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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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