Fall 2016 Catalog

The Ohio State University Press
Fall 2016

Fall 2016 Catalog	The Gentleman from Ohio Louis Stokes with David Chanoff Foreword by Congressman John Lewis	Lustron Stories Charles Mintz
The Ohio State University in the Sixties: The Unraveling of the Old Order William J. Shkurti	Columbus, Ohio: Two Centuries of Business and Environmental Change Mansel G. Blackford	Wild, Wild Erie: Poems Inspired by Paintings and Sculpture in the Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio Paul Durcan
Financial Basics: A Money-Management Guide for Students, 2nd Edition Susan Knox	La Verdad: An International Dialogue on Hip Hop Latinidades Edited by Melissa Castillo-Garsow and Jason Nichols	Mama’s Gun: Black Maternal Figures and the Politics of Transgression Marlo D. David
A Passion for Specificity: Confronting Inner Experience in Literature and Science Marco Caracciolo and Russell T. Hurlburt Foreword by Eric Schwitzgebel	The Writer in the Well: On Misreading and Rewriting Literature Gary Weissman	Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction and the Decline of Moral Authority Susanna Lee
Waiting for the Sky to Fall: The Age of Verticality in American Narrative Ruth Mackay	Clashing Convictions: Science and Religion in American Fiction Albert H. Tricomi	Victorians Reading the Romantics: Essays by U. C. Knoepflmacher U. C. Knoepflmacher Edited by Linda M. Shires
The Religion of Empire: Political Theology in Blake’s Prophetic Symbolism G. A. Rosso	Chaucer on Screen: Absence, Presence, and Adapting the Canterbury Tales Edited by Kathleen Coyne Kelly and Tison Pugh Foreword by Terry Jones	Chaucer, Gower, and the Affect of Invention Steele Nowlin
Fragments for a History of a Vanishing Humanism Edited by Myra Seaman and Eileen A. Joy	Alliterative Proverbs in Medieval England: Language Choice and Literary Meaning Susan E. Deskis

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Don’t Kill Your Baby: Public Health and the Decline of Breastfeeding in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Jacqueline H. Wolf	Making Midwives Legal: Childbirth, Medicine and the Law, 2nd Edition Raymond G. Devries	Any Friend of the Movement: Networking for Birth Control, 1920–1940 Jimmy Elaine Wilkinson Meyer
Lake Effects: A History of Urban Policy Making in Cleveland, 1825–1929 Ronald R. Weiner	Thomas Worthington: Father of Ohio Statehood Alfred Byron Sears	Violent Death in the City: Suicide, Accident, and Murder in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia, 2nd Edition Roger Lane
Silent City on a Hill: Landscapes of Memory and Boston’s Mount Auburn Cemetery Blanche Linden-Ward	Tito: Yugoslavia’s Great Dictator, A Reassessment Stevan K. Pavlowitch	Making Iron and Steel: Independent Mills in Pittsburgh, 1820–1920 John N. Ingham
Authorizing Policy Thad Hall	Reforming Parliamentary Committees: Israel in Comparative Perspective Reuven Y. Hazan	Senates: Bicameralism in the Contemporary World Edited by Samuel C. Patterson and Anthony Mughan
Citizens as Legislators: Direct Democracy in the United States Edited by Shaun Bowler, Todd Donovan, and Caroline J. Tolbert	International Relations and Scientific Progress: Structural Realism Reconsidered Patrick James	Challenging Parties, Changing Parliaments: Women and Elected Office in Contemporary Western Europe Miki Caul Kittilson
The British Conservative Party in the Age of Universal Suffrage: Popular Conservatism, 1918–1929 Neal R. McCrillis	Race, Labor, and Punishment in the New South Martha A. Myers	Men and Violence: Gender, Honor, and Rituals in Modern Europe and Ameria Edited by Pieter Spierenburg
Desire in the Canterbury Tales Elizabeth Scala	Truth and Tales: Cultural Mobility and Medieval Media Edited by Fiona Somerset and Nicholas Watson	Ancient Sex: New Essays Edited by Ruby Blondell and Kirk Ormand Epilogue by David M. Halperin
Antiquarian Voices: The Roman Academy and the Commentary Tradition on Ovid’s Fasti Angela Fritsen	Tarpeia: Workings of a Roman Myth Tara S. Welch	Varro the Agronomist: Political Philosophy, Satire, and Agriculture in the Late Republic Grant A. Nelsestuen
Prophetic Visions of the Past: Pan-Caribbean Representations of the Haitian Revolution Victor Figueroa	Neoliberal Bonds: Undoing Memory in Chilean Art and Literature Fernando A. Blanco	In Search of an Alternative Biopolitics: Anti-Bullfighting, Animality, and the Environment in Contemporary Spain Katarzyna Olga Beilin
Secular Scriptures: Modern Theological Poetics in the Wake of Dante William Franke	Puritanism and Modernist Novels: From Moral Character to the Ethical Self Lynne W. Hinojosa	Imagined Spiritual Communities in Britain’s Age of Print Joshua King
Novel Nostalgias: The Aesthetics of Antagonism in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature John Funchion	Redrawing French Empire in Comics Mark McKinney	Disappear Here: Violence After Generation X Naomi Mandel
Ethics and the Dynamic Observer Narrator: Reckoning with Past and Present in German Literature Katra A. Byram	The Chartist Imaginary: Literary Form in Working-Class Political Theory and Practice Margaret A. Loose	Narrative Paths: African Travel in Modern Fiction and Nonfiction Kai Mikkonen
Mutha’ Is Half a Word: Intersections of Folklore, Vernacular, Myth, and Queerness in Black Female Culture L. H. Stallings	Fashioning Celebrity: Eighteenth-Century British Actresses and Strategies for Image Making Laura Engel	Ordinary Pleasures: Couples, Conversation, and Comedy Kay Young
Harlan Ellison: The Edge of Forever Ellen Weil and Gary K. Wolfe	Invisible Author: Last Essays Christine Brooke-Rose	A Glance Beyond Doubt: Narration, Representation, Subjectivity Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan
Centennial Buckeye Cook Book Introduction and appendixes by Andrew F. Smith	When Kids Go to College: A Parent’s Guide to Changing Relationships Barbara M. Newman and Philip R. Newman	Welcome to Heights High: The Crippling Politics of Restructuring America’s Public Schools Diana Tittle