Literature

Chromographia American Literature and the Modernization of Color Nicholas Gaskill 2018 Fall

The first major literary and cultural history of color in America, 1880–1930

The Poem Electric Technology and the American Lyric Seth Perlow 2018 Fall

An enlightening examination of the relationship between poetry and the information technologies increasingly used to read and write it

Picturing the Postcard A New Media Crisis at the Turn of the Century Monica Cure 2018 Fall

The first full-length study of a once revolutionary visual and linguistic medium

Everywhere and Nowhere Anonymity and Mediation in Eighteenth-Century Britain Mark Vareschi 2018 Fall

A fascinating analysis of anonymous publication centuries before the digital age

Graziella A Novel Alphonse de Lamartine 2018 Fall

In its first modern translation, a novel-cum-memoir of a Frenchman’s erotic awakening in Italy by a preeminent writer of the Romantic period

None of This Is Normal The Fiction of Jeff VanderMeer Benjamin J. Robertson 2018 Fall

How the otherworldly worlds created by the author of the Southern Reach Trilogy speak to—and even affect—our own

Iron Curtain Journals January–May 1965 Allen Ginsberg 2018 Fall

The first of three in a series of Ginsberg’s unpublished travel journals

Bad Environmentalism Irony and Irreverence in the Ecological Age Nicole Seymour 2018 Fall

Traces a tradition of ironic and irreverent environmentalism, asking us to rethink the movement’s reputation for gloom and doom

The Robotic Imaginary The Human and the Price of Dehumanized Labor Jennifer Rhee 2018 Fall

Tracing the connections between human-like robots and AI at the site of dehumanization and exploited labor

Scenarios II Signs of Life; Even Dwarfs Started Small; Fata Morgana; Heart of Glass Werner Herzog 2018 Fall

The second in a series: the master filmmaker’s prose scenarios for four of his notable films

Laurentian Divide A Novel Sarah Stonich 2018 Fall

Poignant portrayals of life on the edge in northern Minnesota border country, from the best-selling author of These Granite Islands and Vacationland

Hush Hush, Forest Mary Casanova 2018 Fall

Lyrical words and elegant woodcuts capture the quiet beauty of the forest as day fades to night and autumn gives way to the North Woods winter

Dead Man’s Rapids William Durbin and Barbara Durbin 2018 Fall

The further adventures of a boy discovering the challenges and the humor of a log drive in Minnesota’s north woods in 1899

Circulating Queerness Before the Gay and Lesbian Novel Natasha Hurley 2018 Spring

A new history of the queer novel shows its role in constructing gay and lesbian lives

Isabelle Day Refuses to Die of a Broken Heart Jane St. Anthony 2018 Spring

How can Isabelle ever express to Margaret and Grace how grateful she is for their friendship, just when she needed it most?

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