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This book offers a broad overview of American environmental literature and criticism. Demonstrating links between ecocriticism and fields such as Black feminism, food studies, Latinx studies, Indigenous studies, and queer theory, it reveals the persistent relevance of literary methods within the interdisciplinary field of Environmental Humanities.

This book offers a broad overview of American environmental literature and criticism. Demonstrating links between ecocriticism and fields such as Black feminism, food studies, Latinx studies, Indigenous studies, and queer theory, it reveals the persistent relevance of literary methods within the interdisciplinary field of Environmental Humanities.

This book introduces students to the field of climate and literature while offering seasoned scholars novel ways to approach its dynamic expansions. It highlights diversity across geography, race, and class, as well as genre. It not only introduces key issues but also puts emerging themes in conversation.

This book introduces students to the field of climate and literature while offering seasoned scholars novel ways to approach its dynamic expansions. It highlights diversity across geography, race, and class, as well as genre. It not only introduces key issues but also puts emerging themes in conversation.

This volume offers a rigorous yet accessible overview of the key questions and intersectional approaches pertaining to American literature and the body. The chapters have been written in an accessible style, making them useful for undergraduates as well as for more experienced researchers.

This volume offers a rigorous yet accessible overview of the key questions and intersectional approaches pertaining to American literature and the body. The chapters have been written in an accessible style, making them useful for undergraduates as well as for more experienced researchers.

"This Companion, written by a diverse group of scholars for an audience of students and professors, considers the history, theory, and aesthetics of the essay form from the sixteenth century to the present"--

This Companion provides students and researchers with a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the interdisciplinary field of literature and economics. Combining historical coverage with key topics, the volume will appeal to literary scholars and to historians and social scientists interested in the literary and cultural dimensions of economics.

Accessible yet comprehensive, this is the first systematic account of crime fiction's rich history and extraordinary diversity across the globe. Deeply informative for general fiction readers, it also offers an important introduction for undergraduate and postgraduate students of popular fiction and world literature.

This Companion provides students and researchers with a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the interdisciplinary field of literature and economics. Combining historical coverage with key topics, the volume will appeal to literary scholars and to historians and social scientists interested in the literary and cultural dimensions of economics.

This book provides an essential guide to one of the most popular contemporary genres. Ranging across disciplines, underpinned by historical scholarship and alert to the latest thinking, this volume is essential reading for anyone interested in America's dark past and present.

This book provides an essential guide to one of the most popular contemporary genres. Ranging across disciplines, underpinned by historical scholarship and alert to the latest thinking, this volume is essential reading for anyone interested in America's dark past and present.

Drawing together leading scholars in literary studies and history, this volume offers accessible treatments of major authors and subjects. Its twenty carefully-curated essays make cutting-edge scholarship available to diverse readers, while touting the ongoing relevance of this period and its literature to our contemporary moment.

Drawing together leading scholars in literary studies and history, this volume offers accessible treatments of major authors and subjects. Its twenty carefully-curated essays make cutting-edge scholarship available to diverse readers, while touting the ongoing relevance of this period and its literature to our contemporary moment.

The volume offers a wide-ranging and accessible guide to the work of one of the most highly respected and well-loved novelists writing today. The volume collects essays on a range of topics by leading Ishiguro scholars and exciting emerging voices in Ishiguro criticism.

"This Companion offers students and scholars a comprehensive introduction to the development and the diversity of the American short story as a literary form from its origins in the eighteenth century to the present day. Rather than define what the short story is as a genre, or defend its importance in comparison with the novel, this Companion seeks to understand what the short story does -- how it moves through national space, how it is always related to other genres and media, and how its inherent mobility responds to the literary marketplace and resonates with key critical themes in contemporary literary studies. Essays offer authoritative introductions and reinterpretations of a literary form that has reemerged as a major force in the twenty-first century public sphere dominated by the internet"--

"This Companion offers students and scholars a comprehensive introduction to the development and the diversity of the American short story as a literary form from its origins in the eighteenth century to the present day. Rather than define what the short story is as a genre, or defend its importance in comparison with the novel, this Companion seeks to understand what the short story does -- how it moves through national space, how it is always related to other genres and media, and how its inherent mobility responds to the literary marketplace and resonates with key critical themes in contemporary literary studies. Essays offer authoritative introductions and reinterpretations of a literary form that has reemerged as a major force in the twenty-first century public sphere dominated by the internet"--

Through a series of chapters spanning a number of metropolises across the globe, this book addresses the way cities have given rise to key aesthetic dispositions, acts of linguistic and cultural translation, topographic and global imaginaries, and narratives of self-fashioning that are central to debates in World Literature.