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Papers of John Adams

This volume chronicles the first year of Adams's presidency, as he sought to protect America's commercial interests while preparing the c...

The New Routledge Companion to Science Fiction

provides an overview of the study of science fiction across multiple academic fields. It offers a new conceptualisation of the field toda...

Petrochemical Fantasies - The Art and Energy of American Comics

Callimachus: Select Longer Fragments

This edition of Callimachus' select larger fragments and epigrams offers an indispensable guide for properly appreciating his poetic art....

Queer Books of Late Victorian Print Culture

[headline]Brings together queer theory and textual studies to revise our understanding of nineteenth-century print culture Queer books, l...

Street, Text, and Representation in African American Literature - Urban Writing/Dwelling

Comprehensive and comparative, this volume investigates African American street novelists from the Chicago Black Renaissance and the semi...

A Commentary on Ovid, Remedia Amoris - Edited with Introduction and Commentary

A detailed philological and interpretative reading of Ovid's most neglected poem, the Remedia Amoris. In her immersive, creatively interp...

Essays and Interviews on Contemporary American Poets, Poetry, and Pedagogy - A Thirty-Year Creative Writing Workshop

Merging autobiography and literary criticism, Daniel Morris illustrates in sixteen essays how he learned to attend to avant-garde contemp...

Jane Austen and the Price of Happiness

"This work explores how, through shifts in narrative tone and pacing at the conclusions of her novels, Jane Austen gives her readers the ...

Dante's Divine Comedy - A Biography

Helping Friends and Harming Enemies - A Study in Sophocles and Greek Ethics

Sophocles is often considered the least philosophical of the three great Greek tragedians. By analysing a fundamental principle of Greek ...

The Poet's Voice - Essays on Poetics and Greek Literature

Explores how poetry and the figure of the poet are represented within the poetry of ancient Greece. This revised edition, complete with s...

Batman and the Shadows of Modernity - A Critical Genealogy on Contemporary Hero in the Age of Nihilism

It is a multidisciplinary work that brings together comic studies, philosophical criticism and literary criticism to try to reconstruct t...

Epistolary Courtiership and Dramatic Letters - Thomas Overbury and the Jacobean Playhouse

[headline]Analyses how the political career of Sir Thomas Overbury exposes the changing systems of power at the English court between 160...

The Pushcart Prize XLVI - Best of the Small Presses 2022 Edition

Over 60 brilliant stories, poems and essays from ?dozens of small presses, ?as selected from 900 presses worldwide by ?more than ?200 dis...

The Collected Works of Anna Letitia Barbauld: Volume 2 - Writings for Children and Young People

This volume presents Anna Letitia Barbauld's educational writing and her ground-breaking works for children, including Lessons for Childr...

Auctor and Actor - A Narratological Reading of Apuleius's The Golden Ass

"A brilliant book. . . . In recapturing the exquisite ambiguity of Apuleius's Golden Ass, John J. Winkler has taken one of the liveliest ...

Imaginative Possibilities - Conversations with Twenty-First-Century Latinx Writers

A new addition to the Latinx and Latin American Profiles series published by the University of Pittsburgh Press

Plato's Gorgias - A Critical Guide

"This Critical Guide offers detailed analysis of all parts of Plato's Gorgias, together with diverse perspectives on its advocacy of a ph...

Fanfiction as Queer Healing - Femslash Authorship and the Swan Queen Ship

Exploring the phenomenon of Femslash fanfiction (fan narratives that bring together heterosexual female characters from mainstream media ...

Boethius' 'Consolation of Philosophy' - A Critical Guide

"The first collection of philosophical essays devoted to Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy, one of the most widely read and influentia...

Everyday Evil in Stephen King's America - Essays, Images, Paratexts

This edited collection variously interrogates how everyday evil manifests in Stephen King's now-familiar American imaginary; an imaginary...

Translation and the Borders of Contemporary Japanese Literature - Inciting Difference

This book examines contemporary debates on such concepts as national literature, world literature, and the relationship each of these to ...

The Miracle of the Black Leg - Notes on Race, Human Bodies, and the Law

Brilliant essays from the renowned Nation columnist-aka the Mad Law Professor-tackling questions of identity, bioethics, race, surveillan...

Homage - A Salute to Fifty Memorable Minds

In his inimitable style John Quinn pays homage to fifty well-known people from various fields - the arts, education, politics, business, ...

The River of Goodness

"The River of Goodness is a lyrical, global exploration of the ways we can create a more just and sustainable world for all, from the aut...

Orwell's Ghosts - Wisdom and Warnings for the 21st Century

With Orwell claimed by all sides of the culture wars, returning to his own world and words offers sharp and surprising lessons for today'...

Story, World and Character in the Late Islendingasogur - Rogue Sagas

Argues for new models of reading the complexity and subversiveness of fourteen "post-classical" sagas.

The Making of the Scottish Dream Vision

This book covers dreams and visions in prose, poetry, Scots, Latin, and English, plus works that do not explicitly contain dreams or visi...

Silence in Contemporary Poetry

Life / Afterlife - Revolution and Reflection in the Ancient Greek Underworld from Homer to Lucian

Life / Afterlife traces the development, evolution, and uses of underworld scenes in ancient Greek literature and society. Underworld sce...

Early Modern Improvisations - Essays on History and Literature in Honor of John Watkins

With a panoramic sweep across continents and topics, Early Modern Improvisations is an interdisciplinary collection that analyzes the rel...

Latin American Comics in the Twenty-First Century - Transgressing the Frame

How twenty-first-century Latin American comics transgress social, political, and cultural frontiers.

Zombie Futures in Literature, Media and Culture - Pandemics, Society and the Evolution of the Undead in the 21st Century

"A study that classifies zombies as a vehicle to communicate humanity's pathway into, and out of, the ideological, health and environment...

The Ecologies of Dress in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries

[headline]Offers an ecocritical approach to understanding dress in early modern plays and performance This volume posits that clothing in...

Virginia Woolf and Motherhood

[headline]Establishes maternity as a vital theme within Virginia Woolf's feminist and political thought Motherhood is a recurrent theme i...

On Edge - Gender and Genre in the Work of Shirley Jackson, Patricia Highsmith, and Leigh Brackett

Reframes postwar American literary fiction through the work of Leigh Brackett, Shirley Jackson, and Patricia Highsmith, arguing that reco...

The Stark Munro Letters

First scholarly edition of Conan Doyle's semi-autobiographical, epistolary novel originally published at the height of his initial fame, ...

Crime Fiction in the Age of #Metoo

Crime Fiction in the Age of #MeToo presents a compelling and timely fourth-wave feminist reading of crime fiction in the age of #metoo.

Ideas in Literature III.: Dimensions