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The Joyce of Everyday Lifeby Vicki Mahaffey “A persuasive case that [Joyce’s] writing is best embraced in a spirit of lively amusement. . . . [Mahaffey] has produced in The Joyce of Everyday Life an innovative new lens through which to view Ireland’s most iconic literary export anew.” —The Irish Times, August 23, 2025

The Joyce of Everyday Life by Vicki Mahaffey “In The Joyce of Everyday Life, Mahaffey puts Joyce's entire oeuvre through a prism; she takes the words and images into which Joyce has packed so much meaning and holds that prism up to them, allowing the separate colors and layers of meaning to unfold and become apparent to her readers. In other words, her book is doing through explicating w...

Jane Austen and Comedy Edited by Erin M. Goss “The collection argues that [Austen’s] writings not only provoke laughter (sometimes in unsettling ways) but also encourage readers to think deeply about the social, political, and psychological purposes of comedy, and why certain styles of humor give us pleasure. This approach illustrates Austen’s mastery as a comedic writer and invites read...

Families of the Heart: Surrogate Relations in the Eighteenth-Century British Novel By Ann Campbell “Ann Campbell’s monograph offers a thorough and clear argument about the plot device of the surrogate family in the eighteenth-century British novel, focusing on works that feature female protagonists and are concerned with themes of courtship and marriage.” —Eighteenth-Century Fiction, ...

Alimentary Orientalism: Britain’s Literary Imagination and the Edible East by Yin Yuan “Alimentary Orientalism persuasively demonstrates how edible commodities in literary texts facilitate a self-reflexive Orientalism. The book would be a fascinating read for anyone working on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literature and culture, particularly scholars interested in Orientali...

British Literature and Technology, 1600-1830 Edited by Kristin M. Girten and Aaron R. Hanlon “British Literature and Technology, 1600–1830 has much to offer readers interested in the social history of technology and in literature and science studies more broadly.” —Journal of British Studies, April 2024

Women and Music in the Age of Austen Edited by Linda Zionkowski with Miriam Hart “Extends far beyond Jane Austen in well-presented, insightful essays. . . . Highly recommended.” —CHOICE, April 2025

Dante in Deutschland: An Itinerary of Romantic Myth by Daniel DiMassa “In his well-organized, broadly researched, and engagingly written study, Daniel DiMassa traces the modern German reception of Dante and his Divine Comedy from Goethe’s initially negative judgments—well in line with the prevailing attitude towards Dante in the Enlightenment—to Thomas Mann’s critique of the mythologizin...

Nature Fantasies: Decolonization and Biopolitics in Latin America by Gabriel Horowitz “ . . . very sharp, provocative and sophisticated [approach] to nature and literature that open[s] the way to future ecocritical and environmental humanities studies . . . ” —Ímpetu, June 2024

The Joyce of Everyday Life by Vicki Mahaffey “[C]onfident, cohesive, and successful. . . . a refreshingly new perspective that has much to offer. . . . Highly recommended.” —CHOICE, February 2025

The Last Judgment of Kings / Le Jugement dernier des rois: A Bilingual Edition edited and translated by Yann Robert "This is a great pedagogical enterprise. . . . It is important to provide this curious piece to anglophone readers, helping us all understand the mindset of the French public during the Revolution of 1789. . . . I would recommend this book to whomever intends to motivate st...

The Aesthetics of Kinship: Form and Family in the Long Eighteenth Century by Heidi Schlipphacke “[A]n incisive rethinking of a widely naturalized construction of the bourgeois nuclear family and its representation in the long eighteenth century.” —Lessing Yearbook/Jahrbuch, 2024