The fiery editor of the Liberator helped shape the destiny of a divided nation rapidly moving toward war. His letters ri......more

As early as 1842 Garrison advanced the idea of disunion, arguing that the Constitution was "a covenant with death." Dist......more

William Lloyd Garrison (1805-1879), outstanding among the dedicated fighters for the abolition of slavery, was also an a......more

Whittaker Chambers is one of the most controversial figures in modern American history a former Communist spy who left t......more

On June 23rd, 1950, Pavese, Italy’s greatest modern writer received the coveted Strega Award for his novel Among Women O......more

Unprecedented in its range - extending from Venice to the New World and from the Holy Roman Empire to the Ottoman Empire......more

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The Fourth Genre offers the most comprehensive, teachable, and current introduction available today to the cutting-edge,......more

Giving her back her voice, the long-lost letters of Sylvia Beach to James Joyce uniquely document her unwavering support......more

Walter Pater’s European Imagination addresses Pater’s literary cosmopolitanism as the first in-depth study of his fictio......more

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Selfhood and the Soul is a collection of new and original essays in honor of Christopher Gill, Emeritus Professor of Anc......more

Der Band bietet 94 Briefe aus der Korrespondenz Bucers von Januar bis Juli 1534. Hier setzt sich die internationale Pers......more

The behind-the-scenes story of America’s involvement in Korea in the 1880s as told through the private family letters of......more

Women and Epistolary Agency in Early Modern Culture, 1450-1690 is the first collection to examine the gendered nature of......more

In this selection from the two-volume Plain Speaker, Tom Paulin and Duncan Wu have given priority to essays that address......more

This is the first comprehensive account of the life and work of the distinguished scholar and public figure Gilbert Mura......more

Joseph Addison: Tercentenary Essays is a collection of fifteen essays by a team of internationally recognized experts sp......more

Surfaces are often held to be of lesser consequence than ’deeper’ or more ’substantive’ aspects of artworks and objects.......more

A first rate collection of essays on queer Gothic, ranging from ’Frankenstein’ to George Eliot, E.M.Forster to Michael J......more

Despite Freud’s enormous influence on twentieth-century interpretations of the humanities, there has never before been i......more

Original scholarly essays by leading philosophers, which bring to life Machiavelli’s lengthiest and most challenging wor......more

The first collection of essays devoted to the rich tradition of Russian science fiction on the page and the screen from ......more

If it can be said that theology is the philosophical examination of a religion by an insider, then the present collectio......more

Ellen Terry s correspondence was both exuberant and extensive. Her remaining letters provide a fascinating insight into......more

War, migration, and refugeehood are inextricably linked and the complex nature of all three phenomena offers profound op......more

Until the mid-twentieth century the Western imagination seemed intent on viewing Rome purely in terms of its classical p......more

This book offers a counter-traditional account of the history of both rhetoric and poetics. In reply to traditional rhet......more

Gathering together the author s earlier writings along with essays on recent developments, this text provides essential......more

This book offers a variety of approaches to children’s literature from a postcolonial perspective that includes discussi......more

For over 50 years, Darko Suvin has set the agenda for science fiction studies through his innovative linking of scifi to......more

A court lady of the Heian era, an early modern philologist, a novelist of the Meiji period, and a physicist at Tokyo Uni......more

During the last few decades suburbia has grown enormously and become a phenomenon attracting the attention of scholars a......more

This edited collection, a tribute to eighteenth-century scholar Betty Rizzo, builds on her important work on epistolarit......more

Levinas and Twentieth-Century Literature considers how the work of the century’s most original ethical thinker may resha......more

This collection reinvigorates Sheridan studies by presenting his spectacular life and extraordinary works in the intrica......more

Nigeria and South Africa account for about a third of Africa’s economic might, and have led much of its con□ict manageme......more

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This book showcases a unique, innovative form for contemporary life narrative scholarship. Life Narrative is a dynamic a......more

Mediterranean Slavery and World Literature is a collection of selected essays about the transformations of captivity exp......more

First Published in 2004. The span of time, when most of Britain was under Roman influence, stretched from 55 BC to c. AD......more

Winter Passages is Robert Brustein’s nineteenth book of criticism. It includes his considerations of culture and politic......more

This volume, offering an insight into the literary world of Rome in the fourth century AD, reflects an increased interes......more

This collection of essays expands the focus of Enlightenment studies to include countries outside the core nations of Fr......more

The inherent metropolitanism of writing for a Romantic-era periodical is here explored through the Elia articles tha......more

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In her persuasively argued study, Patricia Pulham astutely combines psychoanalytic theory with socio-historical criticis......more

A comprehensive and scholarly account of this popular and influential genre, the essays in this collection explore confe......more

The Art of the Black Essay unveils the power of the African American essay to bring about a meditative shift in the mind......more

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The Question of the Gift is the first collection of new interdisciplinary essays on the gift. Bringing together scholars......more

Conflicting Identities and Multiple Masculinities takes as its focus the construction of masculinity in Western Europe f......more

Wilson Harris is one of the outstanding literary innovators of the century. His novels date from The Palace of the Peaco......more

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Consisting of essays of the 1960s and 1970s, and assembled by Laura (Riding) Jackson herself, this previously unpublishe......more

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Contemporary Debates in Applied Ethics features pairs of newly commissioned essays by some of the leading theorists work......more

The correspondence of John Dryden is the definitive edition of the letters of the most important playwright and poet of ......more

Over a 60-year career, Graham Greene was a prolific and widely read writer. Completing a series of volumes which constit......more

Borges once stated that he had never created a character: ’It’s always me, subtly disguised’. This book focuses on the w......more

Montaigne’s Essais (1580-1592) are one of the most remarkable works of the European Renaissance. The Essais’ innovative ......more

Born in Vienna in 1881, Stefan Zweig was one of the most respected authors of his time. Foreseeing Nazi Germany’s domina......more

Recipient of the Approved Edition seal from the Modern Language Association s Committee on Scholarly Editions The Comp......more

Fauset sees Kavanagh as a significant but neglected writer and returns her to her proper place in the history of women’s......more

Isaiah Berlin is one of the towering intellectual figures of the twentieth century, the most famous English thinker of t......more

The letters of Seneca are uniquely engaging among the works that have survived from antiquity. They offer an urgent guid......more

This collection uses Susan Sontag’s "Notes on ’Camp’" as a foundation from which to explore current topics related to ca......more

Drawing on the prose, poetry, and criticism of a broad range of Russian writers and critics, including Pushkin, Turgenev......more

This volume is comprised of 14 contributions, which are revised and expanded versions of lectures held at an internation......more

George Moore: Influence and Collaboration explores in sustained form for the first time the nature of Moore’s interactio......more

Using the letter as its main evidence, Literary Sociability in Early Modern England examines early-modern English litera......more

This anthology hosts a collection of essays examining the role of comics as portals for historical and academic content,......more