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What a Library Means to a Woman Edith Wharton and the Will to Collect Books Sheila Liming 2020 Spring

Examining the personal library and the making of self

Pipers at the Gates of Dawn The Wisdom of Children’s Literature Jonathan Cott 2020 Spring

Jonathan Cott’s reflections and conversations with six celebrated children’s authors—now in a new edition

Fishing! A Novel Sarah Stonich 2020 Spring

A hilarious saga of fishing, family, and three generations of tough, independent women—the first in a trilogy

The Monster Theory Reader Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Editor 2020 Spring

A collection of scholarship on monsters and their meaning—across genres, disciplines, methodologies, and time—from foundational texts to the most recent contributions

How Not to Make a Human Pets, Feral Children, Worms, Sky Burial, Oysters Karl Steel 2019 Fall

From pet keeping to sky burials, a posthuman and ecocritical interrogation of and challenge to human particularity in medieval texts

Resisting Dialogue Modern Fiction and the Future of Dissent Juan Meneses 2019 Fall

A bold new critique of dialogue as a method of eliminating dissent

Re-Enchanted The Rise of Children’s Fantasy Literature in the Twentieth Century Maria Sachiko Cecire 2019 Fall

From The Hobbit to Harry Potter, how fantasy harnesses the cultural power of magic, medievalism, and childhood to re-enchant the modern world

Scenarios III Stroszek; Nosferatu, Phantom of the Night; Where the Green Ants Dream; Cobra Verde Werner Herzog 2019 Fall

For the first time in English, and in his signature prose poetry, the film scripts of four of Werner Herzog’s early works

South American Journals January–July 1960 Allen Ginsberg 2019 Fall

The great Beat poet’s observations, reflections, poetry, and mind-expanding explorations while traveling through South America

Johnny’s Pheasant Cheryl Minnema 2019 Fall

An encounter with a pheasant (which may or may not be sleeping) takes a surprising turn in this sweetly serious and funny story of a Native American boy and his grandma

Jack and the Ghost Chan Poling 2019 Fall

A gothic, lyrical evocation of a shipwreck, ghosts, and lost—and found—love in a North Shore town

Homesickness Of Trauma and the Longing for Place in a Changing Environment Ryan Hediger 2019 Fall

Introducing a posthumanist concept of nostalgia to analyze steadily widening themes of animality, home, travel, slavery, shopping, and war in U.S. literature after 1945

Black Bourgeois Class and Sex in the Flesh Candice M. Jenkins 2019 Fall

Exploring the forces that keep black people vulnerable even amid economically privileged lives

What God Is Honored Here? Writings on Miscarriage and Infant Loss by and for Native Women and Women of Color Shannon Gibney and Kao Kalia Yang, Editors 2019 Fall