{"product_id":"crimes-of-writing-9780822315452","title":"Crimes of Writing","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEight essays that examine particular issues in the relations between subjectivity, authenticity, writing, speech and the law.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In the essays collected in \u003ci\u003eCrimes of Writing\u003c\/i\u003e, Stewart continues to build on her reputation as one of the most productive and challenging deconstructors of the disciplinary boundaries that supposedly separate literary history and critical theory from contemporary cultural analysis.\"— \u003cb\u003eMichael Moon\u003c\/b\u003e, Duke University\u003cbr\u003e\"Stewart’s work provides an oasis in contemporary criticism, a place where theory and poetry, systematic reflection and the essayistic plunge into particular cases, come together in a refreshing synthesis. \u003ci\u003eCrimes of Writing\u003c\/i\u003e is a worthy successor to \u003ci\u003eNonsense\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eOn Longing\u003c\/i\u003e.\"—\u003cb\u003eW. J. T. Mitchell,\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Crimes of Writing        3\u003cbr\u003e 2. Psalmanazar's Others        31\u003cbr\u003e 3. Notes on Distressed Genres        66\u003cbr\u003e 4. Scandals of the Ballad        102\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Birth of Authenticity in the Progress of Anxiety: Fragments of an Eighteenth-Century Daydream        132\u003cbr\u003e 6. Exogamous Relations: Travel Writing, the Incest Prohibition, and Hawthorne's \u003ci\u003eTransformation\u003c\/i\u003e        173\u003cbr\u003e 7. \u003ci\u003eCeci Tuera Cela\u003c\/i\u003e: Graffiti as Crime and Art        206\u003cbr\u003e 8. The Marquis de Meese        235\u003cbr\u003e 9. Coda: Reverse Trompe l'Oeil\\The Eruption of the Real        273\u003cbr\u003e Works Cited        291\u003cbr\u003e Index        311","brand":"MD - Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51038661083479,"sku":"9780822315452","price":20.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822315452.jpg?v=1750940964","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/crimes-of-writing-9780822315452","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}