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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.

Postcolonial Odysseys

Derek Walcott’s Voyages of Homecoming

By: Maeve Tynan

£39.99

This study charts Derek Walcott's postcolonial voyage through Homer's *Odyssey*. It explores the tension between the outward journey and the homecoming, revealing how a modern master can reclaim and transform an ancient epic.

This study charts Derek Walcott’s postcolonial voyage through Homer’s *Odyssey*. It explores the tension between the outward journey and the homecoming, revealing how a modern master can reclaim and transform an ancient epic.

Rethinking Kant

Volume I

Edited By: Pablo Muchnik

From £19.99

This collection of essays offers a sample of a whole generation of Kantian thought. Covering controversial themes like freedom, morality, and radical evil, these essays rethink Kant and indicate his importance for current philosophical debates.

An American Voltaire

Essays in Memory of J. Patrick Lee

Edited By: E. Joe Johnson, Byron R. Wells

£39.99

This collection of essays honors Voltaire scholar J. Patrick Lee. It includes seventeen essays by prominent international scholars on French eighteenth-century studies, covering topics from Voltaire and censorship to satire, opera, art, and the Enlightenment.

Expanding the Canon of Early Modern Women’s Writing

Edited By: Paul Salzman

£39.99

This exciting collection of original essays on early modern women’s writing introduces little-known writers and offers new critical strategies. The authors explore diverse genres, integrating literary history with religion, legal issues, and genre questions.

American Literary-Political Engagements

From Poe to James

By: William M. Etter

£39.99

From Poe to James, 19th-century authors confronted their era's most urgent political questions. This book reveals how they transformed debates on democracy, social justice, and law into powerful and enduring works of literary art.

From Poe to James, 19th-century authors confronted their era’s most urgent political questions. This book reveals how they transformed debates on democracy, social justice, and law into powerful and enduring works of literary art.

Investigating Arthur Upfield

A Centenary Collection of Critical Essays

Edited By: Carol Hetherington, Kees de Hoog

£39.99

This collection of critical essays by international scholars and novelists like Tony Hillerman celebrates Arthur Upfield, creator of Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte. The essays assess his place in the annals of crime fiction and Australian cultural history.

Remapping the Future

History, Culture and Environment in Australia and India

Edited By: Deb N. Bandyopadhyay, Paul Brown

£39.99

This collection of essays explores the cross-cultural linkages between Australia and India. From diverse interdisciplinary perspectives, it examines intersections of history, culture and environment, building on a shared history and looking to the future.

Teaching English in Multilingual Contexts

Current Challenges, Future Directions

Edited By: Graeme Cane

£39.99

This collection of innovative papers discusses the teaching of English in multilingual countries. Written by experienced practitioners, it examines how English can be more effectively taught to students in Asia. A powerful resource for language educators.

A Study in Legal History Volume II; The Last of England

Lord Denning’s Englishry and the Law

By: Charles Stephens

£39.99

Lord Denning’s celebrated judgments were known for their deep ‘Englishness’. As English identity is fiercely debated today, this book considers the role of Englishness in his jurisprudence, from his views on history and race to European law.

The Order of the Acquisition of the English Article System by Polish Learners in Different Proficiency Groups

By: Artur Swiateka

£39.99

This book studies how Polish students acquire the English article system. Based on studies of beginner to advanced learners, the results prove that L2 acquisition is better in advanced groups, while less advanced groups have tremendous difficulties.

Culture as Text, Text as Culture

Edited By: Elodie Lafitte, Christina Wall, Mary Cobb Wittrock

£39.99

This interdisciplinary analysis demonstrates not only how a culture is preserved in a text, but how that text can in turn define its culture, even redefine its history, by exploring how all texts and their contexts are constructs.

Ruskin in Perspective

Contemporary Essays

Edited By: Carmen Casaliggi, Paul March-Russell

From £24.99

This vibrant collection of illustrated essays draws John Ruskin’s ideas together around perspective. Offering a new interdisciplinary approach, it examines his legacy and shows how Ruskin can still teach us to read and see.

Uprooting Geographic Thoughts in India

Toward Ecology and Culture in 21st Century

By: Rana Singh, David Sopher, Oskar Spate

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This is the first book on the roots of Indian geographical thought. It explores Indian identity, Gandhian environmentalism, and the meeting of East and West. It reprints lead essays by Spate, Sopher, and Mukerji to assess their challenging message today.

Ninety Years of the Abruzzo National Park 1922-2012

Proceedings of the Conference held in Pescasseroli, May 18-20, 2012

Edited By: Luigi Piccioni

£39.99

The Abruzzo National Park is one of the oldest protected areas in Europe. This volume reconstructs the highlights of the Park’s troubled but influential history and its connections with environmentalism and Italian society at large.

Episodes from a History of Undoing

The Heritage of Female Subversiveness

Edited By: Reghina Dascal

£39.99

This volume illustrates women’s resistance to patriarchal norms. From mythical amazons and Renaissance monarchs to modern activists and academics, these women became trail-blazers by undoing, rewriting, and refashioning political and cultural concepts.

Pasolini, Fassbinder and Europe

Between Utopia and Nihilism

Edited By: Fabio Vighi

£39.99

This collection of essays compares the legacy of Pier Paolo Pasolini and Rainer Werner Fassbinder, two of Europe's last radical filmmakers. Their uncompromising films oscillate between utopia and nihilism, inviting us to reconsider lost questions.

This collection of essays compares the legacy of Pier Paolo Pasolini and Rainer Werner Fassbinder, two of Europe’s last radical filmmakers. Their uncompromising films oscillate between utopia and nihilism, inviting us to reconsider lost questions.

Mythistory and Narratives of the Nation in the Balkans

Edited By: Tatjana Aleksić

£39.99

This collection explores how Balkan literary and national poetics interrelate. Through innovative analysis of literature and film, it reveals a unique "mythistory"—a blend of myth and historical fact used to construct national identity.

This collection explores how Balkan literary and national poetics interrelate. Through innovative analysis of literature and film, it reveals a unique “mythistory”—a blend of myth and historical fact used to construct national identity.

Anáil an Bhéil Bheo

Orality and Modern Irish Culture

Edited By: Nessa Cronin, John Eastlake

£39.99

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.

Voices from within the Veil

African Americans and the Experience of Democracy

Edited By: William H. Alexander, Charles H. Ford, Cassandra L. Newby-Alexander

£39.99

The Veil hangs between Then and Now, between Black and White, between You and Me. Voices from within the Veil explores this 400-year prelude, addressing African Americans’ marginalization and their paths to empowerment through protest and organization.

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