Racial Virtuality: Information Capitalism and the Suggestive Materiality of Asianness
Danielle Wong New York University Press 2026 Racial Virtuality contends that racialization not only occurs through representation in media, but also through our very interactions with media technologies and their unseen operations. The racialization of Asians, who appeared to embody the model minority success story in the first decade of social media, is now implicated more […]
Hobomok: A Tale of Early Times
Tiffany Potter (ed.) Broadview Press 2026 Hobomok, a Tale of Early Times launched the career of one of nineteenth-century America’s most influential writers and activists. Set during the first years of Puritan settlement, Lydia Maria Child’s debut novel centers the experiences of women under the strain of transatlantic migration, dramatizes the religious disputes that roiled the […]
Nationalism and Royal Women in Early Modern England: The Queen’s Gambit
Elizabeth Hodgson and Sarah L. Crover Palgrave Macmillan 2026 This book encounters the figure of the royal woman in the early modern period and explores how she enables and complicates the key moment at which England was emerging as an ideology, a nation, and an empire. Queens and queens consort, historical and fictional, played crucial […]
Canadian Literatures in English: Texts and Contexts
Cynthia Sugars and Laura Moss Ontario: Broadview Press 2025 Canadian Literatures in English, Texts and Contexts reflects the editors’ commitment to historical contextualization, cultural inclusion, and a nuanced understanding of critical debates over the long literary history of what is now Canada. The second edition has been updated throughout to include recent scholarship and fresh […]
Brutal Fantasies
Christine Kim Durham: Duke University Press 2025 In Brutal Fantasies, Christine Kim examines how Western cultural representations of North Korea depend on fantasies of the inhuman. Drawing on films, fiction, and defectors’ life writings from the last two decades, Kim analyzes how these representations construct North Korea as a site of brutality and inhumanity. She […]
Facsimile: Making, Likeness, and Medieval Manuscripts
Siân Echard Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press 2025 Facsimiles are, or claim to be, exact copies of objects, and medieval manuscripts have long been a focus for this kind of reproduction. Today, digitization delivers complete, high-resolution, full-color digital copies of thousands of medieval manuscripts to anyone with an internet connection. But for centuries, scholars in […]
Österreichisches Deutsch: eine 300-jährige Liebesgeschichte
Stefan Dollinger, Anneliese Rieger-Roschitz, and Simon Schwaighofer New Academic Press 2025 Dieses beschwingt und pointiert geschriebene Buch beschreibt die 300-jährige Romanze der Österreicher mit „ihrem“ Standarddeutsch. Das österreichische Hochdeutsch, so das Argument, ist der passende Standard für Österreich, der leider andernorts nicht immer als solcher gesehen wird. Der Bogen wird gespannt, oft überspitzt illustriert, von […]
The Language of Memes: Patterns of Meaning Emergence Across Image and Text
Barbara Dancygier and Lieven Vandelanotte Cambridge University Press 2025 Internet memes have been studied widely for their role in establishing and maintaining social relationships, and shaping public opinion, online. However, they are also a prominent and fast evolving multimodal genre, one which calls for an in-depth linguistic analysis. This book, the first of its kind, […]
Our Fire Survives the Storm: A Cherokee Literary History, Citizenship and Sovereignty Edition
Daniel Heath Justice University of Minnesota Press 2025 The twentieth-anniversary edition of the path-clearing study of Cherokee writing in English, with an emphatic refocus on voices from the three Cherokee tribal nations. This Citizenship and Sovereignty Edition of Our Fire Survives the Storm is a thoroughly updated, nationhood-focused, twentieth-anniversary revision of Daniel Heath Justice’s influential study of […]
Mediatic Shakespeare: The Dynamics of Orality, Script, and Print in the Plays and Poems
Richard Cavell University of Toronto Press 2025 Shakespeare produced his works during a media shift that was unmatched – until our own. Mediatic Shakespeare by media theorist Richard Cavell examines how Shakespeare’s writing engaged with the cultural upheaval of an era shifting rapidly from spoken traditions towards print materials. Cavell argues that print was an active […]