American literary geographies: spatial practice and cultural production, 1500-1900; edited by Martin Bruckner and Hsuan L. Hsu. University of Delaware Press 2007. 367 p. $65.00
These essays focus on the relationship between American literature and the changing geographical boundaries of the American nation and the evolving concepts of American identity.
ISBN 978-0-87413-980-8; 0-87413-980-5; LCCN 2006-52962

The artificial and the natural: an evolving polarity; edited by Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent and William R. Newman. MIT Press 2007. 331p $40.00 (Dibner Institute studies in the history of science and technology)
These essays examine the contrast between nature and art, and investigate the often blurred distinction between the natural and the artificial, as defined and understood from the time of the Hippocratic authors and Aristotle to the advent of twenty-first century technology.
ISBN 978-0-262-02620-8; LCCN 2007-1896

Booker, M. Keith. “May contain graphic material”: comic books, graphic novels, and film. Praeger 2007. 210p $44.95
The chapters in this volume describe the transfer of comic book heroes and characters to film, focusing on the period beginning in 1978 with the first film in the Superman franchise. Advances in computer generated special effects, the development of the graphic novel, and the changes in audience sensibilities, are among the topics.
ISBN 978-0-275-99386-3; LCCN 2007-26121

“Burning interiors”: David Shapiro’s poetry and poetics; edited by Thomas Fink and Joseph Lease. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press 2007. 186p $43.00
Essays on the life and work of contemporary American poet David Shapiro.
ISBN 978-0-8386-4155-2; 0-8386-4155-5; LCCN 2006-101578

Clint Eastwood, actor and director: new perspectives; edited by Leonard Engel. University of Utah Press 2007. 269p $21.95
The film work of actor/director Clint Eastwood is explored in these essays, tracing his career from his early Italian westerns to his more recent work, including the films Mystic River and Million dollar baby.
ISBN 978-0-87480-900-8; LCCN 2007-31372

Gee, James Paul. Good video games + good learning: collected essays on video games, learning and literacy. P. Lang 2007. 194p $79.95; $29.95 (pa)
The author discusses a broad range of topics concerning video games, and their impact on learning and literacy.
ISBN 978-0-8204-9734-1; 978-0-8204-9703-7 (pa); LCCN 2006-101455

Goth: undead subculture; edited by Lauren M.E. Goodlad and Michael Bibby. Duke University Press 2007. 442p $94.95; $25.95 (pa)
The goth subculture, which emerged out of the British punk rock scene of the 1970’s, has proved to be an enduring international social phenomenon. These essays explore the creative and social aspects of this alternate lifestyle.
ISBN 978-0-8223-3908-3; 978-0-8223-3921-2 (pa); LCCN 2006-31838

Gottlieb, Evan. Feeling British: sympathy and national identity in Scottish and English writing, 1707-1832. Bucknell University Press 2007. 2274p $52.50 (The Bucknell studies in eighteenth-century literature and culture)
Although the 1707 Act of Union officially joined England and Scotland, the two nations have long retained separate national identities. These essays describe the attempts of English and Scottish authors (such as Daniel Defoe, William Wordsworth, and Sir Walter Scott) to forge a new sense of inclusive British identity in their literary works.
ISBN 978-0-8387-5678-2; 0-8387-5678-6; LCCN 2006-35155

Heroes & hero cults in Latin America; edited by Samuel Brunk & Ben Fallow. University of Texas Press 2006. 318p $55.00; $22.95 (pa)
The essays in this volume focus on ten individuals who have been defined as heroes of modern Latin America, whose lives and achievements not only exerted influence in their own time but proved influential to later generations. Numbered among these larger-than-life figures are Simon Bolivar, Emiliano Zapata, Evita Peron, and Frida Kahlo.
ISBN 978-0-292-71437-3; 0-292-71437-8; 978-0-292-71481-6 (pa); 0-292-71481-5 (pa); LCCN 2006-12990

Interrogating postfeminism: gender and the politics of popular culture; edited by Yvonne Tasker and Diane Negra. Duke University Press 2007. 344 p. $89.95; $24.95 (pa) (Console-ing passions)
These essays by a variety of authors on feminist issues focus on postfeminism in mass media and popular culture. The concept of “postfeminism” (a term that assumes that women have already achieved legal and social equality and are now are seeking fulfillment through practices of transformation and empowerment) is defined and explored.
ISBN 978-0-8223-4014-0; 978-0-8223-4032-4 (pa); LCCN 2007-16094

Latin American indigenous warfare and ritual violence; edited by Richard J. Chacon and Ruben G. Mendoza. University of Arizona Press 2007. 293p $50.00
These essays focus on the history of indigenous violence in Latin America from Tierra del Fuego to central Mexico. The authors explore the motivations and environmental factors that have led the native peoples of Latin America to engage in warfare and ritual violence since antiquity.
ISBN 978-0-8165-2527-0; 0-8165-2527; LCCN 2006-38419

Latino politics: identity, mobilization, and representation; edited by Rodolfo Espino, David L. Leal, and Kenneth J. Meier. University of Virginia Press 2007. 338p $55.00 (Race, ethnicity and politics)
The growth of the Latino population in the United States and the changing demographics of American society are explored in these essays. Among the topics are the differences in Latino identity based on national origin, Latino empowerment efforts in governmental institutions, and issues of competition and cooperation with the African-American community.
ISBN 978-0-8139-2651-3; LCCN 2007-5311

Leaves of grass: the sesquicentennial essays; edited and with an introduction by Susan Belasco, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. University of Nebraska Press 2007. xx, 481p. $24.95
The 150th anniversary of the 1855 publication of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of grass was celebrated by a conference at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where these twenty essays were originally presented. The authors focus on critical issues relating to the original first edition of this work.
ISBN 978-0-8032-6000-9; 0-8032-6000-8; LCCN 2006-37489

Marill, Alvin H. Big pictures on the small screen: made-for-TV movies and anthology dramas; foreword by Paul Bogart. Praeger 2007. 183p $49.95 (The Praeger television collection)
The chapters in this work on American television drama describe the important landmarks of anthology dramas, miniseries, and television movies, from the earliest days of television broadcasting to the present.
ISBN 978-0-275-99283-5; LCCN 2007-26763

The new architectural pragmatism: a Harvard design magazine reader; William S. Saunders, editor. University of Minnesota Press 2007. 201p $69.00; $22.95 (Harvard design magazine readers, v5)
These essays discuss the issues and controversies confronting builders of modern urban architecture, with respect to questions of technology, functionality, aesthetics, public opinion, and financing. All these issues were displayed in the recent controversy surrounding the redevelopment of the World Trade Center site, and have characterized all major building projects from Shanghai to Dubai to New York.
ISBN 978-0-8166-5263-1; 0-8166-5263-5; 978-0-8166-5264-8 (pa); 0-8166-5264-3 (pa); LCCN 2007-28545

On Bunker’s hill: essays in honor of J. Bunker Clark; edited by William A. Everett and Paul R. Laird. Harmonie Park Press 2007. 329p $40.00 (Detroit monographs in musicology/Studies in music, no.50)
Music educator and performer J. Bunker Clark is honored with this collection of essays on music composition, music education, music historiography, and several other topics.
ISBN 978-0-89990-138-1; 0-89990-138-7; LCCN 2007-10681

Onuf, Peter S. The mind of Thomas Jefferson. University of Virginia Press 2007. 281p $49.50; $19.50
The author examines various aspects of the life and achievements of American statesman and president Thomas Jefferson, including his writing of the Declaration of Independence and his ideas on race and slavery.
ISBN 978-0-8139-2578-3; 978-0-8139-2611-7 (pa); LCCN 2006-14637

On second thought: updating the eighteenth-century text; edited by Debra Taylor Bourdeau and Elizabeth Kraft. University of Delaware Press 2007. 301p $57.50
These essays focus on works of eighteenth-century English fiction, and their sequels and adaptations written contemporaneously as well as in more recent times. Among the topics discussed are works by Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, and Samuel Richardson, and modern works by John Barth, Upton Sinclair, and Derek Walcott.
ISBN 978-0-87413-975-4; 0-87413-975-9; LCCN 2007-1072

Resurrecting Elizabeth I in seventeenth-century England; edited by Elizabeth H. Hageman and Katherine Conway. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press 2007. 292p
$55.00
Although she died in 1603, Queen Elizabeth I lived on in art, literature, and the popular imagination well into the seventeenth century. The enduring legacy of the queen and the ideals and politics that she represented to later generations is the subject of these essays.
ISBN 978-0-8386-4115-6; 0-8386-4115-6; LCCN 2006-20308

Robot ghosts and wired dreams: Japanese science fiction from origins to anime; Christopher Bolton, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr., and Takayuki Tatsumi, editors. University of Minnesota Press 2007. 269p $60.00; $20.00 (pa)
The essays in this volume focus on Japanese prose science fiction, which up to now has been little known in the west, unlike the enormously popular Japanese motion picture and anime science fiction. The authors examine Japanese prose science fiction and describe how it has influenced the visual manifestations of the genre.
ISBN 978-0-8166-4973-0; 0-8166-4973-1; 978-0-8166-4974-7 (pa); 0-8166-4974-X (pa); LCCN 2007-27032

The secret life of things: animals, objects, and it-narratives in eighteenth-century England; edited by Mark Blackwell. Bucknell University Press 2007. 365p $49.95
The importance of non-human elements in eighteenth-century English literature is the subject of these essays. The authors discuss the treatment accorded to inanimate objects and animals, and examine the “it-narrative” (otherwise known as the novel of circulation, in which, for example, the travel of a bank note through the hands of its different possessors forms the basis of the narrative).
ISBN 978-0-8387-5666-9; 0-8387-5666-2; LCCN 2006-19363

Sipe, A.W. Richard. The serpent and the dove: celibacy in literature and life. Praeger 2007. 262p $49.95 (Psychology, religion, and spirituality)
The author examines the practice of sexual abstinence among the clergy of the Roman Catholic Church, and addresses the issue of celibacy as practiced in other religious contexts and as described in literary narratives. Chapters focus on the broadcasts of radio priest Charles E. Coughlin and television spiritual guide Fulton J. Sheen, and the literary works of James Joyce, among others.
ISBN 978-0-313-34725-2; LCCN 2007-26995

Sociology confronts the Holocaust: memories and identities in Jewish diasporas; edited by Judith M. Gerson and Diane L. Wolf. Duke University Press 2007. 407p $89.95; $24.95 (pa)
These essays have a dual focus of exploring the events and facts of the Jewish Holocaust of World War II, and of examining the attempts of modern sociologists to understand and come to terms with the data. Issues of transnational identities, collective memory, and collective guilt are discussed.
ISBN 978-0-8223-3982-3; 978-0-8223-3999-1 (pa); LCCN 2006-101924

Still not equal: expanding educational opportunity in society; edited by M. Christopher Brown III with assistance from RoSusan D. Bartee; foreword by Michael L. Lomax. P. Lang 2007. 465p $119.95; $36.95
These essays address the successes and failures of Brown vs. Board of Education and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the challenge of expanding educational opportunity in the United States. The social, political, and economic factors that continue to limit African-Americans from full participation in the American dream of equal opportunity in education are examined.
ISBN 978-0-8204-9727-3; 0-8204-9727-4; 978-0-8204-9522-4 (pa); 0-8204-9522-0 (pa); LCCN 2007-3223

Trites, Roberta Seelinger. Twain, Alcott, and the birth of the adolescent reform novel. University of Iowa Press 2007. 209p $34.95
The author examines key American writers of novels about adolescence and the human potential for change and reform. Chief among the architects of this literature were Louisa May Alcott and Mark Twain, two very different authors who nevertheless shared common characteristics.
ISBN 978-1-5872-9622-2; 1-5872-9622-5; LCCN 2007-924057