Twenty-Two New Student-Priced Paperbacks

One of the charitable aims of the Modern Humanities Research Association is to make new research as available as possible. To that end, the Legenda imprint has now issued 130 of its titles in paperback at budget prices: except for a few very large volumes, most are £10-£15. Since a fresh round of 22 of those titles came out just in the last month, this seems a good time for a round-up. We hope there's something for everyone: but if none of these catch your eye, see this gallery for the full collection.

Selected Essays

A series in which major scholars are invited to collect their best work, with a new introduction, Selected Essays make excellent readers. We now have 8 out in paperback, across German, French, Italian and Spanish studies, and now we have two in English studies, too:

Brute Meaning: Essays in Materialist Criticism from Dickens to Hitchcock, by David Trotter (Selected Essays 9)
Contemporary Fictions: Essays on American and Postcolonial Narratives, by Judie Newman (Selected Essays 12)

Germanic Literatures

We have 13 of these German (and Dutch, and Scandinavian) studies out in paperback now, and these new ones throw concrete poetry and film into the mix:

Confrontational Readings: Literary Neo-Avant-Gardes in Dutch and German, edited by Inge Arteel, Lars Bernaerts and Olivier Couder (Germanic Literatures 21)
Childhood, Memory, and the Nation: Young Lives under Nazism in Contemporary German Culture, by Alexandra Lloyd (Germanic Literatures 23)

Italian Perspectives

Taking us to 10 paperbacks in Italian studies, two new titles with notably spectacular paintings for their covers:

Renaissance Vegetarianism: The Philosophical Afterlives of Porphyry’s On Abstinence, by Cecilia Muratori (Italian Perspectives 46)
Saracens and their World in Boiardo and Ariosto, by Maria Pavlova (Italian Perspectives 47)

Research Monographs in French Studies

Legenda's oldest series, and a long-time collaboration with the Society for French Studies, RMFS has always been busy. There are 16 budget paperbacks now out, and 6 are new, across a sweep of time from medieval manuscripts to modern detective fiction:

Jean-François Vilar: Theatres Of Crime, by Margaret Atack (Research Monographs in French Studies 51)
Ying Chen’s Fiction: An Aesthetics of Non-Belonging, by Rosalind Silvester (Research Monographs in French Studies 57)
The Poetry of Céline Arnauld: From Dada to Ultra-Modern, by Ruth Hemus (Research Monographs in French Studies 58)
The Philomena of Chrétien the Jew: The Semiotics of Evil, by Peter Haidu, edited by Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner (Research Monographs in French Studies 59)
Louis-René des Forêts and Inner Autobiography, by Ian Maclachlan (Research Monographs in French Studies 60)
The Language of Disease: Writing Syphilis in Nineteenth-Century France, by Steven Wilson (Research Monographs in French Studies 62)

Studies In Comparative Literature

Produced with the British Comparative Literature Association, the SICL series now reaches 14 paperbacks, with three additions today - as luck would have it, all rooted in the 19th century:

Samuel Butler and the Science of the Mind: Evolution, Heredity and Unconscious Memory, by Cristiano Turbil (Studies In Comparative Literature 48)
Metaphor in European Philosophy after Nietzsche: An Intellectual History, by Andrew Hines (Studies In Comparative Literature 54)
Mary Shelley and Europe: Essays in Honour of Jean de Palacio, edited by Antonella Braida (Studies In Comparative Literature 55)

Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures

And another collaboration, with the Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland, the SHLC series is the current leader of the pack for our paperback line, with 28 titles out: and four are new today.

Catalan Narrative 1875-2015, edited by Jordi Larios and Montserrat Lunati (Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures 16)
Contemporary Galician Women Writers, by Catherine Barbour (Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures 39)
Twentieth-Century Sephardic Authors from the Former Yugoslavia: A Judeo-Spanish Tradition, by Željko Jovanović (Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures 41)
Memory and Utopia: The Poetry of José Ángel Valente, by Manus O’Dwyer (Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures 44)

Transcript

The lively and wide-ranging Transcript series, which takes a very creative and free-flowing approach to translation and adaptation theory, is still fairly new: but it has 10 paperbacks out, now including these -

Adapting the Canon: Mediation, Visualization, Interpretation, edited by Ann Lewis and Silke Arnold-de Simine (Transcript 1)
Zola and the Art of Television: Adaptation, Recreation, Translation, by Kate Griffiths (Transcript 3)
The First English Translations of Molière: Drama in Flux 1663-1732, by Suzanne Jones (Transcript 13)

And we also have paperbacks out in our Studies in Yiddish and Moving Image series, and will soon have paperbacks from Visual Culture, too... but that is a story for another day.