A new reading of Virginia Woolf in the context of "long modernism." In recent decades, Virginia Woolf’s contribution to ......more

Margaret Atwood is one of the most significant writers working today. Her writing spans seven decades, is phenomenally d......more

Bringing together leading voices from across the globe, The Bloomsbury Handbook to Edith Wharton represents state-of-the......more

Philosophizing the Americas establishes the field of inter-American philosophy. Bringing together contributors who work ......more

Philosophizing the Americas establishes the field of inter-American philosophy. Bringing together contributors who work ......more

During the first half of the twentieth century, a group of collectors and creators dedicated themselves to documenting t......more

Mr. Zytztz goes to Mars, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this ......more

Mr. Keegan’s Elopement, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this w......more

The Functions of Unnatural Death in Stephen King: Murder, Sickness, and Plots examines over thirty of King’s works and l......more

Clarice Lispector: From Brazil to the World explains why the Brazilian master was so transformative of modern Brazilian ......more

Essays that fuse literary scholarship and personal travelogue to explore American identity A Road Course in Early Americ......more

The contributors to Situation Critical argue for the continued importance of critique to early American studies, pushing......more

Addresses the political and aesthetic evolution of African American literature and its authors during the Cold War, an e......more

​This book assesses the work of one of the foundational figures of American fantasy, Peter S. Beagle. Through its focuse......more

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Tapping a rich vein of Latin American literature, Deformative Fictions by Ashley Hope Pérez excavates works that unsettl......more

Lynching in American Literature and Journalism consists of twelve essays investigating the history and development of wr......more

4645 is a chronicle, turned essay, turned philosophical meditation, turned offering, turned ritual, turned poem about th......more

The English literary influence on classic American novelists’ depictions of gender, sexuality, and race With All the Dev......more

This book tells the uncommon story of a missionary family in the Midwestern United States, and their interactions with t......more

This book examines Clarice Lispector’s body of work, foregrounding its theoretical insights and exploring its philosophi......more

Dangerous Innocence investigates how prevailing constructions of white masculinity in the U.S. South help feed and reinf......more

In Race, Theft, and Ethics, Lovalerie King examines African American literature’s critique of American law concerning ma......more

Highlights Jewish participation in the civil rights movement Black Power, Jewish Politics charts the transformation of A......more

An analysis of the political and ecological consequences of charting the Amazon River basin in narrative fiction, Mapping......more

Journey through uncharted literary waters and explore Melville’s epic in bold new light Come sail with I. We’re not taki......more

Journey through uncharted literary waters and explore Melville’s epic in bold new light Come sail with I. We’re not taki......more

In Anti-Blackness and Human Monstrosity in Black American Horror Fiction, Jerry Rafiki Jenkins examines four types of hu......more

In Anti-Blackness and Human Monstrosity in Black American Horror Fiction, Jerry Rafiki Jenkins examines four types of hu......more

Ubiquitous triple consciousness frameworks address the limitations of W.E.B Du Bois’ seminal double consciousness concep......more

Housing experts and activists have long described the foundational role race has played in the creation of mass homeowne......more

This book focuses on the construction of hegemonic masculinity as well as its representations in literature, culture, an......more

Martha Gellhorn’s extraordinary career as a reporter took her to the front lines of nearly every major international con......more

"Richard Wright’s dramatic imagination guided the creation of his masterpieces Native Son and Black Boy and helped shape......more

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One of the Greatest Poems in American Literature Walt Whitman (1819-1892) was considered by many to be one of the most i......more

Weaving a tapestry of creativity and circumstance, this lauded chronicle of the many links and serendipitous meetings be......more

"Henry Louis Gates is a national treasure. Here, he returns with an intellectual and at times deeply personal meditation......more

Published in 1956, Peyton Place became a bestseller and a literary phenomenon. A lurid and gripping story of murder, inc......more

In this book, Rojas explores comparatively the representations of deviant and criminal women in the late nineteenth and ......more

A poetic meditation on the challenges and pleasures of contemporary speculative fiction Winner of the Elizabeth Agree Pr......more

The Mother of St. Nicholas: A Story of Duty and Peril, is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered importan......more

Mother Goose for Grown Folks, is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important throughout the human hi......more

A study of how literary strategies illuminate the evangelical foundation of Southern culture. In Southern Strategies: Na......more

This edited collection represents a first-of-its-kind exploration of English-related discourses in the Caribbean. Drawin......more

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An engaging reassessment of the celebrated essayist and his relevance to contemporary readers More than two centuries af......more

A familiar story holds that modernization radiates outward from metropolitan origins. Expanding on Walter Benjamin’s not......more

Novelist Ha Jin raises questions about language, migration, and the place of literature in a rapidly globalizing world. ......more

A classic and "elegant" (The New York Times) collection of essays from the renowned author of Invisible Man, that captur......more

This book explores the rich tapestry of Middle Eastern diasporic literature, spanning the landscapes of Canada and Franc......more

Indigenous Data Sovereignty: Empowering Indigenous Communities in the Digital Age is a groundbreaking exploration of the......more

This book disrupts the quintessential assumptions of ecology, the politics of identity, and environmental destruction, w......more

Ranging from his first impression of Niagara Falls to the deteriorating condition of a cemetery in his Buffalo neighborh......more

"Published in 1940, Ernest Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls is widely considered a masterpiece of war literature. A b......more

In Millennial Style, Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman looks at recent experiments in black expressive culture that begin in the p......more

This book explores how Chicana literature often represents gender violence while simultaneously presenting strategies of......more

In Powers of Horror, Julia Kristeva offers an extensive and profound consideration of the nature of abjection. Drawing o......more

In a q&a after a reading I gave at George Mason University in the spring of 2023, I paraphrased a conversation I had wit......more

This book focuses on Gertrude Stein, who wanted to capture ’this thing life’ in writing, and argues that Stein is linked......more

The Modernist Anthropocene examines how modernist writers forged new and innovative ways of responding to rapidly changi......more

This monograph offers a decisive reappraisal of both the literary history and the literary geography of Anglophone moder......more

Across four parts of exploratory, creative and speculative essays, this book provides provocative frameworks and reading......more

Medial Afterlives of H.P. Lovecraft brings together essays on the theory and practice of adapting H.P. Lovecraft’s ficti......more

This volume on Cesare Pavese is published on the 72nd anniversary of his death, and it aims to explore new perspectives ......more

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Retracing the steps of a surprising array of 20th-century writers who ventured into the fantastical, topsy-turvy world o......more

Biographer and critic Jeffrey Meyers knew the novelist James Salter (1925-2015) during the last decade of his life, visi......more

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"An investigation on how the development of conceptions of genius relate to struggles over enslavement and carceral prac......more

A hypnotic and mystifying exploration of land and legacy, investigating what it means to be an intergenerational, Indige......more

American writers turned to the georgic mode--an ancient literary tradition focused on the human relationship with the la......more

Wallace Stegner is an iconic western writer. His works of fiction, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Angle of Repose ......more

"The Garden Without Walls" by Coningsby Dawson is a singular that unfolds against the backdrop of World War I, supplying......more