Narcoepics tackles the controversial yet mostly un-theorized phenomenon of contemporary Latin American 'narcoepics"". Dealing with literary works and films whose characteristics are linked to illicit global exchange, informal labor, violence, drug consumption, and ritualistic pa…
Drawing on works by Walter Scott, Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, and others, Romances of Free Trade offers a new account of the cultural work of romance in nineteenth-century Britain, arguing that novelists and playwrights employed the genre to represent a radically new historical f…
Drawing on works by Walter Scott, Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, and others, Romances of Free Trade offers a new account of the cultural work of romance in nineteenth-century Britain, arguing that novelists and playwrights employed the genre to represent a radically new historical f…
Drawing on works by Walter Scott, Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, and others, Romances of Free Trade offers a new account of the cultural work of romance in nineteenth-century Britain, arguing that novelists and playwrights employed the genre to represent a radically new historical f…
In a globalizing age, studying American literature in isolation from the rest of the world seems less and less justified. But is the conceptual box of the nation dispensable? What would American literature look like without it? Leading scholars take up this debate in this book, …