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The Romans invented 'satire' as a separate genre and used it both for personal invective and as a literary and philosophical mode of expression. In the hands of their greatest writers mockery and critique of society becomes an artform which later ages have imitated but not equalled.

A new English translation with the Latin text of Julius Caesar's The Gallic War Books V-VI. The commentary provides explanatory notes on points of historical, literary, and linguistic interest. A substantial introduction outlines the political, military, and literary career of Julius Caesar and situates The Gallic War in its historical and literary context.

This is the first comprehensive study of an industry that helped to create the global economy. Managing tramp ships was a high-risk potentially high-reward business. Using original documents, this book transports readers into the turbulent world of those who operated the precursors of today's bulk carriers.

Radical individuals, like anarchists and socialists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries were quite active when it came to crossing borders, creating radical networks, especially across the Atlantic Ocean. The creation, the functioning, and the impact of these networks will be analysed in detail in the present book.

This collection of ten chapters and three interviews focuses on the past two decades of Quebec cinema and takes an in-depth look at a Montreal-based filmmaking industry whose increasingly diverse productions continue to resist the hegemony of Hollywood and to exist as a visible and successful hub of French-language -- and ever more multilingual -- cinema in North America.

The first edition of Book 3 of Juvenal's Satires as a unit by itself contains a detailed introduction, Latin text and translation, and commentary. Poems 7-9 show Juvenal at the height of his powers, directing his biting satire at Roman nobles, the clientela system and literary life in the early 2nd century AD.

Hustlers in the Ivory Tower explores how French modernist writers, including Mallarmé, Apollinaire, and Proust, used newspapers and magazines as a forum for literary experimentation. The book shows how these interactions with the press yielded nuanced, self-conscious portrayals of the tensions between journalism and literature in modernist poetry and prose fiction.

Through readings of work by Joshua Cohen, Nicola Barker, Neal Stephenson and Grasshopper Manufacture, Digital Culture in Contemporary Fiction offers the first analysis of the representation of computational algorithms and their cultural consequences in twenty-first-century fiction, defining an emerging tradition of fiction attempting to redefine the novel's relevance within digital culture.

This two-volume edited collection illuminates the valuable counter-canon of Irish womenâEUR(TM)s playwriting with forty-two essays written by leading and emerging Irish theatre scholars and practitioners.

Britain experienced continual crises from the 1970s to Brexit in 2016. This innovative and comprehensive study pays special attention to three combined crises: the development of neo-liberal globalisation from the 1970s, the financial crash and its systemic effects from 2007 to 2009, and the "present crisis" beginning in 2010.

This two-volume edited collection covers three hundred years of Irish women's playwriting with forty-two essays written by leading and emerging Irish theatre scholars and practitioners. Volume One looks at the period from 1716 to 1992, exploring such varied themes as the impact of space and place on identity, women's strategic use of genre, and theatrical responses to shifts in Irish politics and culture.

The Pointe of the Pen argues that the nineteenth century's balletic innovations the most iconic of which was the ballerina en pointe, or dancing on the tips of her toes - assisted nineteenth-century poets in both conceiving and articulating the object of verse in an age increasingly shaped by the novel.

Cairo, 1920. In the cafés and the literary salons, the great minds of the Arab renaissance meet. Among them: May Ziadeh, pioneer of the Arab feminist movement and the love of Khalil Gibran's life. Celebrated by Cairo's literary world, May is unaware that she will soon lose everything and be fighting for her own freedom.

Cairo, 1920. In the cafés and the literary salons, the great minds of the Arab renaissance meet. Among them: May Ziadeh, pioneer of the Arab feminist movement and the love of Khalil Gibran's life. Celebrated by Cairo's literary world, May is unaware that she will soon lose everything and be fighting for her own freedom.

This volume focuses on the role played by working people and their initiatives in the dissolution of the British Empire, both in the metropole and in the colonies. Exploiting rare primary sources and adopting a transnational approach, our collection makes an original contribution to both labour history and imperial studies.

In this collection, art historians, archaeologists, historians and heritage practitioners explore Irish public monuments from the medieval to the modern era. Taking a new approach to the field, the volume integrates discussion of early Irish monumental work with that of the modern period, situating all Irish monuments on a continuum of shared concerns.

This volume represents the first to examine the influences, intersections, and developments of understandings of death and the afterlife between poetic, religious, and philosophical traditions in ancient Greece in one resource. The papers in it demonstrate the full richness, complexity, and flexibility of these ideas in the ancient Greek world, illuminating the free exchange of ideas concerning eschatological matters.

Keeping the Ancient Way provides a wealth of up-to-date scholarship and close readings across the spectrum of the poetry and prose of a major seventeenth-century writer. Its ten chapters open up topics that are central to the understanding and appreciation of a poet whose life was turned upside down by civil war and religious persecution.

This two-volume edited collection covers three hundred years of Irish women's playwriting with forty-two essays written by leading and emerging Irish theatre scholars and practitioners. Volume One looks at the period from 1716 to 1992, exploring such varied themes as the impact of space and place on identity, women's strategic use of genre, and theatrical responses to shifts in Irish politics and culture. Volume Two looks at the period from 19...

The first women's football book on Latin America centring the perspectives of players brings rare interview material uncovering the lived reality of women footballers beyond the cliché-ridden mass media discourse. It brings the first large-scale survey of South American women footballers? views into dialogue with institutional and media perspectives.