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HISTORY 49
The University of South Carolina Press Syracuse University Press
REMEMBERING TURKEY, EGYPT, AND SYRIA
WOMEN A Travelogue
DIFFERENTLY
Refiguring Rhetorical Shibl Nu'm nui
Work Translated by Gregory Maxwell Bruce
Edited by Lynee Lewis Gaillet May 2019 384pp
& Helen E. Gaillet 9780815636540 Paperback US$39.95
Middle East Literature In Translation
May 2019 280pp
9781611179798 Hardback Vividly captures the experiences of prominent Indian
US$49.99 intellectual and scholar Nu'm nui (1857-1914) as
he journeyed across the Ottoman Empire and Egypt
The contributors in this in 1892. A professor of Arabic and Persian, Nu'm nui
collection study the took a six-month leave from teaching to travel to the
contributions of fourteen Ottoman Empire in search of rare printed works and
nearly forgotten women manuscripts.
from around the globe working in fields that range
from art to philosophy, from teaching to social welfare, University of Virginia Press
from science to the military, and how and why those
individuals became either marginalized or discounted in THE ONLY UNAVOIDABLE
a mostly patriarchal world. SUBJECT OF REGRET
George Washington, Slavery, and the Enslaved
Southern Illinois University Press Community at Mount Vernon
ABRAHAM LINCOLN’S STATESMANSHIP Mary V. Thompson
AND THE LIMITS OF LIBERAL DEMOCRACY
Jan 2019 480pp, 20 b&w illustrations, 12 tables
Jon D. Schaff 9780813941844 Hardback US$29.95
Jul 2019 280pp George Washington’s life has been scrutinized by
9780809337378 Hardback US$34.50 historians over the past three centuries, but the day-to-
day lives of Mount Vernon’s enslaved workers have been
A groundbreaking study that assesses the presidency of largely left out of the story. Drawing on years of research
Abraham Lincoln through the lenses of governmental in a wide range of sources, Mary Thompson offers the
power, economic policy, expansion of executive power, first comprehensive account of those who served in
and natural rights to show how Lincoln not only bondage at Mount Vernon.
believed in the limitations of presidential power but also
dedicated his presidency to restraining the scope and PRESERVING THE WHITE
range of it. MAN’S REPUBLIC
Jacksonian Democracy, Race, and the
THE BLACK HEAVENS Transformation of American Conservatism
Abraham Lincoln and Death
Joshua A. Lynn
Brian R. Dirck
Apr 2019 264pp, 3 b&w illustrations
Feb 2019 240pp, 12 illustrations 9780813942506 Hardback US$39.50
9780809337026 Hardback US$29.50
Responding to fears of African American and female
Offers the first in-depth account of how Abraham political agency, this book shows how Democrats in
Lincoln responded to the riddles of mortality, undertook the late 1840s and 1850s reinvented themselves as
personal mourning, and coped with the extraordinary ’conservatives’ and repurposed Jacksonian Democracy
burden of sending hundreds of thousands of soldiers to as a tool for local majorities of white men to police racial
be killed on battlefields. and gender boundaries by democratically withholding
rights.
ARTS & HUMANITIES
HISTORY
50 ARCHAEOLOGY
WOMEN IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION ARCHAEOLOGY
Gender, Politics, and the Domestic World
The University of Arizona Press
Edited by Barbara B. Oberg
PAINTING THE SKIN
May 2019 296pp Pigments on Bodies and Codices in
9780813942599 Hardback US$39.50 Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica
Building on a quarter century of scholarship following Edited by Élodie Dupey García &
the publication of the groundbreaking Women in the María Luisa Vázquez de Ágredos Pascual
Age of the American Revolution, the engagingly written
essays in this volume offer an updated answer to the Jan 2019 384pp, 81 b&w illustrations, 2 16-page colour inserts
question,’What was life like for women in the era of the 9780816538447 Hardback US$75.00
American Revolution?’
Brings together exciting research on painted skins
West Virginia University Press - human, animal, and vegetal - in Mesoamerica.
Contributors explore the materiality, uses, and cultural
SMELL AND HISTORY meanings of the colours applied on a multitude of skins,
A Reader including bodies, codices made of hide and vegetal
paper, and even building ‘skins’.
Edited by Mark M. Smith
TEN THOUSAND YEARS OF INEQUALITY
Feb 2019 276pp The Archaeology of Wealth Differences
9781946684684 Paperback US$26.99
Edited by Timothy A. Kohler & Michael E. Smith
Collects many of the most important recent essays
on the history of scent, aromas, perfumes, and ways Jan 2019 352pp, 49 b&w illustrations, 25 tables
of smelling. With an introduction by Mark Smith, this 9780816539444 Paperback US$40.00
volume introduces to students and to historians of all Amerind Studies in Archaeology
fields the richness, relevance, and insightfulness of the
olfactory to historical study. Presents the first set of consistent quantitative
measurements of ancient wealth inequality. The authors
The University of Wisconsin Press are archaeologists who have adapted the Gini index, a
statistical measure of wealth distribution often used
MY SISTER’S MOTHER by economists to measure contemporary inequality,
A Memoir of War, Exile, and Stalin’s Siberia and applied it to house-size distributions over time and
around the world.
Donna Solecka Urbikas
Feb 2019 312pp, 14 b&w photos
9780299308544 Paperback US$19.95
In the 1950s, baby boomer Donna Solecka Urbikas grew
up in the American Midwest yearning for a ’normal’
American family. But her Polish-born mother and half
sister had endured hunger, disease, and desperate
escape from slave labour in Siberia. In this unforgettable
memoir, Donna recounts her family history and her own
survivor’s story.
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HISTORY
ARCHAEOLOGY
University Press of Florida MAYA SALT WORKS
ANDEAN ONTOLOGIES Heather McKillop
New Archaeological Perspectives
May 2019 288pp, 81 b&w
Edited by María Cecilia Lozada & Henry Tantaleán illustrations, 18 tables
9780813056333 Hardback US$95.00
Jul 2019 400pp, 65 b&w illustrations, 7 tables Maya Studies
9780813056371 Hardback US$110.00
Details Heather McKillop’s
Offers a fascinating interdisciplinary investigation of how archaeological team’s
ancient Andean people understood their world and the ground breaking discovery
nature of being. Exploring pre-Hispanic ideas of time, of a unique and massive
space, and the human body, these essays highlight a salt production complex
range of beliefs across the region’s different cultures, submerged in a lagoon in
emphasizing the relational aspects of identity in Andean southern Belize. Exploring
worldviews. the organisation of production and trade at the Paynes
Creek Salt Works, McKillop offers a fascinating new look
THE ARCHAEOLOGY at the role of salt in the ancient Maya economy.
AND HISTORICAL
ECOLOGY OF SMALL University of Hawai’i Press
SCALE ECONOMIES
NEW IN PAPERBACK
Edited by Victor D. Thompson &
James C. Waggoner Jr. ANCIENT RYUKYU
An Archaeological Study of Island
Apr 2019 246pp, 46 b&w Communities
illustrations, 15 tables
9780813064154 Paperback US$19.95 Richard Pearson
Most research into humans’ Mar 2019 336pp, 36 illustrations, 20 maps
impact on the environment 9780824873783 Paperback US$30.00
has focused on large-scale
societies; a corollary assumption has been that small Explores 30,000 years of human occupation in the
scale economies are sustainable and in harmony with Ryukyu Islands, from the earliest human presence in
nature. The contributors to this volume challenge this the region up to AD 1609 and the emergence of the
notion, revealing how such communities shaped their Ryukyu Kingdom. It focuses on the unique geopolitical
environment - not always in a positive way. position of the islands, their environment, and the many
human communities whose historical activities can be
ARCHAEOLOGY OF IDENTITY discerned.
AND DISSONANCE
Contexts for a Brave New World University of Michigan Press
Edited by Diane F. George & Bernice Kurchin COSA
The Roman and Greek Amphoras
Mar 2019 320pp
9780813056197 Hardback US$85.00 Elizabeth Lyding Will & Kathleen Warner Slane
Gathering a diverse set of case studies that draw on Jan 2019 277pp
popular themes in contemporary historical archaeology 9780472131433 Hardback US$90.00
and current trends in archaeological method and theory,
this volume demonstrates how humans adapt to new For full details of this title, see page 52.
and challenging environments by building and adjusting
their identities.
ARTS & HUMANITIES
HISTORY
52 ARCHAEOLOGY· CLASSICS & ANCIENT HISTORY
University of New Mexico Press Rutgers University Press
TECHNOLOGY AND TRADITION IN READING HOMER’S ODYSSEY
MESOAMERICA AFTER THE SPANISH
INVASION Kostas Myrsiades
Archaeological Perspectives
Apr 2019 375pp
Edited by Rani T. Alexander 9781684481361 Paperback US$24.95
Mar 2019 304pp Homer’s Odyssey, the first great travel narrative
9780826360151 Hardback US$85.00 in Western culture, is a compelling tale about the
consequences of war, and about redemption,
This impressive collection features the work of transformation, and the search for home. Reading
archaeologists who systematically explore the material Homer’s Odyssey offers a book-by-book commentary on
and social consequences of new technological systems the epic’s themes that informs the non-specialist and
introduced after the sixteenth-century Spanish invasion engages the seasoned reader in new perspectives.
in Mesoamerica.
Bucknell University Press
CLASSICS & ANCIENT HISTORY The University of Wisconsin Press
University of Michigan Press ATHENS, ETRURIA, AND THE MANY LIVES
OF GREEK FIGURED POTTERY
COSA
The Roman and Greek Amphoras Sheramy D. Bundrick
Elizabeth Lyding Will & Kathleen Warner Slane Feb 2019 352pp, 110 b&w illustrations
9780299321000 Hardback US$119.95
Jan 2019 277pp Wisconsin Studies in Classics
9780472131433 Hardback US$90.00
A trade in Athenian pottery flourished from the early
Presents the work of Elizabeth Lyding Will on the sixth until the late fifth century BCE, finding a market in
important group of transport amphoras found at Cosa. Etruria. Most studies of these painted vases focus on the
This town has been widely recognised as a prototypical artistry and worldview of the Greeks who made them,
colony of the later Republic and a source for trade but Sheramy Bundrick shifts attention to their Etruscan
with Gaul and Spain, so this publication of its finds has customers, ancient trade networks, and archaeological
important implications for archaeologists and historians contexts.
of the ancient world.
IN THE FLESH
Embodied Identities in Roman Elegy
Erika Zimmerman Damer
Jan 2019 320pp, 2 illustrations
9780299318703 Hardback US$99.95
Wisconsin Studies in Classics
Engages postmodern and materialist feminist thought
in readings of three significant poets writing in the early
years of Rome’s Augustan Principate. In their poems,
they represent the flesh-and-blood body in both its
integrity and vulnerability, as an index of social position
along intersecting axes of sex, gender, status, and class.
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HISTORY
HOLOCAUST STUDIES · MEDIEVAL STUDIES
HOLOCAUST STUDIES Purdue University Press
Academic Studies Press FINDING EDITH
Surviving the Holocaust in Plain Sight
MY JOURNEY HOME
Life After the Holocaust Edith Mayer Cord
Zsuzsanna Ozsvath May 2019 295pp, 166 illustrations
9781557538086 Paperback US$24.95
Feb 2019 280pp, 13 illustrations
9781618119018 Paperback US$21.95 Tells the coming-of-age story of a young Jewish girl
chased in Europe during World War II. Like a great
This memoir begins with the the author’s childhood adventure story, the book describes the childhood and
during the Holocaust in Hungary. It captures life after the adolescence of a Viennese girl growing up against the
war’s end in Communist-ruled Hungary and continues backdrop of the Great Depression, the rise of Nazism,
with her and her husband’s flight to Germany and World War II, and the religious persecution of Jews
eventually the US. Zsuzsanna Ozsváth’s story of survival, throughout Europe.
friendship, and love provides readers with a glimpse of
an extraordinary journey. Syracuse University Press
Cherry Orchard Books
REMAKING HOLOCAUST MEMORY
Northwestern University Press Documentary Cinema by Third Generation
Survivors in Israel
POLAND AND THE HOLOCAUST
Literary Testimonies, 1942-1947 Liat Steir-Livny
Rachel Feldhay Brenner Mar 2019 352pp
9780815636502 Paperback US$34.95
Apr 2019 184pp
9780810139800 Paperback US$34.95 A pioneering analysis of third-generation Holocaust
documentaries in Israel, this book investigates
This groundbreaking study of responses to the compelling films that have been screened in Israel,
Holocaust in wartime and postwar Polish literature Europe, and the United States, appeared in numerous
explores seven writers’ compulsive need to share their international film festivals, and won international
traumatic experience of witness with the world. It is awards, but have yet to receive significant academic
a particularly timely book in view of the continuing attention.
debates about the attitudes of Poles toward the Jews
during the war. MEDIEVAL STUDIES
University of Notre Dame Press
RIVALROUS MASCULINITIES
New Directions in Medieval Gender Studies
Edited by Ann Marie Rasmussen
Apr 2019 288pp
9780268105570 Hardback US$60.00
Bringing together the work of both leading and
emerging scholars in the field of medieval gender
studies, the essays in Rivalrous Masculinities advance our
understanding of medieval masculinity as a pluralized
category and as an intersectional category of gender.
ARTS & HUMANITIES
HISTORY
54 MILITARY HISTORY
MILITARY HISTORY University of Hawai’i Press
Academic Studies Press SOUTHEAST ASIA’S COLD WAR
An Interpretive History
THE OTTOMAN TWILIGHT
IN THE ARAB LANDS Ang Cheng Guan
Turkish Testimonies and Memories
of the Great War Feb 2019 336pp
9780824873479 Paperback US$30.00
Edited by Selim Deringil
Examines the international politics of Southeast Asia
Apr 2019 300pp from within. This book provides an up-to-date, coherent
9781618119582 Paperback US$29.95 narrative of the Cold War as it played out in Southeast
Ottoman and Turkish Studies Asia against a backdrop of superpower rivalry.
The Great War is still seen as a mostly European war. The University Press of Kansas
Middle Eastern theatre is, at best, considered a sideshow
written from the western perspective. This book fills a gap GERMAN FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE FROM
in the literature by giving an insight through annotated HITLER’S WAR TO THE COLD WAR
translations from Ottoman memoirs of actors who witnessed Flawed Assumptions and Faulty Analysis
the last few years of Turkish presence in the Arab lands.
Robert Hutchinson
Brookings Institution Press
Jan 2019 352pp
FALKLANDS AND MALVINAS 9780700627578 Hardback US$34.95
Edited by Guillermo Mira Delli Zotti Examining the information on enemy nations that
was gathered, processed, and presented to leaders
Jun 2019 200pp in the Nazi state, Robert Hutchinson’s study reveals
9781908857569 Paperback US$30.00 the consequences of the politicization of German
intelligence during World War II - as well as the
Examines the Falklands/Malvinas conflict and its persistence of ingrained prejudices among the
consequences, but from an oblique perspective intelligence services’ Cold War successors.
that brings together English, Spanish and Argentine
specialists and researchers. The book is novel in that TALIBAN SAFARI
different social scientists analyse the conflict from the One Day in the
perspective of their own disciplines. Surkhagan Valley
Institute of Latin American Studies
Paul Darling
University Press of Florida
May 2019 190pp
UNCOMMONLY SAVAGE 9780700627844 Hardback US$27.95
Civil War and Remembrance in Spain and the
United States In crisp prose and sharp
detail Major Paul Darling
Paul D. Escott offers a moment-by-
moment account of a one-
Jun 2019 278pp day mission to track down
9780813064338 Paperback US$24.95 and kill Taliban insurgents
in the Zabul Province
Spain and the United States both experienced extremely of southeastern Afghanistan. A rare day-in-the-life
bloody and divisive civil wars that left social and emotional narrative that is also a page-turner, his story captures the
wounds, many of which still endure today. In Uncommonly mundane realities of deployment.
Savage, award-winning historian Paul Escott considers the
impact of internecine violence on memory and ideology,
politics, and process of reconciliation.
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HISTORY
MILITARY HISTORY
THUNDER AND FLAMES Naval Institute Press
Americans in the Crucible of Combat,
1917-1918 ADMIRAL GORSHKOV
The Man Who Challenged the U.S. Navy
Edward G. Lengel
Norman Polmar, Thomas A. Brooks & George E. Fedoroff
Jan 2019 470pp
9780700627837 Paperback US$27.95 Mar 2019 304pp, 27 figures
9781682473306 Hardback US$39.95
November 1917. American troops were poorly trained, Blue & Gold
deficient in military equipment and doctrine, not
remotely ready for armed conflict on a large scale - and Examines a man and his ability to change a culture and
on the Western front. The story of what happened next to create a powerful navy that was radically different
- the American Expeditionary Force’s trial by fire on the from traditional navies. This was accomplished despite
battlefields of France - is told in full for the first time in opposition from the nation’s Army-dominated power
this book. structure. The Russian Navy that is at sea in the 21st
Century is to a significant degree based on the fleet that
University of Massachusetts Press this man built.
THE SACKING OF FALLUJAH CHINA’S MARITIME GRAY ZONE
A People’s History OPERATIONS
Ross Caputi, Richard Hil & Donna Mulhearn Edited by Andrew Sven Erickson & Ryan D. Martinson
Apr 2019 208pp, 12 b&w illustrations Mar 2019 336pp
9781625344380 Paperback US$27.95 9781591146933 Hardback US$42.00
Culture and Politics in the Cold War and Beyond Studies in Chinese Maritime Development
For full details of this title, see page 86. With contributions from some of the world’s leading
experts, this volume explains the forces and doctrines
McFarland driving China’s paranaval expansion. The book covers
China’s maritime forces beyond core gray-hulled Navy
THE COLD WAR units, with particular focus on China’s second and third
DEFENSE OF THE sea forces: the ‘white-hulled’ Coast Guard and ‘blue-
UNITED STATES hulled’ Maritime Militia.
Strategy, Weapon
Systems and FOR GOD AND GLORY
Operations Lord Nelson and His Way of War
John E. Bronson Joel S. Hayward
May 2019 228pp Feb 2019 280pp
9781476677200 Paperback US$45.00 9781612517797 Paperback US$24.95
During the Cold War, the Taking an original thematic approach to the study
United States was forced of Horatio Lord Nelson, Joel Hayward analyses the
to establish means of admiral’s unique war-fighting style, doctrine, tactics and
massive long-range attack in response to Soviet Union operational art, his command and leadership abilities,
advancements in weaponry. This book shows how these and his attitudes and beliefs. Hayward reveals how
defenses evolved from fledgling stop-gap measures into these elements combined to form the man whose ethos
a complex fabric of interconnected combinations of spread through his entire force.
high-tech equipment over 40 years.
FOUNDATIONS OF RUSSIAN MILITARY
FLIGHT 1885-1925
James Libbey
May 2019 272pp
9781682474235 Hardback US$38.00
Focuses on the early use by armed forces of balloons
and aircraft. While France invented lighter-than-air craft
it was a French pilot who caught Russia’s attention to
airplanes in 1909.
ARTS & HUMANITIES THE NEW BATTLE
HISTORY FOR THE ATLANTIC
56 MILITARY HISTORY Emerging Naval
Competition with
NEW GRAPHIC NOVELS FROM Russia in the
DEAD RECKONING Far North
ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT Magnus Fredrik Nordenman
Erich Maria Remarque Jun 2019 272pp
Adapted by Wayne Vansant 9781682472835 Hardback US$38.00
Jun 2019 176pp Explores the emerging
9781682473337 Paperback US$24.95 competition between the
United States and its allies
For full details of this title, see page 66. in NATO and the resurgent
Dead Reckoning Russian navy in the North Atlantic. Magnus Nordenman
describes the evolution of warfare in the North Atlantic
KATUSHA in the 20th century and points to the enduring strategic
Girl Soldier of the Great Patriotic War factors and dynamics in that maritime domain that must
be kept in mind.
Wayne Vansant
The University of North Carolina Press
Feb 2019 576pp
9781682474259 Paperback US$26.00 FRANCE AND THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR
A Diplomatic History
For full details of this title, see page 66.
Dead Reckoning Stève Sainlaude
Translated by Jessica Edwards
MEN AT SEA
Mar 2019 304pp, 11 illustrations
Riff Reb’s 9781469649948 Hardback US$45.00
Translated by Joe Johnson Civil War America
Apr 2019 120pp France’s involvement in the American Civil War was
9781682473870 Paperback US$19.95 critical to its unfolding, but the details of the European
power’s role remain little understood. Here, Steve
For full details of this title, see page 66. Sainlaude offers the first comprehensive history of
Dead Reckoning French diplomatic engagement with the Union and the
Confederate States of America during the conflict.
THE NIGHT WITCHES
SEX AND THE CIVIL WAR
Garth Ennis Soldiers, Pornography, and the Making of
Illustrated by Russ Braun American Morality
Mar 2019 256pp Judith Giesberg
9781682473900 Paperback US$24.95
Feb 2019 152pp, 26 illustrations
For full details of this title, see page 66. 9781469652078 Paperback US$22.95
Dead Reckoning The Steven and Janice Brose Lectures in the Civil War Era
STALINGRAD Civil War soldiers enjoyed unprecedented access to
Letters from the Volga obscene materials of all sorts. With this book, Judith
Giesberg has written the first serious study of the erotica
Daniel Ortega and pornography that nineteenth-century American
Illustrated by Antonio Gil soldiers read and shared and links them to the postwar
reaction to pornography and to debates about the
May 2019 120pp future of sex and marriage.
9781682473931 Paperback US$19.95
For full details of this title, see page 66.
Dead Reckoning
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LIBRARY STUDIES LITERATURE
American Library Association The University of Alabama Press
A MATTER OF FACTS F. SCOTT FITZGERALD AND THE
The Value of Evidence in an Information Age AMERICAN SCENE
Laura A. Millar Ronald Berman
Apr 2019 192pp May 2019 112pp
9780838917718 Paperback US$44.99 9780817359478 Paperback US$24.95
Because facts matter, archives matter. In this urgent A study of the philosophical, intellectual, and political
manifesto, archives luminary Millar makes the case that influences on the artistic creations of Fitzgerald and
authentic and accurate evidence is crucial in supporting key early American modernist writers. Each chapter
and fostering a society that is respectful, democratic, and elaborates on a crucial aspect of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s
self-aware. depiction of American society, specifically through
the lens of the social sciences that most influenced his
ALA Neal-Schuman writing and thinking.
Broadview Press
READING CHILDREN’S LITERATURE
A Critical Introduction, Second Edition
Carrie Hintz & Eric Tribunella
Jun 2019 580pp
9781554814435 Paperback US$49.95
Offers insights into the major discussions and debates
currently animating the field of children’s literature.
Informed by recent scholarship and interest in cultural
studies and critical theory, this is a compact core text
that introduces students to the historical contexts,
genres, and issues of children’s literature.
THE ROARING GIRL
Thomas Dekker & Thomas Middleton
Edited by Kelly Stage
Apr 2019 180pp
9781554812134 Paperback US$14.95
Offers an introduction, thorough annotation, and a
substantial selection of contextual materials related to
the real Mary Frith, gender and cross-dressing, criminality
in London, and more.
ARTS & HUMANITIES
58 LITERATURE
Cognella Academic Publishing University of Hawai’i Press
JACK KEROUAC FUKUSHIMA FICTION
Tracing the Theme The Literary Landscape of Japan’s Triple
of Epiphany Disaster
Evert Villarreal Rachel DiNitto
Jan 2019 112pp May 2019 240pp
9781516533961 Paperback US$37.95 9780824877972 Hardback US$68.00
Analyses Jack Kerouac’s Introduces readers to the literary works that have
works with particular focus emerged out of Japan’s triple disaster, now known as
on his constant exploration 3/11. The book provides a nuanced picture of the varied
to discover what it means literary responses to this ongoing tragedy, focusing
to live a meaningful life. on ’serious fiction’, the one area of Japanese cultural
The text helps readers production that has consistently addressed the disaster
understand how Kerouac and its aftermath.
contributed to and influenced American literature,
becoming one of the most famous writers of the 20th University of Iowa Press
century.
University Press of Florida AUSTENTATIOUS
The Evolving World of Jane Austen Fans
OGLING LADIES
Scopophilia in Medieval German Literature Holly Luetkenhaus & Zoe Weinstein
Sandra Lindemann Summers Jun 2019 188pp, 5 figures
9781609386399 Paperback US$27.50
May 2019 188pp, 5 b&w photos
9780813064215 Paperback US$19.95 Explores online fan spaces in search of “Janeites” all over
the world to discover what fans are making, how fans
The love of looking is a common motif among female are sharing their work, and why it matters that so many
figures in medieval art and literature where it is usually women and non-binary individuals find a haven not only
expressed as a motherly or sexually interested gaze - in Jane Austen, but also in Jane Austen fandom.
one sanctioned, the other forbidden. Sandra Summers
investigates these two variants of female voyeurism in The Kent State University Press
exemplary didactic and courtly literature by medieval
German authors. READING HEMINGWAY’S
A FAREWELL TO ARMS
THIS BUSINESS OF WORDS Glossary and Commentary
Reassessing Anne Sexton
Michael Kim Roos & Robert W. Lewis
Edited by Amanda Golden
Jun 2019 384pp
Jan 2019 292pp 9781606353769 Paperback US$39.95
9780813064031 Paperback US$24.95 Reading Hemingway
One of America’s most influential women writers, Reveals how A Farewell to Arms represents a complex
Anne Sexton has long been overshadowed by fellow alchemy of Hemingway’s personal experience as a Red
confessional poets Sylvia Plath and Robert Lowell. This Cross ambulance driver in 1918, his extensive historical
volume reassesses Sexton and her poetry and offers research of a time period and terrain with which he was
directions for future Sexton scholarship. personally unfamiliar, and the impact of his vast reading
in the great works of 19th-century fiction.
ARTS & HUMANITIES
LITERATURE 59
University of Massachusetts Press MEDIEVAL CRIME FICTION
A Critical Overview
MADE UNDER PRESSURE
Literary Translation in the Soviet Union, Anne McKendry
1960-1991
Mar 2019 230pp
Natalia Kamovnikova 9781476666716 Paperback US$45.00
Jan 2019 272pp Combining elements of medievalism, the historical
9781625343413 Paperback US$29.95 novel and the detective narrative, medieval crime
Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book fiction capitalizes upon the appeal of all three. This
book investigates the enduring popularity of the largely
During the Cold War, determined translators and unexamined genre and explores its social, cultural and
publishers based in the Soviet Union worked together political contexts.
to increase the number of foreign literary texts available
in Russian, despite government restrictions. Based on ROBOTS THAT KILL
extensive interviews with literary translators, Made Under Deadly Machines and Their Precursors in
Pressure offers an insider’s look at Soviet censorship and Myth, Folklore, Literature, Popular Culture
the role translators played in promoting foreign authors. and Reality
McFarland Judith A. Markowitz
AUTHOR IN CHIEF Apr 2019 131pp
The Presidents as Writers from Washington to 9781476668130 Paperback US$39.95
Trump
Describes the technologies that enable real-world robots
Michael B. Costanzo and drones to be effective killers, including an overview
of how artificial intelligence and nanotechnology relate
Feb 2019 204pp to the topic. The book also examines social controversies
9781476675701 Paperback US$39.95 swirling around the design and use of killer robots, such
as whether fully-autonomous, robotic weapons should
Serves as a history of works - including autobiographies, be banned.
diaries, memoirs, political manifestos, speeches and
others - authored by US presidents and published SEEING THE BEAT GENERATION
prior to, during or after their terms. The book tells how Entering the Literature Through Film
writing was easy for some and harder for others. It is the
story of literary comebacks, bestsellers, false starts and Raj Chandarlapaty
failures.
Apr 2019 183pp
9781476675756 Paperback US$39.95
For full details of this title, see page 73.
ARTS & HUMANITIES CONVERSATIONS WITH ALLEN GINSBERG
60 LITERATURE Edited by David Stephen Calonne
Melbourne University Publishing Jul 2019 224pp
9781496823519 Paperback US$25.00
ON ARTISTS Literary Conversations Series
Ashleigh Wilson Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) was one of the most
famous American poets of the twentieth century.
May 2019 277pp Yet, his career is distinguished by not only his strong
9780522875256 Paperback US$10.97 contributions to literature but also social justice.
On Series Conversations with Allen Ginsberg collects interviews from
1962 to 1997 that chart Ginsberg’s intellectual, spiritual,
For full details of this title, see page 94. and political evolution.
ON FAIRNESS NEW IN PAPERBACK
Sally McManus CONVERSATIONS WITH JOAN DIDION
Jan 2019 277pp Edited by Scott F. Parker
9780522874853 Paperback US$10.97
On Series May 2019 186pp
9781496823441 Paperback US$25.00
For full details of this title, see page 10. Literary Conversations Series
ON HATE Features seventeen interviews with Joan Didion,
spanning decades, continents, and genres. Didion
Tim Soutphommasane reflects on her childhood in Sacramento; her time at
Berkeley, in New York, and in Hollywood; her marriage to
Feb 2019 277pp John Gregory Dunne; and of course her writing.
9780522875348 Paperback US$10.97
On Series FAULKNER AND HISTORY
For full details of this title, see page 86. Edited by Jay Watson & James G. Thomas Jr.
ON IDENTITY Jul 2019 274pp, 6 b&w illustrations
9781496823496 Paperback US$30.00
Stan Grant Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Series
May 2019 277pp Brings together historians and literary scholars to explore
9780522875522 Paperback US$10.97 the many facets of William Faulkner’s relationship to
On Series history: the historical contexts of his novels and stories;
his explorations of the historiographic imagination; his
For full details of this title, see page 94. engagement with historical figures; and his influence on
professional historians.
ON US
FROM DANIEL BOONE TO
Mark Scott CAPTAIN AMERICA
Playing Indian in American Popular Culture
Apr 2019 277pp
9780522875164 Paperback US$10.97 Chad A. Barbour
On Series
Feb 2019 222pp
For full details of this title, see page 69. 9781496820167 Paperback US$30.00
University Press of Mississippi From nineteenth-century American art and literature to
comic books of the twentieth century and afterwards,
THE ARTISTRY OF NEIL GAIMAN Chad A. Barbour examines in From Daniel Boone to
Finding Light in the Shadows Captain America the transmission of the ideals and myths
of the frontier and playing Indian in American culture.
Edited by Joseph Michael Sommers & Kyle Eveleth
Apr 2019 300pp, 44 b&w illustrations
9781496821652 Paperback US$30.00
Critical Approaches to Comics Artists Series
For full details of this title, see page 41.
ARTS & HUMANITIES
LITERATURE 61
RECONSIDERING The University of North Carolina Press
LAURA INGALLS
WILDER NARRATING DESIRE
Little House and Moral Consolation and Sentimental Fiction in
Beyond Fifteenth-Century Spain
Edited by Sol Miguel-Prendes
Miranda A. Green-Barteet & Apr 2019 305pp, 5 illustrations
Anne K. Phillips 9781469651958 Paperback US$65.00
North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and
Jun 2019 240pp Literatures, Vol. 317
9781496823083 Paperback US$30.00
Proposes a new taxonomy and conceptual frame for
Children’s Literature the controversial Iberian genre of sentimental romance.
Association Series In establishing the genre’s boundaries and cultural
underpinnings, Narrating Desire emphasizes the crucial
Offers a sustained, critical examination of Wilder’s link between Eastern and Western Iberian sentimental
writings, including her Little House series, her traditions.
posthumously published The First Four Years, her letters,
journalism, and autobiography. The collection also draws University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of
on biographies of Wilder, letters to and from Wilder and Romance Studies
her daughter, and other biographical materials.
TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY FEMINISMS Northwestern University Press
IN CHILDREN’S AND ADOLESCENT
LITERATURE POLAND AND THE HOLOCAUST
Literary Testimonies, 1942-1947
Roberta Seelinger Trites
Rachel Feldhay Brenner
May 2019 242pp
9781496823458 Paperback US$30.00 Apr 2019 184pp
Children’s Literature Association Series 9780810139800 Paperback US$34.95
Over twenty years after the publication of her For full details of this title, see page 22.
groundbreaking work, Waking Sleeping Beauty: Feminist
Voices in Children’s Novels, Roberta Seelinger Trites returns THE PRICE OF
to analyse how literature for the young still provides one LITERATURE
outlet in which feminists can offer girls an alternative to The French Novel’s
sexism. Theoretical Turn
University of Missouri Press Patrick M. Bray
EAST-WEST LITERARY IMAGINATION Mar 2019 192pp
Cultural Exchanges from Yeats to Morrison 9780810139329 Paperback US$34.95
Yoshinobu Hakutani Examines the presence of
theory in the nineteenth-
Jan 2019 pp century French novel.
9780826221827 Paperback US$24.95 Emerging after the French
Revolution, what we
Traces the shaping presence of cultural interactions, call literature was conceived as an art liberated from
arguing that American literature has become a representational constraints. Patrick Bray shows how
hybridization of Eastern and Western literary traditions. literature’s freedom to represent anything has meant,
Hakutani demonstrates the East-West exchange through paradoxically, that it cannot articulate a coherent theory
discussions of the interactions by modernists such as of itself.
Yone Noguchi, Yeats, Pound, Camus, and Kerouac.
ARTS & HUMANITIES
62 LITERATURE
THE TWO-SOUL’D ANIMAL CHAUCER AND RELIGIOUS
Early Modern Literatures of the Classical and CONTROVERSIES IN THE MEDIEVAL AND
Christian Souls EARLY MODERN ERAS
James Jaehoon Lee Nancy Bradley Warren
Mar 2019 216pp, 2 b&w illustrations Apr 2019 220pp
9780810139268 Paperback US$34.95 9780268105822 Paperback US$45.00
Illuminates an early modern debate that recognised ReFormations: Medieval and Early Modern
the troubling extent to which Christian thought had
defined the human in terms of two incompatible models Adopts a comparative, boundary-crossing approach to
of soul. The English writers studied in this book place consider one of the most canonical of literary figures,
two prevailing interpretations of the soul’s faculties Geoffrey Chaucer. This book breaks new ground by
into contact as a way to construct a new mode of considering Chaucer’s continental interests as they
Christian agency. inform his participation in religious debates concerning
such subjects as female spirituality and Lollardy.
THE VIRGINAL MOTHER IN THE PORTRAIT OF BEATRICE
GERMAN CULTURE Dante, D. G. Rossetti, and the Imaginary Lady
From Sophie von La Roche and Goethe
to Metropolis Fabio Camilletti
Lauren Nossett Mar 2019 220pp
9780268103972 Hardback US$50.00
Mar 2019 276pp
9780810139299 Paperback US$34.95 Examines both Dante’s and D.G. Rossetti’s intellectual
experiences in the light of a common concern about
Presents an analysis of the contradictory obsession with visuality. Both render, in different times and contexts,
female virginity and idealization of maternal nature in something that resists clear representation, be it the
Germany from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth divine beauty of the angel-women or the depiction of
centuries. Lauren Nossett explores how the ideal of the painter’s own interiority in a secularized age.
woman as both a sexless and maternal being led to the
creation of a unique figure in German literature: the THEATER OF THE WORD
virginal mother. Selfhood in the English Morality Play
University of Notre Dame Press Julie Paulson
A BOCCACCIAN RENAISSANCE Apr 2019 240pp
Essays on the Early Modern Impact of 9780268104627 Paperback US$45.00
Giovanni Boccaccio and His Works
Sheds light on medieval constructions of the self as they
Edited by Martin Eisner & David Lummus emerge from within a deeply sacramental culture. The
book examines the medieval morality play, a genre that
Jun 2019 340pp addresses the question of what it means to be human
9780268105891 Hardback US$65.00 and takes up the ritual traditions of confession and
William and Katherine Devers Series in Dante and penance, long associated with medieval interiority, as its
Medieval Italian Literature primary subjects.
Brings together essays written by internationally
recognised scholars in diverse national traditions
to respond to the largely unaddressed question
of Boccaccio’s impact on early modern literature
and culture in Italy and Europe. This is the first
comprehensive examination in English of Boccaccio’s
impact on the Renaissance.
ARTS & HUMANITIES
LITERATURE 63
University of Pittsburgh Press CULTIVATING PEACE
The Virgilian Georgic in English, 1650-1750
THE ANIMAL
WHO WRITES Melissa Schoenberger
A Posthumanist
Composition Feb 2019 160pp
9781684480470 Paperback US$34.95
Marilyn M. Cooper Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture 1650-1850
Feb 2019 277pp The poets discussed in Cultivating Peace imagine states
9780822965794 Paperback US$40.00 of peace and war to be fundamentally and materially
Pittsburgh Series in Composition, linked. In distinct ways, they dismantle the dream of the
Literacy and Culture golden age renewed, proposing instead that peace must
be sustained by constant labour.
Considers writing as a social
practice and as an embodied Bucknell University Press
behaviour that is especially
important (and presumably FAUST, A TRAGEDY, PART I
unique) to human animals. Dr. Marilyn Cooper argues
that writing is an act of composing enmeshed in nature- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
cultures and is homologous with technology as a mode Edited & Translated by Eugene Stelzig
of making.
Jul 2019 250pp
SPANISH MEETS EL INGLES 9781684481422 Paperback US$19.95
Translational Intersections in Latinx
Literature, 1990-2010 Goethe’s great dramatic poem continues to speak
to us in new ways as we and our world continually
Marta E. Sanchez change. This updated translation brings to light Faust’s
mysterious, and enchanting poetic and cultural power.
Jan 2019 176pp Eugene Stelzig’s new translation renders the text of
9780822965510 Paperback US$27.95 the play in clear and crisp English for a contemporary
Latino and Latin American Profiles audience.
Offers a study of contemporary US Latino literature in Bucknell University Press
translation. Sanchez examines both English-to-Spanish,
and Spanish-to-English translation, and what it means JANE AUSTEN AND COMEDY
for interrelated communities and language systems.
Edited by Erin Goss
Rutgers University Press
Apr 2019 250pp
COMMUNITY AND SOLITUDE 9781684480777 Paperback US$34.95
New Essays on Johnson’s Circle Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture 1650-1850
Edited by Anthony W. Lee In bringing together Austen and comedy, which are
both often dismissed as superfluous or irrelevant to a
Feb 2019 258pp contemporary world, this collection of essays directs
9781684480227 Paperback US$34.95 attention to the ways we laugh, the ways that Austen
Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture 1650-1850 may make us do so, and the ways that our laughter
is conditioned by the form in which Austen writes:
Samuel Johnson’s life was situated within a rich comedy.
social and intellectual community of friendships and
antagonisms. This book is a collection of ten essays that Bucknell University Press
explores relationships between Johnson and several
of his main contemporaries and analyses some of the MIKHAIL BAKHTIN
literary productions emanating from the pressures The Duvakin Interviews, 1973
within those relationships.
Mikhail Bakhtin
Bucknell University Press Edited by Slav N. Gratchev & Margarita Marinova
Jun 2019 224pp
9781684480906 Paperback US$19.95
For full details of this title, see page 81.
Bucknell University Press
ARTS & HUMANITIES
64 LITERATURE
NOVEL BODIES The University of South Carolina Press
Disability and Sexuality in Eighteenth-
Century British Literature UNDERSTANDING JAMES BALDWIN
Jason S. Farr Marc K. Dudley
Jun 2019 224pp Apr 2019 160pp
9781684481071 Paperback US$34.95 9781611179644 Hardback US$39.99
Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture 1650-1850 Understanding Contemporary American Literature
Examines the significant role that disability plays in The Harlem-born son of a storefront preacher, James
shaping the British literary history of sexuality. Jason Baldwin died almost thirty years ago, but his spirit
Farr shows that various eighteenth-century novelists lives on in the eloquent and still-relevant musings
represent disability and sexuality in flexible ways of his novels, short stories, essays, and poems.
to reconfigure the political and social landscapes of In Understanding James Baldwin, Marc Dudley shows that
eighteenth-century Britain. a proper grasp of Baldwin’s work begins with a grasp of
the times in which he wrote.
Bucknell University Press
Syracuse University Press
ODYSSEYS OF RECOGNITION
Performing Intersubjectivity in Homer, WOMEN, ART, AND LITERATURE IN THE
Aristotle, Shakespeare, Goethe, and Kleist IRANIAN DIASPORA
Ellwood Wiggins Mehraneh Ebrahimi
Feb 2019 298pp Apr 2019 224pp, 21 b&w illustrations
9781684480371 Paperback US$34.95 9780815636557 Paperback US$24.95
New Studies in the Age of Goethe Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East
Claims that interpersonal recognition is constituted Does the study of aesthetics have tangible effects in
by performance, and brings performance theory into the real world? Does examining the work of diaspora
dialogue with poetics, politics, and philosophy. By writers and artists change our view of “the Other”? In
observing Odysseus figures from Homer to Kleist, this thoughtful book, Ebrahimi argues that an education
Ellwood Wiggins offers an alternative to conventional in the humanities is as essential as one in politics and
intellectual histories that situate the invention of the ethics, critically training the imagination toward greater
interior self in modernity. empathy.
Bucknell University Press University of Virginia Press
READING HOMER’S ODYSSEY ANECDOTES OF ENLIGHTENMENT
Human Nature from Locke to Wordsworth
Kostas Myrsiades
James Robert Wood
Apr 2019 375pp
9781684481361 Paperback US$24.95 Jun 2019 272pp, 4 b&w illustrations
9780813942209 Hardback US$49.50
For full details of this title, see page 52.
Provides a literary history of the anecdote in English.
Bucknell University Press Drawing on extensive archival research and emphasizing
the anecdote as a way of thinking, James Robert Wood
shows that an intimate relationship developed between
the anecdote and the Enlightenment concept of
human nature.
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LITERATURE
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
NOVEL CULTIVATIONS A WORLD OF DISORDERLY NOTIONS
Plants in British Literature of the Global Quixote and the Logic of Exceptionalism
Nineteenth Century
Aaron R. Hanlon
Elizabeth Hope Chang
May 2019 224pp, 4 b&w illustrations
Apr 2019 240pp 9780813942162 Hardback US$29.50
9780813942483 Paperback US$29.50
Under the Sign of Nature Examines the literary and political effects of Don Quixote,
arguing that what makes this iconic character so
Situated in a mid-Victorian moment of frenetic plant influential across oceans and cultures is not his madness
collecting from the far reaches of the British empire, Novel but his logic. Aaron Hanlon contends that the logic of
Cultivations recognises plants as vital and sentient subjects quixotism is in fact exceptionalism - the strategy of
that serve - often more so than people - as actors and rendering oneself an exception to everyone else’s rules.
narrative engines in the nineteenth-century novel.
OF LAND, BONES, AND MONEY COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
Toward a South African Ecopoetics
McFarland
Emily McGiffin
THE AGES OF THE FLASH
Jul 2019 256pp, 6 b&w illustrations Essays on the Fastest Man Alive
9780813942766 Paperback US$32.50
Under the Sign of Nature Edited by Joseph J. Darowski
The oral poets of the amaXhosa people have long shaped Feb 2019 170pp
understandings of history and offered a forum for grappling 9781476674445 Paperback US$29.95
with change. This book examines the role of these poets in
South African society and the ways in which they have helped While many superheroes have multiple powers and
inform responses to apartheid, the injustices of extractive complex gadgets, the Flash is simply fast. This simplicity
capitalism, and contemporary politics in South Africa. makes his character easily comprehendible. This
collection of essays serves as a stepping-stone to a
PUBLIC VOWS greater understanding of the Flash, examining iterations
Fictions of Marriage in the English of his character and what they reveal about the era in
Enlightenment which they were written.
Melissa J. Ganz
May 2019 328pp, 6 b&w illustrations
9780813942421 Hardback US$45.00
In eighteenth-century England, the institution of
marriage became the subject of heated debates, as
clerics, jurists, legislators, philosophers, and social
observers began rethinking its contractual foundation.
Public Vows argues that these debates shaped English
fiction in crucial and previously unrecognised ways.
TERRIBLE BEAUTY
The Violent Aesthetic and
Twentieth-Century Literature
Marian Eide
Mar 2019 336pp
9780813942377 Paperback US$39.50
Cultural Frames, Framing Culture
The ’century of trauma’ produced writing at once
saturated in political violence and complicated by the
ethics of aesthetic representation. Stretching across
genres and the globe, Terrible Beauty charts a course of
aesthetic reconciliation between empathy and evil in the
great literature of the twentieth century.
ARTS & HUMANITIES
LITERATURE
66 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
Naval Institute Press
NEW GRAPHIC NOVELS FROM THE NIGHT WITCHES
DEAD RECKONING
Garth Ennis
ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT Illustrated by Russ Braun
Erich Maria Remarque Mar 2019 256pp
Adapted by Wayne Vansant 9781682473900 Paperback US$24.95
Jun 2019 176pp As the German Army smashes into Soviet Russia and
9781682473337 Paperback US$24.95 defenders retreat in disarray a new squadron arrives at
a Russian forward airbase. Like all night bomber units
The estate of Erich Maria Remarque sanctioned this they will risk fiery death - but unlike the rest, these
adaptation of the author’s 1928 novel of the same name pilots and navigators are women. In the lethal skies of
a tale of WWI trench warfare retold here by cartoonist the Eastern front they will become a legend - known as
Wayne Vansant (Knights of the Skull), a Vietnam veteran. The Night Witches.
Dead Reckoning Dead Reckoning
KATUSHA STALINGRAD
Girl Soldier of the Great Patriotic War Letters from the Volga
Wayne Vansant Daniel Ortega
Illustrated by Antonio Gil
Feb 2019 576pp
9781682474259 Paperback US$26.00 May 2019 120pp
9781682473931 Paperback US$19.95
Seen through the eyes of a Ukrainian teenage girl
Katusha is not only a coming-of-age story but a carefully Stalingrad. The model industrial city bathed by the
researched account of one of the most turbulent and waters of the Volga, from the end of August 1942
important periods of the twentieth century. until the beginnings of February 1943, witnessed
the bloodiest battle of World War Two. This volume
Dead Reckoning presents the developments of the battle through the
eyes of Russian and German soldiers.
MEN AT SEA
Dead Reckoning
Riff Reb’s
Translated by Joe Johnson
Apr 2019 120pp
9781682473870 Paperback US$19.95
Presents eight spectacularly drawn dark poetic stories
adapted by Riff Reb’s. These eight tales, interspersed by
seven double-page spreads dedicated to extracts from
illustrated classics, deliver a rich poetic and masterfully
crafted work.
Dead Reckoning
ARTS & HUMANITIES 67
LITERATURE
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
University Press of Mississippi CHAM
The Best Comic Strips and Graphic Novelettes,
NEW IN PAPERBACK 1839-1862
BEN KATCHOR David Kunzle
Conversations
Feb 2019 538pp
Edited by Ian Gordon 9781496816184 Hardback US$90.00
Apr 2019 238pp, 30 b&w illustrations Cham, real name Count Amédée de Noé, may have been
9781496823359 Paperback US$25.00 the epitome of a célèbre inconnu, a famous unknown.
Conversations with Comic Artists Series He is one much deserving, at last, of this first account of
his huge oeuvre as a caricaturist. This book concentrates
Author Michael Chabon described Ben Katchor (b. 1951) on his mastery of the important newcomer to the field
as “the creator of the last great American comic strip.” of caricature, which we call comic strip, picture story, and
Katchor’s work is often described as zany or bizarre, and graphic novel.
author Douglas Wolk has characterized his work as “one
or two notches too far” beyond an absurdist reality. And THE COMICS OF JULIE
yet the work resonates with its audience. DOUCET AND
GABRIELLE BELL
NEW IN PAPERBACK A Place Inside Yourself
THE BRITISH Edited by Tahneer Oksman &
SUPERHERO Seamus O’Malley
Chris Murray Jan 2019 240pp
9781496821096 Paperback US$30.00
Jan 2019 318pp Critical Approaches to
9781496820266 Paperback US$30.00 Comics Artists Series
Reveals the largely unknown In a self-reflexive way, Julie
and rather surprising history Doucet’s and Gabrielle
of the British superhero. Bell’s comics, though often autobiographical, defy
It is often thought that easy categorization. This volume regards their art as
Britain did not have its own actively feminist, not only because they offer women’s
superheroes, yet Murray perspectives, but because they do so by provocatively
demonstrates that there were a great many in Britain bringing up the complicated, multivalent frameworks of
and that they were often used as a way to comment on such engagements.
the relationship between Britain and America.
THE COMICS OF RUTU MODAN
CAPTAIN MARVEL AND THE ART OF War, Love, and Secrets
NOSTALGIA
Kevin Haworth
Brian Cremins
Apr 2019 194pp, 29 b&w illustrations
Feb 2019 218pp 9781496821829 Paperback US$30.00
9781496820198 Paperback US$30.00 Great Comics Artists Series
The saga of Captain Marvel is also that of artist C.C. Beck Provides a close reading of Rutu Modan’s work and
and writer Otto Binder, one of the most innovative and examines her role in creating a comics arts scene in Israel.
prolific creative teams working during the Golden Age Drawing on archival research, Kevin Haworth traces
of comics in the US. Taking cues from Beck’s theories the history of Israeli comics from its beginning in the
of art and from the growing field of memory studies, 1930s, to the counterculture movement of the 1970s,
this book explains why we read comics and how we to the burst of creativity that began in the 1990s and
remember them. continues today.
ARTS & HUMANITIES
LITERATURE
68 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
NEW IN PAPERBACK Rutgers University Press
THE EXPANDING ART OF COMICS EC COMICS
Ten Modern Masterpieces Race, Shock, and Social Protest
Thierry Groensteen Qiana Whitted
Translated by Ann Miller
Mar 2019 164pp, 24 colour illustrations
Feb 2019 252pp 9780813566313 Paperback US$29.95
9781496820129 Paperback US$30.00 Comics Culture
Offers a distinct perspective on important evolutions in During its heyday in the early 1950s, EC Comics was
comics since the 1960s through close readings of ten an innovator in the so-called “preachies”, socially
seminal works. Thierry Groensteen covers over half a conscious stories that challenged the conservatism of
century of comics production, sampling a single work Eisenhower-era America. EC Comics examines a selection
from the sixties, seventies, eighties, and nineties, before of these works and explores how they grappled with the
delving into more recent masterpieces. civil rights struggle, antisemitism, and other forms of
prejudice.
GRAPHIC SATIRE IN THE SOVIET UNION
Krokodil’s Political Cartoons SERIAL SELVES
Identity and Representation in
John Etty Autobiographical Comics
Jan 2019 240pp Frederik Byrn Køhlert
9781496821089 Paperback US$30.00
Mar 2019 214pp, 50 b&w and colour images
After the death of Joseph Stalin, Soviet-era Russia 9780813592251 Paperback US$29.95
experienced a flourishing artistic movement due
to relaxed censorship and economic growth. In this Autobiography is one of the most dynamic and
atmosphere of freedom, Russia’s satirical magazine quickly-growing genres in contemporary comics and
Krokodil became rejuvenated. John Etty explores Soviet graphic narratives. In Serial Selves, Frederik Byrn Køhlert
graphic satire through Krokodil and its political cartoons. examines the genre’s potential for representing lives
and perspectives that have been socially marginalized or
excluded.
ARTS & HUMANITIES
MEDIA & COMMUNICATION 69
MEDIA & COMMUNICATION Lynne Rienner Publishers
The University of Georgia Press SURPRISING NEWS
How the Media Affect
NOT SO FAST - and Do Not Affect -
Thinking Twice Politics
About Technology
Kenneth Newton
Doug Hill
Jun 2019 250pp
Apr 2019 240pp 9781626377707 Paperback US$28.50
9780820355498 Paperback US$19.95
Recognising that differing
What is technology, and how forms of political
is it shaping us? In search communication have
of answers to those crucial differing effects on differing
questions, Not So Fast draws people, Kenneth Newton asks
on the insights of dozens why this occurs, and how.
of scholars and artists who The answers that he presents in offer an enlightening
have thought deeply about the meanings of machines. challenge to conventional wisdom in this age of fake
This book will help us understand the interconnected, news, post-truth, and claims about how digital media
interwoven, and interdependent phenomena of our has transformed politics.
technological world.
Melbourne University Publishing
University of Hawai’i Press ON US
POP EMPIRES Mark Scott
Transnational and Diasporic Flows of India
and Korea Apr 2019 277pp
9780522875164 Paperback US$10.97
Edited by S. Heijin Lee, Monika Mehta & Robert Ji-Song Ku
On Series
Jul 2019 360pp, 15 b&w illustrations
9780824880002 Paperback US$30.00 The new media is enabling
Asia Pop! despots and disempowering
democracy. So when every
For full details of this title, see page 72. opinion seems to matter
equally, On Us offers a
Holy Trinity Publications few more on choice in a
concentrated media world
and asks why more information often means less insight.
THE NEW MEDIA EPIDEMIC
The Undermining of Society, Family, and
Our Own Soul
Jean-Claude Larchet
Translated by Archibald Andrew Torrance
Mar 2019 208pp
9780884654711 Paperback US$21.95
For full details of this title, see page 93.
ARTS & HUMANITIES
70 MEDIA & COMMUNICATION · MYTHOLOGY & FOLKLORE
University of Michigan Press MYTHOLOGY & FOLKLORE
#IDENTITY McFarland
Hashtagging Race,
Gender, Sexuality, ROBOTS THAT KILL
and Nation Deadly Machines and Their Precursors in
Myth, Folklore, Literature, Popular Culture
Abigail De Kosnik & and Reality
Keith Feldman
Judith A. Markowitz
Apr 2019 344pp, 20 figures, 3 tables
9780472054152 Paperback US$34.95 Apr 2019 131pp
9781476668130 Paperback US$39.95
Addresses the positive and
negative effects of Twitter For full details of this title, see page 59.
on our contemporary world.
Collectively, the essays in University Press of Mississippi
this volume offer a critically
interdisciplinary view of how and why social media has FOLKLORE IN
been at the heart of US and global political discourse for BALTIC HISTORY
over a decade. Resistance and
Resurgence
University of Pittsburgh Press
Sadhana Naithani
NEWS FROM MARS
Mass Media and the Forging of a New Jun 2019 80pp
Astronomy, 1860-1910 9781496823571 Paperback US$30.00
Joshua Nall Explores the role of folklore,
folklore archives, and folklore
Apr 2019 277pp, 20 b&w illustrations studies in the contemporary
9780822945529 Hardback US$50.00 history of Estonia, Latvia,
Science & Culture in the Nineteenth Century and Lithuania. Sadhana
Naithani combines the study of written works, archival
For full details of this title, see page 37. documents, life-stories, and conversations with
folklorists, ethnologists, archivists, and historians in
ON THE END OF PRIVACY Tartu, Riga, and Vilnius.
Learning to Read, Write and Think in a
Screen-Centric World IMPLIED NOWHERE
Absence in Folklore Studies
Richard E. Miller
Shelley Ingram, Willow G. Mullins & Todd Richardson
Feb 2019 277pp, 10 illustrations Foreword by Sw. Anand Prahlad
9780822965688 Paperback US$29.95
Composition, Literacy, and Culture May 2019 224pp, 12 b&w illustrations
9781496822963 Paperback US$30.00
Explores how literacy is being transformed in an age
of electronic innovation and intrusion. To make this Talks about things folklorists don’t usually talk about.
abstract concern concrete, Miller follows the story of The authors ponder the tacit aspects of folklore
a student from the summer prior to his enrolment to and folklore studies, looking into the unarticulated
his suicide in the fall of 2010 and on through the trial, expectations placed upon people whenever they talk
appeal, and court ruling regarding his roommate, who about folklore and how those expectations necessarily
spied on him via webcam. affect the folklore they are talking about.
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MYTHOLOGY & FOLKLORE · PERFORMING ARTS
DANCE
University of Virginia Press PERFORMING ARTS
EVERGREEN ASH DANCE
Ecology and Catastrophe in Old Norse Myth
and Literature University Press of Florida
Christopher Abram DANCING IN BLACKNESS
A Memoir
Feb 2019 256pp
9780813942278 Paperback US$32.50 Halifu Osumare
Under the Sign of Nature Foreword by Brenda Dixon Gottschild
Most of the Old Norse texts that preserve the myths of Mar 2019 352pp, 20 b&w illustrations
Ragnarok originated in Iceland. As the first full-length 9780813064321 Paperback US$26.95
ecocritical study of Old Norse myth and literature,
Evergreen Ash argues that Ragnarok is primarily a story Presents a professional dancer’s personal journey over
of ecological collapse that reflects the anxieties of early four decades, across three continents and 23 countries,
Icelanders who were trying to make a home in a hostile and through defining moments in the story of black
environment. dance in America. In this memoir, Halifu Osumare
reflects on what blackness and dance have meant to her
The University of Wisconsin Press life and international career.
INARI SÁMI FOLKLORE University of Michigan Press
Stories from Aanaar
THE BODIES OF OTHERS
August V. Koskimies & Toivo I. Itkonen Drag Dances and Their Afterlives
Edited by Lea Laitinen
Selby Wynn Schwartz
Jan 2019 344pp, 2 maps, 8 b&w photos
9780299319007 Hardback US$79.95 Mar 2019 288pp, 22 photos
9780472054091 Paperback US$34.95
A rich multivoiced anthology of folktales, legends, Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance
joik songs, proverbs, riddles, and other verbal art, this
is a comprehensive collection of Sámi oral tradition Explores the politics of gender in motion. From drag
in English. Collected by August Koskimies and Toivo ballerinas to faux queens, and from butoh divas to the
Itkonen in the 1880s, the material reveals a complex club mothers of modern dance, this book delves into
web of social relations that existed both inside and four decades of drag dances on American stages, tracing
beyond the community. the ways in which bodies can be imagined otherwise.
ARTS & HUMANITIES
PERFORMING ARTS
72 FILM & TV
FILM & TV University of Iowa Press
Academic Studies Press DISNEY’S STAR WARS
Forces of Production, Promotion, and
THE RUSSIAN CINEMA READER Reception
Contemporary Russian Cinema 2005-2015
Edited by William Proctor & Richard McCulloch
Edited by Rimgaila Salys
Jul 2019 416pp
May 2019 360pp, 54 illustrations 9781609386436 Paperback US$65.00
9781618119643 Paperback US$29.95
Film and Media Studies Covering the period from Disney’s purchase to the
release of The Force Awakens, the book reveals how
Provides an introduction to significant Russian films fans anticipated, interpreted, and responded to the
released between 2005 and 2016 that are also available steady stream of production stories, gossip, marketing
with English subtitles. The twenty-one essays on materials, merchandise, and other sources in the build-
individual films provide background information on up to the movie’s release.
directors’ careers, detailed analyses of selected films,
along with suggested further readings both in English McFarland
and Russian.
COWBOY COURAGE
University of Hawai’i Press Westerns and the Portrayal of Bravery
ANIMATED ENCOUNTERS William Hampes
Transnational Movements of Chinese
Animation, 1940s-1970s Feb 2019 170pp
9781476676067 Paperback US$39.95
Daisy Yan Du
Film and television Westerns are most often associated
Feb 2019 328pp, 33 b&w illustrations with physical bravery. However, many also demonstrate
9780824877644 Paperback US$30.00 moral bravery and psychological bravery. Through a
Asia Pop! close examination of Westerns displaying all three types
of bravery, the author shows us how courage can lead
China’s role in the history of world animation has to, and even enrich, other virtues such as redemption,
been trivialized or largely forgotten. In Animated authenticity, and love.
Encounters, Daisy Yan Du addresses this omission in her
study of Chinese animation and its engagement with FILM APPRECIATION
international forces during its formative period, the THROUGH GENRES
1940s-1970s.
Michael Patrick Gillespie
POP EMPIRES
Transnational and Diasporic Flows of Mar 2019 160pp
India and Korea 9781476676395 Paperback US$35.00
Edited by S. Heijin Lee, Monika Mehta & Robert Ji-Song Ku Many intelligent, enthusiastic
individuals approach
Jul 2019 360pp, 15 b&w illustrations conversations about films
9780824880002 Paperback US$30.00 as an extension of the
Asia Pop! pleasures derived while
watching them. Love for
Bollywood” and “Hallyu” are increasingly competing movies and enthusiasm
with “Hollywood” - either replacing it or filling a for discussion makes many people want to attain a
void in places where it never held sway. This critical better understanding of what they have seen and to
multidisciplinary anthology places the mediascapes of develop a greater skill in talking articulately about their
India, South Korea, and the US in comparative dialogue experiences.
to explore the transnational flows of technology, capital,
and labour.
ARTS & HUMANITIES 73
PERFORMING ARTS
FILM & TV
GEORGE STEVENS THE MANY LIVES OF THE EVIL DEAD
The Films of a Hollywood Giant Essays on the Cult Film Franchise
Neil Sinyard Edited by Ron Riekki & Jeffrey A. Sartain
May 2019 238pp Feb 2019 185pp
9780786477753 Paperback US$45.00 9781476668710 Paperback US$39.95
Winner of two Best Director Oscars, George Stevens Examining the legacy of one of the all-time great
excelled in a range of genres, gave lustre to some of horror films, this collection of new essays covers the Evil
Hollywood’s brightest stars and was revered by his peers. Dead franchise from a range of perspectives. Topics
Yet his work has been largely neglected by critics and include punk rock cinema, the Deadites’ place in the
scholars. This career retrospective highlights Stevens’ American zombie tradition, the powers and limitations
achievements, particularly in his sweeping “American of Deadites, evil as affect, and the films’ satire of
Dream” trilogy. neoliberal individualism.
HITCHCOCK AND HUMOR PRIMAL ROOTS OF HORROR CINEMA
Comedic Elements in Twelve Defining Films Evolutionary Psychology and Narratives of
Fear
Wes D. Gehring
Carrol L. Fry
Apr 2019 241pp
9781476673561 Paperback US$39.95 Feb 2019 188pp
9781476674278 Paperback US$39.95
The author grew tired of misleading throwaway
references to the Alfred Hitchcock’s “comic relief.” This Evolutionary criticism tells us much about our tastes in
book examines what should be obvious: Hitchcock the arts. But an understanding of how primal narratives
systematically incorporated assorted types of comedy influence our response to films or novels that enact
- black humour, parody, farce/screwball comedy and them also leads us to a new understanding of human
romantic comedy - in his films to entertain his audience nature and how the adaptive strategies of our ancestors
with “comic” thrillers. can create dysfunction in a modern setting.
ITALIAN GOTHIC HORROR FILMS, THE PSYCHOLOGY OF MOVIEGOING
1980-1989 Choosing, Viewing and Being Influenced by
Films
Roberto Curti
Ashton D. Trice & Hunter W. Greer
Feb 2019 200pp
9781476672434 Paperback US$45.00 Mar 2019 176pp
9781476677248 Paperback US$39.95
Examines the Italian Gothic films of the 1980s. The book
includes previously unpublished trivia and production Looks at how psychological theory can help us
data taken from official archive papers, original scripts understand an everyday behaviour - going to the
and interviews with filmmakers, scriptwriters and movies. The book investigates what psychologists
actors. Entries include a complete cast and crew list, plot scholars have discovered about how we choose a movie,
summary, production history and analysis. how we process the sounds and images, and how
movies influence our behaviours, attitudes, and beliefs.
THE KELVIN TIMELINE OF STAR TREK
Essays on J.J. Abrams’ Final Frontier SEEING THE BEAT GENERATION
Entering the Literature Through Film
Edited by Matthew Wilhelm Kapell & Ace G. Pilkington
Raj Chandarlapaty
May 2019 169pp
9781476669663 Paperback US$39.95 Apr 2019 183pp
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In an era of reboots, restarts and retreads,
J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek trilogy has brought the franchise Film adaptations of Beat literature have proven to
to a new generation and perfected a process central to engage students. This book looks closely at the film
entertainment media: reinvigorating the beloved classic. adaptations of works by such authors as Jack Kerouac,
This book offers the first in-depth analysis of the new Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, Carolyn
trilogy and the vision of the next generation of Star Cassady, Amiri Baraka and Lawrence Ferlinghetti, as they
Trek filmmakers. relate to American history and literary studies.
ARTS & HUMANITIES
PERFORMING ARTS
74 FILM & TV
TAKASHI SHIMURA BUMPY ROAD
Chameleon of Japanese Cinema The Making, Flop, and Revival of
Two-Lane Blacktop
Scott Allen Nollen
Sylvia Townsend
Mar 2019 207pp
9781476670133 Paperback US$39.95 Jan 2019 240pp
9781496820952 Paperback US$30.00
Considered one of the finest performers in world cinema,
Japanese actor Takashi Shimura (1905-1982) appeared Chronicles the genesis, production, box-office debacle,
in more than 300 stage, film and television roles during resurrection, near-canonization, and lasting influence of
his five-decade career. This is the first complete English- director Monte Hellman’s 1971 existentialist car-racing
language account of Shimura’s work. In addition to movie. Sylvia Townsend conducts a comprehensive
historical and critical coverage, it includes an extensive examination of the film, its reception, and the
filmography. resurgence of interest it has more recently generated.
TONY SCOTT CHINA IN THE MIX
A Filmmaker on Fire Cinema, Sound, and Popular Culture in the
Age of Globalization
Larry Taylor
Ying Xiao
Feb 2019 149pp
9781476675664 Paperback US$35.00 Mar 2019 326pp, 20 b&w illustrations
9781496823472 Paperback US$30.00
Tony Scott was a thrill seeker
who lived and loved life to Scarce attention has been paid to the dimension of
the fullest... He was also one sound and its essential role in constructing image,
of the more cutting edge culture, and identity in Chinese film and media. China
filmmakers of his generation. in the Mix fills a critical void with the first book on the
With original interviews from sound, languages, scenery, media, and culture in post-
actors, cinematographers, Socialist China.
and writers, Scott’s larger-than-life persona is covered in
great detail, from the early days of his life and career, to THE FILMS OF DOUGLAS SIRK
its untimely end. Exquisite Ironies and Magnificent Obsessions
University Press of Mississippi Tom Ryan
BARBARA KOPPLE Jun 2019 320pp, 44 b&w illustrations
Interviews 9781496822376 Paperback US$30.00
Edited by Gregory Brown Douglas Sirk (1897-1987) brought to all his work a
distinctive style that led to his reputation as one of
Mar 2019 214pp twentieth-century film’s great directors. This book offers
9781496823298 Paperback US$25.00 fresh insights into all of the director’s films and situates
Conversations with Filmmakers Series them in the culture of their times. Tom Ryan also
incorporates extensive interview material drawn from a
Barbara Kopple has established herself as one of the variety of sources.
most prolific filmmakers of her generation. Her projects
have ranged from documentaries to feature films to an
educational series for kids. Through it all, Kopple has
made herself available for many print and broadcast
interviews. The most revealing of these are brought
together in this volume.
ARTS & HUMANITIES 75
PERFORMING ARTS
FILM & TV
JAFAR PANAHI Rutgers University Press
Interviews
BORDER CINEMA
Edited by Drew Todd Reimagining Identity Through Aesthetics
Jun 2019 176pp Edited by Monica Hanna & Rebecca A. Sheehan
9781496823205 Paperback US$25.00
Conversations with Filmmakers Series Mar 2019 244pp, 10 illustrations
9781978803152 Paperback US$29.95
Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi is as famous for his Global Media and Race
remarkable films as for his courageous defiance of Iran’s
state censorship. In sparkling, lively interviews, Panahi Demonstrates how border cinema resists contemporary
reveals his influences, politics, and filmmaking practices, border fortification processes, showing how cinematic
and explains the challenges he faces while working media have functioned to engender shifts in identities
within (and often around) Iran’s heavily restricted film while proposing alternative conceptions of these
industry. identities to those promulgated by the current political
rhetoric and ideologies that represent a backlash to
PULLING A RABBIT globalization.
OUT OF A HAT
The Making of CRIMINALIZATION/
Roger Rabbit ASSIMILATION
Chinese/Americans and
Ross Anderson Chinatowns in Classical
Hollywood Film
Jun 2019 352pp,
30 b&w illustrations Philippa Gates
9781496822338 Paperback US$30.00
Mar 2019 280pp, 15 images
Ross Anderson interviewed 9780813589411 Paperback US$34.95
over 140 artists to tell the
story of how, with Who Traces how Classical
Framed Roger Rabbit, they Hollywood films constructed
created something truly America’s image of Chinese
magical. Anderson describes the ways in which the Americans from their
Roger Rabbit characters have been used in film shorts, criminalization as unwanted
commercials, and merchandising, and how they have immigrants to their eventual acceptance when
remained a cultural touchstone today. assimilated citizens, exploiting both America’s yellow
peril fears about Chinese immigration and its fascination
Northwestern University Press with Chinatowns.
HITCHCOCK’S PEOPLE, PLACES, DEAD AND ALIVE
AND THINGS The Body as a Cinematic Thing
John Bruns Lesley Stern
May 2019 232pp, 30 b&w images Feb 2019 60pp
9780810139954 Paperback US$34.95 9780981191454 Paperback US$12.95
Kino-Agora
Argues that Alfred Hitchcock was as much a filmmaker
of things and places as he was of people. Drawing on the Lesley Stern is more interested in things than in death.
thought of Bruno Latour, John Bruns traces the complex It is thus the liveliness of corpses that lures her. Not
relations of human and nonhuman agents in Hitchcock’s dead bodies which act as though they were alive, nor
films with the aim of mapping the Hitchcock landscape live bodies which may really be dead, nor bodies which
cognitively, affectively, and politically. may in fact be composited, or even digitally constructed
bodies. Rather, ordinary, old-fashioned bodies.
Caboose
ARTS & HUMANITIES
PERFORMING ARTS
76 FILM & TV
THE MOVIES AS A TRANSGENDER CINEMA
WORLD FORCE
American Silent Cinema Rebecca Bell-Metereau
and the Utopian
Imagination Mar 2019 130pp
9780813597331 Paperback US$17.95
Ryan Jay Friedman Quick Takes: Movies and Popular Culture
Feb 2019 232pp, Gives readers the big picture of how trans people have
25 b&w illustrations been depicted on screen. The book examines a plethora
9780813593593 Paperback US$29.95 of trans portrayals that emerged from varied media
outlets, including documentary films, television serials,
Throughout the silent- and world cinema. Along the way, it analyses milestones
feature era, American artists in trans representation.
and intellectuals routinely
described cinema as a force of global communion, a UNDEAD ENDS
universal language promoting mutual understanding Stories of Apocalypse
and harmonious coexistence amongst disparate groups
of people. This book examines the body of writing S. Trimble
in which this understanding of cinema emerged and
explores how it shaped particular silent films. May 2019 224pp,
15 b&w illustrations
THE NEW CINEPHILIA 9780813593647 Paperback US$29.95
Girish Shambu Examines how we imagine
humanness and survival in
Feb 2019 65pp the aftermath of disaster.
9780991830183 Paperback US$12.95 The book frames modern
Kino-Agora British and American
apocalypse films as sites of
Cinephilic practice today - viewing, thinking, reading interpretive struggle, and
and writing about films - is marked by an unprecedented asks what is ending? Whose dreams of starting over
amount of social interaction, made possible by take centre stage? And how do these films make room
dramatically lower economic barriers to publication to dream of new beginnings that don’t just reboot the
through the internet, giving rise to new hybrid forms of world we know?
cinephilic writing that draw from scholarly, journalistic
and literary models. Syracuse University Press
Caboose
SOME KIND OF MIRROR BECOMING
Creating Marilyn Monroe Genre, Queerness, and Transformation in
NBC’s Hannibal
Amanda Konkle
Edited by Kavita Mudan Finn & E. J. Nielsen
Feb 2019 280pp, 31 b&w illustrations
9781978802612 Paperback US$29.95 May 2019 328pp
9780815636366 Paperback US$34.95
Offers the first extended scholarly analysis of Marilyn Television and Popular Culture
Monroe’s film performances, examining how they united
the contradictory discourses about women’s roles in Explores questions of authorship and audience
1950s America. Amanda Konkle suggests that Monroe’s response as well as themes of horror, gore,
star persona resonated with audiences precisely because cannibalism, queerness, and transformation in the NBC
it engaged with the era’s critical debates regarding series Hannibal. Contributors also address Hannibal’s
femininity, sexuality, marriage, and political activism. distinctive visual, auditory, and narrative style.
ARTS & HUMANITIES 77
PERFORMING ARTS
FILM & TV · MUSIC
GLADIATORS IN SUITS DECODING DYLAN
Race, Gender, and the Politics of Making Sense of the
Representation in Scandal Songs That Changed
Modern Culture
Edited by Simone Puff, Kimberly R. Moffitt &
Ronald L. Jackson Jim Curtis
May 2019 400pp May 2019 149pp
9780815636403 Paperback US$39.95 9781476678450 Paperback US$35.00
Television and Popular Culture
Taking readers behind Bob
Analyses the communication, politics, stereotypes, Dylan’s familiar image as
and genre techniques featured in the television the enigmatic rebel of the
series Scandal while raising key questions about the 1960s, this book reveals
intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and viewing a different view-that of
audiences. a careful craftsman and
student of the art of songwriting.
Wayne State University Press
University of Michigan Press
AFRICAN AMERICAN CINEMA THROUGH
BLACK LIVES CONSCIOUSNESS THE BEATLES THROUGH A GLASS ONION
Reconsidering the White Album
Edited by Mark A. Reid
Mark Osteen
Jan 2019 312pp, 34 b&w images
9780814345481 Paperback US$29.99 Mar 2019 328pp, 15 musical examples
9780472074082 Hardback US$80.00
Uses critical race theory to discuss American films that Tracking Pop
embrace contemporary issues of race, sexuality, class,
and gender. Its linear history chronicles black-oriented The Beatles, the 1968 double LP more commonly
narrative film from post-World War II through the known as the White Album, has always been viewed
presidential administration of Barack Obama. as an oddity in the group’s oeuvre. Many have found it
to be inconsistent, sprawling, and self-indulgent. The
MUSIC Beatles through a Glass Onion is the first-ever scholarly
volume to explore this seminal recording at length.
McFarland University Press of Mississippi
BLACK CLASSICAL MUSICIANS AND ANALYSIS OF JAZZ
COMPOSERS, 1500-2000 A Comprehensive Approach
Rodreguez King-Dorset Laurent Cugny
Apr 2019 135pp Apr 2019 384pp, 78 b&w illustrations
9781476669762 Paperback US$39.95 9781496821898 Paperback US$35.00
American Made Music Series
Covering the lives and works of such composers as
Chevalier de Saint-Georges, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, In this groundbreaking volume, Laurent Cugny examines
Scott Joplin and Margaret Alison Bonds, this book and connects the theoretical and methodological
examines the black classical music legacy with profiles processes that underlie all of jazz. Jazz in all its forms is
of key artists who made valuable contributions that researched and analysed by performers, scholars, and
impacted classical music from the 16th through the 21st critics. This book is required reading for any serious study
century. of jazz.
ARTS & HUMANITIES
PERFORMING ARTS
78 MUSIC
CREOLE TROMBONE TIME OF MY LIFE
Kid Ory and the Early Years of Jazz A Jazz Journey from London to New Orleans
John McCusker Clive Wilson
Foreword by Thomas A. Sancton
Mar 2019 272pp
9781496823427 Paperback US$25.00 Apr 2019 202pp, 30 b&w illustrations
9781496821171 Hardback US$25.00
American Made Music Series American Made Music Series
Edward ’Kid’ Ory (1886-1973) was a trombonist, New Orleans is a Mecca for jazz pilgrims. This memoir
composer, recording artist, and early New Orleans jazz tells the story of one aspiring pilgrim, Clive Wilson, who
band leader. Creole Trombone tells his story from birth fell in love with New Orleans jazz in his early teens while
on a rural sugar cane plantation in a French-speaking, in boarding school in England.
ethnically mixed family, to his emergence in New Orleans
as the city’s hottest band leader.
DICK WATERMAN The University of North Carolina Press
A Life in Blues
MUSIC MAKERS
Tammy L. Turner Portraits and Songs from the Roots of
Foreword by Edward Komara America
May 2019 304pp, Edited by Timothy Duffy
38 b&w illustrations Foreword by B.B. King
9781496822697 Hardback US$28.00
American Made Music Series Feb 2019 216pp, 142 illustrations
9781469651699 Paperback US$30.00
During his career, Dick
Waterman befriended and Features photographs, biographies, interviews, and
worked with numerous lyrics from sixty-six real and rooted originals such
musicians, including as Beverly ’Guitar’ Watkins, Cootie Stark, Mudcat,
such luminaries as B.B. Macavine Hayes, and Drink Small. The music of
King, Bonnie Raitt, Taj Mahal, and Eric Clapton. This America exists in these largely forgotten artists who
authorised biography is the crescendo of years of original link us back to our earliest history.
research as well as extensive interviews conducted with
Waterman and those who knew and worked with him. Rutgers University Press
THE ORIGINAL BLUES DESTRUCTIVE DESIRES
The Emergence of the Blues in African Rhythm and Blues Culture and the Politics of
American Vaudeville Racial Equality
Lynn Abbott & Doug Seroff Robert J. Patterson
Mar 2019 432pp, 187 b&w illustrations Apr 2019 206pp, 25 illustrations
9781496823267 Paperback US$40.00 9781978803589 Paperback US$29.95
American Made Music Series
Analyses how post-Civil Rights era rhythm and blues
With this volume, Lynn Abbott and Doug Seroff culture articulates competing and conflicting political,
complete their groundbreaking trilogy on the social, familial, and economic desires within and for
development of African American popular music. The African American communities.
authors bring to life the performers, entrepreneurs,
critics, venues, and institutions that were most crucial to
the emergence of the blues in black southern vaudeville
theatres.
ARTS & HUMANITIES
PHILOSOPHY 79
PHILOSOPHY The Catholic University of America Press
Academic Studies Press THE ETHICS OF ST. THOMAS AQUINAS
Happiness, Natural Law, and the Virtues
THE EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN ARTS
Aesthetics After Darwin. Competition, Leo J. Elders
Cooperation, Self-Transformation: Alexander
G. Baumgarten, Alexander von Humboldt, Feb 2019 316pp
Immanuel Kant, and Lawrence Sterne 9780813231983 Paperback US$34.95
Winfried Menninghaus Presents Thomas Aquinas’s thought on such central
questions as man’s happiness, how to determine the
Jun 2019 200pp morality of our actions, the natural law and the main
9781644690000 Hardback US$99.00 virtues, as well as on the common good, war, human
Evolution, Cognition, and the Arts labour, love and friendship. Throughout the book
the intellectual character of this moral philosophy is
Discusses Competitive Courtship and Aesthetic pointed out.
Judgement/Choice; The Arts as Promoters of Social
Cooperation and Cohesion; Engagement in the Arts as NEW IN PAPERBACK
Ontogenetic Self-(Trans-)Formation; and A Cooptation
Model of the Evolution of the Human Arts. KAROL WOJTYLA’S PERSONALIST
PHILOSOPHY
Broadview Press Understanding ‘Person and Act’
PHILEBUS Miguel Acosta & Adrian J. Reimers
Plato Jan 2019 288pp
Edited by James Wood 9780813231976 Paperback US$34.95
Mar 2019 200pp For full details of this title, see page 59.
9781554813735 Paperback US$17.95
ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF PHILOSOPHY
One of Plato’s more sophisticated dialogues, Philebus is
presented here in a thoroughly-annotated translation Brian J. Shanley
informed by recent scholarship.
Jan 2019 312pp
Canadian Scholars 9780813232102 Paperback US$34.95
Studies in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy, Vol. 36
CLASSICAL SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY
Written by acknowledged experts in their fields, the
Irving M. Zeitlin essays in this collection provide a unique overview of
philosophical developments in the twentieth century.
Mar 2019 290pp The broad range of topics considered makes the book an
9781773381015 Paperback US$64.95 invaluable reference work.
For full details of this title, see page 92. THOMISTIC EXISTENTIALISM AND
COSMOLOGICAL REASONING
John F.X. Knasas
Jun 2019 328pp
9780813231853 Hardback US$65.00
Cosmological reasoning is an important facet of
classical arguments for the existence of God, but
these arguments have been subject to may criticisms.
The thesis of this book is that Thomas Aquinas can
dodge many of the classic objections brought against
cosmological reasoning.
ARTS & HUMANITIES
80 PHILOSOPHY
Cognella Academic Publishing Northwestern University Press
FROM WONDER DISTRIBUTIONS OF THE SENSIBLE
TO WISDOM Rancière, Between Aesthetics and Politics
Introductory Readings
in Philosophy Scott Durham & Dilip Gaonkar
Edited by Fidel A. Arnecillo Jr. Jun 2019 264pp, 7 b&w images
9780810140271 Paperback US$39.95
Jan 2019 222pp
9781516531745 Paperback US$71.95 Jacques Rancière’s work is increasingly central to several
debates across the humanities. Distributions of the
Presents key, foundational Sensible confronts a question at the heart of his thought:
selections in Western How should we conceive the relationship between the
philosophy. This anthology “politics of aesthetics” and the “aesthetics of politics”?
features engaging readings about God, the mind,
knowledge, and human morality to help students better HEGEL’S THEORY OF NORMATIVITY
understand both themselves and those around them. The Systematic Foundations of the
Philosophical Science of Right
EDITIONES SCHOLASTICAE
Kevin Thompson
ARISTOTLE’S REVENGE
The Metaphysical Foundations of Physical and May 2019 144pp
Biological Science 9780810139923 Paperback US$34.95
Richard Feser Hegel’s Elements of the Philosophy of Right offers an
innovative account of normativity, yet the theory rests
Jan 2019 515pp on philosophical foundations that have remained largely
9783868382006 Paperback US$33.00 obscure. Kevin Thompson proposes an interpretation of
the foundations that underlie Hegel’s theory: its method
Actuality and potentiality, substantial form and prime of justification, its concept of freedom, and its account
matter, efficient causality and teleology are among the of right.
fundamental concepts of Aristotelian philosophy of
nature. Aristotle’s Revenge argues that these concepts KANTIAN TRANSPOSITIONS
are not only compatible with modern science, but are Derrida and the Philosophy of Religion
implicitly presupposed by modern science.
Eddis N. Miller
University of Michigan Press
Jun 2019 152pp
KANT’S INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS 9780810140929 Paperback US$39.95
The Political Theology of Perpetual Peace
Presents an important new reading of Jacques
Sean Patrick Molloy Derrida’s writings on religion and ethics. Eddis Miller
argues that Derrida’s late texts on religion constitute
Jan 2019 270pp an interrogation of the meaning and possibility of a
9780472037391 Paperback US$29.95 “philosophy of religion”.
Why does Immanuel Kant consistently invoke God KANT’S NONIDEAL THEORY OF POLITICS
and Providence in his most prominent texts relating
to international politics? In this wide-ranging study, Dilek Huseyinzadegan
Seán Molloy proposes that these texts cannot be
fully understood without reference to Kant’s wider Apr 2019 224pp
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in God.
Argues that Kant’s political thought must be understood
by reference to his philosophy of history, cultural
anthropology, and geography. The thesis is that Kant’s
assessment of the politically salient features of history,
culture, and geography generates a non-ideal theory
of politics, which supplements his ideal theory of
cosmopolitanism.
ARTS & HUMANITIES
PHILOSOPHY 81
SPECULATION MIKHAIL BAKHTIN
Politics, Ideology, Event The Duvakin Interviews, 1973
Glyn Daly Mikhail Bakhtin
Edited by Slav N. Gratchev & Margarita Marinova
Mar 2019 232pp
9780810139350 Paperback US$34.95 Jun 2019 224pp
Diaeresis 9781684480906 Paperback US$19.95
Develops Hegel’s radical In 1973 Viktor Duvakin taped six interviews with Mikhail
perspective of speculative Bakhtin over twelve hours. They remain our primary
thought as a way of source of Bakhtin’s personal views. Mikhail Bakhtin: The
reclaiming and revitalizing Duvakin Interviews, 1973, translated and annotated here
the sense of the future and from the tapes, offers a fuller, more flexible image of
its possibilities. Glyn Daly Bakhtin than we could have imagined beneath his now
articulates the distinctness of famous texts.
speculative philosophy and draws its implications for new
debates in areas of science, politics, capitalism, ideology, Bucknell University Press
ethics, and the event.
University of Notre Dame Press
THINKING AND THE I
Hegel and the Critique of Kant CURING MAD
TRUTHS
Alfredo Ferrarin Medieval Wisdom for
the Modern Age
Mar 2019 292pp
9780810139381 Paperback US$34.95 Rémi Brague
What is the relation between thinking and the I that Jun 2019 152pp
thinks? And between thought and reality? The ordinary 9780268105693 Hardback US$35.00
view is that there is only thought when someone thinks Catholic Ideas for a Secular World
something, and thoughts and concepts are mental
acts that refer to objects outside us. Ferrarin shows Based on a number of
that Hegel’s philosophy entails a radical criticism of this Rémi Brague’s lectures to
conception of thinking. English-speaking audiences,
this book explores the idea
Rutgers University Press that humanity must return
to the Middle Ages. Not the Middle Ages of purported
THE ART OF TIME backwardness and barbarism, but rather a Middle Ages
Levinas, Ethics, and the Contemporary that understood creation - including human beings - as
Peninsular Novel the product of an intelligent and benevolent God.
Nina L. Molinaro DEATH
A Reader
Jul 2019 250pp0
9781684481279 Paperback US$29.95 Edited by Mary Ann G. Cutter
Emmanuel Levinas’s voice is crucial to the resurging Jun 2019 376pp
global attention to ethics because he grapples with 9780268100537 Paperback US$35.00
the quintessential problem of alterity or ’otherness’,
which he conceptualizes as the articulation of, and prior Despite the fact that we all die, humans do not share the
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EMERGENCE POLITICS &
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University of Michigan Press THE QUALITY OF DIVIDED DEMOCRACIES
Minority Inclusion, Exclusion, and
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Northwestern University Press PATHS FOR CUBA
Reforming Communism in Comparative
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University of Pittsburgh Press Genocide, Political Violence, Human Rights
THE DICTATOR DILEMMA In the aftermath of the genocide, the Rwandan
The United States and Paraguay government has used the education system as a way to
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Syracuse University Press AVOIDING WAR WITH CHINA
Two Nations, One World
FAITH AND POLITICS IN THE PUBLIC SPHERE
The Gulen Movement and the Mormon Church Amitai Etzioni
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TRUMP
University of Virginia Press The First Two Years
AFTER VIRGINIA TECH Michael Nelson
Guns, Safety, and Healing in the Era of
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Thomas P. Kapsidelis Miller Center Studies on the Presidency
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RELIGION THE CHRISTIAN MOSES
From Philo to the Qur’an
The Catholic University of America Press
Philip Rousseau & Janet A. Timbie
AQUINAS ON TRANSUBSTANTIATION
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Explores one of the most frequently misunderstood its relationship with the Jewish tradition. The process
teachings of Thomas Aquinas - Eucharistic involved a number of preoccupations and challenges.
transubstantiation. The study interprets Aquinas’s The essays in this volume were developed within this
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theologically and philosophically the profound thesis
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THE BOOK OF ACTS Leo J. Elders
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the different fields of Christian thinking. It highlights the
Reinhard Hutter importance of their writings for the spiritual life and the
nourishment that they thus offer to our times.
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KAROL WOJTYLA’S PERSONALIST
Discusses St. Thomas Aquinas’s theology of beatitude PHILOSOPHY
and the journey thereto. Consequently, the work’s topic Understanding ‘Person and Act’
is the meaning and purpose of human life embedded in
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Provides a clear guide to Karol Wojtyla’s principal
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well as the best translations into Italian and Spanish,
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NAMING OUR SINS McFarland
How Recognizing the Seven Deadly Vices Can
Renew the Sacrament of Reconciliation JEWISH EDINBURGH
A History, 1880-1950
Jana Bennett & David Cloutier
M.D. Gilfillan
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Brings together some of the best of the current
generation of moral theologians in order to reflect on For full details of this title, see page 46.
the classic tradition of the vices. Each chapter takes on a
different classical vice, describing the vice, exploring its The University of North Carolina Press
dimensions in contemporary experience, and moving
the reader toward naming specific sins that arise from FINDING GOD THROUGH YOGA
the vice. Paramahansa Yogananda and Modern
American Religion in a Global Age
THOMISTIC EXISTENTIALISM AND
COSMOLOGICAL REASONING David J. Neumann
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Jun 2019 328pp
9780813231853 Hardback US$65.00 Paramahansa Yogananda (1893-1952), a Hindu
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For full details of this title, see page 79. highly acclaimed spiritual classics, Autobiography of a
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CONVERSATIONS WITH MY HEART
Contemplations On God and the World IN A PURE MUSLIM LAND
Shi’ism Between Pakistan and the Middle East
Anastasy Gribanovsky
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Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks
Metropolitan Anastasy was a leading figure of the
Russian emigration following the Communist takeover Centering Pakistan in a story of transnational Islam
of his country. These reflections from his diary in the stretching from South Asia to the Middle East, Simon
calamitous post-revolutionary period offer the groanings Wolfgang Fuchs offers the first in-depth ethnographic
of his heart and musings on the eternal mercy of God history of the intellectual production of Shi’is and their
which he writes “are part of my very essence”. religious competitors in this ’Land of the Pure’.
A PSALTER FOR PRAYER MUSLIM PILGRIMAGE IN THE
An Adaptation of the Classic Miles Coverdale MODERN WORLD
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Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks
The first major English edition to include all the prayers
needed to read the Psalter at home according to an Pilgrimage is one of the most significant ritual duties
Orthodox tradition that reaches back to the time of for Muslims. As demonstrated in this multidisciplinary
the desert fathers, known popularly as the “cell rule”. In volume, the lived religion of pilgrimage, defined by
addition, the contents include many texts, traditionally embodied devotional practices, is changing in an age
printed in Orthodox Psalters, that are not easily found in characterized by commerce, technology, and new
English. sociocultural and political frameworks.
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University of Notre Dame Press SOCIAL STUDIES
CURING MAD TRUTHS The University of Arkansas Press
Medieval Wisdom for the Modern Age
A RICH AND
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highlands of Ethiopia and Yemen before its emergence
Theologians today are facing a crisis of identity. Are as a common comfort.
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