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Presents the Americas as a fertile landscape for open intellectual debate and inspired imagination, presenting literature as the reflection of a heterogeneous society.
David M. Bethea, Series Editor
Illuminating the creative processes and historical realities that shaped Pushkin’s writing, this richly annotated series reproduces each work exactly as it appeared in the final edition published during Pushkin’s lifetime, resulting in the handsome “artifactual” feel of an original Pushkin text.
Established in 1983, this series provided a yearly overview of current research and key ecological topics in the field of bird conservation in the United States.
Publishing critical studies of recent poetry, collections of essays on poetics, biographies of individual poets or groups of poets, and correspondence and memoirs, this series will document, analyze, and seek to sustain the many exciting and diverse developments in North American poetry since the 1950s.
This series is sponsored by the University of Wisconsin Foundation and the Department of History of the University of Wisconsin–Madison. The books in this series are by some of the most prominent historians in the world and are based upon a series of lectures in social and intellectual history that was inaugurated in 1976 in honor of the distinguished historian Merle Curti.
Folklore Studies in a Multicultural World publishes the first books of scholars working in folklore studies. The series emphasizes the interdisciplinary and international nature of current folklore scholarship. Funded by a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the series is a collaborative venture of the University of Illinois Press, the University Press of Mississippi, and the University of Wisconsin Press, in conjunction with the American Folklore Society.
Andrew D. Weiner and Leonard V. Kaplan, Series Editors
Illuminating culture, the law, and the human urge for transcendence, Graven Images seeks to redefine a space for the sacred in the face of post-modernist materialism.
Paul S. Boyer, Series Editor
This series offers works by distinguished historians and emerging scholars that illuminate and interpret America’s intellectual and cultural history. The focus is on the twentieth and twenty-first century, but work from all periods of American history is represented.
George W. Stocking, Jr., and Richard Handler, Series Editors
Established in 1983, and edited for many years by George W. Stocking, Jr., this series covers the history and present practice of anthropological inquiry.
James S. Donnelly, Jr., and Thomas Archdeacon, Series Editors
By linking Ireland and the Irish diaspora, this series recognizes the many forms of historical interaction between the Irish at home and abroad and the extent to which Irish diasporan history has come to rival Irish history in the maturity and sophistication of its scholarship.
James P. Danky, Christine Pawley, and Adam R. Nelson, Series Editors
Established in 2002 and fostering research and writing on the mediating role that print has played in American culture since 1876, this series considers the impact of newspapers, books of all kinds, periodicals, advertising, and ephemera, with special attention to populations on the margins of mainstream media.
Nancy L. Diekelmann, Series Editor, and Pamela Ironside, Series Assistant Editor
Aimed at both scholars in the human sciences and health care practitioners, this series examines current issues in the practice of healthcare, both in the United States and internationally. The series encourages interpretive, theoretical approaches to these issues.
Michael Patrick Gillespie, Series Editor
Examines contemporary Irish writing and society, including works of scholarship and works for the general reader.
Identifies and explores public policy issues, especially at levels of government below the federal level, reflecting the changes in federalism in recent years which have placed an increasing emphasis on the role of state and local governments.
This series is edited by in-house editors
Presents new works and reprints of novels and short stories by critically acclaimed American writers.
This series is edited by in-house editors
Presents reprints of classic works of fiction by international writers.
David I. Kertzer and David L. Featherman, Series Editors
A broad interdisciplinary spectrum of inquiry into the nature of human timetables and biographies. The series aspires to encompass the works on life periods as well as on the life course as a whole, on life-span human development, and on aging.
Fresh insight into the conditions under which the population of Latin America lives.
Prize awarded annually for the best book-length manuscript in the humanities or social sciences by an author who has not previously published a scholarly book.
Barbara E. Galli and Elliot R. Wolfson, Series Editors
Jewish thought from Moses Mendelssohn to the present, in monographs, collected essays, and anthologies concerning specific themes or thinkers, as well as edited translations and updated editions of classics in the field.
Reinhold Grimm and Jost Hermand, Series Editors
An occasional series published by the journal Monatshefte, which offers scholarly articles dealing with the literatures and cultures of German-speaking countries from both most advanced and traditional theoretical and historical perspectives.
George F. Marcus and James Clifford, Series Editors
Focusing on interdiciplinary aspects of anthropology, this series probes the dynamics of culture and the limits of representation.
Kenneth Maly, Series Editor
Provides a forum for a full and fresh thinking and rethinking of the way of phenomenology and interpretive phenomenology, i.e. hermeneutics.
This popular series of books ranges widely across Wisconsin and the Midwest, with interesting books about climbing in Devil’s Lake, walking trails, plants, birds, trout streams, Wisconsin history, Native American communities, and more.
David M. Bethea, Series Editor
Alexander Pushkin was Russia’s national poet, the founder of its modern literary language, an innovator across a broad range of genres, and a figure whose biography has generated intense interest and controversy in fields and forms as different as literature, visual art, theater, film, and music. This series publishes works of individual and joint scholarship that feature aspects of Pushkin’s creative world and times.
Informative studies of any and all aspects of everyday culture written in easy and communicative style.
Deirdre N. McCloskey and John S. Nelson, Series Editors
Established in 1985, this book series is devoted to the critical analysis and understanding of the intellectual, linguistic, and cultural methods of a variety of disciplines.
Established in 1987, this book series examines the effects of scientific knowledge on culture, both historically and currently.
Daniel Lee Kleinman and Jo Handelsman, Series Editors
This series publishes innovative and provocative work that confronts important concerns raised by the science- and technology-infused environment in which we live.
Alan L. Berger, Series Editor
Examines the Holocaust and its aftermath through works that reflect artistic, literary, psychological, religious, sociological, and theological perspectives. Continually in Jewish and, increasingly, non-Jewish thought, traditional, pre-Shoah modes of religious explanation and theological self-understanding are called radically into question.
David Sorkin, Series Editor
This series aims to shape the ways that modern Jewish history is studied and taught. Each volume will be an edited collection of documentary sources on an important theme in the modern experience of Jews, accompanied by annotations, critical notes, and scholarly introductions.
Paul S. Boyer, Series Editor
This series offers works by both established and emerging scholars in the humanities that illuminate and interpret America’s intellectual and cultural history. Wide-ranging in scope, and with an advisory board of prominent scholars, the series presents books of intellectual quality that make a significant scholarly contribution while also speaking to the broader community of thoughtful readers.
Vincent Mosco and Janet Wasko, Series Editors
Studies in Dance History volumes are published and distributed by the UW Press on behalf of the Society of Dance History Scholars.
Founded in 1988, Studies in Dance History aims to further the goals of the Society of Dance History Scholars by making widely available the extraordinarily rich and diverse scholarship that takes dance as its subject, ranging from new methods of historical inquiry to multiple theoretical perspectives.
Paul Mendes-Flohr, Series Editor
Examines the culture of modernity through the prism of German Jewish cultural and literary history.
Judi Kesselman-Turkel and Franklynn Peterson, Series Editors
Designed for students from junior high school through lifelong learning programs, this series teaches skills for studying, spelling, and vocabulary building.
Helps students and professionals develop the vocabulary and the knowledge of grammar necessary to read and translate Japanese technical documents.
Terrace Books is not a series, but an imprint. For more information, and a list of books under this imprint, see Terrace Books.
Established in 1984, this book series focuses on the reexamining and reevaluating of American literature from contemporary critical perspectives.
William L. Andrews, Series Editor
Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography published original autobiographical writing as well as historical and critical investigations of autobiography, biography, diary, letters, and related forms of life writing.
(Note this is a different series than Wisconsin Film Studies, above)
Established in 1991, this book series explores film history, genres, film studies, and noteworthy practitioners of the art of cinema.
Tino Balio, Series Editor
Published for the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research, the Wisconsin/Warner Bros. Screenplays series, a product of the Warner Bros. Film Library, will enable film scholars, students, researchers, and aficionados to gain insights into individual American films of the Golden Age of Hollywood in ways never before possible.
Susana Chávez-Silverman, Paul Allatson, Silvia D. Spitta, and Rafael Campo, Series Editors
Autobiographical works—including memoirs, journals, collections of letters, and performance pieces—by Latino and Latina writers who live in the United States.
