Examines state-middle class reciprocities in the making, persistence and failure of the Egyptian social contract
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 generation.
Reconstructs the surprising, self-interested, at times paradoxical attempts of Victorian novelists to define the limits of middle-class status
Examines the circulation of literature, routes of comparison and the legacies of transcontinental ties
Articulates life writing’s complex engagement with the nineteenth-century literary market
Re-evaluates the Athenian Reconciliation Agreement of 403 BCE, its historical causes and its legal legacy.
Provides the first commentary on the full second book of Sidonius Apollinaris’ letters.
Studies the topic of divine communication in Paul’s letters in the context of Graeco-Roman divination
Studies the people, places and objects credited with ritual cures and the elite rhetoric critical of these cures
Presents a pioneering collection studying religion as a wider determinant of health in Britain
Studies translation into and amongst the Ottoman Empire’s many languages
This book examines the heritage of critical theory from the Hungarian Marxist philosopher Georg Lukács through the early Frankfurt School up to current issues of authoritarian politics and democratisation.