Excitable Imaginations offers a new approach to the history of pornography. Looking beyond a counter-canon of bawdy literature, Kathleen Lubey identifies a vigilant attentiveness to sex across a wide spectrum of literary and philosophical texts in eighteenth-century Britain.
By remapping the configurations of mourning across modernist, postmodernist, and postcolonial literatures, psychoanalysis and deconstruction, Signifying Loss studies not only how loss is signified, but also the ethico-political significance of such signifying.
This book collects for the first time the complete correspondence of the eighteenth-century British author Charlotte Lennox.
New Lenses for Lorca examines the presence of scientific motifs in Federico García Lorca´s writing and drawing.
What Is Film Noir? surveys the various theories of film noir, defines film noir, and explains how the genre relates to the style and the period in which noir was created. It also provides a very useful theory of genre and how it relates to film study.
Catastrophic Bliss contemplates the longing to understand connections within a fragmented world. These poems move from the tumultuous to the sublime.