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Playing the Races: Ethnic Caricature and American Literary Realism

Henry B. Wonham (Associate Professor in the Department of English, Associate Professor in the Department of English, University of Oregon)

Why did so many of the writers who aligned themselves with the social and aesthetic aims of late 19th-century American literary realism rely on stock conventions of ethnic caricature in…

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Cold Modernism: Literature, Fashion, Art

Jessica Burstein (Associate Professor, Associate Professor, Department of English)

Explores a significant but overlooked aspect of early twentieth-century modernism, one that focuses on surface appearance rather than interiority or psychological depth. Looks at the writers Wyndham Lewis and Mina…

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Culture Control Critique: Allegories of Reading the Present

Frida Beckman, Associate Professor in the Department of English at Stockholm University in Sweden

Culture Control Critique is an attempt to address the current crisis in cultural critique, situate it in relation to what it sees as a powerful tendency toward political allegory in…

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Culture Control Critique: Allegories of Reading the Present

Frida Beckman, Associate Professor in the Department of English at Stockholm University in Sweden

Culture Control Critique is an attempt to address the current crisis in cultural critique, situate it in relation to what it sees as a powerful tendency toward political allegory in…

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Speculative Fictions: Explaining the Economy in the Early United States

Elizabeth Hewitt (Associate Professor of English, Associate Professor of English, Department of English, The Ohio State University, Columbus, USA)

Speculative Fictions places Alexander Hamilton at the center of American literary history to consider the important intersections between economics and literature.

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Literary Neurophysiology: Memory, Race, Sex, and Representation in U.S. Writing, 1860-1914

Randall Knoper (Associate Professor of English and Chair, Department of English, Associate Professor of English and Chair, Department of English, University of Massachusetts, US)

The book investigates the relations between American literature of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and the sciences of the brain and the nervous system, showing how literary authors…

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Speculative Fictions: Explaining the Economy in the Early United States

Elizabeth Hewitt (Associate Professor of English, Associate Professor of English, Department of English, The Ohio State University, Columbus, USA)

Speculative Fictions places Alexander Hamilton at the center of American literary history to consider the important intersections between economics and literature.

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Mutating Goddesses: Bengal’s Laukika Hinduism and Gender Rights

Saswati Sengupta (Associate Professor, Associate Professor, Department of English, Miranda House)

Mutating Goddesses traces the shifting fortunes of four specific Hindu deities - Manasa, Candi, Sasthi and Laksmi— from the fifteenth century to the present time. It focuses on the goddess-invested…

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The Pleasures of Babel: Contemporary American Literature and Theory

Jay Clayton (Associate Professor, Department of English, Associate Professor, Department of English, Vanderbilt University)

Jay Clayton’s book offers an explication of the relationship between contemporary literature and criticism. Repudiating the jargon of theory, Clayton makes sense of the movements of the last two decades…

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Virgil’s Schoolboys: The Poetics of Pedagogy in Renaissance England

Andrew Wallace (Associate Professor, Department of English, Carleton University)

An examination of the ways in which Virgil’s poems were received and employed in the schoolrooms of 16th- and 17th-century England. Andrew Wallace argues that the Roman poet is an…

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The Machine in the Text: Science and Literature in the Age of Shakespeare and Galileo

Howard Marchitello (Associate Professor, Department of English, Rutgers University)

Redefining literature and art as knowledge-producing practices and recasting the practices of emergent science as imaginative, creative, and literary, this book draws upon recent work to argue for a more…

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Reliability in Pragmatics

E. McCready (Associate Professor, Department of English, Associate Professor, Department of English, Aoyama Gakuin University)

This book considers how observations about the past influence future behaviour, as expressed in language. Focusing on information gathered from speech and other evidence sources, the author offers a model…

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Reliability in Pragmatics

E. McCready (Associate Professor, Department of English, Associate Professor, Department of English, Aoyama Gakuin University)

This book considers how observations about the past influence future behaviour, as expressed in language. Focusing on information gathered from speech and other evidence sources, the author offers a model…

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After Critique: Twenty-First-Century Fiction in a Neoliberal Age

Mitchum Huehls (Associate Professor, Associate Professor, Department of English, University of California Los Angeles)

Taking up four different political themes–human rights, the relation between public and private space, racial justice, and environmentalism–After Critique suggests that the ontological forms emerging in contemporary U.S. fiction articulate…

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Black Puritan, Black Republican: The Life and Thought of Lemuel Haynes, 1753-1833

John Saillant (Associate Professor, Departments of English and History, Associate Professor, Departments of English and History, Western Michigan University)

Born in Connecticut, Lemuel Haynes was first an indentured servant, then a soldier in the Continental Army, and, in 1785, an ordained congregational minister. Here John Saillant here offers a…

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Possible Scotlands: Walter Scott and the Story of Tomorrow

Caroline McCracken-Flesher (Associate Professor, Department of English, Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Wyoming)

Is Walter Scott to blame for the limitations of modern Scotland? In Possible Scotlands, Caroline McCracken-Flesher argues that Scott used his position as popular author to negotiate a national identity…

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Sense of Place and Sense of Planet: The Environmental Imagination of the Global

Ursula K Heise (Associate Professor, Department of English, Associate Professor, Department of English, Stanford University)

‘Sense of Place and Sense of Planet’ analyses the relationship between the imagination of the global and the ethical commitment to the local in environmentalist thought and writing from the…

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Imagining Socialism: Aesthetics, Anti-politics, and Literature in Britain, 1817-1918

Mark A. Allison (Associate Professor and Chair, Department of English, Ohio Wesleyan University)

Explores the intersections of socialism and literature in the long nineteenth century, with special emphasis on their shared antipathy to institutional politics.

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Fictions of Authorship in Late Elizabethan Narratives: Euphues in Arcadia

Katharine Wilson (Research Associate, Department of English Studies, Oxford Brookes University.)

John Lyly, Robert Greene, and Thomas Lodge created the pulp fiction of the later sixteenth century. Their pamphlets combined sensational plots, adventurous heroines, and self-conscious narrators. This book examines how…

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Bazaar Literature: Charity, Advocacy, and Parody in Victorian Social Reform Fiction

Leslee Thorne-Murphy (Associate Professor, Department of English, Associate Professor, Department of English, Brigham Young University)

Charity bazaars were a key method women used to intervene in political, social, and cultural affairs. Bazaar Literature reorients our understanding of Victorian social reform fiction by reading it in…

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Time and Antiquity in American Empire: Roma Redux

Mark Storey (Associate Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies, Associate Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick)

This cultural history of the American empire via ancient Rome tracks the way writers and artists have imagined Roman antiquity as an analogy that variously bolsters and critiques American imperial…

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The American Ideal: Literary History as a Worldly Activity

Peter Carafiol (Associate Professor and Chair, Department of English, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of English, Portland State University)

This monograph argues that the institution of American literary scholarship enshrines a reactionary view of history and narrative and an unrealistic view of America itself. The author also examines contemporary…

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Late Modernism and the Avant-Garde British Novel: Oblique Strategies

Julia Jordan (Associate Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, University College London)

A study of the experimental novel of the postwar period in Britain that rethinks the resurgence of the literary avant-garde that occurred in these decades and explains its implications for…

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The Oxford Book of Canadian Verse

Wilfred Campbell (deceased),Len Early (Associate Professor, Department of English, York University)

A century ago Oxford University Press published the first-ever anthology of Canadian poetry-a beautiful blue edition with gilt edges. There are selections of verse in this volume which now appear…

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Timothy Mo

Elaine Yee Lin Ho (Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

This study explores the interconnections of the British, Chinese, and transethnic and transnational aspects of Mo’s imagination. It deals wtih Mo’s artistry as well as his controversial statements and actions…

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Postcolonial Poetry in English

Rajeev S. Patke (Associate Professor, Department of English Language & Literature, National University of Singapore)

This book offers an introductory survey of contemporary poetry in English from all the regions that have developed into modern nations from the former British Empire. It is ideally suited…

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Postcolonial Poetry in English

Rajeev S. Patke (Associate Professor, Department of English Language & Literature, National University of Singapore)

This book offers an introductory survey of contemporary poetry in English from all the regions that have developed into modern nations from the former British Empire. It is ideally suited…

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Romantic Capabilities: Blake, Scott, Austen, and the New Messages of Old Media

Mike Goode (Associate Professor, English Department, Syracuse University)

Studying works by William Blake, Walter Scott, and Jane Austen, this volume examines the extent to which Romantic literary works can be said to prefigure the ways in which readers…

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Voices of the Vietnam POWs: Witnesses to Their Fight

Craig Howes (Associate Professor, English Department, Associate Professor, English Department, University of Hawaii at Manoa)

This book surveys the body of published material - interviews, memoirs, biographies, and group histories - that has grown up around the experiences of POWs returned from Vietnam. Howes endeavours…

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The Modernist Shakespeare: Critical Texts in a Material World

Hugh Grady (Associate Professor, English Department, Associate Professor, English Department, Beaver College, Pennsylvania)

This is a major study of the history of Shakespeare criticism in the modern era. Hugh Grady charts the construction of Shakespeare as a twentieth-century Modernist text by redirecting ‘new…

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Female Cartoonists in the United States: Bad Girls and Invisible Women

Helene Tison (Associate Professor, English Department, University of Tours, France.)

This book provides an introduction to women cartoonists in the United States, reading their work from a feminist, literary and stylistic perspective, which shines a light on their innovative and…

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Now Playing: Learning Mythology Through Film

Gail Rosen,Associate Professor in the Department of English and Philosophy Eva M Thury (Drexel University),Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of French German Italian and Slavic Margaret K DeVinney (Temple University)

Designed specifically to accompany Introduction to Mythology, Fourth Edition, Now Playing: Learning Mythology Through Film uses a mass medium that is interactive, familiar, and easily accessible to illustrate how mythological…

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The St. Lawrence (Reissue)

Henry Beston (American (deceased)),Daniel Payne (Associate Professor, Department of English, Associate Professor, Department of English, State University of New York-Oneonta)

Originally published: New York: Farrar & Rinehart, c1942.

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Machines for Living: Modernism and Domestic Life

Victoria Rosner (Dean of Academic Affairs, School of General Studies, and Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University)

Machines for Living shows how the modernization of the home led to profound changes in domestic life and relied on a set of emergent concepts, including standardization, scientific method, functionalism…

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Declarations of Independence: Empowered Girls in Young Adult Literature, 1990-2001

Joanne Brown,Nancy St. Clair,Nancy St Clair (Associate Professor of English and Chair, English Department, Simpson College, Indiana, Iowa, USA)

Storytellers have long been agents of socialization. This text traces the evolution of female characters in young adult fiction from their passive role in books published prior to the 20th…

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Shakespeare and Modern Popular Culture

Douglas Lanier (Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, English Department, University of New Hampshire)

Our notions of Shakespeare have been shaped partly by his diffuse presence in films, comics, TV, mass-market novels, kitsch, and advertising. Through a series of case studies, Douglas Lanier examines…

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Putting Intellectual Property in its Place: Rights Discourses, Creative Labor, and the Everyday

Laura J. Murray (Associate Professor, Department of English, Associate Professor, Department of English, Queen's University, Canada),S. Tina Piper (Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, McGill University),Kirsty Robertson (Assistant Professor, Department of Visual Arts, Assistant Professor, Department of Visual Arts, University of Western Ontario)

Putting Intellectual Property in its Place examines the relationship between creativity and intellectual property law on the premise that, despite concentrated critical attention devoted to IP law from academic, policy…

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Cholera, Chloroform, and the Science of Medicine: A Life of John Snow

Peter Vinten-Johansen (Associate Professor of History),Howard Brody (Professor of Family Practice, Ethics and Philosophy),Nigel Paneth (Professor of Epidemiology and Paediatrics and Human Development and Associate Dean for Research),Stephen Rachman (Associate Professor of English and Director, American Studies Program),Michael Rip (Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, Assistant Professor of Security Studies, and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Epidemiology, all at Michigan State University, USA)

The product of six years of collaborative research, this biography offers new interpretations of a pioneering figure in anesthesiology, epidemiology, medical cartography, and public health.

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Mosby’s Orthodontic Review

Jeryl D. English, DDS, MS (Chair and Program Director, Department of Orthodontics, University of Texas Medical Branch),Sercan Akyalcin (Member of Faculty of Developmental Biology, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Developmental Biology, Harvard School of Dental Medicine),Timo Peltomaki, DDS, MS, PhD (Professor and Chairman, Clinic for Orthodontics and Pediatric Dentistry, Center for Dental and Oral Medicine, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland),Kate Pham-Litschel, DDS, MS (Research Associate, Clinic for Orthodontics and Pediatric Dentistry, Center for Dental and Oral Medicine, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland)

With a review of orthodontic concepts and clinical information, including diagnosis, treatment planning, and clinical treatment, this title helps you to achieve success on competency examinations as well as clinical…

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Creating an Undergraduate Literary Journal: A Production Guide for Students and Faculty

Dr Audrey Colombe (Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Houston, University of Houston, USA)

University literary journals allow students to create their own venue for learning, have a hands-on part of their development in real-world skills, and strive towards professional achievement. But producing an…

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Dr Audrey Colombe (Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Houston, University of Houston, USA)

University literary journals allow students to create their own venue for learning, have a hands-on part of their development in real-world skills, and strive towards professional achievement. But producing an…

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Playing the Races: Ethnic Caricature and American Literary Realism

Cold Modernism: Literature, Fashion, Art

Culture Control Critique: Allegories of Reading the Present

Culture Control Critique: Allegories of Reading the Present

Speculative Fictions: Explaining the Economy in the Early United States

Literary Neurophysiology: Memory, Race, Sex, and Representation in U.S. Writing, 1860-1914

Speculative Fictions: Explaining the Economy in the Early United States

Mutating Goddesses: Bengal’s Laukika Hinduism and Gender Rights

The Pleasures of Babel: Contemporary American Literature and Theory

Virgil’s Schoolboys: The Poetics of Pedagogy in Renaissance England

The Machine in the Text: Science and Literature in the Age of Shakespeare and Galileo

Reliability in Pragmatics

Reliability in Pragmatics

After Critique: Twenty-First-Century Fiction in a Neoliberal Age

Black Puritan, Black Republican: The Life and Thought of Lemuel Haynes, 1753-1833

Possible Scotlands: Walter Scott and the Story of Tomorrow

Sense of Place and Sense of Planet: The Environmental Imagination of the Global

Imagining Socialism: Aesthetics, Anti-politics, and Literature in Britain, 1817-1918

Fictions of Authorship in Late Elizabethan Narratives: Euphues in Arcadia

Bazaar Literature: Charity, Advocacy, and Parody in Victorian Social Reform Fiction

Time and Antiquity in American Empire: Roma Redux

The American Ideal: Literary History as a Worldly Activity

Late Modernism and the Avant-Garde British Novel: Oblique Strategies

The Oxford Book of Canadian Verse

Timothy Mo

Postcolonial Poetry in English

Postcolonial Poetry in English

Romantic Capabilities: Blake, Scott, Austen, and the New Messages of Old Media

Voices of the Vietnam POWs: Witnesses to Their Fight

The Modernist Shakespeare: Critical Texts in a Material World

Female Cartoonists in the United States: Bad Girls and Invisible Women

Now Playing: Learning Mythology Through Film

The St. Lawrence (Reissue)

Machines for Living: Modernism and Domestic Life

Declarations of Independence: Empowered Girls in Young Adult Literature, 1990-2001

Shakespeare and Modern Popular Culture

Putting Intellectual Property in its Place: Rights Discourses, Creative Labor, and the Everyday

Cholera, Chloroform, and the Science of Medicine: A Life of John Snow

Mosby’s Orthodontic Review

Creating an Undergraduate Literary Journal: A Production Guide for Students and Faculty

Creating an Undergraduate Literary Journal: A Production Guide for Students and Faculty

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