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  • A Black British Canon? A Black British Canon?
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    A Black British Canon?

    This much-needed collection examines the formation of a black British canon including writers, dramatists, film-makers and artists. Contributors including John McLeod, Michael McMillan, Mike Phillips...
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  • D.H. Lawrence, Science and the Posthuman D.H. Lawrence, Science and the Posthuman
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    D.H. Lawrence, Science and the Posthuman

    Why was D.H. Lawrence preoccupied with the enigma of the human as thinking matter? This first sustained study of Lawrence and science shows how 'posthuman' conceptions of a material kinship between...
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  • Women Poets and Urban Aestheticism Women Poets and Urban Aestheticism
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    Women Poets and Urban Aestheticism

    This book re-examines cultural, social, geographical and philosophical representations of Victorian London by looking at the transformations in urban life produced by the rise and development of...
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  • The South in World Politics The South in World Politics
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    The South in World Politics

    The South in World Politics is a timely analysis of the influence and effectiveness of developing states in shaping the international order from the politics of the Cold War and North-South...
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  • Cultural Translation and Postcolonial Poetry Cultural Translation and Postcolonial Poetry
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    Cultural Translation and Postcolonial Poetry

    This book uses the framework of cultural translation to explore the work of six significant modern writers from Ireland, India, Australia and the Caribbean. Written in an accessible and approachable...
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  • Reading Sensations in Early Modern England Reading Sensations in Early Modern England
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    Reading Sensations in Early Modern England

    How did Renaissance literature affect readers' minds, bodies and souls? In what ways did the history of literary experience overlap with the history of humours and emotions? This book argues that a...
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  • Seductions of Fate Seductions of Fate
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    Seductions of Fate

    If the tragic interpretation of experience is still so current, despite its disastrous ethical consequences, it is because it shapes our subjectivity. Instead of contradicting the ideals of autonomy...
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  • Royalist Identities Royalist Identities
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    Royalist Identities

    Royalist Identities shifts the emphasis from the question 'What is Royalism?' to 'What did Royalism want to be?' The texts analyzed show how Royalism was concerned with the construction of a set of...
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  • Land, Nation and Culture, 1740-1840 Land, Nation and Culture, 1740-1840
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    Land, Nation and Culture, 1740-1840

    Over the last twenty years, critics and historians of the late Eighteenth-century have developed a multidisciplinary approach to the history of culture. This dialogue between literary critics and...
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  • Joseph Conrad and Popular Culture Joseph Conrad and Popular Culture
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    Joseph Conrad and Popular Culture

    This highly original study opens up a new dimension to Joseph Conrad by revealing his lifelong fascination with the popular culture of his day. Drawing on original archival materials and treating...
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  • The Elizabeth Icon The Elizabeth Icon
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    The Elizabeth Icon

    Surveying four-hundred years of British history, Walker examines how the memory - the icon - of Queen Elizabeth has been used as a marker for Englishness in disputes political and social, in art,...
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  • Androgyny in Modern Literature Androgyny in Modern Literature
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    Androgyny in Modern Literature

    Androgyny in Modern Literature engages with the ways in which the trope of androgyny has shifted during the late nineteenth and twentieth-centuries. Alchemical, platonic, sexological, psychological...
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  • Cash Transfers and Basic Social Protection Cash Transfers and Basic Social Protection
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    Cash Transfers and Basic Social Protection

    Cash Transfers and Basic Social Protection offers a ground-breaking analysis of the discourses that facilitated the rise of cash transfers as instruments of development policy since the 1990s. The...
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  • Peacekeeping in South Sudan Peacekeeping in South Sudan
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    Peacekeeping in South Sudan

    A scholarly perspective of a soldier's own challenges working in the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS). This work examines how regional/cultural knowledge and language ability contribute...
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  • Transforming Science in South Africa Transforming Science in South Africa
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    Transforming Science in South Africa

    This book is essential for anyone interested in knowing how science works nationally and internationally in the contemporary world. It offers a comprehensive analysis of scientific collaboration and...
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  • A Poetics of Postmodernism and Neomodernism A Poetics of Postmodernism and Neomodernism
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    A Poetics of Postmodernism and Neomodernism

    This new book examines how a range of authors today perpetuate Virginia Woolf's literary legacy, by creating new forms adapted to their new ages and audiences. Addressing questions about the current...
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  • The Geocritical Legacies of Edward W. Said The Geocritical Legacies of Edward W. Said
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    The Geocritical Legacies of Edward W. Said

    Edward W. Said is considered one of the most influential literary and postcolonial theorists in the world. Affirming Said's multifaceted and enormous critical impact, this collection features essays...
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  • Violent Neoliberalism Violent Neoliberalism
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    Violent Neoliberalism

    Violent Neoliberalism explores the complex unfolding relationship between neoliberalism and violence. Employing a series of theoretical dialogues on development, discourse and dispossession Cambodia,...
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  • Truth without Predication Truth without Predication
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    Truth without Predication

    This book contains an original analysis of the existential there-sentence from a philosophical-linguistic perspective. At its core is the claim that there-sentences' form is distinct from that of...
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  • Norway's Peace Policy Norway's Peace Policy
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    Norway's Peace Policy

    The post-Cold War world allows space for less powerful states to develop influential roles in responding to specific international problems. Norway has focused on the persistent issue of violent...
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  • The Exercise of Power in Communication The Exercise of Power in Communication
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    The Exercise of Power in Communication

    This book explores the various choices speakers or communicators make when expressing power relations in modern societies. The volume brings together several disciplines, such as linguistics,...
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  • Social Transformation and Migration Social Transformation and Migration
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    Social Transformation and Migration

    This book examines theories and specific experiences of international migration and social transformation, with special reference to the effects of neo-liberal globalization on four societies with...
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  • The Literature of Northern Ireland The Literature of Northern Ireland
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    The Literature of Northern Ireland

    Through close readings of texts by playwright Anne Devlin, poet Medbh McGuckian, and novelist Anna Burns, this book examines the ways Irish cultural production has been disturbed by partition...
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  • Hegel and the English Romantic Tradition Hegel and the English Romantic Tradition
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    Hegel and the English Romantic Tradition

    Re-examining English Romanticism through Hegel's philosophy, this book outlines and expands upon Hegel's theory of recognition. Deakin critiques four canonical writers of the English Romantic...
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  • Romanticism and the Museum Romanticism and the Museum
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    Romanticism and the Museum

    Romanticism and the Museum argues that museums were integral to Britain's understanding of itself as a nation in the wake of the French Revolution. It features Wordsworth, Scott, Edgeworth, and...
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  • US Poetry in the Age of Empire, 1979-2012 US Poetry in the Age of Empire, 1979-2012
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    US Poetry in the Age of Empire, 1979-2012

    Examining poetry by Robert Pinsky, Adrienne Rich, and Amiri Baraka, among others, this book shows that leading US poets since 1979 have performed the role of public intellectual through their poetic...
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  • Territorial Disputes in the South China Sea Territorial Disputes in the South China Sea
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    Territorial Disputes in the South China Sea

    Heightened tensions in the South China Sea have raised serious concerns about the dangers of conflict in this region as a result of unresolved, complex territorial disputes. This volume offers...
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  • Contemporary Scottish Gothic Contemporary Scottish Gothic
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    Contemporary Scottish Gothic

    An innovative reading of a wide range of contemporary Scottish novels in relation to literary tradition and modern philosophy, Contemporary Scottish Gothic provides a new approach to Scottish fiction...
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  • Religion and Post-Conflict Statebuilding Religion and Post-Conflict Statebuilding
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    Religion and Post-Conflict Statebuilding

    This book draws upon theory and theology to consider how religious institutions engage with post-conflict statebuilding and why they would choose to lend their resources to the endeavour. Drawing...
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  • The Early Modern Medea The Early Modern Medea
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    The Early Modern Medea

    This is the first book-length study of early modern English approaches to Medea, the classical witch and infanticide who exercised a powerful sway over literary and cultural imagination in the period...
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  • Recognition in International Relations Recognition in International Relations
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    Recognition in International Relations

    Recognition is a basic human need, but it is not a panacea to all societal ills. This volume assembles contributions from International Relations, Political Theory and International Law in order to...
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  • Poststructuralist Discourse Analysis Poststructuralist Discourse Analysis
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    Poststructuralist Discourse Analysis

    This book presents developments of discourse analysis in France and applies its tools to key texts from five theorists of structuralism: Lacan, Althusser, Foucault, Derrida and Sollers. It pays...
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  • Managing Crises, Making Peace Managing Crises, Making Peace
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    Managing Crises, Making Peace

    In the face of emerging new threats, the EU's capacity to build a distinctive role in crisis management remains problematic. Analysing EU policies and actions, this collection sheds light on the EU's...
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  • The Perils of Print Culture The Perils of Print Culture
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    The Perils of Print Culture

    This collection of essays illustrates various pressures and concerns-both practical and theoretical-related to the study of print culture. Procedural difficulties range from doubts about the...
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