A critical investigation of the dead ends, dead metaphors, dead bodies, and other historical constants of American politics.

Erkkila's aim is to repair the split between the private and the public, the personal and the political and the poet and the history that has governed the analy

"I read My Body Politic with admiration, sometimes for the pain that all but wept on the page, again for sheer exuberant friendships, for self-discovery, politi

How did Roman writers use the metaphor of the body politic to respond to the downfall of the Republic? In this book, Julia Mebane begins with the Catilinarian C