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The Fall of Language in the Age of English (New in Paperback)MINAE MIZUMURA • Lays bare the struggle to retain the brilliance

of one’s own language in this period of English-language dominance.

• Minae Mizumura acknowledges the value of a universal language, yet embraces the different ways of understanding offered by multiple tongues, incorporating her own experiences as a writer and a lover of language, and embedding a parallel history of Japanese.

• Acclaimed for her audacious experimentation and skillful storytelling, Mizumura has won major literary awards for all four of her novels—one of which, A True Novel, was recently published in English.

“A stirring call to consciousness about the role of language.... For English speakers, the book presents an important opportunity to walk in someone else’s shoes.”—Publishers Weekly

Pbk | 240pp | 9780231163033 | 2016.12 Columbia University Press | A$46.95 | NZ$52.95 229x152mm | USA

Monet: The Early YearsGEORGE SHACKELFORD, RICHARD SHIFF, RICHARD THOMSON, ANTHEA CALLEN AND MARY DESMARAIS • This elegant volume is the first to be

devoted to the young genius of Claude Monet (1840-1926).

• Bringing together the greatest paintings from his early career, it features essays by distinguished scholars, focusing on the evolution of Monet’s own distinctive mode of painting.

• Through the 1860s, the young painter absorbed and transformed a variety of influences, from the lessons of the Barbizon school and his mentor Boudin to the challenges posed by his friends Manet, Pissarro, Renoir, and Sisley.

• Artistic innovation and personal ambition shaped the work of the celebrated impressionist painter from the very start of his long and illustrious career.

Anthea Callen is professor emeritus of the Australian National University and professor emeritus of visual culture, University of Nottingham.

Hbk | 320pp | 9780300221855 | 2017.01 Kimbell Art Museum | A$65 | NZ$75 280x241mm | UK

Merlin: Knowledge and Power through the Ages (New in Paperback)STEPHEN KNIGHT

• As Knight sees it, Merlin embodies the contentious duality inherent to organized societies.

• In tracing the applied meanings of knowledge in a range of social contexts, Knight reveals the four main stages of the Merlin myth: Wisdom (early Celtic British), Advice (medieval European), Cleverness (early modern English), and Education (worldwide since the nineteenth century).

• If a wizard can be captured within the pages of a book, Knight has accomplished the feat.

Stephen Knight has held positions at a number of overseas universities as well as at the University of Sydney and ANU. He is currently at the University of Melbourne.“Knight frames Merlin’s career in terms of the different functions he performs in successive periods. . . . Knight ends his history with a brief but heartfelt warning that the dialectical relationship between knowledge and truth and the public institutions of power remains crucial to both the academy and to the health of the body politic.”—Times Literary Supplement

Pbk | 296pp | 9781501705694 | 2016.12 Cornell University Press | A$41.95 | NZ$46.95 235x155mm | USA

Wherever You Find People: The Radical Schools of Oscar Niemeyer, Darcy Ribeiro, and Leonel BrizolaABERRANT ARCHITECTURE, DAVID CHAMBERS AND KEVIN HALLEY • Documents a unique experimental public

education project in Rio de Janeiro—the Integrated Centres of Public Education (CIEP), a radical but relatively unstudied public architecture initiative in Rio de Janeiro in 1982.

• Features hardly known architecture by Oscar Niemeyer, Darcy Ribeiro and Leonel Brizola.

• Presents previously unpublished material and new essays.

• 25 color plates and 45 halftones.

Pbk | 176pp | 9783038600268 | 2016.12 Park Books | A$69 | NZ$78 241x165mm | USA

NEW RELEASESHumanities and the Arts

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Make sure you check out Treasures from the Map Room on the back of the trade kit. A must have book

for Christmas. “A superb achievement… both playful and profound, this book captures the humanity of

maps to tell us not just where we are, but also who we are.” – Jerry Brotton

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ANTHROPOLOGYFrom Site to Sight: Anthropology, Photography, and the Power of Imagery, Thirtieth Anniversary EditionMELISSA BANTA, CURTIS HINSLEY WITH JOAN O’DONNELL From Site to Sight is a foundational text for scholars and students of visual anthropology, illustrating the history, uses—and misuses—of photographic imagery in anthropology and archaeology. Long out of print, this classic publication is now available in an enhanced thirtieth anniversary edition with a new introductory essay by Ira Jacknis. 32 color illustrations, 115 halftones, 4 line illustrations and 1 map.

Pbk | 144pp | 9780873658676 | 2016.12 Peabody Museum Press | A$69 | NZ$79 279x216mm | USA

Race and SocietyTINA PATELRace and Society is a thoughtful and critically engaging exploration of some of the key issues around race and racialisation, which have arisen in what is considered to be a highly diverse and complex society. The book embodies a progressive approach emphasising the social construction of race issues within a post-racial era, moving away from essentialist and polarized explanations of raced interaction. Race and Society is packed with topical examples and international case studies to engage students, along with chapter summaries, study questions and further reading.

Pbk | 200pp | 9781446287392 | 2016.12 Sage Publications Ltd | A$64 | NZ$72 UK

ARCHAEOLOGYAbusir: The Necropolis of the Sons of the SunMIROSLAV VERNERAt the center of the world-famous pyramid field of the Memphite necropolis lies a group of pyramids, temples, and tombs named after the nearby village of Abusir. Long overshadowed by the more familiar pyramids at Giza and Saqqara, this area has nonetheless been the site, for the last fifty years, of an extensive operation to discover its past. This thoroughly updated in-depth study documents the uncovering by a dedicated team of Czech archaeologists of a hitherto neglected wealth of ancient remains dating from the Old Kingdom to the Late Period. This is Abusir, realm of Osiris, God of the dead, and its story is one of both modern archaeology and the long-buried mysteries that it seeks to uncover. 25 color illustrations and line drawings.

Hbk | 352pp | 9789774167904 | 2016.12 The American University in Cairo Press A$69 | NZ$78 | 230x150mm | UK

ARCHITECTURECentre Pompidou: Renzo Piano, Richard Rogers, and the Making of a Modern MonumentFRANCESCO DAL COThis lively intellectual biography of the Centre Pompidou building explores its history and the reasons for its success, from its genesis as a politically calculated response to Paris’s turbulent 1968 student protests to the role played by architects in its construction, as well as the historical influences and the engineering solutions that inform its design. A key reason for the Centre Pompidou’s success indeed lies in its ability to channel architectural memory, connecting it powerfully to Paris’s historic urban fabric. This essential text on one of the twentieth century’s most significant buildings is accompanied by a portfolio of rare drawings and photographs. 43 color and 89 black and white illustrations.Great Architects/Great Buildings.

Hbk | 168pp | 9780300221299 | 2017.01 Yale University Press | A$42.95 | NZ$47.95 229x178mm | UK

The New Space: Movement and Experience in Viennese Modern ArchitectureCHRISTOPHER LONGScholars have long explored the problem of ornament and expression when considering Viennese modernism. By the first decade of the 20th century, however, the avant-garde had shifted its focus from the surface to the interior. Adolf Loos (1870–1933), together with Josef Frank (1885–1967) and Oskar Strnad (1879–1935), led this generation of architects to interpret modernism through culture and lifestyle. They were interested in the experience of architectural space: how it could be navigated, inhabited, and designed to reflect the modern way of life while also offering respite from it. The New Space traces the theoretical conversation about space carried out in the writings and built works of Loos, Frank, and Strnad over four decades. 130 color and 114 black and white illustrations.

Hbk | 264pp | 9780300218282 | 2017.01 Yale University Press | A$101 | NZ$115 267x235mm | UK

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ARTAlbert Oehlen: Woods Near Oehle (Multimedia Boxed Set)RETO THURING, ALBERT OEHLEN, MICHAEL WERTMÜLLER AND CHRISTOPHER WILLIAMSThis multimedia boxed set presents a sweeping look at work by pioneering German painter Albert Oehlen (b. 1954), one of the most energetic and significant artists working today. Deeply influenced by literature, music, film, and graphic design, Oehlen’s paintings are the result of a complex layering of methods, subject matter, and viewpoints. This distinctive set contains a catalogue of the winter 2016--17 exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art as well as an anthology of texts and images edited by Christopher Williams, a poster, and a vinyl record with a new work by composer and musician Michael Wertmüller, reflecting Oehlen’s singular approach to art-making and the collaborative nature of this publication. 70 color illustrations.

Kit | 104pp | 9780300218404 | 2017.01 The Cleveland Museum of Art | A$136 | NZ$154 305x238mm | UK

Aleksandr Zhitomirsky: Photomontage as a Weapon of World War II and the Cold WarERIKA WOLFThe leading Russian propaganda artist Aleksandr Zhitomirsky (1907-1993) made photomontages that were airdropped on German troops during World War II. He later worked for Pravda and other leading publications, satirizing American politics and finance from the Truman through the Reagan eras and educating his public about Egypt, South Africa, Vietnam, and Nicaragua as well. In this comprehensive, image-driven account of Zhitomirsky’s long career, Erika Wolf explores his connections to and long friendship with the German artist John Heartfield, whose work inspired his own. Wolf also examines more than 100 of Zhitomirsky’s photomontages and translates excerpts from his one published book, The Art of Political Photomontage: Advice for the Artist (1983). 300 color illustrations.Erika Wolf is associate professor of history and art history at the University of Otago.

Hbk | 368pp | 9780300219180 | 2017.01 Art Institute of Chicago | A$96 | NZ$109 305x229mm | UK

American Silver in the Art Institute of ChicagoELIZABETH MCGOEYThe history of American silver offers invaluable insights into the economic and cultural history of the nation itself. Published here for the first time, the Art Institute of Chicago’s superb collection embodies innovation and beauty from the colonial era to the present. This beautifully illustrated volume presents highlights from the collection with stunning photography and entries from leading specialists. In-depth essays relate a fascinating story about eating, drinking, and entertaining that spans the history of the Republic and traces the development of the Art Institute’s holdings of American silver over nearly a century. 200 color illustrations.

Hbk | 224pp | 9780300222364 | 2017.01 Art Institute of Chicago | A$73 | NZ$82 305x241mm | UK

The Concrete Body: Yvonne Rainer, Carolee Schneemann, Vito AcconciELISE ARCHIASOffering an incisive rejoinder to traditional histories of modernism and postmodernism, this original book examines the 1960s performance work of three New York artists who adapted modernist approaches to form for the medium of the human body. Finding parallels between the tactility of a drip of paint and a body’s reflexive movements, Elise Archias argues convincingly that Yvonne Rainer (b. 1934), Carolee Schneemann (b. 1939), and Vito Acconci (b. 1940) forged a dialogue between modernist aesthetics and their own artistic community’s embrace of all things ordinary through work that explored the abstraction born of the body’s materiality. 36 color and 93 black and white illustrations.


Epic Tales from Ancient India: Paintings from The San Diego Museum of ArtMARIKA SARDARExploring the topic of narrativity in Indian art, this beautiful and deeply researched book considers illustrations to the Bhagavata Purana, the Ramayana, the Ragamala, and a range of texts in the Persian language, notably the Shahnama. Featuring stunning reproductions of paintings made between the 16th and 19th centuries from the Edwin Binney 3rd Collection at The San Diego Museum of Art, the publication includes thorough and fascinating explanations of the narrative of each text, including how that narrative is visually conveyed. Essays examine why these particular stories are so enduring, why patrons may have chosen to have a copy of a particular text made for their own collections, and how artists responded to the challenge of creating new versions of venerable classics. 127 colour illustrations.

Hbk | 156pp | 9780300223729 | 2017.01 San Diego Museum of Art | A$61 | NZ$69 254x254mm | UK

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Explodity – Sound, Image, and Word in Russian Futurist Book ArtNANCY PERLOFFThe artists books made in Russia between 1910 and 1915 are like no others. Unique in their fusion of the verbal, visual, and sonic, these books are meant to be read, looked at, and listened to. Painters and poets including Natalia Goncharova, Velimir Khlebnikov, Mikhail Larionov, Kazimir Malevich, and Vladimir Mayakovsky collaborated to fabricate hand-lithographed books, for which they invented a new language called “zaum” (a neologism meaning beyond the mind), which was distinctive in its emphasis on sound as such and its rejection of definite logical meaning. At the heart of this volume are close analyses of two of the most significant and experimental futurist books: Mirskontsa (Worldbackwards) and Vzorval (Explodity).


John Lockwood Kipling: Arts and Crafts in the Punjab and LondonJULIUS BRYANT AND SUSAN WEBERJohn Lockwood Kipling (1837–1911) started his career as an architectural sculptor at the South Kensington Museum (today the Victoria and Albert Museum). Much of his life, however, was spent in British India, where his son Rudyard was born. He taught at the Bombay School of Art and later was appointed principal of the new Mayo School of Art (today Pakistan’s National College of Art and Design) as well as curator of its museum in Lahore. Over several years, Kipling toured the northern provinces of India, documenting the processes of local craftsmen, a cultural preservation project that provides a unique record of 19th-century Indian craft customs. This is the first book to explore the full spectrum of artistic, pedagogical, and archival achievements of this fascinating man of letters, demonstrating the sincerity of his work as an artist, teacher, administrator, and activist. 700 color and 37 black and white illustrations.

Hbk | 602pp | 9780300221596 | 2017.01 Bard Center | A$111 | NZ$127 279x216mm | UK

Lasting Impressions: The Legacies of Impressionism in Contemporary CultureJESSE MATZImpressionism captured the world’s imagination in the late nineteenth-century. Portraying the sensations left behind as modernity progressed, impressionist artists revolutionized the arts and the wider culture. Impressionism transformed painting and literature, and later film and advertising, and introduced new ways to look at and think about objects. Its legacy can be felt in a range of examples in popular and high culture, from cubism and the works of Zadie Smith and W. G. Sebald to advertisements for Pepsi and the observations of Oliver Sacks and Malcolm Gladwell. Yet despite impressionism’s ongoing aesthetic and cultural domination, the movement has also been associated with superficiality and commodified kitsch. Jesse Matz considers these two versions of impression—the timeless and the negative—to explain the genre’s significance today.Literature Now.

Hbk | 368pp | 9780231164061 | 2016.12 Columbia University Press | A$108 | NZ$122 229x152mm | USA

The Learned Draftsman – Edme BouchardonEDOUARD KOPPThe celebrated French artist Edme Bouchardon (1698 1762) is primarily known as a sculptor today, but his contemporaries widely lauded him as a draftsman as well. This is the first book-length work devoted to the artist’s draftsmanship since 1910. Ambitious in scope, this volume offers a compelling narrative that effectively covers four decades of Bouchardon’s activity as a draftsman from his departure for Rome in 1723 as an aspiring student to his death in Paris in 1762, by which time he was one of the most renowned artists in Europe. His accomplished and dynamic style is analyzed and copiously illustrated in a series of five interrelated chapters that serve as case studies, each of which focuses on a coherent group of drawings from a particular period of Bouchardon’s career. 105 color and 46 black and white illustrations.

Hbk | 336pp | 9781606065044 | 2016.12 J. Paul Getty Museum | A$90 | NZ$102 250x150mm | UK

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Life at the End of Life: Finding Words Beyond WordsMARCIA BRENNANArtist and scholar Marcia Brennan serves as Artist in Residence at the M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, and the experience of seeing, close-up, the transitional states and transformational visions involved in the approaching end of life raised countless questions about the intersection of life, death, and art. Those questions are at the heart of this unique book. Bridging disparate fields, including art history, medical humanities, and religious studies, Life at the End of Life explores the ways in which art can provide a means for rendering otherwise abstract, deeply personal, and spiritual experiences vividly concrete and communicable, even as they remain open-ended and transcendent. In the face of death, suffering, and uncertainty, Brennan shows how artistic expression can offer valuable aesthetic and metaphysical avenues for understanding and for making meaning. 24 halftones.

Pbk | 200pp | 9781783206971 | 2016.12 Intellect Ltd | A$63 | NZ$72 229x178mm | USA

The Ormesby Psalter: Patrons and Artists in Medieval East AngliaFREDERICA LAW-TURNERThe Ormesby Psalter is one of the most well-known yet mysterious manuscripts to survive the Middle Ages. Manuscript expert Frederica C. E. Law-Turner places the psalter within a wider historical context and then deciphers its lush illuminations—scenes that vary wildly in tone from the comic to the bawdy to the mythic. Full-colour photographs illustrate the text’s many characters: falcons and hunting dogs at bay, kings and courtesans, and other animals dressed in human garb. Created over a period of decades by previously unrecognized scribes and artists, the Ormesby Psalter is an exceptional amalgam of medieval art and history. For scholars of medieval life, as well as art historians, this new study will be an invaluable resource. 70 colour illustrations.

Pbk | 224pp | 9781851243105 | 2016.12 Bodleian Library | A$71 | NZ$81 276x192mm | UK

Paul Nash: Outline, An AutobiographyDAVID BOYD HAYCOCKPaul Nash (1889-1946) was one of the most important British artists of the twentieth century and an official war artist in both the First and the Second World Wars. This new edition of Nash’s unfinished autobiography, Outline, is published to coincide with the Tate’s major Paul Nash retrospective. When eventually published in 1949 his incomplete memoir was supplemented by letters that Nash wrote to his wife from the Western Front in 1917. This new edition includes these letters for the vivid insight they give into Nash’s experience of the war. Also included is Margaret Nash’s revealing (and previously unpublished) 1951 memoir of her husband. What emerges through these different narrative voices and perspectives, enhanced with photographs of Paul and Margaret Nash and reproductions of key works from throughout Nash’s career, is a fascinating portrait of a major figure in Modern British art. 14 colour and 9 black and white illustrations.

Hbk | 280pp | 9781848221888 | 2016.10 Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd | A$73 | NZ$83 234x153mm | UK

Tapestries in the Burrell CollectionELIZABETH CLELAND AND LORRAINE KARAFELThe magnificent collection of some 200 European, mainly medieval, tapestries acquired by Glasgow shipping magnate Sir William Burrell (1861–1958) is one of the largest and most important tapestry collections in the world. The result of a three-year research project, this highly illustrated scholarly catalogue provides full details of place and date of production, materials and technique, provenance and exhibition history. The work will become a benchmark for future research and interpretation of tapestries of the period. 475 colour illustrations.

Hbk | 696pp | 9781781300503 | 2016.12 Philip Wilson Publishers Ltd | A$268 | NZ$305 287x240mm | UK

Towards an Aesthetics of ProductionSEBASTION EGENHOFERThroughout the twentieth century, art history has been too narrowly focused on formalism. As a result, analyses regularly reduced works of art to their materials, texture, and composition. By contrast, art historian Sebastian Egenhofer takes Gilles Deleuze’s readings of Spinoza, Nietzsche, and Bergson as the basis for a new resistance to the overly reductive account of art history. After laying out his argument for a new aesthetics of production in introductory chapters that discuss the work of Spinoza, Nietzsche, and Bergson, as well as Heidegger and Kant, Egenhofer applies this theoretical framework to case studies on Michael Asher, Marcel Duchamp, Thomas Hirschhorn, and Piet Mondrian. An aesthetics of production does not, he argues, imply a nostalgia for the artisanal or for a work of art’s singularity, but a way to bring together elements of critical materialism with a thorough reevaluation of the modern art and abstraction. 48 halftones.

Pbk | 208pp | 9783037348857 | 2016.12 Diaphanes | A$53.95 | NZ$62 241x161mm | USA

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BIOGRAPHYIma Hogg: The Extraordinary Cultural Patron behind the Unusual NameDAVID WARRENIma Hogg (1882–1975) was a philanthropist who left her mark on Texas through dedicated support of the arts, education, and mental health. In this engaging biography, David B. Warren paints an intimate portrait of an extraordinary woman through extensive archival research and insights gleaned from years of working by Hogg’s side. Excerpts from Hogg’s personal journals and letters, plus images from her life and photographs of landmark artworks she collected, enrich the narrative. This fascinating book celebrates Hogg’s legacy and her enduring impact on the cultural climate of an entire state. 17 color and 13 black and white illustrations.

Hbk | 256pp | 9780300222975 | 2016.12 Museum Fine Arts Houston | A$49.95 | NZ$56.95 241x165mm | UK

CULTURAL STUDIESForever Stardust: David Bowie Across the UniverseWILL BROOKERMost of the many books about David Bowie track his artistic ‘changes’ chronologically throughout his career. This book, uniquely, examines Bowie’s ‘sameness’: his recurring themes, images, motifs and concepts as an artist, across all his creative work, from lyrics and music through to costumes, storyboards, films, plays and painting.‘Forever Stardust combines over four decades of criticism and biography into a lucid, compelling study. It is an intelligent and nuanced look at an artist whose total achievement is only now beginning to be discovered.’ - Chris O’Leary, author, Pushing Ahead of the Dame and Rebel Rebel‘This book truly has it all about David Bowie, the man who mesmerized me at my final callback for his new musical, Lazarus. Will Brooker reminds me of David in his earlier years...this is intriguing and exciting research.’ - Sophia Anne Caruso, lead actor in David Bowie and Enda Walsh’s LazarusWill Brooker is Professor of Film and Cultural Studies at Kingston University in London. His research into David Bowie for this book involved a year of immersion in Bowie’s styles, influences and experiences and has attracted international media attention.

Pbk | 256pp | 9781784531423 | 2016.12 I.B. Tauris | A$28.95 | NZ$31.95 216x138mm | UK

The Health of Newcomers: Immigration, Health Policy, and the Case for Global SolidarityPATRICIA ILLINGWORTH AND WENDY PARMETIn The Health of Newcomers, Patricia Illingworth and Wendy E. Parmet demonstrate how shortsighted and dangerous it is to craft health policy on the basis of ethnocentrism and xenophobia. Because health is a global public good and people benefit from the health of neighbor and stranger alike, it is in everyone’s interest to ensure the health of all. Drawing on rigorous legal and ethical arguments and empirical studies, as well as deeply personal stories of immigrant struggles, Illingworth and Parmet make the compelling case that global phenomena such as poverty, the medical brain drain, organ tourism, and climate change ought to inform the health policy we craft for newcomers and natives alike.

Hbk | 320pp | 9780814789216 | 2016.12 NYU Press | A$82 | NZ$93 229x152mm | USA

DESIGNHot Metal : Material Culture and Tangible LabourJESSE STEINThe world of work is tightly entwined with the world of things. Hot metal illuminates connections between design, material culture and labour between the 1960s and the 1980s, when the traditional crafts of hot-metal typesetting and letterpress were finally made obsolete with the introduction of computerised technologies. This multidisciplinary history provides an evocative rendering of design culture by exploring an intriguing case: a doggedly traditional Government Printing Office in Australia. It explores the struggles experienced by printers as they engaged in technological retraining, shortly before facing factory closure.

Jesse Adams Stein is Chancellor’s Research Fellow in the School of Design at the University of Technology, Sydney.

Hbk | 232pp | 9781784994341 | 2016.10 Manchester University Press A$163 | NZ$185 | UK

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Johnston and Gill: Very British Types MARK OVENDENEdward Johnston (1872–1944) and Eric Gill (1882–1940) were originators of two of the world’s most enduring typefaces. This book celebrates their significant contribution to Britain’s visual culture. Tracing the story of each typeface from inception to the present day, Mark Ovenden skilfully draws together a complex joint history that incorporates Edward Johnston’s and Eric Gill’s friendship and occasional collaboration, the myriad of revisions to both typeface designs, and the enduring appeal of the two typefaces over the last century among a range of clients, most notably the London Underground (Johnston) and the BBC (Gill Sans). Including rarely seen imagery, this fascinating book is must for all typography, design and cultural history enthusiasts. 300 colour and black and white illustrations.

Hbk | 200pp | 9781848221765 | 2016.11 Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd | A$93 | NZ$104 250x195mm | UK

FICTIONIda MayMARY HAYDEN GREEN PIKEThe sentimental antislavery novel Ida May appeared so like its predecessor in the genre, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, that for the month of November 1854 reviewers looked for Harriet Beecher Stowe’s hand in the narrative. Ida May explores the “possibility” of white slavery from the safety of an exciting, romantic narrative; Ida is kidnapped on her fifth birthday from her white middle-class family in Pennsylvania, stained brown, and sold into slavery in the South. Traumatic amnesia brought about by a severe beating keeps her from knowing whom she really is, until after five years in slavery, her identity is recovered in a dramatic flash of recognition. To the abolitionists of the period, fictional narratives of white enslaved children offered a crucial possibility: to unsettle the legitimacy of a race-based system of enslavement. The historical appendices to this Broadview Edition provide context for the novel’s reception, Pike’s racial politics, and the “problem” of white slavery in nineteenth-century abolitionist writing.

Pbk | 400pp | 9781554812257 | 2016.10 Broadview Press | A$44.95 | NZ$51.95 216x140mm | USA

The Travels of Hildebrand BowmanLANCE BERTELSENThe Travels of Hildebrand Bowman is an eponymous novel purportedly written by a midshipman left behind in New Zealand’s Queen Charlotte Sound after escaping the infamous Grass Cove massacre. The protagonist is a midshipman on HMS Adventure, the ship that accompanied Cook’s Resolution on his second voyage around the world. The two ships become separated off New Zealand, leading to a group of seamen being sent from the Adventure to gather wild greens at Grass Cove, where they are killed by Maori. The fictional Hildebrand escapes because he has gone off hunting. The remainder of the novel traces his travels through six fictional islands in the South Pacific; echoing eighteenth-century stadial theory, these societies represent human culture gradually ascending from brutish insensibility to the primitive savagery to idealized pastoral economy. The novel is a unique hybrid of historical events and the cultural satire of such works as Gulliver’s Travels.


FILMDreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905-2016 CHRISSIE ILESThis generously illustrated publication surveys the work of filmmakers and artists who have pushed the material and conceptual boundaries of cinema. Over the past century, the material, optical, abstract, spatial, and tactile properties of film have been tested at a level of experimentation and utopian ambition that is generally unrecognized. Whether creating synesthetic or 3-D environments, projective or non-projective installations, generations of leading-edge artists have explored how technology transforms experience. The essays published here offer an intensive look at the themes of cinematic space, formats of the screen, animation and CGI, the body and the cyborg, and the materiality of film. An immersive plate section brings together rarely seen and previously unpublished stills, in addition to concept drawings from historic and contemporary films. 300 color and 100 black and white illustrations.

Hbk | 256pp | 9780300221879 | 2017.01 The Whitney Museum of American Art A$92 | NZ$104 | 305x254mm | UK

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Ms. 45ALEXANDRA HELLER-NICHOLASDespite its association with the broadly disparaged rape-revenge category, Abel Ferrara’s Ms. 45 is today considered one of the most significant feminist cult films of the 1980s. Straddling mainstream, arthouse, and exploitation film contexts, Ms. 45 is a potent case study for cult film analysis. At its heart lie two figures: Ferrara himself, and the movie’s star, the iconic Zoe Lund, who would further collaborate with Ferrara on later projects such as Bad Lieutenant. This book explores the entwining histories and contexts that led to Ms. 45’s creation and helped establish its enduring legacy, particularly in terms of feminist cult film fandom, and the film’s status as one of the most important, influential, and powerful rape-revenge films ever made.Cultographies.Alexandra Heller-Nicholas is a film critic, writer, and academic from Melbourne, and a co-editor of the film journal Senses of Cinema.

Pbk | 128pp | 9780231179850 | 2016.12 Wallflower Press | A$27.95 | NZ$31.95 229x152mm | USA

Sofia Coppola: A Cinema of GirlhoodFIONA HANDYSIDESofia Coppola is widely regarded as one of the most astute, provocative and visionary directors in the contemporary film industry. From The Virgin Suicides to The Bling Ring, her work carves out new spaces for the expression of female subjectivity that embraces rather than rejects femininity. Fiona Handyside here considers the careful counter-balance of vulnerability with the possibilities and pleasures of being female in Coppola’s films – albeit for the white and the privileged – through their recurrent themes of girlhood, fame, power, sex and celebrity. Chapters reveal a post-feminist aesthetic that offers sustained, intimate engagements with female characters. These characters inhabit luminous worlds of girlish adornments, light and sparkle and yet find homes in unexpected places from hotels to swimming pools, palaces to strip clubs: resisting stereotypes and the ordinary.

Pbk | 224pp | 9781784537159 | 2016.12 I.B. Tauris | A$37.95 | NZ$42.95 234x156mm | UK

FOODJikifu: A Japanese Aesthetics of TasteSHINICHIRO OGATAWashoku, or Japanese cuisine, was registered for the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritages Program in 2013. Its transient beauty, with natural ingredients, refined techniques, and spatial sense, has been the object of Shinichiro Ogata’s work throughout his career. In this beautifully produced book, he demonstrates the modern, innovative, but truly traditional aesthetic of washoku, as curated for the University Museum of the University of Tokyo. This collection of photography of Japanese cuisine, with ingredients and selected tablewares by Shinichiro Ogata, a prominent designer who works on Japan’s total art of washoku, conveys the aesthetic principles of the pinnacles of Japanese culinary achievements. 100 illustrations.

Hbk | 160pp | 9784130802192 | 2016.09 University of Tokyo Press | A$151 | NZ$171 295x198mm | USA

GENDER STUDIESThe Mary Daly ReaderMARY DALYOutrageous, humorous, inflammatory, Amazonian, intellectual, provocative, controversial, and a discoverer of Feminist word-magic, Mary Daly’s influence on Second Wave feminism was enormous. This text has been crafted to be accessible to a broad readership, without diluting Daly’s witty but complicated vocabulary. Begun in collaboration with Daly while she was still alive, and completed after her death in 2010, the chapters in this book will surprise even those who thought they knew her work. They contain highlights from Mary Daly’s published works over a forty-year span, including her major books Beyond God the Father, Gyn/Ecology, and Pure Lust, as well as smaller articles and excerpts, with additional contributions from Robin Morgan and Mary E. Hunt.

Pbk | 464pp | 9781479877768 | 2016.12 NYU Press | A$69 | NZ$78 229x152mm | USA

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Misogyny Online: A Short (and Brutish) HistoryEMMA JANEMisogyny Online explores the worldwide phenomenon of gendered cyberhate as a significant discourse which has been overlooked and marginalised. The rapid growth of the internet has led to numerous opportunities and benefits; however, the architecture of the cybersphere offers users unprecedented opportunities to engage in hate speech. A leading international researcher in this field, Emma A. Jane weaves together data and theory from multiple disciplines and expresses her findings in a style that is engaging, witty and powerful. Misogyny Online is an important read for students and faculty members alike across the social sciences and humanities. Sage Swifts.Emma Jane is a Senior Research Fellow in the School of the Arts and Media at the University of New South Wales. She is co-author, with Chris Barker, of the 5ed of Cultural Studies: Theory and Practice.“If R.D. Laing was correct in saying “few books are forgivable,” then it’s surely the case that fewer still are necessary. This book is. Emma Jane has taken some well-worn media and cultural studies orthodoxies and subjected them to a series of trenchant, persuasive, and often laugh-out-loud criticisms. People analysing cybersphere culture and discourse cannot afford to ignore this book.” — Chris Fleming, Western Sydney University “Misogyny online: a short (and brutish) history is a rigorous, necessary and at times terrifying exploration of one of the most pressing and rapidly growing forms of harassment and abuse of women and girls today. Dr Jane’s interrogation of the rhetoric of sexualised, gendered violence and the rise of multi-perpetrator attacks on individual women using digital technology is a must-read for a greater understanding of this phenomenon and its impact on democracy, culture and the individual.” — Tara Moss, UNICEF National Ambassador for Child Survival, feminist commentator and human rights advocate

Hbk | 152pp | 9781473916005 | 2016.10 Sage Publications Ltd | A$94 | NZ$107 UK

Stripped: More Stories from Exotic Dancers, Completely Revised and UpdatedBERNADETTE BARTONIn this completely revised and updated edition, Barton returns to the strip clubs she originally studied to observe the major changes in the industry that have occurred over the last decade. She examines how “raunch culture” affects exotic dancers’ treatment by their clientele, who are now accustomed to seeing nudity and sexualized performance in accessible, R and X -rated media from a variety of outlets, particularly the Internet. Barton explores how new media has transformed exotic dancing, allowing dancers to build an online brand, but also introducing possibilities for customers to take unauthorized nude photos and videos of the entertainers. And finally, Barton speaks to new dancers as well as dancers she interviewed in the previous edition, examining how the toll of stripping still impacts the lives of exotic dancers in a changing industry.

Pbk | 256pp | 9781479815692 | 2016.12 NYU Press | A$48.95 | NZ$54.95 229x152mm | USA

Tainted Witness: Why We Doubt What Women Say About Their LivesLEIGH GILMORETainted Witness elucidates how persistent and pernicious patterns of doubt attach to women who bring forward accounts of sexual and racial violence. Reactions to Anita Hill’s testimony as well as Rigoberta Menchu’s account of genocide in Guatemala, contemporary memoirs that chronicle experiences of gendered and racialized violence, and news stories like Nafissatou Diallo’s claim that Dominique Strauss-Kahn raped her, demonstrate the reflexive processes of judgment that discredit women’s complex accounts of harm, both in legal courts and courts of public opinion. Leigh Gilmore examines what happens when women’s testimony is discredited, but also traces the circulation of testimony beyond the frame of scandal and its capacity to bear witness anew.Gender and Culture Series.

Hbk | 224pp | 9780231177146 | 2016.12 Columbia University Press | A$54.95 | NZ$62 229x152mm | USA

HISTORYAgainst the Grain: The British Far Left from 1956 (New in Paperback)EVAN SMITH AND MATTHEW WORLEYAgainst the grain is the first general history of the British far left to be published in the twenty-first century. Its contents cover a range of organisations beyond the Labour Party, bringing together leading experts on British left-wing politics to examine issues of class, race and gender from 1956 to the present day. The essays collected here are designed to highlight the impact made by the far left on British politics and society. Though the predicted revolution did not come, organisations such as the International Socialists, the International Marxist Group and Militant became household names in the 1970s and 1980s. Taken as a whole, the collection demonstrates the extent to which the far left has weaved its influence into the political fabric of Britain.Evan Smith is a Vice-Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of International Studies at Flinders University.

Pbk | 288pp | 9781526107343 | 2016.12 Manchester University Press A$47.95 | NZ$53.95 | 234x156mm | UK

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Assassination of a Saint: The Plot to Murder Oscar Romero and the Quest to Bring His Killers to JusticeMATT EISENBRANDTOn March 24, 1980, the assassination of El Salvador’s Archbishop Oscar Romero rocked that nation and the world. Despite the efforts of many in El Salvador and beyond, those responsible for Romero’s murder were never punished for their heinous crime. Assassination of a Saint is the thrilling story of an international team of lawyers, private investigators, and human-rights experts that fought to bring justice for the slain hero. Matt Eisenbrandt, a young lawyer who was part of the investigative team, recounts in this gripping narrative how he and his colleagues interviewed eyewitnesses and former members of death squads while searching for evidence on those who financed them. As they worked towards the only court verdict ever reached for the martyred archbishop’s murder, they uncovered information with profound implications for El Salvador and the United States to this day.

Pbk | 256pp | 9780520286801 | 2016.12 University of California Press A$49.95 | NZ$56.95 | 229x152mm | USA

The Birth of Comedy: Texts, Documents, and Art from Athenian Comic Competitions, 486–280 (New in Paperback)JEFFREY RUSTENAside from the well-known plays of Aristophanes, many of the comedies of ancient Greece are known only through fragments and references written in Greek. Now a group of distinguished scholars brings these nearly lost works to modern readers with lively English translations of the surviving texts. The main text is supplemented by an introduction assessing the fragments’ contributions to the political, social, and theatrical history of classical Athens and more than forty illustrations of comic scenes, costumes, and masks. A glossary of komoidoumenoi—the ancient word for “people mentioned in comedies”—provides background information on the most notorious comic victims. A full index includes not only authors, play titles, and persons mentioned, but themes from the whole Greek comic sphere (including politics, literature and philosophy, celebrities and social scandals, cookery and wine, sex, and wealth). 42 halftones.

Pbk | 816pp | 9781421421186 | 2017.01 Johns Hopkins University Press | A$103 | NZ$116 254x178mm | USA

Erotic Exchanges: The World of Elite Prostitution in Eighteenth-Century Paris (New in Paperback)NINA KUSHNERIn Erotic Exchanges, Nina Kushner reveals the complex world of elite prostitution in eighteenth-century Paris by focusing on the professional mistresses who dominated it. In this demimonde, these dames entretenues exchanged sex, company, and sometimes even love for being “kept.” Most of these women entered the profession unwillingly, either because they were desperate and could find no other means of support or because they were sold by family members to brothels or to particular men. A small but significant percentage of kept women, however, came from a theater subculture that actively supported elite prostitution. Kushner shows that in its business conventions, its moral codes, and even its sexual practices, the demimonde was an integral part of contemporary Parisian culture.

Pbk | 312pp | 9781501705700 | 2016.12 Cornell University Press | A$48.95 | NZ$54.95 235x155mm | USA

Of G-Men and Eggheads: The FBI and the New York IntellectualsJOHN RODDENIn Of G-Men and Eggheads, Rodden portrays the hilarious obsession of federal agents with monitoring that ever-present threat to national security, the American literary intellectual. Drawing on government dossiers and archives, Rodden focuses on the onetime members of a radical political sect of ex-Trotkyists (barely numbering a thousand at its height), the so-called New York intellectuals. He describes the nonsensical pursuit over decades of this group of intellectuals, especially Lionel Trilling, Dwight Macdonald, and Irving Howe. The Keystone Cops style of numerous FBI agents is documented carefully in Rodden’s meticulous case studies of how Hoover’s men recruited informants to snoop on the “Commies,” opened their personal mail, tracked their movements, and reported on their wives and friends.

Pbk | 152pp | 9780252081941 | 2017.01 University of Illinois Press | A$36.95 | NZ$41.95 228x152mm | USA


The Popes and Britain: A History of Rule, Rupture and ReconciliationSTELLA FLETCHERWhen the British thought of themselves as a Protestant nation their natural enemy was the pope and they adapted their view of history accordingly. In contrast, Rome’s perspective was always considerably wider and its view of Britain was almost invariably positive, especially in comparison to medieval emperors, who made and unmade popes, and post-medieval Frenchmen, who treated popes with contempt. As the twenty-first-century papacy looks ever more firmly beyond Europe, this new history examines political, diplomatic and cultural relations between the popes and Britain from their vague origins, through papal overlordship of England, the Reformation and the process of repairing that breach.

Hbk | 320pp | 9781784534936 | 2016.12 I.B. Tauris | A$46.95 | NZ$51.95 216x138mm | UK

The Rise and Fall of Owain Glyndwr: England, France and Welsh Rebellion in the Middle AgesGIDEON BROUGHOwain Glyndwr is a towering figure in Welsh history. He was the warrior who led the Welsh Revolt and the last war of Welsh independence (1400-1415). He defeated Henry IV’s army, was a worthy opponent of the king’s champion, the legendary Henry Percy - ‘Hotspur’ – and last native Welshman to bear the title Prince of Wales. He held court at Harlech and envisioned an independent Welsh state and church with national universities. Yet Glyndwr’s success was short-lived - his ultimate defeat at the hands of the English saw the final abandonment of the Welsh cause by France and his own disappearance into an unmarked grave. Gideon Brough here provides a new biography of this iconic man – as military leader, diplomat, medieval statesman and staunch Welsh nationalist.

Hbk | 320pp | 9781784535933 | 2016.12 I.B. Tauris | A$58.95 | NZ$67 216x138mm | UK

LITERARY CRITICISMDavid Foster Wallace’s Balancing Books: Fictions of Value JEFFREY SEVERSThe writing of David Foster Wallace transformed the root and branch of contemporary fiction, introducing a formal inventiveness that moved authors away from an emotionless postmodern irony. Critics have pointed to Wallace’s exploration of morality and a return to sincerity as the central concerns of his work. However, as Jeffrey Severs argues in David Foster Wallace’s Balancing Books, the author was also deeply engaged with the social, political, and economic issues of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Explaining why Wallace’s work has galvanized a new phase in contemporary global literature, Severs draws connections to key forerunners Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, and William Gaddis, as well as successors—including Dave Eggers, Teddy Wayne, Jonathan Lethem, and Zadie Smith.

Hbk | 304pp | 9780231179447 | 2016.12 Columbia University Press | A$66 | NZ$74 229x152mm | USA

Polysituatedness: A poetics of displacementJOHN KINSELLAThis book is concerned with the complexities of defining ‘place’, of observing and ‘seeing’ place, and how we might write a poetics of place. From Kathy Acker to indigenous Australian poet Jack Davis, the book touches on other writers and theorists, but in essence is a hands-on ‘praxis’ book of poetic practice. The work extends John Kinsella’s theory of ‘international regionalism’ and posits new ways of reading the relationship between place and individual, between individual and the natural environment, and how place occupies the person as much as the person occupies place. It provides alternative readings of writers through place and space, especially Australian writers, but also non-Australian.Angelaki Humanities.John Kinsella is Professor of Literature and Sustainability at Curtin University.

Hbk | 416pp | 9781526113344 | 2016.12 Manchester University Press A$168 | NZ$190 | UK

LITERATURECivil DisobedienceHENRY DAVID THOREAUIn 1848 and again in 1849, Henry David Thoreau delivered a lecture in Concord, Massachusetts on “the relationship of the individual to the state.” The essay now known as Civil Disobedience is a significant and widely admired contribution to abolitionist literature, as well as an anti-war tract, but Thoreau’s focus is less on political organization and solidarity than it is on personal choice and individual responsibility. Robert Pepperman Taylor’s new Introduction explains the work’s specific political context, helping readers to understand the text as Thoreau wrote it. The edition also offers a number of historical documents on Thoreau’s abolitionism; the United States’ war with Mexico; and Thoreau’s philosophical development in relation to other thinkers.


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Exemplary NovelsMIGUEL DE CERVANTESThe twelve novellas gathered together in Exemplary Novels reveal the extraordinary breadth of Cervantes’s imagination: his nearly limitless ability to create characters, invent plots, and entertain readers across continents and centuries. Edith Grossman’s eagerly awaited translation brings this timeless classic to English-language readers in an edition that will delight those already familiar with Cervantes’s work as well as those about to be enchanted for the first time. The Margellos World Republic of Letters.

Hbk | 448pp | 9780300125863 | 2017.01 Yale University Press | A$49.95 | NZ$56.95 229x152mm | UK

PERFORMANCE STUDIESPerforming the Digital: Performance Studies and Performances in Digital CulturesTIMON BEYES, MARTINA LEEKER AND IMANUEL SCHIPPERHow is performativity shaped by digital media – and how do performance practices themselves reflect and alter techno-social configurations? Performing the Digital inquires into the technological terms and conditions of performance and performance studies and maps and theorizes the registers of performance at work in digital cultures. The contributions range from the performativity of algorithms and digital devices to the modulation of affect, atmospheres, and the body; from performing cities, protest, organization, and the economy to the scholarly performances of research.Digital Society.

Pbk | 300pp | 9783837633559 | 2016.11 Transcript-Verlag | A$81 | NZ$93 226x147mm | USA

POETRYThe Poem Is You: Sixty Contemporary American Poems and How to Read Them STEPHEN BURTThe variety of contemporary American poetry leaves many readers overwhelmed. The critic, scholar, and poet Stephen Burt sets out to help. Beginning in the early 1980s, where critical consensus ends, he presents 60 poems, each with an original essay explaining how the poem works, why it matters, and how it speaks to other parts of art and culture.

Hbk | 432pp | 9780674737877 | 2016.08 Belknap Press | A$62 | NZ$69 235x156mm | USA

SOCIOLOGYThe Zero Trimester: Pre-Pregnancy Care and the Politics of Reproductive RiskMIRANDA WAGGONERA healthy pregnancy is now defined well before pregnancy even begins. Public health messages promote pre-pregnancy health and health care by encouraging reproductive-age women to think of themselves as mothers before they think of themselves as women. This happens despite little evidence that such an approach improves maternal and child health. This book examines the dramatic shift in ideas about reproductive risk and birth outcomes over the last several decades, unearthing how these ideas intersect with the politics of women’s health and motherhood at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

Pbk | 270pp | 9780520288072 | 2016.12 University of California Press A$51.95 | NZ$56.95 | 210x140mm | USA

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