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This book provides an in-depth exploration of South Asian readaptations of race in vernacular languages. The focus is on a diverse set of printed texts, periodicals and books in Hindi and Urdu, two o …

Widely regarded as one of the foremost cultural critics of the last century, Walter Benjamin »s relation to Modernism has largely been understood in the context of his reception of the aesthetic theo …

This volume defines versions of the transnational in their historical and cultural specificity. By ‘locating, ‘ the contributors contextualize historical and contemporary understandings of the fluid …

Modernism, Sex, and Gender is an up-to-date and in-depth review of how theories of gender and sexuality have shaped the way modernism has been read and interpreted from its inception to the present d …

While large bodies of scholarship exist on the plays of Shakespeare and the philosophy of Heidegger, this book is the first to read these two influential figures alongside one another, and to reveal …

Barrow’s timely book is the first to examine the link between Victorian poetry, the study of language, and political reform. Focusing on a range of literary, scientific, and political texts, Barrow d …

Published in 1995: The author of at least two noteworthy romances of the early thirteenth century, Le Roman de la Rose or Guillaume de Dole and L »Escoufle (The Kite), as well as Le Lai de l »Ombre, …

Published in 1988: This book, with a new critical edition, facing-page translation, and commentary on the context that shapes both of them, attempts to present one clear vision of La Manekine. …

The first book of its kind, The Disabled Detective explores representations of disability in crime fiction, from the earliest days of the genre to contemporary television drama. Susannah B. Mintz exa …

World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth recovers a genealogy of anticolonial thought that advocated collective inexpertise, unknowing, and unrecognizability. Early-twentieth-century anticoloni …