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The first full-length study of Frederick Douglass' visit to Scotland in 1846 Frederick Douglass (1818-95) was not the only fugitive from American slavery to visit Scotland before the Civil War, but he was the best known and his impact was far-reaching. This book shows that addressing crowded halls from Ayr to Aberdeen, he gained the confidence, mastered the skills and fashioned the distinctive voice that transformed him as a campaigner. It t...

Places water at the centre of a new approach to literary criticism Water is a major global issue that will shape our future. Rarely, however, has water been the subject of literary critical attention. This book identifies water as a crucial new topic of literary and cultural analysis at a critical moment for the world's water resources, focusing on the urgent context of Israel/Palestine. It argues for the necessity of recognising water's vita...

The first in-depth exploration of Shakespeare's representations of climate and the sky While ecocritical approaches to literary texts receive more and more attention, climate-related issues remain fairly neglected, particularly in the field of Shakespeare studies. This monograph explores the importance of weather and changing skies in early modern England while acknowledging the fact that traditional representations and religious beliefs sti...

Aidan explores the ways in which Nietzsche's warning that 'the desert grows' has been taken up by Heidegger, Derrida and Deleuze in their critiques of modernity, and the desert in literature ranging from T.S Eliot to Don DeLillo, from imperial travel writing to postmodernism, and from the Old Testament to salvagepunk.

Reinvigorates our understanding of Victorian and modernist works and society This book brings together eleven essays by international specialists in Victorian culture and modernism and provides a general and period-specific introduction to distributed cognition and the cognitive humanities. The essays revitalise our reading of Victorian and modernist works in the fields of history of technology, science and medicine, material culture, philos...

How did the Scottish legal system respond to what were deemed 'illicit and unnatural practices' after 1900? Using a wide range of prosecution and trial records, along with more recent newspaper coverage of court proceedings, this book furnishes a fascinating insight into the relationship between the law, sex, and society in modern Scotland. Case studies of sex-related offences, including abortion, bestiality, brothel-keeping, child sexual ass...

A comprehensive narrative of nineteenth-century Ottoman cultural history This book argues that the periodic ceremonial intrusion into the everyday lives of people across the Ottoman Empire, which the annual royal birthday and accession-day celebrations constituted, had multiple, far-reaching and largely unexplored consequences. On the one hand, it brought ordinary subjects into symbolic contact with the monarch and forged lasting vertical tie...

This collection of fourteen essays explores how the dominant media of our time - film and television - have engaged with the golden age as formulated in the Western classical tradition.

The Universal Conchologist - exhibiting the figure of every known shell accurately drawn and painted after nature is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1789.Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical...

Reads Victorian literature and science as artful practices that surpass the theories and discourses supposed to contain them What is the connection between Victorian writing and experiment? Artful Experiments seeks to answer this question by approaching the field of literature and science in a way that is not so much centred on discourses of established knowledge as it is on practices of investigating what is no longer or not yet knowledge. T...

Renata K Miller's deeply researched and original book reveals the overlooked centrality of the Victorian actress to representations of women's rebellion in novelists from Dickens to James. In revelatory chapters on George Eliot's depiction of actresses in her fiction and poetry, and the actress as suffrage activist, muse, and feminist inspiration, she rewrites the literary history of the Victorian era.' Elaine Showalter, Princeton University ...

The first extensive analysis of the translation, publication and critical reception of Alexander von Humboldt's writings in nineteenth-century Britain Alexander von Humboldt was one of the most important scientists of the nineteenth century. Captivating his readers with his vibrant, lyrical prose, he transformed understandings of the earth and space by rethinking nature as the interconnection of global forces. This book argues that style was ...

Das Bergrecht hat sich seit seinem Inkrafttreten vor 30 Jahren durch Gesetzgebung und Rechtsprechung stark weiterentwickelt. Hierzu hat vor allem die verstärkte Öffnung des Bergrechts zum öffentlichen Recht und insbesondere zum Umweltrecht erheblich beigetragen. Die 2. Auflage wurde daher grundlegend überarbeitet. Schwerpunkte sind: die Einführung einer Umweltverträglichkeitsprüfung in das Bergrecht, die Stellung des Grundeigentümers in bergre...

Explores the little art communities and their aesthetic products in the early twentieth century This book is first to historicise and theorise the significance of the early twentieth-century little art colony as a uniquely modern social formation within a global network of modernist activity and production. Alongside a historical overview of the emergence of three critical sites of modernist activity - the little art colonies of Carmel, Provi...

Does history have an active role in shaping British foreign politics? Do governments learn lessons from the past? History is a powerful tool in the creation of foreign and security policy, enabling states to build upon successes and avoid past mistakes. Louise Kettle's insightful analysis - drawing on a wealth of previously unseen documents sourced by Freedom of Information requests as well as interviews with officials from government and int...

How can we reinvigorate the human capacity for political judgement as a practical activity capable of addressing the uncertainties of our postfoundational world? The book takes up this challenge by drawing on the historically attuned perspective of twentieth-century philosophies of existence - in particular the work of Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus and Hannah Arendt. Displacing the lingering rationalist temptations, it en...

Is control the cultural logic of the twenty-first century? With Deleuze's brief but influential work on control as a starting point, the eleven essays in this book focus on the question of how contemporary control mechanisms influence, and are influenced by, cultural expression. They also collectively revaluate Foucault and Deleuze's theories of discipline and control in light of the continued development of biopolitics. Written by an impre...

Expressive Morphology in the Languages of South Asia explores the intricacies of the grammars of several of the languages of the South Asian subcontinent. It examine grammatical resources for shaping elaborative, rhyming, and alliterative expressions, conveying the emotions, states, conditions, and perceptions of speakers.

Discourses of Disorder: Riots, Strikes and Protests in the Media Riots, strikes and protests are heavily mediatised events. Media representations thus play a crucial role in narrating instances of civil disorder for the public where they define the issues at stake, delimit frames of reference and debate, and ultimately legitimise or delegitimise the actors, actions and causes involved. From a critical semiotic perspective, drawing on insights...

Ihrer Angst hat Sina den Namen Mimosensumpfkuh gegeben und flirtenden Männern gegenüber bezeichnet sie sich lässig lächelnd als frigide, um sie wirkungsvoll abzuschrecken. Auch sonst zeigt sie sich cool in ihrem neuen Leben in Hamburg. Nur der ebenso souveräne wie heiße Fotograf Sam erkennt die Panik unter ihrer Maske der Selbstsicherheit. "Frigidität? Das ist meine Lieblingsherausforderung", lautet seine lapidare Antwort auf ihre Abfuhr. Sein...