New Books in Literary Studies

2490 Episodes

1. Robert O’Kell, “Disraeli: The Romance of Politics” (U. of Toronto Press, 2014)

   Published: 8/11/2016
2. Mark R. E. Meulenbeld, “Demonic Warfare: Daoism, Territorial Networks, and the History of a Ming Novel” (U. of Hawaii Press, 2015)

   Published: 7/25/2016
3. Josh Lambert, “Unclean Lips: Obscenity, Jews, and American Culture” (NYU Press, 2014)

   Published: 7/18/2016
4. Aisha Geissinger, “Gender and the Construction of Exegetical Authority: A Rereading of the Classical Genre of Qur’an Commentary (Brill, 2015)

   Published: 7/12/2016
5. Jessa Crispin, “The Dead Ladies Project: Exiles, Expats, and Ex-Countries” (U. of Chicago Press, 2015)

   Published: 7/1/2016
6. Sarah Wald, “The Nature of California: Race, Citizenship, and Farming since the Dust Bowl” (U. of Washington Press, 2016)

   Published: 6/28/2016
7. Susan Kavaler-Adler, “The Compulsion to Create: Women Writers and Their Demon Lovers” (ORI Academic, 2013)

   Published: 6/27/2016
8. Ana Foteva, “Do the Balkans Begin in Vienna? The Geopolitical and Imaginary Borders Between the Balkans and Europe” (Peter Lang, 2014)

   Published: 6/19/2016
9. Pi-Ching Hsu, “Feng Menglong’s ‘Treasury of Laughs’: A Seventeenth-Century Anthology of Traditional Chinese Humour” (Brill, 2015)

   Published: 6/8/2016
10. Mingwei Song, “Young China: National Rejuvenation and the Bildungsroman, 1900-1959” (Harvard University Asia Center, 2016)

    Published: 6/3/2016
11. Roy Fox, “Facing the Sky: Composing Through Trauma in Word and Image” (Parlor, 2015)

    Published: 5/17/2016
12. Dana Sajdi, “The Barber of Damascus: Nouveau Literacy in the Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Levant” (Stanford UP, 2012)

    Published: 5/16/2016
13. Maria C. Fumagalli, “On the Edge: Writing the Border Between Haiti and the Dominican Republic” (Liverpool UP, 2015)

    Published: 5/12/2016
14. Ayesha Ramachandran, “Worldmakers: Global Imagining in Early Modern Europe” (U of Chicago Press, 2015)

    Published: 5/11/2016
15. Emily Troscianko, “Kafka’s Cognitive Realism” (Routledge, 2014)

    Published: 5/2/2016
16. Seth Jacobowitz, “Writing Technology in Meiji Japan” (Harvard UP, 2015)

    Published: 4/26/2016
17. Stern, et al., “The Monk’s Haggadah: A Fifteenth-Century Illuminated Codex from the Monastery of Tegernsee” (Penn State UP, 2015)

    Published: 4/20/2016
18. Kate Bolick, “Spinster: Making a Life of One’s Own” (Crown, 2015)

    Published: 4/19/2016
19. Marlene Daut, “Tropics of Haiti: Race and the Literary History of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1789-1865” (Liverpool UP, 2015)

    Published: 4/18/2016
20. Sarah Phillips Casteel, “Calypso Jews: Jewishness in the Caribbean Literary Imagination” (Columbia UP, 2016)

    Published: 4/18/2016