LITERATURE AND CRITICISMFROM CHICAGO

The Daily Jane AustenA Year of QuotesEdited and with a Foreword by Devoney Looser

It is a truth universally acknowledged that Jane Austen is eminently, delightfully, and delectably quotable, from Northanger Abbey on its lovable, naive heroine—“if adventures will not befal a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad”—to Persuasion’s moving lines of love from its regret-filled hero: “You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope.” Looser has drawn 378 passages from across the canon, resulting in an anthology that is compulsively readable and repeatable.2019 208 p. 41/2 x 71/41 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-65544-4 $14.00 Your Price: $11.20

The Daily Charles DickensA Year of QuotesEdited and with a Foreword by James R. Kincaid

Tenderly and irreverently anthologized by Dickens scholar James R. Kincaid, this collection mines the British author’s beloved novels and Christmas stories as well as his lesser-known sketches and letters for “an around-the-calendar set of jolts, soothings, blandishments, and soarings.” “Dickens was a chronicler of Victorian times, an entertainer and a fighter for social justice. So what book lover wouldn’t want a daily quote to chew on to start the day?”—Our Windsor2018 208 p. 41/2 x 71/42 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-56374-9 $16.00 Your Price: $12.80

Henry David ThoreauA LifeLaura Dassow Walls

“Will be for many years to come the biography that readers will turn to in fruitful search of a life ‘whole and entire.’ It will supply good answers to the ques-tion of why Thoreau still matters, two hundred years after his birth.”—Modern Intellectual History2017 640 p. 6 x 9 44 halftones3 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-59937-3 $20.00 Your Price: $16.00

Ahab’s Rolling SeaA Natural History of Moby-DickRichard J. King

“King decisively settles any lingering questions about Moby-Dick, nineteenth-century whales and whaling, and all lore and literature of the sea. More than establishing a factual basis for Ishmael’s fiction-making, King writes passionately on climate change, economic pressures on sea creatures, and the future Melville confronts in his marvelous en-counter with the ‘wonder-world’ of whaling. King’s deep knowledge grounds lively storytelling, keen observations drawn from years of sailing, and an eye for details that will make Melville’s book come alive. But even if you haven’t read Moby-Dick, you will revel in this storehouse of fascinating tales and arcana, from Ambergris to Zeuglodon.” —Wyn Kelley, author of Melville’s City2019 464 p. 6 x 9 12 color plates, 71 halftones4 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-51496-3 $30.00 Your Price: $24.00

The Daily Sherlock HolmesA Year of Quotes from the Case-Book of the World’s Greatest DetectiveEdited by Levi Stahl and Stacey Shintani

The Daily Sherlock Holmes is the perfect bedside companion for fans of the world’s only consulting detective. Within these pages readers will find a quo-tation for every day of the year, drawn from across the Conan Doyle canon. Beloved characters and familiar lines recall favorite stories and scenes, while other passages remind us that Conan Doyle had a way with description and a ready wit. Moriarty and Mycroft, Lestrade and Mrs. Hudson . . . It’s all here, anchored, of course, in that unforgettable duo of Holmes and Watson.2019 208 p. 41/2 x 71/45 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-65964-0 $14.00 Your Price: $11.20

Cover art: Dorothy Napangardi, “Sandhills” (detail). Courtesy Crown Point Press, San Francisco, USA; Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs, Australia

Criticism & Theory 1

On Interpretive ConflictJohn Frow

“Changing the world requires interpreting the world and interpreting it well. Frow defends interpretation against its postcritical critics, administering them a gentle but devastating smackdown with his well-known authority and flair, taking his examples from climate change and Kafka, bridge building and Shakespeare, and Australian aboriginal art. In his hands we see contextualization not as a dull obliga-tion but as an opportunity for brilliance.” —Bruce Robbins, Columbia University2019 216 p. 51/2 x 81/2 2 line drawings6 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-61400-7 $25.00 Your Price: $20.00

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The Ruins LessonSusan Stewart

“At the crossroads of transience and endurance, form and chaos, memory and materiality, ruins have been among the most poignant markers of the vain human struggle to resist the ravages of time. Draw-ing on an astonishing range of examples from the histories of art and literature, Stewart brings to their interpretation her unique gifts of analytic acumen and poetic evocation. The Ruins Lesson is a master class in cultural criticism, revealing the sweet mel-ancholy that fuels our fascination with the shards, fragments, and torsos of things past.” —Martin E. Jay, University of California, Berkeley368 p. 7 x 9 11 color plates, 80 halftones7 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-63261-2 $35.00 Your Price: $28.00

Grammars of ApproachLandscape, Narrative, and the Linguistic PicturesqueCynthia Wall2018 352 p. 6 x 9 9 color plates, 16 halftones, 7 line drawings, 2 tables8 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-46783-2 $35.00 Your Price: $28.00

Wordsworth’s FunMatthew Bevis

“Wordsworth’s Fun: surely that’s an oxymoron, or a joke? But Bevis is serious. Showing how much Wordsworth and fun have to teach us about each other, Bevis de-familiarizes his monumental subject and returns the poet to his essential human strange-ness. In the process, this book makes a literary contribution to the small shelf of philosophical and psychoanalytic works that think hard about the nature of laughter and play.”—Langdon Hammer, Yale University2019 264 p. 6 x 99 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-65219-1 $27.50 Your Price: $22.00

Some Words of Jane AustenStuart M. Tave

“Tave’s book is one critical study of her novels which Jane Austen could have read with nothing but pleasure, so accurately and subtly does he probe the profound meaning of her art. Tave’s work is, very probably, the best interpretation of Austen’s meaning ever written. . . . The old is made fresh, and the new, familiar, as Tave continually produces, by virtue of his masterful grasp of the Austen canon, new ore from what one might have supposed to be exhausted veins.”—Nineteenth-Century Fiction2019 304 p. 51/2 x 81/210 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-63339-8 $20.00 Your Price: $16.00

Crises of the SentenceJan Mieszkowski

“A poem is the cry of its sentences. Jan Mieszkowski explores how sentences are made, and broken. . . . Crises of the Sentence illuminates the aesthetics of literary style—as well as the style of literary aesthet-ics.”—Charles Bernstein, author of Pitch of Poetry2019 264 p. 6 x 911 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-61719-0 $27.50 Your Price: $22.00

2 Criticism & Theory

CharacterThree Inquiries in Literary StudiesAmanda Anderson, Rita Felski, and Toril Moi

“This lively, timely, and thought-provoking volume gives three major critics room to explore what draws us to fictional beings. Genealogizing the formalist roots of literary critics’ abandonment of character, Anderson, Felski, and Moi make a vivid and persuasive case for characters’ distinct, fascinatingly intensified form of life.”—Jennifer L. Fleissner, Indiana UniversityTRIOS2019 160 p. 51/2 x 81/2 12 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-65866-7 $20.00 Your Price: $16.00

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Sovereignty, Inc.Three Inquiries in Politics and EnjoymentWilliam Mazzarella, Eric L. Santner, and Aaron Schuster

“This superb trio of essays focuses on the mysterious third sphere that separates the governmental func-tion from every living and breathing efficient cause. Conceived variously as a gap, the empty throne of power, the seat of the flesh or of surplus enjoyment, this sphere was formerly robed in glory, celebrated with pomp and circumstance. While these trappings have vanished from our modern, capitalist age, this empty sphere, filled now with a new form of empti-ness, insists with implacable force. Posed polemically against the gray hues of contemporary critiques of capitalism and neo-liberalism, these essays are daz-zling stand-outs.”—Joan Copjec, Brown UniversityTRIOS224 p. 51/2 x 81/2 13 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-66841-3 $22.00 Your Price: $17.60

French LessonsA MemoirAlice Kaplan1993, 2018 232 p. 51/4 x 814 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-56455-5 $17.00 Your Price: $13.60

The Book of Minor PervertsSexology, Etiology, and the Emergences of SexualityBenjamin Kahan

“The loaded theories of sexuality’s origin get a much-needed historical look-see in Kahan’s valuable, thought provoking book.”—Jonathan Ned Katz, author of The Invention of Heterosexuality “Recommended . . . Encyclopedic references to scholars and sources ranging from the seventeenth century to the present day make this highly theoreti-cal yet very readable book nothing short of fascinat-ing.”—Choice2019 240 p. 6 x 915 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-60795-5 $30.00 Your Price: $24.00

Philology of the FleshJohn T. Hamilton

“Hamilton insightfully analyzes the importance and meaning of ‘flesh’ in Christian theology and history. But much more than that, Hamilton offers an erudite and wide-ranging series of—potentially discrete—meditations on an impressive range of authors and texts, addressing relations among philol-ogy and philosophy, poetry and literature, literature and scripture. Reading the book is more like practic-ing meditations among muses, all centered on the difficulties of reading and eventually the impossibil-ity of ‘any secure destination.’”—Dale B. Martin, Yale University2018 239 p. 6 x 916 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-57282-6 $40.00 Your Price: $32.00

Looking for The StrangerAlbert Camus and the Life of a Literary ClassicAlice Kaplan2016 304 p. 6 x 9 3 halftones17 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-56536-1 $18.00 Your Price: $14.40

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Criticism & Theory 3

Distant HorizonsDigital Evidence and Literary ChangeTed Underwood

“Distant Horizons not only proves that Ted Underwood is defining the field of cultural analytics as it emerges; it shows us why. Combining literary theory with a deep understanding of computational methods, this volume demonstrates and effectively argues that quantitative analysis is best used not to find objective truths but to explore perspectives, both historically local and theoretical. It is at once a primer for quantitative literacy and a historically sensitive exploration of gender, genre, character, and audience, putting paid once and for all to the notion that statistical methods have no place in hermeneu-tics.”—Laura Mandell, author of Breaking the Book2019 200 p. 51/2 x 81/2 24 halftones, 4 tables18 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-61283-6 $27.50 Your Price: $22.00

Paper MindsLiterature and the Ecology of ConsciousnessJonathan Kramnick

“A profound and searching defense and description of a field that has sometimes seemed impossibly undisciplined. . . . In its exemplification of how literary knowledge emerges from close reading and attains definition through rigorous comparison with the discoveries of other fields, Paper Minds is essential.”—Los Angeles Review of Books2018 224 p. 6 x 919 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-57315-1 $25.00 Your Price: $20.00

EnumerationsData and Literary StudyAndrew Piper2018 256 p. 6 x 9 48 line drawings, 26 tables20 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-56875-1 $27.50 Your Price: $22.00

Friending the PastThe Sense of History in the Digital AgeAlan Liu2018 336 p. 6 x 9 49 halftones21 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-45195-4 $32.50 Your Price: $26.00

The Order of FormsRealism, Formalism, and Social SpaceAnna Kornbluh

“The Order of Forms is one of the most exciting books I’ve read in several decades. Staging the convergence of discourses that, however historically contemporaneous, have never been rigorously linked together, Kornbluh generates a series of provoca-tive and convincing arguments about literature, criticism, and the agency of form. Her approach makes her a theoretical singularity.”—Sianne Ngai, University of Chicago2019 240 p. 6 x 9 6 halftones, 5 line drawings22 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-65334-1 $27.50 Your Price: $22.00

Cultural Histories of the Material WorldEdited by Peter N. Miller

“All across the humanities fields there is a new interest in materials and materiality. This is the first book to capture and study the ‘material turn’ in the humanities from all its varied perspectives. Cultural Histories of the Material World brings together top scholars from all these different fields. . . . The result is a spectacular kaleidoscope of future possibilities and new perspectives.”—History and Theory Distributed for Bard Graduate Center2019 295 p. 6 x 923 Paper ISBN: 978-1-941792-18-6 $25.00 Your Price: $20.00

Tough EnoughArbus, Arendt, Didion, McCarthy, Sontag, WeilDeborah Nelson

“Behind Nelson’s cool rhetoric lurks an exciting thinker . . . . Raising the question of toughness as a methodology and style is compelling and timely, especially at a time when women are both assuming more powerful roles in public life and having to fight against hostile stereotypes.”—Times Literary Supplement2017 224 p. 6 x 9 7 halftones24 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-45780-2 $25.00 Your Price: $20.00

4 Criticism & Theory

Creative GatheringsMeeting Places of ModernismMary Ann Caws

“Creative Gatherings documents the artists’ colonies, bohemian haunts, country retreats, and favorite watering holes of some of the greatest cultural luminaries of the modern age. . . . This enchanting book chronicles the shared lives of the various avant-garde communities across Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Beautifully written and informed by meticulous research, [it is] an instant classic: a must-read for anyone interested in the his-tory and legacy of modernism.” —Michael R. Taylor, Virginia Museum of Fine ArtsDistributed for Reaktion Books2019 288 p. 61/2 x 83/4 120 color plates, 80 halftones25 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-055-2 $35.00 NSA Your Price: $28.00

Raymond WilliamsCultural AnalystJim McGuigan

“McGuigan’s book is the best introduction I know to Raymond Williams’ work. It is balanced, accessible, and comprehensive. Thoroughly recommended.” —David McLellan, University of Kent Raymond Williams was a towering figure in twentieth-century intellectual life whose work crossed disciplinary boundaries. Addressing aspects of Williams’s work that have startlingly direct relevance to the 21st century, McGuigan analyzes Williams’s often complicated work in a clear, accessible fashion, making connections across key concepts and delivering the perfect introduction to Williams’s thought.Distributed for Intellect Ltd2019 200 p. 7 x 926 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78938-047-7 $30.00 Your Price: $24.00

Loving LiteratureA Cultural HistoryDeidre Shauna Lynch2015 352 p. 6 x 9 13 halftones27 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-59839-0 $27.50 Your Price: $22.00

CatastrophizingMaterialism and the Making of DisasterGerard Passannante

“Passannante explores how Renaissance thinkers, including Leonardo, Donne, Montaigne, and Shakespeare, responded to sudden, inexplicable manifestations of nature’s powers. . . . At a moment when the force of natural disasters could not be more sadly relevant, Passannante wisely reminds us that our predicament has an intellectual history—and that the worst responses would be either to succumb to fantasies of mastery or to utter helplessness.”—Susan Stewart, Princeton University2019 240 p. 51/2 x 81/2 5 color plates, 7 halftones28 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-61221-8 $25.00 Your Price: $20.00

States of TerrorHistory, Theory, LiteratureDavid Simpson

“As far as I know, no one prior to David Simpson has taken on the task of untangling—insofar as this is possible—the entire philological knot that ‘terror’ represents for us. This powerful, wide-ranging study helps us reimagine the function of criticism in dark times.”—Marc Redfield, author of The Rhetoric of Terror2018 288 p. 6 x 929 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-60022-2 $27.50 Your Price: $22.00

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The Right to DifferenceFrench Universalism and the JewsMaurice Samuels

“Samuels tells his story through a series of largely literary case studies, tracing competing literary representations of Jews from the 18th century to the present. As these case studies reveal, even supposedly philo-Semitic French advocates of Jewish integration and equality have often sounded suspiciously like dyed-in-the-wool anti-Semites.”—The Nation2016 264 p. 6 x 9 1 halftone30 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-67732-3 $35.00 Your Price: $28.00

Medieval & Renaissance Studies 5

Leonardo’s ParadoxWord and Image in the Making of Renaissance CultureJoost Keizer

‘This is an intelligent and thought-provoking study of Leonardo’s thoughts. Informed by his deep im-mersion in Leonardo’s notebooks, and in the intel-lectual debates of the late fifteenth century–early sixteenth century, the author presents an original, highly personal, and often convincing interpretation of Leonardo’s idiosyncratic views on the relation-ships between word and image, and between Nature and Culture. . . . If you want insight into what made Leonardo tick, his interests, points of reference, stated views, and thought processes, I would recommend this handsome volume.’ — Jonathan K. Nelson, Syracuse University, FlorenceDistributed for Reaktion Books2019 208 p. 61/4 x 91/2 40 color plates, 25 halftones31 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-069-9 $35.00 NSA Your Price: $28.00

The Merits of WomenWherein Is Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to MenModerata Fonte

This book was written on the cusp of Shakespeare’s heyday, straddling the centuries between the feminist works of Christine de Pizan and Mary Wollstonecraft. Elegantly presented for a general audience, this is a must-read, the perfect subtle gift for anyone who needs a refresher on the merits of women and their superiority to men. “Literary proof that when it comes to male-female relationships, the more things change, the more they stay the same.”—Kirkus Reviews1997, 2018 128 p. 5 x 7 1 halftone32 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-55063-3 $15.00 Your Price: $12.00

PetrarchEverywhere a WandererChristopher S. Celenza

“Easily the best and most accessible life of Petrarch to appear in English in a century. . . . The book’s main strength is its literary sensitivity.”—NationalRenaissance LivesDistributed for Reaktion Books2017 224 p. 51/2 x 81/2 20 color plates, 6 halftones33 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-838-8 $22.50 NSA Your Price: $18.00

Telling It Like It Wasn’tThe Counterfactual Imagination in History and FictionCatherine GallagherJacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History2018 416 p. 6 x 9 1 table34 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-51241-9 $35.00 Your Price: $28.00

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Thinking with ShakespeareEssays on Politics and LifeJulia Reinhard Lupton

“The book offers fresh, lucid interpretations in chap-ters dedicated to The Taming of the Shrew, Hamlet, All’s Well That Ends Well, The Winter’s Tale, and The Tempest. Lupton convincingly explores ‘the special appointments between politics and life’ staged by these plays. . . . An extensive bibliography makes this fine book even more useful to interdisciplinary readers interested in the fate of Shakespeare among political philosophers today.”—Choice2011 312 p. 6 x 9 3 halftones35 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-71019-8 $35.00 Your Price: $28.00

Shakespeare’s Lyric StageMyth, Music, and Poetry in the Last PlaysSeth Lerer

“Lerer brings to these rich and strange plays, with their contradictory impulses towards topicality, towards the past and towards the beyond, not only a deep knowledge of Jacobean history and culture, but a fine ear. . . . Lerer is alert above all to the cadences of the last plays’ dialogue and to the time-stopping, time confounding moments when their action gives way to song.”—London Review of Books2018 272 p. 51/2 x 81/236 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-58254-2 $27.50 Your Price: $22.00

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Arts of DyingLiterature and Finitude in Medieval EnglandD. Vance Smith

A lyrical and elegiac exploration that combines medieval work on the philosophy of language with contemporary theorizing on death and dying, Arts of Dying is an important contribution to medieval studies, literary criticism, phenomenology, and continental philosophy. 320 p. 6 x 9 3 halftones37 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-64099-0 $30.00 Your Price: $24.00

6 Americanists

Evidence of BeingThe Black Gay Cultural Renaissance and the Politics of ViolenceDarius Bost

“There is no book that provides a more comprehen-sive history of black gay male activism and cultural production in the seventies and eighties than this one.”—Roderick Ferguson, author of Aberrations in Black “Bost analyzes a renaissance of writing that sparked in these years [1978-1995] a second Harlem Renaissance, although one whose contributors were more openly gay. . . . [He] argues the power of cultural production that sustained ‘black gay men amid the ubiquitous forms of violence that targeted them.’”—Choice2019 192 p. 6 x 9 9 halftones38 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-58982-4 $27.50 Your Price: $22.00

Street PlayersBlack Pulp Fiction and the Making of a Literary UndergroundKinohi Nishikawa

“Nishikawa’s groundbreaking original research newly narrates a significant period in twentieth-cen-tury African American literature. . . . A standout, a definitive and authoritative history of a minor genre that takes black pulp from the margins of more established fields to their center.”—Shane Vogel, Indiana University, Bloomington2018 288 p. 6 x 9 30 halftones39 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-58691-5 $27.50 Your Price: $22.00

The Origins of Cool in Postwar AmericaJoel Dinerstein

“The real subject of Dinerstein’s book is the debt that American culture owes to black art and style, and the way white America has responded to that debt.”—Times Literary Supplement2017 541 p. 6 x 9 40 halftones40 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-59906-9 $22.50 Your Price: $18.00

Make Yourselves GodsMormons and the Unfinished Business of American SecularismPeter Coviello

“From a reviled set of bad beliefs and practices, Mormonism became a good white American religion by the end of the nineteenth century by redirecting the carnal life of the spirit to the reproduction of the domestic nuclear family. Make Yourselves Gods is at once a revisionist history of Mormonism and a critical engagement with theories of secularism, told with shining clarity in breathless, gorgeous prose.”—Joan Wallach Scott, author of Sex and Secularism2019 304 p. 6 x 941 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-47433-5 $29.00 Your Price: $23.20

Signs of the AmericasA Poetics of Pictography, Hieroglyphs, and KhipuEdgar Garcia

“Garcia’s excellent book demonstrates how indig-enous sign systems such as pictographs, petroglyphs, hieroglyphs, and khipu continue to communicate to all who know how to activate and interpret them. Garcia describes finding images of the signs, too often relegated to the past, in ancient books and dusty archives. But, he argues, these signs continue to make meaning. . . . Signs of the Americas, drawing on contemporary art, activist, and legal practice, makes a compelling argument about why we all need to understand these highly expressive and powerful sign systems.”—Diana Taylor, New York University288 p. 6 x 9 11 color plates, 31 halftones42 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-65902-2 $30.00 Your Price: $24.00

The Bond of the Furthest ApartEssays on Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Bresson, and KafkaSharon Cameron2017 320 p. 6 x 9 75 halftones43 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-41406-5 $30.00 Your Price: $24.00

Literature & War 7

The Conquest of RuinsThe Third Reich and the Fall of RomeJulia Hell

“Was Rome the inescapable model of all imperial enterprises? From the fall of Carthage to the fall of the Third Reich and the end of the colonial empires, Hell develops a brilliant and innovative interroga-tion of the very concept of mimesis and its modern revivals.”—François Hartog, author of Regimes of Historicity “Essential . . . A genuine intellectual tour de force. A complex and challenging read, The Conquest of Ruins will appeal to ruinologists, sociologists, and historians of both antiquity and modernity.” —Choice2019 576 p. 6 x 9 44 halftones44 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-58819-3 $35.00 Your Price: $28.00

Total MobilizationWorld War II and American LiteratureRoy Scranton

“The trauma hero: the lone warrior who faces death, returns with unspeakable revelations, and in suffer-ing absolves state and citizen of their complicity in collective violence and wartime atrocities. Scranton has news for us: we’ve been viewing American war through the myth of the trauma hero for so long that we’ve lost sight of the acts, the political logics, and the writings that don’t accord with it. In shak-ing us loose from that myth, Total Mobilization remakes the literature and legacy of the Second World War. A searching, bracing book.” —Paul K. Saint-Amour, author of Tense Future2019 288 p. 6 x 9 12 halftones45 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-63731-0 $27.50 Your Price: $22.00

Empire of DefenseRace and the Cultural Politics of Permanent WarJoseph Darda

“In Empire of Defense, Darda shows how the idea of ‘defense’ became a logic for ongoing American war. This idea also fueled a racial ordering by defining who was, and who was not, worthy of defense. A fascinating account of the culture of war without end.”—Mary L. Dudziak, author of War Time2019 264 p. 6 x 9 9 halftones46 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-63292-6 $27.50 Your Price: $22.00

On War and WritingSamuel Hynes2018 224 p. 51/2 x 81/2 4 halftones47 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-46878-5 $22.50 Your Price: $18.00

Dark LensImaging Germany, 1945Françoise Meltzer

“Meltzer’s meditation on her mother’s searing photographs of German ruins is bold yet subtle. . . . Meltzer suggests a way of looking at pictures of destruction without lapsing into either moral relativ-ism or another cycle of blame and retribution.”—Ulrich C. Baer, New York University “Meltzer has written a masterpiece—an intensely personal, beautifully expressed and reflective critical interrogation of transgenerational haunting in rela-tion to the ruins that dominated her own childhood in post-War Germany. . . . It is rare to find such voices so superbly melded in so urgent and impor-tant a text.”—Jaś Elsner, University of Oxford2019 256 p. 6 x 9 4 color plates, 41 halftones48 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-62563-8 $35.00 Your Price: $28.00

The Shop on Main StreetLadislav Grosman

Written by a Jewish survivor of the Holocaust, this is the story that inspired the highly successful Acad-emy Award–winning Czechoslovak film of the same title. Looking at the Holocaust through the eyes of a complicit individual, the narrative follows a good-natured carpenter living in a Slovak town in 1942 who unwittingly becomes a participant in a moral crisis involving the abuse and persecution of Jews. Distributed for the Karolinum Press2019 150 p. 5 x 71/249 Paper ISBN: 978-80-246-4022-8 $12.00 Your Price: $9.60 CZE/SVK

The Holocaust as CultureImre KertészDistributed for Seagull Books2011 112 p. 5 x 850 Paper ISBN: 978-0-85742-580-5 $10.00 IND Your Price: $8.00Sign up now for email notification

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8 Literature

MonstersMary Shelley’s Frankenstein and MathildaWith an Introduction and Commentary by Claire Millikin Raymond

This book presents Mary Shelley’s two most popular works, accompanied by a critical introduction and commentary. Millikin Raymond explores both Frankenstein and Mathilda from a feminist and cul-tural studies perspective, illuminating the cultural transgressions that each work presents through its monsters. Frankenstein and Mathilda capture readers by force of their astonishing fantasy and their particular definition of “monster,” which Millikin Raymond explores alongside other aspects of Shelley’s work. Distributed for 2Leaf Press2019 316 p. 6 x 951 Paper ISBN: 978-1-940939-70-4 $21.99 Your Price: $17.59

The Making of Mary Shelley’s FrankensteinDaisy Hay

“A welcome addition. . . . This book is an excellent introduction to the novel; and for those of us who know it well, it offers an excellent reminder of why it is so good.”—Times Literary SupplementDistributed for the Bodleian Library2018 128 p. 63/4 x 81/4 55 color plates52 Paper ISBN: 978-1-85124-486-7 $22.50 NAM Your Price: $18.00

The Making of The Wind in the WillowsPeter HuntIllustrated by E.H. Shepard

This beautifully illustrated book explores the un-usual trajectory of The Wind in the Willows through archival materials, drawings, and letters. “A slim, vivid exploration of the story’s origins and author.”—Wall Street JournalDistributed for the Bodleian Library2018 128 p. 63/4 x 81/4 60 illustrations53 Paper ISBN: 978-1-85124-479-9 $22.50 NAM Your Price: $18.00

Burning DaylightJack LondonWith a New Afterword by Eric Heyne

Burning Daylight was one of Jack London’s best-selling books, yet it has been largely out of print for decades. The story features larger-than-life protago-nist Elam Harnish, who strikes it rich through his talent in the mines—and at the poker table. Harnish ultimately makes the biggest gamble of his life when he decides to trade it all for the golden-haired love of his life. This new edition presents London’s text in full and features a new afterword that provides impor-tant context. The re-emergence of Burning Daylight will allow London’s fans to fill in an important spot on their bookshelf and rediscover a long–lost work.Distributed for University of Alaska Press2019 260 p. 6 x 954 Paper ISBN: 978-1-60223-367-6 $21.95 Your Price: $17.56

Evelyn Waugh’s OxfordBarbara Cooke

Evelyn Waugh’s Oxford years were so formative that the city never left him, appearing again and again in his novels in various forms. A unique literary biography, this book brings to life Waugh’s Oxford, exploring the lasting impression it made on one of the most accomplished literary craftsmen of the twentieth century.Distributed for the Bodleian Library2018 176 p. 61/4 x 81/4 65 illustrations55 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-487-4 $35.00 NAM Your Price: $28.00

John EvelynA Life of DomesticityJohn Dixon Hunt

“Hunt’s richly textured and highly readable account sheds new light on Evelyn. . . . This is more than a biography. It is an invaluable insight into a world in intellectual ferment, on the brink of the modern age.” —Tom Williamson, University of East AngliaRenaissance LivesDistributed for Reaktion Books2018 272 p. 51/2 x 81/2 10 color plates, 40 haltones56 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-836-4 $22.50 NSA Your Price: $18.00

Kew GardensVirginia Woolf

One of Virginia Woolf ’s earliest short stories, this gentle narrative drifts among an eclectic group of visitors as they stroll through the Gardens, including a young couple, a pair of middle-aged ladies looking for tea, and even a snail trekking through the flower beds. Woolf creates an impressionistic world with snippets of conversation, wandering thoughts, and sparks of color.Distributed for Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew2015 40 p. 5 x 81/4 illustrated with line drawings throughout57 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-84246-610-0 $13.00 CMUSA Your Price: $10.40

Literature 9

Borges in SicilyJourney with a Blind GuideAlejandro Luque

When Alejandro Luque received a book of photo-graphs of the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges in Sicily, he set off with a group of friends to trace the writer’s journey. Meticulously identifying the location of each photograph, Luque used the photographs of Borges to imagine the elderly writer’s experiences when confronted with the same views. Part travel diary and part literary history, Borges in Sicily pres-ents an intimate portrait of one writer discovering life, love, and literature through the eyes of another. Literary TravellersDistributed for Haus Publishing2017 216 p. 5 x 8 23 halftones58 Paper ISBN: 978-1-909961-62-3 $19.95 UK/EU Your Price: $15.96

Artaud 1937 ApocalypseLetters from IrelandAntonin Artaud

Artaud’s journey to Ireland in 1937 marked an extraordinary—and apocalyptic—turning point in his life and career. This book collects all of Artaud’s surviving correspondence from his time in Ireland, as well as photographs of the locations he traveled through. Distributed for Diaphanes2019 80 p. 42/3 x 71/3 10 halftones59 Paper ISBN: 978-3-0358-0153-8 $12.00 Your Price: $9.60BE/FR/LU

A Calm Fireand Other Travel WritingsPhilippe Jaccottet

Through his poetic descriptions of Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, and Israel, Jaccottet captures a true sense of place by celebrating and pondering ways of life through the immersive experience of travel.The Swiss ListDistributed for Seagull Books2018 312 p. 5 x 81/260 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-85742-598-0 $27.50 IND Your Price: $22.00

A New DivanA Lyrical Dialogue between East and WestEdited by Barbara Schwepcke and Bill Swainson

Goethe’s West-Eastern Divan serves as the inspira-tion for this new collection of poems by twenty-four international poets. “The multilingual delights of A New Divan, published 200 years after Goethe’s, are inspired by the inspiration Goethe took from Hafiz, and his pas-sionate vision of common humanity across cultural difference. . . . Twenty-four poets—twelve from the east, twelve from the west—respond to Goethe and Hafiz, and also to the east-west relations of today. Six brilliant essayists meditate on the process, nature and aims, past and present, of translation between east and west.”—Financial TimesDistributed for Gingko Library2019 208 p. 6 x 91/461 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-909942-28-8 $29.95 UK&IRE Your Price: $23.96

West-Eastern DivanJohann Wolfgang von GoetheEdited and Translated by Eric Ormsby

The West-Eastern Divan is one of the world’s great works of literature, an inspired masterpiece, and a poetic linking of European and Persian traditions. This new bilingual edition expertly presents the wit, intelligence, humor, and technical mastery of the poetry in Goethe’s Divan. This edition is also accompanied by explanatory notes and a translation of Goethe’s own commentary.Distributed for Gingko Library2019 640 p. 6 x 91/462 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-909942-24-0 $39.95 UK&IRE Your Price: $31.96

GoetheJourneys of the MindGabrielle Bersier, Nancy Boerner, and Peter BoernerArmchair TravellerDistributed for Haus Publishing2018 220 p. 5 x 8 8 halftones63 Paper ISBN: 978-1-909961-52-4 $22.95 UK/EU Your Price: $18.36

10 Literature

The Language of BirdsNorbert Scheuer

A meditative novel that shows a new side to the conflict in Afghanistan, The Language of Birds takes a moving look at the all-too-human costs of war and questions what it truly means to fight for freedom. “Norbert Scheuer has created a small gem of wartime writing.”—Times Literary Supplement “A beautiful exploration of constraints, freedom, and death. . . . The Language of Birds is an atmo-spheric and poignant novel.”—Helsinki Book ReviewDistributed for Haus Publishing2018 160 p. 6 x 9 25 halftones64 Paper ISBN: 978-1-910376-63-8 $18.00 UK/EU Your Price: $14.40

Mirror of the Darkest NightMahasweta Devi

Set in mid-1800s India, this book follows the mercurial courtesan Laayl-e Aasman in a danger-ous game of love, loyalty, deception, and betrayal. Ranging across generations and geography, the scale of Laayl-e’s story sweeps the devil, a crime lord, and many other remarkable characters into a heady mix. Known for her activism and hard-hitting indict-ment of social inequalities, Devi pays close attention to detail in this sparkling novel. It offers a rare glimpse of her talent for telling the sort of story she normally eschewed.Distributed for Seagull Books2019 208 p. 6 x 967 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-85742-439-6 $24.50 IND Your Price: $19.60

The Law of InheritanceYasser Abdellatif

This lyrical novel follows a young man living in Egypt in the tumultuous 1990s as he experi-ences student riots, the rise of radical politics, and ultimately takes the first steps towards becoming a writer. But his story is not told in isolation: through his experiences and memories Abdellatif also unfolds the experiences of his own Nubian family through the epochal changes the country underwent in the twentieth century. The symphonic four-part text presents us with narratives of Egyptian identity, a constant knitting and unravelling that moves back and forth through time, all told in Abdellatif ’s im-maculately limpid prose poetry.The Arab ListDistributed for Seagull Books2018 112 p. 5 x 868 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-85742-545-4 $21.50 IND Your Price: $17.20

Nawal El Saadawi from Zed BooksFamous for her novels, short stories and writings on women, El Saadawi is known as the first Arab woman to have written about sex and its relation to economics and politics. In A Daughter of Isis, El Saadawi paints a beautifully textured portrait of the childhood that moulded her into a novelist and fearless campaigner for freedom and the rights of women. Walking Through Fire takes up the story of her extraordinary adult life. “At a time when nobody else was talking, [El Saadawi] spoke the unspeakable.” —Margaret Atwood

A Daughter of IsisThe Early Life of Nawal El Saadawi2018 368 p. 5 x 73/465 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78699-306-9 $14.95 NSA Your Price: $11.96

Walking through FireThe Later Years of Nawal El Saadawi2018 304 p. 5 x 73/466 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78699-310-6 $14.95 Your Price: $11.96NSA/AU/NZ

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Literature 11

The Rise and Fall of Modern Japanese LiteratureJohn Whittier Treat

“Erudite but saucy, The Rise and Fall of Modern Japanese Literature succeeds in making the history of modern Japanese literature as colorful as the neon-lit back alleys of Tokyo. The book features a broad range of characters, including a Meiji ‘poison woman,’ Korean nationalists, and a serial killer enamored of anime. As for the final verdict on the future of Japanese literature, Treat wisely leaves it up in the air.”—Minae Mizumura, author of The Fall of Language in the Age of English2018 368 p. 6 x 9 9 halftones69 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-54513-4 $35.00 Your Price: $28.00

The Invisible LibraryThorvald Steen

The year is 323 BCE. King Alexander of Macedonia —Alexander the Great—lies paralyzed by poison in his palace in Babylon. At the other end of the palace, Phyllis, a cook for Alexander’s army who was also Alexander’s lover, has been arrested on suspicion of being the poisoner. With The Invisible Library, Thorvald Steen interweaves fact and fiction to tell the story of a little-known period in the life of one of the most renowned figures in history. The result is an existen-tial and inspired novel that goes to the heart of the human experience.Distributed for Seagull Books2018 176 p. 5 x 870 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-85742-541-6 $21.50 IND Your Price: $17.20

ComediesRobert WalserThe German ListDistributed for Seagull Books2018 224 p. 6 x 71/271 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-85742-469-3 $24.50 IND Your Price: $19.60

The Red YearsForbidden Poems from Inside North KoreaBandi

Known only by his pen name, Bandi stands as one of the most distinctive and original dissident writers to emerge from North Korea, and his work is all the more striking for the fact that he continues to reside in the country, writing in secret, with his work smuggled out of the country by supporters and relatives. The Red Years represents the first collection of Bandi’s poetry to be made available in English. Singularly poignant and evocative, this work stands as a testament to the power of the human spirit to endure and resist even the most repressive of regimes.Distributed for Zed Books2019 208 p. 5 x 73/472 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78699-660-2 $14.95 NSA Your Price: $11.96

MydriasisFollowed by To the IcebergsJ.M.G. Le Clézio

“Le Clézio is an intensely atmospheric, nearly hallu-cinatory writer, and in his riveting and eviscerating short stories, dreams turn inexorably into night-mares.”—New York Times “This is Nobel-quality writing, an international author with a mature style telling a story to the peak of his capacity. The English language needs more of it.”—TelegraphThe French ListDistributed for Seagull Books2019 152 p. 5 x 873 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-85742-654-3 $21.50 IND Your Price: $17.20

Catarina the Wise and Other Wondrous Sicilian Folk and Fairy TalesCollected by Giuseppe Pitrè2017 304 p. 6 x 9 10 halftones74 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-46279-0 $20.00 Your Price: $16.00

12 Literature

My Mother’s TearsMichel Layaz

My Mother’s Tears is a moving novel about language and memory that explores the ambivalent power of words to hurt and to heal, to revive the past and to put childhood demons to rest. “With its ferocity and its secret music, Layaz’s novel releases phantoms that will haunt readers for a long time.”—Scène MagazineThe Swiss ListDistributed for Seagull Books2019 192 p. 5 x 875 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-85742-652-9 $21.50 IND Your Price: $17.20

Villa AmaliaPascal Quignard

Musician Ann Hidden suspects her partner, Thomas, isn’t telling her everything. So one dark night, she secretly follows him to an unfamiliar house in the Paris suburbs, where he disappears inside with an unknown woman. By the time Thomas returns, Ann has fled the country and started a new, hidden life. But the past is never that easy to escape, and Ann’s secrets eventually seek her out.The French ListDistributed for Seagull Books2018 264 p. 5 x 876 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-85742-478-5 $24.50 IND Your Price: $19.60

The Great FallPeter Handke

“You are advised to read this book, take a cane, tuck a feather onto your hat like the hero, and to follow him . . . It is for your own good, reader, you will not regret it . . . This is a straightforward narration with plain and elegant sentences. The book is reminiscent of Handke’s beginnings, and it is impressive . . . German literature is not conceivable without Peter Handke.”—Die ZeitThe German ListDistributed for Seagull Books2018 224 p. 5 x 877 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-85742-534-8 $24.50 IND Your Price: $19.60

The Labyrinth of Tender Force166 Love StoriesAlexander Kluge

This book collects 166 love stories by Alexander Kluge, one of the greatest living German writers. Organized thematically, these stories take readers on a flight over the maps—the varied topography—of love. The Labyrinth of Tender Force masterfully explores the greatest peaks and the most dreadful crevasses of passionate love through an inspired combination of Kluge’s vignettes with drawings, photographs, and other archival material culled from diverse sources.The German ListDistributed for Seagull Books2018 576 p. 6 x 9 50 halftones78 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-85742-604-8 $45.00 IND Your Price: $36.00

I Have No RegretsDiaries, 1955-1963Brigitte Reimann

Frank and refreshing, Reimann’s collected diaries provide a candid account of life in socialist Ger-many. With an upbeat tempo and amusing tone, I Have No Regrets contains detailed accounts of the author’s love affairs, daily life, writing, and reflec-tions. Like the heroines in her stories, Reimann was impetuous and outspoken, addressing issues and sensibilities otherwise repressed in the era of the German Democratic Republic. By turns shocking, passionate, unflinching, and bitter—but above all life-affirming—these diaries offer an unparal-leled insight into what life was like during the first decades of the GDR.The German ListDistributed for Seagull Books2019 432 p. 6 x 979 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-85742-668-0 $40.00 IND Your Price: $32.00

Love Writ LargeNavid Kermani

As Kermani’s teenage protagonist is wrapped up in the all-consuming experience of young love, Germany is in the crosshairs of the Cold War. This novel sets the boy’s struggles within the larger frame of the stories and lives of numerous Arabic and Per-sian mystics, reflecting upon the multiple ways love, loss, and risk shape our everyday lives.The German ListDistributed for Seagull Books2018 212 p. 5 x 880 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-85742-602-4 $24.50 IND Your Price: $19.60

A Fortunate ManHenrik PontoppidanDistributed for Museum Tusculanum Press2018 773 p. 6 x 981 Paper ISBN: 978-87-635-4424-5 $35.00 UKIRESCAN Your Price: $28.00

Literature 13

Anarchy’s Brief SummerThe Life and Death of Buenaventura DurrutiHans Magnus Enzensberger

This book brings anarchism to life by focusing on the charismatic leader Buenaventura Durruti, who became a key figure in the Spanish Civil War. The basis of the book is a compilation of texts linked by Enzensberger’s own assessment in a series of glosses that illuminate the political contradictions of the Spanish Revolution.The German ListDistributed for Seagull Books2018 264 p. 6 x 982 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-85742-600-0 $30.00 IND Your Price: $24.00

Samizdat Past and PresentEdited by Tomáš Glanc

This collection provides an expert introduction to underground Czech writings (samizdat) and their history, offering insight into both the current wave of literary rediscovery and translation and contempo-rary debates over censorship. The authors of Samizdat Past and Present illuminate the complexities of a literature written under censorship and the struggle for freedom of thought in a totalitarian regime.Distributed for the Karolinum Press2019 250 p. 6 x 8 10 halftones83 Paper ISBN: 978-80-246-4033-4 $23.00 CZE/SVK Your Price: $18.40

Czech DreambookLudvík Vaculík

“A novel about hope and hopelessness, about ever-present danger, about the strange dreamlike quality of life in a totalitarian system, about the absurdity of present-day ‘civilized’ living, about losing a home and the disintegration of time and human identity.”—Václav Havel, first post-Communist president of CzechoslovakiaModern Czech ClassicsDistributed for the Karolinum Press2018 450 p. 5 x 8 25 halftones84 Paper ISBN: 978-80-246-3852-2 $27.00 CZE/SVK Your Price: $21.60

Science FiktionFranz Fühmann

In seven interlocking stories, Science Fiktion offers a steampunk takedown of the logic of the Cold War. As the stories follow three young citizens of a fictional nation, Fühmann gradually unfolds the contours of their bizarre world in a master class of understated world making. A German twist on an Anglophone tradition, Science Fiktion provides a disturbing vision of the future from the other side of the Berlin Wall.The German ListDistributed for Seagull Books2018 280 p. 5 x 885 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-85742-601-7 $24.50 IND Your Price: $19.60

Shift SleepersDorothee Elmiger

Somewhere deep in the European forest they meet. Frontier workers, smugglers, refugees, artists, musi-cians, actors, journalists, logisticians, students, and ghosts. They come from everywhere. They are all representatives of our time, and they have conversa-tions about origins and justice; body and state; import and export; homeland and migration. They talk together about happiness, music, and death. In Shift Sleepers, Swiss writer Dorothee Elmiger has produced a novel that sheds light on the controver-sial issues of our time, finding a new language for this conversation previously unheard in contempo-rary German literature.The Swiss ListDistributed for Seagull Books2018 204 p. 5 x 886 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-85742-599-7 $24.50 IND Your Price: $19.60

Bad WordsSelected Short ProseIlse AichingerThe German ListDistributed for Seagull Books2018 224 p. 6 x 987 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-85742-476-1 $24.50 IND Your Price: $19.60

14 Philosophy

World-Changing RageNews of the AntipodeansGeorg Baselitz and Alexander Kluge

Rage and obstinacy are close relatives—and funda-mental categories in the work of both Georg Baselitz and Alexander Kluge. In World-Changing Rage, these two accomplished German creators explore links and fractures between two cultures through two media: ink and watercolour on paper, and the written word. This unique collaboration will leave readers with a deeper appreciation of the human condition. “Kluge’s search for the maelstroms and fixed points of the world spirit . . . is exhilarating, inter-esting, philosophical—a vade mecum to be read several times over.”—Münchner FeuilletonThe German ListDistributed for Seagull Books2019 240 p. 51/2 x 73/4 80 color plates88 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-85742-657-4 $24.50 IND Your Price: $19.60

The Anatomist of PowerFranz Kafka and the Critique of AuthorityCostas Despiniadis

“This book is a rare event: a political—in the noblest meaning of the word—interpretation of Kafka’s writings. Even better, it is an anarchist reading, against the grain of the conformist academic prose on the author of The Trial. Despiniadis brings to-gether, with admirable talent, literature, philosophy, and contemporary revolutionary issues.” – Michael Löwy, author of Franz KafkaDistributed for Black Rose Books2018 148 p. 5 1/2 x 81/289 Paper ISBN: 978-1-55164-656-5 $22.00 Your Price: $17.60CA/IE/UK

Critical EssaysJean-Paul SartreThe French ListDistributed for Seagull Books2010 532 p. 5 x 890 Paper ISBN: 978-0-85742-449-5 $24.50 IND Your Price: $19.60

LionsHans Blumenberg

For distinguished philosopher Hans Blumenberg, lions were a life-long obsession. Lions collects thirty-two of Blumenberg’s philosophical vignettes to re-veal that the figure of the lion unites two of his other great preoccupations: metaphors and anecdotes as non-philosophical forms of knowledge. “Blumenberg was one of those rare figures, like Robert Burton or Goethe himself, who was able to read widely across disciplines and time periods while maintaining a detailed sense of the internal conflicts and complexities of each particular domain.” —David AuerbachThe German ListDistributed for Seagull Books2019 104 p. 5 x 891 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-85742-430-3 $27.50 IND Your Price: $22.00

PulcinellaOr Entertainment for ChildrenGiorgio Agamben

At the heart of Pulcinella is Agamben’s exploration of an album of 104 drawings, created by Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (1727–1804) near the end of his life, that cover the life, adventures, death, and resurrection of the title character. Mixing stories of the enigmatic Pulcinella with his own character in a sort of imaginary philosophical biography, Agamben treads the line between philosophy and comedy. “Agamben’s intuition, chronicle and meditation are fascinating.”—Review of PoliticsThe Italian ListDistributed for Seagull Books2018 144 p. 6 x 71/2 46 color plates92 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-85742-540-9 $35.00 IND Your Price: $28.00

Philosophy, Writing, and the Character of ThoughtJohn T. Lysaker2018 224 p. 6 x 993 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-56956-7 $35.00 Your Price: $28.00

Ancient Literature & Mythology 15

Sex in the World of MythDavid Leeming

In this survey of the sex lives of the world’s mythological figures, Leeming demonstrates that these myths offer answers to questions of religion, existence, and human sexuality. “Destined to become a classic in its field. . . . [Leeming] understands that lack of respect for the female is the great wound at the heart of human sexuality, and this book serves as a starting point to heal it.”—Australian “The discussion of the historical diversity of attitudes toward gender and sexuality as revealed in myth is timely, and the range of cultures Leeming approaches is refreshingly wide.”—ChoiceDistributed for Reaktion Books2018 256 p. 51/2 x 81/2 50 color plates, 50 halftones94 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-977-4 $25.00 NSA Your Price: $20.00

ArthurGod and Hero in AvalonChristopher R. Fee

This book discusses everything from the very earliest versions of the King Arthur myth to the most recent film and television adaptations, offering insight into why Arthur remains so popular—a hero whose story still speaks so eloquently to universal human needs. “Refreshingly accessible and expertly researched, Fee’s Arthur: God and Hero in Avalon is an adventure into myth and a tour through ancient history. This is an unparalleled introduction to the legendary and multifaceted King Arthur.”—Andrew Cole, Princeton UniversityDistributed for Reaktion Books2019 224 p. 51/2 x 81/2 10 color plates, 40 halftones95 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-999-6 $25.00 NSA Your Price: $20.00

The AeneidVirgilTranslated by David Ferry2017 432 p. 6 x 9 1 halftone96 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-45018-6 $35.00 Your Price: $28.00

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FairiesA Dangerous HistoryRichard Sugg

“Far from the innocuous flutterings of Disney films, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries fairies were often regarded as dangerous creatures. Abduc-tion, murder, being forced to dance to death: these were only a few of the fates they could hand out, and people lived in real fear of their otherworldly strangeness. This account of apparent ‘sightings,’ and what they tell us about wider society, makes for compelling reading.”—History Revealed “[A] bulging field guide to fairy lore. Taking readers on a tour of the brownies, hobs, changelings, kelpies, selkies, sea trows, and various other fairy types of the British Isles and beyond, Sugg inves-tigates ‘the great heresy of fairyland’ in folklore, the arts, and historical testimony.”—Times Literary SupplementDistributed for Reaktion Books2018 280 p. 51/2 x 81/2 17 color plates, 4 halftones97 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78914-120-7 $14.00 NSA Your Price: $11.20

ShapeshiftersA HistoryJohn B. Kachuba

“Kachuba has written a terrifically entertaining exploration of shapeshifting, from ancient folklore and fairy tales to Transformers and Twilight. I loved learning about skinwalkers, French werewolves, and where in Romania to buy a bottle of Dracula Merlot. This book offers fascinating insight into the origins of the stories we continue to tell about our desire ‘to be someone or something other than what we are.’”—Becky Hagenston, author of ScavengersDistributed for Reaktion Books2019 208 p. 51/2 x 81/2 20 halftones98 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-079-8 $22.50 NSA Your Price: $18.00

16 Fantasy, Sci-Fi, & Film

Tolkien: TreasuresCatherine McIlwaine

This beautifully illustrated book showcases the highlights of the Tolkien archives held at the Bodleian Library. “Probably the finest reproduction of Tolkien’s art (and maps) published to date. The true glory of this book is the illustrations, all of which seem to be in true colour, often accompanied by enlarged details.” —Beyond BreeDistributed for the Bodleian Library2018 144 p. 73/4 x 73/4 100 color plates99 Paper ISBN: 978-1-85124-496-6 $20.00 NAM Your Price: $16.00

The Writer’s MapAn Atlas of Imaginary LandsEdited by Huw Lewis-JonesWith a Prologue by Philip Pullman

“One of life’s great treats, for a lover of books (especially fantasy books), is to open a cover to find a map secreted inside and filled with the details of a land about to be discovered. . . . The Writer’s Map contains dozens of the magical maps writers have drawn or that have been made by others to illustrate the places they’ve created.”—Atlas Obscura2018 256 p. 81/4 x 113/4 220 color plates100 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-59663-1 $45.00 USCA Your Price: $36.00

Lost MarsStories from the Golden Age of the Red PlanetEdited by Mike Ashley

“These stories are of the highest quality and il-lustrate how our evolving understanding of the Red Planet changed the way we wrote about it and how Mars came to occupy a prominent position in our hopes, dreams, and fears as the modern age dawned and grew. . . . A fascinating overview of the history of Mars in science fiction, from the birth of the genre through the beginning of the space age.”—Booklist2018 304 p. 51/8 x 71/2101 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-57508-7 $17.00 COBE/EU Your Price: $13.60

Reinventing HollywoodHow 1940s Filmmakers Changed Movie StorytellingDavid Bordwell

“Rather than focusing on the colorful stars and studio bosses of 1940s Hollywood, prolific film historian Bordwell . . . zooms in on the films themselves, and more specifically, how they were made.”—Library Journal “Reinventing Hollywood shows how risk-taking screenwriters and directors of the 1940s introduced storytelling strategies taken from modernist novels and avant-garde theater. . . . No dry encyclopedia of cinematic tropes, this is a delectable menu of narra-tive techniques that maximize the complexity and depth of a plot. . . . As invaluable to storytellers as to cinephiles and scholars interested in the narrative architecture of Hollywood efforts, both the well-known and less so.”—Film Quarterly2017 592 p. 6 x 9 157 halftones102 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-63955-0 $30.00 Your Price: $24.00

The Philosophical HitchcockVertigo and the Anxieties of UnknowingnessRobert B. Pippin

“Pippin has given us a rich and nuanced analysis of Hitchcock’s sophisticated and subtle depiction of the struggle for mutual understanding and the perils of unknowingness in Vertigo. And it is no small achievement to say something fresh and compelling about a film as widely discussed and celebrated as this one.”—Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews “A seminal and unusual contribution to the literature on Vertigo specifically, on Hitchcock more broadly, and on film in general.”—George Wilson, University of Southern California2017 144 p. 6 x 9 24 color plates, 36 halftones103 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-66824-6 $20.00 Your Price: $16.00

Poetry 17

Against TranslationAlan Shapiro

“The usual complaint about translation is linguistic. Something is lost going from one language to another. Shapiro’s concern is bigger. He writes picto-rial and dramatic poems packed with recollection, interpretation, characterization, and penetration . . . an eminently rereadable collection.”—BooklistPhoenix Poets2019 96 p. 51/2 x 81/2104 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-61350-5 $18.00 Your Price: $14.40For more books in the Phoenix Poets series, visit: http://bit.ly/UCPpoets

Satan and His Daughter, the Angel LibertySelected VersesVictor HugoTranslated by R.G. Skinner

Drawn from Hugo’s book-length poem, La Fin de Satan, this illustrated work tells the story of Satan and his daughter, the angel created by God from a feather left behind following his banishment. “This narrative poem expresses many of Hugo’s most deeply held beliefs. . . . Hugo’s beautiful, thought-provoking Satan and His Daughter, the Angel Liberty deserves the fine treatment R. G. Skinner has given it.”—Marva Barnett, University of VirginiaDistributed for Swan Isle Press2018 124 p. 6 x 9 30 halftones105 Paper ISBN: 978-0-9972287-3-1 $25.00 Your Price: $20.00

Near/MissCharles BernsteinThe Bollingen Prize for Poetry

“One might almost compare reading a Bernstein poem to walking through a New York City street during a rainstorm. . . . These poems all made me laugh and cry, sometimes when reading a single page.”—Hyperallergic 2018 192 p. 6 x 9 6 color plates106 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-57069-3 $25.00 Your Price: $20.00

Radical as RealityForm and Freedom in American PoetryPeter Campion

“[Campion] returns poetry reviewing to its central place in American literary culture. His muscular prose is addressed to the reader looking for the pulse of America as it beats in the passions and rhythms of our best poets.”—Bonnie Costello, author of The Plural of Us“Campion takes the long, and occasionally sidelong, view: these essays aim to reopen the case of twenti-eth- and twenty-first-century American poetry—not least its shifting relations to sincerity, freedom, and form. . . . Undogmatic yet willing to judge, this is a criticism of patience, clarity, and considered illumi-nation.”—Maureen N. McLane, author of Some Say2019 256 p. 51/2 x 81/2107 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-66337-1 $25.00 Your Price: $20.00

TribunalLyn Hejinian

“Organized as a three-part trial, the book articulates a timely political consciousness: one of war, fascism, and a ‘not necessarily melancholy deactivation of will.’”—Publisher Weekly Distributed for Omnidawn Publishing, Inc.2019 80 p. 6 x 9108 Paper ISBN: 978-1-63243-066-3 $17.95 Your Price: $14.36

The ComplaintsW. S. Di Piero

“With language that’s as simple as it is musical, Di Piero sets dazzling moments amid plainsong.” —New York Times Book Review Whether Di Piero writes about cranes migrating, city scavengers, diners, bars, bad weather, or movies and the memories they make, he reminds us how “We bone and tissue creatures stir up embers / of fiery wish.”Distributed for Carnegie Mellon University Press2019 72 p. 51/2 x 81/2109 Paper ISBN: 978-0-88748-646-3 $15.95 Your Price: $12.76

18 Biography & Reference

The Lost Autobiography of Samuel StewardRecollections of an Extraordinary Twentieth-Century Gay LifeEdited by Jeremy Mulderig

“A thoroughly engaging work . . . One of the most remarkably daring and unusual accounts by an unapologetically renegade gay man of the twentieth century.”—Gay and Lesbian Review2018 288 p. 6 x 9 16 halftones116 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-54141-9 $30.00 Your Price: $24.00

Bohumil HrabalA Full-Length PortraitJirí Pelán

“An outstanding, comprehensive, and lucid portrait of one of the best Czech writers of the twentieth century.”—Martin Valášek, editor in chief of SouvislostiModern Czech ClassicsDistributed for the Karolinum Press2019 130 p. 5 x 8 32 halftones117 Paper ISBN: 978-80-246-3909-3 $15.00 CZE/SVK Your Price: $12.00

Writing Fiction, Tenth EditionA Guide to Narrative CraftJanet Burroway, Elizabeth Stuckey-French, and Ned Stuckey-French

A creative writer’s shelf should hold at least three essential books: a dictionary, a style guide, and Writing Fiction. Janet Burroway’s best-selling clas-sic is the most widely used creative writing text in America. Now in its tenth edition, Writing Fiction is more accessible than ever for writers of all levels. “Scrupulously written by a first-rate novelist who . . . gives tips, offers sensitive commentary, and exceptions to what may pass for ‘rules’ in writing.” —Los Angeles Times, on a previous edition2019 240 p. 6 x 9 4 halftones118 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-61669-8 $22.50 Your Price: $18.00

The Dramatic Writer’s Companion, Second EditionTools to Develop Characters, Cause Scenes, and Build StoriesWill Dunne

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