New Books in Literary Studies

2490 Episodes

1. Michael Gordin, “The Pseudoscience Wars: Immanuel Velikovsky and the Birth of the Modern Fringe” (University of Chicago Press, 2012)

   Published: 12/19/2012
2. Cosima Bruno, “Between the Lines: Yang Lian’s Poetry through Translation” (Brill, 2012)

   Published: 11/26/2012
3. Christopher Bush, “Ideographic Modernism: China, Writing, Media” (Oxford UP, 2010)

   Published: 11/13/2012
4. Anthony Bale, “The Book of Marvels and Travels” (Oxford UP, 2012)

   Published: 11/2/2012
5. Ulrich Plass, “Language and History in Theodor W. Adorno’s Notes to Literature” (Routledge, 2007)

   Published: 9/25/2012
6. Cory MacLauchlin, “Butterfly in the Typewriter: The Tragic Life of John Kennedy Toole and the Remarkable Story of A Confederacy of Dunces” (Da Capo, 2012)

   Published: 9/4/2012
7. J. Hillis Miller, “The Conflagration of Community: Fiction Before and After Auschwitz” (University of Chicago Press, 2011)

   Published: 8/23/2012
8. Koritha Mitchell, “Living with Lynching: African American Lynching Plays, Performance, and Citizenship, 1890-1930” (University of Illinois Press, 2012)

   Published: 6/29/2012
9. Nancy Hargrove, “T.S. Eliot’s Parisian Year” (University of Florida Press, 2010)

   Published: 6/15/2012
10. John Cheng, “Astounding Wounder: Imagining Science and Science Fiction in Interwar America” (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012)

    Published: 6/1/2012
11. Xiaofei Tian, "Visionary Journeys: Travel Writings from Early Medieval and Nineteenth-Century China" (Harvard UP, 2011)

    Published: 5/23/2012
12. Ellen F. Brown and John Wiley, Jr., “Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind” (Taylor Trade Publishing, 2011)

    Published: 5/15/2012
13. Robert Lipsyte, “An Accidental Sportswriter: A Memoir” (Ecco, 2011)

    Published: 5/7/2012
14. Elizabeth West, “African Spirituality in Black Women’s Fiction: Threaded Visions of Memory, Community, Nature, and Being” (Lexington Books, 2011)

    Published: 4/9/2012
15. Cherene Sherrard-Johnson, “Dorothy West’s Paradise: A Biography of Class and Color” (Rutgers UP, 2012)

    Published: 3/9/2012
16. Cynthia Wachtell, “War No More: The Antiwar Impulse in American Literature, 1861-1914” (LSU Press, 2010)

    Published: 2/3/2012
17. Charles J. Shields, “And So It Goes. Kurt Vonnegut, A Life” (Henry Holt, 2011)

    Published: 11/9/2011
18. Rosamund Bartlett, “Tolstoy: A Russia Life” (Houghton Mifflin, 2011)

    Published: 11/4/2011
19. Gregory Nagy on Homer’s “Iliad”

    Published: 10/25/2011
20. Tom Perrotta on Flannery O’Connor

    Published: 9/23/2011