Intimations, Becoming Human, Re-Enchanted, and More in Literary Criticism | Academic Best Sellers

Best sellers in literary criticism, April 2020 to date, as identified by GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO.

April 2020 to date as identified by GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO.

Cover of Intimations: Six Essays by Zadie Smith1. Intimations: Six Essays.
Smith, Zadie
Penguin Books
2020. ISBN 9780593297612. $10.95

2. Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World.
Jackson, Zakiyyah Iman
New York University Press
2020. ISBN 9781479890040. $89.00

3. Re-Enchanted: The Rise of Children's Fantasy Literature in the Twentieth Century.
Cecire, Maria Sachiko
University of Minnesota Press
2019. ISBN 9781517906580. $27.00

4. Little History of Poetry.
Carey, John
Yale University Press
2020. ISBN 9780300232226. $25.00

5. Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space.
Leduc, Amanda
Coach House Books
2020. ISBN 9781552453957. $16.95

6. Wrong Kind of Women: Inside Our Revolution to Dismantle the Gods of Hollywood.
Jones, Naomi Mcdougall
Beacon
2020. ISBN 9780807033456. $26.95

7. Macbeth in Harlem: Black Theater in America from the Beginning to Raisin in the Sun.
Mason, Clifford
Rutgers University Press
2020. ISBN 9781978809994. $32.95

8. Radical Black Theatre in the New Deal.
Dossett, Kate
University of North Carolina Press
2020. ISBN 9781469654416. $90.00

9. In Search of Meadowlarks: Birds, Farms, and Food in Harmony with the Land.
Marzluff, John M.
Yale University Press
2020. ISBN 9780300237146. $28.00

10. Horror Fiction in the 20th Century: Exploring Literature's Most Chilling Genre.
Nevins, Jess
Praeger
2020. ISBN 9781440862052. $50.00

11. Nature of the Page: Poetry, Papermaking, and the Ecology of Texts in Renaissance England.
Calhoun, Joshua
University of Pennsylvania Press
2020. ISBN 9780812251890. $55.00

12. Radical Wordsworth: The Poet Who Changed the World.
Bate, Jonathan
Yale University Press
2020. ISBN 9780300169645. $35.00

13. Long, Long Way: Hollywood's Unfinished Journey from Racism to Reconciliation.
Garrett, Greg
Oxford University Press
2020. ISBN 9780190906252. $24.95

14. Jane Austen: Writing, Society, Politics.
Keymer, Thomas
Oxford University Press
2020. ISBN 9780198861904. $18.95

15. Filmed Thought: Cinema as Reflective Form.
Pippin, Robert B.
University of Chicago Press
2020. ISBN 9780226671956. $105.00

16. Worlds of J. R. R. Tolkien: The Places that Inspired Middle-Earth.
Garth, John
Princeton University Press
2020. ISBN 9780691196947. $29.95

17. Critical Companion to Native American and First Nations Theatre and Performance: Indigenous Spaces.
Darby, Jaye T.
Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
2020. ISBN 9781350035058. $95.00

18. Square Haunting: Five Lives in London Between the Wars.
Wade, Francesca
Random House
2020. ISBN 9780451497796. $28.99

19. Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood.
Wasson, Sam
St Martin's Press
2020. ISBN 9781250301826. $28.99

20. Transnational Korean Cinema: Cultural Politics, Film Genres, and Digital Technologies.
Jin, Dal Yong
Rutgers University Press
2020. ISBN 9781978807891. $120.00

21. Perilous Bounty: The Looming Collapse of American Farming and How We Can Prevent It.
Philpott, Tom
Bloomsbury
2020. ISBN 9781635573138. $28.00

22. Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-Reader.
Gornick, Vivian
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
2020. ISBN 9780374282158. $25.00

23. Black Oscars: From Mammy to Minny, What the Academy Awards Tell Us About African Americans.
Gooding, Frederick W.
Rowman & Littlefield
2020. ISBN 9781538123720. $39.00

24. Staging Process: The Aesthetic Politics of Collective Performance.
Anderson-Rabern, Rachel
Northwestern University Press
2020. ISBN 9780810141469. $99.95

25. Tasting Difference: Food, Race, and Cultural Encounters in Early Modern Literature.
Shahani, Gitanjali
Cornell University Press
2020. ISBN 9781501748707. $39.95

26. Unfelt: The Language of Affect in the British Enlightenment.
Noggle, James
Cornell University Press
2020. ISBN 9781501747120. $47.95

27. Comparing the Literatures: Literary Studies in a Global Age.
Damrosch, David
Princeton University Press
2020. ISBN 9780691134994. $35.00

28. Cinema '62: The Greatest Year at the Movies.
Farber, Stephen
Rutgers University Press
2020. ISBN 9781978808829. $34.95

29. Picturing Indians: Native Americans in Film, 1941-1960.
Black, Liza
University of Nebraska Press
2020. ISBN 9780803296800. $65.00

30. This Is Shakespeare.
Smith, Emma
Pantheon
2020. ISBN 9781524748548. $28.95

31. On Not Being Someone Else: Tales of Our Unled Lives.
Miller, Andrew H.
Harvard University Press
2020. ISBN 9780674238084. $29.95

32. Shakespeare and Trump.
Wilson, Jeffrey R.
Temple University Press
2020. ISBN 9781439919422. $25.00

33. White Trash Menace and Hemispheric Fiction.
Soto-Crespo, Ramon E.
Ohio State University Press
2020. ISBN 9780814214213. $99.95

34. Something of Themselves: Kipling, Kingsley, Conan Doyle, and the Anglo-Boer War.
Lefanu, Sarah
Oxford University Press
2020. ISBN 9780197501443. $29.95

35. Calamity Form: On Poetry and Social Life.
Nersessian, Anahid
University of Chicago Press
2020. ISBN 9780226701288. $82.50

36. Writing Shame: Contemporary Literature, Gender and Negative Affect.
Mitchell, Kaye
Edinburgh University Press
2020. ISBN 9781474461849. $105.00

37. Hollywood Diplomacy: Film Regulation, Foreign Relations, and East Asian Representations.
Chung, Hye Seung
Rutgers University Press
2020. ISBN 9781978801561. $120.00

38. Jordan Peele's Get Out: Political Horror.
Editor: Dawn Keetley
Ohio State University Press
2020. ISBN 9780814214275. $99.95

39. Literature of Food: An Introduction from 1830 to Present.
Humble, Nicola
Bloomsbury Academic
2020. ISBN 9780857854551. $100.00

40. Eden's Endemics: Narratives of Biodiversity on Earth and Beyond.
Callaway, Elizabeth
University of Virginia Press
2020. ISBN 9780813944562. $49.50

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