Proposing that Samuel Richardson s novels were crucial for the construction of female individuality ... more

One hundred years before Freud’s striking psychoanalytic case-histories, the narrative psychological... more

The classic Chinese novel The Water Margin (Shuihu zhuan) tells the story of a band of outlaws in tw... more

Early American libraries stood at the nexus of two transatlantic branches of commerce--the book trad... more

The uncontested center of the black pulp fiction universe for more than four decades was the Los Ang... more

Latin America s Indigenous writers have long labored under the limits of colonialism, but in the lat... more

Latin America s Indigenous writers have long labored under the limits of colonialism, but in the lat... more

Sara Trevor Teasdale was born on the 8th August 1884 in St Louis, Missouri. A woman of poor health i... more

This book presents a firsthand account of the experiences of seventeen-year-old Second Lieutenant Th... more

The figures of Michael Robartes and Owen Aherne appear throughout the writing of the great Irish poe... more

Through state-backed Catholicism, monolingualism, militarism, and dictatorship, Spain’s fascists ear... more

In the twenty years of postrevolutionary rule in Mexico, the war remained fresh in the minds of thos... more

Zoopoetics exposes the continuity of poiesis across human/animal spheres. It contributes new ways of... more

The Pope, the Kings and the People - A history of the movement to make the pope governor of the worl... more

This book examines the ways in which race and gender have shaped and continue to inform African Amer... more

Intensely persecuted during the English Interregnum, early Quakers left a detailed record of the suf... more

This book takes the following question as its starting point: What are some of the crucial things th... more

Literary Coteries and the Making of Modern Print Culture offers the first study of manuscript-produc... more

In Conspicuous Bodies: Provincial Belief and the Making of Joyce and Rushdie, Jean Kane re-examines ... more

This book investigates John Foxe’s motivation for inserting a history of the Ottoman Empire into his... more

In the South Transept of Westminster Abbey in London, the bodies of more than seventy men and women,... more

Lin Shu, Inc. explores the dynamic interactions between literary translation, commercial publishing,... more

While analyzing Damon Runyon’s high spirited work in terms of historical contexts, popular culture, ... more

Brian James Baer explores the central role played by translation in the construction of modern Russi... more

Brian James Baer explores the central role played by translation in the construction of modern Russi... more

Winner, The Early American Literature Book Prize Ethnology and Empire tells stories about words and ... more

Winner, The Early American Literature Book Prize Ethnology and Empire tells stories about words and ... more

In a February 1966 letter to her artistic confidant, Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop tellingly group... more