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Biomythography Bayou
Mel Michelle Lewis
“This innovative and tender manuscript is an absolute pleasure to read. Sensually southern, fem(me)ininely curving, and rhythmically grounded, Biomythography Bayou is an everyday praise song to black queer spirit and the landscapes that raise us.” —Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley, author of Ezili’s Mirrors: Imagining Black Queer Genders

The Joyce of Everyday Life
Vicki Mahaffey
“A brilliant, lively guide to the joys of reading Joyce for intellectual stimulation and personal growth. With characteristic verve and lucidity, Mahaffey reminds us how Joyce’s words make us come alive to life and language as we glimpse ourselves in his nicely polished mirrors. Both new and veteran readers will benefit from Mahaffey’s deep, witty engagements with Joyce’s fictions.” —Robert Spoo, author of Modernism and the Law

The Last Judgment of Kings/Le Jugement dernier des rois
A Bilingual Edition
By Sylvain Maréchal (1750-1803)
Edited and translated by Yann Robert
“This innovative and erudite edition restores Maréchal’s astonishing and wildly comic play to a rightful place of prominence while breaking new ground with a new, student-led collective translation. . . . A brilliant example of how scholarship can align with the teaching of the French Revolution’s endlessly fascinating theater.” —Annelle Curulla, author of Gender and Religious Life in French Revolutionary Drama

British Romanticism and Prison Reform
By Jonas Cope
“Jonas Cope’s critically acute and splendidly revelatory study traces—through a wealth of interrelated philosophical, religious, legal, literary, visual, and theoretical sources—the complex course of Romantic-era British penal reform: its origins, evolution, and afterlives in post-Romantic public culture. A must-read.” —Stephen Behrendt, author of British Women Poets and the Romantic Writing Community
Events
- Saturday, 1 March 2025
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Women's History Month (March 1-31)
Saturday, 1 March 2025
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- Tuesday, 11 March 2025
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Black California Gold, by Wendy M. Thompson
Tuesday, 11 March 2025
In this arresting debut poetry collection, Thompson traces the past and present of California’s Bay Area, exploring themes of family, migration, girlhood, and identity against a backdrop of urban redevelopment, advanced gentrification, and the erasure of Black communities. Read more.
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- Tuesday, 1 April 2025
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National Poetry Month (April 1-30)
Tuesday, 1 April 2025
Each year the month of April is set aside as National Poetry Month, a time to celebrate poets and their craft. Various events are held throughout the month by the Academy of American Poets and other poetry organizations.
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- Tuesday, 15 April 2025
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Charles Johnson's "General History of the Pyrates" and Global Commerce, by Noel Chevalier
Tuesday, 15 April 2025
This study explores how General History of the Pyrates was at the heart of early eighteenth-century British debates about commerce, colonialism, and law. Examining how pirates are depicted as both monsters and Great Men, Noel Chevalier untangles the contradictions within a Britain emerging as a colonial superpower, where ruthlessness and ambition were both feared and praised. Read more.
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Revisiting Richardson, edited by Rebecca Anne Barr and Bonnie Latimer
Tuesday, 15 April 2025
In these lively and engaging essays, contributors examine historically overlooked works, provide new readings of Richardson's best-known novels Pamela and Clarissa, and stake a serious claim for the importance of his final novel, Sir Charles Grandison. Diverse, inventive, and provocative, these essays demonstrate the complexity, relevance, and surprising legacies of Richardson’s novels and characters—finding traces in post-conceptual poetry, detective fiction, and in the fantasies of historical romance. Read more.
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