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This book explores the specter of Christian conversion to Islam in twelve early modern English plays. In works by Shakespeare, Marlowe, Massinger, and others, conversion from Christianity to Islam is...

Studies the ways in which Islamists engage with, rather than fight, the Western-dominated global orderAuthor: Hanna PfeiferPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPublication Date: Jun 30, 2024Number of...

This companion constitutes the first, systematic theorisation of the Italian Gothic. Through an interdisciplinary, trans-medial approach that encompasses prose fiction, poetry, journalism, film,...

The first book-length treatment of Joyce and hospitality James Joyce and Samaritan Hospitality reads Dubliners and Ulysses through studies of hospitality, particularly that articulated in the Lukan...

Jewish American writing is an exciting and controversial genre within post-war literature. In this book Stephen Wade offers a student guide to major writers, their key works and to influential...

The last collection of short stories published in her lifetime, The Garden Party and Other Stories would solidify Katherine Mansfield's place as the most prominent modernist short story writer of her...

New essays and creative explorations of the friendship, milieu and writings of Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf'I love to think of you, Virginia, as my friend ... pray consider how rare it is...

[headline]Examines Scottish Romantic writers' shared focus on the ideological import of an imagined national dead The early nineteenth century saw the dead take on new life in Scottish literature...

KMS Vol 13Author: KimberPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPublication Date: Oct 15, 2021Number of Pages: 246 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 147449191XISBN-13: 9781474491914

Studies the making and unmaking of the Ottoman Empire's Kurdish nobility This book is a study of the rise and fall of Kurdish nobility in the Ottoman Empire from the 16th to the 19th centuries...

Lady Justice: An Anatomy of Allegory leaves conventional readings of this pivotal figure in European legal history far behind. Hayaert's study brings together an analysis of thousands of images from...

This monograph offers a decisive reappraisal of both the literary history and the literary geography of Anglophone modernism by focusing attention on poetry from both sides of the Atlantic. Where...

Deploying the term 'late-colonial' to describe a body of largely French films made during, and in response to, the Algerian War of Independence (1954-1962), this book revolves around one question -...

Examines the circulation of literature, routes of comparison and the legacies of transcontinental ties Since the 19th century, Arab migration from the Ottoman Empire to Latin America and Latin...

[headline]Explores the pursuit of justice through the processes of writing, reading and interpreting in Enlightenment and Romantic-period literature This provocative and timely volume examines the...

Provides a road map for negotiating the tensions between the text and the world in our reading practicesAuthor: Mena MitranoPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPublication Date: Aug 15, 2024Number...

Provides a transnational study of the Arab uprisings in the Western literary marketAuthor: Julia WurrPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPublication Date: May 31, 2024Number of Pages: NA...

Looking Beyond Neoliberalism : French and Belgian Cinema Post-2008Author: Martin O'ShaughnessyPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPublication Date: May 31, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage:...

[headline]A remarkable collection of Lyn Hejinian's previously uncollected early poems from 1963 to 1983 Lyn Hejinian is considered one of the most important avant-garde poets of the twentieth and...

Studies the philosophical implications of contemporary theories of conflict and proposes a new political ontology The twentieth century was the century of the deconstruction of all absolutes: of...

Redefines Mary Wollstonecraft as a multi-lingual cosmopolitan Considering her transformation of material from the works of European writers and orators such as Rousseau, Mirabeau, 'Stéphanie-Félicité...

An ethnographic study that examines the socio-cultural embeddedness of the Hajj in present day Moroccan societyAuthor: Kholoud Al-AjarmaPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPublication Date: Jul 31,...

The first book-length study of meta-phenomena in film and television series.Author: David RochePublisher: Edinburgh University PressPublication Date: Aug 31, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage:...

Defends conventional and even problematic illness metaphors by emphasising their varied usability Metaphor in Illness Writing argues that even when a metaphor appears problematic and limiting, it...

Introduction: The Death of God, the Birth of Film, and the New Metaphysics Chapter One Image Breakthrough: Disclosure and Derailment in Painting, Photography, and FilmI. Art in the Wake of...

Analyses how midterm elections have shaped the American presidencyAuthor: Patrick Andelic, Lecturer in American History Mark McLay, Robert MasonPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPublication Date:...

Explores the militarisation of education and youth in contemporary ChinaAuthor: Orna NaftaliPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPublication Date: Aug 31, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage:...

Rereading intra-war modernist poetics through war poetry This study examines the work of the principle architects of Anglo-American modernist poetics - T.S. Eliot, H.D., Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein,...

Moral uncertainty surrounding the use of armed drones has been a persistent problem for more than two decades. In response, Moralities of Drone Violence aims to provide greater clarity by exploring...

Val Lewton's horror films revolutionized a popular genre through a much-studied and still widely emulated visual style emphasizing shadows and absences. By denying audiences visual confirmation of...