Literary Studies: General

Part memoir, part courtroom drama, part primer for fighting assaults on free speech, Stifled Laughter, the revised edition, is the story of one wom...

How race, gender, and sexuality were re-imagined in the interwar encounters of Asians and Americans

Blotted Lines rebuffs centuries of mythologization about the creative processthe idea that William Shakespeare never blotted out lineto argue that ...

Blotted Lines rebuffs centuries of mythologization about the creative processthe idea that William Shakespeare never blotted out lineto argue that ...

The sea is omnipresent in Greek life. Visible from nearly everywhere, the sea represents the life and livelihood of many who dwell on the islands a...

Site Reading offers a new method of literary and cultural interpretation and a new theory of narrative setting by examining five sites--supermarket...

Is writing haunted by a categorical imperative? Does the Kantian sublime continue to shape the writers vocation, even for twentieth-century authors...

During a tumultuous period when financial speculation began rapidly to outpace industrial production and consumption, Victorian financial journalis...

How gender shapes cultural production in Viet Nam and its diaspora.

Relations between the Russian nobility and the state underwent a dynamic transformation during the roughly one hundred-year period encompassing the...

While much early Yiddish literature belonged to pious genres, quasi-secular genresepic, drama, and lyricalso developed. Jerold Frakes contends that...

Why Hebrew, here and now? What is its value for contemporary Americans? In What We Talk about When We Talk about Hebrew (and What It Means to Ameri...

Despite its cozy image, the bungalow in literature and film is haunted by violence even while fostering possibilities for personal transformatio...

This volumes offers a study of all known manuscripts and incunabular editions of four classical texts: Vitruvius' De architectura, Cato's De agri c...

In the motley ranks of seventeenth-century print, one often comes upon the title True Relation. Purportedly true relations describe monsters, mirac...

From pet keeping to sky burials, a posthuman and ecocritical interrogation of and challenge to human particularity in medieval texts Mainstream med...

The Poetics of Eros in Ancient Greece offers the first comprehensive inquiry into the deity of sexual love, a power that permeated daily Greek life...

The Peculiar Afterlife of Slavery explores how antiblack racism lived on through the figure of the Chinese worker in US literature after emancipati...

At the turn of the twentieth century, tuberculosis was a leading cause of death across America, Europe, and the Russian Empire. The incurable disea...

The link between weddings and deathas found in dramas ranging from Romeo and Juliet to Lorca's Blood Weddingplays a central role in the action of m...

As state control of private life in China has loosened since 1980, citizens have experienced an unprecedented family revolutionan overhaul of famil...

This volume gathers the contributions of senior and junior scholarsall indebted to the pathbreaking work of Derek Pearsallto showcase new research ...

A century before psychoanalytic discourse codified a scientific language to describe the landscape of the mind, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe explored...

Medieval books that survive today have been through a lot: singed by fire, mottled by mold, eaten by insects, annotated by readers, cut into fragme...