A literary critical and historical chronicle of womens culture in the United States from 1830 to the present, by a leading Americanist. “Guiding us through a ‘women’s culture’ animated by scenes of longing for a fantasmatic ...

Drawing on literature, the law, and popular media--and "taking her (counter)cue from that celebrated sitcom of American life, 'The Reagan Years'" (Homi K. Bhabha)--Berlant presents a stunning and major statement about the nation and its ...

In On the Inconvenience of Other People Lauren Berlant continues to explore our affective engagement with the world.

At the core of Berlant's work is a three-part study of The Scarlet Letter, analyzing the modes and effects of national identity that characterize the narrator's representation of Puritan culture and his construction of the novel's political ...

A relation of cruel optimism exists when something you desire is actually an obstacle to your flourishing.

The Hundreds includes four indexes in which Andrew Causey, Susan Lepselter, Fred Moten, and Stephen Muecke each respond with their own compositional, conceptual, and formal staging of the worlds of the book.

Sex, or the Unbearable is a dialogue between Lauren Berlant and Lee Edelman, two of our leading theorists of sexuality, politics, and culture.

At the same time, other modes of explanation have been offered by popular and mass culture. In these domains, sexual desire is not deemed the core story of life; it is mixed up with romance, a particular version of the story of love.

This collection of 46 richly reproduced color photographs is Laura Letinsky's study of contemporary lovers as they are seen, as they show, and as they see themselves making love and inhabiting domestic space.

"Leer a Berlant no es cosa sencilla: su potente instrumental analítico, que apela a la cultura popular, al cine, a los personajes de la esfera pública, a la subordinación de lo femenino y lo infantil, a los modelos de vida buena y la ...