James Russell Lowell PrizeWinner

Given by Modern Language Association (MLA)

53 Works 7,940 Books 159 Reviews ½ 3.9
The Committee on Honors and Awards of the Modern Language Association invites authors to compete for the annual James Russell Lowell Prize, which will be awarded for a scholarly book published by show more a current member of the association. To qualify for the prize, a book must be an outstanding literary or linguistic study, a critical edition of an important work, or a critical biography. Studies dealing with literary theory, media, cultural history, and interdisciplinary topics are eligible; books that are primarily translations will not be considered. The prize, which consists of a cash award and a certificate, will be presented to the winning author at the association's annual convention show less
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Winner 53

WorkYear
Black aliveness, or a poetics of being by Kevin Quashie2021
The Prosthetic Imagination: A History of the Novel as Artificial Life by Peter Boxall2020
Fiction Without Humanity: Person, Animal, Thing in Early Enlightenment Literature and Culture by Lynn Festa2019
Runaway Genres: The Global Afterlives of Slavery by Yogita Goyal2019
Outsider Theory: Intellectual Histories of Questionable Ideas by Jonathan Eburne2018
Tough Enough: Arbus, Arendt, Didion, McCarthy, Sontag, Weil by Deborah Nelson2017
Bird relics: grief and vitalism in Thoreau by Branka Arsic2016
Forms: whole, rhythm, hierarchy, network by Caroline Levine2015
The Unsettlement of America: Translation, Interpretation, and the Story of Don Luis de Velasco, 1560-1945 by Anna Brickhouse2014
The Watchman in Pieces: Surveillance, Literature, and Liberal Personhood by David Rosen2013
Our Aesthetic Categories: Zany, Cute, Interesting by Sianne Ngai2012
Slavery and the Culture of Taste by Simon Gikandi2011
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt2011
Developmental Fairy Tales: Evolutionary Thinking and Modern Chinese Culture by Andrew F. Jones2011
Removable Type: Histories of the Book in Indian Country, 1663-1880 by Phillip H. Round2010
The Un-Americans: Jews, the Blacklist, and Stoolpigeon Culture (Series Q) by Joseph Litvak2009
The Passage to Cosmos: Alexander von Humboldt and the Shaping of America by Laura Dassow Walls2009
Victorian Glassworlds: Glass Culture and the Imagination 1830-1880 by Isobel Armstrong2008
The Tenth Muse: Writing about Cinema in the Modernist Period by Laura Marcus2007
Poetry of the Revolution: Marx, Manifestos, and the Avant-Gardes by Martin Puchner2006
Eighteenth-Century Women Poets and Their Poetry: Inventing Agency, Inventing Genre by Paula R. Backscheider2005
What Do Pictures Want?: The Lives and Loves of Images by W. J. T. Mitchell2005
The Sense of an Interior: Four Rooms and the Writers that Shaped Them by Diana Fuss2004
Cervantes in Algiers: A Captive's Tale by Maria Antonia Garces2002
Radiant Textuality: Literature after the World Wide Web by Jerome McGann2001
Renaissance Clothing and the Materials of Memory by Ann Rosalind Jones2000
Wonder & Science: Imagining Worlds in Early Modern Europe by Mary Baine Campbell1999
Outside the Fold - Conversion, Modernity, and Belief by Gauri Viswanathan1998
Chaucerian Polity: Absolutist Lineages and Associational Forms in England and Italy by David Wallace1997
Cities of the Dead by Joseph Roach1996
Primitive Passions: Visuality, Sexuality, Ethnography, and Contemporary Chinese Cinema by Rey Chow1995
Nobody's Story: The Vanishing Acts of Women Writers in the Marketplace, 1670-1920 (New Historicism-Studies in Cultural P by Catherine Gallagher1994
To Wake the Nations: Race in the Making of American Literature by Eric J. Sundquist1993
Forms of Nationhood: The Elizabethan Writing of England by Richard Helgerson1992
The Office of The Scarlet Letter (Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society) by Sacvan Bercovitch1991
Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism by Fredric Jameson1990
A New History of French Literature by Denis Hollier1989
Shakespearean Negotiations: The Circulation of Social Energy in Renaissance England (New Historicism, Studies in Cultura by Stephen Greenblatt1988
The Origins of the English Novel, 1600-1740 by Michael McKeon1987
Dostoevsky: the stir of liberation 1860-1865 by Joseph Frank1986
Shakespeare's Perjured Eye: The Invention of Poetic Subjectivity in the Sonnets (Winner of the Mla 1986 James Russell Lowell Prize) by Joel Fineman1985
Chaucer and the Imagery of Narrative: The First Five Canterbury Tales by V. A. Kolve1984
The Light in Troy by Thomas M. Greene1982
Waldo Emerson by Gay Wilson Allen1981
Protestant Poetics and the Seventeenth-Century Religious Lyric by Barbara Kiefer Lewalski1979
An Essay on Shakespeare's Sonnets by Stephen Booth1977
Dostoevsky: The Seeds of Revolt, 1821-1849 by Joseph Frank1976
Structuralist Poetics: Structuralism, Linguistics, and the Study of Literature by Jonathan D. Culler1975
Poetry and change: Donne, Milton, Wordsworth, and the equilibrium of the present by Josephine Miles1974
Fictional Transfigurations of Jesus by Theodore Ziolkowski1972
Natural Supernaturalism: Tradition and Revolution in Romantic Literature by M. H. Abrams1971
The art of the American folk preacher by Bruce A. Rosenberg1970
On Extended Wings: Wallace Stevens' Longer Poems by Helen Vendler1969

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