Modern Language Association Prize for a First Book Winners

Modern Language Association Prize for a First Book

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Winners

	Sweet Science: Romantic Materialism and the New Logics of Life by Amanda Jo Goldstein 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings Modern Language Association Prize for a First Book (2017)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness by Melanie Yergeau 4.47 avg rating — 98 ratings Modern Language Association Prize for a First Book (2017)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In the Shadow of World Literature: Sites of Reading in Colonial Egypt by Michael Allan (Goodreads Author) 3.73 avg rating — 11 ratings Modern Language Association Prize for a First Book (2016)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rootedness: The Ramifications of a Metaphor by Christy Wampole 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings Modern Language Association Prize for a First Book (2016)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Tale of Two Capitalisms: Sacred Economics in Nineteenth-Century Britain by Supritha Rajan liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating Modern Language Association Prize for a First Book (2015)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	At Freedom's Limit: Islam and the Postcolonial Predicament by Sadia Abbas 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings Modern Language Association Prize for a First Book (2014)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A World Not to Come: A History of Latino Writing and Print Culture by Raúl Coronado 4.23 avg rating — 13 ratings Modern Language Association Prize for a First Book (2013)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Rise and Fall of Meter: Poetry and English National Culture, 1860–1930 by Meredith Martin (Goodreads Author) 4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings Modern Language Association Prize for a First Book (2012)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Grammatology and Literary Modernity in Turkey by Nergis Ertürk 3.91 avg rating — 11 ratings Modern Language Association Prize for a First Book (2011)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mourning Happiness by Vivasvan Soni 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings Modern Language Association Prize for a First Book (2010)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dreaming in Books: The Making of the Bibliographic Imagination in the Romantic Age by Andrew Piper (Goodreads Author) 3.57 avg rating — 14 ratings Modern Language Association Prize for a First Book (2009)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination by Matthew G. Kirschenbaum 4.13 avg rating — 94 ratings Modern Language Association Prize for a First Book (2008)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Arranging Grief: Sacred Time and the Body in Nineteenth-Century America by Dana Luciano 4.31 avg rating — 13 ratings Modern Language Association Prize for a First Book (2007)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Creole America: The West Indies and the Formation of Literature and Culture in the New Republic by Sean X. Goudie 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings Modern Language Association Prize for a First Book (2006)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dickinson's Misery: A Theory of Lyric Reading by Virginia Jackson 3.67 avg rating — 48 ratings Modern Language Association Prize for a First Book (2005)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Experience Without Qualities: Boredom and Modernity by Elizabeth Goodstein 4.12 avg rating — 8 ratings Modern Language Association Prize for a First Book (2004)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Copywrights by Paul K. Saint-Amour 3.78 avg rating — 9 ratings Modern Language Association Prize for a First Book (2003)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In Another Country: Colonialism, Culture, and the English Novel in India by Priya Joshi 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings Modern Language Association Prize for a First Book (2002)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Democracy, Revolution, and Monarchism in Early American Literature by Paul Downes 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings Modern Language Association Prize for a First Book (2002)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Music, Body, and Desire in Medieval Culture: Hildegard of Bingen to Chaucer by Bruce Holsinger (Goodreads Author) 3.69 avg rating — 13 ratings Modern Language Association Prize for a First Book (2001)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Story of A: The Alphabetization of America from The New England Primer to The Scarlet Letter by Patricia Crain 3.92 avg rating — 12 ratings Modern Language Association Prize for a First Book (2000)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tropicopolitans: Colonialism and Agency, 1688-1804 by Srinivas Aravamudan 3.93 avg rating — 15 ratings Modern Language Association Prize for a First Book (1999)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Economy of Character: Novels, Market Culture, and the Business of Inner Meaning by Deidre Shauna Lynch 4.11 avg rating — 28 ratings Modern Language Association Prize for a First Book (1998)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bardic Nationalism: The Romantic Novel and the British Empire by Katie Trumpener 4.38 avg rating — 13 ratings Modern Language Association Prize for a First Book (1997)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Phantom Formations: Aesthetic Ideology and the Bildungsroman by Marc Redfield it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating Modern Language Association Prize for a First Book (1996)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Matter of Revolution: Science, Poetry, and Politics in the Age of Milton by John Rogers 4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings Modern Language Association Prize for a First Book (1996)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Melodramatic Tactics: Theatricalized Dissent in the English Marketplace, 1800-1885 by Elaine Hadley really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings Modern Language Association Prize for a First Book (1995)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Writing and Rebellion: England in 1381 by Steven Justice 3.95 avg rating — 19 ratings Modern Language Association Prize for a First Book (1994)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class by Eric Lott 4.16 avg rating — 303 ratings Modern Language Association Prize for a First Book (1993)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars