The Ohio State University Press


Literary Studies Catalog 2007–2008



Everything Lost: The Latin American Notebook of William S. Burroughs
Edited by Geoffrey D. Smith, John M. Bennett, and Oliver Harris

 

expected
January 2008

The Academic Community: A Manual for Change
Donald E. Hall
African American
Mutha’ Is Half a Word: Intersections of Folklore, Vernacular, Myth, and Queerness in Black Female Culture
L. H. Stallings
Gender/Women’s Studies
African American

Prisons, Race, and Masculinity in Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature and Film
Peter Caster
Gender/Women’s Studies
African American

Afro-Future Females: Black Writers Chart Science Fiction's Newest New-Wave Trajectory
Edited by Marleen S. Barr
Gender/Women’s Studies
Galactic Suburbia: Recovering Women’s Science Fiction
Lisa Yaszek
African American
The Black Aesthetic Unbound: Theorizing the Dilemma of Eighteenth-Century African American Literature
April C. E. Langley
America’s Gothic Fiction: The Legacy of Magnalia Christi Americana
Dorothy Z. Baker
Seeing Red: Anger, Sentimentality, and American Indians
Cari M. Carpenter
Reading London: Urban Speculation and Imaginative Government in Eighteenth-Century Literature
Erik Bond
Scotland, Britain, Empire: Writing the Highlands, 1760–1860
Kenneth McNeil
Victorian Studies
The Citizen’s Body: Desire, Health, and the Social in Victorian England
Pamela K. Gilbert
Victorian Studies
Victorian Freaks: The Social Context of Freakery in Britain
Edited by Marlene Tromp

both available
Spring 2008

Victorian Studies
Crime in Verse: The Poetics of Murder in the Victorian Era
Ellen L. O’Brien
Victorian Studies
Gender/Women’s Studies
Home Economics: Domestic Fraud in Victorian England
Rebecca Stern


expected
May 2008
Victorian Studies
Masked Atheism: Catholicism and the Secular Victorian Home
Maria LaMonaca
Victorian Studies
Gender/Women’s Studies
The Woman Painter in Victorian Literature
Antonia Losano

expected
March 2008
Modernist Heresies: British Literary History, 1883–1924
Damon Franke
Gender/Women’s Studies
Disciplining Love: Austen and the Modern Man
Michael Kramp
Gender/Women’s Studies
Little Songs: Women, Silence, and the Nineteenth-Century Sonnet
Amy Christine Billone
Victorian Studies
Performing the Victorian: John Ruskin and Identity in Theater, Science, and Education
Sharon Aronofsky Weltman
Victorian Studies
Problem Novels: Victorian Fiction Theorizes the Sensational Self
Anna Maria Jones
The Novel and the Menagerie: Totality, Englishness, and Empire
Kurt Koenigsberger
Folklore in New World Black Fiction: Writing and the Oral Traditional Aesthetics
Chiji Akọma
The Chekhovian Intertext: Dialogue with a Classic
Lyudmila Parts
The Artistic Censoring of Sexuality: Fantasy and Judgment in the Twentieth Century Novel
Susan Mooney
Gender/Women’s Studies
Adventures of the Spirit: The Older Woman in the Works of Doris Lessing, Margaret Atwood, and Other Contemporary Women Writers
Edited by Phyllis Sternberg Perrakis
Gender/Women’s Studies
Textual Contraception: Birth Control and Modern American Fiction
Beth Widmaier Capo
Narrative Theory
Experiencing Fiction: Judgments, Progressions, and the Rhetorical Theory of Narrative
James Phelan



expected
February 2008

Narrative Theory
Joseph Conrad: Voice, Sequence, History, Genre
Edited by Jakob Lothe, Jeremy Hawthorn, James Phelan
Narrative Theory
The Rhetoric of Fictionality: Narrative Theory and the Idea of Fiction
Richard Walsh
Classics
Feeling History: Lucan, Stoicism, and the Poetics of Passion
Francesca D’Alessandro Behr
Classics
The Ghosts of the Past: Latin Literature, the Dead, and Rome’s Transition to a Principate
Basil Dufallo
Classics
Postmodern Spiritual Practices: The Construction of the Subject and the Reception of Plato in Lacan, Derrida, and Foucault
Paul Allen Miller
Gender/Women’s Studies
Traveling Economies: American Women’s Travel Writing
Jennifer Bernhardt Steadman
Poetry/Short Stories
Empire Burlesque
Mark Svenvold
Poetry/Short Stories
True Kin
Ric Jahna
Language Files: Materials for an Introduction to Language and Linguistics, 10th Edition
Department of Linguistics, The Ohio State University

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Clyde de L. Ryals  Becoming Browning: The Poems and Plays of Robert Browning, 1833–1846
John Harold Wilson  Medieval and Renaissance
Court Satires of the Restoration
Judson Boyce Allen and Theresa Anne Moritz  Medieval and Renaissance
A Distinction of Stories: The Medieval Unity of Chaucer’s Fair Chain of Narratives for Canterbury
Katherine H. Burkman  The Dramatic World of Harold Pinter: Its Basis in Ritual
Suzette A. Henke  Joyce’s Moraculous Sindbook: A Study of Ulysses
Joan DeJean  Libertine Strategies: Freedom and the Novel in Seventeenth-Century France
Olin H. Moore  The Legend of Romeo and Juliet
Fulgentius
Translated from the Latin with Introductions by Leslie George Whitbread
  Classics
The Mythographer
James Phelan  Narrative Theory
Narrative as Rhetoric: Technique, Audiences, Ethics, Ideology
Robert B. Pierce  Medieval and Renaissance
Shakespeare’s History Plays: The Family and the State
Phoebe S. Spinrad  Medieval and Renaissance
The Summons of Death on the Medieval and Renaissance English Stage
Clyde de L. Ryals  Victorian Studies
A World of Possibilities: Romantic Irony in Victorian Literature

BACKLIST BESTSELLERS

The Academic Self: An Owner’s Manual
Donald E. Hall
African American
Kinds of Blue: The Jazz Aesthetic in African American Narrative
Jürgen E. Grandt
African American
Re-Forming the Past: History, The Fantastic, and the Postmodern Slave Narrative
A. Timothy Spaulding
The Dangerous Lover: Gothic Villains, Byronism, and the Nineteenth-Century Seduction Narrative
Deborah Lutz

   

Victorian Studies
Gender/Women’s Studies
The Imagination of Class: Masculinity and the Victorian Urban Poor
Dan Bivona and Roger B. Henkle
Bastards and Foundlings: Illegitimacy in Eighteenth-Century England
Lisa Zunshine
Victorian Studies
Gender/Women’s Studies
Feminist Realism at the Fin de Siècle: The Influence of the Late-Victorian Woman’s Press on the Development of the Novel
Molly Youngkin
Victorian Studies
Victorian Sensations: Essays on a Scandalous Genre
Edited by Kimberly Harrrison and Richard Fantina
    Victorian Studies
Detecting the Nation: Fictions of Detection and the Imperial Venture
Caroline Reitz
Victorian Studies
Novel Professions: Interested Disinterest and the Making of the Professional in the Victorian Novel
Jennifer Ruth
Victorian Studies
Lost Causes: Historical Consciousness in Victorian Literature
Jason B. Jones
Victorian Studies
The Old Story, with a Difference: Pickwick’s Vision
Julian Wolfreys
Gender/Women’s Studies
African American

Middle Passages and the Healing Place of History: Migration and Identity in Black Women’s Literature
Edited by Elizabeth Brown-Guillory
Gender/Women’s Studies
The Economics of Fantasy: Rape in Twentieth-Century Literature
Sharon Stockton
Narrative Theory
Unnatural Voices: Extreme Narration in Modern and Contemporary Fiction
Brian Richardson

   

Narrative Theory
Why We Read Fiction: Theory of Mind and the Novel
Lisa Zunshine
Classics
Gender/Women’s Studies
Desiring Rome: Male Subjectivity and Reading Ovid’s Fasti
Richard J. King
Classics
The Iuvenilia of Marc-Antoine Muret
With a translation, introduction, notes, and commentary by Kirk M. Summers
Classics
Reading Thucydides
James V. Morrison
Cross-Cultural Visions in African American Modernism: From Spatial Narrative to Jazz Haiku
Yoshinobu Hakutani
Gender/Women’s Studies
Soft in the Middle: The Contemporary Softcore Feature in Its Contexts
David Andrews
Interrogating Orientalism: Contextual Approaches and Pedagogical Practices
Edited by Diane Long Hoeveler and Jeffrey Cass

   

Gender/Women’s Studies
Consuming Fantasies: Labor, Leisure, and the London Shopgirl, 1880–1920
Lise Shapiro Sanders
The Reverend Mark Twain: Theological Burlesque, Form, and Content
Joe B. Fulton
Victorian Studies
Deciphering Race: White Anxiety, Racial Conflict, and the Turn to Fiction in Mid-Victorian English Prose
Laura Callanan
Elusive Childhood: Impossible Representations in Modern Fiction
Susan Honeyman
    A Thousand Words: Portraiture, Style, and Queer Modernism
Jaime Hovey
A Superficial Reading of Henry James: Preoccupations with the Material World
Thomas J. Otten
Hawthorne and the Real: Bicentennial Essays
Edited by Millicent Bell
Poetry/Short Stories
Innocence
Jean Nordhaus
Poetry/Short Stories
Mexico Is Missing: And Other Stories
J. David Stevens
African American
“In the Light of Likeness—Transformed”: The Literary Art of Leon Forrest
Dana A. Williams
Victorian Studies
Allegories of One’s Own Mind: Melancholy in Victorian Poetry
David G. Riede
Narrative Theory
Narrative Causalities
Emma Kafalenos
The Crisis of Action in Nineteenth-Century English Literature
Stefanie Markovits
Poetry/Short Stories
A History of Hands
David Citino

   

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