Challenging the popular opinion that the rising inter-personal and inter-organizational networks confer advantage to individuals as they secure education resources, this book identifies new forms of emerging social exclusions.
This is the first complete biography of John Spargo, a key popularizer of evolutionary socialism in the Socialist Party of America in the early Twentieth century. One... Læs mere
This book explores German and European exile visual artists, designers and film practitioners in the United States such as Max Beckmann,... Læs mere
Temporal Circumstances provides powerful and detailed interpretations of the most important and challenging of the Canterbury Tales. Well-informed and clearly written, this book will interest both those familiar with Chaucer's masterpiece and readers new to it.
The first full length treatment of ethnic and national identity in early Twentieth-century China, Leibold traces... Læs mere
This book reads the surprisingly widespread representations of cannibals and cannibalism in medieval English literature as political metaphors that were central to England's on-going process of articulating cultural and national identity.
This book examines the artistic use of freak shows between 1900-1950. During this period,... Læs mere
Opposing mainstream social science, usually hostile towards coercion and the state, the author sees social order as based on self... Læs mere
A pioneering critical study of the short stories of V.S. Pritchett and William Trevor, drawing on hitherto unpublished... Læs mere
Vigen contends that ethicists, healthcare providers, and scholars arrive at an adequate understanding of human dignity and personhood only when they take seriously the experiences and needs of those most vulnerable due to systemic inequalities.
This study explores Hollywood's invention of Britain through the adaptation of its literature. Utilizing Derrida's Margins of Philosophy... Læs mere
Looking at the gothic in Victorian fiction, the development of cinema and Hitchcock's Vertigo , this book explores the contained or repressed desires... Læs mere