Holt explores how Americans read, saw, and understood the federal structure of the country in its early years...

Why and how is fiction important to women?

Colbert Cairns traces the biblical figure of Esther, the secret Jewish Queen, as she is reinvented as the patron saint for the early modern Sephardic community....

James Baldwin's appeal and admonition ring as true as they did in the 1960s, when the novelist became the nation's conscience...

Thomas dives into the question of, why magical stories are written for some people and not for others...

A political and moral thinker and a forerunner to modern feminism, Wollstonecraft has not received attention on par with the wide breath of her ideas...

Seeking their fortunes in the North, Grace and Katharine Lumpkin reinvented themselves as radical thinkers whose literary works and organizing efforts brought the nation’s attention to issues of region, race, and labor.

Boes traces how the acclaimed and bestselling author became one of America's most prominent anti-fascists and the spokesperson for a German cultural ideal that Nazism had perverted...

Lamana carefully investigates the writings of Indigenous intellectuals of the Andean region during Spanish colonialism...

Ingrid Horrocks talks about the way women travelers, specifically women wanderers, are represented in late-eighteenth century literature, particularly in the work of women writers...

“On or around December 1910, human character changed.”

Spackman’s riveting study identifies a strand of what it calls “Accidental Orientalism” in narratives by Italians who found themselves in Ottoman Egypt and Anatolia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries...

Fort gives readers a chance to dive into the world of early 20th century Uzbek literature and understand the complex social problems of late Russian imperial Turkestan...

Gottlieb explores the decisive - and, until now, under-appreciated - influence exerted on Jewish memory by the Akedah, the Binding of Isaac narrative in the Book of Genesis...

What stories should we remember, and which ones are we forced to forget?

While typically circulating as a separate text, The Harivamsha forms the final part of the Mahabharata storyline...

Nielsen argues that the happy stories of breast cancer survivors are so common that any other types of narrative almost require an apology...

Chambers outlines Muslim cultural production during this period through a literary analysis of the senses, especially those beyond the visual...

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

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

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.

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...

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