In The Erotics of Materialism, Jessie Hock maps the intersection of poetry and natural philosophy in the early modern reception of Lucretius and his De rerum na

Examines the constructions of feminine consumption in the nineteenth century in relation to capitalism and domesticity.

An investigation into the remarkable "poetics of the atom" in English literary texts from the mid to late seventeenth century. The early modern "atom" - underst

It is well known that Renaissance culture gave an empowering role to the individual and thereby to agency. But how does race factor into this culture of empower

Pleasures and Perils follows a group of young girls living on Nevis, an island society in the Eastern Caribbean. In this provocative ethnography, Debra Curtis e