Literature

The Clue in the Trees An Enchantment Lake Mystery Margi Preus 2019 Spring

Francie returns to Enchantment Lake looking for answers, only to get dragged into a murder mystery she might not survive

The Lost Forest Phyllis Root 2019 Spring

The story of a forest “lost” by a surveying error—and all the flora and fauna to be found there

The Devil’s Wedding Ring Vidar Sundstøl 2019 Spring

A mysterious disappearance at a 13th-century church in his native Norway draws detective Max Fjellanger into an old case—and a world of ancient ritual, superstition, and present-day danger

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

Original artwork and materials explore children’s literature and its impact in society and culture over time Distributed for the University of Minnesota Libraries, Kerlan Collection

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

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 Book of One Hundred Riddles of the Fairy Bellaria Charles Godfrey Leland 2018 Fall

Reviving a lost classic of American fairy–tale literature

Coming soon

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