Examines why African American women would choose conditions of bondage over individual freedom.

Examines the increasingly prevalent assumption that postmodernism is over and that literature and film are once again engaging sincerely with issues of ethics and politics.

A searing personal record of spiritual and communal crisis, wherein the death of god announces the beginning of friendship.

Translations of Goethe’s poems about Arabia and Persia and his essays on Islamic culture.

Examines the interplay between reading and writing in the works of Petrarch and Dante.

Examines how twentieth-century women writers depict female bodily shame and trauma.

Presents a new genealogy and synoptic overview of modern Irish fiction.

Examines images of horror in Victorian fiction, criticism, and philosophy.

Examines the recent “War on Terror” and the increasing privatization of international policing through the lens of detective fiction and security and espionage narratives.

Explores the connections between sexual difference and political structure in ancient Greek tragedy.

Explores the philosophical dimensions present in the works of ancient Greek poets and playwrights.

Explores the metafictional strategies of contemporary African novels rather than characterizing them primarily as a response to colonialism.

First English translation of Paola Masino’s Nascita e morte della massaia, her most controversial novel that provoked Fascist censorship for its critical portrayal of marriage and motherhood.

Traces the origins of contemporary analogies between queerness and blackness.

A transdisciplinary reader on Luce Irigaray's reading and re-writing of Ancient Greek texts.

A survey of current critical perspectives on how North American indigenous peoples are viewed and represented transnationally.

Examines racial segregation in literature and the cultural legacy of the Jim Crow era.

Contemporary poets offer behind-the-scenes perspectives on the poetic process.

A brutal and unflinchingly honest portrayal of the effects of concentration camp life on the human psyche.

Argues that Byron’s popularity marked the beginning of celebrity as a cultural identity.

Explores how Cuban Americans negotiate bicultural identities through cultural production.

Considers the social and political significance of Kristeva’s oeuvre.

Examines the importance of fetishism in nineteenth-century cultural theory.

Explores Victorian responses to death and burial in literature, journalism, and legal writing.

Uncovers the origins of midlife anxiety in Victorian print culture.