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Contesting Childhood Contesting Childhood
Subtitle: Autobiography, Trauma, and Memory
Author: Kate Douglas
Editions: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: January 2010
Series: Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies

Tillie Olsen Tillie Olsen
Subtitle: One Woman, Many Riddles
Author: Panthea Reid
Edition: Cloth
Publication Date: January 2010

Final Acts Final Acts
Subtitle: Death, Dying, and the Choices We Make
Edited and with an Introduction by: Nan Bauer-Maglin and Donna Perry
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: November 2009

Decoding GenderThe Grand Gennaro The Grand Gennaro
Author: Garibaldi M. Lapolla
Edited and with an introduction by:
Steven Belluscio
Editions: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: August 2009
Series: Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the Americas

Dr. Mary Walker Comedy: American Style
Author: Jessie Redmon Fauset
Edited
and with an Introduction by: Cherene Sherrard-Johnson
Editions: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: October 2009
Series: Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the Americas (MELA)



Dr. Mary Walker
Dr. Mary Walker
Subtitle:
An American Radical, 1831-1919
Edited and with an introduction by: Sharon M. Harris
Editions: Cloth
Publication Date: October 2009

For the Love of God For the Love of God
First Paperback Edition
Subtitle:
The Bible as an Open Book
Author: Alicia Suskin Ostriker
Editions: Paper
Publication Date: March 2009

An American in the Making An American in the Making
Subtitle: The Life Story of an Immigrant
Author: M. E. Ravage
Edited and with an introduction by: Steven G Kellman
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: June 2009
Series: Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the Americas (MELA)

Dedicated to the People of Darfur Dedicated to the People of Darfur
Subtitle: Writings on Fear, Risk, and Hope
Edited and with an Introduction by: Luke Reynolds and Jennifer Reynolds
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: December 2009


After Representation After Representation?
Subtitle: The Holocaust, Literature, and Culture
Edited and with an Introduction by: R. Clifton Spargo and Robert M. Ehrenreich
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: December 2009

Feminisms Redux Feminisms Redux
Subtitle: An Anthology of Literary Theory and Criticism
Edited and with an Introduction by: Robyn Warhol-Down and Diane Price
Editions: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: November 2009

  The Jewish Graphic Novel   The Jewish Graphic Novel
Subtitle: Critical Approaches
Edited and with an Introduction by: Samantha Baskind and Ranen Omer-Sherman
Edition: Cloth
Publication Date: December 2008
 
    Aftermaths
Subtitle: Exile, Migration, and Diaspora Reconsidered
Edited and with an Introduction by: Marcus Bullock and Peter Y. Paik
Editions: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: December 2008
Series: New Directions in International Studies
 

Blooming Through the Ashes
Subtitle: An International Anthology on Violence and the Human Spirit
Edited and with an introduction by: Clifford Chanin and Aili McConnon
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: February 2008

    Zora Neale Hurston
Subtitle: Collected Plays
Edited and with an introduction by: Jean Lee Cole and Charles Mitchell
Edition: Paper/Cloth

Publication Date: June 2008
Series: Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the Americas

Horrors of Slavery
The Physiology of New York Boarding-Houses
Author: Thomas Butler Gunn
Edited and with an introduction by David Faflik
Editions: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: December 2008

BookMarks BookMarks
First Paperback Edition
Subtitle: Reading in Black and White, a Memoir
Author: Karla FC. Holloway
Edition: Paper
Publication Date: July 2008
 

Hemispheric American Studies
Hemispheric American Studies
Edited and with an introduction by: Caroline F. Levander and Robert S. Levine
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: February 2008



Hemispheric American Studies
The Traffic in Poems
Subtitle: Nineteenth-Century Poetry and Transatlantic Exchange
Edited and with an introduction by: Meredith L. McGill
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: February 2008

I Call to Remembrance The American New Woman Revisited
Subtitle: A Reader, 1894-1930
Edited and with an introduction by: Martha H. Patterson
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: June 2008
 

Visions and Divisions
Visions and Divisions
Subtitle: American Immigration Literature, 1870-1930
Edited and with an introduction by: Tim Prchal and Tony Trigilio
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: February 2008

  Horrors of Slavery   Horrors of Slavery
Subtitle: Or, The American Tars in Tripoli
Author: William Ray
Edited and with an introduction by Hester Blum
Editions: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: November 2008
Series: Subterranean Lives
 
Holy Prayers in a Horse's EarHindu Primary Sources Holy Prayers in a Horse's Ear
Subtitle: A Japanese American Memoir
Author: Kathleen Tamagawa

Edited and with an Introduction by: Greg Robinson, Elena Tajima Creef
Edition: Paper/Cloth

Publication Date: February 2008
Series: Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the Americas
 
Empire and the Literature of Sensation Empire and the Literature of Sensation
Subtitle: An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century Popular Fiction
Edited and with an introduction by: Jesse Alemán and Shelley Streeby
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: September 2007
Series:
Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the Americas (MELA)
The Many Colors of HinduismDaughter of the Revolution Daughter of the Revolution
Subtitle: The Major Nonfiction Works of Pauline E. Hopkins
Author: Pauline Hopkins
Edited and with an Introduction by: Ira Dworkin
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: February, 2007

Series: Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the Americas  
Haunted Life Haunted Life
Subtitle: Visual Culture and Black Modernity
Author: David Marriott
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: March 2007 


  A Long Way from Home   A Long Way from Home
Author: Claude McKay
Edited and with an Introduction by: Gene A. Jarrett
Edition: Paper/Cloth 
Publication Date: February, 2007
Series: Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the Americas
The Writer's Quotebook The Writer's Quotebook
Subtitle: 500 Authors on Creativity, Craft, and the Writing Life
Author: Jim Fisher
Edition: Cloth
Publication Date: August 2006


Frances Hodgson Burnett
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Subtitle: The Unexpected Life of the Author of The Secret Garden
Author: Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: March 2006


The Shadowed Country
The Shadowed Country
Subtitle: Claude McKay and the Romance of the Victorians
Author: Josh Gosciak
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: February 2006
BookMarks BookMarks
Subtitle: Reading in Black and White
Author: Karla FC Holloway
Edition: Cloth
Publication Date: September, 2006

Politics of the Female Body Politics of the Female Body
Subtitle: Postcolonial Women Writers of the Third World
Author: Ketu H. Katrak
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: February 2006


What Democracy Looks Like
What Democracy Looks Like
Subtitle: A New Critical Realism for a Post-Seattle World
Edited and with an introduction by: Amy Schrager Lang, Cecelia Tichi
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: February 2006

The Road
The Road
Author: Jack London
Edited and with an introduction by: Todd DePastino
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: June 2006
Series: Subterranean Lives Series
The Hasheesh Eater The Hasheesh Eater
Subtitle: Being Passages from the Life of a Pythagorean
Author: Fitz Hugh Ludlow
Edited and with an introduction by: Stephen Rachman
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Series: Subterranean Lives Series
Publication Date: July 2006

Chinatown Family Chinatown Family
Author: Lin Yutang
Edited and with an Introduction by: C. Lok Chua
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: November, 2006
Series: Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the Americas


The New Anthology of American Poetry, Vol. 2
The New Anthology of American Poetry, Vol. 2
Subtitle: Modernisms: 1900-1950
Edited and with an introduction by: Steven Gould Axelrod, Camille Roman, Thomas Travisano
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: February 2005


Democratic Discourses
Democratic Discourses
Subtitle: The Radical Abolition Movement and Antebellum American Literature
Author: Michael Bennett
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: June 2005


 "After Mecca"
"After Mecca"
Subtitle: Women Poets and the Black Arts Movement
Author: Cheryl Clarke
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: January 2005

Postcolonialisms Postcolonialisms
Subtitle: An Anthology of Cultural Theory and Criticism
Edited and with an introduction by: Gaurav Desai, Supriya Nair
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: June 2005
Snapshots of Bloomsbury Snapshots of Bloomsbury
Subtitle: The Private Lives of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell
Author: Maggie Humm
Edition: Cloth
Publication Date: December 2005


White Scholars/African American Texts White Scholars/African American Texts
Edited and with an introduction by: Lisa A. Long
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: August 2005


Afterwords Afterwords
Subtitle: Letters on the Death of Virginia Woolf
Author: Sybil Oldfield
Edition: Cloth
Publication Date: February 2005



Sapphic Primitivism
Sapphic Primitivism
Subtitle: Productions of Race, Class, and Sexuality in Key Works of Modern Fiction
Author: Robin Hackett
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: January 2004

Colonial Strangers Colonial Strangers
Subtitle: Women Writing the End of the British Empire
Author: Phyllis Lassner
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: July 2004


Hearts of Darkness Hearts of Darkness
Subtitle: White Women Write Race
Author: Jane Marcus
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: January 2004

Amy Lowell, American Modern Amy Lowell, American Modern
Edited and with an introduction by: Adrienne Munich, Melissa Bradshaw
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: January 2004



Black Women, Identity, and Cultural Theory
Black Women, Identity, and Cultural Theory
Subtitle: (Un)Becoming the Subject
Author: Kevin Everod Quashie
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: January 2004


Ladies' Pages
Ladies' Pages
Subtitle: African American Women's Magazines and the Culture That Made Them
Author: Noliwe M. Rooks
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: July 2004

Inspecting Jews Inspecting Jews
Subtitle: American Jewish Detective Stories
Author: Laurence Roth
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: February 2004


Rewriting White Rewriting White
Subtitle: Race, Class, and Cultural Capital in Nineteenth-Century America
Author: Todd Vogel
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: August 2004

The New Anthology of American Poetry, Vol. 1 The New Anthology of American Poetry, Vol. 1
Subtitle: Volume One: Traditions and Revolutions, Beginnings to 1900
Edited and with an introduction by: Steven Gould Axelrod, Camille Roman, and Thomas Travisano
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: January 2003

Trading Gazes Trading Gazes
Subtitle: Euro-American Women Photographers and Native North Americans, 1880-1940
Author: Susan Bernardin, Melody Graulich, Lisa MacFarlane, Nicole Tonkovich
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: April 2003


Paging New Jersey Paging New Jersey
Subtitle: A Literary Guide to the Garden State
Author: James F. Broderick
Edition: Paper
Publication Date: July 2003


Italian American Writers on New Jersey Italian American Writers on New Jersey
Subtitle: An Anthology of Poetry and Prose
Edited and with an introduction by: Jennifer Gillan, Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Edvige Giunta
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: November 2003



Modernist Women and Visual Cultures
Subtitle: Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell, Photography, and Cinema
Author: Maggie Humm
Edition: Paper
Publication Date: March 2003


The American Child
The American Child
Subtitle: A Cultural Studies Reader
Edited and with an introduction by: Caroline F. Levander, Carol J. Singley
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: October 2003

Witnessing Lynching Witnessing Lynching
Subtitle: American Writers Respond
Edited and with an introduction by: Anne P. Rice
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: October 2003
Modernist Women and Visual CulturesJane Austen Jane Austen
Subtitle: A Companion
Author: Josephine Ross
Edition: Cloth
Publication Date: March 2003



The Collected Writings of Wallace Thurman The Collected Writings of Wallace Thurman
Subtitle: A Harlem Renaissance Reader
Edited and with an introduction by: Amritjit Singh, Daniel M. Scott III
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: October 2003


The American Woman’s Home The American Woman’s Home
Author: Catharine E. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe
Edited and with an introduction by: Edited and with an Introduction by Nicole Tonkovich
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: July 2002


Selected Poems of Amy Lowell Selected Poems of Amy Lowell
Edited and with an introduction by: Melissa Bradshaw and Adrienne Munich
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: October 2002



Girls Who Wore Black
Girls Who Wore Black
Subtitle: Women Writing the Beat Generation
Edited and with an introduction by: Ronna C. Johnson and Nancy M. Grace
Foreword: Ann Charters
Edition: Paper
Publication Date: July 2002



The White African American Body
The White African American Body
Subtitle: A Cultural and Literary Exploration
Author: Charles D. Martin
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: March 2002

  Nineteenth-Century Geographies   Nineteenth-Century Geographies
Subtitle: The Transformation of Space from the Victorian Age to the American Century
Edited and with an Introduction by: Helena Michie, Ronald R. Thomas
Edition: Paper
Publication Date: October 2002


The Freedom to Remember
The Freedom to Remember
Subtitle: Narrative, Slavery, and Gender in Contemporary Black Womens Fiction
Author: Angelyn Mitchell
Edition: Paper
Publication Date: March 2002

  Cartographic Fictions   Cartographic Fictions
Subtitle: Maps, Race, and Identity
Author: Karen Piper
Edition: Paper
Publication Date: June 2002


Traces, Codes, and Clues Traces, Codes, and Clues
Subtitle: Reading Race in Crime Fiction
Author: Maureen T. Reddy
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: November 2002


The Pursuit of Pleasure The Pursuit of Pleasure
Subtitle: Gender, Space and Architecture in Regency London
Author: Jane Rendell
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: February 2002

Images of the Outcast Images of the Outcast
Subtitle: The Urban Poor in the Cries of London
Author: Sean Shesgreen
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Publication Date: November 2002


American Women of Letters and the Nineteenth-Centu American Women of Letters and the Nineteenth-Century
Subtitle: Styles of Affiliation
Author: Nina Baym
Edition: Paper
Publication Date: October 2001



Rare and Commonplace Flowers
Rare and Commonplace Flowers
Subtitle: The Story of Elizabeth Bishop and Lota de Macedo Soares
Author: Carmen L. Oliveira
Translator: Neil K. Besner
Edition: Cloth
Publication Date: December 2001

Double-Take Double-Take
Subtitle: A Revisionist Harlem Renaissance Anthology
Edited and with an introduction by: Venetria K. Patton and Maureen Honey
Edition: Paper
Publication Date: December 2001
Seventeen Syllables ... revised (ISBN: 2953-0) Seventeen Syllables ... revised (ISBN: 2953-0)
Author: Hisaye Yamamoto
Introduction by: King-Kok Cheung
Edition: Paper
Pages: 150 pp.
Publication Date: April 2001


Shakespeare and the Loss of Eden Shakespeare and the Loss of Eden
Subtitle: The Construction of Family Values in Early Modern Culture
Author: Catherine Belsey
Edition: Cloth
Publication Date: February 2000



Recovering the Black Female Body
Recovering the Black Female Body
Subtitle: Self-Representations by African American Women
Edited and with an introduction by: Michael Bennett and Vanessa D. Dickerson
Edition: Paper
Publication Date: December 2000

Jean Toomer and the Harlem Renaissance Jean Toomer and the Harlem Renaissance
Edited and with an introduction by: Genevive Fabre and Michel Feith
Edition: Paper
Publication Date: December 2000



Labor's Text Labor's Text
Subtitle: The Worker in American Fiction
Author: Laura Hapke
Edition: Paper
Publication Date: December 2000


Retrieving Bones Retrieving Bones
Subtitle: Stories and Poems of the Korean War
Edited by: W. D. Ehrhart and Philip K. Jason
Edition: Paperback
Pages: 300 pp., 2 maps
Publication Date: June 1999
The Hidden Hand The Hidden Hand
Subtitle: Or, Capitola the Madcap by E. D. E. N. Southworth
Author: Joanne Dobson
Edition: Paper
Series: American Women Writers Series
Publication Date: May 1998
The Radical Twenties The Radical Twenties
Subtitle: Writing, Politics, and Culture
Author: John Lucas
Edition: Cloth/Paperback
Pages: 272 pp.
Publication Date: December 1998


Alternative Alcott by Louisa May Alcott Alternative Alcott by Louisa May Alcott
Author: Elaine Showalter
Edition: Paper
Series: American Women Writers series
Publication Date: February 1998

Camp Notes and Other Writings Camp Notes and Other Writings
Author: Mitsuye Yamada
Edition: Paper
Pages: 176 pp.
Publication Date: November 1998


Sweat Sweat
Subtitle: Written by Zora Neale Hurston
Author: Cheryl A. Wall
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Series: Women Writers: Texts and Contexts
Publication Date: February 1997


"Everyday Use"
"Everyday Use"
Subtitle: Alice Walker
Author: Barbara T. Christian
Edition: Paper
Publication Date: June 1994
Series: Women Writers: Texts and Contexts
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?
Subtitle: Joyce Carol Oates
Author: Elaine Showalter
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Series: Women Writers: Texts and Contexts
Publication Date: December 1994

"Seventeen Syllables" "Seventeen Syllables"
Author: Hisaye Yamamoto
Edited and with an introduction by: King-Kok Cheung 
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Series: Women Writers: Texts and Contexts
Publication Date: March 1994

A Good Man is Hard to Find A Good Man is Hard to Find
Subtitle: Flannery O'Connor
Author: Frederick Asals
Edition: Paper
Series: Women Writers: Texts and Contexts
Publication Date: July 1993

Flowering Judas Flowering Judas
Subtitle: Katherine Anne Porter
Author: Virginia Spencer Carr
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Series: Women Writers: Texts and Contexts
Publication Date: August 1993

The Sleeper Wakes The Sleeper Wakes
Subtitle: Harlem Renaissance Stories by Women
Edited and with an introduction by: Marcy Knopf
Edition: Paper
Publication Date: April 1993

Selected Letters of Fyodor DostoyevskyDaughters of Decadence Daughters of Decadence
Subtitle: Women Writers of the Fin de Siéclè
Author: Elaine Showalter
Edition: Paper
Publication Date: August 1993
Gail Hamilton Gail Hamilton
Subtitle: Selected Writings, Gail Hamilton
Author: Susan Coultrap-McQuin
Edition: Paper
Series: American Women Writers series
Publication Date: June 1992

The Essential Margaret Fuller by Margaret Fuller The Essential Margaret Fuller by Margaret Fuller
Author: Jeffrey Steele
Edition: Paper
Series: American Women Writers series
Publication Date: June 1992

Moods by Louisa May Alcott Moods by Louisa May Alcott
Author: Sarah Elbert
Edition: Paper
Series: American Women Writers series
Publication Date: January 1991

Tell Me a Riddle Tell Me a Riddle
Subtitle: Tillie Olsen
Author: Deborah Silverton Rosenfelt
Edition: Paper
Series: Women Writers: Texts and Contexts
Publication Date: April 1990

A New Home, Who’ll Follow? by Caroline Kirkland A New Home, Who’ll Follow? by Caroline Kirkland
Author: Sandra A. Zagarell
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Series: American Women Writers series
Publication Date: April 1990

“The Amber Gods” and Other Stories by Harriet Prescott Spofford “The Amber Gods” and Other Stories by Harriet Prescott Spofford
Author: Alfred Bendixen
Edition: Paper
Series: American Women Writers series
Publication Date: May 1989

Shadowed Dreams Shadowed Dreams
Subtitle: Women's Poetry of the Harlem Renaissance
Edited and with an introduction by: Maureen Honey
Edition: Paper
Publication Date: September 1989

Hope Leslie Hope Leslie
Subtitle: Catharine Maria Sedgwick
Author: Mary Kelley
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Series: American Women Writers series
Publication Date: June 1987

How Celia Changed Her Mind and Selected Stories How Celia Changed Her Mind and Selected Stories
Subtitle: Rose Terry Cooke
Author: Elizabeth Ammons
Edition: Paper/Cloth
Series: American Women Writers series
Publication Date: April 1986
Hobomok & Other Writings on Indians by Lydia Maria Child Hobomok & Other Writings on Indians by Lydia Maria Child
Author: Carolyn L. Karcher
Edition: Paper
Series: American Women Writers series
Publication Date: April 1986
"Quicksand" and "Passing" "Quicksand" and "Passing"
Edited and with an introduction by: Deborah E. McDowell
Edition: Paper
Publication Date: April 1986
Series: American Women Writers series
Fanny Fern Fanny Fern
Subtitle: An Independent Woman
Author: Joyce W. Warren
Edition: Paper
Publication Date: June 1986
Ruth Hall and Other Writings by Fanny Fern Ruth Hall and Other Writings by Fanny Fern
Author: Joyce W. Warren
Edition: Paper
Series: American Women Writers series
Publication Date: June 1986
The Story of Avis by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps The Story of Avis by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Author: Carol Farley Kessler
Edition: Paper
Publication Date: June 1985





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