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On the Importance of
Being an Individual in
Renaissance Italy
Men, Their Professions, and
Their Beards
Douglas Biow
An elegant, erudite, and polemical book that most assuredly
makes an important contribution
to the literature on Renaissance
individuality and male identity.
James R. Farr, Purdue University
Haney Foundation Series
2015 | 328 pages | 56 illus. | ISBN 978-0-8122-4671-1
Cloth | $55.00 | $44.00 | 36.00 | 28.80
Doppelgnger
Dilemmas
Anglo-Dutch Relations in
Early Modern English Literature and Culture
Marjorie Rubright
A gracefully written,
thought-provoking, and original
book. Doppelgnger Dilemmas
revises our understanding of the role the Dutch played in
English self-definitions and of how ethnicity was constituted in the early modern periodand beyond.
Frances E. Dolan, University of California, Davis
2014 | 352 pages | 32 illus. | ISBN 978-0-8122-4623-0
Cloth | $69.95 | $55.96 | 45.50 | 36.40
Inventing Exoticism
Geography, Globalism, and
Europes Early Modern
World
Benjamin Schmidt
A fascinating and brilliantly resourceful study of early modern
Dutch geography. In energetic
and readable prose, Inventing
Exoticism marshals a wealth
of carefully indexed details around big picture questions
about how we see other regions and peoples.
Mary C. Fuller, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Material Texts
Jan 2015 | 432 pages | 24 color, 179 b/w illus.
ISBN 978-0-8122-4646-9
Cloth | $85.00 | $68.00 | 55.50 | 44.40
Learning to Die in
London, 13801540
Amy Appleford
An original and significant work
that demonstrates the different,
and evolving, ways in which Londoners understood the nature of
death and prepared themselves
for it, and for what was to come
afterwards.
Caroline Barron, University of London
The Middle Ages Series
2014 | 336 pages | 3 illus. | ISBN 978-0-8122-4669-8
Cloth | $65.00 | $52.00 | 42.50 | 34.00
Barbarous Antiquity
Reorienting the Past in the
Poetry of Early Modern
England
Miriam Jacobson
Barbarous Antiquity extends
our sense of Ovids dual role as
classical exemplar and outlier,
and makes a substantial contribution by demonstrating how lyric and narrative poetry
were as important to the English image of the Ottoman
Mediterranean as drama and travel writing.
John Archer, New York University
2014 | 296 pages | 13 illus. | ISBN 978-0-8122-4632-2
Cloth | $59.95 | $47.96 | 39.00 | 31.20
Medieval Robots
Mechanism, Magic, Nature,
and Art
E. R. Truitt
Well-researched and wellwritten, the book does an
excellent job of showing the
wider cultural significance of
automata within medieval history
and the history of science.
Pamela O. Long, author of Openness, Secrecy,
Authorship: Technical Arts and the Culture of
Knowledge from Antiquity to the Renaissance
The Middle Ages Series
Jun 2015 | 312 pages | 36 color illus.
SBN 978-0-8122-4697-1
Cloth | $55.00 | $44.00 | 36.00 | 28.80
Hamlet After Q1
An Uncanny History of the
Shakespearean Text
Zachary Lesser
An extraordinary work of interpretation and an extraordinary
work of literary history.
Tiffany Stern, University
of Oxford
Material Texts
2014 | 304 pages | 27 illus. | ISBN 978-0-8122-4661-2
Cloth | $59.95 | $47.96 | 39.00 | 31.20
A Traveling
Homeland
The Babylonian Talmud as
Diaspora
Daniel Boyarin
Daniel Boyarin demolishes
the long-standing notion that
diaspora was born out of
despair and sorrow. A highly
erudite, suggestive, and provocative study on the concept
of diaspora, and the Jewish diaspora in particular.
Oded Irshai, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion
Jun 2015 | 184 pages | ISBN 978-0-8122-4724-4
Cloth | $24.95 | $19.96 | 16.50 | 13.20
Unquiet Things
Secularism in the Romantic Age
Colin Jager
Material Texts
Jun 2015 | 312 pages | 23 illus. | ISBN 978-0-8122-4708-4
Cloth | $55.00 | $44.00 | 36.00 | 28.80
New in Paperback
Shakespeares Shrine
The Bards Birthplace and the Invention of
Stratford-upon-Avon
Julia Thomas
Thomas is good company. . . . She has a nice sense of
narrative development and pacing, and extracts drama
and comedy from everything from guidebook conventions
to local disputes.TLS
Haney Foundation Series
Mar 2015 | 232 pages | 22 illus. | ISBN 978-0-8122-2337-8
Paper | $19.95 | $15.96 | 13.00 | 10.40
NEW IN PAPERBACK
Early African American Print Culture
Edited by Lara Langer Cohen and Jordan Alexander Stein
Seventeen well-conceived and -executed works
that advance our understanding of how early African
American literature fits into the historical landscape of
communication arts.African American Review
2015 | 432 pages | 43 illus. | ISBN 978-0-8122-2334-7
Paper | $24.95 | $19.96 | 16.50 | 13.20
The Killers
A Narrative of Real Life in
Philadelphia
George Lippard.
Edited by Matt Cohen and
Edlie L. Wong
With its resonant social
commentary, The Killers has
assumed significance in recent
American studies. But this engaging novel stands on its
own as a portrait of city life, with special emphasis on the
street gangs of Philadelphias underworld.
David S. Reynolds, CUNY Graduate Center
2014 | 256 pages | 11 illus. | ISBN 978-0-8122-4624-7
Cloth | $45.00 | $36.00 | 29.50 | 23.60
New in Paperback
In the Shadow of the
Gallows
Race, Crime, and American
Civic Identity
Jeannine Marie DeLombard
This is a powerful book filled
with important, paradigm-shifting
ideas about the presentation
of African Americans in print and the media. Though
not suited to the casual reader, its contents are thought
provoking and address contemporary race issues in ways
that scholarship on the history of print and readership
rarely does.Journal of American History
Haney Foundation Series
2014 | 456 pages | 15 illus. | ISBN 978-0-8122-2317-0
Paper | $27.50 | $22.00 | 18.00 | 14.40
New in Paperback
Black Cosmopolitanism
Racial Consciousness and Transnational Identity
in the Nineteenth-Century Americas
Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo
A story about the complex hemispheric context in
which multiple public discourses of blackness emerged
in the work of black intellectuals, writing and publishing
throughout a nineteenth century shaped by the
cataclysmic impact of the Haitian revolution.
American Literature
2014 | 304 pages | ISBN 978-0-8122-2323-1
Paper | $24.95 | $19.96 | 16.50 | 13.20
Against SelfReliance
The Arts of Dependence in
the Early United States
William Huntting Howell
A remarkably original book and
impassioned critique of liberalism. Howell makes a compelling
argument that imitation and
emulation occupied a central place in the emergence of
the United States.
Catherine Kelly, University of Oklahoma
Early American Studies
Apr 2015 | 344 pages |19 illus. | ISBN 978-0-8122-4703-9
Cloth | $49.95 | $39.96 | 32.50 | 26.00
Enchantment
On Charisma and the Sublime in the Arts of the West
C. Stephen Jaeger
Enchantment is, as usual with
Jaegers books, extremely rich in
terms of fascinating hypotheses and cues for discussion.
The style is always clear and
eloquent, and the authors and the works discussed cover
a very wide span of time, from Homer to Federico Fellini
and Woody Allen.Philosophical Inquiries
Haney Foundation Series
2012 | 440 pages | 52 illus. | ISBN 978-0-8122-2335-4
Paper | $29.95 | $23.96 | 19.50 | 15.60
Also of Interest
The Planetary
Garden and Other
Writings
Gilles Clment. Translated by
Sandra Morris. Foreword
by Gilles A. Tiberghien
Gilles Clment, horticultural engineer, entomologist, landscape
architect, and writer, occupies
a special place in French professional circles. . . . All
Clments concepts speak about nature as well as about
humanity; they evoke a possible community.
From the Foreword, by Gilles A. Tiberghien
Journals
J19: The Journal of
Nineteenth-Century
Americanists
J19 publishes innovative
research on and analysis of the
long nineteenth century. J19
is the official publication of C19:
The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, the first
academic organization dedicated to nineteenth-century
American literary studies.
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