Asian gothic: essays on literature, film and anime; edited by Andrew Hock Soon Ng. McFarland, 2008. 244p $35.00
The literary style known as gothic, which had its origins in 18th century English Romantic interpretations of the eerie and macabre, has proven to be a durable genre that has survived repeated transplants and transmogrifications. The essays in this volume survey the Asian version of the gothic genre, both literary and cinematic. Divided into three sections, the volume focuses on postcolonial Asian gothic, Asian-American gothic, and the gothic writings of specific nations (such as Japan, China, and Turkey).
LCCN 2007-51508; ISBN 978-0-7864-3335-3

Campbell, Neil. The rhizomatic West: representing the American West in a transnational, global, and media age. University of Nebraska Press, 2008. 383p $50.00 (Postwestern horizons)
The American West as a concept transcending the barriers of time and place is the focus of these essays. The author, using the philosophical concept of the rhizome, or the unseen root that manifests itself in transient, mutable images while remaining intact, explores the West as depicted in film, literature, photography, music, and architecture.
LCCN 2008-1903; ISBN 978-0-8032-1539-9

Catholic culture in early modern England; edited by Ronald Corthell … [et al.]. University of Notre Dame Press, 2007. 324p $40.00
These essays examine the social, political, and cultural world of the Roman Catholic Church and its followers in the first centuries after the triumph of Protestantism in England.
LCCN 2007-33429; ISBN 978-0-268-02294-5

Clio’s daughters: British women making history, 1790-1899; edited by Lynette Felber. University of Delaware Press, 2007. 310p $54.50
The essays in this volume explore women as agents or makers of history in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (as leading members of European royal families, for instance), and also examine women’s achievements as authors of history, both fiction and non-fiction. Among the figures discussed are Marie Antoinette, the ill-fated queen of France; novelist George Eliot; and, travel writer Isabella Bird.
LCCN 2006-101061; ISBN 978-0-87413-981-5

Coastal encounters: the transformation of the Gulf South in the eighteenth century; edited and with an introduction by Richmond F. Brown. University of Nebraska Press, 2007. 313p $24.95
The eighteenth century development of Gulf South, defined as the territory stretching from Florida to Texas on the Gulf of Mexico, is the focus of these essays. The demographic, cultural, social, political and economic transformations during that century, involving Europeans, Native Americans, and Africans, are explored.
LCCN 2007-20211; ISBN 978-0-8032-6267-6

Doing justice to mercy: religion, law, and criminal justice; edited by Jonathan Rothchild, Matthew Myer Boulton, and Kevin Jung. University of Virginia Press, 2007. 280p $49.50; $19.50 (pa) (Studies in religion and culture)
These essays examine the relationship between the legalistic concept of justice, and the philosophical and religious concept of mercy, and explore the ways in which a balance is sought between these two often conflicting concepts in the modern legal process.
LCCN 2007-8228; ISBN 978-0-8139-2642-1; 978-0-8139-2643-8 (pa)

Don’t ever get famous: essays on New York writing after the New York School; edited by Daniel Kane. Dalkey Archive Press, 2006. 399p $34.95
These essays examine the cultural, sociological, and historical contexts of the New York poetry scene of the 1960s and 70s. Among the writers discussed are Bernadette Mayer, Lorenzo Thomas, and Hannah Weiner.
LCCN 2006-16861; ISBN 978-1-56478-460-5

Ethnic identity in Nahua Mesoamerica: the view from archaeology, art history, ethnohistory, and contemporary ethnography; by Frances F. Berdan … [et al.]. University of Utah Press, 2008. 266p $50.00
The Nahua people of Mexico and Central America are examined in these essays. The ethnicity, culture, and geography of these tribes are explored, in both historical and modern contexts.
LCCN 2007-7038026; ISBN 978-0-87480-917-6

Fiedler, Leslie. The devil gets his due: the uncollected essays of Leslie Fieldler; edited by Samuele F.S. Pardini. Counterpoint, 2008. xxviii, 312p $26.00
Key influential essays of late American literary critic Leslie Fiedler are collected in this volume. Among the entries is his groundbreaking study of race and sex in American literature, “Come Back to the Raft Ag’in, Huck Honey!”
LCCN 2007-44754; ISBN 978-1-59376-188-2

From superpower to besieged global power: restoring world order after the failure of the Bush doctrine; edited by Edward A. Kolodziej and Roger E. Kanet. University of Georgia Press, 2008. xxiii, 411p $69.95; $24.95 (pa) (Studies in security and international affairs)
The authors of these essays analyze the current state of American global power with respect to the effect of the Bush doctrine on world order, and offer proposals for repairing American prestige abroad and re-evaluating American security measures and foreign policy.
LCCN 2007-34024; ISBN 978-0-8203-2977-2; 978-0-8203-3074-7 (pa)

Hayden, Tom. Writings for a democratic society: the Tom Hayden reader. City Lights Books, 2008. 591p $21.95
Articles, essays, and selections from longer works have been assembled in this reader reflecting the entire range of political activist Tom Hayden’s journalistic output, from the early 1960s to the present.
LCCN 2007-44961; ISBN 978-0-87286-461-0

In memory of Elaine Marks: life writing, writing death; edited by Richard E. Goodkin. University of Wisconsin Press, 2007. 256p $65.00
The late professor and literary critic Elaine Marks is honored in this collection of essays on varied topics, which includes explorations of French literature, feminist theory, loss and mourning, mother-daughter relationships, and the disadvantages of monolingualism.
LCCN 2006-31478; ISBN 978-0-299-22230-7

Kelsey, Penelope Myrtle. Tribal theory in Native American literature: Dakota and Haudenosanee writing and indigenous worldviews. University of Nebraska Press, 2008. 175p $45.00
The author examines the work of Native American Dakota writers and storytellers, and proposes a new way to examine their indigenous culture, beliefs, and narrative techniques, which are often misunderstood in traditional western literary criticism. Among the authors explored are Marie McLaughlin, Charles Eastman, and Zitkala-Sa.
LCCN 2007-51820; ISBN 978-0-8032-2771-2

Kirsch, Adam. The modern element: essays on contemporary poetry. W.W. Norton, 2008. 352p $25.95
The author examines contemporary poetry (primarily American poetry) in these essays. Among the poets discussed are Kenneth Koch, Philip Larkin, and Sharon Olds.
LCCN 2007-36461; ISBN 978-0-393-06271-7

Mavor, Carol. Reading boyishly: Roland Barthes, J.M. Barrie, Jacques Henri Lartigue, Marcel Proust, and D.W. Winnicott. Duke University Press, 2007. 522p $99.95; $27.95 (pa)
The author examines five creative talents who focused on the lives and perceptions of adolescent boys in much of their work: the literary authors J.M. Barrie, Roland Barthes, Marcel Proust, and D.M. Winnicott, and the photographer Jacque Henri Lartigue, who did significant photographic work as a child.
LCCN 2007-5225; ISBN 978-0-8223-3886-4; 978-0-8223-3962-5 (pa)

Morrison, Toni. What moves at the margin: selected nonfiction; edited and with an introduction by Carolyn C. Denard. University Press of Mississippi, 2008. 215p $30.00
This collection of non-fiction by 1993 Nobel Prize recipient Tony Morrison covers three decades of her writing, in which she examines her work, her life, literature, and American society.
LCCN 2007-41719; ISBN 978-1-60473-017-3

Nelson, Maggie. Women, the New York School, and other true abstractions. University of Iowa Press, 2007. xxvii, 288p $42.50
The women associated with the 20th century movement in literature and art known as the New York School are celebrated in this volume dedicated to their lives and achievements. Among the writers discussed are Bernadette Mayer, Alice Notley, and Eileen Myles.
LCCN 2007-924052; ISBN 978-1-58729-615-4

Remembering elites; edited by Mike Savage and Karel Williams. Blackwell, 2008. 295p $34.95 (Sociological review monograph series)
These essays examine the phenomenon of social elites and their influence in the economic, political, and social life of nations in modern times.
LCCN 2008-9653; ISBN 978-1-4051-8546-2

Reynolds, Guy. Apostles of modernity: American writers in the age of development. University of Nebraska Press, 2008. 268p $50.00
America’s deep and growing involvement in world affairs following World War II was reflected in the writings of literary authors as diverse as James Baldwin, Saul Bellow, Pearl S. Buck, and Ernest Hemingway. The author of this book shows how writers and intellectuals of the period dealt with topics such as U.S. internationalism, decolonization, the fall of European empires, the rise of the Third World, and new challenges from the Islamic world and China.
LCCN 2007-35398; ISBN 978-0-8032-1377-7

Ross, Bruce. Venturing upon dizzy heights: lectures and essays on philosophy, literature, and the arts. P. Lang, 2008. 121p $59.95
Essays by Bruce Ross on a wide range of topics, including literature (William Wordsworth, Friedrich Nietzsche); art (Vincent Van Gogh, American landscape painting); and, Japanese poetry forms (haiku, haibun).
LCCN 2008-6186; ISBN 978-1-4331-0287-5

Rothstein, Eric. Gleaning modernity: earlier eighteenth-century literature and the modernizing process. University of Delaware Press, 2007. 269p $55.00
Eighteenth century British literary works and the manner in which they were read and interpreted by their readers is the topic of these chapters. Among the works discussed are Swift’s Gulliver’s travels, Richardson’s Clarissa, Fielding’s Tom Jones, and Cleland’s Fanny Hill.
LCCN 2007-1069; ISBN 978-0-87413-984-6

Sarlo, Beatriz. The technical imagination: Argentine culture’s modern dreams; translated by Xavier Callahan. Stanford University Press, 2008. 185p $60.00
The author examines the influence of technology on the literature and popular culture of modern Argentina. The author particularly focuses on the working class inventors of Buenos Aires, and describes how their not-always-successful inventions captured the popular imagination.
LCCN 2007-17226; ISBN 978-0-8047-3542-1

Sinographies: writing China; Eric Hayot, Haun Saussy, and Steven G. Yao, editors. University of Minnesota Press, 2008. xxi, 381p $82.50; $27.50 (pa)
These essays explore the ideas of China and “Chineseness” throughout history, both within China itself and as understood by foreign observers. Among the topics are: the missionary activities of the Nestorians; the depiction of China and the Far East in the poetry of John Milton; and, the difficulties of translating from the Chinese language.
LCCN 2007-19080; ISBN 978-0-8166-4724-8; 978-0-8166-4725-5 (pa)

The state of India’s democracy; edited by Sumit Ganguly, Larry Diamond, and Marc F. Plattner. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. 231p $45.00; $18.95 (pa) (A Journal of democracy book)
These essays examine the state of democracy in India, which has celebrated its sixtieth year of independence from Britain. The authors focus on social problems (many of them particular to India) in relation to democratic government, such as the power of the caste system in hindering the democratic process; the rise of judicial sovereignty; and, police agencies and coercive power.
LCCN 2007-18293; ISBN 978-0-8018-8790-1; 978-0-8018-8791-8 (pa)

Texas Christian University. Center for Texas Studies. Going to Texas: five centuries of Texas maps. TCU Press, 2007. 120p $39.95
These essays describe the making of and the use of maps in the ever-changing territory of Texas, from the era of Spanish explorations until the present time. Each essay is accompanied by reproductions of the maps under discussion.
LCCN 2007-61737; ISBN 978-0-87565-344-0