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Table of ConTenTsComposition & life writing .......... 1 american literature ................ 26 British literature ..................... 710 French literature ............. 1112 italian/Spanish/low Countries literature ... 12 German literature ............................................................................................. 13 Slavic literature ........................................................................................... 1415 Medieval literature ....................... 16 Classical literature ........................ 17 Comparative literature & Critical theory .... 1820

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New in Information StudiesGluT Mastering Information through the Ages Alex WrightGlut is a penetrating and highly entertaining meditation on our information age and its historical roots. alex wright argues that now is the time to take a hard look at how we have communicated with one another since coming down from the trees, because the way we organize knowledge determines much about how we live.Los AngeLes Times Book Review2008 | isbn 978-0-8014-7509-2 296 pages | $18.95 paper (catalog price: $15.16)

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my WoRd! Plagiarism and College Culture susan D. BlumBlum is genuinely interested in understanding her students and brings great care and compassion to her discussion of plagiarism. She generously draws on student interview segments throughout My Word! to illuminate todays campus climate. i especially like that Blum locates acts of cheating within the wider sociocultural context rather than regarding them simply as failures of personal morality. CAthy SmAll, Author of my FReshmAn yeAR2009 | isbn 978-0-8014-4763-1 240 pages | $24.95 cloth (catalog price: $19.96)

The self in moRal spaCe Life Narrative and the Good DaviD parkerParker demonstrates the fruitfulness of an ongoing conversation between literature and philosophy. The Self in Moral Space shows that literary theorists may learn equally from philosophers.Times LiTeRARy suppLemenT2007 | isBn 978-0-8014-4561-3 208 pages | $35.00 cloth (catalog price: $28.00)

livinG auTobioGRaphiCally How We Create Identity in Narrative paul John eakinin this fascinating, lucid, and deeply humanistic extension of his earlier work on autobiography, Paul John eakin illuminates the acts by which we become players in a dynamic narrative identity system that is fundamental to our sense of self. He energetically pursues the broadest questions, deftly incorporating insights from neurobiology and anthropology to help us see the ways that autobiography is an integral, adaptive part of our experience as we live it, and of our creation of a future. Jeffrey WAllen, Author of CLosed enCounTeRs2008 | isBn 978-0-8014-7478-1 208 pages | $17.95 paper (catalog price: $14.36)

liZa featherstone Telling Stories out of Court combines gripping fiction with expert legal commentary to expose the law and everyday realities of workplace discrimination. this unique and wonderful collection gives voice to the experience of discrimination. JoAnnA l. groSSmAn, hofStrA univerSity SChool of lAWforeworD By

TellinG sToRies ouT of CouRT Narratives about Women and Workplace Discrimination ruth oBrien, eDitor

2008 | isBn 978-0-8014-7357-9 264 pages | $18.95 paper (catalog price: $15.16) an ilr press Book

for more books on life Writing, see page 12

The embaTTled self French Soldiers Testimony of the Great War leonarD v. smithpage 14

To plead ouR oWn Cause Personal Stories by Todays Slaves kevin Bales anD Zoe troDD, eDitorsBales and trodd have produced a crucial volume for our times, in which modern slaves bear witness to the brutal institution with candor, eloquence, and pain. this book can, and should, effect change. henry louiS gAteS, Jr.2008 | isBn 978-0-8014-7438-5 272 pages | $18.95 paper (catalog price: $15.16)

sToRies of The sovieT expeRienCe Memoirs, Diaries, Dreams irina papernoand page 19

ThinkinG ThRouGh The moTheRs Reimagining Womens Biographies Janet BeiZer

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ameRiCan liTeRaTuRea GenealoGy of liTeRaRy mulTiCulTuRalism christopher Douglasdouglas takes a familiar phenomenonthe multicultural noveland shows how it came into existence. one of the many impressive things about this book is douglass complete command of the extraordinary range of authors and cultures he addresses. WAlter Benn miChAelS, univerSity of illinoiS At ChiCAgo

mappinG The ameRiCas The Transnational Politics of Contemporary Native Culture shari m. huhnDorfin clear and convincing prose, Mapping the Americas places the complex dynamics of tribal transnationalism at the forefront of native american and american studies. Huhndorf addresses this multilayered process by examining inuit media, transnational feminism and the transnational, transtime visual narratives of Silkos Almanac of the Dead. Kenneth m. roemer, Coeditor, CAmBRidge CompAnion To nATive AmeRiCAn LiTeRATuRe2009 | isBn 978-0-8014-4800-3 216 pages | $39.95 cloth (catalog price: $31.96)

2009| isbn 978-0-8014-4769-3 384 pages | $45.00 cloth (catalog price: $36.00)

TRailinG Clouds Immigrant Fiction in Contemporary America DaviD cowartCowarts readings of writers from Saul Bellow to Jamaica Kincaid, from Julia alvarez to Chang-Rae Lee, from Cristina Garcia to ursula Hegi, and from Bharati Mukherjee to edwidge danticat offer often provocative new interpretations of some of the most important contemporary immigrant literature. Werner SollorS, hArvArd univerSity2006 | isbn 978-0-8014-7287-9 264 pages | $21.95 paper (catalog price: $17.56)

CiTizen indians Native American Intellectuals, Race, and Reform lucy maddoxMaddoxs book demonstrates that native americans were actively engaged in trying to create a place for themselves as both indians and americans during the Progressive era, and in doing so she has filled in some missing pages in our national textbook.AmeRiCAn hisToRiCAL Review2006 | isBn 978-0-8014-7342-5 218 pages | $21.00 paper (catalog price: $16.80)

ReConsTRuCTinG The WoRld Southern Fictions and U.S. Imperialisms, 18981976 harilaos stecopoulosStecopouloss book explores the centrality of questions of empire to matters of racial and regional relations through key episodes in the history of u.S. literary culture following Southern reconstruction. John t. mAttheWS, BoSton univerSity2008| isbn 978-0-8014-7502-3 216 pages | $22.95 paper (catalog price: $18.36)

ColoR moniToRs The Black Face of Technology in America martin kevorkianKevorkian gives us a germane, convincing, and provocative study of a severe glitch in our increasingly digital world, which many examine with idealistic eyes. the racial coding that he gleans from popular media and presents in this work will startle readers even though they are likely familiar with many of the scenes in question.TeChnoLogy & CuLTuRe2006 | isbn 978-0-8014-7278-7 224 pages | $19.95 paper (catalog price: $15.96)

a GifT of The spiRiT Reading the Souls of Black Folk eugene viCtor WolfenSteinwolfensteins detailed and subtle interpretation of The Souls of Black Folk is a major contribution to this new and welcome trend, and with great insight makes the case for the value of a sustained reading of du Boiss great book. roBert gooding-WilliAmS, univerSity of ChiCAgo2007 | isBn 978-0-8014-7353-1 192 pages | $18.95 paper (catalog price: $15.16) psychoanalysis anD social theory

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ameRiCan liTeRaTuReplaneTs on Tables Poetry, Still Life, and the Turning World Bonnie costelloCostello argues for still life as a mode of juxtaposition that can hold contrary ideas at a standstill without merging or synthesizing them. Far from being a minor genre, still life becomes, for the author, the aesthetic end of the more politicized modernism of the 1930s.ChoiCe2008 | isbn 978-0-8014-4613-9 224 pages | $29.95 cloth (catalog price: $23.96)

deep skin Elizabeth Bishop and Visual Art peggy samuelsDeep Skin offers a novel angle on Bishops perceptual thought, a description of her particular phenomenology as it informs her landscapes, her love poems, and her social insights. Peggy Samuels shows how the visual imagination is fundamental to Bishops way of experiencing and responding to the world. Bonnie CoStello, BoSton univerSity2010 | isbn 978-0-8014-4826-3 256 pages | $39.95 cloth (catalog price: $31.96)

WoRldly aCTs and senTienT ThinGs The Persistence of Agency from Stein to DeLillo roBert choDatintervening in debates about agency in modern thought, Chodat argues that accounts of agencys dissolution in 20th-century literature and theory overlook agencys proliferation, its gradual displacement . . . on to new and varied forms. attuned to how language posits forms of life, Chodat traces patterns of family resemblances in works by Gertrude Stein, Saul Bellow, ralph ellison, and don delillo that ascribe sentience, even intention, to various entities, thereby expanding the sense of affective agency.ChoiCe2008 | isbn 978-0-8014-4678-8 272 pages | $39.95 cloth (catalog price: $31.96)

voiCinG ameRiCan poeTRy Sound and Performance from the 1920s to the Present lesley wheelerwheelers excellent new book explains todays beautiful and strange style of voicing poetry, from its origins with edna St. Vincent Millay reading her poems on the radio, right up to the last poetry conference you attended. it captures todays scene in the world of poetry readings and engages the ideas of the most relevant contemporary critics and poets. Jennifer miChAel heCht, Author of Funny2008 | isbn 978-0-8014-7442-2 248 pages | $19.95 paper (catalog price: $15.96)

sTyle is maTTeR The Moral Art of Vladimir Nabokov lelanD De la Durantayea subtle, reflective, and well-grounded exploration of nabokovs literary thought and practice from an ethical point of viewwhere ethics, as nabokov himself would insist, cannot be divorced from style, but never lapses into mere formalism. leland de la durantaye scrutinizes Nabokovs own often contradictory and flamboyant pronouncements on art, and combs the fiction both for theoretical claims and detailed examples of what nabokovs literary ethic looks like when its at work. this remarkable book is extremely well written, often witty, and informed throughout by a discreet intelligence and strong personal commitment to the material. miChAel Wood, PrinCeton univerSity2007 | isbn 978-0-8014-4563-7 224 pages | $41.95 cloth (catalog price: $33.56)

losT bodies Inhabiting the Borders of Life and Death laura e. tannerLost Bodies offers an engaging and imaginative exploration of death, dying, and grief through original readings of a rich array of contemporary texts: poetry, fiction, photography, and even textiles. laura tanner makes the issue of loss in our contemporary culture vivid and compelling. Peter BAlAKiAn, ColgAte univerSity2006 | isbn 978-0-8014-7313-5 280 pages | $21.95 paper (catalog price: $17.56)

For more on nabokov, see page 15

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ameRiCan liTeRaTuReThe novel of puRpose Literature and Social Reform in the Anglo-American World amanDa clayBaughwinneR oF The 2008 sonyA RudikoFF pRize FoR BesT FiRsT Book in viCToRiAn sTudies given By The noRTheAsT viCToRiAn sTudies AssoCiATion Claybaughs project is twofold: to merge the artificially segregated literary histories of Britian and the united States during a period when social movements as well as literary markets had transatlantic constituencies; and to expand the unusual understanding of reform novels into a broader consideration of the Anglo-American realist tradition.seL2006 | isbn 978-0-8014-4480-7 264 pages | $45.00 cloth (catalog price: $36.00)

To seT This WoRld RiGhT The Antislavery Movement in Thoreaus Concord sanDra harBert petrulionisevery student of american transcendentalism should read this book; it teaches us how ordinary people helped transform u.S. politics, as well as influenced their more famous friends and neighbors. The book also testifies to the ways these women transgressed the boundary separating their separate sphere of domesticity from the public sphere of political action and conscience.emeRson soCieTy pApeRs2006 | isbn 978-0-8014-4157-8 264 pages | $29.95 cloth (catalog price: $23.96) New in Paperback

CReole CRossinGs Domestic Fiction and the Reform of Colonial Slavery carolyn vellenga BermanCreole Crossings makes a significant contribution to several fields, ranging from studies in the novel to transatlantic studies. Berman asserts that so-called public issues of race and slavery permeate eighteenth- and nineteenthcentury French, British, and american domestic fiction.CArlA l. PeterSon, univerSity of mArylAnd2005 | isbn 978-0-8014-4384-8 254 pages | $43.95 cloth (catalog price: $35.16) New in Paperback

The miRRoR of anTiquiTy American Women and the Classical Tradition, 17501900 caroline wintererwinterer offers a compelling portrait of the superliterate women at the top of eighteenthand early nineteenth-century American society. Her sparkling, concise prose animates the book throughout, and generous illustration permits the reader to follow winterers visual insights.eARLy AmeRiCAn LiTeRATuRe2009 (2007) | isbn 978-0-8014-7579-5 256 pages | $22.95 paper (catalog price: $18.36)

CiTizens of someWheRe else Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry James Dan mccallreminding us of the pleasures literary criticism can provide, McCalls splendid book on Hawthorne and James demonstrates a passion for literature, not politics, exploring how his subjects navigated the relationship between the lived life and the achieved art.puBLisheRs weekLy2010 (1999) | isbn 978-0-8014-7630-3 214 pages | $19.95 paper (catalog price: $15.96) Back in Print

ClaiminG The pen Women and Intellectual Life in the Early American South catherine kerrisonwinneR oF The hisToRy oF eduCATion soCieTys ouTsTAnding Book AwARd Kerrison argues that Southern women became increasingly literate during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, when evangelical religion and a new emphasis on motherhood justified their reading and enabled them to develop and sometimes assert a sense of self. wiLLiAm And mARy QuARTeRLy2005 | isbn 978-0-8014-4344-2 288 pages | $55.00 cloth (catalog price: $44.00)

manhood and The ameRiCan RenaissanCe DaviD leverenZleverenz makes a persuasive case for seeing the literature of the american renaissance as racked by tensions of gender and class traceable principally to the rise of entrepreneurial capitalism.AmeRiCAn QuARTeRLy2009 (1989) | isbn 978-0-8014-9743-8 384 pages | $29.95 paper (catalog price: $23.96)

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ameRiCan liTeRaTuReameRiCan abyss Savagery and Civilization in the Age of Industry Daniel e. BenDerAmerican Abyss is a brave, stimulating exploration of the intersections of evolution, industry, empire, race, and work in modern american culture and politics. with the raw energy of Jack london, daniel e. Bender plunges into the abyss of fears about degeneration in industrial america and emerges with an astute mapping of Progressive-era thought.miChAel edWArd mCgerr, indiAnA univerSity2009 | isbn 978-0-8014-4598-9 344 pages | $39.95 cloth (catalog price: $31.96)

fRonT-paGe GiRls Women Journalists in American Culture and Fiction, 18801930 Jean marie luteslutes puts her academic expertise and knowledge of the newspaper profession to superb use in this fascinating, clearly enunciated examination of the historical and cultural role of the american woman journalist during the decades bridging the 19th and 20th centuries.LiBRARy JouRnAL2007 | isbn 978-0-8014-7412-5 240 pages | $19.95 paper (catalog price: $15.96)

eDiteD anD translateD By John a. gallucci Perceptive, articulate, and frank, the French authors crafted an especially detailed and insightful (and often highly critical) account of their flawed attempt to profit from the rapid expansion of new settlements.AlAn tAylor, Author of wiLLiAm CoopeRs Town

CasToRland JouRnal An Account of the Exploration and Settlement of New York State by French migrs in the Years 1793 to 1797 simon DesJarDins anD pierre pharoux

foRGoTTen fiRebRand James Redpath and the Making of Nineteenth-Century America John r. mckiviganthis study of the outspoken abolitionist and journalist James redpath resurrects the reputation of a well-traveled agitator. . . . The result is a careful and fluidly written chronicle that sets redpaths varied and controversial activities in their historical context.JouRnAL oF AmeRiCAn hisToRy2008 | isbn 978-0-8014-4673-2 312 pages | $45.00 cloth (catalog price: $36.00)

2010 | isbn 978-0-8014-4626-9 480 pages | $65.00 cloth (catalog price: $52.00) Back in Print

loRe of an adiRondaCk CounTy eDith e. cuttingone of the few published records of the lore of a single family. it shows us what range and variety such a group can contribute to the body of folk culture.CALiFoRniA FoLkLoRe QuARTeRLy2010 (1944) | isbn 978-0-8014-7616-7 86 pages | $13.95 paper (catalog price: $11.16) fall creek Books New in Paperback

hoRaCe GReeleys NEW-YoRk TRIBUNE Civil WarEra Socialism and the Crisis of Free Labor aDam tuchinskythis is an important book, distinguished in quality and broad in significance. Tuchinsky is the first modern biographer to take Horace Greeleys socialism seriously, instead of treating it as a mere eccentricity. dAniel WAlKer hoWe, Author of whAT hATh god wRoughT2009 | isbn 978-0-8014-4667-2 336 pages | $59.95 cloth (catalog price: $47.96)

a pioneeR sonGsTeR Texts from the Stevens-Douglass Manuscript of Western New York, 18411856 eDiteD By harolD w. thompson anD eDith e. cuttinga remarkable collection of the songs the early settlers sang in western new York before the Civil war.The CounTRy dAnCeR2009 (1958) | isbn 978-0-8014-7582-5 228 pages | $19.95 paper (catalog price: $15.96) fall creek Books

visions of belonGinG New England Art and the Making of American Identity Julia B. rosenBaumrural scenes were admired and desired by people whose mundane existence faced immigration, postCivil war sectionalism, industrialization, urban ghettoization, and other daily stresses. there is much intellectual nourishment in this fine book.ChoiCe2006 | isbn 978-0-8014-4470-8 216 pages | $29.95 cloth (catalog price: $23.96)


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ameRiCan liTeRaTuRebooks as Weapons Propaganda, Publishing, and the Battle for World Markets in the Era of World War II John B. henchHench argues that world war ii was a turning point for american publishers. the war heightened publishers sense that they dealt in ideas even as it raised their awareness of the value of the commodity in which they traded. Hench maps the results in a nuanced treatment. trySh trAviS, univerSity of floridA

sTaGed aCTion Six Plays from the American Workers Theatre eDiteD By lee papaStaged Action rescues a valuable part of the cultural history of the left. it suggests that when our writers and artists with a popular audience do wake once again to the drama of labor and its struggles to organize in the face of powerful force, there are resources from which they may draw inspiration.AmeRiCAn pRospeCT2009 | isbn 978-0-8014-7523-8 304 pages | $21.95 paper (catalog price: $17.56) an ilr press Book

2010 | isbn 978-0-8014-4891-1 320 pages | $35.00 cloth (catalog price: $28.00)

sCReeninG enliGhTenmenT Hollywood and the Cultural Reconstruction of Defeated Japan hiroshi kitamuraKitamura offers a view of the U.S. film industrys efforts in Japan from the perspective of Japans engagement with and influence on world cinema, as well as from the point of view of the u.S. in its cultural dealings with Japan. a ndreW gordon, hArvArd univerSity2010 | isbn 978-0-8014-4599-6 264 pages | $35.00 cloth (catalog price: $28.00)

libeRTy hyde bailey Essential Agrarian and Environmental Writings eDiteD By Zachary michael Jackteacher, botanist, horticulturist, rural sociologist, administrator, encyclopedist, poet, photographer, visionary, liberty Hyde Bailey did a lot and wrote even more. Jacks judicious selections and annotations provide readers with a neat digest of Baileys ideas on education, democracy, agriculture, nature, and community.LiBRARy JouRnAL2008 | isbn 978-0-8014-4709-9 280 pages | $29.95 cloth (catalog price: $23.96)

ReadinG appalaChia fRom lefT To RiGhT Conservatives and the 1974 kanawha County Textbook Controversy carol masonMason tells the story of the birth of the new right in all its complexity. She expertly draws on interdisciplinary literatures in ethnic, womens, and American studies for this significant contribution to research on cultural politics and the culture wars.CynthiA BurACK, Author of sin, sex, And demoCRACy2009 | isbn 978-0-8014-7581-8 256 pages | $22.95 paper (catalog price: $18.36)

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pRediCTinG The pasT The Paradoxes of American Literary History michael BoyDenin this insightful and accessible analysis, Michael Boyden reveals the complex ways u.S. literary historians have constructed narratives of national identity and culture that conceal crucial elements of the story. this is an engaging, groundbreaking study of an influential historical form.emory elliott, General editor, Columbia Literary History of the United States2009 | isbn 978-90-5867-731-0 216 pages | $55.00 cloth (catalog price: $44.00)

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CaRibbean middlebRoW Leisure Culture and the Middle Class BelinDa eDmonDsonarguing that middle-classness and cultural authenticity need not be opposites, edmondson shows us that the middle classes in the english-speaking Caribbean not only consume but also produce culture and have done so since the nineteenth century. verA m. KutzinSKi, vAnderBilt univerSity2009 | isbn 978-0-8014-4814-0 240 pages | $45.00 cloth (catalog price: $36.00)

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bRiTish liTeRaTuReshakespeaRes foReiGn WoRlds National and Transnational Identities in the Elizabethan Age carole levin anD John watkinsin Shakespeares Foreign Worlds, levin and watkins draw upon both disciplines to illuminate nation-building, the cultural and economic impact of foreign worlds, and the roles of foreign characters in elizabethan drama.PhylliS r ACKin, univerSity of PennSylvAniA2009 | isbn 978-0-8014-4741-9 232 pages | $45.00 cloth (catalog price: $36.00)

The aRT of enGlish poesy A Critical Edition george puttenhameDiteD By frank whigham anD wayne a. reBhorn whigham and rebhorn have produced the first modernized critical edition of the book. the editors discuss Puttenhams life, his other writings, and the books he is known to have owned or consulted; and they provide a fine analysis of Puttenhams literary, social, and political ambitions and insecurities.ChoiCe

TReason by WoRds Literature, Law, and Rebellion in Shakespeares England reBecca lemonlemons book provides valuable new Historical leverage on how early modern english writers dealt with the problem of treason and tyranny, a problem becoming familiar again. RenAissAnCe QuARTeRLy2007 | isbn 978-0-8014-7449-1 256 pages | $21.95 paper (catalog price: $17.56)

2007 | isbn 978-0-8014-8652-4 512 pages | $24.95 paper (catalog price: $19.96)

shakespeaRe and The mismeasuRe of RenaissanCe man paula BlankBlank succeeds in combining wide-ranging interdisciplinary comment with minute scrutiny of language and verse. it is a satisfying read and one that will yield a wealth of interesting observations to scholars of Shakespeare and of early modern culture. Times LiTeRARy suppLemenT2006 | isbn 978-0-8014-4475-3 232 pages | $41.95 cloth (catalog price: $33.56)

pReTTy CReaTuRes Children and Fiction in the English Renaissance michael witmorePretty Creatures is both a material and metaphysical examination of renaissance understandings of the child, performance, fiction, and imagination, and it brings together original research and fresh critical perspectives usefully to move forward current debates in these areas.The Review oF engLish sTudies2007 | isbn 978-0-8014-4399-2 248 pages | $39.95 cloth (catalog price: $31.96)

Royal poeTRie Monarchic Verse and the Political Imaginary of Early Modern England peter c. hermanGracefully written, clearly organized, and thoroughly informed, this book offers smart, subtle, and consistently interesting readings of poetry that is understudied and deserves the wider audience one hopes Royal Poetrie will gain for it.WAyne A. reBhorn, univerSity of texAS At AuStin2010 | isbn 978-0-8014-4835-5 232 pages | $45.00 paper (catalog price: $36.00)

fRame, Glass, veRse The Technology of Poetic Invention in the English Renaissance rayna k alasthroughout Frame, Glass, Verse Kalas displays a formidable intellect coupled with unhurried exposition and painstaking attention to detail. the writing is lucid, graceful, authoritative, and felicitous throughout. Kalas brings to bear a wide range of pertinent critical commentary in art history, the history of the book, and continental renaissance studies.JonAthAn CreWe, dArtmouth College2007 | isbn 978-0-8014-4541-5 272 pages | $42.50 cloth (catalog price: $34.00)


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bRiTish liTeRaTuReThe aesTheTiCs of anTiChRisT From Christian Drama to Christopher Marlowe John parkeralthough his subtitle suggests a primary concern with medieval and early modern drama, Parkers book attempts nothing less than a master theory of Christianity. throughout the book he writes with a passion for ideas and argument that is hard to find in most books on premodern drama.speCuLum

bRuTal ReasoninG Animals, Rationality, and Humanity in Early Modern England erica fuDgea fundamental reassessment of the humananimal relation in early modern history, this book succeeds in adjusting our sense of the periods philosophy and literature by restoring animals to a central place in the project of constructing the human self.h-AnimAl, h-net revieWS2006 | isbn 978-0-8014-4454-8 248 pages | $45.00 cloth (catalog price: $36.00)


milTon and The viCToRians erik graythe idea behind this gracefully written, very original book has something in common with the Milton it finds behind Victorian writers. like the great poet by the middle of the nineteenth century, Grays topic is hidden in plain sight: obvious to the point where it has become practically invisible to literary history. herBert tuCKer, univerSity of virginiA2009 | isbn 978-0-8014-4680-1 200 pages | $39.95 cloth (catalog price: $31.96)

muRdeR afTeR deaTh Literature and Anatomy in Early Modern England richarD suggSuggs is a lissom mind, capable at once of bold claims (for europeans, anatomy was a preferable form of aggression to cannibalism) and sophisticated new readings of familiar texts. This book is finely produced, engagingly written, and replete with odd, grotesque lore. in its breadth of reference and depth of reading, it is a remarkable achievement.Times LiTeRARy suppLemenT2007 | isbn 978-0-8014-4509-5 280 pages | $45.00 cloth (catalog price: $36.00)

milTons peCuliaR GRaCe Self-Representation and Authority stephen m. fallonFallon, a highly respected Miltonist, invites welcome debate about our relationship to Milton and his work. Fallon argues that Milton is always writing about himself. this book succeeds brilliantly in returning our full attention to the presence of that overweening, irascible, proudly singular voice we call Milton. miLTon QuARTeRLy2008 | isbn 978-0-8014-7485-9 296 pages | $27.95 paper (catalog price: $22.36)

lines of equiTy Literature and the origins of Law in Later Stuart England elliott visconsiLines of Equity engages a set of ideas that have long fascinated scholars of seventeenthcentury england. Visconsis interpretation of Miltons Satan as a charismatic law-giver who seeks to ground the law in a specific historical momentrather than in the equitable recovery of the diffuse spirit of Godis itself almost worth the price of admission. AndreW eSCoBedo, ohio univerSity2008 | isbn 978-0-8014-4672-6 232 pages | $39.95 cloth (catalog price: $31.96)

milTon amonG The philosopheRs Poetry and Materialism in Seventeenth-Century England stephen m. fallonBy placing Milton among the competing metaphysical models of his day, Fallon not only leads us to a fuller appreciation of seventeenth-century metaphysics but also recovers the philosophical assumptions undergirding Miltons Paradise Lost.phiLosophy And LiTeRATuRe2006 (1991)|isbn 978-0-8014-7367-8 280 pages | $24.95 paper (catalog price: $19.96)

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bRiTish liTeRaTuReinfamous CommeRCe Prostitution in Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Culture laura J. rosenthalrosenthals book overflows with convincing and persuasive readings of individual texts because of the analytical simplicity and critical complexity of its historical thesis. Infamous Commerce opens a flood of so many new possibilities that it has immediately become an ur-text in the field.TuLsA sTudies in womens LiTeRATuRe2006 | isbn 978-0-8014-4404-3 288 pages | $55.00 cloth (catalog price: $44.00)

family likeness Sex, Marriage, and Incest from Jane Austen to Virginia Woolf mary Jean corBettin this beautifully written, well-argued book, Corbett confronts the puzzling status of incest in the 19th century. Victorian england had no laws against a mans having sex with his own sister or child but prohibited a widower from marrying the sister of his late wife. . . . This book will benefit historians of the family as well as scholars and students of Victorian and modern British literature.ChoiCe2008 | isbn 978-0-8014-4707-5 280 pages | $39.95 cloth (catalog price: $31.96) New in Paperback

faTal desiRe Women, Sexuality, and the English Stage, 16601720 Jean i. marsDenMarsden should be commended for giving what amounts to the first fully-fledged account of she-tragedy: how it emerged, how it evolved, and the uses to which it was put. Fatal Desire is a searching and stimulating study that succeeds in shifting our own gaze to the periods foremost theatrical concerns.ResToRATion: sTudies in engLish LiTeRARy CuLTuRe, 166017002006 | isbn 978-0-8014-4447-0 232 pages | $47.50 cloth (catalog price: $38.00)

The exCuRsion william worDswortheDiteD By sally Bushell, James a. Butler, michael c. Jaye, anD DaviD garca this edition presents an annotated text of the poem as it entered literary history; it includes extensive editors notes, wordsworths own notes, and transcriptions of all The Excursion manuscripts that were produced between 1806 and the poems publication in 1814.seL

RomanTiC RoCks, aesTheTiC GeoloGy noah heringmana fascinating study of . . . the geology of German and British thinking that flowed out from the field work of early hammer-toting scientists into the libraries, the natural history museums, and the scientific cabinets of Europe. an important work of literary criticism that does justice to the term interdisciplinary. nineTeenTh-CenTuRy ConTexTs2010 (2004) | isbn 978-0-8014-7626-6 326 pages | $29.95 paper (catalog price: $23.96)

2007 | isbn 978-0-8014-4653-5 1256 pages | $99.95 cloth (catalog price: $79.96) the cornell worDsworth New in Paperback

heRbeRT spenCeR and The invenTion of modeRn life mark francisVictorian biologist and social philospher Spencer has largely been neglected in the literature, and Francis remedies that here. He covers well the many problems in Spencers life: e.g., his conflicts with his overbearing and troubled father, his inability to form and consummate loving relationships with the women in his life (notably, novelist George eliot), and his battles with depression, melancholia, insomnia, and hypochondria.LiBRARy JouRnAL2007 | isbn 978-0-8014-4590-3 464 pages | $45.00 cloth (catalog price: $36.00)

The love leTTeRs of William and maRy WoRdsWoRTh eDiteD By Beth DarlingtonThe Love Letters of William and Mary Wordsworth show us a serious but appealing manhungry for news of his children, courting his wifes affection, and seeking to entertain her with tidbits about the life and landscape around him.wAshingTon posT Book woRLd2009 (1981) | isbn 978-0-8014-7533-7 272 pages | $24.95 paper (catalog price: $19.96)


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knoWinG diCkens rosemarie BoDenheimerwriting at the intersections of public and private, and of biography and criticism, this study of Charles dickens focuses intently on a body of writing that has too often been accused of lacking interiority and psychological depth. Times higheR eduCATion suppLemenT2010 | isbn 978-0-8014-7263-5 256 pages | $22.50 paper (catalog price: $18.00)

The CoRnell yeaTsThe ToWeR (1928) Manuscript Materials w. B. yeatseDiteD By anD

richarD J. finneran, JareD curtis, ann saDDlemyer The Tower (1928) is the final volume in the Cornell Yeats poetry section. in all respects it is a fitting conclusion: a major collection of Yeats poems is presented in a superb edition. engLish LiTeRATuRe in TRAnsiTion2007 | isbn 978-0-8014-4610-8 728 pages | $99.95 cloth (catalog price: $79.96)

The buRdens of peRfeCTion on Ethics and Reading in Nineteenth-Century British Literature anDrew h. millerthis book is as fresh as it is learned; original in its conception, structure, and emphasis; and notable for the gait and responsiveness of its lucid, meditative prose. Millers scholarship is seasoned and searching, both assured and bravely speculative.gArrett SteWArt, univerSity of ioWA2008 | isbn 978-0-8014-4661-0 278 pages | $39.95 cloth (catalog price: $31.96)

THE GoLDEN HELMET and THE GREEN HELMET Manuscript Materials w. B. yeatseDiteD By

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sophoCles oEDIPUS AT CoLoNUS Manuscript Materials w. B. yeatseDiteD By JareD

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The loTus and The lion Buddhism and the British Empire J. Jeffrey franklinFranklin collects wide-ranging references to, studies of, and polemics about Buddhism, ranging from poems and tracts to novels and religious scholarship. drawing on postcolonial theory, especially theories of hybridity, the author argues that the imperial encounter with Buddhism reshaped Britain as much as it did Britains colonies.ChoiCe2008 | isbn 978-0-8014-4730-3 288 pages | $35.00 cloth (catalog price: $28.00)

THE kING oF THE GREAT CLoCk ToWER and A FULL MooN IN MARCH Manuscript Materials w. B. yeatseDiteD By

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RaCe and The modeRnisT imaGinaTion urmila seshagiriSeshagiri makes a capacious case that the aesthetics of Anglo-British modernism are fundamentally shaped by a racial imagination. She argues persuasively that race operates not only as a theme in modernist texts but also as a structuring aesthetic force within colonial frameworks.lAurA doyle, Author of BoRdeRing on The Body2009 | isbn 978-0-8014-4821-8 256 pages | $45.00 cloth (catalog price: $36.00)

a Room of TheiR oWn The Bloomsbury Artists in American Collections eDiteD By nancy e. green anD christopher reeDthis book showcases how american admirers of the writing of woolf, Strachey, and their circle acquired art that complemented these literary interests. essays present a useful survey of the entire Bloomsbury project and its american context. the book features over 250 illustrations, most in color.ChoiCe2008 | isbn 978-1-934-260-05-0 272 pages | $35.00 cloth (catalog price: $28.00) DistriButeD for the herBert f. Johnson museum of a rt, cornell university

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albeRT Camus Elements of a Life roBert Zaretskythis is Camus the moralist at his most human and humane, rebellious or silent, struggling to make his choices, courageously self-critical and permanently uneasy. Zaretskys dramatic and often poetic book shows how challenging and troubling Camus still is: our own lucidity and attention to others are fundamentally at issue.rod KedWArd, Author of FRAnCe And The FRenCh2010 | isbn 978-0-8014-4805-8 200 pages | $24.95 cloth (catalog price: $19.96)

my faTheR and i The Marais and the Queerness of Community DaviD caronthis is an extraordinary achievement and one of the most moving and exciting books ive read in quite some time. Caron draws on personal, historical, literary, theoretical, geographical, and ethnographic narratives to paint a complex picture of a queer community in twentyfirst-century France.lynne huffer, Author of mAd FoR FouCAuLT2009 | isbn 978-0-8014-4773-0 288 pages | $29.95 cloth (catalog price: $23.96)

suRRealism and The aRT of CRime Jonathan P. eburneeburne substantially raises the stakes as far as the scholarly understanding of surrealism is concerned. . . . alert to the fact that one has to engage with the underlying collective essence of the surrealist spirit, he locates an essential thematic (in this case, crime) that can be seen to bind together certain fundamental surrealist attitudes . . . . eburnes book is one of those rare things: a work of criticism that is not simply reflective of its subject but enlarges it. phosphoR: A suRReALisT LuminesCenCe2008 | isbn 978-0-8014-4674-0 344 pages | $35.00 cloth (catalog price: $28.00)

beCominG a Woman in The aGe of leTTeRs Dena gooDmanFrom paintings and novels through paper, ink, and exquisite desks to the words of women who poured their hearts out to each other, dena Goodman takes us on a dazzling tour of the world of eighteenth-century female letter-writers. She makes a convincing case that these French women did not just record their thoughts on paper; they invented their very selves through the rituals and pleasures of correspondence.SArAh mAzA, northWeStern univerSity2009 | isbn 978-0-8014-7545-0 408 pages | $29.95 paper (catalog price: $23.96)

lauGhinG maTTeRs Farce and the Making of Absolutism in France sara BeamwinneR oF The BAinTon pRize in hisToRy given By The sixTeenTh CenTuRy soCieTy And ConFeRenCe Beamss book is packed with engaging information on the history of farce and its evolution within the political, religious, and cultural contexts of early modern France. in exploring a topic that has received too little scholarly attention, Beam brings to light the significant relationship between farce and politics in early modern France.CompARATive dRAmA2007 | isbn 978-0-8014-4560-6 280 pages | $57.50 cloth (catalog price: $46.00)

fuTuRe Tense The Culture of Anticipation in France between the Wars roxanne panchasithis books core insight is that the future can be a congenial place to think about the presenteven if the thoughts themselves are far from reassuring. Panchasi shows us how certain objectsartificial limbs, vitamins, domestic furnishings, americaintruded on the French imagination of the 1920s and 1930s, objectifying forebodings of stagnation and irrelevance. Future Tense is a timely book in the cultural history of anxiety.r Aymond JonAS, univerSity of WAShington2009 | isbn 978-0-8014-4670-2 224 pages | $39.95 cloth (catalog price: $31.96)


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FrenCH/italian/SPaniSH/low CountrieS literatureThe CulTuRe of Cleanliness in RenaissanCe iTaly Douglas Biowthis is truly an original work . . . . the clean and unclean, the prohibited and the carnivalesque, the filthy worlds of the latrine cleaners and the orderlyor apparently orderedworld of the high renaissance are all intertwined together by Biow in a book that provides a surprising and vital new perspective on the italian renaissance.modeRn phiLoLogy

The embaTTled self French Soldiers Testimony of the Great War leonarD v. smithSkillfully dissecting the work of French soldier-writers, Leonard V. Smith shows that experience is virtually inseparable from narrative but that narrative changes in nature and function over time. in a penetrating and highly readable discussion of the relationships among narrative, memory, and the witness, Smith challenges received views of the soldiers experience in the Great war.John horne, trinity College duBlin2007 | isbn 978-0-8014-4523-1 232 pages | $39.95 cloth (catalog price: $31.96)


baRCelona 1900 eDiteD By teresa-m. salaThe subject of this catalog is turn-of-the-20thcentury Barcelona and its great architectural, cultural, political, and societal changes. art historian contributors capture the major highlights of this Catalan citys modernist transformation in eight brief and beautifully illustrated essays. an anthology of poems and prose follows the essays and provides a sampling of Barcelonas literary character. LiBRARy JouRnAL2007 | isbn 978-0-8014-4657-3 196 pages | $55.00 cloth (catalog price: $44.00)

The unfinished enliGhTenmenT Description in the Age of the Encyclopedia Joanna stalnakerThe Unfinished Enlightenment is a pleasure to readclearly written, with an impressive combination of persuasive larger arguments fortified by compelling close readingsand will be valuable to all literary and cultural critics and historians of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries.CynthiA WAll, univerSity of virginiA2010 | isbn 978-0-8014-4864-5 232 pages | $45.00 cloth (catalog price: $36.00) Distributed for Leuven University Press


spanish humanism on The veRGe of The piCaResque eDiteD By warren s. smith anD clark colahanThe sixteenth-century humanist Juan Maldonado in his latin essays, translated into English here for the first time, foreshadows the Spanish picaresque. Maldonados Pastor Bonus, a lengthy open letter to a bishop, reviews in a vivid and satirical style the abuses of the churchmen in his diocese. His Ludus chartarum is framed as a colloquium on entertaining while teaching a latin terminology for card playing. His Bacchanalia is a play pitting the forces of lent against those of Bacchus.2009 | isbn 978-90-5867-708-2 300 pages | $69.50 paper (catalog price: $55.60)

loRs esT Ce JouR GRanT Joie nee Essais de langue et de littrature franaises du moyen ge eDiteD By michle goyens anD werner verBekethis volume gathers eight essays regarding French medieval language and literature relating to a variety of subjects: historical phraseology; medieval authors, characters, addressees and texts, and the relationship between Middle dutch and old French literature.2009 | isbn 978-90-5867-740-2 190 pages | $55.00 paper (catalog price: $44.00)


CRossinG CulTuRes Nineteenth-Century Anglophone Literature in the Low Countries eDiteD By tom toremans anD walter verschueren224 pages | $55.00 cloth (catalog price: $44.00)2009 | isbn 978-90-5867-733-4

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GerMan literaturemiRRoRs of memoRy Freud, Photography, and the History of Art mary BergsteinMirrors of Memory tells us much about the mentality of turn-of-the-century visual culture in central europe and the impact of that mentality on the development of Freuds thought. Photography as a medium in generaland the roles of art and archaeology photography in particularplayed a crucial mediating role in the emergence of Freuds approach to sexuality, desire, representation, memory, and art.miChAel roth, PreSident, WeSleyAn univerSity2010 | isbn 978-0-8014-4819-5 296 pages | $29.95 cloth (catalog price: $23.96) Distributed for Leuven University Press

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signale: moDern german letters, cultures, anD thoughtPublished jointly by Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library and edited by Peter Uwe Hohendahl (Cornell University), this series defines "modern" in the broadest termsfrom the post-medieval to the postmodernand embraces a wide range of interdisciplinary approaches to German studies. Titles will appear simultaneously in digital and print formats. For more information, visit http://signale.cornell.edu.

a daRk TRaCe Sigmund Freud on the Sense of Guilt herman westerinkin Freuds view, the sense of guilt is a trace, a path, that leads deep into the individuals mental state, into childhood memories, and into the prehistory of culture and religion. westerink follows this trace to analyze Freuds thought on guilt as a central issue in his work.2009 | isbn 978-90-5867-754-9 352 pages | $75.00 cloth (catalog price: $60.00) Back in Print

roBert savage This is the first English-language translation of the most significant text from Hans Blumenbergs early period, one that introduced many of the ideas he would take up in his later work. in particular, it introduces the seminal idea of the absolute metaphorthe notion that there are some metaphors that cannot be transferred back into conceptuality.translateD By

paRadiGms foR a meTaphoRoloGy hans BlumenBerg


leGal TendeR Love and Legitimacy in the East German Cultural Imagination John griffith urangthrough close readings of a diverse selection of films (1956s A Berlin Romance, 2006s The Lives of others) and novels (Brigitte reimanns Arrival in the Everyday, eric loests Everything Runs Its Course) from the former Gdr, this book offers a detailed account of the fraught history of romantic codes in east German culture.2010 | isbn 978-0-8014-7653-2 256 pages | $35.00 paper (catalog price: $28.00)

ReTRaCinG a WinTeRs JouRney Schuberts winterreise susan youensGiven the quantity of distinguished writing about Schuberts great song-cycle it is the authors outstanding achievement to have written a study that for scope, insight, and sheer readability eclipses previous responses to the challenge. . . . Youens combines the sensitivities and deep knowledge of literary historian and musicologist.geRmAn hisToRy1986 | isbn 978-0-8014-9390-4 348 pages | $29.95 paper (catalog price: $23.96) Distributed for Leuven University Press

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GoeThes FAUST The German Tragedy Jane k. Brownthis is a major interpretation of Goethes Faust. the author accomplishes her goals well: to show that Faust belongs to the genre of nonaristotelian, illusionist drama; to locate the work within the european literary tradition; and to pursue its epistemological concerns by taking it up scene by scene and act by act. JouRnAL oF engLish And geRmAniC phiLoLogy1986 | isbn 978-0-8014-9390-4 264 pages | $24.95 paper (catalog price: $19.96)

The debaTe abouT ColouR naminG in 19Th-CenTuRy GeRman philoloGy eDiteD By BarBara saunDerstranslateD By iDa-theresia

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SlaViC literatureadam miCkieWiCz The Life of a Romantic roman koropeckyJCowinneR oF The AAAss/oRBis Book pRize FoR poLish sTudies Koropeckyj portrays Mickiewicz as a genuine human being full of romantic thoughts and intentions yet distracted by amorous advances and his allegiance to andrzej towianskis schism. reveals details unknown even to avid scholars of Polish literature.ChoiCe

The deaTh of TolsToy Russia on the Eve, Astapovo Station, 1910 william nickellthis account of tolstoys death, its circumstances, and its consequences is the most thorough in any language. the story nickell tells about the final days and death of a great writer is important in itself, but his careful charting of the reaction of family, the public in all its complex manifestations, church, and state to this death turns into a fascinating revelation of the state of russian society just before world war i.donnA tuSSing orWin, univerSity oftoronto2010 | isbn 978-0-8014-4834-8 232 pages | $29.95 cloth (catalog price: $23.96)


The odd man kaRakozov Imperial Russia, Modernity, and the Birth of Terrorism clauDia verhoeventhis is a beautifully written, provocative, and important book that will be widely read. Verhoeven demonstrates that Karakozovs attempt on the life of alexander ii inaugurated a new form of political violence.Kevin m. f. PlAtt, univerSity of PennySlvAniA2009 | isbn 978-0-8014-4652-8 248 pages | $39.95 cloth (catalog price: $31.96)

eDiteD By roBin feuer miller anD Donna tussing orwin the effectiveness of Feuers account of the creation of War and Peace results from her remarkably cogent and uncluttered reading of the drafts and revisions that inform the description of tolstoys creative process. this is destined to remain a classic on the subject. sLAviC Review

TolsToy and The Genesis of WAR AND PEACE kathryn B. feuer

The house in The GaRden The Bakunin Family and the Romance of Russian Idealism John ranDolphwinneR oF The 2008 LinCoLn pRize given By The AmeRiCAn AssoCiATion FoR The AdvAnCemenT oF sLAviC sTudies winneR oF The 2008 AATseeL pRize FoR BesT Book in LiTeRARy/CuLTuRAL sTudies this lucid study brings together the realms of cultural, social, and intellectual history to provide a fascinating new perspective on the russian idealist circle. sLAviC And eAsT euRopeAn JouRnAL2007 | isbn 978-0-8014-4542-2 304 pages | $45.00 cloth (catalog price: $36.00) Back in Print

2008 (1996) | isbn 978-0-8014-7447-7 304 pages | $24.95 paper (catalog price: $19.96)

The CapTive and The GifT Cultural Histories of Sovereignty in Russia and the Caucasus Bruce grantCombining fieldwork with historical research and literary analysis, Grant moves beyond russocentric perspectives through which the Caucasus is conventionally understood. a remarkable work of cultural history and a model of interdisciplinary scholarship. AdeeB KhAlid, CArleton College2009 | isbn 978-0-8014-7541-2 216 pages | $21.95 paper (catalog price: $17.56) culture anD society after socialism

Who is To blame? A Novel in Two Parts alexanDer herZentranslateD By michael r. k atZ Herzen was one of the most lucid, realistic, and gifted thinkers of his age and a founder of russian socialism. Who Is to Blame? remains of value for its acute social insights and Michael Katz has rendered it fluently into English. Times higheR eduCATion suppLemenT


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SlaViC literaturedivine sophia The Wisdom Writings of Vladimir Solovyov JuDith Deutsch kornBlattKornblatt has written an extremely interesting and valuable book devoted to divine Sophia, a concept that came to fascinate Solovyov and appears in many of his writings. She also provides annotated translations of Solovyovs wisdom writings, each extract introduced by a helpful reading guide. this is a timely and valuable resource.Times LiTeRARy suppLemenT2009 | isbn 978-0-8014-7479-8 320 pages | $21.95 paper (catalog price: $17.56)

sToRies of The sovieT expeRienCe Memoirs, Diaries, Dreams irina papernothe value and longevity of a book of personal stories gathered from a traumatic era depends to a large extent on the scholarly wisdom, trustworthiness, and good taste of the gatherer. Papernos book satisfies all these criteria at the highest level. CAryl emerSon, PrinCeton univerSity2009 | isbn 978-0-8014-7590-0 304 pages | $22.95 paper (catalog price: $18.36)

The same soliTude Boris Pasternak and Marina Tsvetaeva catherine ciepielawinneR oF The AATseeL pRize FoR BesT Book in LiTeRARy|CuLTuRAL sTudies Ciepiela reveals that Pasternak and tsvetaevas relationship was conducted almost entirely through textwe have nothing except words, were fated to themand that the task of telling this story is largely one of textual interpretation. drawing on previously untranslated letters and poems, Ciepiela details the poets mutual influence in both their lives and their art.BookLisT2006 | isbn 978-0-8014-3534-8 320 pages | $32.50 cloth (catalog price: $26.00)

The many lives of khRushChevs ThaW Experience and Memory in Moscows Arbat stephen v. BittnerHome to some key citadels of russian culture, the Arbat felt the Khrushchev-era thaw keenly and greeted it with trepidation, disbelief, excitement, and hope. . . . Bittners immensely rewarding and thought-provoking account consistently refines and complicates the myth of the thaw while acknowledging myths real cultural and social power.RussiAn Review2009 | isbn 978-0-8014-4606-1 256 pages | $39.95 cloth (catalog price: $31.96)

nabokov, peRveRsely eric naimanNaiman explores the significance and consequencs of nabokovs insistence on bringing the issue of arts essential perversity to the fore, tracing the connections between sex and interpretation in Lolita, Pnin, Bend Sinister, and Ada; examining the roots of perverse reading in The Defense; and charting the enhanced attention to the connection between sex and metafiction in early russian works. in conclusion, naiman reads dostoevskys The Double with Nabokovtrained eyes.2010 | isbn 978-0-8014-4820-1 304 pages | $35.00 cloth (catalog price: $28.00)

The GReenGRoCeR and his Tv The Culture of Communism after the 1968 Prague Spring paulina BrenPaulina Brens book is a very smart and occasionally tart analysis of Czechoslovakias late communist culture through the prism of television.leWiS h. SiegelBAum, Author of CARs FoR ComRAdes2010 | isbn 978-0-8014-7642-6 264 pages | $24.95 paper (catalog price: $19.96)

oveRkill Sex and Violence in Contemporary Russian Popular Culture eliot BorensteinwinneR oF The heLdT pRize FoR The BesT Book in sLAviC|eAsTeRn euRopeAn|euRAsiAn womens sTudies Borenstein is a careful reader of popular culture as symptom, as a visible manifestation of social dis-ease. This book is smart and funny and written in exactly the right tone for its content.sLAviC And eAsTeRn euRopeAn JouRnAL2007 | isbn 978-0-8014-7403-3 288 pages | $21.95 paper (catalog price: $17.56) culture anD society after socialism

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sTyle is maTTeR The Moral Art of Vladimir Nabokov lelanD De la Durantaye


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MedieVal literaturea Common sTaGe Theater and Public Life in Medieval Arras carol symeswinneR oF The heRBeRT BAxTeR AdAms pRize given By The AmeRiCAn hisToRiCAL AssoCiATion winneR oF The dAvid pinkney pRize given By The soCieTy FoR FRenCh hisToRiCAL sTudies winneR oF The dAvid BevingTon AwARd FoR BesT new Book in eARLy dRAmA sTudies given By The medievAL And RenAissAnCe dRAmA soCieTy on every page the author offers new and penetrating insights into the history of medieval drama.WilliAm CheSter JordAn, PrinCeton univerSity2007 | isbn 978-0-8014-4581-1 376 pages | $49.95 cloth (catalog price: $39.96) conJunctions of religion anD power in the meDieval past

meRlin knowledge and Power through the Ages stephen knightThis wide-ranging, thorough, insightful, and comprehensive study of the figure of Merlin should become the standard resource on the well-known wizard. Knight shows real familiarity with the major traditions relating to the figure of Merlin and to Arthurian literature. AlAn luPACK, univerSity of roCheSter2009 | isbn 978-0-8014-4365-7 296 pages | $27.95 cloth (catalog price: $22.36) New in Paperback

idols in The easT European Representations of Islam and the orient, 11001450 suZanne conklin akBariakbari carefully unpacks medieval practices of mapping the east, representations of Judaism and Islam, conflations of ethnic and religious terminology, and iconic figurations of the Saracen. Her book furnishes an account of orientalisms prehistory that all postcolonialists should read.dAvid WAllACe, univerSity of PennSylvAniA2009 | isbn 978-0-8014-4807-2 336 pages | $49.95 cloth (catalog price: $39.96)

Robin hood A Mythic Biography stephen knightwinneR oF The myThopoeiC sChoLARship AwARd in myTh And FAnTAsy sTudies Knights book documents the enormous scope of the mythrevolutionary, reactionary, chivalric, homosexual, patriotic, or whatever the audience will allow, even slapstick.London Review oF Books2009 (2003) | isbn 978-0-8014-8992-1 272 pages | $19.95 paper (catalog price: $15.96) New in Paperback

ReadinG families Womens Literate Practice in Late Medieval England reBecca krugKrug makes a significant contribution to the field with this clearly written, meticulously researched book. ChoiCe2008 (2002)|isbn 978-0-8014-7448-4 256 pages | $22.50 cloth (catalog price: $18.00)

The Good Wifes Guide (LE MNAGIER DE PARIS) A Medieval Household Book translateD By gina l. greco anD christine m. rosein a new, highly readable, and lively translation of an important medieval document, Greco and rose have done a wonderful job of maintaining the integrity of the original text while rendering it both into colloquial english and eminently teachable.lAurie A. finKe, Kenyon College2008 | isbn 978-0-8014-7474-3 384 pages | $24.95 paper (catalog price: $19.96)

new in the islanDica series, now puBlisheD By cornell university liBrary speak useful WoRds oR say noThinG old Norse Studies Joseph harriseDiteD By susan Deskis anD thomas D. hill

RomanCe and love in laTe medieval and eaRly modeRn iCeland Essays in Honor of Marianne kalinke eDiteD By kirsten wolf anD Johanna DenZin2009 | isbn 978-0-935995-15-2 384 pages | $65.00 cloth (catalog price: $52.00)


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ClaSSiCal literatureTWo faCes of oedipus Sophocles oedipus tyrannus and Senecas oedipus Thebaid A Song of Thebes statius

eDiteD anD translateD By freDerick ahl ahl recreates the authentic political and religious context for the often erroneously channeled Freudian take on the old identity vehicle, while paying scrupulous attention to the original language.ChoiCe2008 | isbn 978-0-8014-7397-5 280 pages | $16.95 paper (catalog price: $13.56)

translateD By Jane wilson Joyce Thebaid provides the first English commentary on the epic in its entirety. It is the first verse translation in English using a six-beat line. And it is the first English translation to convince readers that Statius the epic poet can be enjoyable.BRyn mAwR CLAssiCAL Review2008 | isbn 978-0-8014-8285-4 544 pages | $27.95 paper (catalog price: $22.36) masters of l atin literature

sophoCles and alCibiades Athenian Politics in Ancient Greek Literature michael vickersMichael Vickers has written an ingenious, original, and scholarly book on an important subject. it is an argument that students of the period need to take into account. Vickers is doing truly seminal work.BArry StrAuSS, Cornell univerSity2008 | isbn 978-0-8014-4732-7 224 pages | $45.00 cloth (catalog price: $36.00)

The JeWeled sTyle Poetry and Poetics in Late Antiquity michael roBertsa gem of a book about latin poetry of the roman dominate.CLAssiCAL woRLd2010 (1989) | isbn 978-0-8014-7633-4 200 pages | $24.95 paper (catalog price: $19.96)

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wayne amBler eric BuZZetti Here is a new translation of Xenophons most beautiful work, done for the first time with the care due to its political acuteness and its philosophical importance.hArvey C. mAnSfield, hArvArd univerSitytranslateD By introDuction By

The anabasis of CyRus xenophon

seneCas HERCULES FURENS A Critical Text with Introduction and Commentary eDiteD By John g. fitchthis fully annotated edition of Hercules Furens gives advanced students access to a drama with which they might not otherwise have contact.ChoiCe2009 (1987) | isbn 978-0-8014-7571-9 492 pages | $45.00 paper (catalog price: $36.00) cornell stuDies in classical philology

2008 | isbn 978-0-8014-8999-0 304 pages | $16.95 paper (catalog price: $13.56) agora eDitions New in Paperback

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helen of TRoy and heR shameless phanTom norman austinan exceedingly interesting and entertaining book, sparkling with wit and imagination. CLAssiCAL BuLLeTin2008 (1994) | isbn 978-0-8014-7505-4 240 pages | $24.95 paper (catalog price: $19.96) myth anD poetics

aRiadnes ThRead A Guide to International Tales Found in Classical Literature william hansenwinneR, AmeRiCAn AssoCiATion oF puBLisheRs pRoFessionAL /sChoLARLy puBLishing division singLe ReFeRenCe humAniTies, oF The AwARd Far from merely a reference book, the volume mirrors the multiformity of its subject, making a fine text for advanced myth classes, a resource for scholars in comparative studies, and a delightful bedside reader.CLAssiCAL Review2009 (2001) | isbn 978-0-8014-7572-6 576 pages | $29.95 paper (catalog price: $23.96) myth anD poetics

Roman Comedy DaviD konstana very important book in the study of roman comedy and, indeed, in the study of comedy and society generally.CLAssiCAL BuLLeTin1986 | isbn 978-0-8014-9398-0 184 pages | $21.00 paper (catalog price: $16.80)

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CoMParatiVe literaturepaRanoia and modeRniTy Cervantes to Rousseau John farrellthis ambitious book traces the workings of paranoia through a dizzying variety of texts, not only Cervantes to rousseau, but Sophocles to Pynchon, including detailed readings of the Gawain Poet, luther, Bacon, descartes, Hobbes, Pascal, leibniz, locke, Pope, Swift, and Hemingway.RenAissAnCe QuARTeRLy

fiCTions of embassy Literature and Diplomacy in Early Modern Europe timothy hamptonHampton is the most perceptive and erudite critic of early Modern european literature of our generation, and Fictions of Embassy is his career-defining achievement. This book argues for the rise of imaginative literature out of the practice of diplomacy. it brings together drama, epic, and philosophy, italy, France, and iberia.Seth lerer, StAnford univerSity2009 | isbn 978-0-8014-4775-4 256 pages | $45.00 cloth (catalog price: $36.00)


Tables of knoWledGe Descartes in Vermeers Studio harriet stonein a bold and surprising move, this book pairs up the French philosopher and scientist descartes with the dutch artist Vermeer, looking at each through the lens of the other. this seemingly odd couple results in a fascinating new exploration of the intersections between science and art.SArA melzer, uClA2006 | isbn 978-0-8014-4461-6 208 pages | $41.95 cloth (catalog price: $33.56)

a blessed shoRe England and Bohemia from Chaucer to Shakespeare alfreD thomasthomas opens up a little known and often fascinating transnational dialogue beginning with richard ii and his Bohemian Queen anne. thomass book is bound to change his readers grasp of the intersections between these far separated lands.seL2007 | isbn 978-0-8014-4568-2 256 pages | $47.50 cloth (catalog price: $38.00)

The deCeiveRs Art Forgery and Identity in the Nineteenth Century aviva BriefelBriefels concise and elegant study is . . . about the rich rhetoric of forgery that arose in the literature of that period in england, France, and the united States. . . . She presents many original ideas on the complexities of fakery and identity, as well as an authoritative overview of previous scholarship. . . . Briefels writing is as lively and humorous as that from Punch, making this book a pleasure to read.JouRnAL oF BRiTish sTudies2006 | isbn 978-0-8014-4460-9 256 pages | $41.95 cloth (catalog price: $33.56)

siGns of liGhT French and British Theories of Linguistic Communication, 16481789 matthew lauZonSigns of Light shows Matthew lauzons extensive learning in a wide range of areas, including language theory, missionary tracts, and literary texts. He reorients our approach to early modern language theory in the direction of the study of processes of communication, as opposed to emphasizing the documentation of static ideals of transparency.lAurA BroWn, Cornell univerSity2010 | isbn 978-0-8014-4847-8 256 pages | $55.00 cloth (catalog price: $44.00)

meTRopolis on The sTyx The Underworlds of Modern Urban Culture, 18002001 DaviD l. pikeMetropolis on the Styxs breadth and depth makes for a work that is profoundly interdisciplinary, bringing together the interests of urban studies, english and comparative literature, history, art history, architecture, and geography as if to propose a new fieldsubterranean studies and provide enough material to keep it going for some time.viCToRiAn sTudies2007 | isbn 978-0-8014-7304-3 400 pages | $27.95 paper (catalog price: $22.36)

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CoMParatiVe literatureGlamouR in six dimensions Modernism and the Radiance of Form JuDith BrownBrowns provocative arguments about glamours roots in modernist literary form and complicated status as both a sign of the degradation and persistence of aesthetic aura are sure to recharge the debate about modernist literatures relationship to mass culture.SiAnne ngAi, uClA2009 | isbn 978-0-8014-4779-2 216 pages | $39.95 cloth (catalog price: $31.96)

The iRon Whim A Fragmented History of Typewriting Darren wershler-henryalthough he sketches in the mechanical evolution of the machine, and the industrial world around it, Wershler-Henry is never reluctant to leave the historical nuts and bolts behind. His larger interest is in the cultural and theoretical resonances of typewriting, and he considers them in an impressively wide-ranging, virtuoso performance which often has a rather Gothic air about it.Times LiTeRARy suppLemenT2007 | isbn 978-0-8014-4586-6 344 pages | $29.95 cloth (catalog price: $23.96)

ThinkinG ThRouGh The moTheRs Reimagining Womens Biographies Janet BeiZerwith her vibrant new book, Janet Beizer achieves a subtle blend of aesthetic, ethical, philosophical, and epistemological inquiries that mark the best work in humanistic scholarship. Thinking through the Mothers forges alternative models for feminist biographical writing as a process in which new relational metaphors such as fostering and adoption open fresh insights on the role of mothers and foremothers as precursors.CAtherine neSCi, Author of LA Femme mode dempLoi2009 | isbn 978-0-8014-3851-6 296 pages | $45.00 cloth (catalog price: $36.00)

The sympaTheTiC medium Feminine Channeling, the occult, and Communication Technologies, 18591919Jill galvan any literary scholar or cultural historian of the Victorian period will learn a great deal from Jill Galvans analysis of linked trends in telecommunications technology, labor history, Victorian literature, and the occult. By focusing on gender, Galvan has exposed key cultural connections between writing, narrating, typing, and communicating with the dead. lAurA otiS, emory univerSity2010 | isbn 978-0-8014-4801-0 224 pages | $45.00 cloth (catalog price: $36.00) New in Paperback

diRT foR aRTs sake Books on Trial from Madame Bovary to lolitaelisaBeth laDenson a witty and elegant study, written with an exceptional sensitivity to the multiple ironies regarding sex and censorship in literature. with every text ladenson so perceptively reads, she has something fresh and arresting to say. sundAy Times oF London2007 | isbn 978-0-8014-7410-1 304 pages | $18.95 paper (catalog price: $15.16) Distributed for Leuven University Press

The CopyWRiGhTs Intellectual Property and the Literary Imagination paul k. saint-amourwinneR oF The mLA pRize FoR A FiRsT Book a rich consideration of western intellectual property laws relation to creative works and how several literary works are self-consciously engaged with contested copyright ideas. sympLoke2010 (2003) | isbn 978-0-8014-7634-1 304 pages | $22.95 paper (catalog price: $18.36)

The maRiTain faCToR Taking Religion into Interward Modernism eDiteD By r aJesh heynickx anD Jan De maeyerthis book explores the reception and perception of the French Catholic philosopher Jacques Maritain among european modernist artists and intellectuals, including his followers (Jean Cocteau; the Futurist painter Gino Severini; and the irish poet Brian Coffey) and critics (most notably, walter Benjamin).2009 | isbn 978-90-5867-714-3 240 pages | $42.50 cloth (catalog price: $34.00) kaDoc stuDies on religion, culture anD society


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CritiCal tHeorYhisToRy and iTs limiTs Human, Animal, Violence Dominick lacapralaCapra addresses some of the most important issues facing intellectual and cultural historians today (our understanding of violence, current trends in animal studies, and the place of theory in history) and does so in a way that is provocative, engaging, and instructive. the essays are far ranging but laCapras insights are exact, and he proves a sure guide through complex ethical terrain. History and Its Limits is a must-read for current and aspiring intellectual and cultural historians as well as all those with an interest in critical inquiry.ethAn KleinBerg, WeSleyAn univerSity2009 | isbn 978-0-8014-7515-3 248 pages | $19.95 paper (catalog price: $15.96) New in Paperback

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The oCCulT mind Magic in Theory and Practice christopher i. lehrichThe occult Mind is an intriguing hermeneutical analysis of magical consciousness that provides insight into the logic and internal meaning of occult traditions and texts, while illuminating the thought of seminal scholars of religion, including Mircea eliade, Frances Yates, Claude Lvi-Strauss, Jacques Derrida, and Jonathan Z. Smith. Highly recommended.ChoiCe2009 (2007) | isbn 978-0-8014-7535-1 272 pages | $19.95 paper (catalog price: $15.96)

RheToRiC ReClaimed Aristotle and the Liberal Arts Tradition Janet m. atwillatwill offers a new framework for understanding the history of western rhetoric and a reinterpretation of aristotles place within that history. it also suggests a starting point for reassessing and renegotiating the priorities and values we have inherited from the rhetorical tradition.RheToRik2009 (1997) | isbn 978-0-8014-7605-1 254 pages | $24.95 paper (catalog price: $19.96) rhetoric anD society Back in Print

on deConsTRuCTion Theory and Criticism after Structuralism, 25th Anniversary Edition Jonathan cullerin on Deconstruction, Culler offers generous summaries of numerous representative articles and a fine annotated bibliography. His magisterial way of tracing particular topics and techniques through our diaspora of critical texts, and his provocative analyses, cannot fail to focus any critics thinking about deconstruction.modeRn LAnguAge QuARTeRLy2008 | isbn 978-0-8014-7405-7 336 pages | $21.00 paper (catalog price: $16.80)

RheToRiCal poWeRsteven mailloux Malliouxs major claim is that the meaning of a text can only be determined by returning theory to the rhetorical interpretive debates that constitute the rhetorical histories of particular texts.phiLosophy And RheToRiC1989 | isbn 978-0-8014-9602-8 204 pages | $21.95 paper (catalog price: $17.56)

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The enlaRGemenT of life Moral Imagination at WorkJohn kekes Kekes develops an elaborate account, using detailed examples drawn from literature [oedipus Rex, The Age of Innocence, The Golden Bowl] of how people can change (or fail to change) what they are like. It presents this life-changing enterprise as principally cognitive in nature. mind2010 (2006) | isbn 978-0-8014-7627-3 256 pages | $24.95 paper (catalog price: $19.96)

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ReCepTion hisToRies Rhetoric, Pragmatism, and American Cultural Politicssteven mailloux this is an extremely erudite, well-written, and valuable book. its treatment of both theory and practice will prove invaluable to our thinking about rhetorical theory, the new pragmatism, and awareness of the historical circumstances of reading.modeRn phiLoLogy1998 | isbn 978-0-8014-8506-0 222 pages | $22.95 paper (catalog price: $18.36)

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