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| Aaron, Daniel |
Cincinnati: Queen City of the West, 1819–1838 |
| Adams, Elsie B. |
Bernard
Shaw and the Aesthetes |
| Alexander, Edward |
Matthew Arnold, John Ruskin, and the Modern Temper |
| Alexander, Edward |
The Resonance of Dust: Essays on Holocaust Literature and Jewish Fate |
| Allen, Judson Boyce and Theresa Anne Moritz |
A Distinction of Stories: The Medieval Unity of Chaucer’s
Fair Chain of Narratives for Canterbury |
| Altick, Richard D. |
Paintings from Books: Art and Literature in Britain, 1760–1900 |
| Altman, Janet Gurkin |
Epistolarity: Approaches to a Form |
| Ansell, Martin R. |
Oil Baron of the Southwest: Edward L. Doheny and the Development of the Petroleum Industry in California and Mexico |
| Antczak, Frederick J., ed. |
Rhetoric & Pluralism: Legacies of Wayne Booth |
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| Babb, Howard S. |
Jane Austen’s Novels: The Fabric of Dialogue |
| Babb, Howard S. |
The Novels of William Golding |
| Baldwin, Peter C. |
Domesticating the Street: The Reform of Public Space in Hartford, 1850–1930 |
| Barnes, James J. |
Authors, Publishers and Politicians: The Quest for an Anglo–American Copyright Agreement 1815–1854 |
| Bassan, Maurice |
Hawthorne’s Son: The Life and Literary Career of Julian Hawthorne |
| Beaty, Jerome |
Misreading Jane Eyre: A Postformalist Paradigm |
| Beja, Morris and Shari Benstock, eds. |
Coping with
Joyce: Essays from the Copenhagen Symposium |
| Beja, Morris, S. E. Gontarski, and Pierre
Astier, eds. |
Samuel
Beckett: Humanistic Perspectives |
| Beja, Morris and David Norris, eds. |
Joyce in the
Hibernian Metropolis: Essays |
| Blackford, Mansel G. |
The Lost Dream: Businessmen and City Planning on the
Pacific Coast, 1890–1920 |
| Bluefarb, Sam |
The
Escape Motif in the American Novel: Mark Twain to Richard Wright |
| Bock, Martin |
Crossing the Shadow–Line: The Literature of Estrangement |
| Borowitz, Albert |
The Woman Who Murdered Black Satin: The Bermondsey Horror |
| Bowden, Edwin T. |
James Thurber: A Bibliography |
| Boyer, Paul |
Fallout: A Historian Reflects on America’s Half-Century Encounter with Nuclear Weapons |
| Bradley, John Lewis |
The
Letters of John Ruskin to Lord and Lady Mount-Temple |
| Brenner, Gerry |
Concealments in Hemingway’s Works |
| Bright, Michael |
Cities
Built to Music: Aesthetic Theories of the Victorian Gothic Revival |
| Brophy, James M. |
Cities
Capitalism, Politics, and Railroads in Prussia, 1830–1870 |
| Brown, William Hill |
The Power of Sympathy |
| Bruccoli, Matthew J. |
The Profession of Authorship in America, 1800–1870: The Papers of William Charvat |
| Bulatkin, Eleanor Webster |
Structural Arithmetic Metaphor in the Oxford “Roland” |
| Burgess, Patricia |
Planning for the Private Interest: Land Use Controls and Residential
Patterns in Columbus, Ohio, 1900–1970 |
| Burkman, Katherine H. |
The
Dramatic World of Harold Pinter: Its Basis in Ritual |
| Burns, E. Jane |
Arthurian Fictions: Rereading the Vulgate Cycle |
| Burwick, Frederick, ed. |
Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria: Text and Meaning |
| Byrd, Richard E. |
To the Pole: The Diary and Notebook of Richard E. Byrd,
1925–1927. Edited by Raimund E. Goerler. |
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| Caley, Earle R. and John C. Richards |
Theophrastus on Stones: A Modern Edition with Greek Text, Translation, Introduction and Commentary |
| Carrington, George C., Jr. |
The Dramatic Unity of Huckleberry Finn |
| Castaneda, Christopher James |
Regulated Enterprise: Natural Gas Pipelines and
Northeastern Markets, 1938–1954 |
| Church, Margaret |
Structure and Theme: “Don Quixote” to James Joyce |
| Clubbe, John |
Froude’s Life of Carlyle |
| Cohen, Jane R. |
Charles
Dickens and His Original Illustrators |
| Colby, Robert A. |
Thackeray’s Canvass of Humanity: An Author and His Public |
| Contosta, David R. |
Suburb in the City: Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia,
1850–1990 |
| Couch, Nena, ed. |
Sidney Kingsley: Five Prizewinning Plays |
| Cox, Lee Sheridan |
Figurative Design in Hamlet: The Significance of the Dumb Show |
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| Davidson, Hugh M. |
Audience, Words, and Art: Studies in Seventeenth–Century French Rhetoric |
| DeJean, Joan |
Libertine Strategies: Freedom and the Novel in Seventeenth-Century
France |
| DeVries, Raymond G. |
Making Midwives Legal: Childbirth, Medicine, and the Law |
| Dintenfass, Michael |
Managing Industrial Decline: The British Coal Industry between the Wars |
| Dussinger, John A. |
In the Pride of the Moment: Encounters in Jane Austen’s World |
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| Ellis, Madeleine B. |
Rousseau’s Socratic Aemilian Myths: A Literary Collation of Emile and the Social Contract |
| England, Martha Winburn |
Garrick’s Jubilee |
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| Feldenkirchen, Wilfried |
Werner von Siemens: Inventor and International Entrepreneur |
| Fortin, Roger |
Faith and Action: A History of the Catholic Archdiocese
of Cincinnati, 1821–1996 |
| Francis, Wayne L. |
The Legislative Committee: A Comparative Analysis of Fifty States |
| Friedricks, William B. |
Henry E. Huntington and the Creation of Southern California |
| Fulgentius |
The Mythographer |
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| Gaines, James F. |
Social Structures in Molière’s Theater |
| Good, Howard E. |
Black Swamp Farm |
| Graham, Peter W., ed. |
Byron’s Bulldog: The Letters of John Cam Hobhouse to Lord Byron |
| Gregory, Timothy E. |
Vox Populi:
Violence and Popular Involvement in the Religious Controversies of the
Fifth Century A.D. |
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| Hahn, Peter L. and Mary Ann Heiss, eds. |
Empire and
Revolution: The United States and the Third World since 1945 |
| Hamilton, Donna B. |
Virgil and The Tempest: The Politics of Imitation |
| Harland, Catherine R. |
Mark Rutherford: The Mind and Art of William Hale White |
| Hannoosh, Michele |
Parody and Decadence: Laforgue’s Moralités légendaires |
| Henke, Suzette A. |
Joyce’s Moraculous Sindbook: A Study of Ulysses |
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| Holmes, Urban T. and Kenneth R. Scholberg, eds. |
French and Provençal Lexicography: Essays Presented to Honor Alexander Herman Schutz |
| Horowitz, Louise K. |
Love and Language: A Study of the Classical French Moralist Writers |
| Hughey, Ruth, ed. |
The Arundel Harington Manuscript of Tudor Poetry: Volume I |
| Hughey, Ruth, ed. |
The Arundel Harington Manuscript of Tudor Poetry: Volume II |
| Hussey, Mark |
The Singing of the Real World: The Philosophy of Virginia Woolf’s Fiction |
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| Ikeler, A. Abbott |
Puritan Temper and Transcendental Faith: Carlyle’s Literary Vision |
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| Jacobs, Gregory S. |
Getting Around Brown: Desegregation, Development, and the Columbus Public
Schools |
| Jackson, Susan K. |
Rousseau’s Occasional Autobiographies |
| Jann, Rosemary |
The Art and Science
of Victorian History |
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| Klein, Joanne |
Making Pictures: The Pinter Screenplays |
| Knerr, Douglas |
Eagle-Picher Industries: Strategies for Survival in the
Industrial Marketplace, 1840–1980 |
| Kolb, Jack, ed. |
The Letters
of Arthur Henry Hallam |
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| Ligibel, Ted and Richard Wright |
Island Heritage: A Guided Tour to Lake Erie’s Bass Islands |
| Linn, John Gaywood |
The Theater in the Fiction of Marcel Proust |
| Lynch, Joseph H. |
Simoniacal Entry into Religious Life from 1000 to 1260 |
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| Marcus, Jane |
Art & Anger: Reading Like a Woman |
| Malina, Debra |
Breaking the Frame: Metalepsis and the Construction of the Subject |
| Mandelker, Amy |
Framing Anna Karenina: Tolstoy, the Woman Question, and
the Victorian Novel |
| Maresca, Thomas E. |
Epic to Novel |
| Maresca, Thomas E. |
Pope’s Horatian Poems |
| Markels, Julian |
The Pillar of the World: Antony and Cleopatra in Shakespeare’s Development |
| Miller, Zane L. and Bruce Tucker |
Changing Plans for America’s Inner Cities: Cincinnati’s Over-the-Rhine and
Twentieth-Century Urbanism |
| Mitchell, Robert L., ed. |
Pre–Text/Text/Context |
| Moore, Olin H. |
The Legend
of Romeo and Juliet |
| Morford, Mark, ed. |
The Endless Fountain: Essays on Classical Humanism |
| Morris, Wesley |
Friday’s Footprint: Structuralism and the Articulated Text |
| Morton, Marian J. |
And Sin No More:
Social Policy and Unwed Mothers in Cleveland 1855–1990 |
| Murphy, Paul Thomas |
Toward a Working-Class Canon: Literary Criticism in British Working-Class
Periodicals, 1816–1858 |
| Murphy, Thomas Patrick |
The Holy
War |
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| Nelson, Daniel |
A Mental Revolution:
Scientific Management since Taylor |
| Nelson, Robert |
Immanence and Transcendence: The Theater of Jean Rotrou (1609–1650) |
| Nelson, Roy Jay |
Causality and Narrative in French Fiction from Zola to Robbe–Grillet |
| Newcomb, Mildred |
The Imagined World of Charles Dickens |
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| Parmalee, Patty Lee |
Brecht’s America |
| Patterson, Samuel C. and Anthony Mughan, eds. |
Senates: Bicameralism in the Contemporary World |
| Pearce, Richard |
The Novel in Motion: An Approach to Modern Fiction |
| Pearce, Roy Harvey, ed. |
Hawthorne Centenary Essays |
| Pepicello, W. J. and Thomas A. Green |
The Language of Riddles: New Perspectives |
| Petter, Henri |
The Early American Novel |
| Phelan, James |
Narrative as Rhetoric: Technique, Audiences, Ethics,
Ideology |
| Phelan, James |
Reading
People, Reading Plots: Character, Progression, and the Interpretation of
Narrative |
| Phelan, James and Peter J. Rabinowitz, eds. |
Understanding Narrative |
| Pierce, Robert B. |
Shakespeare’s History Plays:
The Family and the State |
| Postlethwaite, Diana |
Making It Whole: A Victorian Circle and the Shape of Their World |
| Pryse, Marjorie |
The Mark and the Knowledge: Social Stigma in Classic American Fiction |
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| Rabinowitz, Peter J. |
Before Reading: Narrative Conventions and the Politics of Interpretation |
| Richter, David H. |
The
Progress of Romance: Literary Historiography and the Gothic Novel |
| Rifelj, Carol de Dobay |
Word and Figure: The Language of Nineteenth–Century French Poetry |
| Rimmon-Kenan, Shlomith |
A Glance Beyond Doubt: Narration, Representation, Subjectivity |
| Rothenberg, Karen H. and Elizabeth J.
Thomson, eds. |
Women and Prenatal Testing: Facing the Challenges of Genetic Technology |
| Rubin, David Lee and Mary B. McKinley, eds. |
Convergences: Rhetoric and Poetic in Seventeenth–Century France |
| Rubin, David Lee |
The Knot of Artifice: A Poetic of the French Lyric in the Early 17th Century |
| Runyon, Randolph |
Fowles/Irving/Barthes: Canonical Variations on an Apocryphal Theme |
| Runyon, Randolph Paul |
The Taciturn Text: The Fiction of Robert Penn Warren |
| Russell, J. Stephen |
The
English Dream Vision: Anatomy of a Form |
| Ryals, Clyde de L. |
Becoming Browning: The Poems and Plays of Robert Browning, 1833–1846 |
| Ryals, Clyde de L. |
A World of Possibilities: Romantic Irony in Victorian Literature |
| Rimmon-Kenan, Shlomith |
A Glance Beyond Doubt: Narration, Representation, Subjectivity |
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| Scheuermann, Mona |
Social Protest in the Eighteenth-Century English Novel |
| Schrader, Richard J., ed. |
The Reminiscences of Alexander Dyce |
| Schur, Owen |
Victorian Pastoral: Tennyson, Hardy, and the Subversion of Forms |
| Schwartz, Ira M. and William H. Barton, eds. |
Reforming Juvenile Detention: No More Hidden Closets |
| Schwartz, Joel |
The New York Approach: Robert Moses, Urban Liberals,
and Redevelopment of the Inner City |
| Scott, Frederick J. Down, ed. |
William James: Selected Unpublished Correspondence 1885–1910 |
| Sears, Alfred Byron |
Thomas Worthington: Father of Ohio Statehood |
| Shankman, Lillian |
Anne Thackeray Ritchie
Journals and Letters |
| Sellstrom, A. Donald |
Corneille, Tasso and Modern Poetics |
| Senior, Matthew |
In the Grip of
Minos: Confessional Discourse in Dante, Corneille, and Racine |
| Showalter, English |
Exiles and Strangers: A Reading of Camus’s Exile and the Kingdom |
| Siegchrist, Mark |
Rough in Brutal Print: The Legal Sources of Browning’s Red Cotton Night–Cap Country |
| Sklute, Larry |
Virtue of Necessity: Inconclusiveness and Narrative Form in Chaucer’s Poetry |
| Slatoff, Walter J. |
The Look of Distance: Reflections on Suffering and Sympathy in Modern
Literature—Auden to Agee, Whitman to Woolf |
| Smith, Frederik N. |
Language and Reality in Swift’s A Tale of a Tub |
| Soellner, Rolf |
Shakespeare’s
Patterns of Self-Knowledge |
| Soellner, Rolf |
Timon of
Athens:
Shakespeare’s Pessimistic Tragedy |
| Sorokin, Boris |
Tolstoy in Prerevolutionary Russian Criticism |
| Spann, Edward K. |
Hopedale: From Commune to
Company Town, 1840–1920 |
| Spierenburg, Pieter, ed. |
Men
and Violence: Gender, Honor, and Rituals in Modern Europe and America |
| Spinrad, Phoebe S. |
The
Summons of Death on the Medieval and Renaissance English Stage |
| Stein, Allen F. |
After the Vows Were Spoken: Marriage in American Literary Realism |
| Sullivan, Richard E., ed. |
“The Gentle Voices of Teachers”: Aspects of Learning in the Carolingian Age |
| Sultan, Stanley |
The Argument of Ulysses |
| Sussman, Herbert L. |
Fact Into Figure: Typology in Carlyle, Ruskin, and the Pre–Raphaelite Brotherhood |
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| Thompson, Gregory Lee |
The Passenger Train in the Motor Age: California’s Rail
and Bus Industries, 1910–1941 |
| Tittle, Diana |
Rebuilding Cleveland: The Cleveland Foundation and Its Evolving Urban
Strategy |
| Toliver, Harold |
Lyric Provinces in the English Renaissance |
| Tucker, Lindsey |
Stephen and Bloom At Life’s Feast: Alimentary Symbolism and the Creative Process in James Joyce’s “Ulysses” |
| Tyson, Lois |
Psychological Politics of the American Dream: The Commodification of
Subjectivity in Twentieth-Century American Literature |
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| Utley, Francis Lee |
The Foreward Movement of the Fourteenth Century |
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| Vanden Bossche, Chris R. |
Carlyle and the Search for Authority |
| Vrooman, David M. |
Daniel
Willard and Progressive Management on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad |
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| Waller, John O. |
A Circle of Friends: The Tennysons and the Lushingtons of Park House |
| Warhol, Robyn R. |
Gendered Interventions: Narrative Discourse in the Victorian Novel |
| Weber, Sarah Appleton |
Theology
and Poetry in the Middle English Lyric: A Study of Sacred History and
Aesthetic Form |
| Wetsel, David |
L’Ecriture et le Reste: The Pensées of Pascal in the Exegetical Tradition of Port-Royal |
| Wiles, R. M. |
Freshest
Advices: Early Provincial Newspapers in England |
| Williams, Charles G.S. |
Literature and History in the Age of Ideas: Essays on the French Enlightenment Presented to George R. Havens |
| Williams, Marilyn Thornton |
Washing “The Great
Unwashed”: Public Baths in Urban America, 1840–1920 |
| Wilson, John Harold |
Court
Satires of the Restoration |
| Wilson, John Harold |
The Ordeal of Mr. Pepys’s Clerk |
| Wolf, Mary Ellen |
Eros Under Glass: Psychoanalysis and Mallarmé’s “Hérodiade” |
| Wooodward, Kathleen |
At Last, The Real Distinguished Thing: The Late Poems of Eliot, Pound, Stevens, and Williams |