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Literature & Language Arts

Award-winning books and journals on literary history, theory, and criticism, from the eighteenth century to today. We also publish works on modernism, the digital humanities, race and culture, children's literature, and the intersection of science and literature.

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Jane Austen and the Price of Happiness

Inger Sigrun Bredkjær Brodey

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Madness at the Movies
Understanding Mental Illness through Film

James Charney, MD

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Hold It Real Still
Clint Eastwood, Race, and the Cinema of the American West

Lawrence P. Jackson

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Baroque Modernity
An Aesthetics of Theater

Joseph Cermatori

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Nightmare Factories
The Asylum in the American Imagination

Troy Rondinone

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Flickering Treasures
Rediscovering Baltimore's Forgotten Movie Theaters

Amy Davis
foreword by Barry Levinson

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The Birth of Comedy
Texts, Documents, and Art from Athenian Comic Competitions, 486–280

edited by Jeffrey Rusten
translated by Jeffrey Henderson, David Konstan, Ralph Rosen, Jeffrey Rusten, and Niall W. Slater

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Modernism and Opera

edited by Richard Begam and Matthew Wilson Smith

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A Cinema of Poetry
Aesthetics of the Italian Art Film

Joseph Luzzi

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Empire Films and the Crisis of Colonialism, 1946–1959

Jon Cowans

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Harlequin Britain
Pantomime and Entertainment, 1690–1760

John O'Brien

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Revolutionary Acts
Theater, Democracy, and the French Revolution

Susan Maslan

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Performing the Temple of Liberty
Slavery, Theater, and Popular Culture in London and Philadelphia, 1760–1850

Jenna M. Gibbs

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Music in the Shadows
Noir Musical Films

Sheri Chinen Biesen

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Nightmare Alley
Film Noir and the American Dream

Mark Osteen

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Black Soundscapes White Stages
The Meaning of Francophone Sound in the Black Atlantic

Edwin C. Hill Jr.

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Gilles Deleuze
Cinema and Philosophy

Paola Marrati
translated by Alisa Hartz

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Math Goes to the Movies

Burkard Polster and Marty Ross

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When Stories Travel
Cross-Cultural Encounters between Fiction and Film

Cristina Della Coletta

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Stage Fright
Modernism, Anti-Theatricality, and Drama

Martin Puchner

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