Social Sciences

Womanhood in Anglophone Literary Culture

Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Perspectives

Edited By: Robin Hammerman

£39.99

This collection of essays examines how nineteenth and twentieth century women writers responded to patriarchal assumptions about literary merit while contributing to new conceptions of womanhood in Anglophone literary culture.

Popular Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers and the Literary Marketplace

Edited By: Mary De Jong, Earl Yarington

£44.99

This collection of essays places women writers in the center of the 19th-century literary marketplace. It showcases how authors like Stowe, Alcott, and Southworth met consumer desires and mastered a burgeoning and anything but genteel industry.

Westerns

Paperback Novels and Movies from Hollywood

Edited By: Paul S. Varner

£34.99

Popular Westerns powerfully impacted U.S. and European culture. Collected here are new studies of classic films by John Ford and Clint Eastwood, as well as new studies of seldom-studied writers such as Charles Portis and Oakley Hall.

Youth, Media and Culture in the Asia Pacific Region

Edited By: Usha M. Rodrigues, Belinda Smaill

£34.99

In the diverse Asia Pacific region, youth are using media to redefine their communities, articulate identities, and engage in social activism. This book draws on case studies to examine these media practices and the resulting process of social change.

On Language

Analytic, Continental, and Historical Contributions

Edited By: Jon Burmeister, Mark Sentesy

£34.99

Most philosophical inquiries into language remain enclosed in their own traditions. This book shows these traditions can speak meaningfully to each other, turning their differences into opportunities for fruitful inquiry and illuminating the fundamental nature of language.

Making Waves Anniversary Volume

Women in Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies

Edited By: Ann Davies, Parvathi Kumaraswami, Claire Williams

£34.99

Moving beyond the Anglo-American context, this volume explores how women in the Hispanic and Lusophone worlds counteract prejudice and tradition. It discusses women’s interaction with literature, art, and language, showcasing contemporary scholarship in the field.

Multilingualism and Applied Comparative Linguistics

Pedagogical Perspectives

Edited By: Jeroen Darquennes, Rita Temmerman, Frank Boers

£34.99

This book is the first of two volumes containing selected papers from the international conference on Multilingualism and Applied Comparative Linguistics, which brought together scholars with a shared interest in cross-linguistic and cross-cultural communication.

The Shape of the East Asian Economy to Come

Lonely Rhetoric or Global Reality

Edited By: Benny Teh Cheng Guan, Takehito Onishi

£39.99

The Asian economic crisis challenged conventional wisdom, giving impetus to an "East Asian economic community." Will this new paradigm cultivate the fruits of past experience, or is it an effort to escape the free market? This volume sheds light on the arguments.

The Asian economic crisis challenged conventional wisdom, giving impetus to an “East Asian economic community.” Will this new paradigm cultivate the fruits of past experience, or is it an effort to escape the free market? This volume sheds light on the arguments.

Women in Dialogue

(M)uses of Culture

Edited By: Dilek Direnç, Günseli Sönmez İşçi

£34.99

This collection of essays explores women as objects of cultural production and as creators themselves. It features literary analysis alongside personalized observations by women writers on their work, using dialogue as a platform for learning and mutual understanding.

Sex in Public

Women, Outdoor Advertising and Public Policy

Edited By: Lauren Rosewarne

£34.99

Sexist outdoor advertising is a form of public sexual harassment. Images that would be outlawed in a workplace are readily displayed in public space. This book offers a new framework to understand, critique and condemn these harmful portrayals of women.

Narrating the Storm

Sociological Stories of Hurricane Katrina

Edited By: Kristen Barber, Danielle A. Hidalgo

From £24.99

This volume of sixteen narratives from Hurricane Katrina shows how “personal” experiences with disaster are not so personal. These stories reveal how inequality and injustice related to race, class, and gender are unveiled and exacerbated by disaster.

A Multicultural and Multifaceted Study of Ideologies and Conflicts related to the Complex Realities and Fictions of Nation and Identity represented in Contemporary Literature Written in English

Edited By: José María Gutiérrez Arranz

£34.99

This book is a study of ideologies and conflicts related to Nation and Identity in contemporary English literature. It explores the individual’s pursuit of identity amid nationalist conflicts, racial confrontations, and postcolonial legacies.

Postmodernism and After

Visions and Revisions

Edited By: Regina Rudaitytė

£34.99

This collection of essays reflects on developments in literature pointing beyond postmodernism. Diagnosing its exhaustion, these articles trace a return to traditional concepts and invite a reconsideration of truth and meaning in our new literary age.

New Perspectives and Problems in Anthropology

Edited By: Èva Bodzsár, Annamária Zsákai

£34.99

This volume contains selected papers on Man and Environment, exploring human origins and the variability of populations. It discusses evolution, adaptation, skeletal variations, the effects of lifestyle on genetic structure, growth, and ageing.

Last Letters

Edited By: Sylvie Crinquand

£29.99

This collection of essays is devoted to last letters: notes to sever a relationship, messages written before death, and even fictional texts or poems. By focussing on these ultimate messages, the contributors provide an original approach to closure.

Internalising the Historical Past

Issues for Separation and Moving On

Edited By: Elaine Arnold, Bernadette Hawkes

£24.99

This book explores the traumatic effects of broken attachments resulting from the separation of families through slavery. Using attachment theory, it discusses the psychological trauma on descendants of the enslaved and its impact on their lives today.

Social Orders and Social Landscapes

Edited By: Charles W. Hartley, Laura M. Popova, Adam T. Smith

£44.99

This book marks a new direction in Eurasian archaeology, focusing on how people lived in their local environments. It re-images Eurasia as a complex landscape of shifting social boundaries, questioning rigid stereotypes and offering novel interpretations of the past.

Labor’s Canvas

American Working-Class History and the WPA Art of the 1930s

By: Laura Hapke

£34.99

Labor’s Canvas argues that New Deal art reveals important tensions. Artists saw themselves as cultural workers, yet struggled to reconcile social protest and aesthetics, often depicting laborers as bodies without minds and exposing cultural contradictions.

From One Shore to Another

Reflections on the Symbolism of the Bridge

Edited By: Sanda Badescu

£34.99

Combining literary, social, and philosophical approaches, the essays in this book explore the theme of the bridge. Each piece defines the bridge as a connection between shores, countries, languages, cultures, people, or communities.

Resisting Modernity

Counternarratives of Nation and Masculinity in pre-Independence India

By: Samir Dayal

£29.99

Samir Dayal’s Resisting Modernity is provocative. Drawing on postcolonial and psychoanalytic theory, Dayal complicates our understanding of Ramakrishna, Tagore, and Gandhi, seeing them as resisting the modernist rhetoric of sovereignty and rational nationalism.

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