"How Indian magic descended from the realm of the gods to become a popular amusement for the masses around the globe"--Provided by publisher.

If realist novels are the literary avatars of secular science and rational progress, then why are so many canonical realist works organized around a fear of tha

Magic Lantern Empire examines German colonialism as a mass cultural and political phenomenon unfolding at the center of a nascent, conflicted German modernity.

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK “Part love story, part history, this novel is a tour de force [told] in language that soars and sears.”—More St. Petersburg,

A tall, yellow-haired young European traveller calling himself “Mogor dell’Amore,” the Mughal of Love, arrives at the court of the real Grand Mughal, the