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LITERATURE
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Listening to TraumaConversations with Leaders in the Theory and Treatment of Catastrophic Experienceinterviews and photography by Cathy Caruth
Interviews and intimate photographic portraits of witnesses to the collective
and cultural significance of trauma.
2014 392 pp., 19 halftones978-1-4214-1445-4 $24.95 paperback Also available as an e-book
Literature in the Ashes of HistoryCathy Caruth
“Caruth’s analyses call for nothing less than a ‘rethinking of the very nature
of history around the possibility of its erasure’—a most urgent appeal in our
days.”—Elisabeth Weber, University of California, Santa Barbara
2013 144 pp.978-1-4214-1155-2 $22.95 paperback Also available as an e-book
Writing History, Writing TraumaDominick LaCapra
with a new preface“Insightful and compassionate . . . LaCapra both uses and transcends
contemporary critical theory in assessing the influence of trauma on
present-day historical writing.”—Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society, Stephen G. Nichols, Gerald Prince, and Wendy Steiner, Series Editors
2014 264 pp.978-1-4214-1400-3 $27.95 paperback Also available as an e-book
Audacious KidsThe Classic American Children’s Story
revised edition
Jerry Griswold
The definitive book-length study of the great classics of American children’s
literature, now updated for a new century.
2014 368 pp., 17 halftones978-1-4214-1457-7 $24.95 paperback Also available as an e-book
The Afterlife of “Little Women”Beverly Lyon Clark
This innovative study uncovers the surprising ways in which audiences
responded to—and were influenced by—Little Women.
2014 288 pp., 2 halftones, 10 line drawings978-1-4214-1558-1 $44.95 hardcover Also available as an e-book
Literary Theory and History
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MetahistoryThe Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe
Fortieth-anniversary Edition
Hayden White
with a new prefaceforeword by Michael S. Roth
“This is a daring, ingenious . . . tour de force.
White has produced a profoundly original
‘critique of historical reason.’”—American
Historical Review
2014 480 pp.978-1-4214-1560-4 $29.95 paperbackAlso available as an e-book
Sublime NoiseMusical Culture and the Modernist WriterJosh Epstein
“An original, intellectually capacious, and
frequently brilliant analysis of the theoretical
and material relationships between writers
of the modernist period and the music of
their cultures.”—Scott W. Klein, Wake Forest
University
Hopkins Studies in Modernism, Douglas Mao, Series Editor
2014 384 pp., 3 b&w illus., 9 line drawings978-1-4214-1523-9 $54.95 hardcoverAlso available as an e-book
Putting Modernism TogetherLiterature, Music, and Painting, 1872–1927Daniel Albright
“This indispensable study of modernist artistic
culture will appeal to students and to the
expert as well as the common reader.”—Maria
DiBattista, coeditor of High and Low Moderns:
British Literature and Culture, 1889–1939
Hopkins Studies in Modernism, Douglas Mao, Series Editor
2015 384 pp., 47 b&w illus.978-1-4214-1644-1 $29.95 paperbackAlso available as an e-book
Literary Theory and History
Freedom TimeThe Poetics and Politics of Black Experimental WritingAnthony Reed
“A distinctive take on the political implications
of experimental writing by neglected African
American writers. This important book has
started a conversation that we must have, and it
will anchor that conversation for some time.”
—Keith D. Leonard, American University
The Callaloo African Diaspora Series Charles Henry Rowell, Series Editor
2014 280 pp., 17 line drawings978-1-4214-1520-8 $44.95 hardcoverAlso available as an e-book
The Calendar of LossRace, Sexuality, and Mourning in the Early Era of AIDSDagmawi Woubshet
A revelatory examination of AIDS mourning at
the intersection of black and queer studies.
The Callaloo African Diaspora Series Charles Henry Rowell, Series Editor
2015 192 pp., 19 halftones978-1-4214-1655-7 $38.95 hardcoverAlso available as an e-book
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Literary Theory and HistoryGenealogical FictionsCultural Periphery and Historical Change in the Modern NovelJobst Welge
“A mature, distinguished contribution to the history of the novel
that establishes Welge as one of the leading comparativists of his
generation.”—Jeffrey T. Schnapp, Harvard University
2014 272 pp.978-1-4214-1435-5 $54.95 hardcover Also available as an e-book
Losing Touch with NatureLiterature and the New Science in Sixteenth-Century EnglandMary Thomas Crane
“A lucid, well-argued account of the prehistory of the scientific
revolution in England.”—Shankar Raman, Massachusetts Institute
of Technology
2014 248 pp.978-1-4214-1531-4 $49.95 hardcover Also available as an e-book
Metaphors of MindAn Eighteenth-Century DictionaryBrad Pasanek
A pathbreaking introduction to eighteenth-century metaphors of the
mind that recasts the grand narrative of the Enlightenment in terms
of its tropes and figures.
2015 384 pp., 6 halftones, 4 line drawings978-1-4214-1688-5 $49.95 hardcover Also available as an e-book
Empire Films and the Crisis of Colonialism, 1946—1959Jon Cowans
“This is a terrific book. Jon Cowans has a gift for concise and lucid
summation; his cinematic analysis is consistently illuminating,
engaging, and plausible.”—Stephen J. Whitfield, Brandeis University
2015 448 pp.978-1-4214-1641-0 $54.95 hardcover Also available as an e-book
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The Empire of the DeadTracy Daugherty
“A superb book of stories that will burnish Daugherty’s already
formidable reputation as a contemporary master of short fiction.”
—Greg Johnson, author of Women I’ve Known: New and Selected
StoriesJohns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction, John T. Irwin, General Editor
2014 272 pp., 1 halftone978-1-4214-1580-2 $24.95 paperback Also available as an e-book
Couldn’t Prove, Had to Promisepoems by Wyatt Prunty
“Wyatt Prunty is a classic poet in the tradition of Frost, Wilbur, Merrill,
and Justice. His work involves a wry sanity toward the world and
an impeccable ear for both prosody and the rhythms of American
speech.”—Robert Hass, author of Time and Materials
Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction, John T. Irwin, General Editor
2015 72 pp.978-1-4214-1714-1 $18.95 paperback Also available as an e-book
Now in Paperback
How Literature Plays with the BrainThe Neuroscience of Reading and ArtPaul B. Armstrong
“Armstrong explores the ways that neuroscience and literary theory
can be mutually illuminating about the processes of reading and about
the aesthetics of literary response.”—G. Gabrielle Starr, New York
University
2014 240 pp., 23 b&w illus.978-1-4214-1576-5 $29.95 paperback Also available as an e-book
Dead Women TalkingFigures of Injustice in American LiteratureBrian Norman
“Insightful and powerfully affecting, Dead Women Talking deepens our
understanding of how the dead remain a vital presence and social force
in American life and literature.”—Women’s Studies
2014 240 pp.978-1-4214-1572-7 $29.95 paperback Also available as an e-book
Poetry and Fiction
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Writings of the Ludditesedited by Kevin Binfield
An invaluable collection of texts written between 1811 and 1816 by
members of the Luddite movement and their sympathizers.
2015 312 pp., 6 halftones978-1-4214-1696-0 $29.95 paperback
Revolutionary ActsTheater, Democracy, and the French RevolutionSusan Maslan
“Maslan’s thought-provoking book makes a distinctive contribution to
the understanding of the literary and cultural history of the French
Revolution.”—Modern Language Review
Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society Stephen G. Nichols, Gerald Prince, and Wendy Steiner, Series Editors
2015 288 pp., 15 halftones978-1-4214-1694-6 $29.95 paperback
Harlequin BritainPantomime and Entertainment, 1690–1760John O’Brien
“This well-argued text on pantomime offers a fascinating investigation of a
subgenre of British theater.”—Scriblerian
2015 304 pp., 13 halftones, 6 line drawings978-1-4214-1693-9 $29.95 paperback
Wordsworth’s EthicsAdam Potkay
“A nuanced and carefully argued book that will command attention and
respect from all romanticists. . . its author is able to outline a system of
thought that Wordsworth would almost certainly have endorsed.”
—Modern Philology
2015 272 pp.978-1-4214-1702-8 $29.95 paperback Also available as an e-book
My Silver PlanetA Secret History of Poetry and KitschDaniel Tiffany
“Tiffany’s irreverent challenge to modernist critique of kitsch generates a
new story about the development of modern poetry.”—Jonathan Culler,
Cornell University
Hopkins Studies in Modernism, Douglas Mao, Series Editor
2014 312 pp.978-1-4214-1698-4 $29.95 paperback Also available as an e-book
Now in Paperback
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The Critical Edition • Ronald Schuchard, General Editor
THE COMPLETE PROSE OF T. S. ELIOT
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