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Urban Confrontations in Literature and Social Science, 1848-2001
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2010; US$ 99.95Edward J. Ahearn shows that together works from literature and the social sciences can illuminate city life in ways that neither can accomplish separately. Whether viewing Charles Baudelaire alongside Emile Durkheim and Georg Semel or Herman Melville's "Bartleby the Scrivener" as a challenge to James Q. Wilson's Bureaucracy, Ahearn... more...
Edward Said
Taylor and Francis 2008; US$ 22.95Edward Said is perhaps best known as the author of the landmark study Orientalism , a book which changed the face of critical theory and shaped the emerging field of post-colonial studies, and for his controversial journalism on the Palestinian political situation. Looking at the context and the impact of Said's scholarship and journalism, this... more...
The View From Here
Atlantic Books Ltd 2009; US$ 10.19The sequel to Joan Bakewell's bestselling autobiography, 'The Centre of the Bed', this is an inspiring and glorious celebration of what life can be like at 70 - which is, according to Joan, the new 50. Built loosely on her much-loved Guardian column 'Just 70', this book is Joan's discerning and heartwarming account of life at 70 and beyond. more...
Literature and the Political Imagination
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 57.95This volume shows how modern political theory can be enriched through an engagement with works of literature. It uses the resources of literature to explore issues such as nationalism, liberal philosophy, utopiansim, narrative and the role of theory in political thought. A variety of approaches are adopted and the aim is to show some of the many and... more...
A Magazine of Her Own?
Taylor and Francis 1996; US$ 45.95Like the corset, the women's magazines which emerged in the nineteenth century produced a `natural' idea of femininity: the domestic wife; the fashionable woman; the romancing and desirable girl. Their legacy, from agony aunts to fashion plates, are easily traced in their modern counterparts. But do these magazines and their promises empower or disempower... more...
Der Mythos von der Weisheit Ägyptens in der französischen Literatur der Moderne
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2011; US$ 34.06Hauptbeschreibung Die Frage nach den Gründungsmythen Europas ist im Zeitalter der Globalisierung besonders virulent. Will man ein europäisches Netzwerk schaffen, muss man sich auf die europäischen Dimensionen der nationalen Kulturen besinnen und ihre für den Kontinent Identität stiftenden Potenziale verfolgen. Ein Gründungsmythos Europas ist der... more...
Modernism, Magazines, and the British avant-garde
OUP Oxford 2010; US$ 94.99This book is a re-examination of the fertile years of early modernism immediately preceding the First World War. During this period, how, where, and under whose terms the avant-garde in Britain would be constructed and consumed were very much to play for. It is the first study to look in detail at two little magazines marginalised from many accounts... more...
The English Press in the Eighteenth Century (Routledge Revivals)
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 42.95First published in 1987, this is a comprehensive analysis of the rise of the British Press in the eighteenth century, as a component of the understanding of eighteenth century political and social history. Professor Black considers the reasons for the growth of the "print culture" and the relations of newspapers to magazines and pamphlets; the mechanics... more...
My Friend the Mercenary
The Text Publishing Company 2010; US$ 34.95Notorious mercenary Nick du Toit acted as James Brabazon's bodyguard while he reported from behind rebel lines on the Liberian civil war. Brabazon writes of this time and how Du Toit exposed details of the covert military operation to overthrow the government of Equatorial Guinea, a tiny oil-rich country, that failed with far-reaching consequences. more...
Life Writing and Political Memoir - Lebenszeugnisse und Politische Memoiren
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2012; US$ 38.47Hauptbeschreibung Dieser Band fasst internationale interdisziplinäre Forschungsbeiträge zu »Memory Studies« zusammen und enthält aktuelle Ergebnisse zur Diskussion über Memorien, Autobiographien, politische Erinnerungen und »Life Writing«. Der Band liefert eine Fülle neuer Erkenntnisse wie Erinnungen gesellschaftliche Diskussionen prägen und unser... more...









