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The Greek Tragedies
Enchanted Wales
Character
Way Makers
J.-K. Huysmans
The Eerie Book
Last Writings of Antonin Artaud
Watchfiends and Rack Screams
Books, Readers and Libraries in Fiction
Spectral Spain
The Folklore of Wales
Chasing the Pearl-Manuscript
Writing for Dark Times
The Chicago Canon on Free Inquiry and Expression
The On the Excellence and Nobility of Women
Into the Wastelands
Paper Jane
Selected Essays and Dialogues by Gianni Celati
Reading Together
The Huxleys
Madness and Enterprise
An Artificial History of Natural Intelligence
Restoration Women’s Drama
Writing Your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks, Second Edition
The Perilous Deep
Mazaltob
Inventing Stereotype
The Kinds of Poetry I Want
At the Crossroads of the Scientific Revolution
Language and the Rise of the Algorithm
The Safe House
Unsound Siblings
The Craft of Research, Fifth Edition
The Chicago Guide to Fact-Checking, Second Edition
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Mapping Post-War Italian Literature
James the Minimalist
Financial Gothic
The Science of Character
Black Scare / Red Scare
The Teaching Archive
On Both Sides of the Tracks
The Likeness of Things Unlike
Shakespeare’s Once and Future Child
The Complete Notebooks
Travels in the Americas
Novel Ecologies
Waiting for Robots
Verified
Of Spaces and Ideas
Horror and Comics
Something Speaks to Me
British Comics
Vietnam Documented
Dickens’s Kent
A Defense of Judgment
Black Paper
In Defense of Women
Amazing Worlds of Science Fiction and Science Fact
Gothic Metis
Is There God after Prince?
The Killing Age
Bookish Words & Their Surprising Stories
Horror in Classical Literature
The Wretch, Otherwise Known as Guerrino
Losing the Plot
Joy of the Worm
The Sprites of Kernosy Castle
Feminisms
Classics and Race
Elizabeth Gunning: The Foresters
Life Death
Perjury and Pardon, Volume I
Perjury and Pardon, Volume II
Theory and Practice
The Last Amateur
The Female Vampire in Hispanic Literature
Dickens: The Funny Bits
Hockey on the Moon
Care and Conservation of Manuscripts 17
Care and Conservation of Manuscripts 18
Scripta Minora
Shakespeare and the Senses
Radium of the Word
The Sound of Thinking
Perverse Attachments
Rhetorical Renaissance
New Technologies and Renaissance Studies IV
D. H. Lawrence
In Poe’s Wake
Paraliterary
Theatricality Beyond Disciplines
The Past, Present, and Future of Early Modern Digital Studies
Globalising Welsh Studies
Grievance
Hooked
The Limits of Critique
Ancient Weeds
Like Andy Warhol
Maladies of the Will
Technologies for the Revolution
Speaking the Truth about Oneself
"What Is Critique?" and "The Culture of the Self"
The Business of Being a Writer, Second Edition
To Live Is to Resist
Great Writers and the Cats who Owned Them
Imagination and Innovation in Medieval Celtic Literatures
Cartesian Poetics
Looking After Your Books
Multimodal Comics
Emergency
Finding Duende
Mindprints
Apocalyptic Ecologies
The World in a Phrase
Getting It Published, Fourth Edition
On Revision
The Great Derangement
The Nutmeg’s Curse
Wild Fictions
The Bard in the Borderlands
Dylan Thomas
British Working-Class and Radical Writing Since 1700
Glorious Bodies
Gabriel Harvey and the History of Reading
Eleanor of Aquitaine
Cultural Capital
On Close Reading
Professing Criticism
The Great Zoo
Aged by Culture
Agewise
American Eldercide
In the Future of Yesterday
Critical Terms for Religious Studies, Second Edition
Seeking Childhood
Theater after Film
John Donne’s Physics
Bacteria to AI
Action without Hope
Richard Aldington
Thoreau’s God
Textual Magic
Outside Literary Studies
Willing Warriors
How to Read Hegel Now
The Odyssey
Interspatiality
Zora Neale Hurston
C. S. Lewis’s Oxford
When the Yellow River Floods
Chinese Whispers
Alice’s Oxford
The Culture of Neural Networks
Tangled Paths
Slashing Sounds
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots
The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots
Grammar and Poetry in Late Medieval and Early Modern Wales
A First-Class Fool
Mariners, Renegades and Castaways
Throw Yourself Away
Magical Nominalism
Saturnin
End of the World
Writing Juárez
Melville’s Billy Budd at 100
Pragmatics of Democracy
Invented Skins
Ghosts, Trolls and the Hidden People
Domestic Georgic
Kafka Journal
The Book of Minor Perverts
Seeing Baya
States of Plague
The Means of Prediction
Idiomatic Expressions and Grammatical Constructions
Katherine Mansfield
The Librarian’s Atlas
‘Our Little Gang’
Sovereign Fictions
Against Borges
Dion Boucicault
Nature and Medieval Literature
The Dissertation-to-Book Workbook
Last Words
Criticism and Truth
The Superhumanities
Andreas Vesalius
The Last Thing
The Neural Mind
Write Like You Teach
Wittgenstein
The Treadmill Affect
A Certain Justice
Émile Zola
The Burden of Rhyme
Anatomy of a Train Wreck
The Island of Hermaphrodites
The Last Mixtape
The Force of Truth
Underdogs
Marcus Meibom
The Barthes Fantastic
Lu Xun and World Literature
Fictions of God
Letters
On the Communicative Turn in Philosophy
Dramatic Proverbs
Novels by Aliens
Moon Mirrored Indivisible
Serendipity
The Blue Period
Pen Names
My Poetics
Billy Budd, Sailor (An Inside Narrative)
Reasons and Feelings
Shadow Puppets, Songs, and Sacred Feasts
Amphion
Up Against the Real
Lydia Maria Child
Screening the Operatic Stage
With the Face of the Enemy
Brown Skins, White Coats
Where Research Begins
The Gothic at War
Wild-Looking But Fine
On Not Knowing
The New Queer Gothic
Inventing the Renaissance
My Dark Room
Introducing Medieval Animal Names
Queer for Fear
Joyce
The Boke of the Cyte of Ladyes
Christopher Isherwood
Listening to Beauty
From Shakespeare to Autofiction
The Brontës as Gothic Writers
Abandon All Hope
My Excellency
Gothic Precarity
What Did You Hear?
E.T.A. Hoffmann
Kafka
Plantation Goods
Artists as Writers
An Education in Judgment
JOAN
Making and Unmaking Literature in the Warsaw, Lodz, and Vilna Ghettos
Fernando Pessoa
Undertale
Turning Away
A Will for the Machine
Boccaccio
A Grammar of Elfdalian
Syracuse
Working Knowledge
Schechner Plays
Black Knights
Inventor of Britain
The Place of the Symbolic
Reading Hegel
Antony and Cleopatra
Coriolanus
Cymbeline
Love’s Labour’s Lost
Measure for Measure
Twelfth Night
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Sensations
Wisecracks
Criticism Without Authority
Digital Pedagogy in Early Modern Studies
The Art of Living in Avant-Garde Paris
Out of the Mouths of Babes
The Verse and the Language of Old Germanic Poetry
Atlas’s Bones
Slips of the Mind
Antigone
Oedipus the King, Second Edition
The Opinionated University
Bramble
The Space of Latin American Women Modernists
Jane Austen in 41 Objects
Spain’s Eighteenth-Century Periodical Press
Apropos of Something
Done in a Day
Metaracial
The Chicago Manual of Style, 18th Edition
Infinity Pool
Transatlantic Vistas
Memory and Nation
Phenomenal Blackness
The Hebrew Physiologus
On James Baldwin
Matthew Gregory Lewis
Student’s Guide to Writing College Papers, Fifth Edition
Chaucer Here and Now
Write Cut Rewrite
Tradecraft
Realism after the Individual
Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Gothic Melville
In the Shadow of the Magic Mountain
Big Culture
The Prelude
Reading Robert Walser
Beyond Individualism
Strange Likeness
The Aesthetics of the Dramatic Art
Motherhood and Childhood in Silvina Ocampo’s Works