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THE RHETORIC OF FICTION
Second Edition 
Wayne C. Booth
This new edition features an extensive Afterword 
in which Booth discusses important developments 
in rhetorical criticism during the past twenty 
years. A new bibliography covering those years, 
and a supplementary index to both bibliographies 
provide a unique resource both for newcomers to 
fiction studies and for those who have known and 
used this classic work over the years.
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SENTENCES
Howard Nemerov
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himself to the literary tradition without falling 
back on parody.... No one since Frost has done 
as much to move blank verse forward from where 
Wordsworth and Coleridge had left it.”—Mary 
Kinzie, Poetry
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THE REALISTIC IMAGINATION
ENGLISH FICTION 
FROM FRANKENSTEIN 
TO LADY CHATTERLEY 
George Levine
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scholarship is dazzling, the insights provocative 
and original.”—William K. Buckley, Studies in 
the Novel
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DISSEMINATION
Jacques Derrida
Translated, with an Introduction 
and Additional Notes, by Barbara Johnson 
‘ ‘Derrida. . . [weaves] a complex pattern of puns, 
verbal echoes and allusions, intended to 
‘deconstruct’ both the pretension of criticism to 
tell the truth about literature, and the pretension 
of philosophy to be the literature of truth. ’ ’
—Peter Dews, New Statesman 
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ON THE
MARGINS OF DISCOURSE
THE RELATION OF 
LITERA TURE TO LANGUA GE 
Barbara Herrnstein Smith
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clearly why we care. .. about the twin fates of 
language and literature, and why their 
study. .. may legitimately be called one of the 
liberal—that is, liberating, arts.”—Frank 
McConnell, Chronicle Review
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THE POLITICS 
OF INTERPRETATION
Revised Edition, with a new Introduction 
Edited by W. J. T. Mitchell
This volume explores the proposition that 
criticism and interpretation have a deep and 
complex relation with politics. Originally 
published in several issues of Critical Inquiry, 
these essays dramatize Orwell’s assertion that ‘ ‘in 
our age there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of 
politics.’ ”
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THE LETTEDS OE 
MADGADET FULLED

Volume 1:1817-1838 Volume II: 1839-1841
Edited by ROBERT N. HUDSPETH. Margaret Fuller (1810-1850)—pioneering feminist, Transcendentalist, 
critic, journalist, revolutionary—was one of the most influential women in the American literary circles of 
her day. Her letters—of which nearly a thousand have survived-constitute an autobiography of her 
intellectual and emotional life. These two volumes are the first in a major new series that, w hen completed, 
will make available all of the extant letters.

The first letters in Volume I are those of a seven-year-old child; the last were written by an 
uncommonly well-educated woman. They tell the story of her work with Amos Bronson Alcott and his 
experimental Temple School, of the early days of her friendship with Ralph Waldo Emerson, of the 
beginnings of her life as a writer, and of her important work as translator and critic of Goethe. The second 
volume publishes all of Margaret Fuller’s letters written from 1839 to 1841 and are addressed to such 
eminent figures as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Dav id Thoreau, William II. Channing, Elizabeth Peabody 
and Frederic H. Hedge as well as to Fuller’s family and intimate friends. These letters record the years of 
her involvement with the Transcendentalist Club and the founding of the Club’s magazine, The Dial.

Robert N. Hudspeth has made every effort to publish the letters exactly as Fuller wrote them, 
reconstructing the texts, whenever possible, from Fuller’s manuscripts. Using her journals and the 
manuscript letters of correspondents, Hudspeth has scrupulously annotated each letter with both notes 
on the texts and notes identifying the people, events, and books mentioned by Fuller.

‘The publication of Fuller’s letters will force us to reconsider Fuller’s own life, thought, and 
writings, for they present the most complete and best picture of her available. A masterful 
edition." —Joel Myerson, University of South Carolina. Columbia.

From the letters—
“As to transcendentalism and the nonsense which is talked by so many about it—I do not 
know what is meant. For myself I should say that if it is meant that I have an active 
mind frequently busy with large topics. I hope it is so—if it is meant that I am 
honored by the friendship of such men as Mr Emerson, Mr. Ripley or Mr Alcott, I 
hope it is so—but if it is meant that I cherish any opinions which interfere with 
domestic duties, cheerful courage and judgment in the practical affairs of life, I 
challenge any oral! in the little world which knows me to prove such deficiency 
from any acts of mine since I came to woman’s estate."

—From a letter to Caroline Sturgis, 16 November 1837

‘A perfectly free organ is to be offered for the expression ofindi\ idual thought and 
character There arc no party measures to be carried, no particular standard to be 
set up. A fair calm tone, a recognition of universal principles will, I hope pervade the 
essays in every form\.\ I hope there will neither be a spirit of dogmatism nor of 
compromise. That this periodical will not aim at leading public opinion, but at 
stimulating each man lo think for himself, lo think more deeply and more nobly I 
letting them see how some minds arc kept alive by a wise self-trust. ”

—On founding The Dial from a letter to William II. Channing, 22 March 1840

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