James Russell Lowell Prizewinners

1.
The Unsettlement of America: Translation, Interpretation, and the Story of Don Luis de Velasco, 1560-1945
The Unsettlement of America: Translation, Interpretation, and the Story of Don Luis de Velasco, 1560-1945 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
2.
Posthumous Love: Eros and the Afterlife in Renaissance England
Posthumous Love: Eros and the Afterlife in Renaissance England 3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings
3.
The Watchman in Pieces: Surveillance, Literature, and Liberal Personhood
The Watchman in Pieces: Surveillance, Literature, and Liberal Personhood 4.42 avg rating — 12 ratings
4.
Novelty: A History of the New
Novelty: A History of the New 4.30 avg rating — 23 ratings
5.
Our Aesthetic Categories: Zany, Cute, Interesting
Our Aesthetic Categories: Zany, Cute, Interesting 4.31 avg rating — 329 ratings
6.
How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain
How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain 3.81 avg rating — 54 ratings
7.
Slavery and the Culture of Taste
Slavery and the Culture of Taste 3.82 avg rating — 33 ratings
8.
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern 3.87 avg rating — 34,485 ratings
9.
Developmental Fairy Tales: Evolutionary Thinking and Modern Chinese Culture
Developmental Fairy Tales: Evolutionary Thinking and Modern Chinese Culture 3.50 avg rating — 8 ratings
10.
Removable Type: Histories of the Book in Indian Country, 1663-1880
Removable Type: Histories of the Book in Indian Country, 1663-1880 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 18 ratings
11.
The Passage to Cosmos: Alexander von Humboldt and the Shaping of America
The Passage to Cosmos: Alexander von Humboldt and the Shaping of America 4.10 avg rating — 40 ratings
12.
The Un-Americans: Jews, the Blacklist, and Stoolpigeon Culture (Series Q)
The Un-Americans: Jews, the Blacklist, and Stoolpigeon Culture (Series Q) 3.38 avg rating — 8 ratings
13.
Victorian Glassworlds: Glass Culture and the Imagination 1830-1880
Victorian Glassworlds: Glass Culture and the Imagination 1830-1880 4.43 avg rating — 14 ratings
14.
The Tenth Muse: Writing about Cinema in the Modernist Period
The Tenth Muse: Writing about Cinema in the Modernist Period 4.30 avg rating — 10 ratings
15.
Poetry of the Revolution: Marx, Manifestos, and the Avant-Gardes
Poetry of the Revolution: Marx, Manifestos, and the Avant-Gardes 4.10 avg rating — 29 ratings
16.
Through Other Continents: American Literature across Deep Time
Through Other Continents: American Literature across Deep Time 3.71 avg rating — 42 ratings
17.
The Prose of Things: Transformations of Description in the Eighteenth Century
The Prose of Things: Transformations of Description in the Eighteenth Century 4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings
18.
Eighteenth-Century Women Poets and Their Poetry: Inventing Agency, Inventing Genre
Eighteenth-Century Women Poets and Their Poetry: Inventing Agency, Inventing Genre really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
19.
What Do Pictures Want?: The Lives and Loves of Images
What Do Pictures Want?: The Lives and Loves of Images 3.89 avg rating — 316 ratings
20.
The Sense of an Interior
The Sense of an Interior 4.12 avg rating — 24 ratings
21.
The Laws of Cool: Knowledge Work and the Culture of Information
The Laws of Cool: Knowledge Work and the Culture of Information
by: Alan Liu
3.88 avg rating — 40 ratings
22.
At the Margins of the Renaissance: Lazarillo De Tormes and the Picaresque Art of Survival
At the Margins of the Renaissance: Lazarillo De Tormes and the Picaresque Art of Survival 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
23.
The Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation, and the Rise of Black Internationalism
The Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation, and the Rise of Black Internationalism 3.99 avg rating — 99 ratings
24.
The Dominion of the Dead
The Dominion of the Dead 4.18 avg rating — 194 ratings
25.
Cervantes in Algiers: A Captive's Tale
Cervantes in Algiers: A Captive's Tale 3.50 avg rating — 12 ratings
26.
Poetry and the Fate of the Senses
Poetry and the Fate of the Senses 4.05 avg rating — 88 ratings
27.
Staging Domesticity: Household Work and English Identity in Early Modern Drama (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture, Series Number 41)
Staging Domesticity: Household Work and English Identity in Early Modern Drama (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture, Series Number 41) 4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings
28.
Radiant Textuality: Literary Studies after the World Wide Web
Radiant Textuality: Literary Studies after the World Wide Web 3.43 avg rating — 51 ratings
29.
On the Psychotheology of Everyday Life: Reflections on Freud and Rosenzweig
On the Psychotheology of Everyday Life: Reflections on Freud and Rosenzweig 4.07 avg rating — 44 ratings
30.
Renaissance Clothing and the Materials of Memory (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture, Series Number 38)
Renaissance Clothing and the Materials of Memory (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture, Series Number 38) 4.30 avg rating — 33 ratings
31.
Wonder and Science: Imagining Worlds in Early Modern Europe
Wonder and Science: Imagining Worlds in Early Modern Europe 3.56 avg rating — 18 ratings
32.
Outside the Fold - Conversion, Modernity, and Belief
Outside the Fold - Conversion, Modernity, and Belief 4.07 avg rating — 15 ratings
33.
Mary Moody Emerson and the Origins of Transcendentalism: A Family History
Mary Moody Emerson and the Origins of Transcendentalism: A Family History 4.20 avg rating — 15 ratings
34.
Chaucerian Polity: Absolutist Lineages and Associational Forms in England and Italy
Chaucerian Polity: Absolutist Lineages and Associational Forms in England and Italy liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
35.
Ancients against Moderns: Culture Wars and the Making of a Fin de Siècle
Ancients against Moderns: Culture Wars and the Making of a Fin de Siècle 4.25 avg rating — 12 ratings
36.
The Fateful Question of Culture
The Fateful Question of Culture 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
37.
Cities of the Dead
Cities of the Dead 4.09 avg rating — 134 ratings
38.
Residues of Justice: Literature, Law, Philosophy
Residues of Justice: Literature, Law, Philosophy 3.90 avg rating — 10 ratings
39.
Primitive Passions: Visuality, Sexuality, Ethnography, and Contemporary Chinese Cinema
Primitive Passions: Visuality, Sexuality, Ethnography, and Contemporary Chinese Cinema
by: Rey Chow
3.93 avg rating — 44 ratings
40.
Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew
Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew 4.34 avg rating — 225 ratings
41.
Equivocal Beings: Politics, Gender, and Sentimentality in the 1790s: Wollstonecraft, Radcliffe, Burney, Austen
Equivocal Beings: Politics, Gender, and Sentimentality in the 1790s: Wollstonecraft, Radcliffe, Burney, Austen 4.21 avg rating — 29 ratings
42.
Nobody's Story: The Vanishing Acts of Women Writers in the Marketplace, 1670-1820 (New Historicism-Studies in Cultural Poetics, No. 31) (Volume 31)
Nobody's Story: The Vanishing Acts of Women Writers in the Marketplace, 1670-1820 (New Historicism-Studies in Cultural Poetics, No. 31) (Volume 31) 3.94 avg rating — 16 ratings
43.
To Wake the Nations: Race in the Making of American Literature
To Wake the Nations: Race in the Making of American Literature really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 38 ratings
44.
Forms of Nationhood: The Elizabethan Writing of England
Forms of Nationhood: The Elizabethan Writing of England 4.14 avg rating — 21 ratings
45.
In My Father's House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture
In My Father's House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture 3.91 avg rating — 191 ratings
46.
Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation
Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation 4.15 avg rating — 356 ratings
47.
The Office of The Scarlet Letter
The Office of The Scarlet Letter 3.33 avg rating — 18 ratings
48.
Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7,446 ratings
49.
Epistemology of the Closet
Epistemology of the Closet 4.10 avg rating — 2,260 ratings
50.
A New History of French Literature
A New History of French Literature 4.43 avg rating — 23 ratings
51.
Figures of Ill Repute: Representing Prostitution in Nineteenth-Century France
Figures of Ill Repute: Representing Prostitution in Nineteenth-Century France 3.89 avg rating — 18 ratings
52.
Breaking and Remaking: Aesthetic Practice in England, 1700-1820
Breaking and Remaking: Aesthetic Practice in England, 1700-1820 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
53.
Shakespearean Negotiations: The Circulation of Social Energy in Renaissance England
Shakespearean Negotiations: The Circulation of Social Energy in Renaissance England 3.99 avg rating — 159 ratings
54.
The Origins of the English Novel, 1600-1740
The Origins of the English Novel, 1600-1740 3.75 avg rating — 65 ratings
55.
Dostoevsky: The Stir of Liberation, 1860-1865
Dostoevsky: The Stir of Liberation, 1860-1865 4.49 avg rating — 210 ratings
56.
Shakespeare's Perjured Eye: The Invention of Poetic Subjectivity in the Sonnets (Winner of the Mla 1986 James Russell Lowell Prize)
Shakespeare's Perjured Eye: The Invention of Poetic Subjectivity in the Sonnets (Winner of the Mla 1986 James Russell Lowell Prize) 3.82 avg rating — 11 ratings
57.
Chaucer and the Imagery of Narrative: The First Five Canterbury Tales
Chaucer and the Imagery of Narrative: The First Five Canterbury Tales 4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings
58.
Romanesque Signs: Early Medieval Narrative and Iconography
Romanesque Signs: Early Medieval Narrative and Iconography it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
59.
The Light in Troy: Imitation and Discovery in Renaissance Poetry (Elizabethan Club Series, 7)
The Light in Troy: Imitation and Discovery in Renaissance Poetry (Elizabethan Club Series, 7) 3.89 avg rating — 9 ratings
60.
Poison Sky: Myth And Apocalypse In Ruskin
Poison Sky: Myth And Apocalypse In Ruskin it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
61.
Waldo Emerson
Waldo Emerson really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 16 ratings
62.
Modern Drama and German Classicism: Renaissance from Lessing to Brecht
Modern Drama and German Classicism: Renaissance from Lessing to Brecht 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
63.
Protestant Poetics and the Seventeenth-Century Religious Lyric
Protestant Poetics and the Seventeenth-Century Religious Lyric really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings
64.
Roots of Lyric: Primitive Poetry and Modern Poetics
Roots of Lyric: Primitive Poetry and Modern Poetics 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings
65.
The Metaphysical Novel in England and America: Dickens, Bulwer, Melville, and Hawthorne
The Metaphysical Novel in England and America: Dickens, Bulwer, Melville, and Hawthorne really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
66.
Shakespeare's Sonnets: With Analytic Commentary
Shakespeare's Sonnets: With Analytic Commentary 4.25 avg rating — 110,513 ratings
67.
Dostoevsky: The Seeds of Revolt, 1821–1849
Dostoevsky: The Seeds of Revolt, 1821–1849 4.35 avg rating — 561 ratings
68.
Structuralist Poetics: Structuralism, Linguistics and the Study of Literature
Structuralist Poetics: Structuralism, Linguistics and the Study of Literature 3.87 avg rating — 183 ratings
69.
Poetry and Change: Donne, Milton, Wordsworth, and the Equilibrium of the Present
Poetry and Change: Donne, Milton, Wordsworth, and the Equilibrium of the Present liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
70.
In My Hot Youth (Byron's Letters and Journals , #1)
In My Hot Youth (Byron's Letters and Journals , #1) 4.27 avg rating — 11 ratings
71.
Sir Walter Raleigh: The Renaissance Man and His Roles
Sir Walter Raleigh: The Renaissance Man and His Roles liked it 3.00 avg rating — 7 ratings
72.
Fictional Transfigurations of Jesus
Fictional Transfigurations of Jesus it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
73.
The Medieval Erotic Alba: Structure as Meaning
The Medieval Erotic Alba: Structure as Meaning 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
74.
Natural Supernaturalism: Tradition and Revolution in Romantic Literature
Natural Supernaturalism: Tradition and Revolution in Romantic Literature 4.15 avg rating — 173 ratings
75.
The Art of the American Folk Preacher
The Art of the American Folk Preacher really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
76.
Mysteriously Meant: The Rediscovery of Pagan Symbolism and Allegorical Interpretation in the Renaissance
Mysteriously Meant: The Rediscovery of Pagan Symbolism and Allegorical Interpretation in the Renaissance 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
77.
Samuel Beckett: Poet and Critic
Samuel Beckett: Poet and Critic really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
78.
On Extended Wings: Wallace Stevens’ Longer Poems
On Extended Wings: Wallace Stevens’ Longer Poems 3.83 avg rating — 54 ratings
79.
Dimensions of the Modern Novel: German Texts and European Contexts
Dimensions of the Modern Novel: German Texts and European Contexts it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating