Pain and pleasure are at the heart of human experiences and literary journeys. This book takes the title of Roland Barthes’s text on the pleasure of writing a

The present state of research in precarity demands meta-questions and hence we need to probe both philosophy and practice in light of precarity’s different ma

Lyric poetry has long been regarded as the intensely private, emotional expression of individuals, powerful precisely because it draws readers into personal wor

This collection examines early modern women’s contribution to the culturally central mode of complaint. Complaint has largely been understood as male-authored