W.E.B. Du Bois 
The Souls of Black Folk 

Enid Porter spent many years collecting and recording from Cambridgeshire people the folk beliefs and customs held and observed in the country, both past and present. The subjects covered in the book …

Studies of Victorian governance have been profoundly influenced by Discipline and Punish, Michel Foucault”s groundbreaking genealogy of modern power. Yet, according to Lauren Goodlad, Foucault”s an …

2009 Outstanding Academic Title, Choice The connection between speech and writing in human language has been a matter of philosophical debate since antiquity. By plumbing the depths of this complex …

In this ambitious and original study, Lynn Festa examines how and why sentimental fiction became one of the primary ways of representing British and French relations with colonial populations in the …

This book explores an extraordinary case of affirmative biopolitics through the study of Lu Xun (1881–1936), the most prominent cultural figure of modern China. Diverging from the Enlightenment-human …

This volume looks at the implications of transcultural humanities in South Asia, which is becoming a crucial area of research within literary and cultural studies. The volume also explores vario …

Bringing together a diverse array of new and established scholars and creative writers in the rapidly expanding field of memory studies, this collection creatively delves into the multiple aspects of …

How did creative genius develop in tandem with the criminalization of Blackness in the early United States? In Criminal Genius in African American and US Literature, 1793–1845, Erin Forbes uncovers …