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New Books Spring/Summer 2014 Presenting our new titles for the Spring 2014 season Wesleyan University Press

Tempest-Tossed The Spirit of susan campbell First full-length biography of a key figure in nineteenth-century American culture Tempest-Tossed is the rst full biography of the fascinating other daughter of the “Fabulous Beecher” family, which included older sister , author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Isabella Beecher Hooker, “a curiously modern nineteenth-century gure,” was a suragist and could be charming and o-puing. In her latest book, author Susan Campbell brings a unique blend of empathy and humor to the story of Harriet’s half-sister. “For Isabella Beecher Hooker it was both a blessing and a curse to be born into of one of the most famous families in April America. Just when she discovered her own calling in the 236 pp., 30 illus., 6 x 9" women’s rights movement, she found herself embroiled in Cloth, $28.95 • 978-0-8195-7340-7 Ebook, $22.99 • 978-0-8195-7388-9 the biggest sex scandal of the th century, the trial of her biography / american history brother for adultery. Susan Campbell has brought Isabella’s fascinating, forgoen story back to life with the deep research of a born historian and the vibrant, readable prose- Garnet Books style of a veteran journalist.”  , winner of the Pulitzer Prize for e ,!7IA8B9-fhdeah! Most Famous Man in America: e Biography of “With a journalist’s concision and eye for the vivid quote, Susan Campbell captures Isabella Beecher Hooker’s quirky temperament and her passion for women’s rights. is wry and personal narrative is deeply informed, balanced, and a delight to read.”   , winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography for Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life also of interest susan campbell is the author of the memoir Dating Jesus: Fundamentalism, Feminism, and the American Girl, a  's Connecticut Book Award winner. She has appeared on CBS Pioneering News Sunday Morning, the BBC, and WNPR. She lives in East Haven, Connecticut. JON E. PURMONT

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The British Raid on Essex The Forgotten Battle of the War of 1812 jerry roberts The untold story of the burning of American privateers in Connecticut is is the dynamic account of one of the most destructive maritime actions to take place in Connecticut history: the  British aack on the shipping of Peipaug Point, known today as the British Raid on Essex. During the height of the War of ,  Royal marines and sailors made their way up the Connecticut River from warships anchored in Long Island Sound. Guided by a well-paid American traitor, the British navigated the Saybrook shoals and advanced up the river under cover of darkness. By the time it was over, the British had burned twenty-seven American ships, including six newly built privateers. It was April the largest single maritime loss of the war. Yet this story has 220 pp., 50 illus. (30 color plates), 6 x 9" been virtually le out of the history booksthe forgoen Cloth, $27.95 • 978-0-8195-7476-3 bale of the forgoen war. is new account from author Ebook, $21.99 • 978-0-8195-7477-0 and historian Jerry Roberts is the de nitive overview of american history / military history this event and includes a wealth of new information drawn from recent research and archaeological nds. Lavish Garnet Books illustrations and detailed maps bring the bale to life. “In this dynamic account of the British aack on American privateers in the Connecticut River, Roberts combines new ,!7IA8B9-fhehgd! research on both sides of the Atlantic to at last restore this untold story to its rightful place in history ensuring that the forgoen bale of the War of  will long be remembered.”    , author of Turtle: David Bushnell’s Revolutionary Vessel

jerry roberts is the bale eld historian for a National Parks Service grant project charged with researching the British raid on Essex shipping in . From  to , also of interest he was executive director of the Connecticut River Connecticut in Museum. He lives in Essex, Connecticut. the American Civil War Slavery, Sacrifice, and Survival MATTHEW WARSHAUER

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Blue Ravens Historical Novel gerald vizenor Two Native American brothers serve as soldiers in World War I Gerald Vizenor weaves an engrossing historical portrayal of Native American soldiers in World War I. Blue Ravens begins in the days leading up to the Great War and continues in combat scenes at Château-ierry, Montbréhain, and Bois de Fays. Aer serving in the American Expeditionary Forces, two brothers from the Anishinaabe culture return to the White Earth Reservation where they grew up, and eventually leave for a second time to live in Paris where they lead successful and creative lives. With a spirited sense of “chance, totemic connections, and February the tricky stories of our natural transience in the world,” 296 pp., 6 x 9" Vizenor creates an expression of presence commonly Cloth, $27.95 • 978-0-8195-7416-9 denied Native Americans. e novel contains many of Ebook, $21.99 • 978-0-8195-7417-6 Vizenor’s recurrent cultural themesthe power and irony historical fiction of trickster stories, the privilege of survivance over victimry, natural reason and resistance. Blue Ravens is a story of courage in poverty and war from a recognized master of the ,!7IA8B9-fhebgj! postwar American novel and one of the most original and outspoken Native voices writing today. An online reader’s companion will be available. “In all of Vizenor’s extensive oeuvre, I know of no richer, deeper, and more intensely rendered book, ironies notwithstanding, than Blue Ravens. is is powerful work by a master at the very height of his form.”    , professor emeritus, Sarah Lawrence College

gerald vizenor is a proli c novelist, poet, literary critic, also of interest and citizen of the White Earth Nation of the Anishinaabeg in Minnesota. He is Professor Emeritus of American The Heirs of Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. His Columbus novel Griever: An American Monkey King in China won the GERALD VIZENOR American Book Award and the New York Fiction Collective Award.

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Producing Country The Inside Story of the Great Recordings michael jarrett Legendary producers describe the making of ’s great recordings Musicians make music. Producers make records. In the early days of recorded music, the producer was the “artists- and-repertoire man.” A powerful gure, the “A&R man” chose both who would record and what would be recorded. Don Law found country bluesman and honky-tonk crooner Ley Frizzell. Cowboy Jack Clement took the initiative to record Jerry Lee Lewis. e author’s extensive interviews with music makers oer the fullest account ever of the producer’s role in creating country music. Producing Country tells the story of country music from its early years to the present day through hit records July by Bill Monroe, George Jones, Patsy Cline, Buck Owens, 320 pp., 29 illus., 188 thumbnail illus., 6 x 9" Dolly Parton, , Lorea Lynn, , Unjacketed cloth, $85.00 x • 978-0-8195-7463-3 Merle Haggard, Lyle Love, and others. Paper, $27.95 • 978-0-8195-7464-0 Ebook, $21.99 • 978-0-8195-7465-7 Includes original interviews with producers , Pete Anderson, Jimmy Bowen, Bobby Braddock, Harold music / country & bluegrass Bradley, Tony Brown, Blake Chancey, Jack Clement, Sco Hendricks, Bob Johnston, Jerry Kennedy, Blake Mevis, Music / Interview Ken Nelson, Jim Ed Norman, Allen Reynolds, Jim Rooney, James Stroud, Paul Worley, and Buddy Killen, among others. ,!7IA8B9-fhegea! “is is a very readable and informative oral history of the evolution of country music recording. Few books have delved into the role that record producers have played in country music, and fewer still have allowed the record producers themselves to talk about the nuances of their recording processes in such revealing and fascinating detail.” ­    , editor of e Encyclopedia of Country Music also of interest

michael jarrett is a professor of English at Penn State Always in Trouble University, York. He is the author of Driing on a Read: Jazz An Oral History of as a Model for Writing and Sound Tracks: A Musical ABC. ESP-Disk’, the Most Outrageous Record Label in America JASON WEISS

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Prudence Crandall’s Legacy The Fight for Equality in the 1830s, Dred Scott, and Brown v. Board of Education donald e. williams jr. Compelling account of the abolitionist’s life, legal battles, and legacy When tried to integrate her Canterbury, Connecticut school in the s she was arrested, jailed, and thrust in the national spotlight. e Connecticut state legislature passed its infamous Black Law in an aempt to close down her school. Crandall’s legal legacy had a lasting impactCrandall v. State was the rst full-throated civil rights case in U.S. history. e arguments by aorneys in Crandall played a role in two of the most fateful Supreme Court decisions, Dred Sco v. Sandford, and the landmark June case of Brown v. Board of Education. In Prudence Crandall’s 448 pp., 30 illus., 6 x 9" Legacy, author Donald E. Williams Jr. marshals a wealth of Cloth, $35.00 • 978-0-8195-7470-1 detail concerning the life and work of Prudence Crandall, Ebook, $27.99 • 978-0-8195-7471-8 her unique role in the ght for civil rights, and her in€uence history / legal history / on legal arguments for equality in America. african american studies “A compelling and lively look at the long struggle for black Garnet Books equality in America. Taking readers from Connecticut schoolrooms to the highest court in the land, he gives us heroes and villains, triumph and tragedy, equity and ,!7IA8B9-fhehab! injustice on the rough road to full freedom. Williams reminds readers that abolitionism was America’s rst civil rights movement and that race reformers like Prudence Crandall struggled mightily to overcome prejudice in the North as well as South.”  ‚ ƒ. „ † , author of Freedom’s Prophet “Donald Williams has authored what will become the authoritative history of Prudence Crandall and her also of interest controversial academy. rough a carefully researched Making Freedom narrative, Williams richly intertwines Crandall with other The Extraordinary key protagonists of the struggle for abolition and black Life of equality to show how Crandall’s courageous stand in Venture Smith Canterbury and her persisting dedication to conscience CHANDLER B. SAINT and human freedom helped shape the struggle for black AND GEORGE A. equality into the Civil War and beyond.” KRIMSKY ­ ­. , author of To Awaken My Aicted Brethren Cloth, $19.95 · 978-0-8195-6854-0 donald e. williams jr. is an aorney and president pro tempore of the Connecticut State Senate. He lives in Brooklyn, Connecticut. www.wesleyan.edu/wespress Wesleyan University Press

In Defense of Nothing Selected Poems, 1987–2011 peter gizzi A new lyricism for the twenty-first century Since his celebrated rst book of poetry, Peter Gizzi has been hailed as one of the most signi cant and distinctive voices writing today. Gathered from ve collections, and representing close to twenty- ve years of work, the poems in this generous selection strike a dynamic balance of honesty, emotion, intellectual depth, and otherworldly resonancein Gizzi’s work, poetry itself becomes a primary ground of human experience. Haunted, vibrant, and saturated with luminous detail, Gizzi’s poetry enlists the American vernacular in a magical and complex music. In Defense of Nothing is an immensely valuable introduction March to the work of this extraordinary and singular poet. An 248 pp., 6B/i x 8W Cloth, $26.95 • 978-0-8195-7430-5 online reader’s companion will be available. Ebook, $20.99 • 978-0-8195-7431-2 “Peter Gizzi’s poetry at once captures the deadening, and poetry the standardization of our culture and wakes us up, makes us ‘silly with clarity.’ rough his poetry we become Wesleyan Poetry almost painfully auned to the present. He can name with precision our medicated, mediated insensibility and then startle us out of anesthesia with the beauty of ,!7IA8B9-fhedaf! his singing. Gizzi can move from the ghostly, €ickering edge of perceptibility to focused intensity at disorienting, Dickinsonian speed. His poetry is an example of how a poet’s total, tonal aention can disclose orders of sensation and meaning. His beautiful lines are full of de archival allusion, and his in€uences range from Simonides to Schuyler, but those voices, those prosodies, aren’t ever decorative; Gizzi is gathering from the air a live tradition.” ˆ ‰ 

peter gizzi is the author of reshold Songs, e also of interest Outernationale, Some Values of Landscape and Weather, Collected Poems Articial Heart, and Periplum. He teaches at the University JOSEPH CERAVOLO of Massachuses, Amherst. EDITED BY ROSEMARY CERAVOLO AND PARKER SMATHERS

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Favor of Crows The Tatters New and Collected Haiku brenda coultas gerald vizenor A documentary A collection of elegy for the end original haiku of a pristine from a preeminent natural world Native American poet and novelist

is beautiful new book gathers the debris of Favor of Crows is a collection of new and our living, siing through the midden piles previously published original haiku poems, to uncover the made world at the center of wrien over the past forty years. Gerald Vizenor a hornets’ nest or a human anatomy book. has earned a wide and devoted audience for Coultas’s seamless weave of sentences shows his poetry. Vizenor creates a union of vision, us the taers at the heart of living, and the full perception, and natural motion in concise glory of our assemblages. ese poems enable poems; he creates a sense of presence and at the us to be present with the sorrow and horror same time a naturalistic trace of impermanence. of our destructive nature, and to honor the An online reader’s companion will be available. natural world while acknowledging that this world no longer exists in any pure form. An “Joining the traditions of Japanese haiku and online reader’s companion will be available. Chippewa dream songs, Vizenor has created a memorable book of one-breath nature poetry in “In this ethical testimony, occurring at the which ordinary moments come to shimmering boundary between the remains and the living, life on the page.” Coultas shows us the only thing that will keep Š ‹. ‰  , president of the us going: how to share this world.” Haiku Society of America Œ ƒ   , author of e Loving Detail of the Living & the Dead gerald vizenor is a proli c writer and literary critic. He is a citizen of the White Earth brenda coultas is author of e Marvelous Nation of the Anishinaabeg in Minnesota, and Bones of Time. She teaches at Touro College Professor Emeritus of American Studies at the and has served as faculty in Naropa University of California, Berkeley. University’s Summer Writing Program, and she lives in New York City.

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Green Planets Vintage Visions Ecology and Science Fiction Essays on Early Science Fiction edited by gerry canavan edited by arthur b. evans and kim stanley robinson Top scholars Essays exploring investigate the the close nature and relationship variety of early between science fiction science fiction, ecology, and

An important anthology of seminal essays In an era of climate change, mass extinction, on early science ction by recognized and oil shortage, visions of the future have specialists in the eld, Vintage Visions covers become increasingly catastrophiceven an unusually broad range of authors, works, apocalyptic. Green Planets considers how and historical periods. e book features an science ction writers have been working extensive bibliography of criticism on early through this crisis. From H. G. Wells and science ctionthe rst of its kindand a Ursula K. Le Guin to Stanislaw Lem, Margaret chronological listing of Ž key early works. Atwood, and China Miévilleas well as recent “Vintage Visions is a treasure house of eye- blockbuster lmsthe essays in Green Planets opening classic essays on science ction’s early consider the serious role that science ction has history and prehistory. Collectively, the sixteen to play in urgent environmental debates of the essayists oer richer, more varied perspectives twenty- rst century.” on the evolving and experimental relationship “Green Planets is solid gold.” between ction and science than any single- ­  .  ‚, author of author study could provide.” Transversal Ecocritical Praxis   • , author of Imagining Mars: A Literary History gerry canavan is an assistant professor of English at Marquee University and coeditor arthur b. evans is a professor of French at of the forthcoming Cambridge Companion DePauw University, coeditor of e Wesleyan to American Science Fiction. kim stanley Anthology of Science Fiction, and managing robinson is the author of myriad novels editor of the journal Science Fiction Studies. and stories, including most recently  and Shaman. He has won the Hugo, Nebula, and June Locus awards for science ction. 350 pp., 10 illus., 6W x 9W" April Unjacketed cloth, $85.00 x • 978-0-8195-7437-4 Paper, $29.95 • 978-0-8195-7438-1 280 pp., 2 illus., 6 x 9" Ebook, $23.99 • 978-0-8195-7439-8 Unjacketed cloth, $85.00 x • 978-0-8195-7426-8 literary criticism /

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Antiphonal Histories The Begum’s Millions Echoes of the Past in the jules verne Toba Batak Musical Present translated by stanford l. luce edited by arthur b. evans julia byl introduction by peter schulman An in-depth now in ethnography and paperback history of musical performance in Verne’s first North Sumatra cautionary tale about the dangers of science

Combining vivid narrative, wide-ranging When two scientists unexpectedly inherit historical research, and personal re€ections, fortunes, each builds an experimental city of Antiphonal Histories explores the music of the his dreams. Both prescient and cautionary, e Toba Batak people of Sumatra to explore their Begum’s Millions is a masterpiece of scienti c and pasts. Now ethnic and religious minorities political speculation and constitutes one of the within modern Indonesia, Tobas manifest earliest technological utopia/dystopias in Western multiple historical legacies through their literature. is Wesleyan edition features notes, “local music”Lutheran brass band hymns, appendices, a critical introduction, and all the gong-chime music sacred to Shiva, and Jimmy original edition illustrations. Rodgers yodeling. is vibrant ethnographic account is both informative and moving. “is edition of e Begum’s Millions is a signi cant work of scholarship and an important “Well-wrien, smart, and honest, Antiphonal contribution to the ongoing project of reclaiming Histories is an innovative juxtaposition of and rede ning Verne’s reputation in the English- historiography, ethnography, musical analysis, speaking world.” and re€exive autobiography.” ‹  . –—, professor of humanities and  † –‚, author of Modern Noise, English, Roosevelt University Fluid Genres: Popular Music in Indonesia, – jules verne (–Ž) was the rst author to popularize science ction. stanford l. luce is a postdoctoral research associate julia byl was a professor emeritus of French at Miami at King’s College London. University in Ohio. arthur b. evans is a professor of French at DePauw University. peter July schulman is an associate professor of French and 320 pp., 31 illus., 8 musical examples, 6 x 9" international studies at Old Dominion University. Unjacketed cloth, $85.00 x • 978-0-8195-7478-7 Paper, $29.95 • 978-0-8195-7479-4 June Ebook, $23.99 • 978-0-8195-7480-0 308 pp., 45 illus., 5V x 8V" ethnomusicology Paper, $19.95 • 978-0-8195-7469-5 ,!7IA8B9-fhehje! Music / Culture science fiction / fiction classics / literary criticism - french

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Hidden in Plain Sight Hiking the Horizontal A Deep Traveler Explores Connecticut Field Notes from a Choreographer david k. leff liz lerman now in now in paperback paperback

The art of Award-winning discovering choreographer cultural and shares insights natural treasures and methods for in everyday making real art in landscapes the real world

Warm and informative essays teach us to be e unique career of choreographer Liz “deep travelers” and to see the magic in the Lerman has taken her from theater stages to mundane, revealing the rich stories behind shipyards, and from synagogues to science labs. many of Connecticut’s overlooked landmarks, In this wide-ranging collection of essays and from the Merri Parkway and Cornwall’s articles, she re€ects on her life-long exploration Cathedral Pines to centuries-old milestones. of dance as a vehicle for human insight and understanding of the world around us. Oering “Aer reading this book, you will explore the readers a gentle manifesto describing methods state dierently. Everything from roadside rock that bring a horizontal focus to bear on a art to old growth forests takes on new meaning. hierarchical world, this is the perfect book for My recommendation: Hop onboard and take anyone curious about the possible role for art the journey!” in politics, science, community, motherhood, „ ‚ ™. ˆ  , Connecticut and the media. is paperback edition includes State Archaeologist an aerword with updates and additions to each section of the book. david k. leff is the author of e Last Undiscovered Place, Deep Travel, and two liz lerman founded the Liz Lerman Dance volumes of poetry. His essays have appeared Exchange, a dance company featuring a in the , Appalachia, Yankee, multigenerational ensemble that creates, Canoe & Kayak, and the Encyclopedia of New performs, teaches, and engages people in England. He lives in Collinsville, Connecticut. making art. In  she was recognized with a MacArthur “Genius Grant” Fellowship.

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Things Come On Live from the An amneoir Homesick Jamboree joseph harrington adrian blevins now in now in paperback paperback

National and Molten and family disasters musical poetry converge in this from an acclaimed radically new kind Southern writer of memoir

ings Come On combines poetry and other is is a brave, brash, funny, and tragic hue and cry elements to weave a narrative around the on growing up female during the ›s, moving concurrence of the Watergate scandal and the from adolescence through a dry-eyed, poignant dates of the poet’s mother’s illness and death exploration of two marriages, motherhood, and from breast cancer. e language of illness the larger world, with a headlong perceptiveness and of political cover-up powerfully resonate and brio. Whether listening to with one another; this haunting experimental while thinking she should be memorizing Tolstoy, biography challenges our assumptions about re€ecting on her “full-to-bursting motherliness,” the distance between individual experience the tensions and lurchings of a relationship, or and history. “the cockamamie lovingness” of it all, the language €ies fast and furious. “Proves once again the inseparability of the personal from the political. . . . Cognitive “Cracklingly vernacular, the poems of Adrian disarray becomes cognitive dismaythis is Blevins coo and whine…awash in adverbs and the political truth of grief. And with discovery adjectives and ands, lending itself to lists that of this truth, Harrington restores dignity and seem to unspool quickly and endlessly, and to beauty to the personal.” include everything. . . . A nuy, nervy poetics of ‰ š  , author of My Life and pissed.” My Life in the Nineties     ‚, Poetry

joseph harrington is a professor of English adrian blevins won the  Kate Tus at the University of Kansas and the author of Discovery Award for her rst book, e Brass Girl Poetry and the Public. Brouhaha. She teaches at Colby College. This project is supported in part by an award from This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. the National Endowment for the Arts.

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