Decadence and Orientalism in England and Germany, 1880-1920 examines the Orientalist portrayal of Middle Eastern culture......more

This volume publishes the results of a project on magical fiction and figures funded by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, wh......more

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In this edited volume, an authoritative collective work produced by the intellectual efforts of more than forty scholars......more

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"Unsettled examines the role of young American Jews in the Palestine solidarity movement and argues that their activism ......more

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Emerging concerns and contexts of geological thinking seek to bring out how energopolitical interventions into the geoki......more

Contagiously curious essays on reading, art, and the life of the mind, from the acclaimed author of The Unreality of Mem......more

In nineteenth-century imperial Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire, new scientific fields like psychophysics, empiri......more

In nineteenth-century imperial Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire, new scientific fields like psychophysics, empiri......more

This book explores the geopolitical and symbolic borders of Europe through the concept of the semi-periphery. Focusing o......more

This book examines travel narratives as a medium used by the American public to imagine and negotiate new ways to live i......more

This is the first book-length study of one of the most talented and exciting American playwrights working today. Stephen......more

Frank O’Hara’s New York School and Mid-Century Mannerism offers a ground-breaking account of the poet Frank O’Hara and t......more

Anticolonial Form: Literary Journals at the End of Empire addresses the relationship between culture and politics in two......more

This book explores one of the richest dialect families in the world: Chinese dialects. It covers all aspects of Chinese ......more

Virginia Woolf and Bernard Shaw may be the odd couple of Twentieth Century modernism. Despite their difference in age (S......more

This collection explores topical and current issues in indigenous African language literature of South Africa. These inc......more

Literary realism rose to prominence in postbellum America with what the realists heralded as artful and accurate depicti......more

Literary realism rose to prominence in postbellum America with what the realists heralded as artful and accurate depicti......more

This accessibly-written textbook uses the intrinsic appeal of a story to engage students with language, and provides tea......more

This book presents a collection of studies related to populism in contemporary political discourse. Following growing sc......more

This book presents empirical and anecdotal evidence on the persistence of the variety of Majorcan Catalan that has been ......more

Explores how Edgar Allan Poe has become a household name, as much a brand as an author. You’ll find his face everywhere,......more

Explores how Edgar Allan Poe has become a household name, as much a brand as an author. You’ll find his face everywhere,......more

The 2020 COVID-19 pandemic imposed immobility on large sectors of the world’s population, with confinement becoming for ......more

Two leading critics grapple with problems of literature, politics and intellectual practice In What Is Cultural Criticis......more

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An engaging look at how debates over the fate of literature in our digital age are powerfully conditioned by the ninetee......more

This groundbreaking study of Franz Kafka’s legacy--to be published during the centenary of his death in 2024--explores K......more

This book explores how states and traits of anxiety are reflected in the style and structure of certain works of modern ......more

The poems, novels and novellas that draw from paramythic forms and tropes draw from its symbolic power and its performat......more

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Taxidermy and the Gothic: The Horror of Still Life is the first extended study of the Gothic’s collusion with taxidermy.......more

Over the course of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Harlem has been the capital of both Black America and a glo......more

The notion of beauty is inherently elusive: aesthetic judgments are at once subjective and felt to be universally valid.......more

The notion of beauty is inherently elusive: aesthetic judgments are at once subjective and felt to be universally valid.......more

In this book, Julia Bolton Holloway makes use of primary materials in documents, manuscripts and stone monuments in Flor......more

Family and Artistic Relations in Polish Women’s Autobiographical Literature examines women’s autobiographical works publ......more

This book examines contemporary debates on such concepts as national literature, world literature, and the relationship ......more

Through a metaphorical journey of Shakespeare in traditional Chinese theatre, using three Chinese opera productions of H......more

Claus Elholm Andersen is Paul and Renate Madsen Assistant Professor of Scandinavian Studies in the Department of German,......more

Aimee Armande Wilson is Associate Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Kansas. She is ......more

Though the civil-rights abuses by the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile (1973-1990) were later recognized by reparations an......more

This important study affirms that Latinx children and young adults are uniquely positioned to change the world. Using Gl......more

Mason & Dixon might be Thomas Pynchon’s most human book. Its main characters are richly drawn, and they center the narra......more

Poet in Place and Time: Critical Essays on Joanne Kyger provides a much-needed re-evaluation of the work of Joanne Kyger......more

’Writing during the Disasters’ is devoted to conceptualizing the relation between suffering and poetic writing. This mon......more

Across humanities disciplines, public scholarship brings academics and community members and organizations together in m......more

This definitive edition, the first since 1974, presents all the poetry of Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), including his play......more

Metaphor in Illness Writing argues that even when a metaphor appears problematic and limiting, it need not be dropped or......more

This book examines how the representation of the ghost-soldier in literature published between1914-1934, both marks the ......more

This book presents an analysis of English, French and German language fiction about the so-called Arab Spring. Through a......more

This book positions the ’California Gothic’ as a highly significant regional subgenre which articulates anxieties specif......more

Pinpointing how consumer culture transformed female beauty ideals during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, t......more

With explosive interest in Romantic science and theories of mind and a renewed sense of the period’s porousness to the w......more

A lonely damsel imprisoned within a castle or convent cell. The eavesdropping of a prisoner next door. The framed image ......more

British Romanticism and Denmark shows how the articulation in British Romantic-period writing of the idea of a ’Northern......more

Rethinks the relationships between author, reader, and text in literature and criticism, through a study of James Joyce ......more

Translation and Decolonisation: Interdisciplinary Approaches offers compelling explorations of the pivotal role that tra......more

Translation and Decolonisation: Interdisciplinary Approaches offers compelling explorations of the pivotal role that tra......more

How do writers and artists represent the climate catastrophe so that their works stir audiences to political action or a......more

Many major modernists - including Henry James, Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, Ford Madox Ford, Katherine Mansfield, Virgini......more

Postcolonialism has long been associated with post-nationalism. Yet, the persistence of nation-oriented literatures from......more

Reading Espionage Fiction: Narrative, Conflict and Commitment from World War I to the Contemporary Era probes the ways i......more

Examining novels by celebrated authors, some neglected and some brand new texts, Arin Keeble offers a detailed analysis ......more

Queer books, like LGBTQ+ people, adapt heteronormative structures and institutions to introduce space for discourses of ......more

This three-volume collection of primary sources examines philosophy and literature in the nineteenth-century Britain. Ac......more

An introduction to ancient myths and the critical discussions that surround them, this book dives into the stories of pr......more

An introduction to ancient myths and the critical discussions that surround them, this book dives into the stories of pr......more

Although Mikhail Bakhtin’s study of the novel does not focus in any systematic way on the role that translation plays in......more

For most of the 20th century, Latin American literature and art have contested political and cultural projects of homoge......more

Adorno’s aesthetics are one of the most important philosophical analyses of the 20th century, but their development rema......more