Featuring a rereading of Aristotle, Seneca, Thomas Hobbes, and Judith Butler, this book considers emotions as psychosocial phenomena. It offers insight into the reasons why political passions are distributed to some people but not to others.  Meer

Reveals how five modern American poets – Jean Toomer, William Carlos Williams, Hart Crane, Frank O'Hara, and Gwendolyn Brooks – challenged the prevailing discourses about urbanization through lyrical explorations and representations of cities and the diverse people who lived in them.  Meer