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American and Canadian Adventures of the Spirit: The Older Woman in the Works of Doris Lessing, Margaret Atwood, and Other Contemporary Women Writers Perrakis, ed. America’s Gothic Fiction: The Legacy of Magnalia Christi Americana Baker The Arbiters of Reality: Hawthorne, Melville, and the Rise of Mass Information Culture West At Home, At War: Domesticity and World War I in American Fiction Haytock The Black Aesthetic Unbound: Theorizing the Dilemma of Eighteenth-Century African American Literature Langley The Centenary Edition of the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne Hawthorne The Collected Fables of Ambrose Bierce Bierce Cross-Cultural Visions in African American Modernism: From Spatial Narrative to Jazz Haiku Hakutani Cultural Secrets as Narrative Form: Storytelling in Nineteenth-Century America Reid The Difference Place Makes: Gender, Sexuality, and Diaspora Identity Gourdine The Dramatic Unity of Huckleberry Finn Carrington The Escape Motif in the American Novel: Mark Twain to Richard Wright Bluefarb Everything Lost: The Latin American Notebook of William S. Burroughs Smith, Bennett, and Harris, eds. Executing Race: Early American Women's Narratives of Race, Society, and the Law Harris   Folklore in New World Black Fiction: Writing and the Oral Traditional Aesthetics Akọma   From Old Woman to Older Women: Contemporary Culture and Women's Narratives Chivers   Harlan Ellison: The Edge of Forever Weil and Wolfe   Having a Good Cry: Effeminate Feelings and Pop-Culture Forms Warhol   Hawthorne and the Real: Bicentennial Essays Bell, ed.   Ideas of Order in the Novels of Thomas Pynchon Hite   In Cold Fear: The Catcher in the Rye Censorship Controversies and Postwar American Character Steinle “In the Light of Likeness—Transformed”: The Literary Art of Leon Forrest Williams Kinds of Blue: The Jazz Aesthetic in African American Narrative Grandt Learning from Difference: Teaching Morrison, Twain, Ellison, and Eliot Moreland Little Songs: Women, Silence, and the Nineteenth-Century Sonnet Billone Making the “America of Art”: Cultural Nationalism and Nineteenth-Century Women Writers Sofer Margaret Atwood’s Textual Assassinations: Recent Poetry and Fiction Wilson A Much Misunderstood Man: Selected Letters of Ambrose Bierce Joshi and Schultz, eds. Muse in the Machine: American Fiction and Mass Publicity Conroy   Mutha’ Is Half a Word: Intersections of Folklore, Vernacular, Myth, and Queerness in Black Female Culture Stallings   A Prescription for Adversity: The Moral Art of Ambrose Bierce Berkove Prisons, Race, and Masculinity in Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature and Film Caster Prophet in the Marketplace: Thoreau's Development as a Professional Writer Fink Psychological Politics of the American Dream: The Commodification of Subjectivity in Twentieth-Century American Literature Tyson Reading the Fascicles of Emily Dickinson: Dwelling in Possibilities Heginbotham Reciprocal Influences: Literary Production, Distribution, and Consumption in America Fink and Williams, eds. Re-Forming the Past: History, The Fantastic, and the Postmodern Slave Narrative Spaulding “The Regulations of Robbers”: Legal Fictions of Slavery and Resistance Accomando The Reverend Mark Twain: Theological Burlesque, Form, and Content Fulton Roman Fever: Domesticity and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing Elsden Seeing Red: Anger, Sentimentality, and American Indians Carpenter Selected Letters of Nathaniel Hawthorne Myerson Soft in the Middle: The Contemporary Softcore Feature in Its Contexts Andrews Spirits of Defiance: National Prohibition and Jazz Age Literature, 1920–1933 Drowne A Superficial Reading of Henry James: Preoccupations with the Material World Otten Textual Contraception: Birth Control and Modern American Fiction Capo The Theatre of the Real: Yeats, Beckett, and Sondheim MacKenzie Traveling Economies: American Women’s Travel Writing Steadman The Voices of Toni Morrison Rigney White Liberal Identity, Literary Pedagogy, and Classic American Realism Barrish Would Poetry Disappear? American Verse and the Crisis of Modernity Newcomb BRITISH AND IRISH   Allegories of One’s Own Mind: Melancholy in Victorian Poetry Riede   A/Moral Economics: Classical Political Economy and Cultural Authority in Nineteenth Century England  Klaver Anne Thackeray Ritchie Journals and Letters Shankman Bastards and Foundlings: Illegitimacy in Eighteenth-Century England Zunshine Becoming Browning: The Poems and Plays of Robert Browning, 1833–1846 Ryals Bernard Shaw and the Aesthetes Adams Black British Literature: Novels of Transformation Stein Breaking the Frame: Metalepsis and the Construction of the Subject Malina   Charles Dickens and His Original Illustrators Cohen   Cities Built to Music: Aesthetic Theories of the Victorian Gothic Revival Bright   The Citizen’s Body: Desire, Health, and the Social in Victorian England Gilbert   Consuming Fantasies: Labor, Leisure, and the London Shopgirl, 1880–1920 Sanders   Contemporary Dickens Gillooly and David, eds.   Coping with Joyce: Essays from the Copenhagen Symposium Beja and Benstock, eds.   Court Satires of the Restoration Wilson   Crime in Verse: The Poetics of Murder in the Victorian Era O’Brien   The Crisis of Action in Nineteenth-Century English Literature Markovits   The Dangerous Lover: Gothic Villains, Byronism, and the Nineteenth-Century Seduction Narrative Lutz   Deciphering Race: White Anxiety, Racial Conflict, and the Turn to Fiction in Mid-Victorian English Prose Callana   Detecting the Nation: Fictions of Detection and the Imperial Venture Reitz   Dickens' Journalism Dickens   Disciplining Love: Austen and the Modern Man Kramp   A Distinction of Stories: The Medieval Unity of Chaucer’s Fair Chain of Narratives for Canterbury Allen and Moritz   The Dramatic World of Harold Pinter: Its Basis in Ritual Burkamn   Educating the Proper Woman Reader: Victorian Family Literary Magazines and the Cultural Health of the Nation Phegley   The English Dream Vision: Anatomy of a Form Russell   Feminist Realism at the Fin de Siècle: The Influence of the Late-Victorian Woman’s Press on the Development of the Novel Youngkin   Framing Anna Karenina: Tolstoy, the Woman Question, and The Victorian Novel Mandelker   Freshest Advices: Early Provincial Newspapers in England Wiles   Gendered Interventions: Narrative Discourse in the Victorian Novel Warhol   George Eliot's Serial Fiction Martin   Joseph Conrad: Voice, Sequence, History, Genre Lothe, Hawthorn, and Phelan, eds.   Home Economics: Domestic Fraud in Victorian England Stern   The Imagination of Class: Masculinity and the Victorian Urban Poor Bivona and Henkle   The Imagined World of Charles Dickens Newcomb   Imagining Poverty: Quantification and the Decline of Paternalism Sherman   Imperial Subjects, Imperial Space: Rudyard Kipling’s Fiction of the Native-Born McBratney   Interrogating Orientalism: Contextual Approaches and Pedagogical Practices Hoeveler and Cass, eds. The Intersecting Realities and Fictions of Virginia Woolf and Colette Southworth James Joyce: A Literary Life Beja   Jane Austen’s Novels: The Fabric of Dialogue Babb Joyce in the Hibernian Metropolis: Essays Beja   Joyce’s Moraculous Sindbook: A Study of Ulysses Henke D. H. Lawrence: Self and Sexuality Cowan   The Letters of John Ruskin to Lord and Lady Mount-Temple Bradley, ed. The Lion and the Cross: Early Christianity in Victorian Novels Rhodes   Lost Causes: Historical Consciousness in Victorian Literature Jones   Masked Atheism: Catholicism and the Secular Victorian Home LaMonaca   Matthew Arnold, John Ruskin, and the Modern Temper Alexander Misreading Jane Eyre: A Postformalist Paradigm Beaty   Modernist Heresies: British Literary History, 1883–1924 Franke The New Woman and the Empire Jusová The Night Side of Dickens: Cannibalism, Passion, Necessity Stone   The Novel and the Menagerie: Totality, Englishness, and Empire Koenigsberger   Novel Professions: Interested Disinterest and the Making of the Professional in the Victorian Novel Ruth   The Old Story, with a Difference: Pickwick’s Vision Wolfreys   Paintings from Books: Art and Literature in Britain, 1760–1900 Altick   Performing the Victorian: John Ruskin and Identity in Theater, Science, and Education Weltman Plots of Opportunity: Representing Conspiracy in Victorian England Pionke The Pre-Raphaelite Art of the Victorian Novel: Narrative Challenges to Visual Gendered Boundaries Andres   Pope’s Horatian Poems Maresca The Presence of the Present: Topics of the Day in The Victorian Novel Altick Print, Manuscript, and Performance: The Changing Relations of the Media in Early Modern England Marotti and Bristol, eds. The Progress of Romance: Literary Historiography and the Gothic Novel Richter Punch: The Lively Youth of a British Institution, 1841–1851 Altick   Reading London: Urban Speculation and Imaginative Government in Eighteenth-Century Literature Bond Rewriting Chaucer: Culture, Authority, and the Idea of The Authentic Text, 1400–1602 Prendergast   Samuel Beckett: Humanistic Perspectives Beja, Gontarski, and Astier, eds.   Scotland, Britain, Empire: Writing the Highlands, 1760–1860 McNeil Selected Letters of Leslie Stephen Stephen   Shakespeare’s History Plays: The Family and the State Pierce   Shakespeare’s Patterns of Self-Knowledge Soellner The Silent Revolution and the Making of Victorian England Schlossberg   Social Protest in the Eighteenth-Century English Novel Scheuermann   The Summons of Death on the Medieval and Renaissance English Stage Spinrad Telling Tales: Gender and Narrative Form in Victorian Literature and Culture Langland Theater Figures: The Production of the Nineteenth-Century British Novel Allen   The Theatre of the Real: Yeats, Beckett, and Sondheim MacKenzie   Theology and Poetry in the Middle English Lyric: A Study of Sacred History and Aesthetic Form Weber   Timon of Athens: Shakespeare’s Pessimistic Tragedy Soellner   Victorian Freaks: The Social Context of Freakery in Britain Tromp, ed.   Victorian Sensations: Essays on a Scandalous Genre Harrison and Fantina, eds.   Virtue of Necessity: Inconclusiveness and Narrative Form in Chaucer’s Poetry Sklute   The Woman Painter in Victorian Literature Losano Toward a Working-Class Canon: Literary Criticism in British Working-Class Periodicals, 1816–1858 Murphy   The Works of Aphra Behn Behn   A World of Possibilities: Romantic Irony in Victorian Literature Ryals     CLASSICS Catullus in Verona: A Reading of the Elegiac Libellus, Poems 65–116 Skinner Desiring Rome: Male Subjectivity and Reading Ovid’s Fasti King The Elegiac Cityscape: Propertius and the Meaning of Roman Monuments Welch Feeling History: Lucan, Stoicism, and the Poetics of Passion D’Alessandro Behr The Ghosts of the Past: Latin Literature, the Dead, and Rome’s Transition to a Principate Dufallo The Iuvenilia of Marc-Antoine Muret Summers Latin Elegy and Narratology: Fragments of Story Liveley and Salzman-Mitchell, eds. The Mythographer Fulgentius Postmodern Spiritual Practices: The Construction of the Subject and the Reception of Plato in Lacan, Derrida, and Foucault Miller Reading Death in Ancient Rome Erasmo Reading Thucydides Morrison A Web of Fantasies: Gaze, Image, and Gender in Ovid’s Metamorphoses Salzman-Mitchell EUROPEAN AND COMPARATIVE Afrindian Fictions: Diaspora, Race, and National Desire in South Africa Rastogi Afro-Future Females: Black Writers Chart Science Fiction's Newest New-Wave Trajectory Barr, ed. Arthurian Fictions: Rereading the Vulgate Cycle Burns The Artistic Censoring of Sexuality: Fantasy and Judgment in the Twentieth Century Novel Mooney Bloodscripts: Writing the Violent Subject  Gomel The Chekhovian Intertext: Dialogue with a Classic Parts The Difference Place Makes: Gender, Sexuality, and Diaspora Identity Gourdine The Economics of Fantasy: Rape in Twentieth-Century Literature Stockton Elusive Childhood: Impossible Representations in Modern Fiction Honeyman The Enemy Within: Culture Wars and Political Identity in Novels of the French Third Republic Chaitin Epistolarity: Approaches to a Form Altman Galactic Suburbia: Recovering Women’s Science Fiction Yaszek In the Grip of Minos: Confessional Discourse in Dante, Corneille, and Racine Senior In the Presence of Audience: The Self in Diaries and Fiction Martinson The Intersecting Realities and Fictions of Virginia Woolf and Colette Southworth Learning from Difference: Teaching Morrison, Twain, Ellison, and Eliot Moreland The Legend of Romeo and Juliet Moore Libertine Strategies: Freedom and the Novel in Seventeenth-Century France DeJean Medea's Daughters: Forming and Performing the Woman Who Kills  Jones Middle Passages and the Healing Place of History: Migration and Identity in Black Women’s Literature Brown-Guillory The New Woman and the Empire Jusová Ordinary Pleasures: Couples, Conversation, and Comedy Young Samuel Beckett: Humanistic Perspectives Beja, Gontarski, and Astier, eds. Structural Arithmetic Metaphor in the Oxford “Roland” Bulatkin Structure and Theme: “Don Quixote” to James Joyce Church Surprised by Shame: Dostoevsky’s Liars and Narrative Exposure Martinsen A Thousand Words: Portraiture, Style, and Queer Modernism Hovey FICTION AND CREATIVE WRITING The Bones of Garbo Lewis Come Back Irish Rawlings   Dance unto the Lord Dell Dating Miss Universe: Nine Stories Polansky The Earth Abideth Dell Farewell, Summer Santmyer The Fierce Dispute Santmyer Hamlet’s Planets: Parables Sexson Little Men: Novellas and Stories Shapiro Mexico Is Missing: And Other Stories Stevens Ohio Farm McMillen Ohio Town Santmyer Ordination Kaukonen Radiance: Ten Stories Clayton Summers with Juliet Roorbach Throwing Knives Tinsley The Trial of Ebenezer Scrooge Bueno de Mesquita True Kin Jahna The White Tattoo: A Collection of Short Stories Cobb Women Drinking Benedictine Dilworth LINGUISTICS AND FOREIGN LANGUAGES   Discover Romanian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture Boţoman Language Files, 9th Edition Department of Linguistics, The Ohio State University Language Files: Materials for an Introduction to Language and Linguistics, 10th Edition Department of Linguistics, The Ohio State University When Languages Collide: Perspectives on Language Conflict, Language Competition, and Language Coexistence Joseph et al., eds. POETRY Anatomy Errata Hall At the White Window Young Autumn Road Swann Blessings the Body Gave McDonald The Book of Appassionata: The Collected Poems Citino Broken Symmetry Citino   Captivity Narrative Samyn Combinations of the Universe Goldbarth Crossing the Snow Bridge Lim-Wilson Empire Burlesque Svenvold Heroic Measures Bergman A History of Hands Citino Innocence Nordhaus The Invention of Secrecy Citino Magical Thinking: Poems Duemer Meaning and Memory: Interviews with Fourteen Jewish Poets Pacernick Mechanical Cluster Seyburn Popular Culture Goldbarth Saving Lives: Poems Goldbarth Seasoning: A Poet’s Year, With Seasonal Recipes Young Shadeland Grace Spot in the Dark Gylys Stone Sky Lifting Purpura Troubled Lovers in History: A Sequence of Poems Goldbarth Writing Letters for the Blind Fincke THEORY AND FOLKLORE Before Reading: Narrative Conventions and the Politics of Interpretation Rabinowitz Breaking the Frame: Metalepsis and the Construction of the Subject Malina The English Dream Vision: Anatomy of a Form Russell Experiencing Fiction: Judgments, Progressions, and the Rhetorical Theory of Narrative Phelan Folklore in New World Black Fiction: Writing and the Oral Traditional Aesthetics Akọma Framing Anna Karenina: Tolstoy, the Woman Question, and The Victorian Novel Mandelker Gendered Interventions: Narrative Discourse in the Victorian Novel Warhol A Glance beyond Doubt: Narration, Representation, Subjectivity Rimmon-Kenan I Know That You Know That I Know: Narrating Subjects from Moll Flanders to Marnie Butte Invisible Author: Last Essays Brooke-Rose Joseph Conrad: Voice, Sequence, History, Genre Lothe, Hawthorn, and Phelan, eds. Latin Elegy and Narratology: Fragments of Story Liveley and Salzman-Mitchell, eds. The Look of Distance: Reflections on Suffering and Sympathy in Modern Literature—Auden to Agee, Whitman to Woolf Slatoff Matters of Fact: Reading Nonfiction over the Edge Lehman Mutha’ Is Half a Word: Intersections of Folklore, Vernacular, Myth, and Queerness in Black Female Culture Stallings Narrative as Rhetoric: Technique, Audiences, Ethics, Ideology Phelan Narrative Causalities Kafalenos Narrative Dynamics: Essays on Time, Plot, Closure, and Frames Richardson, ed. Narratologies: New Perspectives on Narrative Analysis Herman, ed. Postmodern Spiritual Practices: The Construction of the Subject and the Reception of Plato in Lacan, Derrida, and Foucault Miller Psychological Politics of the American Dream: The Commodification of Subjectivity in Twentieth-Century American Literature Tyson Reading People, Reading Plots: Character, Progression, and the Interpretation of Narrative Phelan The Rhetoric of Fictionality: Narrative Theory and the Idea of Fiction Walsh The Tested Woman Plot: Women's Choices, Men's Judgments, and the Shaping of Stories Bueler A Thousand Words: Portraiture, Style, and Queer Modernism Hovey Understanding Narrative Phelan and Rabinowitz, eds. Unnatural Voices: Extreme Narration in Modern and Contemporary Fiction Richardson Why We Read Fiction: Theory of Mind and the Novel Zunshine