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- Richard Adelman, Catherine Packham, eds, Political Economy, Literature & the Formation of Knowledge, 1720-1850, Routledge 2018
- Heike Bauer, The Hirschfeld Archives: Violence, Death and Modern Queer Culture, Temple University Press 2017
- David M Berry, Anders Fagerjord, Digital Humanities Knowledge and Critique in a Digital Age, Polity Press 2017
- Augustin Berque, Poetics of the Earth Natural History and Human History, Routledge 2019
- G W Stephen Brodsky, Joseph Conrad’s Polish Soul: Realms of Memory and Self, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University Press 2017
- Thora Brylowe, Romantic Art in Practice: Cultural Work and the Sister Arts, 1760-1820, Cambridge University Press 2018
- Youssef Cassis and Philip L Cottrell, Private Banking in Europe: Rise, Retreat and Resurgence, Oxford University Press 2015
- Maria Christou, Eating Otherwise: The Philosophy of Food in Twentieth-Century Literature, Cambridge University Press 2017
- Lesley D. Clement, Leyli Jamali (eds), Global Perspectives on Death in Children’s Literature, Routledge 2015
- Neil F Comins, The Traveler’s Guide to Space: For One-Way Settlers and Round-Trip Tourists, Columbia University Press 2017
- Tess Cosslett, Talking Animals in British Children’s Fiction, 1786–1914, Routledge 2006
- Erik Davis, High Weirdness Drugs, Visions, and Esoterica in the Seventies, MIT Press 2018
- Eleanor Dobson, Gemma Banks, Excavating Modernity Physical, Temporal and Psychological Strata in Literature, 1900-1930, Routledge 2018
- William Davies (ed), Economic Science Fictions, MIT Press, 2018
- George Estreich, Fables and Futures: Biotechnology, Disability, and the Stories We Tell Ourselves, MIT Press 2018
- Patricia Fara, A Lab of One’s Own, Science and Suffrage in the First World War, Oxford University Press 2018
- Jennifer Fay, Inhospitable World: Cinema in the Time of the Anthropocene, Oxford University Press 2018
- John G Fitch, The Poetry of Knowledge and the ‘Two Cultures’, Palgrave 2018
- Thomas H Ford, Wordsworth and the Poetics of Air, Cambridge University Press 2018
- Matthew Fuller, How To Be a Geek Essays on the Culture of Software, Polity Press 2017
- Mark Foster Gage with Matt Shaw (eds), Aesthetics Equals Politics New Discourses Across Art, Architecture, and Philosophy, MIT Press, 2018
- Rod Giblett, Environmental Humanities and the Uncanny: Ecoculture, literature and religion, Routledge 2019
- Rod Giblett (ed), Psychoanalytic Ecology The Talking Cure for Environmental Illness and Health, Routledge 2019
- Simon Goldhill, A Very Queer Family Indeed: Sex, Religion and the Bensons, Chicago University Press 2016
- Alan Gordon, Time Travel: Tourism and the Rise of the Living History Museum in Mid-Twentieth-Century Canada, UBC Press 2016
- George Graham, The Abraham Dilemma: a Divine Delusion, Oxford University Press 2015
- Francis Hallé with Éliane Patriarca, Atlas of Poetic Botany, MIT Press 2018
- Lianne Habinek, The Subtle Knot: Early Modern English Literature and the Birth of Neuroscience, McGill-Queen’s University Press 2018
- E. Geoffrey Hancock, Nick Pearce, Mungo Campbell, William Hunter’s World The Art and Science of Eighteenth-Century Collecting, Routledge 2017
- Keith J. Holyoak, The Spider’s Thread Metaphor in Mind, Brain, and Poetry, MIT Press, 2018
- Renée Hulan, Climate Change and Writing the Canadian Arctic, Palgrave 2018
- Michael Jackson, The Work of Art: Rethinking the Elementary Forms of Religious Life, Columbia University Press 2016
- Adeline Johns-Putra, Climate Change and the Contemporary Novel, Cambridge University Press, 2019
- Douglas Kahn, Energies in the Arts, MIT Press, 2018
- Lorraine Kerslake, The Voice of Nature in Ted Hughes’s Writing for Children Correcting Culture’s Error, Routledge 2018
- Damon Krukowski, Ways of Hearing, MIT Press 2018
- Karin Kukkonen, A Prehistory of Cognitive Poetics: Neoclassicism and the Novel, Oxford University Press 2017
- Gregory Kneidel, John Donne and Early Modern Legal Culture: the End of Equity in the Satyres, Duquesne University Press 2015
- David Landreth, The Face of Mammon: The Matter of Money in English Renaissance Literature, Oxford University Press 2012
- Don S. Lemons, Thermodynamic Weirdness From Fahrenheit to Clausius, MIT Press, 2018
- Thomas Lin (ed), Alice and Bob Meet the Wall of Fire A Collection of the Best Quanta Science Stories, MIT Press, 2018
- Lyn H. Lofland, The Craft of Dying The Modern Face of Death, MIT Press, 2018
- Sonja Luehrmann, Religion in Secular Archives: Soviet Atheism and Historical Knowledge, Oxford University Press 2015
- Christian Lupton, Reading and the Making of Time in the Eighteenth Century, Johns Hopkins University Press 2018
- Tom Lynch, Susan Naramore Maher, Drucilla Wall and O Alan Weltzien, eds, Thinking Continental: Writing the Planet One Place at a Time, University of Nebraska Press 2017
- James Machin, Faunus: The Decorative Imagination of Arthur Machen, MIT Press, 2018
- Heather Maring, Signs that Sing: Hybrid Poetics in Old English Verse, University Press of Florida 2017
- Anton M Matytsin and Dan Edelstein (eds), Let There Be Enlightenment: the Religious and Mystical Sources of Rationality, Johns Hopkins University Press 2018
- Ashley Miller, Poetry, Media, and the Material Body: Autopoetics in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Cambridge University Press 2018
- Kristine Moruzi, Michelle J. Smith, Elizabeth Bullen (eds), Affect, Emotion, and Children’s Literature Representation and Socialisation in Texts for Children and Young Adults, Routledge 2017
- Ben Murnane, Ayn Rand and the Posthuman: The Mind-Made Future, Palgrave 2018
- Steve Mentz, Shipwreck Modernity: Ecologies of Globalization, 1550-1719, University of Minnesota Press 2015
- Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh, Omnicide: Mania, Fatality, and the Future-in-Delirium, MIT Press, 2018
- Patricia Moran, Antonia White and Manic-Depressive Illness, Edinburgh University Press 2018
- Gary Saul Morson and Morton Schapiro, Cents and Sensibility: What Economics Can Learn from the Humanities, Princeton University Press 2017
- Ben Murnane, Ayn Rand and the Posthuman: The Mind-Made Future, Palgrave 2018
- Marianne Noble, Rethinking Sympathy and Human Contact in Nineteenth-Century American Literature: Hawthorne, Douglass, Stowe, Dickinson, Cambridge University Press, 2019
- Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, Animal Beauty On the Evolution of Biological Aesthetics, MIT Press, 2018
- Anthony M Petro, After the Wrath of God: Aids, Sexuality and American Religion, Oxford University Press 2015
- Thomas A Prendergast, Poetical Dust: Poets’ Corner and the Making of Britain, University of Pennsylvania Press 2015
- Emmanuelle Pouydebat, Atlas of Poetic Zoology, MIT Press 2018
- Meghan K Roberts, Sentimental Savants: Philosophical Families in Enlightenment France, Chicago University Press 2016
- Anat Rosenberg, Liberalizing Contracts: Nineteenth Century Promises Through Literature, Law and History, Routledge 2018
- Shawna Ross and James O’Sullivan, eds, Reading Modernism with Machines: Digital Humanities and Modernist Literature, Palgrave 2016
- Richard C Sha, Imagination and Science in Romanticism, Johns Hopkins University Press 2018
- Gitanjali G. Shahani, ed, Food and Literature, Cambridge University Press 2018
- John Sharp and David Thomas, Fun, Taste, & Games An Aesthetics of the Idle, Unproductive, and Otherwise Playful, MIT Press, 2018
- Alison Shonkwiler, The Financial Imaginary: Economic Mystification and the Limits of Realist Fiction, University of Minnesota Press 2017
- Pamela H Smith, The Business of Alchemy: Science and Culture in the Holy Roman Empire, Princeton University Press 2016
- Daniel M Stout, Corporate Romanticism: Liberalism, Justice and the Novel, Fordham University Press 2016
- Virginia Lee Strain, Legal Reform in English Renaissance Literature, Edinburgh University Press 2018
- Noel Thompson, Social Opulence and Private Restraint: The Consumer in British Socialist Thought Since 1800, Oxford University Press 2015
- Dave Trumbore and Donna J. Nelson, The Science of Breaking Bad, MIT Press, 2018
- Hannah C Tweed, Diane G Scott (eds) Medical Paratexts from Medieval to Modern: Dissecting the Page, Palgrave 2018
- Derval Tubridy, Samuel Beckett and the Language of Subjectivity, Cambridge University Press 2018
- Lynn Turner, Undine Sellbach, Ron Broglio, eds, The Edinburgh Companion to Animal Studies, Edinburgh University Press 2018
- Tony Veale and Mike Cook, Twitterbots Making Machines that Make Meaning, MIT Press, 2018
- Andreas Weber, Enlivenment: Toward a Poetics for the Anthropocene, MIT Press, 2018
- Andrew J Webber (ed), The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of Berlin, Cambridge University Press 2017
- Anne Whitehead, Medicine and Empathy in Contemporary British Fiction: an Intervention in Medical Humanities, Edinburgh University Press 2017
- Brian Willems, Speculative Realism and Science Fiction, Edinburgh University Press 2017
- Todd O. Williams, Christina Rossetti’s Environmental Consciousness, Routledge 2019
- Robin Wilson and Amirouche Moktefi (eds), The Mathematical World of Charles L. Dodgson (Lewis Carroll), Oxford University Press 2019
- Maryanne Wolf, Tales of Literacy for the 21st Century, Oxford University Press 2016