Humanities, Literature and Arts
The Humanities, Literature and Arts programme is diversely comprehensive, encompassing a wide range of disciplines and offering rigourous scholarship on various subject areas. Titles provide highly challenging and original interdisciplinary research directed towards scholars, students and engaged readers. This programme includes a variety of book series.
Featured Books
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Planning for Water Security in Southeast Asia
Community-Based Infrastructure During the Urban Transition
September, 2022
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The European Byron
Mobility, Cosmopolitanism, and Chameleon Poetry
Jonathan Gross
This book considers Byron’s borrowings from Thomas Moore, Tasso, Percy Shelley, Ugo Foscolo, and Madame de Stael. The conclusion considers how Byron’s ironic mode in politics in Greece influenced Adam Mickiewicz’s Pan Tadeusz and Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin, encouraging other authors to imitate him, as he had imitated others.
Hardback
9781839991424
August 2025
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00This book considers Byron’s borrowings from Thomas Moore, Tasso, Percy Shelley, Ugo Foscolo, and Madame de Stael. The conclusion considers how Byron’s ironic mode in politics in Greece influenced Adam Mickiewicz’s Pan Tadeusz and Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin, encouraging other authors to imitate him, as he had imitated others.
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Chernobyl Trauma and Gothic
Testimony, Cultural Memory and Global Literary Perspectives
Stuart Lindsay
This scholarly monograph explores the published eyewitness testimonies, poetry and literature surrounding the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster. It argues for the contextualisation of the disaster’s collective traumatic wound and its Soviet political repression through public articulation of survivor experience and its interpretation by the trauma narratives of Science Fiction and the Gothic.
Hardback
9781839990649
June 2025
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00This scholarly monograph explores the published eyewitness testimonies, poetry and literature surrounding the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster. It argues for the contextualisation of the disaster’s collective traumatic wound and its Soviet political repression through public articulation of survivor experience and its interpretation by the trauma narratives of Science Fiction and the Gothic.
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Ralph Ellison and Cinema
Sam Halliday
The first dedicated study of the relation between cinema and the work of African American author Ralph Ellison (1913–1994).
Anthem Press
Paperback
9781785279638
June 2025
Forthcoming
£24.95 / $24.95The first dedicated study of the relation between cinema and the work of African American author Ralph Ellison (1913–1994).
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Art and Theatre as a Community of Practice in Eighteenth-Century France
Mark Ledbury
A fresh study of creative practice and exchange in theatre and the visual arts in eighteenth-century France, nourished by archival research and by histories of innovation, community and knowledge transfer in the Enlightenment.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785274213
May 2025
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00A fresh study of creative practice and exchange in theatre and the visual arts in eighteenth-century France, nourished by archival research and by histories of innovation, community and knowledge transfer in the Enlightenment.
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Revolution, Empire, and the Gothic Dream
Richard Moore Jr.
This monograph examines the centrality of dreams and their significant transformations in British Gothic novels and in Caribbean novels. The Gothic counters the Enlightenment’s internalization of dreams by reimagining dreams as social and political phenomena. They subsequently play vital roles in responding to profound questions concerning revolution and empire.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839986741
March 2025
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00This monograph examines the centrality of dreams and their significant transformations in British Gothic novels and in Caribbean novels. The Gothic counters the Enlightenment’s internalization of dreams by reimagining dreams as social and political phenomena. They subsequently play vital roles in responding to profound questions concerning revolution and empire.
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What was the First Bible Like?
The Emergence of Christian Texts, Scripture, and Canon
Tomas Bokedal
This book explores the emergence of the first bible, focussing on second-century Scripture, the earliest New Testament, and the canon formation process. Textual-interpretative, ritual, and paratextual aspects of the Christian Scriptures are discussed as well as their impact on the wider Roman and Medieval literary cultures, and beyond.
Anthem Press
Paperback
9781839989308
March 2025
Forthcoming
£24.95 / $24.95This book explores the emergence of the first bible, focussing on second-century Scripture, the earliest New Testament, and the canon formation process. Textual-interpretative, ritual, and paratextual aspects of the Christian Scriptures are discussed as well as their impact on the wider Roman and Medieval literary cultures, and beyond.
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German Gothic Literature
Origins, Adaptations, Transformations
Edited by Curtis Maughan, Jeffrey High
This collection not only provides a starting point for students and researchers of Gothic Studies interested in the variations and adaptations within the German tradition, but it also serves as a primer for Germanists interested in establishing––or reevaluating––the place of the Gothic in German literary and cultural history.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839990069
March 2025
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00This collection not only provides a starting point for students and researchers of Gothic Studies interested in the variations and adaptations within the German tradition, but it also serves as a primer for Germanists interested in establishing––or reevaluating––the place of the Gothic in German literary and cultural history.
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The Christian Culture of Islamic Spain
Origins, Survival and Recovery
Roger Collins
The Christian Culture of Islamic Spain is an enquiry into how and why Christian culture survived in medieval Spain in areas under Islamic rule, why it eventually disappeared there and how knowledge of it was recovered from the sixteenth century onwards.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785279218
March 2025
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00The Christian Culture of Islamic Spain is an enquiry into how and why Christian culture survived in medieval Spain in areas under Islamic rule, why it eventually disappeared there and how knowledge of it was recovered from the sixteenth century onwards.
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Sexual Violence and Literary Art
Peter Robinson
Sexual Violence and Literary Art addresses the complicity of representation in what is represented, and its creative transformations, by re-examining classic poetic, dramatic and fictional texts by men in light of women’s philosophical, theoretical and critical responses to them.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785278853
February 2025
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00Sexual Violence and Literary Art addresses the complicity of representation in what is represented, and its creative transformations, by re-examining classic poetic, dramatic and fictional texts by men in light of women’s philosophical, theoretical and critical responses to them.
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Black Refigurations
Facing, Naming and Voicing in African-American Literature, Volume III
Kimberly W. Benston
Black Refigurations is the third volume of a three-volume study of African-American literary history, with special attention to the internal dialogues regarding concepts of “tradition,” haunting, trauma, and re-vision. Texts studied extend from slave narratives to contemporary works, including both canonical and lesser-known instances of African-American expression.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785278730
February 2025
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00Black Refigurations is the third volume of a three-volume study of African-American literary history, with special attention to the internal dialogues regarding concepts of “tradition,” haunting, trauma, and re-vision. Texts studied extend from slave narratives to contemporary works, including both canonical and lesser-known instances of African-American expression.
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Banned Books and Counterfeit Notes
£110.00 / $110.00Reading and Writing Against the Penal Colony in French Guiana
Sophie Fuggle
Hardback
9781839992599
February 2025
Forthcoming
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Doing Sociology Through Film and Literature
Imaginings of the Social World
John Goodwin, Laurie Parsons
This book is primarily a research-informed textbook aimed at any reader with an interest in using film and literature in sociological and social science research.
Anthem Press
Paperback
9781839983894
February 2025
Forthcoming
£24.95 / $24.95This book is primarily a research-informed textbook aimed at any reader with an interest in using film and literature in sociological and social science research.
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The ABCs of Cold War History
Anglo-America, Bloc Sovietique, China, 1919-1994
Bruce A. Elleman
A short, but highly relevant, history of the Cold War, 1919–1994, and its significance today. The 75-year Cold War pitted the Anglo-American world against the Soviet Bloc, with China, the ultimate prize.
Paperback
9781839992278
February 2025
Forthcoming
£19.95 / $19.95A short, but highly relevant, history of the Cold War, 1919–1994, and its significance today. The 75-year Cold War pitted the Anglo-American world against the Soviet Bloc, with China, the ultimate prize.
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Essays and Interviews on Contemporary American Poets, Poetry, and Pedagogy
A Thirty-Year Creative Writing Workshop
Daniel Morris
Merging autobiography and literary criticism, Daniel Morris illustrates in sixteen essays how he learned to attend to avant-garde contemporary American poets whose aesthetic contributions were not part of his education.
Hardback
9781839992230
January 2025
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00Merging autobiography and literary criticism, Daniel Morris illustrates in sixteen essays how he learned to attend to avant-garde contemporary American poets whose aesthetic contributions were not part of his education.
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Wittgenstein and Popular Culture
Edited by Bernhard Stricker, Martin Urschel
This volume makes an incisive contribution to the field of philosophy of culture in outlining the potential of Wittgenstein’s philosophy for the study of popular culture, focusing on concrete examples: from detective fiction and comics, to TV series and football fandom.
Hardback
9781839991318
January 2025
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£110.00 / $110.00This volume makes an incisive contribution to the field of philosophy of culture in outlining the potential of Wittgenstein’s philosophy for the study of popular culture, focusing on concrete examples: from detective fiction and comics, to TV series and football fandom.
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Animal Presence and Human Identity in Modern Literature
(Dis)figurations of Humanimality from Shakespeare to Desai
Kimberly W. Benston
Animal Presence and Human Identity in Modern Literature is an exploration of literary representations of the human-animal encounter in modernity that press human “being” to its limits. Texts studied include Shakespeare’s King Lear, Eliot’s Middlemarch, Wells’s The Island of Doctor Moreau, Atwood’s Surfacing, and Desai’s Clear Light of Day.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785279607
January 2025
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00Animal Presence and Human Identity in Modern Literature is an exploration of literary representations of the human-animal encounter in modernity that press human “being” to its limits. Texts studied include Shakespeare’s King Lear, Eliot’s Middlemarch, Wells’s The Island of Doctor Moreau, Atwood’s Surfacing, and Desai’s Clear Light of Day.
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Nuclear Gothic
Textual and Cultural Fusions
Helena K Bacon
Nuclear Gothic investigates the previously unexplored congruities that lie between gothic forms and modes and nuclear cultures and techno-sciences; it aims to read Western nuclear fictions in relation to their Japanese counterparts and through a cohesive critical framework that examines atomic processes, nuclear fictions and specific historical and cultural moments.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839981623
January 2025
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00Nuclear Gothic investigates the previously unexplored congruities that lie between gothic forms and modes and nuclear cultures and techno-sciences; it aims to read Western nuclear fictions in relation to their Japanese counterparts and through a cohesive critical framework that examines atomic processes, nuclear fictions and specific historical and cultural moments.
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Critical Approaches to Fen Gothic Literature
Gina Wisker
The book defines and discusses Fen Gothic, an example of regional Gothic inflected by geography, relationships of centre and margins, history, ecology and gender and the perspectives offered by related Gothic critical approaches.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839982033
January 2025
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00The book defines and discusses Fen Gothic, an example of regional Gothic inflected by geography, relationships of centre and margins, history, ecology and gender and the perspectives offered by related Gothic critical approaches.
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Legacies of Forced Removals in South Africa
Accounting for Children's Reflections of Displacement in the Western Cape
Efua Tembisa Prah
This book focuses on experiences from various backgrounds of six children who lived in temporary relocation areas in Cape Town, South Africa. Themes identified examined the effects of forced removals, displacement, and marginality on the lifeworlds of children.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839982668
December 2024
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00This book focuses on experiences from various backgrounds of six children who lived in temporary relocation areas in Cape Town, South Africa. Themes identified examined the effects of forced removals, displacement, and marginality on the lifeworlds of children.
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The Humanist Critic
£110.00 / $110.00Lionel Trilling and Edward Said
Daniel Nutters
Hardback
9781839991592
December 2024
Forthcoming
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Postal Data Analysis and US Economic History in the 19th Century
Measuring Business Cycles and Social Mobility
Robert Dimand, Michael O'Reilly, Emily Sanders, Thomas Velk, Mengyue Zhao
This book uses unexploited postal data to explore regional economic fluctuations in the nineteenth-century United States and to study social mobility and status among postmasters, particularly women and African Americans.
Paperback
9781839990731
December 2024
Forthcoming
£24.95 / $24.95This book uses unexploited postal data to explore regional economic fluctuations in the nineteenth-century United States and to study social mobility and status among postmasters, particularly women and African Americans.
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COVID-19 and the Challenges of Trauma and Responsibility
Ethics, Politics and Spirituality and Alternative Planetary Futures
Edited by Ananta Kumar Giri, Saji Varghese
Covid-19 has created trauma, death and destruction as well as challenged us for transformation of our existing society, economy and polity. The book deals with it.
Hardback
9781839991684
December 2024
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00Covid-19 has created trauma, death and destruction as well as challenged us for transformation of our existing society, economy and polity. The book deals with it.
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Project Management for Construction
Fundamental Aspects from Conception to Completion
Andrew Agapiou
The book explores and analyses the five dimensions of project management and explores how current trends can influence the efficiency of the design and construction process within a dynamic industry and changeable political and regulatory environment.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785278136
December 2024
Forthcoming
£125.00 / $125.00The book explores and analyses the five dimensions of project management and explores how current trends can influence the efficiency of the design and construction process within a dynamic industry and changeable political and regulatory environment.
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The Ethics of Internationalisation
Strangers in the House of Reason
Bregham Dalgliesh
The internationalisation of higher education gives rise to the curious entity of the global university. Like any organisation within an institutional environment undergoing change, the global university is riddled with numerous contradictions and The Ethics of Internationalisation undertakes a critique of the ethical elements.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839982545
December 2024
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00The internationalisation of higher education gives rise to the curious entity of the global university. Like any organisation within an institutional environment undergoing change, the global university is riddled with numerous contradictions and The Ethics of Internationalisation undertakes a critique of the ethical elements.