American “Outsider”
This book jettisons preconceptions of America, throwing back the curtains on the hidden lives of Irish-American Pavees. Journey with these “people of the road”—shy migrants who live in the shadows of rumour, hearsay, and a hot summer sun.
This volume presents critical interdisciplinary analyses of the many ways science intersects with its publics. From children’s books to news media and science fiction, it follows science through popular culture, taking science studies out of the lab and into society.
Ties to the Homeland
Ties to the Homeland examines the connections maintained across national borders by the children of migrants. Case studies explore their transnational practices, their impact on cultural identity and belonging, and challenge key assumptions about transnationalism.
Religious Emotions
The role of emotions in religion has received little attention. This volume of research explores ‘religious emotions,’ asking what is distinctive about them and how Christianity made use of human emotional potential. The reader is invited to reflect on their interaction.
This essay collection analyzes recurring images of dismemberment on the western stage, from Classical Tragedy to contemporary drama. Contributors ask what a dismembered body means, revealing how drama’s dismemberment as a form challenges representation itself.
Sino-Japanese Relations
Sino-Japanese relations are crucial for East Asia and beyond. However, the relationship has been increasingly marked by political strife, historical grievances, and a lack of trust. Any deterioration has the potential to generate conflicts with far-reaching consequences.
Passionate Politics
This collection of essays assesses how American melodrama has intervened in debates over race, class, gender, and sexuality from the 18th century to the present, contributing to the transformation of American nationhood during times of profound social change.
Women, Social and Cultural Change in Twentieth Century Ireland
This book explores women, social and cultural change in twentieth-century Ireland. The interdisciplinary work gathered here challenges monolithic representations of Irish female identity, exposing women’s disparate backgrounds and varied experiences.
Asylum Seekers
Irish Studies
This collection of essays explores the intersection of gender, sexuality, and geography in Irish studies. From Magdalen laundries and prisons to the domestic garden, it examines the local and human contexts of identity formation and performance.
This book clarifies Metacognition and Theory of Mind, comparing the two concepts. It offers practical suggestions for educators to enhance students’ metacognitive abilities and analyzes the link between Theory of Mind and language.
Palestinian State Formation
This book examines education’s role in building a Palestinian state. The Palestinian Authority has two contradictory functions: state-building and resistance. Will its education system promote a resistance identity or a state-building identity?
This anthology explores the concept of space in literature, film, art, and culture. The contributions invite readers to consider the function of space as symbolic representation, analytical tool, and haunting effect, demonstrating its ethical and political impact.
These essays analyse the influences that shaped fictional selves on the early modern English stage. Specialists discuss plays by Marlowe, Shakespeare, and Jonson, revealing the stage self as a site of rich historical and discursive forces beyond the theatre.
Our Orwell, Right or Left
George Orwell’s work has been used and misused by the Left and Right, creating a battle over his legacy. This book decodes why both sides claim him, juxtaposing his writing with their dubious claims and showing how his warnings remain alarmingly prescient.
Challenging the divide between objective history and fiction, this book explores the means and consequences of contemporary interactions between historiography and art. Scholars from diverse fields deconstruct old beliefs and reveal the social impact of representing the past.
Beyond the Battlefields
Beyond the Battlefields explores the relationship between warfare and society in the Graeco-Roman world. This collection of essays examines the political, social, and artistic affects of war, covering topics from espionage to fantasies of peace in the Iliad.
Re-Reading Richard Hoggart
Richard Hoggart put the working class on the cultural map. The first critic to take popular culture seriously, he founded Cultural Studies and was a key witness in the Lady Chatterley trial. This volume explores his life and significant role in cultural shifts.
EIN FELDLAGER IN SCHLESIEN
Composed in 1844 for the King of Prussia, Meyerbeer’s patriotic opera *Feldlager* was a success confined to Berlin. Yet its music achieved global fame, with melodies adapted for the ballet *Les Patineurs*, known by many ignorant of their true source.
Crime and Madness in Modern Austria
This collection explores the history, politics, and representation of crime and madness in modern Austria. It reveals how cultural responses are steeped in mythmaking, while literary representations expose deep-seated attitudes about Austrian society.
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