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Oscar Peterson (1925-2007)

The Classic Years

Simon van Schalkwyk

Robert Lowell's Imitations and the Cold War

The first book-length study focusing on Robert Lowell's career-long preoccupation with the liberal mode of translational adaptation known as imitation.Robert Lowell's Imitations and the Cold War argues th…

Mark B Kelley

Crimes Against Feeling

Demonstrating how emotion became central to the legal and literary meanings of piracy in nineteenth-century AmericaPirates have long occupied a central yet unstable place in American law and national iden…

Scott Selisker

Character Networks in Contemporary U.S. Fiction

A defining shift in 21st-century American culture has been the visibility of our social networks. Our vocabulary for understanding politics and culture is now saturated with terms describing patterns of p…

Eliot Now

Eliot Now -the first collection of essays written with full access to T. S. Eliot's recently published Complete Prose and Poems-combines contemporary critical approaches with a sustained inquiry into the …

Richard Sperber,

Intertextual Exoticism

Intertextual Exoticism reads a body of non-canonical German exoticist literature published after imperial Germany's loss of colonial Oceania in 1914, applying theories of "intertextuality" (Kris…

Jake McGinnis

The Making of Thoreau's Excursions

Explores Thoreau's excursions as a method of travel writing, showing a literary process grounded in the emergent instability of the Anthropocene.In the final years of his life, Henry David Thoreau outline…

Jesse van Amelsvoort,

Post-National Worlds in Contemporary European Literature

Using works by Hafid Bouazza, Najat El Hachmi, Tsjêbbe Hettinga, Emine Sevgi Özdamar, Leïla Slimani, Zadie Smith, and Kjell Westö, this book looks at post-national feelings of belonging in contemporary Eu…

Emily McAvan,

Pollution Theory

Using speculative modes like science fiction novels, film and modernist painting, this book investigates the ways that pollution has come to define every aspect of material life in the Anthropocene.Offeri…

Ayn Rand

For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)

Here is Ayn Rand's first non-fiction work-a challenge to the prevalent philosophical doctrines of our time and the "atmosphere of guilt, of panic, of despair, of boredom, and of all-pervasive evasion…

Claire de Duras, Pratima Prasad, Chris Miller

Ourika, Édouard, and Olivier

'I have no secrets; my unhappiness is the story of my entire life.'A key figure in the literary world of post-Revolutionary Paris, Claire de Duras was a writer of exceptional talent, admired by Sainte-Beu…

Amanda Anderson, Simon During

Humanities Theory

Humanities Theory argues that there exists a global humanities world which not only transcends disciplinary divisions but joins the professional academic humanities to a thriving amateur public humanities…

Simon C Estok,

The Agony of Water in an Age of Climate Change

Examining how water appears to humanity (its forms) and how humanity apprehends it (our perceptual horizons), this book proposes a methodology for better understanding and conceptualizing our relationship…

Angela L Willis

Reinaldo Arenas and the Cultural Canon

Exploring how Reinaldo Arenas reimagined literary classics as queer, subversive parodies that undermine oppressive powerThis book offers a fresh reading of the work of Reinaldo Arenas, showing how the Cub…

Andrew Hammond

Modern European Borders in Fiction

There are few features of the contemporary world more significant than national and regional borders. In modern Europe, the practices of human division have defined the continent from the early years of t…

Cecilia Farr

As I Was Saying

An indispensable companion to Gertrude Stein's masterpiece, The Making of Americans. One of the great works of 20th-century American fiction, Stein's novel represents a peak of modernist literature: fille…

Vered Lev Kenaan, Patricia A Rosenmeyer

Classics Transformed in Jewish, Israeli, and Palestinian Receptions

This volume explores how classical antiquity influenced the writings of poets, translators, and scholars emerging from modern Jewish diasporas, Mandatory Palestine, and the State of Israel. The chapters e…

Lena Mattheis

Queer Forms and Pronouns

Queer Forms and Pronouns is a journey into the world of gender nonconformity (GNC) pronouns in literature. Pronouns are frequently discussed in the contexts of language policies, grammar, and inclusion, b…

American Modernism (Re)Considered

What exactly is modernism and who are modernist writers? What distinguishes American modernism from its European counterpart?American Modernism (Re)Considered questions the principal distinction between m…