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Cover of "A Full Measure of Freedom: The Black Press at 200" edited by Kim Gallon and E. James West, featuring black-and-white photo of group holding newspapers, bold yellow title.
A Full Measure of Freedom
The Black Press at 200

edited by Kim Gallon and E. James West

Publication Date: December 8, 2026
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Cover of "Big Girls Stories" by Janet Thielke, featuring a partially unclasped blue bra stretched across large white text on a pink background.
Big Girls
Stories

Janet Thielke

Publication Date: December 1, 2026
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Cover of "Of Grammatology" by Jacques Derrida, featuring a bold red and white textured painting of a hibiscus flower and traces of handwriting.
Of Grammatology

Jacques Derrida
translated by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Fiftieth Anniversary Edition
Publication Date: December 1, 2026
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Cover of "Holding the Reins of the Future" by Jackie E. Stallcup, featuring a painting of a woman holding a child in warm brown and yellow tones.
Holding the Reins of the Future
Child-Rearing Experts and Female Novelists, 1860–1940

Jackie E. Stallcup

Publication Date: November 3, 2026
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Cover of "Why You Should Read More Fiction" by Andrew Piper, featuring bold black typography across yellow, blue, gray, and green color-blocked book covers.
Why You Should Read More Fiction
What Data and AI Tell Us About the Value of Storytelling

Andrew Piper

Publication Date: October 20, 2026
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Cover of "Bad Writing in the Modernist Novel" by Nathan Wainstein, featuring a green background with bold black abstract scribble lines.
Bad Writing in the Modernist Novel

Nathan Wainstein

Publication Date: October 20, 2026
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Cover of "Insurgent Fictions" by Padma Rangarajan, featuring large white title text and a tiger within a lush, rocky landscape painting.
Insurgent Fictions
The British Empire and the Birth of Terrorism

Padma Rangarajan

Publication Date: October 13, 2026
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Cover of "An A-Z Guide to Jane Austen's World" by Inger Sigrun Bredkjær Brodey, featuring a soft illustration of a woman in a bonnet under a tree gazing at a manor by a lake at dusk.
An A–Z Guide to Jane Austen's World

Inger Sigrun Bredkjær Brodey

Publication Date: October 6, 2026
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Cover of Jane Austen & the Price of Happiness by Inger Sigrun Brodey, featuring a woman in a white dress by the sea.
Jane Austen and the Price of Happiness

Inger Sigrun Bredkjær Brodey

Publication Date: September 15, 2026
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Cover of "Evoking the Dead: Roman Books of Memory" by W. Martin Bloomer, featuring a weathered Roman fresco with a fluted column and red, green, and ochre panels.
Evoking the Dead
Roman Books of Memory

W. Martin Bloomer

Publication Date: September 8, 2026
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Cover of "Antiquity Made Whole" by Leah Whittington, featuring a beige sketch of Renaissance-style frieze floral scrolls with bold black and blue title text.
Antiquity Made Whole
The Renaissance Continuation of Ancient Literature

Leah Whittington

Publication Date: September 8, 2026
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Cover of "Novel Atmospheres: Air, Affect, and Literary Modernism" by Anna Jones Abramson, featuring a muted gray seascape in horizontal minimalist color bands of sky, clouds, and water.
Novel Atmospheres
Air, Affect, and Literary Modernism

Anna Jones Abramson

Publication Date: August 18, 2026
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Cover of "Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture" edited by George Boulukos, featuring gold text on a maroon background.
Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture

edited by George Boulukos

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Volume 55
Publication Date: June 23, 2026
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Cover of "After the University" by Chad Wellmon, featuring the fallen head of a classical marble sculpture with colorful wildflowers appearing to grow out of it.
After the University
Higher Education and the Future of Intellectual Work

Chad Wellmon

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Cover of "Sugarcoated Ethics" by Courtney Weikle-Mills, showing a sepia photo of a Black woman holding a white baby and a vintage book illustration of a Black woman and white child.
Sugarcoated Ethics
Children's Literature and Atlantic Enslavement

Courtney Weikle-Mills

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Cover of "British Women Novelists and the Review Periodical" by Megan Peiser, featuring a vintage illustration of a character sitting on a stack of periodicals.
British Women Novelists and the Review Periodical

Megan Peiser

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Modernism, Media, and the Politics of Common Life

Aleksandr Prigozhin

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Degraded Heartland
Antipastoral, Agriculture, and the Rural Modern in US Literature

Maria Farland

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The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley

Nora Crook, Neil Fraistat, Stephen Behrendt, and Stuart Curran, Editors
Neil Fraistat and Nora Crook, General Editors
Neil Fraistat and Donald H. Reiman, Founding Editors

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Volume 4
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Cover of "The Novel and the Blank" by Matthew P. Brown, featuring aged beige background with black text.
The Novel and the Blank
A Literary History of the Book Trades in Eighteenth-Century British America

Matthew P. Brown

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