New Materials: Literature :: November 20th, 2009

Western sketches and war poems / by Richard Brackenbury
The distance between us / Bart Yates
Jesus is sending you this message : (stories) / by Jim Grimsley ; with an introduction by Dorothy Allison
Saving sand : memories of a prairie culture / by Charles Brashear
A baker's dozen of the lawgiver / Michael T. Martino, [artwork by Chris Martino]
Multi-cultural adaptations of Greek tragedies : my introduction to dramaturgy / by Carlenne Rose Lacosta
Great expectations / Charles Dickens ; with all the usual illustrations and very many rare plates
Dombey & Son / Charles Dickens ; with all the usual illustrations and very many rare plates
A new literary history of America / edited by Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors
The man from Kinvara : selected stories / Tess Gallagher
Shaping memories : reflections of African American women writers / edited by Joanne Veal Gabbin
The pure lover : a memoir of grief / David Plante
Political economy and the states of literature in early modern England / Aaron Kitch
Milton's Ovidian Eve / Mandy Green
Fellow Romantics : male and female British writers, 1790-1835 / edited by Beth Lau
The Toon treasury of classic children's comics / selected and edited by Art Spiegelman & Françoise Mouly ; introduction by Jon Scieszka
Encyclopedia of American popular fiction / Geoff Hamilton and Brian Jones
Encyclopedia of Jewish-American literature / Gloria L. Cronin, Alan L. Berger
From the horse's mouth : Oxford dictionary of English idioms
Samuel Johnson, the Ossian fraud and the Celtic revival in Great Britain and Ireland / Thomas M. Curley
New heaven, new earth : Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra / Jan H. Blits
Chinese Shakespeares : two centuries of cultural exchange / Alexander C.Y. Huang
Professing poetry : Seamus Heaney's poetics / Michael Cavanagh
Evading class in contemporary British literature / Lawrence Driscoll
Beats at Naropa : an anthology / edited by Anne Waldman and Laura Wright
The art of time in fiction : as long as it takes / Joan Silber
Realism's empire : empiricism and enchantment in the nineteenth-century novel / Geoffrey Baker
Body against soul : gender and sowlehele in Middle English allegory / Masha Raskolnikov
Dancing out of line : ballrooms, ballets, and mobility in Victorian fiction and culture / Molly Engelhardt
I made you to find me : the coming of age of the woman poet and the politics of poetic address / Jane Hedley
The quill and the scalpel : Nabokov's art and the worlds of science / Stephen H. Blackwell
Out of the blue : September 11 and the novel / Kristiaan Versluys
Six poetry formats and the transforming image : a monograph on free verse / Edith L. Tiempo
Conversations with Samuel R. Delany / edited by Carl Freedman
The essays of Leonard Michaels
The importance of being Iceland : travel essays in art / Eileen Myles
The Cambridge companion to medieval English literature, 1100-1500 / edited by Larry Scanlon
Lord Byron and the history of desire / Ian Dennis
Ethics and politics in modern American poetry / John Wrighton
Understanding Joseph Heller / Sanford Pinsker
Understanding Cormac McCarthy / Steven Frye
Kurt Vonnegut's America / Jerome Klinkowitz
Poetry in a time of terror : essays in the postcolonial preternatural / Rukmini Bhaya Nair
The mythology of imperialism : a revolutionary critique of British literature and society in the modern age : Rudyard Kipling, Joseph Conrad, E.M. Forster, D.H. Lawrence, and Joyce Cary / by Jonah Raskin ; foreword by Bruce Robbins
Emily Hamilton and other writings / Sukey Vickery ; edited and with an introduction by Scott Slawinski
A moveable feast : the restored edition / Ernest Hemingway ; foreword by Patrick Hemingway ; edited, with an introduction, by Seán Hemingway
In rooms of memory : essays / Hilary Masters
Essays / Wallace Shawn
Perforated heart : a novel / Eric Bogosian
Sitting practice : a novel / Caroline Adderson
Do-over! : in which a forty-eight-year-old father of three returns to kindergarten, summer camp, the prom, and other embarrassments / Robin Hemley
The Maples stories / John Updike
Fort Da : a report / Elisabeth Sheffield
Ugly man : stories / Dennis Cooper
Far north / Marcel Theroux
Strangers : a novel / Anita Brookner
A ball of fire : collected stories / John Montague
Brooklyn : a novel / Colm Tóibín
The game of opposites / Norman Lebrecht
Between the assassinations / Aravind Adiga
The year that follows / Scott Lasser
Once you go back / Douglas A. Martin
Rhino ranch : a novel / Larry McMurtry
Anna in-between / by Elizabeth Nunez
Inherent vice / Thomas Pynchon
Shanghai girls : a novel / Lisa See
The mere future / Sarah Schulman
Do not deny me : stories / Jean Thompson
The last war : a novel / Ana Menéndez
Old girlfriends / David Updike
The story sisters : a novel / Alice Hoffman
A short history of women : a novel / Kate Walbert
The Shanghai gesture : a novel / by Gary Indiana
Fool / Christopher Moore
Seen it all and done the rest : a novel / Pearl Cleage
Native storiers : five selections / edited and with an introduction by Gerald Vizenor
Follow me : a novel / Joanna Scott
The blue hour : a life of Jean Rhys / Lilian Pizzichini
The complete works of John Milton / edited with introduction, notes, and commentary by Laura Lunger Knoppers
Varieties of English. 4, Africa, South and Southeast Asia / edited by Rajend Mesthrie
Varieties of English. 3, The Pacific and Australasia / edited by Kate Burridge and Bernd Kortmann
Varieties of English. 2, The Americas and the Caribbean / edited by Edgar W. Schneider
Varieties of English. 1, The British Isles / edited by Bernd Kortmann and Clive Upton
The Cambridge introduction to Mark Twain / Peter Messent
Portrait and dream : new and selected poems / Bill Berkson
The Cambridge history of twentieth-century English literature / edited by Laura Marcus and Peter Nicholls
Algren at sea : Who lost an American? & Notes from a sea diary : travel writings / Nelson Algren
New selected essays : where I live / Tennessee Williams ; introduction by John Lahr ; edited, with an afterword, by John S. Bak
Apocalyptic swing : poems / Gabrielle Calvocoressi
The lost symbol : a novel / Dan Brown
Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen : a manifesto in 41 tales / Marilyn Chin
Little bird of heaven : a novel / Joyce Carol Oates
Love begins in winter : five stories / Simon Van Booy
Love and obstacles : stories / Aleksandar Hemon
Sunnyside / Glen David Gold
From A to X : a story in letters / by John Berger
The signal / Ron Carlson
My father's tears : and other stories / John Updike
The casebook of Victor Frankenstein : a novel / Peter Ackroyd
Far bright star : a novel / by Robert Olmstead
Euripides : Orestes / Matthew Wright
Letters to women : new letters. Volume 2 / Theodore Dreiser ; edited by Thomas P. Riggio
The Cambridge companion to Daniel Defoe / edited by John Richetti
Mainly the truth : interviews with Mark Twain / edited by Gary Scharnhorst
Love as always, Kurt : Vonnegut as I knew him / Loree Rackstraw
No bottom : in conversation with Barry Lopez / Mike Newell
Ghosts, metaphor, and history in Toni Morrison's Beloved and Gabriel García Márquez's One hundred years of solitude / Daniel Erickson
Novel ideas : contemporary authors share the creative process / introduction, interviews, and exercises by Barbara Shoup and Margaret-Love Denman
The winter sun : notes on a vocation / Fanny Howe
Hemingway : eight decades of criticism / edited by Linda Wagner-Martin
Byron : life and legend / Fiona MacCarthy
Marriage, writing, and romanticism : Wordsworth and Austen after war / Eric C. Walker
Uncommon women : gender and representation in nineteenth-century U.S. women's writing / Laura Laffrado
A backward glance : the Southern renascence, the autobiographical epic, and the classical legacy / Joseph Millichap
Can poetry save the earth? : a field guide to nature poems / John Felstiner
A genealogy of literary multiculturalism / Christopher Douglas
Occasions : selected writings / Eudora Welty ; edited by Pearl Amelia McHaney
Forms at war : FC2 1999-2009 / edited by R.M. Berry
First we read, then we write : Emerson on the creative process / by Robert D. Richardson
Jack London's racial lives : a critical biography / Jeanne Campbell Reesman
The Cambridge companion to American travel writing / edited by Alfred Bendixen and Judith Hamera
African spiritual traditions in the novels of Toni Morrison / K. Zauditu-Selassie
Scotland's books : a history of Scottish literature / Robert Crawford
James Baldwin's Turkish decade : erotics of exile / Magdalena J. Zaborowska
The illustrated Shakespeare, 1709-1875 / Stuart Sillars
Such a rare thing : the art of Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio / Clarence Lindsay
Are the humanities inconsequent? : interpreting Marx's riddle of the dog / Jerome McGann
The writer's notebook : craft essays from Tin House
I am Not Sidney Poitier : a novel / Percival Everett
Ted Hughes / Terry Gifford
Approaches to teaching Fitzgerald's The great Gatsby / edited by Jackson R. Bryer and Nancy P. VanArsdale
Imagining equality in nineteenth-century American literature / Kerry Larson
Hiding man : a biography of Donald Barthelme / Tracy Daugherty
Thousands of Broadways : dreams and nightmares of the American small town / Robert Pinsky
Finding Oz : how L. Frank Baum discovered the great American story / Evan I. Schwartz
The power of negative thinking : cynicism and the history of modern American literature / Benjamin Schreier
Ardent spirits : leaving home, coming back / Reynolds Price
Gay American autobiography : writings from Whitman to Sedaris / edited by David Bergman
Sex expression & American women writers, 1860-1940 / Dale M. Bauer
"A god of justice?" : the problem of evil in twentieth-century Black literature / Qiana J. Whitted
Milton's scriptural reasoning : narrative and Protestant toleration / Phillip J. Donnelly
The program era : postwar fiction and the rise of creative writing / Mark McGurl
Blokes : the bad boys of English literature / David Castronovo
The science fiction handbook / M. Keith Booker and Anne-Marie Thomas
The Cambridge history of English romantic literature / edited by James Chandler
The scary Mason-Dixon Line : African American writers and the South / Trudier Harris
Naked lunch @ 50 : anniversary essays / edited by Oliver Harris and Ian MacFadyen
Reading, learning, teaching Toni Morrison / Karen F. Stein
Entrapment and other writings / Nelson Algren ; edited by Brooke Horvath and Dan Simon
The English language : a historical introduction / Charles Barber, Joan C. Beal, Philip A. Shaw
What America read : taste, class, and the novel, 1920-1960 / Gordon Hutner
People, places, things : essays / by Elizabeth Bowen ; edited with an introduction by Allan Hepburn
Seven American poets in conversation : John Ashbery, Donald Hall, Anthony Hecht, Donald Justice, Charles Simic, W.D. Snodgrass, Richard Wilbur
Eighteenth-century British literature and postcolonial studies / Suvir Kaul
Who is Mark Twain? / by Mark Twain
So long as men can breathe : the untold story of Shakespeare's Sonnets / Clinton Heylin
Soul of the age : a biography of the mind of William Shakespeare / Jonathan Bate
A mirror for our times : 'the Rushdie affair' and the future of multiculturalism / Paul Weller
The American 1930s : a literary history / Peter Conn
The selected letters of Charlotte Perkins Gilman / edited and with an introduction by Denise D. Knight and Jennifer S. Tuttle
Stowe in her own time : a biographical chronicle of her life, drawn from recollections, interviews, and memoirs by family, friends, and associates / edited by Susan Belasco
Reading Edith Wharton through a Darwinian lens : evolutionary biological issues in her fiction / Judith P. Saunders
Scars to prove it : the Civil War soldier and American fiction / Craig A. Warren
Owning up : privacy, property, and belonging in U.S. women's life writing / Katherine Adams
The emergence of Buddhist American literature / edited by John Whalen-Bridge, Gary Storhoff ; foreword by Mazine Hong Kingston and afterword by Charles Johnson
The novelty of newspapers : Victorian fiction after the invention of the news / Matthew Rubery
Modernism and the ordinary / Liesl Olson
Shakespeare's foreign worlds : national and transnational identities in the Elizabethan age / Carole Levin and John Watkins
Essaying Shakespeare / Karen Newman
Frantic panoramas : American literature and mass culture, 1870-1920 / Nancy Bentley
Byron in love : a short daring life / Edna O'Brien
The King Arthur myth in modern American literature / by Andrew E. Mathis
The man who would be king, and other stories / Rudyard Kipling ; with an afterword by John Grant
The letters of Samuel Beckett. Vol. 1, 1929-1940 / editors, Martha Dow Fehsenfeld, Lois More Overbeck ; associate editors, George Craig, Daniel Gunn
A companion to Chaucer and his contemporaries : texts & contexts / edited by Laurel Amtower, Jacqueline Vanhoutte
Organising poetry : the Coleridge Circle, 1790-1798 / David Fairer
Give it all, give it now : one of the few things I know about writing / Annie Dillard ; inscribed & illustrated by Sam Fink
A political companion to Henry David Thoreau / edited by Jack Turner
Ancient Gonzo wisdom : interviews with Hunter S. Thompson / edited by Anita Thompson
Inexorable Yankeehood : Henry James rediscovers America, 1904-1905 / Robin P. Hoople ; edited and with additions by Isobel Waters
Walt Whitman and the Civil War : America's poet during the lost years of 1860-1862 / Ted Genoways
Reading the world : Cormac McCarthy's Tennessee period / Dianne C. Luce
A concise companion to Middle English literature / edited by Marilyn Corrie
C.S. Lewis on the final frontier : science and the supernatural in the space trilogy / Sanford Schwartz
Emerson's liberalism / Neal Dolan
Jane Austen and marriage / Hazel Jones
The tainted muse : prejudice and presumption in Shakespeare and his time / Robert Brustein
Poetry against torture : criticism, history, and the human / Paul A. Bové
Voice & vision : a guide to writing history and other serious nonfiction / Stephen J. Pyne
The poetics, aesthetics, and philosophy of narrative / edited by Noël Carroll
Developmental editing : a handbook for freelancers, authors, and publishers / Scott Norton
Postnationalism in chicana/o literature and culture / Ellie D. Hernandez
Badmen, bandits, and folk heroes : the ambivalence of Mexican American identity in literature and film / Juan J. Alonzo
Our savage art : poetry and the civil tongue / William Logan
Milton and the Victorians / Erik Gray
The fire in the stone : prehistoric fiction from Charles Darwin to Jean M. Auel / Nicholas Ruddick
Arthur Miller : 1915-1962 / Christopher Bigsby
Charles Chesnutt reappraised : essays on the first major African American fiction writer / edited by David Garrett Izzo and Maria Orban
Romanticism and the rise of English / Andrew Elfenbein
The Cambridge companion to Seamus Heaney / edited by Bernard O'Donoghue
Journalism and the novel : truth and fiction, 1700-2000 / Doug Underwood
Faulkner's imperialism : space, place, and the materiality of myth / Taylor Hagood
Tales for little rebels : a collection of radical children's literature / edited by Julia L. Mickenberg and Philip Nel ; foreword by Jack Zipes
Irony in the age of empire : comic perspectives on democracy and freedom / Cynthia Willett
Dickens and creativity / Barbara Hardy
The secret life of words : how English became English / Henry Hitchings
The philosophy of literature / Peter Lamarque
The state of the novel : Britain and beyond / Dominic Head
The lotus and the lion : Buddhism and the British Empire / J. Jeffrey Franklin
Milton and monotheism / Abraham Stoll
Writing the rapture : prophecy fiction in evangelical America / Crawford Gribben
Ashes of the mind : war and memory in Northern literature, 1865-1900 / Martin Griffin
Hollywood's Tennessee : the Williams films and postwar America / R. Barton Palmer and William Robert Bray
The Cambridge companion to the literature of World War II / edited by Marina MacKay
The presidents we imagine : two centuries of White House fictions on the page, on the stage, onscreen, and online / Jeff Smith
Translating modernism : Fitzgerald and Hemingway / Ronald Berman
Cheever : a life / Blake Bailey
Contemporary African American fiction : new critical essays / edited by Dana A. Williams
Flannery : a life of Flannery O'Connor / Brad Gooch
Understanding T.C. Boyle / Paul Gleason
Faulkner and love : the women who shaped his art / Judith L. Sensibar
History matters : contemporary poetry on the margins of American culture / Ira Sadoff
The gift of a bride : a tale of anthropology, matrimony, and murder / Serena Nanda and Joan Gregg
The holy tortilla and a pot of beans : a feast of short fiction / by Carmen Tafolla
Some liked it hot : jazz women in film and television, 1928-1959 / Kristin A. McGee
Big book of animal rhymes, fingerplays, and songs / [compiled by] Elizabeth Cothen Low
Dwarf bamboo / by Marilyn Chin
The complete works of Nathaniel Hawthorne / with introductory notes by George Parsons Lathrop
The Shrewsbury edition of the works of Samuel Butler / edited by Henry Festing Jones and A.T. Bartholomew
The imperial theme : further interpretations of Shakespeare's tragedies including the Roman plays / by G. Wilson Knight
The imperial theme; further interpretations of Shakespeare's tragedies including the Roman plays, by G Wilson Knight
Figures of several centuries / by Arthur Symons
Uncle Willy : and other stories / William Faulkner