Berkeley English Faculty Books

Title	Description	Fields	Faculty
Signs of the Times: The Visual Politics of Jim Crow	Signs of the Times traces the career of Jim Crow signs--simplified in cultural memory to the "colored/white" labels that demarcated the public spaces of the American South--from their intel....	20th- and 21st-Century American African American	Elizabeth Abel
Playing: A Novel	Abrams's debut novel is a revealing look inside the mind of a woman who enjoys being beaten, shamed and dominated by her lover. As her bedroom escapades become increasingly brutal, she struggles ....	Creative Writing	Melanie Abrams
Meadowlark	A haunting novel about the lasting effects of childhood trauma and the resulting choices we make for our children. After growing up in an austere spiritual compound, two teenagers, Simrin and Arj....	Creative Writing	Melanie Abrams
Reckoning with Imagination: Wittgenstein and the Aesthetics of Literary Experience	Reckoning with Imagination tries to recast basic Idealist claims about imagination and purposiveness in terms provided by Witt genstein’s showing the limits of what empiricist concern....		Charles F. Altieri
The Art of 20th Century American Poetry: Modernism and After	Altieri's book situates modernist poetry in the context of early 20th century scientific and philosophical developments, to posit the emergence of a "new realism" in the works of Pound ....	20th- and 21st-Century British Poetry	Charles F. Altieri
Wallace Stevens and the Demands of Modernity: Toward a Phenomenology of Value	In his recent work, Charles Altieri has argued for the importance of the affects, which philosophy has too long subordinated to cognition and ethics. In Wallace Stevens and the Demands of Moder....	Poetry 20th- and 21st-Century American	Charles F. Altieri
The Improbability of Othello: Rhetorical Anthropology and Shakespearean Selfhood	Shakespeare’s dramatis personae exist in a world of supposition, struggling to connect knowledge that cannot be had, judgments that must be made, and actions that need to be taken. For th....	Drama Renaissance and Early Modern Cultural Studies	Joel B. Altman
Julius Caesar: A Longman Cultural Edition	....	Drama Renaissance and Early Modern	Oliver Arnold
The Third Citizen: Shakespeare's Theater and The Early Modern House of Commons	....	Drama Renaissance and Early Modern Critical Theory Cultural Studies	Oliver Arnold
Becoming Imperial Citizens: Indians in the Late-Victorian Empire	In this remarkable account of imperial citizenship, Sukanya Banerjee investigates the ways that Indians formulated notions of citizenship in the British Empire from the late nineteenth century through....		Sukanya Banerjee
New Routes for Diaspora Studies	Study of diasporas provides a useful frame for reimagining locations, movements, identities, and social formations. This volume explores diaspora as historical experience and as a category of analysis....		Sukanya Banerjee
The Phantom Table: Woolf, Fry, Russell and the Epistemology of Modernism	This study is a major reappraisal of Virginia Woolf's relationship to Bloomsbury and the aesthetic and philosophical developments of her time. Through extensive archival research, Ann Banfield of....	20th- and 21st-Century British	Ann Banfield
Describing the Unobserved and Other Essays: Unspeakable Sentences After Unspeakable Sentences	The seven essays gathered in this volume are all concerned, more or less directly, with the “unspeakable sentences” of fictional narration, that is, the sentences that do not bear any expl....	Critical Theory Narrative & the Novel	Ann Banfield
The Fugitive's Properties: Law and the Poetics of Possession	In this study of literature and law before and since the Civil War, Stephen M. Best shows how American conceptions of slavery, property, and the idea of the fugitive were profoundly interconnected. T....	19th-Century American 20th- and 21st-Century American African American	Stephen M. Best
None Like Us: Blackness, Belonging, Aesthetic Life	It passes for an unassailable truth that the slave past provides an explanatory prism for understanding the black political present. In None Like Us Stephen Best reappraises what he calls &l....	African American Critical Theory Cultural Studies	Stephen M. Best
Epic Negation: The Dialectical Poetics of Late Modernism	....	Poetry 20th- and 21st-Century British Critical Theory	C. D. Blanton
A Concise Companion to Postwar British and Irish Poetry	....	Poetry Irish 20th- and 21st-Century British	C. D. Blanton
National Melancholy: Mourning and Opportunity in Classic American Literature	In National Melancholy, Breitwieser offers close readings of important American writers (Anne Bradstreet, Thomas Jefferson, Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau, Sarah Orne Jewett, F. Scott Fitzgerald, ....	20th- and 21st-Century American Early American 19th-Century American	Mitchell Breitwieser
Red Earth and Pouring Rain	[An] ambitious and extraordinary first novel… Red Earth and Pouring Rain is above all a novel about the telling of stories. The effect is rich, heady, many-layered and deliberate… Thoug....	South Asian Creative Writing	Vikram Chandra
Sacred Games: A Novel	This is a moment worth marking. It’s a landmark in the history of Indian English literature. Decades from now, we’ll be looking back at the roster of great contemporary novels, and the tit....	South Asian Creative Writing	Vikram Chandra
Sacred Games (Netflix Series)	“By setting a high bar Sacred Games is more than phenomenal TV, it’s a shape-shifter… Astutely crafted, Sacred Games urges a socio-political self-examination that extends beyo....	South Asian Film	Vikram Chandra
Geek Sublime	Vikram Chandra is a wonderful novelist and apparently knows his way around an algorithm, too. His new book is an unexpected tour de force, different from anything he has done before… its ambiti....	South Asian Creative Writing Critical Theory Linguistics	Vikram Chandra
Love and Longing in Bombay	Vikram Chandra has effected a number of miracles in his new book, a collection of interrelated short stories, which I believe stands up as a really fine novel… it is simply at ease, in a fashi....	South Asian Creative Writing	Vikram Chandra
Follies of the Wise: Dissenting Essays	True skepticism is an attitude of constant questioning, a mode of thinking Frederick Crews held so dear he applied it to Freudian psychoanalytic theory, an intellectual tradition he initially believe....		Frederick C. Crews
Freud: The Making of an Illusion	From the master of Freud debunkers, the book that definitively puts an end to the myth of psychoanalysis and its creator Since the 1970s, Sigmund Freud’s scientific reputation has been in an ....		Frederick C. Crews
Ends of Assimilation: The Formation of Chicano Literature	Ends of Assimilation: The Formation of Chicano Literature (Oxford, 2015) examines how Chicano/a (Mexican American) literary works represent assimilation, and what those representations can teach ....	Chicanx and/or Latinx	John Alba Cutler
Stripping Bare the Body	Drawing on rich narratives of politics and violence and war from around the world and written by one of the world's leading writers, Stripping Bare the Body is a moral history of America....		Mark Danner
The Secret Way to War	The Secret Way to War, with a preface by by Frank Rich, includes Mark Danner's strongly argued analysis of the Downing Street Memo as well as the complete text of the memo and seven other leaked B....		Mark Danner
Spiral: Trapped in the Forever War	Trapped in a forever war by 9/11, in Spiral Mark Danner describes a nation that has been altered in fundamental ways. President Bush declared a war of choice and without an exit plan, and P....		Mark Danner
The Road to illegitimacy	What actually happened during the Florida vote re-count of election 2000? Investigative reporter Danner goes to Florida to report on the final, tense counting and re-counting of the actual ballots tha....		Mark Danner
Massacre at El Mozote	n December 1981 soldiers of the Salvadoran Army's select, American-trained Atlacatl Battalion entered the village of El Mozote, where they murdered hundreds of men, women, and children, often by d....		Mark Danner
Seasons of Misery: Catastrophe and Colonial Settlement in Early America	The stories we tell of American beginnings typically emphasize colonial triumph in the face of adversity. But the early years of English settlement in America were characterized by catastrophe: starv....	Atlantic Caribbean Early American Native American	Kathleen Donegan
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner	'We have heard much of the rage of fanaticism in former days, but nothing to this' A wretched young man, 'an outcast in the world', tells the story of his upbringing by a heretical C....	Narrative & the Novel 19th-Century British Scottish	Ian Duncan
The Edinburgh Companion to James Hogg	James Hogg (1770-1835) is increasingly recognised as a major Scottish author and one of the most original figures in European Romanticism. 16 essays written by international experts on Hogg draw on r....	19th-Century British Scottish	Ian Duncan
Scott's Shadow: The Novel in Romantic Edinburgh	Scott's Shadow is the first comprehensive account of the flowering of Scottish fiction between 1802 and 1832, when post-Enlightenment Edinburgh rivaled London as a center for literary and cu....	Narrative & the Novel 19th-Century British Scottish	Ian Duncan
Kidnapped	Set in the aftermath of the 1745 rebellion, Kidnapped transforms the Romantic historical novel into the modern thriller. Its heartstopping scenes of cross-country pursuit, distilled to a pure intensi....	19th-Century British Scottish Narrative & the Novel	Ian Duncan
Human Forms: The Novel in the Age of Evolution	A major rethinking of the history of the novel as well as the cultural impact of evolutionary science before Darwin, Human Forms is the first book-length critical study of the interaction of European ....	18th-Century British 19th-Century British Narrative & the Novel	Ian Duncan
Territories of the Soul: Queered Belonging in the Black Diaspora	A study of the experience and aesthetics of black diasporic belonging as they emerge in queerness, tension, elusiveness, desire, and disavowal. Chapters on the letters and oth....	20th- and 21st-Century British African American Caribbean Gender & Sexuality Studies	Nadia Ellis
Irish Literature in Transition, 1980-2020	Co-edited by Paige Reynolds and Eric Falci, Irish Literature in Transition, 1980–2020 elucidates the central features of Irish literature during the twentieth century's long turn, cover....	Irish	Eric Falci
Late Along the Edgelands	In a series of tattered sequences and oddly-angled lyrics, Late Along the Edgeland sketches an attenuated present. Remaining within a relatively circumscribed lexis and store of images—thos....	Poetry	Eric Falci
The Value of Poetry	"Drawing on an ample range of contemporary sources, Falci explores how poetry uses its formal wiles and intuitive craft to respond to the world it must answer to and which inflects....	Poetry	Eric Falci
Continuity and Change in Irish Poetry, 1966-2010	This volume reshapes the story of Irish poetry since the 1960s by showing how polemical arguments concerning the role of poetry in 1960s Ireland evolve into a set of formal and compositional....	20th- and 21st-Century British Irish Poetry	Eric Falci
The Cambridge Introduction to British Poetry, 1945-2010	The Cambridge Introduction to British Poetry, 1945–2010 provides a broad overview of an important body of poetry from England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland from the postwar period throu....	20th- and 21st-Century British Irish Scottish Caribbean Poetry	Eric Falci
Here and Gone	Turning seventy, author Thomas Farber appraises the writing life, aging, love, his own fate, and ours. Thomas Farber's writing has always been characterized by the tension between the conc....	Creative Writing	Thomas Farber
Foregone Conclusions: Equivoques, Aperçus, Spars & Catarrhs	Epigram: a terse observation aspiring to the universal and irreducible. Generally about human foible or fate. Relies on paradox, hyperbole, or wordplay to compel a flash of recognition. Kissing cousi....	Poetry	Thomas Farber
Acting My Age	In Acting My Age, Thomas Farber gives us an unflinching, luminous, cleverly conceived meditation on his own mortality as well as on the extinction of the coral reefs, snow leopards, dolphins....	Creative Writing	Thomas Farber
Brief Nudity	Philip Larkin wrote of the moment in life when our "innate assumptions" and daily habits "Suddenly harden into all we've got." This beautifully written memoir dwells in that m....	Creative Writing	Thomas Farber
A Lover's Quarrel: On Writing and the Writing Life	Collecting Thomas Farber's nonfiction on writing and the writing life, A Lover's Quarrel contains this gifted author's meditation on his vocation. Anatomist, ironist, and moralist, Farber....	Creative Writing	Thomas Farber
The Cambridge Centenary Ulysses: The 1922 Text with Essays and Notes	James Joyce's Ulysses is considered one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century. This new edition - published to celebrate the book's first publication - helps readers to understand th....	20th- and 21st-Century British Irish Textual Criticism Narrative & the Novel	Catherine Flynn
The New Joyce Studies	The New Joyce Studies indicates the variety and energy of research on James Joyce since the year 2000. The essays examine Joyce’s works and their reception in the light of a larger set of conc....	20th- and 21st-Century British Irish 20th- and 21st-Century American Critical Theory Textual Criticism Cultural Studies Gender & Sexuality Studies Linguistics Disability Studies Narrative & the Novel	Catherine Flynn
James Joyce and the Matter of Paris	Recipient of the 2020 ACIS Robert Rhodes Prize for Books on Literature, Honorable Mention: "Catherine Flynn's James Joyce and the Matter of Paris (Cambridge UP) is an engaging, ambitious, ....	20th- and 21st-Century British Critical Theory Textual Criticism Cultural Studies Narrative & the Novel	Catherine Flynn
Open Secrets: The Literature of Uncounted Experience	Open Secrets identifies an ethos of affirmative reticence and recessive action in Mme de Lafayette’s La Princesse de Clèves (1678), Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park....	19th-Century British 19th-Century American	Anne-Lise François
Telling It Like It Wasn't: The Counterfactual Imagination in History and Literature	Inventing counterfactual histories is a common pastime of modern-day historians, both amateur and professional. We speculate about an America ruled by Jefferson Davis, a Europe that never threw off Hi....	20th- and 21st-Century British 20th- and 21st-Century American Narrative & the Novel	Catherine Gallagher
Nobody's Story: The Vanishing Acts of Women Writers in the Marketplace	Exploring the careers of five influential women writers of the Restoration and eighteenth century, Catherine Gallagher reveals the connections between the increasing prestige of female authorship, th....	Critical Theory Gender & Sexuality Studies Narrative & the Novel 18th-Century British	Catherine Gallagher
Practicing New Historicism, 2001	For almost thirty years, new historicism has been a highly controversial and influential force in literary and cultural studies. In Practicing the New Historicism, two of its....	Renaissance and Early Modern Critical Theory 19th-Century British	Catherine Gallagher
The Body Economic: Life, Death, and Sensation in Political Economy and the Victorian Novel	The Body Economic revises the intellectual history of nineteenth-century Britain by demonstrating that political economists and the writers who often presented themselves as their literary antag....	19th-Century British	Catherine Gallagher
Behaviorism, Consciousness, and the Literary Mind	What might behaviorism, that debunked school of psychology, tell us about literature? If inanimate objects such as novels or poems have no mental properties of their own, then why do we talk about ....	20th- and 21st-Century British Irish Critical Theory Linguistics Drama Narrative & the Novel Poetry	Joshua Gang
Ohio Railroads	Ohio Railroads is a long poem—in essay form—with origins in the author’s memory of a dream of his hometown of Dayton, Ohio. Ohio Railroads is an attempt to explore the particul....	Creative Writing	Cecil S. Giscombe
Prairie Style	Prairie Style is about the breakdown of location and voice. It lays out a landscape of habitations (Frank Lloyd Wright's designs for "servantless families," fox dens in an embankme....	Poetry	Cecil S. Giscombe
Similarly	Similarly—four complete poetry books and a selection of new poems and sequences— samples the ongoing project of C. S. Giscombe’s long, long song of location and range. In all the wor....	20th- and 21st-Century American African American Creative Writing Poetry	Cecil S. Giscombe
Train Music: Writing / Pictures	Late in the fall of 2017, poet C. S. Giscombe and book artist Judith Margolis boarded an Amtrak train in New York City and, four days later, stepped off another train at the edge of San Francisco Bay.....		Cecil S. Giscombe
Beautiful Circuits: Modernism and the Mediated Life	This is critical reading, thinking, and writing of the highest order. It is a book of many pleasures, in which an earlier and more self-serious period in literary history is read with a foreknowledge....	Narrative & the Novel 20th- and 21st-Century American 20th- and 21st-Century British	Mark Goble
Unbuilding Jerusalem: Apocalypse and Romantic Representation	....	19th-Century British	Steven Goldsmith
Blake's Agitation: Criticism and the Emotions	Blake’s Agitation is a thorough and engaging reflection on the dynamic, forward-moving, and active nature of critical thought. Steven Goldsmith investigates the modern notion that there&....	19th-Century British Poetry	Steven Goldsmith
Sweet Science: Romantic Materialism and the New Logics of Life	Winner of the Kenshur Prize for an outstanding monograph of interest to eighteenth-century scholars and the MLA Prize for a First Book, 2018. ....		Amanda Jo Goldstein
Dialectical Imaginaries: Materialist Approaches to U.S. Latino/a Literature in the Age of Neoliberalism	Co-edited by Marcial Gonzalez and Carlos Gallego, Dialectical Imaginaries brings together eleven essays that analyze the effects of class conflict and capitalist ideology on contemporary wo....	Chicanx and/or Latinx Critical Theory Cultural Studies	Marcial Gonzalez
Chicano Novels and the Politics of Form: Race, Class, and Reification	Chicano Novels and the Politics of Form draws on the Marxist theory of reification to undertake a theoretical study of the class-based construction of racial identity in the novels of four writers: Ma....	20th- and 21st-Century American Chicanx and/or Latinx Narrative & the Novel	Marcial Gonzalez
Pathologies of Motion: Historical Thinking in Medicine, Aesthetics, and Poetics	Pathologies of Motion offers a new account of later eighteenth‑century medicine, aesthetics, and poetics as overlapping forms of knowledge increasingly worried about the relationship between the geogr....	18th-Century British Scottish Critical Theory Poetry	Kevis Goodman
The Weight of All Flesh: On the Subject-Matter of Political Economy	Edited by Kevis Goodman, who provides an introduction to the work of Eric L. Santner, this volume collects expanded versions of Santner’s 2014 Berkeley Tanner Lectures, with commentaries by Bo....	Critical Theory Cultural Studies	Kevis Goodman
Georgic Modernity and British Romanticism: Poetry and the Mediation of History	This book traces connections between Georgic verse and developments in other spheres from the late seventeenth to the early nineteenth centuries: the mediation of perception by scientific instruments....	18th-Century British	Kevis Goodman
Social Formalism: The Novel in Theory from Henry James to the Present	Winner of the 1998 Barbara and George Perkins Prize for the best book on narrative in 1998, sponsored by the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature. In recent decades, literary critics have ....	Critical Theory Narrative & the Novel	Dorothy J. Hale
The Novel: An Anthology of Criticism and Theory 1900-2000	The Novel: An Anthology of Criticism and Theory 1900–2000 is a collection of the most influential writings on the theory of the novel from the twentieth century. Traces the rise of novel....	Critical Theory Narrative & the Novel	Dorothy J. Hale
The Novel and the New Ethics	The Novel and the New Ethics (Stanford UP, November 2020) ....	Critical Theory Narrative & the Novel	Dorothy J. Hale
The Nature of the Word: Studies in Honor of Paul Kiparsky	....	Linguistics	Kristin Hanson
Now and Then: The Poet's Choice Columns	From 1997 to 2000, former Poet Laureate of the United States Robert Hass wrote the nationally syndicated column “Poet’s Choice” which featured poems relevant to current headlines wr....	Poetry	Robert L. Hass
The Apple Trees at Olema	The Apple Trees at Olema includes work from Robert Hass's first five books—Field Guide, Praise, Human Wishes, Sun Under Wood, and Time and Materials—as well as a substantial gathering....	Poetry	Robert L. Hass
Modernist Women Poets: An Anthology	The 20th century was a time of great change, particularly in the arts, but seldom explored were the female poets of that time. Robert Hass and Paul Ebenkamp have put together a comprehensive antholog....	20th- and 21st-Century British 20th- and 21st-Century American Poetry	Robert L. Hass
What Light Can Do	An evocative and captivating collection of essays on writers, place, poetry, and photography—with accompanying photos throughout—from Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Robert ....	Poetry	Robert L. Hass
The Poetic Species: A Conversation with Edward O. Wilson and Robert Hass	In this shimmering conversation (the outgrowth of an event cosponsored by the American Museum of Natural History and Poets House), Edward O. Wilson, renowned scientist and proponent of “consili....	Poetry	Robert L. Hass
A Little Book on Form	An acute and deeply insightful book of essays exploring poetic form and the role of instinct and imagination within form—from former poet laureate, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winning....	Poetry	Robert L. Hass
Time and Materials: Poems 1997-2005	The poems in Robert Hass's new collection—his first to appear in a decade—are grounded in the beauty and energy of the physical world, and in the bafflement of the present moment in A....	Poetry	Robert L. Hass
My Life and My Life in the Nineties	Lyn Hejinian's My Life is one of the foundational texts of Language Poetry. First published in 1980, and revised in 1987 and 2002, My Life is now firmly established in the postmodern canon.....	Poetry	Lyn Hejinian
A Guide to Poetics Journal: Writing in the Expanded Field 1982-1998	Between 1982 and 1998, Lyn Hejinian and Barrett Watten edited the highly influential Poetics Journal, whose ten issues contributed to a surge of interest in the practice of poetics. A Guide to ....	Poetry	Lyn Hejinian
Book of a Thousand Eyes	Ranging widely in subject and tone, this collection of prose begins as an homage to Scheherazade—the heroine of The Arabian Nights whose nightly tale-telling saved her culture and her own life ....	Poetry	Lyn Hejinian
The Wide Road	Poetry. Fiction. Cross-Genre. What would have happened had Thelma and Louise not driven off the cliff but stayed on the road? In Carla Harryman and Lyn Hejinian's picaresque novella, friendship l....	Narrative & the Novel	Lyn Hejinian
Saga / Circus	Saga / Circus, by the esteemed poet Lyn Hejinian, brings us two distinctly different long poems in which the tropes of narrative and lyric—their feints and demands—stake claims among....	Poetry	Lyn Hejinian
The Death-Bound-Subject: Richard Wright’s Archaeology of Death	JanMohamed's book explains the ideological and political functions of the threat of lynching in the works of Richard Wright. Arguing that Wright's oeuvre is a systematic exploration of "....	20th- and 21st-Century American African American	Abdul R. JanMohamed
Reconsidering Social Identification: Race, Gender, Class, and Caste.	This volume is an argument for further cross-national, interdisciplinary dialogue on the political economy of social identification and division. It investigates how four socially constr....	Critical Theory Gender & Sexuality Studies Cultural Studies	Abdul R. JanMohamed
The Racial Discourses of Life Philosophy: Négritude, Vitalism, and Modernity	Winner of the Jeanne and Aldo Scaglione Prize in Comparative Literary Studies in 2010. The Prize citation reads: "Donna V. Jones’s Racial Discourses of Life Philosophy: Négri....	20th- and 21st-Century American African American Caribbean	Donna V. Jones
Writing and Rebellion: England in 1381	In this account of the "peasants' revolt" of 1381, in which rebels burned hundreds of official archives and attacked other symbols of authority, Steven Justice demonstrates that the reb....	Middle English Cultural Studies	Steven Justice
Adam Usk's Secret	Adam Usk, a Welsh lawyer in England and Rome during the first years of the fifteenth century, lived a peculiar life. He was, by turns, a professor, a royal advisor, a traitor, a schismatic, and a spy.....	Middle English Renaissance and Early Modern Critical Theory Cultural Studies	Steven Justice
The Trouble with Literature	This book, based on the Clarendon Lectures in English for 2017, argues that the literature of the English Reformation marks a turning point in Western thinking about literature and literariness. But i....	Renaissance and Early Modern Critical Theory	Victoria Kahn
The Future of Illusion	....		Victoria Kahn
Blind Rage: Letters to Helen Keller	As a young blind girl, Georgina Kleege repeatedly heard the refrain, “Why can’t you be more like Helen Keller?” Kleege’s resentment culminates in her book Blind Rage: Let....	20th- and 21st-Century American	Georgina Kleege
More than Meets the Eye: What Blindness Brings to Art	In the quarter century following the enactment of the Americans with Disabilities Act, art museums, along with other public institutions, were tasked with making their facilities and collections more ....		Georgina Kleege
Sight Unseen	A collection of personal essays about blindness and sight.....	Creative Writing	Georgina Kleege
Home for the Summer	a novel.....	Creative Writing	Georgina Kleege
Pleasing Everyone: Mass Entertainment in Renaissance London and Golden-Age Hollywood	Shakespeare's plays were immensely popular in their own day -- so why do we refuse to think of them as mass entertainment? In Pleasing Everyone, Jeffrey Knapp opens our eyes to the uncanny resemb....	20th- and 21st-Century American Critical Theory Renaissance and Early Modern Cultural Studies Drama Film	Jeffrey Knapp
Shakespeare Only	Three decades of controversy in Shakespeare studies can be summed up in a single question: Was Shakespeare one of a kind? On one side of the debate are the Shakespeare lovers, the bardolatrists, who ....	Critical Theory Renaissance and Early Modern Cultural Studies Drama	Jeffrey Knapp
An Empire Nowhere: England, America, and Literature from Utopia to The Tempest	What caused England's literary Renaissance? One answer has been that such unprecedented developments as the European discovery of America inspired English writers to "open up new world....	Drama Atlantic Renaissance and Early Modern Poetry Early American Cultural Studies	Jeffrey Knapp
Shakespeare's Tribe: Church, Nation, and Theater in Renaissance England	Most contemporary critics characterize Shakespeare and his tribe of fellow playwrights and players as resolutely secular, interested in religion only as a matter of politics or as a rival source of p....	Renaissance and Early Modern Cultural Studies Drama	Jeffrey Knapp
The Face of Mammon: the Matter of Money in English Renaissance Literature	Money talked in sixteenth-century England, as money still does today. But what the sixteenth century’s gold and silver had to say for itself is strikingly different from the modern discourse of....	Drama Renaissance and Early Modern Poetry Cultural Studies	David Landreth
Quaint, Exquisite: Victorian Aesthetics and the Idea of Japan	From the opening of trade with Britain in the 1850s, Japan occupied a unique and contradictory place in the Victorian imagination, regarded as both a rival empire and a cradle of exquisite beauty.&nbs....	19th-Century British Critical Theory Cultural Studies Gender & Sexuality Studies Film	Grace Lavery
Comintern Aesthetics	Founded by Vladimir Lenin in 1919 to instigate a world revolution, the Comintern sought to advance not only the proletarian struggle but also a wide variety of radical causes, including fighting a....	Critical Theory Cultural Studies Poetry Film	Steven Lee
The Ethnic Avant-Garde: Minority Cultures and World Revolution	During the 1920s and 1930s, American minority artists and writers collaborated extensively with the Soviet avant-garde, seeking to build a revolutionary society that would end racial discrimination an....	20th- and 21st-Century American African American Asian American Atlantic Critical Theory Film	Steven Lee
Roots of the Issei: Exploring Japanese American Newspapers	Winner of the 2017 Japanese Diaspora Initiative Award. Roots of the Issei presents a complex and nuanced picture of the Japanese American community in the early twentieth century: a people challe....	20th- and 21st-Century American Asian American Pacific	Andrew Way Leong
Lament in the Night	Winner of the 2014 Outstanding Book Award -- Creative Writing, Association of Asian American Studies. Lament in the Night collects two remarkable novels by the author Shōson Nagahara, translated fr....	20th- and 21st-Century American Asian American Pacific Creative Writing Narrative & the Novel	Andrew Way Leong
After Marx: Literature, Theory and Value in the Twenty-First Century	After Marx: Literature, Theory and Value demonstrates the importance of Marxist literary and cultural criticism for an era of intersectional politics and economic decline. The volume includes fresh ap....	Critical Theory	Colleen Lye
America's Asia: Racial Form and American Literature, 1893-1945	America's Asia explores a discursive tradition that affiliates the East with modern efficiency, in contrast to primitivist forms of Orientalism. Colleen Lye traces the American stereotype of....	Cultural Studies Narrative & the Novel 19th-Century American 20th- and 21st-Century American Asian American Pacific	Colleen Lye
Death Be Not Proud: The Art of Holy Attention	The seventeenth-century French philosopher Nicolas Malebranche thought that philosophy could learn a valuable lesson from prayer, which teaches us how to attend, wait, and be open for what might happ....		David Marno
Second Time Around: From Art House to DVD	The art houses and cinema clubs of his youth are gone, but the films that D. A. Miller discovered there in the 1960s and ’70s are now at his fingertips. With DVDs and streaming media, technology....	Cultural Studies Gender & Sexuality Studies Film	D.A. Miller
Hidden Hitchcock	No filmmaker has more successfully courted mass-audience understanding than Alfred Hitchcock, and none has been studied more intensively by scholars. In Hidden Hitchcock, D. A. Miller does what ....	Critical Theory Textual Criticism Cultural Studies Film	D.A. Miller
Jane Austen, or The Secret of Style	What is the world-historical importance of Jane Austen? An old maid writes with the detachment of a god. Here, the stigmatized condition of a spinster; there, a writer's unequalled display of abs....	19th-Century British	D.A. Miller
8 1/2	Federico Fellini’s masterpiece 8 1/2 (Otto e mezzo) shocked audiences around the world when it was released in 1963 by its sheer auteurist gall. The hero, a film director named G....	Film	D.A. Miller
Eight and a Half	New edition with afterthought ....	Critical Theory Gender & Sexuality Studies Film	D.A. Miller
The Idea of Anglo Saxon England 1066-1901: Remembering, Forgetting, Deciphering, and Renewing the Past	Probes how the field of Anglo-Saxon studies, together with the idea of Anglo-Saxon England itself, evolved over the past ten centuries.....	Old English	John Niles
Anglo-Saxon England and the Visual Imagination	Ten experts in archaeology, art history, literary studies, and other fields present new research bridging literary and material culture, with a substantial introduction, “Negotiating the Anglo-S....	Old English	John Niles
God’s Exiles and English Verse: On the Exeter Anthology of Old English Poetry	A critical study of the medieval manuscript held in Exeter Cathedral Library popularly known as “The Exeter Book,” The Exeter Anthology is one of the acknowledged treasures of early Englis....	Old English	John Niles
Webspinner: Songs, Stories, and Reflections of Duncan Williamson, Scottish Traveller	Born in 1928 in a tent on the shore of Loch Fyne, Argyll, Duncan Williamson (d. 2007) eventually came to be recognized as one of the foremost storytellers in Scotland and the world. Webspinner: Songs,....	Scottish	John Niles
Old English Literature: A Guide to Criticism with Selected Readings	Reviews the critical reception of Old English literature from 1900 to the present day, with illustrative examples. In addition to evaluating the interpretation of individual texts, the book sur....	Old English	John Niles
John Lydgate and the Making of Public Culture	During the fifteenth century John Lydgate was the most famous poet in England, filling commissions for the court, the aristocracy, and the guilds. He wrote for an elite London readership that was his....	Renaissance and Early Modern	Maura Nolan
People on Sunday	'Brien's [is] a poetry that asks for patient attention, and gives back all the void's abundance."—Rain Taxi "Whether in a poem composed using words and phrases from the Pa....	Poetry	Geoffrey G. O'Brien
The Guns and Flags Project	Obsessed with work and dream, shot through with weather and color, Geoffrey G. O'Brien's spirited debut pursues the possibility of the lyric itself--whether the voice raised "with melodi....	Poetry	Geoffrey G. O'Brien
Experience in Groups	Experience in Groups sings and thinks the forms of belonging that organize our lives, offering poems that move with honesty and formal intelligence between the individual and the collective. In a....	20th- and 21st-Century American Creative Writing Poetry	Geoffrey G. O'Brien
Metropole	Geoffrey G. O’Brien’s third collection opens with a set of lyric experiments whose music and mutable syntax explore the social relations concealed in material things. O’Brien’....	Poetry	Geoffrey G. O'Brien
Green and Gray	Geoffrey G. O'Brien's second collection documents the "remorse of the senses" that attends each moment of experience, the pain and pleasure of not exiting a world in which injustice....	Poetry	Geoffrey G. O'Brien
Stealing Obedience: Narratives of Agency and Identity in Later Anglo-Saxon England	Stealing Obedience investigates works in Latin and Old English to pursue a series of questions about agency (here to use the term in its most general meaning) that emerge from my study of the discour....	Old English	Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe
Philadelphia Stories: America's Literature of Race and Freedom	A historic and symbolic city on the border between slavery and freedom, antebellum Philadelphia was home to one of the largest and most influential "free" African American communities in th....	19th-Century American African American	Samuel Otter
The Daring Flight of My Pen: Cultural Politics and Gaspar Perez de Villagra's Historia de la Nueva Mexico, 1610	Doomed from the beginning to be read as history rather than poetry, Gaspar Perez de Villagra's Historia de la Nueva Mexico chronicles Captain Juan de Onate's conquest of New Mexico from its i....	Chicanx and/or Latinx Poetry Early American	Genaro M. Padilla
Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the Fine Arts	Although Coleridge's thinking and writing about the fine arts was both considerable and interesting, this has not been the subject of a book before. Coleridge owed his initiation into art t....	19th-Century British	Morton D. Paley
Devotion and Intellectual Labor	....		Joanna M Picciotto
Labors of Innocence in Early Modern England	17th-century intellectuals discovered their idealized self-image in the Adam who investigated, named, and commanded the creatures in Eden. Reinvented as the agent of innocent curiosity, Adam wa....	Renaissance and Early Modern 18th-Century British	Joanna M Picciotto
War Pictures: Cinema, Violence, and Style in Britain, 1939-1945	In this original and engaging work, author Kent Puckett looks at how British filmmakers imagined, saw, and sought to represent its war during wartime through film. The Second World War posed unique r....	Cultural Studies 20th- and 21st-Century British Film	Kent Puckett
Narrative Theory: A Critical Introduction	Winner of the 2018 Barbara Perkins and George Perkins Prize of the International Society for the Study of Narrative. Kent Puckett's Narrative Theory: A Critical Introduction provides ....	Critical Theory Narrative & the Novel Film	Kent Puckett
Bad Form: Social Mistakes and the Nineteenth-Century Novel	What--other than embarrassment--could one hope to gain from prolonged exposure to the social mistake? Why think much about what many would like simply to forget? Bad Form argues that whatev....	Narrative & the Novel 19th-Century British Film	Kent Puckett
The Electoral Imagination: Literature, Legitimacy, and Other Rigged Systems	What happens when we vote? What are we counting when we count ballots? Who decides what an election should look like and what it should mean? And why do so many people believe that some or all electio....		Kent Puckett
Against Bosses, Against Oligarchies: A Conversation with Richard Rorty	The present pamphlet is a conversation with well-known politcal philosopher Richard Rorty. Derek Nystrom and Kent Puckett ask the questions. "We interviewed Richard Rotty for four hours over the....	Critical Theory	Kent Puckett
Ishmael Reed: New and Collected Poems 1964-2007	First poetry collection in nearly twenty years. In language that is pointed, innovative and profoundly optimistic, Reed weaves politics and war with Nigerian poetry and jazz all in the service of his....	Creative Writing	Ishmael S. Reed
Writers and Their Mothers	Writers and Their Mothers Palgrave Macmillan 1 March 2018 Editor: Salwak, Dale (Ed.) Features contributions from a selection of world-famous authors and academics In....		Hugh Macrae Richmond
Shakespeare's Tragedies Re-Viewed: a Spectator's Role	My sequence of essays on Shakespeare's audiences has been consolidated into a print version in press at Peter Lang which was published on 30 August 2015 under the title: Shakespeare's Tragedie....	Renaissance and Early Modern Drama	Hugh Macrae Richmond
Shakespeare Relocated: Studies in Historical Psychology	Hugh Richmond uses his previous published essays to illustrate the development of modern attitudes to religion, politics and sexuality. He traces the complex evolution from classical and medieval sour....	Renaissance and Early Modern Critical Theory	Hugh Macrae Richmond
Shakespeare's Sexual Comedy	Goodreads Review: Hugh Richmond's Shakespeare's Sexual Comedy Bobbs Merrill, 1971 Also from Questia Library Showing 1-13 entries, 3 saying "it was amazing " = Average....		Hugh Macrae Richmond
Shakespeare's Audiences	This material is co-ordinated with the website's performance bibliographies at http://shakespearestaging.berkeley.edu/ in a series of essays about the performance history of individual Shakespeare....	Renaissance and Early Modern Drama	Hugh Macrae Richmond
An Empire of Touch	Winner of the 2020 Harry Levin Prize for Outstanding First Book from the American Comparative Literature Association In today’s world of unequal globalization, Bangladesh has drawn ....	South Asian Critical Theory Cultural Studies Gender & Sexuality Studies	Poulomi Saha
Becoming Richard Pryor	A fresh, fully researched biography of the performer who revolutionized American comedy, tracing Pryor's rise from his first years in a Midwestern brothel to his rise in the "New Hollywood&q....	20th- and 21st-Century American African American Film Drama	Scott Saul
Freedom Is, Freedom Ain't: Jazz and the Making of the Sixties	“With an incredible gift for helping you hear the surprising sounds he studies, Scott Saul brilliantly shows how the new music of hard bop in the 1950s and 60s amounted to a new sta....	African American Cultural Studies	Scott Saul
The Ugly Laws: Disability in Public	In the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, municipallaws targeting "unsightly beggars" sprang up in cities across America. Seeming to criminalize disability and thus offering a vi....	19th-Century American 20th- and 21st-Century American	Susan Schweik
The American Deep State: Wall Street, Big Oil, and the Att ack on U.S. Democracy	This provocative book makes a compelling case for a hidden “deep state” that influences and often opposes official U.S. policies. Prominent political analyst Peter Dale Scott begins by tr....		Peter D. Scott
Ecstatic Pessimist: Czeslaw Milosz, Poet of Catastrophe and Hope	Ecstatic Pessimist is a timely book about the Central and Eastern European experience of the mid 20th century, as told through the poetry and experiences of Czeslaw Miłosz, Nobel Laureate for literatu....		Peter D. Scott
Customs: Poems	Finalist for the 2023 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award Longlisted for the 2023 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award Longlisted for the 2022 Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize I said what I meant but....	Creative Writing Poetry	Solmaz Sharif
Look: Poems	Finalist for the 2016 National Book Award for Poetry One of The New York Times Book Review's 100 Notable Books of 2016 Daily I sit with the language they’ve made &nb....	Creative Writing Poetry	Solmaz Sharif
On the Outside Looking Out: John Ashbery's Poetry	A study of Ashbery's books of poems from Some Trees through Flow Chart.....	20th- and 21st-Century American Poetry	John Shoptaw
Near-Earth Object	Near-Earth Object, a collection of poems with a foreword by Jenny Odell, will be published by Unbound Edition Press in April, 2024. In this book I explore the intera....	19th-Century American 20th- and 21st-Century American Creative Writing Poetry	John Shoptaw
Times Beach	“Times Beach is, like most interesting American books, an original. It’s about a place, the watershed of the Mississippi River, and it is an ecopoetics. Best, perhaps, to think of it as a....	Poetry	John Shoptaw
Bachelors, Manhood, and the Novel, 1850-1925	Katherine Snyder's study explores the significance of the bachelor narrator, a prevalent but little recognized figure in premodernist and modernist fiction by male authors, including Hawthorne, J....	Narrative & the Novel	Katherine Snyder
The Grammar of Empire	....		Janet Sorensen
Strange Vernaculars: How Eighteenth-Century Slang, Cant, Provincial Languages, and Nautical Jargon Became English	How vocabularies once associated with outsiders became objects of fascination in eighteenth-century Britain While eighteenth-century efforts to standardize the English language have long been studi....	18th-Century British	Janet Sorensen
Christianity Not as Old as the Creation: the Last of Defoe's Performances, ed. G. A. Starr	....	18th-Century British	George A. Starr
Apropos of Something: A History of Irrelevance and Relevance	Before 1800 nothing was irrelevant. So argues Elisa Tamarkin’s sweeping meditation on a key shift in consciousness: the arrival of relevance as the means to grasp how something that was once dis....	19th-Century British 19th-Century American Critical Theory	Elisa Tamarkin
Anglophilia: Deference, Devotion, and Antebellum America	Anglophilia charts the phenomenon of the love of Britain that emerged after the Revolution and remains in the character of U.S. society and class, the style of academic life, and the idea of Amer....	Early American 19th-Century American	Elisa Tamarkin
Schooling Sex: Libertine Literature and Erotic Education in Italy, France, and England 1534-1685	How did Casanova learn the `theory' of sex? Why did male pornographers write as intellectual women? What forms of sexuality emerged in the age of educational, scientific, and political revolution....	Renaissance and Early Modern Gender & Sexuality Studies	James Grantham Turner
Eros Visible: Art, Sexuality and Antiquity in Renaissance Italy	Focusing on the impact of the erotic revolution that swept through 16th-century Italy, Eros Visible presents a compendious, revisionist account of High Renaissance art. Through close visual ....	Cultural Studies Gender & Sexuality Studies	James Grantham Turner
One Flesh: Paradisal Marriage and Sexual Relations in the Age of Milton	How did the myth of Adam and Eve affect historical understandings of sex and gender? Was sexuality the 'true Paradise' or the destroying serpent? These questions came to a head in Milton, torn....	Renaissance and Early Modern Gender & Sexuality Studies	James Grantham Turner
The Villa Farnesina, Palace of Venus in Renaissance Rome	The frescoes of Peruzzi, Raphael and Sodoma still dazzle visitors to the Villa Farnesina, but they survive in a stripped-down environment bereft of its landscape, sealed so it cannot breathe. Turner t....		James Grantham Turner
Libertines and Radicals in Early Modern London: Sexuality, Politics and Literary Culture, 1630-1685	A `Deluge of Libertinism' swept through England in the turbulent seventeenth century: class- and gender-relations went into deep crisis - and sexually-explicit literature took the blame. Turner r....	Renaissance and Early Modern Gender & Sexuality Studies	James Grantham Turner
The Politics of Landscape: Rural Scenery and Society in English Poetry, l630-l660	Artists, poets, agriculturalists and political theorists construct the imaginary countryside of England while the country itself, from landowner to peasant, tears itself apart in the Civil War. Awarde....	Renaissance and Early Modern Poetry Cultural Studies	James Grantham Turner
Looking for Law in All the Wrong Places	For many inside and outside the legal academy, the right place to look for law is in constitutions, statutes, and judicial opinions. This book looks for law in the “wrong places”—sit....	Critical Theory Cultural Studies	Bryan Wagner
The Tar Baby: A Global History	The Tar Baby offers a fresh analysis of a deceptively simple story about a wolf, a rabbit, and a doll made of tar and turpentine. Examining the story's variation and reception, Bryan Wagner a....	19th-Century American 20th- and 21st-Century American African American African Atlantic Caribbean Cultural Studies	Bryan Wagner
The Wild Tchoupitoulas	The Wild Tchoupitoulas is a definitive expression of the modern New Orleans sound, drawing upon carnival traditions stretching back a century. Music chanted in the streets with tambourines and makeshi....	20th- and 21st-Century American African American African Atlantic Caribbean Cultural Studies	Bryan Wagner
The Life and Legend of Bras-Coupé: The Fugitive Slave Who Fought the Law, Ruled the Swamp, Danced at Congo Square, Invented Jazz, and Died for Love	This anthology collects and introduces the most important versions of the Bras-Coupé story from the major phase of its development between the 1830s and the 1960s. One of the most notoriou....	19th-Century American 20th- and 21st-Century American African American Atlantic Caribbean Cultural Studies	Bryan Wagner
Disturbing the Peace: Black Culture and the Police Power after Slavery	W. C. Handy waking up to the blues on a train platform, Buddy Bolden eavesdropping on the drums at Congo Square, John Lomax taking his phonograph recorder into a southern penitentiary—some found....	19th-Century American 20th- and 21st-Century American African American Cultural Studies	Bryan Wagner
Reckonings: Contemporary Short Fiction by Native American Women	The fifteen Native women writers in Reckonings document transgenerational trauma, yet they also celebrate survival. Their stories are vital testaments of our times. Unlike most anthologies ....	Creative Writing Native American	Hertha D. Sweet Wong
Picturing Identity: Contemporary American Autobiography in Image and Text	Picturing Identity examines the intersection of writing and visual art in the autobiographical work of eight 20th and 21st-century American writers and artists–including Maus comic book author A....	20th- and 21st-Century American African American Asian American Native American Cultural Studies	Hertha D. Sweet Wong
Sending My Heart Back Across the Years: Tradition and Innovation in Native American Autobiography	A study of Native American forms of self-representation and self-narration from pictographic stories of pre-contact times, through as-told-to autobiographies, to contemporary written memoirs. ....	Native American Textual Criticism Cultural Studies	Hertha D. Sweet Wong
Strange Likeness: Description and the Modernist Novel	The modern novel, so the story goes, thinks poorly of mere description—what Virginia Woolf called “that ugly, that clumsy, that incongruous tool.” As a result, critics have largely n....		Dora Zhang