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Cold war modernists
Cold War Modernists documents how the CIA, the State Department, and private cultural diplomats transformed modernist art and literature into pro-Western propaganda during the first decade of the Cold War
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Commons democracy
Commoning customs and practices in the Revolutionary era offered non-elite actors a relationship to democratic power different from the representative democracy that would be institutionalized by the Framers in 1787. Commons Democracy uncovers the democratic spirit, ideals and practices created ...
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Congoism
To justify the plundering of today's Democratic Republic of the Congo, U.S. intellectual elites have continuously produced dismissive Congo discourses. Tracing these discourses in great depth and breadth, Johnny Van Hove shows how U.S. intellectuals and their European counterparts have used the C...
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Contemporary drift
Contemporary Drift combines a theoretical focus on the challenge of conceptualizing the present with a historical account of contemporary literature and film.
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Coral lives
A literary and cultural history of coral—as an essential element of the marine ecosystem, a personal ornament, a global commodity, and a powerful political metaphorToday, coral and the human-caused threats to coral reef ecosystems symbolize our ongoing planetary crisis. In the nineteenth century,...
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Creating realities
Exploring the complex representation of business in realist, naturalist, and modernist works, Erhan Şimşek reveals its social and aesthetic functions by analyzing how the motif intertwines with social developments, literary movements, and author biographies.
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Criminal conversations
Storytelling is an essential aspect of any legal case. But what kinds of stories win cases, and why? Criminal Conversations explores sentimentality as both a literary genre and a rhetorical strategy in the novels and courtrooms of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America. By focusing ...
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Critical children
The ten novels explored in Critical Children portray children so vividly that their names are instantly recognizable. Richard Locke traces the 130-year evolution of these iconic child characters, moving from Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, and Pip in Great Expectations to Tom Sawyer and Hucklebe...
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Cross worlds
Cross Worlds engages cultural hybrids, trans-cultural alliances and associations, and the vital practice of poets working across borders.Cross Worlds refers to cultural hybrids, transcultural alliances and associations. Contributors are from a range of places and disciplines and their work reflec...
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Crowd control
Crowd Control tells the story of how efforts to contain Black resistance led to the invention of American literary excellence.
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Cultures of citizenship in the twenty-first century
This book takes an interdisciplinary approach to considering how cultures of citizenship are being envisioned and interrogated in literary and cultural (con)texts.
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Culture^2
This essay collection is a reflexive exercise in cultural studies, featuring fifteen accessible essays on a selection of critical key works published since 2000. The contributors provide readers with a fresh and engaging look at recent criticism, exploring the interdisciplinary traffic of theorie...
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David foster wallace's balancing books
In original readings of all of Wallace’s fiction, from The Broom of the System and Infinite Jest to his story collections and The Pale King, Severs reveals Wallace to be a thoroughly political writer whose works provide an often surreal history of financial crises and economic policies.
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Desert cabal
A fearless, heartfelt essay collection in which Amy Irvine celebrates environmental icon Edward Abbey—and gives him a talking to.
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Dickinson's misery
How do we know that Emily Dickinson wrote poems? How do we recognize a poem when we see one? In Dickinson's Misery, Virginia Jackson poses fundamental questions about reading habits we have come to take for granted. Because Dickinson's writing remained largely unpublished when she died in 1886, d...
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Dickinson's nerves, frost's woods
William Logan reconciles history and poetry to provide new ways of reading poets ranging from Shakespeare and Shelley to Lowell and Heaney. In these striking essays, Logan presents the poetry of the past through the lens of the past, attempting to bring poems back to the world in which they were ...
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Die your own death
How Walt Whitman’s philosophy of death prepares the soul for freedom and equalityHumans fantasize about immortality. Billionaires dabble in cryonics, politicians build monuments to themselves, and writers donate their papers to libraries. In Die Your Own Death, Jack Turner argues that the quest f...
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Displacing the divine
As religious leaders, ministers are often assumed to embody the faith of the institution they represent. As cultural symbols, they reflect subtle changes in society and belief-specifically people's perception of God and the evolving role of the church. For more than forty years, Douglas Alan Walr...
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Double agents
Why were white bourgeois gay male writers so interested in spies, espionage, and treason in the twentieth century? Erin G. Carlston believes such figures and themes were critical to exploring citizenship and its limits, requirements, and possibilities in the modern Western state. Through close re...
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Doubting the devout
Before 1985, depictions of ultra-Orthodox Jews in popular American culture were rare, and if they did appear, in films such as Fiddler on the Roof or within the novels of Chaim Potok, they evoked a nostalgic vision of Old World tradition. Yet the ordination of women into positions of religious le...
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Downtime
Downtime explores the history and aesthetics of slow motion, from its origins in early film to its prominence today.
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Ecopoetic place-making
The poets discussed in this book challenge exclusionary notions of place-attachment, testifying to the potential of poetry as a means of conceptualizing alternative environmental imaginaries.
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Ecosickness in contemporary u.s. fiction
Heather Houser traces the development of ecosickness, which links ecological and bodily injury, through a compelling archive of contemporary U.S. novels and memoirs, Ecosickness in Contemporary U.S. Fiction shows how narrative affects such as wonder and disgust organize perception of an endangere...
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Edwin arlington robinson
At the time of his death in 1935, Edwin Arlington Robinson was regarded as the leading American poet-the equal of Frost and Stevens. In this biography, Scott Donaldson tells the intriguing story of this poet's life, based in large part on a previously unavailable trove of more than 3,000 personal...
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Ennui prophet
2007 Isabella Gardner Poetry Award winner returns with prose poems about post 9/11 America and his mother's Alzheimer's Disease.
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Epilepsy metaphors
Between 1990 and 2015, American literature saw the emergence of a new corpus of epilepsy metaphors which tackle the stigma of epilepsy within three areas: society, body, and language. Eleana Vaja introduces concepts such as protometaphors, relational metaphors, epileptic texts, and metastability ...
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Ethics for the future
Stephanie Bender proposes that fiction and its modes of aesthetic simulation and emotional engagement offer a different way of knowing and judging possible futures.
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Everyday reading
Exploring poetry scrapbooks, old-time radio show recordings, advertising verse, corporate archives, and Hallmark greeting cards, among other unconventional sources, Mike Chasar casts American poetry as an everyday phenomenon consumed and created by a vast range of readers. He shows how American p...
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Exploring the fantastic
The fantastic represents a wide and heterogeneous field in literary, cultural, and media studies. Encompassing some of the field's foremost voices such as Fred Botting and Larissa Lai, as well as exciting new perspectives by junior scholars, this volume offers a mosaic of the fantastic now. The c...
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Extinction and the human
A reflection on the realities of animal extinction and endangerment, focusing especially on the force of human impact on megafauna—mammoths, whales, and the North American bisonThe Americas have been the site of two distinct waves of human migration, each associated with human-caused extinctions....
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Extraordinary bodies
Extraordinary Bodies is a cornerstone text of disability studies, establishing the field upon its publication in 1997. Framing disability as a minority discourse rather than a medical one, the book added depth to oppressive narratives and revealed novel, liberatory ones.
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Extraordinary forms of aging
This study contributes to a deeper understanding of age(ing) by exploring its construction through the analysis of extraordinary cases. Focusing on life narratives of centenarians and children with progeria.
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Extreme domesticity
Susan Fraiman reformulates domesticity, freeing it from associations with conformity and sentimentality. Ranging across periods and genres, and diversifying the archive of domestic depictions, Extreme Domesticity stresses the heterogeneity of households and probes the multiplicity of domestic mea...
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F. scott fitzgerald: the great gatsby
More critical writing exists on The Great Gatsby than on any other work of American fiction. This Columbia Critical Guide introduces and contextualizes the key critical debates surrounding Fitzgerald's novel. The extracts and essays included here reflect The Great Gatsby's place as one of the fir...
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Family in crisis?
Scholars of cultural, gender, and media studies, lawyers, sociologists, and historians discuss how today’s families cross borders and how cultural texts—sitcoms, films, novels, short stories, and political magazines from Europe and the U.S.—(de-)construct, take part in, and mirror family discourses.
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Fantasies of the new class
America's post–World War II prosperity created a boom in higher education, expanding the number of university-educated readers and making a new literary politics possible. Writers began to direct their work toward the growing professional class, and the American public in turn became more open to...
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Fate, time, and language
In 1962, the philosopher Richard Taylor used six commonly accepted presuppositions to imply that human beings have no control over the future. David Foster Wallace not only took issue with Taylor's method, which, according to him, scrambled the relations of logic, language, and the physical world...
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Female identities in lesbian web series
Lesbian web series narrate female-centered stories, strengthen identity construction, and generate transnational communities beyond cultural barriers. Julia Obermayr explores representations of lesbian women in U.S.-American, Canadian, and Spanish web series from 2007 onward.
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Fitzgerald and hemingway
F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway might have been contemporaries, but our understanding of their work often rests on simple differences. Hemingway wrestled with war, fraternity, and the violence of nature. Fitzgerald satirized money and class and the never-ending pursuit of a material tomo...
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Founded in fiction
An original account of the importance of diverse forms of fiction in the early American republic—one that challenges the “rise of the novel” narrativeWhat is the use of fiction? This question preoccupied writers in the early United States, where many cultural authorities insisted that fiction-rea...
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Freedom and the self
Contemporary philosophers assess the late author’s ideas on fatalism, free will, and art.
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Freedom reread
In this reconsideration of Freedom (2010), L. Gibson explores the difficulty of coming to terms with Jonathan Franzen. Wide-ranging and stylistically ambitious, Freedom Reread delivers an assured, artful inquiry into Franzen’s novelistic technique and public persona.
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Friends in the world
Coming of age during the sixties gave Aram Saroyan a heightened sense of being a witness. Family and friends help Saroyan on a journey at once personal and historical, as he tells of becoming a writer during an extraordinary time.
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Fugitive borders
Nele Sawallisch examines four different texts written by formerly enslaved men in the 1850s that defy the genre conventions of the slave narrative. Instead, they express complex, often ambivalent attitudes toward the so-called Canadian Promised Land.
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Gender, fantasy, and realism in american literature
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Glad to the brink of fear
An engaging reassessment of the celebrated essayist and his relevance to contemporary readersMore than two centuries after his birth, Ralph Waldo Emerson remains one of the presiding spirits in American culture. Yet his reputation as the starry-eyed prophet of self-reliance has obscured a much mo...
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