literature
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Selected Letters of Wilfred Owen. Ed. Jane Potter.
Jane Potter’s new edition of Wilfred Owen’s letters restores previously redacted text and allows us to appreciate the poet in the context of his time.
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Frances E. Dolan. Digging the Past: How and Why to Imagine Seventeenth Century Agriculture.
The goal of Digging the Past is stated early with the question, “Is it possible to approach the seventeenth century, in its failed proposals and successful ventures, as a resource…
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Ileana Baird, ed. Data Visualization in Enlightenment Literature and Culture.
Over ten finely documented and illustrated chapters, Ileana Baird and her twelve contributing writers offer scholars of the long eighteenth century (1660-c1800) a timely high-tech methodology: graphical conveyance of information.…
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David Letzler. The Cruft of Fiction: Mega-Novels and the Science of Paying Attention
In this thought-provoking, well-written study, David Letzler combines computer science and information theory with genre criticism to propose an innovative way of theorizing reader response to the excesses often found…
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Loren Glass, ed., After the Program Era: The Past, Present, and Future of Creative Writing in the University
After the Program Era, as Glass describes it in the introduction, “explores the consequences and implications, as well as the lacunae and liabilities, of McGurl’s foundational intervention” (1). After the…
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Matt Cohen. Whitman’s Drift: Imagining Literary Distribution
Matt Cohen. Whitman’s Drift: Imagining Literary Distribution. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2017. xvi, 269p., ill. ISBN 9781609384760. US$ 65.00 Published as part of the University of Iowa Press’s…
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Karin Schutjer. Goethe and Judaism: The Troubled Inheritance of Modern Literature
Karin Schutjer. Goethe and Judaism: The Troubled Inheritance of Modern Literature. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2015. 245p. ISBN 9780810131668. $34.95 (paperback). In this book Karin Schutjer offers a comprehensive…