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HUMANITIES

2011
Literature

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The Best Technology The Havana Habit To Do
Writing 2010 Gustavo Pérez Firmat A Book of Alphabets and
Birthdays
Edited by Julian Dibbell From the acclaimed poet and critic,
an affectionate examination of Cuba Gertrude Stein
The iPad. The Kindle. Twitter. When in America’s cultural imagination. With illustrations by Giselle Potter
the Best Technology Writing series was Through books, advertisements, travel and an introduction by
inaugurated in 2005, these technologies guides, films, and music, writer and Timothy Young
did not exist. Now they define our 21st- scholar Gustavo Pérez Firmat demon-
century lives. The essays gathered here The first ever illustrated edition of avant-
strates the influence of the island on garde writer Gertrude Stein’s whimsical
register our intense and complicated almost two centuries of American life.
fascination with digital media. children’s book.
Cloth 2010 256 pp. 19 scattered b/w illus.
The Best Technology Writing Available in May 2011
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14132-0 $25.00
Paper 2010 352 pp. Published in association with the Beinecke
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16558-6 $17.95 Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Cloth 2011 120 pp. 28 color illus.
New ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17097-9 $25.00
New in paper Cuban Fiestas
The Glatstein Roberto González Echevarría New
Chronicles A luminous history of Cuba’s most The Works of Samuel
dynamic and defining rituals and the
Jacob Glatstein ever improvisational character of Cuban Johnson
Edited and with an Introduction culture. Roberto González Echevarría Volumes 21-23: The Lives of the Poets
by Ruth Wisse; Translated by Maier masterfully exposes the distinctive
Deshell and Norbert Guterman Samuel Johnson
elements of the fiesta cubana that give
Edited by John H. Middendorf
This seminal American work from the depth and coherence to more than two
Yiddish literary canon, in a restored centuries of Cuban cultural life. The Lives of the Poets was the crowning
English edition, offers the luminous Cloth 2010 376 pp. 4 b/w + 17 color illus. achievement of Samuel Johnson’s rich and
narrative of the author’s journey home ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16706-1 $35.00 varied literary life. Initially planned as a
to his Polish birthplace. series of rapid-fire prefaces introducing
separate volumes on English poets, John-
New Yiddish Library Series son’s project evolved into a comprehensive
Paper 2010 432 pp. New biographical and critical survey of English
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-09514-2 $20.00
C. S. Lewis’s Lost poetry from the time of Cowley to the
time of Gray. This carefully researched
Aeneid three-volume edition of Lives presents a
New in paper Arms and the Exile definitive text reflecting Johnson’s final
wishes for its wording, accompanied by
Oblomov Edited by A. T. Reyes notes of value both to general readers and
Ivan Goncharov In C. S. Lewis’s Lost Aeneid, classics specialists.
Translated by Marian Schwartz scholar Andres Reyes presents an
The Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel
extraordinary literary discovery—frag- Johnson
Translator Marian Schwartz breathes ments of Lewis’s lyrical translation of
new life into Ivan Goncharov’s masterful Cloth 2010 1,696 pp.
Virgil’s epic poem, which were rescued ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12314-2 $350.00
novel, replete with wry wit and inge- from a bonfire.
nious critique of nineteenth-century
Russian aristocracy. Available in April 2011
Cloth 2011 184 pp.
Paper 2010 576 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16717-7 $27.50
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16228-8 $16.95

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The Margellos World Republic of Letters

The Cecile and Theodore Margellos World Republic of Letters series identifies works of cultural and artistic significance
previously overlooked by translators and publishers, canonical works of literature and philosophy needing new trans-
lations, as well as important contemporary authors whose work has not yet been translated into English. The series is
designed to bring to the English-speaking world leading poets, novelists, essayists, philosophers, and playwrights from
Europe, Latin America, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East, to stimulate international discourse and creative exchange.

New New New


Adonis Fuenteovejuna Selected Lyrics
Selected Poems Lope de Vega Theophile Gautier
Adonis Translated by G. J. Racz; With an Translated by Norman R. Shapiro
Translated by Khaled Mattawa Introduction by Roberto Gonzalez In his ABC of Reading, Ezra Pound
Echevarria begins his short list of nineteenth-
Born in Syria in 1930, Adonis is one of
the most celebrated poets of the Arabic- Written in 1614, Fuenteovejuna centers century French poets to be studied with
speaking world. His poems have earned on the decision of an entire village to Théophile Gautier. Widely esteemed by
international acclaim, and his influence admit to the premeditated murder of figures as diverse as Charles Baudelaire,
on Arabic literature has been likened to a tyrannical ruler. Translator G. J. Racz the Goncourt brothers, Gustave Flaubert,
that of T. S. Eliot’s on English-language preserves the nuanced voice and struc- Oscar Wilde, Henry James, and T. S. Eliot,
verse. This volume serves as the first ture of Lope de Vega’s text in this first Gautier was one of the nineteenth centu-
comprehensive survey of Adonis’s work, English translation in analogical ry’s most prominent French writers. This
allowing English readers to admire meter and rhyme. Roberto González generous sampling not only succeeds in
the arc of a remarkable literary career Echevarría surveys the history of bringing these poems into English but
through the labors of the poet’s own Fuenteovejuna, as well as Lope’s also rediscovers them, renewing them in
handpicked translator, Khaled Mattawa. enormous literary output and indelible the process of translation.
Cloth 2010 432 pp. cultural imprint. Racz’s compelling Cloth 2011 552 pp.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15306-4 $30.00 translation and González Echevarría’s ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16433-6 $35.00
rich framework bring this timeless
Golden Age drama alive for a new
generation of readers and performers. New in paper
New in paper
Cloth 2010 144 pp.
Celestina ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16385-8 $26.00 The Wind from the
Fernando de Rojas Plain
A timeless story of love, morality, and A Trilogy
New
tragedy, Fernando de Rojas’s Celestina Yashar Kemal
is a classic of Spanish literature. Second Hocus Bogus Translated by Thilda Kemal
only to Don Quixote in its cultural
importance, Rojas’s dramatic dialogue
Romain Gary writing as Èmile Ajar In the Wind From the Plain Trilogy,
presents the elaborate tale of a star- Translated by David Bellos acclaimed Turkish novelist Yashar Kemal
crossed courtship between the young By the early 1970s, Romain Gary had uses his powerful skills as a storyteller to
nobleman Calisto and the beautiful established himself as one of France’s conjure a vanishing way of life. Through
maiden Melibea in fifteenth-century most popular and prolific novelists, Thilda Kemal’s skilled translation,
Spain. Their unforgettable saga plays out journalists, and memoirists. In Pseudo, the trilogy will now reach an English-
in vibrant exchanges, presented here in a brilliantly translated by David Bellos language audience in one comprehensive
brilliant new translation by award-win- as Hocus Bogus, the struggle to assert edition.
ning translator Margaret Sayers Peden. and deny authorship is part of a wider Available in May 2011
protest against suffering and univer- Paperback with Slipcase 2011
Paper 2011 224 pp. 21 b/w illus.
sal hypocrisy. Playing with novelistic ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17039-9 $25.00
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14199-3 $16.00
Cloth 2009 288 pp.  21 b/w illus. categories and authorial voice, this work
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14198-6 $24.00 is a powerful testimony to the power
of language—to express, to amuse, to
deceive, and ultimately to speak difficult
For more information
personal truths. on this series, visit
Cloth 2010 224 pp. yalebooks.com/margellos
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14976-0 $25.00

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The Margellos Series Language & Translation

New Mozart’s Third Brain New in paper


Cyclops Göran Sonnevi A Little Book of
Translation, Preface, and Notes by
Ranko Marinkovic
Rika Lesser; Foreword by Rosanna Language
Translated by Vlada Stojiljkovic;
Warren David Crystal
Edited by Ellen Elias-Bursac
Through the keen eye of award-winning With a language disappearing every two
In his semiautobiographical novel,
translator Rika Lesser, Göran Sonnevi’s weeks and neologisms springing up
Cyclops, Croatian writer Ranko
revelatory long-form poem on the in- almost daily, an understanding of the
Marinkovic recounts the adventures
ner workings of human consciousness origins and currency of language has
of young theater critic Melkior Tresic,
comes to life for the English reader. never seemed more relevant. In this
an archetypal antihero who decides to
Selected for Honorable Mention, The
charming narrative history, expert
starve himself to avoid fighting in the
Best of 2009: Bookseller’s Choice by Peter linguist David Crystal proves why the
front lines of World War II. A seminal
Philbrook, Barnes & Noble Review; Final- story of language deserves retelling.
work of postwar Eastern European
literature, Cyclops reveals a little-known ist for the 2010 PEN Literary Awards in Available in April 2011
perspective on World War II from the Poetry in Translation category given Paper 2011 272 pp. 40 b/w illus.
within the former Yugoslavia, one that by the PEN American Center ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17082-5 $17.00
has never before been available to an Cloth 2009 240 pp. Cloth 2010 272 pp. 40 b/w illus.
English-speaking audience. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14580-9 $25.00 ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15533-4 $25.00

Cloth 2010 576 pp.


ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15241-8 $35.00
Five Spice Street New in paper

Songbook
Can Xue, Translated by Karen Why Translation
Gernant and Chen Zeping
The Selected Poems of Umberto
Chinese author Can Xue’s Five Spice
Matters
Saba Street stands out as one of the most Edith Grossman
Umberto Saba astonishing novels written in any Why Translation Matters argues for the
Translated by George Hochfield language over the last twenty years. The cultural importance of translation and
and Leonard Nathan; Introduction, first of Xue’s full-length works to be for a more encompassing and nuanced
Notes, and Commentary by George translated into English, this compelling appreciation of the translator’s role.
Hochfield book explores a secret that takes on a life
Why X Matters Series
of its own as neighbors speculate, argue,
Umberto Saba’s reputation in Italy and Paper 2010 160 pp.
indulge their fantasies, and reveal their ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17130-3 $16.00
Europe has steadily grown since his deepest anxieties.
death in 1957, and today he is posi- Cloth 2010 160 pp.  
tioned alongside Eugenio Montale and Cloth 2009 352 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12656-3 $24.00
Giuseppe Ungaretti as one of the three ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12227-5 $25.00
most important Italian poets of the first
half of the twentieth century. Until now, New in paper
however, English-language readers have
had access to only a few examples of this On the Death and Life
poet’s work. This bilingual volume at For more information of Languages
last brings an extensive and exquisitely on this series, visit Claude Hagège
translated collection of Saba’s poems to
English-speaking readers.
yalebooks.com/margellos Translated by Jody Gladding
Cloth 2009 592 pp.  1 b/w photo In this timely book, Claude Hagège, a
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13603-6 $35.00 renowned linguist and leading French
public intellectual, ranges over all conti-
nents and language families to uncover
not only how languages die, but also
how they can be revitalized.
An Editions Odile Jacob Book
Paper 2011 384 pp.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16787-0 $20.00
Cloth 2009 384 pp.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13733-0 $30.00

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Poetry & Poetry Studies

New New in paper New in paper


The Anthology of Rap Selected Poems Radial Symmetry
Edited by Adam Bradley and Geoffrey Hill Katherine Larson
Andrew DuBois The publication of an astonishing debut Foreword by Louise Gluck
Foreword by Henry Louis Gates, more than fifty years ago brought poet Katherine Larson is the winner of
Jr.; Afterwords by Chuck D and Geoffrey Hill immediate attention and the 2010 Yale Series of Younger Poets
Common acclaim. Selected Poems represents a Competition. With Radial Symmetry,
“From the Sing Song cadence of the slave major publishing event, the publication she has created a transcendent body of
preachers to the emotional bravery of of the first representative selection of poems that flourish in the liminal spaces
Tupac Shakur to the clarity of Queen Hill’s poetry, gathering work from early that separate scientific inquiry from
Latifah . . . for all the hearts and heads volumes to such recent books as The empathic knowledge, astute observation
and voices who have still to be heard: We Orchards of Syon and Without Title. from sublime witness.
Now Have an Encyclopedia. Good for Paper 2010 288 pp. Available in April 2011
us. Much needed. Much needed.” ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16430-5 $22.00 Yale Series of Younger Poets
—Nikki Giovanni Cloth 2009 288 pp. Paper 2011 96 pp.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12156-8 $35.00 ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16920-1 $18.00
This pioneering anthology brings Cloth 2011 96 pp.
together more than three hundred ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16919-5 $35.00
lyrics written over thirty years, from the New
“old school” to the “golden age” to the
present day. Both a fan’s guide and a Treason New in paper
resource for the uninitiated, The Anthol- Poems by Hédi Kaddour
ogy of Rap showcases the inventiveness
and vitality of rap’s lyrical art. Translated by Marilyn Hacker Juvenilia
Hédi Kaddour’s poetry arises from ob- Ken Chen
Cloth 2010 920 pp. 5 b/w illus. Foreword by Louise Gluck
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14190-0 $35.00 servation, from situations both ordinary
and emblematic—of contemporary life, Wry, emotionally piercing, and exhila-
of human stubbornness, human inven- ratingly modern, Ken Chen’s Juvenilia,
New in paper tion, or human cruelty. With Treason, the 2009 winner of the annual Yale
the award-winning poet and translator Younger Poets competition, creates
Can Poetry Save the Marilyn Hacker presents an English- a new category in American poetry
speaking audience with the first selected through its chronicling of adolescence,
Earth? volume of his work. the immigrant family, and heartbreak.
A Field Guide to Nature Poems Cloth 2010 192 pp. Yale Series of Younger Poets
John Felstiner ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14958-6 $26.00 Paper 2010 104 pp.
In this thought-provoking book, John ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16008-6 $18.00
Cloth 2010 104 pp.
Felstiner explores the rich legacy of po-
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16007-9 $30.00
ems that take nature as their subject, and
he demonstrates their force and beauty.
Why Poetry Matters
In our own time of environmental Jay Parini
crises, he contends, poetry has a unique “Clear, unpretentious, witty prose makes
capacity to restore our attention to our his tour of poetry both entertaining
environment in its imperiled state. And and enlightening. . . . English professors
this, in turn, may just make us better looking for a textbook that explains
stewards of the earth. what poetry is and how students can
Paper 2010 440 pp. 22 color + 41 b/w illus. benefit from reading it should order
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16813-6 $20.00 Why Poetry Matters for their classes.”
Cloth 2009 440 pp. 22 color + 41 b/w illus. —Henry Hart, Sewanee Review
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13750-7 $35.00
Why X Matters Series
Paper 2009 224 pp.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15146-6 $14.00
Cloth 2008 224 pp.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12423-1 $24.00

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Books & Reading

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Too Much to Know A Reader on Reading The Book in the
Managing Scholarly Information Alberto Manguel Renaissance
before the Modern Age
“When the world becomes incompre- Andrew Pettegree
Ann M. Blair hensible . . . when we feel unguided and
bewildered, we seek a place in which A groundbreaking study of the fascinat-
Long before the modern era scholars ing world of books in the first great age
complained of the overabundance comprehension (or faith in compre-
hension) has been set down in words.” of print, from 1450–1600.
of books and developed techniques
for selecting, sorting, and storing Thus writes internationally acclaimed Cloth 2010 440 pp. 69 b/w illus.
information on a large scale. This author Alberto Manguel in the thirty- ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11009-8 $40.00
intriguing book examines information nine reflections on the joy and solace
management in pre-modern contexts of literature that make up A Reader on
with a special focus on the impact of Reading. For Manguel, the activity of New in paper
printing in Europe in the sixteenth and reading, in its broadest sense, defines
seventeenth centuries. our species. In A Reader on Reading, the Ex Libris
narratives of Jonah, Homer, and Dante; The Art of Bookplates
Cloth 2010 416 pp. 31 b/w illus. topics ranging from Pinocchio to com-
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11251-1 $45.00 ics, from Borges to Che Guevara; and
Martin Hopkinson
especially Lewis Carroll’s Alice books, This handsome book celebrates book-
guide Manguel’s nuanced understanding plates and the artists who have created
New of himself and the world. them, from Albrecht Dürer to Edward
Burne-Jones. Illustrated with 100 key
The Strawberry Hill Paper available in June 2011
Paper 2011 320 pp. 12 b/w illus. examples of ex libris art, the volume
Press and its Printing ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17208-9 $18.00 traces the evolution of bookplate design
in Europe and beyond.
House Cloth 2010 320 pp. 12 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15982-0 $27.50 Available in June 2011
Stephen Clarke PB-with Flaps 2011 112 pp.
100 color illus.
Horace Walpole’s Strawberry Hill
Press, founded in 1757, is the most
The Library at Night ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17163-1 $15.00
celebrated of the early English private Alberto Manguel
presses, unique for the importance of Inspired by the process of creating a
the books, pamphlets, and ephemera New in paper
library for his fifteenth-century home
it produced. This illustrated study of
the Press draws on a remarkable array
near the Loire, in France, Alberto Reading Matters
Manguel, the acclaimed writer on books Five Centuries of Discovering
of surviving images of the Printing and reading, has taken up the subject
House, many of them newly discovered Books
of libraries. “Libraries,” he says, “have
and previously unstudied. But more always seemed to me pleasantly mad Margaret Willes
than that, this book provides an origi- places, and for as long as I can remem-
nal and sustained analysis of Walpole’s This entertaining journey through five
ber I’ve been seduced by their labyrin- centuries of acquiring, reading, and
extraordinary literary endeavor, and of thine logic.” In this personal, deliberately
the complex variety of purposes that enjoying books looks at a wide range
unsystematic, and wide-ranging book, of collectors, including Samuel Pepys
the Press fulfilled. The volume not only he offers a captivating meditation on the
assesses all known images to discover and Thomas Jefferson, and those who
meaning of libraries. marketed and sold them their books.
what they can tell us about Walpole’s
Press, but also reveals that, quite Bronze medal winner of the 2008 Book of the Paper 2010 304 pp. 90 b/w illus.
unexpectedly, a large part of Walpole’s Year Award in the category of Architecture, ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16404-6 $22.00
Printing House survives to this day. presented by ForeWord magazine Cloth 2008 304 pp. 90 b/w illus.
Paper 2009 400 pp. 76 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12729-4 $30.00
Available in April 2011
Distributed for the Lewis Walpole Library ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15130-5 $17.00
Cloth 2011 152 pp. 44 color illus. Cloth 2008 384 pp. 76 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17040-5 $85.00 ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13914-3 $27.50

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Literary Studies/Literary Criticism

New
New
In the Demon’s
The Anatomy of Influence Bedroom
Literature as a Way of Life Yiddish Literature and the Early
Harold Bloom Modern
“Literary criticism, as I attempt to practice it,” writes Harold Bloom in The Jeremy Dauber
Anatomy of Influence, “is in the first place literary, that is to say, personal and
passionate.” This important study is the first to offer
a sustained look at a variety of early
For more than half a century, Bloom has shared his profound knowledge of modern Yiddish masterworks, paying
the written word with students and readers. In this, his most comprehensive particular attention to their treatment
and accessible study of influence, Bloom leads us through the labyrinthine of supernatural themes and beings.
paths which link the writers and critics who have informed and inspired him
Cloth 2010 416 pp.
for so many years.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14175-7 $85.00
Available in April 2011
Cloth 2011 384 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16760-3 $32.50
New in paper
Thinking in Circles
New New in paper An Essay on Ring Composition
Ralph Ellison in The Puritan Origins Mary Douglas
Progress of the American Self In this controversial book, social anthro-
pologist Mary Douglas argues that many
From “Invisible Man” to “Three Sacvan Bercovitch famous antique texts are misunderstood
Days Before the Shooting . . . “ with a new preface by the author and others have been dismissed because
Adam Bradley Mr. Bercovitch’s subject is the develop- they employ ring composition, a literary
Ralph Ellison in Progress is the first ment of the concept of American identi- style unfamiliar today. She explores ring
book to survey the expansive geography ty; his method is comparatism to specify composition across cultures and examines
of Ellison’s unfinished novel while the uniqueness of that development; its function in the Iliad, the Bible’s Book of
re-imaging the more familiar, but often and his discussion, centering upon the Numbers, and Tristram Shandy.
misunderstood, territory of Invisible interaction of language, myth, and soci- Selected by as an Outstanding Academic
Man. It works from the premise that ety, explores the Puritan achievement in Title for 2007 by Choice Magazine
understanding Ellison’s process of its broadest cultural context.
The Terry Lectures Series
composition imparts important truths Available in February 2011 Paper 2010 192 pp. 14 b/w illus.
not only about the author himself but Paper 2011 260 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16785-6 $24.00
about race, writing, and American iden- ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17241-6 $22.00 Cloth 2007 192 pp. 14 b/w illus.
tity. Drawing on thousands of pages of ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11762-2 $35.00
Ellison’s journals, typescripts, computer
drafts, and handwritten notes, many Sex and Religion in
never before studied, Adam Bradley
the Bible Grand Strategies
argues for a shift in scholarly emphasis Literature, Statecraft, and World
that moves a greater share of the weight Calum Carmichael Order
of Ellison’s literary legacy to the last
forty years of his life and to the novel he In this unique book, one of the most Charles Hill
left forever in progress. original voices in biblical studies today
focuses on the themes of marriage, From “the man on whom nothing was
Cloth 2010 256 pp. sexuality, fertility, impurity, creation, lost,” a uniquely engaging guide to the ele-
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14713-1 $27.50 and love in the Bible to illuminate the ments of statecraft, fusing literature and
remarkable subtlety and sophistication international relations through spirited
of biblical views about sex and religion. interpretations of classic literary works.
Cloth 2010 224 pp. Available in April 2011
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15377-4 $50.00 Paper 2011 384 pp. 5 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17133-4 $18.00
Cloth 2010 384 pp. 5 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16386-5 $27.50

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Literary Studies/Literary Criticism

New in paper New New


A New Handbook of Blake and the Bible The Medieval Heart
Literary Terms Christopher Rowland Heather Webb
David Mikics A leading theologian explores the way In this debut, Heather Webb studies
William Blake approaches the Bible and medieval notions of the heart to explore
Lively and learned, this up-to-date uses it as a central theme in his work the “lost circulations” of an era when
guide to literary words and concepts is and thought. individual lives and bodies were defined
an essential volume for every student by their extensions into the world rather
and reader of literature. David Mikics Cloth 2011 320 pp. 32 b/w + 8 color illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11260-3 $50.00 than as self-perpetuating, self-limited
sketches the derivations and history of entities.
each term, offers useful bibliographic
suggestions for most entries, and clarifies Cloth 2010 256 pp.
the often confusing terrain of literary New in paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15393-4 $55.00
theory today.
Selected as a 2008 AAUP University Press
The Prison and the
Book for Public and Secondary School American Imagination New in paper
Libraries
Paper 2010 368 pp.
Caleb Smith Leo Tolstoy and the
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16431-2 $17.00
How did a nation so famously associ-
ated with freedom become internation-
Alibi of Narrative
Cloth 2007 368 pp.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-10636-7 $37.00 ally identified with imprisonment? In Justin Weir
this timely and provocative study, Caleb One hundred years after his death,
Smith argues that the dehumanization Tolstoy still inspires controversy with his
inherent in captivity has always been at
New in paper the heart of American civil society.
notoriously complex narrative strategies.
This original book explores how and
True Friendship Winner of the 2009 Samuel and Ronnie why Tolstoy has mystified interpret-
Geoffrey Hill, Anthony Hecht, and Heyman Prize for Outstanding Scholarly ers and offers a new look at his most
Robert Lowell Under the Sign of Publication or Research, sponsored by the famous works of fiction.
Yale College Dean’s Office
Eliot and Pound Russian Literature and Thought Series
Paper available in April 2011 Paper 2011 304 pp.
Christopher Ricks Yale Studies in English ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15384-2 $45.00
True Friendship looks closely at three Paper 2011 272 pp. 4 b/w illus.
outstanding poets of the past half- ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17149-5 $25.00
century—Geoffrey Hill, Anthony Hecht, Cloth 2009 272 pp. 4 b/w illus. New in paper
and Robert Lowell—through the lens of ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14166-5 $40.00
their relation to their two predecessors in Yale French Studies,
genius, T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound.
New Number 118/119
Paper available in April 2011 Noeuds de memoire: Multi-
The Anthony Hecht Lectures in the
Humanities Series
Sacred Realism directional Memory in Postwar
Paper 2011 272 pp. Religion and the Imagination in French and Francophone Culture
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17146-4 $18.00 Modern Spanish Narrative Michael Rothberg, Debarati
Cloth 2010 272 pp. Noël Valis
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13429-2 $28.00
Sanyal, and Max Silverman,
In this bold and compelling book, Special Editors
leading Spanish literature scholar Noël This volume focuses on postwar
Valis re-examines Catholicism’s role in approaches to the past, the nature of
the modern Spanish novel from the late collective memory, and issues of cultural
eighteenth to mid-twentieth century. memory in a transnational age.
Cloth 2010 368 pp. 10 scattered b/w illus. Yale French Studies Series
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15234-0 $65.00 Paper 2010 248 pp.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11885-8 $30.00

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Modernism Biography & Memoir

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Above the Battlefield Modernism Gulag Voices
Modernism and the Peace Michael Levenson An Anthology
Movement in Britain, 1900–1918 Edited by Anne Applebaum
In this wide-ranging and original
Grace Brockington account of Modernism, Michael Pulitzer Prize–winning author Anne
The early twentieth century is usually Levenson presents a new understand- Applebaum brings together a unique
remembered as an era of rising nation- ing of the movement, the surrounding collection of Gulag survivors’ memoirs.
alism and military hostility, culminating culture, and the relationship between
Annals of Communism Series
in the disaster of the First World War. individual artists and the audiences that
Cloth 2011 224 pp.
Yet it was marked also by a vigorous both supported and opposed them. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15320-0 $25.00
campaign against war, a movement that Available in June 2011
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Gustav Mahler Antony and Cleopatra My Happiness Bears No
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Stuart Feder In this remarkable dual biography of the A Poet’s Life in the Palestinian
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Gustav Mahler, Stuart Feder explores historian Adrian Goldsworthy goes Adina Hoffman
the ways in which the composer chan- beyond myth and romance to create a
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his greatest musical works. The book is of his subjects, set against the political internationally renowned Palestinian
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My Faraway One
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Who Was Jacques Adam Smith The Dance
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Faulkner and Love
A Life The Women Who Shaped His Art
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Charles Dickens Galileo Tennant
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Robert Schumann Just Words Whispering City
Life and Death of a Musician Lillian Hellman, Mary McCarthy, Rome and Its Histories
John Worthen and the Failure of Public R. J. B. Bosworth
Conversation in America
Having scoured original sources to In this one-of-a-kind book, historian
uncover the truth of Robert Schumann’s Alan Ackerman Richard Bosworth draws upon his
life, John Worthen now offers the first Focusing on Lillian Hellman’s infamous expertise in Italian pasts to explore the
reliable portrait of the enigmatic com- 1980 libel suit against Mary McCarthy many layers of history found within the
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who composed some of the best music seems beyond our reach.
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by YBP Library Services; Selected as a ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16712-2 $35.00
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newspapers, reports, novels, and films,
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Boyhoods Atlas of the Fruitlands
Rethinking Masculinities Transatlantic Slave The Alcott Family and Their Search
Ken Corbett for Utopia
Trade Richard Francis
This groundbreaking reexamination of
male development shows masculinity David Eltis and David Richardson This is the first definitive account of Fruit-
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The Emergence of the British Bite the Hand That
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Letters from America American Georgics
Writings on Farming, Culture, and
Alexis de Tocqueville the Land
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Edited by Edwin C. Hagenstein,
Introduction by Frederick Brown When London Was Sara M. Gregg, and Brian Donahue
This book presents for the first time the
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Capital of America A rich and evocative collection of agrarian
of Tocqueville on his first journey to Julie Flavell writing from the past two centuries, reflect-
America in 1831. These remarkable let- ing how shifting views on agriculture have
Julie M. Flavell re-creates the famous city’s shaped American society, from the first
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The Encyclopedia of Butterfly’s Sisters An Empire of Ice
New York City The Geisha in Western Culture Scott, Shackleton, and the Heroic
Second Edition Yoko Kawaguchi Age of Antarctic Science
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book, Yoko Kawaguchi explores the Published to coincide with the centenary
“Don’t live in New York City without Western portrayal of Japanese women of the first expeditions to reach the
it, visit New York without it, or even —and geishas in particular—from South Pole, An Empire of Ice presents a
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Apple will never taste the same once
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you’ve feasted here. Ken Jackson has
New in a larger scientific, social, and geopo-
made a monumental contribution to
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the endless story of the brash, beguiling,
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appreciation of the explorers’ achieve-
America’s imagination and destiny.” Picturing the Saints
ments, shares little-known stories, and
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This revised edition includes 800 new This book offers a powerful and search- discovery was really about.
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John Lukacs
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he turns his attention to the future.
America New Throughout The Future of History,
Arthur Kaledin The Age of Doubt Lukacs reflects on his discipline,
eloquently arguing that the writing and
Arthur Kaledin’s groundbreaking book Tracing the Roots of Our teaching of history are literary rather
on Alexis de Tocqueville offers an origi- Religious Uncertainty than scientific, comprising knowledge
nal combination of biography, character
study, and wide-ranging analysis of
Christopher Lane that is neither wholly objective nor
subjective. History at its best, he con-
Tocqueville’s Democracy in America, By analyzing the parallel battles over
tends, is personal and participatory.
bringing new light to that classic work. faith and reason in the nineteenth cen-
The author examines the relation tury and ours, scholar Christopher Lane Available in April 2011
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democratic culture and democratic
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Capital Affairs
London and the Making of the
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Frank Mort
An arresting history of sex and politics
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Iphigenia in Forest Hills New in paper
Anatomy of a Murder Trial
Janet Malcolm
The City’s End
Two Centuries of Fantasies, Fears,
“She couldn’t have done it and she must have done it.” This is the and Premonitions of New York’s
enigma at the heart of Janet Malcolm’s riveting new book about a Destruction
murder trial in the insular Bukharan-Jewish community of Forest Hills,
Queens, that captured national attention. The defendant, Mazoltuv Max Page
Borukhova, a beautiful young physician, is accused of hiring an assassin Long before 9/11, visions of the destruc-
to kill her estranged husband, Daniel Malakov, a respected orthodontist, tion of New York City were a part of
in the presence of their four-year old child. The prosecutor calls it an act America’s collective imagination. This
of vengeance: just weeks before Malakov was killed in cold blood, he was book investigates images of the city’s
given custody of Michelle for inexplicable reasons. It is the “Dickensian end in literature and art to understand
ordeal” of Borukhova’s innocent child that drives Malcolm’s inquiry. why the destruction genre has been
With the intellectual and emotional precision for which she is known, popular for two centuries and what it
Malcolm looks at the trial—“a contest between competing narra- tells us about Americans, New Yorkers,
tives”—from every conceivable angle. It is the chasm between our and the city itself.
ideals of justice and the human factors that influence every trial—from Paper 2010 280 pp. 137 b/w + 24 color illus.
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New in paper
Mother of God
A History of the Virgin Mary
New in paper New
Miri Rubin
The Master and His The Words of Others This sweeping, global history explores
Emissary From Quotations to Culture how the Virgin Mary, scarcely men-
The Divided Brain and the Gary Saul Morson tioned in the Gospels, rose to become
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culture. quotations, while exploring the “verbal
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one of the best books of 2009 in history collected and displayed—commonplace
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General Humanities

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Black Gotham Library Behind Closed Doors
A Family History of African Architects and Their Books At Home in Georgian England
Americans in Nineteenth-Century Edited by Jo Steffens Amanda Vickery
New York City Featuring an essay by Walter “If until now the Georgian home has
Carla L. Peterson Benjamin been like a monochrome engraving,
“Carla Peterson travels the well known What does a library say about the mind Vickery has made it three dimensional
streets of Lower Manhattan and of its owner? How do books map the and vibrantly colored. Behind Closed
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history of New York’s black elite in the and personalities of their readers? What academic work can also be nosy, gossipy,
nineteenth century. That the book arose does the collecting of books have in and utterly engaging.”—Andrea Wulf,
from her research into her own family common with the practice of architec- New York Times Book Review
history reminds us that in all of our ture? Unpacking My Library provides an In this brilliant new work, Amanda
families lies the story of this country.” intimate look at the personal libraries of Vickery unlocks the homes of Georgian
—Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Harvard twelve of the world’s leading architects, England to examine the lives of the
University alongside conversations about the people who lived there. Writing with her
significance of books to their careers customary wit and verve, she introduces
Black Gotham is a fascinating look at and lives.
a little-known segment of American us to men and women from all walks of
history: African-American elites in New Selected for the 2009 Holiday Gift life: gentlewoman Anne Dormer in her
York City in the nineteenth century, Guide, Kenneth Baker, The San Francisco stately Oxfordshire mansion, bachelor
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The Shameful Peace Boredom
How French Artists and A Lively History
Intellectuals Survived the Nazi New
Occupation Peter Toohey
In the first book to argue for the benefits
Doonesbury and the
Frederic Spotts
Now in paperback, this “carefully, and
of boredom, Peter Toohey dispels the Art of G.B. Trudeau
myth that it’s simply a childish emotion
authoritatively written” history offers a or an existential malaise like Jean-Paul
Brian Walker
vivid account of how France’s artistic Sartre’s nausea. He shows how boredom Best known for his wry and incisive
leaders coped under the crushing is, in fact, one of our most common takes on American life and politics,
German presence in occupied France. and constructive emotions and is an Garry Trudeau is among the world’s
Enriched with anecdotes about the art- essential part of the human experience. most widely read cartoonists. Trudeau
ists, composers, writers, filmmakers, and This informative and entertaining began shaping Doonesbury as an under-
actors who lived through the experience, investigation of boredom spans more graduate contributor to the Yale Daily
the book “lifts the lid on one of the least than 3,000 years of history and takes News in 1968. Today, the strip is syn-
known—and most shameful—episodes readers through fascinating neurological dicated to a daily readership of nearly
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and the ways that Trudeau’s iconic style
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Icons of America

Icons of America is a series of short works written by leading scholars, critics, and writers, each of whom tells a new and innovative
story about American history and culture through the lens of a single iconic individual, event, object, or cultural phenomenon.

New New in paper New in paper


The Hollywood Sign Andy Warhol Frankly, My Dear
Fantasy and Reality of an Arthur C. Danto Gone with the Wind Revisited
American Icon Molly Haskell
An elegant and masterful portrait of
Leo Braudy Andy Warhol’s life, character, and lasting In this lively exploration of Gone with
Hollywood’s famous sign, constructed influence. the Wind, feminist film critic Molly
of massive white block letters set into Selected one of the “Best Art and Haskell traces the complexities of both
a steep hillside, is an emblem of the Photography Books” of 2009, Rachel the book and movie, and shows why
movie capital it looms over and an in- Wolff, The Daily Beast Rhett and Scarlett’s saga is still riveting,
ternational symbol of glamour and star more than seventy years after Margaret
Paper 2010 192 pp. 6 b/w illus. Mitchell created it.
power. Leo Braudy traces the remark- ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16908-9 $16.00
able history of this distinctly American Cloth 2009 192 pp.  6 b/w illus. Chosen as an Outstanding Academic Title
landmark, which has been saved over ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13555-8 $24.00 for 2009 by Choice Magazine
the years by a disparate group of fans
and supporters. Mixing social history, Paper 2010 272 pp. 15 b/w illus.
urban studies, literature, and film, along ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16437-4 $15.00
with forays into such topics as the lure
New in paper Cloth 2009 272 pp. 15 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11752-3 $24.00
of Hollywood for utopian communities
and the development of domestic archi-
Our Hero
Superman on Earth
tecture in Los Angeles, The Hollywood
Sign is a fascinating account of how Tom De Haven New
a temporary structure has become a
permanent icon of American culture.
From the author of It’s Superman!, an Bob Dylan
exuberant and original exploration of Like a Complete Unknown
Available in March 2011 what America’s most iconic comic book
Cloth 2011 224 pp. 17 b/w illus. hero tells us about our dreams, fears, David Yaffe
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15660-7 $24.00 and our national identity. Literary scholar and music critic David
Paper available in May 2011 Yaffe offers an appreciative yet incisive
Paper 2011 240 pp. 13 b/w illus. look at the different facets of Bob
New ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17124-2 $16.00 Dylan’s life, half-century career, and
Cloth 2010 240 pp.  13 b/w illus. cultural impact, published to coincide
Joe DiMaggio ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11817-9 $24.00 with the singer’s seventieth birthday.
The Long Vigil Available in May 2011
Jerome Charyn Cloth 2011 208 pp. 4 b/w illus.
New in paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12457-6 $24.00
As the New York Yankees’ star center-
fielder from 1936 to 1951, Joe DiMaggio No Such Thing as
is enshrined in America’s memory as the
epitome in sports of grace, dignity, and Silence
that ineffable quality called “class.” But John Cage’s 4’33”
his career after retirement, starting with Kyle Gann
his nine-month marriage to Marilyn
Monroe, was far less auspicious. Writers A vibrant portrait of the importance,
like Gay Talese and Richard Ben Cramer impact, and enduring influence of Cage’s
have painted the private DiMaggio as iconic “silent” composition 4’33” by a
cruel or self-centered. Now, Jerome leading modern music critic Kyle Gann.
Charyn restores the image of this Paper 2010 272 pp. 14 b/w illus.
American icon, looking at DiMaggio’s ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17129-7 $16.00
life in a more sympathetic light. Cloth 2010 272 pp.  14 b/w illus.
Available in March 2011 ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13699-9 $24.00
Cloth 2011 192 pp.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12328-9 $24.00

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Theater & Film

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À la rencontre du Theater of the Avant- Uncloseting Drama
cinéma français Garde, 1950-2000 American Modernism and Queer
Analyse, genre, histoire A Critical Anthology Performance
R.-J. Berg Edited by Robert Knopf and Nick Salvato
Julia Listengarten Why would major modernist writers
À la rencontre du cinéma français:
in the early twentieth century turn to
analyse, genre, histoire is intended to This critical anthology assembles an in- “closet drama”—plays written not for
serve as the core textbook in a wide va- ternational selection of influential avant- public presentation but for private
riety of upper-level undergraduate and garde plays from the second half of the reading? How did this nearly forgotten
graduate French cinema courses. twentieth century and is supplemented by mode spark the imaginations of figures
Paper 2010 336 pp. 26 b/w illus. essays by major theater practitioners. as diverse but affiliated as Ezra Pound,
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15871-7 $80.00 Paper 2011 576 pp. Gertrude Stein, Djuna Barnes, and
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13423-0 $27.00 Louis Zukofsky? In this elegant study,
Nick Salvato argues that the collective
New in paper modernist renewal of the closet drama
Theater of the Avant- constituted a queer investment in the
Lidless Garde, 1890-1950 mode’s rich potential for ambiguity
Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig and deviance. Through a series of close
A Critical Anthology readings, he shows that these writers
Foreword by David Hare
Edited by Bert Cardullo and revived the closet drama in order both
The third winner of the Yale Drama to resist the increasing codification of
Series competition for emerging play-
Robert Knopf
sexual identities in a new era of sexual
wrights—a haunting and provocative This wide-ranging critical anthology of sciences and to reject the conventions
imagining of the reunion, years later, of avant-garde drama includes full texts of of the stage.
a Guantánamo detainee and the female sixteen important and daring plays, each
interrogator who tortured him. accompanied by a historical-critical Yale Studies in English
Paper 2010 240 pp.
Yale Drama Series
introduction and an essay that illumi-
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15539-6 $40.00
Paper 2010 96 pp. nates dramatic and aesthetic issues the
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16030-7 $18.00 play raises.
Cloth 2010 96 pp.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16942-3 $35.00
Paper 2001 546 pp. Alice Guy Blaché
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-08526-6 $27.00 Cinema Pioneer
Cloth 2001 546 pp.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-08525-9 $60.00 Edited by Joan Simon, With
Hollywood Westerns contributions by Jane Gaines,
Alison McMahan, Charles
and American Myth New in paper Musser, Kim Tomadjoglou, and
Robert B. Pippin Alan Williams
The American Play
In this pathbreaking book one of 1787-2000 A celebration of the achievements of
America’s most distinguished philoso- Blaché, bringing to light a critical new
phers brilliantly explores the status and Marc Robinson mass of her film oeuvre and reassert-
authority of law and the nature of politi- Critic Marc Robinson brings his unique ing her prominence as a pioneer in
cal allegiance through close readings of perspective to the history of American filmmaking.
three classic Hollywood Westerns: How- drama and theater, closely examining
ard Hawks’ Red River and John Ford’s Winner of the 2010 Independent
plays both celebrated and obscure and Publisher Book Award Silver Medal in the
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and offering an array of new insights. Performing Arts National Category, given
The Searchers.
Winner of the 2009 George Jean Nathan by Independent Publisher Online
Castle Lectures Series Award for Dramatic Criticism; Winner Published in association with the Whitney
Cloth 2010 208 pp. 52 b/w + 14 color illus. of the Theatre Library Association’s 2010 Museum of American Art
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14577-9 $35.00 George Freedley Special Jury Prize Cloth 2009 168 pp. 59 b/w + 10 color illus.
Paper 2010 416 pp. 20 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15250-0 $40.00
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17004-7 $28.00
Cloth 2009 416 pp. 20 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11649-6 $45.00

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Music & Dance

New in paper New New


The Oboe French Opera Music for Silenced
Geoffrey Burgess and A Short History Voices
Bruce D. Haynes Vincent Giroud Shostakovich and His Fifteen
In this book two distinguished oboist- This book provides a full, single- Quartets
musicologists discuss how and why the volume account of opera in France Wendy Lesser
oboe evolved, what music was written for from its origins to the present day.
it, and which players were prominent. Vincent Giroud looks at the leading Most previous books about Dmitri
composers, from Lully to Messiaen and Shostakovich have focused on either
Yale Musical Instrument Series his symphonies and operas, or his
Paper 2010 432 pp. 45 b/w + 20 color illus. beyond; at the development of French
operatic form and style; at perfor- relationship to the regime under
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-10053-2 $29.00 which he lived, or both, since these
Cloth 2004 432 pp. 45 b/w + 20 color illus. mance, performers, and audience; and
at the impact of French opera beyond large-scale works were the ones that
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-09317-9 $40.00
France’s borders. attracted the interest and sometimes
the condemnation of the Soviet
Cloth 2010 352 pp. 24 b/w illus. authorities. Music for Silenced Voices
New in paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11765-3 $40.00 looks at Shostakovich through the
A Windfall of Musicians back door, as it were, of his fifteen
quartets, the works which his widow
Hitler’s Émigres and Exiles in New characterized as a “diary, the story of
Southern California his soul.” The silences and the voices
Dorothy Lamb Crawford Sound and Space in were of many kinds, including the
This book tells the stories of the immigrant Renaissance Venice political silencing of adventurous
writers, artists, and musicians dur-
musicians who profoundly influenced the Architecture, Music, Acoustics
ing the Stalin era; the lost voices of
film industry, the music institutions of LA, Deborah Howard and Shostakovich’s operas (a form he
and the next generation of American musi- Laura Moretti abandoned just before turning to
cal leaders. string quartets); and the death-
This book explores the direct relation-
Winner of the 2010 Deems Taylor Award: the ship between architectural design and silenced voices of his close friends,
Nicolas Slonimsky Award for Biography in sacred music in Renaissance Venice. to whom he dedicated many of these
Music, given by the American Society of chamber works.
Composers, Authors & Publishers Received honorable mention for the
2009 PROSE Award in Music and Available in March 2011
Paper available in April 2011 Cloth 2011 368 pp. 1 b/w illus.
Performing Arts, presented by The
Paper 2011 336 pp. 27 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16933-1 $28.00
Professional and Scholarly Publishing
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17123-5 $23.00 Division of the AAP
Cloth 2009 336 pp.  27 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12734-8 $35.00 Cloth 2010 256 pp. 100 b/w + 20 color illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14874-9 $55.00
New
Mozart and the Nazis
New in paper How the Third Reich Abused
New a Cultural Icon
Guitar Heroes
Legendary Craftsmen from Italy to Stravinsky’s Ballets Erik Levi
New York Charles M. Joseph This thought-provoking book is the
Jayson Kerr Dobney This majestic volume analyzes all of first to explore how the Nazi regime
Stravinsky’s ballet pieces—from his appropriated Mozart as a cultural and
A fascinating look at modern archtop gui- political icon, shamelessly distorting
tars and their place in the history of Italian brilliant The Firebird through his later,
genre-crossing pieces—and explores his humanitarian views to further
and Italian-American stringed instrument fascist goals.
making. how this revolutionary composer
changed the definition of music made Cloth 2010 336 pp. 16 b/w illus.
Available in February 2011 for dance. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12306-7 $40.00
Published in association with The Metropolitan
Museum of Art Available in April 2011
Paper 2011 48 pp. 80 color illus. Yale Music Masterworks
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16980-5 $14.95 Cloth 2011 320 pp. 11 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11872-8 $40.00

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Music & Dance

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The Most Musical Tenor George Gershwin
Nation History of a Voice Larry Starr
Jews and Culture in the Late John Potter In this welcome addition to the immensely
Russian Empire This lively book is the first to explore popular Yale Broadway Masters series,
James Loeffler the history of the tenor voice from Larry Starr focuses fresh attention on
the sixteenth century to the pres- George Gershwin’s Broadway contribu-
Drawing on a mass of unpublished ent, shining the spotlight on such tions and examines their centrality to the
writings and archival sources from extraordinary performers as Enrico composer’s entire career. Starr presents
prerevolutionary Russian conservatories, Caruso, Richard Tauber, Mario Lanza, Gershwin as a composer with a unified
this book offers an insightful account of Roberto Alagna, Ian Bostridge, musical vision—a vision developed on
the Jewish search for a modern identity in Andrea Bocelli, Il Divo, and, of Broadway and used as a source of strength
Russia through music, rather than politics course, Pavarotti, Domingo, and in his well-known concert music. In
or religion. Carreras. Admirers of the tenor turn, Gershwin’s concert-hall experience
Cloth 2010 288 pp. 26 b/w illus. voice will especially appreciate the enriched and strengthened his musicals,
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13713-2 $55.00 book’s unique reference section, with leading eventually to his great “Broad-
bibliographical and discographical/ way opera,” Porgy and Bess. Through the
video information on several hundred prism of three major shows—Lady Be
New tenors. Good (1924), Of Thee I Sing (1931), and
Porgy and Bess (1935)—Starr highlights
Paper 2010 320 pp. 12 b/w illus.
Shostakovich’s ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16893-8 $24.00
Gershwin’s distinctive contributions to
the evolution of the Broadway musical. In
Preludes and Fugues Cloth 2009 306 pp.  12 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11873-5 $35.00 addition, the author considers Gershwin’s
Contexts, Style, Performance musical language, his compositions for
Mark Mazullo the concert hall, and his movie scores for
Hollywood in the light of his Broadway
This the first book-length study of New experience.
Shostakovich’s Twenty-Four Preludes
and Fugues for piano, Opus 87. Mark Music and Sentiment Yale Broadway Masters Series
Cloth 2010 216 pp.
Mazullo explains the cultural context in Charles Rosen 19 b/w photos, 24 music examples, scattered
which Shostakovich composed and offers
How does a work of music stir the ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11184-2 $45.00
individual commentaries on each of the
senses, creating feelings of joy, sad-
Preludes and Fugues.
ness, elation, or nostalgia? Though
Cloth 2010 304 pp. 94 music ex., 2 illus. sentiment and emotion play a vital New in paper
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14943-2 $60.00 role in the composition, performance,
and appreciation of music, rarely have Ballet’s Magic Kingdom
these elements been fully observed. In Selected Writings on Dance in
New this succinct and penetrating book, Russia, 1911–1925
Charles Rosen draws upon more
The Christian West than a half century as a performer Akim Volynsky
Translated, Edited, and with an
and Its Singers and critic to reveal how composers
from Bach to Berg have used sound to Introduction and Notes by
The First Thousand Years represent and communicate emotion Stanley J. Rabinowitz
Christopher Page in mystifyingly beautiful ways. This translation of the influential writings
A renowned scholar and musician Cloth 2010 160 pp. of the brilliant and feisty Akim Volynsky,
presents a new and innovative exploration Music examples throughout Russia’s great ballet authority of the early
of the beginnings of Western musical art. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12640-2 $24.00 twentieth century, offers a treasure trove of
Christopher Page places the history of the new information about the St. Petersburg
singers who performed this music against ballet and its major personalities as well
the social, political and economic life of a as unique insights into the theory and
Western Europe slowly being remade after practice of classical dance.
the collapse of Roman power. Paper 2010 352 pp. 24 b/w illus. in gallery
Cloth 2010 400 pp. 50 b/w + 12 color illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16449-7 $23.00
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11257-3 $45.00

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Rethinking the Western Tradition Philosophy

New in paper New in paper New


Selected Writings Leviathan Exploring Happiness
Jeremy Bentham Or The Matter, Forme, & Power of From Aristotle to Brain Science
Edited by Stephen G. Engelmann a Common-Wealth Ecclesiasticall Sissela Bok
and Civill
Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832), phi- From the acclaimed author of Lying, a
losopher and reformer, is one of the Thomas Hobbes brilliant exploration of happiness set in
most influential thinkers of the modern Edited and with an Introduction by the context of the world’s great philoso-
age. This introduction to his writings Ian Shapiro phers, leaders, writers, and artists.
presents a representative selection of
“One of the greatest works of political Cloth 2010 224 pp.
texts authoritatively restored by the ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13929-7 $24.00
Bentham Project, University College theory ever written. . . . An ingenious
London. As well as more familiar pieces, account of the modern state and its
highlights include the succinct essay intellectual foundations. . . . [Editor Ian]
“On Retrenchment” and a never-before- Shapiro has done well here and found New
some shrewd commentators.”—Jeffrey
published treatise on sex. The volume is
completed by major interpretative essays Collins, Wall Street Journal Islam, Science, and the
by Mark Canuel, David Lieberman, This new edition of Leviathan, which Challenge of History
Jennifer Pitts, and Philip Schofield. uses modern text and relies on large- Ahmad Dallal
Rethinking the Western Tradition sheet copies from the 1651 Head ver-
sion, includes interpretive essays by four In this wide-ranging and masterful
Paper 2011 560 pp.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11237-5 $20.00 leading Hobbes scholars: John Dunn, work, Ahmad Dallal examines the
David Dyzenhaus, Elisabeth Ellis, and significance of scientific knowledge and
Bryan Garsten. Taken together with Ian situates the culture of science in rela-
Shapiro’s wide-ranging introduction, tion to other cultural forces in Muslim
The Genteel Tradition they provide fresh and varied interpreta- societies.
in American tions of Leviathan for our time. The Terry Lectures Series
Cloth 2010 256 pp. 2 line
Philosophy and Rethinking the Western Tradition
Paper 2010 608 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15911-0 $27.50
Character and ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11838-4 $16.00

Opinion in the United New


States The Federalist Papers Genetics of Original
George Santayana Alexander Hamilton, James
Edited and with an Introduction Madison, and John Jay Sin
by James Seaton; With Essays by Edited and with an Introduction by The Impact of Natural Selection
Wilfred M. McClay, John Lachs, Ian Shapiro on the Future of Humanity
James Seaton, and Roger Kimball This authoritative edition of the com- Christian de Duve
This book brings together two classic plete texts of the Federalist Papers, the With Neil Patterson
texts of American cultural criticism and Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the Foreword by Edward O. Wilson
philosophy by George Santayana, one of Articles of Confederation is accompa- A Nobel Prize-winning scientist consid-
the most significant philosophers of the nied by essays in which leading scholars ers how and why the unprecedented
twentieth century. provide historical context and thematic success of the human species on Earth
background. now threatens the future of the planet,
Rethinking the Western Tradition
Paper 2009 240 pp. Rethinking the Western Tradition and he offers original ideas for changing
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11665-6 $16.00 Paper 2009 608 pp. our destructive behaviors.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11890-2 $20.00
An Editions Odile Jacob Book
Cloth 2010 256 pp. 20 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16507-4 $26.00

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Philosophy

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Why Marx Was Right Heidegger Giving Voice to Values
Terry Eagleton The Introduction of Nazism into How to Speak Your Mind When You
Philosophy in Light of the Unpub- Know What’s Right
In this combative, controversial book,
lished Seminars of 1933–1935 Mary C. Gentile
Terry Eagleton takes issue with the
prejudice that Marxism is dead and Emmanuel Faye An innovative approach to standing up for
done with. Translated by Michael B. Smith; your values in the workplace—inspired
Available in April 2011 Foreword by Tom Rockmore by a popular program from the Aspen
Cloth 2011 272 pp. Emmanuel Faye draws on previously Institute.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16943-0 $25.00 unavailable materials to paint a damn- Cloth 2010 320 pp.
ing picture of Nazism’s influence on the ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16118-2 $26.00
philosopher’s thought and politics.
New in paper Bronze medal winner of the 2009 Book of
On Evil the Year Award in the Philosophy category, New
presented by ForeWord magazine
Terry Eagleton Paper available in May 2011
Kabbalah in Italy,
In this witty, accessible study, the Paper 2011 464 pp. 5 b/w illus. 1280–1510
prominent Marxist thinker Terry ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17207-2 $27.50 A Survey
Eagleton launches a surprising defense Cloth 2009 464 pp.  5 b/w illus.
of the reality of evil, drawing on literary, ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12086-8 $40.00 Moshe Idel
theological, and psychoanalytic sources This sweeping survey of the history of
to suggest that evil is a real phenomenon Kabbalah in Italy represents a major con-
with palpable force in our contemporary New in paper tribution from one of the world’s foremost
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Author Index
Ackerman, 13 Eagleton, 23 Kaddour, 5 Robinson,
Adonis, 3 Echevarría, 2 Kaledin, 15 Marilynne, 25
Alison, 13 Eltis & Kavanagh, 23 Rosen, 21
Allport, 13 Richardson, 14 Kawaguchi, 15 Rowland, 8
Applebaum, 9 Fairlie, 14 Kemal, 3 Rubin, 16
Barnett, 9 Faye, 23 Kiely, 15 Saba, 4
Bentham, 22 Feder, 10 Knopf & Salvato, 19
Bercovitch, 7 Feiner, 12 Listengarten, 19 Santayana, 22
Berg, 19 Felstiner, 5 Kurlansky, 12 Scholes &
Firmat, 2 Lane, 15 Wulfman, 9
Blair, 6
Fischer, 10 Larson, 15 Schwartz &
Bloom, 7 Schwartz, 11
Bok, 22 Flavell, 14 Larson, 5
Selzer, 11
Bosworth, 13 Francis, 14 Leibniz, 24
Sensibar, 11
Bradley & Friedman, 14 Lesser, 20
Simon, 19
DuBois, 5 Gann, 18 Levenson, 9
Slater, 12
Bradley, 7 Gary, 3 Levi, 20
Smith, N., 11
Braudy, 18 Gautier, 3 Loeffler, 21
Smith, B., 25
Brockington, 9 Gelernter, 23 Loseff, 10
Smith, C., 8
Brown, 13 Gentile, 23 Lukacs, 15
Sonnevi, 4
Brunner, 13 Giroud, 20 Malcolm, 16
Spotts, 17
Burgess & Glatstein, 2 Manguel, 6
Haynes, 20 Starr, 21
Goldsworthy, 10 Marinkovic, 4
Can Xue, 4 Steffens, 17
Goncharov, 2 May, 24
Cardullo & Stein, 2
Gottlieb, 12 Mazullo, 21
Knopf, 19 Tallis, 24
Greenough, 10 McGilchrist, 16
Carmichael, 7 Tanguay, 24
Grossman, 4 Mikics, 8, 11
Charyn, 18 Toohey, 17
Grudin, 23 Mohanty, 24
Chen, 5 Turner, 25
Hagège, 4 Morson, 16
Clarke, 6 Valis, 8
Hagenstein, 14 Mort, 16
Cook, 9 Vickery, 17
Hamilton, Nichols, 11
Corbett, 14 Madison & Jay, 22 Vico, 25
Page, 16
Cowan, 14 Haskell, 18 Volynsky, 21
Page, 21
Cowhig, 19 Hill, G., 5 Walker, 17
Parini, 5
Crawford, 20 Hill, C., 7 Waller, 12
Pells, 9
Crystal, 4 Hilmes, 10 Webb, 8
Peterson, 17
Dallal, 22 Hobbes, 22 Weir, 8
Pettegree, 6
Danto, 18 Hoffman, 10 Weitzman, 12
Phillipson, 11
Dauber, 7 Holden, 10 Wiesel, 25
Pippin, 19
De Duve, 22 Hopkinson, 6 Willes, 6
Potter, 21
De Haven, 18 Howard & Wilson, 25
Purdy, 24
De Rojas, 3 Moretti, 20 Wootton, 12
Rahe, 24
De Tocqueville, 14 Idel, 23 Worthen, 13
Rapaport, 11
De Vega, 3 Jackson, 15 Yaffe, 18
Reyes, 2
Dibbell, 2 Johnson, 2 Yale French Studies, 8
Ricks, 8
Dobney, 20 Joseph, 20 Zaretsky & Scott, 25
Robinson,
Douglas, 7 Josipovici, 9 Marc, 19 Zipperstein, 13

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The Margellos World Republic General Humanities...................13-17
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