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As the Dust of the Earth – The Literature of Abandonment in Revolutionary Russia and Ukraine
An estimated forty thousand Jews were murdered during the Russian Civil War between 1918 and 1922. As the Dust of the Earth examines the Yiddish and Russian literary response to …
The Aesthetics of Hope in Late Greek Imperial Literature
This book sheds light on a relatively dark period of literary history, the late third century CE, a period that falls between the Second Sophistic and Late Antiquity. It argues …
Disability, the Body, and Radical Intellectuals in the Literature of the Civil War and Reconstruction
During the Civil War, hundreds of thousands of men were injured, and underwent amputation of hands, feet, limbs, fingers, and toes. As the war drew to a close, their disabled …
Bedouin Poets of the Nafud Desert
A collection of poems from a changing Bedouin world Bedouin Poets of the Nafud Desert features poetry from three poets of the Ibn Rashid dynasty–the highwater mark of Bedouin …
Colonialism, World Literature, and the Making of the Modern Culture of Letters
In a radical and ambitious reconceptualization of the field, this book argues that global literary culture since the eighteenth century was fundamentally shaped by colonial …
A Road Course in Early American Literature
Essays that fuse literary scholarship and personal travelogue to explore American identityA Road Course in Early American Literature: Travel and Teaching from AtzlÁn to Amherst …
The Art of Uncertainty
The Victorian novel developed unique forms of reasoning under uncertainty-of thinking, judging, and acting in the face of partial knowledge and unclear outcome. George Eliot, …
The Doctors' Dinner Party
A witty satire of the medical profession The Doctors’ Dinner Party is an eleventh-century satire in the form of a novella, set in a medical milieu. A young doctor from out of town …
Tending to the Past
In many popular depictions of Black resistance to slavery, stereotypes around victimization and the heroic efforts of a small number of individuals abound. These ideas ignore the …
Sovereign Fictions
An exploration of Russian realist fiction reveals a preoccupation with the absolutist state. The nineteenth-century novel is generally assumed to owe its basic social imaginaries …