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Invisible Contrarian

Regna Darnell and Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz have assembled scholars to memorialize and celebrate the prescient vision and interdisciplinary contributions of the late Stephen O. Murray (1950–2019), who did pione…

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Ed Simon
Devil's Contract

"Lively . . . excoriating, eloquent . . . We are all Faustians now." — James Wood, The New Yorker A devilishly fascinating tour of the Faustian bargain through the ages, from brimstone to blues and beyon…

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Ed Simon
Devil's Contract

"Lively . . . excoriating, eloquent . . . We are all Faustians now." — James Wood, The New Yorker A devilishly fascinating tour of the Faustian bargain through the ages, from brimstone to blues and beyon…

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Mohamed Shafeeq Karinkurayil
The Gulf Migrant Archives in Kerala

The book studies various cultural aspects of the Gulf migrants in Kerala since the 1980s. It offers a detailed analysis by drawing from discussions in film studies, visual culture, and literary studies, w…

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Randy Malamud
Crash!

"Plane crashes are covered extensively but they are not analyzed very deeply, apart from the focused operations of media, government, and aviation-industry crash investigations. This is despite the volumi…

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Saul Noam Zaritt
A Taytsh Manifesto

A Taytsh Manifesto calls for a translational paradigm for Yiddish studies, and for the study of modern Jewish culture, that identifies-in Yiddish and beyond-how cultures intertwine, how they become implic…

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Saul Noam Zaritt
A Taytsh Manifesto

"This provocative book highlights the transnational role of Yiddish over the past hundred years. By emphasizing Yiddish's translational qualities, Zaritt powerfully reimagines the language outside the ter…

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Literature as Sound Studies

Identifies literature as a site of sonic invention and reconfiguration, contributing a range of terms, models, and methods for attending to sound.

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A Cultural History of Disability in the Long Nineteenth Century

The long 19th century-stretching from the start of the American Revolution in 1776 to the end of World War I in 1918-was a pivotal period in the history of disability for the Western world and the culture…

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A Cultural History of Disability in the Modern Age

If eugenics -- the science of eliminating kinds of undesirable human beings from the species record -- came to overdetermine the late 19th century in relation to disability, the 20th century may be best c…

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A Cultural History of Disability in the Long Eighteenth Century

18th century philosopher Edmund Burke wrote, 'deformity is opposed, not to beauty, but to the complete, common form. If one of the legs of a man be found shorter than the other, the man is deformed; becau…

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A Cultural History of Disability in the Renaissance

In Renaissance humanism, difference was understood through a variety of paradigms that rendered particular kinds of bodies and minds disabled. A Cultural History of Disability in the Renaissance, covering…

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A Cultural History of Disability in Antiquity

Though there was not even a word for, or a concept of, disability in Antiquity, a considerable part of the population experienced physical or mental conditions that put them at a disadvantage. Drawing on …

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A Cultural History of Disability in the Middle Ages

The Middle Ages was an era of dynamic social transformation, and notions of disability in medieval culture reflected how norms and forms of embodiment interacted with gender, class, and race, among other …

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The Oxford Handbook of Soviet Underground Culture

The Oxford Handbook of Soviet Underground Culture is the first comprehensive English-language volume covering a history of Soviet artistic and literary underground. In forty-four chapters, an internationa…

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Ellena Savage
Blueberries

'I mean who cares about opinions, gossip, whatever, when bodies are so vulnerable, in search only of love and breath.' Brilliant young writer Ellena Savage explores Portuguese police stations and Portlan…

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Christopher Nealon
Infinity for Marxists

Breaking from half a century of postmodernist readings of poetry, and bypassing the false divide between formalist and historicist criticism, these essays chart a path toward a new Marxist poetics. In th…

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Jane Custance Baker
Fear and Clothing: Dress in English Detective Fiction Between the First and Second World Wars

Through analyzing dress in detective fiction, Fear and Clothing reveals a cultural history of identity affected by the social upheaval caused by war. In-depth analysis of interwar publications by a compre…

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Mel Stanfill
Fandom Is Ugly

"In theory, fans are people who love something, so why, across cases from comic books to TV shows to YouTube to politicians to fan fiction, do fans engage in large-scale social media harassment to express…

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Joel J Miller
The Idea Machine

Books preserve ideas, yes, but they also provoke new one- they are true tools for thinking. In Tools of Endless Invention, Joel J. Miller shows that books are one of the most important but overlooked fact…

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