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Flexibility, Foresight and Fortuna in Taiwan's Development
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 195.00Using the developmental history of Taiwan as a starting point, Flexibility, Foresight and Fortuna critically examines several prevalent formulations of domestic development and international economy. The authors examine Taiwan's policy performance from, in turn, the developmental, the dependency, the statist, and the trade-off perspectives on political... more...
Sordid Images
Taylor and Francis 1994; US$ 160.00In this extraordinary and bold book, S.H. Clark explores and constructs a history of poetic misogyny. For the first time, a wide range of English poetry by men is examined for evidence of the articulation of heterosexual masculine desires. But Clark goes beyond a straightforward oppositional model of reading the male canon, to ask how we read this... more...
Blake, Modernity and Popular Culture
Palgrave Macmillan 2007; US$ 100.00This book explores the ways in which Blake reacted to the subcultures of his day, as well as how he has inspired popular, modernist and postmodernist figures until the present day. Blake's influence on later generations of writers and artists is more important than ever, extending into film, psychology, children's literature and graphic novels. more...
Liberating Medicine, 1720-1835
Pickering & Chatto Publishers 2009; US$ 99.00A collection of sixteen essays that focus on meanings within eighteenth century medical narratives. more...
The Reception of Blake in the Orient
Continuum International Publishing 2006; US$ 170.00This volume brings together research from international scholars focusing attention on the longevity and complexity of Blake`s reception in Japan and elsewhere in the East. It is designed as not only a celebration of his art and poetry in new and unexpected contexts but also to contest the intensely nationalistic and parochial Englishness of his work,... more...
When Kids Hurt
Baker Publishing Group 2009; US$ 13.99When Kids Hurt offers challenging insights on hard truth about contemporary adolescence to youth workers and parents in this accessible followup to the groundbreaking Hurt. more...
Asian Crossings
Hong Kong University Press 2008; US$ 52.00This book examine various topics and contexts of travel writings on China, Japan and Southeast Asia. From the first Colombian on a trade mission to China, to French women travellers in Asia, and the opening of "Japan Fairs" in the US during the latter half of the nineteenth century, this book offers a kaleidoscopic glimpse of the various... more...
Blake, Nation and Empire
Palgrave Macmillan 2006; US$ 90.00This book examines Blake's work in the context of discourses of nation and empire, of the construction of a public sphere, and restores the longevity to his artistic career by placing emphasis on his work in the 1820s. Relevant contexts include technology, sentimentalism, Ireland and Catholic Emancipation, missionary prospectuses and body politics. more...
Reception of Blake in the Orient
Continuum International Publishing 2006; US$ 150.00This book focuses attention on the longevity and complexity of Blake's reception in Japan and elsewhere in the East. This book offers a case-study of the way in which the vigorous afterlife of Blake's work has allowed active appropriation of an inspiring presence, rather than passive succumbing to a Eurocentric or Orientalist ideology.This... more...
Something We Have That They Don't
University of Iowa Press 2004; US$ 29.95Something We Have That They Don?t presents a variety of essays on the relationship between British and American poetry since 1925. The essays collected here all explore some aspect of the rich and complex history of Anglo-American poetic relations of the last seventy years. Since the dawn of Modernism poets either side of the Atlantic have frequently... more...









