Shakespeare Studies in Colonial Bengal
This study explores Shakespeare in colonial Bengal, focusing on Hindu College. It highlights the pioneering teachers who accelerated the Bengal Renaissance and exposes distorted readings of Shakespeare, challenging reductive postcolonial theories.
Women’s History in Russia
This collection of essays by Russian scholars presents the theories of Russian gender and women’s history. Amidst an intense backlash against feminism and calls for “traditional values,” these scholars explore the roots of such hostility and answer vital questions.
Social Informatics
This state-of-the-art review of 21st century social informatics explores its past, present, and future. Emphasizing the core relationship among people, ICT, and social life, it demonstrates that this research is more necessary now than ever.
Inside Knowledge
Can art produce knowledge? Is the body a medium for knowing? This collection of essays offers a fresh, interdisciplinary examination of how we know what we know in the humanities, challenging conventional methodologies through concrete case studies.
William Boyce
This sourcebook on William Boyce, England’s leading 18th-century composer, brings together significant contemporary documents on his life and career, with critical commentaries. It includes the first comprehensive catalogue of his works and discography.
These essays explore women, gender, and disease in 18th-century England and France. Excluded from universities, women nonetheless contributed to anatomy, botany, and medicine, informing literary texts and raising questions about their role in the Enlightenment.
Discover ancient Chinese theories of knowledge, where a structured cosmos mirrors the mind. This book offers a vital epistemological alternative, challenging the dominance of Euro-American models and filling a crucial gap in Western thought.
The Fire Within
Hailed as the core of human identity, desire shapes our actions and dreams. This collection of essays explores how desire is portrayed in modern Italian literature, showing it to be the secret motor of the narrative in works of the last two centuries.
The lingua franca for cultural self-understanding in the early-modern period was ineluctably religious. Without religion we cannot comprehend its myriad facets, from markets and art to the very terminology of unbelief. This collection of essays explores these themes.
Landscape, Place and Culture
This collection of essays explores the cultural, social, and ecological dimensions of the Australia-India relationship. Through comparative studies of colonial experience, migration, and shared environmental crisis, this work reassesses our relationship to place.
Gothic Legacies
Gothic art and architecture were reinterpreted in diverse ways from the sixteenth century onwards. These essays explore what “Gothic” meant across different periods and cultures, and how it was used to shape personal, national, and international identities.
Whiteness and Social Change
Whiteness and Social Change compares the unearned privilege of whiteness in Australia and Canada. Examining community campaigns supporting First Peoples struggles, it identifies how collaborative struggle can destabilise whiteness and move towards a fair society.
Constructing the Literary Self
This volume explores the quest for self-definition among previously excluded groups. Its thirteen essays by recognized scholars depict strategies of escaping oppression through the lens of race, gender, sexuality, assimilation, and the family.
This volume of essays investigates the “European civilizing mission” through conflict. Centered on a controversial debate, contributors review colonial and postcolonial imperial conflicts to offer new perspectives on the British Empire.
Religious Anarchism
This unique book presents fresh scholarship on the intersection of religion and anarchism. It explores diverse traditions from early Christianity to Daoism, Buddhism, and Islam, revealing innovative perspectives on the radical political implications of faith.
This collection of essays questions the traditional supremacy of Chaucer while reaffirming his lasting impact. Scholars explore his influence on writers like Shakespeare, offer a modern assessment of the Wife of Bath, and discuss making Chaucer relevant today.
Social Sciences Today
This collection of essays will appeal to teachers and researchers of social sciences. The essays deal with three main issues in Europe and Asia: educational theory, society in the context of globalisation, and identity, alterity and multiculturalism.
As modern thinkers declare the “death of the subject,” this volume searches for new ways of being a self. With renewed attention to religion, these essays guide readers beyond the crises of modernity to resurrect the subject in new and unexpected forms.
“Rapt in Secret Studies”
Inspired by Prospero’s phrase “rapt in secret studies,” this collection of essays from emerging scholars imagines new pathways in Shakespeare Studies, exploring themes of obsession (“rapt”), spies and contagion (“secret”), and authorship (“study”).
How can native-speaking teachers meet the high expectations of EFL learners? This book explores the crucial gap between student beliefs and teacher practices, offering vital strategies for creating more effective classrooms.
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