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Books
The Messenger
Stephanie Pippin
In thrilling poems of metamorphosis and birth, death and dissolution, Stephanie Pippin’s debut collection returns us to a world unshorn of wildness.
After Translation
Ignacio Infante
Translation--from both a theoretical and practical point of view--articulates differing but interconnected modes of circulation in the work of writers originally from different geographical areas of transatlantic encounter, such as Europe, Latin A
Vanishing Paradise: Art and Exoticism in Colonial Tahiti
Elizabeth C. Childs
In the late nineteenth century Tahiti embodied Western ideas of an earthly Paradise, a primitive utopia distant geographically and culturally from the Gilded Age or Belle Epoque.
Hawthorne’s Habitations: A Literary Life
Robert Milder
The first literary/biographical study of Hawthorne's full career in almost forty years, Hawthorne's Habitations presents a self-divided man and writer strongly attracted to reality for its own sake and remarkably adept at rendering it yet
Li Zhi, Confucianism, and the Virtue of Desire
Pauline C. Lee
A philosophical analysis of the work of one of the most iconoclastic thinkers in Chinese history, Li Zhi, whose ethics prized spontaneous expression of genuine feelings. Li Zhi (1527–1602) was a bestselling author with a devoted readership.
German Writing, American Reading: Women and the Import of Fiction, 1866-1917
Lynne Tatlock
In postbellum America, publishers vigorously reprinted books that were foreign in origin, and Americans thus read internationally even at a moment of national consolidation.
Show Boat: Performing Race in an American Musical
Todd Decker
Show Boat: Performing Race in an American Musical tells the full story of the making and remaking of the most important musical in Broadway history.