Offers a new framework for understanding Du Bois's poetics and politics, including the concept of double consciousness, by tracing the trope of the cross-caste romance across his fiction.

A novel fusing of multiple approaches and range of examples exploring the dimensions, objects, and import of aesthetic encounters.

Traces literary and social connections among three American women navigating the changing political landscape of 1860s and '70s Italy.

Compares life today in the German Black Forest with Thoreau's experiences at Walden Pond.

Probing reassessment of the relation between Celan's poetry and Heidegger's thought.

Offers a wider approach to Italian American culture, one that stresses both its material, urban components and the creativity of its formal literary codes.