Literature & Criticism
Duke University Press
The Gloria Wekker Reader Gloria Wekker, Chandra Frank (ed), Nancy Jouwe (ed), Mikki Stelder (ed), Angela Y Davis
28th April, pb, £25.99, 9781478033189
Articles, essays, interviews, poems and letters by the Afro-Surinamese Dutch theorist and activist, a preeminent scholar in feminist Black diaspora studies.
Ecco Bite by Bite
Aimee Nezhukumatathil 21st May, pb, eb, £12.99, 9780063414426
From the bestselling author of World of Wonders a lyrical book of short essays about food and a banquet of tastes, smells, memories, associations and marvelous curiosities from nature.
Edinburgh University Press
Canonical Misogyny Nora J Williams 31st May, pb, eb, £19.99, 9781399502276
Argues that Shakespeare’s plays are dramaturgically misogynist and that surface-level interventions cannot remediate them or make them “feminist”.
Virginia Woolf and Motherhood Charlotte Taylor Suppe
31st May, pb, eb, £24.99, 9781399520928
Establishes maternity as a vital theme within Woolf’s feminist and political thought.
Reading Alice Munro’s Breakthrough Books JR, Ailsa Cox, Corinne Bigot, Catherine Sheldrick Ross
30th April, pb, eb, £19.99, 9781399534536
Provides an authoritative assessment of the middle period in the career of the widely read, Nobel Prize-winning short-story writer.
The Werner Sollors Reader Werner Sollors, Daniel G Williams (ed)
31st May, pb, eb, £34.99, 9781399536226
First comprehensive overview of Sollors’ ground-breaking work on culture and ethnicity.
Katherine Mansfield and London Aime Gasston (ed), Gerri Kimber (ed)
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28th February, pb, eb, £19.99, 9781399539173
Variety of essays by Mansfield scholars presenting criticism on her relationship to London.
Logomotives
Marjorie Rubright (ed), Stephen Spiess (ed) 31st May, pb, eb, £29.99, 9781399544559
Animates the conversional potential of language by exploring the catalytic force of words across diverse cultures and linguistic systems.
The New Modernist Novel Elizabeth Pender 31st March, pb, eb, £19.99, 9781474461498
Considers relationships between Modernist literature and literary criticism and argues that new Modernist fiction can bring with it new modes of reading.
Epic Ink Books
The Odyssey Effect Erica Stevenson 25th June, hb, £18.99, 9781577158981
Explores the classic’s influence from its beginnings to the present day through a pop-culture lens and beyond.
Faber
The Art of Opposition Courttia Newland 30th July, hb, eb, £16.99, 9780571393343
Bold and provocative, this is an examination of what it means to create art from a place of opposition to the mainstream.
Proust Samuel Beckett 2nd July, pb, eb, £6.99, 9780571399994
In his first published book Beckett examines Proust’s masterpiece À la recherche du temps perdu and concludes that habit, time and memory are the defining characteristics of the human condition.
Hanover Square Press
Why We Read Shann Reed 26th March, pb, eb, £16.99, 9781335453518
Hilarious and incisive exploration of the joys of reading from a teacher, bibliophile and Thurber Prize finalist.
The Bookseller Buyer’s Guide Non-Fiction HarperOne
Glimmerings Miroslav Volf, Christian Wiman
26th February, hb, eb, £22, 9780063458291
Two world-renowned scholars exchange letters on the problems of faith today and the presence of divine love that persists through it all.
Johns Hopkins University Press
British Women Novelists and the Review Periodical Megan Peiser
17th March, pb, eb, £54, 9781421454078
How book reviews shaped the fate of novels and their authors during the height of women’s literary influence in the 19th century.
Sugarcoated Ethics Courtney Weikle-Mills 12th May, pb, eb, £50, 9781421454450
No information at time of going to press.
Liveright
I Hope You Find What You’re Looking For Bsrat Mezghebe
24th March, hb, eb, £20, 9781324092490
Debut from the Well- Read Black Girl Books series delves into the secret lives of three women on the eve of Eritrean independence.
Liverpool University Press
Imagining Community Against the Nation Sushmita Sircar
28th May, hb, £120, 9781805965435
Reads the post-1990 South Asian anglophone novel for how revolutionaries open up internationalist horizons beyond the nation.
George Moore Kathryn Laing (ed), Mary Pierse (ed)
28th March, pb, eb, £31.99, 9781805966777
Impressively invigorating exploration of the literary worlds inhabited by pioneering Irish author.
Israeli Speculative Fiction Elana Gomel (ed), Vered Weiss (ed)
28th March, hb, eb, £120, 9781805966821
Essays investigate both the elements that locate Israeli speculative fiction in relation to world speculative literature and the features that render it unique.
Derek Mahon
Nicholas Grene (ed), Tom Walker (ed) 28th April, pb, £32.99, 9781805966838
Major reassessment of Mahon’s poetry by leading critics of contemporary Irish poetry.
Irish Joy Julia C Obert 28th April, hb, £105, 9781805966852
Examines joy, pleasure and belonging in contemporary Irish literature and culture.
Poetry, Photography, Ekphrasis Andrew Miller
28th February, pb, £29.99, 9781805967019
Detailed study of the ekphrasis of photography in poetry since the 19th century.
The Vocabulary of Wisdom in the Old Norse Poetic Corpus Alicia Maddalena
28th June, hb, £120, 9781805967231
Lexical study of wisdom in Old Norse poetry and our understanding of the culture.
The Invention of Frenchness Anne-Helene Miller
28th June, vol 1, hb, £125, 9781805967293
How the idea of the French nation and French literature developed in the Middle Ages.
Race, Violence and Form Renee Fox (ed), Mary L Mullen (ed)
28th March, hb, eb, £120, 9781836240310
Situates 19th-century Ireland in exciting new global, racial, and aesthetic networks.
The Corpse in Modern Irish Literature Christopher Cusack (ed), Bridget English (ed), Matthew L Reznicek (ed)
28th February, hb, eb, £120, 9781836244837
Interrogating representations of the corpse, this collection offers new perspectives on death in Irish literature.
Lives and Letters
Essays Anthony Vahni Capildeo, Jeremy Noel-Tod (ed)
30th July, pb, eb, £20, 9781800175693
Capildeo is among the most challenging poets and critics of our time, re-visioning the world of anglophone writing from a Trinidadian
perspective in a new collection of essays.
Christopher Middleton: 101 Letters Christopher Middleton, John Clegg (ed)
30th July, pb, eb, £20, 9781800175679
Key letters which reveal Middleton’s own explosive poetics of experimentation well rooted in poetry from ancient to modern times.
LSE Press
Reading Wars Don Herzog 23rd April, pb, eb, £25, 9781911712510
The history and politics of anxieties about readers and reading, spanning from the 1500s right up to contemporary battles over banning library books and freedom of speech.
Luna Press
Considering the Female Man by Joanna Russ, or, As the Bear Swore Farah Mendlesohn
31st March, pb, eb, £16.99, 9781915556646
Close reading of the text, focusing on how the book works, its structures, arguments, humour and brilliant anger.
Lutterworth Press
Going Through Hell Robert Louis Abrahamson 26th March, pb, eb, £25, 9780718898458
Offers readers an accessible and thoughtful tour of Dante’s Inferno, retelling the events of the 34 cantos in engaging, modern language.
Mack
Transitions Jay Bernard, Sita Balani 1st April, pb, £15, 9781915743992 Sharp dialogue examining the moment of historical transition we are living through. Discusses wars, class shifts, ecological collapse and housing crises.
Chien Fou: Selected Writings Germaine Krull
1st February, pb, £30, 9781917651219
The wide-ranging writings of avant-garde photographer collected for the first time in this richly illustrated volume.
Water Over Thunder Larry Sultan 1st February, pb, £40, 9781917651363
Photographer’s extraordinary writings gathered for the first time alongside contact sheets, maquettes, unpublished photographs and more to form an intimate portrait of the artist at work.
My Center Is Not in the Solar System Etel Adnan 1st April, pb, £25, 9781917651530 Tender anthology of essays paying tribute to the life and work of the late Lebanese poet and painter Etel Adnan. Presented alongside a selection of her unpublished watercolour paintings.
Manchester University Press
Shakespeare’s Borrowed Feathers Darren Freebury-Jones
17th March, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781526177346
Uses the latest techniques in textual analysis to reveal the influence of a community of English playwrights on the works of William Shakespeare.
What’s in a Name? Susan Dwyer Amussen 24th March, hb, eb, £18.99, 9781526191908
Historian traces Shakespeare’s life through early modern England to show how a glover’s son could have become the world’s greatest author.
Oldcastle Books
Into the Badlands John L Williams 16th April, pb, eb, £16.99, 9780857306265
Blend of literary criticism, travelogue, biography and cultural history updated. This cult classic on America and its crime writers remains incisive and relevant today. Includes a new afterword by David Peace.
Oxford University Press
Silence: A Literary History Kate McLoughlin
23rd March, hb, £30, 9780192855626
Traces silences over 12 centuries of English literature, from the solitary states of exile in Anglo-Saxon poetry to searches for silence in our own Age of Pings.
Series
Oxford World’s Classics 14th May, pb, £10.99
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