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This is the first book to study how Haitian authors - from independence in 1804 to the modern Haitian diaspora - have ad......more

Human Insufficiency argues that early modern writers depict the human political subject as physically vulnerable in orde......more

This Element explores twenty-first century Black Gothic literature and film as it responds to American anti-Blackness an......more

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This Element explores twenty-first century Black Gothic literature and film as it responds to American anti-Blackness an......more

Moral Complexities in Turn of the Millennium British Literature offers a critical analysis of moral complexity and socia......more

A Shift in the Portrayal and Reception of Homosexuality from the Victorian to the Modern Period explores how the recepti......more

A comprehensive reader on the Czech literary avant-garde. In recent years a prominent trend in the study of European mod......more

Food and Emotions in Italian Women’s Writing discusses the relevance of food imagery in the writing of Italian women ove......more

Late-medieval European vernacular literature defined itself as the redeployment of classical and post-classical antecede......more

A revealing look at how the Orpheus myth helped Renaissance writers and thinkers understand the force of eloquence In an......more

This book makes available in English for the first time the work of the pioneering French interdisciplinary research gro......more

This compelling collection examines the ’lived devotion’ of men and women in England’s Long Reformation. Through cutting......more

From the Foreword: Dis-orienting the Maghreb offers a valuable contribution to both scholarship on travel literature and......more

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Featuring readings of contemporary utopian poetry and fiction from authors such as Juliana Spahr, Mohsin Hamid, Bong Joo......more

The first comprehensive study of the works of William Hope Hodgson, one of the true innovators of Weird fiction, this bo......more

An exploration of the serialization of children’s classics by contemporary publishers, this book digs into the impact of......more

Examining what the eucharist taught early modern writers about their bodies and how it shaped the bodies they wrote abou......more

Exploring how modernism registered shock experiences of the microscopic and extended vision in prose fiction through the......more

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Exploring a variety of perspectives on London during the long eighteenth century, this study considers how walking made ......more

This edition of Albert Samain’s prose work, partially original, is the most comprehensive to date. It contains his compl......more

A cultural history of speech in medieval Italy The Unruly Tongue, a cultural history of speech in medieval Italy, offers......more

Freud and psychoanalysis taught us that rebellion is what guarantees our independence and our creative abilities. But in......more

Intersecting Worlds: Colonial Liminality in US Southern and Icelandic Literatures recalibrates readings of US southern a......more

Intersecting Worlds: Colonial Liminality in US Southern and Icelandic Literatures recalibrates readings of US southern a......more

Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open intiative. At the end of ’Ode to a Nightingal......more

Gerard Manley Hopkins was one of the most innovative British poets of the nineteenth century. This book provides an auth......more

Unsettling Difference challenges the major-minor pattern that has framed discussions of German Jewish difference, focusi......more

Unsettling Difference challenges the major-minor pattern that has framed discussions of German Jewish difference, focusi......more

John Banville offers a close analysis of most of Banville’s major novels, his Quirke crime novels, and his dramatic adap......more

Julia Kristeva’s Time and Sense is a major reassessment of Marcel Proust and In Search of Lost Time. Not only a meditati......more

In this wide-ranging introduction, Julia Kristeva presents the evolution and emergence of linguistics. For Kristeva, the......more

The first ever modern edition of Bernard Barton’s selected verse, recovering an important figure from the Romantic era. ......more

The Younger Edda; Also called Snorre’s Edda, or The Prose Edda, stands as a beacon in the world of books, bridging the g......more

The Young and Field Literary Readers, Book 2, stands as a beacon in the world of books, bridging the gap between past an......more

Exploring twentieth- and twenty-first century texts that wrestle with the Irish domestic interior as a sexualized and co......more

In his 1909 manifesto Hind Swaraj, Gandhi made an impassioned call for passive resistance that he soon retracted. ’Passi......more

Martin Luther wrote a number of Latin poems, mostly using traditional classical metres, over the course of his career. H......more

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In this outstanding collection, essayist Christopher Hitchens’s works are shared-a must-have for Hitchens completists se......more

In the Romantic period, women writers developed specific aesthetics and writing strategies in their engagements with cli......more

Essays illuminating how medieval cultures and identities have influenced later authors, texts, and communities. How did ......more

Yama [The Pit], a Novel in Three Parts"", constitue un phare dans le monde du livre, comblant le fossé entre le passé et......more

EDITED BY FRANCIS MACMANUS That deep man, William Butler Yeats, was saluted as the greatest poet of our century. He puzz......more

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What are the sources--and the effects--of the pleasurable feeling of power that genre gives us? What happens to that pow......more

David Strauss: The Confessor and the Writer is Nietzsche’s incisive critique of 19th-century German culture, focusing on......more

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Narrating Irish Female Development, 1916-2018 studies narratives of Irish female and feminized development, arguing that......more

Nominated for the 2023 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Critical / Biography The first specifically academic companion to ......more

Throughout the 250 years that have passed since Thomas Gray’s death, he has primarily been celebrated as a poet. This ma......more

The present volume lists about 2,400 manuscripts written in humanistic scripts, most of which were identified by Albinia......more

Vondel’s Lucifer, stands as a beacon in the world of books, bridging the gap between past and present. Once considered a......more

Change is a matter of central concern and interest in the study of history, and it has been approached with various meth......more

In the 1960s and 1970s, soul music not only gave voice to a new sense of assertiveness among African Americans in the Un......more

The Ecopoetics of War explores the interrelationality of human and nonhuman entities in the context of conflict, as reco......more

First published in 1989, Henry Fielding is a biography presenting a fresh interpretation of Fielding’s life and thought.......more

Between 1890 and 1920, white U.S. American women experienced unprecedented sociopolitical changes - a dynamic era vividl......more

Bretones Callejas is a master of both humanistic and scientific approaches. She shows the great power of combining cogni......more

Is it enough to write in French to be recognized as a French writer? Or does the close link which exists between French ......more

Hesiod’s concept of a Golden Age, together with analogous myths - Babylonian, Egyptian, Hebrew, etc. - speak to the psyc......more

Thomas Hardy and the Folk Horror Tradition takes the uncanny and unsettling fiction of Thomas Hardy as fundamental in ex......more

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