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.

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

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.

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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