America’s Imagined Revolution explores the Reconstruction period after the Civil War to ask narratological, historiograp......more

In the early twenty-first century, the concept of citizenship is more contested than ever. As refugees set out to cross ......more

After the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act loosened discriminatory restrictions, people from Northeast Asian countri......more

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

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

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

Looking beyond Euro-Anglo-US centric zombie narratives, Decolonizing the Undead reconsiders representations and allegori......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

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

Abiayalan Pluriverses: Bridging Indigenous Studies and Hispanic Studies looks for pathways that better connect two often......more

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

This book deals mostly with American avant-garde literature of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and the present......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

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

Robert Cochran’s Haunted Man’s Report is a pioneering study of the novels and other writings of Arkansan Charles Portis ......more

Black Women’s Stories of Everyday Racism puts literary narrative theory to work on an urgent real-world problem. The boo......more

Black Women’s Stories of Everyday Racism puts literary narrative theory to work on an urgent real-world problem. The boo......more

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

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

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

Robert Lowell was one of the most influential American poets of the 20th century. This volume explores the various conte......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

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

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

This book explores traditional and contemporary concerns surrounding gender and ethnicity in Chile through a textual ana......more

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

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’Triggering’. When and where did the usage originate? No one is sure. There is, however, clear connection with the psych......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

Tracing Louis Riel’s metamorphosis from traitor to hero, Braz argues that, through his writing, Riel resists his portray......more

Science Fusion draws on new materialist theory to analyze the relationship between science and literature in contemporar......more

Science Fusion draws on new materialist theory to analyze the relationship between science and literature in contemporar......more

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

"Compelling and enlightening" (Booklist), The Latino Reader covers nearly five centuries of an important American litera......more

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

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

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

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

Nearly fifty years after the end of the war in Vietnam, American children of Vietnamese refugees continue to process the......more

Nearly fifty years after the end of the war in Vietnam, American children of Vietnamese refugees continue to process the......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

Among the most popular novels in the early decades of the twentieth century were those published by Alice Muriel William......more

Defining and Defying Borders describes how journals, magazines, and newspapers chart the complex postcolonial relationsh......more

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

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

The ecological, social, and aesthetic functions of garbage in literature and film from Argentina to Mexico This book loo......more

Richard W. Etulain examines the emergence of Pacific Northwest prose beginning in the early nineteenth century up to the......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-ups, is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important throughout the human hist......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

Based on the analytical framework of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ernest Becker, Controlling Animals makes use of the n......more

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A cultural history of the work of nineteenth-century black women writers, this volume traces the emergence of the novel ......more

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

African American literature has changed in startling ways since the end of the Black Arts Era. The last five decades hav......more

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