Demonstrates the fertility of the phenomenological tradition of philosophy for intergenerational justice and climate ethics.

Argues that the post-independence period was a unique era of literary experimentation in Hindi literature, which must be read in the contexts of both local and global cultural, social, and literary history.

Explores Victorian writers’ conception of the novel’s potential to become serious knowledge and differentiate itself from other educational genres.

Attends to the much-neglected sense of smell in and around modern poetry to suggest the possibility of a revolution of the senses.

A comparative study of iconographic and fictional representations of department stores in France and Egypt, as sites of imperial and Mediterranean cultural memory, from 1859 to the present.

Investigates how British fiction and film use dangerous and endangered children to explore conflicts over the future, from the Thatcher to Brexit eras.

Explores Martin Heidegger's rich and profound engagement with ancient philosophy and literature and demonstrates both his essential place within the discourse of classical studies and the fundamental significance of classical thought for his own work.

Offers the first comprehensive study of Martin Heidegger's five conversational texts.

An approachable and readable translation of a classic work of Chinese literature and landmark work of non-Western fiction writing.

Cooper's 1846 novel about the Anti-Rent Wars in upstate New York, now available in a scholarly edition.

Shows how the method of close reading traveled from the United States to Brazil and Israel, revealing its profound impact on global modernisms and reframing the lasting significance of New Criticism.

Examines the reception of Brazil’s most-canonized writer in the United States to shed light on questions of Blackness and hemispheric American experience.

Collects and interprets the literary legacy of Nūrī, an early Sufi master known for his ecstatic behaviour, eccentric acts, and passionate poems of mystical love.

Explores the value of Shakespeare for theatrical businesspeople and audiences in nineteenth-century New York City.

Shows how nineteenth-century discoveries in acoustical science shaped Victorian literary representations of gender, sexuality, and intimacy.

Collects together for the first time essays devoted to a detailed historical and systematic discussion of the topic of life in Kant's work.

A personal voyage of discovery drawing on musicology, literary theory, Jewish studies, and philosophical phenomenology.

The most complete collection of works by the nineteenth century's most famous and groundbreaking woman journalist.

A comprehensive study of the history and evolution of the dybbuk, from kabbalistic tradition to popular folklore.

Sheds new light on the relationship between myth and history in ancient China and the central role they have played in shaping early Chinese thought.

Shows how Britain's trans-imperial engagements in the long nineteenth century have come to shape global cultural commodity flows today.

Argues that humans are animals that philosophize about their condition by fictionalizing other animals.

Renowned poets and scholars address the question of how poetry sounds and signifies in different contexts.

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.

Examines the increasingly reciprocal nature of Franco-Japanese cultural exchange through films that center on nuclear issues.