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Reading, Wanting, and Broken Economics
(May 2021)
A Twenty-First-Century Study of Readers and Bookshops in Southampton around 1900
Simon R. Frost - Author
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Uses a historical study of bookselling and readers as a way to question and rethink our understanding of the market for symbolic goods.
Combining historical study, theorization, and experimental fiction, this book takes commodity culture and book retail around 1900, as the prime example of a market of symbolic goods. With the port of Southampton, England, as his case study, Simon R...(Read More) |
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Medicine Is War
(February 2021)
The Martial Metaphor in Victorian Literature and Culture
Lorenzo Servitje - Author
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Examines how literature mediated a convergence of militarism and medicine in Victorian culture that continues into the present via a widespread martial metaphor.
Medicine is most often understood through the metaphor of war. We encounter phrases such as “the war against the coronavirus,” “the front lines of the Ebola crisis,” “a new weapon against antibiotic resistance,” or “the im...(Read More) |
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Yiddish Plays for Reading and Performance
(February 2021)
Nahma Sandrow - Editor/translator
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Three stageworthy plays and nine individual scenes that offer an introduction to Yiddish theater at its liveliest.
Yiddish theater was first and foremost fine theater, with varied repertory and actors of high quality. The three stage-ready plays and nine individual scenes collected here, most of them well-known in Yiddish repertory but never before translated, offer an introduction...(Read More) |
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Beyond Gold and Diamonds
(January 2021)
Genre, the Authorial Informant, and the British South African Novel
Melissa Free - Author
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The first book to examine and establish characteristics of the British South African novel.
Beyond Gold and Diamonds demonstrates the importance of southern Africa to British literature from the 1880s to the 1920s, from the rise of the systematic exploitation of the region’s mineral wealth to the aftermath of World War I. It focuses on fiction by the colonial-born Olive Schr...(Read More) |
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Super Schoolmaster
(January 2021)
Ezra Pound as Teacher, Then and Now
Robert Scholes - Author
David Ben-Merre - Author
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Traces the controversial poet’s thinking about teaching and learning throughout his career.
Once described by T. S. Eliot as “first and foremost, a teacher and campaigner,” Ezra Pound has received no shortage of critical attention. Super Schoolmaster suggests that Pound still has quite a bit to teach readers in the twenty-first century, particularly amid increasing threats ...(Read More) |
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DIY on the Lower East Side
(August 2020)
Books, Buildings, and Art after the 1975 Fiscal Crisis
Andrew Strombeck - Author
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Engaging look at Lower East Side writers and artists in the wake of the 1975 New York fiscal crisis.
The severe financial austerity imposed on New York City during the 1975 fiscal crisis resulted in a city falling apart. Broken windows, crumbling walls, and piles of bricks were everywhere. While, for many, this physical decay was a sign that the postwar welfare state had failed, f...(Read More) |
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Black Cultural Mythology
(April 2020)
Christel N. Temple - Author
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Offers a new conceptual framework rooted in mythological analysis to ground the field of Africana cultural memory studies.
Black Cultural Mythology retrieves the concept of “mythology” from its Black Arts Movement origins and broadens its scope to illuminate the relationship between legacies of heroic survival, cultural memory, and creative production in the African diaspora. Christel N. Temple comprehensively ...(Read More) |
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Logoi and Muthoi
(June 2019)
Further Essays in Greek Philosophy and Literature
William Wians - Editor
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Essays on Greek philosophy and literature from Homer and Hesiod to Aristotle.
In Logoi and Muthoi, William Wians builds on his earlier volume Logos and Muthos, highlighting the richness and complexity of these terms that were once set firmly in opposition to one another as reason versus myth or rationality versus irrationality. It was once common to think of intellect...(Read More) |
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Argentina Noir
(March 2019)
New Millennium Crime Novels in Buenos Aires
Cynthia Schmidt-Cruz - Author
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An engaging and insightful guide to Argentine crime fiction since 2000.
Argentina Noir offers a guide to Argentine crime fiction, with a focus on works published since the year 2000. It argues that the novela negra, or crime novel, has become the favored genre for many writers to address the social malaise brought about by changes linked to globalization and market-d...(Read More) |
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Writing in Witness
(July 2018)
A Holocaust Reader
Eric J. Sundquist - Editor
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FINALIST- 2019 National Jewish Book Award in the Anthologies and Collections Category, presented by the Jewish Book Council
Silver Winner - 2018 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the Anthologies category
A comprehensive survey of the most important writing to come out of the Holocaust.
Writing in Witness is a broad survey of the most important writing about the...(Read More) |
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