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 Constitution
Major Cases and Conflicts, 4th Edition
Gloria J. Browne-Marshall
The Constitution: Major Cases and Conflicts provides students with a road map through the evolution of the Supreme Court and its decisions involving criminal justice, civil liberties, social justice and federalism, and the balance of powers between the three branches of government placed in a historical context with thoughtful questions for discussion.
Anthem Press
Paperback
9781785274886
September 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00The Constitution: Major Cases and Conflicts provides students with a road map through the evolution of the Supreme Court and its decisions involving criminal justice, civil liberties, social justice and federalism, and the balance of powers between the three branches of government placed in a historical context with thoughtful questions for discussion.
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The Cultural Construction of Monstrous Children
Essays on Anomalous Children From 1595 to the Present Day
Edited by Simon Bacon, Leo Ruickbie
This innovative and interdisciplinary collection of essays considers examples of monstrous children since the 16th century to the present, spanning real-life and popular culture, to exhibit the manifestation of the Western cultural anxiety around the problematic, anomalous child as naughty, dangerous, or just plain evil.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785275203
September 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00This innovative and interdisciplinary collection of essays considers examples of monstrous children since the 16th century to the present, spanning real-life and popular culture, to exhibit the manifestation of the Western cultural anxiety around the problematic, anomalous child as naughty, dangerous, or just plain evil.
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The Digital World of Sport
The Impact of Emerging Media on Sports News, Information and Journalism
Sam Duncan
The book analyses how new media, and in particular, digital and social media, has changed the world of sports forever, from its pivotal role in the evolution of the sports industry and its trailblazing impact on the broader media industry.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785275050
September 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00The book analyses how new media, and in particular, digital and social media, has changed the world of sports forever, from its pivotal role in the evolution of the sports industry and its trailblazing impact on the broader media industry.
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Bridging Boundaries in British Migration History
In Memoriam Eric Richards
Edited by Marie Ruiz
This memorial book honours the legacy of Eric Richards’s work in an interplay of academic essays and personal accounts of Eric Richards. Following the Eric Richards methodology, it combines micro- and macro-perspectives of British migration history and covers topics such as diasporas, religious, labour and wartime migrations.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785275173
September 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00This memorial book honours the legacy of Eric Richards’s work in an interplay of academic essays and personal accounts of Eric Richards. Following the Eric Richards methodology, it combines micro- and macro-perspectives of British migration history and covers topics such as diasporas, religious, labour and wartime migrations.
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Selected Poems of Bernard Barton, the ‘Quaker Poet’
Christopher Stokes
The first ever modern edition of Bernard Barton’s selected verse, recovering an important figure from the Romantic era. A diverse variety of his unusual and striking poetry is supplemented by letters, reviews and other contextual material, as well as a scholarly introduction and notes.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785274404
September 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00The first ever modern edition of Bernard Barton’s selected verse, recovering an important figure from the Romantic era. A diverse variety of his unusual and striking poetry is supplemented by letters, reviews and other contextual material, as well as a scholarly introduction and notes.
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Charles de Foucauld’s Reconnaissance au Maroc, 1883–1884
A Critical Edition in English
Rosemary A. Peters-Hill
Reconnaissance au Maroc is Charles de Foucauld’s adventurous memoir of exploring Morocco. For eleven months in 1883–84, Foucauld travelled incognito through a country then off-limits to Europeans, mapping its waterways. This book is a translation of Foucauld’s memoir into English, with an extensive introduction and notes that contextualize the work within Francophone post-colonial studies.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785274091
September 2020
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£195.00 / $195.00Reconnaissance au Maroc is Charles de Foucauld’s adventurous memoir of exploring Morocco. For eleven months in 1883–84, Foucauld travelled incognito through a country then off-limits to Europeans, mapping its waterways. This book is a translation of Foucauld’s memoir into English, with an extensive introduction and notes that contextualize the work within Francophone post-colonial studies.
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Nineteenth-Century Southern Gothic Short Fiction
Haunted by the Dark
Edited by Charles L. Crow, Susan Castillo Street
Twelve uncanny tales of the race-haunted nineteenth-century South, by authors both celebrated and obscure, are presented along with background readings, themselves often chilling, placing the tales in a historical context.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785273872
August 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00Twelve uncanny tales of the race-haunted nineteenth-century South, by authors both celebrated and obscure, are presented along with background readings, themselves often chilling, placing the tales in a historical context.
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Mediating Multiculturalism
Digital Storytelling and the Everyday Ethnic
Daniella Trimboli
foreword by Sandra PonzanesiThis book addresses a historical problem—multiculturalism—using contemporary phenomena: digital storytelling. ‘Mediating Multiculturalism’ offers an innovative model for reconceptualising cultural difference in a highly mobile and contradictory global moment.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785273902
August 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00This book addresses a historical problem—multiculturalism—using contemporary phenomena: digital storytelling. ‘Mediating Multiculturalism’ offers an innovative model for reconceptualising cultural difference in a highly mobile and contradictory global moment.
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Rabindranath Tagore’s Drama in the Perspective of Indian Theatre
Edited by Mala Renganathan, Arnab Bhattacharya
‘Rabindranath Tagore's Drama in the Perspective of Indian Theatre’ examines Tagore’s plays from the viewpoint of Indian dramatic/performance traditions, locating him as a playwright, performer and director in the panoramic continuum of Indian dramatic/performance traditions.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785273940
August 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00‘Rabindranath Tagore’s Drama in the Perspective of Indian Theatre’ examines Tagore’s plays from the viewpoint of Indian dramatic/performance traditions, locating him as a playwright, performer and director in the panoramic continuum of Indian dramatic/performance traditions.
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Russia Washed in Blood
A Novel in Fragments
Artyom Vesyoly
translated by Kevin Windle
introduction by Elena Govor, Kevin WindleThis book is the first English translation of a vivid fictionalised account of the Russian Civil War of 1918–1921 by a gifted writer, Artyom Vesyoly, who made it his mission to record the full horror of the events of that period. For his failure to recognise the ‘leading organisational role’ of the Communist Party, he was executed in Stalin’s Great Purge.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785274848
August 2020
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£200.00 / $200.00This book is the first English translation of a vivid fictionalised account of the Russian Civil War of 1918–1921 by a gifted writer, Artyom Vesyoly, who made it his mission to record the full horror of the events of that period. For his failure to recognise the ‘leading organisational role’ of the Communist Party, he was executed in Stalin’s Great Purge.
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Wittgenstein and the Social Sciences
Action, Ideology and Justice
Robert Vinten
Vinten looks at the relationship between Wittgenstein’s philosophy and the social sciences as well as at the ideological implications of Wittgenstein’s philosophy and applications of Wittgenstein’s philosophy to problems in social science. He examines and assesses the work of thinkers like Richard Rorty, Perry Anderson, and Chantal Mouffe.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785273117
July 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00Vinten looks at the relationship between Wittgenstein’s philosophy and the social sciences as well as at the ideological implications of Wittgenstein’s philosophy and applications of Wittgenstein’s philosophy to problems in social science. He examines and assesses the work of thinkers like Richard Rorty, Perry Anderson, and Chantal Mouffe.
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Reading Fiona Sampson
A Study in Contemporary Poetry and Poetics
Omar Sabbagh
Integrating analysis and a honed interpretation of the near-total gamut of the oeuvre to-date of Professor Fiona Sampson, the book synthesizes its rigorous discussions of the poetry, prose in different genres, and literary practices of Professor Sampson over a decades-long and much-lauded literary career to date. Including biographical insights, the book goes on to show how the oeuvre of a major contemporary poet and writer evinces a vital literary intelligence and a vision of literary practice on and for the contemporary literary scene.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785274183
July 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00Integrating analysis and a honed interpretation of the near-total gamut of the oeuvre to-date of Professor Fiona Sampson, the book synthesizes its rigorous discussions of the poetry, prose in different genres, and literary practices of Professor Sampson over a decades-long and much-lauded literary career to date. Including biographical insights, the book goes on to show how the oeuvre of a major contemporary poet and writer evinces a vital literary intelligence and a vision of literary practice on and for the contemporary literary scene.
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Reaganism in Literary Theory
Negative Moralism and Hermeneutic Suspicion
Jeremiah Bowen
Largely erased from disciplinary memory, Paul de Man’s replacement of canon with literariness as the object of literary studies preserved a discourse of devotion and disqualification homologous with Reaganism. This negative moralism shelters professional privilege and competition from scrutiny, supported by misrecognitions like hermeneutic suspicion, materiality, and identity politics.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785272783
July 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00Largely erased from disciplinary memory, Paul de Man’s replacement of canon with literariness as the object of literary studies preserved a discourse of devotion and disqualification homologous with Reaganism. This negative moralism shelters professional privilege and competition from scrutiny, supported by misrecognitions like hermeneutic suspicion, materiality, and identity politics.
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Late Victorian Orientalism
Representations of the East in Nineteenth-Century Literature, Art and Culture from the Pre-Raphaelites to John La Farge
Edited by Eleonora Sasso
Late Victorian Orientalism is a work of scholarly research pushing forward disciplines into new areas of enquiry. This collection of essays tries to redefine the task of interpreting the East in the nineteenth century taking as a starting point Edward Said’s Orientalism (1978) in order to investigate the visual, fantasised, and imperialist representations of the East as well as the most exemplary translations of Oriental texts.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785273278
June 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00Late Victorian Orientalism is a work of scholarly research pushing forward disciplines into new areas of enquiry. This collection of essays tries to redefine the task of interpreting the East in the nineteenth century taking as a starting point Edward Said’s Orientalism (1978) in order to investigate the visual, fantasised, and imperialist representations of the East as well as the most exemplary translations of Oriental texts.
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Music Scenes and Migrations
Space and Transnationalism in Brazil, Portugal and the Atlantic
Edited by David Treece
‘Music Scenes and Migrations’ brings together new work from Brazilian and European scholars around the themes of musical place and transnationalism across the Atlantic triangle connecting Brazil, Africa and Europe, with particular attention to the role of the city in producing, signifying and mediating music-making in the colonial and post-colonial Portuguese-speaking world.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785273841
June 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00‘Music Scenes and Migrations’ brings together new work from Brazilian and European scholars around the themes of musical place and transnationalism across the Atlantic triangle connecting Brazil, Africa and Europe, with particular attention to the role of the city in producing, signifying and mediating music-making in the colonial and post-colonial Portuguese-speaking world.
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Imaginary Plots and Political Realities in the Plays of William Congreve
Maximillian E. Novak
Imaginary Plots and Political Realities in the Plays of William Congreve is a study of the political and social milieu that informs William Congreve’s writings. The book attempts to read Congreve’s plays and his novella, Incognita, against the political and social upheaval of the period initiated by the rebellion of 1688.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785273728
June 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00Imaginary Plots and Political Realities in the Plays of William Congreve is a study of the political and social milieu that informs William Congreve’s writings. The book attempts to read Congreve’s plays and his novella, Incognita, against the political and social upheaval of the period initiated by the rebellion of 1688.
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Rethinking Therapeutic Reading
Lessons from Seneca, Montaigne, Wordsworth and George Eliot
Kelda Green
foreword by Michael WoodThrough a combination of literary criticism and experimental psychology, ‘Rethinking Therapeutic Reading’ reconsiders the role that serious literary reading might play in the real world, reclaiming literature as a vital tool for dealing with human troubles.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785273810
June 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00Through a combination of literary criticism and experimental psychology, ‘Rethinking Therapeutic Reading’ reconsiders the role that serious literary reading might play in the real world, reclaiming literature as a vital tool for dealing with human troubles.
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Magazines and Modernity in Brazil
Transnationalisms and Cross-Cultural Exchanges
Edited by Felipe Botelho Correa, Monica Pimenta Velloso, Valéria Guimarães
The essays gathered in this book discuss transnational networks as well as cross-cultural exchanges in the context of the modern magazine print culture in Brazil (1820s to 1950s).
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785273971
May 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00The essays gathered in this book discuss transnational networks as well as cross-cultural exchanges in the context of the modern magazine print culture in Brazil (1820s to 1950s).
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The Novels of Frances Hodgson Burnett
In "the World of Actual Literature"
Thomas Recchio
Although she is remembered today mainly as a writer of children’s books, Frances Hodgson Burnett was a widely published novelist. Of high literary quality, her novels covered a range of genres, including industrial novels, American-themed social novels, historical novels, transatlantic novels and post–World War I novels. They were popular subjects in the early years of cinema. “The Novels of Frances Hodgson Burnett” reads Burnett’s novels in the context of the changing literary field in England and the United States in the years between the death of George Eliot in 1880 through to the Great War.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785273636
May 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00Although she is remembered today mainly as a writer of children’s books, Frances Hodgson Burnett was a widely published novelist. Of high literary quality, her novels covered a range of genres, including industrial novels, American-themed social novels, historical novels, transatlantic novels and post–World War I novels. They were popular subjects in the early years of cinema. “The Novels of Frances Hodgson Burnett” reads Burnett’s novels in the context of the changing literary field in England and the United States in the years between the death of George Eliot in 1880 through to the Great War.
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Antonio Pietrangeli, The Director of Women
Feminism and Film Theory in Postwar Italian Cinema
Emma Katherine Van Ness
This book re-examines the films of Antonio Pietrangeli, one of the founding fathers of neorealism in the postwar period in Italy, from a feminist perspective. Of the ten full-length films completed by Antonio Pietrangeli, eight featured a female protagonist. This attention to the female subject is noteworthy today, much less in the 1950s and 1960s.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785273179
April 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00This book re-examines the films of Antonio Pietrangeli, one of the founding fathers of neorealism in the postwar period in Italy, from a feminist perspective. Of the ten full-length films completed by Antonio Pietrangeli, eight featured a female protagonist. This attention to the female subject is noteworthy today, much less in the 1950s and 1960s.
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Four Augustan Science Poets: Abraham Cowley, James Thomson, Henry Brooke, Erasmus Darwin
Richard Hillyer
“Four Augustan Science Poets: Abraham Cowley, James Thomson, Henry Brooke, Erasmus Darwin” is a concise study focusing on four poets who because of their distinctive profiles illustrate especially well the opportunities and pitfalls of writing science poetry during the long eighteenth century.
Anthem Press
Paperback
9781785272912
April 2020
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£59.95 / $59.95“Four Augustan Science Poets: Abraham Cowley, James Thomson, Henry Brooke, Erasmus Darwin” is a concise study focusing on four poets who because of their distinctive profiles illustrate especially well the opportunities and pitfalls of writing science poetry during the long eighteenth century.
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Improvisations of Empire
Thomas Pringle in Scotland, the Cape Colony and London, 1789–1834
Matthew Shum
‘Improvisations of Empire’ examines the varied career of Thomas Pringle, a Scottish poet and journalist. It engages his formative Scottish years, his stay in South Africa and his subsequent residence in London where he became the secretary of the Anti-Slavery Society and a well-known editor.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785273780
April 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00‘Improvisations of Empire’ examines the varied career of Thomas Pringle, a Scottish poet and journalist. It engages his formative Scottish years, his stay in South Africa and his subsequent residence in London where he became the secretary of the Anti-Slavery Society and a well-known editor.
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Kinematic Rhetoric
Non-Discursive, Time-Affect Images in Motion
Joddy Murray
“Kinematic Rhetoric” seeks to formulate a theory of rhetoric in the age of dynamic texts—texts that employ movement, sound and duration as part of their expression. As a fully interactive ePub, Murray articulates these ideas using embedded video, animation and sound to demonstrate his theory.
Anthem Press
E-Book (PDF)
9781785273339
April 2020
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£ / $“Kinematic Rhetoric” seeks to formulate a theory of rhetoric in the age of dynamic texts—texts that employ movement, sound and duration as part of their expression. As a fully interactive ePub, Murray articulates these ideas using embedded video, animation and sound to demonstrate his theory.
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Neo-Gothic Narratives
Illusory Allusions from the Past
Edited by Sarah E. Maier, Brenda Ayres
‘Neo-Gothic Narratives’ defines and theorises what mobilises the employment of the Gothic to speak to our own times.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785272172
March 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00‘Neo-Gothic Narratives’ defines and theorises what mobilises the employment of the Gothic to speak to our own times.