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Robert Harvey
The Rhetoric of Manipulation

A provocative and timely look at how language is used to manipulate the truth, how our gullibility leaves us susceptible to manipulation, and what we can do to reverse these trends.The Rhetoric of Manipul…

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Daniel A Nelson
Seeing to See

Seeing to See focuses on two American authors who are notoriously hard to classify: Emily Dickinson and Henry David Thoreau. Dickinson proves challenging due to her short and obscure poems and Thoreau due…

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Courtney Weikle-Mills
Sugarcoated Ethics

Unearthing the ethical entanglements of early children's books with the Atlantic slave economy.What ethical lessons are children taught when their books are funded by enslavement and their childhoods swee…

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Jeffrey Berman
Freudians and Schadenfreudians

Focusing on ten key writers and scholars who either passionately loved or gleefully loathed Freud, this book represents Freud's wide legacy, the reach of his ideas, their controversies, and their ability …

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Simona Supekar,
Stock Photo

Object Lessons

Brochures, billboards, websites, menus, and memes. We are immersed every day in the imagery of carefully-curated stock photography. Stock Photo blends memoir and cultural history to mine how this unique m…

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Peter L Rudnytsky,
Psychoanalysis and the Patriarchal Tradition

With a keen eye on the myths of Oedipus and the Fall*,* Rudyntsky offers original readings of canonical works in the Western tradition, including Sir Gawain and the Green Knight , Othello , and Paradise L…

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Michael North
Making Common Sense

Common sense is supposed to be so obvious it can go without saying. And yet, it has been hard to pin down, partly because its contents are vague and inconsistent, and partly because it has always been dif…

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Hee-Seung Irene Lee,
Film Adaptation and the Real

Takes a psychoanalytic approach to screen adaptation by examining the role of deep-rooted desire in the persisting media practice of adaptation from literature to film.

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Steven Connor
Exorbitance

Although modern life provides many examples of exorbitance -- of wealth, growth, information, ambition, consumption, violence -- preoccupation with what is 'over the top' is not new. What is it about the …

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Steven Connor
Exorbitance

Although modern life provides many examples of exorbitance -- of wealth, growth, information, ambition, consumption, violence -- preoccupation with what is 'over the top' is not new. What is it about the …

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Holly A Yanacek,
Rethinking Feeling

Holly A. Yanacek traces a new history of emotions through the German novel, showing how long before social media existed, literature and art played important roles in negotiating emotions with moral value…

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Tondre, Dr. Michael (Associate Professor of English, Stony Brook University (SUNY), USA)
Oil

Object Lessons

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Black gold. Liquid sunlight. Texas tea. Oil remains the ur-commodity of our global era, having bee…

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Michael North
Making Common Sense

Common sense is supposed to be so obvious it can go without saying. And yet, it has been hard to pin down, partly because its contents are vague and inconsistent, and partly because it has always been dif…

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Life Writing as World Literature

A global array of contributors explore the interplay between translation and circulation, mediums and materialities, and aesthetics and politics in how life writing is shaped by and becomes world literatu…

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Sabrina Gilchrist Hadyk
The Waltzing Body in Victorian Literature

The Waltzing Body in Victorian Literature traces the evolution of the waltz from subversive to traditional across the 19th century, focusing on the Victorian authors who wrote about the waltz, exploring i…

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Decolonizing Knowledge

Interdisciplinary scholars rethink strategies for moving contemporary decolonization politics forward by revisiting the writings of the mid-20th century anti-colonial movements' leading intellectuals.

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Benjamin Lewis Robinson
Need/Emergency

Modern politics is preoccupied with states of emergency. Yet emergency politics obscures underlying socio-economic, infrastructural, and ecological conditions of need. Prompted by Hannah Arendt's claim th…

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Garrett Stewart,
Closer Reading

Perhaps the most prolific and exacting reader of his generation, Garrett Stewart's first book of essays - on close analysis of novels, literary theory, conceptual art, and cinema - is joined by a new inte…

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Benjamin Lewis Robinson
Need/Emergency

Modern politics is preoccupied with states of emergency. Yet emergency politics obscures underlying socio-economic, infrastructural, and ecological conditions of need. Prompted by Hannah Arendt's claim th…

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Ralph Jones
Microphone

Object Lessons

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Since its invention more than 150 years ago, the microphone transformed the world in an instant. Y…

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