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Recent Publications

January 2010
AMS Studies in the Nineteenth Century, No. 36


THE WATER-WITCH; OR, THE SKIMMER OF THE SEAS

By
James Fenimore Cooper

This monumental edition of The Water-Witch; or, The Skimmer of the Seas (1830) offers a definitive scholarly treatment of the text, with hundreds of pages of editorial matter, including an extensive historical introduction, explanatory notes, and just under 200 pages of descriptive bibliographic material. . . .


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December 2009

SPENSER STUDIES
A Renaissance Poetry Annual
Volume XXIV


Guest Editors: Kenneth Borris, Jon Quitslund, and Carol Kaske

Spenser and Platonism: An Expanded Special Volume

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December 2009
AMS Studies in the Middle Ages, No. 28


TRAVELS AND TRAVELOGUES IN THE MIDDLE AGES

Edited by
Jean-François Kosta-Théfaine

“Travel in the Middle Ages, it goes without saying, differs considerably from its twenty-first-century counterpart,” Jean-François Kosta-Théfaine notes in the introduction to this compelling collection of essays. . . .


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December 2009

SYMBOLISM
An International Annual of Critical Aesthetics
Volume 9


Editors: Rüdiger Ahrens and Klaus Stierstorfer

Special Focus: Literature and Circularity

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December 2009

READINGS ON EQUAL EDUCATION
Enhancing Institutional and State
Initiatives to Increase Student Success:
Studies of the Indiana Project on Academic Success
Volume 24


Series Editor: Edward P. St. John
Volume Editors: Don Hossler, Jacob P. K. Gross, and Mary Ziskin

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December 2009

EMBLEMATICA
An Interdisciplinary Journal for Emblem Studies
Volume 17


Managing Editor: David Graham
Editors: Daniel S. Russell, Peter M. Daly, and Michael Bath

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September 2009
AMS Studies in the Eighteenth Century, No. 53


RELIGION IN THE AGE OF REASON
A Transatlantic Study of the
Long Eighteenth Century


Edited by
Kathryn Duncan

This collection of essays brings together international scholars examining the role of religion during a period that has often been seen primarily through its secular concerns. While Locke, Newton, and Hume . . .


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September 2009

1650–1850
Ideas, Æsthetics, and Inquiries
in the Early Modern Era
Volume 16


Edited by
Kevin L. Cope

Book Review Editor
Scott Paul Gordon

Special Feature: “Horace Walpole: Beyond The Castle of Otranto.” Edited and introduced by Peter Sabor.

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September 2009
AMS Studies in the Eighteenth Century, No. 58


ADVENTURE: AN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY IDIOM
Essays on the Daring and the Bold
as a Pre-Modern Medium


Edited by
Serge Soupel, Kevin L. Cope, and Alexander Pettit

As readers of medieval and Renaissance literature know, etymologists associate “adventure” with chance: with that which happens surprisingly—“at” a “venture”—through an unexpected confluence of unpredictable events. Reading the whole history of the word, however, reveals . . .


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August 2009

THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY NOVEL
Volume 6–7

Edited by
Albert J. Rivero and George Justice

Special Double Volume: Essays in Honor of John Richetti

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July 2009

DICKENS STUDIES ANNUAL
Essays on Victorian Fiction
Volume 40

Edited by
Stanley Friedman, Edward Guiliano
Anne Humpherys, Michael Timko, and
Talia Schaffer

Special Feature: A book-length edition of Dickens’s juvenilia edited by Robert C. Hanna.
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July 2009

EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY THOUGHT
Volume 4

Edited by
James G. Buickerood

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June 2009

RESOURCES FOR AMERICAN LITERARY STUDY
Volume 32

Edited by
Jackson R. Bryer and Richard Kopley

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May 2009

LITERATURE IN THE EARLY AMERICAN REPUBLIC
Annual Studies on Cooper and His Contemporaries
Volume 1

Edited by
Matthew Wynn Sivils and Jeffrey Walker

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May 2009
AMS Studies in Modern Literature, No. 20


PROSPECTS FOR THE STUDY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE (II)

Edited by
Richard Kopley and Barbara Cantalupo

The second entry in an ongoing series, Prospects for the Study of American Literature (II) brings together concentrated overviews of past scholarship with ideas for new and rewarding avenues of research on a diverse group of American literary figures. . . .


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May 2009

THE AGE OF JOHNSON
A Scholarly Annual
Volume 19

Edited by
Jack Lynch

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April 2009

ECCB
The Eighteenth-Century Current Bibliography
Volume 30

General Editors
Kevin L. Cope and Robert C. Leitz, III

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April 2009
AMS Studies in the Nineteenth Century, No. 37


NED MYERS; OR, A LIFE BEFORE THE MAST
By
James Fenimore Cooper

Written during the explosion of Cooper’s naval prose in the early 1840s, Ned Myers; or, a Life before the Mast (1843) celebrates the maritime career of a Nova Scotia runaway turned Yankee sailor. . . .


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March 2009

STUDIES IN MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE HISTORY
Third Series, Volume VI


Edited by
Roger Dahood and Peter E. Medine

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