A spirited reading of Derrida’s view of ethics as transcendental and performative.

Argues that Herman Melville’s later work anticipates the resurgence of an American exceptionalist ethos underpinning the U. S.-led global “war on terror. ”

Examines the body in literature and science in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Europe.

Explores the continuities and discontinuities in the work of Henri Bergson and Gilles Deleuze.

Overturns traditional views of the origins of fairy tales and documents their actual origins and transmission.

The oldest surviving anthology of lyric poems from India, the Sattasai presents the many aspects of love and provides a realistic counterpart to the Kāmasūtra.

Compelling stories and striking photographs illustrate the challenges and highlights of Latino/a life in Portland, Maine.

Explores the universal longing for home, illuminated through the essays, poetry, and fiction of forty Jewish women writers from around the world.

The story of a 17th century Mohawk woman's interaction with her land, the Jesuits, and the religion they brought.

Turns a spotlight on the Victorian love affair with Scotland.

How Victorians reacted to the new sciences of geology and archaeology.

How cholera epidemics affected Victorian perceptions of the body and the nation.

Shows how death education can be brought from the healing professions to the literature classroom.

Pinpoints the limits of many current globalization theories in challenging racial oppression, and argues instead for local and situated strategies for resisting racism and imperialism.

How the Romantics invented psychoanalysis in advance of Freud.

The paradoxes of the American decadent movement in the 1890s and 1920s.

Clinical and philosophical perspectives on key issues and debates in Lacanian psychoanalysis.

Scholars engage the ideas and legacy of Cary Nelson in conversations about the corporate university, teaching, poetry, and activism.

From explorers’ accounts to boys’ adventure fiction, how Arctic exploration served as a metaphor for nation-building and empire in nineteenth-century Britain.

Provocative exploration of a new concept of “joy” within psychoanalytic and cultural studies.

Introduces Paramānand, one of India’s poet-saints, his work, and this work’s use in ritual.

Explores both the literary features and historical context of poetry written for imperial rulers during China’s early medieval period.

Poetry that responds to the Qur’an and to the tradition it created.

In Boccacio's Decameron, Cervigni sees a parodic echo of the circles of Dante's Divine Comedy, and asks whether Bocaccio envisions the voyage of the brigata as similar to Dante the Pilgrim's journey toward the center, first the abysmal center of Lucifer, then towards the highest center, God.

Essays explore the broad cultural impact of Oprah’s Book Club.