Essays by leading authorities chart Byron’s life and writings in London, revealing him as one of English poetry’s leading urban writers. Chapters explore the stage, boxing, and women writers, with many referencing his descriptions of the capital in Don Juan.
Representing Minorities
This book counters the rampant uniformisation of cultures by championing the right to difference. It explores how minor literatures and suppressed voices can emerge to demand recognition, underscoring the necessity of cultural diversity in a world of consensus.
The Changing Face of Rugby
In 1995, rugby union turned professional, a change that challenged tradition. This book reveals how rugby-playing countries grappled with the new era, assessing the contentious relationships involving amateur players and fans whose communities were altered.
Professor Chandrasoma’s book critically explores academic interdisciplinarity in student writing. It offers a comprehensive study of how student writers grapple with interdisciplinary knowledge and proposes critical interdisciplinarity as a sustainable pedagogical practice.
Cross-Disciplinary Approaches to the English Language
Explore cross-disciplinary solutions to teaching English in a globalised world. This collection by Romanian researchers offers vital, practical insights for specialists, teachers, and students.
Out of the Burning House
A Marxist historian and a behaviourist psychologist revisit their university days, exploring the overlooked social forces that shaped a generation: Scientific Humanism, The New Left, and precursors of the Women’s Liberation Movement.
Universal Representation, and the Ontology of Individuation (Volume 5
These essays explore ceaseless medieval debates on how we conceive things and the nature of individuation. They consider the metaphysics of universal representation in thinkers from Avicenna and Aquinas to Duns Scotus and Ockham.
New Conservative Explications
As interest in explicating classic poems has declined, many still puzzle readers. This book provides new explications for twelve poems by Blake, Wordsworth, Keats, Yeats, and others, arguing that this practice can reveal their sense and conserve them.
This volume explores the prospects and challenges of using technology in education. It addresses how students and academics can benefit from e-tools like blogs and wikis, and how technology is causing a paradigm shift from traditional teaching methods.
For William Morris, beauty in daily life was revolutionary. These essays explore how the everyday—from domestic interiors to utopian socialism—informed his art, politics, and radical call for social transformation, a vision that remains powerfully relevant.
Before St. John’s, the first fever hospital, patients suffered and died in their homes. The spread of fever was controlled by isolating them. This Irish study covers the cholera epidemic of 1832 and the Great Famine of the 1840s.
The Anonymous Society
An anthropological look inside 12-Step groups. This in-depth study explores how ritual, therapy, and anonymity combat addiction, revealing the vital role these associations play in contemporary society.
The Flesh of Being
This text is a conversation with Friedrich Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra. It is not about Nietzsche, but what it is for someone to read his text, a book for everyone and no one. The text is what the reader has to write through the reading.
Lucian, a 2nd-century satirist, composed the Dialogues of the Sea Gods: a collection of amusing dialogues between figures from Greek myth. This volume examines his work, contemporary views on myth, and the flourishing of Greek culture under Roman rule.
Hunks, Hotties, and Pretty Boys
This study challenges the standard of white, heterosexual male beauty. It explores the connections between beauty and a broad spectrum of masculinities, examining Chicano, Asian, working class, and queer constructions of male beauty in Western culture.
New essays by leading scholars explore how different cultures conceive of art and beauty. Discover how Buddhist, Confucian, and Upanişadic thought shape aesthetics in the East, revealing deep cultural differences and similarities with the West.
Loss, Hurt and Hope
What happens when a child experiences bereavement or trauma? Untreated, it causes devastating loss. *Loss, Hurt and Hope* gathers the wisdom of professionals, providing the tools to help these children move from despair to hope and renewal.
Women in Dialogue
This collection of essays explores women as objects of cultural production and as creators themselves. It features literary analysis alongside personalized observations by women writers on their work, using dialogue as a platform for learning and mutual understanding.
Out Here
This collection of essays and stories reflects queer concerns in places peripheral to the centers of queer theory. Out here, often within the context of rampant homophobia, queer methodologies prove especially productive. Out here, queer theory is alive and kicking.
Dalit Women and Dropout Rates in Collegiate Education
Caste remains a hurdle in Indian education, particularly for Dalit women. This book throws light on the social stigma they face, leading to high dropout rates from college in the Warangal District of Andhra Pradesh.
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