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literature and criticism The Thinking Literature Series Nan Z. Da and Anahid Nersessian, Series Editors Alan Thomas, Acquiring Editor

Thinking Literature publishes books committed to the intensive, expansive exploration of how literature thinks, and to the refinement of literary criticism as a mode of reasoning in and about the world.

Radium of the Word Cartesian Poetics A Poetics of Materiality The Art of Thinking Craig Dworkin Andrea Gadberry “We count on Dworkin to say the smartest things “Cartesian Poetics brilliantly integrates historical sen- about contemporary poetics, so the smartness of sitivity and speculative boldness. Tracing a ‘literary Radium of the Word comes as no surprise. What life of concepts’ through the riddle, the love lyric, does come as a surprise is the book’s first sentence: the elegy, and the anagram, Gadberry gives us a new ‘This book proposes a methodology.’ And it does history of Descartes’s philosophical coming of age. not disappoint. Dworkin is reinventing the practice Her nuanced close readings, which make dazzling of reading by unscrewing the locks on its doors. use of wit as an engine of literary-critical investiga- Not close, not distant, not surface, not formal, not tion, awaken us to a conception of poetic form historical, not reparative, not paranoid reading. that lives in and between thoughts—that makes This book bypasses adjectives and heads straight ‘thinking,’ in the largest sense, possible.”—Gerard for the nouns: the death penalty, paper cuts, opera Passannante, University of Maryland, College Park queens, gossip, songs, riots, print, quotation marks, 2020 224 p. 6 x 9 homelessness, names, the typeset line, spaces, prose. 3 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-72302-0 $27.50 Your Price: $22.00 Oh, and poetry. This is a difficult book that every- body should read.”—Virginia Jackson, University of California, Irvine A Defense of Judgment 2020 264 p. 6 x 9 21 halftones Michael W. Clune 1 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-74356-1 $30.00 Your Price: $24.00 “A Defense of Judgment is a characteristically bril- Strange Likeness liant, strongly argued, intellectually accessible Description and the Modernist Novel attempt to provide a template for rethinking the Dora Zhang role of value judgments in teaching and writing (and thinking) about literature, and by implication “Strange Likeness rearranges what we think we know the arts generally. Clune’s discussion is continually about modernism’s relation to realism—and to ques- illuminating, as are the exemplary readings he offers tions of objectivity, psychology, social convention, of works by Dickinson, Brooks, and Thomas Bern- and collective life. Zhang is a gifted critic, beauti- hard.”—Michael Fried, fully attentive to details and large patterns, precise in her analytic vocabulary, and admirably thorough “[Clune] takes on a question central to the future in her range of theoretical and historical reference. of literary studies and offers a forceful and persuasive Her lucid, ambitious book deserves to be widely read answer, one that is likely to spark a lot of debate and debated.”—David Kurnick, Rutgers University and almost certainly some controversy.” 2020 240 p. 6 x 9 —Timothy Aubry, City University of New York 2 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-72252-8 $27.50 Your Price: $22.00 2021 256 p. 51/2 x 81/2 4 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-77015-4 $27.50 Your Price: $22.00 1

Keats’s Odes Epidemic Empire A Lover’s Discourse Colonialism, Contagion, and Terror, Anahid Nersessian 1817–2020 “Intense emotion abounds in this literary blend of Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb analysis and autobiography. . . . In six essays that “Raza Kolb renders a startling account of the extent examine each of Keats’s Great Odes, Nersessian to which figures of illness, disease, and virality tells a ‘kind of love story’ between herself and the saturate quotidian discourses on terrorism and race poems.”—Publishers Weekly from the nineteenth century to the present. Uncan- “[Keats’s Odes] appears freed by the sensuous- nily prescient yet historically profound, Epidemic ness of Keats’s own verse, standing on the verge of Empire allows us to glimpse the future of pandemics becoming something more than literary criticism. from the racial prisms of the past. The temporal arc While not an imitation of Keatsian style, Nerses- is sublime, and the writing, exquisite.”—Jasbir K. sian shares his willingness for vulnerability and for Puar, Rutgers University 2021 392 p. 6 x 9 24 halftones writing that enfleshes the experience of being subject 8 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-73935-9 $35.00 Your Price: $28.00 to the world because you are a subject in it.”—​Los Angeles Review of Books The Teaching Archive 2021 160 p. 51/2 x 81/2 5 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-76267-8 $20.00 Your Price: $16.00 A New History for Literary Study Rachel Sagner Buurma and Laura Heffernan The Calamity Form “The Teaching Archive shows us what we should On Poetry and Social Life always have known: the history of English is not Anahid Nersessian the history of big books of criticism talking to other 2020 240 p. 6 x 9 10 halftones big books of criticism. Instead it is the history of 6 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-70131-8 $27.50 Your Price: $22.00 students and teachers talking to each other in the classroom, where what goes on has often been quite The Opening of the different from what conventional histories of the American Mind discipline have assumed. Buurma and Heffernan Ten Years of The Point reanimate the twentieth-century classroom, and The Point in the process they reanimate our understanding “The Point is unique among the intellectual journals of the profession.”—Louis Menand, author of The of our time in its genuine openness to a range of Marketplace of Ideas: Reform and Resistance in the perspectives, and its commitment to pluralism American University reflects a conviction that thought cuts deepest “The Teaching Archive makes untenable much when it is permitted to find its own path. The of the received wisdom about twentieth-century essays in this volume are without exception lucid, English studies; it makes silenced classroom voices striking, intelligent, and well argued; they are also audible once more.”—Deirdre Shauna Lynch, idiosyncratic, surprising, and original.”—Michael author of Loving Literature: A Cultural History Clune, author of Defense of Judgment 2020 320 p. 6 x 9 25 halftones 2020 392 p. 6 x 9 9 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-73613-6 $30.00 Your Price: $24.00 7 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-73871-0 $18.00 Your Price: $14.40 2

Now in Paperback Of Bridges The Ruins Lesson A Poetic and Philosophical Account Meaning and Material in Western Culture Thomas Harrison Susan Stewart “Of Bridges is a dazzling investigation into the pro- “[Stewart] charts the West’s fascination with decayed found semantic and historical resonance of the seem- remains, from Egyptian relics to contemporary ingly simple word bridge. . . . Harrison has chapters monuments of destruction and trauma. The Ruins on every possible aspect of bridging, for example, the Lesson is a sweeping cultural history that draws musical bridge, the poetic bridge as in Hart Crane’s in Renaissance humanism, eighteenth-century famous poem by that title, the actual historic bridges changes in representing the past and the Romantic of Greece and Rome, and the ‘thought’ bridges of reconfiguration of memory. . . . Stewart writes with Nietzsche and Heidegger. Throughout, Harrison’s poetic grace and a nonspecialist’s appreciation of book is astonishingly learned, well written, and imagi- printmaking, painting, literature and architecture. native. Bridges will never be the same after this bril- Readers outside the academy will find much to value liant study.”—Marjorie Perloff, Stanford University 2021 304 p. 6 x 9 3 color plates, 73 halftones in this lovely book.”—Washington Post 13 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-73529-0 $35.00 Your Price: $28.00 2021 400 p. 7 x 10 11 color plates, 80 halftones 10 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-79220-0 $28.00 Your Price: $22.40 The Porch Dark Lens Meditations on the Edge of Nature Imaging Germany, 1945 Charlie Hailey Françoise Meltzer “The Porch first appears to be a study of a minor “Meltzer’s meditation on her mother’s searing architectural element, but it turns into a meditation photographs of German ruins is bold yet subtle. on the secrets of human existence and the world. . . . Meltzer suggests a way of looking at pictures of . . . This book is a delightful invitation to the joys of destruction without lapsing into either moral relativ- reading, imagining, and dreaming.”—Juhani Pallas- ism or another cycle of blame and retribution.” maa, professor emeritus, Aalto University, Helsinki 2021 224 p. 51/2 x 81/2 6 halftones, 6 line drawings —Ulrich C. Baer, New York University 14 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-76995-0 $22.50 Your Price: $18.00 2019 256 p. 6 x 9 4 color plates, 41 halftones 11 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-62563-8 $35.00 Your Price: $28.00 Mental Traveler Landscape as Weapon A Father, a Son, and a Journey through Cultures of Exhaustion and Refusal Schizophrenia John Beck W. J. T. Mitchell “Exploring pastoral landscapes, industrial sprawl, “Combines a scholar’s intellect with a father’s inti- abandoned ruins, bunkers, and much more, Land- mate perspective. . . . A kaleidoscopic and erudite scape as Weapon is an essential reminder that how we memoir of madness and sanity, this is also, at its think of places and their pasts is pivotal to how we core, a stunning account of what endures in the live now.”—Stephen Graham, author of Vertical: The wake of catastrophic tragedies: love, art, and vast City from Satellites to Bunkers stores of human hope.”—Rachel DeWoskin, author Distributed for Reaktion Books of Two Menus 2021 208 p. 51/4 x 81/4 20 halftones 2020 192 p. 51/2 x 81/2 18 halftones 12 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-305-8 $25.00 Your Price: $20.00 15 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-69593-8 $22.50 Your Price: $18.00 3

The Naked Truth The Jewish Decadence Viennese Modernism and the Body Jews and the Aesthetics of Modernity Alys X. George Jonathan Freedman “The Naked Truth offers a brilliant challenge to “Freedman reconceives of Jews as architects rather popular myths about fin-de-siècle . In its than victims of modernity. Although Jews were cross-disciplinary focus on the dissected, gendered, often demonized as sexual and artistic deviants, they classed, and moving body in Viennese culture, it also entered into dialogue with their detractors by reads Gustav Klimt’s famous icon Nuda Veri- contesting or reshaping the prejudices of the day. tas as a purloined image: always in plain sight but Most important, Jews played a central role in Euro- consistently overlooked. By including noncanonical pean culture as artists, critics, sponsors, networkers, women and expanding the frame beyond the politi- and entrepreneurs; throughout the book, Freedman cal divide of 1918, George gives us a supplemental spots Jews where none have been discerned before, and alternative genealogy of Viennese modernism.” testifying to their ubiquity among the avant- —Andreas Huyssen, Columbia University garde.”—Maud Ellman, 2020 328 p. 6 x 9 43 halftones 2021 304 p. 6 x 9 41 halftones 16 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-66998-4 $45.00 Your Price: $36.00 19 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-58108-8 $30.00 Your Price: $24.00 A Different Order of Difficulty The Anti-Journalist Literature after Wittgenstein Karl Kraus and Jewish Self-Fashioning in Karen Zumhagen-Yekplé Fin-de-Siècle Europe “Zumhagen-Yekplé’s innovative study connects a Paul Reitter great theme of modernist literary works, that of “Reitter reveals Kraus as a far more nuanced and im- difficulty, with Wittgenstein’s understanding of phi- pressive figure than the ‘self-hating Jew’ condemned losophy and the kinds of difficulty that it presents. by some other scholars. This is a fine work of literary A Different Order of Difficulty is enormously illumi- rehabilitation.”—Niall Ferguson, Harvard University nating in the connections it makes between philo- Studies in German-Jewish Cultural History and Literature, sophical and literary questions—questions that are Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center, Hebrew University of Jerusalem central in literary modernism and in Wittgenstein’s 2020 256 p. 6 x 9 thought.”—Cora Diamond, University of Virginia 20 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-75457-4 $37.00 Your Price: $29.60 2020 336 p. 6 x 9 17 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-67715-6 $32.50 Your Price: $26.00 Deep Song Georg Simmel The Life and Work of Federico García Lorca Stephen Roberts Essays on Art and Aesthetics “In this beautifully written, sensitive book, Roberts Georg Simmel Edited and with an Introduction by Austin Harrington moves fluidly and intelligently from biography to 2020 392 p. 6 x 9 oeuvre through a keen sense of the evocations of 18 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-62109-8 $35.00 Your Price: $28.00 place. . . . Capture[s] a sensual and intimate under- standing of the enduring significance of Lorca’s life and work.”—Sarah Wright, University of London Distributed for Reaktion Books 2020 288 p. 61/4 x 91/4 38 halftones 21 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-237-2 $35.00 Your Price: $28.00 4

Unspeakable Divine Images A Life beyond Sexual Morality The Life and Work of William Blake Rachel Hope Cleves Jason Whittaker “Unspeakable is a brave and beautifully written book, “An insightful guide to the artistry of William Blake. meticulously researched and carefully and ethically . . . Focusing on how political and religious currents handled. Despite writing about a notable early-twen- affected Blake’s art, Whittaker shows, in particular, tieth century British author who by today’s stan- how the idealistic hopes raised by the French Revolu- dards is nothing more than a pedophile, Cleves has tion among Blake and his contemporaries led him to managed the remarkable feat of producing a rich, imagine how his own society could be liberated from compelling, and informative work of both history oppressive political structures and social strictures. . and biography that is as balanced and dispassionate . . Makes a strong case for why Blake remains ‘one of as one can imagine possible.”—Steven Angelides, the greatest poets and artists ever to have lived in the author of The Fear of Child Sexuality British Isles.’”—Publishers Weekly 2020 368 p. 6 x 9 32 halftones Distributed for Reaktion Books 22 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-73353-1 $35.00 Your Price: $28.00 2021 352 p. 71/4 x 93/4 90 color plates, 20 halftones 25 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-287-7 $50.00 Your Price: $40.00 Dangerous to Show Byron and His Portraits The Art of Ruskin and the Geoffrey Bond and Christine Kenyon Jones Spirit of Place “Handsome, charismatic, aristocratic and allegedy John Dixon Hunt ‘mad, bad and dangerous to know,’ Lord Byron “This beautifully produced book takes readers on (1788–1824) is one of the most captivating and a closely and sensitively observed grand tour of recognisable figures of the Romantic age. Repro- Ruskin’s pictorial imagination.”—Marcus Waithe, duced here in color and for the first time are all the University of Cambridge key paintings, miniatures, sculptures, drawings and Distributed for Reaktion Books 2021 288 p. 71/4 x 93/4 100 color plates, 80 halftones sketches produced by a wide range of portrait artists 26 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-276-1 $50.00 Your Price: $40.00 both during his lifetime and after his death.” —Artmag To Love Is to Act Distributed for Unicorn Publishing Group 2021 160 p. 83/4 x 103/4 100 color plates Les Misérables and Victor Hugo’s Vision for 23 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-912690-71-8 $37.95 Your Price: $30.36 Leading Lives of Conscience Marva A. Barnett Infinitely Determinable “[Barnett] offers a contrarian itinerary, a stimulating Children and Childhood in Modern Literature and lively one that mixes quotes with musings, Davide Giuriato images with accounts, dialogues with secrets, Think Art from Mis to Misérables, from actors to roles, from Distributed for Diaphanes 2021 256 p. 43/4 x 71/2 the movie to the novel.”—Jean-Marc Hovasse, 24 Paper ISBN: 978-3-0358-0316-7 $25.00 Your Price: $20.00 Sorbonne University, Distributed for Swan Isle Press 2020 256 p. 6 x 9 34 halftones 27 Paper ISBN: 978-0-9972287-6-2 $30.00 Your Price: $24.00 5

Precarious Partners Coming To Horses and Their Humans in Consciousness and Natality in Early Modern Nineteenth-Century England Kari Weil Timothy M. Harrison “Precarious Partners brilliantly ties horse-human “Harrison is an acute student of philosophy, an relations to questions of race, gender, class, and erudite guide to intellectual history, and a sensitive species in nineteenth-century France. From ‘women and revelatory reader of poetry. As in the very on horseback’ to pity for horses to the consump- best studies of poetry and its intellectual contexts, tion of horsemeat; and from natural history to art Harrison demonstrates that poets do not merely history, philosophy, literature, and politics, Weil’s reflect philosophical developments, they also shape wide-ranging and interdisciplinary study makes an them. In Coming To, Harrison, tracing a line from outstanding contribution to French studies, cultural Descartes through Milton and Traherne to Locke, history, and animal studies.”—Peter Sahlins, author unearths the contribution of two poets to modern of 1668: The Year of the Animal in France understandings of consciousness.” Animal Lives —Stephen M. Fallon, University of Notre Dame 2020 240 p. 6 x 9 4 color plates, 28 halftones 2020 328 p. 6 x 9 2 tables 28 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-68637-0 $30.00 Your Price: $24.00 30 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-72512-3 $30.00 Your Price: $24.00 The Dynastic Imagination The Lyric Now Family and Modernity in Nineteenth-Century James Longenbach Germany “In chapters on unfamiliar poems from familiar Adrian Daub poets like Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, Gertrude Stein, “The Dynastic Imagination is an utterly engrossing and Marianne Moore, Longenbach delivers fresh, study that rethinks the very terms in which we pose often-surprising insights. . . . Taken together, these questions about an era. In beautiful, lucid prose, essays, and those on less familiar poets, make an Daub leads the reader through the metamorphoses implicit case for the importance of syntax to lyric of the concepts of the dynasty and the nuclear fam- poetry.”—Choice ily, beginning with the shock waves of the French 2020 128 p. 51/2 x 81/2 Revolution and extending well into the twentieth 31 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-71604-6 $18.00 Your Price: $14.40 century. One of Daub’s many noteworthy accom- plishments in this volume is his deft interweaving Rhythm of history of science, literary criticism, and cultural Form and Dispossession history. This book represents an important and Vincent Barletta exciting contribution to intellectual history.” “Barletta brings together an impressive number of —Stefani Engelstein, Duke University authors and texts from over two millennia, offer- 2021 256 p. 6 x 9 ing a fresh reading of what we mean when we say 29 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-73787-4 $29.00 Your Price: $23.20 ‘rhythm.’ . . . Yields an entirely new vision of what rhythm is and can be.”—Katharina N. Piechocki, author of Cartographic Humanism 2020 216 p. 51/2 x 81/2 32 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-68587-8 $25.00 Your Price: $20.00 6

Hooked Mood and Trope Art and Attachment The Rhetoric and Poetics of Affect Rita Felski John Brenkman “Over the past decade, Felski has been a breath of “This unusual, potent contribution to affect studies fresh air: working to nudge literary criticism away ranges widely over philosophy and literature to from an exclusive focus on politics. . . Felski is not explore the centrality of trope and rhetoric to the against critique, the world being what it is. She is inescapable triad of mood (affect), understanding one of the growing number of malcontents who (thought), and speech (discourse). Reconnecting merely want to discuss other ways in which people affect studies with major issues in literary studies, respond to art. . . [Hooked] is an exposé aimed at philosophy, and aesthetics, Brenkman makes a fun- critics who disavow their personal allegiances.” damental contribution to this emergent field.” —Public Books —Jonathan Culler, 2020 208 p. 51/2 x 81/2 2020 304 p. 6 x 9 4 figures 33 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-72963-3 $22.50 Your Price: $18.00 36 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-67326-4 $30.00 Your Price: $24.00 The Limits of Critique Improvising Improvisation Rita Felski From Out of Philosophy, Music, Dance, and 2015 240 p. 51/2 x 81/2 Literature 34 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-29403-2 $22.50 Your Price: $18.00 Gary Peters On Interpretive Conflict Guided by Kant, Hegel, Heidegger, and especially John Frow Deleuze—and exploring a range of artists from Hendrix to Borges—Peters illuminates new funda- “Frow has long been one of the Most Valuable mentals about what, as an experience, improvisation Theorists in the enterprise known as cultural studies. truly is. As he shows, improvisation isn’t so much a In a wonderfully eclectic analysis that ranges from genre, idiom, style, or technique—it’s a predicament the U.S. Constitution to The Merchant of Venice, we are thrown into, one we find ourselves in. from climate change to the history of iconoclasm to the work of Aboriginal artist Dorothy Napangardi, “Peters presents a work on improvisation that Frow shows us how the conflict of interpretations is itself an improvisational work—what he calls in weaves the social fabric, setting the terms for how we chapter 4 a ‘live enactment of aesthetic judgment.’. . apprehend one another—and the nonhuman world . . An enlightening labor of love about a vexing but as well.”—Michael Bérubé, Pennsylvania State fascinating topic. Highly recommended.”—Choice University 2020 288 p. 6 x 9 37 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-75927-2 $32.00 Your Price: $25.60 2019 216 p. 51/2 x 81/2 2 line drawings 35 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-61400-7 $25.00 Your Price: $20.00 The Order of Forms Realism, Formalism, and Social Space Anna Kornbluh Many of the books in this catalog 2019 240 p. 6 x 9 6 halftones, 5 line drawings are available in e-book format. 38 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-65334-1 $27.50 Your Price: $22.00 See back cover for details. 7

The Climate of History in a Weak Planet Planetary Age Literature and Assisted Survival Dipesh Chakrabarty Wai Chee Dimock “One of the first thinkers to reckon with the concept of “Two classes of people have emerged in the the Anthropocene and its relation to humanism and its present moment: those who have been thinking critics, Chakrabarty forges new territory in his account and planning for pandemic, and those who have of the planetary. If globalism was an era of human not. Dimock clearly belongs to the former. Weak and market interconnection, the planetary marks the Planet invites us to reflect on the deep interconnec- intrusion of geological forces, transforming both the tions between two threatened extinctions: that of concept of ‘the human’ and its accompanying sense the humanities and that of a host of animal species of agency. This is a tour de force of critical thinking.” (not least our own). The book is nothing short of a —Claire Colebrook, Pennsylvania State University radical reorientation of literary history, away from 2021 296 p. 6 x 9 2 halftones the historicist stress on past damage and toward 39 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-73286-2 $25.00 Your Price: $20.00 the forms of resilience and durability that will be required of the field in the future.”—Stephen Best, Ecological Poetics; or, Wallace University of California, Berkeley Stevens’s Birds 2020 224 p. 51/2 x 81/2 9 halftones 42 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-47710-7 $22.50 Your Price: $18.00 Cary Wolfe “Wolfe gives us a philosophy of ecological poetics Poetry in a Global Age whose ultimate stakes are both ethical and political, Jahan Ramazani instructing us in how we might think poetically “In this generous and engaging book, the capstone in order to effectively resist the destruction of life of an informal trilogy, Ramazani further widens our forms.”—Branka Arsic, Columbia University gaze and clears up our confusion about poetry’s part 2020 232 p. 6 x 9 40 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-68797-1 $27.50 Your Price: $22.00 in an interconnected world. Each chapter takes up one of the current topics within our broad discus- Available for Preorder sion of globalism, summarizing critical debates with Climate and the Making a clear-eyed and nuanced argument of its own that pushes beyond dichotomies. As always, Ramazani of Worlds develops his claims through targeted close readings Toward a Geohistorical Poetics that return us to the joy and utility of reading po- Tobias Menely etry.”—Bonnie Costello, Boston University “How has the turbulence of the Earth itself in- 2020 304 p. 6 x 9 1 figure, 1 table 43 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-73014-1 $30.00 Your Price: $24.00 tervened in the history of poetic form? [Menely’s] answer is revelatory. With erudition, subtlety, and literary éclat, Menely sets out a geohistorical criticism whereby poetry from Milton to the Romantics is rendered new.”—Jeremy Davies, University of Leeds 2021 272 p. 6 x 9 2 halftones This catalog is available online at 41 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-77628-6 $27.50 Your Price: $22.00 bit.ly/UCPLIT 8

Now in Paperback Action versus Contemplation Why an Ancient Debate Still Matters Jennifer Summit and Blakey Vermeule “Summit and Vermeule taught a course at Stanford on this dichotomy between the cultivation of wisdom and the demonstration of skills. Action Versus Contemplation begins with an appeal for balance rather than conflict when these two realms are juxtaposed. . . . Trained as literary critics, [the authors] aim this brief book towards those who seek to recover a wise balance while never dismissing the life of the mind.”—PopMatters 2020 256 p. 51/2 x 81/2 7 halftones 47 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-70663-4 $18.00 Your Price: $14.40 Experimental Games I, Grape; or The Case for Fiction Critique, Play, and Design in the Age of Essays Gamification Brock Clarke Patrick Jagoda “Novelist Clarke chronicles in this whimsical outing “Do we have a right to play? How about a right his obsession with fiction as an art form. . . This im- to fail? In this extensive meditation on the art of passioned defense of fiction is great for dipping into, games, Jagoda shows how games are intricately and those who engage with fiction on a deep level intertwined with the logic of neoliberalism and will find much here that piques.”—Publishers Weekly the gamification of everyday life. From Starcraft to Distributed for Acre Books Dys4ia by way of Dwarf Fortress, Jagoda toys with a 2021 176 p. 51/4 x 81/4 rich spectrum of games, paying particular attention 48 Paper ISBN: 978-1-946724-36-6 $17.00 Your Price: $13.60 to indie games and art games. What if the point of a game is not so much problem solving, but problem Off Limits making?”—Alexander R. Galloway, author of New Writings on Fear and Sin Gaming: Essays on Algorithmic Culture Nawal El Saadawi 2020 320 p. 6 x 9 46 halftones Nawal El Saadawi is a significant and broadly 44 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-62997-1 $27.50 Your Price: $22.00 influential writer, activist, physician, and psychiatrist who has provided a powerful voice in Excavating the Memory Palace feminist debates centering on the Middle East. Off Arts of Visualization from the Agora to the Limits presents a selection of El Saadawi’s most Computer recent recollections and reflections in which she Seth Long considers the role of women in Islamic society, the “Just what happened to ars memoria? Long takes inextricability of imperialism from patriarchy, and readers on an investigative journey of research and the meeting points of East and West. recovery, starting at the twilight of the Roman agora “The leading spokeswoman on the status of and ending with present-day digital networks. . . . A women in the Arab World.”—Guardian must read for humanists and pedagogues interested Distributed for Gingko Library in questions about where, how, why, and what we 2020 171 p. 5 x 8 49 Paper ISBN: 978-1-909942-47-9 $19.95 Your Price: $15.96 remember.”—Jim Ridolfo, coeditor of Rhet Ops: Rhetoric and Information Warfare Why Fiction Matters in 2020 248 p. 6 x 9 20 halftones, 12 line drawings 45 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-69528-0 $30.00 Your Price: $24.00 Contemporary China Now in Paperback David Der-wei Wang “The work of Sinophone writers . . . significant Thoughts and Things amounts of it readily available in English, deserves far Leo Bersani closer engagement than it currently receives. Wang’s “From our preeminent philosopher of relationality study, elegantly written in its own right, is a masterful comes a stunning meditation on the oneness of being. guide with which to start.”—China Books Review . . . In its ambition and originality, Thoughts and The Mandel Lectures in the Humanities at Things is classic Bersani.”—Tim Dean, SUNY–Buffalo Distributed for Brandeis University Press 2020 296 p. 6 x 9 1 1 2020 136 p. 5 /2 x 8 /2 50 Paper ISBN: 978-1-68458-027-9 $35.00 Your Price: $28.00 46 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-70517-0 $19.00 Your Price: $15.20 9

Thinking Out of Sight The Subversive Simone Weil Writings on the Arts of the Visible A Life in Five Ideas Jacques Derrida Robert Zaretsky “Who other than Jacques Derrida could have dem- “[An] absorbing and tender intellectual portrait. . . . onstrated with this degree of insight and lucidity With her demanding vision of the life well lived, in the essential relationship between the visual arts her extreme judgments and through her punishing and invisibility, nonappearance, absence, the night, empathy, Weil emerges here as a figurehead for the blindness, even death? This superb collection of intellectual and ethical challenges of the current essays on painting, drawing, photography, video, moment. . . . For readers familiar with Weil, The cinema, and theater will forever transform both the Subversive Simone Weil is a valuable synthesis; for way we understand Derrida and the way we look at those coming to her for the first time, an inspiring the visual arts.”—Michael Naas, DePaul University primer.”—Alice Kaplan, author of Looking for The The France Chicago Collection Stranger: Albert Camus and the Life of a Literary Classic 328 p. 6 x 9 7 halftones 2021 200 p. 51/2 x 81/2 51 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-14061-2 $45.00 Your Price: $36.00 54 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-54933-0 $20.00 Your Price: $16.00 Geschlecht III Now in Paperback Sex, Race, Nation, Humanity Rhetoric in Tooth and Claw Jacques Derrida Animals, Language, Sensation “Geschlecht III opens a new chapter in the relation Debra Hawhee between Derrida and Heidegger. . . . A masterclass “Hawhee’s complex, nuanced, important argument in reading, in translating, and in reading and will inform both the study of rhetoric (and its his- translating as a practice of philosophical thinking.” tory) and the more recent turn to animal studies, —Samir Haddad, author of Derrida and the providing the latter with historical background Inheritance of Democracy stretching back as far as Aristotle. . . . Highly rec- 2020 168 p. 51/2 x 81/2 52 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-67746-0 $27.50 Your Price: $22.00 ommended.”—Choice “This is a wonderful book that enlarges the way Life Death that we can think about rhetoric and that powerfully Jacques Derrida reconnects the human with the rest of the animal “This is a splendid translation of one of Derrida’s kingdom.”—James L. 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Critical Lives from The Armchair Traveller Series Reaktion Books from Haus Publishing DH Lawrence in Italy Richard Owen In November 1925 the writer DH Lawrence arrived on the Italian Riviera with his wife, in search of health and sun. But during the fol- lowing months, an incident of marital infidelity influenced Lawrence to write two short stories Joseph Conrad that prefigured his scandalous novel Lady Chat- Robert Hampson terley’s Lover. In this book, Owen reconstructs 2021 224 p. 5 x 7 3/4 40 halftones 64 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78914-304-1 $19.00 Your Price: $15.20 the drama leading up to the creation of one of the most controversial novels of all time and explores Guy de Maupassant Lawrence’s passion for all things Italian. 2020 226 p. 5 x 8 Christopher Lloyd 72 Paper ISBN: 978-1-909961-72-2 $17.95 Your Price: $14.36 2020 224 p. 5 x 7 3/4 30 halftones 65 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78914-197-9 $19.00 Your Price: $15.20 Dickens’s London Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Peter Clark Jeremy Adler Marking the 150th anniversary of Charles 2020 256 p. 5 x 7 3/4 48 halftones Dickens’s death, Dickens’s London leads us in the 66 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78914-198-6 $19.00 Your Price: $15.20 footsteps of the author through this beloved city. Leo Tolstoy “A splendidly clear and illuminating view, not Andrei Zorin only of the streets and the architecture, but of the 2020 224 p. 5 x 7 3/4 40 halftones sounds, smells, and intense human activity that 67 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78914-199-3 $19.00 Your Price: $15.20 both Dickens and Clark enjoy about London.” —New Horizon Langston Hughes 2020 160 p. 5 x 8 20 halftones, 5 maps W. Jason Miller 73 Paper ISBN: 978-1-909961-67-8 $18.95 Your Price: $15.16 2020 224 p. 5 x 73/4 35 halftones 68 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78914-195-5 $19.00 Your Price: $15.20 Hemingway in Italy Richard Owen Play On! Shakespeare from Ernest Hemingway is most often associated with ACMRS Press Spain and Cuba, but Italy was equally important The Play On! Shakespeare project was an ambi- in his life and work. This book offers a lively tious undertaking from the Oregon Shakespeare account of the many visits Hemingway made Festival that commissioned new translations of throughout his life to Italian locales, including 39 Shakespeare plays. Enlisting the talents of Sicily, Genoa, Rapallo, Cortina, and Venice. a diverse group of contemporary playwrights, “An exceptionally lively study . . . Heming- screenwriters, and dramaturges, these translations way’s adoration of Italy never waned.”—Times present the Bard’s work in language accessible to Literary Supplement modern audiences. 2020 174 p. 5 x 8 74 Paper ISBN: 978-1-909961-70-8 $17.95 Your Price: $14.36 As You Like It Translated by David Ivers Kafka’s Prague 2021 122 p. 5 x 73/4 Klaus Wagenbach 69 Paper ISBN: 978-0-86698-661-8 $9.95 Your Price: $7.96 “A useful addition to any thinking person’s li- Macbeth brary. . . . Wagenbach’s volume on Kafka includes Translated by Migdalia Cruz reproductions of Kafka’s letters, original book cov- 2021 122 p. 5 x 73/4 ers and a well-drawn map of Prague showing the 70 Paper ISBN: 978-0-86698-660-1 $9.95 Your Price: $7.96 places mentioned in the text”—New Statesman 2020 160 p. 5 x 8 48 halftones The Tempest 75 Paper ISBN: 978-1-909961-65-4 $18.95 Your Price: $15.16 Translated by Kenneth Cavander 2021 106 p. 5 x 73/4 71 Paper ISBN: 978-0-86698-662-5 $9.95 Your Price: $7.96 12

Now in Paperback Around the World in 80 Words Ahab’s Rolling Sea A Journey through the English Language A Natural History of Moby-Dick Paul Anthony Jones Richard J. King “A fabulous and erudite survey of words inspired by “Herman Melville’s sprawling masterpiece Moby- place names. . . . Logophiles will have a ball.” Dick is a fictional feat studded with empirical —Publishers Weekly evidence, reveals maritime historian King in this “Do read this book in the correct order—the invigorating study. King traces references to ethol- author has gone to great lengths to make sense of his ogy, meteorology, marine microbiota and the oceans eccentric itinerary—but be mindful of the turkey. to Melville’s sailing experience in the Pacific and To read it all at once would be like swallowing the wranglings with the works of scientists William globe. Don’t skip the footnotes, which are like deli- Scoresby, Louis Agassiz and others. Moby-Dick, cious side dishes, and whatever you do, don’t Google King boldly avers, is a ‘proto-Darwinian fable’—and the nasty limerick by Aubrey Beardsley about its beleaguered narrator, Ishmael, an early environ- St. Rose of Lima.”—Times Literary Supplement mentalist.”—Nature 2020 288 p. 51/2 x 81/2 2021 448 p. 6 x 9 12 color plates, 71 halftones, 1 table 79 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-68279-2 $18.00 Your Price: $14.40 76 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-78987-3 $21.00 Your Price: $16.80 Vincent’s Books The Daily Henry David Van Gogh and the Writers Who Inspired Him Thoreau Mariella Guzzoni A Year of Quotes from the Man Who Lived “During this meandering journey through Holland, in Season Paris, Provence, and beyond, Guzzoni reveals just Edited by Laura Dassow Walls 2020 224 p. 51/2 x 81/2 how much Van Gogh’s favorite books and authors 80 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-62496-9 $12.00 Your Price: $9.60 defined his life and art.”—Christie’s “Guzzoni employs extensive research in her quest The Daily Jane Austen to unearth the literature that influenced not only his A Year of Quotes art, but every aspect of his life—from works of fiction Edited by Devoney Looser 2019 208 p. 41/2 x 71/4 to museum guides and artistic magazines. Accompa- 81 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-65544-4 $14.00 Your Price: $11.20 nied by reproductions of his paintings, letters and the books that that he loved, it is a fascinating study of The Daily Sherlock Holmes Van Gogh’s creative inspiration.”—Art Society A Year of Quotes from the Case-Book of the 2020 224 p. 6 x 9 132 color plates 77 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-70646-7 $25.00 Your Price: $20.00 World’s Greatest Detective Arthur Conan Doyle Some Words of Jane Austen Edited by Levi Stahl and Stacey Shintani 2019 208 p. 41/2 x 71/4 Stuart M. Tave 82 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-65964-0 $14.00 Your Price: $11.20 2019 304 p. 51/2 x 81/2 78 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-63339-8 $20.00 Your Price: $16.00 13 Fine books from the Bodleian Library

Reynard the Fox Novel Houses Retold by Anne Louise Avery Twenty Famous Fictional Dwellings “Avery presents the full, complicated glory of the Christina Hardyment silver-tongued predator and his milieu in Reynard Novel Houses visits unforgettable dwellings in twenty the Fox, a tour de force of storytelling and a beauti- legendary works of English and American fiction, ful object in itself. A writer and art historian, Avery exploring how Uncle Tom’s Cabin came to start the deploys a scholar’s fluency with medieval language, American Civil War, why Bleak House is used as the literature and religion and a raconteur’s ease with name of a happy home, and what Jane Austen had in anecdote.”—Wall Street Journal mind when she worked out the plot for Mansfield Park. “Game of Thrones meets The Wind in the Wil- 2019 240 p. 6 x 9 40 color plates 86 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-480-5 $40.00 Your Price: $32.00 lows in Avery’s retelling of Reynard the Fox. Riffing on William Caxton’s 1481 English translation of a Birds popular Dutch beast epic, this is set in an intricate An Anthology medieval world reminiscent of Brian Jacques’s ‘Redwall’ series, except bawdy and violent. . . . By Edited by Jaqueline Mitchell cleaving close to Caxton’s medieval text, the chal- “For centuries, birds have inspired the abiding inter- lenge of Avery’s language is equaled by the reward of est of writers, and it’s easy to see why. . . . Among the world-building.”—School Library Journal standouts [in this collection] are contributions from 2020 480 p. 53/4 x 73/4 Geoffrey Chaucer, , George 83 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-555-0 $30.00 Your Price: $24.00 Eliot and Daniel Defoe.”—Wall Street Journal 2020 272 p. 51/8 x 73/4 25 halftones A Sanskrit Treasury 87 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-529-1 $25.00 Your Price: $20.00 A Compendium of Literature from the Clay Sanskrit Library The Making of Lewis Carroll’s Camillo A. Formigatti Alice and the Invention of This beautiful collection brings together passages Wonderland from the renowned stories, poems, dramas and myths Peter Hunt of South Asian literature, including the Mahabharata Illustrated with manuscripts, portraits, original line and the Ramayana. Pairing key excerpts from these drawings from the first editions, and contemporary wonderful Sanskrit texts with exquisite illustrations photographs, Hunt’s book guides readers through from the Bodleian Library’s rich manuscript collec- the fantasy worlds of Lewis Carroll. tions, the book is accompanied by a commentary on the literature and related books and artworks. “This attractive and ingeniously illustrated little 2019 288 p. 93/4 x 111/4 120 color plates volume . . . will add much enjoyment to reading and 84 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-531-4 $80.00 Your Price: $64.00 thinking about this remarkable book.”—Kimberley Reynolds, Newcastle University Tolkien: Treasures The Making Of Catherine McIlwaine 2020 128 p. 63/4 x 81/4 67 color plates 88 Paper ISBN: 978-1-85124-532-1 $25.00 Your Price: $20.00 2019 144 p. 73/4 x 73/4 100 color plates 85 Paper ISBN: 978-1-85124-496-6 $20.00 Your Price: $16.00 14

The Midlife Mind Wanderers Literature and the Art of Aging A History of Women Walking Ben Hutchinson Kerri Andrews “In this elegantly essayistic book, Hutchinson “Historically, women were consigned to domestic contemplates the central stretch of our human exis- tasks that hemmed them in. For a woman to walk tence. Personal as well as learned, conversational but as freely as a man was a radical act and fraught with braced, it ranges widely through European cultures potential danger. Here Andrews turns a scholarly (Dante to Beckett, Montaigne to Beauvoir) and eye on ten women throughout history, most of reminds us that being caught in the middle, with or whom lived in Great Britain, who walked or, rather, without a crisis, can produce opportunities as well as hiked long distances. . . . Andrews interacts with restriction. 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Pope does all of this, and equips us for our own scribing the conditions of the prisons that held them. exciting suburban adventures.”—London Journal Distributed for Unicorn Publishing Group Distributed for Reaktion Books 2020 400 p. 61/4 x 91/4 30 halftones 2020 480 p. 61/4 x 91/4 6 halftones, 6 maps 90 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-916495-78-4 $45.00 Your Price: $36.00 93 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-307-2 $35.00 Your Price: $28.00 The Speaking Stone Fairies Stories Cemeteries Tell A Dangerous History Michael Griffith Richard Sugg “The Speaking Stone is a brilliant book of essays “[A] bulging field guide to fairy lore. Taking readers springing from Griffith’s soulful rambles around a on a tour of the brownies, hobs, changelings, kel- cemetery in Cincinnati. It’s an ingenious anti- pies, selkies, sea trows, and various other fairy types memoir full of strange and delightful tales from of the British Isles and beyond, Sugg investigates ‘the the lost corners of history, not least among them great heresy of fairyland’ in folklore, the arts, and those concerning the author himself.”—Elizabeth historical testimony.”—Times Literary Supplement McKenzie, author of The Portable Veblen Distributed for Reaktion Books 1 1 Distributed for University of Cincinnati Press 2019 280 p. 5 /2 x 8 /2 17 color plates, 4 halftones 94 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78914-120-7 $14.00 Your Price: $11.20 2021 325 p. 6 x 9 86 halftones 91 Paper ISBN: 978-1-947602-30-4 $29.95 Your Price: $23.96 15 from Seagull Books All the Roads Are Open The Great Fall The Afghan Journey Peter Handke Annemarie Schwarzenbach “You are advised to read this book, take a cane, In June 1939 Annemarie Schwarzenbach and fellow tuck a feather onto your hat like the hero, and writer Ella Maillart set out from Geneva in a Ford, to follow him . . . 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In this book, Jesi reveals a literary genre that was on civil society and free expression—is a political transformed, tragically, into a potent political myth. statement in itself.”—Times Literary Supplement The Italian List The Pride List 2021 296 p. 6 x 9 2020 380 p. 6 x 9 106 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-85742-481-5 $30.00 Your Price: $24.00 110 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-85742-698-7 $29.50 Your Price: $23.60 17 On the Royal Road Rusalka The Burgher King A Lyrical Fairy-tale in Three Acts Elfriede Jelinek Jaroslav Kvapil “In a near-perfect echo of today’s world, Nobel Famous as the libretto for Antonín Dvorák’s opera Prize-winning Elfriede Jelinek’s On the Royal Road is of the same name, Jaroslav Kvapil’s poem Rusalka is stuffed breathless with metaphors, innuendoes, and an intriguing work of literature on its own. anecdotes as it satirizes US President Donald Trump. “Redolent [with] forbidden realms of desire...... 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