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Twelve original essays explore the afterlives of nineteenth- and twentieth-century writers in biofiction and the biopic. Featuring case studies on Charlotte Brontë, Henry James, and Virginia Woolf, this volume situates these genres in their cultural and ideological contexts.
Twelve original essays explore the afterlives of nineteenth- and twentieth-century writers in biofiction and the biopic. Featuring case studies on Charlotte Brontë, Henry James, and Virginia Woolf, this volume situates these genres in their cultural and ideological contexts.
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BioFutures and the Legacy of Our Past
Escaping Evolution
Our attempts to distance ourselves from nature have come at an immense cost to the planet. The problems which beset us – climate change, pandemics – have their origins in our biology. To survive, solutions must take our evolutionary heritage into account, or they will fail.
Our attempts to distance ourselves from nature have come at an immense cost to the planet. The problems which beset us – climate change, pandemics – have their origins in our biology. To survive, solutions must take our evolutionary heritage into account, or they will fail.
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This book analyses British biographical plays about artists, arguing that dramatists place them in adverse situations. They emerge as flawed human beings, yet their genius and integrity endure. The book also addresses why so many of these plays exist.
This book analyses British biographical plays about artists, arguing that dramatists place them in adverse situations. They emerge as flawed human beings, yet their genius and integrity endure. The book also addresses why so many of these plays exist.
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Biographies of Drink
A Case Study Approach to our Historical Relationship with Alcohol
This book offers the “biographies of drink” approach, an innovative methodology for studying alcohol. Each essay constructs a “biography” of a drink, place, or idea, from Roman vessels to 1950s whisky ads, showcasing insights for anyone interested in alcohol's role in society.
This book offers the “biographies of drink” approach, an innovative methodology for studying alcohol. Each essay constructs a “biography” of a drink, place, or idea, from Roman vessels to 1950s whisky ads, showcasing insights for anyone interested in alcohol’s role in society.
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Biography of a Blunder
Base and Superstructure in Marx and Later
Edara proposes a radical departure from the predominant understanding of Marx’s base and superstructure thesis, arguing that the common substitution of Marx’s restricted version with the extended thesis is a blunder and the result of tortuous theoretical developments.
Edara proposes a radical departure from the predominant understanding of Marx’s base and superstructure thesis, arguing that the common substitution of Marx’s restricted version with the extended thesis is a blunder and the result of tortuous theoretical developments.
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Biology of the Indian Stingless Bee
Tetragonula iridipennis Smith
This book covers all aspects of the Indian stingless bee, including its distribution, biology, foraging behaviour, conservation, and products. It provides valuable insights for beekeepers, researchers, and students, offering practical guidance on managing these vital pollinators.
This book covers all aspects of the Indian stingless bee, including its distribution, biology, foraging behaviour, conservation, and products. It provides valuable insights for beekeepers, researchers, and students, offering practical guidance on managing these vital pollinators.
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This book explores cellular and tissue-engineered medical products (CTMPs) as an alternative to organ transplantation. It presents a first-of-its-kind analysis of materials for regenerating liver, pancreas, and cartilage, with an abundance of specific examples for specialists.
This book explores cellular and tissue-engineered medical products (CTMPs) as an alternative to organ transplantation. It presents a first-of-its-kind analysis of materials for regenerating liver, pancreas, and cartilage, with an abundance of specific examples for specialists.
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This book theorizes the bioregional concept as an ecocritical tool for reading literary works. It highlights the interface between nature and culture, using Aboriginal plays to extend ecocriticism beyond prose and sensitize us to place-based cultural nuances.
This book theorizes the bioregional concept as an ecocritical tool for reading literary works. It highlights the interface between nature and culture, using Aboriginal plays to extend ecocriticism beyond prose and sensitize us to place-based cultural nuances.
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The struggle of birds for freedom mirrors that of women. This work explores the complex, often contradictory relationship between humans and birds—from inspiration to oppression. Through feminist and animal rights lenses, it inspires a keener sense of environmental care.
The struggle of birds for freedom mirrors that of women. This work explores the complex, often contradictory relationship between humans and birds—from inspiration to oppression. Through feminist and animal rights lenses, it inspires a keener sense of environmental care.
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Birth and Death in British Culture
Liminality, Power, and Performance
Why look at birth and death together? These 13 interdisciplinary articles prove that looking at the two in tandem throws their distinct patterns and shared socio-political issues into sharp relief, probing their medialisation and commodification.
Why look at birth and death together? These 13 interdisciplinary articles prove that looking at the two in tandem throws their distinct patterns and shared socio-political issues into sharp relief, probing their medialisation and commodification.
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Using ordinary language and facts of experience, Bishop Butler's philosophy is a guidebook to happiness. This book presents his work as a bridge joining ancient wisdom with modern experience, offering ways to live without the error and distraction that lead to misery.
Using ordinary language and facts of experience, Bishop Butler’s philosophy is a guidebook to happiness. This book presents his work as a bridge joining ancient wisdom with modern experience, offering ways to live without the error and distraction that lead to misery.
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Black American Women’s Voices and Transgenerational Trauma
Re(-)membering in Neo-Slave Narratives
This book explores neo-slave narratives by black American women, showing how authors write through the transgenerational trauma of slavery. It demonstrates how traumatic memory is inscribed on the female body and how storytelling enables black women’s voices to be heard.
This book explores neo-slave narratives by black American women, showing how authors write through the transgenerational trauma of slavery. It demonstrates how traumatic memory is inscribed on the female body and how storytelling enables black women’s voices to be heard.
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These essays trace the historical construction of white and black Southern masculinities. From the antebellum era to today, they reveal how conceptions of manhood intersected with race, class, and power to define the American South.
These essays trace the historical construction of white and black Southern masculinities. From the antebellum era to today, they reveal how conceptions of manhood intersected with race, class, and power to define the American South.
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This book traces the Black American community's transition to an intersectional model, revealing how capitalism now uses the images of its youth, athletes, and women to assimilate Black people into the neoliberal global order.
This book traces the Black American community’s transition to an intersectional model, revealing how capitalism now uses the images of its youth, athletes, and women to assimilate Black people into the neoliberal global order.
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Black Beauty
His Grooms and Companions. The Autobiography of a Horse by Anna Sewell
Anna Sewell’s Black Beauty is a classic of children’s literature and an important text in Victorian and animal studies. This critical edition reproduces the unabridged 1877 first edition and includes a critical introduction, contextual material, and notes.
Anna Sewell’s Black Beauty is a classic of children’s literature and an important text in Victorian and animal studies. This critical edition reproduces the unabridged 1877 first edition and includes a critical introduction, contextual material, and notes.
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Black British Women’s Writing in the 1970s and Beyond
Away from Home
This collection of essays examines Black British women writers published from the 1970s to the 2000s. Connected to the UK through migration yet attached to their cultural origins, their work explores a crucial question: how were they able to conceptualise ‘home’ in their fiction?
This collection of essays examines Black British women writers published from the 1970s to the 2000s. Connected to the UK through migration yet attached to their cultural origins, their work explores a crucial question: how were they able to conceptualise ‘home’ in their fiction?
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Black Hamlet, The Play
By John Bright and Wulf Sachs
A newly discovered stage version of the famous psychobiography Black Hamlet, dramatised by its author, Wulf Sachs, and screenwriter John Bright. This extraordinary play, written in 1949, foresees the collapse of South Africa’s apartheid system before the menace had begun.
A newly discovered stage version of the famous psychobiography Black Hamlet, dramatised by its author, Wulf Sachs, and screenwriter John Bright. This extraordinary play, written in 1949, foresees the collapse of South Africa’s apartheid system before the menace had begun.
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Black Soldiers in a White Man’s War
Race, Good Order and Discipline in a Great War Labour Battalion
Pollock investigates the story of 600 Black men from across North America and the Caribbean, who, in 1917, went to war in a labour unit. Based on service records of the 600 volunteers and 35 courts-martial in the unit, he probes the lives of these soldiers between 1917 and 1918.
Pollock investigates the story of 600 Black men from across North America and the Caribbean, who, in 1917, went to war in a labour unit. Based on service records of the 600 volunteers and 35 courts-martial in the unit, he probes the lives of these soldiers between 1917 and 1918.
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Black Women Activists in Nineteenth Century New Orleans
Marie Laveaux and Henriette Delille
In nineteenth-century New Orleans, free women of color Marie Laveaux and Henriette Delille rejected a life of privilege. This book explores how they chose service instead, using their faith-based practices to address the needs of the city’s poor, enslaved, and disenfranchised.
In nineteenth-century New Orleans, free women of color Marie Laveaux and Henriette Delille rejected a life of privilege. This book explores how they chose service instead, using their faith-based practices to address the needs of the city’s poor, enslaved, and disenfranchised.
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Black Writers and the Left examines the fraught relationship between African American intellectuals and the leftist movement in the early twentieth century, featuring unpublished interviews and archival research on figures like Langston Hughes and Richard Wright.
Black Writers and the Left examines the fraught relationship between African American intellectuals and the leftist movement in the early twentieth century, featuring unpublished interviews and archival research on figures like Langston Hughes and Richard Wright.
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