Literature & Criticism
5th August, pb, eb, £20, 9780691252513
How 18th-century literature depended on misinterpretation and how this still shapes the way we read.
Glad to the Brink of Fear James Marcus 5th August, pb, eb, £16.99, 9780691254340
Reassessment of Ralph Waldo Emerson and his relevance to contemporary readers.
Modern Jewish Worldmaking Through Yiddish Children’s Literature Miriam Udel
9th December, hb, eb, £35, 9780691254371
How modern Yiddish children’s literature gave expression to emerging forms of Jewish identity.
Southern Imagining Elleke Boehmer 6th January, hb, eb, £35, 9780691262048
A new compass for global reading: looks at the world from the far southern latitudes.
Communities of Care Talia Schaffer 2nd September, pb, eb, £25, 9780691271101
What we can learn about caregiving and community from the Victorian novel.
Worlds of Wonder Daniel Hahn (ed) 30th September, hb, eb, £25, 9780691274638
Beautifully illustrated journey through the most-loved classics of children’s literature, spanning more than 20 countries and 150 years.
The King and the Corpse Heinrich Zimmer 20th January, pb, eb, £25, 9780691279480
Selection of stories linked by their focus on humanity’s struggle against the forces of evil.
Profile Books
Dictionary of Fine Distinctions Eli Burnstein
4th September, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781805227229
Illustrated stocking filler for language lovers sheds light on frequently confused words.
Renard Press
Relearning to Read Ann Morgan 1st October, pb, eb, £10, 9781804471326
Invites readers to turn the way they read upside down and see what falls out. The book puts not- knowing centrestage and examines gaps in understanding.
The Life of Violet Virginia Woolf, Urmila Seshagiri (ed)
7th October, hb, eb, £16.99, 9780691263137
Woolf’s first fully realised work of fiction, published in its final, revised form for the first time.
Never-ending Tales Jack Zipes 27th January, hb, eb, £30, 9780691263779
Compendium of European and American short stories from the 1870s to the 1930s in which Jewish writers respond to antisemitism with humour, satire, irony and hope.
The Chinese Tragedy of King Lear Nan Z Da
5th August, hb, eb, £25, 9780691269160
Compelling new reading of The Tragedy of King Lear that finds parallels in 20th-century Chinese history.
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Running Press Adult
Women of the Fairy Tale Resistance Jane Harrington
11th September, hb, eb, £25, 9780762488704
Debunks the idea that fairy tales originated with male writers to reveal that women in the 17th century coined the term “fairy tale” and told stories that have influenced the tales we know today.
Rutgers University Press
Killer Bodies Joseph Crawford 9th December, pb, £27.99, 9781978841963
History of the most critically derided subgenre in American comics—the “bad girl” series of the 1990s, situating these works in relation to the popular feminism of the period.
The Bookseller Buyer’s Guide Non-Fiction Sceptre
In Love With Love Ella Risbridger 6th November, hb, £16.99, 9781399749220
Smart and funny defence and celebration of romantic fiction.
Schiffer
Comic Book Apocalypse David J Hogan, Maggie Thompson 28th November, hb, £54.99, 9780764369599
Explores the rise and fall of pre-Code comics through 500 covers that reveal America’s cultural shifts, censorship and controversies.
SPBH Editions
The Devouring Eye Olivier Richon 1st September, pb, £13, 9781917651264
Provocative essay evaluates how we relate to images by examining the camera as both eye and mouth: an apparatus that ingests the world to produce imagery.
Syracuse University Press
Oceanic Connections: The Sea in Irish and Caribbean Poetry Ellen Howley
1st November, hb, £56, 9780815611875
First-of-its-kind comparative study of Anglophone Irish and Caribbean poets who write widely about the sea.
The Arden Shakespeare
Essential Shakespeare Pamela Bickley, Jenny Stevens
16th October, 2nd edn, pb, eb, £21.99, 9781350444263
Go-to guide to help undergraduates navigate their way through university Shakespeare.
The Texts of Shakespeare Stephen Orgel 22nd January, pb, eb, £19.99, 9781350561045
Reveals how Shakespeare’s scripts were transformed from popular drama into the greatest monument of English literature, a triumph of both editorial intervention and marketing.
The Belknap Press
Series The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures
26th September, hb, £19.95, 97806743024
Artists and writers on art and writing. Other Traditions John Ashbery, Stephanie Burt vol 61 40 This Craft of Verse Jorge Luis Borges, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Calin- Andrei Mihailescu (ed) vol 60 57 Six Walks in the Fictional Woods Umberto Eco, Louis Menand vol 59 64
Universe
A Midnight Treasury of Macabre and Weird Poems Ana Sampson 23rd September, hb, £22.95, 9780789344304
Handsome tome of dark poetry to feed the fans of all things macabre, gothic and weird.
University of Alberta Press
The Postcolonial Bildungsroman Arnab Dutta Roy (ed), Paul Ugor (ed)
23rd September, pb, eb, £38.99, 9781772127706
Highlights how the Bildungsroman is reimagined by writers from a wide range of formerly colonised regions across the globe.
Shelter in Text Myra Bloom (ed), Kasia Van Schaik (ed)
7th October, pb, eb, £34.99, 9781772128291
Examines how writing can create, illuminate and complicate ideas about dwelling, belonging or finding safe harbour.
University of Chicago Press
Joke Farming Elliott Kalan 12th November, pb, eb, £16, 9780226829920
Multiple award-winning comedy writer’s guide to a dependable method for writing jokes that can be applied to any comedic genre, from stand-up to sitcoms to satire.
Atlas’s Bones D Vance Smith 28th November, hb, eb, £30, 9780226830308
New look at Africa’s influence on European culture and how colonisation remade Africa in the image of a medieval Europe. Firmly re-establishes the significance of
Africa in European intellectual history.
The World in a Phrase James Geary 10th November, pb, eb, £18, 9780226838601
Second edition explores aphorism in the age of social media and features 26 additional aphorists. Shows why these short sentences are the ultimate deep dives in an era when “tl;dr” is a cultural catchphrase.
Revolution
Miriam Leonard 24th November, pb, eb, £18, 9780226843056
How modern revolutions have employed tropes of classical antiquity.
University of Pittsburgh Press
A Promising Past Vicente Lecuna 6th October, hb, £46, 9780822948537
Analyses various fictions about Parque Central, a high-rise development created by the Venezuelan government as part of a modernisation and urban renewal initiative.
University of Wales Press
New Perspectives on Gillian Clarke Linden Peach
15th October, vol 36, pb, eb, £24.99, 9781837722792
First book-length study of Clarke’s corpus of poetry and journal writings highlights her significance as a politically alert and scientifically and cosmologically aware Welsh writer of global relevance.
University of Washington Press
The Poetic Way of Xie Lingyun Ping Wang 16th September, pb, £27.99, 9780295753737
In this meticulously constructed study Ping Wang traces the social conditions that sparked innovation and marked a significant turn in intellectual history.
University Press of Mississippi
Southern Women, Southern Landscapes Judith W Page, Elise L Smith 15th December, pb, £25.99, 9781496860330
Exploration of a number of American Southern women writers, artists
and gardeners who looked to the land for inspiration and identity.
Real and Imagined Worlds
Charles Scruggs 15th December, pb, £25.99, 9781496860392
Looks at the various literary and artistic influences of a central figure in the Harlem Renaissance, Claude McKay.
Verso Books
Experimental Criticism Francesco de Cristofaro (ed), Stefano Ercolino (ed), Franco Moretti, Richard Braude (tr) et al
27th January, pb, eb, £19.99, 9781804295076
Fascinating guide to Franco Moretti’s literary criticism.
Voltaire Foundation
Series
Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment pb, £75, 978183624 More than 500 peer-reviewed, scholarly volumes have been published in this series and its predecessor since 1955. Mexican Jesuits Write the History of the Americas Luis Ramos 9th September, 4707 Sports and Sociability in Britain in the Long Eighteenth Century Alexis Tadie (ed) 14th October, 5278 Voltaire and the Sirven Affair John Renwick 9th December, 5292
Wayne State University Press
Tales for Fairies Alba Morollon Diaz-Faes, Anne E Duggan (ed)
13th January, hb, £81, 9780814350430
Trailblazing examination of how contemporary authors, artists and creators have reclaimed the fairy tale for queer audiences.
Appropriated Tales Michelle Anya Anjirbag, Anne E Duggan (ed)
11th November, hb, £81, 9780814351093
Examines Disney’s method of fairy-tale storytelling to determine how the corporation has shaped public understanding of what fairy tales are and who belongs within them.
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