Victorian Literary Cultures: Studies in Textual Subversion (Womack Kenneth)(Paperback)

Victorian Literary Cultures: Studies in Textual Subversion (Womack Kenneth)(Paperback)

Victorian Literary Cultures: Studies in Textual Subversion is an anthology featuring leading critical voices, including such figures as Nancy Henry, Julian Wolfreys, Ira Nadel, Joseph Wiesenfarth, and William Baker, among others, as they address ideas of subversion in nineteenth-century

Victorian Literary Cultures: Studies in Textual Subversion (Womack Kenneth)(Pevná vazba)

Victorian Literary Cultures: Studies in Textual Subversion is an anthology featuring leading critical voices, including such figures as Nancy Henry, Julian Wolfreys, Ira Nadel, Joseph Wiesenfarth, and William Baker, among others, as they address ideas of subversion in nineteenth-century

Studies in Tectonic Culture: The Poetics of Construction in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Architecture (Frampton Kenneth)(Paperback)

Neoliberalism and Contemporary Literary Culture (Huehls Mitchum)(Paperback)

Neoliberalism has been a buzzword in literary studies for well over a decade, but its meaning remains ambiguous and its salience contentious. In Neoliberalism and Contemporary Literary Culture, Mitchum Huehls and Rachel Greenwald Smith offer a wide-ranging exploration of contemporary literature

Hermeneutics as Critique: Science, Politics, Race, and Culture (Simpson Lorenzo C.)(Paperback)

Hermeneutics has frequently been dismissed as useful only for literary and textual analysis. Some consider it to be Eurocentric or inherently relativistic and thus unsuited to social critique. Lorenzo C. Simpson offers a persuasive and powerful argument that hermeneutics is a valuable tool not only

The Swimmers (Womack Marian)(Paperback)

A claustrophobic, literary dystopia set in the hot, luscious landscape of Andalusia from the author of The Golden Key. 'A richly imagined eco-gothic tale.' - The Guardian 'Exquisitely realised.' - The Times After the ravages of the Green Winter, Earth is a place of deep jungles and monstrous

Homintern: How Gay Culture Liberated the Modern World (Woods Gregory)(Paperback)

Finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards in the LGBTQ Studies category: a landmark account of the seismic changes brought to twentieth-century culture by gay and lesbian networks 'An avalanche of stories, ribald gossip, and lengthy asides . . . collectively confirm the book's central thesis: gay

Case Studies in Abnormal Psychology (Levy Kenneth N.)(Paperback)

Case Studies in Abnormal Psychology presents a broad range of cases drawn from the clinical experience of authors Kenneth N. Levy, Kristen M. Kelly, and William J. Ray to take readers beyond theory into real-life situations. The authors take a holistic approach by including multiple perspectives

The Culture of Contentment (Galbraith John Kenneth)(Paperback)

The world has become increasingly separated into the haves and have-nots. In The Culture of Contentment, renowned economist John Kenneth Galbraith shows how a contented class--not the privileged few but the socially and economically advantaged majority--defend their comfortable status at a cost

Culture Across the Curriculum: A Psychology Teacher's Handbook (Keith Kenneth D.)(Paperback)

Culture Across the Curriculum provides a useful handbook for psychology teachers in the major subfields of the discipline. From introductory psychology to the foundations in such areas as social psychology, statistics, research methods, memory, cognition, personality, and development, to such

Ovid and Adaptation in Early Modern English Theatre (Starks Lisa)(Paperback)

Uses adaptation and appropriation studies to explore early modern textual and theatrical metamorphoses of Ovid Applies contemporary theoretical approaches, such as gender/queer/trans studies, feminist ecostudies, hauntology, rhizomatic adaptation, transmediality Uses adaptation studies in

Reading Victorian Literature: Essays in Honour of J. Hillis Miller (Wolfreys Julian)(Paperback)

A Festschrift honouring J. Hillis Miller and his contribution to Victorian Studies and nineteenth-century criticism Provides stheoretically informed critical essays on nineteenth-century and Victorian literature, by major internationally recognized scholars Chapters provide detailed close readings

Animalities: Literary and Cultural Studies Beyond the Human (Lundblad Michael)(Paperback)

New and cutting-edge work in animality studies, human-animal studies, and posthumanism Representations of animality continue to proliferate in various kinds of literary and cultural texts. This pioneering volume explores the critical interface between animal and animality studies, marking out the

Indigenous Textual Cultures: Reading and Writing in the Age of Global Empire (Ballantyne Tony)(Paperback)

As modern European empires expanded, written language was critical to articulations of imperial authority and justifications of conquest. For imperial administrators and thinkers, the non-literacy of 'native' societies demonstrated their primitiveness and inability to change. Yet as the

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

A Jesuit Garden in Beijing and Early Modern Chinese Culture (Zou Hui)(Paperback)

In this volume, Hui Zou analyzes historical, architectural, visual, literary, and philosophical perspectives on the Western-styled garden that formed part of the great Yuanming Yuan complex in Beijing, constructed during the Qing dynasty. Designed and built in the late eighteenth century by Italian

The Delectable Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism Within Us Slave Culture (Woodard Vincent)(Paperback)

Winner of the 2015 LGBT Studies Award presented by the Lambda Literary Foundation Scholars of US and transatlantic slavery have largely ignored or dismissed accusations that Black Americans were cannibalized. Vincent Woodard takes the enslaved person's claims of human consumption seriously,

Cultures in Motion: Studies in the Medieval and Early Modern Periods (Izdebski Adam)(Paperback)

This volume offers a collection of thirteen studies on the subject of intercultural contact and exchange in the medieval and early modern periods. The aim of the authors was to approach this phenomenon as broadly as possible, and the resulting volume is, therefore, a fusion of different approaches

Kindly Ones (Powell Anthony)(Paperback / softback)

'He is, as Proust was before him, the great literary chronicler of his culture in his time.' GUARDIAN'A Dance to the Music of Time' is universally acknowledged as one of the great works of English literature. Reissued now in this definitive edition, it stands ready to delight and entrance a new

Spatiality (Tally Jr Robert)(Paperback)

Spatiality has risen to become a key concept in literary and cultural studies, with critical focus on the 'spatial turn' presenting a new approach to the traditional literary analyses of time and history. Robert T. Tally Jr. explores differing aspects of the spatial in literary studies today,

Cultures of Staff Wellbeing and Mental Health in Schools: Reflecting on Positive Case Studies (Waters Stephen)(Paperback / softback)

Raw Material: Producing Pathology in Victorian Culture (O'Connor Erin)(Paperback)

Raw Material analyzes how Victorians used the pathology of disease to express deep-seated anxieties about a rapidly industrializing England's relationship to the material world. Drawing on medicine, literature, political economy, sociology, anthropology, and popular advertising, Erin O'Connor

An Introduction to Literary Studies (Klarer Mario)(Paperback)

In this classic beginner's guide to English literature, Mario Klarer offers a concise and accessible discussion of central issues in the study of literary texts, looking at: definitions of key terms such as literature and text the genres of fiction, poetry, drama, and film periods and

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