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A UTHOR STUDIES NEW Morality and Justice Reading Boylan’s ‘A Just Society’ John-Stewart Gordon “This volume is a sharp and comprehensive assessment of Michael Boylan’s A Just Society that will stimulate further debate on the timeless topic of justice.” —Doris Schroeder, University of Central Lancashire Adapting Nathaniel Hawthorne to the Screen Forging New Worlds Laurence Raw In Adapting Nathaniel Hawthorne to the Screen: Forging New Worlds, Laurence Raw demonstrates how filmmakers have turned to Hawthorne to comment on the nation’s past, present, and future. From filmmakers who use Hawthorne’s material to depict American life of the mid-19th century to those commenting on various aspects of 20th century American life such as the “Red Scare,” Raw surveys the canon of adaptations produced over the last eight decades. Laurence Raw teaches in the Faculty of Education, Baskent University, Ankara,Turkey. The Scarecrow Press, Inc. 978-0-8108-6049-0 • 2008 • 192 pp. • $50.00 • paper Each essay discusses Boylan’s claims from a particular chapter and offers a critical analysis of these claims. Boylan responds to the essays in his lengthy and philosophically rich reply. John-Stewart Gordon teaches philosophy at Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada. Lexington Books 978-0-7391-2299-0 • 2009 • 232 pp. • $29.95 • paper 978-0-7391-2298-3 • 2009 • 232 pp. • $70.00 • cloth NEW Robert Ward’s The Crucible Creating an American Musical Nationalism Robert Paul Kolt Kolt explores the life of the leading American composer Robert Ward through an examination of his most popular and enduring work, The Crucible. Focusing on the musical-linguistic relationships within the opera, Kolt demonstrates Ward’s unique synthesis of text and music, one that lends itself to the perception of American musical nationalism. Robert Paul Kolt is associate professor and Head of Musicology at Indiana University South Bend. The Scarecrow Press, Inc. 978-0-8108-6350-7 • 2009 • 266 pp. • $40.00 • paper Hemingway’s The Dangerous Summer The Complete Annotations Miriam B. Mandel In this book, Miriam Mandel has retrieved the historical, literary, biographical, technical, and cultural backgrounds that underlie Hemingway’s last narrative.These annotations offer detailed information about the animals, people, and cultural constructs mentioned in The Dangerous Summer. Miriam B. Mandel is former senior lecturer in the Department of English and American Literatures of Tel Aviv University. The Scarecrow Press, Inc. 978-0-8108-6014-8 • 2008 • 416 pp. • $110.00 • cloth ORDER ONLINE AT WWW.LEXINGTONBOOKS.COM • WWW.SCARECROWPRESS.COM

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