Daniel Ferrer's stimulating introduction to genetic criticism, translated into English by Rachel Bowlby.

Focusing on novels by Theodore Dreiser, George Gissing and Emile Zola, this work addresses itself to a central paradox of the period: the perceived antithesis of the terms ‘commerce’ and…

Explores the rise of department stores and supermarkets of the United States, France, and Great Britain. This book claims that, despite their differences, the two institutions belong together as emblematic…

This book questions the book itself, archivization, machines for writing, and the mechanicity inherent in language, the media, and intellectuals.

Since Freud reimagined Sophocles’ Oedipus as a transhistorical Everyman, far-reaching changes have occurred in the social and sexual conditions of Western identity. This book shows how both classical and Freudian…

Two lectures delivered in Paris, in 1996 by the leading French philosopher and theorist Jacques Derrida on the political and ethical implications of ‘hospitality’ using careful readings of canonical texts…

This special issue of differences celebrates the work of the contemporary feminist literary critic and theorist Barbara Johnson, whose work has been revolutionary in foregrounding concepts of difference.