Ling offers readers a richly revealing window into sensory worlds at a particularly cataclysmic time, showing how Chinese literati dealt with the traumatic transition from the Ming to the Qing dynasty...

Table Lands contributes to a growing body of scholarship in the subfield of literary food studies...

Appleton introduces a significant section of the important early Indian Buddhist text known as the Avadānaśataka, or “One Hundred Stories”...

Witham traces Fried’s long career as a labor organizer and Communist Party militant, as well as the obsessive lengths the FBI went to in order to suppress his activism...

In 2009, a novel was released in Norway with a fairly simple premise; the author would simply write about himself, his life and his attempts to write...

Desai offers an alternative history of East Africa in the Indian Ocean world...

Central to Reddy's project is upending the male-centric understanding of the relationship between the diaspora and the “nation”.

Gleason’s experiences with the House Un-American Activities Committee and Dr. Frederic Wertham and other Anti-Comic activists give a glimpse into important political and social activism of the 1940s and 50s in American history...

Psychiatry has lagged behind many clinical specialties in recognizing the importance of narrative for understanding and effectively treating disease...

Around the world Muslims praise the Prophet Muhammad through the recitation of lyrical poetry...

Fitzgerald’s story has become a key to American culture and American life itself...

How Do We Write Our Personal History at the Same Time That It’s Written for Us?

Muslims have lived in the Caribbean for centuries...

Contrary to popular and even scholarly expectations, medieval erotic literature emphasized female sexual satisfaction...

Jester and Svich talk to writers from the US, the UK, and countries around the world about what it means to be a playwright today....

Pettway examines how the portrayal of African ideas of spirit and cosmos in otherwise conventional texts recur throughout early Cuban literature and became the basis for Manzano and Plácido’s antislavery philosophy...

This lavishly illustrated volume compiles maps of the world, of Europe, of England, of English counties, and of English villages, to illustrate its author’s detailed description of the history of cartography...

The canonization of what counted as “classical” was itself a markedly modern move and gesture, El-Shamsy argues...

Brown engages with issues that are fundamental to present-day attempts to understand the Holocaust and deeply relevant to reflections on human nature...

Jeffers draws on fifteen years of research in archives and locations across America, Europe and Africa to envision the world of Phillis Wheatley Peters...

Lewis lays out a new paradigm for understanding R. Nachman’s thought and writing...

What does it mean to be a Brahmin, and what could it mean to become one?

This book examines what is at stake in deploying humor in representing the Holocaust...

Black presents an insightful and hugely entertaining exploration of the political and cultural context of the Bond books and films...

Xu Xu (1908-1980) was one of the most widely read Chinese authors of the 1930s to 1960s...