Turns a spotlight on the Victorian love affair with Scotland.

Analyzes initiatives aimed at reforming the electoral and government systems of Israel in comparison to other established democracies.

How Victorians reacted to the new sciences of geology and archaeology.

How cholera epidemics affected Victorian perceptions of the body and the nation.

Examines fantasies of charismatic, virile leaders in British literature from the 1790s to the 1840s.

From explorers’ accounts to boys’ adventure fiction, how Arctic exploration served as a metaphor for nation-building and empire in nineteenth-century Britain.

Argues for new water policies in the Nile River Basin.

Offers a detailed picture of the lives of Cuban Americans through interviews with artists, writers, and philosophers.

Anthropological case studies of the interplay of space, culture, and power in Iberia since 1850.

Argues there is a program of five-word utterances that imitate fallen language in Dante’s Commedia.

In Boccacio's Decameron, Cervigni sees a parodic echo of the circles of Dante's Divine Comedy, and asks whether Bocaccio envisions the voyage of the brigata as similar to Dante the Pilgrim's journey toward the center, first the abysmal center of Lucifer, then towards the highest center, God.

Selections from twenty-seven Hebrew poets, many of whose poems appear here in English for the first time.

Essays on various facets of Nursi’s spirituality as portrayed in his Risale-i Nur.

Traces the dialectical connections between Zionism’s past and present.

Explores the philosophical contributions and contemporary relevance of early German Romanticism.

Internationally renowned scholars address the Cuban diaspora from multiple perspectives and locations.

A biographical/narrative study of oppression, racism, and resistance in twentieth-century South Africa through the life of Richard Dudley, a teacher/politico.

Fictional narrative of a young girl’s experiences at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War.

Draws connections between the life and writings of philosopher Sarah Kofman.

Looks at the language of rights used by diverse interest groups in British-colonized Nigeria.

Examines the transitions to democracy in Africa.

Provocative essays on language, literature, and the aesthetics of embodiment.

Schelling’s masterpiece investigating evil and freedom.

Looks at how various factions used the tradition that scholars were the “heirs of the Prophet” during the classical period of Islam (570–1258 CE).

The first complete study of Gide’s neglected wartime writings.