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Book SynopsisReflects on reading as a lived experience and a scholarly field by bringing together two modes of writing, the academic and the autobiographical, for the first time

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Book SynopsisExplores the productive tension between historicist and nonhuman readings of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake

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Book SynopsisArgues that literature has a special role to play in developing a wishful, visionary, and utopian sensibility for living in a more-than-human world

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Book SynopsisExamines the life and works of Ernest Hemingway through the lens of posthumanism.

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Book SynopsisNow in its third edition, Feminist Literary Theory remains the most comprehensive, single volume introduction to a vital and diverse field Fully revised and updated to reflect changes in the field over the last decade Includes extracts from all the major critics, critical approaches and theoretical positions in contemporary feminist literary studies Features a new section, Writing ''Glocal'', which covers feminism''s dialogue with postcolonial, global and spatial studies Revised chapter introductions provide readers with helpful contextual information while extensive notes offer recommendations for further reading Trade Review“Feminist Literary Theory: A Reader is an indispensable guide, companion and handbook for students and teachers of women’s literature. No other anthology offers so many bite-sized tasters of work on gendered authorship, literary production, critical reception, sexuality and genre – from romantic fiction to travel writing. Mary Eagleton’s clear and informative introductions contextualize the debates represented by each extract, suggest connections between them and point to further reading. This third edition maintains and develops the irreplaceable breadth of the previous editions with several new pieces on such areas as autobiography, science fiction and border talk. The extra section, ‘Writing “Glocal”’, investigates dynamically evolving dialogues between feminism and postcolonialism, diaspora narratives and transculturalism. Whether you read from start to finish or choose to sample selectively, this rich collection will expand your knowledge and understanding of feminist thought, both as an historical discipline and as an excitingly relevant and progressive set of ideas.” —Jane Dowson, De Montfort UniversityTable of ContentsPreface xii Acknowledgments xvi 1 Finding a Female Tradition Introduction 1 Extracts from: A Room of One’s Own Virginia Woolf 9 A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Brontë to Lessing Elaine Showalter 11 ‘Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence’ Adrienne Rich 15 Feminist Practice and Poststructuralist Theory Chris Weedon 19 ‘The Rise of Black Feminist Literary Studies’ Ann Ducille 21 ‘Race and Gender in the Shaping of the American Literary Canon: A Case Study from the Twenties’ Paul Lauter 26 ‘Telling Feminist Stories’ Clare Hemmings 33 Doing Time: Feminist Theory and Postmodernist Culture Rita Felski 37 ‘Happy Families? Feminist Reproduction and Matrilineal Thought’ Linda R. Williams 41 Literary Relations: Kinship and the Canon Jane Spencer 45 ‘Parables and Politics: Feminist Criticism in 1986’ Nancy K. Miller 47 ‘What Women’s Eyes See’ Viviane Forrester 50 ‘Women and Madness: The Critical Phallacy’ Shoshana Felman 51 Writing Women’s Literary History Margaret J. M. Ezell 52 The Professionalization of Women Writers in Eighteenth-Century Britain Betty A. Schellenberg 56 2 Women and Literary Production Introduction 61 Extracts from: A Room of One’s Own Virginia Woolf 70 ‘Professions for Women’ Virginia Woolf 75 Silences Tillie Olsen 77 The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar 82 ‘Writing Like a Woman: A Question of Politics’ Terry Lovell 90 The Rise of the Woman Novelist: From Aphra Behn to Jane Austen Jane Spencer 93 ‘Emily Brontë in the Hands of Male Critics’ Carol Ohmann 95 ‘Toward a Black Feminist Criticism’ Barbara Smith 98 ‘Christina Rossetti: Diary of a Feminist Reading’ Isobel Armstrong 103 ‘Conversations’ Hélène Cixous Et Al. 106 ‘Mapping Contemporary Women’s Fiction after Bourdieu’ Mary Eagleton 110 Marketing Literature: The Making of Contemporary Writing in Britain Claire Squires 115 The Postcolonial Exotic: Marketing the Margins Graham Huggan 119 The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace 1678–1730 Paula Mcdowell 123 ‘Black Woman Talk’ Black Woman Talk Collective 126 ‘Introduction’, Let It be Told: Essays by Black Women in Britain Lauretta Ngcobo 127 Mixed Media: Feminist Presses and Publishing Politics Simone Murray 129 ‘Pushed to the Margins: The Slow Death and Possible Rebirth of the Feminist Bookstore’ Kathryn Mcgrath 131 3 Gender and Genre Introduction 135 A Room of One’s Own Virginia Woolf 143 Literary Women Ellen Moers 145 ‘Femininity, Narrative and Psychoanalysis’ Juliet Mitchell 147 Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel Nancy Armstrong 151 ‘Towards a Feminist Narratology’ Susan S. Lanser 154 Heterosexual Plots and Lesbian Narratives Marilyn R. Farwell 158 Having a Good Cry: Effeminate Feelings and Pop-Culture Forms Robyn R. Warhol 161 ‘Introduction’, Aurora Leigh and Other Poems Cora Kaplan 163 ‘Small Island People: Black British Women Playwrights’ Meenakshi Ponnuswami 166 ‘Varieties of Women’s Writing’ Clare Brant 167 Fantasy: The Literature of Subversion Rosemary Jackson 172 Female Desire: Women’s Sexuality Today Rosalind Coward 173 Forever England: Femininity, Literature and Conservatism Between the Wars Alison Light 177 The Feminine Middlebrow Novel, 1920s to 1950s: Class, Domesticity, and Bohemianism Nicola Humble 182 ‘Afterword: The New Woman’s Fiction’ Shari Benstock 186 Myth and Fairy Tale in Contemporary Women’s Fiction Susan Sellers 187 4 Towards Definitions of Feminist Writing Introduction 191 ‘“This Novel Changes Lives”: Are Women’s Novels Feminist Novels? A Response to Rebecca O’Rourke’s Article “Summer Reading”’ Rosalind Coward 199 ‘Feminism and the Definition of Cultural Politics’ Michèle Barrett 203 ‘What is Lesbian Literature? Forming a Historical Canon’ Lillian Faderman 207 ‘American Feminist Literary Criticism: A Bibliographical Introduction’ Cheri Register 210 ‘Introduction’, Feminism Meets Queer Theory Elizabeth Weed 216 ‘Dancing through the Minefield: Some Observations on the Theory, Practice, and Politics of a Feminist Literary Criticism’ Annette Kolodny 219 ‘Towards a Feminist Poetics’ Elaine Showalter 222 Sexual/Textual Politics: Feminist Literary Theory Toril Moi 225 Gynesis: Configurations of Woman and Modernity Alice A. Jardine 228 ‘Flight Reservations: The Anglo-American/French Divide in Feminist Criticism’ Rachel Bowlby 230 ‘Social Criticism Without Philosophy: An Encounter Between Feminism and Postmodernism’ Nancy Fraser And Linda J. Nicholson 234 ‘Mapping the Lesbian Postmodern’ Robyn Wiegman 235 Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics Bell Hooks 238 Signs and Cities: Black Literary Postmodernism Madhu Dubey 241 Mappings: Feminism and the Cultural Geographies of Encounter Susan Stanford Friedman 244 The Radical Aesthetic Isobel Armstrong 248 What is a Woman? And Other Essays Toril Moi 251 Undoing Gender Judith Butler 254 ‘The Race for Theory’ Barbara Christian 257 ‘Woman Can Never Be Defined’ Julia Kristeva 261 ‘Discursive Desire: Catherine Belsey’s Feminism’ Marysa Demoor And Jürgen Pieters 262 5 Writing, Reading and Difference Introduction 266 Literary Women Ellen Moers 275 Thinking about Women Mary Ellmann 277 ‘Writing Like a Woman’ Peggy Kamuf 280 Reading Woman: Essays in Feminist Criticism Mary Jacobus 282 ‘Talking about Polylogue’ Julia Kristeva 284 Subject to Change: Reading Feminist Writing Nancy K. Miller 286 The Resisting Reader Judith Fetterley 288 ‘Reading as a Woman’ Jonathan Culler 291 ‘Reading Like a Man’ Robert Scholes 294 ‘How to Read a “Culturally Different” Book’ Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 296 The Woman Reader, 1837–1914 Kate Flint 300 Provincial Readers in Eighteenth-Century England Jan Fergus 303 Reading Groups Jenny Hartley 306 ‘The Powers of Discourse and the Subordination of the Feminine’ Luce Irigaray 308 ‘The Laugh of the Medusa’ Hélène Cixous 311 ‘Castration or Decapitation?’ Hélène Cixous 314 ‘Language and Revolution: The Franco–American Dis-connection’ Domna C. Stanton 316 ‘Made in America: “French Feminism” in Academia’ Claire Goldberg Moses 318 Hélène Cixous Rootprints: Memory and Life Writing Hélène Cixous And Mireille Calle-Gruber 321 6 Locating the Subject Introduction 325 ‘A Question of Subjectivity: An Interview’ Julia Kristeva 333 ‘Femininity and Its Discontents’ Jacqueline Rose 335 Critical Practice Catherine Belsey 340 What Does a Woman Want? Reading and Sexual Difference Shoshana Felman 343 A Feeling for Books: The Book-of-the-Month Club, Literary Taste, and Middle-Class Desire Janice A. Radway 347 ‘Sexual Difference and Collective Identities: The New Global Constellation’ Seyla Benhabib 349 ‘Cultural Feminism versus Post-Structuralism: The Identity Crisis in Feminist Theory’ Linda Alcoff 352 ‘Upping the Anti (Sic) in Feminist Theory’ Teresa De Lauretis 355 Essentially Speaking: Feminism, Nature and Difference Diana Fuss 358 ‘A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s’ Donna Haraway 361 Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza Gloria Anzaldúa 366 Black Women, Writing and Identity: Migrations of the Subject Carole Boyce Davies 369 ‘The Straight Mind’ Monique Wittig 372 Epistemology of the Closet Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick 375 ‘Of OncoMice and FemaleMen: Donna Haraway on Cyborg Ontology’ Kate Soper 378 7 Writing ‘Glocal’ Introduction 381 En-gendering India: Woman and Nation in Colonial and Postcolonial Narratives Sangeeta Ray 389 Cartographies of Diaspora: Contesting Identities Avtar Brah 391 Rethinking Orientalism: Women, Travel and the Ottoman Harem Reina Lewis 393 ‘French Feminism in an International Frame’ Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 396 ‘Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses’ Chandra Talpade Mohanty 399 Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism Trinh T. Minh-Ha 402 ‘Woman Skin Deep: Feminism and the Postcolonial Condition’ Sara Suleri 405 Writing Diaspora: Tactics of Intervention in Contemporary Cultural Studies Rey Chow 407 Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation Mary Louise Pratt 411 Victorian Travel Writing and Imperial Violence: British Writing on Africa 1855–1902 Laura E. Franey 415 ‘Introduction’, Going Global: The Transnational Reception of Third World Women Writers Amal Amireh And Lisa Suhair Majaj 417 Postcolonial Studies: A Materialist Critique Benita Parry 420 Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979–1985 Adrienne Rich 423 Questions of Travel: Postmodern Discourses of Displacement Caren Kaplan 425 Imperial Leather: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Colonial Context Anne Mcclintock 428 Transnational Women’s Fiction: Unsettling Home and Homeland Susan Strehle 432 Stories of Women: Gender and Narrative in the Postcolonial Nation Elleke Boehmer 434 Nomadic Subjects: Embodiment and Sexual Difference in Contemporary Feminist Theory Rosi Braidotti 437 Bibliography of Extracts 439 Index 447

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Book SynopsisA wide-ranging exploration of the role of tragedy in Western history and culture. Broad in its scope and ambition. Features essays by renowned scholars from multiple disciplines, including classics, English, drama, anthropology and philosophy. Considers interpretations of tragedy through religion, philosophy and history.Trade Review“Traverses a range of methodological approaches and historical contexts in an attempt to provide an overview of what is substantially a characteristically ‘western’ art form. Expertly edited Companion.” (Notes and Queries, December 2009) “These essays, as would be expected from their authors, manifest a high standard of scholarship and familiarity with current understandings.... The volume has a place on the desk of every reference librarian at the college and university level." (Bryn Mawr Classical Review) “The arrangement of the contents and an index that provides coverage of all the essays, allows immediate targeting of specific topics and quick referencing, whilst in its entirety the book provides an excellent survey of tragedy as it is currently studied. Aimed primarily at undergraduates and useful to postgraduates needing to orientate themselves in the scholarship of this area, this title is a useful addition to the academic library.” (Reference Reviews)Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors viii Acknowledgments xii Introduction 1Rebecca Bushnell Tragic Thought Part I Tragedy and the Gods 5 1 Greek Tragedy and Ritual 7Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood 2 Tragedy and Dionysus 25Richard Seaford Part II Tragedy, Philosophy, and Psychoanalysis 39 3 Aristotle’s Poetics: A Defense of Tragic Fiction 41Kathy Eden 4 The Greatness and Limits of Hegel’s Theory of Tragedy 51Mark W. Roche 5 Nietzsche and Tragedy 68James I. Porter 6 Tragedy and Psychoanalysis: Freud and Lacan 88Julia Reinhard Lupton Part III Tragedy and History 107 7 Tragedy and City 109Deborah Boedeker and Kurt Raaflaub 8 Tragedy and Materialist Thought 128Hugh Grady 9 Tragedy and Feminism 145Victoria Wohl Tragedy in History Part IV Tragedy in Antiquity 161 10 Tragedy and Myth 163Alan H. Sommerstein 11 Tragedy and Epic 181Ruth Scodel 12 Tragedy in Performance 198Michael R. Halleran 13 The Tragic Choral Group: Dramatic Roles and Social Functions 215Claude Calame, translated by Dan Edelstein 14 Women in Greek Tragedy 234Sheila Murnaghan 15 Aristophanes, Old Comedy, and Greek Tragedy 251Ralph M. Rosen 16 Roman Tragedy 269Alessandro Schiesaro Part V Renaissance and Baroque Tragedy 287 17 The Fall of Princes: The Classical and Medieval Roots of English Renaissance Tragedy 289Rebecca Bushnell 18 Something is Rotten: English Renaissance Tragedies of State 307Matthew H. Wikander 19 English Revenge Tragedy 328Michael Neill 20 Spanish Golden Age Tragedy: From Cervantes to Caldero´n 351Margaret R. Greer Part VI Neoclassical and Romantic Tragedy 371 21 Neoclassical Dramatic Theory in Seventeenth-Century France 373Richard E. Goodkin 22 French Neoclassical Tragedy: Corneille/Racine 393Mitchell Greenberg 23 Romantic Tragic Drama and its Eighteenth-Century Precursors: Remaking British Tragedy 411Jeffrey N. Cox 24 German Classical Tragedy: Lessing, Goethe, Schiller, Kleist, and Büchner 435Simon Richter 25 French Romantic Tragedy 452Barbara T. Cooper Part VII Tragedy and Modernity 469 26 Modern Theater and the Tragic in Europe 471Gail Finney 27 Tragedy in the Modern American Theater 488Brenda Murphy 28 Using Tragedy against its Makers: Some African and Caribbean Instances 505Timothy J. Reiss Index 537

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Book SynopsisRather, it is a collection of episodic little histories.Trade ReviewImpressively comprehensive and provocative... This strong and wide-ranging book... earns its authority from the wealth of information it provides... Its determination to expand the range of satirical writing, somewhat in the spirit of Eliot's admonition, is a long-needed redefinition of the scope of the subject... It also offers a considerable enlargement of our knowledge and understanding of a lively and turbulent terrain, whose boundaries are wider and more untidy than we have imagined. Times Literary Supplement Marshall... revolutionizes the study of 18th-century satire. She not only significantly revises accepted definitions of satire but also analyzes and describes vastly greater numbers of satiric works than have previous studies... This original, detailed account of satire during the period will challenge and shape the literary history of satire for decades to come. Essential. Choice So much material is included in The Practice of Satire in England, and its historiographic claims are so striking, that scholars will be discussing this book for some time. Perhaps most admirably, Marshall has put satire, recently a rather neglected genre, firmly back at the center of scholarly attention and debate. -- Nicholas Hudson Philological Quarterly The Practice of Satire in England, 1658-1770 is a tremendously ambitious book... at once, monumental and humble-conscious of its own audacity, unfailingly respectful of the scholars whose work is being called into question, yet also confident of its contribution to the advancement of humanistic learning. -- Matthew J. Kinservik Modern Philology Broadening the notion of satire to include more works, more kinds of works, and a wider range of satirical motives and effects, [Marshall] offers an account of eighteenth-century literature more amenable to contemporary sensibilities than those of previous proponents and detractors of satire. Eighteenth-Century LifeTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsA Note on Texts, Dates, and MoneyPart 1. Canonical and Noncanonical Satire, 1658–1770I. The "Definition" Quagmire and the Problem of Descriptive TerminologyII. Genre versus ModeIII. The Modern Critical Canon and Its ImplicationsIV. The Total Satire Canon and Its Economic ContextThe Production of Satire in England, 1658–1770Price, Format, Dissemination, and Implied AudiencesV. Some Issues of Coverage and OrganizationVI. The Uses of a Taxonomic MethodologyThe Varieties of SatireForecasting Some ConclusionsThe Nature of the EnterprisePart 2. Contemporary Views on Satire, 1658–1770I. Concepts of Satire"Satire"Definition by ContrastII. The Business of SatireThe Opposition to SatireThe Case for SatireIII. The Practice and Province of SatireAcceptable and Problematical Satiric MethodsAppropriate and Inappropriate Satiric TargetsIV. Characterizing the SatiristV. Perceptions of Eighteenth-Century Satire Then and NowPart 3. Satire in the Carolean PeriodI. Some Preliminary ConsiderationsII. Dryden, Rochester, BuckinghamCarolean DrydenRochesterBuckingham's Purposive SatireIII. Marvell, Ayloffe, OldhamMarvell as Polemical SatiristAyloffe's Antimonarchical DiatribesOldham's Juvenalian PerformancesIV. Hudibras and Other Camouflage SatiresV. Personal and Social Satire: From Lampoons to Otway and LeeVI. Chronological Change, 1658–1685VII. IssuesIntensityTonePresentation of PositivesThe Problem of ApplicationVIII. The Discontinuous World of Carolean SatirePart 4. Beyond CaroleanI. Altered CircumstancesII. Dryden as Satirist, 1685–1700III. Poetic SatireTutchin, Defoe, and Political SatireGould and Defamatory SatireGarth and BlackmoreBrown, Ward, and Commercial SatireIV. Dramatic SatireShadwell and Exemplary ComedyMitigated SatireHarsh Social SatireV. The State of Satire ca. 1700Part 5. Defoe, Swift, and New Varieties of Satire, 1700–1725I. Defoe as SatiristAttack and DefenseInstruction and Direct Warning (Aimed at the Audience)Indirect Exposure and DiscomfitureII. Religious and Political SatireTopical ControversyMonitory Satire in the Manner of DefoeIdeological Argumentation: Dunton, Defoe, and OthersIII. Social and Moral SatireGeneralized SatireDidactic Satire in the Manner of SteeleParticularized and Topical SatireArgument and InquiryIV. The Alleged "Scriblerians"V. Swift before GulliverJokiness and PlayDestruction and NegativityPurposive Defamation and DefenseIndirection and Difficult SatireVI. Characterizing the Early Eighteenth CenturyPart 6. Harsh and Sympathetic Satire, 1726–1745I. Pope and Swift among Their ContemporariesPolitical Commentary and CombatThe Culture WarsSocial SatireII. Pope, Swift, GayPopeSwiftGayIII. The Problem of Meaning in Gulliver's TravelsIV . Fielding and the Move toward Sympathetic SatirePlayful Satire and EntertainmentProvocation and PreachmentDistributive JusticeFielding's Concept of SatireSympathetic SatireV. Alive and WellPart 7. Churchill, Foote, Macklin, Garrick, Smollett, Sterne, and Others, 1745–1770I. The Rise of "Poetic" SatireFrivolity and EntertainmentMoral PreachmentParticularized AttackPoeticized SatireChurchill's Nonpolitical SatireII. Wilkes, Churchill, and Political Controversy in the 1760sThe North BritonChurchill's Political SatireVisual SatireWilkes's Essay on WomanIII. Satire in the Commercial TheaterSocial ComedyLightweight Afterpiece EntertainmentSamuel FooteCharles MacklinDavid GarrickIV. Satire in the Mid-Eighteenth-Century NovelSmollett's Dark SatireThe Late Career of FieldingTristram Shandy and the Singularity of SterneCharlotte Lennox, Oliver Goldsmith, Sarah FieldingV. Satire for a Stable EraEpilogueI. Motives and ModesII. Remapping English Satire, 1658–1770AppendixNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisPromoting critical and creative anachronism, Metaphors of Mind redefines the notion of an archive in the age of Amazon and Google Books.Trade ReviewWhile the book is not meant to be read as a monograph but as a dictionary, many well-versed readers will be tempted to do so anyway, so rich and lush are both language and litany. American Reference Books Annual ... the database behind the book lets one investigate the verb, instance by instance. The book itself provides a bird's eye view of its large terrain, and the reader can easily settle on specific images to investigate in the hundred pages of detailed endnotes. Modern PhilologyTable of ContentsAbout This BookAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Animals2. Coinage3. Courts4. Empire5. Fetters6. Impressions7. Inhabitants8. Metal9. Mirror10. Rooms11. WritingConclusionEpilogueNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisRomantic writers responded to the challenges of reform and revolution by rethinking the scope of political reason.What role should reason play in the creation of a free and just society? Can we claim to know anything in a field as complex as politics? And how can the cause of political rationalism be advanced when it is seen as having blood on its hands? These are the questions that occupied a group of British poets, philosophers, and polemicists in the years following the French Revolution.Timothy Michael argues that much literature of the period is a trial, or a critique, of reason in its political capacities and a test of the kinds of knowledge available to it. For Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Burke, Wollstonecraft, and Godwin, the historical sequence of revolution, counter-revolution, and terror in Franceand radicalism and repression in Britainoccasioned a dramatic reassessment of how best to advance the project of enlightenment. The political thought of Trade ReviewMichael offers extraordinary insights into many other matters, including the philosophy of Shelley, Coleridge and Kant... Deserve[s] a place on the bookshelf on anyone interested in British politics, American history, the history of India, philosophy (both ancient and 18th/19th century), poetry, the development of ideas and much else. Sun News Miami This is a thoughtful, rigorous book written in a pleasingly clear manner. English Oxford Journals Michael's book effectively shows how, during the Enlightenment, the political was not a fixed point or concept. AmeriQuests This is a thoughtful, rigorous book written in a pleasing clear manner. English Not the least of the strengths of this work is the lucidity of its author's style: the clarity with which he presents and prosecutes his thesis, summarizes or elaborates particular intellectual positions and debates as he sets out their bearings on his discussion, adds considerably to the force of his insights. European Romantic ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionThe Discipline of Political KnowledgeContextCases of RomanticismConceptual Orientations1. Kant and the Revolutionary Settlement of Early RomanticismRevolutions, Copernican and FrenchProphetic History and Moral TerrorismIndependence from ExperienceThe Rhetoric of Hurly-Burly Innovation2. Burke and the Critique of Political MetaphysicsHypotaxisParadox3. Wollstonecraft and the Vindication of Political ReasonRatiocinatioStale Tropes and Cold RodomontadeOur Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful4. The Government of the TongueThe Power of Mere PropositionConstructing a Form of WordsResisting "Incroachment"The Literature of Justice and Justification5. Coleridge and the Principles of Political KnowledgeHume and the Highest Problem of PhilosophyStructures of Mind and GovernmentThe Symptom of Empiricism6. The State of KnowledgeRational ResistanceThe Limits of Experimental PhilosophyTrying French PrinciplesPoetry and Poetics of the Excursive and Unbound Mind7. The Dwellers of the DwellingEpistemic HedonismTranquil and Troubled PleasureBuilding Social FreedomThe Inner Citadel of the Spirit8. P.B. Shelley and the Forms of ThoughtThe Case for Skeptical IdealismHistorical EpistemologyThe Atmosphere of Human ThoughtAfterwordNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisHow the Civil War endures in American life through literature and culture. Recipient of the Eric Hoffer Award's Montaigne MedalThe American Civil War lives on in our collective imagination like few other events. The story of the war has been retold in countless films, novels, poems, memoirs, plays, sculptures, and monuments. Often remembered as an emancipatory struggle, as an attempt to destroy slavery in America now and forever, it is also memorialized as a fight for Southern independence; as a fratricide that divided the national family; and as a dark, cruel conflict defined by its brutality. What do these stories, myths, and rumors have in common, and what do they teach us about modern America? In this fascinating book, Cody Marrs reveals how these narratives evolved over time and why they acquired such lasting power. Marrs addresses an eclectic range of texts, traditions, and creators, from Walt Whitman, Abram Ryan, and Abraham Lincoln to Margaret Mitchell, D. W. Griffith, and W.Trade ReviewMarrs examines the shifting landscape of Civil War perspectives throughout history using public memory and writing from creators such as W. E. B. Du Bois, Walt Whitman, and Margaret Mitchell. He argues that this continual retelling and reinterpretation reveal the Civil War as an ongoing struggle never far from American consciousness and identity.—Chelsea Risley, Southern Review of BooksMarrs weaves a complex history to capture the essence of the literature and art surrounding the Civil War, resulting in a valuable work beneficial to a variety of collections.—Library JournalNot Even Past is a trenchant, wide-ranging survey of the history that binds us a nation while, at the same time, drives us apart. Because it still needs proving now and again, Marrs' book proves that the American Civil War is with us today as much as it was when it began a century and a half ago.—Lance Weller, New York Journal of BooksNot Even Past is an impressive feat that straddles the line between intense academic history and popular history. The world needs more such books.—Daniel Sunshine, Civil War Book ReviewThe reader is left with a sense of an America still divided, and, in the words of W.E.B. Du Bois, the Civil War as "...a social revolution... never allowed to complete itself."—Eric Hoffer Award CommitteeCody Marrs serves up a feast of Civil War stories in his timely, compact, and entertaining new analysis, Not Even the Past: The Stories We Keep Telling about the Civil War.—LeAnna Keith, The Journal of Southern HistoryCody Marr's impressive, wide-ranging new book...—Michel LeMahieu, Clemson University, American Literary HistoryTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Introduction Chapter 1. A Family Squabble Chapter 2. A Dark and Cruel War Chapter 3. The Lost CauseChapter 4. The Great Emancipation Afterword. Recent and Future Civil Wars Acknowledgments NotesSuggested Further Reading Index

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Book SynopsisHow does literature work? And what does it mean? How does it relate to the world: to politics, to history, to the environment? How do we analyse and interpret a literary text, paying attention to its specific poetic and fictitious qualities? This wide-ranging introduction helps students to explore these and many other essential questions in the study of literature, criticism and theory. In a series of introductory chapters, leading international scholars present the fundamental topics of literary studies through conceptual definitions as well as interpretative readings of works familiar from a range of world literary traditions. In an easy-to-navigate format, Literature: An Introduction to Theory and Analysis covers such topics as: Key definitions from plot, character and style to genre, trope and author Literature's relationship to the surrounding world ethics, politics, gender and nature Modes of literature and criticism from books to perfoTrade Review[Employs] engaging writing and [a] clear layout of the topic ... A great resource for first timers in literary theory. The second and third sections of the volume are of greatest interest and can prove useful to those who wish to grasp how literary studies have embraced a wider scope both in theory and practice. * Style *[An] interesting, helpful volume that, to use the words of J. Hillis Miller, ‘will be useful' for advanced literature courses, even postgraduate ones, or as a great resource for teachers of literature, or as a valuable resource for ordinary readers who may want to know something about what is meant by the ‘‘narrator’’ of a novel, or by ‘‘ethnicity’’ in literature. * The Year's Work in English Studies *The range of topics covered in this volume is both capacious and creative. Individual entries are very deft in their interweaving of analysis with example and score high marks for clarity. An excellent resource for students as well as for anyone keen to brush up their knowledge of what’s happening in literary studies. * Rita Felski, William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of English, University of Virginia *Table of ContentsForeword J. Hillis Miller, University of California Irvine Introduction Thomsen et el, Aarhus University 1. Literature Lasse Horne Kjældgaard, Peter Simonsen, Roskilde University and University of Southern Denmark 2. Interpretation Jesper Gulddal, Newcastle, AU 3. Genre Eva Hättner Aurelius, Lund University 4. Narrative Stefan Iversen, Aarhus University 5. Character Lis Møller, Aarhus University 6.Narrator Jan Alber, Freiburg University 7. Style Lilian Munk Rösing, Copenhagen University 8. Sensation, Isak Winkel Holm, Copenhagen University 9. Rhytm. Dan Ringgaard, Aarhus University 10. Tropes Christoph Bode, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München 11. Intertext Elisabeth FriisLund University 12. Author Jon Helt Haarder, University of Southern Denmark 13. Reader Winfried Fluck, Freie Universität 14. History Mads Rosendahl Thomsen,Aarhus University 15. Ethics Lasse Horne Kjældgaard, Roskilde University 16. Politics Jakob Ladegaard, Aarhus University 17. Sex Lilla Toke and Karen Weingarten, Stony Brook and CUNY 18. Ethnicity Tabish Khair, Aarhus University 19. Desire Lilian Munk Rösing, Copenhagen University 20. Nature Peter Mortensen, Aarhus University 21. Place Frederik Tygstrup, Copenhagen University 22. Things Karin Sanders, UC Berkeley 23. Mobility Søren Frank, University of Southern Denmark 24. Memory Ann Rigney, Utrecht University 25. Archives Dennis Tenen, Columbia University 26. Books Tore Rye Andersen, Aarhus University 27. Adaptation Kiene Brillenburg, Utrecht University 28. Art Peter Simonsen, University of Southern Denmark 29. Performance Claire Warden, DeMontfort University 30. Translation Karen Emmerich, Princeton University 31. Creative writing Kiene Brillenburg, Utrecht University 32. Critical writing Gloria Fisk, CUNY 33. Quality Susan Bassnett, University of Warwick Index of schools Bibliography

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Book SynopsisHow does literature work? And what does it mean? How does it relate to the world: to politics, to history, to the environment? How do we analyse and interpret a literary text, paying attention to its specific poetic and fictitious qualities? This wide-ranging introduction helps students to explore these and many other essential questions in the study of literature, criticism and theory. In a series of introductory chapters, leading international scholars present the fundamental topics of literary studies through conceptual definitions as well as interpretative readings of works familiar from a range of world literary traditions. In an easy-to-navigate format, Literature: An Introduction to Theory and Analysis covers such topics as: Key definitions from plot, character and style to genre, trope and author Literature's relationship to the surrounding world ethics, politics, gender and nature Modes of literature and criticism from books to perfoTrade Review[Employs] engaging writing and [a] clear layout of the topic ... A great resource for first timers in literary theory. The second and third sections of the volume are of greatest interest and can prove useful to those who wish to grasp how literary studies have embraced a wider scope both in theory and practice. * Style *[An] interesting, helpful volume that, to use the words of J. Hillis Miller, ‘will be useful' for advanced literature courses, even postgraduate ones, or as a great resource for teachers of literature, or as a valuable resource for ordinary readers who may want to know something about what is meant by the ‘‘narrator’’ of a novel, or by ‘‘ethnicity’’ in literature. * The Year's Work in English Studies *The range of topics covered in this volume is both capacious and creative. Individual entries are very deft in their interweaving of analysis with example and score high marks for clarity. An excellent resource for students as well as for anyone keen to brush up their knowledge of what’s happening in literary studies. * Rita Felski, William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of English, University of Virginia *Table of ContentsForeword J. Hillis Miller, University of California Irvine Introduction Thomsen et el, Aarhus University 1. Literature Lasse Horne Kjældgaard, Peter Simonsen, Roskilde University and University of Southern Denmark 2. Interpretation Jesper Gulddal, Newcastle, AU 3. Genre Eva Hättner Aurelius, Lund University 4. Narrative Stefan Iversen, Aarhus University 5. Character Lis Møller, Aarhus University 6.Narrator Jan Alber, Freiburg University 7. Style Lilian Munk Rösing, Copenhagen University 8. Sensation, Isak Winkel Holm, Copenhagen University 9. Rhytm. Dan Ringgaard, Aarhus University 10. Tropes Christoph Bode, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München 11. Intertext Elisabeth FriisLund University 12. Author Jon Helt Haarder, University of Southern Denmark 13. Reader Winfried Fluck, Freie Universität 14. History Mads Rosendahl Thomsen,Aarhus University 15. Ethics Lasse Horne Kjældgaard, Roskilde University 16. Politics Jakob Ladegaard, Aarhus University 17. Sex Lilla Toke and Karen Weingarten, Stony Brook and CUNY 18. Ethnicity Tabish Khair, Aarhus University 19. Desire Lilian Munk Rösing, Copenhagen University 20. Nature Peter Mortensen, Aarhus University 21. Place Frederik Tygstrup, Copenhagen University 22. Things Karin Sanders, UC Berkeley 23. Mobility Søren Frank, University of Southern Denmark 24. Memory Ann Rigney, Utrecht University 25. Archives Dennis Tenen, Columbia University 26. Books Tore Rye Andersen, Aarhus University 27. Adaptation Kiene Brillenburg, Utrecht University 28. Art Peter Simonsen, University of Southern Denmark 29. Performance Claire Warden, DeMontfort University 30. Translation Karen Emmerich, Princeton University 31. Creative writing Kiene Brillenburg, Utrecht University 32. Critical writing Gloria Fisk, CUNY 33. Quality Susan Bassnett, University of Warwick Index of schools Bibliography

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Book SynopsisRural Modernity in Britain argues that the rural areas of Britain were impacted by modernisation just as much if not more than urban and suburban areas.

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Book SynopsisComprehensively surveys the vampire as a cultural phenomenon.

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Book SynopsisThis book takes an original approach to still life in modern literature and the visual arts by examining the potential for movement and transformation in the idea of stillness and the ordinary.

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Book SynopsisThis book provides the first sustained study of women's literary representations of death and the culture of war commemoration that underlies British and American literary modernism.

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Book SynopsisThis richly contextualized study of Shakespeare's comic engagement with sadness contends that the playwright rethinks melancholy through comic theatre and conversely, re-theorizes comedy through melancholy.

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Book SynopsisThis is the first full scholarly appraisal of the distinctive British experimental writer, Ann Quin.

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Book SynopsisDrawing on primary sources including novels, Victorian periodical literature, legislative debate, case law and legal treatise, Cathrine O. Frank traces the ways conventions of literary characterisation mingled with character-centred legal developments to produce a jurisprudential theory of character that extends beyond the legal profession.

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Book SynopsisDrawing on primary sources including novels, Victorian periodical literature, legislative debate, case law and legal treatise, Cathrine O. Frank traces the ways conventions of literary characterisation mingled with character-centred legal developments to produce a jurisprudential theory of character that extends beyond the legal profession.

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Book SynopsisDemonstrates the embodied foundation of figurative, poetic and literary language and form.

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Book SynopsisIn Autonomy Nicholas Brown theorizes the historical and theoretical argument for art''s autonomy from its acknowledged character as a commodity. Refusing the position that the distinction between art and the commodity has collapsed, Brown demonstrates how art can, in confronting its material determinations, suspend the logic of capital by demanding interpretive attention. He applies his readings of Marx, Hegel, Adorno, and Jameson to a range of literature, photography, music, television, and sculpture, from Cindy Sherman''s photography and the novels of Ben Lerner and Jennifer Egan to The Wire and the music of the White Stripes. He demonstrates that through their attention and commitment to form, such artists turn aside the determination posed by the demand of the market, thereby defeating the foreclosure of meaning entailed in commodification. In so doing, he offers a new theory of art that prompts a rethinking of the relationship between art, critical theory, and cTrade Review"In Autonomy, Brown revitalizes a modernist commitment to form and offers a compelling vision of the work of art in the age of its commodification." -- Adam Theron-Lee Rensch * Los Angeles Review of Books *"Brown's argument feels, in the end, surprisingly liberating.… No doubt, there are questions prompted by the book that we still might want to have answered.… But these queries are obviously presented less as a critique of Autonomy than a plea to scholars to take up related questions in future volumes. Autonomy inspires such questions because this is a book that unabashedly and provocatively makes demands of us, in the way the very best scholarship, like the very best manifestos and all art, does too." -- Lisa Siraganian * Modernism/modernity *"A thorough and valuable commentary on the contemporary position of art within capitalism. Autonomy is essential reading for researchers and students with an interest in contemporary art in relation to the market, and for those interested in Marxist approaches to contemporary aesthetic form." -- Oliver Haslam * New Formations *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. On Art and the Commodity Form 1 1. Photography as Film and Film as Photography 41 2. The Novel and the Ruse of the Work 79 3. Citation and Affect in Music 115 4. Modernism on TV 152 Epilogue. Taking Sides 178 Notes 183 Bibliography 207 Index 215

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Book SynopsisOver the course of her long career, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick became one of the most important voices in queer theory, and her calls for reparative criticism and reading practices grounded in affect and performance have transformed understandings of affect, intimacy, politics, and identity. With marked tenderness, the contributors to Reading Sedgwick reflect on Sedgwick''s many critical inventions, from her elucidation of poetry''s close relation to criticism and development of new versions of queer performativity to highlighting the power of writing to engender new forms of life. As the essays in Reading Sedgwick demonstrate, Sedgwick''s work is not only an ongoing vital force in queer theory and affect theory; it can help us build a more positive world in the midst of the bleak contemporary moment. Contributors. Lauren Berlant, Kathryn Bond Stockton, Judith Butler, Lee Edelman, Jason Edwards, Ramzi Fawaz, Denis Flannery, Jane Gallop, Jonathan Goldberg, Meridith Trade Review“Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's writing remains indispensable, never more so than now when the light of her intelligence illuminates a darkening horizon. We need her intelligence, her queer sensibility, and her way with words. Reading Sedgwick will be welcome both for those encountering her for the first time and as a reprise for those wishing to be reminded of her work's particular charm, enlivening curiosity, and power.” -- Christina Crosby, author of * A Body, Undone: Living on after Great Pain *"This volume is required reading in queer studies. Essential. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty." -- D. M. Jarrett * Choice *Table of ContentsPreface. Reading Sedgwick, Then and Now / Lauren Berlant 1 Introduction. "An Open Mesh of Possibilities": The Necessity of Eve Sedgwick in Dark Times / Ramzi Fawaz 6 Note. From H. A. Sedgwick / H. A. Sedgwick 34 1. What Survives / Lauren Berlant and Lee Edelman 37 2. Proust at the End / Judith Butler 63 3. For Beauty Is a Series of Hypotheses? Sedgwick as Fiber Artist / Jason Edwards 72 4. In / Denis Flannery 92 5. Early and Earlier Sedgwick / Jane Gallop 113 6. Eve's Future Figures / Jonathan Goldberg 121 7. Sedgwick's Perverse Close Reading and the Question of an Erotic Ethics / Meredith Kruse 132 8. On the Eve of the Future / Michael Moon 141 9. Race, Sex, and the Incommensurate: Gary Fisher with Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick / José Esteban Muñoz 152 10. Sedgwick Inexhaustible / Chris Nealon 166 11. The Age of Frankenstein / Andrew Parker 178 12. Queer Patience: Sedgwick's Identity Narratives / Karin Sellberg 189 13. Weaver's Handshake: The Aesthetics of Chronic Objects (Sedgwick, Emerson, James) / Michael D. Snediker 203 14. Eighteen Things I Love about You / Melissa Solomon 236 15. Eve's Triangles: Queer Studies Beside Itself / Robyn Wiegman 242 Afterword / Kathryn Bond Stockton 274 Acknowledgments 279 Bibliography 281 Contributors 295 Index 299

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Book SynopsisMichael K. Bourdaghs presents a radical reframing of the works of Natsume Sosekiwidely considered to be Japan's greatest modern novelistas critical and creative responses to the emergence of new forms of property ownership in nineteenth-century Japan.Trade Review“Michael K. Bourdaghs's A Fictional Commons provides a strikingly new approach to thinking about the fiction and theories of Natsume Sōseki as well as for thinking how literature as a practice gestures to something beyond the modern regime of private property. Literature, Bourdaghs demonstrates, is one of the sites where we imagine the return in a higher dimension of the commons, the gift, and primitive communism.” -- Karatani Kojin, author of * Isonomia and the Origins of Philosophy *“Both erudite and innovative, A Fictional Commons brilliantly demonstrates how Natsume Sōseki, through his fiction and criticism, explored literature as a domain for imagining the alternatives to modern private property regime and the related conceptualization of modern personhood. It is a major contribution to Sōseki studies and modern Japanese literary studies. It also joins broader debates over the value of literature in the twenty-first century—how literature may inspire creative modes of sharing that traverse national, regional, and other boundaries dividing our troubled present.” -- Tomiko Yoda, Takashima Professor of Japanese Humanities, Harvard University"As more and more people question the extremes of capitalism, Bourdaghs’ study of Soseki adds a fascinating lens for further examining other works of literature. . . . In A Fictional Commons, Bourdaghs reveals Soseki’s sharp mind, ever wrestling with the most important sociological issue of his time. Through this book, Bourdagh also reminds us that the role of literature is to rethink what is possible — and thereby literally rewrite the world." -- Kris Kosaka * Japan Times *“[Bourdaghs] makes extensive use of Japanese and Western sources, both primary and secondary, drawing seamlessly on work in multiple languages. [A Fictional Commons] is extensively referenced and comes with an exhaustive list of bibliographic studies . . . which will be of immense help to both students and scholars interested in Sōseki, and in Meiji- and Taisho-era Japanese literature more broadly.” -- Gouranga Charan Pradhan * Japan Review *“Bourdaghs’s exploration of the question of property for Sōseki is broad, trenchant, and productive, and it drew connections for me that I would not have otherwise imagined.” -- Edward Mack * Journal of Japanese Studies *Table of ContentsNote on Usage ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction. Owning up to Sōseki 1 1. Fables of Property: Nameless Cats, Trickster Badgers, Stray Sheep 13 2. House under a Shadow: Disowning the Psychology of Possessive Individualism in The Gate 51 3. Property and Sociological Knowledge: Sōseki and the Gift of Narrative 91 4. The Tragedy of the Market:Younger Brothers, Women, and Colonial Subjects in Kokoro 121 Conclusion. Who Owns Sōseki? Or, How Not to Belong in World Literature 147 Notes 177 Bibliography 205 Index 219

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Book SynopsisFocusing on his personal day to day experiences of the shelter-in-place period during the first months of the coronavirus pandemic, Alberto Moreiras offers a meditation on intellectual life and the nature of thought under the suspension of time and conditions of isolation.Table of ContentsPreface ix March 20, 2020 3 Remark 1: The Path of the Goddess March 27, 2020 7 March 29, 2020 7 April 1, 2020 A.M. 8 Remark 2: The Pandemic and the Event April 1, 2020 P.M. 15 April 3, 2020 17 April 4, 2020 18 April 9, 2020 21 April 12, 2020 23 Remark 3: Self-precursion April 15, 2020 26 April 16, 2020 30 April 18, 2020 32 April 24, 2020 35 April 25, 2020 38 April 28, 2020 39 May 2, 2020 39 May 5, 2020 41 May 6, 2020 43 May 7, 2020 47 May 9, 2020 48 May 10, 2020 50 Remark 4: Fools and Free Spirits May 11, 2020 57 May 12, 2020 A.M. 59 May 12, 2020 P.M. 61 May 13, 2020 A.M. 62 May 13, 2020 P.M. 64 May 14, 2020 68 May 15, 2020 72 May 16, 2020 A.M. 73 May 16, 2020 P.M. 78 May 17, 2020 84 May 18, 2020 88 May 19, 2020 88 Remark 5: The Fourth Position May 20, 2020 A.M. 98 Remark 6: An Invitation to Social Death May 20, 2020 P.M. 106 Remark 7: Infracendence: Unpublished Fragments from Fernando Pessoa’s (Posthumous?) Milieu Notebook of Alberto Moreira, Heteronym Appendix 1. More Questions for Jorge Alemán: A Presentation for 17 Instituto de Estudios Críticos, Ciudad de México, May 25, 2020 123 Appendix 2. From a Conversation with Jaime 127 Appendix 3. From a Conversation with Gerardo 131 Appendix 4. Alain Badiou's Age of the Poets 139 Notes 165 Bibliography 183 Index 189

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Book SynopsisPetrus Liu challenges key premises of classic queer theory and Marxism, turning to an analysis of the Beijing Consensusglobal capitalism's latest mutationto develop a new theory of the political economy of sexuality.Trade Review"Petrus Liu’s The Specter of Materialism is intellectually courageous and theoretically sophisticated, advancing both queer theory and Marxist thought. This review has only scratched the surface of this paradigm-shifting work. Scholars of queer theory, gender and sexuality studies, Marxism, and China Studies will all find this book indispensable for their fields." -- Wenqing Kang * Modern Chinese Literature And Culture *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Periodizing the Post-1989 World Order 1 Part I: Theory 1. Alterity in Queer Theory and the Political Economy of the Beijing Consensus 21 2. The Specter of Materialism 52 Part II: History 3. The Subsumption of Literature: Lu Xun’s Queer Modernism in the Chinese Revolution 81 4. The Subsumption of the Cold War: The Material Unconscious of Queer Asia 104 5. The Subsumption of Sexuality: Translating Gender from the Beijing Fourth World Conference on Women to the Beijing Consensus 135 Conclusion: Toward a Transnational Queer Marxism 161 Notes 165 Bibliography 195 Index

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Book SynopsisObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. This book is about a strange objectstrange in part because it is something that we all have been, and that many of us eat. Nicole Walkers Egg relishes in sharp juxtapositions of seemingly fanciful or repellent topics, so that reproductive science and gustatory habits are considered alongside one another, and personal narrative and broad swaths of natural history jostle, like yolk and albumen. Mapping curious eggs across times, scales, and spaces, Egg draws together surprising perspectives on this common objectegg as food, as art object, as metaphor and feminist symbol, as cultural icon.Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.Trade ReviewWalker teaches creative writing at a Northern Arizona University, and I imagine she is very good at it. Her interest in other people and their lives holds the book together. Her specific remit, the egg, provides her with a good deal of scope and she enthusiastically takes her readers along for the ride … Much within the lovely covers is delightful. * FoodAnthropology *This is the eggiest book ever, and the egg is everything. Egg is forthright, joyful, mournful and charming, as personal and expansive as the good great egg. * Lucy Corin, Program Director of Creative Writing and Professor of English, University of California, Davis, USA, and author of One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses (2013) *Egg is Walker’s third book of nonfiction, and it is just one book from Bloomsbury’s Object Lessons Series… Like its cohorts, Egg offers an unusual lens for observing everyday objects. In this book of thirty short essays, Walker combines equal parts personal narrative, natural history, and cookbook—adding a pinch of cultural history and a dash of mythology—to whip up something that defies genre and is especially palpable in today’s divisive political climate wherein both reproductive rights and the environment are under attack … Walker surveys the depths of virginity and motherhood, global warming and habitat destruction, cooking and art. And she does so with impeccable precision. * Slashnburn *“[A] deeply engrossing and very accessible work of philosophy, a quasi-religious contemplation of someone else’s daily striving possessed of both poetic and factual merit. … Walker’s Egg is the product of her own amalgamation of eggsperiences, refracted through her own poetic syntactical sense and broader environmental interests. … Egg purports to be about eggs, but in the end, eggs are really about Nicole Walker and Walker is really about us. In reading an object meditation such as this, the reader has to engage on several increasingly difficult levels. First, we accept Walker’s fragments for whatever they are, that then evokes our own experiences with eggs, we go on to approach Walker’s text comparatively both for parallels in our experiences and for contrasts in our resultant ideas about eggs. Then, if all has gone according to plan, and we can confidently say that Egg has turned out to be a good book, we can begin to carry a heightened awareness for eggs in our lives in order to collect additional experiences with eggs that will then fuel our further personal growth in this metaphorical area. When you pay mind to an object this deeply, it’s a type of mission work. * PopMatters *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Dear Egg Why We Break the Things We Love the Most Rotten Eggs The Egg Came First Experiment with Eggs by Making a Hollandaise in the Time of Global Warming How to Cook a Planet Spoons The Glue That Holds Us Together All the Eggs in Israel All the Eggs in Ukraine All the Eggs in Korea All the Eggs in China Eggs in Utah Mohawk So Many Eggs, One Small Basket Which Came First? Chicken Porn Can Help You Make Up Your Mind About Eggs Breaking a Few Eggs Blue Planet, Blue Omelet Humpty Dumpty, Revised Do Eggs Bring Skunks? Would You Eat a Red Speckled Egg? The Incredible, Edible Egg What Is a Cloaca? A Million Year Old Egg A Lot of Pressure on One Egg Sidewalk Cooking Eggs A Science Fair Every Year The Sex Lives of Fish The Present Was an Egg Laid by the Past That Had the Future Inside Its Shell—Zora Neale Hurston Recipe for an Already-Cracked Egg

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Book SynopsisObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Cropping up everywhere, whether steel latticework or tapered monopoles, encrusted with fiberglass antennas, cell towers raise up high into the air the communications equipment that channels our calls, texts, and downloads. For security reasons, their locations are never advertised. But it's our romantic notions of connectivity that hide them in plain sight. We want the network to be invisible, ethereal, and ubiquitous. The cell tower stands as a challenge to these desires. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.Trade ReviewAs Steven E. Jones observes, we imagine that our mobile devices connect us to each other, and to a certain version of the world, in a manner that’s invisible and ethereal. But in fact, this illusion depends on a great multiplicity of 200-foot-tall structures that we see, or decline to see, wherever we go: cell towers. Briskly deconstructing these enablers of our digital lives as physical objects, and as quasi-magical connectors of the immaterial, Jones reveals them as secret object-icons of our time. Once you’ve read this, you won’t be able to stop seeing--and thinking about--the cell phone tower. * Rob Walker, author of The Art of Noticing (2019) *Table of Contents1. Cellspotting 2. Invisible waves 3. Camouflage 4. Ethereal connections 5. Design 6. Coverage 7. On Earth List of Figures Acknowledgments Notes Index

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Book SynopsisA WIRED 2020 Book of the YearObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Nothing''s bulletproof, the salesman said. The thing''s only bullet resistant. The New York Times journalist Kenneth R. Rosen had just purchased his first bulletproof vest and was headed off on assignment. He was travelling into Mosul, Iraq, when he realized that the idea of a bulletproof vest is more effective than the vest itself. From its very inception, poly-paraphenylene terephthalamide, or Kevlar, was meant for tires. Its humble roots and mundane applications are often lost, as it is now synonymous with body armor, war zones, and domestic terrorism. What Rosen learned through intimate use of his vest was that it acts as a metaphor for all the precautions we take toward digital, physical, and social security. Bulletproof Vest is at once an introspective journey into the properties and precisions of a bulleTrade ReviewIn Bulletproof Vest, Rosen explores the significance of this war zone accessory with compelling nuance and knowledge of military history. Perhaps more impressive, though, is his willingness to explore the relationship between military protective gear and human vulnerability. * LA Review of Books *For the author, a lifelong sufferer of anxiety, the idea of a bulletproof vest (or a ‘bullet resistant’ one, as the salesman reminded him) suggested a potent metaphor for humanity’s relationship to violence, security, and mortality. His book mixes his own wartime accounts from Iraq and Syria with discussions of anxiety and the history of body armor; along the way, Rosen seeks to describe just what he was trying to banish when he put on his vest. The author’s prose alternates between being confessional and informative … Over the course of this reliably tense book, Rosen does a wonderful job of emphasizing the destructive power of warfare by framing his thoughts around account of being a noncombatant in a war zone. Overall, it’s a quick read but one with great impact, as it asks its audience not only to think about protective vests, but also about the soft, vulnerable things that they’re meant to protect. A compelling, thoughtful dive into the pursuit of being bulletproof. * Kirkus Reviews *Kenneth Rosen, war-reporter, journalist, abyss-looker, intuiter of the human spirit, presents the materials of war, stitches them together in a fascinating story that shows no matter how tight and polymeric the jacket, the true dangers of war are the mental wounds that go straight to your head. His insights into war do what they can to protect us from those wounds--but like the vest, offer an imperfect protection. Thankfully, Kenneth’s words are near perfect and perfectly moving. * Nicole Walker, Professor of English at Northern Arizona University, USA, and author of Sustainability: A Love Story (2018) *A tense but beautifully written frontlines study of war in the fashion of Michael Herr's Vietnam era book 'Dispatches.' * The Day (Conn.) *Table of ContentsPreface: Notes from My Suicide 1. Every Day Was Striking 2. A Thin Metal Sheet 3. Enjoy the War 4. Wholly Aromatic Carbocylic Polycarbonamide Fiber Having Orientation Angle of Less Than About 45 Degrees 5. PPE for Your Thoughts? 6. Support Your Local War Correspondent 7. A Cult of Anxiety 8. Safety is a Cabin in the Woods References Acknowledgments Index

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Book SynopsisPsychological Roots of the Climate Crisis tells the story of a fundamental fight between a caring and an uncaring imagination. It helps us to recognise the uncaring imagination in politics, in culture - for example in the writings of Ayn Rand - and also in ourselves.Sally Weintrobe argues that achieving the shift to greater care requires us to stop colluding with Exceptionalism, the rigid psychological mindset largely responsible for the climate crisis. People in this mindset believe that they are entitled to have the lion's share and that they can rearrange' reality with magical omnipotent thinking whenever reality limits these felt entitlements.While this book''s subject is grim, its tone is reflective, ironic, light and at times humorous. It is free of jargon, and full of examples from history, culture, literature, poetry, everyday life and the author's experience as a psychoanalyst, and a professional life that has been dedicated to helping people to face difficult truths.Trade ReviewAmong the lessons Weintrobe’s book holds for climate scientists is that human vulnerability to climate change cannot be measured on a simple quantitative scale running from the most vulnerable populations to the most resilient. To be sure, the risks of climate change are distributed highly unevenly, with poor, marginalized communities likely to suffer the worst effects. Yet, for the privileged readers to whom Weintrobe addresses this book, vulnerability is not the opposite of resilience. Rather, feeling vulnerable is the first step toward building sustainable relationships. * Science *Weintrobe brilliantly weaves together insights from psychology, economics and environmental science. Her book offers a vital critique of neoliberal orthodoxies and the social, psychological and ecological toll that they have exacted. But she also charts a way forward, one that begins by regenerating our embattled cultures of care. This book is a tour de force. * Rob Nixon, Barron Family Professor of Environment and Humanities, Princeton University, USA *The distinction between the caring and uncaring parts of the human psyche was, for me, a new and powerful formulation – one that sheds much light on the mess we find ourselves in and perhaps offers some routes out! * Bill McKibben, author of Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? *In his first speech as U.S. President-Elect, Joe Biden said: “Our nation is shaped by the constant battle between our better angels and our darkest impulses. It is time for our better angels to prevail.” His words are a fitting endorsement of Sally Weintrobe’s new book Psychological Roots of the Climate Crisis: Neoliberal Exceptionalism and the Culture of Uncare. In it she peels back the lid on human exceptionalism and our ability to "uncare." She argues convincingly that these elemental features of the dominant neoliberal economic and political creed lie at the heart of the climate crisis. Unless and until we reassert our fundamentally caring nature, our ability to recognise planetary limits and retain control of our climatic destiny will continue to slip away. The book provides a powerful case that although technological solutions driven from within free markets will help to lessen the climate crisis, they will not be enough. Human behaviour will need to change also. * Chris Rapley, CBE, Professor of Climate Science, University College London, UK *Sally Weintrobe uses her psychoanalytic mind and her sociocultural experience to create a brilliant presentation of intersecting historical, political, economic and psychological determinants of the climate crisis. She uses personal, clinical, literary, biblical, sociological, economic, and scientific information and metaphors to bring alive the overwhelming realities of ecocide and denialism. Her detailed elaboration of neoliberal exceptionalism and the current Western culture of uncare sets what she terms ‘the bubble of disavowal’ in bold context. Her own care for the safety of the planet – and its human and animal inhabitants – permeates the aspect of this book that inspires the reader to face the crisis and become an agent of change. * Harriet L. Wolfe, M.D., President-elect, International Psychoanalytical Association, and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of California San Francisco, USA *The problem of climate change has, for a generation, produced nothing approaching an adequate response – particularly among those in the wealthy west, many of whom see themselves as triumphalist technocrats capable of fixing anything at all. In her brilliant, dizzyingly insightful book, Sally Weintrobe explains why: a political culture that teaches those in the global north that they are not just entitled to a stable and prosperous world but entitled, as well, to live as though they had no responsibility for preserving it, indeed entitled to guiltlessness and ignorance at once. As she writes, neoliberalism is an ideology of power, but it is built through psychological appeals we have tragically come to accept as "reality." We are, she writes, living in Wonderland – though not for long. * David Wallace-Wells, editor-at-large of New York Magazine and author of The Uninhabitable Earth *Weintrobe’s book holds invaluable insights for people of all ages and masterfully breaks down academic jargon for a popular audience. * Harvard Political Review *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction EXCEPTIONALISM: THE PSYCHOLOGY EXPLAINED 1. The conflicted self 2. The ordinary exception (contained by care) 3. The Exception (in charge and unbound) EXCEPTIONALISM’S RISE TO POWER IN THE NEOLIBERAL AGE 4. Neoliberal Exceptionalism 5. Friedrich Hayek and James Buchanan 6. Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged 7. Globalizing the neoliberal way 8. Neoliberals’ rise to power 9. The earth seen as a globe 10. Implementing neoliberal economic policy WHAT CONTAINS EXCEPTIONALISM 11. Frameworks of care 12. The power of love THE CULTURE OF UNCARE 13. Culture and the birth of consumerism 14. Neoliberalism’s culture of uncare HOW THIS CULTURE OPERATES 15. New Speak 16. The World Bank using New Speak 17. Mass media 18. Promoting denial 19. Advertising 20. Political framing 21. Blocking tears 22. Infantilizing people WE COLLUDE 23. On collusion EXCEPTIONALISM GROWS FRAUD BUBBLES 24. Case studies: Enron and fund managers 25. The corporation 26. Social groups 27. Trickledown THE NEW CARING IMAGINATION TODAY 28. Paradigm shift 29. Frameworks of care for a sustainable world 30. Living on Planet Earth not Planet La La THE CLIMATE BUBBLE IS BURSTING 31. The damage 32. Living with our feelings about the climate crisis ‘THE CRAZY’: EXCEPTIONALISM RUNS AMOK 33. ‘The crazy’ in politics 34. Noah’s Arkism 21st-century style 35. We are gods 36. The ‘all or nothing-ness’ of having to be ideal 37. Bad leaders drive ‘the crazy’ 38. The problem of guilt 39. Good leaders Conclusion Acknowledgements References Index

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Book SynopsisThis open access book complicates and develops the notion of the vernacular. Understood in the linguistic sense as well as an element of the local, the vernacular facilitates the exploration of local and global dynamics. Through exploring the unexamined active role of the local, the indigenous, and the periphery in international literary exchanges, this volume argues that a coherent theorization of the vernacular will enable us to do so. The essays in Vernaculars in an Age of World Literatures present new critical approaches in the debate on world literature, which has given priority to cosmopolitan movements, global circulation of literatures, and metropolitan centers. In nine case studies, approaching narratives from the long 20th century from more or less marginal contextssuch as the Francophone Chinese diaspora, multilingual regions in Spain, West Africa, and the Caribbeanthe volume offers theoretical and methodological ways of putting the concept of the vernacular in practiTrade ReviewAn important intervention in the current debate on world literature. This engaging volume, starting from the premise that the cosmopolitan and the vernacular are complementary rather than opposed to one another, studies how the often tangled relationship region/nation/world plays out in a number of literatures around the world. * Theo D'haen, Emeritus Professor of English & Comparative Literature, Leuven University, Belgium *The interaction of languages that travel and those that stay home, and the cultural choices that follow, have profoundly influenced literatures, from epics to novels; politics, from empires to nations; and much else. This rich collection of essays is the first to address these problems for global modernity. It deserves to be warmly welcomed and widely studied. * Sheldon Pollock, Arvind Raghunathan Professor Emeritus of Sanskrit and South Asian Studies, Columbia University, USA *Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors Acknowledgements Series Introduction – The Cosmopolitan-Vernacular Dynamic: Conjunctions of World Literature Helena Bodin (Stockholm University, Sweden), Stefan Helgesson (Stockholm University, Sweden), Christina Kulberg (Uppsala University, Sweden), Paul Tenngart (Lund University, Sweden), and Helena Wulff (Stockholm University, Sweden) Introduction: Theorizing the Vernacular Christina Kullberg and David Watson (Uppsala University, Sweden) 1. Contextualizing the Vernacular: Signposts from African Language, Writing, and Literature Moradewun Adejunmobi (University of California Davis, USA) 2. Vernacular Resistance: Catalan, Basque, and Galician Opposition to Francoist Monolingualism Christian Claesson (Lund University, Sweden) 3. The Modern Adventures of Kanian Poongundranar, Classical Tamil Poet: Reflections on Literatures of the World, Vernacularly Speaking S. Shankar (University of Hawai’i, USA) 4. Vernacular Soundings: Poetry from the Lesser Antilles in the Aftermaths of Hurricanes Irma and Maria Christina Kullberg (Uppsala University, Sweden) 5. From Fesiten to Fesibuku: Shifting Priorities in the Saamaka Vernacular Richard Price and Sally Price (College of William and Mary, USA) 6. Cosmopolitan and Vernacular Dynamics in Modern Chinese Fiction and Lao She’s Satirical Novel Cat Country Lena Rydholm (Uppsala University, Sweden) 7. Worldly Themes and Vernacular Literature: Aino Kallas on Gender, Ethnicity, and Class Katarina Leppänen (Gothenburg University, Sweden) 8. Specters of the Vernacular: Neoliberalism, World Literature, and Marlon James’ A Brief History of Seven Killings David Watson (Uppsala University, Sweden) 9. Vernacular Imagination and Exophone Reconfiguration in Francophone Chinese Diasporic Literature Shuangyi Li (Lund University, Sweden) Vernacular Lessons: Dante, Cavafy, Gombrowicz (Instead of an Afterword) Galin Tihanov (Queen Mary University, UK) Index

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Book SynopsisThis open access book uses Swedish literature and the Swedish publishing field as recurring examples todescribe and analyse the role of the literary semi-peripheral position in world literature from various perspectives and on meso, micro and macro levels, using both quantitative and qualitative methods. This includes the role of translation in the semi-periphery and the conditions under which literature travels to and from that position. The focus is not on Sweden, as such, but rather on the semi-peripheral transitional space as exemplified by the Swedish case. Consisting of three co-written chapters, this study sheds light on what might be called the semi-peripheral condition or the semi-periphery as an area of transition. As part of the Cosmopolitan and Vernacular Dynamics in World Literatures series, it makes continuous use of the concepts of ''cosmopolitan'' and ''vernacular'' or rather, the processual terms, cosmopolitanization and vernacularization which provideTrade ReviewGo global or extend the local? This volume digs into the most fundamental questions about the construction of literary place, presenting an elaborate and multifaceted case study from the semi-periphery. It convincingly shows how translation-flows concern far more than numbers: they show a culture at work. * Anthony Pym, Distinguished Professor of Translation and Intercultural Studies, University of Melbourne, Australia *By framing Sweden as a "semi-peripheral" space of world literary networks, Northern Crossings opens up new cross-ways of scrutinizing translation-flows, creation of readerships and recognition of literary works through the Nobel Prize in the public sphere. An interesting co-authored work which underscores benefits of collaborative work in World Literature Studies. * B. Venkat Mani, Professor of German and World Literature, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, author of Recoding World Literature (2017), and co-editor, A Companion to World Literature (2020) *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Series Introduction – The Cosmopolitan-Vernacular Dynamic: Conjunctions of World Literature Stefan Helgesson (Stockholm University, Sweden), Christina Kulberg (Uppsala University, Sweden), Paul Tenngart (Lund University, Sweden) and Helena Wulff (Stockholm University, Sweden) 1. Introduction: The Cosmopolitan, the Vernacular and the Semi-periphery 2. Infrastructure of the Semi-peripheral Exchange 3. Translators of Nobel Prize Literature 4. Translation Strategies to and from the Literary Semi-periphery: Reduction Retention, Replacement 5. Positioning the Swedish Literary Semi-periphery 6. General Conclusion References Index

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Book SynopsisRealism seems to be everywhere, both as a trending critical term and as a revitalized aesthetic practice. This volume brings together for the first time three aspects that are pertinent for a proper understanding of realism: its 19th-century aesthetics committed to making reality into an object of serious art; the experiments with and against realism by 20th-century modernist, postmodernist, or magical realist writing; and the politics of realism, especially its ambitions to map the complex realities produced by global capitalism and climate catastrophe. This juxtaposition of aesthetics, experiments, and politics unsettles the entrenched opposition between realism and experimental literature that tends to ignore the fact that realism, by virtue of its commitment to a changing material and social world, cannot be but continuously experimenting. The innovative chapters of this book address some of the pressing questions of literary and cultural studies today, like the complex relation Trade ReviewLiterary realism has never looked more exciting than now, thanks to timely and ambitious volumes such as this one. The collection ranges across multiple national and historical contexts to offer a substantial reassessment of the realist mode. Written with acuity and flair, the chapters in this book demonstrate that realism was more supple, experimental, and expansive than critics have tended to assume. * Benjamin Kohlmann, Professor of English Literature, University of Regensburg, Germany, and author of British Literature and the Life of Institutions: Speculative States (2021) *Realism: Aesthetics, Experiments, Politics is an exciting addition to the recent scholarship on the aesthetic, political, and theoretical possibilities of realist writing. Following a clear and engaging introduction, the chapters cover a broad historical and geographical range and offer new insights on realism’s relationship to modernism, postmodernism, magical realism, postcoloniality, global literature, climate fiction, experimental fiction, and more. In all, the book charts an exciting course for realist studies in the new millennium. * Ulka Anjaria, Professor of English, Brandeis University, USA, and author of Realism in the Twentieth-Century Indian Novel: Colonial Difference and Literary Form (2012) *Realism: Aesthetics, Experiments, Politics persuades us of the renewed energy and innovation in the plurality of realism. Casting realism as an aesthetic and political strategy, the book is broad in scope and the essays reinforce the capacity for foundational and contemporary realism to be both experimental and relevant. * Maggie Bowers, Senior Lecturer in English, University of Portsmouth, UK, and author of Magic(al) Realism: The New Critical Idiom (2004) *Table of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction: Realism, Political Aesthetics, and (New) Materialism (Jens Elze, Georg August University of Göttingen, Germany) Part I. Aesthetics 1. “Uses of ‘Realism’”: A Term in History and the History of a Term (Andreas Mahler, Free University of Berlin, Germany) 2. George Eliot’s Realisms (Nadine Böhm-Schnitker, Friedrich Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany) 3. Medical Realism and the Magic of Reality: Art and Insight in Thomas Hardy’s The Woodlanders and Émile Zola’s Le docteur Pascal (Maren Scheurer, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany) 4. Conrad on Epidemics: From The Shadow-Line to Covid-19 (and Back) (Nidesh Lawtoo, KU Leuven, Belgium) Part II. Experiments 5. “Should I Call It Horror?”: Reflecting Realism by Exploring Contingency in Ror Wolf’s Adventure Series Pilzer und Pelzer (Barbara Bausch, Free University of Berlin, Germany) 6. Trawling Truth: B.S. Johnson’s Evacuation of Realist Epistemology (André Otto, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany) 7. Cultural Realism: Reconsidering Magical Realism in Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine (Nasrin Babakhani, Georg August University of Göttingen, Germany) 8. Narrative as Realistic Thinking (Kai Wiegandt, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Germany) Part III. Politics 9. Realism for Sustainability (Caroline Levine, Cornell University, USA) 10. Network Realism/Capitalist Realism (Dirk Wiemann, University of Potsdam, Germany) 11. Postcolonial Realism and Rohinton Mistry’s Family Matters (Eli Park Sorensen, Chinese University of Hong Kong) 12. Settler-Colonial Realism: Naturalizing and Denaturalizing the Frontier (Hamish Dalley, Daemen College, USA) Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisAmanda Parrish Morgan is a Writing Instructor at Fairfield University and a Westport Writers' Workshop Instructor. Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, Guernica, The Millions, The Rumpus, The American Scholar, Women's Running, JSTOR Daily, Ploughshares, and N+1, among other places.Trade ReviewFor Morgan, strollers aren't just tools we use, or products we buy; they're dense symbols, with no single or settled meaning, of our relationships to parenting. * New Yorker *Designed objects tell stories, and the stroller is no different - except perhaps that it's a typology that has received little sustained critical framing until this text. A compelling writer, Amanda Parrish Morgan deftly weaves together conversations around aspiration, accessibility, and aesthetics as they relate to this accouterment of modern parenthood and posits the stroller as a complex and sometimes confounding topic worthy of our attention and inquiry. This is an immensely readable volume, and we’re proud to have it on our bookshelves. * Michelle Millar Fisher and Amber Winick, authors of Designing Motherhood: Things That Make and Break Our Births *Part object history, part capitalist critique, a consistently acute and deeply felt depiction of the pleasures, traps, thrills, and dangers of early parenthood, Amanda Parrish Morgan's Stroller compellingly depicts the history and taxonomy of this most weighty and unruly device, ally, and antagonist. * Lynn Steger Strong, author of Want *Table of Contents1. Child-Friendly and Child-Centric 2. Carry the Baby 3. The Pram in the Hall 4. Prams of Good and Evil 5. The Years of Magical Worrying 6. Get Your Body Back 7. Strolling 8. A Taxonomy of Stroller as Metaphor Index

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Book SynopsisObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.As a former world-ranked swimmer whose journey toward naturalization and U.S. citizenship began with a swimming fellowship, Piotr Florczyk reflects on his own adventures in swimming pools while taking a closer look at artists, architects, writers, and others who have helped to cement the swimming pool's prominent and iconic role in our society and culture.Swimming Pool explores the pool as a place where humans seek to attain the unique union between mind and body.Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.Trade ReviewHaving spent most of my life around a pool, no one would fault me taking it for granted. But Swimming Pool tells a unique and compelling story of the swimming pool, allowing me to appreciate that it’s more than just a place to cool off or go back and forth along a black line. Florczyk has done a remarkable job bringing to the surface the potentially unanticipated way that pools have affected us, for the good and the bad. * Rada Owen, USA Olympic Swim Team, 2000 *A beautifully associative work, in which Florczyk makes visible the often-hidden role that swimming pools have long played in the global artistic, cultural, and literary landscape. Whether shaped like kidney beans and back lit or of Olympic dimensions with the perfect gutters and that ever-present black line—whether sighted jewel-like from the air as signs of suburban ‘white flight,’ or drained, abandoned, and re-appropriated by the skateboarders who also surf—swimming pools are emblems of everything from sanctuary, to privilege, to athleticism, to leisure. Florczyk’s language flows around this object, and I encourage all readers to plunge in. * Emily Hodgson Anderson, Professor of English and College Dean of Undergraduate Education, University of Southern California, USA *Table of Contents1. Where Do You Swim? 2. What Is Your Pool? 3. Why Do You Swim? 4. Who Gets to Swim? Afterword: From Pool to Page Acknowledgments Notes Index

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Book SynopsisObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.For a century, magazines were the authors of culture and taste, of intelligence and policy until they were overthrown by the voices of the public themselves online. Here is a tribute to all that magazines were, from their origins in London and on Ben Franklin's press; through their boom enabled by new technologies as creators of a new media aesthetic and a new mass culture; into their opulent days in advertising-supported conglomerates; and finally to their fall at the hands of the internet. This tale is told through the experience of a magazine founder, the creator of Entertainment Weekly at Time Inc., who was also TV critic at TV Guide and People and finally an executive at Condé Nast trying to shepherd its magazines into the digital age.Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.Trade ReviewFew people have thought as hard or as well about magazines as Jeff Jarvis does. He describes Magazine as an elegy, and it's a beautiful one, but it's so much more—a love letter to the heyday of a glorious form, a roundhouse punch thrown at those who failed as its custodians, an elegant and insightful history of a medium, and a vivid, funny, unsparing memoir. It's a pleasure to read him, and a privilege to learn from him. * Mark Harris, journalist and author of Mike Nichols: A Life (2021) *A starter, lover, student, and doubter of magazines, Jeff Jarvis is here to explain to us—in beautiful and entertaining prose—what the magazine was when it was great, and how the internet undid it, by wiring us together in a different way, and giving everyone a printing press. The call that magazines once answered is still heard, he argues. It is to ‘set the idea of community free from geography.' * Jay Rosen, Associate Professor of Journalism, New York University, USA *Having devoted a chunk of my life to writing for and editing magazines, I wondered whether Jeff Jarvis’s smart little chronicle, Magazine, would feel like nostalgia or PTSD. He opened so well, it ceased to matter. * The Common Reader *Table of Contents1. The End 2. The Beginning of the End 3. The Beginning 4. Magazines' Golden Century 5. Inside the Gilded Factory 6. Tangled in the Web 7. Next Bibliography Notes Index

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Book SynopsisIn The Arts of Cinema, Martin Seel explores film's connections to the other arts and the qualities that distinguish it from them. In nine concise and elegantly written chapters, he explores the cinema's singular aesthetic potential and uses specific examples from a diverse range of filmsfrom Antonioni and Hitchcock to The Searchers and The Bourne Supremacyto demonstrate the many ways this potential can be realized. Seel's analysis provides both a new perspective on film as a comprehensive aesthetic experience and a nuanced understanding of what the medium does to us once we are in the cinema.Trade ReviewIn his tremendously stimulating aesthetics of cinema, Martin Seel writes that films absorb the presence of the spectator more than all other works of art.... One of the merits of his book is that it is informed by a wide spectrum of film history, from the Marx Brothers to Fassbinder. * Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung *In his stimulating volume, the philosopher Seel looks for the essence and especially the particularity of the cinema, tracing the roots of cinema in other arts. According to Seel, film takes up elements from all of these arts and realizes its unique potential. Films like Hitchcock's North by Northwest or Antonioni's Zabriskie Point explode the boundaries of space and draw all of the spectator’s senses into it. * Deutschlandfunk [German Public Radio] *An exciting work of ‘philosophy meets cinema’—intellectually sophisticated but written in a rich, playful style—this book is both impressive and delightful. * academicworld.net *Seel grounds his philosophical work in close textual analysis of a small selection of representative films, including Hollywood classics, such as The Searchers; art films, such as Caché; and more recent action films, such as The Bourne Supremacy. As a work of philosophy and film theory, the book is notable for its lively engagement with complex ideas and for its inviting prose. It will appeal primarily to those with a strong interest in film aesthetics. * Choice *Anyone who studies, watches, or appreciates films for their beauty and artistic value will enjoy Seel's musings in philosophy and art. * Communication Booknotes Quarterly (CBQ) *Table of ContentsOpening Credits: Affairs—The Site of the Cinema—"Film"—The Course of Things—The Film Program 1. Film as Architecture: A Beginning—Division of Space—Ambient Sound—Some Opening Credits—Landscapes—Two Extremes—An Ending—Spatial Imagination—More Opening Credits 2. Film as Music: A Prelude—Time Connections—Action (1)—Double Motion—Action (2)—Spaces of Time—Higher Rhythm—Explosion 3. Film as Image: People Waiting—Pictorial Appearing—Image and Movement—Photography and Film—Another Trip— The Promise of Photography—Image Analysis—The Promise of Film—Another Ending 4. Film as Spectacle: Anarchy—Division of Space, Again—Virtuality—Sculpturality— Actors—Voices—Theatricality—Attractionism—Ecstasy 5. Film as Narrative: Three Films—Abstinence—Narrative Disposition—Telling Stories—Perspectivity—Filmic Storytelling—Cinema's Temporal Form—The Present Past 6. Film as Exploration: In Baghdad—Urban Landscapes—Realities—Processes of Documentation—A Double Promise—Techniques of Fiction— Questions of Style—Loss of Control—References to the World—The End 7. Film as Imagination: At Bakersfield—An Illusionistic Interpretation—The Figure of the Illusionist—Illusion and Immersion—Imagination Not Illusion—Photography and Film, Again—Twofold Attention—Illusion as a Technique—Caché 8. Film as Emotion: The End, Yet Again—The Illusionist's Final Appearance— Motion and Emotion—Corporeality—Sensate Understanding— Expressivity—Engagement—Twofold Attention, Again—Mixed Emotions—Godard 9. Film as Philosophy: Flashbacks—Another Affair—Three Dimensions—Cine- anthropology—Active Passivity—An Encore—Landscapes, Once Again Closing Credits: Notice—Thanks

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Book SynopsisIn The One, Other, and Only Dickens, Garrett Stewart casts new light on those delirious wrinkles of wording that are one of the chief pleasures of Dickens's novels but that go regularly unnoticed in Dickensian criticism: the linguistic infrastructure of his textured prose. Stewart, in effect, looks over the reader's shoulder in shared fascination with the local surprises of Dickensian phrasing and the restless undertext of his storytelling. For Stewart, this phrasal undercurrent attests both to Dickens's early immersion in Shakespearean sonority and, at the same time, to the effect of Victorian stenography, with the repressed phonetics of its elided vowels, on the young author's verbal habits long after his stint as a shorthand Parliamentary reporter.To demonstrate the interplay and tension between narrative and literary style, Stewart draws out two personas within Dickens: the Inimitable Boz, master of plot, social panorama, and set-piece rhetorical cadences, and a veTrade ReviewThe One, Other, and Only Dickens is sui generis... Stewart offers an exuberant appreciation of Dickens's language, a celebration of craft.... Stewart points toward a return to the pleasurable, slow reading of both criticism and primary texts, but Stewart champions sustained and passionate attentiveness as integral to that process. Stewart's lovely reading, and writing, will be a pleasure to readers who agree with Thackeray's 1847 appraisal of Dickens that 'There's no writing against such power as this-one has no chance!' * SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 *A series of compelling readings from the inklings of nebulous popular consensus. * Dickens Quarterly *Passage after passage of this kind not only leave you feeling as if you have consistently under-read Dickens, but also, retracing Stewart's granular detail, that Dickens is the unequaled master of English prose, the only peer in prose to Shakespeare in verse. * Victorian Studies *Table of ContentsForeword: Preparing the Way Introduction: Some "Reagions" for Reading 1. Shorthand Speech / Longhand Sound 2. Secret Prose / Sequestered Poetics 3. Phrasing Astraddle 4. Reading Lessens Afterword: "That Very Word, Reading" Endpiece: The One and T'Otherest Notes Index

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Book SynopsisIn The Ways of the Word, Garrett Stewart steps aside from theory to focus on the sheer pleasure of attentive reading and the excitement of recognizing the play of syllables and words upon which the best literary writing is founded. Emerging out of teaching creative writing and a broader effort to convene writers and critics, Stewart''s episodes in verbal attention track the means to meaning through the byways of literary wording.Through close engagement with literary passages and poetic instances whose imaginative demands are their own reward, Stewart gathers exhibits from dozens of authors: from Dickinson, Dickens, and DeLillo to Whitman, Woolf, and Colson Whitehead. In the process, idiom, tense, etymology, and other elements of expressive language and its phonetic wordplay are estranged and heard anew. The Ways of the Word fluidly and intuitively reveals a verbal alchemy that is as riveting as it is elusive and mysterious.Trade ReviewStewart is clearly having fun in this book, channeling techniques into his exposition with such parings as word's way and world's way, touchstone and touchtone, density and intensity, and epiphony and epiphany, to note just a few. Impressively erudite, this work will interest critics, creative writers, and literary-minded linguists. * Choice *

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