Literature and the Monarchy
This book explores the Poet Laureateship from the Restoration to today, revealing the symbolic link it forges between literature, the Monarchy, and national identity.
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relationship between African American intellectuals and the leftist movement in the early twentieth century, featuring unpublished interviews and archival research on figures like Langston Hughes and Richard Wright.
Child and Family Welfare explores welfare from theoretical and empirical perspectives, discussing dimensions like emotional welfare and life satisfaction. This volume is a practical tool for the public and professionals involved in promoting children’s rights.
Quand la folie parle
This study of madness in literature demonstrates that the non-sense of madness achieves a force of expression more powerful than logic. It presents madness as a contestatory, creative stance, while refusing to play down its isolating difficulties.
Bradley and the Problematic Status of Metaphysics
Bradley is a much neglected philosopher. This work undertakes a reassessment of his philosophy, arguing that his metaphysics of the Absolute is the core of his system and the key to understanding all other aspects of his thought.
Undoing Plessy
Undoing Plessy explores the life of Charles Hamilton Houston, a “social engineer” who used the law to dismantle racial barriers. Houston understood the right to work was necessary for true freedom and built a strategy to win civil rights in the pre-Brown era.
Building Bridges
This book envisions a new, democratic direction for English Studies. By integrating language, literature, and translation, it presents a method that questions norms, equalizes roles between teachers and learners, and empowers both students and translators.
This study analyzes Margaret Laurence’s work as an entity, exploring representations of race, ethnicity, gender, and class. Covering her fiction and non-fiction, it gives voice to the marginal to challenge readers’ perceptions.
A Poetics of Homecoming
This study confronts humanity’s state of homelessness by rigorously exploring Heidegger’s thought. Weighing his ideas against scathing critiques from Adorno and Lévinas, it reveals how his discourse on homecoming offers insights for humanity at large.
The Public’s Open to Us All
These essays explore how women in 18th-century England used performance to negotiate the public world. As the first actresses, playwrights, and entrepreneurs emerged, they redefined femininity, challenged traditional roles, and shaped cultural imagination.
Giacomo Meyerbeer
Meyerbeer’s first opera, Jephtas Gelübde, transforms the Biblical tale of a tragic vow into a rescue opera. Containing the seeds of his future genius, the music points towards Weber and Wagner, realizing a powerful story of love and duty.
Effectiveness of School Leadership and Management Development in Cameroon
A groundbreaking look at school leadership development. The first of its kind, this book blends practical theory with robust frameworks and actionable recommendations, making it an essential guide for academics and practitioners.
This collection explores enhancing human performance. It examines disparate contexts and the many factors that impinge on performance, revealing the conditions under which it can be improved, from the effects of exercise to national innovation.
A philosopher and artist analyzes the clash between government funding and censorship. Combining philosophical analysis with interviews with censored artists, this book reveals why freedom of expression is vital for a society to be both stimulating and safe.
Willing the Good
Science brings new insights into human agency, but can it be reduced to mere scientific facts? This collection of essays explores non-empiricist views, reconciling the scientific and manifest images of the world to reach a stereoscopic vision of reality.
Adventuring in Dictionaries
Adventuring in Dictionaries brings together seventeen papers on the making of dictionaries from the sixteenth century to the present. The diverse perspectives are united by a focus on the making and reading of dictionaries as human activities.
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.
On Words and Sounds
On Words and Sounds explores the theme “Variants, Variability, Variation.” These articles will appeal to an academic readership, investigating interrelationships among phonetics, syntax, and other disciplines, as well as between language and music.
Hegel on Recollection
This collection of essays focuses on Hegel’s concept of recollection (Erinnerung). It provides a detailed examination of the role played by recollection within his system, arguing that it is a privileged key to interpreting Hegel’s philosophy.
Wilde’s Wiles
This unique collection of essays by international experts celebrates Oscar Wilde’s genius. It explores his enduring influence on culture—from aesthetics to queer theory—and examines the influence of his family and friends on him.
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