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Literary Criticism

Culture Studies

Catastrophizing Materialism and the Making of Disaster

Passannante Gerard

ISBN: HB: 9780226612218, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
240 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 5 colour plates, 7 halftones

When we catastrophize, we think the worst. We make too much of too little, or something of nothing. Yet what looks simply like a bad habit, Gerard Passannante argues, was also a spur to some of the daring conceptual innovations and feats of imaginat...

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Other Things

Brown Bill

ISBN: PB: 9780226283029, ISBN: HB: 9780226076652, University of Chicago Press, February 2019
448 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 32 colour plates, 30 halftones

From the pencil to the puppet to the drone – the humanities continue to ride a wave of interest in material culture and the world of things. How should we understand the force and figure of that wave as it shapes different disciplines? In "Other Thin...

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Shakespearean Territories

Elden Stuart

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

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

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Paraliterary The Making of Bad Readers in Postwar America

Emre Merve

ISBN: PB: 9780226473970, ISBN: HB: 9780226473833, University of Chicago Press, December 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones

Literature departments are staffed by, and tend to be focused on turning out, "good" readers – attentive to nuance, aware of history, interested in literary texts as self-contained works. But the vast majority of readers are, to use Merve Emre's tong...

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Impostors Literary Hoaxes and Cultural Authenticity

Miller Christopher L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226591001, ISBN: HB: 9780226590950, University of Chicago Press, December 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones

Writing a new page in the surprisingly long history of literary deceit, "Impostors" examines a series of literary hoaxes, deceptions that involved flagrant acts of cultural appropriation. This book looks at authors who posed as people they were not,...

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

Lerer Seth

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

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

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Minor Creatures Persons, Animals, and the Victorian Novel

Kreilkamp Ivan

ISBN: PB: 9780226576374, ISBN: HB: 9780226576237, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones

In the nineteenth century, richly-drawn social fiction became one of England's major cultural exports. At the same time, a surprising companion came to stand alongside the novel as a key embodiment of British identity: the domesticated pet. In works...

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Country House Revisited Variations on a Theme from Forster to Hollinghurst

Topolovska Tereza

ISBN: PB: 9788024636726, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2018
178 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! From "Howard's End" to "Brideshead Revisited", this book explores the leitmotif of the English country house in twentieth- and twenty-first-century fiction, with a focus on the works of E....

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Biography & Memoires

Literary Criticism

Henry David Thoreau A Life

Dassow Walls Laura

ISBN: PB: 9780226599373, ISBN: HB: 9780226344690, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
640 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 44 halftones

"Walden. Yesterday I came here to live". That entry from the journal of Henry David Thoreau, and the intellectual journey it began, would by themselves be enough to place Thoreau in the American pantheon. His attempt to "live deliberately" in a small...

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Daily Charles Dickens A Year of Quotes

Dickens Charles

ISBN: PB: 9780226563749, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
208 pp., 21.6x14 cm

A charming memento of the Victorian era's literary colossus, "The Daily Charles Dickens" is a literary almanac for the ages. Tenderly and irreverently anthologized by Dickens scholar James Kincaid, this collection mines the British author's beloved n...

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