What does literature know? Does it offer us knowledge of its own or does it only interrupt and question other forms of knowledge? This 2005 book seeks to answer

The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Literature contains twenty-three newly commissioned essays by major philosophers and literary scholars that investigate li

"Of Literature and Knowledge looks ... like an important advance in this new and very important subject... literature is about to become even more interesting."

This volume brings together Nussbaum's published papers on the relationship between literature and philosophy, especially moral philosophy. The papers, many of

This challenging study of a number of American writers belongs in the tradition of the history-of-ideas approach to literary history. It offers an analysis of A