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Literature

2010

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2 Writers on Writers

3 American Literature & Studies

6 20/21

8 British Literature

11 Oddly Modern Fairytales

12 Comparative Literature

14 Søren Kierkegaard

16 Translation/Transnation

18 Asian Studies

20 Poetry

22 Facing Pages

24 Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation

25 W. H. Auden

26 Film

27 Biography

28 Of Related Interest

31 Music

33 Index/Order Form

Forthcoming

Great Books, Bad Arguments

Republic, Leviathan, and The Communist Manifesto

W. G. Runciman

“Why have Plato’s Republic, Hobbes’s Leviathan, and Marx’s Communist

Manifesto retained their enduring appeal, despite their often wildly

implausible assumptions about human motivation and political action? No

one is more qualiﬁed to answer this question than Britain’s most eminent

sociologist cum philosopher and historian, Gary Runciman. Great Books,

Bad Arguments is not only lucid, but like the best detective ﬁction, keeps

the reader guessing until the very end.”

—Gareth Stedman Jones, King’s College, University of Cambridge

Plato’s Republic, Hobbes’s Leviathan, and Marx’s Communist Manifesto are

universally acknowledged classics of Western political thought. But how

strong are the core arguments on which they base their visions of the good

society that they want to bring into being? In this lively and provocative

book, W. G. Runciman shows where and why they fail, even after due allow-

ance has been made for the diﬀerent historical contexts in which they wrote. Plato, Hobbes, and Marx

were all passionately convinced that justice, peace, and order could be established if only their teach-

ings were implemented and the right people put into power. But Runciman makes a powerful case

to the eﬀect that all three were irredeemably naive in their assumptions about how human societies

function and evolve and how human behavior could be changed. Yet despite this, Runciman insists

that Republic, Leviathan, and The Communist Manifesto remain great books. Born of righteous anger

and frustration, they are masterfully eloquent pleas for better worlds—worlds that Plato, Hobbes, and

Marx cannot bring themselves to admit to be unattainable.

W. G. Runciman is a fellow of Trinity College, University of Cambridge.

March 2010. 138 pages.

Cl: 978-0-691-14476-4 $19.95 | £13.95

Contents

Front cover illustration: Engraving by Evert A. Duyckinck, Harriet Martineau (detail), 1873. Based on original painting by Alonzo Chappel. Source:

Portraits of Eminent Men and Women of Europe and America (Johnson, Wilson, & Co., 1873).

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Forthcoming

Pen of Iron

American Prose and the King James Bible

Robert Alter

“Alter’s remarkable book breathes new life into a long-neglected topic,

the study of style. With the ﬁnesse that is his trademark, Alter shows the

importance of all that is lost in translation. As it delineates the surprising

ways in which the King James Bible has shaped American prose, Pen of

Iron redirects current literary criticism and theory.”

—Gary Saul Morson, Northwestern University

The simple yet grand language of the King James Bible has pervaded Ameri-

can culture from the beginning—and its powerful eloquence continues to

be felt even today. In this book, acclaimed biblical translator and literary critic

Robert Alter traces some of the fascinating ways that American novelists—

from Melville, Hemingway, and Faulkner to Bellow, Marilynne Robinson, and

Cormac McCarthy—have drawn on the rich stylistic resources of the canoni-

cal English Bible to fashion their own strongly resonant styles and distinctive visions of reality.

Robert Alter has taught Hebrew and comparative literature at the University of California, Berkeley,

since 1967. In 2009, Alter received the Robert Kirsch Award from the Los Angeles Times for lifetime

contribution to American letters.

April 2010. 208 pages.

Cl: 978-0-691-12881-8 $19.95 | £13.95

New

The Posthuman Dada Guide

tzara and lenin play chess

Andrei Codrescu

“A dictionary, a history of art movements, a manifesto, and a joke book; [The

Posthuman Dada Guide] traverses high and low, seeking answers to our most

persistent confusions about art, culture, and identity.”

—D. Scot Miller, San Francisco Bay Guardian

The Posthuman Dada Guide is an impractical handbook for practical living in our

posthuman world—all by way of examining the imagined 1916 chess game

between Tristan Tzara, the daddy of Dada, and V. I. Lenin, the daddy of communism.

This epic game at Zurich’s Café de la Terrasse—a battle between radical visions

of art and ideological revolution—lasted for a century and may still be going on,

although communism appears dead and Dada stronger than ever. As the poet faces

the future mass murderer over the chessboard, neither realizes that they are play-

ing for the world. Taking the match as metaphor for two poles of twentieth- and

twenty-ﬁrst-century thought, politics, and life, Andrei Codrescu has created his own brilliantly Dadaesque

guide to Dada—and to what it can teach us about surviving our ultraconnected present and future.

Andrei Codrescu is the MacCurdy Distinguished Professor of English at Louisiana State University.

The Public Square

2009. 248 pages.

Pa: 978-0-691-13778-0 $16.95 | £11.95

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2 • Writers on Writers

Writers on Writers is a new series of brief, personal, and creative books in which leading contem-

porary writers take the measure of other important writers (present or past) who have inspired,

inﬂuenced, fascinated, or troubled them in signiﬁcant ways. These books illuminate the complex

and sometimes fraught relationships between writers, while also revealing the close ties between

creative and critical writing.

Forthcoming

On Whitman

C. K. Williams

“This is the exuberant,

true book of a poet, of

two poets: a personal,

illuminating, and

beautiful demonstra-

tion of the truest

reading.”

—Robert Pinsky

In this book, Pulitzer

Prize–winning poet

C. K. Williams sets aside

the mass of biography

and literary criticism that have accumulated

around the work and person of Walt Whitman,

and attempts to go back to Leaves of Grass as he

ﬁrst encountered it, to explore why Whitman’s

epic “continues to inspire and sometimes daunt”

him. The result is a personal reassessment and ap-

preciation of one master poet by another, as well

as an unconventional and brilliant introduction—

or reintroduction—to Whitman.

Beautifully written and rich with insight, this is a

book that refreshes our ability to see Whitman in

all his power.

C. K. Williams’s books of poetry have won the

Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the

National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Ruth

Lilly Lifetime Achievement Award. He teaches

creative writing and translation at Princeton

University, and is a member of the American

Academy of Arts and Letters.

May 2010. 248 pages.

Cl: 978-0-691-14472-6 $19.95 | £13.95

New

Notes on Sontag

Phillip Lopate

“This is just what we

need: a book on Susan

Sontag by a writer

allergic to hype and

genuinely fascinated

by Sontag’s ideas and

the implications of

her cultural presence.

Lopate is exacting in

his estimates—able

to praise and criticize

with equal sureness.

He speaks straight,

from eye-level, as a literary colleague: he knew

Sontag and has heard all the stories. More

important, he knows the work and its subjects—

the novels, ﬁlms, and debates—deeply. Notes

on Sontag is a portrait of the author; it is also a

portrait of an era in American intellectual life.”

—Sven Birkerts, author of Reading Life: Books for

the Ages

Notes on Sontag is a frank, witty, and entertaining

reﬂection on the work, inﬂuence, and personality

of one of the “foremost interpreters of . . . our re-

cent contemporary moment.” Adopting Sontag’s

favorite form, a set of brief essays or notes that

circle around a topic from diﬀerent perspectives,

renowned essayist Phillip Lopate considers the

achievements and limitations of his tantalizing,

daunting subject through what is fundamentally

a conversation between two writers.

Phillip Lopate teaches writing at Columbia

University.

2009. 256 pages.

Cl: 978-0-691-13570-0 $19.95 | £13.95

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New

The Paris Letters of Thomas

Eakins

Edited by William Innes Homer

“Long awaited, this

valuable collection

of letters presents

Thomas Eakins in

his own words at a

formative stage of

his career, oﬀering

a fascinating record

of triumphs and

struggles as well as a

lively display of the

skills, interests, con-

ﬁdent opinions, and

complex personality of a great American artist.”

—Kathleen A. Foster, author of Thomas Eakins

Rediscovered

William Innes Homer is H. Rodney Sharp Profes-

sor Emeritus of Art History at the University of

Delaware.

2009. 384 pages. 33 halftones. 35 line illus.

Cl: 978-0-691-13808-4 $35.00 | £24.95

New

Lincoln on Race and Slavery

Edited and introduced by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Coedited by Donald Yacovone

“Gates dispenses his lessons respectably. For the most part, he places

Lincoln correctly in these diﬀerent groups and along these diﬀerent

measures, even though it requires conceding that Lincoln fell far short of

our own conceptions of justice and humanity. Amid the current bicenten-

nial emoting, it is refreshing to read an evaluation of Lincoln that refuses,

as Gates writes, to ‘romanticize him as the ﬁrst American president

completely to transcend race and racism.’ ”

—Sean Wilentz, New Republic

At turns inspiring and disturbing, Lincoln on Race and Slavery is indispens-

able for understanding what Lincoln’s views meant for his generation—

and what they mean for our own.

Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and

director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University.

Donald Yacovone has written and edited a number of books.

2009. 416 pages. 35 halftones.

Cl: 978-0-691-14234-0 $24.95 | £16.95

Forthcoming Paperback

2009 Honor Book, New Jersey Council for the

Humanities

Worshipping Walt

The Whitman Disciples

Michael Robertson

“Thoroughly re-

searched, gracefully

written, Worshipping

Walt represents liter-

ary scholarship at its

best.”

—Frank Wilson,

Philadelphia Inquirer

Michael Robertson is

professor of English

at the College of

New Jersey.

March 2010. 368 pages. 27 halftones.

Pa: 978-0-691-14631-7 $19.95 | £13.95

Cl: 978-0-691-12808-5 $27.95 | £19.95

4 • American Literature & Studies

Patronizing the Arts

Marjorie Garber

“[A] brilliantly nuanced assessment of why

universities must become art patrons.”

—Peggy Phelan, author of Unmarked: The Politics

of Performance

2008. 272 pages. 1 halftone.

Cl: 978-0-691-12480-3 $24.95 | £16.95

Winner of the 2009 Book Prize, Modernist Studies

Association

Winner of the 2009 Peter C. Rollins Award, Northeast

Popular Culture/American Culture Association

New York Nocturne

The City After Dark in Literature,

Painting, and Photography, 1850–1950

William Chapman Sharpe

“A beautiful volume

that would sit

proudly on the

coﬀee table of any

city dweller and city

lover.”

—Village Voice

2008. 448 pages. 24 color

plates. 117 halftones.

Cl: 978-0-691-13324-9

$35.00 | £24.95

Winner of the 2008 Christian Gauss Award, Phi Beta

Kappa

Henry James Goes to Paris

Peter Brooks

“Brooks has produced a brilliant and accessible

account of a young American landing in Paris

and missing the point.”

—New York Observer

2009. 288 pages. 18 halftones.

Pa: 978-0-691-13842-8 $19.95 | £13.95

Cl: 978-0-691-12954-9 $24.95 | £16.95

Runner-up, 2006 National Jewish Book Award in

Modern Jewish Thought, Jewish Book Council

One of Choice’s Outstanding Academic Titles for 2007

Call It English

The Languages of Jewish American

Literature

Hana Wirth-Nesher

“[An] invigorating book. . . . This is not just . . .

about the Jewish American experience, but

about how and why we all relate to language.”

—Samantha Ellis, Times Literary Supplement

2008. 240 pages. 7 halftones.

Pa: 978-0-691-13844-2 $22.95 | £15.95

Cl: 978-0-691-12152-9 $46.00 | £31.95

Philip Roth’s Rude Truth

The Art of Immaturity

Ross Posnock

“Ross Posnock’s meditation upon Philip Roth

is the best literary criticism yet aﬀorded to our

foremost novelist since Faulkner.”

—Harold Bloom

2008. 328 pages.

Pa: 978-0-691-13843-5 $19.95 | £13.95

New Paperback

With a new preface by the author

American Moderns

Bohemian New York and the Creation

of a New Century

Christine Stansell

“Stansell frames her

book around three

activities: talking,

writing and loving.

She compels readers

to appreciate what

was shockingly new

in each activity—no

small feat, since we

now take (nearly) for

granted the unfet-

tered speech, print

and sex that these

early radicals found so daring.”

—Patricia Cline Cohen, New York Times

Christine Stansell is the Stein-Freiler Distin-

guished Service Professor in United States

History at the University of Chicago.

2009. 440 pages. 37 halftones.

Pa: 978-0-691-14283-8 $24.95 | £16.95

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150th Anniversary Edition

With an introduction by John Updike

Walden

Henry D. Thoreau

Edited by J. Lyndon Shanley

2004. 384 pages.

Pa: 978-0-691-09612-4 $10.95 | £7.50

With an introduction by Paul Theroux

The Maine Woods

Henry D. Thoreau

Edited by Joseph J. Moldenhauer

2004. 376 pages.

Pa: 978-0-691-11877-2 $17.95 | £12.50

With an introduction by Robert Pinsky

Cape Cod

Henry D. Thoreau

Edited by Joseph J. Moldenhauer

2004. 256 pages.

Pa: 978-0-691-11842-0 $12.95 | £8.95

With an introduction by Howard Zinn

The Higher Law

Thoreau on Civil Disobedience and Reform

Henry D. Thoreau

Edited by Wendell Glick

2004. 232 pages.

Pa: 978-0-691-11876-5 $13.95 | £9.95

With an introduction by John McPhee

A Week on the Concord and

Merrimack Rivers

Henry D. Thoreau

Edited by Carl F. Hovde, William L. Howarth

& Elizabeth Hall Witherell

2004. 440 pages.

Pa: 978-0-691-11878-9 $16.95 | £11.95

Journal, Volume 7:

1853–1854

Henry D. Thoreau

Edited by Nancy Craig Simmons &

Ron Thomas

From 1837 to 1861,

Henry D. Thoreau

kept a Journal that

would become the

principal imaginative

work of his career.

The source of much

of his published

writing, the Journal

is also a record of his

interior life and of his

monumental studies

of the natural history

of his native Concord, Massachusetts. Unlike

earlier editions, the Princeton edition reproduces

Thoreau’s Journal in its original and complete

form, in a text free of editorial interpolations and

keyed to a comprehensive scholarly apparatus.

2009. 552 pages. 4 halftones. 51 line illus.

Cl: 978-0-691-06540-3 $65.00 | £44.95

Excursions

Henry D. Thoreau

Edited by Joseph J. Moldenhauer

“Thanks to Moldenhauer and the many others

who assisted with this work, scholars and

general readers now have, at long last, a critical

text of Thoreau’s beloved nature essays, a text

that reproduces as closely as possible Thoreau’s

authorial intentions.”

—Laura Dassow Walls, New England Quarterly

2007. 672 pages. 4 halftones.

Cl: 978-0-691-06450-5 $72.00 | £49.95

The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau

Elizabeth Hall Witherell, Editor-in-Chief

Despite the wide recognition of Thoreau’s importance and world wide reputation, no complete

and authoritative texts of his works, edited according to the most advanced principles of textual

scholarship, existed prior to this series. The Writings include previously unpublished works as well as

Thoreau’s best known titles.

Princeton Classic Editions

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6 • 20/21

20/21

Walter Benn Michaels, series editor

20/21 focuses on 20th and 21st century American literature and culture. The aim of the series is to

make this period available for critical work that interrogates rather than reproduces the terms in

which we have come to understand it. We want both to engage and to alter the standard tools of

contemporary analysis—from the postmodern and the postcolonial through the post-human and

the post-political. More generally, 20/21 will welcome ambitious books seeking to make a diﬀerence

to our understanding of the present as well as the recent past.

Forthcoming

Postmodern Belief

American Literature and Religion since 1960

Amy Hungerford

“This is an intelligent, compelling, and beautifully-written book about the place of belief in con-

temporary American literature and culture. The eclectic mix of authors is gratifying, and each one is

exhaustively researched.”

—Christopher Douglas, University of Victoria

How can intense religious beliefs coexist with pluralism in America today? Examining the role of the

religious imagination in contemporary religious practice and in some of the best-known works of

American literature from the past ﬁfty years, Postmodern Belief shows how belief for its own sake—a

belief absent of doctrine—has become an answer to pluralism in a secular age. Amy Hungerford

reveals how imaginative literature and religious practices together allow novelists, poets, and critics

to express the formal elements of language in transcendent terms, conferring upon words a religious

value independent of meaning.

Hungerford explores the work of major American writers, including Allen Ginsberg, Don DeLillo,

Cormac McCarthy, Toni Morrison, and Marilynne Robinson, and links their unique visions to the

religious worlds they touch. She illustrates how Ginsberg’s chant infused 1960s poetry echoes the

tongue-speaking of Charismatic Christians, how DeLillo reimagines the novel and the Latin Mass, why

McCarthy’s prose imitates the Bible, and why Morrison’s ﬁction needs the supernatural. Uncovering

how literature and religion conceive of a world where religious belief can escape confrontations with

other worldviews, Hungerford corrects recent eﬀorts to discard the importance of belief in under-

standing religious life, and argues that belief in belief itself can transform secular reading and writing

into a religious act.

Honoring the ways in which people talk about and practice religion, Postmodern Belief highlights the

claims of the religious imagination in twentieth-century American culture.

Amy Hungerford is professor of English at Yale University.

August 2010. 240 pages.

Pa: 978-0-691-14575-4 $27.95 | £19.95

Cl: 978-0-691-13508-3 $65.00 | £44.95

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New Paperback

From Guilt to Shame

Auschwitz and After

Ruth Leys

“Ruth Leys’s new

book is a brilliant

interdisciplinary

investigation of a

striking cultural trans-

formation. From Guilt

to Shame is original,

with a compelling

subject treated in a

way that places it on

the cutting edge of

recent science and

cultural studies.”

—Toril Moi, Duke University

Ruth Leys is director of the Humanities Center

and the Henry Wiesenfeld Professor at Johns

Hopkins University.

2009. 216 pages.

Pa: 978-0-691-14332-3 $24.95 | £16.95

New Paperback

American Hungers

The Problem of Poverty in U.S.

Literature, 1840–1945

Gavin Jones

“Jones persuasively

argues that the

time has come for

literary theory to

address the issue of

poverty—a category

that lies ‘between’

the more frequently

discussed categories

of race, gender,

and class—in US

literature. Rather

than focusing on

the cultural identities of the underprivileged,

the author calls for a ‘theory of poverty’ that will

highlight and address the political and social

injustices associated with the economically

disadvantaged.”

—Choice

Gavin Jones is professor of English at Stanford

University.

2009. 248 pages. 11 halftones.

Pa: 978-0-691-14331-6 $24.95 | £16.95

Cl: 978-0-691-12753-8 $49.95 | £34.95

A Pinnacle of Feeling

American Literature and Presidential

Government

Sean McCann

“McCann identiﬁes

how ambitions for

the executive branch

of the US govern-

ment informed the

20th-century novel.”

—Graham Barnﬁeld,

Times Higher

Education

2008. 264 pages.

Cl: 978-0-691-13695-0

$35.00 | £24.95

Winner of the 2007 Annual Book Award, British

Association for American Studies

William Faulkner

An Economy of Complex Words

Richard Godden

“[A] stunning account of Faulkner’s late ﬁction

that combines intense close reading and atten-

tion to the history of mid-twentieth-century

modernization to reaﬃrm Faulkner’s centrality,

not just to Southern literature or to modernist

aesthetics, but to the mainstream of American

history and culture.”

—Andrew Hoberek, University of Missouri,

Columbia

2007. 264 pages.

Cl: 978-0-691-13071-2 $44.00 | £29.95

8 • British Literature

New

Making Waste

Leftovers and the Eighteenth-Century

Imagination

Sophie Gee

“This is a vivaciously

written, multidi-

mensional study

of the problem

and promise that

waste posed to the

eighteenth-century

English imagination.

It is surprisingly

and commendably

concise, given its

topic, and it frames

economic, political,

anthropological, and historical analysis with a

very ﬁne literary sensibility.”

—Jayne Lewis, University of California, Irvine

“Making Waste is a pleasure to read—vividly,

gracefully, wittily written. It will be a valuable

contribution to eighteenth-century literary and

cultural studies.”

—Cynthia Wall, University of Virginia

Why was eighteenth-century English culture so

fascinated with the things its society discarded?

Why did Restoration and Augustan writers such

as Milton, Dryden, Swift, and Pope describe,

catalog, and memorialize the waste matter that

their social and political worlds wanted to get rid

of—from the theological dregs in Paradise Lost

to the excrements in “The Lady’s Dressing Room”

and the corpses of A Journal of the Plague Year?

In Making Waste, the ﬁrst book about refuse and

its place in Enlightenment literature and culture,

Sophie Gee examines the meaning of waste at

the moment when the early modern world was

turning modern.

Sophie Gee is assistant professor of English at

Princeton University.

2010. 208 pages.

Cl: 978-0-691-13984-5 $26.95 | £18.95

New

War at a Distance

Romanticism and the Making of

Modern Wartime

Mary A. Favret

“This book is a

masterpiece. Bril-

liant, brave, and

beautifully written, it

combines precision

with lyricism.”

—Kevis Goodman,

University of

California, Berkeley

“War at a Distance is

not only a sobering

reﬂection on what it

means to live with oneself and with others amid

military modernity, but also an irrepressible call

for peace.”

—David Clark, McMaster University

What does it mean to live during wartime away

from the battle zone? What is it like for citizens

to go about daily routines while their country

sends soldiers to kill and be killed across the

globe? Timely and thought-provoking, War at a

Distance considers how those left on the home

front register wars and wartime in their everyday

lives, particularly when military conﬂict remains

removed from immediate perception, available

only through media forms. Looking back over

two centuries, Mary Favret locates the origins

of modern wartime in the Napoleonic era and

describes how global military operations aﬀected

the British populace, as the nation’s army and

navy waged battles far from home for decades.

She reveals that the literature and art produced

in Britain during the late eighteenth and early

nineteenth centuries obsessively cultivated means

for feeling as much as understanding such wars,

and established forms still relevant today.

Mary A. Favret is associate professor of English at

Indiana University.

2010. 272 pages. 12 halftones.

Pa: 978-0-691-14407-8 $26.95 | £18.95

Cl: 978-0-691-14276-0 $60.00 | £41.95

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New

Becoming a Woman of Letters

Myths of Authorship and Facts of the Victorian Market

Linda H. Peterson

“Becoming a Woman of Letters makes a signiﬁcant contribution to our

understanding of the nineteenth-century literary marketplace and of how

women located themselves within the emerging profession of author-

ship. Elegant and engagingly written, this book will appeal to readers

with an interest in the history of authorship, in the periodical press, and in

women’s writing.”

—Hilary Fraser, Birbeck College, University of London

Linda H. Peterson is the Niel Gray, Jr. Professor of English at Yale University.

2009. 312 pages. 28 halftones.

Cl: 978-0-691-14017-9 $35.00 | £24.95

New

Shakespeare and Elizabeth

The Meeting of Two Myths

Helen Hackett

“The relationship

of the two greatest

icons of Englishness

has proved irresist-

ible to novelists,

artists, ﬁlmmakers,

and conspiracy theo-

rists. Helen Hackett

deftly covers this

story from Sir Walter

Scott’s Kenilworth

to Shakespeare in

Love, from fantasies

that Queen Elizabeth was Shakespeare’s lover

to those that she was really the poet’s mother.

This is a terriﬁc work of cultural criticism, one

that reveals a great deal about the fashioning of

national and literary identity.”

—James Shapiro, author of 1599: A Year in the Life

of William Shakespeare

Helen Hackett is a reader in English literature at

University College London.

2009. 312 pages. 18 halftones.

Cl: 978-0-691-12806-1 $35.00 | £24.95

New

The Transatlantic Indian,

1776–1930

Kate Flint

“Truly brilliant. Flint

does what very few

writers have done

before, which is

to acknowledge

the role Native

Americans—and the

often contradictory

representations of

them—played in the

British imagination.

She brings her keen

literary sensibility

and her wonderful ability to read the visual

culture of the Victorian era to this book in ways

that do considerable justice to the complexity

and importance of this topic.”

—Joseph W. Childers, University of California,

Riverside

Kate Flint is professor of English at Rutgers

University.

2009. 392 pages. 40 halftones.

Cl: 978-0-691-13120-7 $39.50 | £27.95

10 • British Literature

New Paperback

Art of the Everyday

Dutch Painting and the Realist Novel

Ruth Bernard Yeazell

“A charming, even

masterful footnote

in the history of

taste. . . . Thoroughly

researched, highly

readable, and lav-

ishly illustrated.”

—James Gardner,

New York Sun

Ruth Bernard Yeazell

is the Chace Family

Professor of English

and director of the

Lewis Walpole Library at Yale University.

2009. 296 pages. 17 color plates. 55 halftones.

Pa: 978-0-691-14323-1 $24.95 | £16.95

Cl: 978-0-691-12726-2 $49.95 | £34.95

Winner of the 2008 Research Book of the Year

Award, Saltire Society/National Library of Scotland

Scott’s Shadow

The Novel in Romantic Edinburgh

Ian Duncan

“Duncan oﬀers here a complex, fascinating

monograph on the Scottish novel in the age of

Walter Scott. . . . Mandatory reading for scholars of

19th-century studies and the history of the novel.”

—M. E. Burstein, Choice

Literature in History

2008. 416 pages. 7 halftones.

Cl: 978-0-691-04383-8 $44.00 | £29.95

Imagining Virginia Woolf

An Experiment in Critical Biography

Maria DiBattista

“This book is a

lively, original, and

very interesting

personal reading

of Virginia Woolf,

sensitively done and

well-written.”

—Hermione Lee, au-

thor of Virginia Woolf

and Edith Wharton

2009. 208 pages.

Cl: 978-0-691-13812-1

$19.95 | £13.95

New Paperback

Fateful Beauty

Aesthetic Environments, Juvenile

Development, and Literature,

1860–1960

Douglas Mao

“The book is written

with unusual clar-

ity, precision, and

grace. . . . A splendid

piece of work.”

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man, University of

Michigan

2010. 328 pages. 6 halftones.

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Portable Property

Victorian Culture on the Move

John Plotz

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Plotz makes a fasci-

nating contribution

to the history of the

novel, economic

literary theory, and

postcolonial criticism.”

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Choice

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press.princeton.edu Oddly Modern Fairytales • 11

Oddly Modern Fairytales

Jack Zipes, series editor

Oddly Modern Fairy Tales is a series dedicated to publishing unusual literary fairy tales produced

mainly during the ﬁrst half of the twentieth century, by such accomplished writers as Anatole

France, Italo Svevo, Carl Sandburg, Guillaume Apollonaire, Béla Balázs, and Kurt Schwitters. Interna-

tional in scope, the series includes new translations, surprising and unexpected tales by well-known

writers and artists, and uncanny stories by gifted yet neglected authors. Postmodern before their

time, the tales in Oddly Modern Fairy Tales transformed the genre and still strike a chord.

New

Lucky Hans and Other Merz Fairy Tales

Kurt Schwitters

Translated and introduced by Jack Zipes

Illustrated by Irvine Peacock

“In these absurdist parables, Schwitters’s savage clowning empties the

fairy tale of its easy consolations. He revisits the traditions in the melan-

cholic, mordant voice of irony and satire, and, as with other fabulists—

Voltaire, Swift, Kafka, Čapek—his stories still speak to us now as freshly as

when they were written, and entertain us richly.”

—Marina Warner, author of Phantasmagoria

Kurt Schwitters revolutionized the art world in the 1920s with his Dadaist

Merz collages, theater performances, and poetry. But at the same time

he was also writing extraordinary fairy tales that were turning the genre

upside down and inside out. Lucky Hans and Other Merz Fairy Tales is the

ﬁrst collection of these subversive, little-known stories in any language

and the ﬁrst time all but a few of them have appeared in English.

Translated and introduced by Jack Zipes, one of the world’s leading

authorities on fairy tales, this book gathers thirty-two stories written between1925 and Schwitters’s

death in 1948—including a complete English-language recreation of The Scarecrow, a children’s book

illustrated with avant-garde typography that Schwitters created with Kate Steinitz and De Stijl founder

Theo van Doesburg. Lucky Hans and Other Merz Fairy Tales also includes brilliant new illustrations that

evoke the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s.

Lucky Hans and Other Merz Fairy Tales is a delightfully strange and surprising book.

Jack Zipes is professor emeritus of German and comparative literature at the University of Minnesota.

2009. 256 pages. 31 halftones. 26 line illus.

Cl: 978-0-691-13967-8 $22.95 | £15.95

Forthcoming Fall 2010

The Cloak of Dreams

Chinese Tales

Béla Balázs

Translated and introduced by Jack Zipes

Illustrated by Mariette Lydis

12 • Comparative Literature

New Paperback

War of No Pity

The Indian Mutiny and Victorian

Trauma

Christopher Herbert

“War of No Pity is

a vital and vitally

important work of

literary, cultural, and

historical criticism,

one that no student

of the Victorian

period can aﬀord

not to know.”

—Stephen Arata,

Victorian Studies

Christopher Herbert

is the Chester D. Tripp Professor of Humanities at

Northwestern University.

2010. 352 pages. 8 halftones.

Pa: 978-0-691-14330-9 $27.95 | £19.95

Cl: 978-0-691-13332-4 $49.95 | £34.95

New Paperback

Electric Salome

Loie Fuller’s Performance of

Modernism

Rhonda K. Garelick

“Garelick’s lucid,

engrossing study

. . . unwraps the

contradictions that

have kept Fuller as

veiled from modern

audiences as she

was from those at

the Folies-Bergere.”

—Andrea Walker,

Times Literary

Supplement

Rhonda K. Garelick is professor in the depart-

ment of English and at the Hixson-Lied School

of Fine and Performing Arts at the University of

Nebraska-Lincoln.

2009. 288 pages. 44 halftones. 2 line illus.

Pa: 978-0-691-14109-1 $24.95 | £16.95

New Paperback

Cultural Capitals

Early Modern London and Paris

Karen Newman

“Newman’s hand-

somely produced

volume is a true

work of cultural

history. . . . In bring-

ing early modern

London and Paris

together so produc-

tively, she has, as

she intended, made

those scholars famil-

iar with one or the

other, or even both,

reconsider what they thought they knew.”

—Tracey Hill, Renaissance Quarterly

Karen Newman is professor of English at New

York University.

2009. 224 pages. 30 halftones.

Pa: 978-0-691-14110-7 $24.95 | £16.95

Cl: 978-0-691-12754-5 $45.00 | £30.95

New Paperback

Dostoevsky’s Democracy

Nancy Ruttenburg

“Drawing on con-

temporary criticism,

Dostoevsky’s own

prison experience,

and his later

masterpiece novels,

this provocative

book inquires into

the great Russian

writer’s ‘sense of

the demos’—in

equal parts mystical,

traumatic, and

inspirational. A fascinating narrative.”

—Caryl Emerson, Princeton University

2010. 288 pages.

Pa: 978-0-691-14664-5 $24.95 | £16.95

Cl: 978-0-691-13614-1 $35.00 | £24.95

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Now Available in Paperback

Upward Mobility and the

Common Good

Toward a Literary History of the

Welfare State

Bruce Robbins

“For some time

upward mobility

stories have been a

pervasive element

of U.S. political

culture. This is the

best book around for

understanding the

complexities of how

they work.”

—Evan Watkins,

Novel

2010. 328 pages.

Pa: 978-0-691-14663-8 $27.95 | £19.95

Cl: 978-0-691-04987-8 $38.50 | £26.95

Honorable Mention, 2008 PROSE Award for

Excellence in Literature, Language, and Linguistics,

Association of American Publishers

Franz Kafka

The Oﬃce Writings

Edited by Stanley Corngold,

Jack Greenberg & Benno Wagner

Translations by Eric Patton with

Ruth Hein

“A fascinating read

for scholars of Kafka

and modern Central

European literature.”

—M. McCulloh,

Choice

2008. 424 pages.

28 halftones. 9 tables.

Cl: 978-0-691-12680-7

$45.00 | £30.95

Northern Arts

The Breakthrough of Scandinavian

Literature and Art, from Ibsen to

Bergman

Arnold Weinstein

“This is comparative scholarship at its best.”

—Choice

2008. 544 pages. 75 halftones.

Cl: 978-0-691-12544-2 $35.00 | £24.95

The Whole Diﬀerence

Selected Writings of Hugo von

Hofmannsthal

Hugo von Hofmannsthal

Edited by J. D. McClatchy

“This elegant anthology of key writings by the

Austrian writer Hugo von Hofmannsthal provides

Anglophone readers with an excellent selection.”

—J. Hardin, Choice

2008. 520 pages.

Cl: 978-0-691-12909-9 $35.00 | £24.95

Five Fictions in Search

of Truth

Myra Jehlen

“If her Readings at

the Edge of Literature

did not reveal Jehlen

as a formidable

critic, this study of

ﬁve novels should.”

—Choice

2008. 184 pages. 5 halftones.

Cl: 978-0-691-13612-7

$27.95 | £19.95

Shakespeare

Johann Gottfried Herder

Translated, edited, and with an

introduction by Gregory Moore

“Gregory Moore’s translation and introduction

alike are admirably eloquent and illuminating.”

—Harold Bloom

2008. 128 pages.

Cl: 978-0-691-13535-9 $12.95 | £8.95

14 • Søren Kierkegaard

Kierkegaard’s Journals and Notebooks

Søren Kierkegaard

Edited by Niels Jørgen Cappelørn, Alastair Hannay, David Kangas,

Bruce H. Kirmmse, George Pattison, Vanessa Rumble & K. Brian Söderquist,

in cooperation with the Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre, Copenhagen

Søren Kierkegaard (1813-55) is one of the most important philosophical and

theological thinkers of the past two centuries. The Søren Kierkegaard

Research Centre at the University of Copenhagen has produced the ﬁrst

complete critical edition of all of Kierkegaard’s writings, published and

unpublished. Using this deﬁnitive Danish edition and with the support

of the Kierkegaard Research Centre and the Danish government, a

group of well-known scholars is producing an 11-volume English lan-

guage edition, including explanatory notes, of Kierkegaard’s Journals

and Notebooks. Princeton University Press is publishing Kierkegaard’s

Journals and Notebooks as a complement to its edition of Kierkegaard’s

Writings. The volumes in Kierkegaard’s Journals and Notebooks will appear at

intervals of about a year and a half.

Volume 2

Journals EE–KK

Volume 2 includes materials from 1836 to 1846,

a period that takes Kierkegaard from his student

days to the peak of his activity as an author. In

addition to containing hundreds of Kierkegaard’s

reﬂections on philosophy, theology, literature,

and his own personal life, these journals are

the seedbed of many ideas and passages that

later surfaced in Either/Or, Repetition, Fear and

Trembling, Philosophical Fragments, The Concept of

Anxiety, Stages on Life’s Way, Concluding Unscien-

tiﬁc Postscript, and a number of Edifying Discourses.

2008. 696 pages. 30 halftones.

Cl: 978-0-691-13344-7 $99.50 | £69.95

Volume I

Journals AA-DD

Volume 1 is the ﬁrst English translation and

commentary of Kierkegaard’s journals based on

up-to-date scholarship. It oﬀers new insight into

Kierkegaard’s inner life. In addition to early drafts

of his published works, the journals contain his

thoughts on current events and philosophical

and theological matters, notes on books he was

reading, miscellaneous jottings, and ideas for

future literary projects.

2007. 616 pages. 9 tables. 4 maps. 19 halftones.

Cl: 978-0-691-09222-5 $85.00 | £59.00

New

Volume 3

Notebooks 1–15

Volume 3 of this 11-volume edition includes

Kierkegaard’s extensive notes on lectures by the

Danish theologian H. N. Clausen and by the Ger-

man philosopher Schelling, as well as a great many

other entries on philosophical, theological, and

literary topics. In addition, the volume includes

many personal reﬂections by Kierkegaard.

2009. 704 pages. 10 halftones.

Cl: 978-0-691-13893-0 $99.50 | £69.95

Søren Kierkegaard

A Biography

Joakim Garﬀ

Translated by Bruce H. Kirmmse

“Monumental. . . . Garﬀ’s informal voice enlists us in

the village of gossip of Kierkegaard’s time.”

—John Updike, New Yorker

2007. 896 pages. 31 halftones. 8 line illus.

Pa: 978-0-691-12788-0 $29.95 | £20.95

Cl: 978-0-691-09165-5 $64.00 | £43.95

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Kierkegaard’s Writings, I

Early Polemical

Writings

Edited by Julia Watkin

2009. 352 pages. 3 halftones.

Pa: 978-0-691-14072-8 $35.00 | £24.95

Kierkegaard’s Writings, IX

Prefaces

Writing Sampler

Edited by Todd W. Nichol

2009. 232 pages.

Pa: 978-0-691-14073-5 $29.95 | £20.95

Cl: 978-0-691-04827-7 $70.00 | £48.95

Kierkegaard’s Writings, X

Three Discourses on

Imagined Occasions

Edited by Howard V. Hong

& Edna H. Hong

2009. 198 pages.

Pa: 978-0-691-14074-2 $24.95 | £16.95

Cl: 978-0-691-03300-6 $70.00 | £48.95

Kierkegaard’s Writings, XIII

The Corsair Aﬀair and

Articles Related to

the Writings

Edited by Howard V. Hong

& Edna H. Hong

2009. 376 pages. 23 line illus.

Pa: 978-0-691-14075-9 $29.95 | £20.95

Kierkegaard’s Writings, XIV

Two Ages

The Age of Revolution and

the Present Age, A Literary

Review

Edited by Howard V. Hong

& Edna H. Hong

2009. 202 pages.

Pa: 978-0-691-14076-6 $24.95 | £16.95

Cl: 978-0-691-07226-5 $67.50 | £46.95

Kierkegaard’s Writings, XV

Upbuilding Discourses

in Various Spirits

Edited by Howard V. Hong

& Edna H. Hong

2009. 464 pages.

Pa: 978-0-691-14077-3 $35.00 | £24.95

Kierkegaard’s Writings, XVII

Christian Discourses

The Crisis and a Crisis in the

Life of an Actress

Edited by Howard V. Hong

& Edna H. Hong

2009. 512 pages.

Pa: 978-0-691-14078-0 $45.00 | £30.95

Cl: 978-0-691-01649-8 $95.00 | £65.00

Kierkegaard’s Writings, XVIII

Without Authority

Edited by Howard V. Hong

& Edna H. Hong

2009. 340 pages.

Pa: 978-0-691-14079-7 $35.00 | £24.95

Cl: 978-0-691-01239-1 $80.00 | £55.00

Kierkegaard’s Writings, XXII

The Point of View

Edited by Howard V. Hong

& Edna H. Hong

2009. 382 pages.

Pa: 978-0-691-14080-3 $35.00 | £24.95

Cl: 978-0-691-05855-9 $95.00 | £65.00

Kierkegaard’s Writings, XXIII

The Moment and

Late Writings

Edited by Howard V. Hong

& Edna H. Hong

2009. 712 pages. 5 halftones.

Pa: 978-0-691-14081-0 $60.00 | £41.95

Cl: 978-0-691-03226-9 $105.00 | £72.00

Kierkegaard’s Writings, XXIV

The Book on Adler

Edited by Howard V. Hong

& Edna H. Hong

2009. 424 pages. 9 halftones.

Pa: 978-0-691-14082-7 $40.00 | £27.95

Cl: 978-0-691-03227-6 $95.00 | £65.00

Kierkegaard’s Writings, XXV

Letters and Documents

Edited by

Henrik Rosenmeier

2009. 546 pages. 3 maps.

Pa: 978-0-691-14083-4 $65.00 | £44.95

Cl: 978-0-691-07228-9 $125.00 | £85.00

Kierkegaard’s Writings, XXVI

Cumulative Index to

Kierkegaard’s Writings

Edited by Howard V. Hong

& Edna H. Hong

2009. 584 pages.

Pa: 978-0-691-14084-1 $65.00 | £44.95

Cl: 978-0-691-03225-2 $99.50 | £69.95

Kierkegaard’s Writings

Søren Kierkegaard

Howard V. Hong & Edna H. Hong, series editors

Kierkegaard’s Writings is a deﬁnitive, scholarly edition of Søren Kierkegaard’s works, systematically

translated into English, comprising twenty-ﬁve volumes of text and a separate cumulative index.

Each volume includes a historical introduction, selections from Kierkegaard’s journals and provisional

manuscripts, notes, and an index. Princeton University Press is proud to now make available in paper-

back all of the volumes in this series.

all new in paperback

“The deﬁnitive edition of the Writings.”

—Library Journal

16 • Translation/Transnation

Translation/Transnation

Emily Apter, series editor

Translation/Transnation is devoted to developing approaches and topics that place renewed em-

phasis on the literary dimension of transnationalism. It investigates the politics of language, accent

and literacy; translation and the global marketplace; comparative literary movements and genres;

the future status of national assignations in textual classiﬁcation; the need for new paradigms of

comparative literary history and historiography—among other themes.

New

The Princeton Sourcebook

in Comparative Literature

From the European Enlightenment to

the Global Present

Edited by David Damrosch, Natalie

Melas & Mbongiseni Buthelezi

“Rebuilt many

times on the high

seas, comparative

literature is a Noah’s

ark of texts, method-

ologies, languages,

communities, and

aspirations. This col-

lection captures the

restless, experimen-

tal, self-critical spirit

of what has never

been a discipline or

a ﬁeld but a project, from its emergence in the

breakdown of Enlightenment universalism to

current debates about circulation, translation,

and value.”

—Haun Saussy, Yale University

David Damrosch is professor of comparative

literature at Harvard University and a past presi-

dent of the American Comparative Literature

Association. Natalie Melas is associate professor

of comparative literature at Cornell University.

Mbongiseni Buthelezi is a doctoral student in

English and comparative literature at Columbia

University.

2009. 464 pages.

Pa: 978-0-691-13285-3 $29.95 | £20.95

Cl: 978-0-691-13284-6 $65.00 | £44.95

New

The Spread of Novels

Translation and Prose Fiction in the

Eighteenth Century

Mary Helen McMurran

The Spread of Novels

explores the active

movements of

English and French

ﬁction in the eigh-

teenth century and

argues that the new

literary form of the

novel was the result

of a shift in transla-

tion. Demonstrating

that translation was

both the cause and

means by which the novel attained success, Mary

Helen McMurran shows how this period was a

watershed in translation history, signaling the

end of a premodern system of translation and

the advent of modern literary exchange.

Mary Helen McMurran is assistant professor of

English at the University of Western Ontario.

2009. 272 pages. 4 halftones.

Pa: 978-0-691-14153-4 $27.95 | £19.95

Cl: 978-0-691-14152-7 $65.00 | £44.95

In Spite of Partition

Jews, Arabs, and the Limits of

Separatist Imagination

Gil Z. Hochberg

“[A]n important addition to the progressive

discourse around the future, as well as the past,

of Palestine.”

—Gil Anidjar, Journal of Palestine Studies

2007. 208 pages.

Cl: 978-0-691-12875-7 $38.50 | £26.95

press.princeton.edu Translation/Transnation • 17

The Translation Zone

A New Comparative Literature

Emily Apter

2006. 320 pages. 4 halftones.

Pa: 978-0-691-04997-7 $26.95 | £18.95

Guru English

South Asian Religion in a Cosmopolitan

Language

Srinivas Aravamudan

2005. 352 pages.

Pa: 978-0-691-11828-4 $27.95 | £19.95

We, the People of Europe?

Reﬂections on Transnational Citizenship

Étienne Balibar

Translated by James Swenson

2003. 312 pages.

Pa: 978-0-691-08990-4 $25.95 | £17.95

Honorable Mention, 2004 Aldo and Jeanne

Scaglione Prize for French and Francophone Studies,

Modern Language Association

Experimental Nations

Or, the Invention of the Maghreb

Réda Bensmaïa

2003. 232 pages.

Pa: 978-0-691-08937-9 $27.95 | £19.95

Nation, Language, and the

Ethics of Translation

Edited by Sandra Bermann &

Michael Wood

2005. 424 pages. 1 halftone.

Pa: 978-0-691-11609-9 $29.95 | £20.95

Utopian Generations

The Political Horizon of Twentieth-Century

Literature

Nicholas Brown

2005. 256 pages.

Pa: 978-0-691-12212-0 $31.95 | £21.95

The Literary Channel

The Inter-National Invention of the Novel

Edited by Margaret Cohen &

Carolyn Dever

2001. 332 pages. 1 line illus.

Pa: 978-0-691-05002-7 $30.95 | £21.95

What Is World Literature?

David Damrosch

2003. 336 pages. 12 halftones.

Pa: 978-0-691-04986-1 $28.95 | £19.95

Honorable Mention, 2002 John Hope Franklin

Publication Prize, American Studies Association

Ambassadors of Culture

The Transamerican Origins of Latino Writing

Kirsten Silva Gruesz

2001. 320 pages.

Pa: 978-0-691-05097-3 $28.95 | £19.95

Winner of 2007 Richard L. Greaves Award, The

International John Bunyan Society

The Portable Bunyan

A Transnational History of The Pilgrim’s

Progress

Isabel Hofmeyr

2003. 320 pages. 20 halftones. 1 table.

Pa: 978-0-691-11656-3 $30.95 | £21.95

Winner of the 2006 James Russell Lowell Prize,

Modern Language Association

Poetry of the Revolution

Marx, Manifestos, and the Avant-Gardes

Martin Puchner

2006. 336 pages. 7 halftones. 2 line illus. 3 tables.

Pa: 978-0-691-12260-1 $27.95 | £19.95

Cl: 978-0-691-12259-5 $75.00 | £52.00

Writing Outside the Nation

Azade Seyhan

2000. 200 pages.

Pa: 978-0-691-05099-7 $30.95 | £21.95

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18 • Asian Studies

New

With an introduction by

Robert P. Goldman &

Sally J. Sutherland Goldman

The Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki

An Epic of Ancient India,

Volume VI: Yuddhakāṇḍa

Translated and annotated by

Robert P. Goldman,

Sally J. Sutherland Goldman &

Barend A. van Nooten

The sixth book of the

Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki,

the Yuddhakāṇḍa,

recounts the

ﬁnal dramatic war

between the forces

of good led by the

exiled prince Rāma,

and the forces of evil

commanded by the

arch demon Rāvaṇa.

The Yuddhakāṇḍa

contains some of

the most extraordinary events and larger-than-

life characters to be found anywhere in world

literature.

Robert P. Goldman is professor of Sanskrit and

Indian studies at the University of California,

Berkeley, and general editor of the Ramayana

Translation Project. Sally J. Sutherland Gold-

man is lecturer in Sanskrit at the University of

California, Berkeley, and associate editor of the

Ramayana Translation Project. Barend A. van

Nooten is professor emeritus of Sanskrit at the

University of California, Berkeley.

Princeton Library of Asian Translations

2009. 1676 pages. 1 color illus.

Cl: 978-0-691-06663-9 $150.00 | £103.00

New

Empires of the Silk Road

A History of Central Eurasia from the

Bronze Age to the Present

Christopher I. Beckwith

“Empires of the Silk

Road is a major

scholarly achieve-

ment. This is the ﬁrst

book to provide a

comprehensive ac-

count of the history

of Central Eurasia

from the Bronze Age

to the present. But it

is much more than

a simple narrative

of events in what

is arguably the most important region for the

development of civilization during the past four

or ﬁve millennia. It is an intellectually ambitious

undertaking that attempts to account for es-

sential transformations in the cultural, economic,

and political life of societies situated both within

the Central Eurasian heartland and on its pe-

riphery. . . . Beckwith turns conventional wisdom

on its head and makes Central Eurasia the core

of human history, rather than the embarrassing

backwater which it is usually portrayed as. Per-

haps his greatest contribution is in the powerful,

sustained epilogue, where he shatters a whole

galaxy of misconceptions about the dreaded

‘barbarians.’ ”

—Victor H. Mair, University of Pennsylvania

Empires of the Silk Road places Central Eurasia

within a world historical framework and demon-

strates why the region is central to understand-

ing the history of civilization.

Christopher I. Beckwith is professor of Central

Eurasian studies at Indiana University.

2009. 504 pages.

Cl: 978-0-691-13589-2 $35.00 | £24.95

press.princeton.edu Asian Studies • 19

Forthcoming Paperback

A Kaleidoscope of China

An Advanced Reader

Chih-p`ing Chou, Jingyu Wang,

Joanne Chiang & Hua-Hui Wei

“Chou and his colleagues have once again

produced a superb Chinese language textbook.

This crack team of seasoned teachers is probably

the best in the world when it comes to teaching

Chinese as a second language. A Kaleidoscope

of China presents a veritable feast of fascinating

essays. Students will not only ﬁnd it stimulating

but, more importantly, will learn well from it.”

—James M. Hargett, University at Albany, State

University of New York

A Kaleidoscope of China is an advanced Chinese-

language textbook that gives students a greater

command of Chinese while deepening their un-

derstanding of the social and cultural issues fac-

ing China today. Geared to the unique needs of

students with two or more years of instruction in

modern Chinese, this book features a stimulating

selection of articles and essays from major news-

papers and periodicals in China, oﬀering a reveal-

ing look at contemporary Chinese society. Topics

include buying a home versus having a child;

consumer exports to America; depression; online

dating; cell phones; empty-nest syndrome; fast

food; the Virginia Tech massacre; medicine; the

2008 Sichuan earthquake; and global warming.

Every selection is accompanied by a vocabulary

list, exercises, and grammar notes.

No other Chinese-language textbook so ef-

fectively helps advanced students expand their

language skills while immersing them in what is

truly a kaleidoscope of today’s China.

Chih-p`ing Chou is professor of East Asian

studies at Princeton University and director of

the university’s Chinese language and Princeton

in Beijing programs. Joanne Chiang is senior

lecturer in Chinese at Princeton. Jingyu Wang

and Hua-Hui Wei are former lecturers in Chinese

at Princeton.

The Princeton Language Program: Modern Chinese

April 2010. 520 pages.

Pa: 978-0-691-14691-1 $49.50 | £34.95

A Shoemaker’s Story

Being Chieﬂy about French

Canadian Immigrants, Enterprising

Photographers, Rascal Yankees, and

Chinese Cobblers in a Nineteenth-

Century Factory Town

Anthony W. Lee

“Generously

illustrated with

many extraordinary

photographs,

A Shoemaker’s

Story brings 1870s

America to vivid life.

Combining pains-

taking research with

world-class story-

telling, Lee illumi-

nates an important

episode in the social history of the United States,

and reveals the extent to which photographs can

be sites of intense historical struggle.”

—Spartacus Educational

2008. 312 pages. 1 color illus. 136 halftones.

Cl: 978-0-691-13325-6 $45.00 | £30.95

The Plum in the Golden

Vase or, Chin P’ing Mei

Translated by David Tod Roy

“Racy, colloquial, and robustly scatalogical, [this

translation] could only have been done now,

when our literary language has ﬁnally shed its

Victorian values. David Tod Roy enters with zest

into the spirit and the letter of the original, quite

surpassing . . . earlier versions.”

—Paul St. John Mackintosh, Literary Review

Princeton Library of Asian Translations

Volume One: The Gathering

1997. 714 pages. 40 illus.

Pa: 978-0-691-01614-6 $39.95 | £27.95

Volume Two: The Rivals

2006. 720 pages. 40 halftones.

Pa: 978-0-691-12619-7 $35.00 | £24.95

Volume Three: The Aphrodisiac

2006. 800 pages. 40 line illus.

Cl: 978-0-691-12534-3 $60.00 | £41.95

20 • Poetry

Forthcoming

Last Looks, Last Books

Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill

Helen Vendler

“Helen Vendler is

one of the most lucid

and incisive critics

with which the art

of poetry has been

blessed, and this

is one of her ﬁnest

books—brilliant,

moving, and a plea-

sure to read.”

—James Longen-

bach, University of

Rochester

In Last Looks, Last Books, the eminent critic Helen

Vendler examines the ways in which ﬁve great

modern American poets, writing their ﬁnal books,

try to ﬁnd a style that does justice to life and death

alike. With traditional religious consolations no

longer available to them, these poets must invent

new ways to express the crisis of death, as well as

the paradoxical coexistence of a declining body

and an undiminished consciousness.

Helen Vendler is the A. Kingsley Porter University

Professor at Harvard University.

Published in association with the National Gallery of Art, Washington

A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts

Bollingen Series xxxv: 56

April 2010. 176 pages.

Cl: 978-0-691-14534-1 $19.95 | £13.95

New

The Best Laid Schemes

Selected Poetry and Prose of

Robert Burns

Edited by Robert Crawford &

Christopher MacLachlan

“This is an attrac-

tively presented

collection with a

beautifully written

introduction to the

life and work of the

poet. . . . [The editors]

have done a great

deal to reveal again

the charm and com-

plexity of one of the

world’s greatest ever

poets of love.”

—Alexander McCall Smith, Telegraph

The Best Laid Schemes demonstrates like no

other collection why Robert Burns is considered

one of the world’s greatest poets of love and

democracy—and why he continues to entertain,

move, and intrigue readers two and a half centu-

ries after his birth.

Robert Crawford is professor of modern Scottish

literature at the University of St. Andrews. Chris-

topher MacLachlan is senior lecturer in English at

St. Andrews.

2009. 312 pages.

Pa: 978-0-691-14295-1 $19.95

Cl: 978-0-691-14294-4 $65.00

For sale only in the U.S. and the Philippines

Winner of the 2008 Sourette Diehl Fraser Award for Best Translation of a Book, Texas Institute of Letters

Selected Poems

Odes and Fragments

Sophocles

Translated and introduced by Reginald Gibbons

“Reginald Gibbons gives us Sophocles’ poetry sprung free from plot and dramatic action. Elemental,

swift, kaleidoscopic, the odes and fragments are forcefully present in Gibbons’s spare style, and they

can take one’s breath away.”

—Rosanna Warren, author of Departure: Poems

2008.144 pages.

Cl: 978-0-691-13024-8 $18.95 | £12.95

press.princeton.edu Poetry • 21

New Paperback—Bilingual Edition

With a new foreword by Robert Pinsky

C. P. Cavafy:

Collected Poems

Translated by Edmund Keeley &

Philip Sherrard

Edited by George Savidis

Praise for previous

Princeton editions:

“The best [English

version] we are

likely to see for some

time.”

—James Merrill, New

York Review of Books

“[This is] among the

key books of our

century and should

be read by anyone

who cares for poetry.”

—Washington Post Book World

Edmund Keeley is Charles Barnwell Straut Class

of 1923 Professor of English, emeritus, and pro-

fessor of creative writing, emeritus, at Princeton

University. Philip Sherrard (1922-1995) was

research fellow at St. Antony’s College, Oxford,

and lecturer in the history of the Orthodox

Church at King’s College, London. George Savidis

(1929-1995) was professor of modern Greek at

the University of Thessaloniki and George Seferis

Visiting Professor at Harvard University.

Princeton Classic Editions

2009. 496 pages.

Pa: 978-0-691-14124-4 $22.95

Not for sale in the Commonwealth

New Paperback

A ReadySteadyBook.com Book of the Week

A Reader’s Guide to

Wallace Stevens

Eleanor Cook

“A Reader’s Guide to

Wallace Stevens is a

solid reference work

that will help open

doors for a wide

variety of readers.

It will be especially

useful to instructors

who are beginning

to teach Stevens,

providing them with

sources, analogues,

translations, and

other materials that will help students connect

with Stevens’ work with ease and pleasure.”

—Janet McCann, Wallace Stevens Journal

Eleanor Cook is professor emerita of English at

the University of Toronto.

2009. 376 pages.

Pa: 978-0-691-14108-4 $24.95 | £16.95

Cl: 978-0-691-04983-0 $45.00 | £30.95

Now Available in Paperback

Felicia Hemans

Selected Poems, Letters, Reception Materials

Susan Wolfson

2009. 552 pages. 2 halftones.

Pa: 978-0-691-14665-2 $49.95 | £34.95

Cl: 978-0-691-05029-4 $77.00 | £53.00

The Bard

Robert Burns, A Biography

Robert Crawford

“[A] triumph—a

highly readable, at

times very moving

account of the life of

the poet, backed at

every stage by schol-

arship that is worn

in such a way as not

to deter the general

reader. This is a ﬁne

biography, and it is

diﬃcult to imagine

its being surpassed

for a very long time.”

—Alexander McCall Smith, Telegraph

2009. 480 pages. 1 halftone.

Cl: 978-0-691-14171-8 $35.00

For sale only in the U.S., Territories and Dependencies

22 • Facing Pages

Forthcoming

Angina Days

Selected Poems

Günter Eich

Translated and introduced by

Michael Hofmann

“This is an extremely

important book.

Günter Eich is a

highly signiﬁcant

German poet and

Michael Hofmann is

the master translator

of contemporary

German literature—

both poetry and

prose—into English.

These pieces of Eich’s

are powerful, bitter,

and compressed poems in English, and they will

enlarge the landscape of postwar German poetry

for Anglophone readers. Eich and Hofmann meet

in blessed conjunction.”

—Rosanna Warren, author of Departure: Poems

This is the most comprehensive English transla-

tion of the work of Günter Eich, one of the most

important German poets of the postwar period.

The author of the POW poem “Inventory,” one of

the most famous lyrics in the German language,

Eich was rivaled only by Paul Celan as the

leading poet in the generation after Gottfried

Benn and Bertolt Brecht. Expertly translated and

introduced by Michael Hofmann, this collection

gathers eighty poems, many drawn from Eich’s

later work and most of them translated here

for the ﬁrst time. The volume also includes the

original German texts on facing pages.

Unjustly neglected in English, Eich ﬁnds his ideal

translator here.

Michael Hofmann is an award-winning poet and

translator.

June 2010. 224 pages.

Cl: 978-0-691-14497-9 $24.95 | £16.95

New

Love Lessons

Selected Poems of Alda Merini

Translated by Susan Stewart

“What we have in

Love Lessons is a

fantastic selection

of poems by Alda

Merini, one of Italy’s

foremost poets, trans-

lated into English by

Susan Stewart, one

of America’s foremost

poets. As millions

of Italian readers

already know—and

English readers are

about to discover for the ﬁrst time—to open a

book by Merini is to discover a poetry of immedi-

ate freshness, unlike any other.”

—Robert P. Harrison, Stanford University

Alda Merini is one of Italy’s most important, and

most beloved, living poets. She has won many of

the major national literary prizes and has twice

been nominated for the Nobel Prize—by the

French Academy in 1996 and by Italian PEN in

2001. In Love Lessons, the distinguished American

poet Susan Stewart brings us the largest and

most comprehensive selection of Merini’s poetry

to appear in English. Complete with the original

Italian on facing pages, a critical introduction,

and explanatory notes, this collection gathers

lyrics, meditations, and aphorisms that span ﬁfty

years, from Merini’s ﬁrst books of the 1950s to an

unpublished poem from 2001. These accessible

and moving poems reﬂect the experiences of

a writer who, after beginning her career at the

center of Italian Modernist circles when she was

a teenager, went silent in her twenties, spend-

ing much of the next two decades in mental

hospitals, only to reemerge in the 1970s to a full

renewal of her gifts, an outpouring of new work,

and great renown.

Susan Stewart is the Annan Professor of English

at Princeton and a chancellor of the Academy of

American Poets.

2009. 144 pages.

Cl: 978-0-691-12938-9 $19.95 | £13.95

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With an afterword by Luis H. Antezana

The Night

Jaime Saenz

Translated and introduced by

Forrest Gander & Kent Johnson

“Exquisitely produced, this edition advances

Saenz’s ultimate mission for The Night: to reveal a

vision of the body connected with its soul, ‘inhab-

iting’ it, passing through a life full of danger, fear,

and humiliation, constructing a holistic view of

existence, a uniﬁed conception of life and death.”

—Aaron Belz, Boston Review

2007. 160 pages. 11 halftones.

Cl: 978-0-691-12483-4 $23.95 | £16.95

Horace, The Odes

New Translations by Contemporary

Poets

Edited by J. D. McClatchy

“J. D. McClatchy’s extraordinary collection gives

us the richest version of Horace’s odes ever made

available in English.”

—Harold Bloom

2005. 320 pages.

Pa: 978-0-691-11981-6 $24.95 | £16.95

Cl: 978-0-691-04919-9 $47.50 | £32.95

J. M. Coetzee, Winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize in

Literature

Landscape with Rowers

Poetry from the Netherlands

Translated and introduced by

J. M. Coetzee

“The book has

been lovingly and

beautifully pro-

duced. . . . Coetzee’s

translations of these

cool and astringent

poems read well.”

—Eric Ormsby, New

York Sun

2005. 120 pages. 5 color plates.

Pa: 978-0-691-12385-1

$17.95 | £12.50

Also by J. M. Coetzee

The Lives of Animals

Edited and with an introduction by

Amy Gutmann

“[A] beautifully constructed, troubling, provoca-

tive book which resonates in the mind and heart

long after you’ve turned the last page.”

—Helen Kaye, Jerusalem Post

The University Center for Human Values Series

2001. 130 pages.

Pa: 978-0-691-07089-6 $19.95 | £13.95

After Every War

Twentieth-Century Women Poets

Translations from the German by

Eavan Boland

“[A] moving and es-

sential new book. . . .

These poets have a

particular angle of

witness that comes

from powerless-

ness, from being

vulnerable. Injured,

marginal, excluded.”

—Edward Hirsch,

Washington Post Book

World

2006. 184 pages. 10 halftones. 2 maps.

Pa: 978-0-691-12779-8 $15.95 | £10.95

Hothouses

Poems, 1889

Maurice Maeterlinck

Translated by Richard Howard

A feat of daring power extraordinarily immediate

and inventive, Hothouses will appeal to all lovers

of poetry, and in particular to those interested in

Modernism.

2003. 128 pages. 1 halftone. 7 line illus.

Pa: 978-0-691-08838-9 $16.95 | £11.95

24 • Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation

The Collected Lyric Poems

of Luís de Camões

Luís de Camões

Translated by Landeg White

“These translations

bring Camões’s

genius within reach

of an audience who

cannot read the

elegant, intricate

Portuguese originals.

The volume is a wor-

thy and timely addi-

tion to the classics of

poetry in translation

published as part of

Princeton’s Lockert

Library Series.”

—Claire Williams, Times Literary Supplement

2008. 384 pages.

Pa: 978-0-691-13662-2 $19.95 | £13.95

Cl: 978-0-691-13656-1 $55.00 | £37.95

Winner of the 2007 National Jewish Book Award in Poetry, Jewish Book Council

Finalist, 2007 National Jewish Book Award in Sephardic Culture, Jewish Book Council

Winner of the 2007 R. R. Hawkins Award, Association of American Publishers

Winner of the 2007 Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Humanities,

Association of American Publishers

Winner of the 2007 Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Literature, Language, and Linguistics,

Association of American Publishers

The Dream of the Poem

Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain,

950–1492

Translated, Edited, and Introduced by Peter Cole

“The book is a treasure trove, a labour of love and exceptional erudition,

which will open up to the reader a world of poetry and culture as rich as

anything in human civilization.”

—Times Literary Supplement

2007. 576 pages.

Pa: 978-0-691-12195-6 $19.95 | £13.95

In Hora Mortis / Under the

Iron of the Moon

Poems

Thomas Bernhard

Translated by James Reidel

“For all their acrid

elegance, [these

poems] are compel-

ling because Thomas

Bernhard wrote

them. . . . [T]hey . . .

show how deeply

Bernhard, the caustic

besmircher of the

native nest, was

rooted in the soil of

his homeland. Every

line suggests that his

love of it was almost equal to his loathing.”

—Eric Ormsby, New York Sun

2006. 192 pages.

Pa: 978-0-691-12642-5 $17.95 | £12.50

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Forthcoming Fall 2010

Prose, Volume IV,

1956–1962

Prose, Volume III,

1949–1955

“This third volume of his complete prose is the

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