Sociology

These studies address cultural narratives of border crossings in Europe and the United States. The essays show how the migrant challenges the view that people belong to one nation-state, exploring race, whiteness, and ethnic identity in fiction and cinema.

Challenging centuries of male-defined values, these essays explore how women of the Francophone world created new aesthetic, cultural, and social standards, from antiquity to today.

This volume explores women’s literary production in Latin America and how their works engage with identity, nationhood, and gender. Prominent scholars examine how women writers carve out space within national discourses and critically re-work literary genres.

These essays explore childhood, otherness, and the postcolonial in Australia and New Zealand. They examine how adults configure children’s spaces through art, literature, and history, focusing on the cultural specificity of Antipodean childhoods.

This volume highlights the diverse cultural dialogue between Russia and Western Europe since the eighteenth century, exploring mutual perceptions, literary comparisons, artistic influences, and pivotal physical encounters.

The English Revolution was a revolution in reading. While the state sought to restrict access to potentially dangerous ideas, key thinkers argued for the opposite: extending education to equip the emerging ‘reading public’ to take an active part in political life.