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.

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

Examines emerging new materialist and posthuman conceptions of subjectivity and agency, and explores their increasing significance for contemporary climate change environmentalism.

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

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.

Explores the full extent of Hegel’s interest in tragedy and comedy throughout his works and extends from more literary and dramatic issues to questions about the role these genres play in the history of society and religion.

Discusses world literature and cinema from the perspective of literary languages and film traditions that do not hold a hegemonic position.

A comparative study of breath and breathing as a core poetic and compositional principle in modern literature.

Argues that the role of Buddhism in modern Japanese prose literature has been significantly overlooked.

Explores how Didion's nonfiction prose style, often lauded for being beautiful and poetic, also works rhetorically.

Analyzes how literary representations of suicide have reinforced antiblackness in the modern world.

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.

The second volume of the first in-depth study of a range of literature written by Native Americans who attended government-run boarding schools.

An interdisciplinary exploration of utopian political philosophy from the neglected perspective of taxation.

The first volume in English to explore the cultural impact of Haiti on the surrounding Spanish-speaking nations of Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico.

Examines how literature mediated a convergence of militarism and medicine in Victorian culture that continues into the present via a widespread martial metaphor.

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

Critical essays on the transnational Kashmiri-American poet.

A portrait of Israeli literature in its full transnational and multilingual complexity.

First comprehensive account of the figure of the Irish Celt in modern British and Irish literature.

Juxtaposes five contemporary French poets, illuminating the philosophical elements of their work while making their sometimes difficult writing newly accessible.

Traces the controversial poet’s thinking about teaching and learning throughout his career.

Examines literary expressions of allyship between Italian America and other diasporic communities in modern and contemporary US fiction.