The first book to examine and establish characteristics of the British South African novel.

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.

Forges a fresh interpretation of Charlotte Brontë’s oeuvre as a response to ecological instability.

A study of novelty through analyses of the language of announcement in revolutionary texts.

Situates a Hasidic master in the context of his time, demonstrating his formative influence on Jewish literary modernity.

Highlights connections between authors rarely studied together by exposing their shared counternarratives to germ theory's implicit suggestion of protection in isolation.

Proposes "the extraordinary" as a defining characteristic of modernity.

Investigates how nineteenth-century British literature grappled with a new understanding of aging as both an individual and collective experience.

Offers a new conceptual framework rooted in mythological analysis to ground the field of Africana cultural memory studies.

Examines representations of surplus enjoyment in postcolonial literature and film to focus on self-other relations rather than difference.

Argues that images are at the heart of the dialogue’s philosophical argumentation.

Analyzes contemporary capitalism through the products of culture and art for fresh insight into emancipatory possibilities concealed within capitalism’s darkest dynamics.

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

Argues that the descriptions of buildings frequently encountered in Victorian novels offer more than evocative settings for characters and plot; instead, such descriptions signal these novels' self-reflexive consideration of the structure itself.

Examines the evolution of disappearance as a formal narrative and epistemological phenomenon in late twentieth-century Argentine fiction.

Combines powerful first-person accounts with incisive scholarly analysis to understand the phenomenon of ultra-Orthodox Jews who leave their insular communities and venture into the wider world.

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.

Explores the links between language, cultural identity, and creativity through the works of Emanuel Carnevali, one of the first Italian American authors to attain literary recognition.

Revisits a foundational moment in Argentine history to demonstrate how the crisis of modernity opened up new possibilities for imagining kinship otherwise.

Examines the relation between Indian diplomacy and nineteenth-century Native American literature.

Argues that the photographic negative gives a new way of understanding Victorian debates surrounding origins and copies as well as reality and representation.

Investigates how depictions of young people in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century America use artifice to destabilize pre-existing narratives of truth, news, and fact.

Examines the concept of a poetics of vacancy in Romantic-era literature.

Analyzes parallel developments in post–Cold War literature and film from Cuba and Angola to trace a shared history of revolutionary enthusiasm, disappointment, and solidarity.

Offers a feminist theory of ignorance that sheds light on the misunderstood or overlooked epistemic practices of women in literature.