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Published by Eurospan_Catalogues, 2018-10-09 06:34:28

New Books: Autumn-Winter 2018

2018 AUTUMN / WINTER

NEW BOOKS CATALOGUE

EU ROS PAN

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American Mathematical Society Technology in Education Redleaf Press
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American Psychological Association ISA River Publishers
American Registry of Pathology ISEAS Publishing Rutgers University Press
American Society of Mechanical Engineers ISI Books SAE International
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C ONTENTS 
Contents 1
3 GENERAL INTEREST
71 STM & PROFESSIONAL
3 COOKING
3 FAMILY & HEALTH 71 HIGHLIGHTS
73 BUSINESS, MANAGEMENT & ECONOMICS
5 ARTS & HUMANITIES 76 DEVELOPMENT
76 EDUCATION
5 HIGHLIGHTS
7 HISTORY 82 ESL
82 SPECIAL NEEDS
7 ART, PHOTOGRAPHY & ARCHITECTURE 84 ENVIRONMENT
7 HISTORY 85 ICT & COMPUTER SCIENCE
15 ARCHAEOLOGY 86 LAW & CRIMINOLOGY
16 CLASSICS & ANCIENT HISTORY 90 MATHEMATICS
17 HOLOCAUST STUDIES 93 MEDICINE & ALLIED PROFESSIONS
17 MILITARY HISTORY 94 BIOTECHNOLOGY
21 LIBRARY STUDIES 94 NEUROLOGY
22 LITERATURE 94 ONCOLOGY
32 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS 95 OPHTHALMOLOGY
34 MEDIA & COMMUNICATION 96 PAEDIATRICS
35 MYTHOLOGY & FOLKLORE 98 PATHOLOGY
36 PERFORMING ARTS 98 PHARMACOLOGY
36 FILM & TV 99 PSYCHOLOGY & PSYCHOTHERAPY
42 MUSIC 100 RADIOLOGY
45 THEATRE 101 GERONTOLOGY
46 PHILOSOPHY 101 NURSING
49 POLITICS & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS 102 OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY
57 RELIGION 103 PHYSIOTHERAPY
62 SOCIAL STUDIES 103 SPORTS MEDICINE
65 ANTHROPOLOGY 103 NATURAL HISTORY
67 GENDER & SEXUALITY 105 SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING
69 STUDY SKILLS & WRITING GUIDES 105 HISTORY OF SCIENCE
105 POPULAR SCIENCE
105 AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEERING
106 BIOLOGY
106 CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
106 CIVIL ENGINEERING
107 ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
108 ENERGY INDUSTRY
109 GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS
110 MARINE BIOLOGY
110 MATERIALS SCIENCE
111 MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
111 PHYSICS
112 SPACE SCIENCE

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Informed by the advances in health care and
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GENERAL INTEREST 3
COOKING · FAMILY & HEALTH

GENERAL INTEREST FAMILY & HEALTH

COOKING Future Horizons

Food and Agriculture Organization of the  AUTISM AND EMPLOYMENT
United Nations - FAO Raising Your Child with Foundational Skills for
The Future
HEALTH, KNOWLEDGE AND FLAVOURS
Recipe Book Diane Zajac & Lisa Tew

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Oct 2018 277pp
9781941765814 Paperback £18.50 / €21.00
Jun 2018 58pp
9789251303733 Hardback £47.50 / €53.00 As a parent you want to ensure that your bright child
with Autism Spectrum Disorder will have a bright future!
Through a selection of dishes prepared by women from This book was written to help you, the parent, to raise
Latin America and the Caribbean, this recipe book seeks your child with the foundational skills he or she will need
to promote the consumption of nutritious foods while for the future.
celebrating women’s traditional knowledge of healthy,
sustainable and biodiverse food resources. AWKWARD
The Social Dos and Don’ts of Being a
The University of North Carolina Press Young Adult

PIE Carlos Torres & Katie Saint
A Savor the South® Cookbook
Aug 2018 124pp
Sara Foster 9781941765791 Paperback £11.95 / €14.00

Sep 2018 144pp Breaks down family, friends, work, and community social
9781469647128 Hardback £21.50 / €24.00 situations to help provide tips on socially acceptable
Savor the South Cookbooks behaviour in everyday situations. Each situation
includes examples of dos and don’ts to target different
Sara Foster takes the expression “easy as pie” seriously. perspectives and learning styles.
New and experienced bakers alike will thrill to Foster’s
encouraging approach to tossing together the most FEED YOUR BABY AND TODDLER RIGHT
delicious made-from-scratch pies. Here, reap the rewards Early Eating and Drinking Skills Encourage the
of Foster’s inspiration: fifty-seven recipes for amazing Best Development
pies, including the southern classics, each one matched
to one of eleven perfect pie crusts. Diane Bahr

Jul 2018 255pp
9781941765678 Paperback £13.95 / €16.00

For full details of this title, see page 97.

. .._ ................ IT’S JUST A... WHAT?
Little Sensory Problems with Big Reactions!
P.....i...e...
Hartley Steiner
It's Just II
Illustrated by Anait Semirdzhyan
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Jul 2018 30pp
9781941765746 Paperback £9.50 / €11.00

Sensory issues are a challenge for many children and
their caregivers. In this picture book, Hartley Steiner
shows the experience of Sensory Processing Disorders
from the point of view of the child, bringing awareness
to how they feel in the moment through humour and
giving adults the opportunity to view the situation from
the child’s perspective.

GENERAL INTEREST
4 FAMILY AND HEALTH

Magination Press GROW GRATEFUL

NEW SERIES Sage Foster-Lasser & Jon Lasser
Illustrated by Christopher Lyles
ALL MINE!
Oct 2018 32pp, colour illustrations
Carol Zeavin & 9781433829031 Hardback £17.95 / €20.00
Rhona Silverbush
Illustrated by Jon Davis Kiko goes on a camping trip with her class and learns
about gratitude! Throughout the trip, Kiko discovers
Oct 2018 16pp, colour illustrations different things she appreciates about her family, friends,
9781433828775 Hardback and opportunities. This story is based on the “theory
£9.50 / €11.00 of mind” - the ability to take perspective of others and
Terrific Toddlers recognise that each person has their own thoughts,
feelings, and perspectives.
Ava, Kai, and JoJo are playing with their toys at school,
but must learn how to share. All Mine! is a book written HECTOR’S FAVORITE PLACE
for toddlers about taking ownership of their things, so
they better understand how to take turns. Includes a Jo Rooks
“Note to Parents and Caregivers” written by the authors Illustrated by Jo Rooks
about supporting toddlers’ needs for ownership.
Aug 2018 32pp, colour illustrations
BOO-BOO! 9781433828683 Hardback £17.95 / €20.00

Carol Zeavin & Rhona Silverbush Hector loves his home! It’s comfy, snuggly, and safe. But
Illustrated by Jon Davis sometimes Hector relies on the safety of his home too
much. When he’s invited to play outside with his friends,
Oct 2018 16pp, colour illustrations he worries about the problems he might encounter. Hector
9781433828751 Hardback £9.50 / €11.00 realizes that his worries are keeping him from enjoying
Terrific Toddlers himself, so he needs to learn to be brave and try new things.

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tries to help her boo-boo. But JoJo is scared! Her dad
helps her understand that boo-boos aren’t so scary. OTHERS’ MILK
Boo-Boo! is a book for toddlers about small cuts and The Potential of Exceptional Breastfeeding
scrapes. Includes a “Note to Parents and Caregivers”
about helping toddlers with minor injuries. Kristin J. Wilson

BYE-BYE! Aug 2018 188pp
9780813593838 Paperback £22.95 / €26.00
Carol Zeavin &
Rhona Silverbush Breastfeeding rarely conforms to the idealized Madonna-
Illustrated by Jon Davis and-baby image seen in old artwork, now re-cast
in celebrity breastfeeding photo spreads and pro-
Oct 2018 16pp, colour illustrations breastfeeding ad campaigns. The personal accounts in
9781433828768 Hardback Others’ Milk illustrate just how messy and challenging
£9.50 / €11.00 and unpredictable it can be.
Terrific Toddlers
United Nations Publications
It’s hard for toddlers to say goodbye sometimes,
especially to Mom and Dad! Even if it’s for a short THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF
amount of time, Mom and Dad reassure them not to HUMAN RIGHTS
worry because they will always come back. Bye-Bye! An Adaptation for Children by Ruth Rocha and
is a book written for toddlers about separation. Otavio Roth
Includes a “Note to Parents and Caregivers” about
helping toddlers with saying goodbye. United Nations, Department of Public Information

Apr 2018 46pp
9789211004236 Paperback £11.95 / €14.00

For full details of this title, see page 55.

ARTS & HUMANITIES 5
HIGHLIGHTS

Arts & Humanities

"-'"·-"'- University Press of Mississippi

Broadview Press CONVERSATIONS WITH
NEIL GAIMAN
HAMLET
Edited by Joseph Michael Sommers
William Shakespeare
Edited by David Bevington Sep 2018 240pp
9781496818706 Paperback £22.95 / €26.00
Sep 2018 325pp, 18 b&w illustrations Literary Conversations Series
9781554813780 Paperback £11.95 / €14.00
A Broadview Internet Shakespeare Edition Neil Gaiman currently reigns in the literary world
as one of the most critically decorated and
In the introduction to this new edition, David popular authors of the last fifty years. Perhaps
Bevington explores some key dilemmas and puzzles best known as the writer of the Harvey, Eisner,
in this most famous of Shakespeare’s tragedies. and World Fantasy-award-winning DC/Vertigo
What is the role of providence in a work with pagan series, The Sandman, Gaiman quickly became
sources? How does Hamlet comment on dramatic equally renowned in literary circles for works such
art in his play within a play? What are the moral as Neverwhere, Coraline, American Gods, as well as
ambiguities of seeking revenge? the Newbery and Carnegie Medal-winning The
Graveyard Book. For adults, for children, for the
The introduction also traces the history comics reader to the viewer of the BBC’s Doctor
of Hamlet criticism and performance from 1604, Who, Gaiman’s writing has crossed the borders of
when critic Anthony Scoloker said the play “should virtually all media and every language, making him
please all”, to the 2015 production starring a celebrity on a worldwide scale.
Benedict Cumberbatch. Appendices offer key
sources, an analysis of gender issues in the play, and The interviews presented here span the length of
textual variants from Quarto 1. his career, beginning with his first formal interview
by the BBC at the age of seven and ending with a
A collaboration between Broadview Press and new, unpublished interview held in 2017. What
the Internet Shakespeare Editions project at the emerges is a complicated picture of a man who
University of Victoria, the editions developed for seems fully assembled from the start of his career,
this series have been comprehensively annotated but only came to feel comfortable in his own skin
and draw on the authoritative texts newly edited and voice far later in life. The man who brought
for the ISE. This innovative series allows readers to Morpheus from the folds of his imagination into
access extensive and reliable online resources linked the world shares his dreams and aspirations from
to the print edition. different points in his life, including informing
readers where he plans to take them next.

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University of Notre Dame Press Brookings Institution Press

BETWEEN TWO MILLSTONES, BOOK 1  ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE
Sketches of Exile, 1974–1978 Trump's War on the Press, the New
McCarthyism, and the Threat to American
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Democracy
Translated by Peter Constantine
Foreword by Daniel J. Mahoney Marvin Kalb

Nov 2018 480pp Sep 2018 180pp
9780268105013 Hardback £37.50 / €41.00 9780815735304 Hardback £17.95 / €21.00
The Center for Ethics and Culture Solzhenitsyn Series
Shortly after assuming office in January 2017,
Russian Nobel Prize-winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn President Donald Trump accused the press of being
(1918-2008) is widely acknowledged as one of the an “enemy of the American people”. Attacks on the
most important figures - and perhaps the most media had been a hallmark of Trump’s presidential
important writer - of the last century. To celebrate campaign, but this charge marked a dramatic
the centenary of his birth, the first English translation turning point: language like this ventured into
of his memoir of his time in the West, Between Two dangerous territory. Twentieth-century dictators -
Millstones, Book 1, is being published. notably, Stalin, Hitler, and Mao - had all denounced
their critics, especially the press, as “enemies of the
Fast-paced, absorbing, and as compelling as the people”. Their goal was to delegitimize the work of
earlier instalments of his memoir The Oak and the press as “fake news” and create confusion in the
the Calf (1975), Between Two Millstones begins public mind about what’s real and what isn’t; what
on February 12, 1974, when Solzhenitsyn found can be trusted and what can’t be.
himself forcibly expelled to Frankfurt, West
Germany, as a result of the publication in the West That, it seems, is also Trump’s goal. In Enemy of the
of The Gulag Archipelago. The book contains vivid People, Marvin Kalb, an award-winning American
descriptions of Solzhenitsyn’s journeys to various journalist writes with passion about why we
European countries and North American locales, should fear for the future of American democracy
where he and his wife Natalia (“Alya”) searched for because of the unrelenting attacks by the Trump
a location to settle their young family. There are administration on the press.
fascinating descriptions of one-on-one meetings
with prominent individuals, detailed accounts As his new book shows, the press has been a
of public speeches such as the 1978 Harvard bulwark in the defence of democracy. Kalb writes
University commencement, comments on his about Edward R. Murrow’s courageous reporting
television appearances, accounts of his struggles on Senator Joseph McCarthy’s “red scare” theatrics
with unscrupulous publishers and agents who in the early 1950s, which led to McCarthy’s
mishandled the Western editions of his books, and demise. He reminds us of Bob Woodward and Carl
the KGB disinformation efforts to besmirch his name. Bernstein’s reporting in the early 1970s that led to
President Richard Nixon’s resignation.
 

ARTS & HUMANITIES 7
ART, PHOTOGRAPHY & ARCHITECTURE · HISTORY

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 £24.95 / €29.00
9780824873752 Hardback £68.95 / €77.00 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 £49.95 / €57.00
May 2018 352pp, 11 colour plates, 109 b&w Illustrations
9780822945284 Hardback £49.95 / €57.00 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 £19.95 / €24.00
9781682260685 Paperback £29.95 / €34.00
For full details of this title, see page 34.
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 £39.95 / €47.00

For full details of this title, see page 74.

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 £22.95 / €26.00 Jan 2019 192pp, 26 b&w images
9780820354316 Paperback £32.95 / €37.00
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 £18.50 / €21.00
Sep 2018 344pp
In the fall of 1845, a mysterious blight ravaged Ireland’s 9780824879297 Paperback £29.95 / €34.00
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.

ARTS & HUMANITIES 9
HISTORY

University Press of Kansas Lynne Rienner Publishers

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111' PRESIDENT PRESIDENT His Rise, His Fall
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. ., Franklin D. Roosevelt
Nov 2018 190pp
10111.11� 1 nne William R. Casto 9781626377547 Hardback £51.95 / €59.00

Nov 2018 192pp For full details of this title, see page 52.
9780700627080 Hardback
£34.95 / €40.00 Markus Wiener Publishers

It is broadly understood CHINESE TRAVELERS TO THE EARLY
TURKISH REPUBLIC
that an American president
Giran Fidan
might test the limits of
Nov 2018 277pp
the law in extraordinary circumstances - and does so 9781558766365 Paperback £23.50 / €26.00

with advice from legal counsel. Advising the President Chronicles the observations of Chinese travellers
who travelled to the Turkish Republic in the first
is an exploration of this process, viewed through the quarter of the 20th century, and features the notes of
historical figures including Shi Zhaoji, the first Chinese
experience of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Robert ambassador to the US, and Hu Hanmin, an early leader in
the Kuomintang.
H. Jackson on the eve of World War II.
ISLANDS OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE
THE SUPREME COURT
An Essential History, Second Edition Edited by Antonis Hadjikyriacou

Peter Charles Hoffer, Williamjames Hull Hoffer & N.E.H. Hull Aug 2018 160pp
9781558766273 Paperback £23.50 / €26.00
Aug 2018 512pp
9780700626823 Paperback £29.95 / €34.00 Explores significant events in the naval history of the
Ottoman Empire, along with topics including collective
For full details of this title, see page 86. punishments by invaders, and many aspects of economic
and cultural life on the islands.
University of KwaZulu-Natal Press
McFarland
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MUIMtllli CONSCIOUSNESS AND CRIME AND ANTI-SEMITISM IN
, ..PAAlH(l[I PROGRESSIVE PRE-WORLD WAR GERMANY AND AUSTRIA
MOVEMENTS UNDER Theories, Cases and Fictional Depictions
APARTHEID
T.S. Kord
Ian M. Macqueen
Dec 2018 253pp
Jul 2018 208pp 9781476670126 Paperback £54.95 / €63.00
9781869143886 Paperback
£26.95 / €31.00 Kord’s pursuit of the criminal in an antisemitic world
considers a vast number of texts - from Nazi propaganda
This book takes its cue from to court reporting and forgotten classics of crime
Steve Biko’s own injunction fiction - and raises painful questions. Are there parallels
to see the evolution of Black Consciousness alongside between biological classifications of criminals and racial
other political doctrines and movements of resistance views of Jews? Can the lovable criminal ever be a Jew?
in South Africa. It identifies progressive thought and What does he tell us about ideas of German-ness, before
movements, such as radical Christianity and ecumenism, and after the World Wars?
student radicalism, feminism and trade unionism, as
valuable interlocutors that nonetheless also competed
for the mantle of liberation, espousing different visions
of freedom.

ARTS & HUMANITIES
10 HISTORY

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 £44.95 / €51.00 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 £27.50 / €31.00
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 LEAGUE OF NATIONS these two apparently similar cultures to reveal how we
NATIONS 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
£36.95 / €42.00 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. £22.95 / €26.00
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 £32.50 / €37.00 9780826221742 Paperback £24.95 / €29.00
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 £29.95 / €34.00
Sep 2018 392pp
9780826358370 Paperback £39.95 / €46.00 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
£39.95 / €46.00
Aug 2018 352pp, 6 halftones, 2 maps, 19 tables
9781469647654 Paperback £29.95 / €34.00 Offers a nuanced and
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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 £29.95 / €34.00
Aug 2018 312pp, 23 illustrations
Tells the story of how African American women in 9781469645513 Paperback £28.50 / €32.00
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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12 HISTORY

SHADOW COLD WAR EURASIAN EURASIAN
The Sino-Soviet Competition for the ENVIRONMENTS
Third World ENUIRDNfflENT5
Nature and Ecology in
Jeremy Friedman Imperial Russian and
Soviet History
Aug 2018 304pp
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The New Cold War History
Oct 2018 424pp, 21 Illustrations
The conflict between the United States and the Soviet 9780822965633 Paperback
Union during the Cold War has long been understood in £29.95 / €34.00
a global context, but Jeremy Friedman’s Shadow Cold War Pitt Series in Russian and East
delves deeper into the era to examine the competition European Studies
between the Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of
China for the leadership of the world revolution. Takes a broad look at the
environmental history of Eurasia, covering both the
Northwestern University Press Tsarist and Soviet eras, specifically examining steppe
environments, hydraulic engineering, soil and forestry,
ABSOLUTIST ATTACHMENTS water pollution, and the interaction of the environment
Emotion, Media, and Absolutism in and disease vectors.
Seventeenth-Century France
FROM CITIZENS TO SUBJECTS
Chloé Hogg City, State, and the Enlightenment in Poland,
Ukraine and Belarus
Mar 2019 272pp, 14 b&w illustrations
9780810139411 Paperback £34.95 / €40.00 Curtis G. Murphy
Rethinking the Early Modern
Jun 2018 312pp, 3 b&w Illustrations
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shaped Louis XIV’s absolutism. Studying literature,
painting, engravings, correspondence, and the emerging Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies
periodic press, Chloe Hogg diagnoses the emotions that
created absolutism’s feeling subjects and publics. Challenges the common assertion in historiography that
Enlightenment-era centralization and rationalization
University of Pittsburgh Press brought progress and prosperity to all European states,
arguing instead that centralization failed to improve
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 A HISTORY OF
YUGOSLAVIA
Edited by Marlene Laruelle YUGOSLAVIA
Marie-Janine Calic
Nov 2018 288pp
9780822965657 Paperback £26.50 / €30.00 Feb 2019 457pp
9781557538383 Paperback
Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies £59.95 / €68.00
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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HISTORY 13

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
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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
£19.95 / €23.00
Mason Welch Gross Lecture Series Oct 2018 277pp
9781621904533 Paperback £24.95 / €29.00
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 £34.95 / €40.00
Oct 2018 242pp, 26 colour illustrations Appalachian Echoes Non-Fiction
9781684480005 Hardback £19.95 / €23.00
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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14 HISTORY

Texas Review Press FOUR FOOLS IN THE AGE OF REASON
Cruelty, Laughter, and Power in
ENFORCED Early Modern Germany
RUSTICATION
Dorinda Outram
In the Chinese Cultural
Revolution Feb 2019 176pp, 9 b&w illustrations
9780813942018 Hardback £34.95 / €40.00
Jianqing Zheng Studies in Early Modern German History

Nov 2018 80pp Unveiling the nearly lost world of the court fools of
9781680031768 Paperback eighteenth-century Germany, Dorinda Outram shows
£16.50 / €19.00 that laughter was an essential instrument of power.
Outram’s book is invaluable for giving us a vivid
JIAN INC During China’s Cultural depiction of the court fool and especially for revealing
Revolution, millions of middle how this figure can shed new light on the wielding of
iH Ne_ power in Enlightenment Europe.

• school and high school IN THE RED AND IN THE BLACK
Debt, Dishonor, and the Law in France
graduates were sent to the Between Revolutions

countryside to receive reeducation from peasants. Erika Vause

They believed that they would play an important role Oct 2018 264pp, 12 b&w illustrations, 7 tables
9780813941417 Hardback £44.95 / €51.00
in the transformation of rural China. Jianqing Zheng’s
Arguing that French Revolutionary and Napoleonic
rusticated years were central to his poetic imagination in legislation created a conception of commercial identity
that tied together the debtor’s social, moral, and physical
this collection. person, In the Red and in the Black examines the history
of debt imprisonment and bankruptcy as a means of
Vanderbilt University Press understanding the changing logic of commercial debt.

CARTOGRAPHIES OF MADRID Wayne State University Press
Contesting Urban Space at the Crossroads of
the Global South and Global North OVERLOOKING THE BORDER
Narratives of a Divided Jerusalem
Edited by Silvia Bermudez & Anthony L. Geist
Dana Hercbergs
Sep 2018 296pp
9780826522153 Paperback £34.95 / €40.00 Jun 2018 284pp
9780814344927 Paperback £29.95 / €34.00
Evaluates the complex ways that Madrid has served Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
as the political, economic, and cultural capital of the
Global South from the end of the Franco dictatorship For full details of this title, see page 65.
to the present. The book also examines the city as lived
experience, where citizens contest capital’s push to
shape urban space in its own image through activities of
the imagination.

University of Virginia Press

BECOMING LINCOLN

William W. Freehling

Sep 2018 376pp, 28 b&w illustrations, 8 maps
9780813941561 Hardback £29.95 / €34.00

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 £27.50 / €31.00 Oct 2018 256pp
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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
aloba! �I.! a, Edited by Kevin M.F. Platt An Interdisciplinary Approach

,I Jan 2019 368pp, 12 b&w illustrations, Edited by Cathy Willermet & Andrea Cucina
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Bioarchaeological Interpretations of the Human Past:
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identity? What happens
when “Russian” literature is Offers an interdisciplinary view of the migration,
mobility, ethnicity, and social identities of pre-
written in English? What is the Columbian Mesoamerican peoples. In studies that
combine bioarchaeology, ethnohistory, isotope data,
geographic “home” of Russian and dental morphology, contributors demonstrate the
rewards of such integrative work when applied to large
culture created and shared via the internet? Global regional questions of population history.

Russian Cultures considers these and related questions MASSACRES
Bioarchaeology and Forensic
about the literary and cultural life of Russians. Anthropology Approaches

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EUGENICS
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1Eugcnic� Post-Nazi Europe Bioarchaeological Interpretations of the Human Past:
Local, Regional, and Global Perspectives
Dagmar Herzog
Integrates data from researchers in bioarchaeology and
: ' \< ·,: ·, 11 II ' ,, '. Nov 2018 176pp, 18 b&w illustrations forensic anthropology to explain when and why group-
9780299319205 Hardback targeted violence occurs. By analysing skeletal remains
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George L. Mosse Series in Modern volume opens up important new understandings of
European Cultural and the underlying social processes that continue to lead to
Intellectual History these tragedies.

Bringing together the latest findings in Holocaust
studies, the history of religion, and the history of
sexuality in postwar - and now also postcommunist
- Europe, Unlearning Eugenics shows how central the
controversies over sexuality, reproduction, and disability
have been to broader processes of secularization and
religious renewal.

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HISTORY
16 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 £24.50 / €28.00
Edited by Rani T. Alexander & Susan Kepecs Michigan Classical Commentaries

Nov 2018 264pp Provides intermediate-level students of Classical Greek
9780826359735 Hardback £85.95 / €97.00 the necessary linguistic, historical, mythographical,
archaeological, and geographical information to read
For full details of this title, see page 65. 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 £44.95 / €51.00 Water Systems
Foundations of Archaeological Inquiry
Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow
Although most ceramic studies describe vessel
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discard are often neglected in archaeological studies. 64 halftones
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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
sewers, offering unique insights into Roman sanitation,
TEXTS IN THE engineering, urban planning and development, hygiene,
and public health.
CONTEMPORARY
Rutgers University Press
'It--.:� WORLD
From Narratology to DEMOCRACY ANCIENT AND MODERN
Reception
Louise H. Pratt & M.I. Finley

.,& ,.. ' C.Michael Sampson Nov 2018 156pp
9781978802322 Paperback £19.95 / €23.00
::\ .Nov 2018 336pp, 6 illustrations Mason Welch Gross Lecture Series
9780472131082 Hardback
£64.95 / €74.00 This elegant and provocative book is perhaps more
important now than when it was first published. The
-Contemporary classicists often find themselves three essays that comprised the first edition developed
advocating for the value and relevance of Greco-Roman a remarkable discourse between ancient Greek and
modern conceptions of democracy. To the original three
literature and culture. In this collection, twelve scholars essays, Sir M. I. Finley has added two that clarify and
elaborate the thinking of the first edition.
apply major critical approaches from other academic

fields to open new channels for dialogue between

ancient texts and the contemporary world.

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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
Sep 2018 320pp, 22 b&w images 9780817319861 Hardback £59.95 / €68.00
9780810137660 Paperback £39.95 / €46.00
Historians have paid little attention to the engineering
The social history of genocide, its representation in of Confederate ironclads, although the Confederacy was
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
9780998666020 Paperback £19.95 / €23.00
Jun 2018 160pp, 13 b&w illustrations
9780815636168 Paperback £19.95 / €23.00 Examines the evolution of the Russian military from the
collapse of the Soviet Union to its present involvement
A story of the impossible choices of vulnerable in wars in Ukraine and Syria. Aleksandr Golts focuses
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
Eva Noack-Mosse An Interactive Study in Crisis, War,
Translated by Skye Doney & Biruté Ciplijauskaité and Peacemaking

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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
18 MILITARY HISTORY

University Press of Kansas McFarland

• '-'A .,:�..!d". NAPOLEON’S 1796 AFTER VALKYRIE
( ·.ad rnn ( Ja11"·wi1, ITALIAN CAMPAIGN Military and Civilian
:\'.\ ro 1. El>:,; 's Consequences of
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Assassinate Hitler
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Christopher Pringle Don Allen Gregory

Sep 2018 352pp Dec 2018 190pp
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(:,\\11'.\IC;:>. Carl von Clausewitz (1780- Adolf Hitler had promised a
classless military and civilian
1831) is best known for his Fatherland even before he
became chancellor. He had been covertly destroying the
masterpiece of military theory historic officer class in Germany long before Stalingrad.
This book tells the story of the disappearance of
On War, yet that work formed Germany’s officer class, and for a time, its nobility and
civilian leadership; all of which has become part of
only the first three of ten volumes of his published Hitler’s legacy.

writings. Among these historical works, perhaps the

most important is Napoleon’s 1796 Italian Campaign,

which covers a crucial period in the French Revolutionary

Wars.

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THOUGHT OF SPLINTERING EUROPE
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heart of US Civil War are central
to the very idea of America .,,'" ,-,···�· • � I World War I started in August
- and many of them remain unresolved in our own 1914, but the United States
time. This book offers the opportunity to pursue these
questions from a new, critical perspective as scholars did not enter it until April 6,
engage in some of the crucial debates of the Civil War
era - and in the process illuminate more clearly the 1917. The outbreak caused thousands of American
foundation and fault lines of the American regime.
civilians to become refugees desperate to get away from

the warzone. This book tells some of their stories.

Lynne Rienner Publishers THE BLACK AND THE GRAY
African Americans and the Confederacy
HYBRID CONFLICTS AND
INFORMATION WARFARE Edwin W. Besch
Old Labels, New Politics
Oct 2018 141pp
Edited by Ofer Fridman, Vitaly Kabernik & 9781476673646 Paperback
James C. Pearce £44.95 / €51.00

Oct 2018 270pp Describes the political conflicts from 1819-1860 that
9781626377516 Hardback £81.50 / €92.00 resulted in the secession of eleven Southern slaves
states and the war to preserve the Union, Lincoln’s
For full details of this title, see page 52. Emancipation Proclamation and Confederate General
Patrick Cleburne’s futile advocacy to emancipate
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
NATO Nations James Igoe Walsh & Marcus Schulzke

Gates Brown Nov 2018 256pp, 23 tables, 15 charts
9780472131013 Hardback £60.95 / €70.00
Dec 2018 277pp
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£44.95 / €51.00 combat drones on Americans’ support for the use of
force. The authors’ findings - that drones have had
President Eisenhower’s reliance important but nuanced effects on support for the use
on atomic weapons created of force - have implications for democratic control of
as many problems as he hoped to solve. He hoped to military action and civil-military relations.
provide a sustainable defense strategy that allowed
the US to maintain its security requirements without Naval Institute Press
creating an excessive economic burden. This book
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Detailed in the Original
THE GERMAN FAILURE Builders’ Plans
IN BELGIUM, AUGUST
1914 Conrad Waters
How Faulty
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Dennis Showalter, The technical details of British
Joseph P. Robinson & warships were recorded in a set
Janet A. Robinson of plans produced by the builders on completion of every
ship. Today these plans form part of the incomparable
Sep 2018 161pp collection of the National Maritime Museum at
9781476674629 Paperback £44.95 / €51.00 Greenwich. This book is one of a series based entirely
on these draughts which depict famous warships in an
Demonstrates that it was structural failures at the sharp unprecedented degree of detail.
end that frustrated the Germans in the First World War’s
most crucial initial campaign: the invasion of Belgium. ERICH RAEDER
Routinization in planning, command, and execution led Admiral of the
to groupthink, to inflexibility, to belief that ‘It’ll be all Third Reich
right on the night.’
Keith Bird
THE RUSSIAN MILITARY RESURGENCE
Post-Soviet Decline and Rebuilding, Sep 2018 336pp
1992-2018 9781682473498 Paperback
£22.95 / €26.00
René De La Pedraja
Draws on archival resources
Oct 2018 319pp and the rich scholarship of
9781476669915 Paperback £54.95 / €63.00 German naval history over the
past five decades to review
The transition from the Soviet to the post-1991 Russian the evolution of Erich Raeder’s
military is a fascinating story of decline and reinvention. concept of naval strategy and his attempts to achieve
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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20 MILITARY HISTORY

FLEET TACTICS AND NAVAL OPERATIONS THE ’STAN
Third Edition
Kevin Knodell & David Axe
Wayne Hughes & Robert Girrier Illustrated by Blue Delliquanti

Jun 2018 408pp, 27 figures Sep 2018 128pp
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Blue & Gold
For full details of this title, see page 33.
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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

Edited by Katherine Bowers, Jul 2018 277pp
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Jews of Russia & Eastern Europe and Their Legacy
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Oct 2018 242pp HAMLET
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HEART OF DARKNESS University Press of Florida

Joseph Conrad @4,,at.J (C< SERIALS TO GRAPHIC
Edited by John G. Peters NOVELS
GRAPHIC HOVELS
Nov 2018 225pp, 5 b&w illustrations The Evolution of the
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A new edition of Joseph Conrad’s most famous tale.
Unlike most other editions, this edition focuses on the Catherine J. Golden
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THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL The Victorian illustrated book
came into being, flourished,
Anonymous and evolved during the
Edited by & translated by Judith Shoaf nineteenth century. Catherine Golden offers a new
framework for viewing the arc of this vibrant form
Jul 2018 300pp, 12 b&w illustrations and surveys the fluidity in styles of illustration in serial
9781554813766 Paperback £17.50 / €20.00 instalments, British and American periodicals, adult and
children’s literature, and graphic novels.
The Old French Lancelot-Graal is an important but
massive work, providing a place for King Arthur not only VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN IN
in the history of Britain but also in Christian history. This MEDIEVAL TEXTS
new translation of one section, The Quest of the Holy
Grail, will be a flexible addition to courses on medieval Edited by Anna Roberts
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RICHARD COEUR DE LION Brings together specialists from different areas of
medieval literary study to focus on the role of habits
Edited by Katherine H. Terrell of thought in shaping attitudes toward women during
the Middle Ages. The essays range from Old English
Aug 2018 325pp literature to the Spanish Inquisition and encompass such
9781554812783 Paperback £17.50 / €20.00 genres as romance, chronicles, hagiography, and legal
Broadview Editions documents.

The Middle English romance of Richard Coeur de Lion The University of Georgia Press
transforms the historical Richard I of England - a
Frenchman by upbringing, who spent only four months THOMAS PYNCHON,
of his reign in England - into an aggressively English SEX, AND GENDER
king. This act of historical revision involves the invention
of several fantastic elements that give Richard the Edited by Ali Chetwynd,
superhuman force necessary to unite the English nation. Joanna Freer &
Georgios Maragos
THE WORKS OF GWERFUL MECHAIN
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Aug 2018 120pp As the first book-length
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Broadview Anthology of British Literature Editions Pynchon’s writing to put the
topics of sex and gender at
Gwerful Mechain is the only Welsh female poet from its core, this book moves beyond binary debates about
the late middle ages whose poems have survived as whether to see Pynchon as liberatory or conservative,
a substantial body of work. One of the most striking instead examining how his preoccupation with sex and
characteristics of her poetry is the easy coexistence in gender conditions his fiction’s whole worldview.
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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24 LITERATURE

The Kent State University Press University of Massachusetts Press

�··········· THE FAUN’S BOOKS FOR IDLE HOURS
JF�UN'S BOOKSHELF Nineteenth-Century Publishing and the
C. S. Lewis on Why Rise of Summer Reading
Myth Matters
BOOK- Charlie W. Starr Donna Harrington-Lueker

SHELF Foreword by Devin Brown Feb 2019 248pp
9781625343833 Paperback £29.95 / €34.00
Oct 2018 128pp Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book

9781606353493 Paperback Drawing on publishing records, book reviews, readers’
diaries, and popular novels of the period, Donna
-·- £17.50 / €20.00 Harrington-Lueker explores the beginning of summer
reading and the backlash against it. Books for Idle Hours
While visiting with Mr. Tumnus sheds new light on an ongoing seasonal publishing
tradition.
in The Lion, the Witch and
IRISH WRITERS IN THE
the Wardrobe, Lucy Pevensie IRISH AMERICAN
PRESS, 1882-1964
notices a bookshelf filled with such titles as Nymphs
Stephen G. Butler
and Their Ways and Is Man a Myth? Beginning with these
Nov 2018 216pp
imaginary texts, Charlie W. Starr offers a comprehensive 9781625343673 Paperback
£29.50 / €33.00
study of C. S. Lewis’s theory of myth.
Spans the period from Oscar
THE LION IN THE WASTE LAND Wilde’s 1882 American lecture
Fearsome Redemption in the Work of tour to the months following
C. S. Lewis, Dorothy L. Sayers, and T. S. Eliot JFK’s assassination and covers
the century in which Irish
Janice Brown American identity was shaped by immigration, religion,
politics, and economic advancement. Butler offers a
Oct 2018 216pp nuanced understanding of the connections between
9781606353387 Hardback £44.95 / €51.00 Irish literary studies and Irish American culture during
this period.
Explores the personal dynamic between C. S. Lewis,
Dorothy L. Sayers, and T. S. Eliot and their misgivings
about taking on the role of Christian apologist during
the height of the London blitz. Brown goes on to
examine the congruency in their depictions of the
nature of Christ, of conversion, and of angelic beings,
and highlights the similarity in their views of war and
suffering.

READING HEMINGWAY’S LOVE’S QUARRELS
THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA Reading Charity in
Glossary and Commentary Early Modern England

Bickford Sylvester, Larry Grimes & Peter L. Hays Evan A. Gurney

Aug 2018 192pp Dec 2018 336pp, 6 b&w illustrations
9781606353424 Paperback £34.95 / €40.00 9781625343819 Paperback
£33.50 / €38.00
Reading Hemingway
Massachusetts Studies in
Fishes below the surface of The Old Man and the Sea to Early Modern Culture
determine what is contained in Hemingway’s allusions.
The authors trace the development of symbols, Charts charity’s complex
amplify literary echoes, and contextualize the work’s history from the 1520s to the
mythological, religious, and philosophical references. 1640s and details the ways in
They examine the hybridity of genre in The Old Man which it can be best understood in biblical translations
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 25

MADE UNDER GEORGE ORWELL
PRESSURE A Literary Companion
Literary Translation in
the Soviet Union, Mark Connelly
1960-1991
Oct 2018 145pp
Natalia Kamovnikova 9781476666778 Paperback £39.95 / €46.00
McFarland Literary Companions, Vol. 18
Jan 2019 272pp
9781625343413 Paperback Provides an extensive chronology and 175 entries about
£29.95 / €34.00 both George Orwell’s literary works and personal life.
Also included are discussion questions and research
Studies in Print Culture and the topics, notable quotations by Orwell and an extensive
History of the Book bibliography of related sources.

During the Cold War, GEORGE ORWELL ON SCREEN
determined translators and publishers based in the Adaptations, Documentaries and Docudramas
Soviet Union worked together to increase the number on Film and Television
of foreign literary texts available in Russian, despite
government restrictions. Based on extensive interviews David Ryan
with literary translators, Made Under Pressure offers
an insider’s look at Soviet censorship and the role Jun 2018 184pp
translators played in promoting foreign authors. 9781476673691 Paperback £39.95 / €46.00

For full details of this title, see page 37.

McFarland In Search of IN SEARCH OF
Elena Ferrante ELENA FERRANTE
COMPANION TO VICTORIAN The Novels and the
POPULAR FICTION 1111-IWIIM Question of Authorship

Edited by Kevin A. Morrison Q,iffl""' "'"""""""' Karen Bojar

Aug 2018 251pp Sep 2018 168pp
9781476669038 Paperback £44.95 / €51.00 9781476674681 Paperback
£39.95 / €46.00
Includes more than 300 cross-referenced entries on
works written for the British mass market. Biographical Analyses the integration of
sketches cover the writers and their publishers, the political themes and gender
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
Jul 2018 161pp 9781476673554 Paperback £39.95 / €46.00
9781476673202 Paperback £39.95 / €46.00
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
Dumas (1802-1870), grandson of a Caribbean slave, a deep critique of modern Western society, using Harry
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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26 LITERATURE

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

Jul 2018 162pp Oct 2018 261pp
9781476673950 Paperback £44.95 / €51.00 9781476672649 Paperback £39.95 / €46.00

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
The Messages of Horror
Literature for Children Per Hellgren

K. Shryock Hood Sep 2018 236pp
9781476673714 Paperback £54.95 / €63.00
Jul 2018 188pp
9781476673462 Paperback Explores and develops a theory of Swedish Marxist Noir.
£39.95 / €46.00 In order to expose the dialectics of crime fiction, going
from then (the American 1930s) to now (the Swedish
Contemporary horror literature post-1990s), we must explore, through a Marxist
for children and young adults reading of several central works of crime fiction, the
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
for contemporary young readers.
Jason Barr
PERSPECTIVES ON STEPHEN KING
Conversations with Authors, Experts and Oct 2018 156pp
Collaborators 9781476666372 Paperback £39.95 / €46.00
Studies in Gaming
Andrew J. Rausch
In this examination of how video gaming and video
Oct 2018 160pp gaming culture are depicted in science fiction, Jason Barr
9781476674179 Paperback £34.95 / €40.00 examines how preconceived, media-fuelled paranoia
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

. Sep 2018 277pp
9780522874327 Paperback £11.50 / €13.00

For full details of this title, see page 65.

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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
£19.95 / €23.00 9780472054039 Paperback
African Perspectives £16.50 / €19.00
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 £22.95 / €26.00 Contemporary Literature
Michigan Classical Commentaries
Tim Lanzendörfer
Offers comprehensive commentary on the 13th-century
Dominican theologian Jacobus de Voragine’s retelling Sep 2018 240pp
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version of the legend serves as a compelling, original
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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
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How do we recapture, or hold Dec 2018 126pp
on to, the live performances 9781496820150 Paperback £22.95 / €26.00
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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CONVERSATIONS WITH University of Missouri Press
MADELEINE L’ENGLE
TM( PULL THE PULL OF POLITICS
Edited by Jackie C. Horne Steinbeck, Wright,
or POLITICS Hemingway, and the
Dec 2018 224pp Left in the Late 1930s
9781496819840 Paperback £22.95 / €26.00 1i3.1,1��.lrh,,,�1
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 £49.95 / €57.00
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
£22.95 / €26.00
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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 £24.50 / €28.00
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 78.

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
9781496818706 Paperback £22.95 / €26.00 Aug 2018 356pp
Literary Conversations Series 9781603293747 Paperback £24.50 / €28.00
Approaches to Teaching World Literature, Vol. 155
For full details of this title, see page 5.
For full details of this title, see page 78.
CONVERSATIONS WITH
VLADIMIR NABOKOV _.........T.,.._...._.,

Edited by Robert Golla -�--�-Certrude Stetn
. ...
Sep 2018 256pp
9781496820242 Paperback £22.95 / €26.00
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 29

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 £39.95 / €46.00
9781469647463 Paperback £65.95 / €74.00 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 £34.95 / €40.00
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 £33.50 / €38.00 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 £34.95 / €40.00
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 £19.95 / €23.00
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

ARTS & HUMANITIES
30 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 £34.95 / €40.00 Nov 2018 264pp
Rethinking the Early Modern 9780810138032 Paperback £28.50 / €32.00

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 £34.95 / €40.00
Jan 2019 272pp, 17 b&w images
9780810138933 Paperback £34.95 / €40.00 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 £34.95 / €40.00
Nov 2018 176pp, 7 b&w images
9780810138858 Paperback £34.95 / €40.00 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 £39.95 / €46.00
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.

ARTS & HUMANITIES
LITERATURE 31

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 £19.50 / €22.00 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 £37.50 / €41.00
pseudonymous author identified. . The Center for Ethics and Culture Solzhenitsyn Series

THE TWO-SOUL’D ANIMAL For full details of this title, see page 6
Early Modern Literatures of the Classical and
Christian Souls QUEEN OF HEAVEN 
The Assumption and Coronation of the Virgin
James Jaehoon Lee in Early Modern English Writing

Mar 2019 216pp, 2 b&w illustrations Lilla Grindlay
9780810139268 Paperback £34.95 / €40.00
Oct 2018 318pp, 1 halftone
Illuminates an early modern debate that recognised the 9780268104115 Paperback  £47.95 / €53.00
troubling extent to which Christian thought had defined ReFormations: Medieval and Early Modern
the human in terms of two incompatible models of soul.
The English writers studied in this book place two prevailing The upheaval of the Reformation brought radical
interpretations of the soul’s faculties into contact as a way changes in the beliefs surrounding the assumption and
to construct a new mode of Christian agency. coronation, both of which were eliminated from state-
approved liturgy. Queen of Heaven examines canonical
Rutgers University Press as well as obscure images of the Blessed Mother that
present fresh evidence of the incompleteness of the
THE GLOBAL WORDSWORTH English Reformation.
Romanticism Out of Place
The University of South Carolina Press
Katherine Bergren
UNDERSTANDING
Dec 2018 240pp IRÈNE NÉMIROVSKY
9781684480128 Paperback £28.50 / €33.00
Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture 1650-1850 Margaret Scanlan

Examines Anglophone writers who repurposed William Jun 2018 192pp
Wordsworth’s poetry. By reading Wordsworth in dialogue 9781611178685 Hardback
with J.M. Coetzee, Lydia Maria Child, and Jamaica Kincaid, £41.50 / €47.00
Katherine Bergren revitalizes our understanding of Understanding Modern European
Wordsworth’s career and its place in the canon. and Latin American Literature

Bucknell University Press A best-selling novelist in the
1930s, Irène Némirovsky
TRANSMEDIA CREATURES (1903-1942) was rediscovered
Frankenstein’s Afterlives in 2004, when her Suite
Francaise, set during the fall of France and the first year
Edited by Francesca Saggini & Anna Enrichetta Soccio of German occupation, became a popular and critical
success both in France and in the United States. This
Oct 2018 280pp, 6 illustrations book offers a sympathetic, nuanced exploration of the
9781684480609 Paperback £24.50 / €28.00 fiction and turbulent life of this best-selling author.

On the 200th anniversary of the first edition of
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Transmedia Creatures:
Frankenstein’s Afterlives presents studies of Frankenstein
by international scholars from converging disciplines
such as humanities, musicology, film studies, television
studies, English and digital humanities.

Bucknell University Press

ARTS & HUMANITIES

LITERATURE
32 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 £39.95 / €46.00
9780813941820 Hardback £44.95 / €51.00
Victorian Literature and Culture Series For full details of this title, see page 37.

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 £39.95 / €46.00

For full details of this title, see page 59.

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 £29.95 / €34.00
9780299320409 Hardback £72.95 / €83.00
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 £27.50 / €31.00
Jochen Ecke
Reveals the largely unknown and rather surprising
Nov 2018 221pp history of the British superhero. It is often thought that
9781476674155 Paperback £44.95 / €51.00 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 £27.50 / €31.00

For full details of this title, see page 60.

ARTS & HUMANITIES 33

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 £27.50 / €31.00 Sep 2018 160pp
Critical Approaches to Comics Artists Series 9781682471005 Paperback £17.50 / €20.00

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 £27.50 / €31.00
Sep 2018 128pp
Presents ten essays that explore the point where social 9781682470985 Paperback £14.95 / €18.00
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 £27.50 / €31.00 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 £22.95 / €26.00

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 £27.50 / €31.00 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.

ARTS & HUMANITIES
34 MEDIA & COMMUNICATION

MEDIA & COMMUNICATION Melbourne University Publishing

ON DISRUPTION

Brookings Institution Press Katharine Katharine Murphy
Murphy
ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE Jul 2018 277pp
Trump’s War on the Press, the New 9780522873795 Paperback
McCarthyism, and the Threat to £11.50 / €13.00
American Democracy
DisruptionOn The internet has shaken the
Marvin Kalb foundations of life: public and
private lives are wrought by
Aug 2018 180pp
9780815735304 Hardback £17.95 / €21.00 the 24-hour, seven-day-a-

For full details of this title, see page 6. week news cycle that means

no one is ever off duty. On

Disruption is a report from the

FROM GUTENBERG coalface of that change: what has happened, will it keep

TO GOOGLE happening, and is there any way out of the chaos?
The History of Our Future
From

Gutenberg Tom Wheeler University of Michigan Press

Nov 2018 300pp APPIFIED
Culture in the Age of
to 9780815735328 Hardback Apps
£19.95 / €24.00
Ct 'ng:c Jeremy Wade Morris &
Network revolutions of the past Sarah Murray

have shaped the present and Nov 2018 384pp, 41 illustrations
9780472054046 Paperback
set the stage for the revolution £32.50 / €37.00

we are experiencing today. While the sheer number of
apps is overwhelming, as are
In this fascinating book, Tom the range of activities they
address, each one offers an
Wheeler brings to life the two great network revolutions opportunity for us to seek out meaning in the mundane.
Appified is the first scholarly volume to examine
of the past and uses them to help put in perspective the individual apps within the wider historical and cultural
context of media and cultural studies scholarship.
confusion, uncertainty, and even excitement most people

face today.

Cognella Academic Publishing

9/11, THE WAR ON

lJ 11. THE WAH TERROR, AND THE The University of North Carolina Press
SOCIOLOGY OF
ON TERR R. MASS MEDIA HASHTAG ISLAM
How Cyber-Islamic Environments Are
AtlDTHE Nickie Wild Transforming Religious Authority

Sf)CIOLOGY Jun 2018 360pp Gary R. Bunt

Lill.MASS 9781516521722 Paperback Oct 2018 240pp, 13 halftones
9781469643168 Paperback £24.95 / €29.00
£94.95 / €109.00 Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks

ll!'JMEDiA Explores the cultural and For full details of this title, see page 60.
political impact of the terrorist
attacks on September 11,

2001, with particular emphasis

on the media’s role in constructing meanings in the

wake of the tragedy. The readings within this anthology

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 35

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 £29.95 / €34.00
Oct 2018 128pp Series in Fairy-Tale Studies
9781606353493 Paperback £17.50 / €20.00
For full details of this title, see page 45.
For full details of this title, see page 24.
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 £72.95 / €83.00
9781476675091 Paperback
£54.95 / €63.00 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 ...... t • Lt.i..t...t � • t...t
MYTH IN WORLD
CULTURES -·-

Michael Buonanno

Aug 2018 280pp
9780786497126 Paperback
£39.95 / €46.00

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
36 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 £39.95 / €46.00

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 £29.95 / €34.00 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 (c� BOND, THE BEATLES
international forces during its formative period, the ,oo My AND MY YEAR WITH
1940s-1970s. MARILYN
Year with 50 Years as a Movie
PRODUCING HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI Marketing Man
Literature, Film, and Transnational Politics Marilyn
Charles “Jerry” Juroe
Yuko Shibata
Sep 2018 143pp
Aug 2018 216pp 9781476675107 Paperback
9780824867775 Hardback £62.50 / €71.00 £29.95 / €34.00

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 £39.95 / €46.00

Oct 2018 286pp, 13 b&w photos Christopher Nolan is one of the defining directors of the
9781609386160 Paperback £39.95 / €46.00 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.

ARTS & HUMANITIES 37

PERFORMING ARTS
FILM & TV

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 £44.95 / €51.00
£39.95 / €46.00
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
- PEHi SH•lt<Y - 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 £39.95 / €46.00
David Ryan
For full details of this title, see page 43.
Jun 2018 184pp
9781476673691 Paperback £39.95 / €46.00 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 £39.95 / €46.00
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
of the various means through which stereotypical
AND THE GRAVE characteristics of Muslim identities and their worlds have
been realised in US cinema. In the course of the analysis,
The Theme of Death in it emerges that changes to the old-style stereotypical
the Films of John Ford, representations have also been influenced by factors
Akira Kurosawa and other than politics.
Sergio Leone
THE POLITICS OF RACE, GENDER AND
Alireza Vahdani SEXUALITY IN THE WALKING DEAD
Essays on the Television Series and Comics
-�---·-S. , .'-"""rn.n..o1n�•,-• ro.1..u..,.A,k.lnI•1 Aug 2018 138pp
,1.hreia \'•hd•m 9781476664101 Paperback Edited by Elizabeth L. Erwin & Dawn Keetley
£39.95 / €46.00
Oct 2018 157pp
The theme of death is an 9781476668499 Paperback £39.95 / €46.00
essential component of film
From the beginning, controversies have swirled around
narrative, particularly in how it affects the hero. Focusing the ways in which both Robert Kirkman’s comics and
AMC’s series of The Walking Dead represent race, gender,
on Western and Japanese period genre films, the author and sexuality. This collection of essays is the first to
address those controversies in a sustained way.
examines the work of John Ford (1894-1973), Akira

Kurosawa (1910-1998) and Sergio Leone (1929-1989)

and finds similarities regarding death’s impact on the

hero’s sense of morality.

ARTS & HUMANITIES

PERFORMING ARTS
38 FILM & TV

POST·lPOCllYPTIC POST-APOCALYPTIC University Press of Mississippi
PITRJIRCHY PATRIARCHY
J. J. ABRAMS
American Television Interviews
and Gendered Visions
of Survival Edited by Brent Dunham

Carlen Lavigne Dec 2018 240pp
9781496820426 Paperback £22.95 / €26.00
Sep 2018 158pp Conversations with Filmmakers Series
9780786499069 Paperback
£39.95 / €46.00 Throughout his career, J.J. Abrams has dedicated his
life to storytelling and worked tirelessly to become
Questions about post- one of the best-known and most successful creators in
apocalyptic television abound. Hollywood. The thirty interviews collected in this volume
Whose voices are represented? span Abrams’s entire career, covering his many projects
What do they want? What tomorrows are they most from television and film to video games and theatre.
afraid of - and what does this tell us about the world we
live in today? This book examines these issues. THE LIFE AND TIMES OF
WARD KIMBALL
STAR TREK AND THE Maverick of Disney Animation
BRITISH AGE OF SAIL
The Maritime Influence Todd James Pierce
Throughout the
Series and Films Jan 2019 320pp
9781496820969 Hardback £27.50 / €31.00
Stefan Rabitsch
In this engaging, cradle-to-grave biography, Todd James
Oct 2018 246pp Pierce explores the life of Ward Kimball, a lead Disney
9781476664637 Paperback animator who worked on characters such as Mickey
£44.95 / €51.00 Mouse, Donald Duck, Jiminy Cricket, the Cheshire Cat,
and the Mad Hatter. Pierce defines the life of perhaps the
The future of Star Trek is most influential animator of the twentieth century.
modelled on the world of the
British Golden Age of Sail as it NEW IN PAPERBACK
is commonly found in the genre of sea fiction. Star Trek
and the British Age of Sail re-historicizes and remaps the PANEL TO THE SCREEN
origins of Star Trek and subsequently the entirety of its Style, American Film, and Comic Books During
fictional world - the Star Trek continuum - on an as yet the Blockbuster Era
uncharted transatlantic bearing.
Drew Morton
VYING FOR THE IRON THRONE
Essays on Power, Gender, Death and Jan 2019 238pp
Performance in HBO’s Game of Thrones 9781496820280 Paperback £27.50 / €31.00

Edited by Lindsey Mantoan & Sara Brady For full details of this title, see page 33.

Oct 2018 187pp QUENTIN TARANTINO
9781476674261 Paperback £34.95 / €40.00 Poetics and Politics of Cinematic Metafiction

Game of Thrones has changed the landscape of television David Roche
during an era hailed as the Golden Age of TV. An
adaptation of George R.R. Martin’s epic fantasy A Song of Sep 2018 352pp
Fire and Ice, the HBO series has taken on a life of its own. 9781496821157 Paperback £27.50 / €31.00
This collection of new essays explores how power, death,
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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PERFORMING ARTS
FILM & TV

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 £22.95 / €26.00 Ronny Regev
Conversations with Filmmakers Series
Oct 2018 288pp
Spanning twenty-five years, these conversations 9781469636504 Paperback £28.50 / €32.00.00
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 £22.95 / €26.00
Conversations with Filmmakers Series Feb 2019 232pp, 8 b&w images
9780810139060 Paperback £34.95 / €40.00
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
£75.95 / €85.00 9780822964612 Paperback £29.50 / €33.00
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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40 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 £24.50 / €28.00
Sep 2018 277pp
9781978804104 Hardback £101.00 / €116.00 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 £21.95 / €25.00
9780813596266 Paperback £14.95 / €17.00
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 £24.50 / €28.00
9780813586250 Paperback £22.95 / €26.00
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 £24.50 / €28.00

For full details of this title, see page 31.

Bucknell University Press

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PERFORMING ARTS
FILM & TV

UNWATCHABLE Wayne State University Press

Edited by Nicholas Baer et al 1968 AND
GLOBAL CINEMA
Jan 2019 350pp, 51 images
9780813599588 Paperback £24.50 / €28.00 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 £32.50 / €37.00
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 £22.95 / €26.00 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 £29.95 / €34.00
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 £32.50 / €37.00
9780809336579 Paperback Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Studies
£38.50 / €44.00
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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PERFORMING ARTS
42 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
£29.95 / €34.00
Sep 2018 408pp
Contemporary Approaches to 9780813064024 Paperback £22.50 / €25.00
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 GETTIN’ AROUND
Jazz, Script, Transnationalism
Collected Essays and
Reviews Jürgen E. Grandt

Robin Wood Dec 2018 200pp
9780820354354 Hardback £51.95 / €58.00
Edited by Barry Keith Grant
Examines how the global jazz aesthetic strives, in
Nov 2018 432pp, 62 b&w images various ways, toward an imaginative reconfiguration
of a humanity that transcends entrenched borders
9780814345238 Paperback of ethnicity and nationhood, while at the same time
remaining keenly aware of the exigencies of history.
£34.95 / €40.00
University of Massachusetts Press
-=·�-..-..-- Contemporary Approaches to
Film and Media Studies THE HONKY TONK ON THE LEFT
Progressive Thought in Country Music
Robin Wood - one of the
Edited by Mark Allan Jackson
foremost critics of cinema - has laid the groundwork
Jun 2018 312pp
for anyone writing about the horror film in the last 9781625343383 Paperback £33.50 / €38.00
American Popular Music
half-century. Robin Wood on the Horror Film: Collected
Massively popular for the past century, country music
Essays and Reviews compiles over fifty years of his has often been associated with political and social
conservatism. Bringing together a wide spectrum of
groundbreaking critiques. 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.

ARTS & HUMANITIES 43

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 £44.95 / €51.00 Oct 2018 306pp
9781496813008 Paperback
Explores the relationship between religion/spirituality £22.95 / €26.00
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
The Music of CHARLIE CHAPLIN and the railroad tracks that inspired Howlin’ Wolf to moan
‘Smokestack Lightnin’’.
(IIARLII (IIAPLIN Jim Lochner

Sep 2018 277pp CREATING THE JAZZ SOLO
9780786496112 Paperback Louis Armstrong and Barbershop Harmony
£39.95 / €46.00
Vic Hobson
Everybody knows Charlie
Chaplin as the funny little Nov 2018 288pp
man on screen with the funny 9781496819789 Paperback £27.50 / €31.00
little walk. But beneath the
Tramp’s trademark bowler hat American Made Music Series
and toothbrush mustache laid
an unsung composer off screen. This comprehensive Throughout his life, Louis Armstrong tried to explain
study tells the untold story of Chaplin the composer and how singing with a barbershop quartet on the streets
the string of famous and not-so-famous musicians he of New Orleans was foundational to his musicianship.
employed. Creating the Jazz Solo shows that Armstrong understood
exactly the relationship between what he sang and what
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 £27.50 / €31.00
9781476674094 Paperback
£44.95 / €51.00 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.

ARTS & HUMANITIES

PERFORMING ARTS
44 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 £27.50 / €31.00 Edited by Donna P. Hope
American Made Music Series
Nov 2018 140pp
Participates in the creation of the postmillennial Bob 9789766406691 Paperback £44.95 / €51.00
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 £29.95 / €34.00

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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PERFORMING ARTS
THEATRE

THEATRE SHAKESPEARE AND THE LEGACY OF LOSS

Academica Press Emily Hodgson Anderson

Jul 2018 232pp, 26 illustrations
9780472130931 Hardback £56.95 / €65.00

For full details of this title, see page 27.

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 £34.95 / €40.00 Sep 2018 184pp
9780810137721 Paperback £19.50 / €22.00
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 £39.95 / €46.00 9780809334704 Paperback £38.50 / €44.00

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 £28.50 / €33.00 9780814345900 Paperback £29.95 / €34.00
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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46 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 £75.95 / €85.00
Dec 2018 250pp, 20 b&w illustrations
9781554813926 Paperback £18.50 / €21.00 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 £34.95 / €40.00
9781554814305 Paperback £40.95 / €47.00
Aims to reestablish a speculative view of the cosmos
For full details of this title, see page 73. 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 £28.95 / €33.00 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 £34.95 / €40.00
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 £13.95 / €16.00 Oct 2018 277pp
9780813231204 Hardback £65.95 / €74.00
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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PHILOSOPHY 47

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 £65.95 / €74.00 9780810137929 Paperback £34.95 / €40.00
Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy
For full details of this title, see page 58.
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 £34.95 / €40.00 Leo Tolstoy
Edited by Inessa Medzhibovskaya
For full details of this title, see page 59. Translated by Michael A. Denner

Northwestern University Press Nov 2018 264pp
9780810138032 Paperback £28.50 / €32.00
A COMPANION TO
ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY For full details of this title, see page 30.

Edited by Sean D. Kirkland & PHILOSOPHY AS AGÔN
Eric Sanday A Study of Plato’s Gorgias and Related Texts

Oct 2018 304pp Robert Metcalf
9780810137868 Paperback
£39.95 / €46.00 Oct 2018 248pp
Rereading Ancient Philosophy 9780810137974 Paperback £34.95 / €40.00
Rereading Ancient Philosophy
Offers a collection of essays on
a range of themes and figures Offers a fresh interpretation of Plato’s dialogues as
spanning the period extending dramatic texts whose philosophy is not so much a
from the Pre-Socratics to matter of doctrine as it is a dynamic, non-dogmatic, and
Plato, Aristotle, and the Hellenistic thinkers. These open-ended practice of engaging others in agonistic
essays engage with the ancient texts directly, focusing dialogue. Robert Metcalf argues that Plato understands
attention on concepts that emerge as urgent in the philosophy as essentially agonistic.
readings themselves and then clarifying those concepts
interpretively. POLITICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

DOSTOEVSKY’S DIALECTICS AND Helmuth Plessner
THE PROBLEM OF SIN Translaetd by Nils F. Schott

Ksana Blank Oct 2018 172pp
9780810138001 Paperback £34.95 / €40.00
Dec 2018 174pp Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy
9780810139831 Paperback £34.95 / €40.00
Studies in Russian Literature and Theory Considers whether politics - conceived as the struggle
for power between groups, nations, and states -
For full details of this title, see page 29. belongs to the essence of the human. Helmuth Plessner
proposes a genealogy of political life and outlines an
anthropological foundation of the political.

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48 PHILOSOPHY

SPECULATION INTENTION, CHARACTER,
Politics, Ideology, Event AND DOUBLE EFFECT

Glyn Daly Lawrence Masek

Mar 2019 232pp Nov 2018 240pp, 25 images, 3 tables
9780810139350 Paperback £34.95 / €40.00 9780268104696 Hardback £42.50/ €47.00
Diaeresis
The principle of double effect has a long history,
Develops Hegel’s radical perspective of speculative from scholastic disputations about self-defence and
thought as a way of reclaiming and revitalizing the sense scandal to current debates about terrorism, torture,
of the future and its possibilities. Glyn Daly articulates euthanasia, and abortion. Despite being widely debated,
the distinctness of speculative philosophy and draws its the principle remains poorly understood. This book
implications for new debates in areas of science, politics, combines theoretical and applied questions into a
capitalism, ideology, ethics, and the event. systematic defence of the principle that does not depend
on appeals to authority or intuitions about cases.
THEORY’S
AUTOIMMUNITY THE KINGDOM OF MAN
Skepticism, Literature, Genesis and Failure of the Modern Project
and Philosophy
Rémi Brague
Zahi Zalloua Translated by Paul Seaton

Oct 2018 240pp Nov 2018 380pp
9780810137783 Paperback 9780268104252 Hardback £42.50/ €47.00
£34.95 / €40.00 Catholic Ideas for a Secular World

Engaging scholars from Was humanity created, or do humans create themselves?
across humanistic fields In this eagerly awaited English translation of Le Règne de
grappling with the role and l’homme, the last volume of Rémi Brague’s trilogy on the
value of theory in our times, philosophical development of anthropology in the West,
Theory’s Autoimmunity argues for reclaiming theory’s Brague argues that with the dawn of the Enlightenment,
scepticism as a value. To cultivate theory’s sceptical Western societies rejected the transcendence of the past
impulses is to embrace what Jacques Derrida has termed and looked instead to the progress fostered by the early
autoimmunity: a condition of openness to the outside modern present and the future.
that allows for change.
RENÉ GIRARD AND THE NONVIOLENT GOD
University of Notre Dame Press
Scott Cowdell
POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY AND THE
REPUBLICAN FUTURE Dec 2018 328pp
Reconsidering Cicero 9780268104559 Hardback £52.95 / €59.00

Gregory Bruce Smith Sets out a new perspective on mimetic theory and
theology, developing the proposed connection between
Jun 2018 428pp Girardian thought and theological dramatic theory in
9780268103897 Hardback £54.95 / €63.00 new directions, engaging with issues of evolutionary
suffering and divine providence, inclusive Christian
For full details of this title, see page 54. uniqueness, God’s judgment, nonviolent atonement,
and the spiritual life. Cowdell reveals a powerful,
THE INFINITY OF GOD  illuminating, and life-enhancing synergy between
New Perspectives in Theology and Philosophy mimetic theory and Christianity at its best.

Edited by Benedikt Paul Göcke & Christian Tapp

Dec 2018 456pp, 1 figure, 1 table
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