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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.

Chinese Revolution and Chinese Literature

Edited By: Tao Dongfeng, Rosemary Roberts, Yang Xiaobin

£44.99

This volume explores the revolutionary tradition in modern Chinese literature from various angles, including feminism, sexuality, and history. Scrutinizing its complex legacy, revolution is viewed as neither a progressive force nor a simple tragedy.

Locating Shakespeare in the Twenty-First Century

Edited By: Gabrielle Malcolm, Kelli Marshall

£39.99

Where is Shakespeare in the 21st century? In global cinema, graphic novels, sci-fi television, and Jewish revenge films. This collection assesses the active world of Shakespearean adaptation, considering where he is now and where his works might be going.

Performance and Ethnography

Dance, Drama, Music

Edited By: Peter Harrop, Dunja Njaradi

£39.99

This volume explores the intersection of performance and ethnography across dance, drama, and music. It champions an embodied, sensory ethnography that privileges encounters between researchers and participants to understand performance amid migration and commodification.

Managing Mass Education, and the Rise of Modern and Financial Management

Footsteps and Foundations

By: Ian Waitt

From £41.99

This book reveals the unrecognized link between modern management and mass education. It explores how the charismatic teacher Joseph Lancaster’s plan for mass education enabled the industrial revolutions and the parallel growth of financial management worldwide.

Language, Decoloniality, and Social Justice in the Caribbean

Edited By: Patrick-André Mather, Joel Morales-Rolón

From £33.99

Essays on language policy, identity, and social justice in five Caribbean nations. This volume explores how multilingualism, education, and the status of Creole languages unsettle colonial discourses and challenge social segregation based on race, gender, and sexuality.

Trauma, Media, Art

New Perspectives

Edited By: Mick Broderick, Antonio Traverso

£39.99

This collection of essays explores artistic and media representations of traumatic histories from around the world. The authors both apply and critique dominant theories of trauma, exploring their limitations while considering new methodologies.

Theory, Practice, and Guidelines for Communicating Health and Pandemics in Africa

Edited By: Emmanuel K. Ngwainmbi, Levi Zeleza Manda

From £37.99

This book provides the context, guidelines, and tools for covering health, pandemics, and development in Africa. It is an essential resource for journalists, students, public health communicators, and international development agencies.

Empowering the Visibility of Croatian Cultural Heritage through the Digital Humanities

Edited By: Marijana Tomić, Mirna Willer, Nives Tomašević

From £33.99

This volume brings together selected papers on Digital Humanities and cultural heritage. It provides insights into the description, access, and digitization of cultural heritage, and explores written heritage as a source for historiographic and linguistic research.

The Jews and the Nation-States of Southeastern Europe from the 19th Century to the Great Depression

Combining Viewpoints on a Controversial Story

Edited By: Tullia Catalan, Marco Dogo

£47.99

This volume approaches the position of Jews in Southeastern Europe during the second half of the 19th century from the point of view of contemporary western Judaism, perhaps more sensitive to the sufferings of “our poor brothers in the East”.

1848

The Year the World Turned?

Edited By: Kay Boardman, Christine Kinealy

£39.99

In 1848, the world failed to turn. Or did it? This book offers new insights by looking beyond the main revolutions to consider overlooked places from Ireland to Australia, the experiences of women, and the era’s rich cultural and intellectual ferment.

Margaret Atwood’s Apocalypses

Edited By: Karma Waltonen

£41.99

Margaret Atwood’s Apocalypses features essays on Atwood’s poetry, The Handmaid’s Tale, and the MaddAddam trilogy. The collection traces the theme of apocalypse through her work using lenses like disability studies, theology, and ecofeminism.

The Boom Femenino in Mexico

Reading Contemporary Women’s Writing

Edited By: Nuala Finnegan, Jane E. Lavery

£44.99

This collection of essays explores the "boom femenino," the surge of women's writing in Mexico over the last three decades. International scholars investigate the term's cultural significance and how these authors challenged a traditionally male literary arena.

This collection of essays explores the “boom femenino,” the surge of women’s writing in Mexico over the last three decades. International scholars investigate the term’s cultural significance and how these authors challenged a traditionally male literary arena.

An Environmental Ethic for the End of the World

An Ecological Midrash on Romans 8

By: Scott C. Powell

From £30.99

Powell investigates Romans 8:19-22 and Paul’s Christological discourse as a source of ecological healing, arguing that Paul’s midrash provides deep insight into the biblical role of humans and their instrumentality in bringing both harm and healing to the world of nature.

Women and Martyrdom in Stalinist War Cinema

Russia's Eternal Quest for Messianism

By: Mozhgan Samadi

From £35.99

This book challenges the idea of the compatibility of femininity and combat under Stalinism. It reveals how Stalinist war cinema drew on Russian religious tradition to create cinematic representations of Soviet women during WWII, serving collective identity-construction policies.

Exploring Discourse Practices in Romanian

Edited By: Andra Vasilescu, Mihaela-Viorica Constantinescu, Gabriela Stoica, Jonathan Russell White

From £33.99

This book offers a glimpse into Romanian interaction, a style developed at the crossroads of Eastern and Western cultures. Rooted in oral tradition, it paradoxically blends local specifics with imported acts. Through in-depth analyses, it will appeal to researchers of discourse.

Patrick White Centenary

The Legacy of a Prodigal Son

Edited By: Bill Ashcroft, Cynthia vanden Driesen

£57.99

Marking the centenary of Nobel laureate Patrick White, this volume offers invaluable insight into his work. An international galaxy of eminent critics and new talents provide fresh perspectives, highlighting his legacy and stature as a public intellectual.

Education Landscapes in the 21st Century

Cross-cultural Challenges and Multi-disciplinary Perspectives

Edited By: Iris Guske

£44.99

With contributions from scholars and practitioners on five continents, this volume focuses on pressing themes in 21st-century pedagogy. It offers a plurality of approaches with universally applicable findings for professionals in classrooms worldwide.

China and Europe in 21st Century Global Politics

Partnership, Competition or Co-Evolution

Edited By: Frauke Austermann, Anastas Vangeli, Xiaoguang Wang

£44.99

China and Europe shape global politics through partnership and competition. This volume investigates their "co-evolution"—cooperating where possible to minimize conflict. With balanced perspectives from Chinese and European scholars, it covers security, economics, and energy.

China and Europe shape global politics through partnership and competition. This volume investigates their “co-evolution”—cooperating where possible to minimize conflict. With balanced perspectives from Chinese and European scholars, it covers security, economics, and energy.

Linguistic Identity in Postcolonial Multilingual Spaces

Edited By: Eric A. Anchimbe

£39.99

This volume offers new approaches to multilingualism and identity in postcolonial societies. It explores the complex interplay of indigenous and ex-colonial languages—embraced as socio-economic assets or treated as alienating colonial legacies.

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