UMass Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press

In the Company of Books
Literature and Its "Classes" in Nineteenth-Century America
Sarah Wadsworth
"Readers who still believe cheap paperbacks weren't born until the aftermath of World War II should disabuse themselves of that notion by reading this vastly informative story."—Publishers Weekly
Paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-541-8
296 pp., 15 illus., 2006

Perspectives on American Book History
Artifacts and Commentary
Edited by Scott E. Casper, Joanne D. Chaison, and Jeffrey D. Groves
"For too long book historians have been held back by the lack of a basic comprehensive textbook. Now they finally have one, and it is superb."—Journalism History
Paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-317-9
480 pp., 7" x 9 1/4" format, 44 illus., plus 200 digital images on a CD-ROM, 2002

Pillars of Salt, Monuments of Grace
New England Crime Literature and the Origins of American Popular Culture, 1674–1860
Daniel A. Cohen
"Combines analysis and insight to probe the changing meanings of crime and punishment in the print culture of New England before the Civil War. . . . an always absorbing book."—New England Quarterly
Paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-529-6
368 pp., 14 illus., 2006

The Book of the Play
Playwrights, Stationers, and Readers in Early Modern England
Edited by Marta Straznicky
"A wide-ranging and consistently engaging discussion of the status of printed plays in early modern England."—William Sherman
Paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-533-3
248 pp., 11 illus., 2006

Updike
America's Man of Letters
William H. Prichard
With a new preface by the author
"An intelligent, eloquently argued and highly persuasive study of John Updike's monumental oeuvre. Mr. Pritchard is both sympathetic and critical: his reading of Updike is intimate, knowing, and judicious."—Joyce Carol Oates
Paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-507-4
364 pp., 2005

Artists, Intellectuals, and World War II
The Pontigny Encounters at Mount Holyoke College, 1942–1944
Edited by Christopher Benfey and Karen Remmler
Revisits a rare moment when a small American college became a center of European intellectual life.
"The conjunction of people who attended is so startling and curious—Wallace Stevens and Claude Lévi-Strauss, Robert Motherwell and Hannah Arendt—that anyone involved in the intellectual life will find something rewarding here."—Michael Gorra
Paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-531-9
312 pp., 26 illus., 2006

Cemetery of the Murdered Daughters
Feminism, History, and Ingeborg Bachmann
Sara Lennox
"Indispensable for anyone concerned with feminist theory, cultural studies, and literary criticism."—Gisela Brinker-Gabler
Paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-552-4
408 pp., 2006

The Prendergast Letters
Correspondence from Famine-Era Ireland, 1840–1850
Edited by Shelley Barber
"A fascinating study that provides fresh insights into both Irish and Irish American history."—Christine Kinealy
Cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-550-0
216 pp., 15 illus., 2006

More Day to Dawn
Thoreau's Walden for the Twenty-first Century
Edited by Sandra Harbert Petrulionis and Laura Dassow Walls
"This sesquicentennial collection of essays shows that Walden is as fresh and provocative as it has ever been."—Wesley T. Mott
Paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-576-0
264 pp., 2006

Tolerable Entertainment
Herman Melville and Professionalism in Antebellum New York
John Evelev
"An imaginative blend of historicist analyses of changing conditions in New York's publishing world and theoretical references to critics of the social domain of literary production. . . . remarkably lucid, jargon free, and seamless in argument."—Wyn Kelley
Paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-516-6
248 pp., 2006

The Emily Dickinson Handbook
Edited by Gudrun Grabher, Roland Hagenbüchle, and Cristanne Miller
"The most exhaustive and useful summary of Emily Dickinson scholarship in the 20th century—a series of short but amazingly comprehensive essays on almost every aspect of Dickinson studies, written especially for this volume by Dickinson's most formidable contemporary critics."—Virginia Quarterly Review
Paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-488-6
488 pp., 2005

Emily Dickinson's Shakespeare
Páraic Finnerty
"An important work. . . . deserves to find a broad audience among scholars of nineteenth-century American culture."—Mary Loeffelholz
Paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-517-3
296 pp., 2006

Writers, Plumbers, and Anarchists
The WPA Writers' Project in Massachusetts
Christine Bold
Reexamines the checkered history of a daring New Deal experiment.
'An important story that needs to be told."—Petra Schindler-Carter
Paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-539-5
288 pp., 22 illus., 2006

Rainbow Quest
The Folk Music Revival and American Society, 1940–1970
A Choice Outstanding Academic Book
Ronald D. Cohen
"A unique insider's perspective that focuses less on the star performers and more on the cultural workers . . . who provided the infrastructure that made the revival possible."—ISAM Newsletter
Paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-348-3
384 pp., 2002

The Mind's Eye
Image and Memory in Writing about Trauma
Marian Mesrobian MacCurdy
"A well-researched, effective, and safe pedagogical approach for teachers to help writers engage in healing. . . . This is an example of terrific interdisciplinary scholarship."—Laurie Vickroy
Paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-558-6
240 pp., 2006

Teaching One Moment at a Time
Disruption and Repair in the Classroom
Dawn M. Skorczewski
"Explores the delicate negotiation between teacher and student that determines the success or failure of writing courses.
Paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-495-4
168 pp., 2005

Empathic Teaching
Education for Life
Jeffrey Berman
"A wonderful and important book. It captures the intensity and singularity of what it means to teach and brings to life the struggles and life concerns of today's college students."—Kay Redfield Jamison
Paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-468-8
424 pp., 2004

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