Faculty Bookshelf
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Professor Robert Levine Editor, The Norton Anthology of American Literature, 1820-1865 W. W. Norton Publishing, 2012 8th Edition. From the publisher's web site: The Eighth Edition features a diverse and balanced variety of works and thorough but judicious editorial apparatus throughout. The new edition also includes more complete works, much-requested new authors, 170 in-text images, new and re-thought contextual clusters, and other tools that help instructors teach the course they want to teach. |
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Professor Jane Donawerth Conversational Rhetoric: The Rise and Fall of a Women's Tradition, 1600-1900 Southern Illinois University Press, 2011 Donawerth traces the development of women’s rhetorical theory through the voices of English and American women (and one much-translated French woman) over three centuries. She demonstrates how they cultivated theories of rhetoric centered on conversation that faded once women began writing composition textbooks for mixed-gender audiences in the latter part of the nineteenth century. |
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Professor Vincent Carretta Phillis Wheatley: Biography of a Genius in Bondage University of Georgia Press, 2011 In Phillis Wheatley, Vincent Carretta offers the first full-length biography of a figure whose origins and later life have remained shadowy despite her iconic status. A scholar with extensive knowledge of transatlantic literature and history, Carretta uncovers new details about Wheatley’s origins, her upbringing, and how she gained freedom. Carretta solves the mystery of John Peters, correcting the record of when he and Wheatley married and revealing what became of him after her death. |
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Professor Robert Levine Co-editor with Caroline F. Levander, A Companion to American Literary Studies Wiley-Blackwell, 2011 A Companion to American Literary Studies addresses the most provocative questions, subjects, and issues animating the field. Essays provide readers with the knowledge and conceptual tools for understanding American literary studies as it is practiced today, and chart new directions for the future of the subject. |
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Professor Jeanne Fahnestock Rhetorical Style: The Uses of Language in Persuasion Oxford University Press, 2011 A comprehensive guide to the language of argument, Rhetorical Style offers a renewed appreciation of the persuasive power of the English language. Drawing on key texts from the rhetorical tradition, as well as on newer approaches from linguistics and literary stylistics, Fahnestock demonstrates how word choice, sentence form, and passage construction can combine to create effective spoken and written arguments. |
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Professor Orrin Wang Romantic Sobriety: Sensation, Revolution, Commodification, History The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011 This book explores the relationship among Romanticism, deconstruction, and Marxism by examining tropes of sensation and sobriety in a set of exemplary texts from Romantic literature and contemporary literary theory. |
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Associate Professor Michael Israel The Grammar of Polarity: Pragmatics, Sensitivity, and the Logic of Scales Cambridge University Press, 2011 Many languages include constructions which are sensitive to the expression of polarity: that is, negative polarity items, which cannot occur in affirmative clauses, and positive polarity items, which cannot occur in negatives. |
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Professor Jonathan Auerbach Dark Borders: Film Noir and American Citizenship Duke University Press, 2011 Dark Borders connects anxieties about citizenship and national belonging in midcentury America to the sense of alienation conveyed by American film noir. Jonathan Auerbach provides in-depth interpretations of more than a dozen of these dark crime thrillers, considering them in relation to U.S. national security measures enacted from the mid-1930s to the mid-1950s. The growth of a domestic intelligence-gathering apparatus before, during, and after the Second World War raised unsettling questions about who was American and who was not, and how to tell the difference. |
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Associate Professor Tita Chico Journal Editor, The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation Penn Press, 2011 |
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Professor Robert Levine co-editor, The Works of James M. Whitfield: "America" and Other Writings by a Nineteenth-Century African American Poet" University of North Carolina Press, 2011 In this comprehensive volume of the collected writings of James Monroe Whitfield (1822-71), Robert S. Levine and Ivy G. Wilson restore this African American poet, abolitionist, and intellectual to his rightful place in the arts and politics of the nineteenth-century United States. |
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Professor Elizabeth Bergmann Loizeaux Twentieth-Century Poetry and the Visual Arts Cambridge University Press, 2011 With the emergence of a culture of images in the early twentieth-century, the question of how literature engages the visual arts has become key for literary studies. This extended treatment of poetic ekphrasis (the verbal representation of visual representation) explores the complex, dynamic relationships between words and images that characterize this flourishing genre and provided one way of making poetry new. Elegantly and persuasively written, Twentieth-Century Poetry and the Visual Arts considers a wide range of twentieth-century poets from several English-speaking cultures, from W.B. |
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Professor Carla Peterson Black Gotham: A Family History of African Americans in Nineteenth-Century New York City Yale University Press, 2011 Part detective tale, part social and cultural narrative, Black Gotham
is Carla Peterson's riveting account of her quest to reconstruct the
lives of her nineteenth-century ancestors. As she shares their stories
and those of their friends, neighbors, and business associates, she
illuminates the greater history of African-American elites in New York
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Professor Robert Levine Editor, Clotel, or The President's Daughter, by William Wells Brown Bedford, 2011 William Wells Brown's Clotel (1853), the first novel written by an African American, was published in London while Brown was still legally regarded as 'property' within the borders of the United States. |
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Associate Professor Matthew Kirschenbaum Digital Forensics and Born-Digital Content in Cultural Heritage Collections Council on Library and Information Resources, 2010 While the purview of digital forensics was once specialized to fields of law enforcement, computer security, and national defense, the increasing ubiquity of computers and electronic devices means that digital forensics is now used in a wide variety of cases and circumstances. Most records today are born digital, and libraries and other collecting institutions increasingly receive computer storage media as part of their acquisition of "papers" from writers, scholars, scientists, musicians, and public figures. |
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Professor David Wyatt Author, Secret Histories: Reading Twentieth Century American Literature The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010 Secret Histories claims that the history of the nation is hidden -- in plain sight -- within the pages of twentieth-century American literature. David Wyatt argues that the nation's fiction and nonfiction expose a "secret history" that cuts beneath the "straight histories" of our official accounts. And it does so by revealing personal stories of love, work, family, war, and interracial romance as they were lived out across the decades of the twentieth century. |
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Associate Professor Peter Mallios Our Conrad: Constituting American Modernity Stanford University Press, 2010 Our Conrad is about the American reception of Joseph Conrad and its crucial role in the formation of American modernism. Although Conrad did not visit the country until a year before his death, his fiction served as both foil and mirror to America's conception of itself and its place in the world. |
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Professor Howard Norman Author, What is Left the Daughter Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010 Seventeen-year-old Wyatt Hillyer is suddenly orphaned when his parents, within hours of each other, jump off two different bridges—the result of their separate involvements with the same compelling neighbor, a Halifax switchboard operator and aspiring actress. |
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Professor Robert Levine Editor, The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne Harvard University Press, 2010 One of Hawthorne’s great romances, The Blithedale Romance draws upon the author’s experiences at Brook Farm, the short-lived utopian community where Hawthorne spent much of 1841. |
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Associate Professor Elizabeth Arnold Effacement Flood Editions, 2010 "In this remarkable new book, Elizabeth Arnold focuses on what certain bodies undergo against forces that efface them. Physical law has it that 'what pokes out gets hit.' Limbs, noses, and jaws are blown off. There are mastectomies. Prosthetic reconstruction is 'flesh displaced.' Some of those who experience it learn that there is now between them and the ones they love a wall of cancelled desire. |
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Professor Kent Cartwright Editor, A Companion to Tudor Literature Wiley-Blackwell, 2010 The volume (536 pp.) contains 31 original essays by established and emerging scholars, with equal attention given to the early Tudor and the Elizabethan aspects of sixteenth-century literature. |
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Associate Professor Joshua Weiner Editor, At the Barriers: On the Poetry of Thom Gunn University of Chicago Press, 2009 Maverick gay poetic icon Thom Gunn (1929-2004) and his body of work have long dared the British and American poetry establishments either to claim or disavow him. |
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Associate Professor Edlie Wong Neither Fugitive Nor Free: Atlantic Slavery, Freedom Suits, and the Legal Culture of Travel New York University Press, 2009 Professor Edlie L. Wong contends that slavery and its logic of property had a profound effect on the notion of travel and freedom in the Atlantic World. |
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Professor Sangeeta Ray Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: In Other Words Wiley Blackwell, 2009 This book introduces and discusses the works of leading feminist postcolonialist Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, by exploring the key concepts and themes to emerge from them. |
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Associate Professor Ralph Bauer Editor, with Jose Antonio Mazzotti, Creole Subjects in the Colonial Americas: Empires, Texts, Identities University of North Carolina Press, 2009 Creolization describes the cultural adaptations that occur when a community moves to a new geographic setting. Exploring the consciousness of peoples defined as "creoles" who moved from the Old World to the New World, this collection of eighteen original essays investigates the creolization of literary forms and genres in the Americas between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. |
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Professor of the Practice Michael Olmert Kitchens, Smokehouses, and Privies: Outbuildings and the Architecture of Daily Life in the Eighteenth-Century Mid-Atlantic Cornell University Press, 2009 In Kitchens, Smokehouses, and Privies, Michael Olmert takes us into the eighteenth-century backyards of colonial America. He explores the many small outbuildings that can still be found at obscure rural farmsteads throughout the Tidewater and greater mid-Atlantic, in towns like Williamsburg and Annapolis, and at elite plantations such as Mount Vernon and Monticello. |
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Associate Professor Jason R Rudy Author, Electric Meters: Victorian Physiological Poetics Ohio University/Swallow Press, 2009 Combining formal poetic analysis with cultural history, Rudy demonstrates how poetic rhythm came increasingly to be understood throughout the nineteenth century as a physiological mechanism, as poets across class, sex, and national boundaries engaged intensely and in a variety of ways with the human body’s subtle response to rhythmic patterns. |
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Professor Robert Levine author, Conspiracy and Romance: Studies in Brockden Brown, Cooper, Hawthorne, and Melville Cambridge University Press, 2009 Paperback edition; hardback published 1989. |
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Professor William A. Cohen Embodied: Victorian Literature and the Senses University of Minnesota Press, 2008 What does it mean to be human? British writers in the Victorian period found a surprising answer to this question. |
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Professor Robert Levine Dislocating Race and Nation: Episodes in Nineteenth-Century American Literary Nationalism North Carolina Press, 2008 Pairing authors with major political and cultural events in the 19th century United States, Levine's book challenges the perceived cohesion of "American literary nationalism." |
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Professor Shirley Wilson Logan Liberating Language: Sites of Rhetorical Education in Nineteenth-Century Black America Southern Illinois University Press, 2008 Logan identifies experiences of nineteenth-century African Americans that provided opportunities to develop effective communication and critical text-interpretation skills. |
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Professor Laura Rosenthal Nightwalkers: Prostitute Narratives from the Eighteenth Century Broadview Press, 2008 This anthology makes available for the first time a selection of narrativesby and about prostitutes in the eighteenth century. |
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Associate Professor Zita Nunes Cannibal Democracy: Race and Representation in the Literature of the Americas University of Minnesota Press, 2008 Cannibalism is a metaphor in the prevailing narratives of racial assimilation in the United States, the Caribbean, and Brazil, argues Nunes in her new book. |
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Professor Stanley Plumly Posthumous Keats: A Personal Biography W. W. Norton, 2008 Hailed by The Washington Post as "obsessive, intricate, intimate and brilliant" and as a "model of readability," Plumly's biography of John Keats that ruminates on the most personal aspects of Keats's life: his love letters, his friendships, his vulnerabilities, his triumphs, and his own complicated relationship with the prospect of immortality. |
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Associate Professor Jessica Enoch Refiguring Rhetorical Education: Women Teaching African American, Native American, and Chicano/a Students, 1865-1911 Southern Illinois University Press, 2008 Refiguring Rhetorical Education: Women Teaching African American, Native American, and Chicano/a Students, 1865-1911 examines the work of five female teachers who challenged gendered and cultural expectations to create teaching practices that met the civic and cultural needs of their students. The volume analyzes Lydia Maria Child’s The Freedmen’s Book, a post–Civil War educational textbook for newly freed slaves; Zitkala Ša’s autobiographical essays published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1900 that questioned the work of off-reservation boarding schools for Native American students; and |
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Professor Verlyn Flieger Editor, with Douglas A. Anderson, On Fairy-stories, by J.R.R. Tolkien HarperCollins, 2008 On Fairy-stories, dated to 1939, is considered Tolkien's most studied and most quoted critical essay. |
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Professor Martha Nell Smith Co-editor, Emily Dickinson's Correspondences: A Born-Digital Textual Inquiry The University of Virginia Rotunda Press, 2008 Unpublished in book form during her lifetime, the poems of Emily Dickinson were nonetheless shared with those she trusted most -- through her letters. |
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Professor Brian Richardson Narrative Beginnings: Theories and Practices University of Nebraska Press, 2008 Beginnings can be quite unusual, complex, and deceptive. The first major volume to focus on this critical but neglected topic, this collection brings together theoretical studies and critical analyses of beginnings in a wide range of narrative works spanning several centuries and genres. |
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Professor Robert Levine Editor, Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile, by Herman Melville Penguin, 2008 Based on the life of an actual soldier who claimed to have fought at Bunker Hill, Israel Potter is unique among Herman Melville's books: a novel in the guise of a biography. |
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Professor Robert Levine Editor, with Samuel Otter, Frederick Douglass & Hermann Melville: Essays in Relation University of North Carolina Press, 2008 Douglass and Melville addressed in their writings a range of issues that continue to resonate in American culture: the reach and limits of democracy; the nature of freedom; the roles of race, gender, and sexuality; and the place of the United States in the world. |
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Professor Martha Nell Smith Co-editor, with Mary Loeffelholz, A Companion to Emily Dickinson Wiley-Blackwell, 2008 This Companion to America's greatest woman poet showcases the diversity and excellence that characterize the thriving field of Dickinson studies. |
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Associate Professor Kimberly Coles Religion, Reform, and Women's Writing in Early Modern England Cambridge University Press, 2008 Long considered marginal in early modern culture, women writers were actually central to the development of a Protestant literary tradition in England. |
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Professor Robert Levine Editor, with Caroline Levander, Hemispheric American Studies Rutgers University Press, 2008 This landmark collection brings together a range of exciting new comparative work in the burgeoning field of hemispheric studies. |
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Associate Professor Matthew Kirschenbaum Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination MIT Press, 2008 Mechanisms is the first book in its field to devote significant attention to storage—the hard drive in particular—of electronic writing and new media. |
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Professor Theodore Leinwand Thomas Middleton: The Collected Works Oxford University Press, 2008 The Collected Works brings together for the first time in a single volume all the works currently attributed to Middleton. It is the first edition of Middleton's works since 1886. The texts are printed in modern spelling and punctuation, with critical introductions and foot-of-the-page commentaries; they are arranged in chronological order, with a special section of Juvenilia. The volume is introduced by essays on Middleton's life and reputation, on early modern London, and on the varied theatres of the English Renaissance. |
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Professor Jonathan Auerbach Body Shots: Early Cinema's Incarnations University of California Press, 2007 This original and compelling book places the body at the center of cinema's first decade of emergence and challenges the idea that for early audiences, the new medium's fascination rested on visual spectacle for its own sake. Instead, Auerbach argues, it was the human form in motion that most profoundly shaped early cinema. |
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Professor Michael Collier Make Us Wave Back University of Michigan Press, 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Michael Collier explores the influences that have made him one of the most distinguished poets of his generation. Make Us Wave Back includes essays on an expansive list of subjects, among them the literary correspondence of William Maxwell; the meaning of the author's own role as poet laureate of the state of Maryland; the journals of Louise Bogan and how they reveal Bogan's struggle with her own personal fears as well as the reconstruction of herself as a writer; and many more. |
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Professor Robert Levine Editor, The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Seventh Edition: Volume B: 1820-1865 W. W. Norton, 2007 The Norton Anthology of American Literature is the classic survey of American literature. Among the works included in their entirety are Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and Thoreau's Walden. |
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Professor Howard Norman The Haunting of L. Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux, 2007 The final book in Howard Norman's Canadian Trilogy: a novel about spirit-photographs, adultery, and greed. |
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Professor Stanley Plumly Old Heart W. W. Norton, 2007 Plumly's new collection of poetry, his tenth, confronts and celebrates mortality. |
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Professor Marshall Grossman Editor, Reading Renaissance Ethics Routledge, 2007 Bringing together some of the best current practitioners of historical and formal criticism, Reading Renaissance Ethics assesses the ethical performance of renaissance texts as historical agents in their time and in ours. |
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Professor Howard Norman Devotion Houghton Mifflin, 2007 Like many of Howard Norman's celebrated novels, this intense and intriguingly unconventional love story begins with a crime. |
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Professor Vincent Carretta Equiano, the African: Biography of a Self-Made Man Penguin, 2007 A controversial look at the most renowned person of African descent in the eighteenth century. |
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Associate Professor Elizabeth Arnold Civilization Flood Editions, 2006 In her second volume of poetry, Arnold's poems move from politics and history to an intimate gesture, from ancient fragments and architectural facades to a father's face. |
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Professor Brian Richardson Unnatural Voices: Extreme Narration in Modern and Contemporary Fiction Ohio State University Press, 2006 Richardson presents a study that explores in depth one of the most significant aspects of late modernist, avant-garde, and postmodern narrative. |
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Associate Professor Joshua Weiner From the Book of Giants 2006 Taking its title from a set of writings found in the Dead Sea Scrolls, From the Book of Giants retunes the signal broadcast from these ancient fragments |
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Professor Jonathan Auerbach Editor, The Iron Heel, by Jack London Penguin, 2006 Auerbach edits and provides a new introduction of Jack London's The Iron Heel. Part science fiction, part dystopian fantasy, part radical socialist tract, London offers a grim depiction of warfare between the classes in America and around the globe. |
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Professor Laura Rosenthal Infamous Commerce: Prostitution in Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Culture Cornell University Press, 2006 Rosenthal uses literature to explore the meaning of prostitution from the Restoration through the eighteenth century, showing how both reformers and libertines constructed the modern meaning of sex work during this period. |
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Associate Professor Maud Casey Genealogy HarperCollins, 2006 Meet the Hennarts: Samantha Hennart, a poet with writer's block; her husband, Bernard, obsessed with the life of a nineteenth-century Belgian mystic with stigmata; their son, Ryan, a mediocre rock musician; and their eighteen-year old daughter, Marguerite, who is quetly losing her mind. |
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Professor Michael Collier Dark Wild Realm Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2006 A haunting orchestra of birds sings through Dark Wild Realm, the elegiac new collection from Michael Collier, whose previous book, The Ledge, was a finalist for both the National Book Critics Circle and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. From considering the weight of sparrows to urging a cardinal back to life after it crashed into his window, Collier engages birds as messengers and mythmakers, carrying memories from lost friends. |
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Professor Howard Norman In Fond Remembrance of Me Picador, 2006 In the fall of 1977, Howard Norman went to Churchill, Manitoba, to translate Inuit folktales, and there he met Helen Tanizaki, an extraordinary linguist translating the same tales into Japanese. |
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Professor Regina Harrison Director, producer, writer, Mined to Death Berkeley Media LLC, 2005 Working at an elevation of 16,000 feet, Quechua-speaking miners in Potosi, Bolivia, dig out zinc, tin, and silver much like their Incan ancestors did more than five centuries ago. |
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Professor Barry Pearson Jook Right On: Blues Stories and Blues Storytellers University of Tennessee Press, 2005 Author and compiler Barry Lee Pearson calls this volume a "blues quilt." These stories, collected over thirty years, are told in the blues musicians' own words. |
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Professor Donna Hamilton Anthony Munday and the Catholics, 1560-1633 Ashgate, 2005 Hamilton offers a major revisionist reading of the works of Anthony Munday, one of the most prolific authors of his time, who wrote and translated in many genres, including polemical religious and political tracts, poetry, chivalric romances, history, and drama. |
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Professor Robert Levine editor, The House of Seven Gables, by Nathaniel Hawthorne Norton Critical Edition, 2005 This all-new edition of Hawthorne’s celebrated 1851 novel is based on The Ohio State University Press’s Centenary Edition of the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne. |
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Associate Professor Marilee Lindemann Editor, The Cambridge Companion to Willa Cather Cambridge University Press, 2005 This volume offers thirteen original essays by leading scholars of a major American modernist novelist. |
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Professor William A. Cohen Co-editor, with Ryan Johnson, Filth: Dirt, Disgust, and Modern Life University of Minnesota Press, 2005 This new volume of essays explores what waste reveals about the culture that creates it. From floating barges of urban refuse to dung-encrusted works of art, from toxic landfills to dirty movies, filth has become a major presence and a point of volatile contention in modern life. |
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Professor Verlyn Flieger Interrupted Music: The Making of Tolkien's Mythology Kent State University Press, 2005 The content of J.R.R. Tolkien's mythology, The Silmarillion, has been the subject of considerable exploration and analysis for many years, but the logistics of its development have been mostly ignored and deserve closer investigation. |
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Associate Professor Tita Chico Designing Women: The Dressing Room in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Culture 2005 Drawing on extensive archival research, Chico argues that the dressing room, introduced into English domestic architecture during the seventeenth century, embodies contradictory connotations |
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Associate Professor Ralph Bauer An Inca Account of the Conquest of Peru
By Titu Cusi Yupanqui University of Colorado Press, 2005 Available in English for the first time, An Inca Account of the Conquest of Peru is a firsthand account of the Spanish invasion, narrated in 1570 by Diego de Castro Titu Cusi Yupanqui - the penultimate ruler of the Inca dynasty - to a Spanish missionary and transcribed by a mestizo assistant. The resulting hybrid document offers an Inca perspective on the Spanish conquest of Peru, filtered through the monk and his scribe. |
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Associate Professor Peter Mallios Editor, The Secret Agent, by Joseph Conrad Modern Library, 2004 This intense 1907 thriller -- a precursor to works by Graham Greene and John le Carre -- concerns a British double agent who infiltrates a cabal of anarchists. |
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Associate Professor Peter Mallios Co-editor, with Carola Kaplan and Andrea White, Conrad in the Twenty-first Century: Contemporary Approaches and Perspectives Routledge, 2004 Conrad in the Twenty-First Century is a collection of original essays by leading Conrad scholars that rereads Conrad in light of his representations of post-colonialism, of empire, imperialism, and of modernism and modernity-questions that are once again relevant today. |
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Assistant Professor Merrill Feitell Here Beneath Low-Flying Planes University of Iowa Press, 2004 The stories in Merrill Feitell’s award-winning collection, Here Beneath Low-Flying Planes, examine the fleeting and unexpected moments of human connection |
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Professor David Wyatt And the War Came: An Accidental Memoir Terrace Books, 2004 On the day of the September 11 terrorist attacks, a man begins writing down things said by his family and friends. |
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Associate Professor Thomas Moser A Cosmos of Desire: The Medieval Latin Erotic Lyric in English Manuscripts University of Michigan Press, 2004 A groundbreaking illumination of the creation and reception of extant erotic poetry written in Latin during the Middle Ages. |
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Professor Theresa Coletti Mary Magdalene and the Drama of Saints: Theater, Gender, and Religion in Late Medieval England University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004 A sinner-saint who embraced then renounced sexual and worldly pleasures; a woman who, through her attachment to Jesus, embodied both erotic and sacred power; a symbol of penance and an exemplar of contemplative and passionate devotion |
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Professor Jane Donawerth co-editor and co-translator, Selected Letters, Orations, and Rhetorical Dialogues of Madeleine de Scudery University of Chicago Press, 2004 Edited and Translated by Jane Donawerth and Julie Strongson
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Professor Vincent Carretta Editor, Unchained Voices: An Anthology of Black Authors in the English-Speaking World of the Eighteenth Century University Press of Kentucky, 2003 Carretta has assembled the most comprehensive anthology ever published of writings by eighteenth-century people of African descent |
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Professor Stanley Plumly Argument & Song: Sources and Silences in Poetry Handsel, 2003 This volume collects fifteen of Plumly's previously published essays on poetry and art, including the seminal "Chapter and Verse," "Sentimental Forms," and "The Abrupt Edge." |
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Emeritus Professor Adele Berlin Co-editor, with Marc Zvi Brettler and Michael Fishbane, The Jewish Study Bible Oxford University Press, 2003 The Jewish Study Bible is an innovative volume that offers readers of the Hebrew Bible a resource specifically tailored to meet their needs. |
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Associate Professor Ralph Bauer The Cultural Geography of Colonial American Literatures: Empire, Travel, Modernity Cambridge University Press, 2003 Bauer presents a comparative investigation of colonial prose narratives in Spanish and British America from 1542 to 1800. |
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Professor of the Practice Michael Olmert The Smithsonian Book of Books Smithsonian Books, 2003 Through more than 300 glorious illustrations from library collections around the globe, you’ll discover a wealth of book lore in these pages and gain a new appreciation for the role of books in human society, from our earliest attempts at writing and recording information to the newest electronic books; from sumptuous illuminated and bejeweled medieval manuscripts to Gutenberg and the invention of movable type; from the diverse arts and crafts of bookmaking to the building of magnificent libraries for housing treasured volumes; from the ancient epic of Gilgamesh to the plays of Shakespeare |
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Professor Jeanne Fahnestock A Rhetoric of Argument, 3rd Edition Random House, 2003 When it was first published in 1982, A Rhetoric of Argument developed a ground-breaking new approach to teaching argument. |
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Associate Professor Peter Mallios Editor, Victory, by Joseph Conrad Modern Library, 2003 Set in the islands of the Malay Archipelago, Victory tells the story of a disillusioned Swede, Axel Heyst, who rescues Lena, a young English musician, from the clutches of a brutish German hotel owner. |
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Professor Vincent Carretta Editor, The Interesting Narrative and Other Writings, by Olaudah Equiano Penguin, Revised and Expanded Edition, 2003 The classic account of the slave trade by native Africa, former slave, and loyal British subject, Olaudah Equiano. |
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Professor Elizabeth Bergmann Loizeaux Yeats and the Visual Arts Syracuse University Press, 2003 |