Shows how the myth of the American frontier persists as an ever-present, oppressive set of ideas about space, mobility, and race in the mid-twentieth-century literature of Los Angeles.

A study of non-representational art and poetry in the work of Bataille, Klossowski, and Michaux.

Explores the cultural dynamics of this ancient form of Sanskrit theater.

Offers new ways to read the relationship between culture, ecology, and capitalism.

Explores how China’s oldest poetry collection was interpreted in a Confucian exegetical text—the Mao Commentary—in the mid-second century BCE.

Celebrates over a half-century of the work of one of America's greatest folklorists.

The classic work on African American toasts, the predecessor of rap.

Makes a case for the power of music and sound in the face of fascistic forces, from modernism to the present.

Examines literary depictions of “mannish” pregnant women and metaphors of male pregnancy to reframe the relationship between creativity and gender in modernism.

Assesses the contributions of six major psychoanalytic thinkers in the light of current academic and clinical trends in psychoanalysis.

A probing, generative analysis of Knausgård’s My Struggle, with implications for our understanding of the novel form more broadly in the twenty-first century.

The most comprehensive collection of writings by an important twentieth-century radical writer.

Argues that friendship is the gift of a world that is not one's own and that transforms one's world in unforseeable ways.

Examines the Yiddish-Hebrew writer I. L. Peretz's alignment with the Jewish working-class in Eastern Europe and his devotion to progressive politics.

Offers a new, Spinozist framework for understanding encounters with otherness in Romantic literature as experiences of immanence.

Retraces Hölderlin's journeys to Bordeaux and back in 1801–02, explaining why they are turning points in the great poet's life.

Analyzes the different feelings, drives and instincts we have inherited from other species, to suggest a new understanding of ourselves as part of an eco-political community.

Argues that Daoism and dandyism, linked by likeminded philosophies of “carefree wandering,” deconstruct the puritanism and political correctness sought by Confucianism, Victorianism, and contemporary neoliberal culture.

Explores the various ways in which poetic and philosophical writing meet in texts by, and on, Paul Celan.

Brings together and makes available in English for the first time some of Ángel Rama’s most important essays.

A comprehensive introduction to the life and thought of one of the Islamic intellectual tradition’s most original and profound authors.

Explores how popular novels, short stories, and television shows from the United States and Britain illustrate the positive effects of feminism and promote gender equity.

A wide-ranging overview of contemporary literary works by LGBTQ Appalachians with a focus on LGBTQ themes and characters.

Considers how Irish poets have drawn on discourses of locality to articulate new forms of place and belonging amid Ireland’s transforming global identity.

A novel of early eighteenth-century Venice that Cooper called "in spirit, the most American book I ever wrote."

Reconsiders the figure of synaesthesia, understood as the combination of the senses and of the arts, in philosophy and literature.

Explores the role of print media in conversations about race and belonging across Central America.

Examines twentieth-century Mexican literature and philosophy within the broad panorama of Latin American and European existentialisms.

Explores how Victorian women writers used the popular science of phrenology to challenge socially constructed forms of power.

Ranges widely and deeply across William Blake's oeuvre to show how his post-Newtonian vision of space-time anticipates Einsteinian relativity.

An exciting adventure tale of sealers caught in the Antarctic ice in the early nineteenth century and forced to winter over in extreme conditions.

Traces the development of the Chinese love story during the Song and Yuan dynasties.

Explores the writer's enduring literary and political legacy.

Brings the figure of the voice and the problem of mimesis in Heidegger and post-Heideggerian continental thought to bear on the dismissal of language by the affective and aesthetic turns of contemporary critical theory.

Addresses the question of how language affects the subject of speech through readings of confessional, philosophical, and fictional writings.

Assesses a distinct style of thinking in twentieth-century Spanish writing, one in which literature plays a central role in reaching behind philosophy to essential sources of life and meaning.

Five innovative essays demonstrating how Aristotle's biology is an integral part of Aristotle's understanding of the universe.

Develops a pragmatist approach to the philosophy of the humanities, interpreting history, literature, and religion in terms of pragmatic realism.

An annotated collection of over one hundred Civil War letters that trace a Union soldier's transformation from eager recruit to war-weary, battle-tested veteran.

Examines the ways in which writers and artists have attempted to address children’s experience of atrocity.

A reconstruction and critical interpretation of Heidegger's remarkable relationship to the poet Georg Trakl.

Maps manifestations of the sacred and religious syncretism in Afro-Brazilian cultural forms.

Examines the fascination with identity fraud in sensation fiction and Victorian culture more broadly.

Demonstrates that Plato and Xenophon ought to be regarded less as rivals and more as engaged in a dialogue advancing a common goal of preserving the Socratic legacy.

The best of W.H.H. Murray’s 19th century Adirondack stories, selected by Murray’s biographer and great, great grandson, Randall S. Beach

The first and best biography of this pioneering comic duo and Broadway Stars--in a new edition!

Original and critical essays by leading scholars on the question of the human in the philosophy of Martin Heidegger.

Delves into the meaning of stories, their tellers, and those who experience them.

Reconsiders key concepts in Marxist thought by examining the relationship between accumulation and subjectivity in Latin American narrative, film, and social and political theory.

The first full biography of W. H. H. Murray (1849-1904), a Boston preacher often described as the father of the American outdoor movement and the modern vacation.

Drawing on a range of sources in philosophy and literature, but with particular reference to the work of Heidegger, makes a compelling case for the importance of place in philosophical discourse.

Explores how discussion of LGBTQ+ themes in a high-school literature course can foster ethical engagement among students.

A novel of manners set in the drawing rooms, ballrooms, and Wall Street offices in 1830s New York, dramatizing conflicts that we are still grappling with nearly two hundred years later.

Illuminates the ways games—from baseball cards to board games, charades to boxing, and croquet to strategies of war—were integral to nineteenth-century life and culture in the United States and Britain.

Elucidates how neoliberalism rules all areas of life and operates as a form of common sense, taking Mexico as a case study.

Examines the skeptical foundations of literature in order to reassess the status of fiction.

Examines how contemporary US migrant women's life writing adapts autobiographical genres to call for social change benefiting minoritized communities.

Highlights the original cast members—both the well-known and the (until now) wholly unknown—who staged the duo's comic operas in Britain and in America.

Examines how contemporary Mexican literature uses humor to contest heteronormativity.

Challenges and reimagines transnational feminism by analyzing the concept of ummah, or community, in Muslim women's writing.

Examines the thought of Abū al-‛Alā’ al-Ma‛arrī (973–1057 CE) within the broader context of the major trends in Arab Islamic political and intellectual history by the time of his flourishing.

The first book-length examination of the prominent contemporary philosopher William Desmond's approach to aesthetics, art, and literature.

An original reading of Blanchot's thought with far-reaching philosophical and literary implications.

The first book-length study in English of the Heidegger-Hölderlin relation, addressing the tension between Heidegger's political commitments during National Socialism and Hölderlin's ideal of poetic dwelling.

Essays that argue in favor of Lenin's continuing relevance for twenty-first century politics and thought.

An engaging homage to African American resilience and resourcefulness in US literature and culture.

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.

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

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

Examines how community leaders, writers, and political activists facing state repression in Latin America have drawn on and debated the validity of Holocaust terms to describe human rights atrocities in their own countries.

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.

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

A fascinating fusion of New York history and local folklore sure to send shivers up your spine!

Explores the close relationship between comics and urbanism in one of Europe's most notable global cities.

Explores the full extent of Hegel’s interest in tragedy and comedy throughout his works and extends from more literary and dramatic issues to questions about the role these genres play in the history of society and religion.

A major contribution to the study of South Asian literature, offering a landmark view of Mahābhārata studies.

Examines the place of book-to-film adaptations by one of Italy's most famous postwar film directors.

Examines how Indigenous figures used British Romantic poetry in their interactions with settler governments and publics.

Explores key questions about translations and translators of South Asian Buddhist texts, past and present.

Examines the thought of W. E. B. Du Bois, with attention to its potential for reorienting present-day critical theory and political philosophy.

Examines the ideas of justice in Euripidean tragedy, which reveals the human experience of justice to be paradoxical, and reminds us of the need for humility in our unceasing quest for a just world.

Charts underexamined genealogies of minoritarian aesthetic responses to the multiple crises of the long 1970s.

Provides a new way of thinking about film's relation to theatre.

Examines the place of Paris in French Jewish literary memory, a memory that, of necessity, grapples with the aftermath of the Holocaust.

Covering rage and grief, as well as joy and fatigue, examines how Black Lives Matter activists, and the artists inspired by them, have mobilized for social justice.

Discusses world literature and cinema from the perspective of literary languages and film traditions that do not hold a hegemonic position.

A unique portrayal of the theoretical positions of eleven Italian women thinkers who share the practice of philosophy and extend philosophical work and interests beyond the realm of the discipline strictly defined.

Uses a historical study of bookselling and readers as a way to question and rethink our understanding of the market for symbolic goods.

Explores Elie Wiesel’s portraits of the sages of Judaism and elaborates on the Hasidic legacy from his life and his teaching.

Building on Jean-Luc Marion’s phenomenology of love this book takes up the “question of the Other” and argues that through the interpretive activities of the amorous imagination lovers come to experience one another as the Beloved.

A close study of one of the most prolific commentary writers in Islamic history.

Examines English-language Indian newspapers from the mid-nineteenth century and their role in simultaneously sustaining and probing British colonial governance.

Examines representations of sexual violence in modern Hebrew literature, focusing on the ways in which sexual aggression relates to Zionism, gender, ethnicity, and disability.

A comparative study of breath and breathing as a core poetic and compositional principle in modern literature.

Examines emerging new materialist and posthuman conceptions of subjectivity and agency, and explores their increasing significance for contemporary climate change environmentalism.

Shows how feminist writing in British Romanticism developed alternatives to linear time.

Revisits, reassesses, and reclaims the legacy of May '68 in light of our present cultural and historical emergency.

An exciting tale of nautical adventure on the waters of colonial New York Harbor.

Explores the role of travel and translation in Brazilian literature and culture from the 1870s to the present.