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2012 New Books in
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B ECOMING D ICKENS
T HE K EATS B ROTHERS
The Invention of a Novelist
The Life of John and George
ROBERT
DOUGLAS-FAIRHURST
DENISE GIGANTE
H A New York Times Book
Review Editor’s Choice
H A Library Journal Book of
the Year
H A Telegraph Book of the Year
H A New Statesman Book of
the Year
H A Sunday Times Book of
the Year
H A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year
H A Wall St. Journal Book of
the Year
“Douglas-Fairhurst covers much
ground, but one of his central
ideas is Dickens’s pervasive sense
of what might have been. He sees
it in the false trails and shadow
plots (take Great Expectations,
where Pip imagines himself in
one story though is really in another), in his doublings among
characters and in his jostling possibilities and competing outcomes
(for instance in A Christmas
Carol ). Becoming Dickens is an
ingenious, playful and often brilliant analysis as much as it is a narrative.”
—THE ECONOMIST
“Dickens is immortal and inexhaustible, and
there will be more books in the lead-up to the
200th anniversary of his birth next year. If any
of them outshine [this one] we shall be luckier
than mere mortals deserve.”
—JOHN CAREY, SUNDAY TIMES
“[A] revealing and groundbreaking study,
which succeeds by focusing, narrowly, on the
early years in Dickens’s career as a writer in the
1830s.”
—MICHIKO KAKUTANI,
NEW YORK TIMES
H A New York Times Top 100 Notable Book
of the Year
H A New York Times Book Review
Editor’s Choice
“Gigante has had the clever idea of telling the
stories of John and George as parallel lives, a
dual biography of brothers. Of course, no
single achievement of George’s matches John’s
in any imaginable way…The challenge for
Gigante is to give sufficiently rich detail
concerning George’s travels in America to
outweigh the conspicuous achievement gap
between the two brothers.
Mostly, she succeeds
brilliantly. The American
wilderness, she points out,
had long appealed to
English poets, as a land of
utopian social possibility
and sublime natural
imagery…Gigante memorably contrasts these imaginary worlds with the
slovenly wilderness and
grimy inhabitants that
George and Georgiana
witnessed as they traveled
by barge and wagon into
the interior…The book
ends splendidly…with the apparition of
Oscar Wilde, long after George’s death by
tuberculosis in 1841, lecturing on John
Keats, ‘the real Adonis of our age,’ to
the people of Louisville in 1882, and
admiring Keats’s manuscripts in
the hands of his niece, Emma.”
—CHRISTOPHER BENFEY,
NEW YORK TIMES
BOOK REVIEW
Belknap 2011
65 halftones 552 pp.
Cloth $35.00 / £25.00
ISBN 978-0-67404856-0
“Becoming Dickens is the freshest and most insightful book I have read on this great theme
since my first schoolboy reading of [Humphry
House’s The Dickens World]…It is hard to
imagine a better book on Dickens than Douglas-Fairhurst’s appearing in the coming
months. I shall treasure it.”
—A. N. WILSON, NEW STATESMAN
Belknap 2011 28 halftones 400 pp.
Cloth $29.95 / £20.00 ISBN 978-0-674-05003-7
cover image: Le Désert de Retz, collage by Jacques Prévert. Originally the cover of Prévert’s collection Fatras,
published by Editions Gallimard, 1966. Copyright © Fatras/Succession Jacques Prévert.
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New
N O E NEMIES , N O H ATRED
Selected Essays and Poems
LIU XIAOBO
Edited by Perry Link, Tienchi Martin-Liao, and Liu Xia
Foreword by Vaclav Havel
H A Wall St. Journal Book of the Year
“Liu, the 2010 Nobel Peace laureate currently imprisoned in
China for ‘incitement to subvert state power,’ registers wideranging dissent against the Chinese system in these withering
essays and stark poems (‘From the grins of corpses/ you’ve
learned / that it is only death / that never fails’). Included are
manifestos and trial statements denouncing China’s dictatorship and calling for human rights, free speech, and democracy.
Other pieces criticize the subtler corruptions of a repressive society: the frenzied nationalism of
the Beijing Olympics; mass evictions and child slavery; soulless urban youth; the craze for Confucius, whom the author views as a mediocrity whose legacy is a Chinese ‘slave mentality’; the
guilty compromises that prodemocracy leaders—himself included—make to protect themselves.
Liu’s alienation comes through in his strong, if conflicted, identification with Western ideals,
Madisonian politics, and crypto-Catholic religiosity (‘we will have passion, miracles and beauty as
long as we have the example of Jesus Christ’)…Though personal and idiosyncratic at times, Liu’s
ringing universalist defense of democratic rights and freedoms will resonate with American
readers.”
—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
“The message contained in this book is so powerful that Liu has been imprisoned solely for exercising his right to free expression. The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Liu is a testament to
the strength of his message and to all the Chinese activists who sacrificed their lives and so much
else in the pursuit of freedom and democracy in China. The essays of Liu Xiaobo have inspired
freedom loving people not only in China but around the world.”
—NANCY PELOSI, HOUSE DEMOCRATIC LEADER
Belknap 2012 400 pp.
Cloth $29.95 / £22.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06147-7
New
E ARLY W RITINGS (1910–1917)
WALTER BENJAMIN
Edited and translated by Howard Eiland
“This is a valuable addition to the available work in English of
one of the seminal Jewish critical thinkers of the 20th century,
author of the massive Arcades Project. The mostly lambent translations by editor Eiland and others…help place Benjamin’s later
work within the context of his early preoccupations.”
“Early Writings (1910–1917) [is] the latest volume to appear
in Harvard University Press’ Benjamin edition—an exemplary
scholarly project that has now been ongoing for 25 years…In
these seven years, from the ages of 18 to 25, it’s possible to see
Benjamin develop from a precocious, pompous adolescent into a daring and profound thinker.
The latest pieces in the book lead directly to his most important insights into the nature of literature and history. In fact, the last of these, never published in Benjamin’s lifetime, can be seen as a
kind of skeleton key to his mature work.”
—ADAM KIRSCH, TABLET
Cloth $27.95 / £20.95 ISBN 978-0-674-04993-2
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New
L ETTERS TO A
Y OUNG P OET
T HE E SSENTIAL TAGORE
RAINER MARIA RILKE
Edited by Fakrul Alam and Radha Chakravarty
Foreword by Amit Chaudhuri
RABINDRANATH TAGORE
Translated by Mark Harman
H A Telegraph Book of
the Year
“This fresh translation of
Rilke’s famous letters reminds us anew that Rilke is
addressing not just his young correspondent
but everyone, and that his advice is not only
about how to write poems but how to live a
deliberate, meaningful life. In these overly excited times, it is inspiring to
listen to the patient counsel of
this meditative man, this
champion of solitude.”
—BILLY COLLINS
“If I could recommend only
one book to a young writer, it
would be Rilke’s perpetually
fresh and penetrating Letters to
a Young Poet, especially in
Mark Harman’s lucid new
translation…This small but inexhaustible volume belongs on
every writer’s bookshelf.”
—DANA GIOIA
H A New Statesman Book of the Year
“There have been a number of attempts, in the
century since Yeats made [the] request, to give
the English reader a fuller and more accurate
sense of Rabindranath Tagore—through new
translations, anthologies of his work, critical
studies, and biographies. But The Essential
Tagore, published to coincide with the hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary of Tagore’s birth,
is the most substantial.”
—ADAM KIRSCH,
NEW YORKER
“As the generously weighty
and elegantly produced
Essential Tagore testifies,
Tagore wrote in many
diverse modes, and quite
distinct aspects of his genius often come into play.”
—SEAMUS PERRY,
TIMES LITERARY
SUPPLEMENT
Belknap 2011
Cloth $39.95 / £29.95 OISC
ISBN 978-0-674-05790-6
2011 112 pp.
Cloth $15.95 / £11.95
ISBN 978-0-674-05245-1
New in paperback
P REFACES
TO
S HAKESPEARE
TONY TANNER
Foreword by Stephen Heath
★
A Sunday Herald Book of the Year
“One is drawn in by Tanner’s Kermode-like attention to language.
There is something exhilarating about watching a mind—an open
and attentive one—engage with vocabulary, etymology, repetition,
syntax…At his best, Tanner thinks and writes like an Elizabethan.
He loves copia. He relishes vocabulary…This love of words is at its
most engaging when he admits interpretative defeat. The chapter on
All’s Well that Ends Well is a tour de force in this respect: time and
again, Tanner’s acute ear and eye lead him to point out phrases and
sentences that simply don’t make sense.”
—LAURIE MAGUIRE, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
“To read this collection of introductions to Shakespeare’s plays, more than ten years after
Tanner’s death, is to be reintroduced to his conversation. For in this, his final and finest critical
work, Tanner’s writing is at its most brilliant: he can summarize with the utmost economy; he
can describe sources with the deftest of touches; he can, in sentences bristling with parentheses
and boiling with quotations, develop the most complex of arguments, his own language engaging
with Shakespeare’s in a graceful dance.”
—COLIN MACCABE, NEW STATESMAN
Belknap 2012; 2010 848 pp.
Cloth $39.95 / £29.95 ISBN 978-0-674-05137-9
Paper $24.95 / £18.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06424-9
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T HE C LASSIC AL T RADITION
EDITED BY ANTHONY GRAFTON, GLENN W. MOST, AND
SALVATORE SETTIS
H A Washington Post Best Nonfiction Book of the Year
H A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice
H A First Things Notable Book of the Year
H A Barnes & Noble Review Year’s Best Reading
“This is a browser’s paradise…Classical scholarship has never been richer.”
—STEVE COATES, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
“Now here is a fabulous book…[A] gigantic volume, packed with color
plates and essays by some of the greatest scholars alive.”
—MICHAEL DIRDA, WASHINGTON POST
“A guidebook of great erudition that is notably well written and unexpectedly compelling…Each
article brings some unexpected insight or little known fact into the discussion, to illuminating effect…The scholarship is impeccable…[A] marvelous guide.”
—ERIC ORMSBY, WALL STREET JOURNAL
Belknap / Harvard University Press Reference Library
2010 165 color illus. 1088 pp. Cloth $49.95 / £36.95
ISBN
978-0-674-03572-0
New
New in paperback
“I
W ORLDS M ADE
HAVE ALWAYS
LOVED THE
H OLY T ONGUE ”
Isaac Casaubon,
the Jews, and a
Forgotten Chapter
in Renaissance
Scholarship
ANTHONY
GRAFTON AND
JOANNA WEINBERG
H A Salon Book of the Year
“Anthony Grafton and Joanna Weinberg introduce us to this strong, determined scholar by considering a particularly illuminating and unusual
aspect of his scholarly life: his efforts to study Hebrew in depth…In their account of Casaubon’s
Hebrew studies, Grafton and Weinberg have illuminated far more than the scholar; they have done
much to reveal the multiple sides of a deeply sympathetic figure who must have been, in many respects, a thoroughly modern man.”
—INGRID D. ROWLAND,
NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS
“In their splendid new book, Grafton and
Weinberg direct our attention to a figure whose
name is virtually absent from all of the earlier accounts: Isaac Casaubon, the great Huguenot
scholar, who lived from 1559 to 1614…These two
superb scholars have pooled their considerable talents to conjure for us a world of such immense
and varied learning that it is bound, in Montesquieu’s words, to ‘astonish our small souls.’”
—ERIC NELSON, NEW REPUBLIC
BY
W ORDS
Scholarship and Community in the Modern West
ANTHONY GRAFTON
★
A Scotsman Gift Pick of the Year
“[Grafton] represents the best
proof that the Republic of Letters is alive and kicking.”
—ERIC ORMSBY,
WALL STREET JOURNAL
“It is exceedingly rare to find in
one and the same scholar this
love for archival material and
the talent to show the world at
large why it is interesting and
important…[Grafton] takes his
readers on a long journey, from
the Republic of Letters to the
Babel of the Internet. If it is
hard to say whether or not the road leads upward
to the light, there is no doubt that we could not
ask for anyone wiser to lead us.”
—G. W. BOWERSOCK,
2011; 2009 5 halftones 432 pp.
Paper $19.95 / £14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06025-8
Belknap / Carl Newell Jackson Lectures
2011 43 halftones 392 pp.
Cloth $35.00 / £25.95 ISBN 978-0-674-04840-9
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C ONFESSIONS OF A
Y OUNG N OVELIST
UMBERTO ECO
“Confessions of a Young Novelist offers a brief glimpse into the
mind and process of one of the most important writers of the last
30 years…Eco is a jocular and insightful writer (and speaker), and
his ability to present the complex as if it were comprehensible
makes Confessions of a Young Novelist a pleasant, albeit brief, read
…It’s rare to be invited into a great writer’s intimate space, an
opportunity that shouldn’t be taken for granted.”
—MICHAEL PATRICK BRADY, POPMATTERS
“Engaging, brilliant…[A] playful book.”
—JANET TODD, THE GUARDIAN
“[Eco] offers a charming glimpse into the demiurge’s private
workshop.”
—ADAM KIRSCH, BARNES AND NOBLE REVIEW
“The Name of the Rose was so popular that critics accused Eco, a semiotics professor, of programming a computer with a secret formula for a successful novel. Eco was, of course, offended and
fired back a series of sarcastic modest proposals that pretty much flattened his critics. There may
not be a formula, or a recipe, but there are ingredients for a successful novel, and now, decades
later, Eco has decided to tell us what he believes they are.”
—SUSAN SALTER REYNOLDS, LOS ANGELES TIMES
The Richard Ellmann Lectures in Modern Literature
2011 4 line illus. 240 pp.
Cloth $18.95 / £14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-05869-9
New
O N R EREADING
PATRICIA MEYER SPACKS
Patricia Meyer Spacks asks why we reread favorite novels when we
can remember the plot, and why children love to hear the same
story read aloud at bedtime. What psychological needs does rereading answer? Rereading, Spacks discovers, helps us to make sense of
ourselves by showing us how we, like the books we reread, have
both changed and remained the same.
“[A] charming and strange blend of memoir, literary criticism,
and scientific treatise.”
—NATHANIEL STEIN, NEW YORKER BLOG
Cloth $26.95 / £19.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06222-1
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T HE I MAGE OF
THE B LACK IN
W ESTERN A RT
EDITED BY
DAVID BINDMAN AND
HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR.
Associate Editor
Karen C. C. Dalton
“A fascinating story of the
changing image of Africa’s
people in Western art. The
images are simply extraordinary and the scholarship inspiring. Anyone who cares
about Western art or about
Africa and her diaspora ought
to know these magnificent
volumes.”
—KWAME ANTHONY
APPIAH
“In addition to being an indispensable guide to the
evolving meanings of racial
difference, these dazzling volumes filled with extraordinary images and rich
arguments contribute to an
alternative history of the
Western world. An invaluable
gift for both specialists and
general readers.”
—PAUL GILROY
Review of previous editions:
“One concludes from these
pioneering volumes that artistic representations were historical ‘events’ that eventually helped to
shape a mentality that justified the enslavement of millions of Africans as well as later attempts to
Christianize and liberate their descendants.”
—DAVID BRION DAVIS, NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS
VOLUME I: FROM THE PHARAOHS TO THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE
2010 345 color illus., 50 halftones, 5 maps 416 pp.
Cloth $95.00 / £69.95 ISBN 978-0-674-05271-0
VOLUME II: FROM THE EARLY CHRISTIAN ERA TO THE “AGE OF
DISCOVERY” Part 1: From the Demonic Threat to the Incarnation of Sainthood
2010 168 color illus., 15 halftones, 2 maps 336 pp.
Cloth $95.00 / £69.95 ISBN 978-0-674-05256-7
Part 2: Africans in the Christian Ordinance of the World
2010 259 color illus., 20 halftones 400 pp.
Cloth $95.00 / £69.95 ISBN 978-0-674-05258-1
VOLUME III: FROM THE “AGE OF DISCOVERY ” TO THE
AGE OF ABOLITION Part 1: Artists of the Renaissance and Baroque
2010 191 color illus. 432 pp.
Cloth $95.00 / £69.95 ISBN 978-0-674-05261-1
Part 2: Europe and the World Beyond
Cloth $95.00 / £69.95 ISBN 978-0-674-05262-8
Part 3: The Eighteenth Century
Cloth $95.00 / £69.95 ISBN 978-0-674-05263-5
Belknap / Du Bois Institute
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of tHe
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New
T HE P ICTURE
OF
D ORIAN G RAY
An Annotated, Uncensored Edition
OSCAR WILDE
Edited by Nicholas Frankel
“Frankel’s extensive annotations reveal that the homoerotic qualities of the novel are deeply encoded within it
and cannot be excised by the removal of a few phrases…If
the restored text is interesting primarily as a social document of what was and was not permissible in England in
the 1890s, it poignantly reveals an author desperately at
war with his society and with himself.”
—RUTH FRANKLIN, NEW REPUBLIC ONLINE
“In pages redolent of fin-de-siecle languor and sparkling
with bons mots, Wilde’s only novel raises several seriously troubling questions: If one could live a
life of absolute freedom, would the result be happiness or a nightmare? How much of our complex selves do we deny or sacrifice to conventional morality? …This Harvard edition of the untouched typescript is thus a necessary acquisition for any serious student of Wilde’s work…After
this enthralling novel has left you shaken and disturbed, look for deeper understanding in
Nicholas Frankel’s superb annotated edition.”
“Splendid…Profusely illustrated and annotated, the edition’s most interesting feature will be a
comparison of the original hand-emended typescript with the two main published versions, each
of which toned down the novel in a vain effort to avoid the notoriety that descended on both the
work and its author…Frankel’s edition is a major contribution to the studies of Wilde and of late
Victorian legal, sexual, and social contexts…Required reading for students and scholars of Wilde
and his period.”
—GEORGE BORNSTEIN, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
“The version that Wilde submitted to Lippincott’s [published for the first time by Harvard
University Press] is the better fiction. It has the swift and uncanny rhythm of a modern fairy
tale—and Dorian is the greatest of Wilde’s fairy tales.”
—ALEX ROSS, NEW YORKER
Belknap 2011 78 color illus., 1 color map 304 pp.
Cloth $35.00 / £25.95 ISBN 978-0-674-05792-0
T HE N AIVE
AND THE
S ENTIMENTAL N OVELIST
ORHAN PAMUK
Translated by Nazim Dikba
★
A Huffington Post Best Book of the Year
“A slender, strikingly handsome volume…Pamuk’s nonfiction voice
matches the narrating voice of his novels—grave, thoughtful, wry…
His painstaking love for literature prevails.”
—JOAN FRANK, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
“Engaging, brilliant…Pamuk’s The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist
is charming, self-regarding, [and] dreamy.”
—JANET TODD, THE GUARDIAN
The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures 2010 208 pp.
Cloth $22.95 / £16.95 COBE ISBN 978-0-674-05076-1
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P ERSUASION
An Annotated Edition
JANE AUSTEN
Edited by Robert Morrison
“Robert Morrison’s new annotated edition of Persuasion is terrific: thorough, scrupulous, and thoughtful.
It is a worthy addition to the wonderful Harvard series of annotated volumes, likely to be long read and
much enjoyed by Austen enthusiasts.”
—PATRICIA MEYER SPACKS
“Readers who know Pride and Prejudice and Emma
very well, can on encountering or re-encountering
Austen’s final novel find it disconcerting and disorienting. Fortunately, they are now well served by the thorough and thoughtful annotation in Persuasion: An Annotated Edition.”
—DEIDRE LYNCH, UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
“Jane Austen’s final novel continues to fascinate readers. This love story contains Austen’s most
pointed social commentary, recognizing the rising status of the professional class and respecting
the aristocrats with their inherited lands and titles. Morrison provides annotations alongside the
novel’s text. He enables readers to understand the impact of these social changes on family interactions and obligations, especially marriage…Highly recommended to first-time Austen readers
and to fans seeking further insight into Austen’s life and literary sources, as well as British life in
her time.”
—NANCY R. IVES, LIBRARY JOURNAL
Belknap 2011 102 color illus. 360 pp. Cloth $35.00 / £25.95
P RIDE
ISBN
AND
978-0-674-04974-1
P REJUDICE
JANE AUSTEN
Edited by Patricia Meyer Spacks
“[A] beautiful new illustrated edition…Instead of letting Austen’s delicious confection slip down like a
syllabub, you have to think about each sentence, and
that enriches and complicates everything…Pride and
Prejudice is a rarity among great books in being both
a trenchant moral tale and the wispiest wish fulfillment, as unreal as Cinderella.”
—JOHN CAREY, SUNDAY TIMES
“[A] handsomely produced annotated
edition…Spacks’ annotations are illuminating…The dozens of illustrations—a watercolor of
Austen by her sister, for example, and images of late
18th-century drawing rooms—add a layer of visual delight and edification to the clarifying
notes Spacks offers.”
—LAUREN WINNER, BOOKS & CULTURE
Belknap 2010 74 color illus. 464 pp. Cloth $35.00 / £24.95
POETS THINKING
Pope, Whitman, Dickinson, Yeats
HELEN VENDLER
2006; 2004 160 pp.
Paper $19.00 / £14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-02110-5
COMING OF AGE AS A POET
Milton, Keats, Eliot, Plath
HELEN VENDLER
2004; 2003 4 halftones 192 pp.
Paper $22.50 / £16.95 ISBN 978-0-674-01383-4
ISBN
978-0-674-04916-1
THE ART OF SHAKESPEARE’S SONNETS
HELEN VENDLER
National Book Critics Circle Nominee, General Nonfiction
Belknap 1999; 1997 696 pp.
Paper $27.00 / £19.95 ISBN 978-0-674-63712-2
OUR SECRET DISCIPLINE
Yeats and Lyric Form
HELEN VENDLER
Cloth $35.00 / COBEE ISBN 978-0-674-02695-7
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D ICKINSON
T HE A RT
Selected Poems and
Commentaries
S ONNET
STEPHEN BURT AND DAVID MIKICS
HELEN VENDLER
H A New Republic Best Book
of the Year
The Art of the Sonnet collects one hundred exemplary sonnets of the English language (and a
few sonnets in translation), representing highlights in the history of the sonnet, accompanied
by short commentaries on each of the poems.
The commentaries by Stephen Burt and David
Mikics offer new perspectives and insights, and,
taken together, demonstrate the enduring as
well as changing nature of the sonnet. The authors serve as guides to
some of the most-celebrated sonnets
in English as well as less well-known
gems by nineteenth- and twentiethcentury poets. Also included is a
general introductory essay, in which
the authors examine the sonnet
form and its long and fascinating
history, from its origin in medieval
Sicily to its English appropriation in
the sixteenth century to sonnet
writing today in the United States,
the United Kingdom, and other
English-speaking parts of the world.
H A First Things Notable Book
of the Year
★
OF THE
A Lapham’s Quarterly Best Book of the Year
“[A] superb and invigorating new selection of
150 poems and probing commentaries…The
poet that Vendler finds in
these poems is an ambitious and sometimes
magisterial artist of extraordinary range and
verbal control.”
—CHRISTOPHER
BENFEY,
NEW YORK
REVIEW
OF BOOKS
“Emily Dickinson is certainly never going to be
an easy poet to understand, but her dense,
poignant lyrics are now a
lot more accessible
to ordinary readers thanks to Vendler’s
unravelings.”
“Learned as well as passionate, this
book is a delight.”
Cloth $35.00 / £25.95 ISBN 978-0-674-04867-6
(starred review)
“Newcomers to poetry and longtime readers
alike will find this a rich and rewarding
volume.”
—LAUREN WINNER, BOOKS & CULTURE
Belknap 2011; 2010 464 pp.
Cloth $35.00 / £25.95
ISBN 978-0-674-04814-0
Paper $19.95 / £14.95
ISBN 978-0-674-06180-4
A N A NTHOLOGY OF
M ODERN I RISH P OETRY
EDITED BY WES DAVIS
“The book includes upwards of 50
poets—and there’s not a dull page in it.
Editor Wes Davis’s selection is judicious, while his introduction and
notes are as informative as they are
brief.”
—RICHARD TILLINGHAST,
WALL STREET JOURNAL
“This is a book that in every sense
deserves a broad readership…An anthology
ultimately stands or falls on the strength of the work
that it collects. In this regard, especially, An Anthology of Modern Irish Poetry is a
notable success.”
—BILL COYLE, NEW CRITERION
Belknap 2010 1024 pp. Cloth $35.00 / £21.95
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L OVE P OEMS , L ETTERS ,
AND
R EMEDIES
OF
O VID
OVID
Translated by David R. Slavitt
Introduction by Michael Dirda
“Slavitt’s rendering of Ovid is never stuffy or bookish, as translations of classics can be; rather, it is always modern, idiomatic, fast paced, and enjoyable.”
—B. E. BRANDT, CHOICE
“A translation for our times.”
—GAIL HOLST-WARHAFT
“David Slavitt remains at the top of his form, and here adds splendid work to
his earlier fine renditions of Ovid.”
—HENRY TAYLOR
2011 384 pp.
Cloth $26.95 / £19.95
ISBN
978-0-674-05904-7
New
S ONNETS
AND
S HORTER P OEMS
FRANCESCO PETRARCH
“Slavitt gives us a swifter, and perhaps less encumbered, Petrarch than we are
used to reading. This collection can indeed be read through in a sitting, as
Slavitt invites the reader to do. There are many fine moments throughout that
catch perfectly the sense and feeling of the original.”
—DENNIS LOONEY, UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
2012 352 pp.
Cloth $26.95 / £19.95
ISBN
978-0-674-06216-0
New
T HE A NNOTATED E MERSON
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Edited by David Mikics
Foreword by Phillip Lopate
“The #1 essayist and pure prose stylist in U.S. literature is on grand display in this lavish edition of
essays, poems, and passages from Emerson’s voluminous journals. The neophyte entering the Emersonian universe, as opposed to the scholar, is best served
by Mikics’s careful annotations and cogent commentary surrounding these selections, though even the
most knowledgeable scholar would benefit.”
“Impressive in its thoroughness—the author’s enthusiasm for his subject is infectious.”
—PAUL KANE, VASSAR COLLEGE
“David Mikics’s The Annotated Emerson is the best possible introduction to Emerson’s prose and poetry.”
—HAROLD BLOOM
Belknap 2012 92 color illus. 576 pp.
Cloth $35.00 / £25.95 ISBN 978-0-674-04923-9
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A H OME
E LSEWHERE
A N EW L ITERARY H ISTORY
OF A MERIC A
Reading African
American Classics in
the Age of Obama
EDITED BY GREIL MARCUS AND
WERNER SOLLORS
ROBERT B. STEPTO
“Stepto’s incisive analysis
involves, for example, a
very close reading of how
writers from James Weldon Johnson to Du Bois
to Obama himself have
written about their
school day blues, their
initiation into racial difference by white classmates…Stepto’s willingness
to confront the white reader of African American
classics becomes, in the end, the great strength of
this book.”
—W. SCOTT POOLE, POPMATTERS.COM
“Provocative…Stepto discusses literature
about as well as anyone, and it’s a genuine
pleasure to follow his joyful excursions
through Douglass, Du Bois, Morrison and
others.”
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Book of the Year
“Gives us what amounts
to a fractal geometry of
American culture. You
can focus on any one
spot and get a sense of
the whole or pull back
and watch the larger
patterns appear. What
you see isn’t the past so
much as the present.”
—WES DAVIS,
—JABARI ASIM, WASHINGTON POST
The W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures 2010 192 pp.
Cloth $22.95 / £16.95 ISBN 978-0-674-05096-9
Twentieth Anniversary Edition
L IPSTICK T RACES
WALL STREET
JOURNAL
A Secret History of the
Twentieth Century
GREIL MARCUS
“I often say that Traces is the best book ever written about music, even though it’s not actually
about music: it is about the life of an idea.”
—SASHA FRERE-JONES,
NEW YORKER ONLINE
Belknap 2009 59 halftones,
25 line illus. 496 pp.
Paper $26.50 / COBE ISBN 9780-674-03480-8
“Roams far beyond any
standard definition of
literature. Aside from
compositions that contain the written word, its
subjects include war memorials, jazz, museums,
comic strips, film, radio, musicals, skyscrapers,
cybernetics and photography.”
—PATRICIA COHEN, NEW YORK TIMES
“The feel of the whole is epic…By the time I had
made my way through about a third of this book I
began to feel an emotion that comes but rarely to
a reviewer: pride. Not pride in America’s politics
or policies necessarily, but pride in our speech…In
my opinion perhaps the single most impressive
achievement in the book is the editors’ and writers’ ability to pinpoint linkages between one kind
of fact and another.”
—LARRY MCMURTRY,
Belknap / Harvard University Press Reference Library
2012; 2009 27 halftones 1128 pp.
Cloth $49.95 / £36.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03594-2
Paper $24.95 / £18.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06410-2
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M OSCOW,
THE
F OURTH R OME
Stalinism, Cosmopolitanism, and the Evolution of Soviet Culture, 1931–1941
KATERINA CLARK
“Clark refocuses our attention on the streets, books, buildings, festivals and fantasies that Moscow’s citizens actually inhabited during this most strident decade
of Soviet nationalism and parochialism…In nine enormously erudite chapters,
Clark builds the compelling case…that this decade of insular Stalinism and the
Great Terror was also a highpoint of Soviet cosmopolitanism.”
—YVONNE H. HOWELL, TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION SUPPLEMENT
“‘Cosmopolitan’ is not the first adjective that comes to mind when thinking of
culture in the Stalin era. But even the nightmare of totalitarianism can be complex, and Clark traces the efforts of regime-blessed Soviet cultural figures of the
1930s to foster a ‘transnational fraternity’ with leftist European artists and intellectuals, comrades-in-arms against fascism who were enamored of Marx and fascinated by the Soviet ‘experiment.’ It was something of a two-way street, with
Stalin, very much a hands-on impresario, allowing the import of Western film
and literature, as long as the cumulative effect was to give his political vision imperial reach. As a result, for much of the decade, the exchange of ideas about
theater, film, literature, journalism, and architecture was richer and more intense than one might have thought. As Clark demonstrates in this masterful
tour of trends in Soviet culture and their echoes in Europe, the modified version
of universalism tolerated by Stalin placed the Soviet Union at its center, and at
the Soviet Union’s center stood Moscow—the site and symbol of centralized
Soviet power.”
—ROBERT LEGVOLD, FOREIGN AFFAIRS
Cloth $35.00 / £25.95 ISBN 978-0-674-05787-6
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W AGNER
AND THE
E ROTIC I MPULSE
LAURENCE DREYFUS
“[Dreyfus’s] persuasive contention is that this music is not only erotic to our ears and understanding, but
that it was interpreted as such from the very start. Furthermore, he shows that the explicit connections of
eroticism with music long predate the nineteenth century, going back at least as far as the terpsichorean
tradition of the sixteenth century. Dreyfus impressively manages to argue that music can be interpreted as
expressly erotic without getting himself entangled in the complexities of whether music can in general be
assigned particular interpretation.”
—BERNARD O’DONOGHUE, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
“Even in this supposedly liberal era Wagner’s detractors still wag fingers at his love-life…As this groundbreaking new study suggests, it’s the erotic yearnings so central to his great works that remain arresting.”
—MICHAEL SCOTT ROHAN, BBC MUSIC
2012; 2010 1 line illustration, 11 music examples 288 pp.
Cloth $27.95 / £19.95 ISBN 978-0-674-01881-5
Paper $18.95 / £14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06429-4
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T HE M ATTER
OF
C APITAL
Poetry and Crisis in the American Century
CHRISTOPHER NEALON
“Nealon makes a strongly compelling case in this book that ‘capital’ and its
crises have continued to pervade and magnetize much of the most cannily
powerful poetry of the last century. He gives a nuanced yet succinct account of
this extensive and complex history. The thoroughness of his scholarship and
the trenchancy of his method enable him to perform this daunting task with
authority and assurance. His study will interest scholars as well as non-academic readers. Indeed, with this book, Nealon is likely to join the select company of a handful of critics of poetry, such as Charles Altieri and Maria
Damon, whom poets actually read.”
—MICHAEL MOON, EMORY UNIVERSITY
“The Matter of Capital brilliantly reimagines how we understand 20th-century Anglophone poetry. Clear-eyed about the signal poetry of the present and
its relation to the dominant thoughts of our era, it locates both within an agile
and fearless history of ideas that reaches into deep tradition and into the future that looms before us. Most remarkably, it does so by discovering what has
been hiding in plain sight: poetry’s attunement to the regime of capital, in an
age which resists and resents such thought. In this sense the book offers not
only a breathtaking work of poetics, but the itinerary of an idea exactly when
this is most needed and most challenging to confront. In the finest sense, this
book is invaluable.”
—JOSHUA CLOVER, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS
2011 202 pp.
Cloth $35.00 / £25.95
S ELECTED P OEMS
OF
ISBN
978-0-674-05872-9
F REDERICK G ODDARD T UCKERMAN
FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN
Edited by Ben Mazer
Introduction by Stephen Burt
“No poet of nature has known the natural world with the intimacy, subtlety, and sensitivity to detail of
Tuckerman. This edition freshly illuminates the complete poetry of this major, but little known, American talent.”
—JOHN BURT, BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY
“This is a welcome new edition of one of the masters of the meditative lyric.”
—DENIS DONOGHUE, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
Belknap / The John Harvard Library
2010 240 pp.
Cloth $19.95 / £14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-05048-8
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L A V ITA N UOVA
DANTE ALIGHIERI
Introduction by Seth Lerer
★
A Books & Culture Favorite Book of the Year
“Some translators have been too academic, draining the vigor and wonder from
this work but Slavitt’s version stays true to the spirit…Considering all the books
today about finding one’s center in our crazy, image-driven culture, then, La Vita
Nuova—especially in Slavitt’s version—couldn’t be more relevant.”
—NICK OWCHAR, LOS ANGELES TIMES
“The Vita Nuova, Dante’s first major work of certain attribution, is an original
and sophisticated creation, too often cast aside as little more than a youthful prologue to the Divine Comedy…This handsome English edition of the Vita Nuova is translated by
David R. Slavitt and prefaced by an engaging essay by Seth Lerer…Freed from the customary
shackles of academic apparatus, the poetic quality of its lyrics freshly reinstated, the Vita Nuova’s
signature hybrid texture is here elegantly conveyed.”
—TRISTAN KAY, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
2010 160 pp.
Cloth $18.95 / £14.95
ISBN
978-0-674-05093-8
New in
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paperback
R ICHARD
B ENTLEY
O RLANDO
F URIOSO
A New Verse
Translation
LUDOVICO
ARIOSTO
Translated by
David R. Slavitt
Introduction by
Charles S. Ross
“In David R. Slavitt’s exuberant new version,
Orlando Furioso (1532) makes for quite wonderful seasonal entertainment. Slavitt’s easygoing, colloquial approach possesses a lightness
and brio, a sweet playfulness (touched with
irony) that carries the reader effortlessly, happily along…Ariosto’s irresistible masterpiece
effortlessly blends chivalry, love and magic.
Think of it as a knightly soap opera, complete
with cliff-hangers, erotic intrigue and one
melodramatic improbability after another, all
of it conveyed with just the right colloquial
bounce…The whole book is clever and fun.”
Poetry and
Enlightenment
KRISTINE
LOUISE HAUGEN
“Haugen has built
her work, as she
fully acknowledges, on the magnificent biography
of Bentley that James Henry Monk published
in 1830, and it is praise enough to say that her
thorough and well-documented account supplements his without replacing it. The greatest
strength of Haugen’s book is its close attention
to the scholarly achievements of Bentley.”
—G. W. BOWERSOCK,
2011 3 line illus. 344 pp.
Cloth $39.95 / £29.95 ISBN 978-0-674-05871-2
Belknap 2011; 2009 688 pp.
Cloth $42.00 / £31.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03535-5
Paper $18.95 / £14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06012-8
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D IGITAL C ULTURES
A N A ESTHETIC
E DUC ATION IN
THE E RA OF
G LOBALIZATION
MILAD DOUEIHI
“Doueihi’s argument [is]
revelatory and important.
He presents the diversity
of digital practices and the
importance of digital literacy in an increasingly
complex textual environment. Moving beyond
basic functional literacy,
Doueihi asks how digitization configures a meta-literacy, ‘of what it means to be literate.’”
—TARA BRABAZON,
TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION
“By showing how modes of communication
and human relationships have changed since
its rise, [Doueihi] makes a persuasive case that
digital culture has broken free from print culture, which extends from the Gutenberg Bible
of the 1450s to the present. Instant response,
brevity, minimal spelling and grammar, novel
syntax and different modes of composition
have created new forms of literacy…Written in
the ‘old’ discursive format, Digital Cultures includes much to think about. The pace of
change is fast, but Doueihi’s insight is fresh.”
GEORGE ROUSSEAU, NATURE
2011 208 pp.
Cloth $19.95 / £14.95
ISBN
978-0-674-05524-7
GAYATRI
CHAKRAVORTY
SPIVAK
“The gathered texts
are a testament to a
fundamental faith in
the power of literature that is never less
than inspiring.”
“Spivak remains an indispensable leader and
guide in the exhilarating conceptual adventure
—the trip which, since the late sixties, we’ve
called theory. Aesthetic Education presents us
with lessons that she has learnt on the way.”
—SIMON DURING,
UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND
“This captivating collection of lectures delivered over the course of a quarter century asks
us to attend to the profoundly democratic possibilities of the imagination. Aesthetic education empowers us to apprehend and negotiate
what Spivak calls the double bind at the heart
of democracy.”
—ANGELA Y. DAVIS, UNIVERSITY OF
CALIFORNIA, SANTA CRUZ
Cloth $35.00 / £25.95 ISBN 978-0-674-05183-6
New in paperback
D ARKER
THAN
B LUE
On the Moral Economies of Black Atlantic Culture
PAUL GILROY
“If the moral force of Baldwin’s writing was fuelled by the solidarity of the
Civil Rights movement, Gilroy’s book is a warning of moral bankruptcy
creeping into contemporary U.S. black culture. According to Gilroy, commodities have replaced community, and the spirit of the freedom marches
has been overtaken by the roar of accessorized Hummers. This is not simply a curmudgeonly critique of contemporary culture, and Gilroy teases out
the reasons why the moral energy that galvanized the Civil Rights movement has been diluted by corporate American life in three penetrating and
exhilarating chapters.”
—DOUGLAS FIELD, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
“Provocative…Insightful…Raise[s] profound questions about race, democracy, and citizenship in
the age of Obama.”
—PENIEL E. JOSEPH, BOOKFORUM
Belknap / The W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures
2011; 2010 224 pp.
Paper $18.95 / £14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06023-4
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IN
THE
S HADOW
OF
D U B OIS
Afro-Modern Political Thought in America
ROBERT GOODING-WILLIAMS
★
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title
“[A] sustained and in-depth engagement with
the legacy of Du Bois’s thought, especially as it
pertains to questions of black political activism
and leadership…[Gooding-Williams] places
Du Bois as a generative figure in American political thought alongside the early modern and
Enlightenment stable of social-contract theorists such as Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau.”
—PENIEL E. JOSEPH, BOOKFORUM
“[Gooding-Williams] sets out to give
Du Bois’s writings the same sort of judicious
close reading that was on display in his earlier
book on Nietzsche's Zarathustra…By attending to Du Bois's relations to thinkers like
Weber, Gooding-Williams helpfully places this
American thinker against the background of
the education he received in Berlin.”
—KWAME ANTHONY APPIAH,
2011; 2009 368 pp.
Paper $18.95 / £14.95
ISBN
978-0-674-06024-1
OF
M EMORY
new
T HE P ROMISE
Childhood Recollection and Its Objects in
Literary Modernism
LORNA MARTENS
“In this brilliant, wide-ranging study of how
Proust, Rilke, and Benjamin construct childhood memories, Martens takes us from
Wordsworth’s cult of the child to the mysteries
of recollection in modernist fictions. With
lively erudition and exquisite precision, she
shows how inventiveness about times past has
its own revelatory energy and poetic truth.”
—MARIA TATAR, HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Cloth $35.00 / £25.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06146-0
C OMMONWEALTH
MICHAEL HARDT AND
ANTONIO NEGRI
“Commonwealth [is] the
latest book by Michael
Hardt and Antonio Negri,
whose Empire and Multitude have, arguably, been
the dominant works of political philosophy of the
new century…[It’s] the
much-anticipated final volume of the Empire trilogy.”
—ARTFORUM
“Commonwealth is a timely
contribution to our understanding of contemporary
capitalist relations and the
potential revolutionary
conditions they create…
Together Hardt and Negri’s
work is considered to be responsible for a resurgence
of interest in non-orthodox
Marxism and its political
manifestations. Commonwealth is the final part of a
trilogy that began with Empire in 2000, a book that
was published during the
emergence of the alterglobalization movement.
Multitude followed in
2004, developing the ideas
that had been introduced in
Empire, in particular the
concept of the multitude as
a new revolutionary subject. Commonwealth is a
worthy addition to the trilogy, expanding and clarifying on the understandings
in the previous books, but
perhaps more significantly grounding their
analysis within an extended discussion of ‘the
common.’”
—BERTIE RUSSELL AND ANDRE PUSEY,
RED PEPPER
Belknap 2011; 2009 448 pp.
Cloth $37.00 / £27.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03511-9
Paper $21.95 / £16.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06028-9
EMPIRE
MICHAEL HARDT AND ANTONIO NEGRI
2001; 2000 496 pp.
Paper $26.50 / £19.95 ISBN 978-0-674-00671-3
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R ELIGION
IN
H UMAN E VOLUTION
H AJJ
From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age
Journey to the Heart of Islam
ROBERT N. BELLAH
EDITED BY VENETIA PORTER
H A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice
The Hajj is the largest pilgrimage in the world
today and a sacred duty for all Muslims. With contributions from renowned experts, this book opens
out onto the full sweep of the Hajj: as a sacred path
walked by early Islamic devotees, as a sumptuous
site of worship under the care of sultans, and as an
expression of faith in the modern world.
“Of Bellah’s brilliance there can be no doubt. The
sheer amount this man knows about religion is
otherworldly…Bellah stands in the tradition of
such stalwarts of the sociological imagination as
Emile Durkheim and Max Weber. Only one word
is appropriate to characterize this book’s subject as
well as its substance, and that is ‘magisterial.’”
—ALAN WOLFE,
NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
Cloth $39.95 / £25.00 ISBN 978-0-674-06143-9
VARIETIES OF S ECULARISM
IN A S ECULAR A GE
EDITED BY MICHAEL WARNER, JONATHAN
VANANTWERPEN, AND CRAIG CALHOUN
“What does it mean to say that we live in a secular
age?” This apparently simple question opens into
the massive, provocative, and complex A Secular
Age, where Charles Taylor positions
secularism as a defining feature of
the modern world, not the mere absence of religion, and casts light on
the experience of transcendence that
scientistic explanations of the world
tend to neglect.
“[This book] will be crucial in
bringing the debate on the secular,
in all of its theoretical and practical
ramifications, to the next level.”
—HENT DE VRIES, AUTHOR OF
MINIMAL THEOLOGIES
2010 352 pp.
Cloth $45.00 / £33.95
ISBN 978-0-674-04857-7
Cloth $39.95 / NA ISBN 978-0-674-06218-4
E ARTHLY PARADISE
Myths and Philosophies
MILAD DOUEIHI
Translated by Jane Marie Todd
“Milad Doueihi’s beautiful book does not seek to
lift the mystery over earthly paradise. He shows,
with select erudition, how this history prior to history informs the foundations of modernity.”
—FABRICE HADJAJ, ART PRESS
2009 192 pp.
Cloth $42.00 / £31.95
ISBN
978-0-674-03285-9
S ECULARISM AND F REEDOM
OF C ONSCIENCE
JOCELYN MACLURE AND CHARLES TAYLOR
“This little book is a philosophical novella whose
greatest virtue is that it may actually be read by
both religious thinkers and academic philosophers—two audiences of slight interaction—
and perhaps even ignite a sustained dialogue
between them.”
—PHILIP S. GORSKI, YALE UNIVERSITY
2011 160 pp.
Cloth $24.95 / £18.95
ISBN
978-0-674-05865-1
B ENJAMIN ’ S - ABILITIES
WHAT HAPPENED AT
VATICAN II
JOHN W. O’MALLEY
H A Choice Outstanding Academic Title
H A Tablet Book of the Year
Belknap 2010; 2008 8 halftones,
1 line illus. 400 pp.
Paper $18.95 / £14.95
ISBN 978-0-674-04749-5
SAMUEL WEBER
★
★
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title
An Artforum Best Book of the Year
“Samuel Weber takes an innovative approach to
Walter Benjamin’s work…[He] opens up a fertile
avenue of interpretation by paying close attention
to a stylistic idiosyncrasy running through
Benjamin’s oeuvre.”
—ROSS BENJAMIN,
TIMES LITERARY
SUPPLEMENT
2010; 2008 376 pp.
Paper $19.95 / £14.95
ISBN 978-0-674-04606-1
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T HE B EAR
T HE W ASHINGTON H AGGADAH
History of a Fallen King
BY JOEL BEN SIMEON
MICHEL PASTOUREAU
Translated by David Stern
Introduction by David Stern and
Katrin Kogman-Appel
Translated by George Holoch
“The scholarship displayed in this groundbreaking
study is the best kind: deep, broad, imaginative.
Medievalist Pastoureau takes on the history of the
bear, that exceptional animal once said to most
resemble man. Once king of the beasts in the
West, at times even god, the bear was hunted
down in Europe from the time of Charlemagne
(d. 814) and its image systematically degraded. By
the end of the 12th century, the bear’s place as
king of the beasts had been usurped by the lion.
Henceforth the bear was largely a figure of
ridicule. How did this happen? What purposes did
the change serve? Pastoureau uses evidence from
history, textual analysis, heraldry, anthropology,
and iconography to produce an eclectic study that
not only reads like a dream but opens avenues for
future research.”
—DAVID KEYMER, LIBRARY JOURNAL
Cloth $29.95 / £22.95 ISBN 978-0-674-04782-2
“This beautifully produced book is a detailed facsimile of a 500-year-old haggadah in the collection
of the Library of Congress, which explains the
name…[Joel ben Simeon] is described by David
Stern, in the introduction to this edition, as one of
the most important and prolific scribes and illustrators in the history of the Jewish book…More
powerful still, however, are the illustrations that
Joel ben Simeon added to the margins of the text.”
—ADAM KIRSCH, TABLET MAGAZINE
“A reasonably priced, attractively presented and
scholarly facsimile of one of the treasures of the art
of the illuminated Hebrew manuscript in its
golden period.”
—YERACHMIEL RUBIN, JEWISH TRIBUNE
Belknap / Library of Congress
2011 38-page color facsimile, 11 color illus. 248 pp.
Cloth $39.95 / £29.95 ISBN 978-0-674-05117-1
New
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F ACES OF
P ERFECT E BONY
T HE P ROGRAM E RA
Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing
MARK M C GURL
Encountering Atlantic Slavery in
Imperial Britain
★
CATHERINE MOLINEUX
Truman Capote Award
“McGurl’s book is not a history of creative-writing
programs. It’s a history of twentieth-century fiction, in which the work of American writers from
Thomas Wolfe to Bharati Mukherjee is read as reflections of, and reflections on, the educational
system through which so many writers now
pass…The Program Era is an impressive and
imaginative book.”
—LOUIS MENAND, NEW YORKER
“An intelligent, persuasive and thought-provoking
book; by shifting the focus away from individual
writers towards the institutions that nurtured (or
inhibited) them, McGurl breaks new critical
ground.”
—PATRICK LANGLEY,
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
“Offers an important and original
analysis of local and popular representations of empire in Britain.
It is the first account to present a
sustained analysis of how images
of white mastery and black servitude were mobilized to help
Britons think about themselves in
a metropolitan context. This book
will make a major contribution to
British imperial history, Atlantic
history and culture, the history of
racialization and slavery, and the
histories of art and visual culture.”
—K. DIAN KRIZ,
BROWN UNIVERSITY
2011; 2009 9 halftones, 13 line illus. 480 pp.
Paper $19.95 / £14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06209-2
Harvard Historical Studies
2012 17 color illus., 69 halftones
374 pp. Cloth $49.95 / £36.95
ISBN 978-0-674-05008-2
THE WORK OF ART IN THE AGE
OF ITS TECHNOLOGICAL
REPRODUCIBILITY, AND OTHER
WRITINGS ON MEDIA
WALTER BENJAMIN
Edited by Michael W. Jennings,
Brigid Doherty, and Thomas Y. Levin
Belknap 2008 22 halftones 448 pp.
Paper $18.95 / £14.95
ISBN 978-0-674-02445-8
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W HAT W AS A FRIC AN
A MERIC AN
L ITERATURE ?
O N L EAVING
KENNETH W. WARREN
“Branka Arsic’s On Leaving: A Reading in
Emerson is an intellectual feast…Arsic calls
herself an ‘archaeologist of Emerson’s thinking,’ no easy task considering not just the
amount of Emerson’s writing (the journals
alone run to sixteen volumes) but its relentless
idiosyncrasy…Arsic makes Emerson into one
of the great nineteenth-century moderns…It is
no exaggeration to say that On Leaving will
take its place among the benchmarks of Emerson scholarship of the past hundred years…
One can’t help but be captivated by Arsic’s archaeology. And even if we remain (alertly, admiringly) skeptical about the idea of winding
Emerson’s unruly intelligence around a single
idea, that doesn’t make this book any less fun
to read or any less essential.”
—PAUL GRIMSTAD, BOOKFORUM
“A slight but forceful text with
a pugnacious and elegantly
presented thesis.”
“Is the idea that sustains the
possibility of an African
American literature today the
belief that the welfare of the
race as a whole depends on
the success of black writers
and those who are depicted in
their texts, as Ken Warren suggests in this provocative new
book? In compelling close
readings of novels from
George Schuyler’s Black No
More to Michael Thomas’s
Man Gone Down and in comprehensive engagements with
major tendencies in literary
criticism, What Was African
American Literature? punctures contemporary assumptions about the role of black
literature since the end of the
Jim Crow regime that, Warren
argues, provoked the literature’s emergence in the first
place.”
—WERNER SOLLORS,
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
The W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures
2011 192 pp.
Cloth $22.95 / £16.95
ISBN 978-0-674-04922-2
A Reading in Emerson
BRANKA ARSIC
2010 404 pp.
Cloth $49.95 / £36.95
ISBN
978-0-674-05073-0
D O M ETAPHORS D REAM
OF L ITERAL S LEEP ?
A Science-Fictional Theory of Representation
SEO-YOUNG CHU
“Chu has produced a volume that is clever,
witty, erudite, impeccably thorough in its reference to both primary and secondary sources,
and written in a refreshingly nonformulaic yet
unmistakably scholarly tone.”
—D. C. MAUS, CHOICE
2011 316 pp.
Cloth $39.95 / £29.95
L AW
AND
ISBN
978-0-674-05517-9
L ITERATURE
Third Edition
D ISTURBING
THE P EACE
RICHARD A. POSNER
Black Culture and the Police
Power after Slavery
BRYAN WAGNER
“An audacious and pathbreaking history of legal terror…If the police power
criminalized blacks in the
New South, the invention of the vernacular
tradition sugared over this onslaught of violence. Wagner exposes the fantasy of folklore.
After Disturbing the Peace, it will be impossible to hear Leadbelly or read Uncle Remus
without knowing what it means to market emphatic inequality as universal culture.”
“This complex, superbly argued book remains
a remarkable achievement and is made even
more useful in this new edition. Richard Posner knows how much legal thinking can profit
from the study of literary traditions and classic
works of fiction. He also is acutely aware of
the limits on the application of literary practice
to the law. The bracing manner in which he
debunks the sentimental notion that literature
and—worse—literary theory are law’s salvation is a pleasure to read.”
—DENIS DUTTON, EDITOR,
PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE
2009 1 table 592 pp.
Paper $26.50 / £19.95 OISC
ISBN 978-0-674-03246-0
—COLIN DAYAN, AUTHOR OF THE
STORY OF CRUEL AND UNUSUAL
Cloth $37.00 / £27.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03508-9
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L ABORS OF I NNOCENCE IN
E ARLY M ODERN E NGLAND
JOANNA PICCIOTTO
“[Picciotto] offers real insights into many
literati from Abraham Cowley and Andrew
Marvell at the beginning of the chosen period
to Daniel Defoe, Joseph Addison, and Celia
Fiennes at the end. Particularly valuable are
her accounts of the rhetorical strategies of selfpresentation employed by [Robert] Hooke,
[Robert] Boyle, and Mr. Spectator…An important resource for philosophy of science as
well as English literature.”
—E. D. HILL, CHOICE
2010 880 pp.
Cloth $49.95 / £36.95
T HE C OLORS
ISBN
OF
978-0-674-04906-2
Z ION
Blacks, Jews, and Irish from 1845 to 1945
GEORGE BORNSTEIN
“The book is a fascinating intellectual experiment…In our multiethnic Barack Obama age,
The Colors of Zion holds deep implications for
where multiculturalism has been and where it
could go.”
—ELISSA LERNER, NEW YORKER ONLINE
Cloth $27.95 / £20.95 ISBN 978-0-674-05701-2
O UR S OUTH
Geographic Fantasy and the Rise of
National Literature
JENNIFER RAE GREESON
★
C. Hugh Holman Award, Society for the
Study of Southern Literature
“This is one of the most insightful works of
Southern literary and intellectual history of the
past two decades— and its significance transcends the U.S. South.”
—FRED HOBSON, UNIVERSITY OF
NORTH CAROLINA
2010 18 halftones, 3 maps 368 pp.
Cloth $39.95 / £29.95 ISBN 978-0-674-02428-1
T HINKING
WITH
W HITEHEAD
A Free and Wild Creation
of Concepts
ISABELLE STENGERS
Translated by Michael Chase
Foreword by Bruno Latour
“Whitehead’s is the first philosophy to take
Darwin’s discoveries as seriously as those of
Newton or Einstein…In this way Whitehead
undoes what Kant has done.”
T HE E COLOGIC AL
T HOUGHT
TIMOTHY MORTON
“By suggesting imaginative
ways to resolve other crises,
could humanities scholars stave
off the crisis engulfing their
own subjects? Morton proposes
a future in which the venerable
ideas of ‘nature’ and ‘environment’ are so much detritus,
useless for addressing a looming ecological catastrophe. His
book exemplifies the ‘serious’"
humanities scholarship he
makes a plea for. My head’s
still spinning.”
—NOEL CASTREE,
TIMES HIGHER
EDUCATION
2012; 2010 184 pp.
Cloth $39.95 / £29.95
ISBN 978-0-674-04920-8
Paper $19.95 / £14.95
ISBN 978-0-674-06422-5
E COLOGY
N ATURE
WITHOUT
Rethinking Environmental
Aesthetics
TIMOTHY MORTON
“Drawing on writers from
Adorno to Zizek, and considering literature and art from the
18th century to the present,
Morton offers a complex,
important, and often playful
argument that lays the groundwork for new directions in
ecocriticism.”
—G. D. MACDONALD,
CHOICE
2009; 2007 264 pp.
Paper $24.50 / £18.95
ISBN 978-0-674-03485-3
—BRUNO LATOUR
2011 554 pp.
Cloth $49.95 / £36.95
ISBN
978-0-674-04803-4
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new in paperback
V OICE
K ANT
V ISION
AND
AND
M ILTON
SANFORD BUDICK
A Guide to Writing History and
Other Serious Nonfiction
★
STEPHEN J. PYNE
“Kant and Milton is an astonishing and unusual book. At this border between poetry and
philosophy, Budick recognizes Kant’s acknowledged commitment to storytelling, and his
book is most remarkable for its own distinct
kind of storytelling. Ultimately, the story it
tells is not of poetry or philosophy but rather
of a unified endeavor to forge and discover the
parameters of moral freedom.”
—MARSHALL GROSSMAN,
“The book is everything the author says a
work of nonfiction ought to be: well written,
clearly thought out, and full of specific examples (of what to do and what not to do). An
essential tool for anyone who is attempting to
write nonfiction, or even just thinking
about it.”
—DAVID PITT, BOOKLIST
2011; 2009 3 line illus. 336 pp.
Paper $19.95 / £14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06042-5
James Holly Hanford Award,
Milton Society of America
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND
2010 352 pp. Cloth $49.95 / £36.95
ISBN 978-0-674-05005-1
B IOGRAPHY
A Brief History
NIGEL HAMILTON
“A rich and provocative meditation on the history of biography.”
HOW TO DO BIOGRAPHY
A Primer
NIGEL HAMILTON
2008 400 pp.
Cloth $22.95 / £16.95 ISBN 978-0-674-02796-1
—SCOTT STOSSEL,
“Entertaining history…There
is much to glean from this
brisk examination of our love
affair with individuality.”
—CRAIG TAYLOR,
FINANCIAL TIMES
2010; 2007 20 halftones 360 pp.
Paper $17.00 / £12.95
ISBN 978-0-674-03471-6
H ADRIAN
Empire and Conflict
THORSTEN OPPER
“Bring[s] together artifacts from around the world, including stunning sculptures, bronzes, coins, mosaics, and fine interpretive texts about the man who was
emperor of Rome from 117 CE to 138 CE….[A] striking, beautifully illustrated
book.”
—JOAN W. GARTLAND, LIBRARY JOURNAL
2010; 2008 200 color illus.
224 pp.
Paper $21.95 / NA
ISBN 978-0-674-05742-5
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W ANDERING S OUL
S AMUEL J OHNSON
The Dybbuk’s Creator, S. An-sky
A Biography
GABRIELLA SAFRAN
PETER MARTIN
“Gabriella Safran’s Wandering Soul, the first fulllength English biography of An-sky, is an exhaustively researched and fascinating book that will
challenge readers’ preconceptions of what it once
meant to be Jewish in Europe…[Safran is] an enchanting storyteller and painstakingly objective
historian…[A] magisterial biography.”
★
Runner-up, Atlantic Books of
the Year
★
Kansas City Star Top 10
Notable Book of the Year
—DARA HORN, COMMENTARY
“Gabriella Safran has written an erudite biography
of the Yiddish radical, Russian revolutionary,
writer, ethnographer, and playwright S. Ansky…
He was a radical revolutionary who held on to the
past, a modernist who longed for anonymity while
assuming multiple identities; a romantic who
dreamed of love and marriage while criticizing
these institutions as bourgeois and decadent; a
lover of men who could find no acceptable place
within himself or in the world to express this love.
Gabriella Safran has written an important book
about the life of a courageous spirit.”
—IRENE JAVORS,
GAY AND LESBIAN REVIEW WORLDWIDE
2010 26 halftones, 1 map 392 pp.
Cloth $29.95 / £22.95 ISBN 978-0-674-05570-4
“Modern biographers are aware
of the competition. They have
to write a first-rate book about
Johnson or hear from critics that
they’ve foolishly entered the
wrong league. And a number of
scholars, notably Paul Fussell
and W. Jackson Bate, have given
us remarkable portraits. They’re
now joined by Peter Martin,
whose Samuel Johnson: A Biography is a model of its kind: a
deeply felt, beautifully written
account of a personality about
whom we cannot know
enough.”
—GEORGE SIM JOHNSTON,
WALL STREET JOURNAL
Belknap 2010; 2008 34 halftones,
2 maps 640 pp.
Paper $19.95 / NA
ISBN 978-0-674-05737-1
A RTHUR M ILLER
CHRISTOPHER BIGSBY
New in paperback
★
Finalist, George Freedley Memorial Award,
Theatre Library Association
S AMUEL J OHNSON
★
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
“Thanks to Bigsby’s research, particularly into
previously unseen material, his account of Miller
trying to hang on to his soul in midcentury America shows that he was large not least in his contradictions…What the book makes newly clear,
though, is how much of Miller’s work reflects his
own personal struggles.”
—JEREMY MCCARTER,
2010; 2009 44 halftones 776 pp.
Paper $19.95 / USA ISBN 978-0-674-05708-1
Selected Writings, A Tercentenary
Celebration
SAMUEL JOHNSON
Edited by Peter Martin
“We see in [Johnson’s] essays
the tiny brushwork of brilliant
self-portraiture; we hear the
rhythm of moral seriousness,
the sound of contemplation as it
engages with the questions of
how to live and how to manage
in the face of death. But most of
all we feel the reach of an author—a writer attempting to
reach past self-doubt, poverty,
cant, and orthodoxy, in order to
assert the power of individual
authorship and free thinking in the face of more
nebulous authorities. Samuel Johnson may have
failed often enough to be personable, but he nevertheless freed subjectivity… and brought both
dignity and self-sufficiency to the writing game,
allowing authors to be who they chose to be, unshackled from patronage and the requirement to
please great men.”
—ANDREW O’HAGAN,
Belknap 2011; 2009 536 pp.
Paper $22.95 / £16.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06034-0
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T HE C OLLECTED P ROSE
R OBERT F ROST
OF
ROBERT FROST
New
C OLLECTED W ORKS OF
R ALPH W ALDO E MERSON
Edited by Mark Richardson
Volume IX: Poems: A Variorum Edition
“The fullest critical edition of Frost’s prose
ever published, including everything ‘Frost is
known to have prepared for print, major and
minor items alike’…Examples of his wit and
insight abound.”
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
—RON CHARLES,
WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD
Belknap 2010; 2008 416 pp.
Paper $21.00 / £15.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03467-9
T HE N OTEBOOKS
R OBERT F ROST
OF
ROBERT FROST
Edited by Robert Faggen
“Seven hundred pages of wisdom and
prophecy, raving and rant, expertly edited
and annotated by Robert Faggen.”
—CHRISTOPHER BENFEY,
NEW REPUBLIC
“Offers unprecedented insight into the workings of a superlative poetic intelligence, and reveals, beneath the calm, assured surface of
Frost’s verse, a searching mind troubled and
dazzled by the chaos of modern life.”
—LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS
Belknap 2010; 2007 5 halftones 848 pp.
Paper $21.00 / £15.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03466-2
Edited by Albert J. von Frank and
Thomas Wortham
At the time of his death in 1882, Ralph Waldo
Emerson was counted among the greatest poets
in nineteenth-century America. This variorum
edition of all the poems published during his
lifetime offers the reader the opportunity to situate Emerson’s poetic achievement alongside
his celebrated essays and to consider their interrelationship.
Belknap 2011 1 halftone 864 pp.
Cloth $95.00 / £70.95 ISBN 978-0-674-04915-4
VOLUME VIII: LETTERS AND SOCIAL AIMS
Cloth $100.00 / £74.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03560-7
VOLUME VII: SOCIETY AND SOLITUDE
Cloth $97.50 / £72.95 ISBN 978-0-674-02627-8
D IVAGATIONS
STÉPHANE MALLARMÉ
Translated by Barbara Johnson
“[A] lustrous new English translation…I don’t
know whether I’ve expressed excitedly or lucidly enough my sense of this translation’s importance.”
—WAYNE KOESTENBAUM, BOOKFORUM
Belknap 2009; 2007 312 pp.
Paper $20.00 / £14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03240-8
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&
Poets
New
F EELING B ACKWARD
F RAMING
M USLIMS
Loss and the Politics of Queer History
Stereotyping and
Representation after
9/11
PETER MOREY
AND AMINA YAQIN
“Groundbreaking…
Drawing on their diverse backgrounds in
English and Urdu
literary and cultural
studies, Morey and
Yaqin examine…
[how] veils, beards,
men at prayer, and
minarets stand in for
Muslims in all their
heterogeneity and
complexity…[An]
illuminating work.”
—CLAIRE
CHAMBERS,
TIMES HIGHER
EDUCATION
2011 256 pp. Cloth $27.95 / £20.95
978-0-674-04852-2
ISBN
ON
THE
O RIGIN
OF
S TORIES
Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction
HEATHER LOVE
“Brilliant…Love looks fearlessly at literature
from the past in which circumstances related
to gender tend to produce victims rather than
heroines. She establishes that our literature has
been affected by homophobia and demands
that we consider the implications of this fact.”
—MARTHA MILLER, GAY AND LESBIAN
REVIEW WORLDWIDE
2009; 2007 206 pp.
Paper $16.95 / £12.95
ISBN
978-0-674-03239-2
New in paperback
C ONTINENTAL D IVIDE
Heidegger, Cassirer, Davos
PETER E. GORDON
H Jacques Barzun Prize
“[An] extraordinary book…Each of its pages
of sustained philosophical explication excites
and astonishes, and in the process teaches us
new ways of thinking about the history of
ideas…After [Gordon’s] brilliant reading, we
can no longer simply ascribe Heidegger’s and
Cassirer’s differences to inimical philosophies
…Gordon’s manifesto will resonate with historians of my generation.”
—DAVID NIRENBERG, NEW REPUBLIC
BRIAN BOYD
H A New Zealand Listener Best Book of the Year
“No one thinks on this scale anymore. Bent to
the cultivation of shrinking plots of expertise,
enlivened by the occasional boundary squabble, we are ill-accustomed to broad new theories even from Young Turks, let alone
established critics. Ambition is in itself cause
for celebration…Boyd’s treatment is engrossing, as elegant in the writing as the reasoning.
It offers a new insight into the question of why
some works [of fiction] speak to audiences
across cultures and generations.”
—LAURA DIETZ,
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
“A challenging piece of critical theory, which
might well herald the return to Nature of
which cultural criticism is in such sore need.”
—TERRY EAGLETON,
LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS
“Boyd forcefully and elegantly supports his
view that art is not simply pleasurable for humans but crucial to our survival.”
—BARBARA FISHER, BOSTON GLOBE
Belknap 2010; 2009 14 halftones 560 pp.
Paper $19.95 / £14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-05711-1
“Provides the definitive narrative and analysis
of the Davos incident, its background, its context and its aftermath…
[Gordon] has a masterly
understanding of the
philosophy.”
—TAYLOR CARMAN,
TIMES LITERARY
SUPPLEMENT
2012; 2010 1 halftone 448 pp.
Paper $21.95 / £16.95
ISBN 978-0-674-06417-1
SEXUAL FLUIDITY
Understanding Women’s
Love and Desire
LISA M. DIAMOND
H Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and
Transgender Issues
Distinguished Book Award,
American Psychological
Association
H International Association for
Relationship Research Book
Award
H Finalist, Independent Publisher
Book Award, Gay/Lesbian
Category
2009; 2008 352 pp.
Paper $19.00 / £14.95
ISBN 978-0-674-03226-2
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EMILY DICKINSON’S HERBARIUM
A Facsimile Edition
EMILY DICKINSON
Introduction by Richard B. Sewall
Foreword by Leslie A. Morris
Preface by Judith Farr
Appendix by Ray Angelo
Cloth $150.00 / £111.95 ISBN 978-0-674-02302-4
THE GARDENS OF EMILY DICKINSON
JUDITH FARR
with a chapter by Louise Carter
H Rose Mary Crawshay Prize of the British Academy
2005; 2004 24 color illus., 12 tritone illus. 368 pp.
Paper $25.00 / £18.95 ISBN 978-0-674-01829-7
ONE WRITER’S BEGINNINGS
EUDORA WELTY
H New York Times Bestseller
H American Book Award Nominee, Nonfiction
The William E. Massey Sr. Lectures in the History of
American Civilization 2004; 1995; 1984
Paper $16.50 / £12.95 ISBN 978-0-674-63927-0
CD-audio $31.00 / £22.95 ISBN 978-0-674-01579-1
THE POEMS OF EMILY DICKINSON
Reading Edition
EMILY DICKINSON
Edited by R. W. Franklin
H R. W. Franklin is Recipient of the Emily Dickinson
International Society’s Award for Outstanding
Contribution
H Umhoefer Prize for Achievement in Humanities
Belknap 2005; 1999 696 pp.
Paper $22.00 / £16.95 ISBN 978-0-674-01824-2
New — the art in detail series
PACIFIC A RT
IN
D ETAIL
JENNY NEWELL
Pacific Art in Detail introduces the riches of Oceanic art through sumptuous images and close-ups. Using carefully selected pieces from the worldrenowned Oceanic collection at the British Museum to illustrate major
themes, this book evokes the hand and eye of accomplished artists and craft
workers, past and present.
Art in Detail 2011 150 color illus. 128 pp.
Cloth $22.95 / NA ISBN 978-0-674-05578-0
A FRIC AN A RT
IN
D ETAIL
CHRIS SPRING
This is a brilliantly colorful and detailed look at the myriad materials and
genres, forms and meanings, cultural contexts and expressions that comprise
artistic traditions across this vast and varied continent.
2009 150 color illus. 144 pp. Cloth $22.95 / NA
A NCIENT A MERIC AN A RT
IN
ISBN
978-0-674-03622-2
D ETAIL
COLIN MCEWAN
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detaiL
ISBN
978-0-674-03315-3
series
N EAR A NDERSONVILLE
New
A L EVEL P LAYING F IELD
Winslow Homer’s Civil War
African American Athletes and the
Republic of Sports
PETER H. WOOD
GERALD L. EARLY
“The intersection of race and sports is one of the
most dangerous in American culture…Perhaps
only a steady, steely academic like Gerald L. Early
can take the turn wide open, pencil to the metal,
without spinning out. Early has tricky moves and
a way of bouncing off the wall of other writers’
theses. As a boxer, he’d be a counter-puncher. As
a hockey player, he’d be a blind-side hip checker…
A Level Playing Field: African American Athletes
and the Republic of Sports [is] a provocative and
lively collection of lectures and essays. It’s a welcome addition to the elite sports shelf…[Early]
displays the grandiosity of the critic and the
passion of the fan.”
—ROBERT LIPSYTE,
“[A] powerful book…Early illuminates in great
detail the inner collisions of African-American athletes as they find their way in the (mostly white)
public sphere. His is a valiant—and largely successful—attempt to explain what it’s like to be an
African-American athlete today…A Level Playing
Field makes an excellent template from which to
work when we want to look beyond the platitudes
that mark the dialogue about race and sport. But
it also reminds us how far we’ve come.”
—DOUG GLANVILLE,
WALL STREET JOURNAL
2011 288 pp.
Cloth $25.95 / £19.95
ISBN
978-0-674-05098-3
New
T HE
H EDGEHOG ,
THE F OX , AND
THE M AGISTER ’ S
P OX
Mending the Gap
between Science and
the Humanities
STEPHEN JAY
GOULD
“A fitting tribute to
his career, as it combines, in both style and substance, the different themes of his life’s work.
Blending genuine literary talents with impeccable
scientific credentials, Gould crafts an elegant entreaty for scientists and scholars to spend less time
complaining about each other and more time
combining their considerable resources. We need
both the fox and the hedgehog in any intellectual
menagerie—the persistent pluralist.”
—ALAN C. HUTCHINSON, GLOBE AND MAIL
Belknap 2011 36 halftones, 4 line illus. 288 pp.
Paper $17.95 / CAOBE
ISBN 978-0-674-06166-8
“In his engrossing book by the
same name, Wood argues that
[Homer’s] Near Andersonville
‘explores the question’ of
‘What happens…if any part of
the Civil War drama is viewed
explicitly from the vantage
point of the enslaved.’ Wood
offers an illuminating, if at
times speculative, reading of
the image…His careful reconstruction of the painting’s
provenance, and his account of
the discovery of the painting’s
title, are every bit as rewarding
as his careful analysis of the
visual symbolism of the painting itself.”
—LAUREN WINNER,
BOOKS & CULTURE
The Nathan I. Huggins Lectures
152 pp. Cloth $18.95 / £14.95
ISBN 978-0-674-05320-5
A DVERTISING E MPIRE
Race and Visual Culture in
Imperial Germany
DAVID CIARLO
“Ciarlo has written an extremely smart, provocative
book linking the rise of German modern advertising and
aesthetics with imperialism
and racism at the fin-de-siècle…Throughout a profusely and richly
illustrated text, Ciarlo
concentrates on one
aspect of German advertising, namely, the
culture of race,
through a discussion
of images that were
reproduced in a myriad of venues from
newspapers, magazines,
posters, store windows,
matchbooks, and the sides of
trams and buses, to tins and boxes.
One forgets that the massive duplication of images is only about 100 years
old; the Germans excelled at both the industrial and artistic techniques that produced new forms of advertising.”
—M. DESHMUKH, CHOICE
Harvard Historical Studies
462 pp. Cloth $49.95 / £36.95
ISBN 978-0-674-05006-8
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New
New
G IOTTO
AND
H IS P UBLICS
F LORENCE
AND
B AGHDAD
Three Paradigms of Patronage
Renaissance Art and Arab Science
JULIAN GARDNER
HANS BELTING
“The expertise of distinguished scholar Julian
Gardner reveals itself in every page of this small
volume…Gardner has numerous insights about
content, patronage, and historical background,
and he is especially sensitive to the artistic expression of Franciscan values and concerns. His
characterization of the absence of minoritas, or
Franciscan humility, in the paintings in Assisi
and Florence seems particularly apt. His essays
lead readers to look at the paintings anew—both
the familiar images, such as the Bardi Chapel
frescoes, and the often-overlooked Assisi
allegories.”
—J. I. MILLER, CHOICE
Translated by Deborah Lucas Schneider
The Bernard Berenson Lectures on the Italian Renaissance
Delivered at Villa I Tatti
2011 13 color illus., 3 maps 256 pp.
Cloth $35.00 / £25.95 ISBN 978-0-674-05080-8
New
T HE E ARLY R ENAISSANCE
V ERNACULAR C ULTURE
AND
“It is hard to do justice to the brilliance and
complexity of this book, which provides no less
than a complete re-evaluation of the origins of
perspective in Western art. Hans Belting, an internationally recognized authority on the theory
of art from Hieronymus Bosch to Marcel
Duchamp, argues that the scientific and artistic
genesis of linear perspective did not come out of
the Florence of Giotto and Brunelleschi as we
are usually told by art historians, but instead
first emerged in eleventh-century Baghdad in
the work of Ibn al-Haytham (965–1040), a
mathematician born in Basra who became
known in the West as Alhazen, ‘the Arab
Archimedes’…Florence and Baghdad reads like a
cross-cultural Ways of Seeing: it is about art and
science, painting and mathematics, politics and
religion, hermeneutics and phenomenology.
Ultimately it is the book of a very fine scholar
learning to think across cultures.”
—JERRY BROTTON, LITERARY REVIEW
Belknap 2011 40 color illus., 71 halftones 312 pp.
Cloth $39.95 / £25.00 ISBN 978-0-674-05004-4
CHARLES DEMPSEY
Why do the paintings and poetry of the Italian
Renaissance—a celebration of classical antiquity—also depict the Florentine countryside populated with figures dressed in contemporary silk
robes and fleur-de-lys crowns? Charles Dempsey
argues that a fusion of classical form with
contemporary content was the defining
characteristic of the period.
The Bernard Berenson Lectures on the Italian
Renaissance Delivered at Villa I Tatti
Cloth $39.95 / £29.95 ISBN 978-0-674-04952-9
T HE C ONSOLATION
OF P HILOSOPHY
S ASSETTA
The Borgo San Sepolcro Altarpiece
EDITED BY MACHTELT ISRAËLS
“The altarpiece [Sassetta} made for the Franciscan church in the town of Borgo San Sepolcro
…is now the subject of a beautiful new study in
two volumes…It is one of the most comprehensive monographs ever written on a single work
of Renaissance painting.”
—ANDREW BUTTERFIELD,
Villa I Tatti 2009 400 color illus., 250 halftones
624 pp. Cloth $120.00 / £83.95 ONL
ISBN 978-0-674-03523-2
BOETHIUS
Introduction by Seth Lerer
★
A Books & Culture Book of the Year
“A springboard for personal reflection
and a source of literate pleasure.”
—STEVEN CHABOT, LIBRARY JOURNAL
2010; 2008 208 pp.
Paper $14.95 / £11.95
ISBN
978-0-674-04835-5
O UT
OF
ATHENS
The New Ancient Greeks
PAGE D U BOIS
“DuBois calls on classical specialists to be tolerant of the inadequate grasp ‘crucial, influential,
contemporary theorists’ may have of ancient languages and technical scholarship, and to be open
to their perspectives on the past, including their
productive misreadings.”
—TOM PALAIMA,
TIMES HIGHER
EDUCATION
2012; 2010 256 pp.
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Evolutionary Thinking and
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ANDREW F. JONES
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developmental thinking in modern China is destined to travel far beyond Chinese studies. His
imaginative negotiation of the traffic between evolutionary thought and narrative experiments in
late Qing and Republican China—with the legendary figure of Lu Xun at the center of his analysis—will speak to larger questions of civilization
and belatedness that have typically marked debates
on modernity outside of the ‘normative’ West.”
—DIPESH CHAKRABARTY,
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
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studies.”
—DAVID DER-WEI WANG,
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
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—THEODORE HUTERS, UNIVERSITY OF
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T HE G REAT W ALL
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CARLOS ROJAS
Carlos Rojas presents a
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historical and political
significance of one of the
world’s most recognizable
monuments. Although the
splendor of the Great Wall has become virtually synonymous with its vast size, the structure’s
conceptual coherence is actually grounded on the
tenuous and ephemeral stories we tell about it.
These stories give life to the Wall and help secure its
hold on our collective imagination, while at the
same time permitting it to constantly reinvent itself
in accordance with the needs of each new era.
S OUND AND S CRIPT
C HINESE D IASPORA
IN
JING TSU
“A fascinating inquiry into the institutionalization
and dissemination of modern Chinese language
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of modern Chinese have constituted a space where
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Commercial Culture
JING WANG
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through which to scrutinize this tension between
Eastern and Western approaches to the market…
Her book is a thoroughly enjoyable and well-written tour d’horizon of branding and advertising
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—JOHN FEFFER, THE NATION
2010; 2008 12 halftones, 8 tables 432 pp.
Paper $18.95 / £14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-04708-2
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THE PIONEERS
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER
Introduction by Robert Daly
2011 576 pp. Paper $8.95 / £6.95
ISBN 978-0-674-05765-4
THE BLITHEDALE ROMANCE
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
Introduction by Robert S. Levine
2010 304 pp. Paper $9.95 / £7.95
ISBN 978-0-674-05021-1
SELECTED STORIES
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
Introduction by Brenda Wineapple
2011 384 pp. Paper $9.95 / £7.95
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THE WORKS OF
ANNE BRADSTREET
ANNE BRADSTREET
Edited by Jeannine Hensley
Foreword by Adrienne Rich
2010 384 pp. Paper $16.95 / £12.95
ISBN 978-0-674-05027-3
HOW THE OTHER HALF LIVES
Studies among the Tenements of New York
JACOB A. RIIS
Edited by Sam Bass Warner, Jr.
Introduction by Alan Trachtenberg
2010 33 halftones, 13 line illus., 2 tables
368 pp. Paper $12.95 / £9.95
ISBN 978-0-674-04932-1
THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE
STEPHEN CRANE
Edited by Paul Sorrentino
2009 192 pp. Paper $8.50 / £6.95
ISBN 978-0-674-03399-3
NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF
FREDERICK DOUGLASS
An American Slave, Written by Himself
FREDERICK DOUGLASS
Introduction by Robert B. Stepto
2009 176 pp. Paper $8.50 / £6.95
ISBN 978-0-674-03401-3
JIM CROW, AMERICAN
Selected Songs and Plays
T. D. RICE
Edited by W. T. Lhamon, Jr.
2009 224 pp. Paper $16.00 / £11.95
ISBN 978-0-674-03593-5
THE COMMON LAW
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
Introduction by G. Edward White
G. Edward White’s Introduction: 2009 Exemplary
Writing Award, The Green Bag
2009 448 pp. Paper $14.00 / £10.95
ISBN 978-0-674-03402-0
THE FEDERALIST
ALEXANDER HAMILTON, JAMES MADISON, AND
JOHN JAY
Introduction by Cass R. Sunstein
2009 656 pp. Paper $16.00 / £11.95
ISBN 978-0-674-03573-7
UNCLE TOM’S CABIN
Or, Life Among the Lowly
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE
Introduction by David Bromwich
2009 624 pp. Paper $9.50 / £7.95
ISBN 978-0-674-03407-5
COMMON SENSE
THOMAS PAINE
Introduction by Alan Taylor
2010 2 tables 112 pp. Paper $7.95 / £5.95
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THE HOUSE OF THE
SEVEN GABLES
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
Introduction by Denis Donoghue
2009 368 pp. Paper $10.50 / £7.95
ISBN 978-0-674-03575-1
THE SCARLET LETTER
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
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2009 336 pp. Paper $10.50 / £7.95
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INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF
A SLAVE GIRL
Written by Herself
HARRIET A. JACOBS
Edited by Jean Fagan Yellin
Contributions by John S. Jacobs
2009 13 halftones, 1 line illus., 2 maps 496 pp.
Paper $18.00 / £13.95
ISBN 978-0-674-03583-6
THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER
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2011 512 pp. Paper $10.95 / £8.95
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AUDUBON: EARLY DRAWINGS
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H Printing Industries of New England Pinnacle Award
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116 color illus. 288 pp.
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183 color illus. 232 pp.
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A Journey with the Sufis of the Indus
FRANCESCO PELLIZZI
Essays by Ali S. Asani, Carl W. Ernst, and
Kamil Khan Mumtaz
2011 374 pp. 200 black-and-white illus.
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M AKING D EAD B IRDS
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ROBERT GARDNER
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2008 160 pp. 30 color photographs, 35 quadtones
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H UMAN D OCUMENTS
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ROBERT GARDNER
Edited by Charles Warren
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“In nearly 100 images spanning geographies
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2009 128 pp. 96 quadtones
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2010 296 pp. 300 color illus.
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M ICHAEL R OCKEFELLER
New Guinea Photographs, 1961
KEVIN BUBRISKI
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—BLACK & WHITE
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2007 96 pp.
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WHY LYRICS LAST: Evolution,
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BRIAN BOYD
2012 236 pp.
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STRANGER MAGIC: Charmed
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MARINA WARNER
H A Times Literary Supplement and
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2012 21 color illus., map, 3 tables
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THE CRIMES OF ELAGABALUS:
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MARTIJN ICKS
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CHARLES ROSEN
2012 51 music examples 410 pp.
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W. J. T. MITCHELL
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Dictionary of
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With this fifth volume, DARE readers now have
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HARVARD UNIVERSITY
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Seamus Heaney
2011 175 color illus.
272 pp.
Cloth $39.95 / £29.95
ISBN 978-0-674-06192-7
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Twenty-First Century
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2011 8 color illus.,
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INDEX
Ariosto, Orlando Furioso, 15
Arsic, On Leaving, 20
duBois, Out of Athens, 28
Israëls, Sassetta, 28
Audubon, Early Drawings, 31
Dumbarton Oaks Medieval
Library, 33
Icks, Crimes of Elagabalus, 36
Austen, Persuasion, 9
Austen, Pride and Prejudice, 9
Early, Level Playing Field, 27
Eco, Confessions of Young…, 6
Jacobs, Incidents in the…, 30
Johnson, Selected Writings, 23
Bellah, Religion in…, 18
Belting, Florence & Baghdad, 28
Emerson, Annotated…, 11
Emerson, Collected Works, 24
Jones, Developmental …, 29
Kelley, Africa Speaks…, 36
ben Simeon, Haggadah, 19
Benjamin, Early Writings, 3
Benjamin, Work of Art in…, 19
Bernasek, Artistry of the
Everyday, 34
Bigsby, Arthur Miller, 23
Bindman, Image of the Black in
Western Art, 7
Boethius, Consolation of…, 28
Bornstein, Colors of Zion, 21
Boyd, On the Origin of…, 25
Boyd, Why Lyrics Last, 36
Bradstreet, Works of Anne
Bradstreet, 30
Bubriski, Mich. Rockefeller, 35
Budick, Kant and Milton, 22
Burt, Art of the Sonnet, 10
Chu, Do Metaphors…, 20
Ciarlo, Advertising Empire, 27
Clark, Moscow, Fourth…, 13
Cooper, Last of Mohicans, 30
Cooper, Pioneers, 30
Crane, Red Badge of Cour., 30
Dante Alighieri, La Vita…, 15
Davis, Anthology of…, 10
Dempsey, Early Renaissance and
Vernacular Culture, 28
Diamond, Sexual Fluidity, 25
Dickinson, Herbarium, 26
Dickinson, Poems…, 26
Doueihi, Digital Cultures, 16
Doueihi, Earthly Paradise, 18
Douglass, Uncle Tom’s Cab., 30
Douglas-Fairhurst, Becoming
Dickens, 2
Dreyfus, Wagner and the Erotic
Impulse, 13
Farr, Gardens of Emily…, 26
Ford, London, 36
Frost, Collected Prose…, 24
Frost, Notebooks…, 24
Gardner, Giotto and His…28
Gardner, Human Docs., 35
Gardner, Making Dead Birds, 35
Gigante, Keats Brothers, 2
Gilroy, Darker than Blue, 16
Gooding-Williams, In the
Shadow of Du Bois, 17
Gordon, Continental Divide, 25
Gould, Hedgehog…, 27
Grafton, "I have always…, 5
Grafton, Classical Tradition, 5
Grafton, Worlds Made by…, 5
Grahame, Wind in Willows, 31
Greeson, Our South, 21
Greis, Noble Pursuit, 34
Hall, Dictionary of American
Regional English, 37
Hamilton, Biography, 22
Hamilton, How To Do
Biography, 22
Hamilton, Federalist, 30
Hardt, Commonwealth, 17
Hardt, Empire, 17
Harvard University, Explore
Harvard, 38
Haugen, Richard Bentley, 15
Hawthorne, Selected Stories, 30
Hawthorne, Blithedale…, 30
Hawthorne, …Seven Gables, 30
Hawthorne, Scarlet Letter, 30
Holmes, Common Law, 30
House, Gifts of Great River, 34
Kogman-Appel, Mahzor…
LeBlanc, Painted by a…, 34
Liu, No Enemies, No Hatred, 3
Love, Feeling Backward, 25
MacCarthy, Last Pre-Raph., 36
Maclure, Secularism and
Freedom of Conscience, 18
Mallarmé, Divagations, 24
Marcus, New Literary…, 12
Marcus, Lipstick Traces, 12
Martens, Promise of Mem., 17
Martin, Samuel Johnson, 23
McEwan, Ancient American Art
in Detail, 26
McGurl, Program Era, 19
Mitchell, Seeing Through…, 36
Molineux, Faces of Perfect
Ebony, 19
Morey, Framing Muslims, 25
Morton, Ecology without
Nature, 21
Morton, Ecological Thought, 21
Nealon, Matter of Capital, 14
Nelson, Gothicka, 37
Newell, Pacific Art in Detail, 26
Nussbaum, New Religious
Intolerance, 37
O’Malley , What Happened at
Vatican II, 18
Opper, Hadrian, 22
Ovid, Love Poems, Letters…, 11
Paine, Common Sense, 30
Pamuk, Naive and…, 8
Pastoureau, Bear, 19
Pellizzi, Res, 35
Petrarch, Sonnets…Poems, 11
38
Image of the Black, 7
Picciotto, Labors of…, 21
Posner, Law and Literature, 20
Porter, Hajj, 18
Purcell, Egg & Nest, 31
Pyne, Voice and Vision, 22
Quilter, Moche of Ancient…, 34
Quraeshi, Sacred Spaces, 35
Rice, Jim Crow, American, 30
Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet, 4
Riis, How Other Half Lives, 30
Rojas, Great Wall, 29
Rosen, Freedom and the Arts, 36
Safran, Wandering Soul, 23
Shephard, Harvard Sampler, 38
Spacks, On Rereading, 6
Spivak, Aesthetic…, 16
Spring, African Art in Detail, 26
Stengers, Thinking with…, 21
Stepto, Home Elsewhere, 12
Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin, 30
Suisman, Selling Sounds, 31
Sword, Stylish Acad. Writing, 37
Tagore, Essential Tagore, 4
Tanner, Prefaces to Shakesp., 4
Taylor, Journey Through…, 31
Tsu, Sound and Script…, 29
Tuckerman, Selected Poems, 14
Vendler, Art of Shakesp., 9
Vendler, Coming of Age, 9
Vendler, Dickinson, 10
Vendler, Our Secret Discipline, 9
Vendler, Poets Thinking, 9
Victor-Howe, Feeding Anc., 34
Wagner, Disturbing Peace, 20
Wang, Brand New China, 29
Warner, Stranger Magic, 36
Warner, Varieties of Secular., 18
Warren, What Was African
American Literature?, 20
Weber, Benjamin's -abilities, 18
Webster, Collecting…, 34
Welty, One Writer’s Beg., 26
Wilde, Picture of Dorian Gray, 8
Wood, Near Andersonville, 27
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