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.
Popularizing Learned Medicine in Late-17th-Century England
This book explores the popularization of learned medical knowledge in late 17th-century England. It analyzes the translation of key texts from Latin into English—from Nicholas Culpeper’s famous work to more obscure publications—to show how medicine reached a wider audience.
Populism
This monograph opens up a channel of dialogue among political scientists, sociologists, philosophers and historians in order to launch a debate on the declination of the phenomenon of populism.
Populism and Illiberalism in Western Societies
Radical right forces threaten to supplant liberal democracy. This book offers a fresh perspective on the populism behind this challenge, applying Niklas Luhmann’s theory of autopoietic social systems to analyze its rise in Britain, Europe, and the United States.
Populist Hearsay of 1939-45
Histories of WWII are often biased to justify a home nation. Britain claimed it “won the war” single-handedly; other countries have their own self-centered versions. This book confronts these nationalistic views and challenges accepted versions of traditional national histories.
Portable Roots
This book challenges the traditional understanding of human development by focusing on identity formation in bicultural children. Drawing on a three-decade study, it explores themes of “rootlessness” and asks how transplanted roots can thrive.
Portraying Irish Travellers
This interdisciplinary volume explores the history of Irish Travellers, a conspicuous minority whose past is often ignored. Scholars address the problems that arise when a marginalised group is portrayed by the majority, proving Travellers deserve a place in Ireland’s narrative.
Portraying the Other in International Relations
International scholars analyze how “othering” shapes global politics, legitimating behaviour in interstate relations and counterterrorism. This volume explores the dynamics of self-other constructions and presents ways they may be transformed for peace.
The American 1950s will not be left alone. This book addresses this enduring phenomenon through its Portuguese proponents, from the arrival of rock ‘n’ roll to the contemporary retro scene. Through interviews, it reveals why this American aesthetic continues to fascinate.
Positioning Daniel Defoe’s Non-Fiction
This volume analyses Daniel Defoe’s non-fictional works. Moving away from his much studied novels, these essays explore the rhetorical strategies and generic inventiveness on display, revealing an author of outstanding skill and energy.
Positioning the New
This volume explores Chinese American authors’ place in the Western literary canon. It questions not only whether this literature is inside or outside the canon, but if a canon should exist at all, probing the by-products of cultural fusion and collision.
Positive Education and Work
Based on positive psychological research covering the whole lifespan, this volume critically discusses positive education and work and their connection to life-long flourishing. It will appeal to educators, researchers, and anyone interested in the foundations of well-being.
Post Celtic Tiger Ireland
This anthology provides the reader with an exploration of various artistic works which grew out of the post-Celtic Tiger era in Ireland. In assessing the aftermath of this period and its impact on Ireland today, the contributors also allude to its future evolution and trends.
Post Qualitative Inquiry in Academia
A student quits college on her first day. Ten years later, she gets an imaginary second chance. This book troubles academic barriers through innovative writing, offering multiple entryways to speculate on future educational possibilities for all.
Post-Apartheid Dance
This ground-breaking work presents perspectives on post-apartheid dance in South Africa. Reflecting a multiplicity of voices, it juxtaposes contentious issues to draw attention to the complexity of dancing on the ashes of apartheid.
Post-Colonial Distances
This anthology compares popular music in Canada and Australia. Both post-colonial nations create commercial music in the shadow of the US and UK industries, and both have seen tremendous growth in the popular music of their indigenous and immigrant groups.
Ending hostilities does not bring normality. Fractured societies face a twilight between war and peace as the world’s attention moves on. This book offers multi-disciplinary insights into this grey space, exploring interventions for positive post-conflict reconstruction.
This volume outlines the changing landscape of business and consumer behaviour post-pandemic. It identifies emerging trends—shaped by cultural context and generational belonging—needed to develop digital products and services for an evolving world.
Post-Dictatorship Argentinian Cinema as a Renarration of Collective Memory
This book reflects on Argentinean cinema’s role in constructing social memory. In the post-dictatorship decade, as institutions fostered forgetting the trauma of military repression, non-hegemonic cinema (1985-1996) became a symbolic mediation for a negotiated, poetic truth.
Post-Millennial Cultures of Fear in Literature
This volume investigates our contemporary “cultures of fear.” Original articles explore post-millennial works ranging from political fictions and trauma narratives to literary disaster discourses and apocalyptic scenarios, using insights from multiple disciplines.
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