Literature 2010

press.princeton.edu 2 Writers on Writers 20 Poetry 3 American Literature & Studies 22 Facing Pages 6 20/21 24 Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation 8 British Literature 25 W. H. Auden 11 Oddly Modern Fairytales 26 Film 12 Comparative Literature 27 Biography 14 Søren Kierkegaard 28 Of Related Interest 16 Translation/Transnation 31 Music 18 Asian Studies 33 Index/Order Form Contents

Forthcoming Great Books, Bad Arguments Republic, Leviathan, and The Communist Manifesto W. G. Runciman

“Why have Plato’s Republic, Hobbes’s Leviathan, and Marx’s Communist Manifesto retained their enduring appeal, despite their often wildly implausible assumptions about human motivation and political action? No one is more qualified to answer this question than Britain’s most eminent sociologist cum philosopher and historian, Gary Runciman. Great Books, Bad Arguments is not only lucid, but like the best detective fiction, keeps the reader guessing until the very end.” —Gareth Stedman Jones, King’s College, University of Cambridge

Plato’s Republic, Hobbes’s Leviathan, and Marx’s Communist Manifesto are universally acknowledged classics of Western political thought. But how strong are the core arguments on which they base their visions of the good society that they want to bring into being? In this lively and provocative book, W. G. Runciman shows where and why they fail, even after due allow- ance has been made for the different historical contexts in which they wrote. Plato, Hobbes, and Marx were all passionately convinced that justice, peace, and order could be established if only their teach- ings were implemented and the right people put into power. But Runciman makes a powerful case to the effect that all three were irredeemably naive in their assumptions about how human societies function and evolve and how human behavior could be changed. Yet despite this, Runciman insists that Republic, Leviathan, and The Communist Manifesto remain great books. Born of righteous anger and frustration, they are masterfully eloquent pleas for better worlds—worlds that Plato, Hobbes, and Marx cannot bring themselves to admit to be unattainable.

W. G. Runciman is a fellow of Trinity College, University of Cambridge.

March 2010. 138 pages. Cl: 978-0-691-14476-4 $19.95 | £13.95

Front cover illustration: Engraving by Evert A. Duyckinck, Harriet Martineau (detail), 1873. Based on original painting by Alonzo Chappel. Source: Portraits of Eminent Men and Women of Europe and America (Johnson, Wilson, & Co., 1873). Forthcoming Pen of Iron American Prose and the King James Bible Robert Alter

“Alter’s remarkable book breathes new life into a long-neglected topic, the study of style. With the finesse that is his trademark, Alter shows the importance of all that is lost in translation. As it delineates the surprising ways in which the King James Bible has shaped American prose, Pen of Iron redirects current literary criticism and theory.” —Gary Saul Morson, Northwestern University

The simple yet grand language of the King James Bible has pervaded Ameri- can culture from the beginning—and its powerful eloquence continues to be felt even today. In this book, acclaimed biblical translator and literary critic Robert Alter traces some of the fascinating ways that American novelists— from Melville, Hemingway, and Faulkner to Bellow, Marilynne Robinson, and Cormac McCarthy—have drawn on the rich stylistic resources of the canoni- cal English Bible to fashion their own strongly resonant styles and distinctive visions of reality.

Robert Alter has taught Hebrew and comparative literature at the University of California, Berkeley, since 1967. In 2009, Alter received the Robert Kirsch Award from the Los Angeles Times for lifetime contribution to American letters.

April 2010. 208 pages. Cl: 978-0-691-12881-8 $19.95 | £13.95

New The Posthuman Dada Guide tzara and lenin play chess Andrei Codrescu

“A dictionary, a history of art movements, a manifesto, and a joke book; [The Posthuman Dada Guide] traverses high and low, seeking answers to our most persistent confusions about art, culture, and identity.” —D. Scot Miller, San Francisco Bay Guardian

The Posthuman Dada Guide is an impractical handbook for practical living in our posthuman world—all by way of examining the imagined 1916 chess game between Tristan Tzara, the daddy of Dada, and V. I. Lenin, the daddy of communism. This epic game at Zurich’s Café de la Terrasse—a battle between radical visions of art and ideological revolution—lasted for a century and may still be going on, although communism appears dead and Dada stronger than ever. As the poet faces the future mass murderer over the chessboard, neither realizes that they are play- ing for the world. Taking the match as metaphor for two poles of twentieth- and twenty-first-century thought, politics, and life, Andrei Codrescu has created his own brilliantly Dadaesque guide to Dada—and to what it can teach us about surviving our ultraconnected present and future.

Andrei Codrescu is the MacCurdy Distinguished Professor of English at Louisiana State University.

The Public Square

2009. 248 pages. Pa: 978-0-691-13778-0 $16.95 | £11.95 press.princeton.edu 1 Writers on Writers is a new series of brief, personal, and creative books in which leading contem- porary writers take the measure of other important writers (present or past) who have inspired, influenced, fascinated, or troubled them in significant ways. These books illuminate the complex and sometimes fraught relationships between writers, while also revealing the close ties between creative and critical writing.

Forthcoming New On Whitman Notes on Sontag C. K. Williams Phillip Lopate

“This is the exuberant, “This is just what we true book of a poet, of need: a book on Susan two poets: a personal, Sontag by a writer illuminating, and allergic to hype and beautiful demonstra- genuinely fascinated tion of the truest by Sontag’s ideas and reading.” the implications of —Robert Pinsky her cultural presence. Lopate is exacting in In this book, Pulitzer his estimates—able Prize–winning poet to praise and criticize C. K. Williams sets aside with equal sureness. the mass of biography He speaks straight, and literary criticism that have accumulated from eye-level, as a literary colleague: he knew around the work and person of Walt Whitman, Sontag and has heard all the stories. More and attempts to go back to Leaves of Grass as he important, he knows the work and its subjects— first encountered it, to explore why Whitman’s the novels, films, and debates—deeply. Notes epic “continues to inspire and sometimes daunt” on Sontag is a portrait of the author; it is also a him. The result is a personal reassessment and ap- portrait of an era in American intellectual life.” preciation of one master poet by another, as well —Sven Birkerts, author of Reading Life: Books for as an unconventional and brilliant introduction— the Ages or reintroduction—to Whitman. Notes on Sontag is a frank, witty, and entertaining Beautifully written and rich with insight, this is a reflection on the work, influence, and personality book that refreshes our ability to see Whitman in of one of the “foremost interpreters of . . . our re- all his power. cent contemporary moment.” Adopting Sontag’s favorite form, a set of brief essays or notes that C. K. Williams’s books of poetry have won the circle around a topic from different perspectives, Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the renowned essayist Phillip Lopate considers the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Ruth achievements and limitations of his tantalizing, Lilly Lifetime Achievement Award. He teaches daunting subject through what is fundamentally creative writing and translation at Princeton a conversation between two writers. University, and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Phillip Lopate teaches writing at Columbia May 2010. 248 pages. University. Cl: 978-0-691-14472-6 $19.95 | £13.95 2009. 256 pages. Cl: 978-0-691-13570-0 $19.95 | £13.95

To receive notices about new books, subscribe for email at: press.princeton.edu/subscribe 2 • Writers on Writers New Lincoln on Race and Slavery Edited and introduced by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Coedited by Donald Yacovone

“Gates dispenses his lessons respectably. For the most part, he places Lincoln correctly in these different groups and along these different measures, even though it requires conceding that Lincoln fell far short of our own conceptions of justice and humanity. Amid the current bicenten- nial emoting, it is refreshing to read an evaluation of Lincoln that refuses, as Gates writes, to ‘romanticize him as the first American president completely to transcend race and racism.’ ” —Sean Wilentz, New Republic

At turns inspiring and disturbing, Lincoln on Race and Slavery is indispens- able for understanding what Lincoln’s views meant for his generation— and what they mean for our own.

Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University. Donald Yacovone has written and edited a number of books.

2009. 416 pages. 35 halftones. Cl: 978-0-691-14234-0 $24.95 | £16.95

New Forthcoming Paperback 2009 Honor Book, New Jersey Council for the The Paris Letters of Thomas Humanities Eakins Worshipping Walt Edited by William Innes Homer The Whitman Disciples

“Long awaited, this Michael Robertson valuable collection “Thoroughly re- of letters presents searched, gracefully Thomas Eakins in written, Worshipping his own words at a Walt represents liter- formative stage of ary scholarship at its his career, offering best.” a fascinating record —Frank Wilson, of triumphs and Philadelphia Inquirer struggles as well as a lively display of the Michael Robertson is skills, interests, con- professor of English fident opinions, and at the College of complex personality of a great American artist.” New Jersey. —Kathleen A. Foster, author of Thomas Eakins March 2010. 368 pages. 27 halftones. Rediscovered Pa: 978-0-691-14631-7 $19.95 | £13.95 Cl: 978-0-691-12808-5 $27.95 | £19.95 William Innes Homer is H. Rodney Sharp Profes- sor Emeritus of Art History at the University of Delaware.

2009. 384 pages. 33 halftones. 35 line illus. Cl: 978-0-691-13808-4 $35.00 | £24.95 press.princeton.edu American Literature & Studies • 3 New Paperback Runner-up, 2006 National Jewish Book Award in With a new preface by the author Modern Jewish Thought, Jewish Book Council One of Choice’s Outstanding Academic Titles for 2007 American Moderns Call It English Bohemian New York and the Creation The Languages of Jewish American of a New Century Literature Christine Stansell Hana Wirth-Nesher “Stansell frames her “[An] invigorating book. . . . This is not just . . . book around three about the Jewish American experience, but activities: talking, about how and why we all relate to language.” writing and loving. —Samantha Ellis, Times Literary Supplement She compels readers to appreciate what 2008. 240 pages. 7 halftones. Pa: 978-0-691-13844-2 $22.95 | £15.95 was shockingly new Cl: 978-0-691-12152-9 $46.00 | £31.95 in each activity—no small feat, since we Winner of the 2008 Christian Gauss Award, Phi Beta now take (nearly) for Kappa granted the unfet- tered speech, print Henry James Goes to Paris and sex that these Peter Brooks early radicals found so daring.” “Brooks has produced a brilliant and accessible —Patricia Cline Cohen, New York Times account of a young American landing in Paris Christine Stansell is the Stein-Freiler Distin- and missing the point.” guished Service Professor in United States —New York Observer

History at the University of Chicago. 2009. 288 pages. 18 halftones. Pa: 978-0-691-13842-8 $19.95 | £13.95 2009. 440 pages. 37 halftones. Cl: 978-0-691-12954-9 $24.95 | £16.95 Pa: 978-0-691-14283-8 $24.95 | £16.95 Philip Roth’s Rude Truth Winner of the 2009 Book Prize, Modernist Studies Association The Art of Immaturity Winner of the 2009 Peter C. Rollins Award, Northeast Ross Posnock Popular Culture/American Culture Association “Ross Posnock’s meditation upon Philip Roth New York Nocturne is the best literary criticism yet afforded to our The City After Dark in Literature, foremost novelist since Faulkner.” Painting, and Photography, 1850–1950 —Harold Bloom William Chapman Sharpe 2008. 328 pages. Pa: 978-0-691-13843-5 $19.95 | £13.95 “A beautiful volume that would sit proudly on the Patronizing the Arts coffee table of any Marjorie Garber city dweller and city lover.” “[A] brilliantly nuanced assessment of why —Village Voice universities must become art patrons.” —Peggy Phelan, author of Unmarked: The Politics 2008. 448 pages. 24 color plates. 117 halftones. of Performance Cl: 978-0-691-13324-9 $35.00 | £24.95 2008. 272 pages. 1 halftone. Cl: 978-0-691-12480-3 $24.95 | £16.95

4 • American Literature & Studies The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau Elizabeth Hall Witherell, Editor-in-Chief

Despite the wide recognition of Thoreau’s importance and world wide reputation, no complete and authoritative texts of his works, edited according to the most advanced principles of textual scholarship, existed prior to this series. The Writings include previously unpublished works as well as Thoreau’s best known titles.

Journal, Volume 7: 1853–1854 Princeton Classic Editions 150th Anniversary Edition Henry D. Thoreau With an introduction by John Updike Edited by Nancy Craig Simmons & Walden Ron Thomas Henry D. Thoreau Edited by J. Lyndon Shanley From 1837 to 1861, 2004. 384 pages. Henry D. Thoreau Pa: 978-0-691-09612-4 $10.95 | £7.50 kept a Journal that would become the With an introduction by Paul Theroux principal imaginative The Maine Woods work of his career. The source of much Henry D. Thoreau Edited by Joseph J. Moldenhauer of his published 2004. 376 pages. writing, the Journal Pa: 978-0-691-11877-2 $17.95 | £12.50 is also a record of his interior life and of his With an introduction by Robert Pinsky monumental studies of the natural history Cape Cod of his native Concord, Massachusetts. Unlike Henry D. Thoreau Edited by Joseph J. Moldenhauer earlier editions, the Princeton edition reproduces 2004. 256 pages. Thoreau’s Journal in its original and complete Pa: 978-0-691-11842-0 $12.95 | £8.95 form, in a text free of editorial interpolations and keyed to a comprehensive scholarly apparatus. With an introduction by Howard Zinn 2009. 552 pages. 4 halftones. 51 line illus. Cl: 978-0-691-06540-3 $65.00 | £44.95 The Higher Law Thoreau on Civil Disobedience and Reform Henry D. Thoreau Excursions Edited by Wendell Glick 2004. 232 pages. Henry D. Thoreau Pa: 978-0-691-11876-5 $13.95 | £9.95 Edited by Joseph J. Moldenhauer With an introduction by John McPhee “Thanks to Moldenhauer and the many others who assisted with this work, scholars and A Week on the Concord and general readers now have, at long last, a critical Merrimack Rivers text of Thoreau’s beloved nature essays, a text Henry D. Thoreau that reproduces as closely as possible Thoreau’s Edited by Carl F. Hovde, William L. Howarth authorial intentions.” & Elizabeth Hall Witherell —Laura Dassow Walls, New England Quarterly 2004. 440 pages. Pa: 978-0-691-11878-9 $16.95 | £11.95 2007. 672 pages. 4 halftones. Cl: 978-0-691-06450-5 $72.00 | £49.95 press.princeton.edu American Literature & Studies • 5 20/21 Walter Benn Michaels, series editor

20/21 focuses on 20th and 21st century American literature and culture. The aim of the series is to make this period available for critical work that interrogates rather than reproduces the terms in which we have come to understand it. We want both to engage and to alter the standard tools of contemporary analysis—from the postmodern and the postcolonial through the post-human and the post-political. More generally, 20/21 will welcome ambitious books seeking to make a difference to our understanding of the present as well as the recent past.

Forthcoming Postmodern Belief American Literature and Religion since 1960 Amy Hungerford

“This is an intelligent, compelling, and beautifully-written book about the place of belief in con- temporary American literature and culture. The eclectic mix of authors is gratifying, and each one is exhaustively researched.” —Christopher Douglas, University of Victoria

How can intense religious beliefs coexist with pluralism in America today? Examining the role of the religious imagination in contemporary religious practice and in some of the best-known works of American literature from the past fifty years, Postmodern Belief shows how belief for its own sake—a belief absent of doctrine—has become an answer to pluralism in a secular age. Amy Hungerford reveals how imaginative literature and religious practices together allow novelists, poets, and critics to express the formal elements of language in transcendent terms, conferring upon words a religious value independent of meaning.

Hungerford explores the work of major American writers, including Allen Ginsberg, Don DeLillo, Cormac McCarthy, Toni Morrison, and Marilynne Robinson, and links their unique visions to the religious worlds they touch. She illustrates how Ginsberg’s chant infused 1960s poetry echoes the tongue-speaking of Charismatic Christians, how DeLillo reimagines the novel and the Latin Mass, why McCarthy’s prose imitates the Bible, and why Morrison’s fiction needs the supernatural. Uncovering how literature and religion conceive of a world where religious belief can escape confrontations with other worldviews, Hungerford corrects recent efforts to discard the importance of belief in under- standing religious life, and argues that belief in belief itself can transform secular reading and writing into a religious act.

Honoring the ways in which people talk about and practice religion, Postmodern Belief highlights the claims of the religious imagination in twentieth-century American culture.

Amy Hungerford is professor of English at Yale University.

August 2010. 240 pages. Pa: 978-0-691-14575-4 $27.95 | £19.95 Cl: 978-0-691-13508-3 $65.00 | £44.95

To receive notices about new books, subscribe for email at: press.princeton.edu/subscribe 6 • 20/21 New Paperback New Paperback From Guilt to Shame American Hungers Auschwitz and After The Problem of Poverty in U.S. Ruth Leys Literature, 1840–1945 Gavin Jones “Ruth Leys’s new book is a brilliant “Jones persuasively interdisciplinary argues that the investigation of a time has come for striking cultural trans- literary theory to formation. From Guilt address the issue of to Shame is original, poverty—a category with a compelling that lies ‘between’ subject treated in a the more frequently way that places it on discussed categories the cutting edge of of race, gender, recent science and and class—in US cultural studies.” literature. Rather —Toril Moi, Duke University than focusing on the cultural identities of the underprivileged, Ruth Leys is director of the Humanities Center the author calls for a ‘theory of poverty’ that will and the Henry Wiesenfeld Professor at Johns highlight and address the political and social Hopkins University. injustices associated with the economically 2009. 216 pages. disadvantaged.” Pa: 978-0-691-14332-3 $24.95 | £16.95 —Choice

Gavin Jones is professor of English at Stanford A Pinnacle of Feeling University. 2009. 248 pages. 11 halftones. American Literature and Presidential Pa: 978-0-691-14331-6 $24.95 | £16.95 Government Cl: 978-0-691-12753-8 $49.95 | £34.95 Sean McCann Winner of the 2007 Annual Book Award, British “McCann identifies Association for American Studies how ambitions for the executive branch William Faulkner of the US govern- An Economy of Complex Words ment informed the Richard Godden 20th-century novel.” —Graham Barnfield, “[A] stunning account of Faulkner’s late fiction Times Higher that combines intense close reading and atten- Education tion to the history of mid-twentieth-century modernization to reaffirm Faulkner’s centrality, 2008. 264 pages. Cl: 978-0-691-13695-0 not just to Southern literature or to modernist $35.00 | £24.95 aesthetics, but to the mainstream of American history and culture.” —Andrew Hoberek, University of Missouri, Columbia

2007. 264 pages. Cl: 978-0-691-13071-2 $44.00 | £29.95 press.princeton.edu 20/21 • 7 New New Making Waste War at a Distance Leftovers and the Eighteenth-Century Romanticism and the Making of Imagination Modern Wartime Sophie Gee Mary A. Favret

“This is a vivaciously “This book is a written, multidi- masterpiece. Bril- mensional study liant, brave, and of the problem beautifully written, it and promise that combines precision waste posed to the with lyricism.” eighteenth-century —Kevis Goodman, English imagination. University of It is surprisingly California, Berkeley and commendably concise, given its “War at a Distance is topic, and it frames not only a sobering economic, political, reflection on what it anthropological, and historical analysis with a means to live with oneself and with others amid very fine literary sensibility.” military modernity, but also an irrepressible call —Jayne Lewis, University of California, Irvine for peace.” —David Clark, McMaster University “Making Waste is a pleasure to read—vividly, gracefully, wittily written. It will be a valuable What does it mean to live during wartime away contribution to eighteenth-century literary and from the battle zone? What is it like for citizens cultural studies.” to go about daily routines while their country —Cynthia Wall, University of Virginia sends soldiers to kill and be killed across the globe? Timely and thought-provoking, War at a Why was eighteenth-century English culture so Distance considers how those left on the home fascinated with the things its society discarded? front register wars and wartime in their everyday Why did Restoration and Augustan writers such lives, particularly when military conflict remains as Milton, Dryden, Swift, and Pope describe, removed from immediate perception, available catalog, and memorialize the waste matter that only through media forms. Looking back over their social and political worlds wanted to get rid two centuries, Mary Favret locates the origins of—from the theological dregs in Paradise Lost of modern wartime in the Napoleonic era and to the excrements in “The Lady’s Dressing Room” describes how global military operations affected and the corpses of A Journal of the Plague Year? the British populace, as the nation’s army and In Making Waste, the first book about refuse and navy waged battles far from home for decades. its place in Enlightenment literature and culture, She reveals that the literature and art produced Sophie Gee examines the meaning of waste at in Britain during the late eighteenth and early the moment when the early modern world was nineteenth centuries obsessively cultivated means turning modern. for feeling as much as understanding such wars, and established forms still relevant today. Sophie Gee is assistant professor of English at Princeton University. Mary A. Favret is associate professor of English at Indiana University. 2010. 208 pages. Cl: 978-0-691-13984-5 $26.95 | £18.95 2010. 272 pages. 12 halftones. Pa: 978-0-691-14407-8 $26.95 | £18.95 Cl: 978-0-691-14276-0 $60.00 | £41.95

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“Becoming a Woman of Letters makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the nineteenth-century literary marketplace and of how women located themselves within the emerging profession of author- ship. Elegant and engagingly written, this book will appeal to readers with an interest in the history of authorship, in the periodical press, and in women’s writing.” —Hilary Fraser, Birbeck College, University of London

Linda H. Peterson is the Niel Gray, Jr. Professor of English at Yale University.

2009. 312 pages. 28 halftones. Cl: 978-0-691-14017-9 $35.00 | £24.95

New New Shakespeare and Elizabeth The Transatlantic Indian, The Meeting of Two Myths 1776–1930 Helen Hackett Kate Flint

“The relationship “Truly brilliant. Flint of the two greatest does what very few icons of Englishness writers have done has proved irresist- before, which is ible to novelists, to acknowledge artists, filmmakers, the role Native and conspiracy theo- Americans—and the rists. Helen Hackett often contradictory deftly covers this representations of story from Sir Walter them—played in the Scott’s Kenilworth British imagination. to Shakespeare in She brings her keen Love, from fantasies literary sensibility that Queen Elizabeth was Shakespeare’s lover and her wonderful ability to read the visual to those that she was really the poet’s mother. culture of the Victorian era to this book in ways This is a terrific work of cultural criticism, one that do considerable justice to the complexity that reveals a great deal about the fashioning of and importance of this topic.” national and literary identity.” —Joseph W. Childers, University of California, —James Shapiro, author of 1599: A Year in the Life Riverside of William Shakespeare Kate Flint is professor of English at Rutgers Helen Hackett is a reader in English literature at University. University College London. 2009. 392 pages. 40 halftones. 2009. 312 pages. 18 halftones. Cl: 978-0-691-13120-7 $39.50 | £27.95 Cl: 978-0-691-12806-1 $35.00 | £24.95 press.princeton.edu British Literature • 9 New Paperback New Paperback Art of the Everyday Portable Property Dutch Painting and the Realist Novel Victorian Culture on the Move Ruth Bernard Yeazell John Plotz

“A charming, even “With this analysis, masterful footnote Plotz makes a fasci- in the history of nating contribution taste. . . . Thoroughly to the history of the researched, highly novel, economic readable, and lav- literary theory, and ishly illustrated.” postcolonial criticism.” —James Gardner, —D. K. Kreisel, New York Sun Choice

Ruth Bernard Yeazell 2010. 288 pages. 10 halftones. Pa: 978-0-691-14662-1 is the Chace Family $24.95 | £16.95 Professor of English Cl: 978-0-691-13516-8 $35.00 | £24.95 and director of the Lewis Walpole Library at Yale University. Imagining Virginia Woolf 2009. 296 pages. 17 color plates. 55 halftones. An Experiment in Critical Biography Pa: 978-0-691-14323-1 $24.95 | £16.95 Cl: 978-0-691-12726-2 $49.95 | £34.95 Maria DiBattista

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Literature in History

2008. 416 pages. 7 halftones. Cl: 978-0-691-04383-8 $44.00 | £29.95 10 • British Literature Oddly Modern Fairytales Jack Zipes, series editor

Oddly Modern Fairy Tales is a series dedicated to publishing unusual literary fairy tales produced mainly during the first half of the twentieth century, by such accomplished writers as Anatole France, Italo Svevo, Carl Sandburg, Guillaume Apollonaire, Béla Balázs, and Kurt Schwitters. Interna- tional in scope, the series includes new translations, surprising and unexpected tales by well-known writers and artists, and uncanny stories by gifted yet neglected authors. Postmodern before their time, the tales in Oddly Modern Fairy Tales transformed the genre and still strike a chord.

New Lucky Hans and Other Merz Fairy Tales Kurt Schwitters Translated and introduced by Jack Zipes Illustrated by Irvine Peacock

“In these absurdist parables, Schwitters’s savage clowning empties the fairy tale of its easy consolations. He revisits the traditions in the melan- cholic, mordant voice of irony and satire, and, as with other fabulists— Voltaire, Swift, Kafka, Čapek—his stories still speak to us now as freshly as when they were written, and entertain us richly.” —Marina Warner, author of Phantasmagoria

Kurt Schwitters revolutionized the art world in the 1920s with his Dadaist Merz collages, theater performances, and poetry. But at the same time he was also writing extraordinary fairy tales that were turning the genre upside down and inside out. Lucky Hans and Other Merz Fairy Tales is the first collection of these subversive, little-known stories in any language and the first time all but a few of them have appeared in English. Translated and introduced by Jack Zipes, one of the world’s leading authorities on fairy tales, this book gathers thirty-two stories written between1925 and Schwitters’s death in 1948—including a complete English-language recreation of The Scarecrow, a children’s book illustrated with avant-garde typography that Schwitters created with Kate Steinitz and De Stijl founder Theo van Doesburg. Lucky Hans and Other Merz Fairy Tales also includes brilliant new illustrations that evoke the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s.

Lucky Hans and Other Merz Fairy Tales is a delightfully strange and surprising book.

Jack Zipes is professor emeritus of German and comparative literature at the University of Minnesota.

2009. 256 pages. 31 halftones. 26 line illus. Cl: 978-0-691-13967-8 $22.95 | £15.95

Forthcoming Fall 2010 The Cloak of Dreams Chinese Tales Béla Balázs Translated and introduced by Jack Zipes Illustrated by Mariette Lydis press.princeton.edu Oddly Modern Fairytales • 11 New Paperback New Paperback War of No Pity Electric Salome The Indian Mutiny and Victorian Loie Fuller’s Performance of Trauma Modernism Christopher Herbert Rhonda K. Garelick

“War of No Pity is “Garelick’s lucid, a vital and vitally engrossing study important work of . . . unwraps the literary, cultural, and contradictions that historical criticism, have kept Fuller as one that no student veiled from modern of the Victorian audiences as she period can afford was from those at not to know.” the Folies-Bergere.” —Stephen Arata, —Andrea Walker, Victorian Studies Times Literary Supplement Christopher Herbert is the Chester D. Tripp Professor of Humanities at Rhonda K. Garelick is professor in the depart- Northwestern University. ment of English and at the Hixson-Lied School of Fine and Performing Arts at the University of 2010. 352 pages. 8 halftones. Pa: 978-0-691-14330-9 $27.95 | £19.95 Nebraska-Lincoln. Cl: 978-0-691-13332-4 $49.95 | £34.95 2009. 288 pages. 44 halftones. 2 line illus. Pa: 978-0-691-14109-1 $24.95 | £16.95 New Paperback Cultural Capitals New Paperback Early Modern London and Paris Dostoevsky’s Democracy Karen Newman Nancy Ruttenburg “Newman’s hand- “Drawing on con- somely produced temporary criticism, volume is a true Dostoevsky’s own work of cultural prison experience, history. . . . In bring- and his later ing early modern masterpiece novels, London and Paris this provocative together so produc- book inquires into tively, she has, as the great Russian she intended, made writer’s ‘sense of those scholars famil- the demos’—in iar with one or the equal parts mystical, other, or even both, traumatic, and reconsider what they thought they knew.” inspirational. A fascinating narrative.” —Tracey Hill, Renaissance Quarterly —Caryl Emerson, Princeton University

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2008. 544 pages. 75 halftones. Cl: 978-0-691-12544-2 $35.00 | £24.95 press.princeton.edu Comparative Literature • 13 Kierkegaard’s Journals and Notebooks Søren Kierkegaard Edited by Niels Jørgen Cappelørn, Alastair Hannay, David Kangas, Bruce H. Kirmmse, George Pattison, Vanessa Rumble & K. Brian Söderquist, in cooperation with the Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre, Copenhagen

Søren Kierkegaard (1813-55) is one of the most important philosophical and theological thinkers of the past two centuries. The Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre at the University of Copenhagen has produced the first complete critical edition of all of Kierkegaard’s writings, published and unpublished. Using this definitive Danish edition and with the support of the Kierkegaard Research Centre and the Danish government, a group of well-known scholars is producing an 11-volume English lan- guage edition, including explanatory notes, of Kierkegaard’s Journals and Notebooks. Princeton University Press is publishing Kierkegaard’s Journals and Notebooks as a complement to its edition of Kierkegaard’s Writings. The volumes in Kierkegaard’s Journals and Notebooks will appear at intervals of about a year and a half.

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Volume 1 is the first English translation and Volume 2 includes materials from 1836 to 1846, commentary of Kierkegaard’s journals based on a period that takes Kierkegaard from his student up-to-date scholarship. It offers new insight into days to the peak of his activity as an author. In Kierkegaard’s inner life. In addition to early drafts addition to containing hundreds of Kierkegaard’s of his published works, the journals contain his reflections on philosophy, theology, literature, thoughts on current events and philosophical and his own personal life, these journals are and theological matters, notes on books he was the seedbed of many ideas and passages that reading, miscellaneous jottings, and ideas for later surfaced in Either/Or, Repetition, Fear and future literary projects. Trembling, Philosophical Fragments, The Concept of Anxiety, Stages on Life’s Way, Concluding Unscien- 2007. 616 pages. 9 tables. 4 maps. 19 halftones. Cl: 978-0-691-09222-5 $85.00 | £59.00 tific Postscript, and a number of Edifying Discourses.

2008. 696 pages. 30 halftones. Cl: 978-0-691-13344-7 $99.50 | £69.95 New Volume 3 Notebooks 1–15 Søren Kierkegaard A Biography Volume 3 of this 11-volume edition includes Joakim Garff Kierkegaard’s extensive notes on lectures by the Translated by Bruce H. Kirmmse Danish theologian H. N. Clausen and by the Ger- man philosopher Schelling, as well as a great many “Monumental. . . . Garff’s informal voice enlists us in other entries on philosophical, theological, and the village of gossip of Kierkegaard’s time.” literary topics. In addition, the volume includes —John Updike, New Yorker many personal reflections by Kierkegaard. 2007. 896 pages. 31 halftones. 8 line illus. 2009. 704 pages. 10 halftones. Pa: 978-0-691-12788-0 $29.95 | £20.95 Cl: 978-0-691-13893-0 $99.50 | £69.95 Cl: 978-0-691-09165-5 $64.00 | £43.95

14 • Søren Kierkegaard Kierkegaard’s Writings Søren Kierkegaard Howard V. Hong & Edna H. Hong, series editors

Kierkegaard’s Writings is a definitive, scholarly edition of Søren Kierkegaard’s works, systematically translated into English, comprising twenty-five volumes of text and a separate cumulative index. Each volume includes a historical introduction, selections from Kierkegaard’s journals and provisional manuscripts, notes, and an index. Princeton University Press is proud to now make available in paper- back all of the volumes in this series.

all new in paperback Kierkegaard’s Writings, XXII “The definitive edition of the Writings.” The Point of View —Library Journal Edited by Howard V. Hong & Edna H. Hong Kierkegaard’s Writings, I Kierkegaard’s Writings, XIV 2009. 382 pages. Pa: 978-0-691-14080-3 $35.00 | £24.95 Early Polemical Two Ages Cl: 978-0-691-05855-9 $95.00 | £65.00 Writings The Age of Revolution and Edited by Julia Watkin the Present Age, A Literary Kierkegaard’s Writings, XXIII Review 2009. 352 pages. 3 halftones. The Moment and Pa: 978-0-691-14072-8 $35.00 | £24.95 Edited by Howard V. Hong & Edna H. Hong Late Writings Edited by Howard V. Hong Kierkegaard’s Writings, IX 2009. 202 pages. Pa: 978-0-691-14076-6 $24.95 | £16.95 & Edna H. Hong Prefaces Cl: 978-0-691-07226-5 $67.50 | £46.95 2009. 712 pages. 5 halftones. Writing Sampler Pa: 978-0-691-14081-0 $60.00 | £41.95 Cl: 978-0-691-03226-9 $105.00 | £72.00 Edited by Todd W. Nichol Kierkegaard’s Writings, XV 2009. 232 pages. Pa: 978-0-691-14073-5 $29.95 | £20.95 Upbuilding Discourses Kierkegaard’s Writings, XXIV Cl: 978-0-691-04827-7 $70.00 | £48.95 in Various Spirits The Book on Adler Edited by Howard V. Hong Edited by Howard V. Hong Kierkegaard’s Writings, X & Edna H. Hong & Edna H. Hong 2009. 464 pages. Three Discourses on 2009. 424 pages. 9 halftones. Pa: 978-0-691-14077-3 $35.00 | £24.95 Imagined Occasions Pa: 978-0-691-14082-7 $40.00 | £27.95 Cl: 978-0-691-03227-6 $95.00 | £65.00 Edited by Howard V. Hong Kierkegaard’s Writings, XVII & Edna H. Hong Kierkegaard’s Writings, XXV 2009. 198 pages. Christian Discourses Pa: 978-0-691-14074-2 $24.95 | £16.95 The Crisis and a Crisis in the Letters and Documents Cl: 978-0-691-03300-6 $70.00 | £48.95 Life of an Actress Edited by Edited by Howard V. Hong Henrik Rosenmeier Kierkegaard’s Writings, XIII & Edna H. Hong 2009. 546 pages. 3 maps. The Corsair Affair and 2009. 512 pages. Pa: 978-0-691-14083-4 $65.00 | £44.95 Pa: 978-0-691-14078-0 $45.00 | £30.95 Cl: 978-0-691-07228-9 $125.00 | £85.00 Articles Related to Cl: 978-0-691-01649-8 $95.00 | £65.00 the Writings Kierkegaard’s Writings, XXVI Edited by Howard V. Hong Kierkegaard’s Writings, XVIII Cumulative Index to & Edna H. Hong Without Authority Kierkegaard’s Writings 2009. 376 pages. 23 line illus. Pa: 978-0-691-14075-9 $29.95 | £20.95 Edited by Howard V. Hong Edited by Howard V. Hong & Edna H. Hong & Edna H. Hong 2009. 340 pages. 2009. 584 pages. Pa: 978-0-691-14079-7 $35.00 | £24.95 Pa: 978-0-691-14084-1 $65.00 | £44.95 Cl: 978-0-691-01239-1 $80.00 | £55.00 Cl: 978-0-691-03225-2 $99.50 | £69.95

press.princeton.edu Søren Kierkegaard • 15 Translation/Transnation Emily Apter, series editor

Translation/Transnation is devoted to developing approaches and topics that place renewed em- phasis on the literary dimension of transnationalism. It investigates the politics of language, accent and literacy; translation and the global marketplace; comparative literary movements and genres; the future status of national assignations in textual classification; the need for new paradigms of comparative literary history and historiography—among other themes. New New The Princeton Sourcebook The Spread of Novels in Comparative Literature Translation and Prose Fiction in the From the European Enlightenment to Eighteenth Century the Global Present Mary Helen McMurran Edited by David Damrosch, Natalie The Spread of Novels Melas & Mbongiseni Buthelezi explores the active movements of “Rebuilt many English and French times on the high fiction in the eigh- seas, comparative teenth century and literature is a Noah’s argues that the new ark of texts, method- literary form of the ologies, languages, novel was the result communities, and of a shift in transla- aspirations. This col- tion. Demonstrating lection captures the that translation was restless, experimen- both the cause and tal, self-critical spirit means by which the novel attained success, Mary of what has never Helen McMurran shows how this period was a been a discipline or watershed in translation history, signaling the a field but a project, from its emergence in the end of a premodern system of translation and breakdown of Enlightenment universalism to the advent of modern literary exchange. current debates about circulation, translation, and value.” Mary Helen McMurran is assistant professor of —Haun Saussy, Yale University English at the University of Western Ontario.

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Honorable Mention, 2004 Aldo and Jeanne Winner of 2007 Richard L. Greaves Award, The Scaglione Prize for French and Francophone Studies, International John Bunyan Society Modern Language Association The Portable Bunyan Experimental Nations A Transnational History of The Pilgrim’s Or, the Invention of the Maghreb Progress Réda Bensmaïa Isabel Hofmeyr 2003. 232 pages. 2003. 320 pages. 20 halftones. 1 table. Pa: 978-0-691-08937-9 $27.95 | £19.95 Pa: 978-0-691-11656-3 $30.95 | £21.95

Winner of the 2006 James Russell Lowell Prize, Nation, Language, and the Modern Language Association Ethics of Translation Poetry of the Revolution Edited by Sandra Bermann & Marx, Manifestos, and the Avant-Gardes Michael Wood Martin Puchner 2005. 424 pages. 1 halftone. 2006. 336 pages. 7 halftones. 2 line illus. 3 tables. Pa: 978-0-691-11609-9 $29.95 | £20.95 Pa: 978-0-691-12260-1 $27.95 | £19.95 Cl: 978-0-691-12259-5 $75.00 | £52.00 Utopian Generations The Political Horizon of Twentieth-Century Writing Outside the Nation Literature Azade Seyhan Nicholas Brown 2000. 200 pages. 2005. 256 pages. Pa: 978-0-691-05099-7 $30.95 | £21.95 Pa: 978-0-691-12212-0 $31.95 | £21.95 press.princeton.edu Translation/Transnation • 17 New New With an introduction by Empires of the Silk Road Robert P. Goldman & A History of Central Eurasia from the Sally J. Sutherland Goldman Bronze Age to the Present The Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki Christopher I. Beckwith An Epic of Ancient India, “Empires of the Silk Volume VI: Yuddhakāṇḍa Road is a major Translated and annotated by scholarly achieve- Robert P. Goldman, ment. This is the first Sally J. Sutherland Goldman & book to provide a Barend A. van Nooten comprehensive ac- count of the history The sixth book of the of Central Eurasia Rāmāya a of Vālmīki, ṇ from the Bronze Age the Yuddhakā a, ṇḍ to the present. But it recounts the is much more than final dramatic war a simple narrative between the forces of events in what of good led by the is arguably the most important region for the exiled prince Rāma, development of civilization during the past four and the forces of evil or five millennia. It is an intellectually ambitious commanded by the undertaking that attempts to account for es- arch demon Rāva a. ṇ sential transformations in the cultural, economic, The Yuddhakā a ṇḍ and political life of societies situated both within contains some of the Central Eurasian heartland and on its pe- the most extraordinary events and larger-than- riphery. . . . Beckwith turns conventional wisdom life characters to be found anywhere in world on its head and makes Central Eurasia the core literature. of human history, rather than the embarrassing Robert P. Goldman is professor of Sanskrit and backwater which it is usually portrayed as. Per- Indian studies at the University of California, haps his greatest contribution is in the powerful, Berkeley, and general editor of the Ramayana sustained epilogue, where he shatters a whole Translation Project. Sally J. Sutherland Gold- galaxy of misconceptions about the dreaded man is lecturer in Sanskrit at the University of ‘barbarians.’ ” California, Berkeley, and associate editor of the —Victor H. Mair, University of Pennsylvania Ramayana Translation Project. Barend A. van Empires of the Silk Road places Central Eurasia Nooten is professor emeritus of Sanskrit at the within a world historical framework and demon- University of California, Berkeley. strates why the region is central to understand- Princeton Library of Asian Translations ing the history of civilization. 2009. 1676 pages. 1 color illus. Cl: 978-0-691-06663-9 $150.00 | £103.00 Christopher I. Beckwith is professor of Central Eurasian studies at Indiana University.

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Winner of the 2008 Sourette Diehl Fraser Award for Best Translation of a Book, Texas Institute of Letters Selected Poems Odes and Fragments Sophocles Translated and introduced by Reginald Gibbons

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2009. 480 pages. 1 halftone. Cl: 978-0-691-14171-8 $35.00 For sale only in the U.S., Territories and Dependencies press.princeton.edu Poetry • 21 Forthcoming New Angina Days Love Lessons Selected Poems Selected Poems of Alda Merini Günter Eich Translated by Susan Stewart Translated and introduced by Michael Hofmann “What we have in Love Lessons is a “This is an extremely fantastic selection important book. of poems by Alda Günter Eich is a Merini, one of Italy’s highly significant foremost poets, trans- German poet and lated into English by Michael Hofmann is Susan Stewart, one the master translator of America’s foremost of contemporary poets. As millions German literature— of Italian readers both poetry and already know—and prose—into English. English readers are These pieces of Eich’s about to discover for the first time—to open a are powerful, bitter, book by Merini is to discover a poetry of immedi- and compressed poems in English, and they will ate freshness, unlike any other.” enlarge the landscape of postwar German poetry —Robert P. Harrison, Stanford University for Anglophone readers. Eich and Hofmann meet Alda Merini is one of Italy’s most important, and in blessed conjunction.” most beloved, living poets. She has won many of —Rosanna Warren, author of Departure: Poems the major national literary prizes and has twice This is the most comprehensive English transla- been nominated for the Nobel Prize—by the tion of the work of Günter Eich, one of the most French Academy in 1996 and by Italian PEN in important German poets of the postwar period. 2001. In Love Lessons, the distinguished American The author of the POW poem “Inventory,” one of poet Susan Stewart brings us the largest and the most famous lyrics in the German language, most comprehensive selection of Merini’s poetry Eich was rivaled only by Paul Celan as the to appear in English. Complete with the original leading poet in the generation after Gottfried Italian on facing pages, a critical introduction, Benn and Bertolt Brecht. Expertly translated and and explanatory notes, this collection gathers introduced by Michael Hofmann, this collection lyrics, meditations, and aphorisms that span fifty gathers eighty poems, many drawn from Eich’s years, from Merini’s first books of the 1950s to an later work and most of them translated here unpublished poem from 2001. These accessible for the first time. The volume also includes the and moving poems reflect the experiences of original German texts on facing pages. a writer who, after beginning her career at the center of Italian Modernist circles when she was Unjustly neglected in English, Eich finds his ideal a teenager, went silent in her twenties, spend- translator here. ing much of the next two decades in mental hospitals, only to reemerge in the 1970s to a full Michael Hofmann is an award-winning poet and renewal of her gifts, an outpouring of new work, translator. and great renown. June 2010. 224 pages. Cl: 978-0-691-14497-9 $24.95 | £16.95 Susan Stewart is the Annan Professor of English at Princeton and a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.

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22 • Facing Pages After Every War Horace, The Odes Twentieth-Century Women Poets New Translations by Contemporary Translations from the German by Poets Eavan Boland Edited by J. D. McClatchy

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With an afterword by Luis H. Antezana The Night Also by J. M. Coetzee Jaime Saenz The Lives of Animals Translated and introduced by Edited and with an introduction by Forrest Gander & Kent Johnson Amy Gutmann

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