development of education and language policies in the Philippines. It highlights the economic, social, and political factors that impact the education and language policies in the country, including identity formation and the roles played by ethnic languages, the national language, and English.

Symaco aco is professor of education at Zhejiang University, China.

Lorraine Pe Sym Francisco P. Dumanig is assistant professor of English and TESOL coordinator at the University of Hawaii at Hilo.

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Introduction and Contextual Background Education, Language and Development Language and National Identity Language-in-Education Policies in the Philippines Educat ion, Language Policy and Use in the Philippines Education and Language: a Multi-ethnic Approach Closing Remarks: Education and Language in the Philippines

References About the Authors

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French Immersion Ideologies in Canada

By Sylvie Roy

October 2021 220 pages

French Immersion Ideologies in Canada looks at discourses that capture ideologies in the context of French immersion in Alberta, Canada, from a sociolinguistics for change lens.

Paperback 9781793612731 £31.00 / $39.99

Sylvie Roy is professor in the Werklund School of Education at the University of Calgary.

Hardback 9781793612717 £73.00 / $95.00

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Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: French Immersion Context Chapter 2: Bilinguals and Multilinguals Chapter 3: Who is Legitimate to Teach or to Speak French?

Chapter 4: Teaching and Learning Conclusion Bibliography About the Author

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Fringe Rhetorics Conspiracy Theories and the Paranormal

By Karen Schroeder Sorensen

December 2021 128 pages Hardback 9781793649485 £69.00 / $90.00

Fringe Rhetorics explores the rhetorical construction of conspiracy theories and paranormal accounts. This book describes a method of analysis for fringe rhetorics and provides examples for applying this method to investigate these arguments’ persuasive power.

Karen Schroeder Sorensen Sorense is associate professor at Winona State University.

Table of Contents Table of Contents Chapter 1 Defining Fringe Rhetoric Chapter 2 Rhetorical Lens Chapter 3 Fringe Rhetoric: Flat Earth Chapter 4 Fringe Rhetoric: Power and Control Chapter 5 Fringe Rhetoric: Aliens and Cover-Ups Chapter 6 Rhetorical Strategies for Refutation

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Language, Literacy, and Health Discourse in Brazil’s National Health System

By Izabel Magalhães and Kênia Lara da Silva

November 2021 304 pages Hardback 9781793600882 £85.00 / $110.00

This book analyzes language, literacy, and health as social practices, and the relations among them, with a focus on Brazil´s national health system. With the help of an ethnographic lens, the book analyzes several discourses and uses of texts, including multimodal texts.

Izabel Magalhães is a researcher in discourse analysis and literacy.

Kênia Lara da Silva is part of the teaching staff of the Graduate Program in Nursing of the Federal University of Minas Gerais, in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

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Legitimization of Mormon Feminist Rhetors A Pan-Historical Analysis

By Tiffany D. Kinney

October 2021 272 pages Hardback 9781793605856 £81.00 / $105.00

Legitimization of Mormon Feminist Rhetors explores how marginalized groups craft legitimacy for themselves by strategically employing rhetorical devices. This monograph draws upon archival research to conduct a pan-historical (1850s–present) analysis of the legitimacy strategies taken up by Mormon feminist women.

ney is assistant professor of English in the Languages, Literature, and Tiffany D. Kin Kinney Mass Communication Department at Colorado Mesa University.

Table of Contents Table of Contents Chapter 1: Archiving the Apocrypha: Feminism, Legitimacy, Religion Chapter 2: Continuum of Legitimacy Chapter 3: Literacy through Arrangement and Social Circulation: E.B. Wells Chapter 4: Rhetorically Distilling the Memory of a Saint: Fawn McKay Brodie Chapter 5: A System Splitting Dream: Sonia Johnson and Radical Feminist Invention Chapter 6: Delivering Legitimacy: Kate Kelly and the Founding of Ordain Women Chapter 7: Conclusion: Implications for Marginalized Groups Working towards Legitimacy Appendix: Supplemental Reading

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Rhetoric and Governance under Trump Proclamations from the Bullshit Pulpit

By Bernd Kaussler, Lars J. Kristiansen and Jeffrey Delbert

October 2021 386 pages Paperback 9781498594851 £33.00 / $42.99 Hardback 9781498594837 £92.00 / $120.00

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This book analyzes the rhetoric of Donald Trump to argue that Trump embraces conflicting populist and Republican values, and as a result has relied on populist and polarizing rhetoric, along with fabricated crises, to reconcile these combating ideals and uphold his image of an “anti-status quo politician.”

BBernd ernd Kaussler is professor of political science at James Madison University.

Lars J. Kristiansen is assistant professor in the School of Communication Studies at James Madison University.

Jeffrey Delbert is associate professor in the College of Fine Arts and Communication at Lenoir-Rhyne University.

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Rhetoric of the Opioid Epidemic Deaths of Despair in America

By Tiara K. Good

October 2021 164 pages Hardback 9781793626196 £73.00 / $95.00

Rhetoric of the Opioid Epidemic argues that the opioid epidemic is a public health issue.

By analyzing case studies from popular culture and governmental responses, Tiara Good demonstrates that the power of naming it an epidemic, rather than a drug or crime issue, reduces counterproductive stigma and assists in reshaping public perspectives.

Tiara ra K. Good is faculty in the Communication Studies Department at Western Oregon Tia University.

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Bracketing Paradox and Direct Compositionality

October 2021 258 pp

Montagovian Morphology for Bound Morphemes

Diachrony, Synchrony, and Typology of Tense and Aspect in Old Japanese

By Kazuhiko Fukushima

By Kazuha Watanabe

Imprint: Lexington Books Audiences: Professional and scholarly

9781498588102 £81.00 / $105.00 HB

March 2021 210 pp

Imprint: Lexington Books Audiences: Professional and scholarly

9781793614421 £73.00 / $95.00 HB

A Rhetoric and Philosophy of Gifts

Rhetorical Criticism

By Mary J. Eberhardinger

3rd Edition

Imprint: Lexington Books Audiences: Professional and scholarly

Edited by Jim A. Kuypers

Perspectives in Action

March 2021 154 pp

July 2021 408 pp

9781793639318 £73.00 / $95.00 HB

9781538138144 £45.00 / $58.00 PB

Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Audiences: College/higher education

The Systemic View as a Basis for Philological Thought

By Olga Valentinova, Vladimir Denisenko, Sergey Preobrazhenskii and Mikhail Rybakov November 2021 426 pp

Series: Studies in Slavic, Baltic, and Eastern 9781793647719 European Languages and £100.00 / $130.00 Cultures HB Imprint: Lexington Books Audiences: Professional and scholarly 34 LINGUISTICS

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Clash of Cultures A Psychodynamic Analysis of Homer and the Iliad

By Vincenzo Sanguineti

March 2021 146 pages Hardback 9781793644053 £69.00 / $90.00

In Clash of Cultures: A Psychodynamic Analysis of Homer and the Iliad, Vincenzo Sanguineti examines the psychological complexities of Homer through the Iliad.

Vincenzo Sanguineti is practicing psychiatrist and associate professor of psychiatry at Jefferson Medical College.

Table of Contents Chapter 1: The Author Chapter 2: The Epic: Its Coming to Life Chapter 3: Homer and the Greeks Chapter 4: Book II: The Opposing Armies Chapter 5: Book XIX: The Transferred Wrath against Trojans Chapter 6: Conclusive Remarks on the Two Opening Demands Chapter 7::Homer and the Trojans Chapter 8: Homer and the Orient

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Dante Satiro Satire in Dante Alighieri's Comedy and Other Works Edited by Fabian Alfie and Nicolino Applauso

October 2021 262 pages Paperback 9781793621733 £31.00 / $39.99 Hardback 9781793621719 £77.00 / $100.00

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This collection of essays explores the concept and tradition of satire in relation to Dante’s Comedy and his other works, and the modern reception of Dante’s satire in contemporary American culture. It is the first comprehensive study on Dante and satire within his entire corpus that has ever been published in recent times.

Fabian Alfie is professor of Italian at the University of Arizona.

Nicolino Applauso is visiting assistant professor of Italian at Loyola University Maryland.

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LITERATURE HISTORY & CRITICISM

Anatomy of Liberty in Don Quijote de la Mancha Religion, Feminism, Slavery, Politics, and Economics in the First Modern Novel

By Eric Clifford Graf

March 2021 290 pages Hardback 9781793601186 £85.00 / $110.00

Anatomy of Liberty in Don Quijote de la Mancha presents five major facets of liberty as they appear in the first modern novel. Analyzing the novelist’s attitudes towards religion, feminism, slavery, politics, and economics, the author argues that Cervantes should be considered a major precursor to history’s greatest liberal thinkers.

Cliffordd Graf is visiting assistant professor of literature at Universidad Francisco Eric Cliffor Marroquín.

Table of Contents Introduction: Liberty and Classical Liberalism in Don Quijote Chapter 1: Don Quijote and Religion Chapter 2: Don Quijote and Feminism Chapter 3: Don Quijote and Slavery Chapter 4: Don Quijote and Politics Chapter 5: Don Quijote and Economics Epilogue: Pigs, Asses, Cats, and Humility in Don Quijote Appendix: “On the Coinage” by Juan de Mariana

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Illyria in Shakespeare’s England

May 2021 368 pp

The Soul of Statesmanship

By Lea Puljcan Juric

Shakespeare on Nature, Virtue, and Political Wisdom

Imprint: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Audiences: Professional and scholarly

Edited by Khalil M. Habib and L. Joseph Hebert Jr.

9781683931768 £92.00 / $120.00 HB 9781683931782 £33.00 / $42.99 PB

July 2021 224 pp

Series: Politics, Literature, & Film

9781498543262 Imprint: Lexington Books £77.00 / $100.00 Audiences: Professional HB and scholarly 9781498543286 £31.00 / $39.99 PB

Thomas North's 1555 Travel Journal From Italy to Shakespeare

By Dennis McCarthy and June Schlueter

February 2021 254 pp

Imprint: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Audiences: Professional and scholarly

9781683933052 £77.00 / $100.00 HB

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LITERATURE HISTORY & CRITICISM

FIDDLED OUT OF REASON

April 2021 270 pp

Fiddled out of Reason

Global Milton and Visual Art

Addison and the Rise of Hymnic Verse, 1687–1712

Edited by Angelica Duran and Mario Murgia

By John William Knapp

Imprint: Lexington Books Audiences: Professional and scholarly

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9781611461602 £85.00 / $110.00 HB 9781611462883 £31.00 / $39.99 PB

March 2021 432 pp 9781793617064 £96.00 / $125.00 HB

Warfare, Trade, and the Indies in British Literature, 1652– 1771

By Peter Craft

June 2021 166 pp

Imprint: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Audiences: Professional and scholarly

9781683933083 £73.00 / $95.00 HB

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17TH CENTURY

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Minds in Motion

April 2021 286 pp

Imagining Empiricism in Eighteenth-Century British Travel Literature

Theological Reflection in Eighteenth-Century Russia

By Anne M. Thell

By Adam Drozdek

Series: Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650– 1850

Imprint: Lexington Books Audiences: Professional and scholarly

Imprint: Bucknell University 9781611488272 Press £85.00 / $110.00 Audiences: Professional and scholarly HB 9781611488296 £31.00 / $39.99 PB

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February 2021 270 pp 9781793641830 £81.00 / $105.00 HB

LITERATURE HISTORY & CRITICISM

Law and Economics in Jane Austen

By Lynne Marie Kohm and Kathleen E. Akers

October 2021 166 pages Paperback 9781793604965 £31.00 / $39.99 Hardback 9781793604941 £73.00 / $95.00

Law and Economics in Jane Austen traces legal and economic principles in sex, marriage and romance as set out in Austen’s novels, unveiling how those meticulous principles control today’s modern romance. Culture may have changed in the past 300 years, but these rules remain and even now shape modern romance.

Kathleen Akers is associate at Epsilon Economics.

Lynne Marie Kohm is professor at Regent University School of Law. Table of Contents Chapter One: The Basics - Love, Law, & Economics According to Jane Chapter Two: The Dating Game – The Economics of Information Chapter Three: Sex & Money – The Economics & Laws of Sexual Intimacy Chapter Four: Money & Marriage – Marriage Laws & Marriage Markets Chapter Fiv e: More on Marriage – Incentives Matter Chapter Six: Children – Parenting & Human Capital

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Literature in the Dawn of Sociological Theory Stories that are Telling

By Sarah Louise MacMillen

December 2021 184 pages Hardback 9781793628053 £73.00 / $95.00

LITERATURE IN THE DAWN OF SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY

Building on aesthetic, sociological, and literary theories, the author focuses on a selection of novelists from the early 1800s to the early 1900s and their contribution to the sociological imagination. Throughout the text, the book considers these “stories that are telling” in light of social issues today.

Sarah Louise MacMillen is associate professor of sociology and director of the Peace, Justice, and Conflict Resolution Minor Program at Duquesne University.

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Sherlock Holmes, Byomkesh Bakshi, and Feluda Negotiating the Centre and the Periphery

SHERLOCK HOLMES, BYOMKESH BAKSHI, AND FELUDA

By Anindita Dey

November 2021 208 pages Hardback 9781498512107 £73.00 / $95.00

The book explores some popular Bangla detective texts to perceive if there are any hegemonic influences of the Holmesian canon—if not, how has identity and existence against imperialism been established is perused. The significance of Indian texts through the leitmotif of indigeneity is foregrounded. Bengaliness resists Anglo/Eurocentrism.

Anindita Dey is associate professor at Debraj Roy College, Golaghat

Table of Contents Introduction Chapter One: Understanding Hegemony and the Other Chapter Two: Sherlock Holmes: Super-sleuth and Agent of British Imperialism Chapter Three: The Politics of Centering and Othering Chapter Four: Subverting the Centre with Byomkesh Chapter Five: Beyond the Anglophone Shadow: Feluda Finds his Own Space Chapter Six: You Know My Method: Beyond Detective Tasks Conclusion Appendix: The Legacy of Bengali Detectives

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Arthur Machen

A Bristol, Rhode Island, and Matanzas, Cuba, Slavery Connection

Critical Essays Edited by Antonio Sanna Imprint: Lexington Books Audiences: Professional and scholarly

The Diary of George Howe

By Rafael Ocasio

April 2021 276 pp

July 2021 306 pp

Series: Black Diasporic Worlds: Origins and 9781498562638 Evolutions from New World £77.00 / $100.00 Slaving HB 9781498562652 Imprint: Lexington Books £31.00 / $39.99 PB Audiences: Professional and scholarly

9781793635464 £81.00 / $105.00 HB

Embodying the Tactile in Victorian Literature

Female Adolescent Sexuality in the United States, 1850–1965

Touching Bodies/Bodies Touching

By Ann Kordas

By Ann Gagné January 2021 150 pp

Imprint: Lexington Books Audiences: Professional and scholarly

9781793617309 £69.00 / $90.00 HB

July 2021 390 pp 9781498570176 £97.00 / $126.00 HB 9781498570190 £33.00 / $42.99 PB

Literary Slumming

Washington Irving’s Critique of American Culture

Slang and Class in Nineteenth-Century France

Sketching a Vision of World Citizenship

By Eliza Jane Smith

August 2021 298 pp

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9781793621146 £85.00 / $110.00 HB

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19TH CENTURY

By J. Woodrow McCree June 2021 218 pp

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9781793619617 £73.00 / $95.00 HB

LITERATURE HISTORY & CRITICISM

Jack Kerouac and the Traditions of Classic and Modern Haiku

By Yoshinobu Hakutani

June 2021 310 pages

This book explores the influence of Buddhist ontology, Zen, and Confucian philosophies, as well as Jack Kerouac's own experiences in wandering and meditating in the fields and on the mountains in America, on the development and composition of his haiku.

Paperback 9781498558297 $39.99

Yoshinobu Hakutani is professor of English and university distinguished scholar at Kent State University.

Hardback 9781498558273 £77.00 / $100.00

Table of Contents Introduction Part I: History and Criticism Chapter 1: The Genesis and Development of Haiku in Japan Chapter 2: Basho and Classic Haiku Tradition Chapter 3: Yone Noguchi and Modernist Haiku Poetics Chapter 4: Ezra Pound, Imagism, and Haiku Chapter 5: Haiku in English and Haiku Criticism in America Chapter 6: Kerouac’s Haiku and Class ic Haiku Poetics Chapter 7: Kerouac’s Haiku and Beat Poetics Chapter 8: Kerouac’s Haiku and On the Road Chapter 9: Kerouac’s Haiku and The Dharma Bums Part II: Selected Haiku by Jack Kerouac List of Kerouac’s Haiku from Book of Haikus

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Refiguring Les Années Noires Literary Representations of the Nazi Occupation

By Kathy Comfort

July 2021 216 pages Paperback 9781498561624 £31.00 / $39.99

This book uses a close reading of seven literary memoirs of the Nazi Occupation of France to show how the collective memory of the period has been shaped by political and social factors. It incorporates trauma theory, history, and folklore studies, examining a diverse group of writers and bringing to the fore the unique perspective of each.

Kathy Comfort is associate professor of French at the University of Arkansas.

Hardback 9781498561600 £77.00 / $100.00

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The Suburbs New Literary Perspectives Edited by Marie Bouchet, Nathalie Cochoy, Isabelle Keller-Privat and Mathilde Rogez

December 2021 298 pages Hardback 9781683933021 £85.00 / $110.00

THE SUBURBS

The Suburbs: New Literary Perspectives places the suburbs firmly at the center of attention by focusing on those “places that thrive on disregard.” By examining the suburbs across continental and cultural differences, this study shows how this liminal space also ushers in, albeit fleetingly, humane urbanity, or urban humanity.

Marie Bouchet is associate professor of American literature and art at the University of Toulouse.

Nathalie Cochoy is professor of American literature at the University of Toulouse.

Isabelle Keller-Privat is professor of English literature and poetry at the University Toulouse.

Mathilde Rogez is senior lecturer at the University of Toulouse.

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Utopian and Dystopian Themes in Tolkien’s Legendarium

By Mark Doyle

October 2021 204 pages Paperback 9781498598699 £31.00 / $39.99 Hardback 9781498598675 £73.00 / $95.00

This book explores how Tolkien’s utopian and dystopian themes inspire and remain relevant to modern readers. It examines how Tolkien’s malevolent societies in his legendarium have the unique ability to capture the fears and doubts that many people sense about the trajectory of modern society.

Mar Markk G. Doyle is professor of English and chair of the Humanities Department at Marion Military Institute.

Table of Contents Introduction: Tolkien’s Popularity and Its Relationship with His Utopian and Dystopian Themes Chapter 1: Tolkien and Traditional Utopias and Dystopias Chapter 2: The Sources of Tolkien’s Utopian and Dystopian Vision Chapter 3: How the Environment Becomes Creation in Tolkien’s Societies Chapter 4: Tolkien’s Utopian and Dystopian Mythology Chapter 5: Tolkien’s Utopian and Dystopian Politics Epilogue: The Struggle for Tolkien’s Utopian and Dystopian Legacy

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ATTACHMENT AND LOSS IN THE WORKS OF JAMES JOYCE

Attachment and Loss in the Works of James Joyce

Authority and the Historical Document in Late TwentiethCentury Literature

By Linda Horsnell

By Elizabeth Rich

Imprint: Lexington Books Audiences: Professional and scholarly October 2021 252 pp

August 2021 242 pp

9781793635617 £77.00 / $100.00 HB

9781793644831 £77.00 / $100.00 HB

Collectivity in Struggle Godard, Genet, and the Palestinian Revolt of the 1970s

Contested Borders CONTESTED BORDERS

By Shaul Setter January 2021 194 pp

Imprint: Lexington Books Audiences: Professional and scholarly

Queer Politics and Cultural Translation in Contemporary Francophone Writing from the Maghreb

By William J. Spurlin

October 2021 256 pp

Series: Critical Perspectives on Theory, Culture and Politics

9781786600813 £92.00 / $120.00 Imprint: Rowman & HB Littlefield Publishers 9781786600820 Audiences: Professional £31.00 / $40.00 PB and scholarly

9781498572026 £69.00 / $90.00 HB

Global Revolutionary Aesthetics and Politics after Paris ‘68

February 2021 218 pp

Imprint: Lexington Books Audiences: Professional and scholarly

Edited by Martin Munro, William J. Cloonan, Barry J. Faulk and Christian P. Weber

Landscape and Labour Work, Place, and the Working Class in Eliot, Hardy, and Lawrence

By Brian Elliott August 2021 168 pp

Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Audiences: Professional and scholarly

Series: After the Empire: 9781793625731 The Francophone World 9781786609106 £77.00 / $100.00 and Postcolonial France £81.00 / $105.00 HB HB Imprint: Lexington Books Audiences: Professional and scholarly & CRITICISM LITERATURE HISTORY 20TH

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The Many Facets of Diamonds Are Forever

Philip Larkin, Popular Culture, and the English Individual

James Bond on Page and Screen

By J. Ryan Hibbett

Edited by Oliver Buckton July 2021 222 pp

Imprint: Lexington Books Audiences: Professional and scholarly

9781498567572 £77.00 / $100.00 HB 9781498567596 £31.00 / $39.99 PB

July 2021 194 pp 9781498543026 £73.00 / $95.00 HB 9781498543040 £31.00 / $39.99 PB

Philo-Semitic Violence

Pinter’s World Relationships, Obsessions, and Artistic Endeavors

Poland's Jewish Past in New Polish Narratives

By William Baker

By El�bieta Janicka and Tomasz �ukowski July 2021 280 pp

Imprint: Lexington Books Audiences: Professional and scholarly

Series: Reading Trauma and Memory

Imprint: Lexington Books 9781793636690 Audiences: Professional £85.00 / $110.00 and scholarly HB

July 2021 282 pp

Imprint: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Audiences: Professional and scholarly

9781611479317 £85.00 / $110.00 HB 9781611479331 £31.00 / $39.99 PB

Rock Music in American Fiction Writing, 1966-2011

By Martin Moling Imprint: Lexington Books Audiences: Professional and scholarly September 2021 294 pp 9781793647238 £81.00 / $105.00 HB

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9/11 Gothic Decrypting Ghosts and Trauma in New York City’s Terrorism Novels

By Danel Olson

September 2021 230 pages Hardback 9781793638328 £77.00 / $100.00

This book explores ghostly presences in terrorism novels from New Yorkers Don DeLillo, Jonathan Safran Foer, Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Griffin Hansbury, and Patrick McGrath.

Arguing how theories on trauma and gothic combine to interpret ghosts, Olson discusses what supernatural meetings express about grief, guilt, mental instability, & suicidal urges.

Danel Olson is an independent scholar.

Table of Contents Introduction: Connecting Trauma Theory, 9/11 Novels, Gothic Traditions, and the Unidentified Bones of the World Trade CenterChapter 1: Don DeLillo’s Falling Man (2007): Deserting and Impersonating the Dead Chapter 2: Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005): Searching and Disinterring the DeadChapter 3: Lynne Sharon Schwartz’s The Writing on the Wall (2005): Avenging and Resurrecting the DeadChapter 4: Griffin Hansbury’s The Nostalgist (2012): Conjuring and Romancing the DeadChapter 5: Patrick McGrath’s Ground Zero (2005): Abandoning and Angering the Dead Conclusion Bibliography Appendix 1: Further Reading Appendix 2: Interview at the Opening of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum with Director Al ice M. Greenwald, 16 June 2014

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Maternity in the PostApocalypse Novelistic Re-visions of Dystopian Motherhood

MATERNITY IN THE POST-APOCALYPSE

By Renae L. Mitchell

October 2021 166 pages Hardback 9781793605559 £73.00 / $95.00

This book investigates how contemporary post-apocalyptic novels place maternal characters at the forefront of rebuilding and reconceiving a devastated world. By overturning patriarchal assumptions about the post-catastrophe world and women's place in it, the writers of the maternal post-apocalypse offer a (re)vision of speculative literature.

Renae Mitchell is an instructor at the University of New Mexico at Los Alamos.

Table of Contents Introduction: Maternity in the Post-Apocalyptic Landscape Chapter One: GESTATION: The Crisis of Native Pregnancy in The Future Home of the Living God (2017) Chapter Two: BIRTH: Deliverance through Plague in The Unnamed Midwife (2016) Chapter Three: NEW MOTHER: To Resist and Dis-Obeah in the Wasted Landscape of Brown Girl in the Ring (1999) Chapter Four: MATERNAL FUTURES: Maternity and the Holy Book in Parable of the Talents (1999) and Who Fears Death (2014) Conclusion: Material Memory: Maternity in the Future Present

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Africa in the Contemporary Spanish Novel, 1990–2010

American Lit Remixed Music in Twenty-FirstCentury American Literature

By Mahan L. Ellison

August 2021 212 pp

Imprint: Lexington Books Audiences: Professional and scholarly

9781793607423 £77.00 / $100.00 HB

CONTEMPORARY ITALIAN DIVERSITY IN CRITICAL AND FICTIONAL NARRATIVES

October 2021 314 pp

Imprint: Lexington Books Audiences: Professional and scholarly

April 2021 176 pp 9781498594776 £73.00 / $95.00 HB

Contemporary Italian Diversity in Critical and Fictional Narratives

The Earth Writes The Great Earthquake and the Novel in Post-3/11 Japan

By Koichi Haga

Edited by Marie Orton, Graziella Parati and Ron Kubati Series: The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Italian Studies

9781683933144 £85.00 / $110.00 Imprint: Fairleigh HB Dickinson University Press Audiences: Professional and scholarly

February 2021 134 pp

By Melissa J. Strong

Series: Ecocritical Theory and Practice July 2021 148 pp 9781498569033 £73.00 / $95.00 HB 9781498569057 £31.00 / $39.99 PB

Imprint: Lexington Books Audiences: Professional and scholarly

Haruki Murakami and His Early Work

The Literature of Exclusion

The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Running Artist

Dada, Data, and the Threshold of Electronic Literature

By Masaki Mori

By Andrew C. Wenaus

Imprint: Lexington Books Audiences: Professional and scholarly

9781793635976 £69.00 / $90.00 HB

LITERATURE HISTORY & CRITICISM

May 2021 324 pp

Imprint: Lexington Books Audiences: Professional and scholarly

9781793614636 £92.00 / $120.00 HB

21ST CENTURY

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Read My Plate

Tawada Yoko

The Literature of Food

On Writing and Rewriting

By Deborah R. Geis

Edited by Doug Slaymaker

Imprint: Lexington Books Audiences: Professional and scholarly

Series: New Studies in Modern Japan

July 2021 180 pp

October 2021 296 pp

9781498574433 £73.00 / $95.00 HB 9781498574457 £31.00 / $39.99 PB

9781498590044 £88.00 / $115.00 HB 9781498590068 £31.00 / $39.99 PB

Wild Lines and Poetic Travels

Writing the Modern Family

A Keijiro Suga Reader

Contemporary Literature, Motherhood and Neoliberal Culture

Edited by Doug Slaymaker Series: New Studies in Modern Japan July 2021 256 pp

Imprint: Lexington Books Audiences: Professional and scholarly

9781793607577 £77.00 / $100.00 HB

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21ST CENTURY

By Roberta Garrett January 2021 200 pp

Series: Radical Cultural Studies

Imprint: Rowman & 9781786616500 Littlefield Publishers £35.00 / $44.95 PB Audiences: Professional and scholarly

LITERATURE HISTORY & CRITICISM

Abdellah Taïa’s Queer Migrations Non-places, Affect, and Temporalities

CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON DAVID CHARIANDY

Series: After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France

9781793644862 £92.00 / $120.00 Imprint: Lexington Books HB Audiences: Professional and scholarly

October 2021 110 pp 9781793623270 £65.00 / $85.00 HB

Diagnosing Postcolonial Literature

The Latinx Urban Condition Trauma, Memory, and Desire in Latinx Urban Literature and Culture

Deleuze and Health

By Don Johnston

February 2021 238 pp

Imprint: Lexington Books Audiences: Professional and scholarly

9781793631329 £77.00 / $100.00 HB

LITERATURE HISTORY & CRITICISM

Edited by Rodolphe Solbiac Imprint: Lexington Books Audiences: Professional and scholarly

Edited by Denis M. Provencher and Siham Bouamer June 2021 310 pp

Critical Perspectives on David Chariandy

By Crescencio LopezGonzalez July 2021 198 pp

Series: Reading Trauma and Memory

9781498570268 Imprint: Lexington Books £69.00 / $90.00 Audiences: Professional HB and scholarly 9781498570282 £31.00 / $39.99 PB

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Cabo Verdean Women Writing Remembrance, Resistance, and Revolution

Ecomasculinities Negotiating Male Gender Identity in U.S. Fiction Edited by Rubén Cenamor and Stefan Brandt

Kriolas Poderozas May 2021 276 pp

Edited by Terza A. Silva Lima-Neves and Aminah N. Pilgrim

9781793634894 Series: Gender and £81.00 / $105.00 Sexuality in Africa and the HB Diaspora Imprint: Lexington Books Audiences: Professional and scholarly

Series: Ecocritical Theory and Practice March 2021 224 pp 9781498567541 £77.00 / $100.00 HB 9781498567565 £31.00 / $39.99 PB

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The Unpopular Realism of Vincenzo Padula Il Bruzio and Mariuzza Sbrìffiti

By Joseph Francese December 2021 206 pp

Series: The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Italian Studies

9781683933328 Imprint: Fairleigh £77.00 / $100.00 Dickinson University Press HB Audiences: Professional and scholarly

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July 2021 350 pp

Dante's Comedy and the Ethics of Invective in Medieval Italy

Images of the Muslim Woman in Early Modern English Drama

Humor and Evil

Queens, Eves, and Furies

By Nicolino Applauso

By Öz Öktem

Series: Studies in Medieval Literature

9781498567787 Imprint: Lexington Books £93.00 / $121.00 Audiences: Professional and scholarly HB 9781498567800 £33.00 / $42.99 PB

INCARCERATION AND SLAVERY IN THE MIDDLE AGES AND THE EARLY MODERN AGE

October 2021 552 pp

January 2021 192 pp 9781793625229 £73.00 / $95.00 HB

Incarceration and Slavery in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age

Medievalia et Humanistica, No. 46 Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Culture: New Series

A Cultural-Historical Investigation of the Dark Side in the Pre-Modern World Edited by Albrecht Classen

9781793648280 Series: Studies in Medieval £119.00 / $155.00 Literature HB Imprint: Lexington Books Audiences: Professional and scholarly

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April 2021 224 pp 9781538152171 £69.00 / $90.00 HB

Edited by Reinhold F. Glei and Maik Goth Series: Medievalia et Humanistica Series Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Audiences: Professional and scholarly

Prostitution in Medieval and Early Modern Literature The Dark Side of Sex and Love in the Premodern Era

By Albrecht Classen June 2021 244 pp

Series: Studies in Medieval Literature

Imprint: Lexington Books 9781498585804 Audiences: Professional £77.00 / $100.00 and scholarly HB 9781498585828 £31.00 / $39.99 PB

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MEDIEVAL

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Migration, Diaspora, Exile Narratives of Affiliation and Escape Edited by Daniel Stein, Cathy C. Waegner, Geoffroy de Laforcade and Page R. Laws

October 2021 308 pages Paperback 9781793617026 £33.00 / $42.99 Hardback 9781793617002 £88.00 / $115.00

Migration, Diaspora, Exile examines narratives of affiliation and escape that imagine migration to and in Europe and the Americas in terms of kinship, community, and refuge.

They investigate a broad range of literary, cinematic, and civic interventions in past and present constructions of diasporic, migratory, or exilic identities.

Daniel Stein is professor of North American literary and cultural studies and vice dean for international affairs at the University of Siegen.

Geoffroy de Laforcade is professor of Latin American, Caribbean and world history at Norfolk State University.

Page R. Laws is professor of English and dean of the Robert C. Nusbaum Honors Col lege at Norfolk State University.

Cathy Covell Waegner is an independent scholar.

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CONFIGURING MEMORY IN CZECH FAMILY SAGAS

Configuring Memory in Czech Family Sagas

Culinary Diplomacy’s Role in the Immigrant Experience

The Art of Forgetting in Generic Tradition

Fiction and Memoirs of Middle Eastern Women

By Marcin Filipowicz November 2021 230 pp

Imprint: Lexington Books Audiences: Professional and scholarly

9781793648495 £77.00 / $100.00 HB

By Jennifer Gray April 2021 144 pp 9781793627339 £69.00 / $90.00 HB

Dialogue on Partition

Migrant Ecologies Zheng Xiaoqiong's Women Migrant Workers

Literature Knows No Borders

By Zhou Xiaojing

By Syrrina Ahsan Ali Haque

March 2021 188 pp

Imprint: Lexington Books Audiences: Professional and scholarly

9781793636249 £73.00 / $95.00 HB

Imprint: Lexington Books Audiences: Professional and scholarly

Series: Ecocritical Theory and Practice June 2021 152 pp

Imprint: Lexington Books Audiences: Professional and scholarly

9781498580632 £69.00 / $90.00 HB

Mobility and Corporeality in Nineteenth- to Twenty-FirstCentury Anglophone Literature May 2021 260 pp

Bodies in Motion

Edited by Jaine 9781793625670 Chemmachery and £77.00 / $100.00 Bhawana Jain HB Imprint: Lexington Books Audiences: Professional and scholarly & CRITICISM LITERATURE HISTORY

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The End of the Anthropocene

Environmental Postcolonialism

Ecocriticism, the Universal Ecosystem, and the Astropocene

A Literary Response Edited by Shubhanku Kochar and M. Anjum Khan

By Michael J. Gormley June 2021 206 pp 9781498594059 £73.00 / $95.00 HB

Series: Ecocritical Theory and Practice Imprint: Lexington Books Audiences: Professional and scholarly

February 2021 240 pp

Imprint: Lexington Books 9781793634566 Audiences: Professional £77.00 / $100.00 and scholarly HB

The Human–Animal Boundary

Images of the Anthropocene in Speculative Fiction

Exploring the Line in Philosophy and Fiction

Narrating the Future

Edited by Mario Wenning and Nandita Batra September 2021 242 pp

Series: Ecocritical Theory and Practice

Imprint: Lexington Books 9781498557825 Audiences: Professional £77.00 / $100.00 and scholarly HB 9781498557849 £31.00 / $39.99 PB

July 2021 168 pp

NATURE

Edited by Tereza D�dinová, Weronika Łaszkiewicz and Sylwia Borowska-Szerszun March 2021 276 pp 9781793636638 £81.00 / $105.00 HB

Imprint: Lexington Books Audiences: Professional and scholarly

An Island in the Stream

Modernism and the Anthropocene

Ecocritical and Literary Responses to Cuban Environmental Culture

Material Ecologies of Twentieth-Century Literature

Edited by David Taylor, Scott Slovic and Armando Fernandez Soriano

Edited by Jon Hegglund and John McIntyre

Series: Ecocritical Theory and Practice

9781498599160 £73.00 / $95.00 Imprint: Lexington Books HB Audiences: Professional 9781498599184 and scholarly £31.00 / $39.99 PB

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Series: Ecocritical Theory and Practice

September 2021 264 pp

Series: Ecocritical Theory and Practice

9781498555388 Imprint: Lexington Books £77.00 / $100.00 Audiences: Professional HB and scholarly

LITERATURE HISTORY & CRITICISM

The Conservative Aesthetic Theodore Roosevelt, Popular Darwinism, and the American Literary West

By Stephen J. Mexal

May 2021 364 pages Hardback 9781793632616 £92.00 / $120.00

The Conservative Aesthetic explores a circle of western writers and artists that rose up around Theodore Roosevelt in the late nineteenth century. It makes the case that their unique alloy of popular Darwinism and western mythmaking represent an aesthetic component of American conservatism that has long been overlooked.

exal is professor of English at California State University, Fullerton.

Stephen J. M Mexal

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POLITICAL LITERATURE

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Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Trump Images from Literature and Visual Arts Edited by Barbara Brodman and James E. Doan

July 2021 244 pages Paperback 9781683931690 £31.00 / $39.99 Hardback 9781683931676 £77.00 / $100.00

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Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Trump focuses on utopias and dystopias that either prefigure or suggest alternatives to the rise of individuals such as Donald J. Trump and the changing conditions of America we now see around us. These topical studies provide compelling reading for both the general reader and the specialist.

Barbara Brodman is professor emerita in the Department of History and Political Science at Nova Southeastern University.

James E. Doan is professor in the Department of Literature and Modern Languages at Nova Southeastern University.

POLITICAL LITERATURE

LITERATURE HISTORY & CRITICISM

Arthur Koestler’s Fiction and the Genre of the Novel

Baudelaire Contra Benjamin A Critique of Politicized Aesthetics and Cultural Marxism

Rubashov and Beyond Edited by Zénó Vernyik

September 2021 302 pp

Imprint: Lexington Books Audiences: Professional and scholarly

9781793622259 £85.00 / $110.00 HB

By Beibei Guan and Wayne Cristaudo July 2021 234 pp

9781498595070 Imprint: Lexington Books £77.00 / $100.00 Audiences: Professional HB and scholarly 9781498595094 £31.00 / $39.99 PB

Out of a Gray Fog

Politics, Literature, and Film in Conversation

Ayn Rand’s Europe

By Claudia Franziska Bruhwiler

Essays in Honor of Mary P. Nichols

Series: Politics, Literature, & Film August 2021 304 pp

Imprint: Lexington Books Audiences: Professional and scholarly

9781793636850 £85.00 / $110.00 HB

May 2021 244 pp 9781498585897 £65.00 / $85.00 HB

Rabelais’s Contempt for Fortune

By Timothy Haglund Series: Politics, Literature, & Film

9781498575454 £77.00 / $100.00 HB 9781498575478 £31.00 / $39.99 PB

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Edited by Matthew D. Dinan, Natalie Taylor, Denise Schaeffer and Paul E. Kirkland Series: Politics, Literature, & Film Imprint: Lexington Books Audiences: Professional and scholarly

Revisiting the French Resistance in Cinema, Literature, Bande Dessinée, and Television (1942–2012)

Pantagruelism, Politics, and Philosophy

July 2021 178 pp

Series: Politics, Literature, & Film

By Christophe Corbin July 2021 250 pp 9781498582056 £77.00 / $100.00 HB 9781498582070 £31.00 / $39.99 PB

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POLITICAL LITERATURE

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Dostoevsky as Suicidologist Self-Destruction and the Creative Process

By Amy D. Ronner

January 2021 356 pages Hardback 9781793607812 £92.00 / $120.00

Through an analysis of suicide in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s writings, Amy D. Ronner illustrates how his implicit awareness of self-homicide pre-figured theories of prominent suicidologists, shaped both his philosophy and craft as a writer, and forged a ligature between artistry and the pluripresent impulse to self-annihilate.

ner is professor emeritus of law at St. Thomas University and author of Amy D. Ron Ronner Dostoevsky and the Law.

Table of Contents Acknowledgments Chapter1: Introduction: Suicide as a Social Fact Chapter 2: Fatalistic Convulsions in Notes From the House of the Dead Chapter 3: Egoistic Self-Deceminantion in Crime and Punishment and The Idiot Chapter 4: Anomy in Demons and The Brothers Karamazov Chapter 5: Conclusion: The A ntonymous Creative Process Bibliography Index About the Author

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Occupying Memory Rhetoric, Trauma, Mourning

By Trevor Hoag

June 2021 232 pages Paperback 9781498556583 £31.00 / $39.99

Occupying Memory investigates the forces of trauma and mourning as deeply rhetorical to account for their capacity to seize one’s life. With the Occupy Movement as its guide, the work strives to challenge hegemonic power by keeping memory “in question” and receptive to alternative futures to come.

Trevor Hoag is assistant professor of English and codirector of digital humanities at Christopher Newport University.

Hardback 9781498556569 £77.00 / $100.00

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The Analogy of Signs

The Animal in the Synagogue

Rethinking Theological Language with Charles S. Peirce

Franz Kafka's Jewishness

By Dan Miron Series: Lexington Studies in Jewish Literature

By Rory Misiewicz February 2021 312 pp

Imprint: Fortress Academic Audiences: Professional and scholarly

9781978710023 £85.00 / $110.00 HB

THE CORINTHIAN CORRESPONDENCE

October 2021 354 pp

October 2021 164 pp

Imprint: Lexington Books Audiences: Professional and scholarly

9781498595131 £73.00 / $95.00 HB 9781498595155 £31.00 / $39.99 PB

The Corinthian Correspondence

Jewish Folktales from Morocco

Redaction, Rhetoric, and History

Tales of Seha the Sage and Seha the Clown

By Frank W. Hughes and Robert Jewett

By Marc Eliany

Imprint: Fortress Academic Audiences: Professional and scholarly

9781978705197 £92.00 / $120.00 HB

Series: Sephardic and Mizrahi Studies June 2021 128 pp 9781793644657 £65.00 / $85.00 HB

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Recovering the Monstrous in Revelation

By Heather Macumber Series: Horror and Scripture August 2021 212 pp

Imprint: Fortress Academic Audiences: Professional and scholarly

9781978703032 £77.00 / $100.00 HB

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The Queer Bookishness of Romanticism Ornamental Community

By Michael E. Robinson

January 2021 244 pages Hardback 9781793607935 £81.00 / $105.00

This book explores and theorizes Romantic bookishness, arguing that “bookish” names a queer practice and discourse at the margins of Romantic authorship and reading.

Ornamental communities focused on books played an antithetical role to the twinned, spiritualizing ideologies of sexuality and authorship in Romanticism and its Victorian reception .

Michael Robinson is lecturer in the writing and rhetoric department at the University of Rhode Island.

Table of Contents List of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction: Romantic Bookishness Chapter 1: Collecting the Ladies of Llangollen Chapter 2: Thomas F. Dibdin’s Club for Ornamental Gentlemen Chapter 3: Antiquarian Coolness: The Punk Antiquarianism of Charles Lamb Chapter 4: A Curious Pai r of Bookmen Bibliography

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Romantic Egypt Abyssal Ground of British Romanticism

By Elizabeth A. Fay

April 2021 260 pages Hardback 9781793635679 £81.00 / $105.00

Romantic Egypt argues that the balance between knowing and not-knowing, between deciphering and imagining an archaic Egypt, was essential to the development of the Romantic imaginary, particularly in Britain and Germany: for the Romantics western philosophy and art had their birth in Ancient Egypt.

Elizabeth Fay is professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.

Table of Contents Introduction Chapter One: Prior Time Chapter Two: Geographica Chapter Three: Ruins Chapter Four: Spirit Magic Chapter Five: Hieroglyphica

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Science Fiction Toward a World Literature

By George Slusser

SCIENCE FICTION

Edited by Gary Westfahl

December 2021 350 pages Hardback 9781666905359 £92.00 / $120.00

In this work, renowned scholar George Slusser analyzes science fiction’s history by focusing on important thinkers, overlooked by other critics, who made key contributions to the development of science fiction as a global literature.

George Slusser was professor of comparative literature and curator of the J. Lloyd Eaton Collection of Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, at the University of California, Riverside.

Gary Westfahl is professor emeritus at the University of La Verne.

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SCIENCE FICTION

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Exploring Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Sexuality in Four Spanish Plays A Crisis of Identity

By Beth Ann Bernstein

July 2021 184 pages Hardback 9781793620545 £73.00 / $95.00

A Crisis of Identity explores the construction of identity and society’s influence in four Spanish plays and discusses parallels to these works in popular culture. Through close reading and analysis covering race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality, the author uncovers what lies behind the mask of each play's characters.

rnstein is senior lecturer of Spanish in the department of world languages Beth Ann Be Bernstein and literatures at Texas State University.

Table of Contents Introduction Chapter 1: Marvelous Illusions: The Issue of pureza de sangre and Ethnic Identity in El retablo de las maravillas Chapter 2: A “Monstrous” Problem: Examining Issues of Race in Virtudes vencen señales Chapter 3: Struggling with the Mask of Conformity: Desire and Sexual Identity in El público Chapter 4: Living Beyond the Binary: Questioning Socially Accepted Gender Roles in La llamada de Lauren Conclusion: Shifting Identities in Four Spanish Plays and Parallels in Modern Popular Culture

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Aesthetic Apprehensions

Emerson and Environmental Ethics

Silence and Absence in False Familiarities

By Susan L. Dunston

Edited by Lene M. Johannessen and Jena Habegger-Conti January 2021 234 pp

Series: Transforming Literary Studies

9781793633668 Imprint: Lexington Books £77.00 / $100.00 Audiences: Professional HB and scholarly

Imprint: Lexington Books Audiences: Professional and scholarly May 2021 170 pp 9781498552967 £73.00 / $95.00 HB 9781498552981 £31.00 / $39.99 PB

Eroticizing Aesthetics

Fictional Immorality and Immoral Fiction

In the Real with Bataille and Lacan

By Garry Young Imprint: Lexington Books Audiences: Professional and scholarly

By Tim Themi Series: Global Aesthetic Research June 2021 230 pp

Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 9781538147825 Audiences: Professional £81.00 / $105.00 and scholarly HB

January 2021 276 pp 9781793639196 £85.00 / $110.00 HB

Figural Space Semiotics and the Aesthetic Imaginary

HEIDEGGER IN THE LITERARY WORLD

By William D. Melaney

9781538147856 £81.00 / $105.00 HB

Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Audiences: Professional and scholarly

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Variations on Poetic Thinking Edited by Florian Grosser and Nassima Sahraoui

Series: Global Aesthetic Research April 2021 204 pp

Heidegger in the Literary World

November 2021 256 pp

Series: New Heidegger Research

Imprint: Rowman & 9781538162552 Littlefield Publishers £88.00 / $115.00 Audiences: Professional HB and scholarly

PHILOSOPHICAL LITERATURE

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A Hermeneutics of Contemplative Silence

Nietzsche and Adorno on Philosophical Praxis, Language, and Reconciliation

Paul Ricoeur, Edith Stein, and the Heart of Meaning

Towards an Ethics of Thinking

By Michele Kueter Petersen October 2021 238 pp

Series: Studies in the Thought of Paul Ricoeur

Imprint: Lexington Books 9781793640000 Audiences: Professional £77.00 / $100.00 and scholarly HB

January 2021 210 pp 9781793608024 £73.00 / $95.00 HB

By Paolo A. Bolaños Series: Contemporary Studies in Idealism Imprint: Lexington Books Audiences: Professional and scholarly

Phenomenology, Transversality, and World Philosophy

Updating Bergson A Philosophy of the Enduring Present

By Hwa Yol Jung

By Adam Lovasz

Imprint: Lexington Books Audiences: Professional and scholarly

Imprint: Lexington Books Audiences: Professional and scholarly

March 2021 416 pp

May 2021 332 pp

9781498520409 £96.00 / $125.00 HB

9781793640819 £92.00 / $120.00 HB

Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Imprint: Lexington Books Audiences: Professional and scholarly

March 2021 164 pp 9781793632883 £73.00 / $95.00 HB

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FemPoetiks of American Poetry and Americana Music A Woman’s Truth

By Linda Nicole Blair

June 2021 296 pages Hardback 9781793621269 £85.00 / $110.00

From the poems of Anne Bradstreet, America’s first published poet, The FemPoetiks of American Poetry and Americana Music presents a powerful discourse that developed in the poetry of writers like Phillis Wheatley, Emily Dickinson and in Americana song lyrics of writers like Brandi Carlile, Rhiannon Giddens, and Lucinda Williams.

Nicole Blair is associate teaching professor at the University of Washington.

Table of Contents Chapter One: The Revelation of the Feminine Chapter Two: Anne Bradstreet and Brandi Carlile, The FemPoetiks of Resistance Chapter Three: Phillis Wheatley and Rhiannon Giddens, The FemPoetiks of Revolution Chapter Four: Emily Dickinson and Lucinda Williams, The FemPoetiks of Rebellion Chapter Five: Women of American a, The Interviews

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Haiku, Other Arts, and Literary Disciplines Edited by Yoshinobu Hakutani and Toru Kiuchi

November 2021 340 pages Hardback 9781793647207 £92.00 / $120.00

HAIKU, OTHER ARTS, AND LITERARY DISCIPLINES

Haiku, Other Arts, and Literary Disciplines investigates the genesis and development of haiku in Japan and determines the relationships of haiku with other arts, such as essay, painting, and music, as well as the backgrounds of haiku, such as literary movements, philosophies, and religions that underlie haiku composition.

Yoshinobu Hakutani is professor of English and a University Distinguished Scholar at Kent State University.

Toru Kiuchi is professor of English at Nihon University in Japan.

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Ideology in the Poetry of Sylvia Plath From Manuscript to Published Poem

By Ikram Hili

June 2021 190 pages Hardback 9781683932635 £73.00 / $95.00

Ideology in the Poetry of Sylvia Plath provides close readings of some of Plath’s transitional and late poetry that deals with the domestic and cultural ideologies prevalent in post-war America, which affected women’s lives at the time. By examining some of Plath’s manuscripts, Ikram Hili shows how these ideologies informed her writing process.

Ikram am Hili is assistant professor in the Faculty of Letters and Humanities at the University Ikr of Sousse, Tunisia.

Table of Contents Chapter One: Sylvia Plath’s Creative Energy from Repression to Full Expression Chapter Two: Domesticity and Political Ideologies in Sylvia Plath’s Poetry Chapter Three: Subjectivity, Cultural Ideologies, and Plath’s Poetic Turn Chapter Four: Sylvia Plath’s Literary Journey Towards a “Free” and Liberating Poetics

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Encounters with Paul Celan's Poetry The Other's Time

FERNANDO PESSOA AND PHILOSOPHY

By Pajari Räsänen

October 2021 416 pp

InVerse 2021

James Thomson's The Seasons, Print Culture, and Visual Interpretation, 1730–1842

Italian Poets in Translation Edited by Brunella Antomarini, Berenice Cocciolillo and Rosa Filardi Imprint: John Cabot University Press Audiences: Professional and scholarly

By Sandro Jung May 2021 320 pp

Stylistic Innovation, Conscious Experience, and the Self in Modernist Women's Poetry

Uniting Music and Poetry in TwentiethCentury Spain

By Nelson R. Orringer Imprint: Lexington Books Audiences: Professional and scholarly

An Imagist Turned Philosopher

9781793633064 £69.00 / $90.00 HB

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Series: Studies in Text & Print Culture

Imprint: Lehigh University 9781611461916 Press £75.00 / $97.00 Audiences: Professional HB and scholarly 9781611463194 £33.00 / $42.99 PB

9781611496840 £31.00 / $39.99 PB

October 2021 132 pp

Series: Global Aesthetic Research

Imprint: Rowman & 9781538147498 Littlefield Publishers £100.00 / $130.00 Audiences: Professional HB and scholarly

9781793632555 £85.00 / $110.00 HB

July 2021 248 pp

Countless Lives Inhabit Us Edited by Bartholomew Ryan, Giovanbattista Tusa and Antonio Cardiello

Imprint: Lexington Books Audiences: Professional and scholarly September 2021 280 pp

Fernando Pessoa and Philosophy

By Kristina Marie Darling Imprint: Lexington Books Audiences: Professional and scholarly

April 2021 274 pp 9781793630483 £85.00 / $110.00 HB

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Child and Youth Agency in Science Fiction

Citizen Science Fiction

Travel, Technology, Time

Imprint: Lexington Books Audiences: Professional and scholarly

By Jerome Dr. Winter

Edited by Ingrid E. Castro and Jessica Clark June 2021 314 pp

Series: Children and Youth in Popular Culture

Imprint: Lexington Books 9781498597388 Audiences: Professional £77.00 / $100.00 and scholarly HB 9781498597401 £33.00 / $42.99 PB

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March 2021 222 pp 9781793621474 £77.00 / $100.00 HB

POPULAR LITERATURE

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Chekhov's Letters CHEKHOV'S LETTERS

Connections and Influence in the Russian and American Short Story

Biography, Context, Poetics Edited by Carol Apollonio and Radislav Lapushin

April 2021 368 pp

Series: Crosscurrents: Russia's Literature in Context

Imprint: Lexington Books 9781498570442 Audiences: Professional £93.00 / $121.00 and scholarly HB 9781498570466 £33.00 / $42.99 PB

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Edited by Jeff Birkenstein and Robert C. Hauhart March 2021 318 pp 9781793629883 £92.00 / $120.00 HB

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Queer Literacies Discourses and Discontents

By Mark McBeth

October 2021 280 pages

Using a nationwide search of LGBTQ archives, this book tracks the homophobic discourses used by the usual sponsors of literacy learning and recovers the counter-literacy measures that Queer literates used to upend them.

Paperback 9781793617835 £31.00 / $39.99

Mark McBeth is associate professor of English at City University of New York.

Hardback 9781793617811 £81.00 / $105.00

Table of Contents Chapter 1 Queer Literacies on the Brain Chapter 2 Archival Tracks and Traces: Evidence of Queer Literacies Chapter 3 Adult Supervision: Insights to Queer Silence, or Family Got Your Tongue?

Chapter 4 Teacher Teacher: Queer Literacies in K-16 Chapter 5 “Gay books? Libraries? That rang bells for me!”: Reforming Literacy Platforms Chapter 6 Psycho-Babble: Literacies as Danger and Salvation Chapter 7 Viral Impetus: The Rhetorical-Literate Activism of ACT UP Chapter 8 In Conclusion, Queer Literacy’s Inconclusiveness

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A Critique of Antiracism in Rhetoric and Composition

New Directions in Rhetoric and Religion

The Semblance of Empowerment

Exploring Emerging Intersections of Religion, Public Discourse, and Rhetorical Scholarship

By Erec Smith March 2021 186 pp

Imprint: Lexington Books Audiences: Professional and scholarly

9781498590402 £73.00 / $95.00 HB 9781498590426 £31.00 / $39.99 PB

REAGAN’S SOVIET RHETORIC

August 2021 298 pp

Imprint: Lexington Books Audiences: Professional 9781793622822 £92.00 / $120.00 and scholarly HB

Reagan’s Soviet Rhetoric

A Rhetoric of Ruins Exploring Landscapes of Abandoned Modernity

Telling the Soviet Redemption Story

By Andrew F. Wood

By Mark LaVoie

November 2021 112 pp

Imprint: Lexington Books Audiences: Professional and scholarly

9781793647986 £65.00 / $85.00 HB

Series: Lexington Studies in Contemporary Rhetoric September 2021 218 pp

Slurs and Expressivity Semantics and Beyond Edited by Eleonora Orlando and Andrés Saab

Was Blind but Now I See Edited by Sean Patrick O'Rourke and Melody Lehn Series: Rhetoric, Race, and Religion

9781498550611 £81.00 / $105.00 Imprint: Lexington Books Audiences: Professional HB 9781498550635 and scholarly £31.00 / $39.99 PB

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Imprint: Lexington Books Audiences: Professional and scholarly

9781793611512 £73.00 / $95.00 HB

Rhetoric, Race, Religion, and the Charleston Shootings

October 2021 274 pp

Edited by James W. Vining

SEMANTICS

April 2021 228 pp

Series: Philosophy of Language: Connections and Perspectives

Imprint: Lexington Books 9781793614360 Audiences: Professional £81.00 / $105.00 and scholarly HB

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Complaining as a Sociocultural Activity

Creating Responsive Classroom Communities

Examining How and Why in Korean Interaction

A Cross-Case Study of Schools Serving Students with Interrupted Schooling

By Kyung-Eun Yoon

April 2021 170 pp

Imprint: Lexington Books Audiences: Professional and scholarly

9781793604705 £73.00 / $95.00 HB

By Lisa Auslander October 2021 160 pp 9781498588492 £73.00 / $95.00 HB 9781498588515 £31.00 / $39.99 PB

International Students in Higher Education

Kenyan English Domains of Use, Forms, and Users' Attitudes

Language, Identity, and Experience from a Holistic Perspective

Edited by Martha M. Michieka and Evans Gesura Mecha

By Vander Tavares August 2021 246 pp 9781793641113 £77.00 / $100.00 HB

Imprint: Lexington Books Audiences: Professional and scholarly

October 2021 216 pp

9781793611185 £73.00 / $95.00 HB

Imprint: Lexington Books Audiences: Professional and scholarly

9781793641083 £73.00 / $95.00 HB

Linguistic Landscaping and the Pacific Region

July 2021 162 pp

Imprint: Lexington Books Audiences: Professional and scholarly

Meeting Foreignness

Colonization, Indigenous Identities, and Critical Discourse Theory

Foreign Languages and Foreign Language Education as Critical and Intercultural Experiences

By Diane Elizabeth Johnson

By Paola Giorgis

Imprint: Lexington Books Audiences: Professional and scholarly

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June 2021 142 pp 9781498560504 £77.00 / $100.00 HB 9781498560528 £31.00 / $39.99 PB

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Metaphor from the Ground Up

A New Perspective for the Use of Dialect in African American Spirituals

Understanding Figurative Language in Context

History, Context, and Linguistics

By Daniel C. Strack

June 2021 196 pp

Imprint: Lexington Books Audiences: Professional and scholarly

October 2021 276 pp

Imprint: Lexington Books 9781793635341 Audiences: Professional £77.00 / $100.00 and scholarly HB

9781498547901 £77.00 / $100.00 HB 9781498547925 £31.00 / $39.99 PB

The Political Interview

Research Based Bilingual Instruction

Broadcast Talk in the Interactional Combat Zone

The Impact of Multiple Modalities in a K-12 English Learner Classroom

By Ian Hutchby October 2021 186 pp

Imprint: Lexington Books Audiences: Professional and scholarly

9781793640093 £73.00 / $95.00 HB

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By Felicia Raphael Marie Barber

SOCIOLINGUISTICS

By Maryann Hasso June 2021 116 pp 9781793635372 £65.00 / $85.00 HB

Imprint: Lexington Books Audiences: Professional and scholarly

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Enter the Undead Author Intellectual Property, the Ideology of Authorship, and Performance Practices since the 1960s

By George Pate

July 2021 172 pages Paperback 9781683931607 £31.00 / $39.99 Hardback 9781683931584 £73.00 / $95.00

Enter the Undead Author explores the points of tension between the idea of authorship and the realities of theatrical production and other performance practices from the 1960s to the present with special focus on those moments when authorship helps to reappropriate revolutionary practices into traditional modes of production.

George Pate is assistant professor of theater and drama in the Department of English, Theater, and Liberal Studies at the University of South Carolina at Beaufort.

Table of Contents Preface Introduction Chapter 1. 1984: The Author as Owner Chapter 2. “A Necessary Myth”: The Author as Individual Chapter 3. Whose Joke Is It Anyway? The Author as Originator Conclusion Bibliography Ind ex About the Author

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Rancière and Performance Edited by Nic Fryer and Colette Conroy

February 2021 254 pages

This is the first collection on Rancière, a key thinker of political philosophy and aesthetics, which deals explicitly with the implications of his thought on theatre and performance studies.

Hardback 9781538146576 £92.00 / $120.00

Colette Conroy is director of the Institute of Arts, University of Cumbria, UK.

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Nic Fryer is senior lecturer and course leader of the MA in performing arts at Bucks New University and a director.

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The Theater of Terrence McNally Something about Grace

By Raymond-Jean Frontain

October 2021 374 pages Paperback 9781683932178 £33.00 / $42.99

Surveying the entirety of McNally’s works, including the most important of McNally’s still unpublished works, this book positions McNally at the forefront of contemporary American writers—in particular, gay writers—treating the issues of suffering, loss, spiritual renewal, and forgiveness.

Raymond-Jean Front Frontain ain is professor of English and former director of the Humanities Institute at the University of Central Arkansas.

Hardback 9781683932154 £92.00 / $120.00

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Guiding Instruction in Young Adult Literature Ideas from Theory, Research, and Practice

By Lorraine Dagostino, Jennifer Bauer and Kathleen Ryan

August 2021 166 pages Paperback 9781475853261 £27.00 / $35.00

This book provides a careful and compassionate analysis of the relationship between a young adult reader and a literary text from both psychological and sociological perspectives.

Lorraine Dagostino PhD, professor emeritus, University of Massachusetts Lowell, has been an educator since 1970 in the public schools, community college, four year college, and the university.

Jennifer Bauer PhD,is the chair of the Communication Department at Middlesex Community College. Prior to that, she taught at Lowell High School for 12 years.

Kathleen Ryan PhD, is an associate professor and co-director of the literature and history department. She is also the director of the education program at Hellenic College.

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Shakespeare and Young Adult Literature Pairing and Teaching Edited by Victor Malo-Juvera, Paula Greathouse and Brooke Eisenbach

March 2021 210 pages Paperback 9781475859560 £22.95 / $30.00

This is the first book that offers educators suggested approaches for teaching young adult literature in tandem with the most commonly taught works of Shakespeare.

Victor Malo-Juvera is a former middle school teacher and current associate professor of English Education at the University of North Carolina Wilmington where he teaches courses in young adult literature and multicultural young adult literature.

Paula Greathouse is associate professor of secondary English Education at Tennessee Tech where she teaches English methods and literacy courses. She was a secondary English and Reading teacher for sixteen years.

Bro Brooke oke Eisenbach is associate professor of Middle and Secondary Education at Lesley University. She was a middle school English language arts and Adolescent Literature teacher for nine years, and an online English teacher for two years.

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Public Memory and the Television Series Outlander

Placing Charlotte Smith Edited by Elizabeth A. Dolan and Jacqueline M. Labbe

By Valerie Lynn Schrader Imprint: Lexington Books Audiences: Professional and scholarly December 2020 190 pp

December 2020 338 pp

9781793602749 £73.00 / $95.00 HB

9781611462951 £92.00 / $120.00 HB

Reading Cats and Dogs

The Nature of Hate and the Hatred of Nature in Hispanic Literatures

Companion Animals in World Literature

By Beatriz Rivera-Barnes

Edited by Zélia M. Bora, Marianne Marroum and Scott Slovic December 2020 300 pp

Series: Ecocritical Theory and Practice

9781793611062 Imprint: Lexington Books £85.00 / $110.00 Audiences: Professional HB and scholarly

December 2020 242 pp

The Complicit Text Failures of Witnessing in Postwar Fiction

Edited by Jada, Ach and Gary Reger

By Ivan Stacy Series: Reading Trauma and Memory

Series: Ecocritical Theory and Practice

9781793622013 £92.00 / $120.00 HB

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9781498596480 £77.00 / $100.00 HB

Reading Aridity in Western American Literature

December 2020 308 pp

Imprint: Lehigh University Press Audiences: Professional and scholarly

December 2020 230 pp

Imprint: Lexington Books Audiences: Professional and scholarly

9781498598705 £77.00 / $100.00 HB

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Alfredo de Palchi

Korean Food Television and the Korean Nation

The Missing Link in Late Twentieth-Century Italian Poetry

By Jaehyeon Jeong

By Giorgio Linguaglossa

December 2020 118 pp 9781683932697 £65.00 / $85.00 HB

December 2020 296 pp

Series: The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Italian Studies Imprint: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Audiences: Professional and scholarly

Series: Korean Communities across the World December 2020 182 pp 9781793600790 £73.00 / $95.00 HB

Wingless Desire in Modernist Russia

Between Science and Society

Envy and Authorship in the 1920s

Charting the Space of Science Fiction

By Yelena Zotova

By Douglas A. Van Belle

Series: Crosscurrents: Russia's Literature in Context

Series: Politics, Literature, & Film

Imprint: Lexington Books 9781793605580 Audiences: Professional £92.00 / $120.00 and scholarly HB

December 2020 230 pp 9781793605733 £77.00 / $100.00 HB

Dialectology of the Montenegrin Language

9781793636362 £69.00 / $90.00 HB

Series: Studies in Slavic, Baltic, and Eastern European Languages and Cultures Imprint: Lexington Books Audiences: Professional and scholarly

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Turkish Ecocriticism From Neolithic to Contemporary Timescapes

By Adnan Čirgić

December 2020 134 pp

Imprint: Lexington Books Audiences: Professional and scholarly

Edited by Serpil Oppermann and Sinan Akıllı December 2020 320 pp

Series: Ecocritical Theory and Practice

Imprint: Lexington Books 9781793637031 Audiences: Professional £92.00 / $120.00 and scholarly HB

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December 2020 156 pp

Skepticism and Language in Early Modern Philosophy

Rethinking Holocaust Film Reception

The Early Linguistic Turn

A British Case Study

By Danilo Marcondes

By Stefanie Rauch

Imprint: Lexington Books Audiences: Professional and scholarly

Series: Lexington Studies in Modern Jewish History, Historiography, and Memory

9781793614728 £69.00 / $90.00 HB

December 2020 228 pp

9781498594080 Imprint: Lexington Books £77.00 / $100.00 Audiences: Professional HB and scholarly

The Tale of Genji and its Chinese Precursors Beyond the Boundaries of Nation, Class, and Gender

NETFLIX’S SPECULATIVE FICTIONS

9781793634412 £81.00 / $105.00 HB

Imprint: Lexington Books Audiences: Professional and scholarly

December 2020 132 pp

Translating Cain Emotions of Invisibility through the Gaze of Raskolnikov and Bigger

A Poetics of Return

By Samantha Joo

By Wessam Elmeligi

December 2020 170 pp 9781793600974 £69.00 / $90.00 HB

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9781793625281 £69.00 / $90.00 HB

Cultural Identity in Arabic Novels of Immigration

Imprint: Lexington Books Audiences: Professional and scholarly

Financializing Platform Television

By Colin Jon Mark Crawford

By Jindan Ni December 2020 218 pp

Netflix’s Speculative Fictions

December 2020 200 pp

Imprint: Fortress Academic Audiences: Professional and scholarly

9781978709843 £77.00 / $100.00 HB

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Trauma and Resilience in Holocaust Memoir Strategies of SelfPreservation and InterGenerational Encounter with Narrative December 2020 204 pp 9781793623034 £73.00 / $95.00 HB

By Shira Birnbaum Imprint: Lexington Books Audiences: Professional and scholarly

THE MODERN STEPHEN KING CANON

Beyond Horror Edited by Patrick McAleer and Philip L. Simpson

December 2020 272 pp

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9781498572781 £85.00 / $110.00 HB 9781498572804 £31.00 / $39.99 PB

Four Quartets in the Light of the Chinese Jar

Temporalities of Post-Yugoslav Literature

By Shudong Chen

The Politics of Time

Imprint: Lexington Books Audiences: Professional and scholarly

By Aleksandar Mijatović

December 2020 270 pp

December 2020 256 pp

9781793631657 £81.00 / $105.00 HB

9781498580663 £81.00 / $105.00 HB

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Reconsidering Elizabeth Bowen’s Shorter Fiction

The Poetry and Music of Joaquín Sabina

Dead Reckoning

An Angel with Black Wings

By Heather Levy

December 2020 156 pp

The Modern Stephen King Canon

Imprint: Lexington Books Audiences: Professional and scholarly

9781793628176 £69.00 / $90.00 HB

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9781793615770 £77.00 / $100.00 HB

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