James Russell Lowell PrizeHonorable Mention

Given by Modern Language Association (MLA)

25 Works 0 Books
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
Stages:
All, Winner (53), Honorable Mention (25)
Years:
All, 2021 (2), 2004 (1), 2003 (2), 2002 (2), 2001 (1), 1998 (1), 1997 (2), 1996 (1), 1995 (2), 1992 (2), 1990 (1), 1989 (2), 1985 (1), 1982 (1), 1973 (1), 1970 (2), 1969 (1)

Honorable Mention 25

WorkYear
The Other Side of Terror by Erica R. Edwards2021
Cold War Reckonings: Authoritarianism and the Genres of Decolonization by Jini Kim Watson2021
The Laws of Cool: Knowledge Work and the Culture of Information by Alan Liu2004
The Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation, and the Rise of Black Internationalism by Brent Hayes Edwards2003
The Dominion of the Dead by Robert Pogue Harrison2003
On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection by Susan Stewart2002
Staging Domesticity: Household Work and English Identity in Early Modern Drama (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture) by Wendy Wall2002
On the Psychotheology of Everyday Life: Reflections on Freud and Rosenzweig by Eric L. Santner2001
Mary Moody Emerson and the Origins of Transcendentalism: A Family History by Phyllis Cole1998
Ancients against Moderns: Culture Wars and the Making of a Fin de Siecle by Joan DeJean1997
The Fateful Question of Culture by Geoffrey H. Hartman1997
Residues of Justice: Literature, Law, Philosophy by Wai Chee Dimock1996
Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew (Yale Nota Bene) by John Felstiner1995
Equivocal Beings: Politics, Gender, and Sentimentality in the 1790s--Wollstonecraft, Radcliffe, Burney, Austen by Claudia L. Johnson1995
In My Father's House by Kwame Anthony Appiah1992
Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation by Mary Louise Pratt1992
Epistemology of the Closet by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick1990
Figures of Ill Repute: Representing Prostitution in Nineteenth-Century France by Charles Bernheimer1989
Breaking and Remaking: Aesthetic Practice in England, 1700-1820 by Ronald Paulson1989
Reading Lacan by Jane Gallop1985
Poison Sky: Myth And Apocalypse In Ruskin by Raymond E. Fitch1982
Sir Walter Ralegh (Study in English) by Stephen J. Greenblatt1973
Mysteriously Meant: The Rediscovery of Pagan Symbolism and Allegorical Interpretation in the Renaissance by Don Cameron Allen1970
Samuel Beckett: Poet and Critic by Lawrence E. Harvey1970
Dimensions of the Modern Novel: German Texts and European Contexts by Theodore Ziolkowski1969

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