Located some 600 miles from the coast of India, Sentinel Island is the home of the last people entirely cut off from the modern world, the Sentinelese.
In tracing Rahv's personal, political, and literary evolution, Kadish sheds light on such literary movements as modernism, proletarian literature, and Jewish writing as well as movements that defined American political history in the 20th century: immigration, socialism, communism, fascism, the cold war, feminism, and the New Left.
We are all now entering into a new region of the world, which designates its sites on all the given and imaginable expanses, and of which only a few had been able to foresee in the distance its wanderings and obscurities. [] This region itself, we soon foresee, as difficult as it may seem to formulate its partition, is mixed in time as much as in space, a common site which hides another gap. Time has changed and space has changed. A steep sepa...
This is the first monograph of George Edmund Street, a prolific High Victorian architect of churches and other buildings, the best known of which is the Royal Courts of Justice (the Law Courts). He was born in Essex and, after being articled in Winchester, worked in the office of George Gilbert Scott before setting out on his own account. His earliest works were in Cornwall, but he went on to design many churches, parsonages and schools in Oxf...
Focusing on black literary and visual art of the Black Arts Movement, this collection highlights artists whose work diverged from narrow definitions of the Black Aesthetic and black nationalism.
Sir George Beaumont is a key figure in the history of British art. As well as being a respected amateur landscape painter, he was a prominent patron, a collector, and co-founder of the National Gallery. William Wordsworth described Beaumont's friendship as one of the chief blessings of his life, and this edition reveals that the two men became collaborators as well as companions. In addition to documenting unique perspectives on social, politi...
Shortlisted for the British Fantasy Awards (Non-Fiction) 2022Shortlisted for the Locus Science Fiction Foundation Non-Fiction Award 2022SF haslong been understood as a literature of radical potential, capable of imaginingentirely new worlds and ways of being.
This book is a study of the social and legal consequences of mixed marriage in England by class, religion, race, and nationality between 1837 and 1939. Using a wide variety of sources, such as government documents, marital litigation, poor-law records, and autobiographies, it explores the reaction of the family, neighbourhood, and state to those who chose exogamous matches. The major factor in these marriages was gender. Wives did the emotiona...
Ibn Saud made strenuous efforts to preserve the socio-economic ties that united the communities of southern Iraq with the Najd and, in turn, those efforts helped encourage a wave of Sunni Arab migrants from Iraq who helped build the Saudi state.
Breaking new ground in the study of Irish modernity, Richard Howard draws parallels between the narratives of Shaw and White and the persistent influence of historical narratives embodied by the two-traditions paradigm in the region, as well as exploring the figure of the alien both in science fiction and in the history of Northern Ireland.
As publishers in private printing presses, as writers of dissident texts and as political campaigners against censorship and for intellectual freedom, a radical group of twentieth-century Irish women formed a female-only coterie to foster women's writing and maintain a public space for professional writers.
Art and the Nation State is a wide-ranging study of the reception and critical debate on modernist art from the foundation of the Irish Free State in 1922 to the end of the modernist era in the 1970s. Drawing on art works, media coverage, reviews, writings and the private papers of key Irish and international artists, critics and commentators including Samuel Beckett, Thomas MacGreevy, Clement Greenberg, James Johnson Sweeney, Herbert Read and...
The two romances translated in this volume, the Roman de Thÿbes and the Roman dâEUR(TM)Eneas, form, along with the Roman de Troie by Benoît de Sainte-Maure, a group of texts that are of considerable importance within French and European literature and culture.
This book investigates the highly engaging topic of the literary and cultural significance of 'sailor talk.' The central argument is that sailor talk offers a way of rethinking the figure of the nineteenth-century sailor and sailor-writer, whose language articulated the rich, layered, and complex culture of sailors in port and at sea.
This edition of Callimachus' select larger fragments and epigrams offers an indispensable guide for properly appreciating his poetic art. By also discussing important but lesser-known pieces, it sheds light on Callimachus' varied activity. Finally, it offers an up-to-date introduction to his life, career, and aesthetics.
Applying postcolonial perspectives and decolonial feminist methodologies in its discussion of historical novels depicting Catalina de los Ríos y Lisperguer, this book explores concerns surrounding gender and ethnicity in Chile, both during the colonial period in which the novels are set, and the era in which the authors are writing.
By tracing the political and ecological consequences of charting the Amazon River basin in narrative fiction, Mapping the Amazon examines how widely read twentieth-century novels by José Eustasio Rivera, Rómulo Gallegos, Mario Vargas Llosa, César Calvo, Márcio Souza, and Mário de Andrade have both represented and shaped the region long after publication.
This book examines menstruation, childbirth, and the menopause in contemporary Algerian, Mauritian, and French women's writing. It looks back to the pioneering work of the second-wave feminists and argues that contemporary women's writing has continued to challenge normative perceptions whilst also taking a more intersectional approach to corporeal experience.
Informed by the work of the contemporary thinker Jacques Rancière, Egalitarian Strangeness explores a range of texts by modern and contemporary French writers in which embedded social inequality and the often conflictual relations across class boundaries feature. Yet the texts also throw up forms of cohabitation and levelling which contest such inequality.
This is the first scholarly edition of one of the best-selling poets of the nineteenth century -- a poet influential on Keats, Shelley and Browning who was excluded from the canon by twentieth-century critics. It will be of interest to scholars of Romantic and Victorian poetry, labouring-class writing, and publishing history.
