Literature
Featured Books
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Reading Greek Australian Literature through the Paramythi
Bridging Multiculturalism with World Literature
Anna Dimitriou
This book explores Greek Australian literature through its paramythic tropes and focuses on reading it as a bridge between multiculturalism and world literature.
Hardback
9781839991714
June 2024
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00This book explores Greek Australian literature through its paramythic tropes and focuses on reading it as a bridge between multiculturalism and world literature.
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Translation Theory for Literary Translators
B.J. Woodstein
This book analyses how practicing literary translators can benefit from translation theory.
Paperback
9781839992070
June 2024
Forthcoming
£24.95 / $24.95This book analyses how practicing literary translators can benefit from translation theory.
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Black Configurations
The Ethos of “Tradition” from Sterling Brown to Toni Morrison, Volume I
Kimberly W. Benston
Black Configurations is the first 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
9781785278679
May 2024
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00Black Configurations is the first 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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Archipelagothic: Studies in the Philippine Gothic
Edited by Jeremy C. De Chavez
Archipelagothic: Studies in the Philippine Gothic is an edited collection that brings together essays that examine the place of the gothic in Philippine culture. This groundbreaking volume, the first book on the topic, is appropriately comprehensive, covering a range of genres, historical periods, regions, and languages.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785279300
May 2024
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00Archipelagothic: Studies in the Philippine Gothic is an edited collection that brings together essays that examine the place of the gothic in Philippine culture. This groundbreaking volume, the first book on the topic, is appropriately comprehensive, covering a range of genres, historical periods, regions, and languages.
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Screen Performance and the Shakespeare Film Canon in the Spotlight of Archivision
Anthony R. Guneratne
Revolutions in post-digital archival practice and other forms of historical research necessitate an increasingly sophisticated interdisciplinary approach to Shakespeare studies, with Shakespeare-based films serving as an ideal model for the ongoing transformations of many disciplinary fields.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839982699
May 2024
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00Revolutions in post-digital archival practice and other forms of historical research necessitate an increasingly sophisticated interdisciplinary approach to Shakespeare studies, with Shakespeare-based films serving as an ideal model for the ongoing transformations of many disciplinary fields.
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On Reading the History of Philosophy
Daniel Whistler
An exploration of the value of the history of philosophy as a reading practice—that is, as a practice through which words from a philosophical past can give rise to wonder, can alienate, can lead to transformational breakthroughs or can animate a will to create anew.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839988837
May 2024
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00An exploration of the value of the history of philosophy as a reading practice—that is, as a practice through which words from a philosophical past can give rise to wonder, can alienate, can lead to transformational breakthroughs or can animate a will to create anew.
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Picturing Shakespeare
Jean-Louis CLARET
This study investigates the capacity of Shakespeare’s texts – obviously destined for stage performances – to generate mental images and mental colours. Jean-Louis Claret, both a Shakespeare professor at Aix-Marseille University and an illustrator, proposes to shed light on the process that leads from the written text to visual illustration.
Anthem Press
Paperback
9781839990601
May 2024
Forthcoming
£35.00 / $35.00This study investigates the capacity of Shakespeare’s texts – obviously destined for stage performances – to generate mental images and mental colours. Jean-Louis Claret, both a Shakespeare professor at Aix-Marseille University and an illustrator, proposes to shed light on the process that leads from the written text to visual illustration.
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Antiquity and Loyalist Dissent in Revolutionary America, 1765–1776
Daniel R. Moy
The book explores how the loyalist rebuttal to the American patriot movement derived much of its inspiration and rationale from the ancient literature of the Greco-Roman world—the same repository of classical ideas and principles the patriots coopted to persuade their fellow countrymen to disavow the English crown and pursue independence.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785274039
May 2024
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00The book explores how the loyalist rebuttal to the American patriot movement derived much of its inspiration and rationale from the ancient literature of the Greco-Roman world—the same repository of classical ideas and principles the patriots coopted to persuade their fellow countrymen to disavow the English crown and pursue independence.
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Normativity, Meaning and Philosophy: Essays on Wittgenstein
Hans-Johann Glock
This is a collection of essays on Wittgenstein originally published between 1996 and 2019, with a new introduction. The essays defend and develop a central Wittgensteinian idea: ‘grammatical rules’ for the use of expressions hold the key to understanding linguistic meaning, as well as its connections to necessary propositions, conceptual thought, and the nature of philosophy.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839983467
April 2024
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00This is a collection of essays on Wittgenstein originally published between 1996 and 2019, with a new introduction. The essays defend and develop a central Wittgensteinian idea: ‘grammatical rules’ for the use of expressions hold the key to understanding linguistic meaning, as well as its connections to necessary propositions, conceptual thought, and the nature of philosophy.
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A Beginner’s Guide to the Later Philosophy of Wittgenstein
Seventeen Lectures and Dialogues on the Philosophical Investigations
Peter Hacker
In this Beginner’s Guide, Peter Hacker introduces the later philosophy of Wittgenstein in a lively and engaging combination of lectures and dialogues that presupposes no philosophical knowledge. He examines such topics as the nature of language and linguistic meaning, the analysis of necessity and its roots in convention, the relation of thought and language, the nature of the mind and its relation to behaviour, self-consciousness, and knowledge of other minds. This unique form of introduction will capture the interest of all readers with an enquiring mind.
Hardback
9781839991134
April 2024
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£110.00 / $110.00In this Beginner’s Guide, Peter Hacker introduces the later philosophy of Wittgenstein in a lively and engaging combination of lectures and dialogues that presupposes no philosophical knowledge. He examines such topics as the nature of language and linguistic meaning, the analysis of necessity and its roots in convention, the relation of thought and language, the nature of the mind and its relation to behaviour, self-consciousness, and knowledge of other minds. This unique form of introduction will capture the interest of all readers with an enquiring mind.
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Language, Mind, and Value
Essays on Wittgenstein
Severin Schroeder
This book is a collection of 15 essays on important themes in Wittgenstein’s philosophy, such as linguistic normativity, the concepts of understanding, reasons, and knowledge, questions of value in aesthetics, ethics, and religion.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839990229
March 2024
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£110.00 / $110.00This book is a collection of 15 essays on important themes in Wittgenstein’s philosophy, such as linguistic normativity, the concepts of understanding, reasons, and knowledge, questions of value in aesthetics, ethics, and religion.
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Samuel Richardson as Anonymous Editor and Printer
Recycling Texts for the Book Market
John A. Dussinger
This study offers a comprehensive account of Samuel Richardson’s numerous editorial interventions in producing books and pamphlets from his press.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785273537
March 2024
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£110.00 / $110.00This study offers a comprehensive account of Samuel Richardson’s numerous editorial interventions in producing books and pamphlets from his press.
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The Crossroads of Crime Writing
Unseen Structures and Uncertain Spaces
Edited by Meghan P. Nolan, Rebecca Martin
This volume argues that we must examine the boundaries in fiction and non-fiction crime writing with an awareness of and turn toward the unseen structures and spatial uncertainties that so often lead to and reflect collective fears and anxieties. The chapters within utilize theories of cultural memory and/or deep mapping to facilitate this process.
Hardback
9781839991172
March 2024
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£110.00 / $110.00This volume argues that we must examine the boundaries in fiction and non-fiction crime writing with an awareness of and turn toward the unseen structures and spatial uncertainties that so often lead to and reflect collective fears and anxieties. The chapters within utilize theories of cultural memory and/or deep mapping to facilitate this process.
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California Gothic: The Dark Side of the Dream
Charles L. Crow
California has always represented new beginnings and opportunities in a golden land. In constructing the California Dream, much has been omitted or repressed. This study explores the dark side of the dream, as revealed in the state’s rich tradition of Gothic literature and film.
Anthem Press
Paperback
9781839983795
January 2024
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£24.95 / $24.95California has always represented new beginnings and opportunities in a golden land. In constructing the California Dream, much has been omitted or repressed. This study explores the dark side of the dream, as revealed in the state’s rich tradition of Gothic literature and film.
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Law and Humanities
Edited by Russell Sandberg, Daniel Newman
This edited collection provides the first accessible introduction to Law and Humanities. Each chapter explores the nature, development and possible further trajectory of a disciplinary ‘law and’ field.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839990366
January 2024
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£195.00 / $195.00This edited collection provides the first accessible introduction to Law and Humanities. Each chapter explores the nature, development and possible further trajectory of a disciplinary ‘law and’ field.
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A Critical Edition of Caroline Norton’s Love in “The World”
Edited by Ross Nelson, Marie Mulvey-Roberts
A late-1820s unpublished fashionable novel describing the romantic adventures of teenage Alixe St Clair during her first two seasons in London Regency society.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839987281
October 2023
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£110.00 / $110.00A late-1820s unpublished fashionable novel describing the romantic adventures of teenage Alixe St Clair during her first two seasons in London Regency society.
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Satire, Comedy and Tragedy
Sterne’s “Handles” to Tristram Shandy
Richard C. Raymond
This book provides a closereading of the satiric, comic, and tragic plot structures of TristramShandy and then traces the themes that inform Laurence Sterne’s greatest novel to his letters, sermons, and other writings. The book also argues for a writing-to-learn approach to teaching Sterne’s recurring themes.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839988639
October 2023
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£110.00 / $110.00This book provides a closereading of the satiric, comic, and tragic plot structures of TristramShandy and then traces the themes that inform Laurence Sterne’s greatest novel to his letters, sermons, and other writings. The book also argues for a writing-to-learn approach to teaching Sterne’s recurring themes.
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Scenes of Bohemian Life
Henry Murger
translated by Robert HoltonThis book is a new translation of Henry Murger’s influential Scènes de la vie de bohème, first published in French in 1851.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839988806
October 2023
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£110.00 / $110.00This book is a new translation of Henry Murger’s influential Scènes de la vie de bohème, first published in French in 1851.
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Fashioning the Dandy
Style and Manners
Olga Vainshtein
translated by Sofia Horujaya-CookThe book offers a unique view on dandyism as a cultural tradition, based not merely on fashionable attire, but also as a particular lifestyle with specific standards of behaviour, bodily practices and conceptual approaches to dress.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839984440
September 2023
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£110.00 / $110.00The book offers a unique view on dandyism as a cultural tradition, based not merely on fashionable attire, but also as a particular lifestyle with specific standards of behaviour, bodily practices and conceptual approaches to dress.
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The Cædmon Manuscript
The Beginnings of English Religious Poetry, I
Bernard J. Muir
The Cædmon Manuscript is one of three extant anthologies of English Christian poetry produced in England before 1000 CE.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839989742
September 2023
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£195.00 / $195.00The Cædmon Manuscript is one of three extant anthologies of English Christian poetry produced in England before 1000 CE.
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Captain Philip Beaver’s African Journal
Edited by Carol Bolton, Christopher Brown
Captain Philip Beaver’s journal, originally published in 1805, recounts his attempt to establish a colony in West Africa with British settlers to demonstrate that cooperation between Africans and Europeans could supply the tropical produce provided by West Indian plantations, so proving the unhumanitarian transatlantic slave trade to be unnecessary.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839983405
September 2023
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£165.00 / $165.00Captain Philip Beaver’s journal, originally published in 1805, recounts his attempt to establish a colony in West Africa with British settlers to demonstrate that cooperation between Africans and Europeans could supply the tropical produce provided by West Indian plantations, so proving the unhumanitarian transatlantic slave trade to be unnecessary.
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Śambūka and the Rāmāyaṇa Tradition
A History of Motifs and Motives in South Asia
Aaron Sherraden
This book details the developmental history of narratives that affirm, condemn, modify, or ignore the controversial execution of Śambūka, a minor Rāmāyaṇa character of low social standing. Changing socio-political sentiments throughout Indian history have forced numerous revisions to the Śambūka story, placing it in an underappreciated position of influence.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839984693
August 2023
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£110.00 / $110.00This book details the developmental history of narratives that affirm, condemn, modify, or ignore the controversial execution of Śambūka, a minor Rāmāyaṇa character of low social standing. Changing socio-political sentiments throughout Indian history have forced numerous revisions to the Śambūka story, placing it in an underappreciated position of influence.
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Theology in the Early British and Irish Gothic, 1764–1834
Sam Hirst
Theology in the Early British and Irish Gothic, 1764–1832 reassesses the relationship between contemporary theology and the Gothic. Investigating Gothic aesthetics, depictions of the supernatural and portrayals of religious organisations, it explores how the Gothic engages with contemporary theologies, both Dissenting and Anglican.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839981531
July 2023
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£110.00 / $110.00Theology in the Early British and Irish Gothic, 1764–1832 reassesses the relationship between contemporary theology and the Gothic. Investigating Gothic aesthetics, depictions of the supernatural and portrayals of religious organisations, it explores how the Gothic engages with contemporary theologies, both Dissenting and Anglican.
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Quantitative Literary Analysis of the Works of Aphra Behn
Words of Passion
Laura L. Runge
This book explores the works of Aphra Behn (1640–1689) synchronically through word counts and statistical measures. It analyzes, by genre, poetry, drama, and prose, examining the quantification of Behn’s literary style. The conclusion applies thematic questions to the full corpus for an innovative and comprehensive assessment of Behn’s writing.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839982002
May 2023
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£110.00 / $110.00This book explores the works of Aphra Behn (1640–1689) synchronically through word counts and statistical measures. It analyzes, by genre, poetry, drama, and prose, examining the quantification of Behn’s literary style. The conclusion applies thematic questions to the full corpus for an innovative and comprehensive assessment of Behn’s writing.