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• Introduction : is progress more?
• Everyone's a photographer now : the case of digital photography
• Equality
• Privacy
• Distributive justice (or "fairer uses")
• Precarity and institutional failures.

"When first written into the Constitution, intellectual property aimed to facilitate "progress of science and the useful arts" by granting rights to authors and inventors. The internet age has rendered more uncertain and fraught both the method of property rights and its purpose to promote knowledge and invention. Today, when rapid technological evolution accompanies growing wealth inequality and political and social divisiveness, the constitutional goal of "progress" may pertain to more basic, human values, redirecting IP's emphasis to the commonweal instead of private interests. Against Progress considers contemporary debates about intellectual property law as concerning the relationship between the constitutional mandate of progress and fundamental values, such as equality, privacy, and distributive justice, that are increasingly challenged in today's internet age. Following a legal analysis of various intellectual property court cases, Jessica Silbey examines the experiences of everyday creators and innovators navigating ownership, sharing, and self- and community sustainability within the internet eco-system and current IP laws. Their accounts expose intellectual property law as a framework through which to discuss essential socio-political issues. Crucially, the book encourages refiguring the substance of "progress" and the function of intellectual property in terms that demonstrate the urgency of art and science to social justice today"-- Provided by publisher.

• Machine generated contents note: Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Rethinking Ahab: Melville and the Materialist Turn
• Meredith Farmer
• Part I. Ontologies
• 1. Sailing without Ahab
• Steve Mentz
• 2. Ambiental Cogito: Ahab with Whales
• Branka Arsić
• 3. Ahab after Agency
• Mark D. Noble
• 4. Thinking with a Wrinkled Brow; or, Herman Melville, Catherine Malabou, and the Brains of New Materialism
• Christian P. Haines
• Part II. Relations
• 5. Phantom Empathy: Ahab and Mirror-Touch Synesthesia
• Pilar Martínez Benedí and Ralph James Savarese
• 6. Phenomenology beyond the Phantom Limb: Melvillean Figuration and Chronic Pain
• Michael D. Snediker
• 7.'The King is a Thing'; or, Ahab as Subject of the Unconscious: A Lacanian Materialist Reading
• Russell Sbriglia
• 8. Approaching Ahab Blind
• Christopher Castiglia
• Part III. Politics
• 9. 'this post-mortemizing of the whale': The Vapors of Materialism, New and Old
• Bonnie Honig
• 10.Ahab's Electromagnetic Constitution
• Donald E. Pease
• 11. The Whiteness of the Will: Ahab and the Matter of Monomania
• Jonathan D. S. Schroeder
• 12. Diet on the Pequod and the Wreck of Reason
• Jonathan Lamb
• Part IV. New Melvilles
• 13. Ahab's After-Life: The Tortoises of 'The Encantadas'
• Matthew A. Taylor
• 14. Israel Potter; or, the Excrescence
• Colin Dayan
• 15.Melville, Materiality, and the Social Hieroglyphics of Leisure and Labor
• Ivy Wilson
• 16. Melville's Basement Tapes
• John Modern
• Afterword: Melville Among the Materialists
• Samuel Otter
• Acknowledgments
• Contributors
• Index.

"For years critics have viewed Herman Melville's Captain Ahab as the paradigm of a strong, controlling agent. Farmer and Schroeder's volume aims to rethink Ahab through a series of "materialist" frames, including posthumanism, disability studies, affect theory, animal studies, environmental humanities, systems theory, and oceanic studies. The essays here recast Ahab as a contingent figure, transformed by his environment--by chemistry, electromagnetism, entomology, meteorology, diet, illness, pain, trauma, and neurons firing--in ways that unexpectedly force us to see him as worthy of our empathy and our compassion. Collectively these materialist readings challenge our ways of thinking about the boundaries of both persons and actions, along with the racist and environmental violence caused by 'personhood' and by the 'human"-- Provided by publisher.

"In the years between the independence of the colonies from Britain and the start of the Jacksonian age, American readers consumed an enormous number of literary texts called 'fragments.' American Fragments recovers this archive of the romantic period to raise a set of pressing questions about the relationship between aesthetic and national realities: What kind of artistic creation was a fragment?, And how and why did deliberately unfinished writing emerge alongside a country that was itself still unfinished? Through discussions of eighteenth-century transatlantic aesthetics, the Revolutionary War, seduction novels, religious culture, and the construction of authorship, Daniel Diez Couch argues that the literary fragment was used as a means of representing individuals who did not fit neatly into the social fabric of the nation: beggars, prostitutes, veterans, and other ostracized figures. These individuals did not have a secure place in designs for the country's future, yet writers wielded the artistic form of the fragment as an apparatus for surveying their disputed positionality. Time and again, fragments asked what kind of identity marginalized individuals had, and how fictionalized versions of their life stories influenced the sociopolitical circumstances of the emergent nation. In their most progressive moments, the writers of fragments depicted their subjects as being 'in process,' opting for a fluid version of the self instead of the bounded and coherent one typically hailed as the liberal individual. Traversing aesthetics, political philosophy, material culture, and history, American Fragments gives new life to a literary form that at once played a significant role in the print ecology of the early republic, and that endures in the works of modernist and postmodernist writers and artists."-- Provided by publisher.

"Aurelia, Auřlia begins on a boat. The author, sixteen years old, is traveling to Europe at an age when one can 'try on personae like dresses.' She has the confidence of a teenager cultivating her earliest obsessions--Woolf, Durrell, Bergman--sure of her maturity, sure of the life that awaits her. Soon she finds herself in a Greece far drearier than the Greece of fantasy, 'climbing up and down the steep paths every morning with the real old women, looking for kindling.' At its center is the death of her husband, Eric. The book unfolds as a study of their marriage, its deep joys and stinging frustrations; it is also a book about time, the inexorable events that determine beginnings and endings. The preoccupations that mark Davis's fiction are recognizable here--fateful voyages, an intense sense of place, the unexpected union of the magical and the real--but the vehicle itself is utterly new." -- Inside front book jacket flap.
"Kathryn Davis's hypnotic new book is a meditation on the way imagination shapes life, and how life, as it moves forward, shapes imagination. At its center is the death of her husband, Eric. The book unfolds as a study of their marriage, its deep joys and stinging frustrations; it is also a book about time, the inexorable events that determine beginnings and endings." -- Publisher's description.

• Introduction
• Uncomfortable rites in Early Republican Freemasonry
• Conventional behavior in the America Bible Society
• Involuntary association in the American Seamen's Friend Society
• The head and the hands in Catharine Beecher's domesticity
• Epilogue : awkward ritual, once more with feeling.

"In the years between the American Revolution and the Civil War, there was an awkward persistence of sovereign rituals, vestiges of a monarchical past that were not easy to shed. In Awkward Rituals, Dana Logan focuses our attention on these performances, revealing the ways in which governance in the Early Republic was characterized by white Protestants reenacting the hierarchical authority of a seemingly rejected king. With her unique focus on embodied action, rather than the more common focus on discourse or law, Logan makes an original contribution to debates about the relative completeness of America's Revolution. Awkward Rituals theorizes an under-examined form of action: rituals that do not feel natural even if they sometimes feel good. This account challenges common notions of ritual as a force that binds society and synthesizes the self. Ranging from Freemason initiations to evangelical societies to missionaries posing as sailors, Logan shows how white Protestants promoted a class-based society while simultaneously trumpeting egalitarianism. She thus redescribes ritual as a box to check, a chore to complete, an embarrassing display of theatrical verve. In Awkward Rituals, Logan emphasizes how ritual distinctively captures what does not change through revolution."-- Provided by publisher.

"Race, in the early modern period, is a concept at the crossroads of a set of overlapping concerns of lineage, religion, and nation. In Bad Humor, Kimberly Anne Coles charts how these concerns converged around a pseudoscientific system that confirmed the absolute difference between Protestants and Catholics, guaranteed the noble quality of English blood, and justified English colonial domination. Coles delineates the process whereby religious error, first resident in the body, becomes marked on the skin. Early modern medical theory bound together psyche and soma in mutual influence. By the end of the sixteenth century, there is a general acceptance that the soul's condition, as a consequence of religious belief or its absence, could be manifest in the humoral disposition of the physical body. The history that this book unfolds describes developments in natural philosophy in the early part of the sixteenth century that force a subsequent reconsideration of the interactions of body and soul and that bring medical theory and theological discourse into close, even inextricable, contact. With particular consideration to how these ideas are reflected in texts by Elizabeth Cary, John Donne, Ben Jonson, William Shakespeare, Edmund Spenser, Mary Wroth, and others, Coles reveals how science and religion meet nascent capitalism and colonial endeavor to create a taxonomy of Christians in Black and White."-- Provided by publisher.

"A new poetry collection by Shane McCrae"-- Provided by publisher.
Cain Named the Animal expands upon the biblical, heavenly world that McCrae has been building throughout his previous collections; he writes of Eden, of the lost tribe that watched time enter the garden and God rehearse the world, and of the cartoon torments of hell. Yet for McCrae, these outer bounds of our universe are inseparable from the lives and deaths on Earth, from the mundanities and miracles of time passing and people growing up, growing old, and growing apart. As he writes, "God first thought time itself / Was flawed but time was God's first mirror."

• Deciduous
• Love poem
• Saint sorry
• Variations on a phrase by Cormac McCarthy
• Melting equestrian
• Bearded iris
• The Wayfarer
• Sleeping Bear
• The long run
• Not so much an end as an entangling
• Love poem
• Horse in a gas mask
• Fragment
• Archival
• Interior, 1917
• Epithalamion
• Ram of the week
• Narrow flame
• If the cure for AIDS
• A knitted femur
• Slip
• Uncorrected vision
• Scandinavian grim
• Environmental
• When nothing but tree.

"Linda Gregerson's urgent new collection is a tour de force, a compendium of lives touched by the radical fragility of the planet and, ultimately, the endless astonishment and paradox of being human within the larger ecosystem, "in a world where every breath I take is luck""-- Provided by publisher.

• Rules of the game
• Secrets of the line
• Accentuating the negative

"This book places two vernacular poetries of the long Viking Age into conversation, revealing their membership in a single community of taste, a traditional stylistic ecology that did serious political and historical work. Each chapter seeks the codes of a now-extinct verse technique. The first explores the underlying architecture of the two poetries, their irregularities of pace, startling formal conventions, and tight verbal detail work. The passage of time has worn away most of the circumstantial details that literary scholars in later periods take for granted, but the public relations savvy and aural and syntactic signals of early northern verse remain to some extent retrievable and relatable, an etiquette prized and presumably understood by its audiences. The second and longest chapter investigates the techniques used by early northern poets to retrieve and organize the symmetries of language. It illustrates how supererogatory alliteration and rhyme functioned as aural punctuation, marking off structural units and highlighting key moments in the texts. The third and final chapter describes the extent to which both corpora reveled in negations, litotes, indirection, and down-toners, modes that forced audiences to read between half-lines, to hear what was not said. By decluttering and stripping away excess, by drawing words through a tight mesh of meter, alliteration, and rhyme, the early northern poet filtered out dross and stitched together a poetics of stark contrasts and forebodings. Poets and lovers of poetry of all periods and places will find much to enjoy here. So will students in Old English and Old Norse courses."-- Provided by publisher

• Part 1: Readings
• Taking the Thread of Mary Wroth's "A Crowne of Sonnets Dedicated to Love" / Jennifer Higginbotham
• Margaret Cavendish's Forms: Literary Formalism and the Figures of Margaret Cavendish's Atom Poems / Liza Blake
• Margaret Cavendish and the Recipe Form in Poems and Fancies / Edith Snook
• Building/s with Form: Dorothy Calthorpe's Castle and Chapel / Julie A. Eckerle
• Gendering the Emblem: Hester Pulter's Formal Experimentation / Victoria E. Burke
• Part 2: Conversations
• Surface Desires: Reading Female Friendship in the Epistolary Archive / Dianne Mitchell
• Mary Wroth's Urania Manuscript: Poems in Their Proper Places / Paul Salzman
• Katherine Philips's Monument: The Genre of "Wiston Vault" / Stephen Guy-Bray
• Formalism Dispossessed: Pulter, Donne, and the Obliviated Urn / Marshelle Woodward
• Part 3: Pedagogies
• Collaborative Close Readings: Anne Vaughan Lock's Sonnets in the Undergraduate Survey Course / Lauren Shook
• Teaching Early Modern Women's Writing through Literary and Material Form / Elizabeth Zeman Kolkovich
• "Shew my selfe a louing Mother, and a dutifull Wife": Teaching the Modesty Trope in Early Modern Women's Texts in a Twenty-first Century Classroom / Margaret J.M. Ezell
• "The Idea of a Woman": Teaching Gender and Poetic Form in Early Modern Elegy / Sarah C.E. Ross
• Quixotic Pedagogy and Attention in the Early Modern Literature Classroom / Andrew Black.

"This volume examines the relationship between gender and form in early modern women's writing by exploring women's debts to and appropriations of different literary genres, and offering practical suggestions for the teaching of women's texts in several different contexts"-- Provided by publisher.

"In Fictions of Consent Urvashi Chakravarty excavates the ideologies of slavery that took root in early modern England in the period that preceded the development of an organized trade in enslaved persons. Despite the persistent fiction that England was innocent of racialized slavery, Chakravarty argues that the ideologies of slavery were seeded in the quotidian spaces of English life and in the everyday contexts of England's service society, from the family to the household, in the theater and, especially, the grammar school classroom, where the legacies of classical slavery and race were inherited and negotiated"-- Provided by publisher

• The Constitutional Consequences of Commercial Crisis: The Role of Trade Reconsidered in the Critical Period / Dael A. Norwood
• America's Court: George Washington's Mount Vernon in the Critical Period / Douglas Bradburn
• Abolitionists, Congress, and the Atlantic Slave Trade: Before and after Ratification / Nicholas P. Wood
• Federalism on the Frontier: Secession and Loyalty in the Trans-Appalachian West / Susan Gaunt Stearns
• "Such a Spirit of Innovation": The American Revolution and the Creation of States / Christopher R. Pearl
• Something from Nothing? Currency and Finance in the Critical Period / Hannah Farber
• An Excess of Aristocracy: Democracy and the Fear of Aristocratic Power in the 1780s / Kevin Butterfield
• Epilogue: Turn Down the Volume! / Johann N. Neem.

"This volume re-examines the 1780s in American history, a crucial period when the Revolutionary generation worked out new political, economic, and social parameters that came to define the subsequent trajectory of the United States"-- Provided by publisher.

"This anthology brings together a transnational selection of literature, some translated into English, about the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804), from the beginnings of the conflicts that resulted in it to the end of the nineteenth century. It includes contextualizing headnotes and footnotes"-- Provided by publisher.

• The invention of Shakespeare
• The desire and pursuit of the whole
• No sense of an ending
• Lascivious grace: seductive evil in Shakespeare and Jonson
• The poetics of incomprehensibility
• Two household friends: The plausibility of Romeo and Juliet Q1
• Getting things wrong
• Food for thought
• Revising King Lear
• Venice at the Globe
• Danny Scheie's Shakespeare
• Shakespeare all'italiana.

"In The Invention of Shakespeare, and Other Essays Stephen Orgel brings together twelve essays that consider the complex nature of Shakespearean texts, often including errors or confusions, and the editorial and interpretive strategies for dealing with them in commentary or performance. 'There is always some underlying claim that we are getting back to 'what Shakespeare actually wrote,' Orgel writes, 'but obviously that is not true: we clarify, we modernize, we undo muddles, we correct or explain (or explain away) errors, all in the interests of getting a clear, readable, unproblematic text. In short, we produce the text that we want him to, or think he must have written. But one thing we really do know about Shakespeare's original text is that it was hard to read.""-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction: On Shelley and Keats
• Why Read Keats?
• Keats Amid the Alien Corn
• Isabella in the Marketplace: Keats and Feminism
• Keats’s Formal Legacy and the Victorians
• Keats Meets Coleridge
• Shelley’s Adonais and John Keats
• Shelley and the Heart’s Echoes
• Shelley and his Contemporaries
• Shelley’s Doubles: An Approach to Julian and Maddalo
• ‘Mechanism of a kind yet unattempted’: the Dramatic Action of Prometheus Unbound
• ‘Ozymandias’: The Text in Time
• ‘Newly unfrozen senses and imagination’: Shelley's Translation of the Symposium and his Development as a Writer in Italy.

"Keats and Shelley: Winds of Light combines unrivalled textual knowledge, biographical and contextual expertise, and profoundly insightful close readings of the poetry in a selection of outstanding essays from a leading critic of English Romantic Poetry. Some of the essays have been previously published and are established as classic studies, which have strongly influenced scholarly interpretation of the poems they discuss, including landmark readings of Shelley's Prometheus Unbound, 'Julian and Maddalo' and 'Ozymandias', and Keats's 'Isabella: or the Pot of Basil' and his sonnet 'On First Looking into Chapman's Homer'. These are brought into relationship with new work on the two poets, in a wide-ranging set of meditations which centre on Shelley's great elegy for Keats, Adonais. An introductory chapter considers the strongly contrasting poetic styles and achievement of the two iconic 'young Romantics', a contrast which has been obscured by their conventional close pairing in popular culture. Five studies of Keats are followed by a pivotal account of Shelley's elaborately-wrought poetic tribute to Keats's destined greatness, which leads in to a balancing six studies of Shelley. Both poets are situated illuminatingly in their literary, personal, and social-historical milieu, through a series of perspectives which combine lucid particularity with powerful generalization. The essays move from detailed analysis of textual minutiae to deep reflection on fundamental themes in the work of Keats and Shelley, including the ultimate themes of transience and permanence, and of life, death, and immortality."-- Dust jacket.

• Introduction: Data and the matter of Black life. Undisciplining data ; The social life of racial data ; Racial data, visual revolutions ; The aesthetics of data ; Undisciplining as method ; Overview
• The social survey : the survey spirit. "The survey spirit" : origins, evolution, and the radical operations of the social survey ; "Ugly facts" and (anti)social data : Kelly Miller, the American Negro Academy, and the call for the social survey ; A book to do some good : Kelly Miller, Sutton Griggs, and the emergence of social document fiction ; Faulty surfaces, unruly eyes ; Everywhere and nowhere : the social survey's nongeography
• Photography : looking out. Seeing survival ; Deep black mourning : lynching's (anti)photographic logic ; "Let them see" : photography, performance, and reform ; Looking out : toward a new visual epistemology of survival ; Photographically hesitant : the visual politics of W. E. B. Du Bois's "Jesus Christ in Georgia"
• Film: overexposure. Beyond the frame : overexposure and Zora Hurston's Filmic Practice ; "Drenched in light" ; Recording racial feeling ; Contraband flesh ; Cinematics of Negro expression
• Coda: Racial data's afterlives.

"What did the "Negro problem," as it was called at the turn of the twentieth century, look like? Autumn Womack's study examines efforts to visualize Black social life through new technologies and disciplines-from photography and film to statistics-in the decades between 1880 and 1930. Womack describes nothing less than a "racial data revolution," one in which social scientists, reformers, and theorists rendered Black life an inanimate object of inquiry. At the very same time, Black cultural producers staged their own kind of revolution, undisciplining racial data in ways that challenged normative visual regimes and capturing the dynamism of Black social life. Womack focuses on figures like W.E.B DuBois, Kelly Miller, Sutton Griggs, and Zora Neale Hurston, as well as lesser-known editors, social reformers, and performers. She shows how they harnessed media as diverse as the social survey, the novel, the stage, and early motion pictures to reform visual practices and recalibrate the relationship between data and black life"-- Provided by publisher.

• Einleitung / Evelyn Dueck und Sandro Zanetti
• "Das : damals und dort : Gesagte" : Paul Celans Briefe und die Entwicklung seiner Poetik / Barbara Wiedemann
• Celans Poetik der Begegnung und die Wiederkehr des Unheimlichen : Von Mandelstam zu Heidegger / Christine Ivanovic
• Die Ellipse, der Körper und Paul Celans Poetik der Berührung / Yvonne Al-Taie
• "Dichtung : das ist das schicksalhaft Einmalige der Sprache" : Celans Poetologie als Herausforderung literarischer Mehrsprachigkeitsforschung heute / Esther Kilchmann
• Anders einsprachig : Celan in Derridas Sprachphilosophie / Dirk Weissmann
• Vielstimmigkeit : Celans prosaische Lyrik / Ralf Simon
• Automatisches Leben, Poetik der Sterblichkeit : Celans Dichtungstheorie und David Wills' Inanimation / Charles de Roche
• "Sinneinwärts" : On Two Forms of Openness in Celan / Cory Stockwell
• Celans Lachen / Christian Metz
• Zu den Autorinnen und Autoren.