For all of their prominence in the popular imagination today, the historical record of the Viking presence in England is limited...

Inspired by brave fugitives who escaped slavery and the cultural craze that was "Uncle Tom’s Cabin," the North rose up to battle slavery, ultimately waging the bloody Civil War.

We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at?

Driscoll charts the development of the writer’s ethnocentric attitudes about Indians and savagery in relation to the various geographic and social milieus of communities he inhabited at key periods in his life...

As Holocaust survivors pass away, their legacy of suffering, tenacity and courage could be forgotten. It is up to each generation to commemorate the victims...

Weber has done the painstaking research to find out who were the real-life people on whom Proust modeled some of the most memorable characters...

McClellan explores fan fiction inspired by one of the most-watch BBC series in history...

When the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to Bob Dylan in 2016, a debate raged...

In 1960, a poet and journalist named Lin Zhao was arrested by the Communist Party of China and sent to prison for re-education...

Rubin-Detlev evaluates the place that Catherine sought to occupy in the intellectual and cultural landscape of her time...

Lucy Kilgore has her bags packed for her escape from her rural Tennessee upbringing...

Alizart offers us a surprising new portrait of the dog as thinker―a thinker who may perhaps know the true secret of our humanity...

What is it about ancient monsters that popular culture still finds so enthralling?

Science fiction has had an obsession with Roman Catholicism for over a century...

McQuade opens up an entirely new field for the study of early modern women’s writing,..

In the years following World War I, the New Orleans French Quarter attracted artists and writers with its low rents, faded charm, and colorful street life...

Kim tangles with the question of difference so central to French feminism, theory...

Wilson’s "Odyssey" captures the beauty and enchantment of this ancient poem...

What do university presses do, and how do they do it?

Hundorova has written a compelling study of the literary changes that mark Ukrainian literature at the end of the 20th century...

The dominance of the London press in the British national media has long overshadowed the presence of local newspapers in Great Britain...

The things that make people academics do not necessarily make them good teachers...

The Hindu great epic, Mahābhārata, exists today in hundreds of variant manuscripts across India...

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...