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• Novel Professions: Interested Disinterest and the Making of the Professional in the Victorian Novel (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), by Jennifer Ruth (PDF at Ohio State)

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• A History of Literary Criticism in the Italian Renaissance (2 volumes; Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1961), by Bernard Weinberg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Longinus in England, Bis Zum Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts (in German, with English and Greek quotations; Berlin: Mayer und Müller, 1917), by Alfred Rosenberg
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The Fusion of Horatian and Aristotelian Literary Criticism, 1531-1555 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1946), by Marvin T. Herrick (page images at HathiTrust)

• Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance: A Study of Rhetorical Terms in English Renaissance Literary Criticism (1922), by Donald Lemen Clark (Gutenberg text)

• Critical Prefaces of the French Renaissance (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, c1950), by Bernard Weinberg (PDF with commentary at Northwestern)

• Democracy's Children: Intellectuals and the Rise of Cultural Politics (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c2002), by John McGowan (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• Seductive Reasoning: Pluralism as the Problematic of Contemporary Literary Theory (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1989), by Ellen Rooney
  • PDF and Epub at Cornell Open
  • PDF files at Project MUSE

• Distinction and Denial: Race, Nation, and the Critical Construction of the African American Artist, 1920-40 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by Mary Ann Calo (page images at HathiTrust)

• Lytton Strachey (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1943), by Max Beerbohm (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• Democracy's Children: Intellectuals and the Rise of Cultural Politics (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c2002), by John McGowan (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Class, Critics, and Shakespeare: Bottom Lines on the Culture Wars (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2000), by Sharon O'Dair (page images at HathiTrust)

• Victorian Art Criticism and the Woman Writer (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2013), by John Paul M. Kanwit (PDF at Ohio State)

• Novels, Readers, and Reviewers: Responses to Fiction in Antebellum America (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1984), by Nina Baym (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Philology and its Histories (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), ed. by Sean Alexander Gurd (PDF at Ohio State)

• Rewriting Chaucer: Culture, Authority, and the Idea of the Authentic Text, 1400-1602 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1999), ed. by Thomas A. Prendergast and Barbara Kline (PDF at Ohio State)

• The Form of Ideology and the Ideology of Form: Cold War, Decolonization and Third World Print Cultures (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2022), ed. by Francesca Orsini, Neelam Francesca Rashmi Srivastava, and Laetitia Zecchini (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Authorship and Text-Making in Early China (Boston and Berlin: De Gruyter, 2018), by Hanmo Zhang
  • PDF and Epub with commentary at degruyterbrill.com
  • PDF files with commentary at JSTOR

• Literary Coteries and the Making of Modern Print Culture, 1740-1790 (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, c2016), by Betty A. Schellenberg
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The King James Version Defended (originally published 1956; published with preface by Letis in 1983), by Edward F. Hills, contrib. by Theodore P. Letis (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance: A Study of Rhetorical Terms in English Renaissance Literary Criticism (1922), by Donald Lemen Clark (Gutenberg text)

• Building a National Literature: The Case of Germany, 1830-1870 (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1989), by Peter Uwe Hohendahl, trans. by Renate Franciscono
  • PDF files at Project MUSE
  • PDF files at JSTOR

• The Sublime: A Study of Critical Theories in XVIII-Century England (New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1935), by Samuel Holt Monk (page images at HathiTrust)

• Toward a Working-Class Canon: Literary Criticism in British Working-Class Periodicals, 1816-1858 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1994), by Paul Thomas Murphy (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)
• Coleridge's Biographia Literaria: Text and Meaning (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1989), by Frederick Burwick (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Aesthetic and Critical Theories of John Ruskin, by George P. Landow (HTML at Victorian Web)

• Novels, Readers, and Reviewers: Responses to Fiction in Antebellum America (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1984), by Nina Baym (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• The Liberal Education of Charles Eliot Norton (originally published 1999; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by James Turner (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Poe as a Literary Critic (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1946), by John Esten Cooke, ed. by N. Bryllion Fagin (illustrated HTML at eapoe.org)

• Geoffrey Hartman and Harold Bloom: Two Interviews (2006), ed. by Orrin N. C. Wang, contrib. by Geoffrey H. Hartman, Harold Bloom, Marc Redfield, and Laura Quinney (PDF at Romantic Circles)

• The Image of Africa in Ghana's Press: The Influence of Global News Organisations (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2021), by Michael Yao Wodui Serwornoo (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Towards a New Enlightenment? A Transcendent Decade (Madrid: BBVA, c2018), contrib. by Francisco González Rodríguez, Martin J. Rees, José M. Sánchez Ron, María Martinón-Torres, Alex Pentland, Sandeep Tiwari, Joanna J. Bryson, Ramon López de Mántaras, José M. Mato, Daniela Rus, Samuel H. Sternberg, Peter Kalmus, Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León, Victoria Robinson, Barry J. Eichengreen, Michelle Baddeley, Nancy H. Chau, S. M. Ravi Kanbur, Vivien Ann Schmidt, Diana Marie Owen, Yang Xu, Carlo Ratti, and Amos N. Guiora (multiple formats with commentary at bbvaopenmind.com)

• Racism After Apartheid: Challenges for Marxism and Anti-Racism (Johannesburg: Wits University Press, c2019), ed. by Vishwas Satgar (PDF files with commentary at JSTOR)

• "Progressive" Jewish Thought and the New Anti-Semitism (New York: American Jewish Committee, 2006), by Alvin H. Rosenfeld (PDF at Wayback Machine)
• Israel, Anti-Semitism, and Free Speech (New York: American Jewish Committee, 2007), by Bernard Harrison (PDF at Wayback Machine)

• Inside the Antisemitic Mind: The Language of Jew-Hatred in Contemporary Germany (Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, c2017), by Monika Schwarz-Friesel and Jehuda Reinharz (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)

• Fishing for a Solution: Canada's Fisheries Relations with the European Union, 1977-2013 (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2014), by Donald Barry, Bob Applebaum, and Earl Wiseman (PDF at University of Calgary)

• Globalization and Labour in the Twenty-First Century (London and New York: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, c2016), by Verity Burgmann
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Cities of Banal Warfare: Affective Geographies in Violent Times (Bristol: Bristol University Press, c2025), by Sunčana Laketa
  • PDF with commentary at Bristol University Press
  • PDF files at JSTOR

• Civic Engagement in the Wake of Katrina (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2009), ed. by Amy Koritz and George J. Sanchez (HTML at Michigan)

• Civic Engagement in the Wake of Katrina (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2009), ed. by Amy Koritz and George J. Sanchez (HTML at Michigan)

• The Dilemma of Compliance: Political Parties and Post-Election Disputes (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2024), by Svitlana Chernykh (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• The Dilemma of Compliance: Political Parties and Post-Election Disputes (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2024), by Svitlana Chernykh (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• Towards a New Enlightenment? A Transcendent Decade (Madrid: BBVA, c2018), contrib. by Francisco González Rodríguez, Martin J. Rees, José M. Sánchez Ron, María Martinón-Torres, Alex Pentland, Sandeep Tiwari, Joanna J. Bryson, Ramon López de Mántaras, José M. Mato, Daniela Rus, Samuel H. Sternberg, Peter Kalmus, Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León, Victoria Robinson, Barry J. Eichengreen, Michelle Baddeley, Nancy H. Chau, S. M. Ravi Kanbur, Vivien Ann Schmidt, Diana Marie Owen, Yang Xu, Carlo Ratti, and Amos N. Guiora (multiple formats with commentary at bbvaopenmind.com)

• Financing Investment in Times of High Public Debt: 2023 European Public Investment Outlook (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2023), ed. by Floriana Cerniglia, Francesco Saraceno, and Andrew Watt (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Civic Engagement in the Wake of Katrina (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2009), ed. by Amy Koritz and George J. Sanchez (HTML at Michigan)

• Migrant Academics' Narratives of Precarity and Resilience in Europe (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2023), ed. by Olga Burlyuk and Ladan Rahbari (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Narkomania: Drugs, HIV, and Citizenship in Ukraine (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c2019), by Jennifer J. Carroll (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Narkomania: Drugs, HIV, and Citizenship in Ukraine (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c2019), by Jennifer J. Carroll (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Towards a New Enlightenment? A Transcendent Decade (Madrid: BBVA, c2018), contrib. by Francisco González Rodríguez, Martin J. Rees, José M. Sánchez Ron, María Martinón-Torres, Alex Pentland, Sandeep Tiwari, Joanna J. Bryson, Ramon López de Mántaras, José M. Mato, Daniela Rus, Samuel H. Sternberg, Peter Kalmus, Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León, Victoria Robinson, Barry J. Eichengreen, Michelle Baddeley, Nancy H. Chau, S. M. Ravi Kanbur, Vivien Ann Schmidt, Diana Marie Owen, Yang Xu, Carlo Ratti, and Amos N. Guiora (multiple formats with commentary at bbvaopenmind.com)

• The Battle for Open: How Openness Won and Why It Doesn't Feel Like Victory (London: Ubiquity Press, 2014), by Martin Weller (multiple formats at ubiquitypress.com)

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