Funerary Speech for John Chrysostom
John Chrysostom, Archbishop of Constantinople, was an important Early Church Father living in the latter half of the fourth century C. E. Much of his life and activities is contained in a funerary...
View ArticleTwo Early Lives of Severos, Patriarch of Antioch
Severos, patriarch of Antioch, was one of the most important ecclesiastical figures of the first half of the sixth century. Regarded as a schismatic by the Greek and Latin Church, he is commemorated as...
View ArticleIntroducing English Medieval Book History
This volume presents a history of the English medieval book through a series of examples centered on specific texts and their physical and cultural environments. It offers a sequence of analyses of...
View ArticleNoir Atlantic
With the publication in 1953 of his Harlem Domestic series, African American noir writer Chester Himes became a cult figure for a generation of Parisian readers—many of whom appreciated his work as...
View ArticlePolitics in a Glass Case
Bringing together an impressive lineup of contributors from across Europe, the United Kingdom, and the United States, Politics in a Glass Case examines how sexual politics play out in art exhibitions....
View ArticlePostcolonial Asylum
Deprived of political rights yet caught up in the law’s vested interest in portraying them as “other” to its citizens, individuals seeking asylum often experience a relationship of “inclusive...
View ArticleSlaves to Sweetness
Literary and sociological studies have long been fascinated by the seemingly innocuous substance of sugar, not least because of its direct link with the histories of slavery in the New World. Unlike...
View ArticleTransvisuality - The Cultural Dimension of Visuality (Volume 1)
Transvisuality—The Cultural Dimension of Visuality brings together leading scholars from all over the globe to examine what the visual means today. From art to new media, from branding to urban design,...
View ArticleCultured Violence
Cultured Violence explores contemporary South African culture as a test case for the achievement of democracy by constitutional means in the wake of prolonged and violent cultural conflict. Drawing on...
View ArticleKnights Errant of Anarchy
Late-Victorian London was home to many exiled anarchist groups who fled persecution in their home countries. In this book Pietro Di Paola looks at the lives of Italian anarchists, balancing an...
View ArticleImperialism as Diaspora
Nearly all studies of British people living in India during the British Raj examine the population within the context of imperialism, neglecting the sense of displacement, discontinuity, and discomfort...
View ArticleRemembering the South African War
Fostered by an increasingly literate public and burgeoning populist press, the South African War—which ended the lives of many volunteer British soldiers—would catalyze a transition in British...
View ArticlePubs and Patriots
Pubs and Patriotstells the fascinating story of the loathed-by-most Central Control Board (CCB), which was charged with controlling alcohol consumption in Britain during the first World War. With...
View ArticleColonial Heritage of French Comics
Although France has changed much in recent decades, colonial-era imagery continues to circulate widely in comics, including the Tintin series by Hergé and Zig et Puce by Alain Saint- Ogan. This...
View ArticleColombia's Forgotten Frontier
Coming to prominence during the rubber fever of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, the Putumayo has long been a site of political turmoil, a place of mass immigration, exile,...
View ArticleByron's Ghosts
In Byron’s Ghosts British and American scholars join together to overturn some of the prevailing assumptions that romance scholars have made about Byron, offering a fresh new reading of his poetry....
View ArticlePorous City
Despite its famous image as a divided city—of wealthy high-rises and the surrounding, poverty-stricken favelas—Rio de Janeiro’s culture is a product of profound interaction between classes and races....
View ArticleWomen’s Experimental Poetry in Britain 1970-2010
Women’s Experimental Poetry in Britain 1970-2010 examines a critically neglected but significant body of contemporary writing, placing it within wider social and political contexts. Ranging from...
View ArticleSpeculum Inclusorum/The Mirror of Recluses: A Parallel-Text Edition
Interest in anchoritic life in Europe, especially during medieval England, has never been greater, but almost all recent scholarship centers on two texts—De Institutione inclusarum and Ancrene...
View ArticleSingularities
Amid the seemingly exponential advancement of technology and the increasingly portentous implications of its continued development and proliferation, many futurists speculate about an imminent...
View ArticleByron and the Forms of Thought
Much has been written recently on Byron as a philosopher, but Byron and the Forms of Thought is the first to thoroughly consider Byron’s philosophical projects via his poetry. Anthony Howe explores...
View ArticleWhat is Québécois Literature?
The question ‘What is Québécois literature?’ might seem innocent and easily answerable. But as Rosemary Chapman shows in this compelling study, answering that question requires no less than the...
View ArticleV. Y. Mudimbe
V. Y. Mudimbe: Undisciplined Africanism is the first English-language monograph dedicated to the work of Valentin Yves Mudimbe. Pierre-Philippe Fraiture charts the intellectual history of the Congolese...
View ArticleImperial Emotions
Imperial Emotions reconsiders the historical legacy of Spain’s empire by examining the role of emotions in mitigating it. Javier Krauel cogently argues that the fall of the Spanish empire in the late...
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