Literary Criticism
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The Gothic Literature and History of New England: Secrets of the Restless DeadThe Gothic Literature and History of New England surveys the history, nature and future of the Gothic mode in the region, from the witch trials through the Black Lives Matter Movement. Three main areas of its focus are women's representation as writers and consumers...
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Modular Online Learning Design: A Flexible Approach for Diverse Learning NeedsDoes your online instruction program sometimes feel like a constant scramble to keep pace with requests and deadlines? Modular design is the answer. Approaching projects, whether large and small, with an eye towards future uses will put you on the path to accomplishing broader,...
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Bkejwanong Dbaajmowinan/Stories of Where the Waters DivideBkejwanong means "where the waters part," but the waters of St. Clair River are not a point of separation. The same waters that sustain life on and around Bkejwanong--formerly known as Walpole Island, Ontario--flow down into Chippewas of the Thames, the community to which...
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Chocolate: How a New World Commodity Conquered Spanish LiteratureIn terms of its popularity, as well as its production, chocolate was among the first foods to travel from the New World to Spain. Chocolate: How a New World Commodity Conquered Spanish Literature considers chocolate as an object of collective memory used to bridge...
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Light: C. S. Lewis's First and Final Short StoryThat an unknown manuscript by C. S. Lewis should suddenly appear two decades after his death is remarkable. That it turns out to be a version of a previously published Lewis short story which some have accused of being a forgery, makes it a...
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Climate LyricismIn Climate Lyricism Min Hyoung Song articulates a climate change-centered reading practice that foregrounds how climate is present in most literature. Song shows how literature, poetry, and essays by Tommy Pico, Solmaz Sharif, Frank O'Hara, Ilya Kaminsky, Claudia Rankine, Kazuo Ishiguro, Teju Cole, Richard...
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The Annotated Guide to Robert E. Howard's Weird FantasyWhile Conan Was Sleeping...Robert E. Howard laid much of the groundwork for modern heroic fantasy as creator of the immortal Conan. On an even broader canvas, he was an acclaimed master of weird fantasy in many forms, from vampire, zombie, and ghost tales to...
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Puro Chicanx Writers of the 21st CenturyCutthroat, A Journal Of The Arts and The Black Earth Insti- tute collaborated to publish this historic collection of writings about Chicanx culture. The writings span all topics from the rasquache to the refined. In these pages is writing that goes deep into Chicanx...
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Lakota Texts: Narratives of Lakota Life and Culture in the Twentieth CenturyLakota Texts is a treasure trove of stories told in the original language by modern Lakota women who make their home in Denver, Colorado. Sometimes witty, often moving, and invariably engaging and fascinating, these stories are both autobiographical and cultural. The stories present personal...
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Jane Porter, Thaddeus of WarsawFirst scholarly edition of a bestselling historical novel Explores the socio-political themes of the novel and deemed as relevant today as they were over 200 years ago Situates work in the genealogy of the historical novel and examines its literary and cultural influence Scholarly...
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New Technologies and Renaissance Studies III: Volume 9These essays explore problems with digital approaches to analog objects and offer digital methods to study networks of production, dissemination, and collection. Further, they reflect on the limitations of those methods and speak to a central truth of digital projects: unlike traditional scholarship, digital...
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Speaking for the People: Native Writing and the Question of Political FormIn Speaking for the People Mark Rifkin examines nineteenth-century Native writings to reframe contemporary debates around Indigenous recognition, refusal, and resurgence. Rifkin shows how works by Native authors (William Apess, Elias Boudinot, Sarah Winnemucca, and Zitkala-Sa) illustrate the intellectual labor involved in representing modes...
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Dorothy L. Sayers: A Companion to the Mystery FictionDorothy L. Sayers was one of the Queens of Crime. Alongside writers like Agatha Christie, she perfected the whodunnit, but also used the genre to explore social, ethical, and emotional matters. Her characters, particularly Lord Peter Wimsey and his investigative partner Harriet Vane, struggle...
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Founded in Fiction: The Uses of Fiction in the Early United StatesAn original account of the importance of diverse forms of fiction in the early American republic--one that challenges the "rise of the novel" narrative What is the use of fiction? This question preoccupied writers in the early United States, where many cultural authorities insisted...
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Desire: A MemoirIn this meditative and haunting memoir, renowned cultural critic Jonathan Dollimore recounts a life spent dedicated to understanding the delight and disorder of human desire. Through recollections of his struggles with depression, his discovery of love and literature and his adventures cruising in the...
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History's Greatest Libels: A Challenge to Some of the Great Lies of HistoryGeorge Orwell said, "The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history." Liberals understand that they win victories today by distorting the record of our past. For all their devotion to the merits of tradition,...
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Along Heroic LinesA selection of new and revised essays from eminent scholar and critic Professor Christopher Ricks. Christopher Ricks brings together new as well as substantially augmented critical essays across a wide range. Several derive from his term as the Professor of Poetry at the University...
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Study Guide to The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoyevskyA comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov, considered one of the most acclaimed achievements to date in the world of literature. As a philosophical novel set against a modernizing, nineteenth-century Russia, Dostoyevsky's last work...
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Romanian Poetry from its Origins to the Present: A Bilingual AnthologyRomanian Poetry from its Origins to the Present is the most comprehensive bilingual representation of Romanian poetry (English translation side by side with the Romanian original), starting with the earliest discovered poems, to contemporary poets - some of them born only a couple of...
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From Sarah to Sydney: The Woman Behind All-Of-A-Kind FamilyThis "thoughtful, timely, and comprehensive biography" (Jennifer Weiner, New York Times Book Review) of All-of-a-Kind Family author Sydney Taylor highlights her dramatic influence on American children's literature "Delv[es] deeply into historical context, including Jewish immigrant experiences. . . . An uncommonly intimate portrait. ....
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