Medical Misinformation in Early Modern Germany examines how doctors, writers, and printers in six...

The 'virality' of diseases--their tendency to circulate simultaneously as biological and media ph...

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Inglorious Artists traces the origins of the image of the starving artist to late eighteenth- and...

In 1767, John Dickinson began publishing his twelve Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania, which ...

Quixotic Authority reveals how deeply absorbed reading was inextricable from and essential to Bri...

Drawing on literature, legal texts, and archival materials, The Ambassador and the Courtesan offe...

The first of a two-volume edition of The Fenwick Letters covers 1797 to 1821, a period that marke...

The first of a two-volume edition of The Fenwick Letters covers 1797 to 1821, a period that marke...

Quixotic Authority reveals how deeply absorbed reading was inextricable from and essential to Bri...

Drawing on literature, legal texts, and archival materials, The Ambassador and the Courtesan offe...

Junk Drawer: What We Leave Behind explores the personal objects that were once treasured by their...

Junk Drawer: What We Leave Behind explores the personal objects that were once treasured by their...

How did workers experience cut glass during its cultural heyday? Rather than privilege the storie...

How did workers experience cut glass during its cultural heyday? Rather than privilege the storie...

Interiority in German Women's Writing for the first time systematically gathers and engages with ...

The Enduring Work of Biography seeks to revitalize appreciation of Boswell's great biography for ...

Interiority in German Women's Writing for the first time systematically gathers and engages with ...

The Enduring Work of Biography seeks to revitalize appreciation of Boswell's great biography for ...

As a young Black orphan indentured to a Quaker family in Bristol, Pennsylvania, Zilpha Elaw (c. 1...

Appointed is a recently recovered novel written by William Anderson and Walter Stowers, two of th...

Between 1899 and 1908, five long works of fiction by the Nashville-based black Baptist minister S...

This book is the first anthology of the autobiographical writings of Peter Randolph, a prominent ...

Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858-1932) was an African American writer, essayist, Civil Rights activ...

Elleanor Eldridge, born of African and US indigenous descent in 1794, operated a lucrative domest...

Virtually unknown outside of her adopted hometown of Cleveland, Ohio, Jane Edna Hunter was one of...

J. McHenry Jones's Hearts of Gold is a gripping tale of post-Civil War battles against racism and...

In a series of columns published in the African American newspaper the Christian Recorder, the yo...

In 1829, Samuel Wood and Sons, a New York publisher of children's literature, printed and sold th...

Sutton E. Griggs's first novel, originally published in 1899, paints a searing picture of the vio...

Sustainability and Historic Preservation: Towards a Holistic View broadens the horizons of the mu...

Resentment and the Right explores the construction of a distinctive identity by intellectuals of ...

Matthew J. Babcock's Private Fire: Robert Francis's Ecopoetry and Prose presents an introduction ...

The hundreds of biblical references in Shakespeare's plays give ample evidence that he was well a...

Inspiration in the Age ofEnlightenment reconsiders theories of apostrophe and poetic authority to...

Selected contributions to the Ninth World Shakespeare Congress, which took place in July 2011 in ...

This book deals with changing conditions and conceptions of authorship in the long eighteenth cen...

In this book the author reveals how medicine shows, both ancient and modern, galvanized Jonathan ...

Women Warriors in Romantic Drama examines a recurring figure that appears in French, British, and...

This bookexamines debates regarding gendered interpretation of persuasive rhetoric in sixteenth- ...

The work is an interdisciplinary study of the major lyric poems of seventeenth-century British me...

French Renaissance and Baroque Drama helps us rethink pressing issues of the day, such as war, po...

This interdisciplinary volume analyzes previously understudied sources from nineteenth- and twent...

In the 1960s, while practicing as a general surgeon and teaching surgery at the Yale School of Me...

Rivers in Russian Literature focuses on the Russian literary and folkloric treatment of five rive...

Shakespeare without Boundaries: Essays in Honor of Dieter Mehl offers a wide-ranging collection o...

In Figurations of France: Literary Nation-Building in Times of Crisis (1550-1650), Marcus Keller ...

In sixteenth-century France, the level of jokes, irony, and ridicule found in pamphlets and plays...