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An analysis of social mobility in contemporary French literature that offers a new perspective on figures who move between social classes.Social climbers have often been the core …
A new reading of Virginia Woolf in the context of "e;long modernism."e;In recent decades, Virginia Woolf s contribution to literary history has been located primarily …
Addresses the political and aesthetic evolution of African American literature and its authors during the Cold War, an era McCarthy calls "e;the Blue Period."e;In the years …
A new history of early global literature that treats translators as active agents mediating cultures. In this book, Zrinka Stahuljak challenges scholars in both medieval and …
Explores how Edgar Allan Poe has become a household name, as much a brand as an author. You ll find his face everywhere, from coffee mugs, bobbleheads, and T-shirts to the cover of …
An account of criticism as an urgent response to what moves us.Criticism begins when we put down a book to tell someone about it. It is what we do when we face a work or event that …
A study of Shakespeare's child figures in relation to their own political moment, as well as our own.Politicians are fond of saying that children are the future. How did the …
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 to …
Novelist Ha Jin raises questions about language, migration, and the place of literature in a rapidly globalizing world.Consisting of three interconnected essays, The Writer as …
A reimagining of Devotions upon Emergent Occasions as an original treatment of human life shaped by innovations in seventeenth-century science and medicine. In 1624, poet and …