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 Selling and Self-Regulation of Contemporary Poetry
J.T. Welsch
The Selling and Self-Regulation of Contemporary Poetry is the first book-length study of the contemporary poetry industry. By documenting radical changes over the past decade in the way poems are published, marketed, and circulated, it connects the seemingly small world of poetry with the other, wider creative industries.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785273353
March 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00The Selling and Self-Regulation of Contemporary Poetry is the first book-length study of the contemporary poetry industry. By documenting radical changes over the past decade in the way poems are published, marketed, and circulated, it connects the seemingly small world of poetry with the other, wider creative industries.
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Literature and Inequality
Nine Perspectives from the Napoleonic Era through the First Gilded Age
Daniel Shaviro
Great works of literature, by the likes of Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, and Edith Wharton, can help us to better understand the social ramifications of high-end inequality – not just in the authors' eras but today.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785273667
March 2020
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£39.99 / $39.99Great works of literature, by the likes of Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, and Edith Wharton, can help us to better understand the social ramifications of high-end inequality – not just in the authors’ eras but today.
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Conduct Books and the History of the Ideal Woman
Tabitha Kenlon
“Conduct Books and the History of the Ideal Woman” examines six centuries of conduct manuals and other instructive writing, analyzing the history of gendered expectations that have been debated in print from the fourteenth century and continue to influence our present thinking about women’s roles and abilities.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785273148
March 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00“Conduct Books and the History of the Ideal Woman” examines six centuries of conduct manuals and other instructive writing, analyzing the history of gendered expectations that have been debated in print from the fourteenth century and continue to influence our present thinking about women’s roles and abilities.
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Poetry and Freedom: Discoveries in Aesthetics, 1985–2018
Paul Oppenheimer
This book offers a ground-breaking exploration of the aesthetics of poetic freedom, from antiquity to the present and from Europe and the Middle East into the poetry of the English-speaking world. Questions about the elusiveness of poetic freedom are tested vis-à-vis the works of Whitman, Dickinson, Rilke, Dante and Virgil that result in a fresh, and well-nigh revolutionary, way of seeing literary and modern history, or an initiation into the more striking gift of aesthetic freedom.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785272974
March 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00This book offers a ground-breaking exploration of the aesthetics of poetic freedom, from antiquity to the present and from Europe and the Middle East into the poetry of the English-speaking world. Questions about the elusiveness of poetic freedom are tested vis-à-vis the works of Whitman, Dickinson, Rilke, Dante and Virgil that result in a fresh, and well-nigh revolutionary, way of seeing literary and modern history, or an initiation into the more striking gift of aesthetic freedom.
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Memory, Metaphor and Mysticism in Kalidasa’s AbhijñānaŚākuntalam
Edited by Namrata Chaturvedi
‘Memory, Metaphor and Mysticism in Kalidasa’s ‘AbhijñānaŚākuntalam’’ aims to read Kālidāsa’s masterpiece through poetic and philosophical resonances as evidenced in the metre, rhythm and symbolism carefully embedded in the narrative and dramatic text.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785273209
March 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00‘Memory, Metaphor and Mysticism in Kalidasa’s ‘AbhijñānaŚākuntalam’’ aims to read Kālidāsa’s masterpiece through poetic and philosophical resonances as evidenced in the metre, rhythm and symbolism carefully embedded in the narrative and dramatic text.
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Evgeny Boratynsky and the Russian Golden Age
Unstudied Words That Wove and Wavered
Anatoly Liberman
Evgeny Boratynsky and the Russian Golden Age is the first metrical and rhymed translation of nearly all the lyrics by Evgeny Boratynsky (1800–1844), one of the greatest poets of the Golden Age of Russian poetry. A long introduction and a detailed commentary, which includes multiple poems by Pushkin and many of Boratynsky's contemporaries, provide a unique background for appreciating the poet’s achievements.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785271366
March 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00Evgeny Boratynsky and the Russian Golden Age is the first metrical and rhymed translation of nearly all the lyrics by Evgeny Boratynsky (1800–1844), one of the greatest poets of the Golden Age of Russian poetry. A long introduction and a detailed commentary, which includes multiple poems by Pushkin and many of Boratynsky’s contemporaries, provide a unique background for appreciating the poet’s achievements.
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Information Technologies and Economic Development in Latin America
Edited by Alberto Chong, Mónica Yáñez-Pagans
Information Technologies and Economic Development in Latin America provides a collection of rigorous empirical studies that contributes to a better understanding of the role and impact of old and new information technologies on Latin American economic development through the use of randomized and quasi-experimental methods.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785271991
February 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00Information Technologies and Economic Development in Latin America provides a collection of rigorous empirical studies that contributes to a better understanding of the role and impact of old and new information technologies on Latin American economic development through the use of randomized and quasi-experimental methods.
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British Battles 493–937
Mount Badon to Brunanburh
Andrew Breeze
British Battles 493–937 revolutionizes our understanding of early British history by correctly locating for the first time conflicts from Mount Badon to Brunanburh.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785272233
February 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00British Battles 493–937 revolutionizes our understanding of early British history by correctly locating for the first time conflicts from Mount Badon to Brunanburh.
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Literature and Transformation
A Narrative Study of Life-Changing Reading Experiences
Thor Magnus Tangerås
An inquiry into readers’ experiences of life-changing encounters with works of literature, the book uncovers the relationships between life-crises, being moved by literature and transformation of the self.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785272943
February 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00An inquiry into readers’ experiences of life-changing encounters with works of literature, the book uncovers the relationships between life-crises, being moved by literature and transformation of the self.
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Robert Louis Stevenson, Literary Networks and Transatlantic Publishing in the 1890s
The Author Incorporated
Glenda Norquay
Focusing on an author characterised by geographical and aesthetic mobility, and on those who worked with him or wrote for him, ‘Robert Louis Stevenson, Literary Networks and Transatlantic Publishing in the 1890s’ investigates the operations of transatlantic literary networks during a period of key changes in transatlantic publishing through a series of critical case studies.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785272844
January 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00Focusing on an author characterised by geographical and aesthetic mobility, and on those who worked with him or wrote for him, ‘Robert Louis Stevenson, Literary Networks and Transatlantic Publishing in the 1890s’ investigates the operations of transatlantic literary networks during a period of key changes in transatlantic publishing through a series of critical case studies.
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Revising History in Communist Europe
Constructing Counter-Revolution in 1956 and 1968
David A.J. Reynolds
Both Hungary’s 1956 uprising and the Prague Spring took place when regimes tentatively revised recent history. This process of remembering and forgetting shook the legitimacy, and shaped the actions, of communist party-states because their control of the past was central to their grasp of the present.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785272080
January 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00Both Hungary’s 1956 uprising and the Prague Spring took place when regimes tentatively revised recent history. This process of remembering and forgetting shook the legitimacy, and shaped the actions, of communist party-states because their control of the past was central to their grasp of the present.
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Planting the Seeds of Research
How America’s Ultimate Investment Transformed Agriculture
Louis A. Ferleger
‘Planting the Seeds of Research’ explores why by the beginnings of the twentieth century the United States dominated agricultural production worldwide.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785272622
January 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00‘Planting the Seeds of Research’ explores why by the beginnings of the twentieth century the United States dominated agricultural production worldwide.
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“Quinqui” Film in Spain
Peripheries of Society and Myths on the Margins
Edited and translated by Jorge González del Pozo
This book analyzes the mythical aura of Spanish low-budget films of the late 1970s and 1980s, and how marginalization was exploited and romanticized.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785272295
January 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00This book analyzes the mythical aura of Spanish low-budget films of the late 1970s and 1980s, and how marginalization was exploited and romanticized.
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Stratagem of the Corpse
Dying with Baudrillard, a Study of Sickness and Simulacra
Gary J Shipley
foreword by William PawlettStratagem of the Corpse is a philosophical and literary exposition of death not so much as seen by Baudrillard but Baudrillard as seen by death.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785272752
January 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00Stratagem of the Corpse is a philosophical and literary exposition of death not so much as seen by Baudrillard but Baudrillard as seen by death.
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Sara Coleridge and the Oxford Movement
Selected Religious Writings
Robin Schofield
‘Sara Coleridge and the Oxford Movement’ reveals a significant body of virtually unknown religious works by a woman writer. The first scholarly edition of Sara Coleridge’s religious writings, it presents selections from works not published since the 1840s, and substantial extracts from a major unpublished work of religious dialogues.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785272394
January 2020
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£200.00 / $200.00‘Sara Coleridge and the Oxford Movement’ reveals a significant body of virtually unknown religious works by a woman writer. The first scholarly edition of Sara Coleridge’s religious writings, it presents selections from works not published since the 1840s, and substantial extracts from a major unpublished work of religious dialogues.
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A Theoretical Approach to Modern American History and Literature
An Issue of Reconfiguration and Re-representation
W. Lawrence Hogue
A reconfiguration of modern American history, showing how multiple movements at different times challenged a singularly defined modern America, and a re-representation of the modern American novel, accenting the different critical literary voices to effect a fundamental recasting of the modern Americanist paradigm.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785272592
January 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00A reconfiguration of modern American history, showing how multiple movements at different times challenged a singularly defined modern America, and a re-representation of the modern American novel, accenting the different critical literary voices to effect a fundamental recasting of the modern Americanist paradigm.
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Chinese Television and Soft Power Communication in Australia
Mei Li
‘Chinese Television and Soft Power Communication in Australia’ provides a systemic test of how successful/unsuccessful China’s soft power message projection is in terms of congruence between projected and received frames in Australia.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785272028
December 2019
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£125.00 / $125.00‘Chinese Television and Soft Power Communication in Australia’ provides a systemic test of how successful/unsuccessful China’s soft power message projection is in terms of congruence between projected and received frames in Australia.
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Sir Rohan’s Ghost. A Romance
Harriet Prescott Spofford
Edited by Matthew Wynn SivilsOriginally published in 1860, the formative Gothic novel by Harriet Prescott Spofford (1835–1921), one of nineteenth-century America’s most significant woman writers, relates the tale of a tormented British aristocrat who struggles to retain his sanity while suffering horrifying visitations from the spectre of his dead lover amid the agonies of an already fragile mind.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785272875
December 2019
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£125.00 / $125.00Originally published in 1860, the formative Gothic novel by Harriet Prescott Spofford (1835–1921), one of nineteenth-century America’s most significant woman writers, relates the tale of a tormented British aristocrat who struggles to retain his sanity while suffering horrifying visitations from the spectre of his dead lover amid the agonies of an already fragile mind.
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Religion, Supernaturalism, the Paranormal and Pseudoscience
An Anthropological Critique
Homayun Sidky
“Religion, Supernaturalism, the Paranormal and Pseudoscience” provides a comprehensive rejoinder to the challenges posed to science, scientific anthropology, evolutionary theory and rationality by the advocates of supernatural, paranormal, and pseudoscientific perspectives and modes of thought.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785271625
November 2019
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£200.00 / $200.00“Religion, Supernaturalism, the Paranormal and Pseudoscience” provides a comprehensive rejoinder to the challenges posed to science, scientific anthropology, evolutionary theory and rationality by the advocates of supernatural, paranormal, and pseudoscientific perspectives and modes of thought.
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Philosophical Meta-Reflections on Literary Studies
Why Do Things with Texts, and What to Do with Them?
Jibu Mathew George
‘Philosophical Meta-Reflections on Literary Studies: Why Do Things with Texts, and What to Do with Them?’ takes up key meta-questions in the humanities, with focus on contemporary literary studies, philosophically examines the nature of knowledge therein as well as the implications of certain popular critical approaches, and addresses the effervescent question of ‘relevance’.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785271717
November 2019
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£125.00 / $125.00‘Philosophical Meta-Reflections on Literary Studies: Why Do Things with Texts, and What to Do with Them?’ takes up key meta-questions in the humanities, with focus on contemporary literary studies, philosophically examines the nature of knowledge therein as well as the implications of certain popular critical approaches, and addresses the effervescent question of ‘relevance’.
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‘Grease Is the Word’
Exploring a Cultural Phenomenon
Edited by Oliver Gruner, Peter Krämer
Bringing together a group of international scholars, ‘Grease Is the Word’ offers fresh insight into the impact and legacy of the cultural phenomenon that is Grease.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785271106
November 2019
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£125.00 / $125.00Bringing together a group of international scholars, ‘Grease Is the Word’ offers fresh insight into the impact and legacy of the cultural phenomenon that is Grease.
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Textuality, Culture and Scripture
A Study in Interrelations
Wesley A. Kort
“Textuality, Culture and Scripture,” a study of the necessary and close relations between the three concepts, argues for the necessary role of textuality in culture and the inadequacy of a cultural theory based on materialism. It explores the standing and role of scripture in textual theory and in cultural, group and personal identities.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785271595
November 2019
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£115.00 / $115.00“Textuality, Culture and Scripture,” a study of the necessary and close relations between the three concepts, argues for the necessary role of textuality in culture and the inadequacy of a cultural theory based on materialism. It explores the standing and role of scripture in textual theory and in cultural, group and personal identities.
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Approaches to the Study of Intercultural Transfer
Thomas Adam
“Approaches to the Study of Intercultural Transfer” explores the intricacies and mechanisms of intercultural transfers.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785271656
October 2019
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£125.00 / $125.00“Approaches to the Study of Intercultural Transfer” explores the intricacies and mechanisms of intercultural transfers.
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Intellectual Entertainments
Eight Dialogues on Mind, Consciousness and Thought
P. M. S. Hacker
‘Intellectual Entertainments’ consists of eight dialogues on the nature of the mind and consciousness, thought and thinking, perceptual qualities and ownership of pain. Each dialogue has five participants, some living, some dead and some imaginary who represent different points of view. No philosophical knowledge is presupposed.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785271526
October 2019
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£125.00 / $125.00‘Intellectual Entertainments’ consists of eight dialogues on the nature of the mind and consciousness, thought and thinking, perceptual qualities and ownership of pain. Each dialogue has five participants, some living, some dead and some imaginary who represent different points of view. No philosophical knowledge is presupposed.