Recent Publications
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January 2008: AMS Studies in Modern Society, No. 25
PSYCHOLOGY IN THE TRENCHES Stories, Strategies, and Outcomes By John A. Corson
Psychology in the Trenches develops many of the ideas about personality that Dr. Corson discussed in Stress, Self-Concept, and Violence (AMS,
1989). While still considering his subject through an analysis of the case histories of violent people . . .
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December 2007
STUDIES IN MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE HISTORY
Third Series, Volume IV
Edited by Roger Dahood and Peter E. Medine
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December 2007: AMS Studies in the Nineteenth Century, No. 38
READING COOPER, TEACHING COOPER Edited by Jeffrey Walker
Reading Cooper, Teaching Cooper doffers the expertise and experience of many scholar-teachers committed to promoting a shared understanding of the author and his contributions to our literary culture and to our national identity. These essays furnish the teacher and student of American culture with the reasons—and the methods—to read, to understand, and to teach Cooper. . . .
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December 2007
RESOURCES FOR AMERICAN LITERARY STUDY
Volume 31
Editors Jackson R. Bryer and Richard Kopley
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December 2007
THE AGE OF JOHNSON A Scholarly Annual
Volume 18
Edited by Jack Lynch Special Issue: Korshin Memorial Essay
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December 2007
SYMBOLISM An International Annual of Critical Aesthetics
Volume 7
Edited by Rüdiger Ahrens and Klaus Stierstorfer Special Section: Cinema, Symbolism, and the Contemporary Subject Corresponding Editor: Roy Boyne
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December 2007
READINGS ON EQUAL EDUCATION Confronting Educational Inequality: Reframing, Building Understanding, and Making Change
Volume 22
Volume Editor and Series Editor Edward P. St. John
Managing Editor Phyllis Kreger Stillman
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December 2007: AMS Studies in the Renaissance, No. 42
MYSTICAL METAL OF GOLD Essays on Alchemy and Renaissance Culture Edited by Stanton J. Linden
Continuing strong interest in alchemy and hermeticism in many academic fields is reflected in the growing number of scholarly books and articles, specialized journals, colloquia and conferences, and university-level courses and seminars devoted to these and related subjects. Furthermore, as a visit to virtually any bookshop reveals, there exists a large—and perhaps steadily increasing—popular and semi-popular market for these works. Two related characteristics . . .
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December 2007
SPENSER STUDIES
A Renaissance Poetry Annual Volume XXII
Guest Editors: David Galbraith and Theresa Krier Editors: William A. Oram, Anne Lake Prescott, and Thomas P. Roche, Jr.
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November 2007: AMS Studies in Modern Literature, No. 26
EZRA POUND AND THE MAKING OF MODERNISM By William Pratt
“It gradually became clearer to me, as I studied his vast and complex work, that Pound was the mastermind of Modernism.” So argues William Pratt in his new critical study Ezra Pound and the Making of Modernism. The 10 essays in this collection firmly locate Pound at the center of a second great international Renaissance . . .
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November 2007
DANCE
Current Selected Research
Volume 6
Edited by Lynnette Y. Overby and Billie Lepczyk
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October 2007: AMS Studies in the Eighteenth Century, No. 51
THE ORIGINAL AND INSTITUTION OF CIVIL GOVERNMENT, DISCUSS'D
By Benjamin Hoadly Edited by William Gibson
Written in 1710 as a response to Tory High Church attempts to revive extreme monarchical theories of government, Benjamin Hoadly’s Original and Institution of Civil Government, Discuss'd advanced ideas of political authority that later made it a founding text for the American republic. A Low Church Whig and Anglican clergyman, Hoadly . . .
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October 2007
DICKENS STUDIES ANNUAL
Essays on Victorian Fiction
Volume 38
Edited by Stanley Friedman, Edward Guiliano, Anne Humpherys, Michael Timko, and Talia Schaffer
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October 2007
1650–1850
Ideas, Æsthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era
Volume 14
Edited by Kevin L. Cope
Special Feature: “Jacobite Travelers and Fellow-Travelers”
Edited by Anne Barbeau Gardiner
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September 2007
EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY THOUGHT
Volume 3
Editor: James G. Buickerood
Special Feature: “John Locke Through the Centuries: Assessing the Lockean Legacy, 1704–2004.” Papers from the October 2004 conference at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
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September 2007: AMS Studies in the Eighteenth Century, No. 54
THE ORDERS OF GOTHIC
Foucault, Lacan, and the Subject of Gothic Writing 1764–1820 By Dale Townshend
The Orders of Gothic discusses a selection of Gothic romances, dramas, and chapbooks written and published in Britain between Walpole’s 1764 The Castle of Otranto and Maturin’s Melmoth the Wanderer of 1820. It is only in its chronological boundaries that this study is conventional . . .
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