Explores why women abolitionists turned to children's literature to make their case against slavery.

A Russian émigré living in New York travels to Paris to try to reconstruct the secret life of another Russian woman who was murdered there on the eve of World War II.

Uncovers the vital role that new scientific discoveries played in Romantic literary culture.

A noted Eliot scholar explores how we become different interpreters of literature as we undergo psychological change.

Examines Sukenick's role in reshaping the American literary tradition.

Examines the crucial role that coming-of-age narratives have played in American feminism.

Argues that African American literature must take into account the rich diversity of African American life and culture.

Argues that Jackson's anticipation of postmodernism ranks her among the most significant writers of her time.

Traces portrayals of psychosomatic disorders in medical and imaginative literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Writers, translators, and critics explore the cultural politics and transnational impact of Latin American literature.

The first in-depth study of Stanley Fish's nonliterary writings.

Explores the unique relationship between white women and racial Others in a wide variety of literary works.

Provocative essays and short tales that explore the effect of technology and new media on our everyday lives.

Offers historical and present-day perspectives on what English departments do, and how and why they do it.

Explores and critiques the metaphysics and ideology of the visionary moment as a convention in twentieth-century American fiction, from the standpoint of postmodernism.

Adds historical and philosophical perspectives to current debates over whether lesbian identity is socially constructed or genetically based.

Leading voices in literary and cultural studies examine the study of literature at the college level, including the fate of theory, the rise of cultural studies, the academic “star” system, and the difficult job market.

Investigates the psychocultural crisis confronting our increasingly appearance-oriented, shame-driven society.

Argues for a reading of the Poetics in light of the Metaphysics.

Examines the ethical and pedagogical stakes of representing the Holocaust in books, films, and museum exhibits.

Explores the cultural work of two important early-twentieth-century writers: the poet William Carlos Williams and the educator/philosopher John Dewey, both key figures in American democracy.

Examines the intricate relationships between time and gender in the novels of five fin-de-siecle British writers--Thomas Hardy, Olive Schreiner, H. Rider Haggard, Sarah Grand, and Mona Caird.

Examines the tendency of post-World War II writers to rewrite earlier narratives by Poe, Melville, Hawthorne, and others.

Examines the figure of the cannibal as it relates to cultural identity in a wide range of literary and cultural texts.

Argues that German Romanticism, Zen Buddhism, and deconstruction, for all their cultural differences, are three expressions of a universal vision.