Argues that Daoism and dandyism, linked by likeminded philosophies of “carefree wandering,” deconstruct the puritanism and political correctness sought by Confucianism, Victorianism, and contemporary neoliberal culture.

Explores how popular novels, short stories, and television shows from the United States and Britain illustrate the positive effects of feminism and promote gender equity.

A novel of early eighteenth-century Venice that Cooper called "in spirit, the most American book I ever wrote."

A wide-ranging overview of contemporary literary works by LGBTQ Appalachians with a focus on LGBTQ themes and characters.

Reconsiders the figure of synaesthesia, understood as the combination of the senses and of the arts, in philosophy and literature.

Considers how Irish poets have drawn on discourses of locality to articulate new forms of place and belonging amid Ireland’s transforming global identity.

Ranges widely and deeply across William Blake's oeuvre to show how his post-Newtonian vision of space-time anticipates Einsteinian relativity.

Examines twentieth-century Mexican literature and philosophy within the broad panorama of Latin American and European existentialisms.

Explores how Victorian women writers used the popular science of phrenology to challenge socially constructed forms of power.

Explores the role of print media in conversations about race and belonging across Central America.

Traces the development of the Chinese love story during the Song and Yuan dynasties.

An exciting adventure tale of sealers caught in the Antarctic ice in the early nineteenth century and forced to winter over in extreme conditions.

Brings the figure of the voice and the problem of mimesis in Heidegger and post-Heideggerian continental thought to bear on the dismissal of language by the affective and aesthetic turns of contemporary critical theory.

Explores the writer's enduring literary and political legacy.

Addresses the question of how language affects the subject of speech through readings of confessional, philosophical, and fictional writings.

Assesses a distinct style of thinking in twentieth-century Spanish writing, one in which literature plays a central role in reaching behind philosophy to essential sources of life and meaning.

Five innovative essays demonstrating how Aristotle's biology is an integral part of Aristotle's understanding of the universe.

An annotated collection of over one hundred Civil War letters that trace a Union soldier's transformation from eager recruit to war-weary, battle-tested veteran.

Examines the ways in which writers and artists have attempted to address children’s experience of atrocity.

Develops a pragmatist approach to the philosophy of the humanities, interpreting history, literature, and religion in terms of pragmatic realism.

A reconstruction and critical interpretation of Heidegger's remarkable relationship to the poet Georg Trakl.

Maps manifestations of the sacred and religious syncretism in Afro-Brazilian cultural forms.

The best of W.H.H. Murray’s 19th century Adirondack stories, selected by Murray’s biographer and great, great grandson, Randall S. Beach

Demonstrates that Plato and Xenophon ought to be regarded less as rivals and more as engaged in a dialogue advancing a common goal of preserving the Socratic legacy.

Examines the fascination with identity fraud in sensation fiction and Victorian culture more broadly.