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The Best TechnologyWriting 2010Edited by Julian Dibbell
The iPad. The Kindle. Twitter. Whenthe Best Technology Writing series wasinaugurated in 2005, these technologiesdid not exist. Now they dene our 21st-century lives. The essays gathered hereregister our intense and complicatedascination with digital media.
The Best Technology WritingPaper 2010 352 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16558-6 $17.95
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The GlatsteinChroniclesJacob GlatsteinEdited and with an Introductionby Ruth Wisse; Translated by MaierDeshell and Norbert Guterman
This seminal American work rom theYiddish literary canon, in a restoredEnglish edition, oers the luminousnarrative o the authors journey home
to his Polish birthplace.New Yiddish Library SeriesPaper 2010 432 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-09514-2 $20.00
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OblomovIvan GoncharovTranslated by Marian Schwartz
Translator Marian Schwartz breathes
new lie into Ivan Goncharovs masterulnovel, replete with wry wit and inge-nious critique o nineteenth-centuryRussian aristocracy.
Paper 2010 576 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16228-8 $16.95
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The Havana HabitGustavo Prez Firmat
From the acclaimed poet and critic,an aectionate examination o Cuba
in Americas cultural imagination.Through books, advertisements, travelguides, lms, and music, writer andscholar Gustavo Prez Firmat demon-strates the infuence o the island onalmost two centuries o American lie.
Cloth 2010 256 pp. 19 scattered b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14132-0 $25.00
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Cuban FiestasRoberto Gonzlez Echevarra
A luminous history o Cubas mostdynamic and dening rituals and theever improvisational character o Cubanculture. Roberto Gonzlez Echevarramasterully exposes the distinctiveelements o the esta cubana that givedepth and coherence to more than twocenturies o Cuban cultural lie.
Cloth 2010 376 pp. 4 b/w + 17 color illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16706-1 $35.00
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C. S. Lewiss LostAeneidArms and the Exile
Edited by A. T. Reyes
In C. S. Lewiss Lost Aeneid, classicsscholar Andres Reyes presents anextraordinary literary discoveryrag-ments o Lewiss lyrical translation o
Virgils epic poem, which were rescuedrom a bonre.
Available in April 2011Cloth 2011 184 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16717-7 $27.50
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To DoA Book o Alphabets andBirthdays
Gertrude Stein
With illustrations by Giselle Potterand an introduction byTimothy Young
The rst ever illustrated edition o avant-garde writer Gertrude Steins whimsicalchildrens book.
Available in May 2011Published in association with the BeineckeRare Book and Manuscript LibraryCloth 2011 120 pp. 28 color illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17097-9 $25.00
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The Works o SamuelJohnsonVolumes 21-23: The Lives o the Poets
Samuel JohnsonEdited by John H. Middendor
The Lives o the Poetswas the crowningachievement o Samuel Johnsons rich and
varied literary lie. Initially planned as aseries o rapid-re preaces introducing
separate volumes on English poets, John-sons project evolved into a comprehensive
biographical and critical survey o Englishpoetry rom the time o Cowley to thetime o Gray. This careully researchedthree-volume edition oLivespresents adenitive text refecting Johnsons nal
wishes or its wording, accompanied bynotes o value both to general readers andspecialists.
The Yale Edition o the Works o SamuelJohnson
Cloth 2010 1,696 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12314-2 $350.00
Literature
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The Margellos World Republic of Letters
NewAdonisSelected Poems
AdonisTranslated by Khaled Mattawa
Born in Syria in 1930, Adonis is one othe most celebrated poets o the Arabic-speaking world. His poems have earnedinternational acclaim, and his infuenceon Arabic literature has been likened tothat o T. S. Eliots on English-language
verse. This volume serves as the rstcomprehensive survey o Adoniss work,allowing English readers to admirethe arc o a remarkable literary careerthrough the labors o the poets ownhandpicked translator, Khaled Mattawa.
Cloth 2010 432 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15306-4 $30.00
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CelestinaFernando de RojasA timeless story o love, morality, andtragedy, Fernando de Rojass Celestinais a classic o Spanish literature. Secondonly to Don Quixotein its culturalimportance, Rojass dramatic dialoguepresents the elaborate tale o a star-crossed courtship between the youngnobleman Calisto and the beautiulmaiden Melibea in teenth-centurySpain. Their unorgettable saga plays outin vibrant exchanges, presented here in a
brilliant new translation by award-win-ning translator Margaret Sayers Peden.
Paper 2011 224 pp. 21 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14199-3 $16.00Cloth 2009 288 pp. 21 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14198-6 $24.00
NewFuenteovejunaLope de VegaTranslated by G. J. Racz; With anIntroduction by Roberto GonzalezEchevarria
Written in 1614, Fuenteovejunacenterson the decision o an entire village toadmit to the premeditated murder oa tyrannical ruler. Translator G. J. Raczpreserves the nuanced voice and struc-ture o Lope de Vegas text in this rstEnglish translation in analogicalmeter and rhyme. Roberto GonzlezEchevarra surveys the history oFuenteovejuna, as well as Lopesenormous literary output and indeliblecultural imprint. Raczs compellingtranslation and Gonzlez Echevarrasrich ramework bring this timelessGolden Age drama alive or a newgeneration o readers and perormers.
Cloth 2010 144 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16385-8 $26.00
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Hocus BogusRomain Gary writing as mile AjarTranslated by David Bellos
By the early 1970s, Romain Gary hadestablished himsel as one o Francesmost popular and prolic novelists,
journalists, and memoirists. In Pseudo,brilliantly translated by David Bellos
as Hocus Bogus, the struggle to assertand deny authorship is part o a widerprotest against suering and univer-sal hypocrisy. Playing with novelisticcategories and authorial voice, this workis a powerul testimony to the powero languageto express, to amuse, todeceive, and ultimately to speak dicultpersonal truths.
Cloth 2010 224 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14976-0 $25.00
NewSelected LyricsTheophile GautierTranslated by Norman R. Shapiro
In his ABC o Reading, Ezra Poundbegins his short list o nineteenth-century French poets to be studied withThophile Gautier. Widely esteemed bygures as diverse as Charles Baudelaire,the Goncourt brothers, Gustave Flaubert,Oscar Wilde, Henry James, and T. S. Eliot,Gautier was one o the nineteenth centu-rys most prominent French writers. Thisgenerous sampling not only succeeds in
bringing these poems into English butalso rediscovers them, renewing them inthe process o translation.
Cloth 2011 552 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16433-6 $35.00
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The Wind rom the
PlainA TrilogyYashar KemalTranslated by Thilda Kemal
In the Wind From the Plain Trilogy,acclaimed Turkish novelist Yashar Kemaluses his powerul skills as a storyteller toconjure a vanishing way o lie. ThroughThilda Kemals skilled translation,the trilogy will now reach an English-language audience in one comprehensiveedition.
Available in May 2011Paperback with Slipcase 2011ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17039-9 $25.00
The Cecile and Theodore Margellos World Republic o Letters series identies works o cultural and artistic signicancepreviously overlooked by translators and publishers, canonical works o literature and philosophy needing new trans-lations, as well as important contemporary authors whose work has not yet been translated into English. The series isdesigned to bring to the English-speaking world leading poets, novelists, essayists, philosophers, and playwrights romEurope, Latin America, Arica, Asia, and the Middle East, to stimulate international discourse and creative exchange.
For more informationon this series, visit
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Mozarts Third BrainGran SonneviTranslation, Preace, and Notes byRika Lesser; Foreword by RosannaWarren
Through the keen eye o award-winningtranslator Rika Lesser, Gran Sonnevisrevelatory long-orm poem on the in-ner workings o human consciousnesscomes to lie or the English reader.
Selected or Honorable Mention, TheBest o 2009: Booksellers Choice by PeterPhilbrook, Barnes & Noble Review; Final-ist or the 2010 PEN Literary Awards inthe Poetry in Translation category givenby the PEN American Center
Cloth 2009 240 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14580-9 $25.00
Five Spice StreetCan Xue, Translated by KarenGernant and Chen Zeping
Chinese author Can Xues Five SpiceStreetstands out as one o the mostastonishing novels written in anylanguage over the last twenty years. Therst o Xues ull-length works to betranslated into English, this compelling
book explores a secret that takes on a lie
o its own as neighbors speculate, argue,indulge their antasies, and reveal theirdeepest anxieties.
Cloth 2009 352 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12227-5 $25.00
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A Little Book oLanguageDavid Crystal
With a language disappearing every twoweeks and neologisms springing upalmost daily, an understanding o theorigins and currency o language hasnever seemed more relevant. In thischarming narrative history, expertlinguist David Crystal proves why thestory o language deserves retelling.
Available in April 2011Paper 2011 272 pp. 40 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17082-5 $17.00Cloth 2010 272 pp. 40 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15533-4 $25.00
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Why TranslationMattersEdith Grossman
Why Translation Mattersargues or thecultural importance o translation andor a more encompassing and nuancedappreciation o the translators role.
Why X Matters SeriesPaper 2010 160 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17130-3 $16.00Cloth 2010 160 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12656-3 $24.00
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On the Death and Lieo LanguagesClaude Hagge
Translated by Jody GladdingIn this timely book, Claude Hagge, arenowned linguist and leading Frenchpublic intellectual, ranges over all conti-nents and language amilies to uncovernot only how languages die, but alsohow they can be revitalized.
An Editions Odile Jacob BookPaper 2011 384 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16787-0 $20.00Cloth 2009 384 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13733-0 $30.00
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CyclopsRanko MarinkovicTranslated by Vlada Stojiljkovic;Edited by Ellen Elias-Bursac
In his semiautobiographical novel,Cyclops, Croatian writer RankoMarinkovic recounts the adventureso young theater critic Melkior Tresic,an archetypal antihero who decides tostarve himsel to avoid ghting in theront lines o World War II. A seminal
work o postwar Eastern Europeanliterature, Cyclopsreveals a little-knownperspective on World War II rom
within the ormer Yugoslavia, one thathas never beore been available to anEnglish-speaking audience.
Cloth 2010 576 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15241-8 $35.00
SongbookThe Selected Poems o UmbertoSaba
Umberto SabaTranslated by George Hocheldand Leonard Nathan; Introduction,Notes, and Commentary by GeorgeHocheld
Umberto Sabas reputation in Italy andEurope has steadily grown since hisdeath in 1957, and today he is posi-tioned alongside Eugenio Montale andGiuseppe Ungaretti as one o the threemost important Italian poets o the rsthal o the twentieth century. Until now,however, English-language readers havehad access to only a ew examples o thispoets work. This bilingual volume atlast brings an extensive and exquisitelytranslated collection o Sabas poems to
English-speaking readers.Cloth 2009 592 pp. 1 b/w photoISBN 13: 978-0-300-13603-6 $35.00
The Margellos Series Language &Translation
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Poetry&Poetry Studies
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Selected PoemsGeorey Hill
The publication o an astonishing debutmore than ty years ago brought poet
Georey Hill immediate attention andacclaim. Selected Poemsrepresents amajor publishing event, the publicationo the rst representative selection oHills poetry, gathering work rom early
volumes to such recent books as TheOrchards o Syon and Without Title.
Paper 2010 288 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16430-5 $22.00Cloth 2009 288 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12156-8 $35.00
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TreasonPoems by Hdi Kaddour
Translated by Marilyn Hacker
Hdi Kaddours poetry arises rom ob-servation, rom situations both ordinaryand emblematico contemporary lie,o human stubbornness, human inven-tion, or human cruelty. With Treason,the award-winning poet and translatorMarilyn Hacker presents an English-speaking audience with the rst selected
volume o his work.
Cloth 2010 192 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14958-6 $26.00
Why Poetry MattersJay Parini
Clear, unpretentious, witty prose makeshis tour o poetry both entertaining
and enlightening. . . . English proessorslooking or a textbook that explainswhat poetry is and how students canbenet rom reading it should orderWhy Poetry Mattersor their classes.Henry Hart, Sewanee Review
Why X Matters SeriesPaper 2009 224 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15146-6 $14.00Cloth 2008 224 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12423-1 $24.00
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The Anthology o RapEdited by Adam Bradley andAndrew DuBoisForeword by Henry Louis Gates,
Jr.; Aterwords by Chuck D andCommon
From the Sing Song cadence o the slavepreachers to the emotional bravery oTupac Shakur to the clarity o QueenLatiah . . . or all the hearts and headsand voices who have still to be heard: WeNow Have an Encyclopedia. Good orus. Much needed. Much needed.Nikki Giovanni
This pioneering anthology bringstogether more than three hundred
lyrics written over thirty years, rom theold school to the golden age to thepresent day. Both a ans guide and aresource or the uninitiated, The Anthol-ogy o Rapshowcases the inventivenessand vitality o raps lyrical art.
Cloth 2010 920 pp. 5 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14190-0 $35.00
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Can Poetry Save theEarth?A Field Guide to Nature Poems
John Felstiner
In this thought-provoking book, JohnFelstiner explores the rich legacy o po-ems that take nature as their subject, andhe demonstrates their orce and beauty.In our own time o environmentalcrises, he contends, poetry has a uniquecapacity to restore our attention to ourenvironment in its imperiled state. Andthis, in turn, may just make us betterstewards o the earth.
Paper 2010 440 pp. 22 color + 41 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16813-6 $20.00Cloth 2009 440 pp. 22 color + 41 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13750-7 $35.00
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Radial SymmetryKatherine LarsonForeword by Louise Gluck
Katherine Larson is the winner o
the 2010 Yale Series o Younger PoetsCompetition. With Radial Symmetry,she has created a transcendent body opoems that fourish in the liminal spacesthat separate scientic inquiry romempathic knowledge, astute observationrom sublime witness.
Available in April 2011Yale Series o Younger PoetsPaper 2011 96 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16920-1 $18.00Cloth 2011 96 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16919-5 $35.00
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JuveniliaKen ChenForeword by Louise Gluck
Wry, emotionally piercing, and exhila-ratingly modern, Ken ChensJuvenilia,the 2009 winner o the annual YaleYounger Poets competition, creates
a new category in American poetrythrough its chronicling o adolescence,the immigrant amily, and heartbreak.
Yale Series o Younger PoetsPaper 2010 104 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16008-6 $18.00Cloth 2010 104 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16007-9 $30.00
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Books &Reading
New
The Book in theRenaissanceAndrew Pettegree
A groundbreaking study o the ascinat-ing world o books in the rst great ageo print, rom 14501600.
Cloth 2010 440 pp. 69 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11009-8 $40.00
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Ex LibrisThe Art o Bookplates
Martin Hopkinson
This handsome book celebrates book-plates and the artists who have createdthem, rom Albrecht Drer to EdwardBurne-Jones. Illustrated with 100 keyexamples o ex libris art, the volumetraces the evolution o bookplate designin Europe and beyond.
Available in June 2011PB-with Flaps 2011 112 pp.100 color illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17163-1 $15.00
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Reading MattersFive Centuries o DiscoveringBooks
Margaret Willes
This entertaining journey through vecenturies o acquiring, reading, andenjoying books looks at a wide rangeo collectors, including Samuel Pepysand Thomas Jeerson, and those whomarketed and sold them their books.
Paper 2010 304 pp. 90 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16404-6 $22.00Cloth 2008 304 pp. 90 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12729-4 $30.00
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Too Much to KnowManaging Scholarly Inormationbeore the Modern Age
Ann M. Blair
Long beore the modern era scholarscomplained o the overabundanceo books and developed techniquesor selecting, sorting, and storinginormation on a large scale. Thisintriguing book examines inormationmanagement in pre-modern contexts
with a special ocus on the impact oprinting in Europe in the sixteenth andseventeenth centuries.
Cloth 2010 416 pp. 31 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11251-1 $45.00
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The Strawberry HillPress and its PrintingHouseStephen Clarke
Horace Walpoles Strawberry HillPress, ounded in 1757, is the mostcelebrated o the early English private
presses, unique or the importance othe books, pamphlets, and ephemerait produced. This illustrated study othe Press draws on a remarkable arrayo surviving images o the PrintingHouse, many o them newly discoveredand previously unstudied. But morethan that, this book provides an origi-nal and sustained analysis o Walpolesextraordinary literary endeavor, and othe complex variety o purposes thatthe Press ullled. The volume not onlyassesses all known images to discover
what they can tell us about WalpolesPress, but also reveals that, quiteunexpectedly, a large part o WalpolesPrinting House survives to this day.
Available in April 2011Distributed or the Lewis Walpole LibraryCloth 2011 152 pp. 44 color illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17040-5 $85.00
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A Reader on ReadingAlberto Manguel
When the world becomes incompre-hensible . . . when we eel unguided and
bewildered, we seek a place in whichcomprehension (or aith in compre-hension) has been set down in words.Thus writes internationally acclaimedauthor Alberto Manguel in the thirty-nine refections on the joy and solaceo literature that make up A Reader onReading. For Manguel, the activity oreading, in its broadest sense, denesour species. In A Reader on Reading, thenarratives o Jonah, Homer, and Dante;topics ranging rom Pinocchio to com-ics, rom Borges to Che Guevara; and
especially Lewis Carrolls Alicebooks,guide Manguels nuanced understandingo himsel and the world.
Paper available in June 2011Paper 2011 320 pp. 12 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17208-9 $18.00Cloth 2010 320 pp. 12 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15982-0 $27.50
The Library at NightAlberto Manguel
Inspired by the process o creating alibrary or his teenth-century homenear the Loire, in France, AlbertoManguel, the acclaimed writer on booksand reading, has taken up the subjecto libraries. Libraries, he says, havealways seemed to me pleasantly madplaces, and or as long as I can remem-
ber Ive been seduced by their labyrin-thine logic. In this personal, deliberatelyunsystematic, and wide-ranging book,he oers a captivating meditation on themeaning o libraries.
Bronze medal winner o the 2008 Book o theYear Award in the category o Architecture,presented by ForeWord magazine
Paper 2009 400 pp. 76 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15130-5 $17.00Cloth 2008 384 pp. 76 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13914-3 $27.50
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Literary Studies/Literary Criticism
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The Anatomy o InfuenceLiterature as a Way o Lie
Harold Bloom
Literary criticism, as I attempt to practice it, writes Harold Bloom in TheAnatomy o Infuence, is in the rst place literary, that is to say, personal andpassionate.
For more than hal a century, Bloom has shared his proound knowledge othe written word with students and readers. In this, his most comprehensiveand accessible study o infuence, Bloom leads us through the labyrinthinepaths which link the writers and critics who have inormed and inspired himor so many years.
Available in April 2011Cloth 2011 384 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16760-3 $32.50
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The Puritan Originso the American SelSacvan Bercovitchwith a new preace by the author
Mr. Bercovitchs subject is the develop-ment o the concept o American identi-ty; his method is comparatism to speciythe uniqueness o that development;and his discussion, centering upon theinteraction o language, myth, and soci-ety, explores the Puritan achievement inits broadest cultural context.
Available in February 2011Paper 2011 260 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17241-6 $22.00
Sex and Religion inthe BibleCalum Carmichael
In this unique book, one o the mostoriginal voices in biblical studies todayocuses on the themes o marriage,sexuality, ertility, impurity, creation,and love in the Bible to illuminate theremarkable subtlety and sophisticationo biblical views about sex and religion.
Cloth 2010 224 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15377-4 $50.00
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In the DemonsBedroomYiddish Literature and the EarlyModern
Jeremy DauberThis important study is the rst to oera sustained look at a variety o earlymodern Yiddish masterworks, payingparticular attention to their treatmento supernatural themes and beings.
Cloth 2010 416 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14175-7 $85.00
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Thinking in CirclesAn Essay on Ring CompositionMary Douglas
In this controversial book, social anthro-pologist Mary Douglas argues that manyamous antique texts are misunderstoodand others have been dismissed becausethey employ ring composition, a literarystyle unamiliar today. She explores ringcomposition across cultures and examinesits unction in the Iliad, the Bibles Book oNumbers, and Tristram Shandy.
Selected by as an Outstanding AcademicTitle or 2007 by ChoiceMagazine
The Terry Lectures SeriesPaper 2010 192 pp. 14 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16785-6 $24.00Cloth 2007 192 pp. 14 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11762-2 $35.00
Grand StrategiesLiterature, Statecrat, and WorldOrder
Charles HillFrom the man on whom nothing waslost, a uniquely engaging guide to the ele-ments o statecrat, using literature andinternational relations through spiritedinterpretations o classic literary works.
Available in April 2011Paper 2011 384 pp. 5 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17133-4 $18.00Cloth 2010 384 pp. 5 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16386-5 $27.50
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Ralph Ellison inProgressFrom Invisible Man to ThreeDays Beore the Shooting . . .
Adam Bradley
Ralph Ellison in Progressis the rstbook to survey the expansive geographyo Ellisons unnished novel while
re-imaging the more amiliar, but otenmisunderstood, territory oInvisibleMan. It works rom the premise thatunderstanding Ellisons process ocomposition imparts important truthsnot only about the author himsel butabout race, writing, and American iden-tity. Drawing on thousands o pages oEllisons journals, typescripts, computerdrats, and handwritten notes, manynever beore studied, Adam Bradleyargues or a shit in scholarly emphasisthat moves a greater share o the weight
o Ellisons literary legacy to the lastorty years o his lie and to the novel helet orever in progress.
Cloth 2010 256 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14713-1 $27.50
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Literary Studies/Literary Criticism
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Blake and the BibleChristopher Rowland
A leading theologian explores the wayWilliam Blake approaches the Bible and
uses it as a central theme in his workand thought.
Cloth 2011 320 pp. 32 b/w + 8 color illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11260-3 $50.00
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The Prison and theAmerican ImaginationCaleb Smith
How did a nation so amously associ-ated with reedom become internation-ally identied with imprisonment? Inthis timely and provocative study, CalebSmith argues that the dehumanizationinherent in captivity has always been atthe heart o American civil society.
Winner o the 2009 Samuel and RonnieHeyman Prize or Outstanding ScholarlyPublication or Research, sponsored by theYale College Deans Oce
Paper available in April 2011Yale Studies in EnglishPaper 2011 272 pp. 4 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17149-5 $25.00Cloth 2009 272 pp. 4 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14166-5 $40.00
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Sacred RealismReligion and the Imagination inModern Spanish Narrative
Nol Valis
In this bold and compelling book,leading Spanish literature scholar NolValis re-examines Catholicisms role inthe modern Spanish novel rom the lateeighteenth to mid-twentieth century.
Cloth 2010 368 pp. 10 scattered b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15234-0 $65.00
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The Medieval HeartHeather Webb
In this debut, Heather Webb studiesmedieval notions o the heart to explore
the lost circulations o an era whenindividual lives and bodies were dened
by their extensions into the world ratherthan as sel-perpetuating, sel-limitedentities.
Cloth 2010 256 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15393-4 $55.00
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Leo Tolstoy and the
Alibi o NarrativeJustin Weir
One hundred years ater his death,Tolstoy still inspires controversy with hisnotoriously complex narrative strategies.This original book explores how and
why Tolstoy has mystied interpret-ers and oers a new look at his mostamous works o ction.
Russian Literature and Thought SeriesPaper 2011 304 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15384-2 $45.00
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Yale French Studies,Number 118/119Noeuds de memoire: Multi-directional Memory in PostwarFrench and Francophone Culture
Michael Rothberg, DebaratiSanyal, and Max Silverman,
Special EditorsThis volume ocuses on postwarapproaches to the past, the nature ocollective memory, and issues o culturalmemory in a transnational age.
Yale French Studies SeriesPaper 2010 248 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11885-8 $30.00
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A New Handbook oLiterary TermsDavid Mikics
Lively and learned, this up-to-dateguide to literary words and concepts isan essential volume or every studentand reader o literature. David Mikicssketches the derivations and history oeach term, oers useul bibliographicsuggestions or most entries, and clariesthe oten conusing terrain o literarytheory today.
Selected as a 2008 AAUP University PressBook or Public and Secondary SchoolLibraries
Paper 2010 368 pp.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16431-2 $17.00Cloth 2007 368 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-10636-7 $37.00
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True FriendshipGeorey Hill, Anthony Hecht, andRobert Lowell Under the Sign oEliot and Pound
Christopher Ricks
True Friendshiplooks closely at threeoutstanding poets o the past hal-centuryGeorey Hill, Anthony Hecht,and Robert Lowellthrough the lens otheir relation to their two predecessors ingenius, T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound.
Paper available in April 2011The Anthony Hecht Lectures in theHumanities SeriesPaper 2011 272 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17146-4 $18.00Cloth 2010 272 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13429-2 $28.00
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ModernismMichael Levenson
In this wide-ranging and originalaccount o Modernism, Michael
Levenson presents a new understand-ing o the movement, the surroundingculture, and the relationship betweenindividual artists and the audiences that
both supported and opposed them.
Available in June 2011Cloth 2011 320 pp. 13 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11173-6 $40.00
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Modernist AmericaArt, Music, Movies, and theGlobalization o American Culture
Richard Pells
This revelatory look at the popular beliethat the cultural relationship betweenthe United States and the world has beenone-sided reveals how oreign infuencesabsorbed by American artists during theModernist movement actually created aglobal culture.
Available in March 2011
Cloth 2011 512 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11504-8 $35.00
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Modernism in theMagazinesAn Introduction
Robert Scholes andCliord Wulman
I modernism began in the magazines,as Robert Scholes and Cliord Wulmanargue, then the study o modern cultureshould begin with these publications.Scholes and Wulman also insist thatscholars must investigate their contentsas a whole to appreciate their ullsignicance.
Cloth 2010 352 pp. 42 b/w + 8 color illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14204-4 $40.00
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Gulag VoicesAn Anthology
Edited by Anne Applebaum
Pulitzer Prizewinning author Anne
Applebaum brings together a uniquecollection o Gulag survivors memoirs.
Annals o Communism SeriesCloth 2011 224 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15320-0 $25.00
New in paper
SibeliusAndrew Barnett
Inormed by a wealth o inormation that
has come to light in recent years, this en-gaging biography tells the complete storyo the lie and work o Finnish composerJean Sibelius.
Selected by Choicemagazine as anOutstanding Academic Title rom 2008
Paper 2010 464 pp. 16 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16397-1 $28.00Cloth 2007 464 pp. 16 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11159-0 $40.00
NewAlred Kazins JournalsSelected and Edited by Richard M. Cook
Selected by Kazins acclaimed biographer,an enlightening collection o the private
writings o one o the twentieth centurysmost ascinating intellectuals.
Available in May 2011Cloth 2011 512 pp. 9 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14203-7 $45.00
Alred KazinA Biography
Richard M. Cook
Selected as one o the best books o 2008by the Washington Postin the Biographycategory
Cloth 2008 464 pp. 20 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11505-5 $35.00
Modernism Biography&Memoir
New
Above the BattleeldModernism and the PeaceMovement in Britain, 19001918
Grace Brockington
The early twentieth century is usuallyremembered as an era o rising nation-alism and military hostility, culminatingin the disaster o the First World War.Yet it was marked also by a vigorouscampaign against war, a movement thatcalled into question the authority o thenation-state. This book explores the roleo artists and writers in the ormationo a modern, secular peace movementin Britain, and the impact o ideasabout positive peace on their artisticpractice. From Grace Brockingtons
meticulous study emerges a rich and in-terconnected world o Hellenistic dance,symbolist stage design, marionettes,and book illustration, produced inconscious opposition to the values o anincreasingly regimented and militaristicsociety, and radically dierent romexisting narratives o British wartimeculture.
Available in February 2011Paul Mellon Centre or Studies inBritish ArtCloth 2011 244 pp.90 b/w + 40 color illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15195-4 $75.00
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What Ever Happenedto Modernism?Gabriel Josipovici
A personal, penetrating, and polemicalaccount o what Modernism is, this
book explores the literature, ne art,and music that it has inspiredandhow contemporary literary writing hasailed it.
Cloth 2010 224 pp. 6 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16577-7 $28.00
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Gustav MahlerA Lie in Crisis
Stuart Feder
In this sophisticated biography o
Gustav Mahler, Stuart Feder exploresthe ways in which the composer chan-neled the painul crises o his lie intohis greatest musical works. The book isat once a sophisticated considerationo Mahlers work and a psychologicallyacute portrait o the lie events thatshaped it.
Paper 2010 364 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17034-4 $37.00
NewGustav MahlerJens Malte FischerTranslated by Stewart Spencer
Lauded by scholars as a landmark workand published or the rst time in Eng-lish to coincide with the centenary oMahlers death, this is the best-sourcedand most balanced biography availableabout the celebrated composer.
Available in July 2011Cloth 2011 700 pp. 16 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13444-5 $50.00
New in paper
Cosima WagnerThe Lady o Bayreuth
Oliver HilmesTranslated by Stewart Spencer
In this meticulously researched book,Oliver Hilmes paints a ascinating and
revealing picture o the extraordinaryCosima Wagnerillegitimate daughtero Franz Liszt, wie o the conductorHans von Blow, then mistress andsubsequently wie o Richard Wagner.
Paper available in May 2011Paper 2011 354 pp. 30 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17090-0 $26.00Cloth 2010 354 pp. 30 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15215-9 $40.00
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Antony and CleopatraAdrian Goldsworthy
In this remarkable dual biography o thetwo great lovers o antiquity, preeminent
historian Adrian Goldsworthy goesbeyond myth and romance to create anuanced and historically acute portrayalo his subjects, set against the political
backdrop o their time. A history o liveslived intensely at a time when the world
was changing prooundly, the booktakes readers on a journey that crossescultures and boundaries rom ancientGreece and ancient Egypt to the RomanEmpire.
Cloth 2010 480 pp. 20 color illus + 14 mapsISBN 13: 978-0-300-16534-0 $35.00
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My Faraway OneSelected Letters o GeorgiaOKeee and Alred Stieglitz:Volume One, 19151933
Selected, annotated, and editedby Sarah Greenough
Published or the rst time, this anno-
tated selection o correspondence oersa rare and ascinating look into thepersonal and proessional lives o two othe most prominent artists in twentieth-century America.
Available in May 2011Published in association with the BeineckeRare Book and Manuscript LibraryCloth 2011 818 pp. 30 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16630-9 $39.95
New in paper
My Happiness Bears NoRelation to HappinessA Poets Lie in the PalestinianCentury
Adina HomanThis beautiully written biography o theinternationally renowned Palestinianpoet Taha oers a compelling portraito the man as well as a nuanced, deeplyhuman view o the tragedy o the Israeli-Palestinian confict.
Selected as one o ve Favorite Bookso the Year, Tom DEvelyn, ProvidenceJournal; Shortlisted or the 2010 JewishQuarterly Wingate Prize
Paper 2010 464 pp. 65 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16427-5 $20.00Cloth 2009 464 pp. 65 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14150-4 $27.50
New
Richard StraussA Musical Lie
Raymond Holden
The gited composer o a string omasterworks, Richard Strauss was also
a conductor o worldwide acclaim.This book is the rst to investigate howStrausss career as a conductor was deeplyentwined with his lie as a composer.
Available in May 2011Cloth 2011 288 pp. 16 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12642-6 $35.00
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Joseph BrodskyA Literary LieLev LoseTranslated by Jane Ann Miller
An intimate, penetrating study oBrodskys lie and work, written by hislielong riend, the eminent Russianliterary scholar Lev Lose.
Cloth 2011 352 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14119-1 $35.00
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Who Was JacquesDerrida?An Intellectual Biography
David Mikics
This book is the rst ull-scale appraisalo the lie and work o Jacques Derrida,one o the most infuential thinkers othe twentieth-century.
Paper 2010 296 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16811-2 $22.00Cloth 2009 296 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11542-0 $30.00
New
RavelA LieRoger Nichols
This new biography o Maurice Ravel(18751937), by one o the leadingscholars o nineteenth- and twentieth-century French music, is based on a
wealth o written and oral evidence,some newly translated and some derivedrom interviews with the composersriends and associates.
Cloth 2010 420 pp. 16pp. b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-10882-8 $40.00
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HoudiniArt and Magic
Brooke Kamin RapaportWith contributions by AlanBrinkley, Hasia R. Diner, Gabriel deGuzman, and Kenneth Silverman
A stunning visual history o the lie andcareer o Harry Houdini, tracing theperormers personal transormationsand his enduring infuence on contem-porary art and popular culture.
Published in association withThe Jewish MuseumPaper over Board 2010 280 pp.157 color + 45 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14684-4 $39.95
New
Adam SmithAn Enlightened Lie
Nicholas Phillipson
A ascinating book. . . . Adam Smith
nally has the biography that he de-serves, and it could not be more timely.Jerey Collins, Wall Street Journal
Adam Smith is celebrated all over theworld as the author oThe Wealth oNationsand the ounder o modern eco-nomics. This book shows the extent to
which The Wealth o Nationsand Smithsother great work, The Theory o MoralSentiments, were part o a larger schemeto establish a grand Science o Man,one o the most ambitious projects o
the European Enlightenment, which wasto encompass law, history, and aestheticsas well as economics and ethics, and
which was only hal complete on Smithsdeath in 1790.
The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and HistoryCloth 2010 368 pp. 4 b/w + 29 color illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16927-0 $32.50
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DiaryRichard SelzerSusan Cheever observed in a New YorkTimes Book Reviewappraisal o hismemoir Down from Troythat RichardSelzer cares more about truth thanconsequences . . . [and] immerses us inthe acts we all know but hate to admit.Selzers Diarypicks up roughly wherethe memoir leaves o, as his writinglie fourishes and surgical career ends.Stripped o the doctor-writers privilege
o [walking] about all day in the middleo a short story, Selzer shits his ocusto his interior lie. In Diary, the authorssuccesses and regrets, as well as thehumor and sadness that surround him,are revealed with the same empathy and
vividness that made him one o the greatdoctor-writers o modern literature.
Available in March 2011Cloth 2011 256 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12461-3 $28.00
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The DanceClaimed MeA Biography o Pearl Primus
Peggy and Murray Schwartz
The rst ull-scale biography o theseminal dancer, anthropologist, and edu-cator, who championed social and racialinjustices through her blazingly originalchoreography and perormances.
Available in May 2011Cloth 2011 320 pp. 33 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15534-1 $37.50
New in paper
Faulkner and LoveThe Women Who Shaped His ArtJudith L. Sensibar
This deeply moving and original portraito William Faulkner explores his threecrucial relationshipswith his black and
white mothers and with his wie. TheseSouthern women gave lie to Faulknersimagination, prooundly shaping hisemotional and psychological world.
Chosen as an Outstanding Academic Titleor 2009 by ChoiceMagazine; Finalist orthe 2009 Mareld Prize, National Awardor Arts Writing
Paper 2010 616 pp. 75 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16568-5 $28.00Cloth 2009 616 pp. 75 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11503-1 $40.00
Andrew MarvellThe Chameleon
Nigel Smith
The seventeenth-century poet AndrewMarvell (16211678) is one o the mostintriguing gures in English literature.Nigel Smiths pivotal biography providesan unparalleled look into Marvells lie,rom his early employment as a tutor andgentlemans companion to his suspiciousdeath, reputedly a politically ueledpoisoning.
Cloth 2010 416 pp. 16 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11221-4 $45.00
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The Magnicent MrsTennantThe Adventurous Lie o GertrudeTennant, Victorian Grande Dame
David Waller
This book brings to light the untoldstory o Mrs. Tennantclose riend oFlaubert, mother-in-law o the explorerStanley, and hostess o a glittering salonthat was a hub o European social,literary, and intellectual lie or nearlyhal a century.
Cloth 2009 308 pp. 40 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13935-8 $35.00
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Hank GreenbergThe Hero Who Didnt Want to Be One
Mark Kurlansky
New York Timesbest-selling author Mark Kurlanskydelivers the compelling lie story o Hank Greenberg, therst Jewish player elected into the Baseball Hall o Fame.
Available in March 2011Cloth 2011 224 pp. 1 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13660-9 $25.00
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SolomonThe Lure o Wisdom
Steven WeitzmanThis unconventional biography explores the surprisingrole the story o King Solomon has played in shapingWestern culture and what it has come to mean or Jews,Christians, and Muslims over the past two thousand
years.
Available in March 2011Cloth 2011 240 pp. 4 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13718-7 $25.00
New in paper
Charles DickensMichael Slater
This biography uncovers Dickens throughthe proession in which he excelled. Slater
explores the personal and emotional lie,but his core ocus is Dickens career as awriter and proessional author.
Selected as one o the Best Books o 2009Washington Post Book World
Paper available in May 2011Paper 2011 720 pp. 65 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17093-1 $23.00Cloth 2009 720 pp. 65 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11207-8 $35.00
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GalileoWatcher o the Skies
David Wootton
This provocative and penetrating new
biography o Galileo as author, inventor,and astronomer, reveals both his central-ity to the Scientic Revolution andthe Renaissance, and his godlessness,ailures, and obstinacy.
Cloth 2010 354 pp. 24 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12536-8 $35.00
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SarahThe Lie o Sarah Bernhardt
Robert Gottlieb
Mr. Gottliebs fuid style and lightly worn authority o-er a lucid and essential modern guide to the making ocelebrity, in an era beore the noun existed.NormanLebrecht, Wall Street Journal
Cloth 2010 256 pp. 94 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14127-6 $25.00
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Moses MendelssohnSage o Modernity
Shmuel FeinerTranslated by Anthony Berris
The German Socrates, Moses Mendelssohn(17291786) was the most infuential Jewish thinker othe eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Feiners bookis the rst that oers a ull, human portrait o this asci-nating manproviding a vivid sense o Mendelssohnsdaily lie as well as o his philosophical endeavors.
Cloth 2010 248 pp. 1 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16175-5 $25.00
This series o brie, interpretive biography is designed to illuminate the imprint o eminent Jewish gures uponliterature, religion, philosophy, politics, cultural and economic lie, and the arts and sciences. Subjects are paired withauthors to elicit lively, deeply inormed books that explore the breadth and complexity o Jewish experience romantiquity through the present.Jewish Livesis a partnership o Yale University Press and the Leon D. Black Foundation.
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Robert SchumannLie and Death o a Musician
John Worthen
Having scoured original sources to
uncover the truth o Robert Schumannslie, John Worthen now oers the rstreliable portrait o the enigmatic com-poser. Far rom a depressed and otenhelpless individual, Schumann emergesin this biography as an astute, witty, andimmensely determined creative genius
who composed some o the best musico his era.
A 2007 Top Seller in Music as compiledby YBP Library Services; Selected as a2008 AAUP University Press Book orPublic and Secondary School Libraries
Paper 2010 496 pp. 30 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16398-8 $26.00Cloth 2007 496 pp. 30 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11160-6 $40.00
New in paper
Rosenelds LivesFame, Oblivion, and the Furies oWriting
Steven J. Zipperstein
The prodigiously gited Isaac Roseneld,Saul Bellows closest riend and most
brilliant rival, died abruptly at 38, leav-ing his early promise unullled. This
book is the rst to explore the genius othis unjustly orgotten writer, his placein Jewish letters, and the cost o choos-ing a writers lie.
Finalist in the 2010 National Jewish BookAward in the Biography, Authobiography,and Memoir Category sponsored by theJewish Book Council
Paper available in March 2011Paper 2011 288 pp. 13 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17153-2 $20.00Cloth 2009 288 pp. 13 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12649-5 $27.50
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Just WordsLillian Hellman, Mary McCarthy,and the Failure o PublicConversation in America
Alan AckermanFocusing on Lillian Hellmans inamous1980 libel suit against Mary McCarthyor her scornul comments on The DickCavett Show, this book explores the roleso truth and lying in American publiclie and considers why civil discourseseems beyond our reach.
Available in June 2011Cloth 2011 256 pp. 2 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16712-2 $35.00
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The Surreal HouseEdited by Jane Alison
An exciting, stylish, and unexpectedexploration o the relationship betweensurrealism and the way we live.
Published in association with the BarbicanArt GalleryCloth 2010 352 pp. 300 color illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16576-0 $70.00
New in paper
DemobbedComing Home Ater World War Two
Alan Allport
This book tells a gripping tale thatsin danger o being lost to nationalmemory: the story o what reallyhappened when millions o Britishservicemen returned home ater the war.
Drawing on letters and diaries, and onnewspapers, reports, novels, and lms,Alan Allport illuminates the darkerside o the homecoming experienceor veterans, their amilies and Britishsociety at large.
Paper 2010 280 pp. 16 b/w plate sectionISBN 13: 978-0-300-16886-0 $20.00Cloth 2010 288 pp. 16 b/w plate sectionISBN 13: 978-0-300-14043-9 $38.00
New
Whispering CityRome and Its Histories
R. J. B. Bosworth
In this one-o-a-kind book, historian
Richard Bosworth draws upon hisexpertise in Italian pasts to explore themany layers o history ound within theEternal City.
Available in April 2011Cloth 2011 368 pp. 33 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11471-3 $35.00
New in paper
Foul BodiesCleanliness in Early America
Kathleen M. Brown
Brown has ramed an intriguing newarea o research and gathered a surpris-ingly rich source o textual evidence.Marvelous.Laurel Thatcher Ulrich,author oA Midwies Tale: The Lie oMartha Ballard, Based on Her Diary,1785-1812
Winner o the 2010 Lawrence W. LevineAward, presented by the Organizationo American Historians; Winner o the
2009 Society or Historians o the EarlyAmerican Republic Book Award
Paper available in February 2011Society and the Sexes in the Modern WorldPaper 2011 464 pp. 35 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17155-6 $30.00Cloth 2009 464 pp. 35 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-10618-3 $45.00
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MoonA Brie HistoryBernd Brunner
From the acclaimed author oBears, anentertaining, oten surprising culturalexamination o Earths moon, throughhistory, science, and literature, romancient times to the present.
Cloth 2010 304 pp. 93 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15212-8 $25.00
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BoyhoodsRethinking Masculinities
Ken Corbett
This groundbreaking reexamination o
male development shows masculinityto be more complex and varied than iscommonly expected.
Paper available in March 2011Paper 2011 288 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17121-1 $17.00Cloth 2009 288 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14984-5 $26.00
New in paper
The Social Lie oCoeeThe Emergence o the BritishCoeehouse
Brian Cowan
This book provides the denitiveaccount o the origins o coee drinkingand coeehouse society in Britain in theseventeenth century.
Winner o the Wallace K. Ferguson Prizeawarded by the Canadian HistoricalAssociation
Paper available in February 2011Paper 2011 378 pp. 43 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17122-8 $30.00Cloth 2005 378 pp. 43 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-10666-4 $45.00
New
Letters rom AmericaAlexis de TocquevilleEdited, Translated, and with an
Introduction by Frederick BrownThis book presents or the rst time thecomplete translated correspondenceo Tocqueville on his rst journey toAmerica in 1831. These remarkable let-ters contain the seeds o his later master-ul account o American democracy.
Cloth 2010 304 pp. 2 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15382-8 $28.00
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Atlas o theTransatlantic SlaveTrade
David Eltis and David RichardsonForeword by David Brion Davis;Aterword by David W. Blight
A monumental work, decades in themaking: the rst atlas to illustrate the en-tire scope o the transatlantic slave trade.
The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and HistoryCloth 2010 336 pp. 189 color maps;5 b/w + 36 color illus.; 61 color graphsISBN 13: 978-0-300-12460-6 $50.00
New in paper
Bite the Hand ThatFeeds YouEssays and Provocations
Henry FairlieEdited and with an introduction byJeremy McCarter; Foreword by LeonWieseltier
This book is the rst to collect the bestcolumns and essays o Henry Fairlie, the
colorul political and cultural commen-tator renowned or his brilliant style,original ideas, and earless criticism o thosein power on both sides o the Atlantic.
A New Republic BookPaper 2010 368 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16460-2 $20.00Cloth 2009 368 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12383-8 $30.00
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When London WasCapital o AmericaJulie Flavell
Julie M. Flavell re-creates the amous citysheyday as the center o an empire thatencompassed North America and theWest Indies.
Cloth 2010 320 pp. 36 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13739-2 $32.50
New
FruitlandsThe Alcott Family and Their Searchor Utopia
Richard Francis
This is the rst denitive account o Fruit-lands, one o historys most unsuccessul
but most signicantutopian experiments.It was established in Massachusetts in 1843
by Bronson Alcott and an Englishmancalled Charles Lane, under the watchulgaze o Emerson, Thoreau, and other NewEngland intellectuals.
Cloth 2010 344 pp. 20 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14041-5 $30.00
NewAmerican Glamourand the Evolution oModern ArchitectureAlice T. Friedman
Drawing upon architectural examplesranging rom Mies van der Rohes mono-lithic Seagram Building to Elvis Presleyssprawling Graceland estate, distinguishedarchitectural historian Alice Friedman
examines the rise o luxury and sophistica-tion in mid-century modern architectureand design.
Cloth 2010 272 pp. 125 b/w + 40 color illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11654-0 $65.00
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American GeorgicsWritings on Farming, Culture, andthe Land
Edited by Edwin C. Hagenstein,Sara M. Gregg, and Brian Donahue
A rich and evocative collection o agrarianwriting rom the past two centuries, refect-ing how shiting views on agriculture haveshaped American society, rom the rstEuropean settlers to the modern organicmovement.
Paper available in April 2011Cloth 2011 448 pp. 33 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13709-5 $35.00
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Butterfys SistersThe Geisha in Western Culture
Yoko Kawaguchi
In this ascinating and wide-ranging
book, Yoko Kawaguchi explores theWestern portrayal o Japanese womenand geishas in particularromthe mid-nineteenth century to thepresent day.
Cloth 2010 336 pp. 32 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11521-5 $45.00
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Blessed and Beautiul
Picturing the SaintsRobert Kiely
This book oers a powerul and search-ing meditation on the lives o the saintsand the images o them painted byRenaissance artists in Italy. Robert Kielys
beautiully written and thoughtul booktreats saints seriously as human religiousgures (not icons o perection),
brought to lie by great Italian paintingsin dialogue with scripture, legend, andpoetry.
Cloth 2010 288 pp. 130 color illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16277-6 $40.00
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The Age o DoubtTracing the Roots o OurReligious Uncertainty
Christopher Lane
By analyzing the parallel battles overaith and reason in the nineteenth cen-
tury and ours, scholar Christopher Lanemakes a case or the benets o religiousuncertainty.
Available in March 2011Cloth 2011 248 pp. 19 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14192-4 $26.00
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An Empire o IceScott, Shackleton, and the HeroicAge o Antarctic Science
Edward J. Larson
Published to coincide with the centenaryo the rst expeditions to reach theSouth Pole, An Empire o Icepresents aascinating new take on Antarctic explo-ration. Retold with added inormation,its the rst book to place the amed
voyages o Norwegian explorer RoaldAmundsen, his British rivals RobertScott and Ernest Shackleton, and othersin a larger scientic, social, and geopo-litical context. By ocusing on the largerpurpose, Edward Larson deepens ourappreciation o the explorers achieve-
ments, shares little-known stories, andshows what the Heroic Age o Antarcticdiscovery was really about.
Available in May 2011Cloth 2011 320 pp. 54 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15408-5 $28.00
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The Future o HistoryJohn Lukacs
For more than sixty years, John Lukacshas been writing, teaching, and readingabout the past. In this inspired volume,he turns his attention to the uture.Throughout The Future o History,Lukacs refects on his discipline,eloquently arguing that the writing andteaching o history are literary ratherthan scientic, comprising knowledgethat is neither wholly objective norsubjective. History at its best, he con-tends, is personal and participatory.
Available in April 2011Cloth 2011 200 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16956-0 $26.00
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The Encyclopedia oNew York CitySecond Edition
Edited by Kenneth T. Jackson
Dont live in New York City withoutit, visit New York without it, or eventhink about New York City without it.This endless cornucopia o resh andascinating inormation is essential andexhilarating. Native or itinerant, scholaror sightseer, you will relish it. The BigApple will never taste the same once
youve easted here. Ken Jackson hasmade a monumental contribution tothe endless story o the brash, beguiling,and bewildering city that has shaped
Americas imagination and destiny.Bill Moyers
This revised edition includes 800 newentries that help complete the story oNew York: rom Air Train to E-ZPass,rom September 11 to public order. Thenew material includes broader coverageo subject areas previously underservedas well as new maps and illustrations.
Cloth 2010 1,584 pp. 752 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11465-2 $65.00
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Tocqueville and HisAmericaArthur Kaledin
Arthur Kaledins groundbreaking bookon Alexis de Tocqueville oers an origi-nal combination o biography, characterstudy, and wide-ranging analysis oTocquevilles Democracy in America,
bringing new light to that classic work.
The author examines the relationbetween Tocquevilles complicatedinner lie, his sel-imagination, and hismoral thought, and the meaning o hisenduring writings, leading to a newunderstanding o Tocquevilles view odemocratic culture and democraticpolitics.
Available in June 2011Cloth 2011 480 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11931-2 $45.00
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Iphigenia in Forest HillsAnatomy o a Murder Trial
Janet Malcolm
She couldnt have done it and she must have done it. This is theenigma at the heart o Janet Malcolms riveting new book about amurder trial in the insular Bukharan-Jewish community o Forest Hills,Queens, that captured national attention. The deendant, MazoltuvBorukhova, a beautiul young physician, is accused o hiring an assassinto kill her estranged husband, Daniel Malakov, a respected orthodontist,in the presence o their our-year old child. The prosecutor calls it an acto vengeance: just weeks beore Malakov was killed in cold blood, he wasgiven custody o Michelle or inexplicable reasons. It is the Dickensianordeal o Borukhovas innocent child that drives Malcolms inquiry.
With the intellectual and emotional precision or which she is known,Malcolm looks at the triala contest between competing narra-
tivesrom every conceivable angle. It is the chasm between ourideals o justice and the human actors that infuence every trialromdivergent lawyering abilities to the nature o jury selection, the malle-ability o evidence, and the disposition o the judgethat is perhapsmost striking.
Available in March 2011Cloth 2011 168 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16746-7 $25.00
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Capital AairsLondon and the Making o thePermissive Society
Frank Mort
An arresting history o sex and politicsin London during the 1950s and 60sthat charts the course o modern Britishsociety and the birth o the so-calledpermissive society.
Cloth 2010 528 pp. 34 b/w + 8 color illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11879-7 $40.00
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The Citys End
Two Centuries o Fantasies, Fears,and Premonitions o New YorksDestruction
Max Page
Long beore 9/11, visions o the destruc-tion o New York City were a part oAmericas collective imagination. This
book investigates images o the citysend in literature and art to understand
why the destruction genre has beenpopular or two centuries and what ittells us about Americans, New Yorkers,
and the city itsel.Paper 2010 280 pp. 137 b/w + 24 color illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16446-6 $25.00Cloth 2008 280 pp. 137 b/w + 24 color illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11026-5 $37.50
New in paper
Mother o GodA History o the Virgin Mary
Miri Rubin
This sweeping, global history exploreshow the Virgin Mary, scarcely men-tioned in the Gospels, rose to becomeour most prominent emale gure.
Paper 2010 560 pp. 29 color illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16432-9 $26.00Cloth 2009 560 pp. 29 color illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-10500-1 $35.00
New in paper
The Master and HisEmissaryThe Divided Brain and theMaking o the Western World
Iain McGilchrist
A ascinating, deeply researchedexploration o the dierences betweenthe brains let and right hemispheres,and their eect on society, history andculture.
Selected by Barnes & Noble Review as
one o the best books o 2009 in historyand philosophy; Shortlisted or the 2009Bristol Festival o Ideas Book Prize;Longlisted or the 2010 Royal SocietyPrize or Science Books
Paper 2010 544 pp. 15 color + 20 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16892-1 $25.00Cloth 2009 608 pp. 15 color + 20 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14878-7 $38.00
New
The Words o OthersFrom Quotations to CultureGary Saul Morson
In this lively gambol through the historyo quotations and quotation books,Gary Saul Morson traces our enduringascination with the words o others.Ranging rom the remote past to thepresent, he explores the ormation,development, and signicance oquotations, while exploring the verbalmuseums in which they have been
collected and displayedcommonplacebooks, treasuries, and anthologies. In histrademark clear, witty, and provocativestyle, Morson invites readers to share hisdelight in the shortest literary genre.
Available in June 2011Cloth 2011 336 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16747-4 $30.00
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New
Black GothamA Family History o AricanAmericans in Nineteenth-CenturyNew York City
Carla L. PetersonCarla Peterson travels the well knownstreets o Lower Manhattan andBrooklyn to uncover the rich and hiddenhistory o New Yorks black elite in thenineteenth century. That the book aroserom her research into her own amilyhistory reminds us that in all o ouramilies lies the story o this country.Henry Louis Gates, Jr., HarvardUniversity
Black Gotham is a ascinating look at
a little-known segment o Americanhistory: Arican-American elites in NewYork City in the nineteenth century,told through Carla Petersons intriguingaccount o her quest to reconstruct thelives o her ancestors.
Available in February 2011Cloth 2011 464 pp. 35 b/w illus., 2 maps,ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16255-4 $32.00
New in paper
The Shameul PeaceHow French Artists andIntellectuals Survived the NaziOccupation
Frederic Spotts
Now in paperback, this careully, andauthoritatively written history oers a
vivid account o how Frances artisticleaders coped under the crushingGerman presence in occupied France.Enriched with anecdotes about the art-
ists, composers, writers, lmmakers, andactors who lived through the experience,the book lits the lid on one o the leastknownand most shameulepisodeso the period (Wall Street Journal).
Paper 2010 296 pp. 20 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16399-5 $22.00Cloth 2009 288 pp. 20 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13290-8 $35.00
Unpacking MyLibraryArchitects and Their Books
Edited by Jo SteensFeaturing an essay by Walter
BenjaminWhat does a library say about the mindo its owner? How do books map theintellectual interests, curiosities, tastes,and personalities o their readers? Whatdoes the collecting o books have incommon with the practice o architec-ture? Unpacking My Libraryprovides anintimate look at the personal libraries otwelve o the worlds leading architects,alongside conversations about thesignicance o books to their careersand lives.
Selected or the 2009 Holiday GitGuide, Kenneth Baker, The San FranciscoChronicle
Published in association with Urban CenterBooks, The Architecture Bookstore o theMunicipal Art Society o New YorkPaper over Board 2009 192 pp.24 b/w + 284 color illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15893-9 $20.00
New
BoredomA Lively History
Peter Toohey
In the rst book to argue or the benetso boredom, Peter Toohey dispels themyth that its simply a childish emotionor an existential malaise like Jean-PaulSartres nausea. He shows how boredomis, in act, one o our most commonand constructive emotions and is anessential part o the human experience.
This inormative and entertaininginvestigation o boredom spans morethan 3,000 years o history and takesreaders through ascinating neurologicaland psychological theories o emotion,as well as recent scientic investigations,to illustrate its role in our lives.
Available in May 2011Cloth 2011 224 pp. 26 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14110-8 $26.00
New in paper
Behind Closed DoorsAt Home in Georgian England
Amanda Vickery
I until now the Georgian home has
been like a monochrome engraving,Vickery has made it three dimensionaland vibrantly colored. Behind ClosedDoorsdemonstrates that rigorousacademic work can also be nosy, gossipy,and utterly engaging.Andrea Wul,New York Times Book Review
In this brilliant new work, AmandaVickery unlocks the homes o GeorgianEngland to examine the lives o thepeople who lived there. Writing with hercustomary wit and verve, she introduces
us to men and women rom all walks olie: gentlewoman Anne Dormer in herstately Oxordshire mansion, bachelorclerk and uture novelist AnthonyTrollope in his dreary London lodgings,and servants with only a locking box tocall their own.
Shortlisted or the 2009 Hessell-TiltmanPrize or History
Paper 2010 368 pp. 80 b/w + 25 color illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16896-9 $28.00Cloth 2009 368 pp. 80 b/w + 25 color illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15453-5 $45.00
New
Doonesbury and theArt o G.B. TrudeauBrian Walker
Best known or his wry and incisivetakes on American lie and politics,Garry Trudeau is among the worldsmost widely read cartoonists. Trudeau
began shaping Doonesburyas an under-graduate contributor to the Yale DailyNewsin 1968. Today, the strip is syn-dicated to a daily readership o nearly100 million.Trudeaus work has beenanthologized beore, but this is the rst
book to assess the art o the comic stripand the ways that Trudeaus iconic stylehas evolved over the past our decades.
Cloth 2010 272 pp. 130 b/w + 360 color illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15427-6 $49.95
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Icons of America
New in paper
Andy WarholArthur C. Danto
An elegant and masterul portrait oAndy Warhols lie, character, and lastinginfuence.
Selected one o the Best Art andPhotography Books o 2009, RachelWol, The Daily Beast
Paper 2010 192 pp. 6 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16908-9 $16.00Cloth 2009 192 pp. 6 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13555-8 $24.00
New in paper
Our HeroSuperman on Earth
Tom De Haven
From the author oIts Superman!, anexuberant and original exploration o
what Americas most iconic comic bookhero tells us about our dreams, ears,and our national identity.
Paper available in May 2011Paper 2011 240 pp. 13 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17124-2 $16.00Cloth 2010 240 pp. 13 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11817-9 $24.00
New in paper
No Such Thing asSilenceJohn Cages 433
Kyle GannA vibrant portrait o the importance,impact, and enduring infuence o Cagesiconic silent composition 433by aleading modern music critic Kyle Gann.
Paper 2010 272 pp. 14 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17129-7 $16.00Cloth 2010 272 pp. 14 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13699-9 $24.00
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The Hollywood SignFantasy and Reality o anAmerican Icon
Leo Braudy
Hollywoods amous sign, constructedo massive white block letters set intoa steep hillside, is an emblem o themovie capital it looms over and an in-ternational symbol o glamour and starpower. Leo Braudy traces the remark-able history o this distinctly Americanlandmark, which has been saved overthe years by a disparate group o ansand supporters. Mixing social history,urban studies, literature, and lm, along
with orays into such topics as the lureo Hollywood or utopian communitiesand the development o domestic archi-tecture in Los Angeles, The HollywoodSign is a ascinating account o howa temporary structure has become apermanent icon o American culture.
Available in March 2011Cloth 2011 224 pp. 17 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15660-7 $24.00
New
Joe DiMaggioThe Long Vigil
Jerome Charyn
As the New York Yankees star center-elder rom 1936 to 1951, Joe DiMaggiois enshrined in Americas memory as theepitome in sports o grace, dignity, andthat ineable quality called class. But
his career ater retirement, starting withhis nine-month marriage to MarilynMonroe, was ar less auspicious. Writerslike Gay Talese and Richard Ben Cramerhave painted the private DiMaggio ascruel or sel-centered. Now, JeromeCharyn restores the image o thisAmerican icon, looking at DiMaggioslie in a more sympathetic light.
Available in March 2011Cloth 2011 192 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12328-9 $24.00
New in paper
Frankly, My DearGone with the WindRevisitedMolly Haskell
In this lively exploration oGone withthe Wind, eminist lm critic MollyHaskell traces the complexities o boththe book and movie, and shows whyRhett and Scarletts saga is still riveting,more than seventy years ater MargaretMitchell created it.
Chosen as an Outstanding Academic Titleor 2009 by ChoiceMagazine
Paper 2010 272 pp. 15 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16437-4 $15.00Cloth 2009 272 pp. 15 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11752-3 $24.00
New
Bob DylanLike a Complete Unknown
David Yae
Literary scholar and music critic David
Yae oers an appreciative yet incisivelook at the dierent acets o BobDylans lie, hal-century career, andcultural impact, published to coincide
with the singers seventieth birthday.
Available in May 2011Cloth 2011 208 pp. 4 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12457-6 $24.00
Icons of Americais a series o short works written by leading scholars, critics, and writers, each o whom tells a new and innovativestory about American history and culture through the lens o a single iconic individual, event, object, or cultural phenomenon.
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Theater &Film
New in paper
la rencontre ducinma ranaisAnalyse, genre, histoire
R.-J. Berg
la rencontre du cinma ranais:analyse, genre, histoireis intended toserve as the core textbook in a wide va-riety o upper-level undergraduate andgraduate French cinema courses.
Paper 2010 336 pp. 26 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15871-7 $80.00
New in paper
LidlessFrances Ya-Chu CowhigForeword by David Hare
The third winner o the Yale DramaSeries competition or emerging play-
wrightsa haunting and provocativeimagining o the reunion, years later, oa Guantnamo detainee and the emaleinterrogator who tortured him.
Yale Drama SeriesPaper 2010 96 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16030-7 $18.00Cloth 2010 96 pp.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16942-3 $35.00
Hollywood Westernsand American MythRobert B. Pippin
In this pathbreaking book one oAmericas most distinguished philoso-phers brilliantly explores the status andauthority o law and the nature o politi-cal allegiance through close readings o
three classic Hollywood Westerns: How-ard Hawks Red Riverand John FordsThe Man Who Shot Liberty ValanceandThe Searchers.
Castle Lectures SeriesCloth 2010 208 pp. 52 b/w + 14 color illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14577-9 $35.00
New in paper
Theater o the Avant-Garde, 1950-2000A Critical Anthology
Edited by Robert Knop and
Julia ListengartenThis critical anthology assembles an in-ternational selection o infuential avant-garde plays rom the second hal o thetwentieth century and is supplemented byessays by major theater practitioners.
Paper 2011 576 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13423-0 $27.00
Theater o the Avant-
Garde, 1890-1950A Critical AnthologyEdited by Bert Cardullo andRobert Knop
This wide-ranging critical anthology oavant-garde drama includes ull texts osixteen important and daring plays, eachaccompanied by a historical-criticalintroduction and an essay that illumi-nates dramatic and aesthetic issues theplay raises.
Paper 2001 546 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-08526-6 $27.00Cloth 2001 546 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-08525-9 $60.00
New in paper
The American Play1787-2000
Marc Robinson
Critic Marc Robinson brings his uniqueperspective to the history o American
drama and theater, closely examiningplays both celebrated and obscure andoering an array o new insights.
Winner o the 2009 George Jean NathanAward or Dramatic Criticism; Winnero the Theatre Library Associations 2010George Freedley Special Jury Prize
Paper 2010 416 pp. 20 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17004-7 $28.00Cloth 2009 416 pp. 20 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11649-6 $45.00
New in paper
Uncloseting DramaAmerican Modernism and QueerPerormance
Nick Salvato
Why would major modernist writersin the early twentieth century turn tocloset dramaplays written not orpublic presentation but or privatereading? How did this nearly orgottenmode spark the imaginations o guresas diverse but aliated as Ezra Pound,Gertrude Stein, Djuna Barnes, andLouis Zukosky? In this elegant study,Nick Salvato argues that the collectivemodernist renewal o the closet dramaconstituted a queerinvestment in themodes rich potential or ambiguity
and deviance. Through a series o closereadings, he shows that these writersrevived the closet drama in order bothto resist the increasing codication osexual identities in a new era o sexualsciences and to reject the conventionso the stage.
Yale Studies in EnglishPaper 2010 240 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15539-6 $40.00
Alice Guy BlachCinema PioneerEdited by Joan Simon, Withcontributions by Jane Gaines,Alison McMahan, CharlesMusser, Kim Tomadjoglou, andAlan Williams
A celebration o the achievements oBlach, bringing to light a critical newmass o her lm oeuvre and reassert-ing her prominence as a pioneer inlmmaking.
Winner o the 2010 IndependentPublisher Book Award Silver Medal in thePerorming Arts National Category, givenby Independent Publisher Online
Published in association with the WhitneyMuseum o American ArtCloth 2009 168 pp. 59 b/w + 10 color illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15250-0 $40.00
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Music &Dance
New
French OperaA Short History
Vincent Giroud
This book provides a ull, single-
volume account o opera in Francerom its origins to the present day.Vincent Giroud looks at the leadingcomposers, rom Lully to Messiaen and
beyond; at the development o Frenchoperatic orm and style; at peror-mance, perormers, and audience; andat the impact o French opera beyondFrances borders.
Cloth 2010 352 pp. 24 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11765-3 $40.00
New
Sound and Space inRenaissance VeniceArchitecture, Music, Acoustics
Deborah Howard andLaura Moretti
This book explores the direct relation-ship between architectural design andsacred music in Renaissance Venice.
Received honorable mention or the2009 PROSE Award in Music andPerorming Arts, presented by TheProessional and Scholarly PublishingDivision o the AAP
Cloth 2010 256 pp. 100 b/w + 20 color illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14874-9 $55.00
New
Stravinskys BalletsCharles M. Joseph
This majestic volume analyzes all oStravinskys ballet piecesrom his
brilliant The Firebirdthrough his later,genre-crossing piecesand exploreshow this revolutionary composerchanged the denition o music madeor dance.
Available in April 2011Yale Music MasterworksCloth 2011 320 pp. 11 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11872-8 $40.00
New
Music or SilencedVoicesShostakovich and His FiteenQuartets
Wendy LesserMost previous books about DmitriShostakovich have ocused on eitherhis symphonies and operas, or hisrelationship to the regime under
which he lived, or both, since theselarge-scale works were the ones thatattracted the interest and sometimesthe condemnation o the Sovietauthorities. Music or Silenced Voiceslooks at Shostakovich through the
back door, as it were, o his teen
quartets, the works which his widowcharacterized as a diary, the story ohis soul. The silences and the voices
were o many kinds, including thepolitical silencing o adventurous
writers, artists, and musicians dur-ing the Stalin era; the lost voices oShostakovichs operas (a orm heabandoned just beore turning tostring quartets); and the death-silenced voices o his close riends,to whom he dedicated many o thesechamber works.
Available in March 2011Cloth 2011 368 pp. 1 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16933-1 $28.00
New
Mozart and the NazisHow the Third Reich Abuseda Cultural Icon
Erik Levi
This thought-provoking book is the
rst to explore how the Nazi regimeappropriated Mozart as a cultural andpolitical icon, shamelessly distortinghis humanitarian views to urtherascist goals.
Cloth 2010 336 pp. 16 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12306-7 $40.00
New in paper
The OboeGeorey Burgess andBruce D. Haynes
In this book two distinguished oboist-
musicologists discuss how and why theoboe evolved, what music was written orit, and which players were prominent.
Yale Musical Instrument SeriesPaper 2010 432 pp. 45 b/w + 20 color illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-10053-2 $29.00Cloth 2004 432 pp. 45 b/w + 20 color illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-09317-9 $40.00
New in paper
A Windall o MusiciansHitlers migres and Exiles inSouthern Caliornia
Dorothy Lamb Craword
This book tells the stories o the immigrantmusicians who prooundly infuenced thelm industry, the music institutions o LA,and the next generation o American musi-cal leaders.
Winner o the 2010 Deems Taylor Award: theNicolas Slonimsky Award or Biography inMusic, given by the American Society o
Composers, Authors & PublishersPaper available in April 2011Paper 2011 336 pp. 27 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17123-5 $23.00Cloth 2009 336 pp. 27 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12734-8 $35.00
New in paper
Guitar HeroesLegendary Cratsmen rom Italy toNew York
Jayson Kerr Dobney
A ascinating look at modern archtop gui-tars and their place in the history o Italianand Italian-American stringed instrumentmaking.
Available in February 2011Published in association with The MetropolitanMuseum o ArtPaper 2011 48 pp. 80 color illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16980-5 $14.95
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The Most MusicalNationJews and Culture in the LateRussian Empire
James LoeferDrawing on a mass o unpublished
writings and archival sources romprerevolutionary Russian conservatories,this book oers an insightul account othe Jewish search or a modern identity inRussia through music, rather than politicsor religion.
Cloth 2010 288 pp. 26 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13713-2 $55.00
New
ShostakovichsPreludes and FuguesContexts, Style, Perormance
Mark Mazullo
This the rst book-length study oShostakovichs Twenty-Four Preludesand Fugues or piano, Opus 87. MarkMazullo explains the cultural context in
which Shostakovich composed and oers
individual commentaries on each o thePreludes and Fugues.
Cloth 2010 304 pp. 94 music ex., 2 illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14943-2 $60.00
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The Christian Westand Its SingersThe First Thousand Years
Christopher Page
A renowned scholar and musicianpresents a new and innovative explorationo the beginnings o Western musical art.Christopher Page places the history o thesingers who perormed this music againstthe social, political and economic lie o aWestern Europe slowly being remade aterthe collapse o Roman power.
Cloth 2010 400 pp. 50 b/w + 12 color illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11257-3 $45.00
New in paper
TenorHistory o a Voice
John Potter
This lively book is the rst to explore
the history o the tenor voice romthe sixteenth century to the pres-ent, shining the spotlight on suchextraordinary perormers as EnricoCaruso, Richard Tauber, Mario Lanza,Roberto Alagna, Ian Bostridge,Andrea Bocelli, Il Divo, and, ocourse, Pavarotti, Domingo, andCarreras. Admirers o the tenor
voice will especially appreciate thebooks unique reerence section, withbibliographical and discographical/video inormation on several hundred
tenors.
Paper 2010 320 pp. 12 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16893-8 $24.00Cloth 2009 306 pp. 12 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11873-5 $35.00
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Music and SentimentCharles Rosen
How does a work o music stir the
senses, creating eelings o joy, sad-ness, elation, or nostalgia? Thoughsentiment and emotion play a vitalrole in the composition, perormance,and appreciation o music, rarely havethese elements been ully observed. Inthis succinct and penetrating book,Charles Rosen draws upon morethan a hal century as a perormerand critic to reveal how composersrom Bach to Berg have used sound torepresent and communicate emotionin mystiyingly beautiul ways.
Cloth 2010 160 pp.Music examples throughoutISBN 13: 978-0-300-12640-2 $24.00
New
George GershwinLarry Starr
In this welcome addition to the immenselypopular Yale Broadway Masters series,
Larry Starr ocuses resh attention onGeorge Gershwins Broadway contribu-tions and examines their centrality to thecomposers entire career. Starr presentsGershwin as a composer with a uniedmusical visiona vision developed onBroadway and used as a source o strengthin his well-known concert music. Inturn, Gershwins concert-hall experienceenriched and strengthened his musicals,leading eventually to his great Broad-
way opera, Porgy and Bess. Through theprism o three major showsLady Be
Good(1924), O Thee I Sing(1931), andPorgy and Bess(1935)Starr highlightsGershwins distinctive contributions tothe evolution o the Broadway musical. Inaddition, the author considers Gershwinsmusical language, his compositions orthe concert hall, and his movie scores orHollywood in the light o his Broadwayexperience.
Yale Broadway Masters SeriesCloth 2010 216 pp.19 b/w photos, 24 music examples, scatteredISBN 13: 978-0-300-11184-2 $45.00
New in paper
Ballets Magic KingdomSelected Writings on Dance inRussia, 19111925
Akim VolynskyTranslated, Edited, and with anIntroduction and Notes byStanley J. Rabinowitz
This translation o the infuential writingso the brilliant and eisty Akim Volynsky,Russias great ballet authority o the earlytwentieth century, oers a treasure trove onew inormation about the St. Petersburg
ballet and its major personalities as wellas unique insights into the theory andpractice o classical dance.
Paper 2010 352 pp. 24 b/w illus. in galleryISBN 13: 978-0-300-16449-7 $23.00
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Rethinking the Western Tradition Philosophy
New in paper
LeviathanOr The Matter, Forme, & Power oa Common-Wealth Ecclesiasticalland Civill
Thomas HobbesEdited and with an Introduction byIan Shapiro
One o the greatest works o politicaltheory ever written. . . . An ingeniousaccount o the modern state and itsintellectual oundations. . . . [Editor Ian]Shapiro has done well here and oundsome shrewd commentators.JereyCollins, Wall Street Journal
This new edition oLeviathan, whichuses modern text and relies on large-
sheet copies rom the 1651 Head ver-sion, includes interpretive essays by ourleading Hobbes scholars: John Dunn,David Dyzenhaus, Elisabeth Ellis, andBryan Garsten. Taken together with IanShapiros wide-ranging introduction,they provide resh and varied interpreta-tions oLeviathan or our time.
Rethinking the Western TraditionPaper 2010 608 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11838-4 $16.00
The Federalist PapersAlexander Hamilton, JamesMadison, and John JayEdited and with an Introduction byIan Shapiro
This authoritative edition o the com-plete texts o the Federalist Papers, theConstitution, the Bill o Rights, and theArticles o Conederation is accompa-nied by essays in which leading scholarsprovide historical context and thematic
background.Rethinking the Western TraditionPaper 2009 608 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11890-2 $20.00
New
Exploring HappinessFrom Aristotle to Brain Science
Sissela Bok
From the acclaimed author oLying, a
brilliant exploration o happiness set inthe context o the worlds great philoso-phers, leaders, writers, and artists.
Cloth 2010 224 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13929-7 $24.00
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Islam, Science, and theChallenge o HistoryAhmad Dallal
In this wide-ranging and masterulwork, Ahmad Dallal examines thesignicance o scientic knowledge andsituates the culture o science in rela-tion to other cultural orces in Muslimsocieties.
The Terry Lectures SeriesCloth 2010 256 pp. 2 lineISBN 13: 978-0-300-15911-0 $27.50
New
Genetics o OriginalSinThe Impact o Natural Selectionon the Future o Humanity
Christian de DuveWith Neil PattersonForeword by Edward O. Wilson
A Nobel Prize-winning scientist consid-ers how and why the unprecedentedsuccess o the human species on Earth
now threatens the uture o the planet,and he oers original ideas or changingour destructive behaviors.
An Editions Odile Jacob BookCloth 2010 256 pp. 20 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16507-4 $26.00
New in paper
Selected WritingsJeremy BenthamEdited by Stephen G. Engelmann
Jeremy Bentham (17481832), phi-
losopher and reormer, is one o themost infuential thinkers o the modernage. This introduction to his writingspresents a representative selection otexts authoritatively restored by theBentham Project, University CollegeLondon. As well as more amiliar pieces,highlights include the succinct essayOn Retrenchment and a never-beore-published treatise on sex. The volume iscompleted by major interpretative essays
by Mark Canuel, David Lieberman,Jennier Pitts, and Philip Schoeld.
Rethinking the Western TraditionPaper 2011 560 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11237-5 $20.00
The Genteel Traditionin AmericanPhilosophyandCharacter andOpinion in the UnitedStatesGeorge SantayanaEdited and with an Introductionby James Seaton; With Essays byWilred M. McClay, John Lachs,James Seaton, and Roger Kimball
This book brings together two classictexts o American cultural criticism andphilosophy by George Santayana, one othe most signicant philosophers o thetwentieth century.
Rethinking the Western TraditionPaper 2009 240 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11665-6 $16.00
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Philosophy
New
Why Marx Was RightTerry Eagleton
In this combative, controversial book,Terry Eagleton takes issue with the
prejudice that Marxism is dead anddone with.
Available in April 2011Cloth 2011 272 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16943-0 $25.00
New in paper
On EvilTerry Eagleton
In this witty, accessible study, the
prominent Marxist thinker TerryEagleton launches a surprising deenseo the reality o evil, drawing on literary,theological, and psychoanalytic sourcesto suggest that evil is a real phenomenon
with palpable orce in our contemporaryworld.
Paper available in April 2011Paper 2011 192 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17125-9 $16.00Cloth 2010 192 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15106-0 $25.00
New in paper
Reason, Faith, andRevolutionRefections on the God Debate
Terry Eagleton
A renowned critic demolishes the insis-tent claims o atheists and others whoassert that science has rendered Godand aith obsolete. Seasoning his serious
book with humor, Terry Eagleton reex-amines God, Jesus, ree will, scienticthought, and liberalism to arrive at theconclusion that reason and aith are byno means mutually exclusive.
The Terry Lectures SeriesPaper 2010 200 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16453-4 $16.00Cloth 2009 200 pp.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15179-4 $25.00
New in paper
HeideggerThe Introduction o Nazism intoPhilosophy in Light o the Unpub-lished Seminars o 19331935
Emmanuel FayeTranslated by Michael B. Smith;Foreword by Tom Rockmore
Emmanuel Faye draws on previouslyunavailable materials to paint a damn-ing picture o Nazisms infuence on thephilosophers thought and politics.
Bronze medal winner o the 2009 Book othe Year Award in the Philosophy category,presented by ForeWord magazine
Paper available in May 2011Paper 2011 464 pp. 5 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17207-2 $27.50Cloth 2009 464 pp. 5 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12086-8 $40.00