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.”

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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?