This book traces the development of ecology and environmentalism in Spanish American literature. It provides a historical and literary context for the recent and expanding interest in reading, analyzing and especially teaching Latin America’s environmental literature.
The book is about John Eliot and his mission to Massachusetts Bay; it analyzes the... Læs mere
Developments in the Histories of Sexualities: In Search of the Normal,1600-1800 explores the oppositions created by the... Læs mere
The book offers new perspectives on works that were central to the visual and literary culture of the Anglo-American world—ephemeral print—but which have received little scholarly attention in the past.
Catastrophic Bliss contemplates the longing to understand connections within a fragmented world. These poems move from the tumultuous to the sublime.
This volume describes the Native American presence in the Susquehanna River Valley, a key crossroads of the old Eastern Woodlands between the Great Lakes and the Chesapeake Bay in Northern Appalachia.
Encountering China addresses the responses of early modern travelers to China who, awed by the wealth and sophistication of the society they... Læs mere
Secular Millenialism: The Train of Aesthetics from Baumgarten and Kant to Walt Disney and Hitler by... Læs mere
Blending cultural studies, literary analysis, and political history, this book shows how Elena Garro’s life and work expose the impasses inherent to the concept of... Læs mere