The Cambridge Companion to Queer Studies (Somerville Siobhan B.)(Paperback)

The Cambridge Companion to Queer Studies (Somerville Siobhan B.)(Paperback)

This Companion provides a guide to queer inquiry in literary and cultural studies. The essays represent new and emerging areas, including transgender studies, indigenous studies, disability studies, queer of color critique, performance studies, and studies of digital culture. Rather than being

The Cambridge Companion to the Circus (Arrighi Gillian)(Paperback)

The Cambridge Companion to the Circus provides a complete guide for students, scholars, teachers, researchers, and practitioners who are seeking perspectives on the foundations and evolution of the modern circus, the contemporary extent of circus studies, and the specialised literature available to

The Cambridge Companion to the Apostolic Fathers (Bird Michael F.)(Paperback)

The Cambridge Companion to the Apostolic Fathers offers an informative introduction to the extant body of Christian texts that existed beside and after the New Testament known to us as the apostolic fathers. Featuring cutting-edge research by leading scholars, it explores how the early Church

The Cambridge Companion to Socrates (Morrison Donald R.)(Paperback)

The Cambridge Companion to Socrates is a collection of essays providing a comprehensive guide to Socrates, the most famous Greek philosopher. Because Socrates himself wrote nothing, our evidence comes from the writings of his friends (above all Plato), his enemies, and later writers. Socrates is

The Cambridge Companion to the Rule of Law (Meierhenrich Jens)(Paperback)

The Cambridge Companion to the Rule of Law introduces students, scholars, and practitioners to the theory and history of the rule of law, one of the most frequently invoked-and least understood-ideas of legal and political thought and policy practice. It offers a comprehensive re-assessment by

The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Thought (de Bruyn Frans)(Paperback)

The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Thought gives a comprehensive overview of intellectual life in the eighteenth-century Anglophone world at a time when the boundaries of knowledge were growing rapidly in response to a world undergoing radical change. Organised in two parts, the volume

The Cambridge Companion to American Gothic (Weinstock Jeffrey Andrew)(Paperback)

The Cambridge Companion to American Gothic offers an accessible overview to both the breadth and depth of the American Gothic tradition. This subgenre features works from many of America's best-known authors: Edgar Allan Poe, Toni Morrison, Stephen King, Anne Rice, Henry James, Edith Wharton,

The Cambridge Companion to American Poets (Richardson Mark)(Paperback)

The Cambridge Companion to American Poets brings together thirty-one essays on some fifty-four American poets, spanning nearly 400 years, from Anne Bradstreet to contemporary performance poetry. This book also examines such movements in American poetry as modernism, the Harlem (or New Negro)

Poor Queer Studies: Confronting Elitism in the University (Brim Matt)(Paperback)

In Poor Queer Studies Matt Brim shifts queer studies away from its familiar sites of elite education toward poor and working-class people, places, and pedagogies. Brim shows how queer studies also takes place beyond the halls of flagship institutions: in night school; after a three-hour commute; in

The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Travel Writing (Clarke Robert)(Paperback)

The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Travel Writing offers readers an insight into the scope and range of perspectives that one encounters in this field of writing. Encompassing a diverse range of texts and styles, performances and forms, postcolonial travel writing recounts journeys undertaken

A Companion to Museum Studies (MacDonald Sharon)(Paperback)

A Companion to Museum Studies captures the multidisciplinary approaches to the study of the development, roles, and significance of museums in contemporary society. It is an indispensable reference for art historians, museum curators, and art and culture

After Queer Studies: Literature, Theory and Sexuality in the 21st Century (Bradway Tyler)(Paperback)

After Queer Studies maps the literary influences that facilitated queer theory's academic emergence and charts the trajectories that continue to shape its continued evolution as a critical practice. It explores the interdisciplinary origins of queer studies and argues for the prominent role that

Imagining Queer Methods (Ghaziani Amin)(Paperback)

Reimagines the field of queer studies by asking 'How do we do queer theory?' Imagining Queer Methods showcases the methodological renaissance unfolding in queer scholarship. This volume brings together emerging and esteemed researchers from all corners of the academy who are defining new

The Cambridge Companion to William Blake (Eaves Morris)(Paperback)

The Cambridge Companion to Judaism and Law (Hayes Christine)(Paperback)

The Cambridge Companion to Judaism and Law explores the Jewish conception of law as an essential component of the divine-human relationship from biblical to modern times, as well as resistance to this conceptualization. It also traces the political, social, intellectual, and cultural circumstances

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Race (Thompson Ayanna)(Paperback)

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Race shows teachers and students how and why Shakespeare and race are inseparable. Moving well beyond Othello, the collection invites the reader to understand racialized discourses, rhetoric, and performances in all of Shakespeare's plays, including the

The Cambridge Companion to American Theatre Since 1945 (Listengarten Julia)(Paperback)

The Cambridge Companion to American Theatre since 1945 provides an overview and analysis of developments in the organization and practices of American theatre. It examines key demographic and geographical shifts American theatre after 1945 experienced in spectatorship, and addresses the economic,

The Cambridge Companion to Hume (Norton David Fate)(Paperback)

Each Cambridge Companion to a philosophical figure is made up of specially commissioned essays by an international team of scholars, providing students and non-specialists with an introduction to a major philosopher. The series aims to dispel the intimidation that readers may feel when faced with

The Cambridge Companion to Margaret Atwood (Howells Coral Ann)(Paperback)

The field of Margaret Atwood studies, like her own work, is in constant evolution. This second edition of The Cambridge Companion to Margaret Atwood provides substantial reconceptualization of Atwood's writing in multiple genres that has spanned six decades, with particular focus on developments

The Cambridge Companion to Environmental Humanities (Cohen Jeffrey)(Paperback)

This Companion offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the environmental humanities, an interdisciplinary movement that responds to a world reconfigured by climate change and its effects, from environmental racism and global migration to resource impoverishment and the importance of

The Bloomsbury Companion to Dance Studies (Dodds Sherril)(Paperback)

The Bloomsbury Companion to Dance Studies brings together leading international dance scholars in this single collection to provide a vivid picture of the state of contemporary dance research. The book commences with an introduction that privileges dancing as both a site of knowledge formation and

Queer Bloomsbury (Helt Brenda S.)(Paperback)

Presents important early essays that laid the foundation for queer studies of the Bloomsbury Group together with new essays that build upon this foundation to provide ground-breaking work on Bloomsbury figures and cultural

Shakesqueer: A Queer Companion to the Complete Works of Shakespeare (Menon Madhavi)(Paperback)

Shakesqueer puts the most exciting queer theorists in conversation with the complete works of William Shakespeare. Exploring what is odd, eccentric, and unexpected in the Bard's plays and poems, these theorists highlight not only the many ways that Shakespeare can be queered but also the many ways

The Cambridge Companion to Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen (Berry Mark)(Paperback)