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Literary Criticism

Some Words of Jane Austen

Tave Stuart M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226633398, University of Chicago Press, May 2019
304 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

Jane Austen's readers continue to find delight in the justness of her moral and psychological discriminations. But for most readers, her values have been a phenomenon more felt than fully apprehended. In this book, Stuart M. Tave identifies and expla...

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Samizdat Past & Present

Glanc Tomas

ISBN: PB: 9788024640334, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, March 2019
250 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Much of what we now consider the canon of twentieth-century Czech literature – the work of authors like Bohumil Hrabal, Ludvik Vaculik, and Jachym Topol, among many others – has, in fact,...

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Gender Studies

Someone The Pragmatics of Misfit Sexualities, from Colette to Herve Guibert

Lucey Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226606217, ISBN: HB: 9780226606187, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Imagine trying to tell someone something about yourself and your desires for which there are no words. What if the mere attempt at expression was bound to misfire, to efface the truth of that ineluctable something? In "Someone", Michael Lucey conside...

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States of Terror History, Theory, Literature

Simpson David

ISBN: PB: 9780226600222, ISBN: HB: 9780226600192, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

How have we come to depend so greatly on the words terror and terrorism to describe broad categories of violence? David Simpson offers here a philology of terror, tracking the concept's long, complicated history across literature, philosophy, politic...

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Street Players Black Pulp Fiction and the Making of a Literary Underground

Nishikawa Kinohi

ISBN: PB: 9780226586915, ISBN: HB: 9780226586885, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones

The uncontested center of the black pulp fiction universe for more than four decades was the Los Angeles publisher Holloway House. From the late 1960s until it closed in 2008, Holloway House specialized in cheap paperbacks with page-turning narrative...

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Culture Studies

Social Life of Books Reading Together in the Eighteenth-Century Home

Williams Abigail

ISBN: PB: 9780300240252, ISBN: HB: 9780300208290, Yale University Press, January 2019
360 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 57 black&white illus.

A vivid exploration of the evolution of reading as an essential social and domestic activity during the eighteenth century. Two centuries before the advent of radio, television, and motion pictures, books were a cherished form of popular entertainme...

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Shakespearean Territories

Elden Stuart

ISBN: PB: 9780226559193, ISBN: HB: 9780226559056, University of Chicago Press, December 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Shakespeare was an astute observer of contemporary life, culture, and politics. The emerging practice of territory as a political concept and technology did not elude his attention. In "Shakespearean Territories", Stuart Elden reveals just how much S...

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Shakespeare's Lyric Stage Myth, Music, and Poetry in the Last Plays

Lerer Seth

ISBN: PB: 9780226582542, ISBN: HB: 9780226582405, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
272 pp., 21.6x14 cm

What does it mean to have an emotional response to poetry and music? And, just as important but considered less often, what does it mean not to have such a response? What happens when lyric utterances – which should invite consolation, revelation, an...

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Christianity

Staging Contemplation Participatory Theology in Middle English Prose, Verse, and Drama

Johnson Eleanor

ISBN: PB: 9780226572178, ISBN: HB: 9780226572031, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

What does it mean to contemplate? In the Middle Ages, more than merely thinking with intensity, it was a religious practice entailing utter receptiveness to the divine presence. Contemplation is widely considered by scholars today to have been the hi...

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Shakespeare Dwelling Designs for the Theater of Life

Reinhard Lupton Julia

ISBN: PB: 9780226540917, ISBN: HB: 9780226266015, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
272 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 5 halftones

Great halls and hovels, dove-houses and sheepcotes, mountain cells and seaside shelters – these are some of the spaces in which Shakespearean characters gather to dwell, and to test their connections with one another and their worlds. Julia Reinhard...

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