In "We Average Unbeautiful Watchers," Cohan investigates “the behavior of American sports fans to understand (its) cultural relevance beyond mere consumerism.”

In the late Enlightenment, a new imperative began to inform theories of interpretation: all literary texts should be read in the same way that we read the Bible...

Saguisag addresses a gap in scholarship, examining the ways childhood was depicted and theorized in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century comic strips...

Saguisag addresses a gap in scholarship, examining the ways childhood was depicted and theorized in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century comic strips...

DeLoughrey argues that the cosmopolitan position on Global Warming is in truth a provincial one limited to privileged circles in the Global North...

Zafar discusses the earliest formally-published African-American-authored hospitality books from the 1820s to Edna Lewis’s Taste of Country Cooking from the 1970s...

Price begins her book by debunking the assumption that ebooks are more popular than print books...

"The Dark Fantastic" is an engaging and provocative exploration of race in popular youth and young adult speculative fiction...

Milligan takes as its subject the woman warrior in early modern Italy as she was and as she was represented across varied types of texts,..

This book draws together Black’s expansive reading in Shakespeare’s contexts with extensive knowledge of the canon of his plays...

First published in 1918 only in the Aanaar Sámi language and in Finnish, this anthology is now available in a centennial English-language edition...

Cohen Lustig suggests a new theoretical and historical approach to Israeli and Palestinian literature...

Considered one of the greatest Hebrew writers, in 1966, Agnon was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature...

Lena charts the history of American arts and cultural policy, interrogating the institutions, practices, and technologies underpinning the development of American Art...

Newman analyzes depictions of reading, writing, and recollecting texts in Indian captivity narratives...

Thompson examines the Melville's magazine work in its original publication...

What is the relationship between the form of writing and what can be thought?

Green-Simms examines the paradoxes and ambivalences of automobility through the lens of West African films, novels, plays, and poems...

The Bhagavad Gītā remains to this day a mainstay of Hinduism and Hindu Studies alike,..

Kroik explores the relationship between work and gender in American culture...

Fire on the Water looks at the history of abolition and slave violence by looking at the representation of shipboard mutiny and insurrection in late 18th and early 19th century literature...

The black avenger channeled fresh anxieties about slave uprisings and racial belonging occasioned by European colonization in the Americas...

This book represents the very first study of a fascinating Hindu phenomenon: the Svasthanivratakatha (SVK), a sixteenth-century narrative textual tradition native to Nepal surrounding the Goddess, Svasthānī...

Bahng traces the cultural production of futurity by juxtaposing the practices of speculative finance against those of speculative fiction...

Baer examines the threads of shared ideology in the Herero and Nama genocide and the Holocaust...