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.

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 with to the poet Georg Trakl.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Examines how contemporary Mexican literature uses humor to contest heteronormativity.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

A study of Hu Feng as a literary critic and case study on how intellectual work can respond to political pressure.

An authoritative biography of the dean of American proletarian writers during the interwar years.

Offers a dialogue about the future of the nature of the human, technology, metaphysical foundations, globalization, and social and political oppression.

The first book to examine and establish characteristics of the British South African novel.

Forges a fresh interpretation of Charlotte Brontë’s oeuvre as a response to ecological instability.

Critical essays on the transnational Kashmiri-American poet.

Analyzes how literary representations of suicide have reinforced antiblackness in the modern world.

Investigates how the Thai poet Angkarn Kallayanapong adapts Buddhist concepts of time to create a modern Asian aesthetic imaginary.

The first volume in English to explore the cultural impact of Haiti on the surrounding Spanish-speaking nations of Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico.

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

A portrait of Israeli literature in its full transnational and multilingual complexity.

Explores the relationship between literature and philosophy in classical and contemporary Buddhist texts.

Charts the vicissitudes of a distinctly modern and peculiarly human vulnerability—our intimate dependence on the fragile, time-bound cultural framework that we inhabit—in the history of the realist novel.

A celebration of Anishinaabe intellectual tradition.

Examines experimental art and literature by women alongside psychoanalysis and philosophy to develop a new understanding of sublimation and aesthetic experience.

Traces the controversial poet’s thinking about teaching and learning throughout his career.

An English translation, with introduction and annotations, of a selection of the letters and verse that José María Heredia (b. Cuba, 1803; d. Mexico, 1839), wrote during his months of political exile in New York from November 1823 to August 1825.

Three stageworthy plays and nine individual scenes that offer an introduction to Yiddish theater at its liveliest.

Juxtaposes five contemporary French poets, illuminating the philosophical elements of their work while making their sometimes difficult writing newly accessible.

The second volume of the first in-depth study of a range of literature written by Native Americans who attended government-run boarding schools.

Examines literary expressions of allyship between Italian America and other diasporic communities in modern and contemporary US fiction.

Explores how Didion's nonfiction prose style, often lauded for being beautiful and poetic, also works rhetorically.

Argues that the role of Buddhism in modern Japanese prose literature has been significantly overlooked.

Argues that we need to reinvent sovereignty as a motive for democratic political action while remaining alert to its dangers, specifically its relationship to violence.

First comprehensive account of the figure of the Irish Celt in modern British and Irish literature.

Lively analysis of how Henry James's fiction anticipates later filmmakers' concerns with what we can see and what we can know.

Examines how literature mediated a convergence of militarism and medicine in Victorian culture that continues into the present via a widespread martial metaphor.

Argues that the Divine Comedy dramatizes the risks and rewards of competing narratives, or different ways of reading.

Translation of Alexandre Leupin’s award-winning study of Édouard Glissant’s entire work in relation to philosophy.

Proposes "the extraordinary" as a defining characteristic of modernity.

Examines themes of loss and mourning in the late work of Derrida.

A systematic study of testimony rooted in contemporary continental philosophy and drawing on literary case studies.

Examines the evolution of disappearance as a formal narrative and epistemological phenomenon in late twentieth-century Argentine fiction.

Examines representations of surplus enjoyment in postcolonial literature and film to focus on self-other relations rather than difference.

A comprehensive discussion of an important but elusive Lacanian concept within the field of psychoanalysis, as well as its relevance for philosophy, literature, gender, and queer studies.

Situates a Hasidic master in the context of his time, demonstrating his formative influence on Jewish literary modernity.

Offers a new conceptual framework rooted in mythological analysis to ground the field of Africana cultural memory studies.

Cooper’s The Chainbearer presents an exciting narrative that interrogates issues of what it means to own land. The novel examines the claims of ownership of wilderness land among Native Americans, New England squatters, and the old New York families with legal deeds.

Engaging look at Lower East Side writers and artists in the wake of the 1975 New York fiscal crisis.

Highlights connections between authors rarely studied together by exposing their shared counternarratives to germ theory's implicit suggestion of protection in isolation.

A study of novelty through analyses of the language of announcement in revolutionary texts.

Argues that the descriptions of buildings frequently encountered in Victorian novels offer more than evocative settings for characters and plot; instead, such descriptions signal these novels' self-reflexive consideration of the structure itself.

Translation of the award-winning debut novel by Haitian writer Makenzy Orcel about the lives of prostitutes in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, amid the 2010 earthquake.

Makes literature of Niagara Falls available to readers with a variety of interests in literature, culture, and place.

Explores the links between language, cultural identity, and creativity through the works of Emanuel Carnevali, one of the first Italian American authors to attain literary recognition.

Explores why Derrida, Hegel, and Heidegger conceive their thought as a “movement” rather than as a presentation of results or conclusions, and of the consequences of such an indirect method for critique and responsibility.

Argues that the photographic negative gives a new way of understanding Victorian debates surrounding origins and copies as well as reality and representation.

Explains the Hindi novel’s role in anticipating and creating the story of middle-class modernity and modernization in North India.