This collection of essays explores the enduring afterlife of medieval art and architecture. It examines how medieval works were preserved, restored, and appropriated from the 16th to 20th centuries to shape modern political, religious, and cultural practices.
Scholars remain sharply divided on nationalism. This volume offers new empirical research, examining a variety of contexts within the English-speaking world, including Australia, Canada, India, the UK, and the US, through interdisciplinary studies.
Edward Thomas
Killed in WWI, Edward Thomas wrote his essential poems in just two years. This timely reappraisal surveys his entire achievement in verse and prose, challenging common views and revealing a complex poet for a new generation.
Transmission Image
A challenging survey of the debate about visual culture from a global perspective. This volume proposes a truly global outlook, with scholarly perspectives from around the world, highlighting the complex cultural codification of images and their impact.
John Guare’s Theatre
John Guare’s aesthetic principle: a play must be grounded in reality; only then can it soar. This study explores his dramas, which soar by interrupting action, mixing genres, and taking hairpin turns to explore the American heritage and Dream.
The Internal Foe
This book explores how Christian theology has been shaped over two millennia by its interaction with Judaism. It traces a resilient framework of judgment and asks: Must Christian theology remain intrinsically anti-Jewish? The book concludes that it need not.
Anáil an Bhéil Bheo
Anáil an Bhéil Bheo explores orality in modern Irish culture through interdisciplinary essays on literature, folklore, and the arts. Includes major contributions by leading scholars Gearóid Ó Crualaoich and Henry Glassie.
Travellers’ Tales
The experiences of English language teachers are often overlooked. This volume explores the complexity of ELT as global ‘work’ through teacher narratives, revealing the personal, pedagogical, and cultural dimensions of their work in overseas contexts.
The popular view that “everyone can be creative” is a fashionable nonsense. But so was the old idea that creativity is only for a select few. This book shows an alternative way to understand creative thinking that will change how we see imagination and innovation.
The Meyerbeer Libretti
This volume presents the libretto for Meyerbeer’s final grand opéra, L’Africaine. A fictional treatment of Vasco da Gama’s voyage, it is a mixture of history and fairytale. In this edition, the original text and its English translation are on facing pages.
The presidency of George W. Bush was one of extremes, from the highest approval ratings to the lowest. This collection of essays addresses the contentious questions of his time in office, offering initial assessments of this controversial president’s legacy.
Beyond Lexical Variation in Modern Standard Arabic
This book analyzes lexical variation in Modern Standard Arabic to explore vital issues: language planning, speaker identity, and the relationship between its classical, modern, and dialectal forms, offering deep insights on the language’s present and future.
Masculinity and the Other
Men have been defined as much by their relations to other men as to women. This collection brings together scholars from fields including literature and history to examine the forms of ‘otherness’ against which ideas of masculinity have been defined.
Long Live the King
Escudero-Alías acutely examines the drag king phenomenon, as well as key theoretical texts by feminist, postcolonial and cultural thinkers, delving into drag king culture and highlighting its relevance for the study of the relationship between gender, sex, race and sexuality.
Human Characteristics
What special behaviours, social practices, and psychological structures make us human? Uniting evolution, psychology, and cognitive science, these studies explore cognition, sociality, and sexuality to provoke debate and stimulate new research.
Negritude
Is Negritude a relic of the colonial era? This collection shows its continued vitality. African & Caribbean writers demonstrate how, beyond race, Negritude remains a relevant poetic, philosophical, and cultural force in its modern forms.
Knights Down Under
While the Knights of Labour is a failed experiment in US history, in New Zealand its story was strikingly different. This is the story of how the KOL became an international force that helped enact sweeping reforms like women’s suffrage decades ahead of its time.
This book examines the foreign policy debates shaping the UK-US “special relationship” from 1992-2008. It reveals a bond founded not on shared values, but on something more surprising, shedding new light on the two nations and their partnership.
But He Talked of the Temple of Man’s Body
This poetic study is a response to Locke’s philosophy through an analysis of Blake’s linguistic practices. It reads like a narrative of an effort to build, destroy, and rebuild, revealing Blake’s criticism of Locke as a critique of modernity itself.
The Charm of a List
Lists seem plain but may conceal a complicated inner logic. They can tell a story, create a hierarchy, and influence how we conceptualize the world. This transdisciplinary volume collects case studies on the power of the list from multiple fields.
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