On the Horizon of World Literature compares literary texts from asynchronous periods of incipient li... more

On the Horizon of World Literature compares literary texts from asynchronous periods of incipient li... more

Argues that Jewishness is an essential element of Argentina’s self-fashioning as a modern nation.... more

In Making the Miscellany Megan Heffernan examines the poetic design of early modern printed books an... more

When British and American leaders today talk of the nation--whether it is Boris Johnson, Barack Obam... more

Shakespeare and the Cultivation of Difference reveals the relationship between racial discrimination... more

This book is an anthology focused on Shaw’s efforts, literary and political, that worked toward a mo... more

Chicago and the Making of American Modernism is the first full-length study of the vexed relationshi... more

This book argues that sovereignty is the first-order question of political order, and that seventeen... more

Challenging the assumption that modernist writer Gertrude Stein seldom integrated her Jewish identit... more

During the Cold War, national discourse strove for unity through patriotism and political moderation... more

During the Cold War, national discourse strove for unity through patriotism and political moderation... more

Mid-Century Gothic offers a fresh perspective on the cultural moment that followed World War II, and... more

Arab debates about the critical relationship between religion and modernity began in the early ninet... 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

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

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

What does music have to say about modernity? How can this apparently unworldly art tell us anything ... more

Figures of a Changing World offers a dramatic new account of cultural change, an account based on th... more

The detective story, focused on inquiries, and in its wake the spy novel, built around conspiracies,... more

This book is part of a series which moves the canon debate of the 1980s forward into a new multidisc... more

Erin Mackie explores the shared histories of the modern polite English gentleman and other less resp... more

Nonnus of Panopolis (fifth century CE) composed two poems once thought to be incompatible: the Diony... more

Mapping a fifty-year period that is fundamental to any understanding of nineteenth-century Bengal - ... more

The Seven Wonders of the World: Ancient, Medieval and Modern, written by Hereward Carrington, is a c... more

Lucy Pearson s lively and engaging book examines British children s literature during the period wid... more

Ernst Troeltsch focuses his Protestantism and Progress on two main areas. First, he centers on the i... more

The promotion of state ideology was pervasive in early modern Spain and its New World colonies. One ... more

Through literary and historical documents from the early sixteenth to late seventeenth centuries--ep... more

The game of chess was wildly popular in the Middle Ages, so much so that it became an important thou... more

This title explores the concept and practice of improvisation in literary modernism and the intercon... more

From its growth in Europe in the nineteenth century, detective fiction has developed into one of the... more

The history of literary and artistic production in modern Japan has typically centered on the litera... more

Multiplying Worlds argues that modern forms of virtual reality first appear in the urban/commercial ... more

Leading scholar Albert Russell Ascoli traces the metamorphosis of Dante Alighieri minor Florentine a... more

Dictionaries tell stories of many kinds. The history of dictionaries, of how they were produced, pub... more

Improvisation, despite its almost ubiquitous presence in many art forms, is notoriously misunderstoo... more

From its growth in Europe in the nineteenth century, detective fiction has developed into one of the... more