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Forthcoming and Recent Publications in Victorian Studies
Literary Bioethics: Animality, Disability, and the Human
Maren Tova Linett
Uses literature to understand and remake our ethics regarding nonhuman animals, old human beings, disabled human beings, and cloned posthumans
The Unintended: Photography, Property, and the Aesthetics of Racial Capitalism
Monica Huerta
Reimagines photography through the long history of ideas of expression
The Garden Politic: Global Plants and Botanical Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century America
Mary Kuhn
How worldwide plant circulation and new botanical ideas enabled Americans to radically re-envision politics and society
Haiti’s Paper War: Post-Independence Writing, Civil War, and the Making of the Republic, 1804–1954
Chelsea Stieber
Turns to the written record to re-examine the building blocks of a nation
Emergent Worlds: Alternative States in Nineteenth-Century American Culture
Edward Sugden
Reimagines the American 19th century through a sweeping interdisciplinary engagement with oceans, genres, and time
Before Chicano: Citizenship and the Making of Mexican American Manhood, 1848-1959
Alberto Varon
Uncovers the long history of how Latino manhood was integral to the formation of Latino identity
Fugitive Science: Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American Culture
Britt Rusert
Exposes the influential work of a group of black artists to confront and refute scientific racism
The Latino Nineteenth Century
Edited by Rodrigo Lazo and Jesse Alemán
A retelling of U.S., Latin American, and Latino/a literary history through writing by Latinos/as who lived in the United States during the long nineteenth century
Undisciplined: Science, Ethnography, and Personhood in the Americas, 1830-1940
Nihad Farooq
Encourages an alternative consideration of personhood, one that emerges from evolutionary and ethnographic discourse
The Black Radical Tragic: Performance, Aesthetics, and the Unfinished Haitian Revolution
Jeremy Matthew Glick
2017 Nicolás Guillén Outstanding Book Award presented by the Caribbean Philosophical Association
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