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Book SynopsisThis book is an anthology of research co-edited by Dr. Chia-rong Wu (University of Canterbury) and Professor Ming-ju Fan (National Chengchi University). This collection of original essays integrates and expands research on Taiwan literature because it includes both established and young writers. It not only engages with the evolving trends of literary Taiwan, but also promotes the translocal consciousness and cultural diversity of the island state and beyond. Focusing on the new directions and trends of Taiwan literature, this edited book fits into Taiwan studies, Sinophone studies, and Asian studies. Trade Review“This is a very interesting book … . Taiwan Literature in the 21st Century hence offers an extremely useful guide to the most important names, together with close analyses of their main works and is consequently highly recommended.” (Bradley Wintertion, taipeitimes.com, June 8, 2023)Table of ContentsIntroduction: Taiwan Literature in the 21st CenturyChia-rong Wu and Ming-ju FanPart One: The Reconstruction of History and Politics1. Democracy Detoured and a Narrator Detached in the Political Fiction of Lai XiangyinMing-ju Fan2. A Venture into Taiwan’s Political Changes and Historical MemoriesThrough Li Ang’s “Beef Noodle Soup”Yenna Wu3. Homegrown Stories: Gan Yao-ming’s FictionBert ScruggsPart Two: Genres, Forms, and Ideas4. Clipping Wings: A Chronicle and Wang Wen-hsing’s ArtSung-sheng Yvonne Chang5. Xia Yu, the Supreme StylistMichelle Yeh6. Everything Everywhere All at Once: The New Taiwan in Egoyan Zheng’s Science FictionWen-chi LiPart Three: Reflections upon Gender and Sexuality7. Chen Xue, Missing Fathers, and Queer AlternativesCarlos Rojas8. Sexuality and Trauma: Zhang Yixuan’s The Love that is Temporary and A Farewell LetterLinshan Jiang9. Liglav Awu, Child of the “Double Country”: the Clarion Voice of Indigenous Women in TaiwanFanny CaronPart Four: On Ethnicities and Races10. Through an Indigenous Lens: Syaman Rapongan’s Rewriting of Oceanic TaiwanChia-rong Wu11. Migrants of Today, Migrants of Tomorrow in Wu Ming-yi’s Literary WorksGwennaël Gaffric12. Anti-Japan or Becoming-Japanese: Li Yongping’s Writing on Japan in Postcolonial TaiwanMin-xu Zhan13. Huang Chong-kai and the Taiwanese Novel of IdeasNicholas Y. H. WongPart Five: Taiwan Literature in the Age of Globalization14. Escape and Return: Ghostly Representations of Home and Abroad in Kevin Chen’s “Summer Trilogy”Pei-yin Lin15. Sketches on a Blank Slate: Shawna Yang Ryan’s Future-oriented Memories of the PastIrmy Schweiger16. National Border on the Tip of Tongue: The Limit of Cosmopolitan Citizenship in Li Kotomi’s Count Down to Five Seconds of Crescent MoonSophia Huei-Ling Chen

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Book SynopsisModern Persian begins with the teaching of the Persian alphabet. It aims to provide the student with the necessary skills for social interaction, as well as a basis for the study of modern literature. The course consists of seventeen units and favours teaching by communicative and contextual learning. Most units begin with a reading exercise used to introduce an item of grammar and new vocabulary, followed by explanations and drill exercises aimed at consolidating the student's understanding. Complete with Persian-English vocabulary to all the exercises and tape recordings, this is an up-to-date textbook which can be used both by teachers or individuals wishing to learn Persian independently.Table of ContentsIntroduction Lesson 1: Persian Alphabet Lessons 2-17: New Grammar and New Vocabulary Persian to English Glossary

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Book SynopsisFor the first time in over a century, this edition makes available the work of the most important Jewish writer in early and mid-Victorian Britain. Grace Aguilar (1816-1847) broke new literary ground by writing from the unique perspective of an Anglo-Jewish woman. Aguilar’s writing responds to English representations of Jews and women by writers such as Felicia Hemans, Maria Edgeworth, Sir Walter Scott, and Thomas Macaulay. She both assimilates and alters the genres of historical romance, dramatic monologue, domestic fiction, history, and midrash, among others.This edition includes Aguilar’s novella The Perez Family in its entirety; the Sephardic historical romance “The Escape,” her Sephardic historical romance, “History of the Jews in England,” the first such history ever written by a Jew; major poems; excerpts from The Women of Israel; and Aguilar’s Frankfurt journal, never before published. Also included are primary source materials such as writings on “the Jewish question” from Aguilar’s non-Jewish contemporaries, tributes and memoirs, and contemporary responses to her work.Trade Review“This well-conceived edition makes an extraordinary contribution to our understanding of Anglo-Jewish literature and culture in the early Victorian era. Michael Galchinsky’s introductions and notes (as well as excellently chosen appended materials that in several cases reprint long unavailable works by other writers) place Aguilar’s writing in its often overlapping Romantic, Victorian, and Jewish contexts to restore an important voice to literary history.” — Meri-Jane Rochelson, Florida International University“Michael Galchinsky’s splendid edition of Grace Aguilar’s work, long out of print, revives the founder of Anglo-Jewish literature; the significance of her novels, poems, histories, and theological work cannot be overestimated. His rich and incisive introduction, incorporating valuable original scholarship, examines Aguilar’s energetic warfare as an Anglo-Jewish woman writer in both Anglo-Christian and Anglo-Jewish patriarchal worlds and sheds much new light on the trans-Atlantic Jewish connection. Ancillary materials, as well as expert notes, deftly shape out Aguilar’s literary and religious environment.” — Daniel A. Harris, Rutgers University, New Brunswick“Making available the work of the first Anglo-Jewish woman writer, this is a welcome and timely anthology. Michael Galchinsky’s detailed introduction provides an excellent account of the contexts in which Grace Aguilar wrote, as a Sephardic Jew during the period of debates about religious equality and religious reform and as a published woman writer during the heyday of ‘separate spheres’ ideology. Aguilar’s writing on domestic womanhood and Jewish female education, her Jewish historical fiction, and her religious poetry offer a fascinating example of the appropriation and adaptation by a Jewish writer of mainstream Victorian literary genres.” — Nadia Valman, University of Southampton, UKTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionSignificanceBiographyLiterary and Historical ContextsCritical ReceptionGrace Aguilar: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextI. Fiction“The Escape”“The Perez Family”“The Spirit of Night”II. Poetry“Sabbath Thoughts III”“An Hour of Peace”“A Poet’s Dying Hymn”“Song of the Spanish Jews, During their ‘Golden Age’”“A Vision of Jerusalem, While Listening to a Beautiful Organ in one of the Gentile Shrines”“The Address to the Ocean”“The Hebrew’s Appeal, On Occasion of the Late Fearful Ukase Promulgated by the Emperor of Russia”“Dialogue Stanzas”“The Wanderers”“The Rocks of Elim”III. Non-Fiction Prosefrom The Spirit of Judaism[Our Hearts Must Breathe from Our Lips][The Bible as Foundation and Defense][The Hebrew’s Neglect of the Bible][A Minority’s Faith and Observance][Hints on the Religious Instruction of the HebrewYouth][The Significance of the Hebrew Language][The Value of Profane History and Fiction][The Spirit and the Forms of JudaismConsidered Separately and Together]from The Women of Israel“Introduction”“Sarah”“Miriam”“Deborah”from The Jewish Faithfrom Sabbath Thoughts and Sacred Communings“Preface”“Morning Meditation”“Prayer for the Government of the Thoughts”From “The Prophecies of Isaiah”“History of the Jews in England”Appendix A: Victorian Tributes Testimonial from the Misses Levison and Isaacs Abraham Benisch, Obituary Isaac Leeser, Obituary Athenaeum, Obituary Tribute by the Ladies Of the Society for theReligious Instruction Of Jewish Youth, Charleston Marion Hartog,“Lines Written on the Death ofGrace Aguilar” Anna Maria Hall, From “A Pilgrimage to the Grave ofGrace Aguilar” Rebecca Gratz, Letters to Miriam Gratz Cohen Appendix B: Victorian Criticism Isaac Leeser,“Editor’s Preface” to Spirit of Judaism Jacob Franklin, Review of Spirit of Judaism, from Voice of Jacob Review of The Women of Israel, from Athenaeum Review of Home Influence, from Howitt’s Journal Abraham Benisch, Review of Imrei Lev, from Jewish Chronicle Sarah Aguilar, Correspondence with Miriam and Solomon Cohen on Sabbath Thoughts and Sacred Communings Appendix C: Romantic and Victorian Reflections on “The Jewish Question” George Gordon, Lord Byron,“Jephthah’s Daughter” (1815) Walter Scott, From Ivanhoe (1819) William Wordsworth,“The Jewish Family” (1828) Thomas Babington Macaulay, from “Speech on Jewish Disabilities” (1831) Sarah Stickney Ellis, from Women of England (1838) Felicia Hemans,“The Song of Miriam” (1839) Appendix D: Victorian Jewish Writers Morris Raphall,“ldquo;The Sun and the Moon” (1834) Marion and Celia Moss, from Early Efforts (1839) Abraham Benisch,“Our Women” (1861) Appendix E: Aguilar’s Frankfurt JournalSelect Bibliography

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Book SynopsisUnhomely States is the first collection of foundational essays of Canadian postcolonial theory. The essays span the period from 1965 to the present day and approach broad issues of Canadian culture and society. They represent the impassioned conflicts, dissonances, and intersections among postcolonial theorists in English Canada.Theories of Canadian postcolonialism are various and often contending. The questions proliferate: Is Canada postcolonial? Who in Canada is postcolonial? Are some Canadians more postcolonial than others? Together, the essays in this collection demonstrate both the historical development of this vigorous debate and its most prominent current perspectives. The anthology comprises work originally written in English, selected and arranged in order to demonstrate the dynamic nature of these discussions.Included here are essays by many well-known writers and theorists, such as George Grant, Northrop Frye, Margaret Atwood, Dennis Lee, Robert Kroetsch, Linda Hutcheon, Diana Brydon, Thomas King, Terry Goldie, Arun Mukherjee, Smaro Kamboureli, Stephen Slemon, and Roy Miki. The collection covers such topics as anti-colonial nationalism, settler-invader theory, First Nations contexts, postcolonial pedagogy, and critiques of Canadian postcolonialism. A general introduction surveying the current field of postcolonial discourse in English Canada is also included.Trade Review“This book brings together the last forty years of impassioned Canadian debate on what remains our most charged, most unresolved, and always timely argument with and amongst ourselves. These pieces bristle with informed and eloquent contention over the status of Canadian colonial, national, and postcolonial states and aspirations; its twenty-eight voices, in eight sections, address every facet of these vital cultural issues. This is an indispensable collection.” — Neil Besner, University of Winnipeg“Cynthia Sugars’s Unhomely States is the most comprehensive and thought-provoking collection of theoretical essays on English-Canadian literature.” — Albert Braz, University of AlbertaTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Unhomely StatesPart I: Anti-Colonial Nationalism From Lament for a Nation: The Defeat of Canadian Nationalism (1965) / George Grant From “Conclusion to A Literary History of Canada” (1965/1971) / Northrop Frye From Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature (1972) / Margaret Atwood Part II: The Commonwealth Context “Another Preface to an Uncollected Anthology: Canadian Criticism in a Commonwealth Context” (1973) / R.T. Robertson Editorial to the Journal of Canadian Fiction (1975) / John Moss Part III: What is Canadian Postcolonialism? “Cadence, Country, Silence: Writing in Colonial Space” (1973) / Dennis Lee “Disunity as Unity: A Canadian Strategy” (1989) / Robert Kroetsch “‘Circling the Downspout of Empire’: Post-Colonialism and Postmodernism” (1989) / Linda Hutcheon “The White Inuit Speaks: Contamination as Literary Strategy” (1990) / Diana Brydon “English Canada’s Postcolonial Complexities” (1993/94) / Donna Bennett Part IV: Settler-Invader Postcolonialism “Unsettling the Empire: Resistance Theory for the Second World” (1990) / Stephen Slemon “Postcolonial Theory and the ‘Settler’ Subject” (1995) / Alan Lawson “Reading Postcoloniality, Reading Canada” (1995) / Diana Brydon Part V: First Nations Subjects “Godzilla vs. Post-Colonial” (1990) / Thomas King “Semiotic Control: Native Peoples in Canadian Literatures in English” (1990) / Terry Goldie “The ‘Post-Colonial’ Imagination” (1992) / Lee Maracle “Unfolding the Lessons of Colonization” (2000) / Marie Battiste Part VI: Critiques of the (Canadian) Postcolonial “Canadian (Tw)ink: Surviving the White-Outs” (1987) / Gary Boire “‘Olga in Wonderland’: Canadian Ethnic Minority Writing andPost-Colonial Theory” (1996) / Enoch Padolsky “How Shall We Read South Asian Canadian Texts?” (1998) / Arun Mukherjee Part VII: Negotiating Postcolonialisms “What Use is Ethnicity to Aboriginal Peoples in Canada?” (1995) / Margery Fee “‘A Tough Geography’: Towards a Poetics of Black Space(s) in Canada” (1997) / Rinaldo Walcott “Geography Lessons: On Being an Insider/Outsider to the Canadian Nation” (1997) / Himani Bannerji “Sliding the Scale of Elision: ‘Race’ Constructs/Cultural Praxis” (1998) / Roy Miki “To Essentialize or Not To Essentialize: Is This the Question?” (1998) / Sherene Razack Part VIII: Postcolonial Pedagogies “Transvestic Sites: Postcolonialism, Pedagogy, and Politics” (1997) / Richard Cavell “Critical Correspondences: The Diasporic Critic’s (Self-)Location” (2000) / Smaro Kamboureli “Always Indigenize!: The Radical Humanities in the Postcolonial Canadian University” (2000) / Len Findlay

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Book SynopsisPisces Moon: The Dark Arts of Empire is a non-fiction book about what writer William Burroughs called, “ the backlash and bad karma of empire.” Set against the author’ s month-long trip to London, Vietnam and Thailand in early 1991, it tells how the American empire was created by rapacious businessmen backed by a murderous military establishment, media moguls who designed a relentless psychological warfare campaign that glorifies warriors who are programmed to kill on command, and clerics who contrived a religious justification for imperialism, the subordination of women, and the establishment of chattel slavery. Pisces Moon shows how these mythmakers, led by CIA drug traffickers after World War Two, destroyed much of Southeast Asia. It also tells how the myth of American greatest has come home to roost and is now manifest as the vainglorious, militant Christian nationalist movement that wishes to establish a right-wing dictatorship. Pisces Moon argues that the survival of American democracy, and the world, depends upon people being able to distinguish between material evidence and substantiated facts on the one hand, and conspiracy theories, religious beliefs, and supremacist myths

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Book SynopsisAlthough humankind today can peer far deeper into the universe than ever before, we still find ourselves surrounded by the unknown and perhaps the unknowable. All great science fiction has used the human imagination to explore that realm beyond the known, just as theistic religions have done since long before the genre existed. As Hugo Award-winning author Robert Charles Wilson argues in Owning the Unknown, the genre’s freewheeling speculation and systematic world-building make it it a unique lens for understanding, examining, and assessing the truth claims of religions in general and Christianity in particular. Drawing on his personal experience, his work as a science fiction writer, and his deep knowledge of the classics of the genre, he makes the case for what he calls intuitive atheism—an atheism drawn from everyday personal knowledge that doesn’t depend on familiarity with the scholarly debate about theology and metaphysics, any more than a robust personal Christianity does. And as he reminds us, the secrets that remain hidden beyond the borders of the known universe—should we ever discover them—will probably not resemble anything currently found in our most prized philosophies, our most sacred texts, or our most imaginative science fiction.

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Book SynopsisThe Society for Textual Scholarship Richard J. Finneran Award, Honorable Mention, 2023. For the best edition or book about editorial theory and/or practice published in the English language during 2021-2022.Beginning with Tolstoy’s first extant records of his written œuvre, this anthology assembles seventy-seven unabridged texts that cover more than seven decades of his life, from 1835 to 1910. It constitutes the most complete single-volume edition to date of the rich variety of Tolstoy’s philosophical output: apothegmatic sayings, visions, intimate sketchbook and day notes, book reviews, open letters, dialogues, pedagogic talks, public lectures, programs and rules for personal behavior, fictions, and reminiscences. Most of these newly translated and thoroughly annotated texts have never been available in English. Among the four reprinted translations personally checked and authorized by Tolstoy is the text titled “Tolstoy on Venezuela,” an archival restoration of an authentic first publication in English of “Patriotism, or Peace?” (1896) that had been deemed lost. In the inaugural piece, a seven-year-old Tolstoy describes violent but natural animal life in contrast with the lazy life of a peaceful barnyard in the countryside. The last entry in the anthology written by an eighty-year-old Tolstoy for his grandchildren provides a lesson on vegetarianism and non-violence that a hungry wolf teaches a hungry boy during their conversation when both are on their way to lunch.It was the insolvable, the “scandalous,” problems of philosophy that never gave Tolstoy any rest: freedom of the will, religious tolerance, gender inequality, the tonal shape of music, the value of healthy life habits, the responsibilities of teaching, forms of social protest, cognitive development, science in society, the relation between body and mind, charity and labor, human dignity and public service, sexual psychology, national war doctrines, suicide, individual sacrifice, the purposes of making art. And always: What are the sources of violence? Why should we engage in politics? Why do we need governments? How can one practice non-violence? What is the meaning of our irrepressible desire to seek and find meaning? Why can't we live without loving? The typeset proofs of his final insights were brought to Tolstoy for approval when he was already on his deathbed. The reader will find all the texts in the exact shape and order of completion as Tolstoy left them. No matter their brevity or the occasion on which they were written, these works exemplify Tolstoy as an artistically inventive and intellectually absorbing thinker.Trade Review“The brief selections in Tolstoy as Philosopher, most translated into English for the first time, show [Tolstoy’s] preliminary attempts to work out his ideas or, in his last writings, to convey them as succinctly as possible. … [O]ne embarks on a fascinating journey into how a great writer struggled with existential fears.”— Gary Saul Morson, New York Review of Books“As a whole, both sections of this book provide readers the opportunity to explore the extraordinary flow of Tolstoy’s thinking, moving progressively from one theme to another. We can explore thereby the evolution of ideas and notions—from the writer’s childhood to the peak of his creative powers, until his death in 1910. This way, the philosophical side of Tolstoy’s personality is revealed. Indeed, an incredible and amazing journey into the world of literature and philosophy is offered by the editor of this book. … This anthology as a whole is a perfectly structured source, revealing the essence of Tolstoy’s philosophical ideas and aspirations. The book may be of great interest to connoisseurs of the literary heritage of this Russian writer, as well as for the more sophisticated readers well acquainted with Tolstoy’s biography, diaries, and notebooks. What is certain is that the novelty of the published material can enable further research on Tolstoy’s philosophical writings.”— Iuliia Kuznetsova, Studies in East European Thought“Discovering any untranslated work of Leo Tolstoy is akin to finding buried treasure. Inessa Medzhibovskaya in this lovely volume unearths a cache of short writings and burnishes them for the reader in English with excellent translations and expert commentary. The collection shows Tolstoy’s appreciation of life and quest for meaning from his earliest to his last writings. As a seven-year-old child in 1835 he noted observations about birds, and two years later wrote about patriotism—both essays are in the volume. The compendium concludes with a cycle of tales written for the relief of survivors of the Easter pogroms of 1903 in Kishinev, as well as the introduction to his final book, The Path of Life (1910). The writings, the introductory essay, and the notes make this an excellent companion volume for biographies of Tolstoy, but it also stands alone. The fluidity and clarity of translation will reward those who dip into sections as well as those who read straight through. Medzhibovskaya gives new insight into the life course and philosophical development of this marvelously perplexing man.”– Jeffrey Brooks, author of The Firebird and the Fox: Russian Culture under Tsars and Bolsheviks“A major contribution to Tolstoy studies. Medzhibovskaya’s research, based on decades of scholarship and archival work on Tolstoy, is impeccable. She places the writings into the broader contexts of his life and thoughts. Many of the works appear for the first time in English translation. Tolstoy scholars, general readers, and philosophy specialists will benefit from the breadth of the writings and from Medzhibovskaya’s erudition. She also highlights nuances of Tolstoy’s language. The reader can experience the joy of discovery from reading the many unknown writings on science; art; music; the meaning of life; justice; Tolstoy’s question about why a tree grows; his views on psychiatry; on how to prevent suicide. He talks about tolerance; love; happiness; morality; ethics; how to avoid the causes of war; politics; religion. The writings span Tolstoy’s life, from what he wrote as a young boy, to what he wrote, at 80, about vegetarianism, for his young grandchildren.”– Ellen Chances, Professor of Russian Literature, Princeton University“In this mix of Tolstoy’s short works on philosophical questions, his readers will find the unadulterated essence of the questions on life and on death that he novelizes in War and Peace and Anna Karenina and explores elsewhere in his writing. This anthology is a treasure trove for students, scholars, seekers, and all interested in Tolstoy’s thought and thought processes. Arranged chronologically, the volume shows that Tolstoy began his quest to understand the meaning of life as a boy and never gave up. As compiler, translator, and annotator, Inessa Medzhibovskaya has done a masterful job. She draws on her comprehensive understanding of all Tolstoy’s oeuvre and on her unparalleled familiarity with his philosophical works to make this anthology especially valuable.” – Liza Knapp, Professor of Slavic Languages, Columbia University“Those who read Tolstoy only in English – and many who read him in Russian – are used to thinking of him as first a writer and then, in old age, a political and religious thinker and a social activist. This unique volume includes writings, most of them translated for the first time, that together comprise a ‘biography’ of the development of his thought from childhood on. They range over many genres, from maxims to letters to fiction to memoirs to hybrid forms and much more. Meticulously translated almost entirely by editor Inessa Medzhibovskaya and, just as importantly, annotated and commented upon in great detail by her, they make available a new tool for English and Russian readers alike for understanding both him and his art.”– Donna Tussing Orwin, Professor, University of Toronto and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada“This book presents the truly philosophical material that has never been translated. The inspiring academic dedication of Inessa Medzhobovskaya and her hard and enduring work in the archives and libraries of the Leo Tolstoy Museums in Moscow and Yasnaya Polyana brilliantly resulted in this volume of Leo Tolstoy’s works, An Anthology, translated, edited and introduced by Prof. Medzhiboskaya. The volume, accompanied by Further Reading, Index of Names and Titles, Index of Terms, makes the edition immensely valuable not only for the academic readers but for the general public interested in Tolstoy’s work and life. My sincere congratulations to Inessa Medzhibovskaya on behalf of the Yasnaya Polyana researchers who know Prof. Medzhibovskaya as a dear friend and a recognized Tolstoy scholar.”– Galina Alekseeva, PhD, Academic Director, The Leo Tolstoy Museum-Estate at Yasnaya PolyanaTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsCreditsIllustrationsA Note on the TextEditor’s Introduction—"The Magic Mountain”: On the Textual Shape of Tolstoy’s PhilosophySection I. Fragments, Letters, Notes, Reflections, and TalksPart 1. Tolstoy’s Juvenilia (1835–50)1. Childhood Fancies [1835]2. Love of the Fatherland [Amour de la Patrie]3. A Fragment on the Past, the Present, and the Future [end of the 1830s/the early 1840s]4. Notes on the Second Chapter of the “Caractères” of La Bruyère [end of the 1830s/the early 1840s]5. Philosophical Observations on the Discourses of J. J. Rousseau [ca. 1847–52]6. A Fragment without a Title I [undated, 1840s]7. A Fragment without a Title II [undated, 1840s]8. On the Aim of Philosophy [undated, 1840s]9. A Fragment without a Title III [undated, ca. 1847]10. A Fragment on Criminal Law [1847]11. Three Fragments on Music [1848–50]Part 2: Writings of the 1850s12. Why People Write [1851]13. On Prayer [1852]14. A Note on Farming [1856]15. Letter to Count Bludov [1856]16. On Military Criminal Law [1856]17. A Note on The Nobility [1858]18. A Talk Delivered at the Society of Lovers of Russian Literature [1859]Part 3: Writings of the 1860s19. On Violence [late 1850s–early 1860s]20. On the Tasks of Pedagogy [1860]21. On the Character of Thinking in Youth and in Old Age [1862–63]22. On Religion [1865]23. A Speech in Defense of Soldier Vasilii Shibunin [1866]24. Progress [1868]25. On Marriage and On Woman’s Vocation [ca. September–December 1868]26. A Philosophical Fragment [1868]27. The Society of Independents [1868–69]Part 4: Writings of the 1870s28. On the Afterlife outside of Time and Space [1875]29. On the Soul and Its Life beyond the Life Known and Comprehensible to Us [1875]30. A Letter to N. N. Strakhov [November 30, 1875]31. On the Significance of Christian Religion [1875–76]32. A Conversation about Science [1875–76]33. The Definition of Religion-Faith [1875–76]34. The Psychology of Everyday [1875–76]35. A Christian Catechism [1877]36. Interlocutors [1877–78]Part 5: Writings of the 1880s37. The Kingdom of God [1879–86]38. What a Christian Should and Should Not Do [1879–86]39. To Whom Do We Belong? [1879–86]40. The Sermon on the Mount [1884]41. On Charity [1885]42. Preface to Tsvetnik [The Flower Garland] [1886]43. The Concept of Life [1887]Part 6: Writings of the 1890s44. On Science and Art [1889–91]45. Concerning the Freedom of the Will (from the unpublished work) [1894]46. A Letter to Alexander Macdonald about Resurrection [1895]*47. How Should the Gospel Be Read and Of What Does Its Essence Consist? [1896]48. Patriotism, or Peace? [1896]*49. Preface to Modern Science by Edward Carpenter [1897-98]*Part 7: Writings of the 1900s50. On Religious Tolerance [1901]51. On the Consciousness of the Spiritual [1903]52. Introduction to A Short Biography of Garrison [1903–04]*53. On the Social Movement in Russia [January 13, 1905]54. Discourses with Children on Moral Questions [1907]55. Introduction to the Collection, Selected Thoughts of La Bruyère [1907]56. Religion and Science [August 1908]57. Reminiscences about the Court-Martial of a Soldier [1908]58. A Variant of the Article “On Upbringing” [1909]59. A Letter to a Student Concerning Law [1909]60. On Signposts [O Vekhakh] [1909]61. Reminiscences about N. Ia. Grot [1910]62. On Insanity [1910]63. Introduction to The Path of Life [1910]Section II. FictionsPart 8: Exercises, Parables, Parodies, Satires, Tales, Vitae, and Visions64. Apprentice’s Writings [ca. 1839; but no later than 1840–41]65. A Tale about How Another Girl Named Varinka Grew Up Fast [1857–58]66. A DREAM [1857–58] 1st version67. A DREAM [1863] 2nd version68. An Anecdote about a Bashful Young Man [1868–69]69. A Fairy Tale [1873]70. The Vita and Martyrdom of Justin the Philosopher [1874–75]71. A Colloquy of Idlers [1887]72. Three Parables [1895]73. Two Different Versions of the History of the Beehive with a Lacquer-Painted Lid [1888/1900]74. Labor, Death, and Sickness [1903]75. Three Questions [1903]76. This Is You [1903]77. The Wolf [1908]NotesFurther Reading in EnglishIndex of Names and TitlesIndex of Terms

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Book SynopsisThe Society for Textual Scholarship Richard J. Finneran Award, Honorable Mention, 2023. For the best edition or book about editorial theory and/or practice published in the English language during 2021-2022.Beginning with Tolstoy’s first extant records of his written œuvre, this anthology assembles seventy-seven unabridged texts that cover more than seven decades of his life, from 1835 to 1910. It constitutes the most complete single-volume edition to date of the rich variety of Tolstoy’s philosophical output: apothegmatic sayings, visions, intimate sketchbook and day notes, book reviews, open letters, dialogues, pedagogic talks, public lectures, programs and rules for personal behavior, fictions, and reminiscences. Most of these newly translated and thoroughly annotated texts have never been available in English. Among the four reprinted translations personally checked and authorized by Tolstoy is the text titled “Tolstoy on Venezuela,” an archival restoration of an authentic first publication in English of “Patriotism, or Peace?” (1896) that had been deemed lost. In the inaugural piece, a seven-year-old Tolstoy describes violent but natural animal life in contrast with the lazy life of a peaceful barnyard in the countryside. The last entry in the anthology written by an eighty-year-old Tolstoy for his grandchildren provides a lesson on vegetarianism and non-violence that a hungry wolf teaches a hungry boy during their conversation when both are on their way to lunch.It was the insolvable, the “scandalous,” problems of philosophy that never gave Tolstoy any rest: freedom of the will, religious tolerance, gender inequality, the tonal shape of music, the value of healthy life habits, the responsibilities of teaching, forms of social protest, cognitive development, science in society, the relation between body and mind, charity and labor, human dignity and public service, sexual psychology, national war doctrines, suicide, individual sacrifice, the purposes of making art. And always: What are the sources of violence? Why should we engage in politics? Why do we need governments? How can one practice non-violence? What is the meaning of our irrepressible desire to seek and find meaning? Why can't we live without loving? The typeset proofs of his final insights were brought to Tolstoy for approval when he was already on his deathbed. The reader will find all the texts in the exact shape and order of completion as Tolstoy left them. No matter their brevity or the occasion on which they were written, these works exemplify Tolstoy as an artistically inventive and intellectually absorbing thinker.Trade Review“As a whole, both sections of this book provide readers the opportunity to explore the extraordinary flow of Tolstoy’s thinking, moving progressively from one theme to another. We can explore thereby the evolution of ideas and notions—from the writer’s childhood to the peak of his creative powers, until his death in 1910. This way, the philosophical side of Tolstoy’s personality is revealed. Indeed, an incredible and amazing journey into the world of literature and philosophy is offered by the editor of this book. … This anthology as a whole is a perfectly structured source, revealing the essence of Tolstoy’s philosophical ideas and aspirations. The book may be of great interest to connoisseurs of the literary heritage of this Russian writer, as well as for the more sophisticated readers well acquainted with Tolstoy’s biography, diaries, and notebooks. What is certain is that the novelty of the published material can enable further research on Tolstoy’s philosophical writings.”— Iuliia Kuznetsova, Studies in East European Thought“Discovering any untranslated work of Leo Tolstoy is akin to finding buried treasure. Inessa Medzhibovskaya in this lovely volume unearths a cache of short writings and burnishes them for the reader in English with excellent translations and expert commentary. The collection shows Tolstoy’s appreciation of life and quest for meaning from his earliest to his last writings. As a seven-year-old child in 1835 he noted observations about birds, and two years later wrote about patriotism—both essays are in the volume. The compendium concludes with a cycle of tales written for the relief of survivors of the Easter pogroms of 1903 in Kishinev, as well as the introduction to his final book, The Path of Life (1910). The writings, the introductory essay, and the notes make this an excellent companion volume for biographies of Tolstoy, but it also stands alone. The fluidity and clarity of translation will reward those who dip into sections as well as those who read straight through. Medzhibovskaya gives new insight into the life course and philosophical development of this marvelously perplexing man.”– Jeffrey Brooks, author of The Firebird and the Fox: Russian Culture under Tsars and Bolsheviks“A major contribution to Tolstoy studies. Medzhibovskaya’s research, based on decades of scholarship and archival work on Tolstoy, is impeccable. She places the writings into the broader contexts of his life and thoughts. Many of the works appear for the first time in English translation. Tolstoy scholars, general readers, and philosophy specialists will benefit from the breadth of the writings and from Medzhibovskaya’s erudition. She also highlights nuances of Tolstoy’s language. The reader can experience the joy of discovery from reading the many unknown writings on science; art; music; the meaning of life; justice; Tolstoy’s question about why a tree grows; his views on psychiatry; on how to prevent suicide. He talks about tolerance; love; happiness; morality; ethics; how to avoid the causes of war; politics; religion. The writings span Tolstoy’s life, from what he wrote as a young boy, to what he wrote, at 80, about vegetarianism, for his young grandchildren.”– Ellen Chances, Professor of Russian Literature, Princeton University“In this mix of Tolstoy’s short works on philosophical questions, his readers will find the unadulterated essence of the questions on life and on death that he novelizes in War and Peace and Anna Karenina and explores elsewhere in his writing. This anthology is a treasure trove for students, scholars, seekers, and all interested in Tolstoy’s thought and thought processes. Arranged chronologically, the volume shows that Tolstoy began his quest to understand the meaning of life as a boy and never gave up. As compiler, translator, and annotator, Inessa Medzhibovskaya has done a masterful job. She draws on her comprehensive understanding of all Tolstoy’s oeuvre and on her unparalleled familiarity with his philosophical works to make this anthology especially valuable.” – Liza Knapp, Professor of Slavic Languages, Columbia University“Those who read Tolstoy only in English – and many who read him in Russian – are used to thinking of him as first a writer and then, in old age, a political and religious thinker and a social activist. This unique volume includes writings, most of them translated for the first time, that together comprise a ‘biography’ of the development of his thought from childhood on. They range over many genres, from maxims to letters to fiction to memoirs to hybrid forms and much more. Meticulously translated almost entirely by editor Inessa Medzhibovskaya and, just as importantly, annotated and commented upon in great detail by her, they make available a new tool for English and Russian readers alike for understanding both him and his art.”– Donna Tussing Orwin, Professor, University of Toronto and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada“This book presents the truly philosophical material that has never been translated. The inspiring academic dedication of Inessa Medzhobovskaya and her hard and enduring work in the archives and libraries of the Leo Tolstoy Museums in Moscow and Yasnaya Polyana brilliantly resulted in this volume of Leo Tolstoy’s works, An Anthology, translated, edited and introduced by Prof. Medzhiboskaya. The volume, accompanied by Further Reading, Index of Names and Titles, Index of Terms, makes the edition immensely valuable not only for the academic readers but for the general public interested in Tolstoy’s work and life. My sincere congratulations to Inessa Medzhibovskaya on behalf of the Yasnaya Polyana researchers who know Prof. Medzhibovskaya as a dear friend and a recognized Tolstoy scholar.”– Galina Alekseeva, PhD, Academic Director, The Leo Tolstoy Museum-Estate at Yasnaya PolyanaTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsCreditsIllustrationsA Note on the TextEditor’s Introduction—"The Magic Mountain”: On the Textual Shape of Tolstoy’s PhilosophySection I. Fragments, Letters, Notes, Reflections, and TalksPart 1. Tolstoy’s Juvenilia (1835–50)1. Childhood Fancies [1835]2. Love of the Fatherland [Amour de la Patrie]3. A Fragment on the Past, the Present, and the Future [end of the 1830s/the early 1840s]4. Notes on the Second Chapter of the “Caractères” of La Bruyère [end of the 1830s/the early 1840s]5. Philosophical Observations on the Discourses of J. J. Rousseau [ca. 1847–52]6. A Fragment without a Title I [undated, 1840s]7. A Fragment without a Title II [undated, 1840s]8. On the Aim of Philosophy [undated, 1840s]9. A Fragment without a Title III [undated, ca. 1847]10. A Fragment on Criminal Law [1847]11. Three Fragments on Music [1848–50]Part 2: Writings of the 1850s12. Why People Write [1851]13. On Prayer [1852]14. A Note on Farming [1856]15. Letter to Count Bludov [1856]16. On Military Criminal Law [1856]17. A Note on The Nobility [1858]18. A Talk Delivered at the Society of Lovers of Russian Literature [1859]Part 3: Writings of the 1860s19. On Violence [late 1850s–early 1860s]20. On the Tasks of Pedagogy [1860]21. On the Character of Thinking in Youth and in Old Age [1862–63]22. On Religion [1865]23. A Speech in Defense of Soldier Vasilii Shibunin [1866]24. Progress [1868]25. On Marriage and On Woman’s Vocation [ca. September–December 1868]26. A Philosophical Fragment [1868]27. The Society of Independents [1868–69]Part 4: Writings of the 1870s28. On the Afterlife outside of Time and Space [1875]29. On the Soul and Its Life beyond the Life Known and Comprehensible to Us [1875]30. A Letter to N. N. Strakhov [November 30, 1875]31. On the Significance of Christian Religion [1875–76]32. A Conversation about Science [1875–76]33. The Definition of Religion-Faith [1875–76]34. The Psychology of Everyday [1875–76]35. A Christian Catechism [1877]36. Interlocutors [1877–78]Part 5: Writings of the 1880s37. The Kingdom of God [1879–86]38. What a Christian Should and Should Not Do [1879–86]39. To Whom Do We Belong? [1879–86]40. The Sermon on the Mount [1884]41. On Charity [1885]42. Preface to Tsvetnik [The Flower Garland] [1886]43. The Concept of Life [1887]Part 6: Writings of the 1890s44. On Science and Art [1889–91]45. Concerning the Freedom of the Will (from the unpublished work) [1894]46. A Letter to Alexander Macdonald about Resurrection [1895]*47. How Should the Gospel Be Read and Of What Does Its Essence Consist? [1896]48. Patriotism, or Peace? [1896]*49. Preface to Modern Science by Edward Carpenter [1897-98]*Part 7: Writings of the 1900s50. On Religious Tolerance [1901]51. On the Consciousness of the Spiritual [1903]52. Introduction to A Short Biography of Garrison [1903–04]*53. On the Social Movement in Russia [January 13, 1905]54. Discourses with Children on Moral Questions [1907]55. Introduction to the Collection, Selected Thoughts of La Bruyère [1907]56. Religion and Science [August 1908]57. Reminiscences about the Court-Martial of a Soldier [1908]58. A Variant of the Article “On Upbringing” [1909]59. A Letter to a Student Concerning Law [1909]60. On Signposts [O Vekhakh] [1909]61. Reminiscences about N. Ia. Grot [1910]62. On Insanity [1910]63. Introduction to The Path of Life [1910]Section II. FictionsPart 8: Exercises, Parables, Parodies, Satires, Tales, Vitae, and Visions64. Apprentice’s Writings [ca. 1839; but no later than 1840–41]65. A Tale about How Another Girl Named Varinka Grew Up Fast [1857–58]66. A DREAM [1857–58] 1st version67. A DREAM [1863] 2nd version68. An Anecdote about a Bashful Young Man [1868–69]69. A Fairy Tale [1873]70. The Vita and Martyrdom of Justin the Philosopher [1874–75]71. A Colloquy of Idlers [1887]72. Three Parables [1895]73. Two Different Versions of the History of the Beehive with a Lacquer-Painted Lid [1888/1900]74. Labor, Death, and Sickness [1903]75. Three Questions [1903]76. This Is You [1903]77. The Wolf [1908]NotesFurther Reading in EnglishIndex of Names and TitlesIndex of Terms

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Book SynopsisCrime and Punishment: A Reader’s Guide focuses on narrative strategy, psychology, and ideology. Martinsen demonstrates how Dostoevsky first plunges the reader into Raskolnikov’s fevered brain, creating sympathy for him, and she explains why most readers root for him to get away from the scene of the crime. Dostoevsky subsequently provides outsider perspectives on Raskolnikov’s thinking, effecting a conversion in reader sympathy. By examining the multiple justifications for murder Raskolnikov gives as he confesses to Sonya, Dostoevsky debunks rationality-based theories. Finally, the question of why Raskolnikov and others, including the reader, focus on the murder of the pawnbroker and forget the unintended murder of Lizaveta reveals a narrative strategy based on shame and guilt.Trade Review“In this extraordinary book, distinguished scholar Deborah Martinsen draws upon a lifetime of scholarship in Dostoevsky studies, narrative theory, and ethics, as well as decades of classroom teaching, to craft a riveting, efficient introduction to Dostoevsky’s great novel. Accessible, insightful, deceptively slight in size, A Reader’s Guide will offer something new to readers at all stages of their Dostoevsky journey: seasoned experts, teachers, students, and curious newcomers. … A great teacher and scholar lives on in the ideas [Martinsen] shares, the conversations she inspires, and the example she sets. From this book we learn fresh, bracing new ways of reading a text that we may have mistakenly thought that we fully understood. More importantly, we are inspired by this communication from an intellectual at the top of her game and by the guidance it offers as we seek to live ethical lives in our own thinking, writing and teaching.”— Carol Apollonio, Dostoevsky Studies (2022: Vol. 25)“Deborah Martinsen’s Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment: A Reader’s Guide is a slim but erudite volume for readers and teachers of the 1866 novel. Martinsen synthesizes here the wisdom and experience of decades reading, discussing, analyzing, and teaching the novel… Her insights on characterization, emotion, and the subconscious are carefully and thoughtfully embedded in her analysis of Crime and Punishment. Rather than allowing that analysis to provide all the answers, however, she focuses on the questions that it raises. This gives Dostoevsky’s reader, using the Guide, agency in their path through the text. … Martinsen, a brilliant editor and interlocutor who brought Dostoevsky scholars together in conversation, has brought these connections to bear throughout the Guide, in mentions of others’ work in the text, the work’s careful footnotes, her overview of contemporary scholarship, and, finally, its considered bibliography. Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment: A Reader’s Guide is a project Martinsen saw to completion during the final months of her life and it is truly a gift for all teachers and readers of Dostoevsky’s novel.”— Katherine Bowers, University of British Columbia, Russian Review (October 2022: Vol. 81, No. 4)“The complexity of Dostoevsky’s writing is… explored in a readable and rigorous manner in Deborah Martinsen’s Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment: A Reader’s Guide. Martinsen’s book follows the plot of Crime and Punishment, revealing the themes and issues explored, the multiple echoes throughout the novel and the various perspectives open to the characters. … Martinsen’s precise analysis deftly avoids any suggestion of a simplistic resolution to the novel’s complexity.”— Llewellyn Brown, Forum for Modern Language Studies“A posthumous release by one of this generation’s foremost experts on Fedor Dostoevskii, Dostoevsky’s ‘Crime and Punishment’: A Reader’s Guide by Deborah Martinsen is every bit as erudite as its author…Surprisingly, before this volume, there had been no comprehensive reader’s guide to Crime and Punishment, save for readings and analyses that appear as parts of larger works. An exquisite resource and teaching aid, every page of this guide is packed with detailed analysis, citing major research to date. It is written for general readers but also provides tips and suggestions for teaching the novel. The information presented is for the most part known to researchers, yet even the most seasoned reader of Dostoevskii will find the guide useful, whether as a refresher course or convenient reference tool.”— Lonny Harrison, Slavic ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Historical Introduction2. Overview3. Parts One and Two: Getting Away with Murder4. Parts Three to Five: In and Out of Raskolnikov’s Mind5. Part Six: Last Meetings and EpilogueAppendix 1: Illustrations and MapsAppendix 2: Crime and Punishment ChronologyAppendix 3: Contemporary Critical ReactionsAppendix 4: Chronology of Dostoevsky’s Life Bibliography

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Book SynopsisIt would not be an overstatement to say that Cemal Kafadar has transformed the field of Ottoman history. As a result of his pathbreaking books and articles, the field is experiencing a turn within itself as well as recasting its relationship with world history. This volume acts as a tribute to Kafadar and the important interdisciplinary work he has both done and inspired in the field. In line with the intellectual pluralism that Kafadar has cultivated over his career, readers will find a number of articles engaging with a wide range of questions, approaches, perspectives, and sources across Ottoman history. Kafadar's students and friends, individually or in pairs, researched and crafted contributions to this volume with a variety of conceptual premises, theoretical approaches, and interpretive tools to celebrate his thirty years of teaching, research, and mentorship, in addition to the overwhelming generosity of his intellectual and personal engagement.Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionRachel Goshgarian, Ilham Khuri-Makdisi, and Ali YaycioğluCemal Kafadar, A Çelebi for Our TimesAhmet Karamustafa Cemal Kafadar’s Teaching and Scholarship, 1981-2021Part One: Texts1. Narrating Ottoman Politics in the Fifteenth Century: Perspectives from Some Byzantine and Ottoman Histories.Aslihan Akişik-Karakullukçu and Dimitri Kastritsis 2. Nişancı Mehmed Paşa and His History of the Ottoman HouseHimmet Taşkömür and Hüseyin Yilmaz3. Book-Picking in a Conquered CitadelSerpil Bağci and Zeynep Yürekli4. A Sufi Mirror: Shaykh Alwan al-Hamawi’s (d. 1530) Advice for the Ottoman RulerTimothy J. Fitzgerald 5. La Jetée and the Illustrated Ottoman History: An Inquiry into Word, Image, and AudienceEmine Fetvaci6. How Did Evliya Çelebi Write His Travel Account?Hakan T. Karateke7. Book Ownership Across Centuries: The Case of Military Men in Bursa, 1620-1840Hülya Canbakal, Meredith Quinn, and Derin Terzioğlu8. Blending Piety and Philology: A Seventeenth-Century Mecmua as the Mirror of Istanbul’s Persianate Urban MilieuAslihan Gürbüzel and Ekin Tuşalp Atiyas9. An Uncanny Discourse on Sex and Marriage from the Early Sixteenth-Century Ottoman EmpireLeyla Kayhan Elbirlik and Selim S. Kuru Part Two: Lives10. Uç beys, Dervishes, and Yürüks: The Cultural Politics of the Turahanoğlu of ThessalyTheoharis Stavrides11. A Short Account of Long Entanglements: Şeyh Bedreddin, ‘Abdurrahman al-Bistami, and his Durrat taj al-rasa’ilCornell Fleischer12. A Tale of Two Boils: Selim I, Melek Aḥmed Pasha, and Changing Perceptions of Medical Practice and Masculinity in the Early Modern Ottoman EmpireH. Erdem Çipa and Jane Hathaway13. In the Balsam Orchard with Salih Çelebi Celalzade (d. 1565): First-Person Narrative and Knowledge in Ottoman EgyptAleksandar Shopov14. The Eunuch, a Complete Statesman: Functional Historiography in the face of Social and Political PrecarityJocelyne Dakhlia15. Reorientation in Worldviews: Milescu and Cantemirİsenbike Togan16. The Hamidian Visual Archive, 1878-1909: A User’s ManualAhmet Ersoy and Deniz Türker Part Three: Places17. Ottoman Montology: Hazardous Resourcefulness and Uneasy Symbiosis in a Mountain EmpireAli Yaycioğlu18. Ottoman Mountains: Mobility in a Forbidding EnvironmentMolly Greene19. A Code(x) of His Own: Deacon Mikayēl, Armeno-Turkish and Creative Conventions of “Collecting” in Seventeenth-Century KaffaRachel Goshgarian 20. On Self and Empire: A Seventeenth-Century First-Person Narrative from the Mughal DomainsMuzaffar Alam and Sanjay Subrahmanyam21. Cabinetmaking for the Sultan: Nineteenth-Century Istanbul in the Life Narratives of German-Speaking JourneymenRichard Wittmann22. Conjuring Emotions in Nineteenth-Century Istanbul through the Journalistic Writings of Ahmad Faris Al-Shidyaq (1805-1887) and Basiretçi Ali (1845?–1910)Ilham Khuri-Makdisi and Asli Niyazioğlu23. Reşat Ekrem Koçu and İstanbul Ansiklopedisi: Writing on PlaceShirine Hamadeh and Çiğdem KafesçioğluPart Four: Processes24. Early Modern Reflections on Bayezid II’s Reignİklil Selçuk and Cihan Yüksel 25. The Ottoman Fleet at the Battle of Mississippi: What Videogames Can Teach Us about HistoryGiancarlo Casale and Nicolas Trépanier26. Continuity and Change in the Ottoman Early Modern Era: An Analysis of Adet-i kadime and HâdisÖzer Ergenç27. Between Soldier and Civilian: Janissaries in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul and AleppoCharles Wilkins and Eunjeong Yi28. Confessionalization and Religious Nonconformity in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire: The Cases of Kizilbash/Alevi and the Sabbatean CommunitiesAyfer Karakaya-Stump and Cengiz Şişman29. De-ayanization: A Black Hole in Ottoman HistoryH. Şükrü Ilicak30. Bitter Triumph of “the Declined” Dynasty? Notions of Universal Monarchy, Caliphate, and World Religions in Comparisons between Sultan Abdulhamid and Emperor MeijiCemil AydinNotes on Contributors

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Book SynopsisThe construction of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe as an Anglo-American sage and literary icon was the product of a cult of personality that lay at the centre of nineteenth-century cultural politics. A reconstruction of the culture wars fought over Goethes authority, a previously hidden chapter in the intellectual history of the period ranging from the late eighteenth century to the threshold of Modernism, is the focus of this book. Marginal as well as canonical writers and critics figured prominently in this process, and this book offers insight into the mediation activities of Mary Wollstonecraft, Henry Crabb Robinson, the canonical Romantic poets, Thomas Carlyle, Margaret Fuller, George Eliot, Matthew Arnold, and others. For women writers and Jacobins, Scots, and Americans, translating Goethe served as an empowering cultural platform that challenges the myth of the self-sufficiency of British literature. Reviewing and translating German authors provided a means of gaining literary enfranchisement and offered a paradigm of literary development according to which 're-writers' become original writers through an apprenticeship of translation and reviewing. In the diverse and fascinating body of critical writing examined in this book, textual exegesis plays an unexpectedly minor role; in its place, a full-blown cult of personality emerges along with a blueprint for the ideology of hero-worship that is more fully mapped out in the cultural and political life of twentieth-century Europe.

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Book SynopsisIf language, if any language, lacks the words to express the experience of the concentration camps, how does one write the unspeakable? How can it then be translated?

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Book SynopsisThe first-ever overview on the topic illness and literature in the Dutch speaking literature from the Middle Ages until the 21th century

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Book SynopsisHow can literature engage readers and speak to matters of concern, inspire attachments, weave affiliations, or forge collectives? How can literature be useful to readers and in society and what are the dynamics between the actors involved? These are some of the questions that have been explored in the research project Uses of Literature The Social Dimensions of Literature, which took place at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU) from 2016 to 2021 under the guidance of Niels Bohr Professor Rita Felski. This journalistic report highlights the most important insights, discussions, and results that have emerged from the five years of collaborative research at SDU through interviews with more than twenty scholars. The research presented in this publication covers topics such as narrative medicine, new sociologies of literature, literary perspectives on love, gender and recognition, new approaches to teaching, as well as precarity and the social dimensions of literature. The report aims to open up the rich portfolio of research that has been conducted at SDU and make it available to other scholars as well as actors outside of academia, such as teachers, librarians, and readers. Both the report and the research project have been funded by the Danish National Research Foundation.

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Book SynopsisThis book is inspired by the author’s work as part of a major international and interdisciplinary research group at the University of Konstanz, Germany: “What If—On the Meaning, Relevance, and Epistemology of Counterfactual Claims and Thought Experiments.” Having contributed to great discoveries, such as those by Galileo and Einstein, thought experiments are especially topical in the twenty-first century, since this is a concept that bridges the gap between the arts and the sciences, promoting interdisciplinary innovation. To study thought experiments in literature, it is imperative to examine relevant texts closely: this has rarely been done to date and this is precisely what this book does as a pilot study focusing on selected works of philosophy and literature. Specifically, thought experiments by Thomas Malthus are analyzed side by side with short stories and novels by Vladimir Odoevsky and Nikolai Chernyshevsky, Alexander Bogdanov and Aleksei Tolstoy, Alexander Chaianov and Nina Berberova.Trade Review“While Grigorian carefully follows the narrative of each text, she discovers the connections between them, thanks to her consistent viewpoint. As she maintains, she successfully brings chronologically isolated utopian or dystopian dreams into a dialogue with each other, with Malthus and so on. … Finally, let me remark on the practical significance of this book. Grigorian argues that thought experiments investigated here will provide helpful insight into social and environmental problems in the post-2020 world. This global crisis has become much more serious after February 24, 2022. The cosmic scenarios concerning Malthusian theory provided by Russian writers will enable us to think about the world today from new perspectives.”— Yuki Fukui, Studies in East European Thought“Engagingly and clearly written, Visions of the Future represents an original approach to Russian utopian fiction and utopian fiction in general. This originality emerges primarily in the book's orientation to the strictly formal influence of counterfactual or hypothetical reasoning on the narrative strategies employed in utopian fiction, while its persuasive force lies in its careful account of well-chosen examples of this influence.”— Jeff Love, Research Professor of German and Russian, Clemson UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction Thomas Malthus, the Problem of Population, and Counterfactual Thought Experiments: A Concise Overview Thought Experiments in Vladimir Odoevsky’s Russian Nights (1844) Thomas Malthus and Nikolai Chernyshevsky: Struggle for Existence or Mutual Help? Utopian Dreams in What Is to Be Done? (1863) Revolution on Earth and Mars: Alexander Bogdanov’s Red Star (1908) and Aleksei Tolstoy’s Aelita (1923) A Peasant Utopia: Alexander Chaianov’s My Brother Aleksei’s Journey (1920) Overpopulation in Nina Berberova’s Short Story “In Memory of Schliemann” (1958), in the Context of Malthusian Theory ConclusionBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThis long awaited collection brings together in one volume the definitive essays on Anton Chekhov by renowned Chekhov scholar Robert Louis Jackson, including work that has never appeared in English as well as brand new essays published here for the first time. The volume offers a series of “slow” readings that yield insight after exquisite insight. They also model fruitful ways of discerning the rich complexity of Chekhov’s deceptively simple work. The volume’s introduction by Robin Feuer Miller captures beautifully what Jackson undertakes in his careful scrutiny of Chekhov’s text. The editor’s afterword by Cathy Popkin includes passages from the editorial correspondence in which Jackson reflects on his work and articulates his aspirations; the authorial voice thus resounds in the section Jackson expected to write himself. The editor also outlines the arguments and insights of Jackson’s remarkable unfinished essays. Finally, an appendix provides the full text of his virtually complete but still open-ended treatment of “On Official Business,” the story Jackson returned to repeatedly for decades, the previously unpublished culmination of his life’s work on Chekhov. Essays on Anton P. Chekhov: Close Readings is fully accessible to readers without knowledge of Russian while also providing complete documentation for scholars in the field.Trade Review“A virtuoso performance by the maestro of Russian literary criticism. This lovingly edited and produced volume, itself a conversation, tells the story of Professor Jackson’s lifelong engagement with the great short-story master. These close readings, many of which will be new even to scholars, focus in on the microscopic elements of a text—the sounds and roots of individual words—and lead from there along inexorable, but previously unnoticed paths to the big questions of justice and faith, good and evil, fate and conscience. Along the way, we realize that Chekhov, too, was in conversation with masters—with the Bible, with Dante, with writers of his time, most notably Dostoevsky, and with others who were to come after. These seemingly disparate essays themselves add up to a majestic, and yet uniquely accessible, body of work. Riches emerge when reader meets text, slows down, and gives it the attention it deserves. It turns out that to understand this, we needed a teacher.”— Carol Apollonio, Duke University“Over twenty years ago, Janet Malcolm assessed that Robert Louis Jackson's ‘writing and teaching on the religious subtext in Chekhov's stories have inspired a generation of younger critics.’ With this volume of exquisitely written, penetrating studies—many of which previously appeared in inaccessible venues or in languages other than English, and one that was not quite finished—Jackson's profound influence on the field will endure. In editing Jackson’s work and ushering it to publication, Cathy Popkin has repaid that younger generation's debt, to the benefit of us all.”— Michael Finke, Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignTable of ContentsIntroduction Robin Feuer Miller Editor’s NoteCathy Popkin On Chekhov’s ArtChekhov’s Seagull: The Empty Well, the Dry Lake, and the Cold Cave“If I Forget Thee, O Jerusalem”: An Essay on Chekhov’s “Rothschild’s Fiddle”Dostoevsky in Chekhov’s Garden of Eden: “Because of Little Apples”“The Betrothed”: Chekhov’s Last TestamentChekhov and Proust: A Posing of the Problem“The Steppe”: Space and the Journey. A Metaphor for All Times“The Enemies”: A Story at War with ItselfChekhov’s “The Student”The Ethics of Vision: The Punishment of the Tramp Prokhorov in The Island of SakhalinDantesque and Dostoevskian Elements in Chekhov’s “In Exile”Biblical and Literary Allusions in Chekhov’s “Gusev”Russian Man at the Rendezvous: The Narrator in Chekhov’s “A Little Joke”“Small Fry”: A Nice Little Easter StoryChekhov’s “Rothschild’s Fiddle”: “By the Waters of Babylon” in Eastern Orthodox LiturgyThree Deaths: A Boy, A Goose, and an InfantA Fragment from the Aggregate: Sinai and Sakhalin in Chekhov’s Letters to Suvorin“Grief”: Once Again about the Ending of the StoryDogs: Text and Subtext in “Lady with a Pet Dog”Matthew Arnold’s “Dover Beach” and Gurov’s Oreanda Meditations in Chekhov’s “Lady with a Pet Dog” Afterword Cathy Popkin Appendix: Robert Louis Jackson on “Po delam sluzhby” [“On Official Business”]Index

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Book Synopsis“A Mind Purified by Suffering": Evgenia Ginzburg’s "Whirlwind" Memoirs represents the first book on one of Russia’s most important classics of Gulag literature. Ginzburg’s memoirs of her eighteen-year ordeal through Stalinist concentration camps, Journey into the Whirlwind and Within the Whirlwind, place her in the company of Russian writers, such as Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Varlam Shalamov. The contributors address Ginzburg’s Gulag experience through various vantage points, covering such topics as: memory, trauma, motherhood, love, survival strategies, and metafictional structures. The volume also provides a history of prison camp writings, capped with her biography, analysis of her correspondence with her son, Vasily Aksenov, and an interview with him. Trade Review“This collection is an essential contribution to the literature on Evgenia Ginzburg, Krutoi marshrut, and the Soviet Gulag. These chapters offer a fresh look at a classic text, seeking to deepen and broaden our understanding of one of the most influential works in the Gulag literary canon. The collection reminds us of Ginzburg’s importance while offering new and productive ways to understand the richness of her work, relationships, and legacies.”— Alan Barenberg, Texas Tech University, author of Gulag Town, Company Town: Forced Labor and its Legacy in Vorkuta and co-editor of Rethinking the Gulag: Identities, Sources, Legacies“A timely multi-faceted collection of intra- and interdisciplinary research papers on the memoirs of the Gulag veteran Evgenia Ginzburg. Placing Ginzburg’s narrative in a number of contexts, tracing the author’s emotional and ideological arc, and offering unexpected insights, this volume fills in a gap in the scholarship and provides a basis and a stimulus for further academic conversation about one of the most impressive and influential accounts of life under Stalinist terror.” — Leona Toker, author of Return from the Archipelago: Narratives of Gulag Survivors and of Gulag Literature of Nazi Camps: An Intercontextual Reading“Justifiably introduced by Barbara Heldt as comparable to Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, Evgenia Ginzburg’s landmark memoir of eighteen years in the Soviet Gulag system, Journey into the Whirlwind, has influenced generations of Gulag eyewitnesses as well as scholarship on Gulag writing, Soviet political repression, and the gendering of writing about repression. In this collection, Olga Cooke has brought together an impressive variety of approaches to Ginzburg’s and others’ writing by recognized scholars of Ginzburg’s work that will be required reading for future scholarship in the field. This thoroughly documented and elegantly edited volume serves the needs of both researcher and teacher, a welcome (and long-overdue) addition to our libraries.”— Diane Nemec Ignashev, Class of 1941 Professor of Russian & the Liberal Arts, Carleton College (Northfield, MN)Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsForewordBarbara HeldtIntroductionOlga M. CookeContributors1. A Cruel Journey of the Soul: the Initiation of Evgenia Ginzburg Dariusz Tołczyk2. Mimetic Resistance in Evgenia’s Ginzburg’s Krutoi marshrutNatasha Kolchevska 3. A Communist Woman in the Gulag: Gender, Ideology and Limit-Experience in Ginzburg and BudzyńskaAnna Artwińska4. My Son, My Self: Reevaluating a Culture of VulnerabilityKathryn Duda5. Vasily Aksenov and Evgenia Ginzburg in Magadan: Re-Conceiving Soviet Authorship through the Gulag ExperienceAnn Komaromi 6. The Survival of the Sublime in a Universe of Malice: Testimonies by Evgenia Ginzburg and Other Gulag WritersRimma Volynska7. “Up to Their Old Tricks Again? Taking Mothers from Their Children?” Evgenia Ginzburg as a Mother in the Stalinist Gulag Elaine MacKinnon8. Ethics, Play, and Poetry in the Interval: Evgenia Ginzburg’s Struggle to Survive in the WhirlwindOana Popescu-Sandu9. A Winter Coat for Vasya: The Evgenia Ginzburg-Vasily Aksenov Correspondence (1948–1976)Rimma Volynska 10. Evgenia Ginzburg at the End of Krutoi marshrutLev Kopelev and Raisa Orlova11. Interview with Vasily AksenovRimma Volynska and Olga M. CookeIndex

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Book SynopsisThis collection of essays covers a hundred-year history of Russian-language literature in Israel, including the pre-state period. Some of the studies are devoted to an overview of the literary process and the activities of its participants, others—to individual genres and movements. As a result, a complex and multifaceted picture emerges of a not quite fully defined, but very lively and dynamic community that develops in the most difficult conditions. The contributors trace the paths of Russian-Israeli prose, poetry and drama, various waves of avant-garde, fantasy, and critical thought. Today, in Russian-Israeli literature, the voices of writers of various generations and waves of repatriation are intertwined: from the "seventies" to the "war aliyah" of the recent times. Both the Russian-Israeli authors and their critics often hold different opinions of their respective roles in Israel’s historical and literary storms. While disagreeing on the definition of their place on the map of modern culture, Russian-Israeli writers are united by a shared bond with the fate of the Jewish state.Trade Review“While this book features many different authors and diverse objects of investigation, it also creates a panoramic view of Russian-Israeli literature—both in style and in chronology. The book should be of great interest to scholars and general readers alike. The very notion of ‘Russian-Israeli literature’ (similarly to the notion of ‘Russian-American literature’) will doubtless illicit questions. Some readers might even ask: And where does the writer belong if she or he has two addresses, sometimes even simultaneously, in two different countries? In what category should we place translations into the Russian language? What is the principal difference between Russian-Israeli literature and, say, Yiddish-Israeli or Polish-Israeli literatures? In other words, this book not only offers a great deal of new materials but also invites us to think of the directions of further research.”—Gennady Estraikh, Professor, New York University, author of Transatlantic Russian Jewishness“Studies in the History of Russian-Israeli Literature is a unique and peerless project. Despite the fragmentary nature of the genre stated in the title, this collection captures many aspects of the previously unexplored, multibranched phenomenon of Russian-Israeli literature. The chronological span renders this collection particularly ponderous as it allows the reader to conceptualize Russian-Israeli literature as one of the most original, historically varied ‘hyphenated’ literatures with its own fairly rather rich traditions. The book brings together some of today’s leading researchers from a number of countries, thus reflecting a diversity of viewpoints, epistemological contexts and theoretical approaches; such diversity has never before been seen in any works on this subject. And this motley gathering of authors constitutes not a shortcoming but rather one of the collection’s great merits for it betokens the very complex nature Russian-Israeli literature, having come about at the intersection of various geographical and cultural identities and styles, which evolved and changed over the course of the waves of aliyah, political regimes, and many other circumstances. I urge you to read this book. It will be of great interest to all those interested not only in Israeli and Russian, but also the multilingual and multifaceted Jewish culture of different epoch.”—Klavdia Smola, Professor, University of Dresden, author of Inventing the Tradition: Contemporary Russian-Jewish Literature“Russian-Israeli literature is, perhaps, the most fascinating of all the literatures to have been created and still being created in the Russian language outside the boundaries of the Russian Empire, the USSR and the post-Soviet spaces. While the title of this book contains the modest term ‘studies,’ the book in fact carries out a tremendously complex task: to conceptualize the corpus of Russian-Israeli literature by concentrating the work along two principal axes, historical-cultural and generic. Additionally challenges faced by the book’s editors and contributors had to do with the fact that a significant part of Russian-Israeli literature resists cross-cultural translation into any of the dominant languages of contemporary culture. Much of what has been created by Russian-Israeli writers could be translated as ‘thoughtcrime.’ The project of delineating the historical contours of Russian-Israeli literature and to understand its provenance and development lies at the very heart of this remarkable book.”—Dennis Sobolev, Professor, University of Haifa, author of The Split World of Gerard Manley Hopkins Table of ContentsFrom the EditorsRussian-Language Literature in Eretz Israel (Basic Outlines and Authors)Vladimir KhazanJulius Margolin and His TimesLuba JurgensonIsraeli-Soviet Literary Ties in the 1950s–1980s: from Translations to Aliyah LibraryMarat GrinbergLeaving Russia: Russian-Israeli Literature of the 1970s–1980sAleksei SurinPaths of Russian Avant-Garde Poetry in IsraelMaxim D. ShrayerProse of the Aliyah of the 1990s–2000sRoman KatsmanRussian-Israeli Prose in the Second Decade of the Twenty-First CenturyElena PromyshlianskaiaGenres of Israeli-Russian Fantastic FictionElena RimonThe Phenomenon of Russian-Israeli Dramaturgy of the 1970s–2020sZlata ZaretskyFrom the History of Russian Israeli Literary Criticism (On One Method of Delineating Literary Contacts between Russia and Israel) Leonid KatsisAbout the ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisMICHAEL ALEXANDER is Emeritus Professor of English Literature, University of St Andrews, UK. He is a poet and translator and has international experience of teaching English literature, both medieval and modern.Trade ReviewPraise for the third edition: 'Michael Alexander is a writer of rare skill: he is learned, as befits a former professor of English literature, and yet he is able to write about reading in a way that is accessible and pleasurable but never lightweight. Above all, he is an astute guide through the classical landscape of English writing...' - Alexander Lucie-Smith, The Tablet 'A reliable and readable guide for all students of literature. The new final chapter manoeuvres its way skilfully through the treacherous waters of contemporary writing, retaining that distinctive individual voice which makes the whole book so worthwhile.' - David Newell, Glasgow University, UK 'Lucid, learned, judicious and informative.' - Stephen Arata, University of Virginia, USA 'An intelligent and comprehensive guide. Michael Alexander has certainly accomplished a mammoth task in providing a summary of a vast literary landscape in the new final chapter.' - Sara Thorne, author of Mastering Poetry 'Alexander's book is still by far the best of its kind available on the market. The new final chapter is clear and superbly written.' - Jorge Luis Bueno Alonso, University of Vigo, Spain 'An excellent reference book on the history of English literature from the earliest times to the present.' - Jeo-Yong Noh, Yeungnam University, Korea 'Hugely enjoyable and stimulating, not least in its nicely modulated value judgments!' - Till Kinzel, Technische Universitat Berlin, Germany Praise for previous editions: 'If I had my way, every student of English would be supplied with a copy of this book.' - Gary Day, The Times Higher Education Supplement 'A text that will and should endure for many generations...an indispensable guide for any Literature student who wishes to have a complete and logical understanding of the traditional canon.' - WordPlay, Council for College and University English 'An ideal starting point for any English student who is serious about the subject. It manages to provide a comprehensive overview of English literary history in an accessible, practical format. Moreover it is genuinely entertaining - Alexander's style is pithy, pungent and personal...The reader is constantly reminded that this is a history, not the history, of English literature, and the writer's own strong opinions encourage the reader to discover his or her own views and preferences...I strongly recommend it to all students of English literature, and to their teachers.' - Sarah Annes Brown, Anglia Ruskin University, UK 'To write a linear history of a great literature is a difficult task, verging on the impossible these days. Professor Alexander has brought off a remarkable feat. His history is comprehensive, clear, judicious and sometimes punchy. This is an account of English writing which can be of great use to the student, the fact-hound, the teacher or the general reader. Above all, it is a triumph of reason and judgement, never cranky, nor exclusive. I shall recommend it widely.' - Chris Wallace-Crabbe, University of Melbourne, Australia 'The book is a miracle of compression...To maintain the same qualities of wit, crispness and sharp but essentially generous judgement...in a book which is something very much more than a 'survey' of the whole field of English Literature is an extraordinary achievement.' - John Rathmell, Cambridge University, UK '...eminently fit to excite the critical consciousness of the student.' - Philip Smallwood, Essays in Criticism '...a fantastic mine of information in which writers are seen within their chronological and literary context. Although, inevitably, there is no room for detailed analysis within such a wide-ranging book, the content provides an effective starting point for readers whatever their literary intentions.' - Sara Thorne, author of Mastering Poetry 'A succinct, comprehensive and readable chronological account...[Alexander] threads the history and literature together with authority and occasional wit.' - Jim Sweetman, The Professional Journal of the National Association for the Teaching of English 'I got a clear sense of the methodological overview, sensitively presented. It seems to be a book that could be both read as a whole and used selectively ... it will be useful for foundation course students, undergraduates, both majoring in English and otherwise, and also to A-level students.' - Ian McMechan, Hampton School, Middlesex, UK 'The book is a fine achievement, and sixth-formers and undergraduates should be encouraged to have their own copies.' - Martin Dodsworth, English Association Newsletter 'For students of A-level English literature, a wide contextualising book of this kind is not just a good read: it is essential reading.' - Bernard O'Donoghue, The English Review 'I would go so far as to say that every literature student should buy this book.' - David McLaurin, The New TabletTable of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Timelines Acknowledgements Preface Preface to Second Edition Preface to Third Edition Abbreviations Introduction PART I: MEDIEVAL Old English Literature: to 1100 Middle English Literature 1066-1500 PART II: TUDOR AND STUART Tudor Literature: 1500-1603 Shakespeare and the Drama Stuart Literature: to 1700 PART III: AUGUSTAN AND ROMANTIC Augustan Literature: to 1790 The Romantics: 1790-1837 PART IV: VICTORIAN LITERATURE TO 1880 The Age and its Sages Poetry Fiction Late Victorian Literature: 1880-1900 PART V: THE TWENTIETH CENTURY AND BEYOND Ends and Beginnings: 1901-19 From Post-War to Post-War: 1920-55 New Beginnings: 1955-80 Contemporaries Further Reading Index.

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Book SynopsisThis volume maps the historically resonant intersections between Jewishness and queerness, between homophobia and anti-Semitism, and between queer theory and theorizations of Jewishness. It explores the modern Jewish and homosexual identities which emerged as traces of each.Trade ReviewThe publication of Queer Theory and the Jewish Question is reason to get excited... [it] juggles theoretical concerns with popular culture and never condescends. But more than that, the book makes reading serious essays about homosexuality fun again. And that's saying a lot. The Guide This skilled collection does more than track the career of the queer-Jewish analogy from Spanish crypto-Jews to Israel drag queens... It's a vital, long-awaited book. -- Marissa Pareles Lambda Book Report This scholarly and well-documented volume is a strong addition to any academic or research collection focusing on the Jewish identity, homosexual identity, and particularly the relation between the two. American Jewish Libraries Newsletter Other than Boyarin'sUnheroic Conduct: The Rise of Heterosexuality and the Invention of the Jewish Man, this appears to be the first book to explore the inventions of the homosexual and the modern Jew. Seventeen insightful essays show how those inventions are mutually implicated... Highly recommended. Choice cultural analysis that offers scholars of both queer theory and Jewish studies fresh avenues for thought and research -- Michael G. Cornelius The Bloomsbury Review It is one of those rare academic works that is difficult, if not impossible, to put down. -- Melissa M. Wilcox, Whitman College Nova Religio Addresses in thoughtful and engaging ways the intersection of Jewishness and the queer in a range of cultural texts. -- David Moscowitz An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish StudiesTable of ContentsStrange Bedfellows: An Introduction, by Daniel Boyarin, Daniel Itzkovitz, and Ann Pellegrini From Vested Interests, by Marjorie Garber From Epistemology of the Closet, by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Queers Are Like Jews, Aren't They? Analogy and Alliance Politics, by Janet R. Jakobsen Freud, Bluher, and the Secessio Inversa: Mannerbunde, Homosexuality, and Freud's Theory of Cultural Formation, by Jay Geller Jew Boys, Queer Boys: Rhetorics of Antisemitism and Homophobia in the Trial of Nathan "Babe" Leopold Jr. and Richard "Dickie" Loeb, by Paul B. Franklin Viva la Diva Citizenship: Post-Zionism and Gay Rights, by Alisa Solomon Homophobia and the Postcoloniality of the "Jewish Science', by Daniel Boyarin Messianism, Machismo, and "Marranism": The Case of Abraham Miguel Cardoso, by Bruce Rosenstock The Ghost of Queer Loves Past: Ansky's "Dybbuk" and the Sexual Transformation of Ashkenaz, by Naomi Seidman Barbra's "Funny Girl" Body, by Stacy Wolf Tragedy and Trash: Yiddish Theater and Queer Theater, Henry James, Charles Ludlam, Ethyl Eichelberger, by Michael Moon You Go, Figure; or, The Rape of a Trope in the "Prioress's Tale', by Jacob Press Dickens's Queer "Jew" and Anglo-Christian Identity Politics: The Contradictions of Victorian Family Values, by David A. H. Hirsch Coming Out of the Jewish Closet with Marcel Proust, by Jonathan Freedman Queer Margins: Cocteau, La Belle et la bete, and the Jewish Difference, by Daniel Fischlin Reflections on Germany, by Judith Butler

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Book SynopsisExtraordinary Bodies is a cornerstone text of disability studies, establishing the field upon its publication in 1997. Framing disability as a minority discourse rather than a medical one, the book added depth to oppressive narratives and revealed novel, liberatory ones.Trade ReviewExtraordinary Bodies addresses a subject of great significance and topicality with originality and sophistication; it is, or should become, a seminal work in the emerging field of disability studies. -- G. Thomas Couser MELUS [Thomson] digs deep and offers profound insights into the interrelationships among the theories, practices, and dominant ideologies of a particular historical period as they have had an impact on the position of disabled people. -- Simi Linton SIGNS: JOURNAL OF WOMEN IN CULTURE & SOCIETY Fascinating and theoretically rich... Extraordinary Bodies will... be viewed as one of [disability studies'] foundational texts. -- Anthony Hutchison Journal of American Studies With this important work, Thomson not only redefines disability studies, but also makes a contribution to feminist, poststructuralist, and race theory and provides fresh rereadings of both canonical and non-canonical literary texts. -- Joyce Huff COLLEGE LITERATURE [A]n adventurous, sensible, passionate book that invites readers to rethink the ground-breaking work of theorists who have shaped academic discourse on marginality and the female body. -- Catherine J. Kudlick Journal of Social HistoryTable of ContentsPreface to the Twentieth Anniversary Edition Preface and Acknowledgments I. Politicizing Bodily Differences 1. Disability, Identity, and Representation: An Introduction 2. Theorizing Disability II. Constructing Disabled Figures: Cultural and Literary Sites 3. The Cultural Work of American Freak Shows, 1835-1940 4. Benevolent Maternalism and the Disabled Women in Stowe, Davis, and Phelps 5. Disabled Women as Powerful Women in Petry, Morrison, and Lorde Conclusion: From Pathology to Identity Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTo Write as if Already Dead circles around Kate Zambreno’s failed attempts to write a study of Hervé Guibert’s To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life. Zambreno, who has been pushing the boundaries of literary form for a decade, investigates Guibert’s methods by adopting them, offering a keen sense of the energy and confessional force of his work.Trade ReviewA Books of the Year 2021 selection * The White Review *Kate Zambreno has invented a new form. It is a kind of absolute present, real life captured in closeup. -- Annie ErnauxThis book is a tour de force. I was completely awestruck by the way Zambreno enacts the concept of the title, and by the way she writes the body, hers and Guibert’s. It is a moving performative act, a document of our time from the trenches, and a brilliant critical study. -- Moyra Davey, author of Index Cards: Selected EssaysThe transgressive novelist and first significant memoirist of life with AIDS, Hervé Guibert was, by the time he died, expert at turning a book into a timebomb and vice versa. Thirty years later, against a backdrop of inequities exposed by the coronavirus public health crisis and amid her own ticking biology and professional precarity, Kate Zambreno considers the composite of guile and candor and care and betrayal that is high-stakes life-writing, itself perhaps a “virus that ‘preys on the human propensity to connect.’” The result is Zambreno’s most urgent and charged work since Heroines. -- Brian Blanchfield, author of Proxies: Essays Near KnowingKate Zambreno’s To Write As If Already Dead is portrait and self-portrait. It's a book about friendship, or friendships—famous, fictional, friends we’ve had and lost. More than this, it’s about what it means to feel kinship with a particular book and writer, and so it's really about reading, that intimacy and solitude. Here, as ever, Zambreno proves herself a brilliantly generous and ambitious reader, one capable of engaging a text so acutely that the line between self and art blurs. To Write As If Already Dead is gossipy and smart, angry and agile, doubling and doubled—and a serious pleasure to read. -- Danielle Dutton, author of Margaret the FirstKate Zambreno stylizes a thrilling form of reading as writing and writing as reading, one that speaks to the overlapping crises of our contemporary moment in tones compelling, honest, and withering in all the right ways. No one thinks better and more carefully about the embodied practice of writing. She is the only person who could have written this book. -- Amy Hollywood, author of Acute Melancholia and Other EssaysIn Kate Zambreno's To Write As If Already Dead, Hervé Guibert's voice is restored to the present through an act of transportation that left me slightly afraid of Zambreno's power. But then that's why you read her, and him: for a new awe of life. -- Andrew Durbin, author of SkylandIn this clever hybrid work, Zambreno interrogates her fascination with French writer and photographer Hervé Guibert . . . A cascading meditation on what makes writing possible and necessary. * Publishers Weekly *A fascinating, ambitious, unforgettable work. * Literary Hub *To Write As If Already Dead just might be the first truly great book about the coronavirus pandemic -- Rhian Sasseen * Paris Review Daily Staff Picks *Kate Zambreno’s latest book, To Write as if Already Dead, is a study of Guibert’s uncompromising novel. Galvanized by much the same 'survival energy,' the conversation vibrates with eerie coincidence: two writers amid the chaos of a pandemic, working against erasure. -- Jessica Ferri * Los Angeles Times *[Zambreno] has some of [Guibert's] acidity, his charisma, his meditativeness, his improvisational grace. She has, too, his comfort with slipperiness, both in terms of subjectivity—is Guibert the "I" of his novels?—and of form . . . Despite its elliptical style, Zambreno’s book cultivates patience, a digressive but ruminative mode that goes beyond close reading of Guibert toward an actual embodiment of his voice. -- Jeremy Lybarger * 4Columns *There’s no one like Kate Zambreno at finding connections in the art she’s consumed and making the reader feel like they too are a brilliant critical theorist. -- Maris KreizmanTo Write As If Already Dead is a book that questions the point of writing, and proves the point that we need writers to explain what the hell is going on inside and outside of them, how these things impact each other, all the jagged edges of being alive and dedicated to thinking about what that means. There’s also the honesty of pettiness that exists in all creative worlds, the points of comparison that are fair and unfair, that gives the text the hiss of gossip that provides instant intimacy. Reading all Zambreno feels like the jolt one gets from a surprise cut or burn in the kitchen, that sudden recognition that you’re in a body and the body can be hurt. -- Alicia Kennedy * Refinery29 *Zambreno attempts to write a study of Hervé Guibert’s To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life, attacking it from two very different, very revealing angles. -- Emily Temple * Lit Hub's Astrology Book Club List *In her formally ambitious and genre blurring new book, Guggenheim Fellow Zambreno writes about trying (and failing) to write a critical study of Hervé Guibert’s To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life—as well as ruminating on themes like friendship, morality, literature, time, and memory. * The Millions' Most Anticipated *To Write As If Already Dead is highly attuned to the pleasures and possibilities of writing. [Zambreno] builds off Guibert to hint that while writing can take the form of companionship and solitude it can also be both and neither. Writing, she suggests, can offer privacy as well as communion. It can both mark the passage of time and obfuscate its progress. Writing can be a sketch, a failure, a confession, an expression and a negation of the self. Writing can come from the body, writing can replicate the texture of thought. Writing can be walking, a way of seeing, a physical space in itself. And for Zambreno as well as Guibert, writing can also serve as a missive of urgency. -- Julia Bosson * BOMB Magazine *[Zambreno’s work] is exploratory, experimental, and meandering; it has episodic qualities and repetitions that invoke dailiness. It exists in community, incorporating the words and ideas of friends. It engages with books and authors and artists. It’s deeply intellectual and deeply personal . . . This is a book that circles around its own subjects and is about the very act of circling. It’s a whirling, unsettled book that inspires whirling, unsettled thoughts. -- Rebecca Hussey * Reading Indie *It’s a bit of a flex to publish a book as a parent of young children that takes as its central concern the difficulty of writing a book while parenting young children, but Zambreno’s approach is not just a flex, it’s a quiet revolution. By approaching the experience of motherhood with the same seriousness and rigor applied to Guibert and his narrative of friendship and ego and human suffering, To Write as if Already Dead becomes proof that sometimes the only solution to that problem turned over and over in so many motherhood/art books is to collapse the boundaries between what we think of as ‘work’ and what we consider to be ‘life.’ -- Sara Fredman * Electric Literature *[To Write's] expansion of narrative scope marks a fascinating shift in Zambreno’s corpus toward externality and a kind of communalism. Her writing has always been deeply interior, using personal (or authorial) experience to explore the past, whether on the madwomen of modernism or French New Wave cinema. What sets To Write apart from her past work might be the urgency with which it is rendered, knitting Guibert’s plague years into our immediate and actionable present. -- Jaime Hood * The Nation *Zambreno is a natural fit for this series, and Guibert a natural choice for her . . . she sees many resemblances between herself and her subject: the fretting about time, the shape of one’s book and one’s life, the body as focus, especially when subjected to medicalization. The real re-reading, though, comes with the absorption of this criticism/appreciation within the limits and chaos and dynamics of Zambreno’s own life. The physical and mental shocks of motherhood, deadlines and commitments, creative blocks – these are in fact the foundation, necessarily unstable, of Zambreno’s encounter with Guibert, and, inevitably, of our encounter with Zambreno. -- Hal Jensen * Times Literary Supplement *Given its fragmented structure, intertextuality, quotations from and reflections on correspondences, and inclusion of the narrative of a pregnancy, the book feels like a companion to Drifts—another ‘library of the mind,’ this one encompassing texts on reading, writing, authorship, friendship, betrayal, the body, birth, and death. -- Rachael Nevins * Ploughshares *Zambreno writes with breathtaking clarity while untangling refreshing, sometimes daunting, concepts. * The Longest Chapter *In [To Write], the first-person “I” appears uncomfortable, fractured, ghostly, footnote-like — not “I” as in Kate Zambreno, the published writer, but “I” as in a glazed persona, hovering more comfortably as fiction than as an endlessly verifiable biographical self. Here too, Zambreno and Guibert share similarities. As in the index, the paragraph, the appendix, the self is an illusionary fragment, a mode operating out of bodies in proximity to their deaths and disappearances, a formal condition revealing its most thrilling truths in the guise of fiction. -- Sharanya M. * Full Stop *To Write As If Already Dead is a wunderkammer of ghosts, friendships, and ailments that engages the discourse around fictional appropriation by formally inhabiting the dialogic relationships that arise when writers read other writers… and discover themselves in the text . . . It’s a harrowing pleasure to read Zambreno. -- Alina Stefanescu * On the Seawall *This book absorbed me so deeply I left part of myself inside it. -- Sofia Samatar * The White Review's Books of the Year *[To Write as if Already Dead] assert[s] a model of writing that is constantly aware of the body. Art criticism that pauses to breastfeed. -- Nikki Shaner-Bradford * Astra Magazine *Not content to simply describe Guibert’s work, but instead digesting and inhabiting his methods to produce a discontinuous account of her own experience, Zambreno’s approach is a far cry from the neat comparisons of historical epidemics popular in mainstream media . . . To Write as if Already Dead, in its deep entanglement with its subject, expands the possibilities of adjacency and provides a powerful model for how we might recognize shared aims without collapsing differences. -- Emma Cohen * Cleveland Review of Books *To Write As If Already Dead unfurls with a blazing urgency that intimates the precise conditions of its production. In so doing, it offers a series of revelatory meditations on Guibert’s novel that simultaneously draws the reader into Guibert’s project of writing against time—and Zambreno’s own. -- Sarah Chihaya * American Literary History *Zambreno examines what it means to write and to attempt to live a life of the mind in the midst of life's complexities. Wonderful, thought-provoking, and unexpected. -- Michelle Richmond * The Caffeinated Writer *Table of ContentsPart I. DisappearancePart II. To Write as if Already DeadAcknowledgmentsNotes

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Book SynopsisThe Story of the Stone is widely held to be the greatest work of Chinese literature. This book is a straightforward guide to a complex classic. Each chapter of the companion summarizes and comments on each chapter of the novel, providing English-speaking readers with the cultural context to enjoy the story and understand its world.Trade ReviewReaders of Cao's novel will find the commentary invaluable because it allows them to join in the epic sweep of the Jia family as it navigates Chinese society in the 18th century. Highly recommended. -- C. M. Smith * Choice Reviews *Brave readers embarking on The Story of the Stone—China’s grandest, most complex, and most inspiring work of literature—will be greatly assisted by this welcome guide, both for its admirably succinct summary of the novel’s plot and for its thought-provoking commentary, by lifelong Stone aficionados Susan Chan Egan and Kenneth Pai Hsien-yung. -- John Minford, translator of The Story of the Stone, or The Dream of the Red Chamber, volumes 4 and 5A Companion to The Story of the Stone ushers us into a world in which mythical fantasies engender realist indulgences and passionate romances induce philosophical awakenings. Historian Susan Egan Chan and writer Pai Hsien-yung have formed a dream team in producing a most succinct guidebook for anyone interested in a journey into classic China at its most mesmerizing. -- David Der-wei Wang, author of The Lyrical in Epic Time: Modern Chinese Intellectuals and Artists Through the 1949 CrisisApproachable and authoritative, Egan and Pai’s Companion will be welcomed by novices and connoisseurs alike. Far more than just a guide to plot and characters, the book offers a wealth of information on eighteenth-century Chinese society—everything from politics, history, and religion to medicine, sexuality, and theater—that greatly enriches any encounter with The Story of the Stone. -- Mark Elliott, author of Emperor Qianlong: Son of Heaven, Man of the WorldWith chapter-by-chapter summaries and commentary, this book offers a useful and most needed English guide to The Story of the Stone, a mid-eighteenth century masterpiece that arguably remains the greatest novel ever produced in China. -- Wei Shang, author of Rulin Waishi and Cultural Transformation in Late Imperial ChinaA Companion to The Story of the Stone is a field guide to support every reader, not just the uninitiated, through this long and fearsomely complex book. This guide is as necessary as Blamires’s The Bloomsday Book or Puette’s Guide to the Tale of Genji to bring China’s greatest novel into the mainstream of world literature. -- Dore J. Levy, author of Ideal and Actual in "The Story of the Stone"[A] Companion to the Story of the Stone, with its infectious enthusiasm for the story and its characters, is a welcome corrective for those of us who sometimes lose the forest for the trees. It is written for readers with no prior knowledge of Chinese culture or language, but even literary scholars and seasoned readers of Stone will find in it all kinds of interesting insights. -- Andrew Schonebaum * Journal of the American Oriental Society *The explanations of the material and social culture of premodern China and the slow and gentle pace with which Egan and Pai introduce literary and philosophical themes make Companion ideal for general readers who want to take on the project of reading The Story of the Stone in its entirety. * Nan Nu *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionKey to Recurring Characters1. The Origin of the Stone and the Vicissitudes of Life2. The Jia Family’s Fortune Coldly Appraised by an Antique Dealer3. Dai-yu’s Arrival at the Jia Household4. A Manslaughter Cover-Up and the Xue Family’s Arrival5. The Girls’ Destinies Revealed to a Bewildered Bao-yu6. Bao-yu’s First Sexual Experience; Grannie Liu’s First Visit to the Jias7. The Perspectives of Two Old Servants; Bao-yu Is Smitten by a Bashful Boy8. Bao-yu and Bao-chai Locked in Fate9. A Schoolhouse Brawl10. Qin-shi’s Illness Heads Off an Accusation Against Her Brother11. Xi-feng Visits Qin-shi; Jia Rui Flirts with Xi-feng12. Xi-feng Sets a Trap for the Amorous Jia Rui; Dai-yu Travels South to See Her Ailing Father13. Qin-shi’s Warning and Her Lavish Funeral14. Xi-feng Imposes Order on the Ning Household; the Funeral Procession Is Greeted by a Prince15. Qin Zhong Fools Around with a Nun and with Bao-yu; Xi-feng Takes a Bribe16. Yuan-chun’s Promotion at Court; Dai-yu’s Return and Qin Zhong’s Death17. Bao-yu’s Poetic Skills Are Tested by His Father; the Household Prepares for the Visitation18. The Imperial Concubine’s Visit to Prospect Garden19. Bao-yu’s Grand Bargain with Aroma and His Growing Intimacy with Dai-yu20. Bao-yu Tries Unsuccessfullyto Please Everyone; Shi Xiang-yun’s Arrival Leads to a Declaration21. Aroma Finds an Ally in Bao-chai; Patience Seizes Evidence of Jia Lian’s Misconduct22. An Opera Piques Bao-yu’s Interest in Monkhood; Gloomy Riddles Distress His Father23. Bao-yu Moves with the Girls Into Prospect Garden; the Lovers Bury Fallen Flowers24. Two Ambitious Social Climbers: Jia Yun and Crimson25. Jia Huan and Aunt Zhao Exact Their Revenge; the Monk and the Taoist Come to the Rescue26. Crimson Sends Jia Yun a Message; Skybright Carelessly Shuts Out Dai-yu27. Tan-chun Repudiates Her Mother; Dai-yu Ponders Her Fate Seen in Fallen Flowers28. Bao-yu Gives Aroma’s Sash to Jiang Yu-han; Yuan-chun, in Her Gifts, Favors Bao-chai Over Dai-yu29. Grandmother Jia Shows Her Compassionate Side; a Matchmaking Abbot Provokes a Lovers’ Rift30. Bao-yu Is Chastened by Bao-chai for Being Rude; He Causes Golden to Be Dismissed31. Bao-yu Lets Skybright Rip Up Two Fans for Fun; Shi Xiang-yun Finds the Kylin Meant for Her32. Criticism of Dai-yu Prompts Bao-yu to Avow His Love; Golden Commits Suicide33. Bao-yu Is Savagely Beaten by His Father Due to Jiang Yu-han’s Disappearance34. Aroma Confides Her Worries to Lady Wang; Bao-yu Sends Dai-yu Two Used Handkerchiefs35. Grandmother Jia Indicates Her Preference for Bao-chai; Bao-yu Makes Golden’s Sister Laugh36. Aroma Receives an Informal Promotion; Bao-chai Hears Bao-yu Reveal He Prefers Dai-yu37. The Founding of the Crab-Flower Club38. A Crab-Eating Feast Is Hosted by Shi Xiang-yun39. Li Wan Laments Her Lack of an Able Assistant; Grannie Liu Is Enlisted for Entertainment40. Grannie Liu Is Given a Tour of Prospect Garden and Made the Butt of Practical Jokes41. The Finicky Adamantina Serves Tea; Grannie Liu Passes Out on Bao-yu’s Bed42. Grannie Liu Names Xi-feng’s Daughter Before Departing; Bao-chai Befriends Dai-yu43. Xi-feng Squeezes Aunt Zhou and Aunt Zhao for Her Party; Bao-yu Makes an Offering to Golden44. Xi-feng Catches Jia Lian with a Servant’s Wife; Patience Is Struck and a Woman Hangs Herself45. The Steward’s Son Is Made a Magistrate; Bao-chai Supplies Dai-yu with Edible Bird’s Nest46. Jia She Tries to Take Faithful as His Concubine47. Grandmother Jia Gives Lady Xing a Scolding; Xue Pan Is Thrashed by Liu Xiang-lian48. Jia Lian Is Beaten by His Father for Criticizing Him; Caltrop Becomes Obsessed with Poetry49. The Arrival of Xue Bao-qin, Xue Ke, Xing Xiu-yan, and the Li Sisters50. Grandmother Jia Invites Herself to a Merry Gathering in a Garden Blanketed by Snow51. Aroma Makes a Trip Home in Style; Skybright Catches a Cold52. Xue Bao-qin Recites a Poem by a Blonde Girl; an Ailing Skybright Mends a Cloak for Bao-yu53. Solemn Ancestral Rites Are Performed on New Year’s Eve; the Festivities Last Half a Month54. Grandmother Jia Holds Forth at Her Banquet55. Tan-chun Takes Charge of the Household; Xi-feng Shares Her Views of the Cousins with Patience56. The Girls Put the Garden to Work; Jia Bao-yu Learns That He Has a Double in Zhen Bao-yu57. Nightingale Forces Bao-yu to Declare His Love for Dai-yu; Xing Xiu-yan Is Betrothed to Xue Ke58. A Dowager Consort’s Death Disrupts the Jia Household; the Child Actresses Stay On as Maidservants59. Conflicts Break Out Between the Ex-Actresses and Their Foster Mothers60. The Ex-Actresses Gang Up to Assault Aunt Zhao; Parfumée Tries to Help Fivey Join Bao-yu’s Staff61. Fivey Is Accused of Theft; Chess Tries to Replace Cook Liu with Her Own Aunt62. A Garden Party Is Held to Celebrate Bao-yu, Xue Bao-qin, Xing Xiu-yan, and Patience’s Birthdays63. The Party Continues Into the Night; Jia Rong, in Mourning, Flirts with the You Sisters64. Dai-yu Writes About Beauties in History; Jia Lian Is Urged to Take Er-jie as His Second Wife65. Jia Lian Secretly Installs You Er-jie in a Second Household; You San-jie Enthralls Cousin Zhen66. You San-jie Kills Herself with a Sword; Liu Xiang-lian Goes Off with a Crippled Taoist67. Bao-chai Gives Away the Presents from Her Brother; Xi-feng Discovers Jia Lian’s Second Marriage68. Xi-feng Lures You Er-jie into the Rong Compound and Humiliates Jia Rong with a Bogus Lawsuit69. Xi-feng, Feigning Kindness, Drives Er-jie to Her Death70. The Cousins Release Their Kites; Bao-yu, Though Deeply Troubled, Catches Up on His Studies71. Jia Zheng Comes Home for Grandmother Jia’s Birthday; Faithful Catches Chess in Flagrante72. Jia Lian Is Driven to Pawning Grandmother Jia’s Valuables; Sunset Is Promised to a Wastrel 73. A Maidservant Shows Lady Xing a Piece of Erotica; Ying-chun Refuses to Discipline Her Staff74. Lady Wang Turns Against Skybright; a Raid Is Conducted on Prospect Garden75. The Zhen Clan of Nanking Is Disgraced; the Jia Men Take to Gambling76. Grandmother Jia Resists Ending the Mid Autumn Party; Shi Xiang-yun Commiserates with Dai-yu 77. Chess and the Ex-Actresses Are Expelled; Bao-yu and Skybright Bid Their Final Farewell78. Lady Wang Lies About Skybright; Bao-yu Writes an Elegy to the Hibiscus Spirit79. Jia She Arranges a Hasty Marriage for Ying-chun; Xue Pan Weds a Conceited Girl80. Xia Jin-gui Turns the Xue Family Upside Down; Ying-chun’s Husband Treats Her Like a Slave81. Bao-yu Learns the Limits of the Matriarch’s Power; He Is Sent Back to the Clan School82. Aroma Probes Dai-yu on Concubines; Dai-yu Coughs Up Blood on waking from a Nightmare83. The Matriarch Is Told of Dai-yu’s Condition; Yuan-chun’s Illness Alarms the Jia Elders84. Jia Zheng Considers a Bride for Bao-yu; tthe Matriarch Is Pleased When Bao-chai Is Suggested85. Bao-yu Is Kept in the Dark About His Betrothal; Jia Zheng Receives a Promotion86. Xue Pan’s Murder Charge Is Reduced; Dai-yu Teaches Bao-yu About Music87. Dai-yu Plays a Tune That Snaps Her Qin String; Adamantina Has a Horrific Dream Vision88. Li Wan Is Consoled by Jia Lan’s Achievement; Zhou Rui Is Kicked and Jia Yun Is Humiliated89. The Snapped String Unnerves Bao-yu; Hearing He Is Betrothed, Dai-yu Stops Eating90. Hearing the Bride Is to Be a Cousin, Dai-yu Rallies; the Matriarch Bans Talk of the Betrothal91. A Timetable Is Set for Bao-yu’s Wedding; Dai-yu and Bao-yu Communicate by Talking Zen92. Bao-yu Discusses Noble Women with Qiao-Jie; Chess and Her Cousin Commit Double Suicide93. Bao-yu Identifies with Jiang Yu-han; Jia Qin Is Caught Seducing the Young Novices94. Crab-Flower Trees Bloom Out of Season; Bao-yu’s Jade Mysteriously Disappears95. Yuan-chun Passes Away in the Palace; Bao-yu Turns Into a Simpleton96. Wang Zi-teng Dies on His Way to the Capital; a Hasty Wedding Is Set Before Jia Zheng Departs97. Bao-yu Is Tricked Into Marrying Bao-chai; Dai-yu Burns Her Poems and Dies98. Bao-chai Tells Bao-yu That Dai-yu Is Dead; Bao-yu Improves After Mourning for Dai-yu99. Bao-yu Is Reconciled to Accepting Bao-chai; Jia Zheng Turns a Blind Eye to Misdeeds100. Tan-chun Is Betrothed to Be Married Afar; Efforts to Save Xue Pan Bankrupt His Family101. Wang Zi-teng’s Debt Strains the Wang Clan; Anxious, Xi-feng Entrusts Qiao-jie to Patience102. An Exorcism is Performed in the Garden; Jia Zheng Is Demoted for His Underlings’ Abuses103. Xia Jin-gui Mistakenly Poisons Herself; Jia Yu-cun Happens on Zhen Shi-yin at a Derelict Temple104. Jia Yun and Ni Er Vow Revenge on the Jias; Bao-yu Wants Nightingale to Know He Was Tricked105. The Secret Police Conduct a Raid of the Jia Compound; Four Jia Men Are Arrested106. Jia Zheng Realizes His Family Faces Financial Ruin; the Matriarch Begs Heaven to Punish Her107. Jia She and Cousin Zhen Go Into Exile; Grandmother Jia Distributes Her Possessions108. The Matriarch Hosts a Surprise Birthday Party; Bao-yu Wails for Dai-yu in the Desolate Garden109. Bao-yu’s Attempt at Intimacy Is Rebuffed by Fivey; Guilt Stricken, He Makes It Up to Bao-chai110. The Matriarch Dies with a Smile on Her Face; Lady Xing Makes Life Difficult for Xi-feng111. A Ghost Shows Faithful How to Hang Herself; the Matriarch’s Apartment Is Looted 112. Adamantina Is Abducted by Pirates; Xi-chun Resolves to Become a Nun113. Grannie Liu Playfully Offers to Be Qiao-jie’s Matchmaker; Nightingale Takes Pity on Bao-yu114. Xi-feng Dies Babbling of the Register; Wang Ren and Qiao-jie Antagonize Each Other115. Xi-chun Declares She Intends to Take the Vows; Bao-yu Relapses After Meeting His Look-Alike116. Bao-yu Has a Second Dream of Revelations; His Father Takes the Coffins to the South for Burial117. Bao-yu Reaches an Agreement with the Monk; Jia Lian Leaves Jia Qiang and Jia Yun in Charge118. Qiao-jie Is Offered to a “Mongol” Prince; Bao-yu Studies to Discharge His Filial Obligations119. Bao-yu Is Missing After the Examinations; the Emperor Declares a General Amnesty120. Bao-yu Bids His Father Farewell and Vanishes in the Snow; Aroma Marries the Actor Jiang Yu-hanSelected BibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisSixiang Wang demonstrates how Chosŏn political actors strategically deployed cultural practices, values, and narratives to carve out a place for Korea within the Ming imperial order.Trade ReviewThis is a book I have been waiting for. Wang argues that historically Korea was not the compliant vassal that Chinese imagined it to be, but a canny role-player manipulating China’s imperial myth so as to constrain its capacity to dominate. An eloquent revision of what we thought we knew. -- Timothy Brook, coeditor of Sacred Mandates: Asian International Relations Since Chinggis KhanSixiang Wang’s Boundless Winds of Empire is destined to be a classic. Wang provides a new lens to study the historical relations between Ming and Chosŏn. His emphasis on ritual and rhetoric as frames of reference and the extensive use of Chinese and Korean sources make a tremendous contribution to numerous fields. -- David C. Kang, author of American Grand Strategy and East Asian Security in the Twenty-First CenturyGenerations of scholars have stripped down the relationship of Chosŏn Korea and Ming China into an abstract model of the ‘tribute system.’ With sensitive readings of poetry, apocryphal inscriptions, and other sources rarely considered by the model builders, Sixiang Wang brilliantly restores the idiosyncratic texture of Korean-Ming relations. -- Christopher P. Atwood, author of The Rise of the Mongols: Five Chinese SourcesBoundless Winds of Empire sets a new standard for Anglophone scholarship on Chosŏn Korea. -- Eugene Y. Park, author of Korea: A HistoryAn exceptional work. Wang’s stimulating and highly illuminating account should be read by anyone interested in Korea–China relations, the workings of empire, rhetorical strategies, or the history of diplomacy. -- Felix Kuhn * Journal of Chinese History *Table of ContentsPrefaceChronologyMapsIntroduction: Korea and the Imperial TraditionPart I: The Shared Past1. Serving the Great2. Terms of AuthorityPart II: The Practice of Diplomacy3. Beneath the Veneer4. In Empire’s NamePart III: Ecumenical Boundaries5. Cajoling Empire6. Representing Korea7. Contests of RitualPart IV: An Empire of Letters8. The Brilliant Flowers9. The Envoy’s Virtue10. The East Does Not SubmitConclusion: The Myth of Moral EmpireNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThis groundbreaking book explores a range of largely overlooked literary and artistic works that challenge the invisibility of Black wartime history.Trade ReviewSarah Phillips Casteel’s beautifully written Black Lives Under Nazism offers a startling new account of the memory of World War II and the Holocaust that centers Black artists and writers. Moving from internment camp art and memoirs by historical eyewitnesses to the novels, photography, and dance of later generations, Casteel’s book reveals how certain histories are rendered invisible while simultaneously showing us the power of art and literature to reanimate the forgotten past and decolonize hegemonic perspectives. Black Lives Under Nazism is a fascinating work of recovery and a strong argument for a relational approach to memory. -- Michael Rothberg, author of The Implicated Subject: Beyond Victims and PerpetratorsSarah Phillips Casteel’s rich, imaginative, and compelling study seeks to make visible the Black experience of the wartime period. Through her deft analysis of a diverse range of Black testimonial and creative work she brilliantly illustrates the limitations and possibilities these offer in creating countermemories of the Holocaust. -- Robbie Aitken, coauthor of Black Germany: The Making and Unmaking of a Diaspora Community, 1884-1960The experience of people of African descent in the Third Reich has been hauntingly absent in the public imagination of the Holocaust. With her penetrating and sophisticated study, Sarah Casteel illuminates the lived histories of Black victims and survivors of the Nazi regime, thereby expanding the canon of Holocaust representation. -- Erin McGlothlin, author of The Mind of the Holocaust Perpetrator in Fiction and NonfictionBlack Lives Under Nazism provides an in-depth analysis of a largely unknown corpus of Black African diaspora artworks and literature that address Black lives under Nazism. By making this corpus coherently visible, this book illuminates the complex relations of Black and Jewish experiences in World War II Europe and challenges extant scholarship in Black and Holocaust Studies. -- Chigbo Arthur Anyaduba, author of The Postcolonial African Genocide Novel: Quests for MeaningfulnessTable of ContentsPreface and AcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: Invisible and Invented ArchivesPart I: Documenting the Past: The Artist as WitnessIntroduction to Part I1. Outside the Frame: Josef Nassy’s Visual Diary of Internment in Nazi Germany2. Broken Citizenship: Survivor Memoirs by Hans J. Massaquoi, Theodor Michael, and John WilliamPart II: Imagining the Past: The Artist as HistorianIntroduction to Part II3. Jazz Fiction and the Holocaust: Testimonial Objects in the Novels of John A. Williams and Esi Edugyan4. Performing to Survive: “Queen of the Trumpet” Valaida Snow in Fiction, Drama, and Graphic Narrative5. Postmemorial Landscapes of Black Europe: Maud Sulter’s Alpine PhotomontagesCoda: Dancing Out History in Oxana Chi’s Durch Gärten TanzenNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisWinner of the Modern Language Association (MLA)'s William Sanders Scarborough Prize From Audre Lorde, Ntozake Shange, and Bessie Head, to Zanele Muholi, Suzan-Lori Parks, and Missy Elliott, Black women writers and artists across the African Diaspora have developed nuanced and complex creative forms. Mecca Jamilah Sullivan ventures into the unexplored spaces of black women's queer creative theorizing to learn its languages and read the textures of its forms. Moving beyond fixed notions, Sullivan points to a space of queer imagination where black women invent new languages, spaces, and genres to speak the many names of difference. Black women's literary cultures have long theorized the complexities surrounding nation and class, the indeterminacy of gender and race, and the multiple meanings of sexuality. Yet their ideas and work remain obscure in the face of indifference from Western scholarship. Innovative and timely, The Poetics of Difference illuminates understudied queer contours oTrade Review"Dr. Sullivan provides expert analysis of the complex queer creativities of Black women and their (re)inventions and (re)imaginings of meaning-making in vast literary forms. " --Ms. Magazine "This book is a vital, gorgeous thing. Sullivan's thinking elegantly explores the ways black women writers use genre as a queer practice of difference. The argument here is stunning--transcendently so--and it is not an exaggeration to say that this book will become canonical."--Kevin Quashie, author of Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being "This luminous book lovingly parses the poetics of difference that forms and informs the continued life of black queer feminist thought in many genres. The work is brilliant and bracing."--Jennifer DeVere Brody, author of Punctuation: Art, Politics, and PlayTable of ContentsCoverTitle PageCopyrightContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction. Black Queer Feminist Poetics: Rereading the IntersectionChapter One. Biomythic Times: Voice, Genre, and the Invention of Black/Queer HistoryChapter Two. “walkin on the edges of the galaxy”: Queer Choreopoetic Thought in the African DiasporaChapter Three. Feeling Colors and Seeing Speech: Body/Language and Black Women’s Diasporas ofChapter Four. “Languages of Love”: “TALK” of Sex: Interstitial Idioms of Body and DesireCoda. Speech between Silence: Distance, Difference, and the Queer Poetics of Blackwoman LivingNotesWorks CitedIndexBack cover

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Book SynopsisRicoeur on Time and Narrative strikes just the right balance by providing a succinct and substantive presentation of Ricoeur’s argument in Time and Narrative.Trade Review"The scholarship in William C. Dowling's Ricoeur on Time and Narrative is impeccable; Dowling knows Ricoeur inside out. He highlights Ricoeur's most important arguments, presents them in a limpid, concise language, and links them to the relevant nineteenth- and twentieth-century philosophical developments. Dowling's book provides us with a lucid, intelligible version of Ricoeur's major work, one that will be of considerable significance to philosophers, historians, and literary theorists." —Thomas Pavel, Gordon J. Laing Distinguished Service Professor of French Literature, and the Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago"William C. Dowling's Ricoeur on Time and Narrative is a subtle and remarkably well-sustained piece of work. It provides a detailed introduction to a major work of philosophy and narrative theory—already a considerable achievement, given the difficulty of Ricoeur's text. However, Dowling also shows us, sometimes explicitly, sometimes simply through the way he conducts his argument, why we should bother with Ricoeur—what we have to gain from knowing him better than we do, however well we may think we know him." —Michael Wood, Princeton University“This subtle and remarkably well-sustained piece of work provides a detailed introduction to a major work of philosophy and narrative theory.” —Michael Wood, Princeton University“Ricoeur on Time and Narrative strikes just the right balance by providing a succinct and substantive presentation of Ricoeur’s argument in Time and Narrative. . . . Teachers of Ricoeur’s work will appreciate Dowling’s ability to contextualize Ricoeur’s engagement with a wide range of his contemporaries, while scholars are likely to turn to it as a valuable reference point for their own engagements with specific issues in Ricoeur studies.” —Philosophy in Review

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Book SynopsisFirst realized commercially in the late eighteenth century, stereotypingthe creation of solid printing plates cast from moveable typefundamentally changed the way in which books were printed. Publishing Plates chronicles the technological and cultural shifts that resulted from the introduction of this technology in the United States. The commissioning of plates altered shop practices, distribution methods, and even the author-publisher relationship. Drawing on archival records, Jeffrey M. Makala traces the first uses of stereotyping in Philadelphia in 1812, its adoption by printers in New York and Philadelphia, and its effects on the trade. He looks closely at the printers, typefounders, authors, and publishers who watched small, regional, artisan-based printing traditions rapidly evolve, clearing the way for the industrialized publishing industry that would emerge in the United States at midcentury. Through case studies of the publisher Mathew Carey and the American Bible Society, oTrade Review“An important, interesting, and thorough contribution to our knowledge of stereotyping and electrotyping and the history of their industrial implementation and economic impact in America. Publishing Plates contains extensive references to original sources, comprehensive narrative histories of the Carey company and the American Bible Society, and fascinating anecdotes that flesh out the importance of stereotyping and electrotyping.”—Peter Shillingsburg,author of Textuality and Knowledge: EssaysTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction1. The Development and Spread of Stereotyping in Europe and North America2. Mathew Carey and the Family Bible Marketplace3. The American Bible Society and the Possibilities of Large-Scale Printing4. Material Texts: Trade Sales, Reprinting, and the Book Trades5. Stereotyping in Language, Literature, and Material CultureEpilogue: Abraham Hart and Nineteenth-Century Changes in the Printing TradesAppendix A: First Uses of Stereotype Plates in the United States, by Date and LocationAppendix B: “Directions for Repairing Plates,” ca. 1820NotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisA beautiful hardcover repackaging of this timeless classic from the publishers of the Autobiography of Mark Twain and in partnership with the Mark Twain Project. This definitive edition ofAdventures of Huckleberry Finnwasthe only version of Mark Twain's masterpiece based on his complete manuscript, including the 663 pages found in a Los Angeles attic in 1990. Prepared by the Mark Twain Papers, the official archive of Sam Clemens's papers at the University of California, Berkeley, this volume features the gorgeous original illustrations that Twain commissioned from Edward Windsor Kemble and John Harley and also includes historical notes, a glossary, maps, selected manuscript pages, and even a gallery of letters, advertisements, and playbills from Twain's first book tour to promote the original publicationeverything the discerning reader needs to enjoy this classic of American literature again and again.

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Book SynopsisTranslated in full for the first time, this third volumeimmerses readers in the power and drama of the electrifying classic Chinese novel.The three great southern states of Chu, Wu, and Yue are locked in conflict, and their kings feel a hatred for each other that transcends all bounds. Cruel humiliations are imposed on the vanquished each time a battle is lost, while vicious scheming and internecine manipulation destroy many lives. The balance of power is threatenedbut there can only be one victor. One of the great works of Chinese literature,Kingdoms in Perilis an epic historical novel charting the five hundredyears leading to the unification of the country in 221 B.C.E. under the rule of the legendary First Emperor. Writing some fourteen hundredyears later, the Ming-era author Feng Menglong drew on a vast trove of literary and historical documents to composea gripping narrative account of how China was forged. Detailing the stories of unforgettable characters who defined and s

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewFascinating and instructive…Shelby and Terry may offer the best solution to the pain of thinking about King and our loss of him…King’s philosophy, speaking to us through the written word, may turn out to constitute his most enduring legacy. -- Annette Gordon-Reed * New York Review of Books *To Shape a New World firmly situates Dr. King in the canon of American political thought. An extraordinary group of scholars grapple with the subtlety and nuance of King’s political philosophy, and they set the stage for a renewed engagement with his broader work. This is a must-read in our time. -- Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Princeton UniversityThe collection brings together a series of impressive scholars—Cornel West, Martha Nussbaum, and Robert Gooding-Williams among them—to look at King’s understudied writings on economic inequality, just-war theory, and voting rights…To Shape a New World is a compelling work of philosophy, all the more so because it treats King seriously without inoculating him from the kind of critique important to both his theory and practice. -- Shivani Radhakrishnan * Los Angeles Review of Books *To Shape a New World is a milestone in the study of Martin Luther King, Jr., essentially a sanctified figure in American life, whose actual ideas are rarely interrogated in any depth, either in the public realm or in academic circles. What makes this volume particularly striking is the exceptionally high quality of the essays, which are analytically rigorous, impressively researched, and often profoundly original. They highlight the limits of common narratives about King and the civil rights movement, showing the shifts in his own thinking and the unconventional nature of many of his arguments. This is a path-breaking book. -- Aziz Rana, Cornell UniversityThis is a powerful and invaluable collection of essays on Dr. King. I hope it will inspire an entirely new generation of readers to go back and immerse themselves in Dr. King’s language and thought and hear and heed his prophetic voice. -- Marian Wright Edelman, President, Children’s Defense FundKing’s theology, philosophy, and nonviolent prophetic engagement are needed now more than any time since his death. In his last speech, Dr. King said that when it comes to the struggle for love and justice, ‘nothing would be more tragic than for us to turn back now.’ We must embrace his challenge in this moment and commit to go forward together, not one step back. -- Rev. Dr. William J. Barber IIWhile his birthday has become a national holiday and schoolchildren across the nation and the world know the words of his most famous speeches, there are still many aspects of his life and work that remain lesser known. * Time *Looks at the work of Dr. King as a philosopher, rather than a political figure. By examining some lesser-known writings, the authors draw the conclusion that Dr. King was a much more radical thinker than his watered-down legacy would suggest. * Vox *King was not simply a compelling speaker, but a deeply philosophical intellectual…King drew on theological, economic, and historical ideas to inform his philosophical thinking…We still have much to learn from him. -- Olivia Goldhill * Quartz *King’s own scholarship is refreshingly illuminated in To Shape a New World. -- Colin Grant * Prospect *[An] ambitious, illuminating volume…The collection facilitates rigorous engagement with King’s thought in its own time and place but also presses the question of what we ought to do with it in this current ‘age of impunity and mendacity.’ -- Erin R. Pineda * Journal of the History of Philosophy *Reimagines King as a political thinker for our—and for all—time. * The Point *This book demonstrates the necessity of revisiting King’s philosophy and creed of nonviolence…Perhaps most importantly, this collection gives us a clear look at the mechanisms of the nonviolent approach, a different option to discrimination instead of submission or violent resistance. * Kirkus Reviews *[A] robust and wide-ranging collection...The book as a whole displays the pliability and dynamism of King’s thought, applying it to circumstances both recent (Barack Obama’s presidency) and far in the past (the practice of slavery in 18th- and 19th-century America). Throughout, King’s voice is placed within a community of philosophers…As the nation approaches the 50th anniversary of King’s assassination, this work demonstrates, for anyone who needs convincing, the continued and vital importance of his thinking. * Publishers Weekly *

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