The Kinetic Text revisits the eccentric literary landscape that emerged in England in the roughly two hundred years after the rise of print in order to introduce a new theory of early modern poetics centered on the expressive potential of the material text.
In Cast Down: Abjection in America, 1700-1850, Mark J. Miller argues that transatlantic Protestant discourses of abjection engaged with, and furthered the development of, concepts of race and sexuality in the creation of public subjects and public spheres.
Roger Bacon, the Middle Ages, and the Making of Modern Science
E. R. Truitt
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9781512829884
Pub Date: September 2026
Format: Hardcover
232 Pages
In Necessary Inventions, E. R. Truitt uses thirteenth-century philosopher Roger Bacon—and his characterization as a prophetic figure of scientific modernity—to reveal the medieval thinking that enabled modern science to tell a story of scientific development thaterased non-Christian texts, actors, and cultures from the history of science.
In The Sonic South, Rebeccah Bechtold traces how white listeners both heard and imagined the plantation South and its Black communities and examines the legacy of these ways of hearing in the popular plantation literature of the 1830s to 1860s, written by both pro- and antislavery authors.
Critical History and the Interpretation of Early Modern Texts
Andrew Mattison
Price: $65.00
ISBN: 9781512829860
Pub Date: September 2026
Format: Hardcover
240 Pages
Rethinking the relationship of current literary criticism to the discipline’s past, Reading the Literary Past presents an interpretive approach to literary criticism grounded in critical histories rather than methods, attentive to the idiosyncrasy of reading and the contingencies influencing it.
The Art of Knowing Everything explores the legacy of medieval philosopher and theologian Ramon Llull, tracing the transformation of Llull’s philosophical system, known as the Art (Latin Ars), through medieval and early modern book technology.
Before Disability is a literary, legal, and cultural history of disability, race, and citizenship between the Revolution and the Civil War. It shows how disability helped to shape US citizenship as it developed as well as how the formation of US citizenship, in turn, fundamentally shaped disability.
