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Oscar Peterson (1925-2007)

The Classic Years

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Amanda Anderson, Simon During
Humanities Theory

Humanities Theory argues that there exists a global humanities world which not only transcends disciplinary divisions but joins the professional academic humanities to a thriving amateur public humanities…

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Mark B Kelley
Crimes Against Feeling

Demonstrating how emotion became central to the legal and literary meanings of piracy in nineteenth-century AmericaPirates have long occupied a central yet unstable place in American law and national iden…

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Eliot Now

Eliot Now -the first collection of essays written with full access to T. S. Eliot's recently published Complete Prose and Poems-combines contemporary critical approaches with a sustained inquiry into the …

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Scott Selisker
Character Networks in Contemporary U.S. Fiction

A defining shift in 21st-century American culture has been the visibility of our social networks. Our vocabulary for understanding politics and culture is now saturated with terms describing patterns of p…

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Edward Watts
Berserk Violence, Racial Vengeance, and Settler Colonialism in American Writing from Franklin to Melville

Berserk Violence, Racial Vengeance, and Settler Colonialism in American Writing from Franklin to Melville studies the literary and cultural tradition of the "Indian Hater" in American writing fr…

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Simon C Estok,
The Agony of Water in an Age of Climate Change

Examining how water appears to humanity (its forms) and how humanity apprehends it (our perceptual horizons), this book proposes a methodology for better understanding and conceptualizing our relationship…

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Jesse van Amelsvoort,
Post-National Worlds in Contemporary European Literature

Using works by Hafid Bouazza, Najat El Hachmi, Tsjêbbe Hettinga, Emine Sevgi Özdamar, Leïla Slimani, Zadie Smith, and Kjell Westö, this book looks at post-national feelings of belonging in contemporary Eu…

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Emily McAvan,
Pollution Theory

Using speculative modes like science fiction novels, film and modernist painting, this book investigates the ways that pollution has come to define every aspect of material life in the Anthropocene.Offeri…

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Vin Nardizzi
Marvellous Vegetables in the English Renaissance

John Gerard's natural history of plants, The Herball (1597), is considered a failure in the history of science. Despite this reputation, it has endured as an aesthetic resource. Its illustrations were use…

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Amanda Anderson, Simon During
Humanities Theory

Humanities Theory argues that there exists a global humanities world which not only transcends disciplinary divisions but joins the professional academic humanities to a thriving amateur public humanities…

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Richard Sperber,
Intertextual Exoticism

Intertextual Exoticism reads a body of non-canonical German exoticist literature published after imperial Germany's loss of colonial Oceania in 1914, applying theories of "intertextuality" (Kris…

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Simon van Schalkwyk
Robert Lowell's Imitations and the Cold War

The first book-length study focusing on Robert Lowell's career-long preoccupation with the liberal mode of translational adaptation known as imitation.Robert Lowell's Imitations and the Cold War argues th…

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David Day
Ring Legends of Tolkien Deluxe Edition

The most popular legends about the Rings of Power are discussed in detail in this deluxe edition that will hold a special place on your bookshelf.The history of J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional world of Middl…

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Wendy Larson
Optimism, Literature, and Culture in American Capitalism and Chinese Socialism

This book examines the similarity between capitalism and socialism over the twentieth century as both systems found ways to encourage happiness and optimism in their citizens. Comparing radically differen…

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Jesse Molesworth
Forms of Time, Newton to Austen

Between 1700 and 1800, the English-speaking world came to terms with one of modernity's most fundamental ideas: the separation of time from its measure, or what Newton described as the distinction between…

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Lena Mattheis
Queer Forms and Pronouns

Queer Forms and Pronouns is a journey into the world of gender nonconformity (GNC) pronouns in literature. Pronouns are frequently discussed in the contexts of language policies, grammar, and inclusion, b…

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Vered Lev Kenaan, Patricia A Rosenmeyer
Classics Transformed in Jewish, Israeli, and Palestinian Receptions

This volume explores how classical antiquity influenced the writings of poets, translators, and scholars emerging from modern Jewish diasporas, Mandatory Palestine, and the State of Israel. The chapters e…

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Cecilia Farr
As I Was Saying

An indispensable companion to Gertrude Stein's masterpiece, The Making of Americans. One of the great works of 20th-century American fiction, Stein's novel represents a peak of modernist literature: fille…

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Michael Lackey,
German Exile Biofiction

Shows how after the Nazis came to power, prominent exile writers used biofiction to provide readers with a means of identifying root causes of political oppression.There were biofictions before the 20th c…

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