Employing the concepts of imaginative materialism and everyday life, this book offers a new critical framework for understanding the British... Læs mere
Develops a materialist history of philosophical conceptions of ‘earth’ in Greek thought.
Updates Merleau-Ponty’s relevance for contemporary and intersecting discussions about enactivism, the life sciences and cognitive neuroscience.
Can reading change the world? Late-nineteenth-century popular fiction thought the sympathetic reading experience could.
Presents the rich history of a Caithness estate in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Explores how conceptions of intellectual disability shaped or were shaped by culture and society in England, Europe and beyond in the period from 1500–1700.
A major academic study of John Waters’s films from a variety of perspectives covering his work and its intersections with culture.
Analyses the pervasive use of early American themes in contemporary culture, including literature, television series, film, theatre, graphic novels and video games.
Explores the creative endeavours of James Joyce and the artistic afterlives of his work.
The first book to theorise literary back-translation, distinguishing it from retranslation and indirect translation, and delineating its aesthetic, ethical, political and philosophical implications.
Presents the first scholarly edition of Arthur Conan Doyle’s important spiritualist novel, The Land of Mist, accompanied by selected short works of his spiritualist non-fiction.
A unique collection of essays on the theme of Katherine Mansfield’s Men.