Starting with popular books from the late nineteenth century and moving ultimately to the electronic guides of the current…

The essays in this volume aim to add to the understanding of the role of the 19th-century French press in producing the…

An examination of the effect of ""suicidal literature"" on readers - novels and poems that depict, and sometimes glorify,…

Ten essays on issues in philosophy, literary theory and intellectual history. The question of radical imperialism of the…

\nBased on a teaching career ranging nearly forty years, Kathy Greeley details how schools went from learning communities…

\nCentering Indigenous writers, Book Anatomy argues that the reprints, editions, and paratextual elements of Indigenous…

\nIntroduces readers to the southern African poetry scene in Malawi, Zimbabwe, and South Africa, illustrating how…

Taking up the New Hampshire newspaper industry as its case study, American Intelligence unpacks the ways in which an…

Playwright, biographer, screenwriter, and critic S.N. Behrman (1893-1973) characterized the years he spent writing for The…

\nEmploying the methods of social history, such as the use of digital history techniques and often-ignored sources like…

\nExamining the critique of reform aesthetics within the tradition of American realist literature of the late nineteenth and…

Charts charity\'s complex history from the 1520s to the 1640s and details the ways in which it can be best understood in…

Maria Baldwin held a special place in the racially divided society of her time, as a highly respected educator at a largely…

Traces the growth of the natural foods movement from its countercultural fringe beginning to its twenty-first-century food…

Drawing on a wealth of primary sources, The Conspiracy of Capital offers a new history of American radicalism and the…