Echoes from the Greek Bronze Age
This book highlights Hecataeus’s work on Herodotus’ ‘known world’, alongside the thoughts of Anaxagoras and Xenophanes. It also presents Simonides’ art of memory, ‘the Loci’, and its influence years later on the heretic Giordano Bruno.
This book is a chorus of practices that use music to build resilience. Academics and practitioners share projects from health, education, and social work, asking: Can music build measurable resilience? Can we replicate these outcomes in diverse groups?
Coleridge’s Chrysopoetics
This book assesses alchemy in Coleridge’s conception of authorship. It argues that for Coleridge, the author must become other to become himself. This alchemical view demonstrates a unique link between plagiarism and creativity, redefining originality itself.
Identity Issues
A collection of essays exploring the complex phenomenon of identity from diverse angles. Literary explorations discuss class, race, and nation in contemporary literature, while linguistic studies draw on insights from sociology, psychology, and cognitive linguistics.
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Exchanges and Correspondence
This challenging survey of “feminism-in-the-making” spans from the 18th century to the present, across the globe. A fascinating chorus of voices emerges, throwing light on women’s growing consciousness and the struggle for their rights.
Imagining Italy
This book approaches the Victorian fascination with Italy from a broad, theoretical perspective. Going beyond Dickens, it examines travel writing and visual representations to show how Victorian stereotypes continue to inform contemporary tourism.
Americanization of History
This collection of essays explores how history and literature are translated into film. From Walt Disney to the Wild West, mobsters to vampire slayers, these articles analyze how movies and TV reflect the time and place of their own creation.
These essays reinterpret the Gothic inheritance from a 21st-century perspective, a mode uniquely applicable to the frightening instability of our world. This collection explores Gothic’s contemporaneity through horror novels, cinema, poetry, music, and fan cultures.
This book explores A. S. Byatt’s visual and verbal still lifes. It shows how her rich descriptions celebrate realism, textual pleasure, and sexuality, while also revealing character and class, and teasing out the tension between living passion and “cold” artwork.
Nabokov’s Palace
Nabokov’s Palace discovers the sub-texts and inter-textual patterns in his American novels making them an integral part of the Anglo-American literary tradition, revealing his “otherworld” of art and communion with dead poets.
Men in Color
This collection analyzes ethnic masculinities—including African American, Asian American, Chicano, and white—in U.S. literature and cinema. It explores the intersection of gender and race, highlighting both the differences and recurring stereotypes among them.
This book offers a unique view of welfare in Russia and Eastern Europe from an intersectional perspective of gender and agency. It analyzes the rapid changes since the collapse of socialism, using case studies to reveal gendered practices and activism.
The Respectability of Late Victorian Workers
This study of Victorian York’s working classes places respectability at the heart of their culture. Through personal testimony, it shows how workers creatively built identities and communities, defining the respectable citizen in their own moral terms.
Ebony Roots, Northern Soil
This powerful collection of critical essays explores the histories and cultural engagements of black Canadians. It challenges the myth of a racially benevolent Canada, dissecting institutional racism and defining a black Canadian identity distinct from American ideals.
This book sheds light on how the welfare-states of Scandinavia struggle with diversity, inclusion and citizenship. In Denmark, Norway and Sweden, migration challenges social citizenship, creating new tensions between rights, obligations, and identity.
This book documents the changing language situation in urban China, gauging the impact of industrialization on communication. Studies demonstrate the interplay of the standard language, Putonghua, and dialects, contrasting China with post-industrial Europe.
Syllable Structure of Bangla
This study analyzes the structure of Bangla syllables in terms of phonology and morphology. It examines consonant clusters and verbal inflections using the frameworks of Optimality Theory and Distributed Morphology to understand the language’s unique structure.
How is the line between East and West drawn? This book examines the linguistic tools used to build and dismantle geopolitical boundaries, shaping identities and power struggles across the Eurasian space.
Chymia
This book consists of selected papers on the history of alchemy, shedding light on little-studied medieval and early modern texts, important doctrines, and prominent figures like Paracelsus. It also offers new insights on the history of Spanish alchemy.
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