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The Chinese Tragedy of King Lear

Infinity for Marxists: Essays on Poetry and Capital

All About You

The Pedro Gorino

Ethiopia Unbound: A Critical Edition

After Marx: Literature, Theory, and Value in the Twenty-First Century

Joy of the Worm: Suicide and Pleasure in Early Modern English Literature

The Critique of Nonviolence: Martin Luther King, Jr., and Philosophy

Hold It Real Still: Clint Eastwood, Race, and the Cinema of the American West

Shelter: A Black Tale of Homeland, Baltimore

Phenomenal Blackness: Black Power, Philosophy, and Theory

The New Modernist Studies

The African Novel of Ideas

Inventions of Nemesis: Utopia, Indignation, and Justice

On Not Being Someone Else

The Shore

Black Land: Imperial Ethiopianism and African America

Americanist Approaches to The Book of Mormon by Prof. Jared Hickman in Publication

Out of Context: The Uses of Modernist Fiction

Oliverio Girondo, Decals: Complete Early Poems

Intransitive Encounter: Sino-U.S. Literatures and the Limits of Exchange

Anti-Music: Jazz and Racial Blackness in German Thought Between the Wars

The Poetry of the Americas: From Good Neighbors to Countercultures

The Art of Confession: The Performance of Self from Robert Lowell to Reality TV

Chester B. Himes: A Biography

Good Form: The Ethical Experience of the Victorian Novel

From Literacy to Literature: England, 1300-1400

Black Prometheus

Kafka’s Blues: Figurations of Racial Blackness in the Construction of an Aesthetic

South African Literature’s Russian Soul: Narrative Forms of Global Isolation

Heteronomy

Rhetorics of Literacy: The Cultivation of American Dialect Poetry

The Melancholy Assemblage: Affect and Epistemology in the English Renaissance

Abolitionist Places

My Father’s Name: A Black Virginia Family after the Civil War

The Matter of Capital: Poetry and Crisis in the American Century

The Indignant Generation: A Narrative History of African American Writers and Critics, 1934-1960

War at a Distance: Romanticism and the Making of Modern Wartime

Plummet

Strangers in the Land: Blacks, Jews, Post-Holocaust America

Howards End, A Longman Cultural Edition

King’s Dream: The Legacy of Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” Speech

The Burdens of Perfection: On Ethics and Reading in Nineteenth-Century British Literature

Fateful Beauty: Aesthetic Environments, Juvenile Development, and Literature, 1860-1960

The Grounds of English Literature

Middle English Literature: A Cultural History

Throbbing Gristle’s Twenty Jazz Funk Greats

Black Fascisms: African-American Literature and Culture between the Wars

Milton and Toleration

Bad Modernisms

The Hammers of Creation: Folk Culture in Modern African-American Fiction

Literature and Dissent in Milton’s England

Foundlings: Lesbian and Gay Historical Emotion before Stonewall

The Making of Chaucer’s English: A Study of Words

Solid Objects: Modernism and the Test of Production

To Wake the Nations: Race in the Making of American Literature

Sexualities in Victorian Britain

Novels behind Glass: Commodity Culture and Victorian Narrative

At the Limits of Romanticism: Essays in Cultural, Feminist, and Materialist Criticism

Romantic Correspondence: Women, Politics and the Fiction of Letters

Faulkner: The House Divided