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John Dos Passos

Biography and Critical Essays

Edited By: Maria Zina Gonçalves de Abreu, Bernardo Guido de Vasconcelos

£39.99

These essays explore Dos Passos’s writings through the lens of biography, aesthetics, and social critique. They examine his innovative literary techniques and his status as a towering figure of American Modernism who chronicled an era that shattered the ‘American Dream’.

Coleridge’s Chrysopoetics

Alchemy, Authorship and Imagination

By: Kiran Toor

£39.99

This book assesses alchemy in Coleridge’s conception of authorship. It argues that for Coleridge, the author must become other to become himself. This alchemical view demonstrates a unique link between plagiarism and creativity, redefining originality itself.

Songs of Resilience

Edited By: Andy Brader

£39.99

This book is a chorus of practices that use music to build resilience. Academics and practitioners share projects from health, education, and social work, asking: Can music build measurable resilience? Can we replicate these outcomes in diverse groups?

Review Journal of Political Philosophy Volume 8.2

Naomi Zack’s Ethics for Disaster

Edited By: J. Jeremy Wisnewski

£19.99

This journal has been discontinued. Any issues are available to purchase separately.

Imagining Italy

Victorian Writers and Travellers

Edited By: Michael Hollington, John Jordan, Catherine Watts

£39.99

This book approaches the Victorian fascination with Italy from a broad, theoretical perspective. Going beyond Dickens, it examines travel writing and visual representations to show how Victorian stereotypes continue to inform contemporary tourism.

Twenty-First-Century Gothic

Edited By: Brigid Cherry, Peter Howell, Caroline Ruddell

£34.99

These essays reinterpret the Gothic inheritance from a 21st-century perspective, a mode uniquely applicable to the frightening instability of our world. This collection explores Gothic’s contemporaneity through horror novels, cinema, poetry, music, and fan cultures.

Americanization of History

Conflation of Time and Culture in Film and Television

Edited By: Kathleen McDonald

£44.99

This collection of essays explores how history and literature are translated into film. From Walt Disney to the Wild West, mobsters to vampire slayers, these articles analyze how movies and TV reflect the time and place of their own creation.

Exchanges and Correspondence

The Construction of Feminism

Edited By: Claudette Fillard, Françoise Orazi

£44.99

This challenging survey of “feminism-in-the-making” spans from the 18th century to the present, across the globe. A fascinating chorus of voices emerges, throwing light on women’s growing consciousness and the struggle for their rights.

Nabokov’s Palace

The American Novels

By: Márta Pellérdi

£34.99

Nabokov’s Palace discovers the sub-texts and inter-textual patterns in his American novels making them an integral part of the Anglo-American literary tradition, revealing his "otherworld" of art and communion with dead poets.

The Respectability of Late Victorian Workers

A Case Study of York, 1867-1914

By: Charles Walter Masters

£44.99

This study of Victorian York's working classes places respectability at the heart of their culture. Through personal testimony, it shows how workers creatively built identities and communities, defining the respectable citizen in their own moral terms.

This study of Victorian York’s working classes places respectability at the heart of their culture. Through personal testimony, it shows how workers creatively built identities and communities, defining the respectable citizen in their own moral terms.

Men in Color

Racialized Masculinities in U.S. Literature and Cinema

Edited By: Josep M. Armengol

£34.99

This collection analyzes ethnic masculinities—including African American, Asian American, Chicano, and white—in U.S. literature and cinema. It explores the intersection of gender and race, highlighting both the differences and recurring stereotypes among them.

Gazing at Welfare, Gender and Agency in Post-socialist Countries

Edited By: Maija Jäppinen, Meri Kulmala, Aino Saarinen

£44.99

This book offers a unique view of welfare in Russia and Eastern Europe from an intersectional perspective of gender and agency. It analyzes the rapid changes since the collapse of socialism, using case studies to reveal gendered practices and activism.

The Still Life in the Fiction of A. S. Byatt

By: Elizabeth Hicks

£39.99

This book explores A. S. Byatt's visual and verbal still lifes. It shows how her rich descriptions celebrate realism, textual pleasure, and sexuality, while also revealing character and class, and teasing out the tension between living passion and "cold" artwork.

This book explores A. S. Byatt’s visual and verbal still lifes. It shows how her rich descriptions celebrate realism, textual pleasure, and sexuality, while also revealing character and class, and teasing out the tension between living passion and “cold” artwork.

Ebony Roots, Northern Soil

Perspectives on Blackness in Canada

Edited By: Charmaine A. Nelson

£44.99

This powerful collection of critical essays explores the histories and cultural engagements of black Canadians. It challenges the myth of a racially benevolent Canada, dissecting institutional racism and defining a black Canadian identity distinct from American ideals.

Diversity, Inclusion and Citizenship in Scandinavia

Edited By: Ann-Helén Bay, Bo Bengtsson, Per Strömblad

£44.99

This book sheds light on how the welfare-states of Scandinavia struggle with diversity, inclusion and citizenship. In Denmark, Norway and Sweden, migration challenges social citizenship, creating new tensions between rights, obligations, and identity.

Industrialization and the Restructuring of Speech Communities in China and Europe

Edited By: Marinus van den Berg, Daming Xu

£44.99

This book documents the changing language situation in urban China, gauging the impact of industrialization on communication. Studies demonstrate the interplay of the standard language, Putonghua, and dialects, contrasting China with post-industrial Europe.

Syllable Structure of Bangla

An Optimality-Theoretic Approach

By: Somdev Kar

£34.99

This study analyzes the structure of Bangla syllables in terms of phonology and morphology. It examines consonant clusters and verbal inflections using the frameworks of Optimality Theory and Distributed Morphology to understand the language's unique structure.

The East and the Idea of Europe

Edited By: Pekka Korhonen, Katalin Miklóssy

£34.99

How is the line between East and West drawn? This book examines the linguistic tools used to build and dismantle geopolitical boundaries, shaping identities and power struggles across the Eurasian space.

Chymia

Science and Nature in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

Edited By: Miguel López-Pérez, Jose Rodriguez

£49.99

This book consists of selected papers on the history of alchemy, shedding light on little-studied medieval and early modern texts, important doctrines, and prominent figures like Paracelsus. It also offers new insights on the history of Spanish alchemy.

Decolonization and the Other

The Case of the British West Indies

By: Sharon C. Sewell

£39.99

Histories of the British West Indies focus on decolonization from the top down, ignoring the impact on local populations. This book explores local perspectives by using West Indian literature to supplement the historical record and understand these events.

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