Since the 1990s, literary and queer studies scholars have eschewed Marxist and
Foucauldian critique and hailed the reparative mode of criticism as a more humane and …

Periodizing contemporary fiction against the backdrop of neoliberalism, After Critique
identifies a notable turn away from progressive politics among a cadre of key twenty-first …

WE ARE on the cusp of the nineties, and I sense the winds of change circulating in the
universities and colleges, as well as the streets of the world-a longing for the nineties to be …

Narrative Innovation and Cultural Rewriting undertakes a systematic study of
postmodernism's responses to the polarized ideologies of the postwar period that have held …

The activist tradition in American literature has long testified to the power of words to change
people and the power of people to change the world, yet in recent years many professional …

Surveying the artistic and cultural scene in the era of Trump In a world where truth is cast in
doubt and shame has gone missing, what are artists and critics on the left to do? How to …

In Ruthless Democracy, Timothy Powell reimagines the canonical origins of" American"
identity by juxtaposing authors such as Hawthorne, Melville, and Thoreau with Native …

TV Reed urges an affiliation between literary theory and political action—and between
political action and literary theory. What can the" new literary theory" learn from" new social …

In Mourning Modernity, Seth Moglen argues that American literary modernism is, at its heart,
an effort to mourn for the injuries inflicted by modern capitalism. He demonstrates that the …

How has the pervasive spread of free market thinking affected contemporary literature?
Neoliberalism has been a buzzword in literary studies for well over a decade, but its …