Michael Docherty is Postdoctoral Assistant Professor in the Department of American Studies at the University of Innsbruc......more

Professing Darkness confirms the centrality of Catholic thought, imagery, and sacrament to the spiritual and ethical out......more

Renowned poets and scholars address the question of how poetry sounds and signifies in different contexts....more

Portraits of good battling evil in the geography of hell come in many forms in the Hispanic World. Apocalyptic nightmare......more

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

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

"Publication is an act of power. It brings a piece of writing to the public and identifies its author as a person with a......more

"The children of an influential Ojibwe-Anglo family, Jane Johnston and her brother George were already accomplished writ......more

"Publication is an act of power. It brings a piece of writing to the public and identifies its author as a person with a......more

Drawing examples from over 200 English-language and Spanish-language newspapers and periodicals published between Januar......more

In contemporary popular culture, armed women take center stage - but how can they be read from a feminist perspective? H......more

More than a century after his death, Walt Whitman remains a fresh phenomenon. Startling discoveries and massive transcri......more

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This book delivers an innovative critical approach to better understand U.S. fiction of the information age, and argues ......more

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

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

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

Occurring in a time of primitive medicine and inconsistent record-keeping, Poe’s death has become one of the enduring my......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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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

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

Afro-Caribbean Women’s Writing and Early American Literature is both pedagogical and critical. The text begins by re-eva......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

Mother Goose for Grown-ups, is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important throughout the human hist......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

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

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

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Brings together and makes available in English for the first time some of Ángel Rama’s most important essays....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 NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK - A radiant collection of letters from the renowned author of Invisible Man that traces th......more

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

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

The first dedicated exploration of the short fiction of Shirley Jackson for three decades, this volume takes an in-depth......more

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

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