New Books in Literary Studies

Steven Shaviro, “The Universe of Things: On Speculative Realism” (University of Minnesota Press, 2014)

2015/1/16

Steven Shaviro‘s new book is a wonderfully engaging study of speculative realism, new materialism, a

Steven Fielding, “A State of Play” (Bloomsbury Academic, 2014)

2014/12/12

To understand contemporary politics we must understand how it is represented in fiction. This is the

Joshua S. Mostow, “Courtly Visions: The Ise Stories and the Politics of Cultural Appropriation” (Brill, 2014)

2014/12/10

In pre-modern Japan, Ise monogatari (also known as the Ise Stories or Tales of Ise) was considered t

Beth Driscoll, “The New Literary Middlebrow: Readers and Tastemaking in the Twenty-First Century” (Palgrave-MacMillan, 2014)

2014/12/3

It is a cliche to suggest we are what we read, but it is also an important insight. In The New Liter

Melek Ortabasi, “The Undiscovered Country” (Harvard University Asia Center, 2014)

2014/12/3

Melek Ortabasi‘s new book explores the work of Yanagita Kunio (1875-1962), a writer, folk scholar, “

Wai-yee Li, “Women and National Trauma in Late Imperial Chinese Literature” (Harvard Asia Center, 2014)

2014/11/24

Wai-yee Li‘s new book explores writing around the Ming-Qing transition in seventeenth-century China,

Harleen Singh, “The Rani of Jhansi: Gender, History, and Fable in India” (Cambridge UP, 2014)

2014/11/18

The Rani of Jhansi was and is many things to many people. In her beautifully written book The Rani o

Bridget Conor, “Screenwriting: Creative labor and professional practice” (Routledge, 2014)

2014/11/18

Bridget Conor’s new book, Screenwriting: Creative Labor and Professional Practice (Routledge, 2014),

Lawrence Lipking, “What Galileo Saw: Imagining the Scientific Revolution” (Cornell UP, 2014)

2014/11/5

Lawrence Lipking‘s new book, What Galileo Saw: Imagining the Scientific Revolution (Cornell Universi

Shengqing Wu, “Modern Archaics: Continuity and Innovation in the Chinese Lyric Tradition, 1900-1937” (Harvard Asia Center, 2014)

2014/9/25

Shengqing Wu’s gorgeous new book begins by exploring the image of the treasure pagoda to introduce r

Nabil Matar, “Henry Stubbe and the Beginnings of Islam: The Originall and Progress of Mahometanism” (Columbia UP, 2013)

2014/9/18

In Henry Stubbe and the Beginnings of Islam: The Originall and Progress of Mahometanism (Columbia Un

William Chittick, “Divine Love: Islamic Literature and the Path to God” (Yale UP, 2013)

2014/9/2

Where does love come from and where will it lead us? Throughout the years various answers have been

Mark Rifkin, “Settler Common Sense: Queerness and Everyday Colonialism in the American Renaissance” (University of Minnesota Press, 2014)

2014/8/21

In Settler Common Sense: Queerness and Everyday Colonialism in the American Renaissance (University

Martin Joseph Ponce, “Beyond the Nation: Diasporic Filipino Literature and Queer Reading” (NYU Press, 2012)

2014/7/22

Martin Joseph Ponce‘s recently published book, Beyond the Nation: Diasporic Filipino Literature and

Christina Laffin, “Rewriting Medieval Japanese Women” (University of Hawaii Press, 2013)

2014/7/15

Known primarily as a travel writer thanks to the frequent assignment of her Diary in high school his

Eric LeMay, “In Praise of Nothing: Essays, Memoir, and Experiments” (Emergency Press, 2014)

2014/6/13

Some people describe a lonesome highway or the middle of a desert town–even a state like Ohio–as “th

Lori Emerson, “Reading Writing Interfaces: From the Digital to the Bookbound” (University of Minnesota, 2014)

2014/6/12

How much do we really think about the technology that we spend so much time using? More specifically

Xiaojue Wang, “Modernity with a Cold War Face: Reimagining the Nation in Chinese Literature across the 1949 Divide” (Harvard UP, 2013)

2014/5/15

1949 was a crucial year for modern China, marking the beginning of Communist rule on the mainland an

Michael Saler, “As If: Modern Enchantment and the Literary Prehistory of Virtual Reality” (Oxford UP, 2012)

2014/5/12

In As If: Modern Enchantment and the Literary Prehistory of Virtual Reality (Oxford, 2012), historia

Lucy Hughes-Hallett, “Gabriele d’Annunzio: Poet, Seducer, and Preacher of War” (Knopf, 2013)

2014/4/27

Winner of the 2013 Samuel Johnson Prize, Lucy Hughes-Hallett‘s biography of Gabriele d’Annunzio is a

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