Letters written by Leslie Fiedler to his wife Margaret from May 1944 to December 1945 while he was stationed in Hawaiʻi and various parts of the Pacific Theater as an intelligence officer during World War II.

An engaging analysis of the catastrophic ways capital perverts market dynamics by a leading scholar of Deleuze.

Examines how contemporary novels document and define social problems using a variety of narrative techniques to focus attention on systemic failure.

Shows the surprising ways T. S. Eliot's work sheds light on—and proves useful to—the contemporary struggle for a freer and more just world.

Stretching from antiquity to AI, a provocative study of the joyless laughter that emerges at the boundary of the human and the inhuman.

Explores Victorian writers’ conception of the novel’s potential to become serious knowledge and differentiate itself from other educational genres.

Demonstrates the fertility of the phenomenological tradition of philosophy for intergenerational justice and climate ethics.

Argues that the post-independence period was a unique era of literary experimentation in Hindi literature, which must be read in the contexts of both local and global cultural, social, and literary history.

Attends to the much-neglected sense of smell in and around modern poetry to suggest the possibility of a revolution of the senses.

A comparative study of iconographic and fictional representations of department stores in France and Egypt, as sites of imperial and Mediterranean cultural memory, from 1859 to the present.

Investigates how British fiction and film use dangerous and endangered children to explore conflicts over the future, from the Thatcher to Brexit eras.

An approachable and readable translation of a classic work of Chinese literature and landmark work of non-Western fiction writing.

Offers the first comprehensive study of Martin Heidegger's five conversational texts.

Explores Martin Heidegger's rich and profound engagement with ancient philosophy and literature and demonstrates both his essential place within the discourse of classical studies and the fundamental significance of classical thought for his own work.

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.

Cooper's 1846 novel about the Anti-Rent Wars in upstate New York, now available in a scholarly edition.

Collects together for the first time essays devoted to a detailed historical and systematic discussion of the topic of life in Kant's work.

Examines the reception of Brazil’s most-canonized writer in the United States to shed light on questions of Blackness and hemispheric American experience.

Shows how nineteenth-century discoveries in acoustical science shaped Victorian literary representations of gender, sexuality, and intimacy.

Explores the value of Shakespeare for theatrical businesspeople and audiences in nineteenth-century New York City.

A personal voyage of discovery drawing on musicology, literary theory, Jewish studies, and philosophical phenomenology.

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

Collects and interprets the literary legacy of Nūrī, an early Sufi master known for his ecstatic behaviour, eccentric acts, and passionate poems of mystical love.

Sheds new light on the relationship between myth and history in ancient China and the central role they have played in shaping early Chinese thought.

Argues that humans are animals that philosophize about their condition by fictionalizing other animals.