Spotlight
New Books by English Faculty
Department faculty are continually publishing important works of criticism, fiction, poetry, and essays. Below we are featuring three of these publications. In a few weeks, we’ll spotlight three different works.
Recent or Forthcoming Books by English Faculty
- Their Dogs Came With Them
- Their Dogs Came With Them (Simon and Schuster, 2007) is the latest novel by award winning author Helena Maria Viramontes. She offers a profoundly gritty portrait of everyday life in L.A. in this lyrically muscular, artfully crafted novel. Julia Alvarez has called Viramontes “one of the important Multicultural voices of American literature.”
- Reading the Nineteenth Century Novel
- Alison Case (Williams College) and Harry E. Shaw of the Department of English at Cornell offer students and teachers a close analysis of nineteenth-century novels by ten major authors: Austen, Eliot, Scott, Thackeray, Gaskell, Dickens, Trollope, Braddon, and the Brontë sisters in their recent book Reading the Nineteenth Century Novel (Blackwell Publishing, 2008).
- Frame, Glass, Verse: The Technology of Poetic Invention in the English Renaissance
- In a book that draws attention to some of our most familiar and unquestioned habits of thought-from “framing” to “perspective” to “reflection-Rayna Kalas suggests that metaphors of the poetic imagination were once distinctly material and technical in character. Frame, Glass, Verse: The Technology of Poetic Invention in the English Renaissance was published by Cornell University press in 2006.