Aesthetics and cognition in Kant’s critical philosophy; edited by Rebecca Kukla. Cambridge University Press, 2006. 309p $75.00
These essays explore the relationship between Kant’s aesthetic theory and his critical epistemology as formulated in the Critique of pure reason and the Critique of the power of judgment.
ISBN 0-521-86201-9; 978-0-521-86201-1; LCCN 2005-23710

Agamemnon in performance: 458 BC to AD 2004; edited by Fiona Macintosh … [et al.]. Oxford University Press, 2005. 484p. $125.00
The performance history of Aeschylus’s tragedy Agamemnon (the first play in his Oresteia trilogy) is the subject of these essays. Documentary evidence is provided for ancient and modern productions of this play, as well as for various aspects of the play’s stagecraft, and its influence on other creative works of literature and music. A detailed index of all documented productions of Agamemnon is included.
ISBN 0-1992-6351-5; 978-0-1992-6351-6; LCCN 2006-296806

Battle scars: gender and sexuality in the American Civil War; edited by Catherine Clinton and Nina Silber. Oxford University Press, 2006. 213p. $65.00, $19.95 (pbk.)
These ten essays discuss gender roles during the American Civil War and Reconstruction, with particular attention to the role of women. Among the topics are the activities of Catholic nuns in the Confederacy; the role of prostitutes in the Confederate war effort; and the defiant and unrepentant newspaper columns written by southern women during Reconstruction.
ISBN 0-1951-7445-3; 0-1951-7444-5; LCCN 2005-48796

The body of the queen: gender and rule in the courtly world, 1500-2000; edited by Regina Schulte. Berghahn Books, 2006. 364p $85.00, $28.50 (pbk.)
The private and public roles of the queen in the world of European royalty are explored in this collection of essays. Among the topics are the literary correspondence between the ill-fated Marie Antoinette and her mother, Maria Theresa, Empress of Austria; the intrigues of Elisabeth, Queen of Hungary to put her son on the throne; and the role of Queen Margherita as the woman behind the man, Umberto I, King of Italy.
ISBN 1-84545-121-X; 1-84545-159-7; LCCN 2005-57003

Brill’s companion to Thucydides; edited by Antonios Rengakos and Antonios Tsakmaris. Brill, 2006. 947p $336.00
Thirty-two essays by classical scholars explore the work and influence of Thucydides, the author of History of the Peloponnesian War and the originator of modern historiography. The author’s language and style, political views, topographical and medical knowledge, and many other topics are individually examined.
ISBN 90-04-13683-5; 978-90-0413683-0; LCCN 2006-49068

Browder, Laura.
Her best shot: women and guns in America. University of North Carolina Press, 2006. 287p. $29.95
These essays discuss American women and their use of firearms, from the American Revolution to modern times. Female soldiers in the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, frontierswomen, exhibition sharpshooters like Annie Oakley, gun molls like Ma Barker and Bonnie Parker, the women of the Black Panther movement, Patty Hearst and the Symbionese Liberation Army, and contemporary far-right gun-toting women are among the topics.
ISBN 0-8078-3050-X; 978-0-8078-3050-5; LCCN 2006-10730

Deadly cultures: biological weapons since 1945; Mark Wheelis, Lajos Rozsa, and Malcom Dando, editors. Harvard University Press, 2006. 479p $59.95
These essays form a comprehensive survey of the development and use of biological weapons by nations and terrorist organizations from the end of World War II to the present. The political, military, and technical aspects of biological and chemical warfare and the international diplomatic efforts to control the production and use of such weapons are explored.
ISBN 0-6740-1699-8; 978-0-6740-1699-6; LCCN 2005-50225

Dixon, Wheeler W.
Visions of paradise: images of Eden in the cinema. Rutgers University Press, 2006. 220p $22.95 (pbk.)
The desire to experience the bliss of an idyllic paradise, either in this world or the next, is a potent theme in motion pictures. These essays discuss the cinema’s treatment of the paradise theme, whether it takes place on earth (as in beach party and surfing movies) or in the afterlife (as in films such as Heaven can wait and Stairway to heaven).
ISBN 0-8135-3798-3; 978-0-8135-3798-6; LCCN 2005-20077

A farewell to the Yahwist?: the composition of the Pentateuch in recent European interpretation; edited by Thomas B. Dozeman and Konrad Schmid. Brill, 2006. 197p $110.00
For well over a century the documentary hypothesis (the belief that four separate and identifiable texts were combined to create the Pentateuch) has been a powerful concept in the study of the composition of the Hebrew Scriptures. Modern scholarship, however, has challenged this assertion, some scholars going so far as to declare that there was no “Yahwist” and no “J document” at all. The authors of these essays explore the issues and state their positions with regard to the J document, its author the Yahwist, and the documentary hypothesis of composition.
ISBN 90-04-13766-1; 90-04-13766-1; LCCN 2006-8538

French, Emma.
Selling Shakespeare to Hollywood: the marketing of filmed Shakespeare adaptations from 1989 into the new millennium. University of Hertfordshire Press, 2006. 223p. $29.95 (pbk.)
The essays in this book describe the marketing strategies that have been used to sell Shakespeare to film audiences since 1989. The use of theatrical posters and trailers, the updating of the Bard in such films as Romeo + Juliet, and the growing market for teenage films inspired by the plays (such as O, and 10 things I hate about you) are among the topics. Of central importance is the essay on actor-filmmaker Kenneth Branagh, whose film adaptations have retained the spirit and the letter of Shakespeare to a remarkable degree and have achieved critical and commercial success as well.
ISBN 1-902806-51-4; 978-1-9028-0651-8

Hiroshima in history: the myths of revisionism; edited with an introduction by Robert James Maddox. University of Missouri Press, 2007. $34.95
The essays in this volume respond to recent revisionist historians who claim that the use of atomic weaponry against Japan in World War II was unjustified and who allege that Japan had made a prior offer of surrender, which was rejected by U.S President Harry Truman for political reasons. The authors examine the evidence for Japan’s intentions of continuing the war, the U.S. decision to drop the atomic bomb, and the complexity of American relations with the Soviet Union in the Far East.
ISBN 978-0-8262-1732-5; LCCN 2006-100945

Immigration and the transformation of Europe; edited by Craig A. Parsons, Timothy M. Smeeding. Cambridge University Press, 2006. 480p. $99.00
These essays explore Europe’s swiftly changing demographics as the result of immigration from the Middle East, Asia and Africa. The authors explore the new economic, political, religious, and social situations caused by the presence of large, permanent communities of non-Europeans in what was once perceived to be ethnically homogeneous states.
ISBN 0-521-86193-4; 978-0-521-86193-9; LCCN 2006-299990

Interrogating ethics: embodying the good in Merleau-Ponty; edited by James Hatley, Janice McLane & Christian Diehm. Duquesne University Press, 2006. 386p. $70.00, $25.00 (pbk.)
The essays in this volume assess the thought of French phenomenologist and psychologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty and his influence on ethical theory. Among the topics explored are Merleau-Ponty’s understanding of human subjectivity, and his views on corporeality and active engagement with the world.
ISBN 0-8207-0382-6; 0-8207-0383-4; LCCN 2006-6276

Larson, Stephanie Greco.
Media & minorities: the politics of race in news and entertainment. Rowman & Littlefield, 2006. 363p $80.00, $35.00 (pbk.)
The depiction of ethnic minorities (specifically, African Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Native Americans) in film, television, and the press is the subject of these essays. The media’s use of the stereotype (or more accurately, “the controlling image”) of minority persons in entertainment programs and in news reporting is a dominant theme.
ISBN 0-8476-9452-6; 0-8476-9453-4; LCCN 2005-3589

Levinas & Buber: dialogue & difference; edited by Peter Atterton, Matthew Calarco & Maurice Friedman. Duquesne University Press, 2004. 325p. $24.95
The contrasting thought of Emmanuel Levinas and Martin Buber, two of the most important Jewish philosophers of modern times, is examined in these essays, with attention to their differences as well as their affinities. Ethical behavior, Jewish tradition, and their relation to other philosophers such as Martin Heidegger are among the topics examined.
ISBN 0-8207-0349-4; LCCN 2003-23594

Lights, camera, history: portraying the past in film; edited by Richard Francaviglia and Jerry Rodnitzky. Texas A&M University Press, 2007. 138p $35.00, $19.95 (pbk.)
The depiction of historical events in motion pictures, their relation to historical reality, and their influence on mass audiences are among the themes of these essays. Individual films such as Gangs of New York are examined in detail.
ISBN 1-58544-566-5; 1-58544-580-0; LCCN 2006-21746

MacNeil, William P.
Lex populi: the jurisprudence of popular culture. Stanford University Press, 2007. 241p. $45.00
The essays in this book focus on the popular images of law and jurisprudence in motion pictures, television, and current fiction. The presentation of law and justice in the Harry Potter novels, the portrayal of right-to-die issues in the film Million dollar baby, and the depiction of Harvard Law School students in the films The paper chase and Legally blonde are among the topics.
ISBN 0-8047-5367-9; 978-0-8047-5367-8; LCCN 2006-36365

Marshall, C.W.
The stagecraft and performance of Roman comedy. Cambridge University Press, 2006. 320p $90.00
Roman comedy is best represented by the surviving plays of its two greatest practitioners, Plautus and Terence. The essays in this encyclopedic work describe the different aspects of the ancient stage production of these authors’ plays, including masks, music, stage action, improvisation, and the distribution of roles.
ISBN 0-5218-6161-6; 978-0-5218-5161-8; LCCN 2006-3307

A nation of religions: the politics of pluralism in multireligious America; edited by Stephen Prothero. University of North Carolina Press, 2006. 296p $49.95, $19.95 (pbk.)
These essays examine the growth of Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Sikhism in the United States as the result of immigration and conversion. The problems of maintaining traditional religion practices in a foreign setting, the cultural identity crisis facing immigrants and their American-born children, the competition among Buddhist sects for converts, and the increased suspicion about Islamic religious communities since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, are among the topics explored.
ISBN 0-8078-3052-6; 0-8078-5770-X; LCCN 2006-11156

Rogers, Dorothy G.
America’s first women philosophers: transplanting Hegel, 1860-1925. Continuum, 2005. 180p $140.00
These essays explore the lives and activities of several notable women associated with American idealism, and with the Concord School of Philosophy and the St. Louis Philosophic Society in particular. Among the lives examined are those of childhood educator Susan Blow and feminist Anna Brackett.
ISBN 0-8264-7475-6; LCCN 2004-56177

Roston, Murray.
Tradition and subversion in Renaissance literature: studies in Shakespeare, Spenser, Jonson, and Donne. Duquesne University Press, 2007. 258p. $60.00
These essays focus on specific literary works such as Shakespeare’s Hamlet and The merchant of Venice, Spenser’s The faerie queene, Jonson’s Volpone, and Donne’s Meditations, each of which presents conflicts and contradictions that defy a simple interpretation. The author demonstrates how the apparent incompatibility of traditional and subversive elements in these works creates a dynamic relationship which is the source of much literary interest and artistic achievement.
ISBN 0-8207-0390-7; 978-0-8207-0390-9; LCCN 2006-39039

Ryan, Mary P.
Mysteries of sex: tracing women and men through American history. University of North Carolina Press, 2006. 432p $37.50
These essays trace the development of male-female relationships throughout American history, from the first encounters of Europeans and Native Americans to the present. Of particular interest is an article describing the nature of sexual relationships between slave and master in the antebellum south, and the relegation of the offspring of such unions to slave status, in defiance of European norms of patrilineal descent.
ISBN 0-8078-3062-3; 978-0-8078-3062-8; LCCN 2006-16540

Seeing Seneca whole: perspectives on philosophy, poetry and politics; edited by Katharina Volk and Gareth D. Williams. Brill, 2006. 222p $139.00
The ten essays in this collection examine different facets of the literary work of the Roman playwright, Stoic philosopher, and imperial politician Lucius Annaeus Seneca, who flourished during the reigns of Claudius and Nero. The authors strive to illuminate individual aspects of Seneca’s work while discovering themes common to all his writing.
ISBN 9-0041-5078-1; 978-9-0041-5078-2; LCCN 2006-284276

Sillars, Stuart.
Painting Shakespeare: the artist as critic, 1720-1820. Cambridge University Press, 2006. 337p $120.00
When London publisher John Boydell commissioned Europe’s most celebrated artists to create paintings for his newly founded Shakespeare Gallery, he ushered in a new era of artistic expression and provided a fresh impetus for reassessing the plays in visual and literary terms. These essays trace the course of Boydell’s Shakespeare Gallery and its artists from 1789 to its demise in 1795, and cover Shakespearean art both before and after this period, with attention to Blake, Fuseli, Hogarth, Reynolds, and many others.
ISBN 0-5218-5308-7; 978-0-5218-5308-8; LCCN 2005-18620

Social change in the age of globalization; edited by Jing Tiankui, Masamichi Sasaki, and Li Peilin. Brill, 2006. 288p. $99.00
Eighteen essays by sociologists from ten different countries address issues related to the new age of globalization and social change. Among the topics examined are cultural diversity, migration, equality, social transformation, and national identity.
ISBN 90-04015143-5; 978-90-04-15143-7; LCCN 2006-49062