Jessica Berman

Purdah and Polygamy by Iqbalunnisa Hussain, edited by Jessica Berman

Originally published in 1944 by Hosali Press, Bangalore, this book is believed to be one of the first full-length English language novel by an Indian Muslim woman in the pre-Partition era.

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Purdah and Polygamy by Iqbalunnisa Hussain, edited by Jessica Berman

Originally published in 1944 by Hosali Press, Bangalore, this book is believed to be one of the first full-length English language novel by an Indian Muslim woman in the pre-Partition era.

Futures of Comparative Literature: ACLA State of the Discipline Report

Futures of Comparative Literature is a cutting edge report on the state of the discipline in Comparative Literature.

A Companion to Virginia Woolf

"A probing and compendious crow’s nest of a handbook . . .Diligently up-to-the-minute while equally alert to the deeper histories of her critical heritage, it deserves tobecome a standard primer," David Bradshaw, University of Oxford

Modernist Commitments: Ethics, Politics and Transnational Modernism

"remarkable" — Hugues Azérad, The Modern Language Review

Modernist Fiction, Cosmopolitanism and the Politics of Community

" a passionately argued and scrupulously researched book" -- Anne Fernald Modern Fiction Studies

Virginia Woolf Out of Bounds, edited by Jessica Berman and Jane Goldman

"a worthy addition" with an "imaginative and intellectually provocative introduction" -- Nancy L. Paxton, Virginia Woolf Miscellany

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The Modernist Latitudes book series at Columbia University Press, editors: Jessica Berman and Paul Saint-Amour

Modernist Latitudes aims to capture the energy and ferment of modernist studies by continuing to open up the range of forms, locations, temporalities, and theoretical approaches encompassed by the field. The series publishes books that revisit the modernist canon from new vantage points, exploring the greater latitudes of thought offered by an expanded modernist studies. The series will also search out work that explores the texts and contexts of locations that have long been misrecognized as marginal or ancillary to canonical modernism.

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