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Figuring Jerusalem explores how Hebrew writers have imagined Jerusalem, both from the distance of exile and from within its sacred walls. For two thousand years, Hebrew writers …
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 …
Reading a range of Italian works, Rubini considers the active transmittal of traditions through generations of writers and thinkers. Rocco Rubini studies the motives and literary …
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 …
Considers how ancient Greek comedy offers a model for present-day politics. With Democratic Swarms, Page duBois revisits the role of Greek comedy in ancient politics, considering …
This unorthodox account of 1960s Black thought rigorously details the field’s debts to German critical theory and explores a forgotten tradition of Black singularity. Phenomenal …
Vulgar Genres examines gay pornographic writing, showing how literary fiction was both informed by pornography and amounts to a commentary on the genre's relation to queer male …
A timely reconsideration of the history of the profession, Outside Literary Studies investigates how midcentury Black writers built a critical practice tuned to the struggle …
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 …
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 …