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Approaches to Teaching the Works of Toni Morrison

Essays on teaching Morrison as novelist and public intellectualToni Morrison's novels have been frequently taught and frequently honored, earning the Nobel Prize and other awards. They are also frequently…

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Robert Harvey
The Rhetoric of Manipulation

A provocative and timely look at how language is used to manipulate the truth, how our gullibility leaves us susceptible to manipulation, and what we can do to reverse these trends.The Rhetoric of Manipul…

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Franny Choi
We Radiant Things

Part lyric memoir and part cultural criticism, acclaimed poet Franny Choi's debut essay collection explores pop culture's obsession with robots and what media representation of Asian femmes reveals about …

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Julia Ditter,
Scottish Literature, Borders and the Environmental Imagination

Bringing together concerns in border studies, the environmental humanities and Scottish literary studies, this open access book examines the relationship between borders and the environment in Scottish li…

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Sophie Gee
The Barbarous Feast

A bold new argument about how eating rituals across the eighteenth-century globe reveal an untold story about the rise of the novelIn The Barbarous Feast , Sophie Gee argues that novels and eating rituals…

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Julianne Sandberg,
Early Modern Literature and the Bodies of a Reformed Eucharist

Choice 2025 Outstanding Academic Title Examining what the eucharist taught early modern writers about their bodies and how it shaped the bodies they wrote about, this book shows how the exegetical roots o…

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Gerry Smyth
Englishness and Environment in Genre Fiction, 1890-1940

In this moment of growing anxiety about the environment and the fate of humanity, literature continues its vital role of articulating dynamic new ways of thinking about the relations between humanity, env…

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Ani Kokobobo
Leo Tolstoy

"The Tolstoy that emerges from this volume is a thinker who resists easy answers, explores contradictions, and seeks deeper reconciliation. This collection presents him as an open-ended conversation …

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Gerry Smyth
Englishness and Environment in Genre Fiction, 1890-1940

In this moment of growing anxiety about the environment and the fate of humanity, literature continues its vital role of articulating dynamic new ways of thinking about the relations between humanity, env…

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Joseph Luzzi
Dante's Divine Comedy

The life and times of Dante's soaring poetic allegory of the soul's redemptive journey toward GodWritten during his exile from Florence in the early 1300s, Dante Alighieri'sDivine Comedy describes the poe…

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José Felipe Alvergue
Purplish

José Felipe Alvergue examines anger in American poetry, while reflecting on the permissible/policed cultural affects of our time. purplish challenges the idea of an objective or unbiased cultural rational…

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Richard Fallquist
Great Works and Me

A Daunting EndeavorThe oldest stories ever told are written in the stars. The Greeks, Romans, and other ancient civilizations decoded those stories as a means of defining our place in the cosmos. We are n…

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Glocal Metamodernisms

This volume explores how the contemporary European novel reflects the tensions between local and global conceptualizations of Metamodernism .Each chapter explicitly addresses metamodern novels' "gloc…

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Ashli J E Baker
Identity Crises in Apuleius

In the second century CE, the multiethnic, multilingual, and religiously diverse Roman Empire grew to its greatest extent. To maintain order, Rome relied heavily on strict social hierarchies, established …

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Pamela Smith Hill
Too Good to Be Altogether Lost

Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of the well-known Little House series, wrote stories from her childhood because they were "too good to be altogether lost." And those stories seemed far from being l…

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Frank Callanan
James Joyce

A major new biography that reveals how politics profoundly shaped Joyce's life, thought and writingsThe young James Joyce (1882--1941) was forged in the smithy of Irish political controversies, and he too…

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Conversing with Chaos in Graeco-Roman Antiquity

How did ancient Greeks and Romans perceive their environments: did they see order or chaos, chance or control? And how do their views compare to modern perceptions? Conversing with Chaos in Graeco-Roman A…

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Joseph Trinidad
Lucky Creatures

Winner of the inaugural 2024 Sarabande Prize in the Essay, selected by Alexander CheeA humorous and endearing debut about migration, queerness and the transnational experience for readers of Ocean Vuong's…

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Kim Wheatley
John Cowper Powys and the Afterlife of Romanticism

This study bridges the chronological divide between the Romantic era and the first six decades of the 20th century, interpreting John Cowper Powys (1872 -1963) as a major, under-recognized contributor to …

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Katie Da Cunha Lewin
The Writer's Room

A journey into the unique spaces where some of literature's greatest writers created their most memorable worksVirginia Woolf famously wrote in A Room of One's Own that "it is necessary to have five …

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