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national subject index
gallery
Animal Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19, 58
Anthropology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
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Art . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6, 29, 33–35
Art History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5, 18–22, 36, 40, 42–43
66 Biography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
award
Communication Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20, 52, 57
Critical Race Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44, 53
Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
winners 68
General Interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9, 11
Graphic Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9, 11
Health . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
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History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5, 15, 18–20, 23–24, 28–31, 33,
37–39, 41-42, 44–50, 54–56
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Jewish Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11, 28
Latin American Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16, 21
74 Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17, 45
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LGBTQ+ Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5, 35, 45, 51
Literature . . . . . . . . 15, 17, 21, 24–25, 28, 32, 24–25, 28, 32,
76 34–35, 37–38, 44, 47–49, 51–52, 55, 58
Material Culture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Medieval and Early Modern Studies . . . . . . 23–25, 30–31,
Image credits: front cover, Tony Fisher’s Golden Cube puzzle
(scrambled), courtesy of the Lilly Library; pp. 2–3, artwork 37, 39–40
from Life Support, courtesy of Judith Margolis; p. 7, David Philosophy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6, 57
Pitcher’s Hexcopter 12 Curvy puzzle (solved), courtesy Bret
L. Rothstein (photo: Kelvin Burzon); p. 10, artwork from Political Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Life Support, courtesy of Judith Margolis; pp. 12–13, detail of Religion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16, 23, 30–31, 47–48, 51, 53–55
Zacarías González Velázquez’s service staircase mural, Casa
del Labrador, Aranjuez (© Patrimonio Nacional); pp. 26–27, Rhetoric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14, 56
frontispiece depicting John Donne from Izaak Walton, The Sales Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Lives (London, 1670), with permission of the Dean and
Chapter of Salisbury Cathedral; back cover, Tony Fisher’s
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Golden Cube puzzle (solved), courtesy of the Lilly Library.
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Art and Sex Along the New York Waterfront
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Jonathan Weinberg
In 1970s New York City, the abandoned piers of the Hudson River 232 pages | 34 color/66 b&w illus.
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provocative book—part art history, part memoir—weaves inter- Art History/History/LGBTQ+ Studies
views, documentary photographs, literary texts, artworks, and film
stills to show how avant-garde practices competed and mingled
with queer identities along the Manhattan waterfront.
Artists as varied as Vito Acconci, Alvin Baltrop, Shelley
Seccombe, and David Wojnarowicz made work in and about the
fire-ravaged structures that only twenty years before had been at
the center of the world’s busiest shipping port. At the same time,
the fight for the rights of gay, lesbian, and transgendered people,
Art and Sex Along the New York Waterfront spurred by the 1969 Stonewall riots, was literally transforming the
cultural and social landscape of New York City. Gay men suddenly
felt free to sunbathe on the piers naked, cruise, and have sex in
Jonathan Weinberg public. While artists collaborated to transform the buildings of Pier
34 into makeshift art studios and exhibition spaces, gay men were
converting Pier 46 into what Delmas Howe calls an “arena for
sexual theater.”
Featuring one hundred exemplary works from the era and
“Weinberg looks deeply into sexual cultures and drawing on Weinberg’s personal experience with interviews and a
rich variety of source material, Pier Groups breaks new ground to
artistic practices unfolding on the piers in the look at the relationship of avant-garde art to resistant subcultures
1970s and considers the ways the art and cruising and radical sexuality.
scenes are intercalated. His understanding of Jonathan Weinberg is the curator of the Maurice Sendak Foundation
and teaches at the Yale School of Art and the Rhode Island School
history, which rejects the logic of cause and effect, of Design. He is author of Male Desire: The Homoerotic in American
Art and Ambition and Love in Modern American Art, and coeditor, with
and his nonlinear approach to historical narration Alejandro Anreus and Diana Linden, of The Social and the Real, also
published by Penn State University Press. He is the lead curator for
open new perspectives on artists about whom
the touring exhibition Art After Stonewall: 1969–1989, organized by
much has already been written.” the Columbus Museum of Art to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary
of the Stonewall Riots. His paintings are in many public and private
—Tirza Latimer, author of Women Together / Women Apart: collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the
Portraits of Lesbian Paris Montclair Art Museum.
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“An innovative, charming, and mysterious study
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about puzzles. Bret Rothstein’s book provides
Art/Philosophy
readers with unusual and unexpected insights into
the enigmatic world of people who make puzzles
and those who aspire to solve them.”
Bret L. Rothstein
—Branko Mitrović, author of Rage and Denials: Collectivist
Philosophy, Politics, and Art Historiography, 1890–1947
A Fan Letter to Unruly Objects
The Shape of Difficulty
A Fan Letter to Unruly Objects
Bret L. Rothstein
What is it about puzzles that drives us to figure concepts, logical propositions, and logistical
them out? In this unique and innovative book, problems, this book urges readers to simply
Bret L. Rothstein explores how mechanical appreciate the enigma of these objects built
problems delight and frustrate us, distracting our specifically to be misunderstood, encouraging us
attention from recognizably “useful” activities to reframe our expectations of ourselves and our
and directing it toward something that may be approaches to understanding.
even more important. Drawing on landmark theories of play,
All too often puzzles can seem like some kind Rothstein’s richly illustrated meditation on our
of cruel test to be beaten or passed. But accord- fascination with these objects reveals the lasting
ing to Rothstein, they really want nothing more allure of puzzles while underscoring the intellec-
than for us to drop what we’re doing and play. In tual worth of doubt, failure, and idle time.
that way, they can actually enhance conscious-
ness, as we are perhaps never more aware than Bret L. Rothstein teaches at Indiana University,
when we grapple with an object that refuses to where his courses address the cultural work of
satisfy our expectations. The Shape of Difficulty images and objects. He has published exten-
is an ode to and exploration of these “unruly sively on early Netherlandish devotional culture,
objects”—Rubik’s cubes, geometric dissections, sixteenth-century humanist wit, and the sociocul-
secret-opening boxes, string disentanglements, tural ramifications of ludic objects.
and so many more—that bring interpretive failure
out of the shadows and allow it to take center
stage in physical ways. While many puzzles may
offer perceptible expressions of mathematical
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ISBN 978-0-271-08374-2
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visited before, but Dr. Williams’s iteration Graphic Medicine Series
North America only
and its resolution are as subtle and thought Graphic Studies/General Interest
provoking as the best of them.”
—The New York Times
“Williams, a physician, visual artist, and
illustrator, paints a very human portrait
of his main character, touching on themes
such as ‘difficult patients,’ physician burnout,
mental illness, medical bureaucracy, and The Lady Doctor
personal and professional clashes among Ian Williams
doctors.” Lois Pritchard, a general practitioner at the Welsh facing female medical practitioners, and current
Llangandida Health Centre and part-time staff at medical issues such as clinic privatization and
—Health Affairs her local Genitourinary Medicine (GUM) clinic, hardening government attitudes toward drugs
is a forty-year-old, divorced, sarcastic smoker and addiction, all with his wonderfully sly sense
who by her own admission is “not very good with of humor.
relationships.” But when her estranged mother The Lady Doctor shows that life and work in
makes a dramatic reappearance, demanding a the medical field can be anything but clinical—
liver transplant, Lois has to examine her loyalties and that even the most talented of professionals
and confront some hard decisions both in and have wildly unexpected bad days. Fans of the
out of the surgery room. Graphic Medicine series will cheer this new saga
This hilarious, warts-and-all follow-up to Ian from a trailblazer of the genre, as will medical
Williams’s graphic novel The Bad Doctor is an professionals and comics readers of all stripes.
entertainingly realistic look at rural medicine and
the unique personalities it attracts, from patients Ian Williams is a visual artist and illustrator, a
with genital tattoos of cartoon characters to medical doctor, and an independent humanities
doctors who find creative ways to color on either scholar. He founded the Graphic Medicine website
side of the ethical lines. Via a cast of relatable and is the author of The Bad Doctor, coauthor of
and sometimes shocking characters, Williams Graphic Medicine Manifesto, and coeditor of the
explores the politics and pitfalls of a small-town Graphic Medicine series, published by Penn State
practice, the frustration of dealing with demand- University Press.
ing and misguided patients, the double standards
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Life Support
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Invitation to Prayer
Judith Margolis
In this meditative, heartbreaking, and unexpectedly comforting
book, artist and essayist Judith Margolis tells the story of her
mother’s illness, decline, and death through thoughtfully written
vignettes, poignant drawings, and poetic, prayerful affirmations.
As her mother fights a series of health crises and faces the
end of her life, Margolis documents her anxious concern and
her father’s turmoil while juggling responsibilities and her own
distress. The resulting narrative, told with quiet intensity and
candor, bears witness to contentious deliberations over medical
decisions, the difficulties of patient care, and the complicated
dynamics of family. In this book, designed to imitate a traditional 96 pages | 9 color/21 b&w illus.
Jewish prayer book, Margolis reminds herself and others caring 4 x 6 | May
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for a dying parent to “pray”—pray for clarity, pray to stay centered,
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pray to forgive oneself—as a way of acknowledging and embody- Graphic Medicine Series
ing the turbulent emotions involved. Both the form of the book and Graphic Studies/General Interest/
Margolis’s rendering of the traditions involved in a family death Jewish Studies
ground Life Support firmly in the Jewish experience, providing a
spiritual layer to this honest, realistic narrative that all readers will
find inspiring and relevant.
Life Support: Invitation to Prayer is a unique testimony to the
power of creative response to infirmity and careful documentation
during times of personal loss, as well as a loving tribute to family,
spirituality, and grief.
Judith Margolis is the art editor of נשים/ NASHIM: A Journal of
Jewish Women’s Studies and Gender Issues; cocurator of Women of
the Book, an international visual Torah midrash project; and creative
director of Bright Idea Books.
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Thinking Together Posthumous America
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Lecturing, Learning, and Difference in Literary Reinventions of America at the
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the Long Nineteenth Century End of the Eighteenth Century
Edited by Angela G. Ray and Paul Stob Benjamin Hoffmann
Translated by Alan J. Singerman
“In an era when we desperately need new
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ideas for reviving public deliberation, this Benjamin Hoffmann’s Posthumous America exam-
ines the literary idealization of a lost American
interdisciplinary collection reminds us of a
past in the works of French writers of the eigh-
time when creative activists experimented
teenth and nineteenth centuries.
with new ways to advance learning
For writers such as John Hector St. John
and promote moral and intellectual de Crèvecœur and Claude-François de Lezay-
enlightenment. Extending beyond the Marnésia, America was never more potent as
lyceum movement, the volume recalls a driving ideal than in its loss. Examining works
forums that empowered people excluded such as Crèvecœur’s Lettres d’un cultivateur
from formal education not only to speak, américain (1784), Lezay-Marnésia’s Lettres écrites
listen, and learn, but also to ‘think together’ des rives de l’Ohio (1792), and François-René
about the crucial political and social issues Chateaubriand’s Voyage en Amérique (1827)
of the day.” and Mémoires d’outre-tombe (1850), Hoffmann
—J. Michael Hogan, coeditor of Speech and shows how the authors’ liberties with the
Debate as Civic Education truth helped create the idealized and nostalgic
264 pages | 12 b&w illus. | 6 x 9 | April 256 pages | 3 b&w illus. | 6 x 9 | June representation of America that dominated
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the collective European consciousness of their
Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation Series in the United States over the past decades have History/Literature
times. Posthumous America will be invaluable for
Education/Rhetoric
urged scholars grappling with issues of privilege, historians, political scientists, and specialists of
“Benjamin Hoffmann presents, with
“Thinking Together explores popular inequality, and social immobility to think differ- literature whose scholarship looks at America
wonderful insight, a portrait of a young
learning in the United States during the ently about how we learn and deliberate. Thinking through European eyes.
American nation by three French writers.
Together is a multidisciplinary conversation about
long nineteenth century through case The particular oddity of their perspective,
how people approached similar questions of Benjamin Hoffmann is Assistant Professor of
studies of a broad multiplicity of lyceum hence the delightful originality of this
learning and difference in the nineteenth century. Early Modern French Studies at The Ohio State
speakers. Maintaining the particularity work, is that what they depict in their
By highlighting people, places, and purposes that University. His recent publications include a criti-
of each case, the volume vividly illustrates diversified public discourse, Thinking Together various ways is a society and polity that cal edition of Claude-François de Lezay-Marnésia’s
how distinct racial, ethnic, gender, and offers scholars across the humanities new they know to be no longer valid—for which Letters Written from the Banks of the Ohio, also
religious groups and individuals not only insights and perspectives on how difference Hoffmann coins the term ‘posthumous’ published by Penn State University Press, as well
educated themselves but also constructed enhances the human project of thinking together. narrative, sometimes tainted with nostalgia as four novels in French.
a sense of belonging while forging spiritual or outright fiction, in an already-archaic
Angela G. Ray is Associate Professor of About the translator: Alan J. Singerman is
and political communities.” American landscape.”
Communication Studies at Northwestern Richardson Professor Emeritus of French at
—Susan Zaeske, author of Signatures of —Philip Stewart, author of Engraven Desire:
Citizenship: Petitioning, Antislavery, and Women’s University and the author of The Lyceum and Public Davidson College, the translator of Benjamin
Eros, Image, and Text in the French Eighteenth
Political Identity Culture in the Nineteenth-Century United States. Century Hoffmann’s critical edition of Letters Written from
the Banks of the Ohio, and the editor and translator
Paul Stob is Associate Professor of of Abbé Prévost’s novel The Greek Girl’s Story, both
Communication Studies at Vanderbilt University also published by Penn State University Press.
and the author of William James and the Art of
Popular Statement.
14 15Transmitting the Spirit Literary Obscenities
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Religious Conversion, Media, and Urban U.S. Case Law and Naturalism After
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Violence in Brazil Modernism
Martijn Oosterbaan Erik M. Bachman
“Martijn Oosterbaan brilliantly plunges “Provides a historical framework and
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us into the vivid and dynamic worlds literary context for perhaps better
of contemporary Pentecostalism and understanding modern, printed-words-
Brazilian favelas. Based on many years only obscenity prosecutions and why they
of close observation, his analysis shows are now so rare.”
not only why Pentecostalism is popular —Clay Calvert, Criminal Law and Criminal
in Brazilian city life, but also how it has Justice Books
become a deeply embedded aspect of This comparative historical study explores
national popular culture.” the broad sociocultural factors at play in the
—Simon Coleman, coeditor of The Anthropology relationships among U.S. obscenity laws and
of Global Pentecostalism and Evangelicalism
literary modernism and naturalism in the early
Pentecostalism is one of the most rapidly twentieth century. Putting obscenity case law’s
expanding religious-cultural forms in the world. crisis of legitimation and modernism’s crisis
Its rise in popularity is often attributed to its of representation into dialogue, Erik Bachman
successfully incorporating native cosmologies in
208 pages | 8 b&w illus. | 6.75 x 9.5 | April shows how obscenity trials and other attempts
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264 pages | 9 b&w illus./1 map | 6 x 9 | June
new religious frameworks. This volume probes to suppress allegedly vulgar writing in the United
ISBN 978-0-271-07844-1 | paper: $39.95/£28.95/€38.95 sh Refiguring Modernism Series
for more complex explanations of this phenome- States affected a wide-ranging debate about the
Anthropology/Latin American Studies/Religion Literature/Law
non in the favelas of Brazil, once one of the most power of the printed word to incite emotion and
“A detailed, sympathetic analysis of favela “A profound reassessment not only of shape behavior.
Catholic nations in the world.
religion in relation to secular media. . . . An eye-opening look at Pentecostalism, American censorship issues, Literary
Erik M. Bachman is Lecturer in Literature at the
Highly recommended.” media, society, and culture in the turbulent fave- Obscenities joins the current rethinking
University of California, Santa Cruz, and coeditor
—S. D. Glazier, Choice las of Brazil, this book sheds new light on both of modernist studies, particularly in
of the Lukács Library series at Brill.
the evolving role of religion in Latin America and terms of the paperback revolution and its
the proliferation of religious ideas and practices long-term cultural impact. This welcome
in the postmodern world. addition to the ongoing discourse in legal
studies, book history, cultural studies, and
Martijn Oosterbaan is Associate Professor of
the philosophy of modernism is cause for
Cultural Anthropology at Utrecht University.
celebration. Bachman’s well-researched,
acutely insightful, accessibly written study
Also of Interest
will take its place alongside Marjorie Also of Interest
Blacks of the Rosary Heins’s Not in Front of the Children as a Cold Modernism
Memory and History in Minas Literature, Fashion, Art
Gerais, Brazil staple in university courses.”
Jessica Burstein
Elizabeth W. Kiddy —S. E. Gontarski, author of Creative Involution: isbn 978-0-271-05376-9
ISBN 978-0-271-02694-7
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Refiguring Modernism Series
16 17Framing Majismo Art for Animals
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Art and Royal Identity in Eighteenth- Visual Culture and Animal Advocacy,
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Century Spain 1870–1914
Tara Zanardi J. Keri Cronin
“Zanardi convincingly shows that majismo’s “A welcome and much-needed addition
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ability to reflect the past as well as to the growing literature on animals and
implicate the modern, and the way that it art. In particular, Cronin’s book, which
highlights the demonstrated importance is focused on the historical period when
of fashion and appearances in constructing the first wave of the animal protection
national character, is of continued movement emerged, demonstrates the
relevance today.” role that visual media played in the
—Mey-Yen Moriuchi, caa.reviews development of that movement. But the
book is far more than a historical snapshot.
Majismo, a cultural phenomenon that embod-
Activists’ use of representations of
ied the popular aesthetic in Spain from the
second half of the eighteenth century, served
animals—and animal suffering—is just as
as a vehicle to “regain” Spanish heritage. As important (if not more so) in the modern
264 pages | 44 color/35 b&w illus. | 8 x 10 | February
ISBN 978-0-271-07482-5 | paper: $44.95/£31.95/€43.95 sh expressed in visual representations of popular animal rights movement of today. Art
Art History/History types participating in traditional customs and for Animals will appeal to anyone with
wearing garments viewed as historically Spanish, an interest in how people have worked to
“Zanardi’s study of majismo, a cultural 264 pages | 53 b&w illus. | 6 x 9 | April
majismo conferred on Spanish “citizens” the ISBN 978-0-271-08010-9 | paper: $34.95/£24.95/€33.95 sh
combat animal abuse in the past, and how
phenomenon of later eighteenth-century
pictorial ideal of a shared national character. In Animalibus: Of Animals and Cultures they do so today.”
Spain, is a welcome contribution to the
Framing Majismo, Tara Zanardi explores nobles’ Art History/Animal Studies/History —Margo DeMello, author of Mourning Animals:
literature in English. . . . Through probing fascination with and appropriation of the prac- Rituals and Practices Surrounding Animal Death
examination and theorizing of the clothing, tices and types associated with majismo, as well
class, body, and gender depicted in as how this connection cultivated the formation Animal rights activists today regularly use visual
paintings, prints, and sculptures by Spanish of an elite Spanish identity in the late 1700s and imagery in their efforts to shape the public’s
and non-Spanish artists, the author aided the Bourbons’ objective to fashion them- understanding of what it means to be “kind,”
challenges the unsteady binaries in majo selves as the legitimate rulers of Spain. “cruel,” and “inhumane” toward animals. Art for
representation—native and foreign, royalty Animals explores the early history of this form
Tara Zanardi is Associate Professor of Art History of advocacy through the images and the people
and commoner, masculine and feminine,
at Hunter College. who harnessed their power. Uniquely focused on
traditional and modern. Recommended.”
imagery from the early days of the animal rights
—A. Luxenberg, Choice
movement and filled with striking visuals, Art
for Animals sheds new light on the history and
Also of Interest development of modern animal advocacy.
Animals on Display
The Creaturely in Museums, J. Keri Cronin is Associate Professor of Visual
Zoos, and Natural History
Arts at Brock University. She is the author of
Edited by Liv Emma Thorsen,
Karen A. Rader, and Adam Manufacturing National Park Nature: Photography,
Dodd
Ecology, and the Wilderness Industry of Jasper.
isbn 978-0-271-06071-2
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Animalibus: Of Animals and
Cultures
18 19Photography and Other Media Surveying the Avant-Garde
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in the Nineteenth Century Questions on Modernism, Art, and the
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Edited by Nicoletta Leonardi and
Americas in Transatlantic Magazines
Simone Natale Lori Cole
“This timely and refreshing book challenges “Turning the manifesto—the touchstone
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the introspective ‘media exceptionalism’ genre for avant-gardists in the twentieth
that often accompanies photographic century—on its head, Lori Cole’s
studies. Instead it places photography provocative, innovative, and deeply
firmly within the broad field of cultures researched book reveals the questionnaire
of communicative technology, from the to have been a constitutive genre of
telegraph to postal systems, enriching declaration-by-interrogation across the arts
the understanding of all these entangled of the Americas. With this counterintuitive
practices.” and superbly convincing study, Cole opens
—Elizabeth Edwards, author of The Camera as new pathways for scholars in multiple
Historian: Amateur Photographers and Historical languages to pursue the politics and
Imagination, 1885–1918
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emergence and early history of photography in literature of the Americas in the early twentieth
“This groundbreaking volume embodies the context of broader changes in the history of “Using the questionnaire as a framework, century through the lens of the questionnaire, a
a major shift in the historiography of communications; the role of the nascent pho- [Cole’s] study destabilizes dominant genre as central as the manifesto to the history
photography. These first-rate contributions tographic press in photography’s infancy; and narratives and reveals the numerous and of the avant-garde. Based on extensive archival
bring to bear the intellectual resources of the development of photographic techniques often conflicting voices that contributed to research, this book reorients our understanding
the numerous disciplines that must inform as part of a broader media culture that included and shaped notions of the avant-garde.” of modernism as both hemispheric and trans-
the mass-consumed novel, sound recording, and —Michele Greet, author of Beyond National atlantic by narrating how the artists and writers
the holistic study of photography in the
cinema. Identity: Pictorial Indigenism as a Modernist of the period engaged in aesthetic debates that
future. Taken together, a new approach Strategy in Andean Art, 1920–1960
In addition to the editors, contributors to this informed and propelled print communities in
emerges, one in which photography’s
volume are Geoffrey Batchen, Geoffrey Belknap, Europe, the United States, and Latin America.
status as a medium is not taken for
Lynn Berger, Jan von Brevern, Anthony Enns,
granted and in which its boundaries are André Gaudreault, Lisa Gitelman, David Henkin, Lori Cole is Associate Director and Clinical
defined dynamically by its interactions Erkki Huhtamo, Philippe Marion, Peppino Ortoleva, Associate Professor at the Center for Experimental
with other forms of representation and Steffen Siegel, Richard Taws, and Kim Timby. Humanities at New York University.
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the author of Supernatural Entertainments: Victorian
Spiritualism and the Rise of Modern Media Culture,
also published by Penn State University Press.
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consistent way of understanding our venture of putting existing knowledge to useful
present situation.” ends.
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an Anglican priest, Napier later studied astrolog-
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rapid climate change and related environmental interaction of astrological, magical, and for experientially derived knowledge. Napier’s
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Napier, providing for the first time a founded alternative to the rising mechanistic
the 1960s and 1970s, and the historical genre of
rounded view of this Anglican priest- explanation of nature at the time.
landscape painting.
physician and an invaluable guide to those Carefully researched and compellingly told,
Mark A. Cheetham is Professor of Art History wishing to use Napier’s uniquely rich Medicine, Religion, and Magic in Early Stuart
at the University of Toronto. His most recent England is an insightful exploration of one of the
collection of manuscripts.”
books include Abstract Art Against Autonomy: most fascinating figures at the intersection of
—Jonathan Barry, author of Witchcraft and
Infection, Resistance, and Cure Since the 60s and Demonology in South-West England, 1640–1789 medicine, magic, and theology in early modern
A Greene Country Towne Artwriting, Nation, and Cosmopolitanism in Britain: England and of the healing methods employed by
Philadelphia’s Ecology in the physicians of the era.
Cultural Imagination The “Englishness” of English Art Theory Since the
Edited by Alan C. Braddock Eighteenth Century.
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University of the Negev.
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writers of Middle English romances. This gluttony—and the evidence for Milton’s adapta-
tion of this tradition—has been either unnoticed
book makes a significant contribution not
or suppressed. Emily Stelzer provides the first
only to romance studies itself but also to
book-length work on the philosophical signifi-
the growing body of work on the flexible
cance of gluttony in Milton’s poem, arguing that
relationships between the different types a complex understanding of gluttony and of ideal,
of medieval wonder and on their aesthetic grateful, and gracious eating informs the content
and ethical implications. Middle English of his writing. Working with contextual material
Marvels will be of equal interest to scholars in the fields of physiology, philosophy, theology,
and their students.” and literature and building on recent scholarship
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of Julian of Norwich: A Vision Showed to a Devout matter and the body, Stelzer draws connections
Woman and A Revelation of Love
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This multidisciplinary volume illustrates how ined textual influences (including, for example,
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perceptions of the marvellous and magical foundational to the characteristic Middle
Literature and Program Coordinator for English
in the high Middle Ages, especially in English genres of romance and hagiography. In
and the Great Texts at Houston Baptist University.
terms of how it relates to other aspects of Middle English Marvels, Tara Williams explores
the study of mediaeval magic.” the didactic and affective potential of secu-
—Fortean Times lar representations of magic and shows how
fourteenth-century English writers tested the
limits of that potential.
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In this book, Elisabeth H. Kinsley weaves As part of the feminist movement of the 1970s,
the stories of racially and ethnically distinct female artists began consciously using their
HERE IN THIS
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Shakespeare theater scenes in late nineteenth- works to challenge social conceptions and the
and early twentieth-century Manhattan into legal definitions of rape and incest and to shift
ISLAND WE a single cultural history, revealing how these the dominant narrative of violence against
communities interacted with one another and women. In this dynamic book, Vivien Green Fryd
ARRIVED
scholarly
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how their work influenced ideas about race and charts this decades-long radical intervention
belonging in the United States during a time of through an art-historical lens.
unprecedented immigration. Fryd shows how American artists such as
As Progressive Era reformers touted the Sexual Trauma Suzanne Lacy, Leslie Labowitz, Faith Ringgold,
works of Shakespeare as an “antidote” to the in American Art Judy Chicago, and Kara Walker insisted on
Shakespeare
linguistic and cultural mixing of American soci- ending the silence surrounding sexual violence
and Belonging Since 1970
ety, and some reformers attempted to use the and helped to construct an anti-rape, anti-incest
in Immigrant
Bard’s plays to “Americanize” immigrant groups counternarrative that remains vibrant today.
New York
on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, immigrants She looks at how second-wave feminist artists
from across Europe appropriated Shakespeare established and reiterated the importance of
for their own ends. Kinsley uses archival material addressing sexual violence against women
Vivien Green Fryd
such as reform-era handbooks, theater posters, and how their successors in the third wave
ELISABETH H. KINSLEY playbills, programs, sheet music, and reviews to then framed their works within that visual and
demonstrate how, in addition to being a source rhetorical tradition. Throughout, Fryd highlights
of cultural capital, authority, and resistance for specific themes—rape and incest against white
Here in This Island
these communities, Shakespeare’s plays were Against Our Will and black female bodies, rape against white and
also a site of cultural exchange. Performances black male bodies, rape and pornography—that
Sexual Trauma in American
We Arrived of Shakespeare occasioned nuanced social
Art Since 1970
intersect with other challenges to and critiques
Shakespeare and Belonging in encounters between New York’s empowered and of the sociocultural and political patriarchy from
marginalized groups and influenced sociocultural Vivien Green Fryd the 1970s through the present day.
Immigrant New York
ideas about what Shakespeare, race, and national Featuring dozens of illustrative works and
Elisabeth H. Kinsley “Pairing trauma theory with detailed
belonging should and could mean for Americans. written by an art historian who is a scholar of
analysis of American art focused on
Timely and immensely readable, this book PTSD and herself a survivor, this groundbreaking
explains how ideas about cultural belonging
sexual violence, Fryd’s study is a timely and timely project explores sexual violence as a
formed and transformed within a particular and compelling contribution to ongoing discrete subject of American art with open eyes
human community at a time of heightened conversations about the intersections and unflinching analysis. In doing so, Against Our
demographic change. Kinsley’s work will be of images and actions, art as social and Will challenges the reader to serve as witness to
welcomed by anyone interested in the formation political catalyst, and the impact of feminist the trauma in much the same way as the works
of national identity, immigrant communities, and thought in contemporary American Fryd studies.
the history of the theater scene in New York and culture.”
the rest of the United States. Vivien Green Fryd is Professor of Art History at
—Erika Doss, author of American Art of the
20th–21st Centuries Vanderbilt University and the author of Art and
Elisabeth H. Kinsley is an instructor and adminis- Empire: The Politics of Ethnicity in the United States
trator at Northwestern University. Capitol, 1815–1860 and Art and the Crisis of Marriage:
Edward Hopper and Georgia O’Keeffe.
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28 29Inspired by the work of eminent scholar Richard A guide for constructing talismans, mixing mag-
Kieckhefer, The Sacred and the Sinister explores ical compounds, summoning planetary spirits,
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the ambiguities that made (and make) medieval and determining astrological conditions, Picatrix
religion and magic so difficult to differentiate. is a cornerstone of Western esotericism. It offers
The Sacred
The essays in this collection investigate how the important insights not only into occult practices
HISTORY
holy and unholy were distinguished in medieval and beliefs, but also into the transmission of
scholarly
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Europe, where their characteristics diverged, and magical ideas from antiquity to the present. Dan
the implications of that deviation. Attrell and David Porreca’s indispensable English
In the Middle Ages, the natural world was translation opens the world of this vital medieval
THE SINISTER understood as divinely created and infused with PI CAT RI X treatise to modern-day scholars and lay readers.
in
mysterious power. This world was accessible A M EDIEVAL TREATISE The original text, Ghāyat al-h.akīm, compiled
to human knowledge and susceptible to human in Arabic from over two hundred sources in the
on
ASTRAL M AGIC
MAGIC
T RA N S L AT E D W I T H A N I N T R O D U C T I O N B Y
manipulation through three modes of engage- DAN ATTRELL AND DAVID PORRECA
latter half of the tenth century, was translated
s t u d i e s in m e d i e va l ment: religion, magic, and science. How these into Castilian Spanish in the mid-thirteenth
r e l i g i o n and m a g i c ways of understanding developed in light of century, and shortly thereafter into Latin. Based
modern notions of rationality is an important on David Pingree’s edition of the Latin text, this
element of ongoing scholarly conversation. As translation captures the spirit of Picatrix’s role in
Kieckhefer has emphasized, ambiguity and the European tradition. In the world of Picatrix,
E D I T E D B Y D A V I D J. C O L L I N S, S. J. ambivalence characterize medieval understand- we see a seamless integration of practical magic,
ings of the divine and demonic powers at work in earnest piety, and traditional philosophy. The
the world. The ten chapters in this volume focus detailed introduction considers the text’s recep-
on four main aspects of this assertion: the cult tion through multiple iterations and includes an
The Sacred and the Sinister of the saints, contested devotional relationships Picatrix enlightening statistical breakdown of the spells
Studies in Medieval Religion and Magic and practices, unsettled judgments between A Medieval Treatise on Astral Magic and ingredients described in the book.
Edited by David J. Collins, S.J. magic and religion, and inconclusive distinctions Translated with an introduction by Framed by extensive research on the ancient
between magic and science. Dan Attrell and David Porreca and medieval context that gave rise to the Latin
“This fascinating collection explores, as its Freshly insightful, this study of ambiguity version, this translation of Picatrix will be an
dedicatee has done throughout his career, between magic and religion will be of special “The Picatrix, of Arabic origin, is the indispensable volume for students and scholars
the fundamental ambivalence between ‘the interest to scholars in the fields of medieval most complete handbook of the theory of the history of science, magic, and religion and
holy and the unholy.’ Perfectly capturing studies, religious studies, European history, and and practice of magic of the Middle Ages will fascinate anyone interested in the occult.
Richard Kieckhefer’s eclectic interests, the the history of science. and Renaissance. Here is a very welcome
In addition to the editor, the contributors Dan Attrell is a doctoral candidate in Medieval
book includes essays on topics ranging from English translation of the Latin version
to this volume are Michael S. Bailey, Kristi and Renaissance History studying the Western
saints and their hagiographers, to church that was read by Marsilio Ficino, Pico
Woodward Bain, Maeve B. Callan, Elizabeth esoteric tradition at the University of Waterloo.
buildings (and their embodiments of della Mirandola, and Heinrich Cornelius
Casteen, Claire Fanger, Sean L. Field, Anne M. Agrippa. Porreca and Attrell have made the
identities and meanings), to heresy, demons, David Porreca is Associate Professor of Classical
Koenig, Katelyn Mesler, and Sophie Page.
and magic. Kieckhefer once quipped text a pleasure to read and have provided Studies and codirector of the Medieval Studies
that his scholarship has a right hand and David J. Collins, S.J., is Associate Professor of useful notes to explain everything that is program at the University of Waterloo and is
a left hand. Both sides are delightfully History at Georgetown University. obscure or exotic.” President of the Societas Magica.
represented here.” —Charles Burnett, Professor of Arabic/
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30 31Borges Beyond the Visible presents radically new In 1832, Eugène Delacroix accompanied a French
readings of some of Jorge Luis Borges’s most diplomatic mission to Morocco, the first leg of
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celebrated stories. Focusing on the tensions a journey through the Maghreb and Andalusia
between fiction and intimacy, Max Ubelaker Journey to that left an indelible impression on the painter.
Andrade shows how Borges employed his the Maghreb and This comprehensive, annotated English-language
famous intertextual puzzles to create multilay-
Andalusia, 1832 translation of his notes and essays about this for-
scholarly
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The Travel NoTebooks
ered texts that privately transformed his personal aNd oTher WriTiNgs mative trip makes available a classic example of
relationships with blindness, sexuality, and travel writing about the “Orient” from the era and
suicide while publicly shaping the contours of his Eugène Delacroix provides a unique picture of the region against
TraNslaTed by Michèle haNNoosh
literary project. the backdrop of the French conquest of Algeria.
In readings of “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius,” “El Delacroix’s travels in Morocco, Algeria, and
Aleph,” and “El Zahir,” Ubelaker Andrade argues southern Spain led him to discover a culture
that Borges, considering his own impending about which he had held only imperfect and
blindness, borrowed from Islam’s prohibitions stereotypical ideas and provided a rich store of
on visual representation to create a “literary images that fed his imagination forever after. He
theology” that elevated language and imagi- wrote extensively about these experiences in
nation over the visual in fiction while pushing several stunningly beautiful notebooks, noting
his readers to sense their personal capacity for the places he visited, routes he followed, scenes
radical reinvention through literary interpretation. he observed, and people he encountered. Later,
Borges similarly transformed his relationships Delacroix wrote two articles about the trip, “A
Max Ubelaker Andrade with sex, sexuality, and family in stories such Jewish Wedding in Morocco” and the recently
as “Emma Zunz,” “La intrusa,” and “El jardín discovered “Memories of a Visit to Morocco,” in
de senderos que se bifurcan.” These liberating Journey to the Maghreb and which he shared these extraordinary experiences,
Borges Beyond the Visible transformations (and their relationship with the Andalusia, 1832 revealing how deeply influential the trip was to
“death” of the reader) are complicated by “La The Travel Notebooks and Other his art and career.
Max Ubelaker Andrade
salvación por las obras,” a story that reimagines Writings Never before translated into English, Journey
Borges’s relationship with a suicidal reader and to the Maghreb and Andalusia, 1832 includes
“Borges’s ideal reader is, of course, Borges Eugène Delacroix
the woman to whom they were both connected. Delacroix’s two articles, four previously known
himself. Max Ubelaker Andrade isn’t only Translated by Michèle Hannoosh
The epilogue presents “Místicos del Islam,” an travel notebooks, fragments of a recently dis-
sharp, knowledgeable, and comprehensive
unpublished essay draft of Borges, as a key “Hannoosh’s unfailingly elegant translation covered fifth notebook, and numerous notes and
but also passionate—a trait that is
source of insight into an iconoclastic writing and annotation are greatly enriched by her drafts. Michèle Hannoosh supplements these
surprisingly rare among literary scholars practice that combined irreverence and faith to with an insightful introduction, full critical notes,
deep research into the wider social and
today, so well trained in the art of detached create contradictory spaces of creativity, inti- appendixes, and biographies, creating an essen-
aesthetic universe through which Delacroix
thinking. Ubelaker Andrade not only macy, and freedom. tial volume for scholars and readers interested
moved, traveled, experienced the world,
knows what Borges knew but what he Clear and accessible, Borges Beyond the Visible in Delacroix, French art history, Northern Africa,
and thus refined his artistic sensibilities.
didn’t know. He delivers explorations that is a revelatory examination of the work of one of and nineteenth-century travel and culture.
the most influential authors of the twentieth cen-
This book is a visual and textual delight,
make the invisible tangible. My advice to
tury that opens up new, exciting areas of inquiry and it contributes immeasurably to long- Michèle Hannoosh is Professor of French at the
the reader of this book is the same Borges
standing debates in art history and the University of Michigan. She is the editor of the
often gave: mistrust everything in its pages. for scholars, students, and readers of Borges.
historical sciences about ‘Orientalist’ French edition of Eugène Delacroix’s Journal and
It’s the only way to come up with your own
Max Ubelaker Andrade is an Assistant Teaching representations of peoples and cultures on the author of Painting and the Journal of Eugène
interpretation. In that task, Ubelaker Professor in Latin American Studies at the Delacroix and Baudelaire and Caricature: From the
the Mediterranean’s southern shores.”
Andrade will be an astonishing guide.” University of Massachusetts Lowell. Comic to an Art of Modernity, the latter also pub-
—Julia Clancy-Smith, author of
—Ilan Stavans, author of Borges, the Jew lished by Penn State University Press.
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