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Small Pieces
The Age of Guilt: The Super-Ego in the On-line World
The Garden Politic: Global Plants and Botanical Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century America
Byron and the Poetics of Adversity
Culture and Language at Crossed Purposes. The Unsettled Records of American Settlement
Bright: A Memoir
Elusive Kinship: Disability and Human Rights in Postcolonial Literature
On Not Knowing: How to Love and Other Essays
Paradise Close
Sissy Insurgencies: A Racial Anatomy of Unfit Manliness
Madrigalia: New & Selected Poems
The Generals' Civil War: What Their Memoirs Can Teach Us Today
Civil War Witnesses and Their Books: New Perspectives on Iconic Works
Cambridge Companion to 21st Century American Fiction
Playlist for the Apocalypse
The Fetters of Rhyme: Liberty and Poetic Form in Early Modern England
Song of Ourselves: Walt Whitman and the Fight for Democracy
The Latino Continuum and the Nineteenth-Century Americas: Literature, Translation and Historiography
Book Traces: Nineteenth-Century Readers and the Future of the Library
Best New Poets 2020: 50 Poems from Emerging Writers
Poetry in a Global Age
More Truly and More Strange: 100 Contemporary Self-Portrait Poems
Children’s Ours of a Certain Age
The New American
White Blood: A Lyric of Virginia
Writing Democracy: The Political Turn in and Beyond the Trump Era
The Gifted School
Pop Culture and the Dark Side of the American Dream: Con Men, Gangsters, Drug Lords, and Zombies
Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative
Doomstead Days
Thomas and Beal in the Midi
Civil War Writing: New Perspectives on Iconic Texts
Grammars of Approach: Landscape, Narrative, and the Linguistic Picturesque
Sounding Composition: Multimodal Pedagogies for Embodied Listening
The Best of the Journals in Rhetoric and Composition, 2017
David Jones on Religion, Politics, and Culture: Unpublished Prose
The Norton Anthology of English Literature: Edited with Stephen Greenblatt et al
Realist Critiques of Visual Culture: From Hardy to Barnes
Hothead: A Poem
Credulity: A Cultural History of US Mesmerism
The Heart of the Humanities: Reading, Writing, Teaching
Interacting with Print: Elements of Reading in the Era of Print Saturation
Race Matters, Animal Matters: Fugitive Humanism in African America, 1840-1930
The Eighteenth Centuries: Global Networks of Enlightenment
Witch Wife
The Brick House
The Best of the Journals in Rhetoric and Composition, 2015-2016
Shakespeare's Roman Trilogy
Orexia: Poems
Martin Delany. Blake; or The Huts of America
The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Poetry
The Humanities and Everyday Life
Extreme Domesticity: A View from the Margins
Critique and Postcritique
Writing Communities
Rhetorical Healing: The Reeducation of Contemporary Black Womanhood
This Thing Called the World
Homes and Haunts: Touring Writers' Shrines and Countries
Nine Island
Why Write?: A Master Class in the Art of Writing and Why It Matters
The Princeton Handbook of Poetic Terms
The Princeton Handbook of World Poetries
Collected Poems: 1974-2004
Shantytown, U.S.A.: Forgotten Landscapes of the Working Poor
Languages of Jewish Cultures: Comparative Perspectives
The Best of the Independent Journals in Rhetoric and Composition, 2014
Literature Incorporated: The Cultural Unconscious of the Business Corporation, 1650-1850
Monticello in Mind: Fifty Contemporary Poets on Jefferson
Night Sky Frequencies and Selected Poems
Cambridge Companion to the American Modernist Novel
The Limits of Critique
The Empty Form Goes All the Way to Heaven
Song: special issue of NLH
Song: special issue of NLH
Hlóþwíg Carroll : Æðelgýðe Ellendǽda on Wundorlande, trans.
The Norton Shakespeare (Third Edition)
A Companion to the English Novel
A Companion to the English Novel
Virtual Victorians: Networks, Connections, Technologies
Metaphors of Mind: An Eighteenth-Century Dictionary
The Invention of Fire
The Best of the Independent Journals in Rhetoric and Composition, 2013
Self and Soul: A Defense of Ideals
The Unsettlement of America: Translation, Interpretation, and the Story of Don Luis de Velasco, 1560-1945
The Poet Edgar Allan Poe: Alien Angel
In Stereotype: South Asia in the Global Literary Imaginary
The Silent History
Rhetoric in the Flesh: Trained Vision, Technical Expertise, and the Gross Anatomy Lab
The Best of the Independent Journals in Rhetoric and Composition, 2012
A Burnable Book
Best Little Stories from World War I
A New Republic of Letters: Humanities Scholarship in an Age of Digital Reproduction
The Red List: A Poem
Change Me: Stories of Sexual Transformation from Ovid
Why Football Matters: My Education in the Game
A New Companion to Victorian Literature and Culture
Belligerent Muse: Five Northern Writers and How They Shaped Our Understanding of the Civil War
Best Little Ironies, Oddities and Mysteries of the Civil War
The Punitive Turn: New Approaches to Race and Incarceration
A Brief History of Yes
Hymn for the Black Terrific
Companion Grasses
Class Politics: The Movement for the Students' Right to Their Own Language (Refiguring English Studies)
The Best of the Independent Rhetoric and Composition Journals, 2011
Why Teach?: In Defense of a Real Education
Honour, Exchange and Violence in Beowulf
The Hide-and-Seek Muse: Annotations of Contemporary Poetry
Being and Having in Shakespeare
The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry: paperback edition
Poetry and Its Others: News, Prayer, Song, and the Dialogue of Genres
Experimental Writing in Composition: Aesthetics and Pedagogies
In the Mood: Special Issue of New Literary History
In the Mood: Special Issue of New Literary History
Mason's Retreat: Newly Revised Edition
Further Interpretations of Real-Life Events
The Invention Tree
The Right-Hand Shore
The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics: Fourth Edition
Introduction to Old English
Vanitas, Rough: Poems
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 8th and 9th eds.
The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics: Fourth Edition
The Invisible Hand in Pop Culture : Liberty vs. Authority in American Film and TV
Poe and the Remapping of Antebellum Print Culture
Evening Primrose: Selected Poems
Circulating Communities: The Tactics and Strategies of Community Publishing
Teaching with the Norton Anthology of English Literature: A Guide for Instructors
Listening to Our Elders: Working and Writing for Change
The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry
The Best of Independent Rhetoric and Composition Journals, 2010
Riffraff
Accented America: The Cultural Politics of Multilingual Modernism
The Genius of Democracy: Fictions of Gender and Citizenship in the United States
Modernism
Best Little Stories from the Civil War
Best New Poets 2010
Pleasure
The Knowing Most Worth Doing: Essays on Pluralism, Ethics, and Religion
The Republic of Letters: Working Class Writing and Local Publishing
Gravyland: Writing Beyond the Curriculum in the City of Brotherly Love
The Blackwell Companion to the Philosophy of Literature: co-edited with Garry Hagberg
Online Humanities Scholarship: The Shape of Things to Come
The Fine Wisdom and Perfect Teachings of the Kings of Rock and Roll
Ashgate Critical Essays on Women Writers in England, 1550-1700 Volume 4 Mary Wroth: Edited by Clare R. Kinney
Fort Red Border
The Victorians and Old Age
Are the Humanities Inconsequent?
Bad River Road
Sight Map
The Broadview Anthology of British Literature (6 Volumes)
The Sisters Antipodes: (memoir)
Stevenson and Conrad (co-edited with Linda Dryden and Eric Massie)
Byron's Manfred
Sonata Mulattica
The Interethnic Imagination: Roots and Passages in Contemporary Asian American Fiction
Stephen Crane: The Black Riders and Other Lines
Literature and the Economics of Liberty: Spontaneous Order in Culture
A Transnational Poetics
Caste and Dalit Lifeworlds: Postcolonial Perspectives
The Pilgrim's Progress: Editor, the Norton Critical Edition of John Bunyan
The Mirror in the Well
The Death of Sigmund Freud: Fascism, Psychoanalysis and the Rise of Fundamentalism
Draining the Sea
H.G. Wells The Time Machine: Edited by Stephen Arata
Rethinking Tragedy
Satin Cash: Poems
Uses of Literature
Embodying American Slavery in Contemporary Culture: A unique study of slavery reenactments and performances in African American literature and culture
Epic: Britain's Heroic Muse 1790-1910
Comparison: Theories, Approaches, Uses
All That Mighty Heart: London Poems: London Poems
Rethinking Gandhi and Nonviolent Relationality: Global Perspectives
The Project of Prose in Early Modern Europe and the New World
Edward Said: The Legacy of a Public Intellectual
The Point is to Change It. Poetry and Criticism in the Continuing Present
Robert Browning's Poetry
Writing Deafness: The Hearing Line in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
The Death of Sigmund Freud: The Legacy of His Last Days
Imagining Our Americas: Nation, Empire, and Region
Neomedievalism, Neoconservatism, and the War on Terror
New Grub Street (George Gissing): Edited by Stephen Arata
The Aesthetics of Antichrist: From Christian Drama to Christopher Marlowe
Best Little Stories from the Blue and the Gray
Permanent Visitors
The Scholar's Art: Literary Studies in a Managed World
She: A History of Adventure
Heart Island
Middlemarch in the Twenty-First Century
The Prose of Things: Transformations of Description in the Eighteenth Century
The Essential Wayne Booth: Edited and with an Introduction by Walter Jost
The Premodern Condition: Medievalism and the Making of Theory
The Land of Wandering: Exquisite History, Volume 1
Roads of the Heart
Caste, Colonialism and Counter-Modernity: Notes on a Postcolonial Hermeneutics of Caste
Concise Companion to the Restoration and the Eighteenth Century
Modernism and the Fate of Individuality
Natives and Exotics: A Novel
Anger, Revolution, and Romanticism
Transamerican Literary Relations and the Nineteenth-Century Public Sphere
Rhetorical Investigations: Studies in Ordinary Language Criticism
Algernon Charles Swinburne. Major Poems and Selected Prose
Northranger Abbey: Norton Critical Edition
How to Make It as a Woman: Collective Biographical History from Victoria to the Present
Shakespeare: Hamlet: Second Edition
The Daydreaming Boy
Why Read?
American Smooth
The Wonder: A Woman Keeps a Secret
A Companion to Rhetoric and Rhetorical Criticism
Manning the Race: Reforming Black Men in the Jim Crow Era
Harlequin Britain: Pantomime and Entertainment
Blue Venus: Poems
Radiant Textuality: Literary Studies after the World Wide Web
Torn Sky
Best Little Stories from Virginia
The Room Where I Was Born
Cool Men and the Second Sex
Teacher: The One Who Made the Difference
Literary Character: The Human Figure in Early English Writing
Ordinary Language Criticism: Literary Thinking After Cavell After Wittgenstein
Literature after Feminism
The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry, 3rd ed.
Thomas Lovell Beddoes's Death's Jest Book: A Stage Version
The Marriage of the Sea: A Novel
India Abroad: Diasporic Cultures of Postwar America and England
A Journal of the Plague Year : Editor
Dante Gabriel Rossetti: The Collected Works
A Mighty Change: An Anthology of Deaf American Writing 1816-1864
Best Little Stories from the Wild West
The Craft of Argument
Byron and Romanticism
English Renaissance Drama: A Norton Anthology
Cussing Lesson
William Morris News from Nowhere
Victorian Literature 1830-1900
Eighteenth-Century Genre and Culture: Serious Reflections on Occasional Forms: Essays in Honor of J. Paul Hunter
Three Apples Fell From Heaven
The Hybrid Muse: Postcolonial Poetry in English
Gilligan Unbound: Pop Culture in the Age of Globalization
The Love-Artist: A Novel
The Daughter’s Return: African-American and Caribbean Women's Fictions of History
Music, Body, and Desire in Medieval Culture: Hildegard of Bingen to Chaucer
The Spectacle of Intimacy: A Public Life for the Victorian Family
The Spectacle of Intimacy: A Public Life for the Victorian Family
Rhetorical Invention and Religious Inquiry: New Perspectives
Doing Time: Feminist Theory and Postmodern Culture
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: A Collaborative Edition, vol. 8: MS. F
Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the Game that Must be Lost
The Best American Poetry 2000
The Cambridge Companion to Modernism: Edited by Michael Levenson
Class Politics: The Movement for the Students' Right to Their Own Language (Refiguring English Studies)
The Way People Run: Stories
Best Little Stories From the White House
Bloody Promenade: Reflections on a Civil War Battle
Acquainted With the Night: Insomnia Poems
Best Little Stories From the American Revolution
Glass Town: Poems
Byron and Wordsworth
Motives for Metaphor: Literacy, Curriculum, and the Teaching of English
On the Bus with Rosa Parks
Under Criticism: Essays in Honor of William H. Pritchard
Poetics of Sensibility: A Revolution in Literary Style
Blue Pajamas
The Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia: The First Fifty Years
The Rape of the Lock
Leaving Pipe Shop: Memories of Kin
The Literary and Cultural Spaces of Restoration London
Letitia Elizabeth Landon: Selected Writings
The General Correspondence of James Boswell, 1766-1769
Nightmare on Main Street: Angels, Sado-Masochism, and the Culture of Gothic
Rhetoric and Hermeneutics in Our Time
MOSQUITOES [by William Faulkner]: A Facsimile and Transcription of the University of Virginia Holograph Manuscript
Petronius’ Satyrica
Mason's Retreat: A Novel
Four Last Poems
Joyce and the Subject of History
Fictions of Loss in the Victorian Fin de Siècle: Identity and Empire
Four Revenge Tragedies of the English Renaissance
Inwardness and Theater in the English Renaissance
The Gender of Modernity
The Poet's World
"The Changing Same": Black Women's Literature, Criticism, and Theory
Byrhtferth's Enchiridion
Mother Love: Poems
Boredom: The Literary History of a State of Mind
Literature Against Philosophy, Plato to Derrida
Lady Freedom Among Us
Kneeling on Rice: Stories
Poetry of Mourning: The Modern Elegy from Hardy to Heaney
The Darker Face of the Earth
Black Riders: The Visible Language of Modernism
Fictions of Form in American Poetry
Critical Essays on Alfred Lord Tennyson
The New Oxford Book of Romantic Period Verse
Seeing Together: Friendship Between the Sexes in English Writing, from Mill to Woolf
Wild Orchids and Trotsky: Messages from American Universities
Selected Poems
Samuel Johnson’s Translation of Sallust
Unbecoming Women: British Women Writers and the Novel of Development
A Critique of Modern Textual Criticism
Through the Ivory Gate
Strategies of Poetic Narrative: Chaucer, Spenser, Milton, Eliot
Greatness Engendered: George Eliot and Virginia Woolf
The Textual Condition
Macbeth und die Evangelisierung von Schottland
Middlemarch: Landmarks in World Literature Series
A Quarter Turn
Pope’s DUNCIAD of 1728: A History and Facsimile
Towards Reading Freud: Self-Creation in Milton, Wordsworth, Emerson, and Sigmund
Postmodern Poetries (Special Issue of Verse Vol. 7 No. 1, Spring 1990)
In a Father's Place: Stories
Yeats and the Poetry of Death: Elegy, Self-Elegy, and the Sublime
Best Little Stories From World War II
Rhetorical Thought in John Henry Newman
Blind Boy on Skates: Poems
Victorian Connections
Towards a Literature of Knowledge
Beyond Feminist Aesthetics: Feminist Literature and Social Change
The Contours of Masculine Desire: Romanticism and the Rise of Women's Poetry
Grace Notes
The Beauty of Inflections: Literary Investigations in Historical Method and Theory
Tennyson and the Doom of Romanticism
Social Values and Poetic Acts
Where Angels Fear to Tread: Descriptive Bibliography and Alexander Pope
Historical Studies and Literary Criticism
A Genealogy of Modernism: A Study of English Literary Doctrine, 1908-1922
The Oxford Authors: Byron
Thomas and Beulah
The Complete Works of St. Thomas More, vols. 3/2 (last third) and 15 = More's controversy with Germain de Brie (Brixius); In Defense of Humanism (humanist letter-essays); and The History of King Richard III
The Correspondence of James Boswell with David Garrick, Edmund Burke, and Edmond Malone
Ben Jonson and the Roman Frame of Mind
William Carlos Williams and the Meaning of Measure
The Manuscripts of the Younger Romantics: Byron
Textual Studies and Literary Interpretation
Fifth Sunday
Eros and Psyche: The Representation of Personality in Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dickens and George Eliot
Creature and Creator: Myth-Making and English Romanticism
Cellar
Museum
The Romantic Ideology: A Critical Investigation
Browning's Beginnings: The Art of Disclosure
The Yellow House on the Corner
Nerves in Patterns [poems, with James Kahn]
Writing Home [poems, with Janet Kauffman]
Don Juan in Context
Shakespeare's Rome: Republic and Empire
Air Heart Sermons
Swinburne: An Experiment in Criticism
Pelham; or the Adventures of a Gentleman, by Edward Bulwer Lytton
Fiery Dust: Byron's Poetic Development
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