A Selection of Books Recently Published by Faculty of the Department of English

Barbara Lewalski
The Complete Works of John Milton, Volume III: The Shorter Poems
Oxford University Press, 2012
Leah Price
How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain
Princeton University Press, 2012
Werner Sollors
The Marrow of Tradition
W.W. Norton, 2012
Elaine Scarry
Thinking in an Emergency
W. W. Norton, 2011
Elisa New
Jacob's Cane: A Jewish Family's Journey from the Four Lands of Lithuania to the Ports of London and Baltimore; A Memoir in Five Generations
Basic Books, 2011
Glenda Carpio
co-ed., African American Literary Studies: New Texts, New Approaches, New Challenges
Universitätsverlag Winter; Auflage, 2011
Gordon Teskey
Introduction, Milton's Latin Poems
The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011
Henry Louis, Jr. Gates
Life Upon These Shores: Looking at African American History
Alfred A. Knopf, 2011
Henry Louis, Jr. Gates
Black in Latin America
New York University Press, 2011
Leah Price
ed., Unpacking My Library: Writers and Their Books
Yale University Press, 2011
Marjorie Garber
The Use and Abuse of Literature for Life
Pantheon, 2011
Matthew Kaiser
The World In Play: Portraits of a Victorian Concept
Stanford University Press, 2011
Stephen Burt
Why I am Not a Toddler
Rain Taxi, 2011
Stephen Greenblatt
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
W. W. Norton, 2011
Werner Sollors
co-ed., Die Toten habe ich nicht befragt
Universitätsverlag Winter; Auflage: 1., Deutsche Erstausgabe, 2011
Elaine Scarry
Rule of Law, Misrule of Men
MIT Press, 2010
Helen Vendler
Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries
Harvard University Press, 2010
Helen Vendler
Last Looks, Last Books: Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill
Princeton, 2010
Henry Louis, Jr. Gates
Faces of America: How 12 Extraordinary People Discovered Their Pasts
New York University Press, 2010
James Simpson
Cultural Reformations: Medieval and Renaissance in Literary History
Oxford University Press, 2010
James Simpson
Under the Hammer: Iconoclasm in the Anglo-American Tradition
Oxford University Press, 2010
James Wood
Come funziano i romanzi
Mondadori, 2010
Leo Damrosch
Tocqueville's Discovery of America
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010
Louis Menand
The Marketplace of Ideas
W. W. Norton, 2010
Martin Puchner
The Drama of Ideas: Platonic Provocations in Theater and Philosophy
Oxford University Press, 2010
Stephen Burt
Introduction to Collected Poems of Frederick Goddard Tuckerman
Belknap Press, 2010
Stephen Burt
The Art of the Sonnet
Belknap Press, 2010
Stephen Greenblatt
Cultural Mobility: A Manifesto
Cambridge Press, 2010
Stephen Greenblatt
Shakespeare's Freedom
University of Chicago Press, 2010
Daniel Albright
Music Speaks: On the Language of Opera, Dance, and Song
University of Rochester Press, 2009
Daniel Donoghue
co-ed., Morton W Bloomfield Lectures
West Michigan University, 2009
James Wood
How Fiction Works
Picador, 2009
Marjorie Garber
Profiling Shakespeare
Routledge, 2009
Marjorie Garber
Patronizing the Arts
Princeton, 2009
Michael, Shinagel
The Gates Unbarred: A History of University Extension at Harvard, 1910 – 2009
Harvard University, Extension School, 2009
Stephen Burt
Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry
Graywolf Press, 2009
Werner Sollors
co-ed., A New Literary History of America
Belknap Press, 2009
Marjorie Garber
Shakespeare and Modern Culture
Pantheon, 2008
Daniel Aaron
The Americanist
University of Michigan Press, 2007
James Simpson
Burning to Read: English Fundamentalists and their Reformation Opponents
Harvard University Press, 2007