Curious Collectors, Collected Curiosities
This interdisciplinary study investigates collecting from the sixteenth century to today. Using the cabinet of curiosity as a model, scholars expand our understanding of display, from art and film to everyday objects, showing its urgent relevance in our consumer age.
A Different Freedom
Symbolic of freedom and control, the kite lies at the core of the Gujarati way of life. A Different Freedom explores the world of the kite, its history, politics, and the colourful Uttarayan festival, as it travels through the centuries to modern Gujarat.
Memories and Portraits
Philosopher H. G. Callaway blends history and autobiography in a narrative of travel across three continents. He illuminates American thought through fascinating cultural contrasts, merging the formalism of analytic philosophy with American pragmatism.
Feminisms is Still Our Name
This anthology critically debates the current status of feminisms in visual art. Essays by leading scholars connect past art histories to possible feminist futures, initiating a needed debate on strategies for renewing feminisms in art history and curating.
Cricket’s globalization has followed a unique path. Unlike other sports, non-Western countries have taken control of the game’s economics and politics. Spurred by Twenty20, the game has been transformed and “Indianized” by new business elites.
After Satan
In tribute to Neil Forsyth, these essays trace the lineage of the Satan figure through literary history. They chart the demonised other from biblical history and Milton to the contemporary novel, showing how evil functions as a necessary other.
Migrants and Minorities
Europe is being irrevocably changed by immigration. This book pinpoints the trends shaping its future, exploring EU-level regulations, the challenges of Islam and xenophobia, and how different nations are integrating migrants and minorities.
Age Effects in the Acquisition of English Onset Clusters by Turkish Learners
This book examines the acquisition of English onset clusters by Turkish learners, considering age effects in L2 phonology. Using Optimality Theory, it traces developmental paths, not just the end-state, offering insightful data for L2 theory.
Reservoirs of Hope
This book is about hope and the personal spirituality that sustains school leaders. Based on interviews, it uses the metaphor of ‘reservoirs of hope’ to explore how a leader’s values in action can sustain a school, without their own reservoir running dry.
Rebellion, Resistance and the Irish Working Class
This book explores the 1919 ‘Limerick Soviet,’ a major strike in Ireland that made headlines worldwide. This volume considers this seminal event in Irish history and illuminates its connection to larger European controversies over workers’ rights.
On the Verge of Tears
Why do stories bring us to tears? This multi-vocal collection of essays offers personal, cultural, and political ruminations on why art, music, and film make us weep, inviting us to imagine tears as a language we can all, in some manner, understand.
This book lays the foundations for an approach to online language learning which draws on the analysis of digital texts and new literacy practices. It combines theoretical reflections with pedagogical research to link digital genres, learner autonomy, and webtask design.
Worlds in Words
These essays analyze the revival of storytelling in contemporary theatre. Using cultural and post-colonial studies, they trace how new performative techniques are changing the relationship between the text, the stage, and the audience.
Art as “Night”
Art as “Night” proposes a type of dark, a-historical knowledge crossing painting from Velázquez to Richter and Kiefer. It argues for a non-discursive form of intellection embodied in the work of art—a pure visual and moral agency lost since the Baroque era.
In 1763, The Ladies Complete Letter-Writer was the first manual exclusively for women in eighteenth-century Britain. It questioned pre-conceived ideas on women and their writing. Unedited since 1765, it is now presented with a new introduction and notes.
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.
Authorities assess the major contributions of Grahame Clark, a pioneer in prehistoric economies, ecology, and science-based archaeology. This book surveys his role in the development of 20th-century archaeology and the basis it provides for today’s work.
Kerouac Ascending
A memoir by Elbert Lenrow about his relationship with his students Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. Lenrow reveals Kerouac’s academic side through papers, letters, and poems shared as they emerged as writers. With an introduction by Howard Cunnell.
Who were the early recording artists of American Folk and Country? Where did their songs originate? A specialist in early rural recordings gives answers, drawing on years of first-hand research, field trips to Appalachia, and a substantial private collection.
Literature and Ethics
This volume examines the crucial relationship between literature and ethics from the late medieval period to the present day. It focuses on instruction, judgement, and justice across a range of periods, texts, and genres to illustrate this relationship.