"A unique overview of contemporary theory, fictioin, ethnography, and cultural analysis--the best available account of narrative in its many current dimensions." --Eric J. Sundquist, UCLA

"Jay Clayton moves deftly between the Victorian era and the present day, between literature and science, popular culture and postmodern thinkers. This important study raises some profound questions about the relationship between literary study and cultural theory, and will ensure that all of us who consider ourselves cultural historians will ponder deeply about the implications of our practices." --Kate Flint, Rutgers University

"JIM THE BOY is a delight. A sweet, graceful novel that charms the reader with marvelous language, honest emotion and authentic characters who are no less human, no less complex, for being sincere and straightforward, and good. As his short stories have already shown, Tony Earley is a wonderful writer." --Alice McDermott

"Lynn Enterline's The Rhetoric of the Body from Ovid to Shakespeare is a subtle, sophisticated, and lucid essay on the Ovidian tradition. Particularly impressive is the clarity and magisterial logic with which she sets complex issues in relation to each other, through extraordinarily nuanced readings. No one has done a better job of mapping the intersection of Ovidianism and Petrarchanism and their bearing on Elizabethan literature." --Leonard Barkan, New York University

"Argues that the claustrophobic horrors of Gothic literature are not private, but arise where concrete experience contradicts the dream world of social myth. This brilliant interpretation of the Gothic treats the nightmares that emerge when the reality of racial oppression disrupts the vision of America as a land of freedom." -- Walter Herbert, Southwestern University

"An overall argument that is strong and sound and important to our understanding of Joyce's comic project."—Claire A. Culleton, Kent State University

"Creole America is a compelling and original work that makes a major contribution to the current critical effort to remap the cultural and literary terrain of America from a transnational perspective. Goudie argues persuasively for the need to rethink early U.S. culture in relation to the West Indies as both a locus for economic and political interaction and a site onto which U.S. Americans projected fantasies and fears that helped define their new sense of nation and national character. Goudie gives us many wonderfully rich readings and insights, which as a whole will make it impossible to think of early American culture separate from its Caribbean connections."--Amy Kaplan, author of The Anarchy of Empire in the Making of U.S. Culture

"Halperin teases his Jane as he admires her, and by being so completely from another world does indeed makes us see her in a different way. He takes her right out of the incestuous love or hate embrace in which Janeites and anti- Janeites have concealed her so long. That is quite an accomplishment." -- John Bayley, New York Review of Books

In the vein of Lytton Strachey's classic collective biography, Eminent Victorians, Halperin profiles four figures exemplary of a later age in Britain. Halperin sees past reputation as the way to take the real measure of two men and two women, each in their own way representing the "simultaneity of traditionalism and experimentation" that characterized British society between the two world wars. Emphasizing their "allegiance . . . to tradition and to change, to the status quo and to the future," Halperin reenvisions in these cogent portraits the lives of the sovereign himself, George V; Anglo-Irish novelist Elizabeth Bowen; St. John Philby, oddball figure in the foreign service; and Lady Astor, who, although American born, was the first woman to sit in the House of Commons. Halperin's talent is to recognize the four as individuals while also seeing their commonality. --Brad Hooper

“The poems in Brother Salvage are the traffic between worlds—between past and present, self and other, beauty and horror. These are passionate acts of retrieval—deeply intelligent and superbly graceful, they bring us news of the human wherever it survives, ‘alive and at the brink of shattering.’” —Kim Addonizio

Winner--1998 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize Finalist--1997 National Book Critics Circle Award

"Kutzinski has taken a giant step in exploring and exploding the cultural myths that make up the now anachronistic canon of 'American' literature. [This book] is surely the first stage in a bold New World perspective that will open up new avenues in the field of comparative literature." -- Romance Quarterly

The distinguished editors of this impressive bolume have given us a thoughtful and carefully structured collection of narratives that will be inbaluable to the specialist, and of great pleasure to the casual reader. —Nigel Rigby, editor of Modernism and Empire

The editors of Materializing Democracy have a vision-an activist vision-that, combined with rigorous analysis and scholarship, imparts an unusual energy and excitement to this volume. — Priscilla Wald, author of Constituting Americans: Cultural Anxiety and Narrative Form

"A book of rhythms and reveries . . . rich in atmosphere. . . . The First Desire is a mystery story, left unsolved because the mystery is identity itself." –The New York Times Book Review

Winner of the 1999 Iowa Short Fiction Award

"An impressive and eclectic collection that does a compelling job of addressing contemporary concerns over resistance to globalism, capitalism, and continuing attempts to silence dissenters."--Emory Elliott, editor, The Columbia Literary History of the United States

"Tichi provides rich and nuanced readings of works by muckrakers at both ends of the twentieth century, plus a stunning cultural analysis of the booming, insecure world in the U.S., c. 1980-2000. She shows what it means to think of noncanonical texts in multiple ways, including those shaped by literary theory. Finally, she offers wonderful insights into the process by which journalists emerge as writers, and into the problematic differences between journalism and literature."—Daniel Horowitz