Szwydky explores a range of works by authors such as Mary Shelley, Charles Dickens, Lord Byron, John Keats and many more...

Pernau examines the varied and hugely consequential expressions of and normative investments in emotions in modern South Asian Muslim thought...

You've written a book. Now what? William German explains...

Nurhussein explores late nineteenth and twentieth century African American cultural engagement with and literary depictions of imperial Ethiopia...

Bartlett provides a stirring argument for the relevance of comic playwright Aristophanes as a serious political and philosophical thinker. In his translations of two lesser-known plays,..

Ngai continues her theoretical work of demystifying the vernacular aesthetic categories encountered in late capitalist daily life...

Ye Shitao was a Taiwanese public intellectual who rose to prominence in the second half of the twentieth century....

The essays in this volume explore commemorative practices as they developed in the nineteenth century...

During the height of the 1930s gangster pulps, Harris wrote some of the roughest, toughest stories to be published in pulps such as Gangland Stories and Mobs...

In "utopias of one," the authors at one and the same time publish for an external audience, but sketch out modes of living and being that are in important ways both non-accessible and non-replicable....

In this interview, Roberta Rosenberg and Rachel Rubinstein (editors), engage our listeners in a conversation about different approaches to teaching Jewish American Literature, complicating what it means to be “American”.

In Farm to Form, Martell contextualizes some familiar texts of British Literary Modernism, into a history that recognizes the role of food and agriculture...

Most contemporary digital studies are interested in distant-reading paradigms for large-scale literary history. This book asks what happens when such telescopic techniques function as a microscope instead...

Ostrowski offers a sustained reflection on what we can learn from comparison of authorship controversies...

Daddis explores how men's adventure magazines helped shape the attitudes of young, working-class Americans, the same men who fought and served in the long and bitter war in Vietnam...

Skinazi delves beyond this stereotype to identify a powerful tradition of feminist literary portrayals of Orthodox women, often created by Orthodox women themselves...

Menozzi offers to look at literature and literary processes through the prism of non-synchronism...

What is the Septuagint, and why does it matter?

Westengard examines the intersection of queerness and the gothic...

Leeuwen thoroughly examines an array of intricate ways in which the Thousand and One Nights shaped the developments of literatures across the world...

How did the Bible become the Bible? It's a long story....

Klein considers eating and early American aesthetics together, reframing the philosophical work of food and its meaning for the people who prepare, serve, and consume it...

The Hindu tradition has held conflicting views on womanhood from its earliest texts—holding women aloft as goddesses to be worshipped on the one hand and remaining deeply suspicious about women’s sexuality on the other...

Dante’s Bones is an academic mystery story, the “graveyard history” of Dante Alighieri, the master poet of what has come to be called The Divine Comedy. This book is about Dante’s literal remains and the where and how they’ve been kept...

Wayne reveals the valuable work that women achieved in publishing, printing, writing and reading early modern English books...