For a thousand years, an unlikely cast—from beggars to earls—sought the perfect English Job. This book uncovers their stories and assembles a composite translation from fifty versions, revealing a compelling and paradoxical conversation.
The American Village in a Global Setting
Selected from a conference honoring Sinclair Lewis, these papers consider his world through today’s lens. Scholars address community, comparing his vision to other authors and media, and use his work as a springboard to discuss today’s global issues.
The landscape constrains human activity, and our actions leave traces. Geoarchaeology finds these traces to reconstruct how past peoples behaved, offering data that must contribute to the debate on the sustainability of present-day land use.
This collection explores topical issues in modern linguistics, including cross-cultural communication, lexicography, and terminology. It analyzes cultural aspects of language, dictionary user needs, modern terminology, and new models for reference works.
Colonial and Global Interfacings
Colonial techniques of domination boomeranged back to the West, sustained by capitalist relations. As new movements challenge the world order, this book explores how global flows of people and ideas transform identity and power from the North to the South.
Explaining the Mental
This collection presents philosophical perspectives on the mental, exploring how to define and understand mental processes, and exhibiting the contrast between naturalistic and non-naturalistic approaches to thinking, knowledge, and intentionality.
Women’s Writing in Western Europe
The first study to investigate the legacy of a pioneering generation of women writers for contemporary authors across Western Europe. These studies uncover a complex web of intertextual links, offering new paradigms to think and read with.
Mapping Appetite
This collection of case studies explores the representation of food in cultural texts, from post-colonial fiction to magazines and cookbooks. The essays show how food narratives reveal crucial issues of gender, nation, race, and power in contemporary culture.
Reverence for Life Revisited
This book’s essays re-examine Albert Schweitzer’s life and his “Reverence for Life” philosophy, assessing its relevance for the twenty-first century. Featuring diverse perspectives, including from Jane Goodall, they explore applications to today’s global issues.
A century later, the Marx Brothers are cultural icons who have permeated our culture. Most scholarly work on them is biographical; this collection of eleven essays suggests other approaches, examining their work from a number of critical perspectives.
Urban Politics and Space in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
This book addresses the regionalisation of urban governance, challenging generalisations about urban Britain. It shows how space was contested, local identity emerged, and towns sought to expand their services and image onto a regional level.
The Mirror of Antiquity
This book exposes how 20th-century travel writers’ responses to Greece were conditioned by classical scholarship and history. David Wills shows how, in their hands, Greece became less a modern country and more a mirror of its ancient past.
The Dialectics of Late Capital and Power
This essay offers a provocative new theory on the dialectics of capital, cruelty, and power under late capitalism, as seen in the novels of Henry James and Honoré de Balzac. It introduces concepts like true power as ‘un-power’ and capital as ‘un-capital’.
Views, Positions, Legacies
This book collects 24 interviews with German and British theatre artists over 20 years. Actors, directors, and dramatists discuss boulevard comedy, Brecht’s legacy, and seminal productions like Sir Richard Eyre’s account of his Hamlet at the Royal Court.
Filmmaker Billy Wilder considered himself a writer. This book offers academic yet accessible literary readings of nine of his most significant films, informed by literary criticism, Gender Studies, and Film Studies. For film students, English students and Wilder fans alike.
This book introduces a new genre: the shamanic story. Analyzing tales from different cultures—including the Book of Jonah and Georgian and Korean folklore—it reveals the pervasive, universal influence of shamanism on storytelling.
Maurice Magnus
D. H. Lawrence called him a scoundrel, but Maurice Magnus was a fascinating and tragic figure. This first full-length biography uses unpublished letters to reveal the expatriate American writer’s life, from his youth in New York to his final days in Malta.
How do mind and culture shape language? This multidisciplinary volume offers novel insights into intercultural, cognitive, and social pragmatics, revealing the interplay of cognitive processes and socio-cultural beliefs in communication.
With Poetry and Philosophy
This book explores the dialogue between poetry and philosophy, from Kant and Wordsworth to Adorno and Hardy. Outlining a new ‘dialogic’ approach, it produces considerations on language and thought that are unexpected, yet strangely fitting.
Body Politic
For millennia, society has been imagined as a body. This engrossing book is more than a history of a metaphor: it is a history of how the idea is converted into action, taking us from ancient India to computer hackers, from assassination to aerial warfare.
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