Humanities, Literature and Arts
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 Whole Durn Human Comedy: Life According to the Coen Brothers
Joseph McBride
A groundbreaking, incisive critical study of the Coen Bros., the quirky team of filmmaking brothers who delight in unsettling cinematic conventions and confounding audiences while raising disturbing questions about human nature.
Anthem Press
Paperback
9781839983313
March 2022
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£16.95 / $16.95A groundbreaking, incisive critical study of the Coen Bros., the quirky team of filmmaking brothers who delight in unsettling cinematic conventions and confounding audiences while raising disturbing questions about human nature.
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Truth and Storytelling
Scripting the Visual Narrative
Emily Edwards
The book offers a guide for writers to better understand and confront the truths they want to reveal through narrative stories and how to find legitimacy in the fictional characters and situations they create.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785273070
March 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00The book offers a guide for writers to better understand and confront the truths they want to reveal through narrative stories and how to find legitimacy in the fictional characters and situations they create.
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The Dancing Body in Renaissance Choreography
Kinetic Theatricality and Social Interaction
Mark Franko
The Dancing Body in Renaissance Choreography is a study of the theory of kinetic theatricality in the western European context. The dancing body of courtly social dance is analyzed in French and Italian dance treatises of the Renaissance through the intertexts of oratorical action, pedagogical discourses of civility and conceptions of value emanating from descriptions of social interaction in courtesy books.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785278013
March 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00The Dancing Body in Renaissance Choreography is a study of the theory of kinetic theatricality in the western European context. The dancing body of courtly social dance is analyzed in French and Italian dance treatises of the Renaissance through the intertexts of oratorical action, pedagogical discourses of civility and conceptions of value emanating from descriptions of social interaction in courtesy books.
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May Alcott Nieriker, Author and Advocate
Travel Writing and Transformation in the Late Nineteenth Century
Julia Dabbs
May Alcott Nieriker, Author and Advocate examines in-depth the travel writings by the youngest sister of famed novelist Louisa May Alcott. Her critical commentary on social and cultural concerns of the nineteenth century, such as gender and class discrimination, still resonate today.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785278648
March 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00May Alcott Nieriker, Author and Advocate examines in-depth the travel writings by the youngest sister of famed novelist Louisa May Alcott. Her critical commentary on social and cultural concerns of the nineteenth century, such as gender and class discrimination, still resonate today.
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War and Peace in the Worlds of Rudolf H. Sauter
A Cultural History of a Creative Life
Jeffrey S. Reznick
War and Peace in the Worlds of Rudolf H. Sauter is the first book to examine the creative life and worlds of Rudolf H. Sauter (1895–1977), the German-born artist, poet, cultural observer and nephew of the famed novelist John Galsworthy. It reveals him as a creative figure in his own right who produced an intriguing body of artistic and literary work.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839980152
March 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00War and Peace in the Worlds of Rudolf H. Sauter is the first book to examine the creative life and worlds of Rudolf H. Sauter (1895–1977), the German-born artist, poet, cultural observer and nephew of the famed novelist John Galsworthy. It reveals him as a creative figure in his own right who produced an intriguing body of artistic and literary work.
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Logos and Life
Essays on Mind, Action, Language and Ethics
Roger Teichmann
The essays in Logos and Life cover topics in philosophy of mind, philosophy of action, ethics and philosophy of language. Several take as their starting points the ideas of Wittgenstein and of Elizabeth Anscombe. They will be of interest to anyone studying these philosophers.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839980930
March 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00The essays in Logos and Life cover topics in philosophy of mind, philosophy of action, ethics and philosophy of language. Several take as their starting points the ideas of Wittgenstein and of Elizabeth Anscombe. They will be of interest to anyone studying these philosophers.
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Sounding Prose
Music in the 17th-Century Dutch Novel
Natascha Veldhorst
This book is about the presence of music in novels. More specifically, about music in the early modern novel, with an emphasis on seventeenth-century prose from The Netherlands. The essay provides a concise and an accessible introduction into the subject and presents an overview of this compelling new research area.
Anthem Press
Paperback
9781839983009
March 2022
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£24.95 / $24.95This book is about the presence of music in novels. More specifically, about music in the early modern novel, with an emphasis on seventeenth-century prose from The Netherlands. The essay provides a concise and an accessible introduction into the subject and presents an overview of this compelling new research area.
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The Cold War in the 1950s
Nicolas Lewkowicz
The book describes the domestic and external conditions that shaped the interaction between the United States and the Soviet Union during the 1950s.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839985539
February 2022
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£110.00 / $110.00The book describes the domestic and external conditions that shaped the interaction between the United States and the Soviet Union during the 1950s.
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Epic Ambitions in Modern Times
From Paradise Lost to the New Millennium
Robert Crossley
Epic Ambitions in Modern Times examines how artists, in various forms and media, have reinvented the epic in the past three centuries.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839985485
February 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00Epic Ambitions in Modern Times examines how artists, in various forms and media, have reinvented the epic in the past three centuries.
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Creativity and “the Paris Review” Interviews
A Discourse Analysis of Famous Writers' Composing Practices
Ronda Leathers Dively
In Creativity and The Paris Review Interviews: A Discourse Analysis of Famous Writers' Composing Practices, author Ronda Leathers Dively explores contexts, behaviors, and composing practices that generated some of the world’s most significant literary works. Her analysis ultimately leads to concrete recommendations for aspiring writers and for composition instructors seeking to facilitate student success.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785278433
February 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00In Creativity and The Paris Review Interviews: A Discourse Analysis of Famous Writers’ Composing Practices, author Ronda Leathers Dively explores contexts, behaviors, and composing practices that generated some of the world’s most significant literary works. Her analysis ultimately leads to concrete recommendations for aspiring writers and for composition instructors seeking to facilitate student success.
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Wittgenstein and Modernist Fiction
The Language of Acknowledgment
Greg Chase
Wittgenstein and Modernist Fiction: The Language of Acknowledgment shows how works of twentieth-century literature and philosophy together examine language’s capacity to acknowledge the inner lives of marginalized figures.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839980633
February 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00Wittgenstein and Modernist Fiction: The Language of Acknowledgment shows how works of twentieth-century literature and philosophy together examine language’s capacity to acknowledge the inner lives of marginalized figures.
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The Portrayal of Breastfeeding in Literature
B.J. Woodstein
Analyses the depiction of breastfeeding in literature, what it tells us about how women are perceived in our society and how it matters.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785274008
February 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00Analyses the depiction of breastfeeding in literature, what it tells us about how women are perceived in our society and how it matters.
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The Puritan Ideology of Mobility
Corporatism, the Politics of Place and the Founding of New England Towns before 1650
Scott McDermott
The Puritan Ideology of Mobility: Corporatism, the Politics of Place, and the Founding of New England Towns before 1650 presents the ideology of mobility which Puritan leaders developed to justify migration and town founding. New England towns were born as living “bodies politic” with a metaphysical basis in keeping with Christian corporatist theory.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785274725
February 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00The Puritan Ideology of Mobility: Corporatism, the Politics of Place, and the Founding of New England Towns before 1650 presents the ideology of mobility which Puritan leaders developed to justify migration and town founding. New England towns were born as living “bodies politic” with a metaphysical basis in keeping with Christian corporatist theory.
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The Reading Figure in Irish Art in the Long Nineteenth Century
Tricia Cusack
This book examines Irish portraits during the long nineteenth century in which figures read or hold a book. Reading fiction was cast as unmanly, while ‘silent reading’ allowed women of means to read widely and privately. Portraits of such women helped construct the idea of the ‘New Woman’ in Ireland.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785276446
February 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00This book examines Irish portraits during the long nineteenth century in which figures read or hold a book. Reading fiction was cast as unmanly, while ‘silent reading’ allowed women of means to read widely and privately. Portraits of such women helped construct the idea of the ‘New Woman’ in Ireland.
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The Gothic Literature and History of New England
Secrets of the Restless Dead
Faye Ringel
The Gothic Literature and History of New England surveys the origin, nature and future of the Gothic mode in New England’s history and literature, from the Puritans to the present, showing how the legacy of religious intolerance, racism and misogyny haunts fiction, film and popular culture.
Anthem Press
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9781785279034
February 2022
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£24.95 / $24.95The Gothic Literature and History of New England surveys the origin, nature and future of the Gothic mode in New England’s history and literature, from the Puritans to the present, showing how the legacy of religious intolerance, racism and misogyny haunts fiction, film and popular culture.
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Prometheus and Gaia
Technology, Ecology and Anti-Humanism
Harrison Fluss, Landon Frim
Prometheus and Gaia explores two currents in contemporary politics: a Futurism which sees boundless technology as a salvific force and an Eco-Pessimism which sees human innovation as inherently destructive. While apparent opposites, these two currents share in common a rejection of Enlightenment humanism, or the idea that politics should fit the human frame.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839980183
February 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00Prometheus and Gaia explores two currents in contemporary politics: a Futurism which sees boundless technology as a salvific force and an Eco-Pessimism which sees human innovation as inherently destructive. While apparent opposites, these two currents share in common a rejection of Enlightenment humanism, or the idea that politics should fit the human frame.
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Muhammad Ali in Africana Cultural Memory
Edited by James L. Conyers, Jr., Christel N. Temple
Muhammad Ali in Africana Cultural Memory is a comprehensive study of Ali’s identity and superlative impact framed in terms of the discipline’s subfield of Africana cultural memory studies. This critical approach challenges us to itemize Ali’s influential legacy with precise conceptual value wherein his mythological structure is illuminated as an inheritance.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785277191
January 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00Muhammad Ali in Africana Cultural Memory is a comprehensive study of Ali’s identity and superlative impact framed in terms of the discipline’s subfield of Africana cultural memory studies. This critical approach challenges us to itemize Ali’s influential legacy with precise conceptual value wherein his mythological structure is illuminated as an inheritance.
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Eight Years on Sakhalin
A Political Prisoner’s Memoir
Ivan P. Iuvachev
translated with commentary by Andrew A. GentesThis memoir by Ivan P. Iuvachëv, a cofounder of the People’s Will, details his time as a political exile in the Sakhalin penal colony from 1887 to 1895. Iuvachëv experienced one of the penal colony’s most tumultuous periods. His vivid descriptions make this both a work of literature and a valuable historical document.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785278228
January 2022
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£140.00 / $140.00This memoir by Ivan P. Iuvachëv, a cofounder of the People’s Will, details his time as a political exile in the Sakhalin penal colony from 1887 to 1895. Iuvachëv experienced one of the penal colony’s most tumultuous periods. His vivid descriptions make this both a work of literature and a valuable historical document.
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Self-Presentation and Representative Politics
Essays in Context, 1960-2020
Derek Robbins
The book presents six articles written at intervals of about a decade between 1960 and 2020, all of which relate to the problem of representative politics. The articles are contextualised historically to document a developing presentation of self on the part of the author while also raising questions about the changing nature of political representation.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785279003
January 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00The book presents six articles written at intervals of about a decade between 1960 and 2020, all of which relate to the problem of representative politics. The articles are contextualised historically to document a developing presentation of self on the part of the author while also raising questions about the changing nature of political representation.
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Gothic Kernow: Cornwall as Strange Fiction
Ruth Heholt, Tanya Krzywinska
Focussing on written and visual culture that is made in or made about Cornwall, this book argues that Cornwall and the Scilly Isles (known as ‘Kernow’ in the Cornish language) have a special relationship with Gothic, one that has been overlooked in the literature on regional Gothic.
Anthem Press
Paperback
9781785279065
January 2022
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£24.95 / $24.95Focussing on written and visual culture that is made in or made about Cornwall, this book argues that Cornwall and the Scilly Isles (known as ‘Kernow’ in the Cornish language) have a special relationship with Gothic, one that has been overlooked in the literature on regional Gothic.
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On the Fall of the Roman Republic
Lessons for the American People
Thomas E. Strunk
On the Republic juxtaposes the fall of the Roman Republic with the contemporary political landscape of the United States: a republic in disarray, violence and corruption thwarting the will of the people, military misadventures abroad, and rampant economic inequality diminishing a shared sense of the common good.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839980541
January 2022
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£90.00 / $90.00On the Republic juxtaposes the fall of the Roman Republic with the contemporary political landscape of the United States: a republic in disarray, violence and corruption thwarting the will of the people, military misadventures abroad, and rampant economic inequality diminishing a shared sense of the common good.
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Wittgenstein, Scepticism and Naturalism
Essays on the Later Philosophy
Marie McGinn
The essays in Wittgenstein, Scepticism and Naturalism cover the later Wittgenstein’s thought on scepticism about the external world; scepticism about other minds; knowledge and belief; meaning and rule-following; and the nature of psychological concepts. Focusing on topics in the later philosophy, the essays provide a distinctive understanding of the nature of philosophical development of Wittgenstein’s thought from the early to the later work.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785278372
December 2021
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£125.00 / $125.00The essays in Wittgenstein, Scepticism and Naturalism cover the later Wittgenstein’s thought on scepticism about the external world; scepticism about other minds; knowledge and belief; meaning and rule-following; and the nature of psychological concepts. Focusing on topics in the later philosophy, the essays provide a distinctive understanding of the nature of philosophical development of Wittgenstein’s thought from the early to the later work.
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Self-Presentation and Self-Praise in the Digital Workplace
Anna Danielewicz-Betz
Self-Presentation and Self-Praise in the Digital Workplace presents the findings of an interdisciplinary study of the ‘self-entrepreneurial self’ and, in particular, the rationale behind its need to self-present under the current socio-economic and business conditions.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785278198
December 2021
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£125.00 / $125.00Self-Presentation and Self-Praise in the Digital Workplace presents the findings of an interdisciplinary study of the ‘self-entrepreneurial self’ and, in particular, the rationale behind its need to self-present under the current socio-economic and business conditions.
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William Blake as Natural Philosopher, 1788-1795
Joseph Fletcher
William Blake as Natural Philosopher, 1788-1795 takes seriously William Blake’s wish to be read as a natural philosopher, particularly in his early illuminated works, and reveals the way that poetry and visual art were for Blake an imaginative way of philosophizing.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785279515
December 2021
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£125.00 / $125.00William Blake as Natural Philosopher, 1788-1795 takes seriously William Blake’s wish to be read as a natural philosopher, particularly in his early illuminated works, and reveals the way that poetry and visual art were for Blake an imaginative way of philosophizing.