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A sociological history of literary study-both as a discipline and as a profession. As the humanities in higher education struggle with a labor crisis and with declining …
An examination of the nineteenth-century American novel that argues for a new genealogy of the concept of the will.What if the modern person were defined not by reason or …
Chinese Whispers examines multiple contact zones between the Anglophone and Sinophone worlds, investigating how poetry both enables and complicates the transpacific production of …
States of Plague examines Albert Camus's novel as a palimpsest of pandemic life, an uncannily relevant account of the psychology and politics of a public health crisis.As one of …
Gross explores our complex fascination with uncanny children in works of fiction. Ranging from Victorian to modern works Lewis Carroll s Alice in Wonderland, Carlo Collodi s …
An absorbing collection of essays on religious textures in Knausgaard's writings and our time.Min kamp, or My Struggle, is a six-volume novel by Karl Ove Knausgaard and one of the …
Now in paperback, a compelling biography of Lydia Maria Child, one of nineteenth-century America's most courageous abolitionists.By 1830, Lydia Maria Child had established herself …
How and why early modern European artisans began to record their knowledge.In From Lived Experience to the Written Word, Pamela H. Smith considers how and why, beginning in 1400 …
An expansive consideration of how nautical themes influenced literature in early modern Portugal. In this book, Josiah Blackmore considers how the sea and seafaring shaped literary …
In this ambitious successor to The Great Derangement, acclaimed writer Amitav Ghosh finds the origins of our contemporary climate crisis in Western colonialism's violent …