Literature

Whatever Normal Is Jane St. Anthony 2019 Spring

In the fourth volume of a series set in Minneapolis in the 1960s, three friends navigate relationships and new questions about love and identity

Reading for Reform The Social Work of Literature in the Progressive Era Laura R. Fisher 2019 Spring

An unprecedented examination of class-bridging reform and U.S. literary history at the turn of the twentieth century

No Horizon Is So Far Two Women and Their Historic Journey across Antarctica Liv Arnesen and Ann Bancroft 2019 Spring

The extraordinary story of the first two women to cross Antarctica

The ABC of It Why Children’s Books Matter Leonard S. Marcus 2019 Spring

Distributed for the University of Minnesota Libraries, Kerlan Collection

Bim, Bam, Bop . . . and Oona Jacqueline Briggs Martin 2019 Spring

An irresistible read-aloud picture book, in which a little odd-duck-out discovers her unique strengths

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

Iron Curtain Journals January–May 1965 Allen Ginsberg 2018 Fall

The first of three in a series of Ginsberg’s unpublished travel journals

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

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

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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