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Offering an innovative approach to the Gothic, Gothic Things: Dark Enchantment and Anthropocene Anxiety breaks ground with a new materialist analysis of the genre, highlighting the ways that, since its origins in the eighteenth century, the Gothic has been intensely focused on ¿ominous matter¿ and ¿thing power.¿ In chapters attending to gothic bodies, spaces, books, and other objects, Gothic Things argues that the Gothic has always been about ...

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Offers a fascinating window into how the fraught politics of apology in the East Asian region have been figured in anglophone literary fiction. The Pacific War, 1941-1945, was fought across the world¿s largest ocean and left a lasting imprint on Anglophone literary history. However, studies of that imprint or of individual authors have focused on American literature without drawing connections to parallel traditions elsewhere. Beyond Hostile I...

New Critical Nostalgia explores literary study¿s nostalgic attachments to its past by recasting an essential episode in the historiography of English¿the vigorous rejection of romanticism by American New Critics¿in the new light of the midcentury American university¿s tectonic growth.

A dramatic and necessary rethinking of the meaning of Democracy Democratic Anarchy grapples with an uncomfortable but obvious truth inimical to democracy: both aesthetics and politics depend on the structuring antagonism of inclusion and exclusion. Yet in Democratic Anarchy, Matthew Scully asks, how can ¿the people¿ be represented in a way that acknowledges what remains unrepresentable? What would it mean to face up to the constitutive exclusi...

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¿Astonishing. . . . Hilarious. . . . The mixture of analysis and memoir works because the author participates fully in the action of reading. . . . Everyone will wish they could have studied with the man they have come to know through his writing¿¿The Wall Street Journal ¿Reading Shakespeare Reading Me is a triumphant vindication of critical self-absorption. This remarkable, exuberantly written book proves what many would scarcely think possib...

The story of the origin of Vatican Radio provides a unique look at the history of World War II The book offers the first wide-ranging study on the history of Vatican Radio from its origins (1931) to the end of Pius XII¿s pontificate (1958) based on unpublished sources. The opening of the Secret Vatican Archives on the records regarding Pius XII will shed light on the most controversial pontificate of the 20th century. Moreover, the recent rear...

Sentimental Empiricism reconsiders the legacy of eighteenth and nineteenth century radical empiricism and moral sentimentalism for the intellectual formation of the generation of postwar French thinkers whose work came to dominate Anglophone conversations across the humanities under the guise of ¿French theory.¿ Panagiäs book first shows what was missed in the reception this literature in the Anglophone academy by attending to how France¿s ped...

Threshold Phenomena reexamines Jacques Derridäs thinking of hospitality, from his well-known writings of the 1990s to his recently-published seminars on the same topic. The book follows Derridäs rereading of several central figures and texts on hospitality (Sophocles¿ Oedipus at Colonus, Kant¿s Perpetual Peace, Levinas¿s Totality and Infinity) and his attempt to rethink questions surrounding not only private but also public hospitality in the ...

Exploring the silence of prayer in Post-Kantian philosophy and traditional spirituality A Philosophy of Prayer explores prayer within the perspective of post-Kantian philosophy. Against a background of traditional sources, including Augustine, The Cloud of Unknowing, and the seventeenth-century French school of spirituality, the book uses Schleiermacher, Kierkegaard, Dostoevsky, Heidegger, Berdyaev, Tillich, Marcel, Simone Weil, Emmanuel Levin...

It is well known that Renaissance culture gave an empowering role to the individual and thereby to agency. But how does race factor into this culture of empowerment? Canonical French authors like Rabelais and Montaigne have been celebrated for their flexible worldviews and interest in the difference of non-French cultures both inside and outside of Europe. As a result, this period in French cultural history has come to be valued as an exceptio...

From the 1811 German Coast Slave Rebellion to the 1971 Attica Prison Uprising, from the truancy of enslaved women to the extreme self-discipline exercised by prisoners in solitary confinement, Black Americans have, through time, resisted racial regimes in extraordinary and everyday ways. Though these acts of large and small-scale resistance to slavery and incarceration are radical and transformative, they have often gone unnoticed. This book i...

From the 1811 German Coast Slave Rebellion to the 1971 Attica Prison Uprising, from the truancy of enslaved women to the extreme self-discipline exercised by prisoners in solitary confinement, Black Americans have, through time, resisted racial regimes in extraordinary and everyday ways. Though these acts of large and small-scale resistance to slavery and incarceration are radical and transformative, they have often gone unnoticed. This book i...

Every institution is, or can be imagined to be 'defective, ' entailing its own abolition in an anarchic inversion of its constitutive tautology. This is where Jacques Lezra brings us through a series of unexpected readings. It will be hard not to follow where the deadly possibility of happiness awaits us. Republicanism and risk are the twin faces of freedom. Do we not agree?"-Etienne Balibar, author of Citizen Subject "Lezra's scope and range ...

Every institution is, or can be imagined to be 'defective, ' entailing its own abolition in an anarchic inversion of its constitutive tautology. This is where Jacques Lezra brings us through a series of unexpected readings. It will be hard not to follow where the deadly possibility of happiness awaits us. Republicanism and risk are the twin faces of freedom. Do we not agree?"-Etienne Balibar, author of Citizen Subject "Lezra's scope and range ...

Challenges conventional narratives of the Civil War era that emphasize Irish Americans¿ unceasing opposition to Black freedom Embracing Emancipation tackles a perennial question in scholarship on the Civil War era: Why did Irish Americans, who claimed to have been oppressed in Ireland, so vehemently opposed the antislavery movement in the United States? Challenging conventional answers to this question that focus on the cultural, political, an...

Threshold Phenomena reexamines Jacques Derridäs thinking of hospitality, from his well-known writings of the 1990s to his recently-published seminars on the same topic. The book follows Derridäs rereading of several central figures and texts on hospitality (Sophocles¿ Oedipus at Colonus, Kant¿s Perpetual Peace, Levinas¿s Totality and Infinity) and his attempt to rethink questions surrounding not only private but also public hospitality in the ...

Journey through uncharted literary waters and explore Melville¿s epic in bold new light Come sail with I. We¿re not taking the same trip, though you might recognize the familiar course. This time, the Pequod¿s American voyage steers its course across the curvature of the Word Ocean without anyone at the helm. We are leaving one man and his madness on shore. Our ship overflows with glorious plurality¿multiracial, visionary, queer, conflicted, p...

Journey through uncharted literary waters and explore Melville¿s epic in bold new light Come sail with I. We¿re not taking the same trip, though you might recognize the familiar course. This time, the Pequod¿s American voyage steers its course across the curvature of the Word Ocean without anyone at the helm. We are leaving one man and his madness on shore. Our ship overflows with glorious plurality¿multiracial, visionary, queer, conflicted, p...