Shows how the method of close reading traveled from the United States to Brazil and Israel, revealing its profound impact on global modernisms and reframing the lasting significance of New Criticism.

The most complete collection of works by the nineteenth century's most famous and groundbreaking woman journalist.

The most comprehensive collection of writings by an important twentieth-century radical writer.

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.

An exciting adventure tale of sealers caught in the Antarctic ice in the early nineteenth century and forced to winter over in extreme conditions.

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.

Compares life today in the German Black Forest with Thoreau's experiences at Walden Pond.

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.

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

A celebration of Anishinaabe intellectual tradition.

Lively analysis of how Henry James's fiction anticipates later filmmakers' concerns with what we can see and what we can know.

Engaging look at Lower East Side writers and artists in the wake of the 1975 New York fiscal crisis.

An innovative comparative study of the role of racial stereotypes in expressing state power under globalization.

Reveals how classic American novels embodied the tensions embedded in American views of the natural world from the Centennial until the end of the Second World War.

Examines the impact of Persian poetry in the work of Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Offers a new framework for reading American literatures that critically links African American and Latinx traditions and struggles for liberation.

Argues that multiculturalism and hybridity are key components of the nation’s poetry and its culture.

A celebration of the Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist who put Albany on the world’s literary map.

Explores the science and creative process behind Poe’s cosmological treatise.

Explores issues related to race and religion in Lovecraft criticism.

Assesses the limits and possibilities of humanism for engaging with issues of pressing political and cultural concern.

A biography of one of nineteenth-century America’s foremost poets and public intellectuals.

A lively and intimate selection of letters on life, literature, and art from one of America’s finest prose stylists.

Uncovers a new chapter in the story of American modernist poetry.