Literature
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The Book of One Hundred Riddles of the Fairy Bellaria Charles Godfrey Leland 2018 Fall
- Reviving a lost classic of American fairy–tale literature
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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
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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
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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
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Fearless Ivan and His Faithful Horse Double-Hump A Russian Folk Tale Pyotr Yershov and Jack Zipes 2018 Spring
- A classic Russian tale retold for our time by an eminent folklorist
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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
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Hybrid Child A Novel Mariko Ōhara 2018 Spring
- A classic of Japanese speculative fiction that blurs the line between consumption and creation when a cyborg assumes the form and spirit of a murdered child