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IOWA
where great writing begins
. . . Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

1 These Boys and Their Fathers … Don Waters

2 My Victorians … Robert Clark
3 A House on Stilts … Paula Becker

My Victorians
4 Superhero Thought Experiments … Chris Gavaler and Nathaniel Goldberg
LOST IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

5 The Lines … Anthony Varallo

ROBERT CLARK

6 Not a Thing to Comfort You … Emily Wortman-Wunder

7 Happy Like This … Ashley Wurzbacher
8 Aussie Fans … Celia Lam and Jackie Raphael, editors
9 Queerbaiting and Fandom … Joseph Brennan
10 “This Mighty Convulsion”… Christopher Sten and Tyler Hoffman, editors
11 Star Attractions … Tamar Jeffers McDonald and Lies Lanckman, editors
12 Staging Postcommunism … Vessela S. Warner and Diana Manole, editors
13 Irish on the Move … Michelle Granshaw
14 Poems of the American Empire … Jen Hedler Phillis
15 Contemporary Novelists and the Aesthetics of Twenty-First Century American Life
… Alexandra Kingston-Reese
16 Recently Published
17 General Interest Bestsellers
18 Regional Bestsellers
19 Scholarly Bestsellers
20 Recent Book Honors and Reviews
21 Index by Author
22 Indexes by Title and Subject
23 Desk and Exam Copy Policies
23 Contact Information
24 Ordering Information
25 Sales Representation

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 These Boys and Their Fathers

These
A Memoir
by Don Waters

“Generous, scrupulously honest, and gorgeously original in its

telling, Don Waters’s These Boys and Their Fathers is an absolute
Boys
knockout of a memoir. Waters shape-shifts among genres,
voices, and eras to get at the heart of the matter, which happens
and
to be the hardest human matter of all: how to live at peace with
ourselves and our family, both the family we’re born into and
the family we make for ourselves. This book is one of the wisest,
Their
most searching explorations of an individual life I have ever
encountered, one whose humanity and heart offer universal
appeal.”—Ben Fountain, author, Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk
Fathers
In 2010, Don Waters set out to write a magazine story about D O N W AT E R S
a surfing icon who had known his absentee father. It was an at-
tempt to find a way of connecting to a man he never knew. He
didn’t imagine that the story would become a years-long quest “There is an empty space on the bookshelf
to understand a man who left behind almost nothing except for a where a search for a father belongs, and
self-absorbed autobiography for his abandoned son. Don Waters has written it. As with most
These Boys and Their Fathers touches on Waters’s early life with fathers, it is a story of filling in the gaps,
his single mother—and her string of dysfunctional men—and reliving memories and imagined memories,
his later search for and encounters with his father, but it quickly and heading to the edge of experience and
expands into a gripping account of the life of a 1930s pulp writer, truth. Heartbreaking, ambiguous, funny,
also named Don Waters, with whom Waters becomes obsessed. and wise, These Boys and Their Fathers is
This wildly original book blends memoir, investigative reporting, the book so many of us have been waiting
and fiction to sort out difficult aspects of family, masculinity, and for.”—Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize–
what it means to be a father. winning author, Less

Don Waters is the author of Sunland, a novel, and the two story
collections The Saints of Rattlesnake Mountain and Desert Gothic (Iowa,
2007). He teaches at Lewis & Clark College, and lives in Portland,
Oregon.
“An extraordinarily powerful, moving,
and urgent exploration of the crossroads
between masculinity, paternity, fantasy,
‘truth,’ and howling sadness.”
—David Shields, author, Reality Hunger

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 My Victorians
Lost in the Nineteenth Century
by Robert Clark

“Writing fiction or nonfiction, Robert Clark is always mesmer­

My Victorians
izing. But this small masterwork of historical exploration is
something special, moving deftly from personal obsession LOST IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

to cool historical consideration, never losing the narrative

ROBERT CLARK

beat. My Victorians is passionate, clear-eyed, acute in its analy-

sis. But are these Victorians? Surely he’s shown us ourselves.”
—Patricia Hampl, author, The Art of the Wasted Day

My Victorians is a hybrid in both form and content, part memoir/

extended lyric essay but also a work of biography, photography,
and cultural, literary, and art history. This is a travelogue of writer
Robert Clark’s attempt to work through a sudden and inexplicable
five-year-long obsession focused on Victorian novelists, artists,
architecture, and critics. He wends his way through England and
Scotland, meticulously tracking down the haunts of Charles Dick-
ens, George Gissing, John Millais, the Bloomsbury Group, and
others, and documenting everything in ghostly photographs as
he goes.
As Clark delves deeper into the Victorian world, he wonders:
What can its artists offer a twenty-first century writer by way of
insight into his own life and work? His obsession with Victoriana
bleeds into all aspects of his life, even the seemingly incongruous
world of online dating. My Victorians is in the spirit of Geoff Dyer’s
Out of Sheer Rage and Rebecca Mead’s My Life in Middlemarch. This
book considers what happens when heartbreak, eros, faith, and
doubt drive us to take refuge in the past.
Robert Clark is the author of five books of nonfiction and five
novels, most recently the nonfiction book Dark Water: Flood and
Redemption in the City of Masterpieces. He lives in New York City.
“My Victorians is an astonishing blend
of literary history and autobiography.
Alternating between frank memoir,
rigorous research, and ecstatic ekphrasis,
Clark illuminates the griefs, uncertainties,
pieties, and odd hopes of his Victorians.
His success is that he manages to make
his infatuations ours as well, drawing
us into his own idiosyncratic world that
thrums with poetry and painting and
nineteenth-century ghosts. The book is
called My Victorians, but as Clark shows,
they’re very much our Victorians, too.”
—Ted Scheinman, author, Camp Austen:
My Life as an Accidental Jane Austen Superfan

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 A House on Stilts
Mothering in the Age of Opioid Addiction
by Paula Becker

“Really brilliant. I often feel that addiction lies right outside

in this way. This is a remarkable book. And an utterly terrify-
ing one.”—Andrew Solomon, author, Far from the Tree: Parents,
Children and the Search for Identity

“A House on Stilts is the story of a family just like yours perhaps, or

the family next door. Through raw and authentic expression, we
come to share in this mother’s loss of dreams for her addicted
son. Paula Becker deftly shows how addiction can happen to
anyone.”—D’Anne Burwell, author, Saving Jake: When Addiction
Hits Home

A House on Stilts tells the story of one woman’s struggle to re-

claim wholeness while mothering a son addicted to opioids. Paula
Becker’s son Hunter was raised in a safe, nurturing home by his
writer/historian mom and his physician father. He was a bright,
curious child. And yet, addiction found him.
More than 2.5 million Americans are addicted to opioids, some
half-million of these to heroin. For many of them, their drug addic-
tion leads to lives of demoralization, homelessness, and constant
peril. For parents, a child’s addiction upends family life, catapult-
ing them onto a path no longer prescribed by Dr. Spock, but by
Dante’s Inferno. Within this ten-year crucible, Paula is transformed
by an excruciating, inescapable truth: the difference between what
she can do and what she cannot do.
Paula Becker is the author of Looking for Betty MacDonald: The Egg,
The Plague, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, and I, and coauthor of The Future
Remembered: The 1962 Seattle World’s Fair and Its Legacy. She lives in
Seattle, Washington.
“Paula Becker pulls back the curtain and
shows us what is typically only whispered
about: the opioid crisis among young,
white privileged kids and the effect on
their middle-class families. Becker, in a
fashion true to her historian roots, digs
into the opioid crisis that is leaving no
demographic untouched, and also digs
into her past, looking at her parenting
for clues and wrong turns along the route
to her son’s teenage years. Ultimately,
what she writes is an elegy for Hunter,
who she finally realizes had been walking
his own path all along.”
—Kate Carroll De Gutes, author, Objects
In Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear

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 Superhero Thought Experiments
Comic Book Philosophy
by Chris Gavaler and Nathaniel Goldberg
“Truly amazing! In a titanic team-up, Gavaler and Goldberg pro-
vide a secret origin for superhero fans and philosophers of the
future (who may be the same people). Superhero fans will find
they’ve transformed, changed into philosophizers who under-
stand something deeper about the world. And philosophers will
look back on Superhero Thought Experiments and see the labora-
tory where they gained their mental powers.”
—Peter M. Coogan, author, Superhero: The Secret Origin of a Genre
“Superhero Thought Experiments presents a novel perspective on
both comics and philosophy, arguing that superhero comics
provide a rich source of philosophical thought experiments.
Gavaler and Goldberg’s book should be required reading
both for philosophers and for fans of comics interested in how
philosophy is done.”—Roy T. Cook, author, The Art of Comics:
A Philosophical Approach
Examining the deep philosophical topics addressed in super-
hero comics, authors Gavaler and Goldberg read plot lines for
the complex thought experiments they contain and analyze their
implications as if the comic authors were philosophers. Reading
superhero comic books through a philosophical lens reveals how
they experiment with complex issues of morality, metaphysics,
meaning, and medium. Given comics’ ubiquity and influence
directly on (especially young) readers­—and indirectly on con-
sumers of superhero movies and video games—understanding
these deeper meanings is in many ways essential to understanding
contemporary popular culture. The result is an entertaining and
enlightening look at superhero dilemmas.
Chris Gavaler is associate professor of English at Washington
and Lee University. He is author of On the Origin of Superheroes: From
the Big Bang to Action Comics No. 1 (Iowa, 2015) and comics editor
of Shenandoah. Nathaniel Goldberg is professor of philosophy at
Washington and Lee University. He is author of Kantian Conceptual
Geography.
september
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H ERO
SU PER HT
TH O U G NTS
IME
EXPER
COMIC BOOK
PHILOSOPHY
Chris Gavaler and
Nathaniel Goldberg
“From the earliest issues of the original
Superman and Batman adventures, the
writers of superhero comics have been
doing philosophy. This great new book
makes it clear how superheroes can help
us think about some of the most important
ideas we’ll ever confront. We adults ignore
comics to our own intellectual peril. The
artwork is amazing, but so are the thought
experiments. So, put on your cape and
take off! It’s time for Truth, Justice, and the
Philosophical Way!”—Tom Morris, author,
Superheroes and Philosophy: Truth, Justice, and
the Socratic Way
“Comics can teach you about philosophy,
and philosophy will help you understand
comics. What is right and wrong? What
is the nature of the self? Is time really
real? Superhero comics deal seriously
with these classic philosophical issues.”
—David Carrier, author, Aesthetics of the
Margins/The Margins of Aesthetics: Wild
Art Explained
The Lines
A Novel
by Anthony Varallo
The Iowa Review Series in Fiction
Harilaos Stecopoulos, series editor

“Varallo’s attention to the music in the spare, lyrical voices of

his characters is enough to put this novel on your must-read
list. What he manages to create in the story of divorce in an
ordinary family is a tale about grief, alienation, and ultimately
compassion itself. Riveting.”—Stephanie Powell Watts, author,
No One is Coming to Save Us

“In The Lines, a family reckons with divorce against the backdrop

of the fuel crisis of the 1970s. Anthony Varallo renders this story
vividly and tenderly and with great nuance. The Lines is moving
and elegiac—a delight to read.”—Nathan Englander, author,
kaddish.com
“An intimate, often humorous, and phenomenally insightful
novel about the way children experience separation and divorce.
Anthony Varallo’s The Lines is one of the most moving portraits of
a broken family I’ve read since Judith Guest’s Ordinary People.”
—Patrick Ryan, author, The Dream Life of Astronauts
Set in the summer of 1979, when America was running out
of gas, The Lines tells the story of a family of four—the mother,
the father, the girl, and the boy—in the first months of a marital
separation. Through alternating perspectives, we follow the family
as they explore new territory, new living arrangements, and new
complications. The mother returns to school. The father moves
into an apartment. The girl squares off with her mother, while the
boy struggles to make sense of the world. The Lines explores the
way we are all tied to one another, and how all experience offers
the possibility of love and connection as much as loss and change.
Anthony Varallo is the author of four short story collections, most
recently Everyone Was There. He is professor of English at the Col-
lege of Charleston, where he teaches creative writing. He lives in
Charleston, South Carolina.
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“With charming language, familiar cir­
cumstances, and a taut narrative, this
book evokes that point in time when every
child suddenly realizes the adults around
them don’t really know what they’re do-
ing. That is the world we inherit, the world
Varallo permits us to turn over in our
hands, landmarked with curious relics of
Americana wholly worth the gaze.”
—Venita Blackburn, author, Black Jesus
and Other Superheroes
“I was dizzy when I put down this book,
having been transported so convincingly
to the kind of life we lived before the inter-
net, before cell phones—a time when lov-
ers and family members floated outside
our immediate grasp, when we sometimes
fumbled to reach them. And yet there is
something timeless here, too. The terri-
tory this family navigates—loneliness,
broken hearts, the shifting allegiances
between siblings and parents, all of it set
against the backdrop of an unsettled po-
litical era—resonates powerfully with our
own.”—Christie Hodgen, author, Elegies
for the Brokenhearted
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 Not a Thing to Comfort You
by Emily Wortman-Wunder
Iowa Short Fiction Award Not a
not
“I couldn’t help but think of Andrea Barretta when I read this Thing to
collection with all its funny, inventive thing
stories in which the
natural world and humanity collide withto each other. There’s

comfort
such careful attention paid in these stories, to people and the
environment alike.”—Carmen Maria Machado, judge, 2019
Iowa Short Fiction Award you
“Populated with all manner of wild animals, endangered species,
and flawed people, the endlessly readable stories in Not A Thing
to Comfort You remind me of campfire ranger talks, if the rangers
are Annie Proulx or Raymond Carver and the untended campfire
stories by emily wortman-wunder
burns down an entire forest. Wortman-Wunder now certainly
enters the ranks of our finest naturalist writers, yet what gives
these stories their remarkable power and depth is her lifetime
of meticulous fieldwork on the always unpredictable human
heart.”—Justin Hocking, author, The Great Floodgates of the
Wonderworld: A Memoir
From a lightning death on an isolated peak to the in-
trigues of a small town orchestra, the glimmering stories in this
debut collection explore how nature—damaged, fierce, and unpre-
dictable—worms its way into our lives. Here moths steal babies,
a creek seduces a lonely suburban mother, and the priorities of
a passionate conservationist are thrown into confusion after the
death of her son. Over and over, the natural world reveals itself to
be unknowable, especially to the people who study it most. These
tales of scientists, nurses, and firefighters catalog the loneliness
within families, betrayals between friends, and the recurring song
of regret and grief.
Emily Wortman-Wunder has been published in the Kenyon Re-
view, Vela, Nimrod, High Country News, and elsewhere. She lives in
Denver, Colorado, and teaches scientific writing at the University
of Colorado.
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Comfort
You
Stories by Emily Wortman-Wunder
“Emily Wortman-Wunder’s stunning sto-
ries demand our attention. Graceful in
style, bountiful in their knowledge of the
natural world, they move effortlessly from
Beethoven concertos to bear hibernacula,
from suburban homes to rural trailers.
These stories don’t mind getting their
hands dirty excavating secrets, but they
just as painstakingly illuminate lives in
search of love and connection. A rich and
affecting collection.”—Steven Schwartz,
author, Madagascar: New and Selected Stories
“Not a Thing to Comfort You is a virtuosic
debut collection of fiction.This book re-
minded me why I love short stories.”
—Steven Church, author, I’m Just Getting
to the Disturbing Part: On Work, Fear, and
Fatherhood
“There’s a sleight-of-hand magic in Not a
Thing to Comfort You. Don’t come to this
book seeking sentimentality or tired
tropes. Wortman-Wunder’s voice and her
sensibility are fresh, sometimes alarming,
and always deeply satisfying.”
—BK Loren, author, Theft: A Novel
 Happy Like This
by Ashley Wurzbacher
John Simmons Short Fiction Award

“I love these dark, lyrical, sinewy stories about women’s rela-

tionships with their bodies and with each other. It’s the sort of
theme that could feel irritably well trod, but that’s not the case
here at all; these stories surprised me at every turn. And the
writing is so gorgeous!”—Carmen Maria Machado, judge,
2019 John Simmons Short Fiction Award

“Equal parts graceful and astonishing, the stories in Ashley

Wurzbacher’s debut collection do the brave work of building
upon established traditions to create worlds and languages all
their own. The result is a sweeping, insightful, and compassion-
ate portrait not only of women’s lives, losses, and loves, but of
their anger, its power, and the fierce sisterhood forged between
those who express it.”—Allie Rowbottom, author, JELL-O Girls
The characters in Happy Like This are smart girls and pro-
fessional women—social scientists, linguists, speech therapists,
plant physiologists, dancers—who search for happiness in roles
and relationships that are often unscripted or unconventional. In
the midst of their ambivalence about marriage, monogamy, and
motherhood and their struggles to accept and love their bodies,
they look to other women for solidarity, stability, and validation.
Sometimes they find it; sometimes they don’t. Spanning a wide
range of distinct perspectives, voices, styles, and settings, the ten
shimmering stories in Happy Like This offer deeply felt, often hu-
morous meditations on the complexity of choice and the ambiguity
of happiness.  other and themselves, of the secrets we
Ashley Wurzbacher’s writing has appeared in the Iowa Review,
Kenyon Review Online, Prairie Schooner, Cincinnati Review, Colorado
Review, Gettysburg Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, and elsewhere.
She lives in Birmingham, Alabama, and teaches creative writing
at the University of Montevallo.
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like this wurzbacher
“Rumor has it that Alice Munro in respond-
ing to the question ‘Do you consider
yourself a feminist?’, replied thusly: ‘If
you mean do I take the lives of women
seriously, yes.’ Ashley Wurzbacher’s won-
derful collection of stories made me think
of that writer, and that answer, repeat-
edly. I love this book.”—Antonya Nelson,
author, Funny Once
“Happy Like This is a funny, touching cata-
log of women’s generosity toward each
need to keep, and the paths we must take
in order to live more fully. A powerhouse
of a collection.”—Danielle Lazarin,
author, Back Talk
“What a gorgeous, varied, brilliant, and
accomplished collection of stories. On ev-
ery page, moments of truth and beauty so
perfectly, easily, and indelibly rendered in
lines to make you catch your breath and
wish to read them over and over. A must
read!”—Gregory Spatz, author, Inukshuk
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 Aussie Fans
Uniquely Placed in Global Popular Culture
by Celia Lam and Jackie Raphael, editors
Fandom & Culture
Paul Booth and Katherine Larsen, series editors

“There is little sustained discussion of media fandom in an “In Aussie Fans, Celia Lam and Jackie
Australian context, as much work coming out of the region tends Raphael have assembled a wide-
to focus on reception studies. The chapters in this collection are reaching collection of perspectives
a good starting point for a glimpse into how fandom is perceived on fans and fandom in their many
and performed in Australia and its neighboring regions.” Australian flavors. From Neighbours,
—Bertha Chin, Swinburne University of Technology, Sarawak Offspring, and other iconic Australian
shows with their own dedicated global
Australia holds a unique place in the global scheme of followings to Australian fans of K-pop,
fandom. Much of the media consumed by Australian audiences cosplay, and, of course, Game of
originates from either the United States or the United Kingdom, Thrones, this book shows the diversity,
yet several Australian productions have also attracted international depth, and dedication of Australian
fans in their own right. This first-ever academic study of Austra- fans. This book speaks to fans, schol-
lian fandom explores the national popular culture scene through ars, and everyone else interested in
themes of localization and globalization. enjoying a national perspective on
The essays within reveal how Australian audiences often seek au- global fan phenomena!”
thentic imports and eagerly embrace different cultures, examining —Tama Leaver, Curtin University
both Hollywood’s influence on Australian fandom and Australian
fan reactions to non-Western content. By shining a spotlight on
Australian fandom, this book not only provides an important case
study for fan studies scholars, it also helps add nuance to a field
whose current literature is predominantly U.S. and U.K. focused.

Contributors: Kate Ames, Ahmet Atay, Jessica Carniel, Toija

Cinque, Ian Dixon, Leigh Edmonds, Sharon Elkind, Jacqui
Ewart, Lincoln Geraghty, Sarah Keith, Emerald L. King,
Renee Middlemost

Celia Lam is assistant professor of media and cultural studies

at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China. Jackie Raphael
teaches at the University of Western Australia. They have previ-
ously coedited other books together, including Becoming Brands:
Celebrity, Activism and Politics and Personas and Places: Negotiating
Myths, Stereotypes and National Identities.

october
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Queerbaiting and Fandom
Teasing Fans through Homoerotic Possibilities
by Joseph Brennan, editor
Fandom & Culture
Paul Booth and Katherine Larsen, series editors

“As the first book to analyze queerbaiting, undoubtedly a sign of
the times, Joseph Brennan’s edited collection makes a vital, en-
ergizing contribution to fan studies­—and beyond—by skillfully
addressing advocacy, history, and complexity. Queerbaiting and
Fandom explores high-profile case studies such as Supernatural,
Sherlock, and Harry Potter. HoYay may belong to older fan tradi-
tions, but this is AcYay happening right here: ‘Academic bril-
liance, Yay!’”—Matt Hills, author, Fan Cultures
“Queerbaiting and Fandom is an impor-
tant and timely volume that belongs in
the library of every fan studies scholar.”
—Megan Condis, author, Gaming
Masculinity: Trolls, Fake Geeks, and the
Gendered Battle for Online Culture
(Iowa, 2018)

In this first-ever comprehensive examination of queerbait-

ing, fan studies scholar Joseph Brennan and his contributors ex-
amine cases that shed light on the sometimes exploitative industry
practice of teasing homoerotic possibilities that, while hinted at,
never materialize in the program narratives. Through a nuanced
approach that accounts for both the history of queer representa-
tion and older fan traditions, these essayists examine the phenom-
enon of queerbaiting across popular TV, video games, children’s
programs, and more.

Contributors: Evangeline Aguas, Christoffer Bagger,

Bridget Blodgett, Cassie Brummitt, Leyre Carcas, Jessica
Carniel, Jennifer Duggan, Monique Franklin, Divya Garg,
Danielle S. Girard, Mary Ingram-Waters, Hannah McCann,
Michael McDermott, E. J. Nielsen, Emma Nordin, Holly
Eva Katherine Randell-Moon, Emily E. Roach, Anastasia
Salter, Elisabeth Schneider, Kieran Sellars, Isabela Silva,
Guillaume Sirois, Clare Southerton

Joseph Brennan is an independent scholar residing in Sydney,

Australia.

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“This Mighty Convulsion”
Whitman and Melville Write the Civil War
by Christopher Sten and Tyler Hoffman, editors
Iowa Whitman Series

Unknown Civil War Soldier, Library of Congress

Ed Folsom, series editor

This is the first book exclusively devoted to the Civil War

writings of Walt Whitman and Herman Melville, arguably the
most important poets of the war. The essays brought together in
this volume add significantly to recent critical appreciation of the
skill and sophistication of these poets; growing recognition of the
complexity of their views of the war; and heightened appreciation
for the anxieties they harbored about its aftermath. Both in the
ways they come together and seem mutually influenced, and in
the ways they disagree, Whitman and Melville grapple with the
casualties, complications, and anxieties of the war while high-
lighting its irresolution. This collection makes clear that rather
than simply and straightforwardly memorializing the events of
the war, the poetry of Whitman and Melville weighs carefully all
sorts of vexing questions and considerations, even as it engages
a cultural politics that is never pat.
Contributors: Kyle Barton, Peter Bellis, Adam Bradford,
Jonathan A. Cook, Ian Faith, Ed Folsom, Timothy Marr,
Cody Marrs, Christopher Ohge, Vanessa Steinroetter,
Sarah L. Thwaites, Brian Yothers
Christopher Sten is professor of English and American litera-
ture at George Washington University. He is the author of The
Weaver-God, He Weaves: Melville and the Poetics of the Novel. He lives in
Washington, DC. Tyler Hoffman is professor of English at Rutgers
University–Camden. He is the author of Robert Frost and the Politics
of Poetry. He lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
“A critical examination of the two most
significant Civil War poets that brings
together some of the most talented and
insightful Melville and Whitman schol-
ars. ‘This Mighty Convulsion’ is timely and
important.”—Randall Fuller, author,
From Battlefields Rising: How the Civil War
Transformed American Literature
“Not only do these essays plumb deeply
the aesthetic, political, historical, and
critical dimensions of Whitman’s Drum-
Taps and Melville’s Battle-Pieces, viewed
both together and apart, but also they re-
veal scars the war left on the poets them-
selves—poignant residue of ‘this mighty
convulsion’—that make their work timely
and new.”—Wyn Kelley, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology

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literary criticism
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 Star Attractions
Twentieth-Century Movie Magazines and Global Fandom
by Tamar Jeffers McDonald and Lies Lanckman, editors
Fandom & Culture
Paul Booth and Katherine Larsen, series editors

“This is a vitally important subject that connects cinema history

to stardom, audience reception, and fandom studies. It makes
a great teaching volume and delightful reading for a popular
audience interested in star history and fan history. I heartily
endorse this collection, and look forward to more!”
—Kathy Fuller-Seeley, author, Jack Benny and the Golden Age of
American Radio Comedy

During Hollywood’s “classic era,” from the 1920s to 1950s,

roughly twenty major fan magazines were offered each month at
American newsstands and abroad. These publications famously
fed fan obsessions with celebrities such as Mae West and Elvis
Presley. Film studies scholars often regard these magazines with
suspicion; perhaps due to their reputation for purveying scandal
and gossip, their frequent mingling of gushing tone, and blatant
falsehood.
Looking at these magazines with fresh regarding eyes and treat-
ing them as primary sources, the contributors of this collection
provide unique insights into contemporary assumptions about the
relationship between fan and star, performer and viewer. In doing
so, they reveal the magazines to be a huge and largely untapped
resource on a wealth of subjects, including gender roles, appear-
ance and behavior, and national identity.
“In this remarkable anthology, the history
and influence of fan magazines come alive,
with superb essays by such luminaries
as Lucy Fischer, Geneviève Sellier, Sarah
Polley, and many others, offering a compre-
hensive and incisive overview of the ways
in which these magazines drive, and often
shape, public cultural discourse on an
international scale. Essential reading.”
—Wheeler Winston Dixon, author, A Short
History of Film

Contributors: Emily Chow-Kambitsch, Alissa Clarke,

Jonathan Driskell, Lucy Fischer, Ann-Marie Fleming,
Oana-Maria Mazilu, Adrienne L. McLean, Sarah Polley,
Geneviève Sellier, Michael Williams

Tamar Jeffers McDonald is a reader in film studies at the University

of Kent. She is author or editor of four books, including Doris Day
Confidential: Hollywood, Sex, and Stardom. Lies Lanckman is associate
lecturer in film studies at the University of Kent.

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 Staging Postcommunism
Alternative Theatre in Eastern and
Central Europe after 1989
by Vessela S. Warner and Diana Manole, editors
Studies in Theatre History and Culture
Heather S. Nathans, series editor

“Staging Postcommunism opens the door on an area of the world

where theatre vibrantly looks to answer the sociological, politi-
cal, and personal issues of identity that emerged following the

Courtesy Angelina Roşca

breakup of the Soviet Union.”—Marc Robinson, St. Olaf College

Theatre in Eastern and Central Europe was never the

same after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. In the transition to a
postcommunist world, “alternative theatre” found ways to grapple
with political chaos, corruption, and aggressive implementation
of a market economy. Three decades later, this volume is the first
comprehensive examination of alternative theatre in ten former
communist countries. The essays focus on companies and artists
that radically changed the language and organization of theatre
in the countries formerly known as the Eastern European bloc.
This collection investigates the ways in which postcommunist
alternative theatre negotiated and embodied change not only lo-
cally but globally as well.
Contributors: Dennis Barnett, Dennis C. Beck, Violeta
Decheva, Luule Epner, John Freedman, Barry Freeman,
Margarita Kompelmakher, Jaak Rahesoo, Angelina Roşca,
Baņuta Rubess, Christopher Silsby, Andrea Tompa,
S. E. Wilmer
“Staging Postcommunism makes an impor-
tant contribution to the field in a number
of dynamic modes. This fills a significant
gap in the scholarship, addressing a wide
range of nations and cultures in Eastern
and Central Europe, whose extensive and
influential theatre histories of the twen-
tieth century to the present day are still
woefully underrepresented in English-
language scholarship. I read the book with
great enthusiasm.”—Bryce Lease, author,
After ’89: Polish Theatre and the Political

Vessela S. Warner is associate professor of theatre history, dra-

matic literature, and dramaturgy at the University of Alabama at
Birmingham. Diana Manole is an instructor of drama and litera-
ture at Trent University in Canada. Manole has published nine
collections of poems and plays.

january 2020
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 Irish on the Move
Performing Mobility in American Variety Theatre
by Michelle Granshaw
Studies in Theatre History and Culture
Heather S. Nathans, series editor

“While much has been written previously about some of the
variety theatre that Granshaw explores, no one has done what
she has done. She is introducing a revelatory new voice to the
literature, one that expands previous understandings of ante-
bellum theatre and performance and at the same time contrib-
utes to contemporary research in the humanities about power
and migration.”—Elizabeth Reitz Mullenix, Miami University
“Granshaw’s new book is an imaginative, incisive examination of
Irish American mobility in popular theater, showing how popu-
lar culture and revolutionary politics shaped each other.”
—M. Alison Kibler, author, Censoring Racial Ridicule: Irish, Jewish,
and African American Struggles over Race and Representation
“Both timely and relevant, Irish on the Move is an important
contribution to theater historiography, but the book will also
interest readers seeking to understand the historical roots
of nationalist, anti-immigrant, white supremacist discourse
in the contemporary United States.”—Amy E. Hughes,
author, Spectacles of Reform: Theater and Activism in Nineteenth-
Century America
“In Irish on the Move, the journey of the
immigrant to claim the right to be here,
which is resisted by the dominant culture,
results in a kind of dance that changes
both the immigrant and the local popula-
tion. Granshaw’s research is impressive
and this book makes an important contri-
bution to Irish American history.”
—Tice Miller, author, Entertaining the
Nation: American Drama in the Eighteenth
and Nineteenth Centuries
“Irish on the Move shows how the acts of
stage tramps, variety shows, and even
competitive pedestrians shaped the lives
and perceptions of America’s mobile and
networked Irish, while contributing
to America’s distinctive theatre culture.”
—Peter P. Reed, author, Rogue Perfor­
mances: Staging the Underclasses in Early
American Theatre Culture

A little over a century ago, the Irish in America were

the targets of intense xenophobic anxiety. Much of that anxiety
centered on their mobility, whether that was traveling across the
ocean to the U.S., searching for employment in urban centers,
mixing with other ethnic groups, or forming communities of their
own. Granshaw argues that American variety theatre, a precursor
to vaudeville, was a crucial battleground for these anxieties, as it
appealed to both the fears and the fantasies that accompanied the
rapid economic and social changes of the Gilded Age.

Michelle Granshaw is assistant professor of theatre arts at the

University of Pittsburgh.

december
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 Poems of the American Empire
The Lyric Form in the Long Twentieth Century
by Jen Hedler Phillis
The New American Canon
The Iowa Series in Contemporary Literature and Culture
Samuel Cohen, series editor

“Poems of the American Empire makes a substantially new claim
about the relationship between lyric and epic as constitutive
parts of a hybrid poetic form developed by Pound and Williams
and revised significantly by a handful of contemporary poets.
It is a book worth reading and will certainly make its mark on
the field of twentieth-century American poetry.”—Paul Stasi,
author, Modernism, Imperialism, and the Historical Sense
Poems of the American Empire argues that careful attention to a partic-
ular strain of twentieth-century lyric poetry yields a counter-history
of American global power. The period that Phillis covers—from
Ezra Pound’s A Draft of XXX Cantos in 1930 to Cathy Park Hong’s
Engine Empire in 2012—roughly matches what some consider the
ascent and decline of the American empire. The diverse poems
that appear in this book are united by their use of epic forms in the
lyric poem, a combination that violates a fundamental framework
of both genres’ relationship to time.
This book makes a groundbreaking intervention by insisting
that lyric time is key to understanding the genre. These poems
demonstrate the lyric form’s ability to represent the totality of
history, making American imperial power visible in its fullness.
Neither strictly an empty celebration of American exceptionalism
nor a catalog of atrocities, Poems of the American Empire allows us
to see both.
“Lukács famously leaves no room for lyric
in his history of signal literary forms;
Phillis begs to differ. In this superb and
subtle study, Poems of the American Empire
offers and enters into the poetry of
America’s long twentieth century, argu-
ing that ‘we need a lyric theory that can
capture this era’s new style of time.’ But
the book is after something more, trying
to grasp how lyric, taking its force and
fire from its tension with the persistence
of epic, can open onto something like
revolutionary time that can leave this
era behind. Phillis’s work is ambitious,
variegated, and revelatory; lyrical in its
insights and epic in its vision.”—Joshua
Clover, University of California, Davis

Jen Hedler Phillis is an independent writer who lives in Chicago,

Illinois.

november
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Contemporary Novelists and the Aesthetics
of Twenty-First Century American Life
by Alexandra Kingston-Reese
The New American Canon
The Iowa Series in Contemporary Literature and Culture
Samuel Cohen, series editor

Contemporary Novelists and the Aesthetics of Twenty-First Century Ameri-
can Life gives us a new way to view contemporary art novels, asking
the key question: How do contemporary writers imagine aesthetic
experience? Examining the works of some of the most popular
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novels are seeking to reconcile the negative feelings of contempo-
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Kingston-Reese reveals how contemporary writers refract and
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with failure: firstly, about the failure of aesthetic experiences to
solve and save; and secondly, the literary inability to articulate
the emotional dissonance caused by aesthetic experiences now.
“This striking, intellectually bracing book
shows how contem­porary writers are en-
gaging with the politics of visual aesthet-
ics in order to rethink the very anatomy
of the novel form. Alexandra Kingston-
Reese presents a scrupulously researched
argument about interartistic dynamics
in twenty-first century literary culture
that enriches the critical practice of read-
ing for intermediality.”—David James,
author, Modernist Futures: Innovation and
Inheritance in the Contemporary Novel

Alexandra Kingston-Reese is a lecturer in modern and contem-

porary literature at the University of York.

january 2020
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. . . Index by Author . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

3 BECKER, PAULA … A House on Stilts

These 9 BRENNAN, JOSEPH … Queerbaiting and Fandom

2 CLARK, ROBERT … My Victorians
Boys 4 GAVALER, CHRIS … Superhero Thought Experiments
and 4 GOLDBERG, NATHANIEL … Superhero Thought Experiments
13 GRANSHAW, MICHELLE … Irish on the Move
Their 10 HOFFMAN, TYLER … “This Mighty Convulsion”

Fathers 11 JEFFERS MCDONALD, TAMAR … Star Attractions

15 KINGSTON-REESE, ALEXANDRA … Contemporary Novelists and
D O N W AT E R S   the Aesthetics of Twenty-First Century American Life
8 LAM, CELIA … Aussie Fans
11 LANCKMAN, LIES … Star Attractions
12 MANOLE, DIANA … Staging Postcommunism
14 PHILLIS, JEN HEDLER … Poems of the American Empire
H ERO
SU PER HT
TH O U G NTS 8 RAPHAEL, JACKIE … Aussie Fans
IM E
EXPER 10 STEN, CHRISTOPHER … “This Mighty Convulsion”
5 VARALLO, ANTHONY … The Lines
12 WARNER, VESSELA S. … Staging Postcommunism
COMIC BOOK
PHILOSOPHY
1 WATERS, DON … These Boys and Their Fathers
6 WORTMAN-WUNDER, EMILY … Not a Thing to Comfort You
Chris Gavaler and
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 . . . Index by Title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

8 Aussie Fans
Not a 15 Contemporary Novelists and the Aesthetics of
Twenty-First Century American Life
Thing to 7 Happy Like This
3 A House on Stilts
Comfort 13 Irish on the Move
5 The Lines
You 2 My Victorians
6 Not a Thing to Comfort You
Stories by Emily Wortman-Wunder 14 Poems of the American Empire
9 Queerbaiting and Fandom
12 Staging Postcommunism
11 Star Attractions
4 Superhero Thought Experiments
1 These Boys and Their Fathers
10 “This Mighty Convulsion”

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5–7 Fiction
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10, 14–15 Literary Criticism
2 Literature

happy ashley 1–2 Memoir

like this wurzbacher
3 Parenting
4 Philosophy
4, 8–9 Popular Culture
12–13 Theatre

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