The Farmer’s Boy by Robert Bloomfield
Robert Bloomfield’s bestselling poem, The Farmer’s Boy, was a polished rewrite that erased the author’s Suffolk voice. This edition reveals his true intentions for the first time, printing his original manuscript alongside the published version.
Manufacturing Otherness
Missionaries were key players in the “spiritual conquest” of the New World, imposing dominant values while also mediating between cultures. This book shows how Indigenous cultures entered these areas of negotiation to produce their own cultural subjectivity.
Labour Law and Industrial Relations in Recessionary Times
This volume of papers in English analyzes the many changes in the Italian labour market. The book provides an international readership with a frame of reference for Italian Labour Law and adds a comparative dimension to the national reform debate.
Digital By-Product Data in Web 2.0
Every online action is recorded as digital by-product data. This hidden information provides a road map to who we are and what we want. This book shows how social scientists can analyze this data to better understand our society and ourselves.
This volume offers a cross section of current directions in music analysis. Music analysis is presented as a vibrant, multi-faceted field of research that constantly re-examines its own postulates while establishing dialogues with other disciplines.
Within and Without Empire
This volume treats Scotland as a ‘theoretical borderland’ to question disciplinary borders. By bringing Scottish and postcolonial studies into dialogue, it fosters new paradigms for a deeper understanding of a world in dramatic flux and growing interdependence.
Intercultural Horizons Volume II
This volume features a collection of papers on intercultural education. Authors provide faculty and student perspectives on developing intercultural competence in higher education, focusing on service-learning and the university’s engagement with the community.
Mnemosyne and Mars
Explore the enduring cultural legacy of war through its powerful representation in literature, film, theatre, and music.
The Narcissism Conundrum
This psycho-biographic analysis dissects Hemingway’s works and letters to reveal the man behind the glamorous persona. It unearths a tradition of narcissistic self-fictionalization, enabling aficionados to decipher the conundrum of his mystic persona.
Negotiating Privately for an Effective Role in Public Space
A 1992 quota thrust rural Indian women into politics. This book reveals how they negotiated their new roles, converting the strong patriarchal set-up into a support system and achieving social and economic empowerment.
Female Beauty in Art
Female Beauty in Art examines the role of female beauty in art, history, and culture. These essays consider how the discourse of beauty can generate empowering insights into womanhood, female destiny, and female identity.
Research Journeys
This book provides doctoral students and supervisors with candid narratives of the doctoral experience. Ten accounts offer valuable insight into the challenges that arise and how they might be overcome, ‘lifting the lid’ on concealed aspects of the process.
This collection of papers by international scholars offers fresh views on education, language, literature, and culture. Viewing topical issues through a dynamic global prism, these essays will stimulate intellectual curiosity and the development of new ideas.
Who determines the ‘Centre’ of a culture and what the ‘Margins’? The Margins of one generation can become the Centre of another in a seismic cultural shift. How does this transformation occur and what does it reveal about the very nature of culture itself?
Managing Institutions
This book explores the strategies minban schools use to navigate China’s fragmented institutional environment. It reveals how different types of schools adopt tactics from isolation to capitalization, showing how they thrive under substantial state control.
This collection of essays combines Indo-European and Classical Studies to explore poetic language and religion in Greece and Rome. It tracks the remnants of Indo-European tradition and delves into ritual poetry, hymns, oracles, and magic.
The Selected Letters of Alice Meynell
Catholic convert Alice Meynell was a sophisticated essayist and poet of the late Victorian era. With her husband, she was central to the literary world, editing journals and famously publishing Francis Thompson’s “The Hound of Heaven.”
Giacomo Meyerbeer
ARSC Awards for Excellence, 2014. This discography of Giacomo Meyerbeer’s works (1889-1955) testifies to the composer’s once-universal fame. It lists nearly 2000 artists, including legends from the Golden Age of Song, who recorded his music.
Lacework or Mirror? This study explores the diary poetics of Frances Burney, Dorothy Wordsworth, and Mary Shelley. It examines their narrative choices and lacunae to illustrate the gradual emergence of the diarists’ individual selves.
Questions of Civil Society
This interdisciplinary volume explores civil society, stimulating new research questions. Avoiding a fixed definition, it examines civil society’s pivotal role in 21st-century upheavals and in the renegotiation of relations between the state and society.
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