New Books: Autumn-Winter 2018 (Middle East & Africa edition)

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ART, PHOTOGRAPHY & HISTORY
ARCHITECTURE

University of Hawai’i Press Academic Studies Press

MODERN KYOTO BELOMOR
Building for Ceremony and Commemoration, Criminality and Creativity in Stalin’s Gulag
1868-1940
Julie S. Draskoczy
Alice Y. Tseng
May 2018 252pp
Oct 2018 304pp, 74 illustrations, 35 in colour 9781618118233 Paperback US$27.00
9780824873752 Hardback US$68.00 Myths and Taboos in Russian Culture
Spatial Habitus: Making and Meaning in Asia’s Architecture
Containing analyses of everything from prisoner poetry
Can an imperial city survive, let alone thrive, without to album covers, Belomor: Criminality and Creativity in
an emperor? Alice Y. Tseng answers this intriguing Stalin’s Gulag moves beyond the simplistic good/evil
question in Modern Kyoto, a comprehensive study of the paradigm that often accompanies Gulag scholarship.
architectural and urban projects carried out in the old While acknowledging the normative power of Stalinism,
capital following Emperor Meiji’s move to Tokyo in 1868. the volume also recognises the various loopholes offered
Tseng contends that Kyoto remained critical to Japan’s by artistic expression.
emperor-centred national agenda.
The University of Alabama Press

University of Pittsburgh Press A GREAT FEAR
Luís de Onís and the Shadow War Against
IDEALS OF THE BODY Napoleon in Spanish America, 1808-1812
Architecture, Urbanism, and Hygiene in
Postrevolutionary Paris Timothy Hawkins

Sun-Young Park Jan 2019 256pp, 2 b&w figures, 5 maps
9780817320041 Hardback US$49.95
May 2018 352pp, 11 colour plates, 109 b&w Illustrations
9780822945284 Hardback US$49.95 Atlantic Crossings

Reveals how these anxieties about health and social An exploration of the Spanish colonial reaction to the
order, which manifested in emerging ideals of the body, threat of Napoleonic subversion. A Great Fear explores
created a uniquely spatial and urban experience of why Spanish Americans did not take the opportunity to
modernity in postrevolutionary Paris, one profoundly seize independence in this critical period when Spain was
impacted by hygiene, mobility, productivity, leisure, overrun by French armies and, arguably, in its weakest
spectacle, and technology. state.

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The University of Arkansas Press Brookings Institution Press

FORGING COMMUNITIES FROM GUTENBERG TO GOOGLE
Food and Representation in Medieval and The History of Our Future
Early Modern Southwestern Europe
Tom Wheeler
Montserrat Piera
Nov 2018 300pp
Sep 2018 300pp, 2 images 9780815735328 Hardback US$24.99
9781682260685 Paperback US$29.95
For full details of this title, see page 76.
Food and Foodways
IN GOOD TIMES PREPARE FOR CRISIS
Explores the importance of the cultivation, provision, Lessons from the Great Depression Through
trade, and exchange of foods and beverages to the Great Recession
technological advancement, conquest, and maritime
exploration. These essays show how the sharing of Ira Lieberman
food and drink forged social, religious, and community
bonds, and how ceremonial feasts strengthened ties and Aug 2018 480pp
solidified ethnoreligious identity. 9780815735342 Hardback US$49.99

For full details of this title, see page 6.

Baraka Books The University of Georgia Press

PATRIOTS, TRAITORS AND EMPIRES VÉNUS NOIRE
The Story of Korea’s Struggle for Freedom Black Women and Colonial Fantasies in
Nineteenth-Century France
Stephen Gowans
Robin Mitchell
Jun 2018 290pp
9781771861359 Paperback US$24.95 Jan 2019 192pp, 26 b&w images
9780820354316 Paperback US$34.95
Offers an account of modern Korean history, written Race in the Atlantic World, 1700-1900
from the point of view of those who fought to free their
country from the domination of foreign empires. The Shows how literary and visual depictions of black
book traces the history of Korea’s struggle for freedom women helped to shape France’s post-revolutionary
from opposition to Japanese colonialism starting in national identity, particularly in response to the trauma
1905 to North Korea’s current efforts to deter the threat of the French defeat in the Haitian Revolution. The
of invasion by the United States or anybody else by stories of these women reveal a blind spot about race in
having nuclear weapons. French national identity that persists in the postcolonial
present.
Broadview Press
University of Hawai’i Press
THE GREAT IRISH FAMINE
A History in Documents LIKE NO OTHER
Exceptionalism and Nativism in
Edited by Karen Sonnelitter Early Modern Japan

Oct 2018 178pp, 6 b&w illustrations Mark T. McNally
9781554813773 Paperback US$21.95
Sep 2018 344pp
In the fall of 1845, a mysterious blight ravaged Ireland’s 9780824879297 Paperback US$30.00
potato harvest, beginning a prolonged period of
starvation, suffering, and emigration. This document Probes the association of the early modern Japanese
collection presents a broad selection of historical intellectual institution called Kokugaku with the
perspectives - a guide to greater understanding of the phenomenon of nativism. Uncovering differences that
causes, the course, and the impact of the Famine. cast serious doubt on this association, Mark McNally
argues that what Japanologists viewed as nativistic
about Kokugaku were actually more typical of what
Americanists call exceptionalism.

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University Press of Kansas Lynne Rienner Publishers

ADVISING THE HAILE SELASSIE
PRESIDENT His Rise, His Fall
Attorney General
Robert H. Jackson and Haggai Erlich
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Nov 2018 190pp
William R. Casto 9781626377547 Hardback US$49.95

Nov 2018 192pp For full details of this title, see page 94.
9780700627080 Hardback
US$34.95 Markus Wiener Publishers

It is broadly understood CHINESE TRAVELERS TO THE EARLY
that an American president TURKISH REPUBLIC
might test the limits of
the law in extraordinary circumstances - and does so Giran Fidan
with advice from legal counsel. Advising the President
is an exploration of this process, viewed through the Nov 2018 277pp
experience of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Robert 9781558766365 Paperback US$22.95
H. Jackson on the eve of World War II.
Chronicles the observations of Chinese travellers
THE SUPREME COURT who travelled to the Turkish Republic in the first
An Essential History, Second Edition quarter of the 20th century, and features the notes of
historical figures including Shi Zhaoji, the first Chinese
Peter Charles Hoffer, Williamjames Hull Hoffer & N.E.H. Hull ambassador to the US, and Hu Hanmin, an early leader in
the Kuomintang.
Aug 2018 512pp
9780700626823 Paperback US$29.95 ISLANDS OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE

For full details of this title, see page 18. Edited by Antonis Hadjikyriacou

University of KwaZulu-Natal Press Aug 2018 160pp
9781558766273 Paperback US$22.95
BLACK
CONSCIOUSNESS AND Explores significant events in the naval history of the
PROGRESSIVE Ottoman Empire, along with topics including collective
MOVEMENTS UNDER punishments by invaders, and many aspects of economic
APARTHEID and cultural life on the islands.

Ian M. Macqueen McFarland

Jul 2018 208pp CRIME AND ANTI-SEMITISM IN
9781869143886 Paperback PRE-WORLD WAR GERMANY AND AUSTRIA
US$29.50 Theories, Cases and Fictional Depictions

This book takes its cue from T.S. Kord
Steve Biko’s own injunction
to see the evolution of Black Consciousness alongside Dec 2018 253pp
other political doctrines and movements of resistance 9781476670126 Paperback US$55.00
in South Africa. It identifies progressive thought and
movements, such as radical Christianity and ecumenism, Kord’s pursuit of the criminal in an antisemitic world
student radicalism, feminism and trade unionism, as considers a vast number of texts - from Nazi propaganda
valuable interlocutors that nonetheless also competed to court reporting and forgotten classics of crime
for the mantle of liberation, espousing different visions fiction - and raises painful questions. Are there parallels
of freedom. between biological classifications of criminals and racial
views of Jews? Can the lovable criminal ever be a Jew?
What does he tell us about ideas of German-ness, before
and after the World Wars?

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RULERS AND REALMS IN MEDIEVAL University Press of Mississippi
IBERIA, 711-1492
BETWEEN DISTANT
Timothy M. Flood MODERNITIES
Performing
Sep 2018 154pp Exceptionality in
9781476674711 Paperback US$45.00 Francoist Spain and
the Jim Crow South
The Muslim conquest of Iberia in 711 unleashed a
struggle for political control of the peninsula that Brittany Powell Kennedy
endured for nearly eight centuries. In this study, the
author introduces the general reader to the rulers who Dec 2018 236pp
exercised authority over the peninsula during a very 9781496820310 Paperback
complex and sometimes confusing period. He guides the US$30.00
reader through the chronology of the rulers’ ascendance,
deposition, or demise. For centuries, Spain and
the South have stood out
Melbourne University Publishing as the exceptional “other” within US and European
nationalisms. Brittany Powell Kennedy compares
LEAGUE OF NATIONS these two apparently similar cultures to reveal how we
Histories, Legacies and construct difference around the self/other dichotomy.
Impact
HE SLEW THE DREAMER
Joy Damousi & Patricia O’Brien My Search for the Truth About James Earl Ray
and the Murder of Martin Luther King
Jul 2018 277pp
9780522872514 Paperback William Bradford Huie
US$36.60 Foreword by Wayne Greenhaw & Riché Richardson

Offers new perspectives on the Nov 2018 240pp
history, legacies and impact 9781496820631 Paperback
of the League of Nations. US$25.00
The essays in this collection
demonstrate how diverse William Bradford Huie was one of the most celebrated
topics from film, education, colonial rule in the Pacific figures of twentieth-century journalism. A pioneer
islands, national economic analyses, disarmament, and of “checkbook journalism”, he sought the truth in
refugees as well as international relations, and national controversial stories. He became a major figure in the
sovereignty, all led to Geneva. investigation of Martin Luther King’s assassination. This
new edition of He Slew the Dreamer is his account of the
MUP Academic assassination.

University of Michigan Press University of Missouri Press

GERMAN COLONIALISM REVISITED THE FIRST COLD WAR
African, Asian, and Oceanic Experiences The Legacy of Woodrow Wilson in
U.S.-Soviet Relations
Edited by Nina Berman, Klaus Muehlhahn &
Patrice Nganang Donald E. Davis & Eugene P. Trani

Jul 2018 356pp, 11 b&w illustrations Aug 2018 277pp
9780472037278 Paperback US$39.95 9780826221742 Paperback US$24.95
Social History, Popular Culture, And Politics In Germany
Reviews the Wilson administration’s attitudes toward
Brings together military historians, art historians, literary Russia before, during, and after the Bolshevik seizure
scholars, cultural theorists, and linguists to address of power. The authors argue that before the Russian
issues surrounding colonized African, Asian, and Oceanic Revolution, Woodrow Wilson had little understanding
people’s creative reactions to and interactions with of Russia and made poor appointments that cost the
German colonialism. This scholarship sheds light on United States Russian goodwill.
local power dynamics and economic, cultural, and social
networks.

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University of New Mexico Press MAKING MACHU PICCHU
The Politics of Tourism in
A PERSISTENT REVOLUTION Twentieth-Century Peru
History, Nationalism, and Politics in
Mexico Since 1968 Mark Rice

Randal Sheppard Oct 2018 248pp, 15 illustrations
9781469643533 Paperback US$29.95
Sep 2018 392pp
9780826358370 Paperback US$39.95 Now designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Machu
Picchu is the focus of Peru’s tourism economy. Mark
Explores Mexico’s profound political, social, and Rice’s history of Machu Picchu in the twentieth century
economic changes through the lens of the persistent - from its “discovery” to today’s travel boom - reveals
political power of Mexican revolutionary nationalism. how Machu Picchu was transformed into both a global
By examining the major events and transformations travel destination and a powerful symbol of the Peruvian
in Mexico since 1968, Sheppard shows how historical nation.
myths emerged during historical-commemoration
ceremonies, in popular social and anti-neoliberal protest THE OCCUPATION
movements, and in debates. OF HAVANA
War, Trade, and Slavery
The University of North Carolina Press in the Atlantic World

ATLANTIC AFRICA AND THE SPANISH Elena A. Schneider
CARIBBEAN, 1570-1640
Dec 2018 352pp, 42 illustrations, 6 maps
David Wheat 9781469645353 Hardback
US$39.95
Aug 2018 352pp, 6 halftones, 2 maps, 19 tables
9781469647654 Paperback US$29.95 Offers a nuanced and
poignantly human account of
Resituates the Spanish Caribbean as an extension of the the British capture and Spanish
Luso-African Atlantic world from the late sixteenth to recovery of Havana. The book
the mid-seventeenth century, when the union of the explores both the interconnected histories of the British
Spanish and Portuguese crowns facilitated a surge in the and Spanish empires and the crucial role played by free
transatlantic slave trade. people of colour and the enslaved in the creation and
defense of Havana.
Omohundro Institute and University of North Carolina Press
Omohundro Institute and University of North Carolina Press
JIM CROW CAPITAL
Women and Black Freedom Struggles in RECAPTURED AFRICANS
Washington, D.C., 1920-1945 Surviving Slave Ships, Detention,
and Dislocation in the Final Years of
Mary-Elizabeth B. Murphy the Slave Trade

Nov 2018 320pp, 10 illustrations, 5 tables Sharla M. Fett
9781469646725 Paperback US$29.95
Aug 2018 312pp, 23 illustrations
Tells the story of how African American women in 9781469645513 Paperback US$27.95
Washington D.C. transformed civil rights politics in
their freedom struggles between 1920 and 1945. Even In the years just before the Civil War, during the most
though no resident of the nation’s capital could vote, intensive phase of American slave-trade suppression, the
black women seized on their conspicuous location to US Navy seized roughly 2,000 enslaved Africans from
testify in Congress, lobby politicians, and stage protests illegal slave ships and brought them into temporary
to secure racial justice, both in Washington and across camps at Key West and Charleston. In this study, Sharla
America. Fett reconstructs the social world of these “recaptives”
and recounts the relationships they built to survive.

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SHADOW COLD WAR EURASIAN
The Sino-Soviet Competition for the ENVIRONMENTS
Third World Nature and Ecology in
Imperial Russian and
Jeremy Friedman Soviet History

Aug 2018 304pp Edited by Nicholas Breyfogle
9781469645520 Paperback US$27.95
The New Cold War History Oct 2018 424pp, 21 Illustrations
9780822965633 Paperback
The conflict between the United States and the Soviet US$29.95
Union during the Cold War has long been understood in Pitt Series in Russian and East
a global context, but Jeremy Friedman’s Shadow Cold War European Studies
delves deeper into the era to examine the competition
between the Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of Takes a broad look at the
China for the leadership of the world revolution. environmental history of Eurasia, covering both the
Tsarist and Soviet eras, specifically examining steppe
Northwestern University Press environments, hydraulic engineering, soil and forestry,
water pollution, and the interaction of the environment
ABSOLUTIST ATTACHMENTS and disease vectors.
Emotion, Media, and Absolutism in
Seventeenth-Century France FROM CITIZENS TO SUBJECTS
City, State, and the Enlightenment in Poland,
Chloé Hogg Ukraine and Belarus

Mar 2019 272pp, 14 b&w illustrations Curtis G. Murphy
9780810139411 Paperback US$34.95
Rethinking the Early Modern Jun 2018 312pp, 3 b&w Illustrations
9780822964629 Paperback US$28.95
Explores the affective and media connections that Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies
shaped Louis XIV’s absolutism. Studying literature,
painting, engravings, correspondence, and the emerging Challenges the common assertion in historiography that
periodic press, Chloe Hogg diagnoses the emotions that Enlightenment-era centralization and rationalization
created absolutism’s feeling subjects and publics. brought progress and prosperity to all European states,
arguing instead that centralization failed to improve
University of Pittsburgh Press the socio-economic position of urban residents in the
former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth over a
100-year period.

ENTANGLED FAR RIGHTS Purdue University Press
A Russian-European Intellectual Romance in
the Twentieth Century A HISTORY OF
YUGOSLAVIA
Edited by Marlene Laruelle
Marie-Janine Calic
Nov 2018 288pp
9780822965657 Paperback US$25.95 Feb 2019 457pp
9781557538383 Paperback
Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies US$59.95
Central European Studies
Since the rise of Putin, many have been puzzled by the
strange affinity of the far right in the West for today’s Provides a comprehensive
authoritarian Russia. Entangled Far Rights explores the synthesis of the political,
deep roots of this phenomena and reveals it to be a cultural, social, and economic
running thread through the entire history of the long life of Yugoslavia, from its
20th century and present regardless of the changing nineteenth-century South
political character of Russia’s regimes. Slavic origins to the demise of the multinational state
in the 1990s. Marie-Janine Calic looks at the complex
history of Yugoslavia, emphasizing major social,
economic, and intellectual changes and the transition to
modern industrialized mass society.

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Rutgers University Press Syracuse University Press

ANTIGONE’S GHOSTS JEWISH LIBYA
The Long Legacy of War and Genocide Memory and Identity in
in Five Countries Text and Image

Mark A. Wolfgram Edited by Jacques Roumani,
Judith Roumani &
Dec 2018 306pp David Meghnagi
9781684480050 Paperback US$34.95
Jun 2018 360pp
Sophocles’ play Antigone is a starting point for 9780815635802 Paperback
understanding the perpetual problems of human US$24.95
societies, families, and individuals, who are caught up Modern Jewish History
in the terrible aftermath of mass violence. Through a
comparison of five countries, we begin to appreciate In June 2017, the Jews of Libya
the different pathways that societies have taken when commemorated the jubilee
confronting their violent histories. of their complete exodus from this North African land
in 1967, which began with a mass migration to Israel
Bucknell University Press in 1948-49. Jewish Libya collects the work of scholars
who explore the community’s history, its literature
ECHOES OF THE and dialect, topography and cuisine, and the difficult
MARSEILLAISE negotiation of trauma and memory.
Two Centuries Look Back
on the French Revolution University of Tennessee Press

Eric Hobsbawm ANDREW JACKSON AND THE RISE OF THE
DEMOCRATIC PARTY
Nov 2018 186pp
9781978802377 Paperback Mark R. Cheathem
US$24.95
Mason Welch Gross Lecture Series Oct 2018 277pp
9781621904533 Paperback US$24.95
E.J. Hobsbawm’s classic
historiographic study - written In Andrew Jackson and the Rise of the Democratic
at the very moment when a Party, Mark R. Cheathem provides a unique historical
new set of revolutions swept through the Eastern Bloc analysis and bold critique of American partisanship
and brought down the Iron Curtain - explores how the from the early republic to the end of Andrew Jackson’s
French Revolution was perceived over the following administration.
two centuries. This is a stimulating examination of how
the same events have been reimagined by different THE MAKING OF AN AMERICAN
generations and factions to serve various political The Autobiography of a Hungarian
agendas. Immigrant, Appalachian Entrepreneur, and
OSS Officer
TO THE FAIREST CAPE
European Encounters in the Edited by Cathy Cassady Corbin
Cape of Good Hope Introduction by Doug Cantrell

Malcolm Jack Nov 2018 277pp
9781621904519 Paperback US$34.95
Oct 2018 242pp, 26 colour illustrations Appalachian Echoes Non-Fiction
9781684480005 Hardback US$24.95
Martin Himler emigrated from Hungary to America in
Beginning by considering the early hunter-gatherer 1907, and he arrived in New York City with no money
inhabitants of the Cape of Good Hope and their culture, and no plan other than to find work. From these
Malcolm Jack focuses in his account on the encounter impoverished beginnings, Himler persevered to become
that European visitors had with the Khoisan peoples, a self-made new American. Himler’s autobiography
sometimes sympathetic but often exploitative from the tells in his own words his life story as it evolves into the
time of the Portuguese to the abolition of slavery in the American dream.
British Empire.

Bucknell University Press

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Texas Review Press FOUR FOOLS IN THE AGE OF REASON
Cruelty, Laughter, and Power in
ENFORCED Early Modern Germany
RUSTICATION
In the Chinese Cultural Dorinda Outram
Revolution
Feb 2019 176pp, 9 b&w illustrations
Jianqing Zheng 9780813942018 Hardback US$35.00
Studies in Early Modern German History
Nov 2018 80pp
9781680031768 Paperback Unveiling the nearly lost world of the court fools of
US$15.95 eighteenth-century Germany, Dorinda Outram shows
that laughter was an essential instrument of power.
During China’s Cultural Outram’s book is invaluable for giving us a vivid
Revolution, millions of middle depiction of the court fool and especially for revealing
school and high school how this figure can shed new light on the wielding of
graduates were sent to the power in Enlightenment Europe.
countryside to receive reeducation from peasants.
They believed that they would play an important role IN THE RED AND IN THE BLACK
in the transformation of rural China. Jianqing Zheng’s Debt, Dishonor, and the Law in France
rusticated years were central to his poetic imagination in Between Revolutions
this collection.
Erika Vause
Vanderbilt University Press
Oct 2018 264pp, 12 b&w illustrations, 7 tables
CARTOGRAPHIES OF MADRID 9780813941417 Hardback US$45.00
Contesting Urban Space at the Crossroads of
the Global South and Global North Arguing that French Revolutionary and Napoleonic
legislation created a conception of commercial identity
Edited by Silvia Bermudez & Anthony L. Geist that tied together the debtor’s social, moral, and physical
person, In the Red and in the Black examines the history
Sep 2018 296pp of debt imprisonment and bankruptcy as a means of
9780826522153 Paperback US$34.95 understanding the changing logic of commercial debt.

Evaluates the complex ways that Madrid has served Wayne State University Press
as the political, economic, and cultural capital of the
Global South from the end of the Franco dictatorship OVERLOOKING THE BORDER
to the present. The book also examines the city as lived Narratives of a Divided Jerusalem
experience, where citizens contest capital’s push to
shape urban space in its own image through activities of Dana Hercbergs
the imagination.
Jun 2018 284pp
University of Virginia Press 9780814344927 Paperback US$29.99
Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology

For full details of this title, see page 107.

BECOMING LINCOLN

William W. Freehling

Sep 2018 376pp, 28 b&w illustrations, 8 maps
9780813941561 Hardback US$29.95

Previous biographies of Abraham Lincoln have typically
focused on his experiences in the White House. In
Becoming Lincoln, historian William Freehling instead
emphasizes the prewar years, revealing how Lincoln
came to be the extraordinary leader who would guide
America through its most bitter chapter.

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ARCHAEOLOGY

The University of Wisconsin Press ARCHAEOLOGY

NEW IN PAPERBACK University Press of Florida

FRANCO ADVENTURES IN ARCHAEOLOGY
A Personal and Political Biography The Wreck of the Orca II and Other
Explorations
Stanley G. Payne & Jesús Palacios
P.J. Capelotti
Dec 2018 632pp, 38 b&w photos
9780299302146 Paperback US$29.95 Oct 2018 256pp
9780813064840 Paperback US$28.00
Examines in detail how General Francisco Franco became
dictator and how his leadership led to victory in the Explores places and things that people don’t typically
Spanish Civil War that consolidated his regime. The think of as archaeological sites and artifacts, introducing
authors also explore Franco’s role in the great repression readers to the most extreme fieldwork taking place
that accompanied the Civil War and examine at length today. P.J. Capelotti shows that even seemingly ordinary
his controversial role in World War II. objects from the recent past hold secrets about the
cultural history of humans.
GLOBAL RUSSIAN
CULTURES BIOARCHAEOLOGY OF PRE-COLUMBIAN
MESOAMERICA
Edited by Kevin M.F. Platt An Interdisciplinary Approach

Jan 2019 368pp, 12 b&w illustrations, Edited by Cathy Willermet & Andrea Cucina
4 tables
9780299319700 Hardback Oct 2018 204pp
US$79.95 9780813056005 Hardback US$90.00
Bioarchaeological Interpretations of the Human Past:
Is there an essential Russian Local, Regional, and Global Perspectives
identity? What happens
when “Russian” literature is Offers an interdisciplinary view of the migration,
written in English? What is the mobility, ethnicity, and social identities of pre-
geographic “home” of Russian Columbian Mesoamerican peoples. In studies that
culture created and shared via the internet? Global combine bioarchaeology, ethnohistory, isotope data,
Russian Cultures considers these and related questions and dental morphology, contributors demonstrate the
about the literary and cultural life of Russians. rewards of such integrative work when applied to large
regional questions of population history.
UNLEARNING
EUGENICS MASSACRES
Sexuality, Reproduction, Bioarchaeology and Forensic
and Disability in Anthropology Approaches
Post-Nazi Europe
Edited by Cheryl P. Anderson & Debra L. Martin
Dagmar Herzog
Dec 2018 272pp
Nov 2018 176pp, 18 b&w illustrations 9781683400691 Hardback US$95.00
9780299319205 Hardback Bioarchaeological Interpretations of the Human Past:
US$39.95 Local, Regional, and Global Perspectives
George L. Mosse Series in Modern
European Cultural and Integrates data from researchers in bioarchaeology and
Intellectual History forensic anthropology to explain when and why group-
targeted violence occurs. By analysing skeletal remains
Bringing together the latest findings in Holocaust within their broader cultural and historical contexts this
studies, the history of religion, and the history of volume opens up important new understandings of
sexuality in postwar - and now also postcommunist the underlying social processes that continue to lead to
- Europe, Unlearning Eugenics shows how central the these tragedies.
controversies over sexuality, reproduction, and disability
have been to broader processes of secularization and
religious renewal.

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58 ARCHAEOLOGY · CLASSICS & ANCIENT HISTORY

University of New Mexico Press HOME AWAY FROM HOME

COLONIAL AND POSTCOLONIAL CHANGE Patrick Hogan
IN MESOAMERICA
Archaeology as Historical Anthropology Aug 2018 232pp, 5 illustrations
9780472053988 Paperback US$29.95
Edited by Rani T. Alexander & Susan Kepecs Michigan Classical Commentaries

Nov 2018 264pp Provides intermediate-level students of Classical Greek
9780826359735 Hardback US$85.00 the necessary linguistic, historical, mythographical,
archaeological, and geographical information to read
For full details of this title, see page 107. and comprehend Book Two of Pausanias’ Periegesis.
Book Two of Pausanias’ work covers several major cities
The University of Utah Press of the northeast Peloponnesus and the prominent island
of Aegina.

POTTERY ETHNOARCHAEOLOGY IN THE The University of North Carolina Press
MICHOACÁN SIERRA
THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF
Michael J. Shott SANITATION IN
ROMAN ITALY
Jun 2018 336pp, 67 illustrations, 2 maps Toilets, Sewers, and
9781607816225 Paperback US$45.00 Water Systems
Foundations of Archaeological Inquiry
Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow
Although most ceramic studies describe vessel
production and use, the causes and rates of pottery Aug 2018 312pp, 36 drawings,
discard are often neglected in archaeological studies. 64 halftones
Michael Shott presents analytical methods for 9781469645537 Paperback
determining pottery use life and demonstrates why use US$35.00
life should not be overlooked. Studies in the History of Greece and Rome

CLASSICS & ANCIENT HISTORY The Romans developed
sophisticated methods for managing hygiene. Through
University of Michigan Press the archeological record, graffiti, sanitation-related
paintings, and literature, Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow
ENGAGING CLASSICAL explores this little-known world of bathrooms and
TEXTS IN THE sewers, offering unique insights into Roman sanitation,
CONTEMPORARY engineering, urban planning and development, hygiene,
WORLD and public health.
From Narratology to
Reception Rutgers University Press

Louise H. Pratt & DEMOCRACY ANCIENT AND MODERN
C. Michael Sampson
M.I. Finley
Nov 2018 336pp, 6 illustrations
9780472131082 Hardback Nov 2018 156pp
US$80.00 9781978802322 Paperback US$24.95
Mason Welch Gross Lecture Series
Contemporary classicists often find themselves
advocating for the value and relevance of Greco-Roman This elegant and provocative book is perhaps more
literature and culture. In this collection, twelve scholars important now than when it was first published. The
apply major critical approaches from other academic three essays that comprised the first edition developed
fields to open new channels for dialogue between a remarkable discourse between ancient Greek and
ancient texts and the contemporary world. modern conceptions of democracy. To the original three
essays, Sir M. I. Finley has added two that clarify and
elaborate the thinking of the first edition.

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HISTORY
HOLOCAUST STUDIES · MILITARY HISTORY

HOLOCAUST STUDIES MILITARY HISTORY

Northwestern University Press The University of Alabama Press

LESSONS AND LEGACIES XIII ENGINES OF REBELLION
New Approaches to an Integrated History of Confederate Ironclads and Steam Engineering
the Holocaust: Social History, Representation, in the American Civil War
Theory
Saxon Bisbee
Edited by Alexandra Garbarini
Aug 2018 272pp, 45 b&w figures
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Historians have paid little attention to the engineering
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postwar culture, and new theoretical approaches stand at often quite creative in building and obtaining marine
the forefront of current research in a range of disciplines. power plants. Engines of Rebellion focuses exclusively on
Analyses at the most intimate scale of the individual or of ships with American built machinery, offering a detailed
a particular locale are juxtaposed with those that turn to look at marine steam-engineering practices in both
broader studies of the war or postwar order. northern and southern industry prior to and during the
Civil War.

Syracuse University Press Brookings Institution Press

BETWEEN PERSECUTION AND MILITARY REFORM AND MILITARISM
PARTICIPATION IN RUSSIA
Biography of a Bookkeeper at
J. A. Topf & Söhne Aleksandr Golts

Annegret Schüle & Tobias Sowade Aug 2018 400pp
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individuals living under the Third Reich and the blurred on the evolution of military reform since 2005. He also
boundaries between victim, bystander, and accomplice. examines Russian militarism and its origins in a system
that is hostile to both civilian control and civil society.
The University of Wisconsin Press
The Jamestown Foundation
LAST DAYS OF THERESIENSTADT
SUEZ DECONSTRUCTED
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In 1945, during the final months of the Third Reich, Eva The Suez crisis of 1956 offers a master class in statecraft.
Noack-Mosse was deported to the Nazi concentration Like an illustration that uses an exploded view of
camp of Theresienstadt. A trained journalist, she an object to show how it works, this book uses an
recorded statistics and her own observations in a secret unprecedented design to deconstruct the Suez crisis. The
diary. Noack-Mosse’s aim in documenting the horrors story is broken down into three distinct phases. In each
of daily life in Theresienstadt was to ensure that it could phase, the reader sees the issues as they were perceived
never be repeated. by each country involved.

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HISTORY
60 MILITARY HISTORY

University Press of Kansas McFarland

NAPOLEON’S 1796 AFTER VALKYRIE
ITALIAN CAMPAIGN Military and Civilian
Consequences of
Carl von Clausewitz the Attempt to
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Carl von Clausewitz (1780-
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most important is Napoleon’s 1796 Italian Campaign, This book tells the story of the disappearance of
which covers a crucial period in the French Revolutionary Germany’s officer class, and for a time, its nobility and
Wars. civilian leadership; all of which has become part of
Hitler’s legacy.
THE POLITICAL
THOUGHT OF AMERICANS IN A
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Many of the questions at the
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to the very idea of America 1914, but the United States
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time. This book offers the opportunity to pursue these 1917. The outbreak caused thousands of American
questions from a new, critical perspective as scholars civilians to become refugees desperate to get away from
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era - and in the process illuminate more clearly the
foundation and fault lines of the American regime. THE BLACK AND THE GRAY
African Americans and the Confederacy
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For full details of this title, see page 94. slaves and enlist some in civilian support roles with
Confederate armies.

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HISTORY
MILITARY HISTORY

EISENHOWER’S University of Michigan Press
NUCLEAR CALCULUS
IN EUROPE DRONES AND SUPPORT FOR THE
The Politics of IRBM USE OF FORCE
Deployment in
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most crucial initial campaign: the invasion of Belgium. ERICH RAEDER
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to groupthink, to inflexibility, to belief that ‘It’ll be all Third Reich
right on the night.’
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THE RUSSIAN MILITARY RESURGENCE
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The Soviet army suffered a slow demise, dissolving in the political and military means necessary to attain the
2000 and only gradually reforming based on radically navy’s global ambitions.
different principles. This volume, that includes lively
accounts and maps, describes this resurgence.

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FLEET TACTICS AND NAVAL OPERATIONS THE ’STAN
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that depended heavily upon
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Dead Reckoning

RED STAR OVER THE PACIFIC
China’s Rise and the Challenge to
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Toshi Yoshihara & James R. Holmes

Sep 2018 320pp
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Provides an assessment of how the rise of Chinese
seapower will affect US maritime strategy in Asia.

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The University of North Carolina Press LIBRARY STUDIES

WAR MATTERS American Library Association
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Rutgers University Press IGI Global

CRASH COURSE EXPLORING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN
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64 LITERATURE

LITERATURE Academica Press

Academic Studies Press PLAYER, ENTREPRENEUR AND
PHILANTHROPIST
A DOSTOEVSKY The Story of Edward Alleyn, 1566-1626
COMPANION
Texts and Contexts Antonia Southern

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VOICES OF JEWISH-RUSSIAN LITERATURE THE ELEMENTS OF
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Oct 2018 242pp HAMLET
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HEART OF DARKNESS University Press of Florida

Joseph Conrad SERIALS TO GRAPHIC
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The Old French Lancelot-Graal is an important but VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN IN
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literature to the Spanish Inquisition and encompass such
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Broadview Editions
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The Middle English romance of Richard Coeur de Lion
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of his reign in England - into an aggressively English
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her oeuvre of devotional and erotic works. Yet, as the
introduction discusses, some coexistence of the erotic
and the religious was not entirely untypical of medieval
literary production in Wales.

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The Kent State University Press University of Massachusetts Press

THE FAUN’S BOOKS FOR IDLE HOURS
BOOKSHELF Nineteenth-Century Publishing and the
C. S. Lewis on Why Rise of Summer Reading
Myth Matters
Donna Harrington-Lueker
Charlie W. Starr
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about taking on the role of Christian apologist during the century in which Irish
the height of the London blitz. Brown goes on to American identity was shaped by immigration, religion,
examine the congruency in their depictions of the politics, and economic advancement. Butler offers a
nature of Christ, of conversion, and of angelic beings, nuanced understanding of the connections between
and highlights the similarity in their views of war and Irish literary studies and Irish American culture during
suffering. this period.

READING HEMINGWAY’S LOVE’S QUARRELS
THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA Reading Charity in
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and the Sea and engage multiple literary and critical of the early sixteenth century, in Elizabethan polemic
methodologies. and satire, and in the political and religious controversies
arriving at the outset of civil war.

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LITERATURE 67

MADE UNDER GEORGE ORWELL
PRESSURE A Literary Companion
Literary Translation in
the Soviet Union, Mark Connelly
1960-1991
Oct 2018 145pp
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McFarland Literary Companions, Vol. 18
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During the Cold War, GEORGE ORWELL ON SCREEN
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For full details of this title, see page 37.

McFarland IN SEARCH OF
ELENA FERRANTE
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POPULAR FICTION Question of Authorship

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Includes more than 300 cross-referenced entries on
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topics that concerned them and the genres they helped constraints in Elena Ferrante’s
to establish. Entries introduce long-overlooked authors works, including men’s
who were widely read in their time, with suggestions for entrapment in a sexist script written for them. Her
further reading and emerging resources for the study of decision to write under a pseudonym is examined, along
popular fiction. with speculation that Rome-based translator Anita Raja
and her husband are coauthors of Ferrante’s books.

FINDING MONTE CRISTO INSIDE THE WORLD OF HARRY POTTER
Alexandre Dumas and the French Critical Essays on the Books and Films
Atlantic World
Edited by Christopher E. Bell
Eric Martone
Aug 2018 164pp
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Offers a collection of essays from one of the world’s
During his lifetime, the biracial French writer Alexandre leading Harry Potter scholars that brings to the forefront
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faced forms of racial prejudice in France. He constantly Potter’s world as a mirror to our own. This collection
strove to find a place where he could belong, an isolated provides a multitude of jumping-off points to spark
figure in search for an identity within a larger collectivity. discussion and kindle thoughts about both Harry’s world
For him, “Monte Cristo” seemed to symbolize this quest. and our own.

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A LIFE BOTH PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SHAKESPEARE’S APPRENTICESHIP
Expressions of Individuality in Identifying the Real Playwright’s Earliest
Old English Poetry Works

Brent R. Lapadula Ramon Jiménez

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Argues that a unique sense of self for Anglo-Saxons The size and content of the Shakespeare canon have
may be found by looking at their surviving poetry. For come into question in recent years, as scholars add
the first time, there is an extended monograph on the plays or declare others only partially his work. Now, new
concept of the individual outside of her community literary and historical evidence demonstrates that five
during this period in history. Finally, the conclusion heretofore anonymous plays published or performed
demonstrates that the studies which argue that the during his lifetime are actually his first versions of later
individual was something that did not really exist until canonical plays, and rightfully belong in the Shakespeare
the Renaissance do not stand up to scrutiny. canon.

ONCE UPON A TIME SWEDISH MARXIST NOIR
IN A DARK AND The Dark Wave of Crime Writers and the
SCARY BOOK Influence of Raymond Chandler
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has two bold messages for its Marxist connection between the writings of Raymond
readers, messages which are often overlooked: adults Chandler and the Swedish wave of crime fiction since the
are untrustworthy, unreliable, and often dangerous, 1960s.
and the monster always wins. Studying these messages,
this book sheds new light on the problematic message VIDEO GAMING IN SCIENCE FICTION
produced by the combination of marketing and books A Critical Study
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Jason Barr
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Studies in Gaming
Andrew J. Rausch
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about video gaming, first formed almost fifty years ago,
Stephen King is one of the most successful authors in still resonate in modern science fiction prose.
the history of American literature. Over the past five
decades his broader impact on popular culture has been Melbourne University Publishing
immense. This collection of original interviews with
fellow authors, collaborators and critics covers all things ON RAGE
King, from analysis of his best writing to his many screen
adaptations to recurring themes in his stories. Germaine Greer

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For full details of this title, see page 107.

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University of Michigan Press SITES OF
TRANSLATION
NIMROD What Multilinguals Can
Selected Writings Teach Us About Digital
Writing and Rhetoric
Edited by Frieda Ekotto
Laura Gonzales
Oct 2018 240pp
9780472054060 Paperback Sep 2018 160pp, 16 figures, 3 tables
US$24.95 9780472054039 Paperback
African Perspectives US$19.95
Sweetland Digital Rhetoric
The Chadian writer Nimrod is Collaborative
one of the most dynamic and
vital voices in contemporary Illustrates the intricate
African literature and thought. rhetorical work that multilingual communicators engage
Yet little of Nimrod’s writing in as they translate information for their communities.
has been translated into English until now. Frieda Ekotto Blending ethnographic and empirical methods
provides context for Nimrod’s work and demonstrates from multiple disciplines, Laura Gonzales provides
the urgency of making it available beyond Francophone methodological examples of how linguistic diversity can
Africa. be studied in practice.

READING MEDIEVAL LATIN WITH THE University of Michigan Digital Culture Books
LEGEND OF BARLAAM AND JOSAPHAT
University Press of Mississippi
Donka Markus
BOOKS OF THE DEAD
Jul 2018 192pp, 3 illustrations Reading the Zombie in
9780472053841 Paperback US$27.95 Contemporary Literature
Michigan Classical Commentaries
Tim Lanzendörfer
Offers comprehensive commentary on the 13th-century
Dominican theologian Jacobus de Voragine’s retelling Sep 2018 240pp
of the ancient story of the life of the Buddha that will 9781496821140 Paperback
resonate with contemporary students of Latin. Jacobus’s US$30.00
version of the legend serves as a compelling, original
Latin text. Few books have looked at
what the zombie means in
SHAKESPEARE AND fiction. Tim Lanzendörfer
THE LEGACY fills this gap by looking at a
OF LOSS number of zombie novels,
short stories, and comics, and probing what the zombie
Emily Hodgson Anderson represents in contemporary literature.

Jul 2018 232pp, 26 illustrations CONVERSATIONS WITH EDNA O’BRIEN
9780472130931 Hardback
US$70.00 Alice Hughes Kersnowski

How do we recapture, or hold Dec 2018 126pp
on to, the live performances 9781496820150 Paperback US$25.00
we most love, and the artists Literary Conversations Series
and performers we most
revere? Shakespeare and In these interviews, Edna O’Brien finds her own critical
the Legacy of Loss tells the story of how 18th-century voice and moves interviewers away from a focus on her
actors, novelists, and artists, key among them David life as the “once infamous Edna” toward a focus on her
Garrick, struggled with these questions through their works. Parallels between Edna O’Brien and her literary
reenactments of Shakespearean plays. muse and mentor, James Joyce, are often cited.

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70 LITERATURE

CONVERSATIONS WITH University of Missouri Press
MADELEINE L’ENGLE
THE PULL OF POLITICS
Edited by Jackie C. Horne Steinbeck, Wright,
Hemingway, and the
Dec 2018 224pp Left in the Late 1930s
9781496819840 Paperback US$25.00
Literary Conversations Series Milton A. Cohen

Presents the first collection of interviews with the Oct 2018 332pp
beloved children’s book author best known for her 1962 9780826221636 Hardback
Newbery Award-winning novel, A Wrinkle in Time. The US$50.00
thirteen interviews collected here reveal an amazing feat
of authorial self-fashioning, as L’Engle transformed from In the 1930s, John Steinbeck,
novelist to children’s author to Christian writer. Richard Wright, and Ernest
Hemingway wrote novels
CONVERSATIONS that won critical acclaim and
WITH popular success. All three were involved with the Left,
MAURICE SENDAK and that commitment informed their fiction. Milton
Cohen examines their motives for involvement with
Edited by Peter C. Kunze the Left; their novels’ political themes; and why they
separated from the Left.
Jan 2019 232pp
9781496808868 Paperback Modern Language Association
US$25.00
Literary Conversations Series APPROACHES TO TEACHING THE WORKS
OF GERTRUDE STEIN
These interviews span from
1966 to 2011. They show Edited by Logan Esdale & Deborah Mix
not only Maurice Sendak’s
shifting artistic interests, but Jul 2018 277pp
also changes in how he understood himself and his craft. 9781603293440 Paperback US$24.00
What emerges is a portrait of an author and an artist Approaches to Teaching World Literature, Vol. 152
who was alternately solemn and playful, congenial and
irascible, sophisticated and populist. For full details of this title, see page 10.

CONVERSATIONS WITH NEIL GAIMAN APPROACHES TO TEACHING THE WORKS
OF RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Edited by Joseph Michael Sommers
Edited by Mark C. Long & Sean Ross Meehan
Sep 2018 240pp
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Literary Conversations Series 9781603293747 Paperback US$24.00
Approaches to Teaching World Literature, Vol. 155
For full details of this title, see page 47.
For full details of this title, see page 10.
CONVERSATIONS WITH
VLADIMIR NABOKOV

Edited by Robert Golla

Sep 2018 256pp
9781496820242 Paperback US$25.00
Literary Conversations Series

Brings together candid, revealing interviews with one
of the twentieth century’s master prose writers. The
twenty-eight interviews and profiles in this collection
were drawn from Nabokov’s numerous print and
broadcast appearances over a period of nineteen years.

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LITERATURE 71

The University of North Carolina Press Northwestern University Press

HOME AWAY FROM HOME DOSTOEVSKY AND THE CATHOLIC
Immigrant Narratives, Domesticity, and UNDERGROUND
Coloniality in Contemporary Spanish Culture
Elizabeth A. Blake
N. Michelle Murray
Dec 2018 312pp
Aug 2018 246pp, 4 illustrations 9780810139848 Paperback US$39.95
9781469647463 Paperback US$65.00 Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures
While Dostoevsky’s relation to religion is well-trod
Examines ideological, emotional, economic, and cultural ground, there exists no comprehensive study of
phenomena brought about by migration through Dostoevsky and Catholicism. Elizabeth Blake’s ambitious
readings of works of literature and film featuring and learned Dostoevsky and the Catholic Underground fills
domestic workers. Throughout Home Away from Home this glaring omission in the scholarship.
shows that texts concerning the transnational nature of
domestic work uniquely provide a nuanced account of DOSTOEVSKY’S DIALECTICS AND THE
the cultural shifts occurring in late twentieth- through PROBLEM OF SIN
twenty-first-century Spain.
Ksana Blank
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of
Romance Studies Dec 2018 174pp
9780810139831 Paperback US$34.95
INDIGENOUS COSMOLECTICS Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
Kab’awil and the Making of Maya and
Zapotec Literatures Borrows from ancient Greek, Chinese, and Christian
dialectical traditions to formulate a dynamic image of
Gloria Elizabeth Chacón Dostoevsky’s dialectics as a philosophy of “compatible
contradictions”. Expanding on the classical triad of
Nov 2018 304pp Goodness, Beauty, and Truth, Blank guides us through
9781469636795 Paperback US$32.95 Dostoevsky’s most difficult paradoxes.
Critical Indigeneities
DOSTOEVSKY’S SECRETS
Considers the growing number of contemporary Reading Against the Grain
Indigenous writers who turn to Maya and Zapotec
languages alongside Spanish translations of their work Carol Apollonio
to challenge the tyranny of monolingualism and cultural
homogeneity. Gloria E. Chacon argues that these Maya Dec 2018 240pp
and Zapotec authors reconstruct an Indigenous literary 9780810139855 Paperback US$34.95
tradition rooted in an Indigenous cosmolectics. Studies in Russian Literature and Theory

PIERS PLOWMAN When Fyodor Dostoevsky proclaims that he is a “realist
The B-Version Archetype (Bx) in a higher sense”, it is because the facts are irrelevant
to his truth. And it is in this spirit that Apollonio
William Langland approaches Dostoevsky’s work, reading through the
Edited by John Burrow & Thorlac Turville-Petre facts of his canonical novels for the deeper truth that
they distort, mask, and, ultimately, disclose.
Jun 2018 384pp
9781941331149 Paperback US$20.00
Piers Plowman Electronic Archive in Print

The first of its kind in Piers Plowman studies, this edition
aims to establish the archetypal text of the B-version of
the poem. The editors claim that this can be determined
with certainty in the majority of lines by examining the
relationship between the best copies of the alpha and
beta families of the B-version stemma.

Society for Early English and Norse Electronic Texts

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72 LITERATURE

FEELING FAINT ON LIFE
Affect and Consciousness in the Renaissance
Leo Tolstoy
Giulio J. Pertile Edited by Inessa Medzhibovskaya
Translated by Michael A. Denner
Feb 2019 200pp
9780810139183 Paperback US$34.95 Nov 2018 264pp
Rethinking the Early Modern 9780810138032 Paperback US$27.95

Explores human consciousness in its most Although begun as an account of how one man
basic sense: the awareness, at any given encounters and laments his death and makes this death
moment, that we live and feel. Such awareness, it his own, Tolstoy’s On Life describes the optimal life in
argues, is distinct from the categories of selfhood to which we can all be happy despite our mortality. This
which it is often assimilated, and can only be uncovered critical edition is the first accurate translation of this
at the margins of first-person experience. What would it unsung classic of Russian thought into English.
mean to be conscious without being a first person - to
be conscious in the absence of a self? ON WEIGHT AND THE WILL
The Forces of Form in German Literature and
KAFKA AND NOISE Aesthetics, 1890-1930
The Discovery of Cinematic Sound in
Literary Modernism Malika Maskarinec

Kata Gellen Sep 2018 280pp, 14 b&w images
9780810137691 Paperback US$34.95
Jan 2019 272pp, 17 b&w images
9780810138933 Paperback US$34.95 Charts a modern history of form as emergent from force.
Offering a provocative alternative to the imagery of crisis
A series of disruptive, unnerving sounds haunts the fictional and estrangement that has preoccupied scholarship
writings of Franz Kafka. In Kafka and Noise, Kata Gellen on modernism, Malika Maskarinec shows that German
applies concepts and vocabulary from film theory to Kafka’s modernism conceives of human bodies and aesthetic
works in order to account for these unsettling sounds. objects as shaped by a contest of conflicting and
Rather than try to decode these noises, Gellen explores the reciprocally-intensifying forces.
complex role they play in Kafka’s larger project.
THE PRICE OF LITERATURE
NEW DIGITAL WORLDS The French Novel’s Theoretical Turn
Postcolonial Digital Humanities in Theory,
Praxis, and Pedagogy Patrick M. Bray

Roopika Risam Mar 2019 192pp
9780810139329 Paperback US$34.95
Nov 2018 176pp, 7 b&w images
9780810138858 Paperback US$34.95 Examines the presence of theory in the nineteenth-
century French novel. Emerging after the French
Traces the formation of postcolonial studies and digital Revolution, what we call literature was conceived as an
humanities as fields, identifying how they can intervene art liberated from representational constraints. Patrick
in knowledge production in the digital age. Roopika Bray shows how literature’s freedom to represent
Risam examines the role of colonial violence in the anything has meant, paradoxically, that it cannot
development of digital archives and the possibilities of articulate a coherent theory of itself.
postcolonial digital archives for resisting this violence.
TOLSTOY AND HIS PROBLEMS
Views from the Twenty-First Century

Inessa Medzhibovskaya

Nov 2018 288pp, 2 images
9780810138803 Paperback US$39.95
Studies in Russian Literature and Theory

In the broadest sense, this volume offers a fresh
evaluation of Tolstoy’s program to reform the ways
we live, work, commune with nature and art, practice
spirituality, exchange ideas and knowledge, become
educated, and speak and think about history and social
change.

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LITERATURE 73

TWO PLAYS OF WEIMAR GERMANY University of Notre Dame Press
Youth Is a Sickness and Criminals
BETWEEN TWO MILLSTONES, BOOK 1
Ferdinand Bruckner Sketches of Exile, 1974–1978

Sep 2018 184pp Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
9780810137721 Paperback US$18.95 Translated by Peter Constantine
Foreword by Daniel J. Mahoney
In the late 1920s, the first two plays attributed to
Ferdinand Bruckner, Youth Is a Sickness and Criminals, Nov 2018 480pp
were “hot tickets”, but only gradually was the 9780268105013 Hardback US$35.00
pseudonymous author identified. . The Center for Ethics and Culture Solzhenitsyn Series

THE TWO-SOUL’D ANIMAL Russian Nobel prize-winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Early Modern Literatures of the Classical and (1918-2008) is widely acknowledged as one of the most
Christian Souls important figures of the last century. To celebrate the
centenary of his birth, the first English translation of his
James Jaehoon Lee memoir of the West, Between Two Millstones, Book 1, is
being published.
Mar 2019 216pp, 2 b&w illustrations
9780810139268 Paperback US$34.95 QUEEN OF HEAVEN
The Assumption and Coronation of the Virgin
Illuminates an early modern debate that recognised the in Early Modern English Writing
troubling extent to which Christian thought had defined
the human in terms of two incompatible models of soul. Lilla Grindlay
The English writers studied in this book place two prevailing
interpretations of the soul’s faculties into contact as a way Oct 2018 318pp, 1 halftone
to construct a new mode of Christian agency. 9780268104115 Paperback US$53.00
ReFormations: Medieval and Early Modern
Rutgers University Press
The upheaval of the Reformation brought radical
THE GLOBAL WORDSWORTH changes in the beliefs surrounding the assumption and
Romanticism Out of Place coronation, both of which were eliminated from state-
approved liturgy. Queen of Heaven examines canonical
Katherine Bergren as well as obscure images of the Blessed Mother that
present fresh evidence of the incompleteness of the
Dec 2018 240pp English Reformation.
9781684480128 Paperback US$34.95
Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture 1650-1850 The University of South Carolina Press

Examines Anglophone writers who repurposed William UNDERSTANDING
Wordsworth’s poetry. By reading Wordsworth in dialogue IRÈNE NÉMIROVSKY
with J.M. Coetzee, Lydia Maria Child, and Jamaica Kincaid,
Katherine Bergren revitalizes our understanding of Margaret Scanlan
Wordsworth’s career and its place in the canon.
Jun 2018 192pp
Bucknell University Press 9781611178685 Hardback
US$49.99
TRANSMEDIA CREATURES Understanding Modern European
Frankenstein’s Afterlives and Latin American Literature

Edited by Francesca Saggini & Anna Enrichetta Soccio A best-selling novelist in the
1930s, Irène Némirovsky
Oct 2018 280pp, 6 illustrations (1903-1942) was rediscovered
9781684480609 Paperback US$29.95 in 2004, when her Suite
Francaise, set during the fall of France and the first year
On the 200th anniversary of the first edition of of German occupation, became a popular and critical
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Transmedia Creatures: success both in France and in the United States. This
Frankenstein’s Afterlives presents studies of Frankenstein book offers a sympathetic, nuanced exploration of the
by international scholars from converging disciplines fiction and turbulent life of this best-selling author.
such as humanities, musicology, film studies, television
studies, English and digital humanities.

Bucknell University Press

ARTS & HUMANITIES

LITERATURE
74 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS

University of Virginia Press THE POLITICS OF RACE, GENDER AND
SEXUALITY IN THE WALKING DEAD
PARTING WORDS Essays on the Television Series and Comics
Victorian Poetry and Public Address
Edited by Elizabeth L. Erwin & Dawn Keetley
Justin A. Sider
Oct 2018 157pp
Nov 2018 288pp, 2 b&w illustrations 9781476668499 Paperback US$39.95
9780813941820 Hardback US$45.00
Victorian Literature and Culture Series For full details of this title, see page 79.

Whether deathbed pronouncements, political SUPERMAN AND THE BIBLE
capitulations, or seafaring farewells, “parting words” How the Idea of Superheroes Affects the
played a crucial role in the social imagination of Victorian Reading of Scripture
writing. In this compelling book, Justin Sider traces these
public addresses across a wide range of works, from Nicholaus Pumphrey
poems by Byron and Browning, to essays by Twain, to
novels by Dickens. Sep 2018 174pp
9781476665023 Paperback US$39.95

For full details of this title, see page 101.

The University of Wisconsin Press UNTAMED
The Psychology of Marvel’s Wolverine
REFRAMING RUSSIAN MODERNISM
Suzana E. Flores
Edited by Irina Shevelenko
Aug 2018 147pp
Dec 2018 256pp, 3 b&w illustrations 9781476674421 Paperback US$29.95
9780299320409 Hardback US$79.95
Marvel Comics’s most complex and captivating antihero
Features original research that ranges broadly, from Wolverine is paradoxically the most deviant yet humane
political aesthetics to Darwinism to yoga. These unique of all mutants. From his greatest triumphs to his most
complementary perspectives counter reductionism of disheartening downfalls, through loves and losses,
any kind, integrating the study of Russian modernism victories and defeats, Untamed delivers, for the first time,
into the larger body of humanistic scholarship devoted the psychological exploration of a myth, a purposeful
to modernity. creation, a modern legend.

COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS University Press of Mississippi

McFarland THE BRITISH SUPERHERO

THE BRITISH COMIC INVASION Chris Murray
Alan Moore, Warren Ellis and the Evolution of
the American Style Jan 2019 318pp
9781496820266 Paperback US$30.00
Jochen Ecke
Reveals the largely unknown and rather surprising
Nov 2018 221pp history of the British superhero. It is often thought that
9781476674155 Paperback US$45.00 Britain did not have its own superheroes, yet Murray
Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy, Vol. 64 demonstrates that there were a great many in Britain
and that they were often used as a way to comment on
Explores the relationship between the works of the relationship between Britain and America.
British comic “mavericks” such as Alan Moore and the
mainstream comic book style that was dominant at the COMICS AND SACRED TEXTS
time - how the British invasion subverted the norm, but Reimagining Religion and Graphic Narratives
also the many ways in which the movement came to rely
on the genius of the American system. Edited by Assaf Gamzou & Ken Koltun-Fromm

Nov 2018 288pp
9781496819475 Paperback US$30.00

For full details of this title, see page 102.

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LITERATURE
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS

THE COMICS OF JULIE DOUCET AND Naval Institute Press
GABRIELLE BELL
A Place Inside Yourself MACHETE SQUAD

Edited by Tahneer Oksman & Seamus O’Malley Brent Dulak, Kevin Knodell & David Axe
Illustrated by Per Darwin Berg
Jan 2019 240pp
9781496821096 Paperback US$30.00 Sep 2018 160pp
Critical Approaches to Comics Artists Series 9781682471005 Paperback US$18.95

In a self-reflexive way, Julie Doucet’s and Gabrielle Brent Dulak doesn’t want to go to Afghanistan. Haunted
Bell’s comics, though often autobiographical, defy by the memories of his two tours in Iraq and burnt out
easy categorization. This volume regards their art as on soldiering, he wants nothing more than to drink to
actively feminist, not only because they offer women’s self-destructive excess and have meaningless sex with
perspectives, but because they do so by provocatively questionable women. Brutally honest and darkly funny,
bringing up the complicated, multivalent frameworks of Machete Squad is the story of a soldier trying to keep
such engagements. people alive as America’s longest war rages all around
him.
GENDER AND THE SUPERHERO
NARRATIVE Dead Reckoning

Edited by Michael Goodrum, Tara Prescott & THE ’STAN
Philip Smith
Kevin Knodell & David Axe
Oct 2018 320pp Illustrated by Blue Delliquanti
9781496821102 Paperback US$30.00
Sep 2018 128pp
Presents ten essays that explore the point where social 9781682470985 Paperback US$16.95
justice meets the Justice League. Ranging from comics
to video games, Netflix, and cosplay, this volume builds A collection of comics about America’s longest war. The
a platform for important voices in comics research, tales in this book - based on reporting by David Axe and
engaging with controversy and community to provide Kevin Knodell and drawn by artist Blue Delliquanti - are
deeper insight and thus inspire change. all true and took place in roughly the first decade of the
US military intervention in Afghanistan. While the stories
GRAPHIC SATIRE IN THE SOVIET UNION are from the recent past, The ’Stan is still very much
Krokodil’s Political Cartoons about Afghanistan’s, and America’s, present. And likely
future.
John Etty
Dead Reckoning
Jan 2019 240pp
9781496821089 Paperback US$30.00 Rutgers University Press

After the death of Joseph Stalin, Soviet-era Russia INCORRIGIBLES AND INNOCENTS
experienced a flourishing artistic movement due Constructing Childhood and Citizenship in
to relaxed censorship and economic growth. In this Progressive Era Comics
atmosphere of freedom, Russia’s satirical magazine
Krokodil became rejuvenated. John Etty explores Soviet Lara Saguisag
graphic satire through Krokodil and its political cartoons.
Oct 2018 252pp, 50 colour pictures
NEW IN PAPERBACK 9780813591766 Paperback US$27.95

PANEL TO THE SCREEN Examines the ways childhood was theorized in late
Style, American Film, and Comic Books During nineteenth- and early twentieth-century comic strips.
the Blockbuster Era Drawing from histories and theories of childhood,
comics, and Progressive Era conceptualizations of
Drew Morton citizenship and nationhood, Lara Saguisag demonstrates
that child characters in comic strips complicated
Jan 2019 238pp contemporary notions of who had a right to claim
9781496820280 Paperback US$30.00 membership in a modernizing nation.

Film and comic books continuously lean on one another
to reimagine their formal attributes and stylistic
possibilities. Drew Morton examines this dialogue in its
intersecting and rapidly changing cultural, technological,
and industrial contexts.

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76 MEDIA & COMMUNICATION

MEDIA & COMMUNICATION Melbourne University Publishing

Brookings Institution Press ON DISRUPTION

ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE Katharine Murphy
Trump’s War on the Press, the New
McCarthyism, and the Threat to Jul 2018 277pp
American Democracy 9780522873795 Paperback
US$10.97
Marvin Kalb
The internet has shaken the
Aug 2018 180pp foundations of life: public and
9780815735304 Hardback US$21.99 private lives are wrought by
the 24-hour, seven-day-a-
For full details of this title, see page 91. week news cycle that means
no one is ever off duty. On
FROM GUTENBERG Disruption is a report from the
TO GOOGLE coalface of that change: what has happened, will it keep
The History of Our Future happening, and is there any way out of the chaos?

Tom Wheeler University of Michigan Press

Nov 2018 300pp APPIFIED
9780815735328 Hardback Culture in the Age of
US$24.99 Apps

Network revolutions of the past Jeremy Wade Morris &
have shaped the present and Sarah Murray
set the stage for the revolution
we are experiencing today. Nov 2018 384pp, 41 illustrations
In this fascinating book, Tom 9780472054046 Paperback
Wheeler brings to life the two great network revolutions US$39.95
of the past and uses them to help put in perspective the
confusion, uncertainty, and even excitement most people While the sheer number of
face today. apps is overwhelming, as are
the range of activities they
Cognella Academic Publishing address, each one offers an
opportunity for us to seek out meaning in the mundane.
9/11, THE WAR ON Appified is the first scholarly volume to examine
TERROR, AND THE individual apps within the wider historical and cultural
SOCIOLOGY OF context of media and cultural studies scholarship.
MASS MEDIA
The University of North Carolina Press
Nickie Wild
HASHTAG ISLAM
Jun 2018 360pp How Cyber-Islamic Environments Are
9781516521722 Paperback Transforming Religious Authority
US$107.95
Gary R. Bunt
Explores the cultural and
political impact of the terrorist Oct 2018 240pp, 13 halftones
attacks on September 11, 9781469643168 Paperback US$24.95
2001, with particular emphasis Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks
on the media’s role in constructing meanings in the
wake of the tragedy. The readings within this anthology For full details of this title, see page 102.
tell the story of how 9/11 was “created” - that is, how
the story of the event was told, and how it was not told.

ARTS & HUMANITIES
MYTHOLOGY & FOLKLORE 77

MYTHOLOGY & FOLKLORE Wayne State University Press

The Kent State University Press STAGING FAIRYLAND
Folklore, Children’s Entertainment, and
THE FAUN’S BOOKSHELF Nineteenth-Century Pantomime
C. S. Lewis on Why Myth Matters
Jennifer Schacker
Charlie W. Starr
Foreword by Devin Brown Dec 2018 264pp, 27 b&w images
9780814345900 Paperback US$29.99
Oct 2018 128pp Series in Fairy-Tale Studies
9781606353493 Paperback US$16.95
For full details of this title, see page 87.
For full details of this title, see page 66.
The University of Wisconsin Press

McFarland INARI SÁMI FOLKLORE
Stories from Aanaar
THE ECHO OF ODIN
Norse Mythology and August V. Koskimies & Toivo I. Itkonen
Human Consciousness
Edited by Lea Laitinen
Edward W.L. Smith
Jan 2019 344pp, 2 maps, 8 b&w photos
Oct 2018 158pp 9780299319007 Hardback US$79.95
9781476675091 Paperback
US$55.00 A rich multivoiced anthology of folktales, legends,
joik songs, proverbs, riddles, and other verbal art, this
The pagan mythology of the is a comprehensive collection of Sámi oral tradition
Vikings offers a rich metaphor in English. Collected by August Koskimies and Toivo
of consciousness. For the Itkonen in the 1880s, the material reveals a complex
first time, the cosmography web of social relations that existed both inside and
contained in Norse mythology beyond the community.
is presented as a map of human consciousness, a
landscape of the soul. Each of the nine worlds of this
cosmography is explored as a symbol of a particular type
of consciousness, each world emblematic of a particular
perspective and way of relating to others.

THE MEANING OF
MYTH IN WORLD
CULTURES

Michael Buonanno

Aug 2018 280pp
9780786497126 Paperback
US$39.95

Mythology creates and
sanctions meaning through
the elaboration of identity in
cultural metaphors that are at
once ecological, sociological
and ideological. This study examines mythology from
a global perspective, citing case studies in cultural
traditions from Africa, Europe, Oceania, Native America
and elsewhere.

ARTS & HUMANITIES

PERFORMING ARTS
78 FILM & TV

PERFORMING ARTS McFarland

FILM & TV “BARE KNEES” FLAPPER
The Life and Films of Virginia Lee Corbin
University of Hawai’i Press
Tim Lussier
ANIMATED ENCOUNTERS
Transnational Movements of Chinese Oct 2018 119pp
Animation, 1940s-1970s 9781476675688 Paperback US$39.95

Daisy Yan Du As the most popular child star in the movies for a brief
period in the late 1910s, Virginia Lee Corbin became
Feb 2019 328pp, 33 b&w illustrations well-known to millions of fans around the world.
9780824877644 Paperback US$30.00 However, she did not fade into obscurity. With her
Asia Pop! mother as manager, she performed in vaudeville, a move
that allowed her to mature before continuing her film
China’s role in the history of world animation has career. Fitting into the flapper mold of the Jazz Age,
been trivialized or largely forgotten. In Animated Virginia was busy in films throughout the 1920s.
Encounters, Daisy Yan Du addresses this omission in her
study of Chinese animation and its engagement with BOND, THE BEATLES
international forces during its formative period, the AND MY YEAR WITH
1940s-1970s. MARILYN
50 Years as a Movie
PRODUCING HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI Marketing Man
Literature, Film, and Transnational Politics
Charles “Jerry” Juroe
Yuko Shibata
Sep 2018 143pp
Aug 2018 216pp 9781476675107 Paperback
9780824867775 Hardback US$62.00 US$29.95

Juxtaposes literary and cinematic texts usually In a remarkable fifty-year
considered separately to highlight the “connected career, international film
divides” in the production of knowledge on Hiroshima publicist, executive and
and Nagasaki, shedding new light on both texts and production associate Charles “Jerry” Juroe met, knew, or
contexts in the process. worked with almost “Anyone Who Was Anyone”. But he
made his name working on the iconic James Bond films.
This is his story: unique, memorable, and full of the kind
of Hollywood history only a true insider can experience.

University of Iowa Press CHRISTOPHER NOLAN
A Critical Study of the Films
SHERLOCK’S WORLD
Fan Fiction and the Reimagining of Darren Mooney
BBC’s Sherlock
Oct 2018 187pp
Ann K. McClellan 9781476674803 Paperback US$39.95

Oct 2018 286pp, 13 b&w photos Christopher Nolan is one of the defining directors of the
9781609386160 Paperback US$40.00 twenty-first century. Very few of his contemporaries can
compete in terms of critical and commercial success, let
Examines the hit BBC series Sherlock and the fan fiction it alone cultural impact. This book offers a critical history
inspires. Using Sherlock to trace the changing face of fan of the visionary filmmaker, taking a film-by-film trip
fiction studies, Ann McClellan’s book explores how far through his filmography.
fans are willing to go to change the Sherlockian canon
while still reinforcing its power and status as the source
text.

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GENE HACKMAN JEAN GABIN
The Life and Work The Actor Who Was France

Peter Shelley Joseph Harriss

Aug 2018 148pp Dec 2018 150pp
9781476670478 Paperback 9781476676272 Paperback US$45.00
US$39.95
This first full-length biography of him in English, shows
Gene Hackman has been graphically how and why Jean Gabin, almost despite
described as the best actor of himself, became, under directors like Marcel Carné and
his generation, he won the Jean Renoir, a first-magnitude actor. Joseph Harriss
Best Actor Academy Award for details Gabin’s reluctant start in show business, and his
The French Connection (1971) precursive part in the réalisme poétique and film noir
and the Best Supporting Actor movements of the ‘30s and ‘40s.
Academy Award for Unforgiven (1992). A filmography/
videography is included in this full coverage of his career. THE MUSIC OF CHARLIE CHAPLIN

GEORGE ORWELL ON SCREEN Jim Lochner
Adaptations, Documentaries and Docudramas
on Film and Television Sep 2018 277pp
9780786496112 Paperback US$39.95
David Ryan
For full details of this title, see page 85.
Jun 2018 184pp
9781476673691 Paperback US$39.95 THE MUSLIM WORLD IN POST-9/11
AMERICAN CINEMA
After years of research and dozens of candid interviews A Critical Study, 2001-2011
with actors, writers, directors and producers, journalist
David Ryan has produced the first authoritative study Kerem Bayraktarolu
of George Orwell on film and television. This unique
reference work shows what popular culture has made - Jul 2018 195pp
and continues to make - of a literary genius whose work 9781476666679 Paperback US$39.95
has never seemed more relevant.
Focusing on the first 10 years following the events
THE HERO of 9/11, this book provides an in-depth analysis
AND THE GRAVE of the various means through which stereotypical
The Theme of Death in characteristics of Muslim identities and their worlds have
the Films of John Ford, been realised in US cinema. In the course of the analysis,
Akira Kurosawa and it emerges that changes to the old-style stereotypical
Sergio Leone representations have also been influenced by factors
other than politics.
Alireza Vahdani
THE POLITICS OF RACE, GENDER AND
Aug 2018 138pp SEXUALITY IN THE WALKING DEAD
9781476664101 Paperback Essays on the Television Series and Comics
US$39.95
Edited by Elizabeth L. Erwin & Dawn Keetley
The theme of death is an
essential component of film Oct 2018 157pp
narrative, particularly in how it affects the hero. Focusing 9781476668499 Paperback US$39.95
on Western and Japanese period genre films, the author
examines the work of John Ford (1894-1973), Akira From the beginning, controversies have swirled around
Kurosawa (1910-1998) and Sergio Leone (1929-1989) the ways in which both Robert Kirkman’s comics and
and finds similarities regarding death’s impact on the AMC’s series of The Walking Dead represent race, gender,
hero’s sense of morality. and sexuality. This collection of essays is the first to
address those controversies in a sustained way.

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80 FILM & TV

POST-APOCALYPTIC University Press of Mississippi
PATRIARCHY
American Television J. J. ABRAMS
and Gendered Visions Interviews
of Survival
Edited by Brent Dunham
Carlen Lavigne
Dec 2018 240pp
Sep 2018 158pp 9781496820426 Paperback US$25.00
9780786499069 Paperback Conversations with Filmmakers Series
US$39.95
Throughout his career, J.J. Abrams has dedicated his
Questions about post- life to storytelling and worked tirelessly to become
apocalyptic television abound. one of the best-known and most successful creators in
Whose voices are represented? Hollywood. The thirty interviews collected in this volume
What do they want? What tomorrows are they most span Abrams’s entire career, covering his many projects
afraid of - and what does this tell us about the world we from television and film to video games and theatre.
live in today? This book examines these issues.
THE LIFE AND TIMES OF
STAR TREK AND THE WARD KIMBALL
BRITISH AGE OF SAIL Maverick of Disney Animation
The Maritime Influence
Throughout the Todd James Pierce
Series and Films
Jan 2019 320pp
Stefan Rabitsch 9781496820969 Hardback US$30.00

Oct 2018 246pp In this engaging, cradle-to-grave biography, Todd James
9781476664637 Paperback Pierce explores the life of Ward Kimball, a lead Disney
US$45.00 animator who worked on characters such as Mickey
Mouse, Donald Duck, Jiminy Cricket, the Cheshire Cat,
The future of Star Trek is and the Mad Hatter. Pierce defines the life of perhaps the
modelled on the world of the most influential animator of the twentieth century.
British Golden Age of Sail as it
is commonly found in the genre of sea fiction. Star Trek NEW IN PAPERBACK
and the British Age of Sail re-historicizes and remaps the
origins of Star Trek and subsequently the entirety of its PANEL TO THE SCREEN
fictional world - the Star Trek continuum - on an as yet Style, American Film, and Comic Books During
uncharted transatlantic bearing. the Blockbuster Era

VYING FOR THE IRON THRONE Drew Morton
Essays on Power, Gender, Death and
Performance in HBO’s Game of Thrones Jan 2019 238pp
9781496820280 Paperback US$30.00
Edited by Lindsey Mantoan & Sara Brady
For full details of this title, see page 75.
Oct 2018 187pp
9781476674261 Paperback US$35.00 QUENTIN TARANTINO
Poetics and Politics of Cinematic Metafiction
Game of Thrones has changed the landscape of television
during an era hailed as the Golden Age of TV. An David Roche
adaptation of George R.R. Martin’s epic fantasy A Song of
Fire and Ice, the HBO series has taken on a life of its own. Sep 2018 352pp
This collection of new essays explores how power, death, 9781496821157 Paperback US$30.00
gender, and performance intertwine in the series.
Covering all eight of Quentin Tarantino’s films according
to certain themes, David Roche combines cultural
studies and neoformalist approaches to highlight how
closely the films’ poetics and politics are intertwined.
Each in-depth chapter focuses on a salient feature, some
which have drawn much attention, others less so.

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STEVEN SODERBERGH The University of North Carolina Press
Interviews, Revised and Updated
WORKING IN HOLLYWOOD
Anthony Kaufman How the Studio System Turned Creativity
into Labor
Dec 2018 264pp
9781496820341 Paperback US$25.00 Ronny Regev
Conversations with Filmmakers Series
Oct 2018 288pp
Spanning twenty-five years, these conversations 9781469636504 Paperback US$27.95.00
reveal Steven Soderbergh to be as self-effacing and
lighthearted in his later more established years as he Reveals an important untold story of an influential
was when just beginning to make movies. He comes twentieth-century workplace. Ronny Regev argues
across as a man undaunted by the glitz and power of that the Hollywood studio system institutionalized
Hollywood, remaining, above all, a truly independent creative labour by systemizing and standardizing the
filmmaker. work of actors, directors, writers, and cinematographers,
meshing artistic sensibilities with the efficiency-minded
NEW IN PAPERBACK rationale of industrial capitalism.

WONG KAR-WAI Northwestern University Press
Interviews
AESTHETIC SPACES
Edited by Silver Wai-ming Lee & Micky Lee The Place of Art in Film

Nov 2018 222pp Brigitte Peucker
9781496820259 Paperback US$25.00
Conversations with Filmmakers Series Feb 2019 232pp, 8 b&w images
9780810139060 Paperback US$34.95
Wong Kar-wai’s signature style - experimental, emotive,
character-driven, and timeless - remains apparent Films provide valuable spaces for aesthetic
throughout his films. This volume includes interviews experimentation and analysis, for cinema’s openness to
that appear in English for the first time, including some other media has always allowed it to expand its own.
that appeared in Hong Kong magazines now out of In Aesthetic Spaces, Brigitte Peucker shows that when
print. The interviews cover each of Wong’s feature films. painterly or theatrical conventions are appropriated by
the medium of film, the dissonant effects produced
University of New Mexico Press open it up to intermedial reflection and tell us a great
deal about cinema itself.
THE FILMS OF
CLINT EASTWOOD University of Pittsburgh Press
Critical Perspectives
NO END IN SIGHT
Edited by Matt Wanat & Leonard Polish Cinema in the Late Socialist Period
Engel
Anna Krakus
Jun 2018 272pp
9780826359520 Hardback Jun 2018 296pp, 30 b&w illustrations
US$75.00 9780822964612 Paperback US$28.95
Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies
The indefatigable Clint
Eastwood, the great old Offers a critical analysis of Polish cinema and literature
man of American film, is still during the transformative late Socialist period of the
controversial after all these 1970s and 1980s. Anna Krakus details how conceptions
years. Many of the critical essays in this collection focus of time, permanence, and endings shaped major Polish
on Eastwood’s 2014 American Sniper, a particularly artistic works. She further demonstrates how film
controversial film and a devastating personal account and literature played a major role in shaping political
of the horrors of war. Additional essays address his films consciousness during this highly charged era.
that deserve more recognition than they have received
to date.

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82 FILM & TV

Rutgers University Press THE INDECENT SCREEN
Regulating Television in the
ANDRÉ BAZIN Twenty-First Century
Selected Writings 1943-1958
Cynthia Chris
André Bazin
Translated by Timothy Barnard Jan 2019 236pp, 15 b&w illustrations
9780813594064 Paperback US$29.95
Sep 2018 277pp
9781978804104 Hardback US$125.00 Explores clashes over indecency in broadcast television
among US-based media advocates, television
Presents a collection of articles by France’s foremost professionals, the Federal Communications Commission,
film critic and theorist. This is the most comprehensive and TV audiences. Cynthia Chris focuses on the decency
collection in English of a broad range of Bazin’s writings debates during an approximately twenty-year period
throughout his entire career, with extensive annotations since the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which in
and corrections. The texts included are all offered in their many ways restructured the media environment.
original version.
LIBERATING HOLLYWOOD
caboose Women Directors and the Feminist Reform of
1970s American Cinema
DIGITAL CINEMA
Maya Montañez Smukler
Stephen Prince
Dec 2018 275pp, 20-30 b&w illustrations
Jan 2019 144pp 9780813587479 Paperback US$26.95
9780813596266 Paperback US$17.95
Quick Takes: Movies and Popular Culture Drawing on interviews conducted by the author,
Liberating Hollywood is the first study of women directors
Considers how new technologies have revolutionized the within the intersection of second wave feminism, civil
medium, while investigating the continuities that might rights legislation, and Hollywood to investigate the
remain from filmmaking’s analogue era. In the process, remarkable careers of these filmmakers during one of the
this book raises provocative questions about the status most mythologized periods in American film history.
of realism in a pixel-generated digital medium whose
scenes often defy the laws of physics. THE MOVIES AS A WORLD FORCE
American Silent Cinema and the Utopian
HOLLYWOOD ON LOCATION Imagination
An Industry History
Ryan Jay Friedman
Edited by Joshua Gleich & Lawrence Webb
Feb 2019 232pp, 25 b&w illustrations
Jan 2019 232pp, 15 illustrations 9780813593593 Paperback US$29.95
9780813586250 Paperback US$27.95
Throughout the silent-feature era, American artists
Provides the first comprehensive history of location and intellectuals routinely described cinema as a
shooting in the American film industry, showing how force of global communion, a universal language
this mode of filmmaking changed Hollywood business promoting mutual understanding and harmonious
practices, production strategies, and visual style from the coexistence amongst disparate groups of people.
silent era to the present. The contributors explore how This book examines the body of writing in which this
location filmmaking supplemented and later, supplanted understanding of cinema emerged and explores how it
production on the studio lots. shaped particular silent films.

TRANSMEDIA CREATURES
Frankenstein’s Afterlives

Edited by Francesca Saggini & Anna Enrichetta Soccio

Oct 2018 280pp, 6 illustrations
9781684480609 Paperback US$29.95

For full details of this title, see page 73.

Bucknell University Press

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FILM & TV

UNWATCHABLE Wayne State University Press

Edited by Nicholas Baer et al 1968 AND
GLOBAL CINEMA
Jan 2019 350pp, 51 images
9780813599588 Paperback US$29.95 Edited by Christina Gerhardt &
Sara Saljoughi
With over 50 original essays by leading scholars, artists,
critics, and curators, this is the first book to trace Oct 2018 384pp, 19 b&w images
the ‘unwatchable’ across our contemporary media 9780814342930 Paperback
environment, in which viewers encounter difficult US$31.99
content on various screens and platforms. The volume Contemporary Approaches to Film
offers multidisciplinary approaches to the vast array of and Media Studies
troubling images that circulate in global visual culture.
Examines the political cinema
WATCHING OUR WEIGHTS of 1968 in relation to global
The Contradictions of Televising Fatness in events. The essays in this
the “Obesity Epidemic” volume, edited by Christina Gerhardt and Sara Saljoughi,
cover a breadth of cinematic movements that were
Melissa Zimdars part of the era’s radical politics and independence
movements.
Feb 2019 206pp, 15 b&w images
9780813593548 Paperback US$27.95 AFRICAN AMERICAN CINEMA THROUGH
BLACK LIVES CONSCIOUSNESS
Explores the competing and contradictory fat
representations on television that are related to weight- Edited by Mark A. Reid
loss and health, medicalization and disease, and body
positivity and fat acceptance. Watching Our Weights Jan 2019 312pp, 34 b&w images
establishes both how television shapes our knowledge 9780814345481 Paperback US$29.99
of fatness and how fatness helps us better understand
contemporary television. Uses critical race theory to discuss American films that
embrace contemporary issues of race, sexuality, class,
Southern Illinois University Press and gender. Its linear history chronicles black-oriented
narrative film from post-World War II through the
DEMYSTIFYING THE presidential administration of Barack Obama.
BIG HOUSE
Exploring Prison CINEMATIC CRYPTONYMIES
Experience and Media The Absent Body in Postwar Film
Representations
Ofer Eliaz
Edited by Katherine A. Foss
Nov 2018 224pp, 14 b&w images
Jul 2018 368pp 9780814345627 Paperback US$31.99
9780809336579 Paperback Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Studies
US$38.00
Perspectives on Crime and Justice Following World War II, the world had to confront the
unmournable spectres of those who had been erased
Essays in this volume socially and historically. Cinematic Cryptonymies: The
illustrate how shows such Absent Body in Postwar Film explores how cinema
as Orange Is the New Black and Oz impact the public’s addressed these missing bodies through an in-depth
perception of crime rates, the criminal justice system, analysis of key filmmakers from the immediate postwar
and imprisonment. Contributors look at prison wives moment to the present.
on reality television series, portrayals of death row,
breastfeeding while in prison, transgender prisoners, and
black masculinity.

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84 FILM & TV • MUSIC

THE FILMS OF MUSIC
JESS FRANCO
University Press of Florida
Edited by Antonio Lázaro-Reboll
& IIan Olney FLORIDA SOUL
From Ray Charles to KC and the Sunshine Band
Aug 2018 352pp, 30 b&w images
9780814343166 Paperback John Capouya
US$29.99
Sep 2018 408pp
Contemporary Approaches to 9780813064024 Paperback US$21.95
Film and Media Series
When recalling the roots of soul music, most people are
Looks at the work of Jesus likely to name Memphis, Detroit, New Orleans, or Muscle
“Jess” Franco (1930-2013), Shoals. But Florida also has a rich soul music history.
one of the most prolific and Florida Soul celebrates great artists of the Sunshine State
madly inventive filmmakers in the history of cinema. who produced some of the most electric, emotive soul
Editors Antonio Lazaro-Reboll and Ian Olney have music America has ever heard.
assembled a team of scholars to examine Franco’s
offbeat films, which command an international cult
following and have developed a more mainstream
audience in recent years.

ROBIN WOOD ON THE The University of Georgia Press
HORROR FILM
Collected Essays and GETTIN’ AROUND
Reviews Jazz, Script, Transnationalism

Robin Wood Jürgen E. Grandt

Edited by Barry Keith Grant Dec 2018 200pp
9780820354354 Hardback US$54.95
Nov 2018 432pp, 62 b&w images
9780814345238 Paperback Examines how the global jazz aesthetic strives, in
US$34.99 various ways, toward an imaginative reconfiguration
of a humanity that transcends entrenched borders
Contemporary Approaches to of ethnicity and nationhood, while at the same time
Film and Media Studies remaining keenly aware of the exigencies of history.

Robin Wood - one of the University of Massachusetts Press
foremost critics of cinema - has laid the groundwork
for anyone writing about the horror film in the last THE HONKY TONK ON THE LEFT
half-century. Robin Wood on the Horror Film: Collected Progressive Thought in Country Music
Essays and Reviews compiles over fifty years of his
groundbreaking critiques. Edited by Mark Allan Jackson

Jun 2018 312pp
9781625343383 Paperback US$32.95
American Popular Music

Massively popular for the past century, country music
has often been associated with political and social
conservatism. Bringing together a wide spectrum of
cultural critics, The Honky Tonk on the Left takes on this
conservative stereotype and reveals how progressive
thought has permeated country music from its
beginnings to the present day.

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PERFORMING ARTS
MUSIC

McFarland University Press of Mississippi

FINDING GOD IN THE DEVIL’S MUSIC BLUES TRAVELING
Critical Essays on Rock and Religion The Holy Sites of Delta
Blues, Fourth Edition
Edited by Alex DiBlasi & Robert McParland
Steve Cheseborough
Aug 2018 160pp
9781476671505 Paperback US$45.00 Oct 2018 306pp
9781496813008 Paperback
Explores the relationship between religion/spirituality US$25.00
and Rock music. The aim is to take an ecumenical
approach with the essays in this book, covering a wide This acclaimed travel guide,
range of philosophies and belief systems. This collection hailed as the bible of blues
of essays investigates the relationship of rock music with travellers throughout the world,
religious experience from sociological, theological, and will shepherd the faithful to such
musicological perspectives. shrines as the intersection where
Robert Johnson might have
THE MUSIC OF made his deal with the devil
CHARLIE CHAPLIN and the railroad tracks that inspired Howlin’ Wolf to moan
‘Smokestack Lightnin’’.
Jim Lochner
CREATING THE JAZZ SOLO
Sep 2018 277pp Louis Armstrong and Barbershop Harmony
9780786496112 Paperback
US$39.95 Vic Hobson

Everybody knows Charlie Nov 2018 288pp
Chaplin as the funny little 9781496819789 Paperback US$30.00
man on screen with the funny American Made Music Series
little walk. But beneath the
Tramp’s trademark bowler hat Throughout his life, Louis Armstrong tried to explain
and toothbrush mustache laid how singing with a barbershop quartet on the streets
an unsung composer off screen. This comprehensive of New Orleans was foundational to his musicianship.
study tells the untold story of Chaplin the composer and Creating the Jazz Solo shows that Armstrong understood
the string of famous and not-so-famous musicians he exactly the relationship between what he sang and what
employed. he played, and that he he was singing through his horn.

A WANDERER BY JAZZ IN CHINA
TRADE From Dance Hall Music to Individual Freedom
Gender in the Songs of of Expression
Bob Dylan
Eugene Marlow
Patrick Webster
Jul 2018 288pp
Dec 2018 170pp 9781496818553 Paperback US$30.00
9781476674094 Paperback
US$45.00 Is there jazz in China? This is the question that sent
author Eugene Marlow on his quest to uncover the
The love songs of Bob Dylan history of jazz in in the country. Marlow traces China’s
provide a unique template on introduction to jazz in the early 1920s, its interruption
which to map the changes in by Chinese leadership under Mao in 1949, and its
American society since the rejuvenation in the early 1980s with the start of China’s
1960s. In looking across a diverse range of Dylan’s songs, opening to the world under Premier Deng Xiaoping.
this book explores issues surrounding masculinity,
femininity, sexuality and identity.

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86 MUSIC

TEARING THE WORLD APART The University of the West Indies Press
Bob Dylan and the Twenty-First Century
REGGAE STORIES
Edited by Nina Goss & Eric Hoffman Jamaican Musical Legends and
Cultural Legacies
Nov 2018 202pp
9781496820143 Paperback US$30.00 Edited by Donna P. Hope
American Made Music Series
Nov 2018 140pp
Participates in the creation of the postmillennial Bob 9789766406691 Paperback US$45.00
Dylan by exploring three central records of the twenty-
first century - Love and Theft (2001), Modern Times Provides a range of perspectives on the development of
(2006), and Tempest (2012) - along with the 2003 film Jamaican popular music and culture, in particular reggae
Masked and Anonymous, which Dylan helped write and in and dancehall, and opens the door to new debates on
which he appears as an actor and musical performer. these music forms and their producers and creators. It
moves through early musical debates and incendiary
University of North Texas Press intellectual contributions in Jamaican reggae to trace
Jamaican popular music in new geographical locales.

YOU SHOOK ME ALL CAMPAIGN LONG
Music in the 2016 Presidential Election and
Beyond

Edited by Eric T. Kasper & Benjamin S. Schoening

Nov 2018 352pp
9781574417340 Hardback US$29.95

Music has long played a role in American presidential
campaigns as a mode of both expressing candidates’
messages and criticizing the opposition. The 2016
campaign was no exception. The ten chapters in
this collection place music use in 2016 in historical
perspective before examining musical messaging,
strategy, and parody.

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THEATRE

THEATRE SHAKESPEARE AND THE LEGACY OF LOSS

Academica Press Emily Hodgson Anderson

Jul 2018 232pp, 26 illustrations
9780472130931 Hardback US$70.00

For full details of this title, see page 69.

PLAYER, ENTREPRENEUR AND Northwestern University Press
PHILANTHROPIST
The Story of Edward Alleyn, 1566-1626 TWO PLAYS OF WEIMAR GERMANY
Youth Is a Sickness and Criminals
Antonia Southern
Ferdinand Bruckner
Jul 2018 277pp
9781680530285 Paperback US$34.95 Sep 2018 184pp
9780810137721 Paperback US$18.95
Examines the life of Edward Alleyn, the sixteenth century
stage actor who, among a multitude of lead roles, For full details of this title, see page 31.
performed as Tamburlaine, Dr Faustus, and Barabas in
the work of Christopher Marlowe, and who was praised
by Queen Elizabeth I herself.

McFarland Southern Illinois University Press

IMMERSIVE THEATER AND ACTIVISM OFF SITES
Scripts and Strategies for Directors and Contemporary Performance Beyond
Playwrights Site-Specific

Nandita Dinesh Bertie Ferdman

Sep 2018 193pp Jul 2018 200pp, 36 illustrations
9781476672045 Paperback US$39.95 9780809334704 Paperback US$38.00

A book of plays, and a book about writing and Rethinks current definitions of “site-specific
staging plays for Immersive Theater. Through the performance” - a genre of theatre that adopts spaces
creation of scripts that place spectator-actors in less outside of traditional theatre buildings and uses the
explored scenarios within juvenile detention, wartime experience of space, place, and situation as an integral
interventions, and immigration processes, this book component to the structure and content of a theatrical
provides practical strategies for directors and playwrights work. This book looks at key productions of artists
who work with immersive aesthetics. working in this genre.

University of Michigan Press Wayne State University Press

GAMING THE STAGE STAGING FAIRYLAND
Playable Media and the Rise of English Folklore, Children’s Entertainment, and
Commercial Theater Nineteenth-Century Pantomime

Gina Bloom Jennifer Schacker

Jul 2018 320pp, 25 colour illustrations Dec 2018 264pp, 27 b&w images
9780472053810 Paperback US$34.95 9780814345900 Paperback US$29.99
Theater: Theory/Text/Performance Series in Fairy-Tale Studies

Rich connections between gaming and theatre stretch Examines pantomime and theatricality in nineteenth-
back to the 16th and 17th centuries. In the first book- century histories of folklore and the fairy tale. In
length exploration of gaming in the early modern period, nineteenth-century Britain, the spectacular and highly
Gina Bloom shows that theatres succeeded in London’s profitable theatrical form known as “pantomime” was
new entertainment marketplace largely because watching part of a shared cultural repertoire and a significant
a play and playing a game were similar experiences. medium for the transmission of stories, especially fairy
tales.

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88 PHILOSOPHY

PHILOSOPHY The Catholic University of America Press

Broadview Press AQUINAS ON EMOTION’S PARTICIPATION
IN REASON
ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY
A Companion to the Core Readings Nicholas Kahm

Andrew Stumpf Jan 2019 277pp
9780813231570 Hardback US$75.00
Dec 2018 250pp, 20 b&w illustrations
9781554813926 Paperback US$19.95 Presents Aquinas’s answer to the perennial question: In
what way can the emotions be rational? For Aquinas, the
A guide to the most important and influential works starting point of this inquiry is Aristotle’s claim (EN.I.13)
of ancient Greek philosophy. The book begins with that there are three parts to the soul: the rational part;
mythology and the pre-Socratics, then proceeds to the non-rational part which can participate in reason;
examine a number of the most important works from and the non-rational part that does not participate in
Plato and Aristotle, including Euthyphro, Meno, Republic reason.
the Categories, the Physics and the Nicomachean Ethics.
BEING AND THE COSMOS
BUSINESS ETHICS From Seeing to Indwelling
The Big Picture
Robert E. Wood
Edited by Mark C. Vopat & Alan Tomhave
Sep 2018 277pp
Aug 2018 325pp 9780813231174 Paperback US$34.95
9781554814305 Paperback US$44.95
Aims to reestablish a speculative view of the cosmos
For full details of this title, see page 5. that goes back to the ancient Greeks and that
corresponds to the holism of contemporary physics. The
PHILOSOPHERS OF THE WARRING STATES basic ground of this position rests upon the functioning
A Sourcebook in Chinese Philosophy of the notion of Being that opens up the question of the
character of the Whole and the human being’s place in it.
Translated with a commentary by Kurtis Hagen &
Steve Coutinho THE HUMAN PERSON
A Beginner’s Thomistic Psychology
Oct 2018 400pp
9781554810673 Paperback US$34.95 Steven J. Jensen

An anthology of new translations of essential readings Oct 2018 277pp
from the classical texts of early Chinese philosophy. It 9780813231525 Paperback US$34.95
includes the Analects of Confucius, Meng Zi (Mencius),
Xun Zi, Mo Zi, Lao Zi (Dao De Jing), Zhuang Zi, and Han Presents a brief introduction to the human mind, the
Fei Zi, as well as short chapters on the Da Xue and the soul, immortality, and free will. While delving into the
Zhong Yong. thought of Thomas Aquinas, it addresses contemporary
topics, such as scepticism, mechanism, animal language
THOMAS AQUINAS research, and determinism.
Basic Philosophical Writings:
From the Summa Theologiae and THE METAPHYSICAL FOUNDATIONS OF
The Principles of Nature LOVE
Aquinas on Participatin, Unity, and Union
Edited by Steven Baldner
Anthony T. Flood
Oct 2018 240pp
9781554813728 Paperback US$14.95 Oct 2018 277pp
9780813231204 Hardback US$65.00
Contains new translations of the philosophical writings Thomistic Ressourcement Series
of Thomas Aquinas from the Summa Theologiae and The
Principles of Nature. The texts address the fundamental Offers a systematic treatment of St. Thomas Aquinas’s
principles of nature; causality; the existence of God; account of the metaphysical relations of unity-to-union
how God can be known; how language can be used to and unity-to-participation in God as the key structuring
describe God; human nature; happiness; ethics; and elements to the nature of love and friendship.
natural law.

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A PHILOSOPHICAL PRIMER ON THE MERLEAU-PONTY’S DEVELOPMENTAL
SUMMA THEOLOGICA ONTOLOGY

Richard J. Regan David Morris

Jul 2018 277pp Oct 2018 320pp, 5 diagrams
9780999513439 Hardback US$65.00 9780810137929 Paperback US$34.95
Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy
For full details of this title, see page 100.
Shows how the philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty,
Franciscan University Press from its very beginnings, seeks to find sense or meaning
within nature, and how this quest calls for and develops
THINKING THROUGH REVELATION into a radically new ontology. This makes key issues
Islamic, Jewish, and Christian Philosophy in in Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy clear and accessible
the Middle Ages to a broad audience while also advancing original
philosophical conclusions.
Robert J. Dobie
ON LIFE
Jan 2019 277pp
9780813231334 Paperback US$34.95 Leo Tolstoy
Edited by Inessa Medzhibovskaya
For full details of this title, see page 101. Translated by Michael A. Denner

Northwestern University Press Nov 2018 264pp
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