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Oscar Peterson (1925-2007)

The Classic Years

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…

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…

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 …

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

The Redskins

Neither Washington Nor Moskow (Collectors Edition)

Das Redskins-Debütalbum "Neither Washington Nor Moscow" wurde vor kurzem 35 Jahre alt und wird nun zum ersten Mal als Deluxe-Reissue remastered auf London Records wiederveröffenticht. Das 4 CD-Set enthält…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Laura Mcclure

Modernist Women and the Greek Chorus

The disappearance of the chorus after antiquity--along with its association with female marginality, lyricism, and ritual authority in the Athenian drama that preserved it--rendered it an enigmatic vestig…

David Day

An Encyclopedia of Tolkien

Tolkien fans will appreciate the rich detail of this comprehensive, illustrated guide to the history, lands, and inhabitants of Middle-earth.The fantasy world of J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth contains a…