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."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Critical essays on the transnational Kashmiri-American poet.

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

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.

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

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

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

A celebration of Anishinaabe intellectual tradition.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.