Examines the use of Islamic referents and themes in literary writings by European authors.
The first critical edition of J. G. Lockhart’s classic biography of Walter Scott.
Traces the influence of early modern theology, particularly Protestant theology, on cultural understandings of and reactions to sensory disability in the period.
Reveals the influence of Transcendentalism in the Southern Hemisphere, focusing on Latin America, South Africa, Australia and the South Pacific.
A definitive account of newspaper and periodical press history across England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales covering 1650 to the present day.
Demonstrates how the career of Britain’s first major Black actor, Ira Aldridge, transformed a range of dramatic genres, including tragedy, melodrama and minstrel plays.
Investigates reading, writing and associational culture in the industrial workplace in Scotland and Northern England from the 1840s to the 1920s.
Offers a fresh approach to one of the towering intellectuals of the early modern period, Erasmus of Rotterdam.
Examines the philosophical background to theories of conflict in political theory and their sources in philosophy.
Examines the flagellation practices of Twelver Shi'i refugees in Syria for the first time.
Can the digitalisation of courts be more people centric?
Conducts the first genealogy of the philosophy of the anexact in twentieth century culture, introducing the concept as a means of understanding modernist avant-garde art and literature in the long mid-century (c. 1922–1972).