As commonplace books evolved into anthologies, they developed reputations as canonical works, their editors curating tomes as vibrant as the loveliest bouquets.

Teaching students to make their own poetry anthologies in the form of a commonplace book gives them insight into the power, and problems, of curation.

Two significant poetry anthologies deterritorialize home, showing that for Hmong Americans, home can be a process of moving and running despite living in a place.

Isabella Rosner’s Stitching Freedom showcases embroidered works made by the incarcerated and examines this craft’s historical popularity behind bars.

In romantic literature of the fourteenth and fifteen centuries, fainting wasn’t just for ladies.

Celebrated for his plays, Shakespeare actually opened his writing career with a derivative poem.

In addition to a New Wave hit, Nell Dunn's 1963 book about young women in a poor London neighborhood inspired a Ken Loach adaption that helped shift British attitudes toward abortion.

Writers have long plotted murder mysteries in gardens of all sorts. What makes these fertile grounds for detective fiction?

Viewing the genre as a means to spread modern knowledge, Chinese novelists have been writing science-fiction stories since at least 1902.

While Villa’s otherness created an opening for his work in the US, American critics ultimately held both his modernism and his nationality against him.