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Book SynopsisD. Christopher Gabbard is Associate Professor of English at the University of North Florida, USA. He is the author of A Life Beyond Reason and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies.Susannah B. Mintz is Professor of English at Skidmore College, USA. She is author of Unruly Bodies: Life Writing by Women with Disabilities, The Disabled Detective and is co-editor of a critical volume on the essayist Nancy Mairs.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Notes of Contributors Series Preface Introduction, Christopher Gabbard, University of North Florida, USA and Susannah B. Mintz, Skidmore College, USA Ch 1: Atypical Bodies: Anomalous Bodies in the Eighteenth Century, Sara van den Berg, Saint Louis University, USA Ch. 2: Mobility Impairment, David Turner, Swansea University, UK Ch. 3: Chronic Pain: Chronic Pain and Illness in the Long Eighteenth Century, Isabella Lucy Cooper, University of Maryland, USA Ch. 4: Blindness: Conversations with the Blind, or “Aren’t You Surprised I Can Speak?” Kate E. Tunstall, University of Oxford, UK Ch 5: Deafness: Deafness in the Age of Enlightenment, Kristin Lindgren, Haverford College, USA Ch. 6: Speech: Speech and Disability in the Long Eighteenth Century, Dwight Codr, University of Connecticut, USA and Jared Richman, Colorado College, USA Ch. 7: Learning Difficulties: Intellectual disability in the long eighteenth century, C. F. Goodey, University of Leicester, UK and Simon Jarrett, Birkbeck University, UK Ch. 8: Mental Health Issues: Listening for Ghosts: Madpeople in the Eighteenth Century, Allison Hobgood, Willamette University, USA Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisMartha Stoddard Holmes is Professor of Literature and Writing Studies at California State University San Marcos, USA. Joyce L. Huff is Associate Professor of English at Ball State University, USA.Trade ReviewThe contributions this book features will be of immense value to students and scholars who are new to the field. As a whole, the book will also serve as a useful reference work for experienced researchers in the field looking to recap their knowledge or find inspiration for new directions of research. * Literature & History, Ball State University Libraries *Table of ContentsList of Illustration Notes of Contributors Series Preface Introduction: Negotiating Normalcy in the Long Nineteenth Century, Joyce L. Huff, Ball State University, USA and Martha Stoddard Holmes, California State University, USA Chapter 1: Atypical Bodies: The Cultural Work of the Nineteenth-Century Freak Show, Nadja Durbach, University of Utah, USA Chapter 2: Mobility Impairment: From the Bath Chair to the Wheelchair, Karen Bourrier, University of Calgary, Canada Chapter 3: Chronic Pain and Illness: “The Wounded Soldiery of Mankind,” Maria Frawley, George Washington University, USA Chapter 4: Blindness: Creating and Consuming a Non-Visual Culture, Vanessa Warne, University of Manitoba, Canada Chapter 5: Deafness: Representation, Sign Language, and Community, c. 1800-1920, Esme Cleall, University of Sheffield, UK Chapter 6: Speech: Dysfluent Temporalities in the Long Nineteenth Century, Daniel Martin, MacEwan University, Canada Chapter 7: Learning Difficulties: The Transformation of “Idiocy” in the Nineteenth Century, Patrick McDonagh, Concordia University, Canada Chapter 8: Mental Health Issues: Alienists, Asylums, and the Mad, Elizabeth J. Donaldson, New York Institute of Technology, USA Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisDavid T. Mitchell is Professor of English at George Washington University, USA.Sharon L. Snyder is an independent researcher.Mitchell and Snyder are editors of the Encyclopaedia of Disability, Volume Five: A History of Disability in Primary Sources (2005) and, most recently, The Matter of Disability [with Susan Antebi] (2019). Together they are also co-authors of influential books in Disability Studies including Narrative Prosthesis (2000), Cultural Locations of Disability (2006), and The Biopolitics of Disability (2015).Table of ContentsList of Illustration Notes of Contributors Series Preface Introduction: What We Talk About When We Talk About Disability – David T. Mitchell & Sharon L. Snyder, George Washington University, USA Ch 1: Atypical Bodies – Bee Scherer, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK Ch 2: Mobility Impairment – Fiona Kumari Campbell, University of Dundee, UK Ch 3: Chronic Pain - Theodora Danylevich. George Washington University, USA Ch 4: Blindness - Tanya Titchkosky & Rod Michalko, University of Toronto, Canada Ch 5: Deafness - Sam Yates, George Washington University, USA Ch 6: Speech - Zephyrous Zahari, George Washington University, USA Ch 7: Learning difficulties – Owen Barden, Hope Liverpool University, UK Ch 8: Mental Health Issues - Anne McGuire, University of Toronto, Canada Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisCharting the early dissemination of Shakespeare in the Nordic countries in the 19th century, this opens up an area of global Shakespeare studies that has received little attention to date. With case studies exploring the earliest translations of Hamlet into Danish; the first translation of Macbeth and the differing translations of Hamlet into Swedish; adaptations into Finnish; Kierkegaard's re-working of King Lear, and the reception of the African-American actor Ira Aldridge's performances in Stockholm as Othello and Shylock, it will appeal to all those interested in the reception of Shakespeare and its relationship to the political and social conditions.The volume intervenes in the current discussion of global Shakespeare and more recent concepts like rhizome', which challenge the notion of an Anglocentric model of centre' versus periphery'. It offers a new assessment of these notions, revealing how the dissemination of Shakespeare is determined by a seriesTable of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction Nely Keinänen and Per Sivefors 1: The First Danish Production of Hamlet (1813): A Theatrical Representation of a National Crisis Annelis Kuhlmann (Aarhus University, Denmark) 2: Geijer’s Macbeth – Page, Stage and the Seeds of Time Kiki Lindell (Lund University, Sweden) and Kent Hägglund (Stockholm University, Sweden) 3: Cold Maids and Dead Men: Gender in Translation and Transition in Hamlet Cecilia Lindskog Whiteley (Uppsala University, Sweden) 4: The Poetics of Adaptation and Politics of Domestication: Macbeth and J. F. Lagervall’s Ruunulinna Jyrki Nummi, Eeva-Liisa Bastman and Erika Laamanen (all University of Helsinki, Finland) 5: Søren Kierkegaard’s Adaptation Of King Lear James Newlin (Case Western Reserve University, USA) 6: ‘A blot on Swedish hospitality’: Ira Aldridge’s Visit to Stockholm in 1857 Per Sivefors (Linnaeus University, Sweden) 7: Shakespeare’s Legacy and Aleksis Kivi: Rethinking Kivi’s Drama Karkurit [The Fugitives] Riitta Pohjola-Skarp (University of Tampere, Finland) 8: Anne Charlotte Leffler’s Shakespeare: The Perils of Stardom and Everyday Life Lynn R. Wilkinson (University of Texas, USA) 9: Knut Hamsun’s Criticism of Shakespeare Martin Humpál (Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic) Afterword: Towards a Regional Methodology of Culture Alexa Alice Joubin (George Washington University, USA) Appendix: Nordic Shakespeare until 1900: A Timeline Index

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Book SynopsisThis book examines poets and artists in the Americas during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries to show how they worked to make language into material objects and material objects into language.

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Book SynopsisA comparative literary history that explores Robert Louis Stevenson and French literature.

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Book SynopsisSpanning four centuries from the Renaissance to today's avant-garde, Migration and Mutation explores how the sonnet has evolved in and out of translation. Contributors examine little-studied translation trajectories in the early modern period, such as the pivotal role of France between Italy and England or the first German sonnets and their Italian, French, Dutch and Scottish origins. Essays then shed new light on major European sonneteers In the 19th and 20th centuries, including Shakespeare, Keats, Yeats, Rilke and Pessoa, alongside lesser-known contemporaries and with novel approaches. And finally, contributors explore how translation and adaptation create metaphorical space in the 21st century.Migration and Mutation also pays attention to the political or subversive dimension of the sonnet, with essays on women, gay or postcolonial reclaimings of the sonnet and recent experiments such as post-Soviet Sonnets on shirts by Genrikh Sagpir. It takes the sonnet out of the cTrade ReviewThis volume defies the legendary sense of formal closure associated with the sonnet to show how that form has thrived in translation, and how sonnets have occasioned transformations and reinventions in other media. Contributors range from theorists of translation and poetics to poets and practicing translators, giving the book a commanding breadth and facilitating lively conversations across the chapters. * Stephanie Sandler, Ernest E. Monrad Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University, USA *While the sonnet is often described as closed or fixed in form, the essays in this collection reveal it to be 'a migrant genre,' defined by its openness to travel and translation, and often used to defy political and social oppression. Deft and lucid essays range across subjects from Petrarch, Spenser, Rilke, the OuLiPo group, to Soviet dissidents, contemporary Singaporean poets and recent settings of Vivaldi. Migration and Mutation brings together scholars, translators and poets to show how this travelling form has been adapted or transposed to other languages, media, subjects and styles. * Elizabeth Scott-Baumann, Reader in Early Modern Literature, King’s College London, UK *Table of ContentsForeword David Duff, Queen Mary University of London, UK Introduction Carole Birkan-Berz, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, France Part One: Revisiting early modern circulations 1. Poetic furor in translation: Spenser's and Sylvester's sonnet collections Padraic Lamb, University of Lyon, France 2. The fashioning of English anti-Petrarchism: Spenser and Shakespeare remembering Du Bellay Line Cottegnies, Université Sorbonne, France 3. ‘Translated out of Ronsard'?: A misattributed translation of Petrarch’s RVF 48 by Sir John Borough Guillaume Coatalen, CY Cergy Paris University, France 4. Paving the way for Opitz: The first German sonnets at the crossroads of European circulation networks, 1556-1604 Elisabeth Rothmund, Université Sorbonne, France Part Two: Sonnet translation as a space for poetic imagination 5. Keats’s sonnets and the translation process: Mediation, conversion and response Oriane Monthéard, University of Rouen, France 6. On translating Les Chimères by Gérard de Nerval Peter Valente, Independent Scholar 7. Reshaping Rilke: A comparative approach to the latest translations of Die Sonette an Orpheus into English Frédéric Weinmann, Independent Scholar 8. Fernando Pessoa's sonnets - dislocations in form, persona and language Carlos A. Pitella, Centre for Theatre Studies of the University of Lisbon, Portugal 9. English sonnet spaces in Jacques Roubaud's Churchill 40 Thea Petrou, Independent Scholar 10. Lyrical gestures: The essence of the form and the spirit of the translated text in Don Paterson’s ‘versions’ of sonnets Bastien Goursaud, UPEC Université Paris Est Créteil, France Part Three: Sonnet migrations across and outside Europe: Translating as a political act 11. Translation and transnationalism: Reframing the contemporary Irish sonnet Erin Cunningham, Independent Scholar 12. Sonnet translation and imitation during the Second World War: Maintaining the idea of Europe? Thomas Vuong, Independent Scholar 13.Translating Genrikh Sapgir’s Sonnets on Shirts Dmitri Manin, Independent Scholar 14. The vulgar eloquence of Singaporean sonnets Tse Hao Guang, Independent Scholar Part Four: Cross-media adaptations and beyond 15. On the theatricality of the Canzoniere, from medieval to modern times Jean-Luc Nardone, Toulouse Jean Jaurès University, France 16. Raymond Queneau’s Cent mille milliards de poèmes: An attempt to exhaust the sonnet Natalie Berkman, SAE Institute, Paris, France 17. The Four Seasons in flux: Translating the sonnets from Vivaldi's score in relation to performances by Nigel Kennedy Paul Munden, University of Leeds, UK, and University of Canberra, Australia, and Anouska Zummo, Independent Scholar 18. Debating sonnet translation in the Soviet and post-Soviet era: Rethinking and transforming the Russian sonnet Alexander Markov, Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, Russia Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisBreaking with linearity the ruling narrative model in the Jewish-Christian tradition since the ancient world many 20th-century European writers adopted circular narrative forms. Juan Luis Toribio Vazquez shows this trend was not a unified nor conscious movement, but rather a series of works arising sporadically in different countries at different times, using a variety of circular structures to express similar concerns and ideas about the world. This study also shows how the renewed understanding of narrative form leading to this circular trend was anticipated by Nietzsche's critiques of truth, knowledge, language and metaphysics, and especially by his related discussions of nihilism and the eternal recurrence. Starting with an analysis of the theory and genealogy of linear narrative, the author charts the emergence of Nietzsche's idea of eternal return, before then turning to the history of the circular narrative trend. This history is explored from its inception, in the works of Trade ReviewIn this groundbreaking work, Juan Luis Toribio Vazquez retraces the teleological view of literature through a wide expanse of texts, both narrative and of literary criticism – from Homer to Aristotle, Tasso and Schiller – before delineating how certain authors of modern literature rejected linearity in favour of circular forms of narrative. Built on Nietzschean philosophy, particularly on his idea of eternal recurrence, the book’s close engagement with writers and dramatists, ranging from Strindberg to Nabokov, Joyce, Borges and Calvino, radically reconfigures the aesthetics grounding these texts. This brilliant account adds an important dimension to the evolution of the Western narrative. * Thirthankar Chakraborty, Assistant Professor of English, Indian Institute of Technology Bhilai, India, and co-editor of Samuel Beckett as World Litertature *Far from a mere typology, Circular Narratives in Modern European Literature is both ambitious in scope and quite original in dealing with its central premise. Toribio Vazquez offers a personal attempt to present and understand the many different circular alternatives probed by the 20th-century writers under the spell of Nietzsche’s negative philosophy, a milestone for the contemporary collapse of linearity. His close readings compose an engaging picture of modernism(s) in Europe, sensitive to singularities and also particularly attentive of non-canonical names, such as Azorín and Kharns. A fine, comprehensive study, theory and analysis concerned. * Fábio de Souza Andrade, Professor of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature, University of São Paulo, Brazil *In this wide-ranging comparative study Toribio Vazquez extends our understanding of post-Nietzschean poetics. His corpus of canonical and non-canonical 20th-century writers exploit structures of circularity for a variety of purposes, from the axiological and psychological to the existential and self-referential. This is an ambitious and impressive piece of work. * Duncan Large, Professor of European Literature and Translation, University of East Anglia, UK *Table of ContentsForeword by Shane Weller (University of Kent, UK) Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: The Genealogy of Linearity 2. Nietzsche’s Bequest: Buddha’s Shadow and the ‘Greatest Burden’ 3. The Birth of Circularity: Strindberg, Stein and Azorín 4. ‘Vivir es Volver’: Queneau, Nabokov and Kharms 5. Circulus Vitiosus Litterae: Joyce, Borges and the Theatre of the Absurd 6. Circular Echoes: Robbe-Grillet, Calvino, Cortázar and Blanchot 7. Conclusion: Circular Narratives in Modern European Literature References Index

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Book SynopsisEscape, Escapism, Escapology: American Novels of the Early Twenty-First Century identifies and explores what has emerged as perhaps the central theme of 21st-century American fiction: the desire to escapefrom the commodified present, from directionless history, from moral deathat a time of inescapable globalization. The driving question is how to find an alternative to the world within the world, at a time when utopian and messianic ideals have lost their power to compel belief. John Limon traces the American answer to that question in the writings of some of the most important authors of the last two decadesChabon, Diaz, Foer, Eggers, Donoghue, Groff, Ward, Saunders, and Whitehead, among othersand finds that it always involves the faux utopian freedom and pseudo-messianic salvation of childhood.When contemporary novelists feature actual historical escape, pervasively from slavery or Nazism, it appears in their novels as escape envy or escape nostalgiTrade ReviewIf you haven’t yet encountered John Limon’s work, you have some exhilarating surprises ahead: it’s witty, keenly idiosyncratic, beautifully adroit at drawing unexpected connections, and spectacularly attuned to the evocative possibilities of both paradox and pathos. Escape, Escapism, Escapology: American Novels of the Early Twenty-First Century is a savvy examination of crucial obsessions in some of our most ambitious and canonical contemporary fictions, helping us through the problem of conceiving not only what we’re escaping from but also what we’re escaping to. The result is an argument that will compel both the ornithologists and the birds: one that our Michael Chabons will find as illuminating as our Stanley Cavells. * Jim Shepard, author of The Book of Aron *Limon's bleakly funny and effortlessly learned study examines novels for which this, the world now before us, is ‘as good as it gets.’ That equivocal and confounding prospect, it turns out, haunts contemporary fiction in previously unimaginable ways. This is literary criticism at its very best. * Michael Szalay, Professor of English, Film, and Media, University of California, Irvine, USA *John Limon’s Escape, Escapism, Escapology will stand as a landmark study of the early twenty-first century Anglophone novel. Its elaboration of escapism offers a brilliantly original and suggestive framework for a widescale reconsideration of the force and interest of contemporary fiction. I can think of very few recent works of criticism that can match its interpretive verve and its contagious curiosity. It is thrilling to read such an intellectually forceful engagement with aesthetic culture of the present moment. * Deak Nabers, Associate Professor of English, Brown University, USA *Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I: Escape, Escapism, Escapology 1. Notes from Neverland 2. I Flit, I Float, I Fleetly Flee, I Fly [on The Sound of Music] Part II: Family Likenesses 3. The Escapist [on Michael Chabon] 4. Mellon [on Junot Diaz] 5. Bath and Bathos [on Dave Eggers and Jonathan Safran Foer] 6. The Beauty! The Horror! [on Emma Donoghue] 7. Et in Nobis Arcadia [on Lauren Groff] 8. The Ethics of Immortality [on Colson Whitehead] 9. The Songs of Murdered Souls [On Jesmyn Ward and George Saunders] Part III: Foreign Correspondents 10. Choice and the Chosen [on David Grossman] 11. Categorical Denial [on Arundhati Roy] Part IV: Prequel 12. The Tunnel Out [on William H. Gass] Acknowledgments References Index

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Book SynopsisMargaret H. Freeman is Co-Director of the Myrifield Institute for Cognition and the Arts, MA, USA. Professor Freeman's past publications include The Poem as Icon: A Study in Aesthetic Cognition (2020).Trade ReviewFreeman's book is not just an engagingly learned re-introduction to Emily Dickinson but a provocation to consider how contemporary scholarship on embodied cognition may serve as a means of building a more complete understanding of Dickinson's poetic art. * Ryan Cull, Associate Professor of English, New Mexico State University, USA *Drawing on the insights of cognitive science, Margaret Freeman demonstrates that understanding a poem, even before any attempt at interpretation, is to cognitively experience it, allowing it to reveal itself by what it is saying and doing. Her subtle and meticulous analyses illustrate how those “animate organisms” work, and they are thus true eye-openers as well as an enormous gain for all lovers of Dickinson’s poems, academics and general readers alike. * Gudrun Grabher, Professor Emerita of American Studies, University of Innsbruck, Austria *Margaret Freeman's new book challenges our preconceptions not only about Emily Dickinson but also about the rapidly growing field of cognitive literary studies. She works scrupulously with all levels of Dickinson's poems, descrying impalpable nuances of poetic language while never losing sight of the final analysis and sense of indefinable but alluring artistic work. Freeman's book applies cognitive science findings and heuristics to literary studies and proffers a holistic view of the ways we read a poem, accompanied by step-by-step comments and striking readings. * Denis Akhapkin, Associate Professor of Languages and Literature, Smolny College, Russia *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments 1. Demure as Dynamite: Dickinson and Cognition 2. Everything Counts: Reading the Manuscripts 3. The Manuscript Markings 4. Measuring Time in Meter and Rhythm 5. Affective Prosody 6. The Life of Words 7. Bringing a Poem to Life 8. Intimate Discourse 9. Grounded-Self Spaces 10. The Presence of Self 11. The Way We Map 12. Intentional Mapping 13. Conceiving a Universe 14. A Transformative Poetics 15. Dickinsonian Cognition Appendix References Index of First Lines Subject Index

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Book SynopsisNew perspectives on representations of nationalism and its discontents in literary discourses

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Book SynopsisStephen Frosh is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck, Universityof London, UK, and author of numerous books on psychoanalysis and psychosocial studies,including Hauntings: Psychoanalysis and Ghostly Transmissions (2013) and A Brief Introduction toPsychoanalytic Theory (2012).

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Book SynopsisIdentifying a crucial link between poetic form and the forming of attention, Lucy Alford offers a new terminology for how poetic attention works and how attention becomes a subject and object of poetry. She combines close readings of a wide variety of poems with research in the philosophy, aesthetics, and psychology of attention.Trade ReviewToday, as our attention is nearly suffocated by the forces of commodification, Lucy Alford awakens us to the subtle powers and true breathing room that poems extend to us. Her focus ranges from Sappho to pre-Islamic poetry through the Renaissance to French and German modernism and the living poets of North America as she attends to the emergent forms of individual works and the manifold experiences of their reception. Close or far, immediate or withdrawn, vivid or abstract, with or without present subjects and objects, poets and their readers begin in perception and arrive at an ethics of care and even love. -- Susan Stewart, Avalon Foundation University Professor of the Humanities, Princeton UniversityWidely read in modern poetry and in philosophical, psychological, and sociological studies of attention, Lucy Alford has produced a boldly ambitious book with a new take on poetry in general and the sorts of things it can do. She explores how poems shape and are shaped by different kinds of attention with authority, eloquence, and sureness of touch. -- Jonathan Culler, author of Theory of the LyricLucy Alford’s elegant and original book incisively distinguishes among the various forms of poetic attention. Fusing lyrical responsiveness with sharp-eyed analysis, it offers supple and intricate readings of attention in a stunningly transnational and transhistorical array of poems, from ancient Egypt and Greece to contemporary America. -- Jahan Ramazani, author of Poetry and Its Others: News, Prayer, Song, and the Dialogue of GenresAlford proposes a truly new taxonomy of interest to any student of poetry and poetics: how do poems hold our attention? What are the separable ways in which they do so? How does a poem send us back out into the rest of the world, and when does it encourage us to go, and to stay, nowhere? These questions apply not just to particular poets, but to the whole of a literary enterprise: Alford gives us an acoustically and aesthetically sensitive way to talk about poems from varying language and periods and about the diversity within their unity. -- Stephanie Burt, author of Don't Read Poetry: A Book About How to Read PoemsHer readings are sensitive and nuanced. * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: What Is Poetic Attention?Part I. Attending to Objects1. Modes of Transitive Attention2. Contemplation: Attention’s Reach3. Desire: Attention’s Hunger4. Recollection: Attending to the Departed Object5. Imagination: Attention’s PoiesisPart II. Objectless Awareness6. Modes of Intransitive Attention7. Vigilance: States of Suspension8. Resignation: Relinquishing the Object9. Idleness: Doldrums and Gardens of Time10. Boredom: End-Stopped AttentionCoda: Toward a Practice of Poetic AttentionNotesBibliographyPermission CreditsIndex

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Book SynopsisExtraterritorial spaces fall outside of national borders but enhance state power. Matthew Hart reveals extraterritoriality’s centrality to twenty-first-century art and fiction and presents a new theory of literature that explains what happens when dreams of an open, connected world confront the reality of mobile, elastic, and tenacious borders.Trade ReviewExtraterritorial is a brilliantly original study of the global culture of our times and the extraterritorial space that it occupies, a space at the same time outside nations and states and within them. Hart offers a powerful argument for taking seriously how political geography is not just a topic for literature but also a force that shapes it from within. A provocative and convincing work both of theory and criticism. -- Adam Tooze, author of Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the WorldA fascinating book about why the idea of being extraterritorial has come to preoccupy writers and artists and a rejoinder to celebrations of the cosmopolitan intellect or the ostensible age of postnational globalization. Hart highlights the aesthetic appeal and confusion arising from extraterritoriality’s mixture of loosening and constraint, of being outside but also within, in spaces where political determination is at once constant and violable. -- Sarah Brouillette, author of UNESCO and the Fate of the LiteraryMatthew Hart remarks that the concept of the extraterritorial has been ‘a minor ghost’ in the history of literary criticism. Not any more. This is an important study of the contemporary condition where people find themselves in weird enclaves of territory, strange folds of legality, or passing through those transitional pockets of airports, detention camps, freeports, or gated communities that increasingly define existence. Hart makes a compelling argument that this condition is tied to the shifting forms and genres of the contemporary novel. With exhilarating readings of J. G. Ballard, China Miéville, Hilary Mantel, Amitav Ghosh, and others, each chapter opens up hugely productive insights. An essential read. -- Roger Luckhurst, University of LondonHart’s timely book zeros in on fundamental tensions between sovereignty and territoriality that have only become more urgent in the current moment of crisis. Mining contemporary novels and works of art for insights into political geography, Hart expertly reveals the overlapping jurisdictions and mixed regimes of power that define our world of ‘gated communities, mobile border regimes, and insular solidarities.’ Extraterritorial offers a lively and engaging mix of theoretical speculation, historical thinking, and sophisticated cultural analysis. -- Michael Rothberg, author of The Implicated Subject: Beyond Victims and Perpetrators[B]rilliantly original . . . this book asks urgent questions about what it means to belong to a territory. * Times Higher Education *A very different ethical commitment emerges in Hart’s Extraterritorial to the revolutionary attitude of modernism, not one of escape, but a movement inwards, into the cracks. This is not a hopeless outlook; in fact, Hart’s prose is at times surprisingly joyful; his readings retain a kind of enchantment with the aesthetics of the zone. * ASAP/Journal *Recommended. * Choice *Hart reminds us, with a timeliness surely only intensified by a global pandemic, that the power of the state to draw borders, far from waning along with all the other signatures of high modernity, paradoxically intensifies under globalization. * NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Four Types of Extraterritoriality1. Zone2. City-State3. String Theory4. A Border That Is Not a Border5. SettlementConclusion: The Extraterritorial NovelNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisExtraterritorial spaces fall outside of national borders but enhance state power. Matthew Hart reveals extraterritoriality’s centrality to twenty-first-century art and fiction and presents a new theory of literature that explains what happens when dreams of an open, connected world confront the reality of mobile, elastic, and tenacious borders.Trade ReviewExtraterritorial is a brilliantly original study of the global culture of our times and the extraterritorial space that it occupies, a space at the same time outside nations and states and within them. Hart offers a powerful argument for taking seriously how political geography is not just a topic for literature but also a force that shapes it from within. A provocative and convincing work both of theory and criticism. -- Adam Tooze, author of Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the WorldA fascinating book about why the idea of being extraterritorial has come to preoccupy writers and artists and a rejoinder to celebrations of the cosmopolitan intellect or the ostensible age of postnational globalization. Hart highlights the aesthetic appeal and confusion arising from extraterritoriality’s mixture of loosening and constraint, of being outside but also within, in spaces where political determination is at once constant and violable. -- Sarah Brouillette, author of UNESCO and the Fate of the LiteraryMatthew Hart remarks that the concept of the extraterritorial has been ‘a minor ghost’ in the history of literary criticism. Not any more. This is an important study of the contemporary condition where people find themselves in weird enclaves of territory, strange folds of legality, or passing through those transitional pockets of airports, detention camps, freeports, or gated communities that increasingly define existence. Hart makes a compelling argument that this condition is tied to the shifting forms and genres of the contemporary novel. With exhilarating readings of J. G. Ballard, China Miéville, Hilary Mantel, Amitav Ghosh, and others, each chapter opens up hugely productive insights. An essential read. -- Roger Luckhurst, University of LondonHart’s timely book zeros in on fundamental tensions between sovereignty and territoriality that have only become more urgent in the current moment of crisis. Mining contemporary novels and works of art for insights into political geography, Hart expertly reveals the overlapping jurisdictions and mixed regimes of power that define our world of ‘gated communities, mobile border regimes, and insular solidarities.’ Extraterritorial offers a lively and engaging mix of theoretical speculation, historical thinking, and sophisticated cultural analysis. -- Michael Rothberg, author of The Implicated Subject: Beyond Victims and Perpetrators[B]rilliantly original . . . this book asks urgent questions about what it means to belong to a territory. * Times Higher Education *A very different ethical commitment emerges in Hart’s Extraterritorial to the revolutionary attitude of modernism, not one of escape, but a movement inwards, into the cracks. This is not a hopeless outlook; in fact, Hart’s prose is at times surprisingly joyful; his readings retain a kind of enchantment with the aesthetics of the zone. * ASAP/Journal *Recommended. * Choice *Hart reminds us, with a timeliness surely only intensified by a global pandemic, that the power of the state to draw borders, far from waning along with all the other signatures of high modernity, paradoxically intensifies under globalization. * NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Four Types of Extraterritoriality1. Zone2. City-State3. String Theory4. A Border That Is Not a Border5. SettlementConclusion: The Extraterritorial NovelNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisGayatri Chakravorty Spivak declares the death of comparative literature as we know it and sounds an urgent call for a âœnew comparative literature,â in which the discipline is reborn.Table of ContentsPreface to the Twentieth Anniversary EditionAcknowledgments1. Crossing Borders2. Collectivities3. PlanetarityNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisWhen in 1492 Christopher Columbus set out for Asia but instead happened upon the Bahamas, Cuba, and Hispaniola, his error inaugurated a specifically colonial modernity. This is,Security and Terrorcontends, the colonial modernity within which we still live. And its enduring features are especially vivid in the current American century, a moment marked by a permanent War on Terror and pervasive capitalist dispossession.Resisting the assumption that September 11, 2001, constituted a historical rupture, Eli Jelly-Schapiro traces the political and philosophic genealogies of security and terrorfrom the settler-colonization of the New World to the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and beyond.A history of the present crisis,Security and Terroralso examines how that history has been registered and reckoned with in significant works of contemporary fiction and theoryin novels byTeju Cole, Mohsin Hamid, Junot Díaz, and Roberto Bolaño,and in the critical interventions of Jean Baudrillard, Giorgio Agamben, Judith Butler, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, and others. In this richly interdisciplinary inquiry, Jelly-Schapiro reveals how the erasure of colonial pasts enables the perpetual reproduction of colonial culture.Trade Review"With a lucid and accessible tour of political theory . . . [Jelly-Schapiro] prepares his readers for astute interpretations of several recent fictional texts and films . . . The book is cultural studies at its best." * Times Higher Education *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: History, Narrative, and the War on Terror 1 1 • “All the World Was America”: The Long History of Homeland Security 20 2 • “A General Principle of Democracy”: Terror and Colonial Modernity 44 3 • “Choc en Retour”: Security, Terror, Theory 74 4 • “Vanishing Points”: Postcolonial America 105 5 • “This Is Our Threnody”: Writing History as Catastrophe 140 Epilogue: Rupture and Colonial Modernity 163 Notes 179 Bibliography 203

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Book SynopsisThis is the first book to approach the visuality of ancient Greek drama through the lens of theater phenomenology. Gathering evidence from tragedy, comedy, satyr play, and vase painting, Naomi Weiss argues that, from its very beginnings, Greek theater in the fifth century BCE was understood as a complex interplay of actuality and virtuality. Classical drama frequently exposes and interrogates potential viewing experiences within the theatronliterally, the place for seeing. Weiss shows how, in so doing, it demands distinctive modes of engagement from its audiences. Examining plays and pottery with attention to the instability and ambiguity inherent in visual perception, Seeing Theater provides an entirely new model for understanding this ancient art form.Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Note on Texts, Translations, and Abbreviations Introduction Phenomenology, Aristotle, and Classical Greek Drama Theōrein and Seeing Theater The “Play of Actuality” beyond Fifth-Century Theater Engaged Spectatorship Genre and Scope 1. Opening Spaces Tragic and Comic Space Seeing the Setting Staged Spectatorship Seeing Theater, Seeing Assembly Atopic Beginnings The Phenomenology of Space in the Classical Greek Theater 2. Seeing What? Is This That? Aeschylus’s Theoroi Visual Indeterminacy in Aeschylus’s Suppliants Winging with Words in Aristophanes’s Birds 3. Pain Between Bodies Dustheatos Blinded Bodies I: Euripides’s Cyclops and Hecuba Blinded Bodies II: Sophocles’s Oedipus the King Sympathetic Bodies: [Aeschylus’s] Prometheus Bound Pleasure in Pain 4. Pots and Plays Actor, Mask, Costume The Basel Chorus Krater The London Pandora Krater The Naples Birds Krater Epilogue Works Cited General Index Index Locorum

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Book SynopsisIn Ladies' Greek, Yopie Prins illuminates a culture of female classical literacy that emerged in the second half of the nineteenth century, during the formation of women's colleges on both sides of the Atlantic. Why did Victorian women of letters desire to learn ancient Greek, a "dead" language written in a strange alphabet and no longer spoken? InTrade Review"Shortlisted for the 2017 London Hellenic Prize, London Hellenic Society""Winner of the 2018 NAVSA Book Prize, North American Victorian Studies Association""Winner of the 2018 Robert Lowry Patten Award, SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900""The story of 'ladies' Greek', writes Yopie Prins in this fascinating academic study, goes hand in hand with that of the progress made in women’s education during the second half of the 19th century."---Francesca Wade, Daily Telegraph"[A] splendid new study of late 19th- and early 20th-century female translators of ancient Greek tragedy. . . . Prins gives a fascinating account of the importance of Greek tragedy in translation and theatrical production in the colleges of higher education for women that emerged in this period."---Emily Wilson, Guardian"[An] excellent new book. . . . [Prins] brings a perspective combination of biographical insight and historical overview."---John Kerrigan, London Review of Books"In Yopie Prins' remarkably wide-ranging, even scandalously scholarly work, she has collected a series of vivid tableaux vivant featuring translations and performances of Greek tragedies by 19th- and early 20th-century women, both in Britain and America."---Mary Townsend, Education & Culture Review"Ladies' Greek has been nearly twenty years in preparation. . . . It's been worth the wait. This is a wonderful demonstration of archival research, literary history and close reading which takes the discipline of classical reception to a new level. Like the subjects she describes, Prins breathes new life into dead papers, her own dazzling writing dancing across the page. . . . An exhilarating intellectual ride."---Jennifer Wallace, Modern Language Quarterly"Prins has a gift for wordplay and turns of phrase . . . that can open up new speculative possibilities as we ask why women were so attracted to learning Greek. . . . [An] important study."---Elizabeth Helsinger, Modern Philology"Ladies’ Greek is an exceptional piece of work. Deftly written, insightful and expansive, the book demonstrates Prins’ excellence as a scholar. Prins has produced more than outstanding scholarship, though: her series of encounters with archival materials and the lives and works of past women they represent is both compelling and moving. I will confess that the book took some time to get through, but that is chiefly because I found myself re-reading some of the passages again and again as one might do a great piece of literature. . . . A triumph."---David Bullen, Classical Review"A wonderful demonstration of archival research, literary history, and close reading, Ladies’ Greek takes the discipline of classical reception to a new level. Like the subjects she describes, Prins breathes new life into dead papers, her own dazzling writing dancing across the page."---Jennifer Wallace, Modern Language Quarterly"Prins’ archival analysis unpicks such conflicting perceptions of increased access to women’s education. Engrossing and accessible, Ladies’ Greek reveals very different (self-)portraits of female classicists and paves the way for further studies of women’s encounters with classical antiquity."---Rachel Bryant Davies, Journal of Hellenic Studies ​​​​​​​Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Preface xi Between Alpha and Omega xi Acknowledgments xv Introduction: Women and the Greek Alphabet 1 An Ode in Greek 1 "Some Greek upon the Margin" 5 "Ought Women to Learn the Alphabet?" 12 Translating Greek Tragedy 26 Chapter One: The Spell of Greek 35 Virginia Woolf 's Agamemnon Notebook 35 Cassandra between the Stage and the Page 45 OTOTOTOI 52 Chapter Two: IOTAOMEGA in Prometheus Bound 57 "So Harsh a Chain of Suffering" 57 Greek Verbs in Me 62 "A Goodly Company of Lady-Translators" 83 The Flight of Io, to America and Back to Greece 95 Chapter Three: The Education of Electra 116 Behold and See 116 Electra at Girton College 124 Electra at Smith College 137 Chapter Four: Hippolytus in Ladies' Greek (with the Accents) 152 New Measures for New Women 152 "A Brisk Interchange of Letters" 155 Euripidean (De)Cadence 163 H.D.'s Euripides: Feet, Feet, Feet, Feet 180 Chapter Five: Dancing Greek Letters 202 Modern Maenads 202 Jane Harrison's Thrill 209 Bryn Mawr College Rituals 218 Postface 233 Reading the Surface 233 Refractions of Antigone 236 How to Read Ladies' Greek 242 Notes 247 Bibliography 265 Index 289

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Book SynopsisBoethius wrote The Consolation of Philosophy as a prisoner condemned to death for treason, circumstances that are reflected in the themes and concerns of its evocative poetry and dialogue between the prisoner and his mentor, Lady Philosophy. This classic philosophical statement of late antiquity has had an enduring influence on Western thought. ItTrade ReviewHonorable Mention for the 2015 Rene Wellek Prize, American Comparative Literature Association "[A] revelatory study... Zim's close readings of these in-tandem texts bear haunting witness to enduring conditions in the world that ought not to be but unfathomably are, despite all the vociferous protestations that decry inhumane treatment of the other."--Choice "This book clearly demonstrates the profundity of much writing from prison and is packed full of fascinating and, in my experience, accurate observations. Every prison chaplain ought to have this book on his or her shelf."--Terry Waite, Church TimesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Part I. In Defense of Civilization 19 1. The Disciplines of Reason and Lyric Poetry 21 Anicius Boethius, Of the Consolation of Philosophy (ca. 524-25): The Foundations of Resistance in Dialogue and Lyric 21 Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison (1943-45): Christian Ethics and Lyric 47 2. Creative Dialogues with Textual Partners, Past and Present 79 Thomas More, A Dialogue of Comfort against Tribulation: A Political Guide to the Dilemmas of Religious Conscience (1534-35) 80 Antonio Gramsci, Prison Letters (1926-37): Dialogue in Dialectic 104 Part II. Preservation of Self 119 3. Memory and Self-Justification: Images of Grace and Disgrace Abounding 121 John Bunyan, Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners (1666): Writing the Eternally Present Self 124 Oscar Wilde, De Profundis (1897): A Pastoral Letter of Disgrace Abounding 142 4. Memorial Narratives as Salvation for the Feminine Self 166 Marie-Jeanne Roland, Memoirs (1793): Writing History Herself 169 Anne Frank, The Diary and Tales from the Secret Annexe (1942-44): Life Writing 191 5. The Consolations of Imagination and Lyric Poetry 213 Jean Cassou, Trente-trois sonnets composes au secret / 33 Sonnets of the Resistance (1943): Preserving the Liberty of a Poet 214 Irina Ratushinskaya, Pencil Letter and No, I'm Not Afraid (1982-86): Preserving the Life of a Poet 241 Part III. Testimony for Mankind 265 6. With Hindsight and Beyond Resistance 267 Primo Levi, If This Is a Man (1947) and Ad ora incerta (1947-86): Resisting the Demolition of a Man 267 Primo Levi, Moments of Reprieve (1981): In Defense of Civilization 291 Conclusion: Beyond Testimony 302 Select Bibliography 311 Index 319

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Book SynopsisSite Reading offers a new method of literary and cultural interpretation and a new theory of narrative setting by examining five sites--supermarkets, dumps, roads, ruins, and asylums--that have been crucial to American literature and visual art since the mid-twentieth century. Against the traditional understanding of setting as a static backgroundTrade ReviewWinner of the 2016 Erving Goffman Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Social Interaction, Media Ecology AssociationTable of ContentsList of Illustrations xi INTRODUCTION: THE SITE OF THE SOCIAL 1 1 SUPERMARKET SOCIOLOGY (Don DeLillo, Andy Warhol) 25 TEST SITES 49 2 DUMPS (William S. Burroughs, Mierle Laderman Ukeles) 51 3 ROADS (Jack Kerouac, Joan Didion, John Chamberlain) 73 4 RUINS (Thomas Pynchon, Robert Smithson) 96 5 ASYLUMS (Ralph Ellison, Gordon Parks, Jeff Wall) 121 AFTERWORD: SITE UNSEEN 149 Acknowledgments 157 Notes 161 Bibliography 187 Index 201

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Book SynopsisIt's a familiar story: a beautiful woman is abducted and her husband journeys to recover her. This story's best-known incarnation is also a central Greek myth--the abduction of Helen that led to the Trojan War. Stealing Helen surveys a vast range of folktales and texts exhibiting the story pattern of the abducted beautiful wife and makes a detailedTrade Review"Ultimately, the book's greatest merit may lie ... in his [Edmunds'] broad horizons--in his delight at discovering similarities between classical literature and the tales and experiences of people across the globe."--Barbara Graziosi, Times Higher Education "Edmunds brings to this rich, sophisticated book an innovative approach to the Helen story: he looks at it with a comparative eye."--ChoiceTable of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. v*List of Figures, pg. ix*Preface, pg. xi*Abbreviations, pg. xv*Introduction, pg. 1*1. "The Abduction of the Beautiful Wife" as International Tale, pg. 20*2. Dioscuri, pg. 66*3. Helen Myth, pg. 103*4. Hypostases of Helen, pg. 162*5. Helen in the Fifth Century and After, pg. 197*Conclusion, pg. 236*Appendix 1. Examples of "The Abduction of the Beautiful Wife", pg. 247*Appendix 2. Inventory of Art Objects, pg. 303*Notes, pg. 313*References, pg. 369*Index Locorum, pg. 407*General Index, pg. 420

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Book SynopsisThe Russian writer Lydia Ginzburg (1902-90) is best known for her Notes from the Leningrad Blockade and for influential critical studies, such as On Psychological Prose, investigating the problem of literary character in French and Russian novels and memoirs. Yet she viewed her most vital work to be the extensive prose fragments, composed for the dTrade Review"Particularly welcome is the queer studies dimension of the volume... Those coming to Ginzburg's work for the first time will particularly appreciate the informative biography of the author at the beginning of the book"--Choice "Any student of the twentieth century and its traumas, let alone Soviet literary history, should find Van Buskirk's book of extreme interest and value."--Marat Grinberg, Russian ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vii A Note about Spelling, Transliteration, and Archival References ix Introduction 1 1 Writing the Self after the Crisis of Individualism: Distancing and Moral Evaluation 26 2 The Poetics of Desk-Drawer Notebooks 69 3 Marginality in the Mainstream, Lesbian Love in the Third Person 109 4 Passing Characters 161 5 Transformations of Experience: Around and Behind Notes of a Blockade Person 196 Conclusion: Sustaining a Human Image 222 Notes 231 Bibliography 323 Index 343

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Book Synopsis"Why are you learning Zulu?" When Mark Sanders began studying the language, he was often asked this question. In Learning Zulu, Sanders places his own endeavors within a wider context to uncover how, in the past 150 years of South African history, Zulu became a battleground for issues of property, possession, and deprivation. Sanders combines elemeTrade ReviewOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2016 Longlisted for the 2017 Alan Paton Award for Non-Fiction, Sunday Times "In this deeply introspective memoir, Sanders focuses on his quest to learn the Zulu language... A valuable resource for history and political science as well as language."--ChoiceTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 Chapter 1 Learn More Zulu 14 Chapter 2 A Teacher's Novels 49 Chapter 3 Ipi Tombi 74 Chapter 4 100% Zulu Boy 96 Chapter 5 2008 115 Acknowledgments 145 Notes 147 Select Bibliography 183 Index 193

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Book Synopsis"The articles in this reference book, all fully updated and from the Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, Fourth Edition, provide a complete survey of the poetic history and practice in over 100 major national, regional, and diasporic literatures and language traditions throughout the world"--Trade Review"Helpful spin-offs from an acclaimed 'mother volume.'"--Library JournalTable of ContentsPreface vii Acknowledgments ix Alphabetical List of Entries xi Bibliographical Abbreviations xiii General Abbreviations xvii Contributors xix Entries A to Z 1 Index 613

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Book Synopsis"The articles in this reference book, all fully updated and from the Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, Fourth Edition, provide a complete survey of the poetic history and practice in over 100 major national, regional, and diasporic literatures and language traditions throughout the world"--Trade Review"Helpful spin-offs from an acclaimed 'mother volume.'"--Library JournalTable of ContentsPreface vii Acknowledgments ix Alphabetical List of Entries xi Bibliographical Abbreviations xiii General Abbreviations xvii Contributors xix Entries A to Z 1 Index 613

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year""A comprehensive, historical examination of underwater films and television shows that reflected the public’s interest in sea fantasies during three periods. . . . Insightful." * Choice Reviews *"Margaret Cohen’s comprehensive research and skilful writing makes this book a fascinating read. . . . The Underwater Eye is a very well written and researched book that takes us comprehensively through this remarkable journey."---Jeff Goodman, Scubaverse

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Ultimately, the book's greatest merit may lie . . . in his [Edmunds'] broad horizons--in his delight at discovering similarities between classical literature and the tales and experiences of people across the globe."---Barbara Graziosi, Times Higher Education"Edmunds brings to this rich, sophisticated book an innovative approach to the Helen story: he looks at it with a comparative eye." * Choice *"An excellent, important book in both its methodology and data. . . . Edmunds has brought about a leap of quality in understanding the myth of Helen."---Ephraim Nissan, Fabula"A weighty contribution to the study of Helen as well as the study of folklore in ancient Greece."---Ryan Platte, Journal of Hellenic Studies

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography""A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year""Excellent. . . . A braided account of Melville and Mumford, aimed at exploring the strange resonance between their times and ours."---Daniel Immerwahr, Slate"[A] unique investigation of parallel lives. . . . Sachs’s chapters interweave periods of the two men’s lives, creating a dappled effect of shared shadows and light. Certain biographical overlaps are particularly striking."---Sam Sacks, Wall Street Journal"A rich double portrait of Herman Melville and Lewis Mumford. . . . [Sachs’s] voice is exact, good-humored and passionate—all the qualities we need in our own dark times."---James Marcus, Times Literary Supplement ​​​​​​​"Sachs has written a sort of palimpsest of biography itself, showing how, generation by generation, we begin to see through the traffic between past and present that leads to the rediscovery of figures like Melville and Mumford, who wanted for themselves and their progeny (which includes us) a recognition that going backward can also be a way of going forward."---Carl Rollyson, New York Sun"Sachs manages a set of impressive balancing acts: matching scholarly diligence with fluent, stylish prose; admiration for his subjects with an alertness to their flaws. Up from the Depths packs multiple books into one: an introduction to Mumford’s thought, an innovative study of Melville, and a history of the modern age through the eyes of two uniquely perceptive writers."---Madoc Cairns, The Observer"Rare and remarkable."---Jennie Hann, National Book Critics Circle"An inspired study of [Melville and Mumford], juxtaposing their lives and works in alternating chapters. . . . What draws Sachs to [these writers] is the dialectic in each between continuity and disruption, confidence and despair."---Steven G. Kellman, American Scholar"Illuminating."---Allison Gilbert, BUST"An incisive homage to the continuing relevance of two towering writers. . . . A well-informed, thoughtful dual biography." * Kirkus Reviews, starred review *"Fascinating. . . . In shining a light on Mumford’s efforts during the ‘Melville Revival’ of the mid-1900s, Sachs makes a strong case for the rediscovery of Mumford’s own writing. . . . A well-executed literary history." * Publishers Weekly *"This fascinating book explores the connection between two American writers, novelist Herman Melville (1819–91) and Lewis Mumford (1895–1990), the novelist’s biographer. In brief, lively, and engaging chapters, Sachs . . . alternates back and forth between the two men, detailing many correspondences in their lives and work despite the years that separated them. . . . Sachs provides sensitive analysis of text and context, offers a wealth of resources in his bibliography, and models how historians and critics can pose questions that continue to matter." * Choice *"[Sachs] weaves the two writers’ contrapuntal historical dialog into a single narrative, a reading experience enhanced by Sachs’ fluent, often-lyrical writing skills."---Kevin Lynch, Culture Currents"Sachs’s ‘willingness to flash back and forth in time’ leaves readers with a subtle, poignant, understanding of the relationship between the past, present, and future. Sachs also offers his readers a tether for those who feel unmoored and alone as a result of modernity. By telling ‘the story of [these] two modern wanderers’ Sachs shows us the possibility of connection despite the years and the changing circumstances that separate [Melville and Mumford]."---Natalie Fuehrer Taylor, Law & Liberty"Sachs deftly draws our attention mutually to these two great writers, and the resonances between their work, one in literature and the other in urban planning and a hope for civilized progress."---Donald Brackett, Critics at Large

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"By affording us a glimpse of Singer’s worldview in all its beguiling ambiguities, Old Truths and New Clichés helps us see his noble achievement more clearly: to combine what he called a 'spiritual stenography' of higher powers with a record of our wrestling with lower passions."---Benjamin Balint, Wall Street Journal"[A] touching collection. . . . The author’s fans will be delighted by this intimate anthology." * Publishers Weekly *"Old Truths and New Clichés, a new collection of Singer’s essays compiled by the writer, scholar, and translator David Stromberg . . . lays bare Singer’s motivating ideas for all to see. Stromberg’s work here really is heroic. . . . The great accomplishment of this collection is to . . . reveal [Singer] as a true intellectual with a coherent artistic vision."---Dara Horn, Jewish Review of Books"[Singer] is revealed in these writings . . . as an author of consummate curiosity, humanity and erudition."---Matt d’Ancona, Tortoise"[Singer’s] unique perspective spans an impressive range of issues. . . . Singer’s writing is enjoyable."---Terry Freedman, TeachWire

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"[Before Modernism is] full of fascinating detail and Jackson’s research is impeccable."---Alan Dent, Penniless Press

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Book SynopsisTable of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*PREFACE, pg. vii*CONTENTS, pg. x*INTRODUCTION, pg. 1*CHAPTER I: THE NINETEEN TWENTIES, pg. 17*CHAPTER II: THE NINETEEN THIRTIES, pg. 38*CHAPTER III: PROLETARIAN LITERATURE, pg. 56*CHAPTER IV: JOHN DOS PASSOS, pg. 83*CHAPTER V: OTHER OPINIONS OF THE NINETEEN THIRTIES, pg. 109*CHAPTER VI: FROM WORLD WAR II TO 1955, pg. 137*CHAPTER VII: FROM 1955 TO 1960, pg. 170*CHAPTER VIII: UPTON SINCLAIR, pg. 202*CHAPTER IX: JACK LONDON AND O. HENRY, pg. 219*CHAPTER X: SINCLAIR LEWIS AND THEODORE DREISER, pg. 239*CHAPTER XI: HOWARD FAST, pg. 272*CHAPTER XII: ERNEST HEMINGWAY, pg. 297*CHAPTER XIII: CONCLUSION, pg. 316*INDEX, pg. 329

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