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Criticism and Theory

Coolie Woman

Bahadur, Gaiutra
The Odyssey of Indenture
September 2013 New Book

Switching Codes

Bartscherer, Thomas
Thinking Through Digital Technology in the Humanities and the Arts
May 2011 E-book

Attack of the Difficult Poems

Bernstein, Charles
Essays and Inventions
April 2011 E-book

Literary Lacan

Biswas, Santanu
From Literature to 'Lituraterre' and Beyond
May 2013 New Book

Musings on Mortality

Brombert, Victor
From Tolstoy to Primo Levi
October 2013 New Book

Archaeology of Sympathy

Chandler, James
The Sentimental Mode in Literature and Cinema
June 2013 New Book E-book

Tombe

Cixous, Hélène
August 2013 New Book

Death Penalty, Volume I

Derrida, Jacques
November 2013 New Book

Signature Derrida

Derrida, Jacques
April 2013 New Book E-book

Subject of Murder

Downing, Lisa
Gender, Exceptionality, and the Modern Killer
May 2013 New Book E-book

Futurity

Eshel, Amir
Contemporary Literature and the Quest for the Past
January 2013 New Book E-book

Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling

Foucault, Michel
The Function of Avowal in Justice
October 2014 New Book E-book

Excommunication

Galloway, Alexander R.
Three Inquiries in Media and Mediation
November 2013 New Book

Box of Photographs

Grenier, Roger
March 2013 New Book

Puppet

Gross, Kenneth
An Essay on Uncanny Life
October 2011 E-book

Mosaic Constitution

Hammill, Graham
Political Theology and Imagination from Machiavelli to Milton
May 2012 New Book E-book

Political Theology and Early Modernity

Hammill, Graham
October 2012 New Book E-book

How We Think

Hayles, N. Katherine
Digital Media and Contemporary Technogenesis
June 2012 New Book E-book

Romantic Things

Jacobus, Mary
A Tree, a Rock, a Cloud
September 2012 New Book E-book

Future of Illusion

Kahn, Victoria
Political Theology and Early Modern Texts
November 2013 New Book

Dreaming in French

Kaplan, Alice
The Paris Years of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Susan Sontag, and Angela Davis
April 2012 E-book

Prospero's Son

Lerer, Seth
Life, Books, Love, and Theater
April 2013 New Book E-book

Cloning Terror

Mitchell, W. J. T.
The War of Images, 9/11 to the Present
January 2011 E-book

Occupy

Mitchell, W. J. T.
Three Inquiries in Disobedience
May 2013 New Book E-book

Novelty

North, Michael
A History of the New
October 2013 New Book

Sound of Poetry / The Poetry of Sound

Perloff, Marjorie
November 2009 E-book

Unoriginal Genius

Perloff, Marjorie
Poetry by Other Means in the New Century
December 2010

Book Was There

Piper, Andrew
Reading in Electronic Times
October 2012 New Book E-book

Dreaming in Books

Piper, Andrew
The Making of the Bibliographic Imagination in the Romantic Age
August 2009 E-book

Slaves to Sweetness

Plasa, Carl
British and Caribbean Literatures of Sugar
June 2009

Poetry and Its Others

Ramazani, Jahan
News, Prayer, Song, and the Dialogue of Genres
November 2013 New Book

Field Guide to a New Meta-field

Stafford, Barbara
Bridging the Humanities-Neurosciences Divide
June 2011

Walter Benjamin

Steiner, Uwe
An Introduction to His Work and Thought
May 2010 E-book

Poet's Freedom

Stewart, Susan
A Notebook on Making
December 2011 E-book

In Time

Williams, C. K.
Poets, Poems, and the Rest
October 2012 New Book E-book

Rhythm of Thought

Wiskus, Jessica
Art, Literature, and Music after Merleau-Ponty
June 2013 New Book E-book

Before the Law

Wolfe, Cary
Humans and Other Animals in a Biopolitical Frame
December 2012 New Book E-book

Neighbor

Zizek, Slavoj
Three Inquiries in Political Theology, with a new Preface
July 2013 New Book E-book

British and European Literature

Shaggy Muses

Adams, Maureen
The Dogs who Inspired Virginia Woolf, Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Edith Wharton, and Emily Brontë
April 2011

Aeschylus II

Aeschylus,
The Oresteia
April 2013 New Book E-book

Aguecheek's Beef, Belch's Hiccup, and Other Gastronomic Interjections

Appelbaum, Robert
Literature, Culture, and Food Among the Early Moderns
December 2006 E-book

Enlightenment Orientalism

Aravamudan, Srinivas
Resisting the Rise of the Novel
December 2011 E-book

Authoring the Past

Aurell, Jaume
History, Autobiography, and Politics in Medieval Catalonia
April 2012 E-book

Fictions of the Cosmos

Aït-Touati, Frédérique
Science and Literature in the Seventeenth Century
November 2011 E-book

War Diary

Bachmann, Ingeborg
October 2011

Fragments and Assemblages

Bahr, Arthur
Forming Compilations of Medieval London
March 2013 New Book E-book

Dreams of Waking

Barletta, Vincent
An Anthology of Iberian Lyric Poetry, 1400-1700
March 2013 New Book E-book

Victor Halfwit

Bernhard, Thomas
A Winter's Tale
July 2011

Women and Weasels

Bettini, Maurizio
Mythologies of Birth in Ancient Greece and Rome
October 2013 New Book

Vegetables

Bloch-Dano, Evelyne
A Biography
April 2012 E-book

Reprisal

Bonanni, Laudomia
A Novel
March 2013 New Book E-book

Arrière-Pays

Bonnefoy, Yves
With a new Preface by Yves Bonnefoy, Introduction and Notes by Stephen Romer
August 2012 New Book

Friends and Relations

Bowen, Elizabeth
A Novel
November 2012 New Book E-book

Hotel

Bowen, Elizabeth
A Novel
November 2012 New Book E-book

Novel Science

Buckland, Adelene
Fiction and the Invention of Nineteenth-Century Geology
April 2013 New Book E-book

Alice's Adventures under Ground

Carroll, Lewis
A Fascimile
February 2009

Hunting of the Snark

Carroll, Lewis
An Agony in Eight Fits
April 2011

New Gods

Cioran, E. M.
March 2013 New Book E-book

Dangerous Work

Conan Doyle, Arthur
Diary of an Arctic Adventure
October 2012 New Book E-book

Power to Do Justice

Cormack, Bradin
Jurisdiction, English Literature, and the Rise of Common Law
February 2008 E-book

Shakespeare and the Law

Cormack, Bradin
A Conversation among Disciplines and Professions
April 2013 New Book E-book

Cruelty and Laughter

Dickie, Simon
Forgotten Comic Literature and the Unsentimental Eighteenth Century
December 2011 E-book

English-Language Poetry from Wales, 1789-1806

Edwards, Elizabeth
April 2013 New Book

Companion to the Exeter Christ Poems

Esser, Carolin
January 2014 New Book

Euripides I

Euripides,
Alcestis, Medea, The Children of Heracles, Hippolytus
April 2013 New Book E-book

Euripides II

Euripides,
Andromache, Hecuba, The Suppliant Women, Electra
April 2013 New Book E-book

1000 Years of English Literature

Fletcher, Chris
Revised Edition
July 2012 New Book

Reading the World

Franklin-Brown, Mary
Encyclopedic Writing in the Scholastic Age
September 2012 New Book E-book

Correspondence

Frisch, Max
February 2012

Songbook

Galvez, Marisa
How Lyrics Became Poetry in Medieval Europe
May 2012 New Book E-book

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Gardner, John
In a Modern English Version with a Critical Introduction
November 2011 E-book

Shakespeare's Freedom

Greenblatt, Stephen
November 2010 E-book

Five Words

Greene, Roland
Critical Semantics in the Age of Shakespeare and Cervantes
June 2013 New Book E-book

Queer Others in Victorian Gothic

Haefele-Thomas, Ardel
Transgressing Monstrosity
May 2012 New Book

Writing Britain

Hardyment, Christina
Wastelands to Wonderlands
July 2012 New Book

Noir Atlantic

Higginson, Pim
Chester Himes and the Birth of the Francophone African Crime Novel
September 2011

Culture of Disaster

Huet, Marie-Hélène
October 2012 New Book E-book

Curious World of Dickens

Hurst, Clive
March 2013 New Book

Poetry of Juan Ramón Jiménez

Jensen, Julio
An Example of Modern Subjectivity
March 2012

Complete Perfectionist

Jiménez, Juan Ramón
A Poetics of Work
February 2012

Jane Austen's Cults and Cultures

Johnson, Claudia L.
May 2012 New Book E-book

Practicing Literary Theory in the Middle Ages

Johnson, Eleanor
Ethics and the Mixed Form in Chaucer, Gower, Usk, and Hoccleve
May 2013 New Book E-book

Forms of Attention

Kermode, Frank
Botticelli and Hamlet
September 2011 E-book

Holocaust as Culture

Kertész, Imre
June 2012 New Book

Boccaccio

Kirkham, Victoria
A Critical Guide to the Complete Works
January 2014 New Book

Petrarch

Kirkham, Victoria
A Critical Guide to the Complete Works
August 2009 E-book

Shakespeare Only

Knapp, Jeffrey
October 2009 E-book

Dialogue with Death

Koestler, Arthur
The Journal of a Prisoner of the Fascists in the Spanish Civil War
April 2011

Edward Lear's Nonsense Birds

Lear, Edward
June 2013 New Book

Owl and the Pussy-Cat and Other Stories

Lear, Edward
December 2012 New Book

Dune's Twisted Edge

Levin, Gabriel
Journeys in the Levant
November 2012 New Book E-book

Air's Appearance

Lewis, Jayne Elizabeth
Literary Atmosphere in British Fiction, 1660-1794
November 2012 New Book E-book

Paris-Amsterdam Underground

Lindner, Christoph
Essays on Cultural Resistance, Subversion, and Diversion
June 2013 New Book

Eloquent Shakespeare

Logan, Gary
A Pronouncing Dictionary for the Complete Dramatic Works with Notes to Untie the Modern Tongue
February 2009 E-book

Thinking with Shakespeare

Lupton, Julia Reinhard
Essays on Politics and Life
May 2011

Making England Western

Makdisi, Saree
Occidentalism, Race, and Imperial Culture
November 2013 New Book

Colonial Heritage of French Comics

McKinney, Mark
September 2011

Cahiers Parisiens / Parisian Notebooks, No. 6

Meltzer, Françoise
June 2013 New Book

Atheist's Bible

Minois, Georges
The Most Dangerous Book That Never Existed
October 2012 New Book E-book

Manifold Greatness

Moore, Helen
The Making of the King James Bible
May 2011

Economy of Glory

Morrissey, Robert
From Ancien Régime France to the Fall of Napoleon
December 2013 New Book

Trade and Romance

Murrin, Michael
October 2013 New Book

Mahabharata

Narayan, R. K.
A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic
October 2013 New Book

Shock of the Ancient

Norman, Larry F.
Literature and History in Early Modern France
April 2011 E-book

Queer Uncanny

Palmer, Paulina
New Perspectives on the Gothic
May 2012 New Book

Italian Crime Fiction

Pieri, Giuliana
April 2012

Loving Faster than Light

Price, Katy
Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe
November 2012 New Book E-book

Magical Tales

Purkiss, Diane
Myth, Legend, and Enchantment in Children's Books
June 2013 New Book

Roving Shadows

Quignard, Pascal
June 2012 New Book

Sex and Terror

Quignard, Pascal
February 2012

Silent Crossing

Quignard, Pascal
May 2013 New Book

Complete Danteworlds

Raffa, Guy
A Reader's Guide to the Divine Comedy
May 2009 E-book

Proust among the Nations

Rose, Jacqueline
From Dreyfus to the Middle East
February 2012 E-book

Waste Land

Rowson, Martin
September 2012 New Book

Certain Smile

Sagan, Françoise
A Novel
October 2011

Poet and Critic

Sagar, Keith
The Letters of Ted Hughes and Keith Sagar
June 2012 New Book

Childhood

Sarraute, Nathalie
March 2013 New Book E-book

Selected Poetry and Prose of Vittorio Sereni

Sereni, Vittorio
A Bilingual Edition
December 2006 E-book

Accommodated Animal

Shannon, Laurie
Cosmopolity in Shakespearean Locales
January 2013 New Book E-book

Romanticism and the Question of the Stranger

Simpson, David
December 2012 New Book E-book

Dante and the Limits of the Law

Steinberg, Justin
October 2013 New Book

Traveling in Place

Stiegler, Bernd
A History of Armchair Travel
November 2013 New Book

Moment of Racial Sight

Tucker, Irene
A History
January 2013 New Book E-book

Bright Stars

Turley, Richard Marggraf
John Keats, Barry Cornwall and Romantic Literary Culture
April 2010

Loss Library and Other Unfinished Stories

Vladislavic, Ivan
February 2012

Gothic Contemporaries

Watkiss, Joanne
The Haunted Text
April 2012

Marcel Proust

Watt, Adam
May 2013 New Book

Illustrating Shakespeare

Whitfield, Peter
May 2013 New Book

Triumph of Human Empire

Williams, Rosalind
Verne, Morris, and Stevenson at the End of the World
September 2013 New Book

Charleston Bulletin Supplements

Woolf, Virginia
June 2013 New Book

American Literature

Geographies of Philological Knowledge

Altschul, Nadia R.
Postcoloniality and the Transatlantic National Epic
March 2012 E-book

Recalculating

Bernstein, Charles
March 2013 New Book E-book

One Kind of Everything

Chiasson, Dan
Poem and Person in Contemporary America
March 2007 E-book

Naked Singularity

De La Pava, Sergio
A Novel
April 2012 E-book

Until Choice Do Us Part

Eby, Clare Virginia
Marriage Reform in the Progressive Era
December 2013 New Book

Bewilderment

Ferry, David
New Poems and Translations
September 2012 New Book E-book

Stricken Field

Gellhorn, Martha
A Novel
September 2011 E-book

Humanities and the Dream of America

Harpham, Geoffrey Galt
March 2011 E-book

My Father's Name

Jackson, Lawrence P.
A Black Virginia Family after the Civil War
May 2012 New Book E-book

Beyond the Slave Narrative

Jenson, Deborah
Politics, Sex, and Manuscripts in the Haitian Revolution
February 2012

This Side Jordan

Laurence, Margaret
A Novel
October 2011 E-book

And Bid Him Sing

Molesworth, Charles
A Biography of Countée Cullen
October 2012 New Book E-book

Exile and Post-1946 Haitian Literature

Munro, Martin
Alexis, Depestre, Ollivier, Laferrière, Danticat
June 2013 New Book

Making of the New Negro

Pochmara, Anna
Black Authorship, Masculinity, and Sexuality in the Harlem Renaissance
November 2011

American Nietzsche

Ratner-Rosenhagen, Jennifer
A History of an Icon and His Ideas
November 2011 E-book

Creating Memorials, Building Identities

Rice, Alan
The Politics of Memory in the Black Atlantic
December 2010

Playing in Time

Rotella, Carlo
Essays, Profiles, and Other True Stories
September 2012 New Book E-book

Stephen King's Gothic

Sears, John
October 2011

Cinematic Fictions

Seed, David
The Impact of the Cinema on the American Novel up to World War II
October 2011

Open Door

Share, Don
One Hundred Poems, One Hundred Years of "Poetry" Magazine
September 2012 New Book E-book

Harlem

Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty
January 2013 New Book

Narration

Stein, Gertrude
Four Lectures
May 2010 E-book

Democratic Surround

Turner, Fred
Multimedia and American Liberalism from World War II to the Psychedelic Sixties
November 2013 New Book

Passage to Cosmos

Walls, Laura Dassow
Alexander von Humboldt and the Shaping of America
September 2009 E-book

Protocols of Liberty

Warner, William B.
Communication Innovation and the American Revolution
September 2013 New Book

Brion Gysin: Here to Go

Wilson, Terry
Interviews and Texts
July 2012 New Book

More Literature and Criticism

True History Full of Romance

Altena, Marga
Mixed Marriages and Ethnic Identity in Dutch Art, News Media, and Popular Culture (1883-1955)
March 2013 New Book

Another Freedom

Boym, Svetlana
The Alternative History of an Idea
June 2010

Puss in Books

Britton, Catherine
April 2013 New Book

Rise of the Vampire

Butler, Erik
May 2013 New Book

Journey of a Caribbean Writer

Condé, Maryse
August 2013 New Book

Deep Rhetoric

Crosswhite, James
Philosophy, Reason, Violence, Justice, Wisdom
April 2013 New Book E-book

Evolving English

Crystal, David
One Language, Many Voices
February 2011

Oil and Water

Evans, Mei Mei
A Novel
February 2013 New Book E-book

Versions of Hollywood Crime Cinema

Freedman, Carl
Studies in Ford, Wilder, Coppola, Scorsese, and Others
June 2013 New Book

Women's Writing and Muslim Societies

Gemie, Sharif
The Search for Dialogue, 1920 - Present
January 2013 New Book

Invisible Dragon

Hickey, Dave
Essays on Beauty, Revised and Expanded
October 2012 New Book E-book

Racism Postcolonialism Europe

Huggan, Graham
February 2010

Art of the Novel

James, Henry
Critical Prefaces
June 2011

Looking for Strangers

Katz, Dori
The True Story of My Hidden Wartime Childhood
September 2013 New Book

Medusa

Leeming, David
In the Mirror of Time
April 2013 New Book

Children's Literature

Lerer, Seth
A Reader's History, from Aesop to Harry Potter
June 2008 E-book

Cruel Radiance

Linfield, Susie
Photography and Political Violence
November 2010 E-book

Literary Miniatures

Noiville, Florence
July 2013 New Book

Women of the Danish Golden Age

Nun, Katalin
Literature, Theater and the Emancipation of Women
April 2013 New Book

Arbitrary Rule

Nyquist, Mary
Slavery, Tyranny, and the Power of Life and Death
May 2013 New Book E-book

Oedipus and the Sphinx

Renger, Almut-Barbara
The Threshold Myth from Sophocles through Freud to Cocteau
October 2013 New Book

Silent Conversations

Rudolf, Anthony
A Reader’s Life
July 2013 New Book

Kind of Touching Beauty

Sartre, Jean-Paul
Photographs of America by Pedro Meyer, Text by Jean-Paul Sartre
June 2012 New Book

Deconstructing Dignity

Shershow, Scott Cutler
A Critique of the Right-to-Die Debate
December 2013 New Book

God and The End of Satan / Dieu and La Fin de Satan

Skinner, R. G.
Selections: In a Bilingual Edition
June 2013 New Book

Animal Alterity

Vint, Sherryl
Science Fiction and the Question of the Animal
July 2010

On Life, Death, and This and That of the Rest

Widmer, Urs
The Frankfurt Lectures on Poetics
June 2013 New Book

Change

Yan, Mo
February 2013 New Book E-book

Pow!

Yan, Mo
December 2012 New Book E-book

Critical Lives

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Bird, Robert
April 2012

Charles Bukowski

Calonne, David Stephen
September 2012 New Book

Alfred Jarry

Fell, Jill
August 2010

Allen Ginsberg

Finbow, Steve
September 2012 New Book

Lenin

Lih, Lars T.
May 2011

Charles Baudelaire

Lloyd, Rosemary
March 2008 E-book

Ezra Pound

Marsh, Alec
November 2011

John Berger

Merrifield, Andy
June 2012 New Book

Marcel Proust

Watt, Adam
May 2013 New Book

Simone Weil

Yourgrau, Palle
March 2011

Spoken Word

Tom Stoppard Radio Plays

Stoppard, Tom
August 2012 New Book

Caribbean Roots

The British Library,
Black British and Caribbean Poets Read Their Own Work
March 2012

Science Fiction Writers

The British Library,
September 2011

Shakespeare's Original Pronunciation

The British Library,
Speeches and Scenes Performed as Shakespeare Would Have Heard Them
April 2012

Spoken Word: Aldous Huxley

The British Library,
July 2010

Spoken Word: American Poets

The British Library,
December 2010

Spoken Word: British Poets

The British Library,
December 2010

Spoken Word: Lawrence Durrell

The British Library,
March 2012

Spoken Word: Short Stories Volume 2

The British Library,
British and Irish Authors Read Their Own Work
May 2013 New Book

Spoken Word: Short Stories

The British Library,
English and Irish authors read their own work
February 2012

Spoken Word: Sylvia Plath

The British Library,
July 2010