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

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

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...

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...

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...

The way that we talk about living beings can raise or lower their perceived value...

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...