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2017–18AMERICAN & ATLANTIC LITERARY STUDIES

Welcome to the new American and Atlantic Literature catalogue from the team at Edinburgh University Press. We are excited about the growth of this area of our Literature list particularly in the forthcoming publication of ‘If I Survive’ a collection of previously unseen speeches, letters and photographs of Frederick Douglass and his family from the Walter O. Evans Collection.

We are also excited about the launch of our new series Modern American Literature and the New Twentieth Century, with the first volume publishing in 2018. The series is set to produce a number of studies at the forefront of research in American Literature over the coming season.

For your textbook needs, our revived BAAS Paperbacks series, published for the British Association for American Studies, continues to grow with Black Nationalism in American History by Mark Newman publishing in January 2018. Remember you can request inspection copies of any of our textbooks by visiting the book page at www.edinburghuniversitypress.com.

Finally, we’re delighted to have Michelle Houston back from maternity leave! If you have a proposal you would like to discuss with her, please get in touch with her: [email protected].

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KEY FORTHCOMING TITLE

While the many public lives of Frederick Douglass - as the representative “fugitive slave,” autobiographer, orator, abolitionist, reformer, philosopher, and statesman - are lionized worldwide, this book sheds light on the private life of Douglass the family man. For the first time, If I Survive presents colour facsimile reproductions of the over 70 speeches, letters, autobiographies, and photographs of and by Frederick Douglass and his sons, Lewis Henry, Frederick Jr., and Charles Remond held in the Walter O. Evans Collection. All of life can be found within these pages – romance, hope, despair, love, life, death, war, protest, politics, art, and friendship – as the Douglass family worked together for a new “dawn of freedom”. Marking the 200th anniversary of Frederick Douglass’ birth, this book provides rare and invaluable insights not only into a Douglass we have yet to encounter but into the lives and works of Lewis Henry, Frederick Jr., and Charles Remond who each played a vital role in the “struggles for liberty” of their father.

September 2018 800 pages 100 colour illustrations9781474429283 Also available in hardback and ebook

‘If I Survive’Frederick Douglass and Family in the Walter O. Evans Collection

Edited by Celeste Marie Bernier & Andrew Taylor, both at University of Edinburgh

Paperback £19.99 / $19.95

Previously unseen speeches, letters, autobiographies, and photographs of Frederick Douglass and his sons, Lewis Henry, Frederick Jr. and Charles Remond Douglass from the Walter O. Evans collection


KEY TEXTBOOKS - BAAS PAPERBACKS

BAAS Paperbacks Series Editors: Martin Halliwell and Emily West

A definitive series of lively, accessible and focused books in the field or subfield of American Studies.

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Black Nationalism in American HistoryFrom the Nineteenth Century to the Million Man MarchMark Newman, University of Edinburgh

A clear, up-to-date introduction to the history of Black Nationalism in America

Key Features

• Up-to-date textbook, drawing on the latest scholarship

• Considers various definitions of Black Nationalism

• Places manifestations of Black Nationalism in context

• Evaluates the latest research on key figures of Black Nationalism including Marcus Garvey, Malcom X and Louis Farrakhan

Paperback £19.99 I $29.95 January 2018 216 pages9781474405423 Also available in hardback and ebook

The Open Door EraUnited States Foreign Policy in the Twentieth CenturyMichael Patrick Cullinane, Northumbria University & Alex Goodall, University College London

Examines the Open Door, the most influential U.S. foreign policy of the twentieth century

Key Features

• Uncovers the ideological wellspring of U.S. foreign policy in the twentieth century

• Presents debates over U.S. foreign policy, including the ‘Wisconsin School’ critique of the Open Door as a mechanism of informal empire

• Reveals both the consistency of U.S. foreign policy thinking and offers a deeper context to critical foreign policy decisions

• Contextulises the roots of contemporary U.S. policy

Paperback £19.99 I $29.95 February 2017 224 pages 7 b&w illustrations9781474401319 Also available in hardback and ebook

American ImperialismThe Territorial Expansion of the United States, 1783–2013Adam Burns, Queen Elizabeth’s Hospital, Bristol

Provides a critical re-evaluation of US territorial expansionism and imperialism from 1783 to the present

Key Features

• Provides case studies of different examples of US territorial expansion/imperialism, and adds much-needed context to ongoing debates over US imperialism for students of both History and Politics

• Analyses many of the better known instances of US imperialism (for example, Cuba and the Philippines), while also considering often-overlooked examples such as the US Virgin Islands, American Samoa and Guam

• Explores American imperialism from a “territorial acquisition/long-term occupation” viewpoint which differentiates it from many other books that instead focus on informal and economic imperialism

• Discusses the presence of the US in key places such as Guantanamo Bay, the Panama Canal Zone and the Arctic

Paperback £19.99 I $29.95 February 2017 232 pages 10-12 b&w maps9781474402149 Also available in hardback and ebook

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KEY TEXTBOOKS

Modern American LiteratureCatherine Morley, University of LeicesterAn incisive study of modern American literature, casting new light on its origins and themes

Key Features

• Presents American literary modernism as emerging from a broad intellectual and philosophical landscape

• Extends the timeframe, definition and intellectual parameters of American modernism

• Provides close critical and contextual analysis of more than thirty American writers and key texts

Paperback £19.99 I $29.95 2012 352 pages 9780748625062 Also available in hardback and ebook

Teaching TransatlanticismResources for Teaching Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Print CultureEdited by Linda K Hughes & Sarah R Robbins both at Texas Christian University

An essential resource for teaching 19th-century print culture in Transatlantic StudiesThe 18 chapters in this book outline conceptual approaches to the field and provide practical resources for teaching, ranging from ideas for individual class sessions to full syllabi and curricular frameworks.

The book is divided into 5 key sections: Curricular Histories and Key Trends; Organising Curriculum through Transatlantic Lenses; Teaching Transatlantic Figures; Teaching Genres in Transatlantic Context; and Envisioning Digital Transatlanticism. Individual chapters from experts in the field range from reconceptualising entire courses to revisiting individual texts, authors, and genres through a transatlantic lens. Weaving in strategies from innovative teaching shaped by the digital humanities, the collection also looks ahead to the future of this growing field.

A dedicated Teaching Transatlanticism website accompanies the book: teachingtransatlanticism.tcu.edu/

Key Features:

• Provides readers with help about the conceptual and practical issues

• Classroom accounts address multiple genres, issues and media

• Reflections on real-world teaching contexts are blended with scholarly analysis of key issues in the field today

• The specially designed project website supports the book and invites continued conversations through a moderated discussion space and submission venue for readers’ own teaching materials

Paperback £29.99 I $39.95 2015 312 pages9780748694464 Also available in hardback and ebook

Contemporary American FictionDavid Brauner, University of Reading

An accessible, lucid and incisive study that will prove indispensable to students and scholars of contemporary American fiction

Key Features

• Identifies trends in contemporary American fiction and situates them in historical and cultural contexts

• Discusses a range of recent fiction, providing a sense of the rich diversity of the field and of its key themes and modes of writing

• Introduces students to critical approaches to, and debates concerning, contemporary American fiction

• Encourages reflection on the nature of national, gender, ethnic and generic identities


Edinburgh Critical Guides to LiteratureSeries Editor(s): Martin Halliwell and Andrew MousleyThis series provides accessible yet provocative introductions to a wide range of literatures. The volumes initiate and deepen the reader’s understanding of key literary movements, periods and genres, and consider debates that inform the past, present and future of literary study.

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SERIES

Edinburgh Companions to LiteratureThese single-volume reference works present cutting-edge scholarship in areas of literary studies particularly those which reach out to other disciplines. They include volumes on key literary figures and their interaction with the arts

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The Edinburgh Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Letters and Letter-WritingEdited by Celeste-Marie Bernier, University of Edinburgh, Judie Newman and Matthew Pethers, both at University of NottinghamProvides a wide-ranging entry point and intervention into scholarship on nineteenth-century American letter-writingThis comprehensive study by leading scholars in an important new field—the history of letters and letter writing—is essential reading for anyone interested in nineteenth-century American politics, history or literature. Because of its mass literacy, population mobility, and extensive postal system, nineteenth-century America is a crucial site for the exploration of letters and their meanings, whether they be written by presidents and statesmen, scientists and philosophers, novelists and poets, feminists and reformers, immigrants, Native Americans, or African Americans. This book breaks new ground by mapping the voluminous correspondence of these figures and other important American writers and thinkers. Rather than treating the letter as a spontaneous private document, the contributors understand it as a self-conscious artefact, circulating between friends and strangers and across multiple genres in ways that both make and break social ties.

Hardback £175 I $295 2016 752 pages9780748692927 Also available in ebook

The Edinburgh Companion to Atlantic Literary StudiesEdited by Leslie Eckel, Suffolk University, Boston and Clare Elliott, Northumbria UniversityNew and original collection of scholarly essays examining the literary complexities of the Atlantic world systemThis Companion offers a critical overview of the diverse and dynamic field of Atlantic literary studies, with contributions by distinguished scholars on a series of topics that define the area. The essays focus on literature and culture from first contact to the present, exploring fruitful Atlantic connections across space and time, across national cultures, and embracing literature, culture and society. This research collection proposes that the analysis of literature and culture does not depend solely upon geographical setting to uncover textual meaning. Instead, it offers Atlantic connections based around migration, race, gender and sexuality, ecologies, and other significant ideological crossovers in the Atlantic World. The result is an exciting new critical map written by leading international researchers of a lively and expanding field.

Hardback £150 I $250 2016 432 pages 3 b&w illustrations9781474402941 Available in ebook

The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century British and American War LiteratureEdited by Adam Piette, University of Sheffield and Mark Rawlinson, University of Leicester

The first reference book to twentieth-century war, literature and cultureIn fifty-seven chapters leading academics in the field of twentieth-century war studies examine the major wars of the century as well as other conflicts imagined by English and US writers. These include the Boer War, Spanish Civil War, the troubles in Northern Ireland, the Korean War and the decolonising conflicts in Africa through to the war on terror. Topics covered include: pacifism; refugees; camouflage; the war plane; war and children’s literature; war and art; spy thrillers, and many more. Taken together the essays make a deliberate and thought-provoking intervention in the field.

Paperback £29.99 I $49.95 2016 600 pages 17 b&w illustrations9781474413947 Also available in hardback and ebook


SERIES

Edinburgh Critical Studies in Atlantic Literatures and CulturesSeries Editor(s): Andrew Taylor, Colleen Glenney Boggs and Laura DoyleThis series expands on the rich archive of books published in the Edinburgh Studies in Transatlantic Literatures series between 2005 and 2014.

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Sensational InternationalismThe Paris Commune and the Remapping of American Memory in the Long Nineteenth CenturyJ. Michelle Coghlan, University of Manchester

Remaps the borders of transatlantic feeling and resituates the role of international memory in U.S. culture in the long nineteenth century and beyondIn refocusing attention on the Paris Commune as a key event in American political and cultural memory, Sensational Internationalism radically changes our understanding of the relationship between France and the United States in the long nineteenth century. It offers fascinating, accessible readings of a range of literary works, from periodical poetry and boys’ adventure fiction to radical pulp and the writings of Henry James, as well as a rich analysis of visual, print, and performance culture, from post-bellum illustrated weeklies and panoramas to agit-prop pamphlets and Coney Island pyrotechnic shows.

Paperback £19.99 I $29.95 February 2018 232 pages 18 b&w illustrations9781474411202 Also available in hardback and ebook

Edinburgh Studies in Transatlantic LiteraturesSeries Editors: Andrew Taylor, Laura Doyle and Colleen Glenney Boggs

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Literature and Music in the Atlantic World, 1767-1867 Catherine Jones

Hardback £70.00 I $1102014 288 pages9780748684618Also available in ebook

American Modernism’s Expatriate SceneDaniel Katz

Paperback £19.99 I $29.952014 198 pages9780748691210Also available in hardback and ebook

Henry James, Oscar Wilde and Aesthetic Culture Michèle Mendelssohn

Paperback £24.99 I $34.952014 328 pages9780748697533Also available in hardback and ebook

Transatlantic TranscendentalismSamantha Harvey


Atlantic CitizensLeslie Eckel


Transatlantic Avant-Gardes Eric White

Hadback £70.00 I $1102013 272 pages978074864521324 b&w illustrationsAlso available in ebook

American Travel Literature, Gendered Aesthetics and the Italian Tour, 1824-62Brigitte Bailey, University of New Hampshire

Examines tourists’ aesthetic responses in the context of US nation formationThis scholarly monograph analyses U.S. tourist writings about Italy from 1824 to 1862 to explain what roles transatlantic travel, aesthetic response, and the genre of tourist writing played in the formation of the United States. Its interdisciplinary methodology draws on antebellum visual culture, tourist practices, and shifting class and gender identities to describe tourism and tourist writing as shapers of an elite (and then normative) national subjectivity.Hardback £80.00 | $120 April 2018 320 pages 9781474432832 Also available in ebook


SERIES

Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernist CultureSeries Editor(s): Tim Armstrong and Rebecca BeasleyThis series of monographs on selected topics in modernism is designed to reflect and extend the range of new work in modernist studies. The studies in the series aim for a breadth of scope and for an expanded sense of the canon of modernism, rather than focusing on individual authors.

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Modernism EditedMarianne Moore and The Dial MagazineVictoria Bazin, Northumbria University

Examines Marianne Moore’s editorship of the modernist magazine The Dial

This book reinserts Marianne Moore into the cultural history of modernism by examining her role as editor of The Dial between 1925 and 1929, the magazine most closely associated with the rise of modernism to cultural legitimacy.

Hardback £75.00 I $120 December 2018 256 pages 2 b&w illustrations 9781474417303 Also available in ebook

Modernism and MathematicsModernist Interrelations in FictionNina Engelhardt, University of Cologne

An analysis of novelistic explorations of modernism in mathematics and its cultural interrelationsIn its interdisciplinary exploration of modernist interrelations between the surprisingly closely related fields of mathematics and literature, the book draws on prose works by mathematicians, research in the history and philosophy of mathematics, and literary scholarship.

Hardback £75.00 I $120 July 2018 256 pages 1 b&w illustration 9781474416238 Also available in ebook

Portable ModernismsThe Art of Travelling LightEmily Ridge, Education University of Hong Kong

A wide-ranging study of the rise of a new culture of portability and its impact on modernist approaches to fictionThis book examines the multifarious ways in which the emergence of a modern culture of portability prompts a radical, if often problematic, departure from Victorian architectural conceptions of fiction towards more movable understandings of form and character.

Hardback £80.00 I $120 July 2017 224 pages 10 b&w illustrations 9781474419598 Also available in ebook

Cheap ModernismExpanding Markets, Publishers’ Seriesand the Avant-GardeLise Jaillant, Loughborough University

The first sustained account of cheap series of reprints that transformed literary modernism from a little-read movement into a mainstream phenomenonDrawing on extensive work in neglected archives, Cheap Modernism will be of interest to all those who want to know how the new literature became a global commercial hit.

Hardback £75.00 I $120 April 2017 184 pages 18 b&w & 5 colour illustrations 9781474417242Also available in ebook

American Gothic CultureAn Edinburgh CompanionEdited by Jason Haslam, Dalhousie University and Joel Faflak, University of Western OntarioA new critical companion to the Gothic traditions of American CultureThis Companion surveys the traditions and conventions of the dark side of American culture – its repressed memories, its anxieties and panics, its fears and horrors, its obsessions and paranoias.

Paperback £19.99 I $29.95 August 2017 256 pages 2 b&w and 7 colour illustrations 9781474425551Also available in hardback and ebookSeries: Edinburgh Companions to the Gothic

The Many Voices of Lydia DavisTranslation, Rewriting, IntertextualityJonathan Evans, University of Portsmouth

The first in-depth analysis of Lydia Davis’s translations and writingThe Many Voices of Lydia Davis shows how translation, rewriting and intertextuality are central to the work of Lydia Davis, a major American writer, translator and essayist.

Hardback £70.00 I $120 September 2016 176 pages 9781474400176 Also available in hardback and ebookSeries: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Literary Translation


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Modern American Literature and the New Twentieth CenturySeries Editors: Martin Halliwell and Mark WhalanFocusing on perspectives that help to better understand the shifting aesthetic, historical, geographical and ideological values of the terms ‘new’ and ‘modern’, Modern American Literature and The New Twentieth takes a revisionist approach to twentieth-century literary production in the United States. edinburghuniversitypress.com/series/maltntc

Key Texts in Anti-Colonial ThoughtSeries Editor: David JohnsonThis series makes the writings of major anti-colonial intellectuals available for new audiences. Leading scholars introduce a wide variety of anti-colonial writings and demonstrate their relevance today.

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Anti-Colonial Texts from Central American Student Movements 1929–1983Edited by Heather A. Vrana, Southern Connecticut State UniversityCollects more than sixty foundational documents from student protest from the frontlines of revolutionBridging a half-century of student protest from 1929 to 1983, this source reader contains more than sixty texts from Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, and Costa Rica, including editorials, speeches, manifestos, letters, and pamphlets. Available for the first time in English, these rich texts help scholars and popular audiences alike to rethink their preconceptions of student protest and revolution. The texts also illuminate key issues confronting social movements today: global capitalism, dispossession, privatization, development, and state violence.

Paperback £29.99 I $39.95 January 2017 320 pages 9781474403696 Also available in hardback and ebook

African American Anti-Colonial Thought 1917–1937Edited by Cathy Bergin, University of Brighton

An investigation of interwar African American critiques of racism and colonialismThis volume re-publishes key texts produced by African American anti-colonial activists between 1917–1937. Some of these texts remain well-known, but many have disappeared from view and are once again re-inserted in their original polemical contexts. The context for these writings is the turbulent politics of ‘race’ in the US in the interwar years and the emergence of a particular ‘race’/class politics. The framing of the material in the book stresses those texts which are specifically concerned with finding connections between the plight of African Americans and those who suffer colonial oppression in order to emphasise the dialectical nature of anti-colonial struggle. The intention of many of these writers was to create a space for interracial class politics.


Forthcoming in the series

Writing Nature in Cold War American LiteratureSarah Daw, University of Edinburgh

Hardback £75.00 | $120 September 2018 224 pages 9781474430029 Also available in ebook

Ordinary Pursuits in American Writing after ModernismRachel Malkin, University of Oxford

Hardback £80.00 | $120 December 2018 264 pages 15 b&w illustrations 9781474431255 Also available in ebook

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Short Fiction and American Popular CultureFrom Ragtime to Swing TimeJade Broughton Adams, Independent Scholar

Hardback £75.00 | $120 December 2018 224 pages 9781474424684 Also available in ebook

The Big Red Little MagazineNew Masses: 1926–1948Susan Currell, University of Sussex

Hardback £80.00 | $120 December 2018 264 pages 9781474423502 Also available in ebook


KEY FIGURES

In the Archive of LongingSusan Sontag’s Critical ModernismMena Mitrano, Loyola University Chicago

Reads modernism and theory through Susan Sontag’s archiveThis adventurous critical inquiry into Sontag’s archive illuminates the intimate link between modernism and theory while also providing a fascinating reintroduction to these two movements and concepts. Mena Mitrano explores three core ideas in this study: the confusion of terms between modernism and theory; the concept of an ‘unwritten theory’ suggested by Sontag’s subterranean engagement with the foremost theorists of our time (Derrida, Foucault, Deleuze, Lacan, Jameson and others) in the rawness of her journals and notebooks; and Sontag’s identity as a non-traditional philosopher, through the extraordinary discipleship to Walter Benjamin. The book is driven by new archival research and will have a multi-layered impact, changing our perception of Sontag as a post-Cold War public intellectual as well as interrogating key concepts in the Humanities.

Paperback £19.99 I $29.95 August 2017 224 pages 14 b&w illustrations 978 1 4744 2560 5 Also available in hardback and ebook

Vital SteinGertrude Stein, Modernism and LifeSarah Posman, Ghent University

Unpacks the entanglements between early-twentieth-century philosophical debate on the concept of life and Gertrude Stein’s modernist projectModernism is associated with energy and vitality but what is modernist understanding of ‘life’? Curiously enough, modernist critics tended to sidestep the concept of life. There are books about modernism and death, studies that address everyday life or mediated life, but not life. In early-twentieth-century philosophy, life was nevertheless a keyword replacing the concepts that had determined older debates, such as God, Spirit, Nature, and Reason. Vital Stein outlines the debate on the concept of life, which tends to come with romantic entanglements, and relates it to modernist writing. The study zeroes in on Gertrude Stein, who wanted to capture ‘this thing life’ in writing, and shows that the problems Stein tackles in her work intersect with a mix of early-twentieth-century philosophical projects, including hermeneutics, process philosophy, and language philosophy.

Hardback £75.00 I $120 November 2018 256 pages 9781474425353 Also available in ebook

The Politics of Kathy AckerRevolution and the Avant-GardeEmilia Borowska, Royal Holloway, University London

The first in-depth study of revolution and the avant-garde in Kathy Acker’s novels and essaysThis is the first study to situate Acker’s novels and essays within the context of revolutionary tradition, and to argue for her revolutionary significance The triumph of conservatism in the West in the 1980s resulted in a series of proclamations of various deaths and defeats: of the avant-garde, of the American Left, of political agency, with revolution now being disqualified as a means of social transformation. But to Kathy Acker (1947-1997), one of the most significant figures of American literary neo-avant-garde, forgetting the revolutionary past and giving up on attempts to challenge the unjustness of the status quo is a kind of death. This book examines how Acker puts the historical context of revolutions such as the Paris Commune, Algerian War, the Haitian Revolution, the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917, May 1968 in France, the legacy of American radicalism, and insurgencies against totalitarian Stalinist regimes in Eastern Europe, along with the avant-gardes that accompanied them, to work within her radical political agenda. Moving beyond the parameters of poststructural theory, the study employs a philosophical category of the event and explores her politics in four major conceptual areas: the revolutionary event, the avant-garde, political subjectivity, and artistic responsibility.

Hardback £80.00 | $120 November 2018 264 pages 9781474424653 Also available in ebook


KEY FIGURES

Elizabeth BishopLines of ConnectionLinda Anderson, Newcastle University

A new reading of Elizabeth Bishop’s work ranging across archival, historical and theoretical materialsLinda Anderson explores Elizabeth Bishop’s poetry, from her early days at Vassar College to her last great poems in Geography III and the later uncollected poems. Drawing generously on Bishop’s notebooks and letters, the book situates Bishop both in her historical and cultural context and in terms of her own writing process, where the years between beginning a poem and completing it, for which Bishop is legendary, are seen as a necessary part of their composition. The book begins by offering a new reading of Bishop’s relationship with Marianne Moore and with modernism. Through her journeys to Europe Bishop, it is also argued, learned a great deal from visual artists and from surrealism. However the book also follows the way Bishop came back to memories of her childhood, developing ideas about narrative, in order to explore time, both the losses it demands and the connections it makes possible.

Paperback £24.99 I $39.95 2015 192 pages 12 b&w illustrations 9781474402361 Also available in hardback and ebook

Kathy AckerWriting the ImpossibleGeorgina Colby, University of Westminster

An in-depth analysis of the work of one of the twentieth century’s most innovative writersKathy Acker’s body of work is one of the most significant collections of experimental writing in English. In Kathy Acker: Writing the Impossible, Georgina Colby explores Acker’s compositional processes and intricate experimental practices, from early poetic exercises written in the 1970s to her final writings in 1997. Through original archival research, Colby traces the stages in Acker’s writing and draws on her knowledge of unpublished manuscripts, notebooks, essays, illustrations, and correspondence to produce new ways of reading Acker’s works. Rather than treating Acker as a postmodern writer this book argues that Acker continued a radical modernist engagement with the crisis of language, and carried out a series of experiments in composition and writing that are comparable in scope and rigor to her modernist predecessors Stein and Joyce.

Paperback £19.99 I $29.95 February 2017 312 pages 12 colour illustrations 9780748683505 Also available in hardback and ebook

Fighting FranceFrom Dunkerque to BelfortEdith WhartonEdited by Alice Kelly, Yale UniversityA new edition of Edith Wharton’s war reportage from the First World WarEdith Wharton was one of the first woman writers to be allowed to visit the war zones in France. This resulting collection of 6 essays presents a fascinating and unique perspective on wartime France by one of America’s great novelists. Written with Wharton’s distinctive literary skills to advocate American intervention in the war, this little-known war text demonstrates that she was a complex and accomplished propagandist.

Hardback £70.00 I $110 2015 224 pages 38 b&w and 1 colour illustration 9781474406925 Also available in ebook

Muriel Rukeyser and DocumentaryThe Poetics of ConnectionCatherine Gander, Queen’s University Belfast

Provides a new perspective on the documentary diversity of Muriel Rukeyser’s work and influencesThis study of twentieth-century American poet Muriel Rukeyser explores the multiple avenues of her ‘poetics of connection’ to reveal a profound engagement with the equally intertextual documentary genre.

Hardback £65.00 I $110 2013 256 pages 12 b&w illustrations 9780748670536 Also available in ebook


POETRY & WRITING

American Poetry of the Modernist TraditionA Study of Short FormWilliam Montgomery, Royal Holloway, University of London

A ground-breaking analysis of short form in American poetry of the Modernist lineDiscussion of the modernist line in American 20th century and contemporary poetry has been dominated by such long-form monuments as Pound’s Cantos, Williams’s Paterson, and Olson’s Maximus. This study analyses and discusses a countervailing tradition of short-form work. Beginning with imagism, it argues that the short and short-lined poem is a central feature of American 20th-century poetry, lacking neither the intellectual ambition nor the expressive range of the well known epics. The counter-tradition it suggests runs from imagism through such key figures as Williams, Oppen, Niedecker, Creeley and Grenier, to the recent Pulitzer prize-winner Rae Armantrout. It thus suggests a reappraisal of such key movements as objectivism, Black Mountain poetry and language writing, and opens new lines of discussion around the major poets of the period.

Hardback £75.00 I $120 July 2018 248 pages9780748695324 Also available in ebook

The American Short Story CycleJennifer J. Smith, Franklin College

Constructs a history of community, family and temporality in American culture through one of the nation’s most popular, yet unrecognized genresThe American Short Story Cycle spans two centuries to tell the history of a genre that includes both major and marginal authors, from Washington Irving through William Faulkner to Jhumpa Lahiri. The short story cycle rose and proliferated because its form compellingly renders the uncertainties that emerge from the twin pillars of modern America culture: individualism and pluralism. Short story cycles reflect how individuals adapt to change, whether it is the railroad coming to the small town in Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio (1919) or social media revolutionizing language in Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad (2010). Combining new formalism in literary criticism with scholarship in American Studies, this book gives a name and theory to the genre that has fostered the aesthetics of fragmentation, as well as recurrence, that characterize fiction today.

Hardback £75.00 I $120 December 2017 192 pages9781474423939 Also available in ebook

Letter Writing Among PoetsFrom William Wordsworth to Elizabeth BishopEdited by Jonathan Ellis, University of SheffieldThe first book to look at poets’ letters seriously as an art formFifteen enlightening chapters by leading international biographers, critics and poets examine letter writing among poets in the last two hundred years. They range from Coleridge, Wordsworth, Keats and Shelley in the nineteenth-century to Eliot, Yeats, Bishop and Larkin in the twentieth. In doing so, they respond to the following questions. Who are the great letter writers of the past? Why is reading other people’s mail so addictive? What is the relationship between letter writing and other literary genres such as poetry? Divided into three sections—Contexts and Issues, Romantic and Victorian Letter Writing, and Twentieth-Century Letter Writing—the volume demonstrates that real letters still have an allure that virtual post struggles to replicate.

Paperback £19.99 I $29.95 2016 264 pages 1 b&w illustration 9781474414128 Also available in hardback and ebook


POETRY & WRITING

Writing for The New YorkerCritical Essays on an American PeriodicalEdited by Fiona M. Green, University of CambridgeOriginal critical essays on an iconic American periodical, providing new insights into twentieth-century literary cultureThis collection of newly commissioned critical essays reads across and between New Yorker departments, from sports writing to short stories, cartoons to reporters at large, poetry to annals of business. Attending to the relations between these kinds of writing and the magazine’s visual and material constituents, the collection examines the distinctive ways in which imaginative writing has inhabited the ‘prime real estate’ of this enormously influential periodical. In bringing together a range of sharply angled analyses of particular authors, styles, columns, and pages, this book offers multiple perspectives on American writing and periodical culture at specific moments in twentieth-century history.

Hardback £70.00 I $110 2015 272 pages 16 b&w illustrations 9780748682492 Also available in ebook

Crisis and the US Avant-GardePoetry and Real PoliticsBen Hickman, University of Kent

Charts the energies and tensions of avant-garde poetics and vanguard politicsCrisis and the US Avant-Garde examines the politics of poetry through the lens of crisis. A timely commentary on the role poetic culture might play in political struggle going forward into our own various contemporary crises, the book connects major twentieth-century poets and movements, including Allen Ginsberg, Amiri Baraka and Language Poetry, with their various moments of political upheaval. Reading poems as attempted interventions in ‘turning-points’ or ‘moments of decision’ within American culture, Crisis and the US Avant-Garde looks at how poetry seeks to go beyond poetic language, and investigates how experimental American poetry has attempted to responds to imperialism, war, class conflict and capitalism itself.

Hardback £70.00 I $110 2015 208 pages 1 b&w illustration 9780748682850 Also available in ebook

Darwin’s BardsBritish and American Poetry in the Age of EvolutionJohn Holmes, University of Birmingham

How the most powerful and perceptive British and American poets grapple with the questions raised by DarwinismWith more than 50 complete poems and wide-ranging extracts from several more, this substantial volume shows how poets responded to the discovery of evolution, from Alfred Tennyson, Robert Browning and Thomas Hardy, through Robert Frost and Edna St Vincent Millay, to Ted Hughes, Thom Gunn, Amy Clampitt, Pattiann Rogers and Edwin Morgan. Written as much for scientists, philosophers and ecologists as poets, critics and students of literature, Darwin’s Bards is a timely intervention in today’s debates surrounding Darwin’s legacy for the distinct, yet related worlds of religion, ecology and the arts.

The book will appeal to readers for its discussion of the existential implications of Darwinism, for its close readings of poetry, and for the reprinted poems themselves.



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Contemporary American Trauma NarrativesAlan Gibbs, University College Cork

Examines the representation of trauma in contemporary American fiction and non-fictionThis book looks at the way writers present the effects of trauma in their work. It explores narrative devices, such as ‘metafiction’, as well as events in contemporary America, including 9/11, the Iraq War, and reactions to the Bush administration. Contemporary American authors who are discussed in depth include Joseph Heller, Kurt Vonnegut, Toni Morrison, Tim O’Brien, Lorrie Moore, Mark Danielewski, Art Spiegelman, Jonathan Safran Foer, Anthony Swofford, Evan Wright, Paul Auster, Philip Roth and Michael Chabon. Contemporary American Trauma Narratives offers a timely and dissenting intervention into debates about American writers’ depiction of trauma and its after-effects.


The Call of Classical Literature in the Romantic AgeEdited by Kevin Van Anglen, Boston University and James Engell, Harvard UniversityRe-establishes the enduring presence and value of classical literature in the Romantic eraThe Call of Classical Literature in the Romantic Age reveals the extent to which writers now called romantic venerate and use classical texts to transform lyric and narrative poetry, the novel, mythology, politics, and issues of race and slavery, as well as to provide models for their own literary careers and personal lives. On both sides of the Atlantic the classics—including the surprising influence of Hebrew, regarded as a classical language—play a major role in what becomes labeled romanticism only later in the nineteenth century.

The relation between classic and romantic is not one of opposition but subtle interpenetration and mutual transformation. While romantic writers regard what they are doing as new, this attitude in no way prompts them to abjure valuable lessons of genre, expression, and judgment flowing from the classical authors they love. This volume disturbs categories that have become too settled.

Hardback £80.00 I $120 October 2017 360 pages 1 b&w illustration 9781474429641 Also available in ebook

The Aesthetics of Joe BrainardYasmine Shamma, Florida Atlantic University

The first examination of the avant-grade textual and visual works and practices of Joe BrainardThese critical essays together with personal reflections from fellow second generation New York School poets provides readers with new perspectives and fresh analyses of Joe Brainard’s works. The pages of First and Second Generation New York School poetry are so frequently lined with and bound by Joe Brainard’s artwork. In this way, Brainard’s work occupies the literal margins of New York School poetry, while also figuratively influencing the aesthetic ones. Brainard was not only a majorly marginal illustrator and friend to many New York School poets, he was also an avid letter writer, collage artist, miniature artist, cartoonist, and serious poet. As the canon of avant-garde American poetry uniquely embraces this artist as poet posthumously with warmth, the field of literary criticism is eager to meet the enthusiasm for Brainard’s literary contribution with sophisticated scholarship which accounts for both his textual and visual nuances. This collection offers the first place for Brainard’s poetry, collaborations, and art to be read as major in contribution and influence.

Hardback £75.00 | $120 October 2018 224 pages 36 colour illustrations 9781474436663 Also available in ebook


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ContaminationsBeyond Dialectics in Modern Literature, Science and FilmMichael Mack, Durham University

Introduces the figure of contamination as alternative to dialecticsThis book enquires into the problem of various oppositions between pure entities such as nature and society, body and mind, science and the arts, subjectivity and objectivity. It examines how works of literature and cinema have contaminated constructions of the pure and the immune with their purported opposite. As an advanced critical introduction to the figure of contamination, the book makes explicit what so far has remained unarticulated − what has only been implied − within postmodern, poststructuralist and deconstructive theory.

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Paperback £19.99 I $29.95 August 2017 240 pages9781474425599 Also available in hardback and ebook

AnimalitiesLiterary and Cultural Studies Beyond the HumanEdited by Michael Lundblad, University of OsloNew and cutting-edge work in animality studies, human-animal studies, and posthumanismRepresentations of animality continue to proliferate in various kinds of literary and cultural texts. This pioneering volume explores the critical interface between animal and animality studies, marking out the terrain in relation to twentieth-century literature and film. The range of texts considered here is intentionally broad, answering questions like, how do contemporary writers such as Amitav Ghosh, Terry Tempest Williams, and Indra Sinha help us to think about not only animals but also humans as animals? What kinds of creatures are being constructed by contemporary artists such as Patricia Piccinini, Alexis Rockman, and Michael Pestel? How do ‘animalities’ animate such diverse texts as the poetry of two women publishing under the name of ‘Michael Field’, or an early film by Thomas Edison depicting the electrocution of a circus elephant named Topsy? Connecting these issues to fields as diverse as environmental studies and ecocriticism, queer theory, gender studies, feminist theory, illness and disability studies, postcolonial theory, and biopolitics, the volume also raises further questions about disciplinarity itself, while hoping to inspire further work ‘beyond the human’ in future interdisciplinary scholarship.

Hardback £80.00 I $120 June 2017 256 pages 19 colour illustrations 9781474400022 Also available in ebook

Replication in the Long Nineteenth CenturyRe-makings and ReproductionsEdited by Julie Codell, Arizona State University and Linda Hughes, Texas Christian UniversityStudies replication in Victorian Britain in art, literature, science, social science and humanitiesThis landmark study establishes replication as a nineteenth-century phenomenon. This innovative collection maps the term’s rich uses and associations and thereby demonstrates that replica/replication is also a forerunner of our contemporary digital culture and physical and biological systems. To clarify this crucial point we explore a range of re-makings and their venues—markets, schools, museums, collections—and the differing cultural and market values placed on replicated objects in the nineteenth century. In doing so, we identify replication as a key dimension of nineteenth-century culture that bears directly on the present as well.

Hardback £80.00 I $120 June 2018 304 pages 56 b&w illustrations 9781474424844 Also available in ebook

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