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Explores the multifaceted relationship between Greeks and Turks

[headline]The most wide-ranging study of the history of children's periodicals to date Since the publication of the first children's periodical in the 1750s, magazines have been an affordable and accessible way for children to read and form virtual communities. Despite the range of children's periodicals that exist, they have not been studied to the same extent as children's literature. The Edinburgh History of Children's Periodicals marks the first major history of magazines for young people from the mid-eighteenth century to the present. Bringing together periodicals from Britain, Ireland, North America, Australia, New Zealand and India, this book explores the roles of gender, race and national identity in the construction of children as readers and writers. It provides new insights both into how child readers shaped the magazines they read and how magazines have encouraged children to view themselves as political and world subjects. [editor bios]Kristine Moruzi is Associate Professor in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University, Australia. Beth Rodgers is Senior Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature at Aberystwyth University, Wales. Michelle J. Smith is an Associate Professor of Literary Studies at Monash University, Australia.

Examines the role occupied by the senses and the self in approaches to literary mimesis in nineteenth-century European literature Offers the first full set of comparative readings of works by E. T. A. Hoffmann and Honoré de Balzac, arguing that Balzac was a keen and sensitive reader of Hoffmann's works Introduces little-known primary materials by these two canonical authors, including visual material such as a hand-drawn line copied out by both Hoffmann and Balzac from Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy Makes the case for a new phenomenological reading of mimesis, emphasizing the role of the senses and the self in representation, by arguing simultaneously for a renewed understanding of the relationship between Romanticism and Realism Brings its focus to the motif of the line in order to open up an interdisciplinary approach to mimesis, understanding writing as a practice that lies alongside, and crosses over with, the act of drawing and other forms of mark-making Since Plato's Republic, mimesis -- the artwork's tacit claim to reflect or imitate real life -- has faced a near-constant stream of assaults, being accused of naturalising a supposedly uncomplicated relationship between world and fiction. Lines of Mimesis offers a revisionary account of mimesis. Specifically, it proposes a rethinking of the representational attitudes of two literary schools usually understood to be at odds with one another -- Romanticism and Realism -- through close readings of writings and drawings made by two figures usually taken to be proponents of those schools respectively: E. T. A. Hoffmann and Honoré de Balzac. Across these readings, Dickson argues that a more capacious understanding of mimesis is achieved when we understand it to pertain not to the reduplication of objects in the world, but to a negotiation of the subject's sensory entwinement with those objects. This new understanding can, in turn, more closely illuminate an artwork's own reflections on its relationship to the world, shedding light on the entanglements and crossovers between Romanticism and Realism.

[headline]Explores how Virginia Woolf reimagined the environment and nonhuman life in her writing The first half of the twentieth century was a period of accelerated resource extraction, industrial intensification and tipping points in pollution levels, hastening the emergence of an epoch in which humans are the key drivers of planetary change. Virginia Woolf and the Anthropocene situates Woolf's oeuvre as an important body of work within the literary history of our new planetary period, showing how her fiction and non-fiction engages with questions around climate change, environmental politics, imperial extractivism, eco-philosophy, species difference, natural history and extinction. Bringing together leading and emergent scholars, this collection recognises Woolf as a writer who was profoundly influenced by ecological and environmental questions throughout her life. It brings to light how Woolf responded to the environmental changes of her time and illuminates how her literary innovations continue to offer compelling ways of imagining the nonhuman and the planetary in our present moment. [bio]Peter Adkins is Lecturer in Modernist Literature at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of The Modernist Anthropocene: Nonhuman Life and Planetary Change in James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and Djuna Barnes (2022) and co-editor of Virginia Woolf, Europe and Peace: Aesthetics and Theory (2020). He has written widely on modernism, the environment and posthumanism.

[headline]The emergence of a mass reading public during the early decades of the nineteenth century sparked a period of creative innovation in the popular press While today we might associate 'new media' with digital technologies, such innovations have a long history that precedes - and in many ways anticipates - the present moment. This collection reveals how the period between 1820 and 1845 was crucial in the development of the modern press, including experimentation with new publication formats; the reinvention and remediation of older forms; and the definition of new kinds of contributors and audiences for print. It brings to light the contributions of many important but long-forgotten writers, illustrators and editors who created and harnessed the idea of a mass reading public and shows how steam printing, popular education campaigns and new technologies of illustration led to new trends in book and periodical production. [bio]Alexis Easley is Professor of English at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. She is the author of First-Person Anonymous: Women Writers and Victorian Print Media, 1830-70 (2004) and Literary Celebrity, Gender, and Victorian Authorship, 1850-1914 (2011). She has also co-edited four books, most recently Women, Periodicals, and Print Culture in Britain, 1830s-1900s, with Clare Gill and Beth Rodgers (2019).

Studies the ways in which Islamists engage with, rather than fight, the Western-dominated global order

[headline]The first book to explore the representation of reading and its often deleterious consequences in modern fiction Many major modernists - including Henry James, Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, Ford Madox Ford, Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf, William Faulkner, Elizabeth Bowen, Vladimir Nabokov and Ralph Ellison - wrote central scenes describing characters reading. In most cases, the readers depicted suffer unfortunate fates. Intriguingly, the act of reading is also often intertwined with sexual activities. The Reader in Modernist Fiction analyses the construction of fictional readers, tracing their development and transformation over the first half of the twentieth century. Brian Richardson explores how the effects of reading are represented within modernist and postmodern fiction, and studies misreading as a personal limitation, sexual invitation, aesthetic allegory and ideological critique. [bio]Brian Richardson is a Professor in the English Department of the University of Maryland and former president of the Joseph Conrad Society of America. He is the author of several books, including A Poetics of Plot for the Twenty-first Century: Theorizing Unruly Narratives (2019) and Unnatural Voices: Extreme Narration in Modern and Contemporary Fiction (2006).

[headline]Extends the existing body of scholarship on Comic Gothic to cover new media, contemporary texts and writing from a range of cultures Comic Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion explores the role of irony, satire, parody, pastiche and the absurd in Gothic texts dating from the eighteenth century to the present day. By bringing together important analyses of classic and recent Gothic texts, this collection assesses the place of Comic Gothic in the realms of culture, social interaction and politics. From revisiting foundational Gothic writers such as Horace Walpole to highlighting contemporary Gothic fiction from across the world, seventeen essays examine the role of comedy in early formations of the Gothic and the genre today. Its particular focus on the use of Comic Gothic in social media, popular culture and the visual domain make this book a distinctive and original contribution to Gothic Studies. [editor biographies] Avril Horner is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at Kingston University, London. With Sue Zlosnik she has co-authored many articles and several books, including Daphne du Maurier: Writing, Identity and the Gothic Imagination (1998), Gothic and the Comic Turn (2005) and Women and the Gothic (2016). Other works include Edith Wharton: Sex, Satire and the Older Woman (with Janet Beer, 2011) and Living on Paper: Letters from Iris Murdoch, 1934-1995 (with Anne Rowe, 2015). Sue Zlosnik is Emeritus Professor of English at Manchester Metropolitan University and former co-President of the International Gothic Association. With Avril Horner, she has published six books, including the aforementioned, as well as numerous articles. Alone, she has published essays on writers as diverse as J. R. R. Tolkien and Chuck Palahniuk, and a monograph, Patrick McGrath (2011). She is co-editor (with Agnes Andeweg) of Gothic Kinship (2013).

[headline]Provides paratextual readings of Anglophone and Hispanophone poems about celebrities, panics, pandemics and colonisation in the nineteenth-century United States Drawing examples from over 200 English-language and Spanish-language newspapers and periodicals published between January 1855 and October 1901, Paratextuality in Anglophone and Hispanophone Poems in the US Press, 1855-1901 argues that nineteenth-century newspaper poems are inherently paratextual. The paratextual situation of many newspaper poems (their links to surrounding textual items and discourses), their editorialisation through circulation (the way poems were altered from newspaper to newspaper) and their association and disassociation with certain celebrity bylines, editors and newspaper titles enabled contemporaneous poetic value and taste that, in the mid- to late-nineteenth century, were not only sentimental, Romantic and/or genteel. In addition to these important categories for determining a good and bad poem, poetic taste and value were determined, Bonifacio argues, via arbitrary consequences of circulation, paratextualisation, typesetter error and editorial convenience. [bio]Ayendy Bonifacio is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Toledo. He writes and teaches about American literature and culture, Latinx studies and print culture from the nineteenth-century to the present. His writing is published in American Periodicals, Prose Studies, American Literary Realism, The New York Times, Slate, ASAP/Journal, J19, The Black Scholar and other scholarly and public-facing venues.

Studies the impact of science and technology on the painting of Gerhard Richter Aline Guillermet uncovers Richter's appropriation of science and technology from 1960 to the present and shows how this has shaped the artist's well-documented engagement with the canon of Western painting. Through a study of Richter's portraits, history paintings, landscapes and ornamental abstractions, Guillermet reveals the artist's role in affirming the technological condition of painting in the second half of the twentieth century: a historical situation in which the medium and its conventions have become shaped, and to some extent transformed, by technological innovations. Aline Guillermet teaches History of Art at the Institute of Continuing Education, University of Cambridge and is a former Fellow of King's College, Cambridge.

[headline]Refines our understanding of Virginia Woolf as a politically engaged writer Virginia Woolf and Capitalism explores Woolf's engagement with and critiques of capitalism throughout her life, arguing for its central importance in our understanding of her as an author, activist and publisher. Galvanised by existing scholarship on the place of economics, class, gender and empire in Woolf's writing, this collection draws attention to her thinking about history, labour and economics and gives space for understandings of Woolf in the context of our own late-capitalist moment. Chapters by leading and emerging scholars range across Woolf's oeuvre in all its generic diversity, from her earliest short fiction and Night and Day to Three Guineas and Between the Acts, showcasing a range of critical approaches from the archival to the creative to the pedagogical. This collection demonstrates how productive and provocative thinking about Woolf's fiction and non-fiction through the lens of capitalism can be for Woolf scholars. [bio]Clara Jones is Senior Lecturer in Modern Literature at King's College London. She is the author of Virginia Woolf: Ambivalent Activist (2016).

Explains the importance of townspeople to the success of the Scottish Reformation of 1559-60 This book asks why Scottish Reformed Protestants were more successful than their European counterparts in imposing a thorough religious reformation on their country. It argues that the cooperation and acquiescence of townspeople was crucial to their success. Timothy Slonosky demonstrates that Scottish town councils exercised extensive control over religious practices within their burghs, creating a form of 'civic religion'. As such, it was only with the cooperation of municipal authorities that the Calvinist Protestants were able to implement religious changes after their military and political victory in 1560. The councillors and townspeople gave this support not because they thought the Catholic church was corrupt - as traditional and even recent histories have assumed - but because it was ineffective: having been shaken by crises of plague, war and economic collapse, townspeople were anxious to avoid further conflict and came to believe that God was punishing them for their sins. As a result, the Protestant revolutionaries faced little popular opposition and Scotland avoided the religious division and violence of other contemporary Reformations in France and the Low Countries. Key Features - Proposes an explanation for the relative absence of popular religious violence during the Scottish Reformation - Demonstrates the key role of Scottish town councils in governing local religion - Shows how the wars and plague of the 1540s opened townspeople to religious change - Uses burgh records from previously unstudied towns (Dundee, Haddington and Stirling), in different regions of Scotland, to draw conclusions about Scotland as a whole - Explains why Scottish Protestants were more successful than contemporary French and Dutch Protestants Timothy Slonosky is a Professor in the Humanities Department of Dawson College.

[headline]Throughout his career Shakespeare, although steeped in expert knowledge of military matters, weighted his plays towards a desire for peace Whilst Shakespearean drama provides eloquent calls to war, more often than not these are undercut or outweighed by compelling appeals to peaceful alternatives conveyed through narrative structure, dramatic context and poetic utterance. Placing Shakespeare's works in the history of pacifist thought, Robert White argues that Shakespeare's plays consistently challenge appeals to heroism and revenge and reveal the brutal futility of war. White also examines Shakespeare's interest in the mental states of military officers when their ingrained training is tested in love relationships. In imagery and themes, war infiltrates love, with problematical consequences, reflected in Shakespeare's comedies, histories and tragedies alike. Challenging a critical orthodoxy that military engagement in war is an inevitable and necessary condition, White draws analogies with the experience of modern warfare, showing the continuing relevance of Shakespeare's plays which deal with basic issues of war and peace that are still evident. [bio]Robert White FAHA is Emeritus Winthrop Professor of English at the University of Western Australia. His publications are mainly in the field of early modern literature, especially Shakespeare, and also Romantic literature. Monographs include Keats's Anatomy of Melancholy (Edinburgh University Press 2020); John Keats: A Literary Life (2010; 2012); Pacifism in English Literature: Minstrels of Peace (2008); Natural Rights and the Birth of Romanticism in the 1790s (2005); and Natural Law in English Renaissance Literature (1996). Other works include Avant-Garde Hamlet (2015); Shakespeare's Cinema of Love (2016); Ambivalent Macbeth (2018); and A Midsummer Night's Dream: Language and Writing (2020).

Presents a new way of examining the historical significance and endurance of Mary, Queen of Scots

[headline]Explores how espionage fiction captures the most significant political conflicts and crises of the last hundred years Reading Espionage Fiction: Narrative, Conflict and Commitment from World War I to the Contemporary Era probes the ways in which the struggles and loyalties of political modernity have been portrayed in the espionage story over the course of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Reading works by authors such as Somerset Maugham, Helen MacInnes, John le Carré, Sam E. Greenlee and Gerald Seymour as popular literature deserving of sustained attention, this book shows how these narratives have both created a modern genre and, at the same time, sought an escape from its limitations. Martin Griffin takes up the importance of plot and character and argues that, in this branch of fiction, the personal has always and ever been political. [biography]Martin Griffin is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Tennessee. He is the author of Ashes of the Mind: War and Memory in Northern Literature, 1865-1900 (2009), co-author of Narrative, Identity, and the Map of Cultural Policy: Once Upon a Time in a Globalized World (with Constance DeVereaux, 2013), and co-editor of Stories of Nation: Fictions, Politics, and the American Experience (with Christopher Hebert, 2017).

Explores how the longest peace of the early modern Middle East was established and consolidated

Cinema and Machine Vision unfolds the aesthetic, epistemic, and ideological dimensions of machine-seeing films and television using computers. With its critical-technical approach, this book presents to the reader new problems that arise as AI becomes integral to visual culture. It theorises machine vision through a selection of aesthetics, film theory, and applied machine learning research, dispelling widely held assumptions about computer systems designed to watch and make images on our behalf. At its heart, Cinema and Machine Vision is an invitation for film and media scholars to critically engage with AI at a technical level, a prompt for scientists and engineers working with images and cultural data to critically reflect on where their assumptions about vision come from, and a joint recognition of the fruitful problems of working together to understand the algorithmic governance of the visual. Daniel Chávez Heras is a Lecturer in Digital Culture and Creative Computing at King's College London.

Explores Scottish and international Christian responses to social problems in urban-industrial societies since 1800 How did Christians perceive and respond to new social problems of distinctly modern societies as they developed in Scotland and other countries during the 19th century? Amid the complexities of industrialisation, urbanisation, expanding global trade networks and nascent democratic politics, what kinds of social policies and initiatives did Christians in Scotland pursue and why? In honour of Stewart J. Brown's 34 years as Professor of Ecclesiastical History at the University of Edinburgh's School of Divinity, new research on one of his main areas of interest is presented in this edited collection from 14 distinguished and emerging scholars in modern religious history. Centred on historical analyses of religious communities in Scotland, the chapters provide comparative lenses with which to view sociological and theological developments in Scotland, through examinations of similar religious phenomena in England, Germany, the Netherlands and the USA. Andrew Kloes is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a historian in Washington, DC. Laura M. Mair is the Mary R. S. Creese Lecturer in Modern Scottish History at the University of Aberdeen and an Honorary Fellow of the University of Edinburgh's School of Divinity.

[headline]Examines Jane Austen's engagement with the broad range of artistic practices featured in her work Jane Austen was a keen consumer of the arts throughout her lifetime. The Edinburgh Companion to Jane Austen and the Arts considers how Austen represents the arts in her writing, from her juvenilia to her mature novels. The thirty-three original chapters in this Companion cover the full range of Austen's engagement with the arts, including the silhouette and the caricature, crafts, theatre, fashion, music and dance, together with the artistic potential of both interior and exterior spaces. This volume also explores her artistic afterlives in creative re-imaginings across different media, including adaptations and transpositions in film, television, theatre, digital platforms and games. [editor biographies]Joe Bray is Professor of Language and Literature at the University of Sheffield. He is the author of books and articles on fiction of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, including The Language of Jane Austen (2018) and The Portrait in Fiction of the Romantic Period (2016). Hannah Moss works in the heritage industry. She completed her PhD at the University of Sheffield and is the co-editor of a special issue of the journal Women's Writingo on the topic of women writers and the creative arts in Britain, 1660-1830. She has also published articles on Germaine de Staël, Ann Radcliffe and Felicia Hemans.

Studies captivity as cross-cultural interaction in the late medieval Mediterranean

Combines analytic epistemology and German idealism indispensable to today's Schelling revival

How does art transform our understanding of realism in the post-truth era? Arguing for the necessity of taking art's contribution to contemporary realism seriously, this edited collection intervenes on contemporary debates about realism by demonstrating that the arts do not simply illustrate philosophical theories. The significance of art's realism in times characterised by the normalisation of fake, manipulated and distorted representations of reality can only be fully understood by attending to the ways that the arts mediate, visualise and even shape reality. Each chapter features a different approach to realism and its aesthetic dimensions not only in the visual arts, but also in sound art, film, scientific imaging and literature. Maryse Ouellet is Research Associate in the Department of Media Studies at the University of Bonn. Amanda Boetzkes is Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory at the University of Guelph.

Brings Spinoza's philosophy into engagement with contemporary debates on climate change

FRONT FLAP THE EDINBURGH EDITION OF WALTER SCOTT'S POETRY GENERAL EDITOR: Alison Lumsden Walter Scott was born in Edinburgh in 1771 and had a remarkable literary career as a translator, editor, poet, novelist and dramatist. His work was read across the world and his literary and cultural legacies both at home and abroad are profound. Scott died at Abbotsford, his home in the Scottish Borders, in 1832. Scott's poetry dominated the early years of the nineteenth century. However, his significance for Romantic poetry has been lost by the absence of a recent and reliable edition. This new critical edition, which offers a companion to the Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels, aims to redress this situation with the very first complete collection of his poetry, offering newly edited texts, material hitherto uncollected, and supportive materials to allow readers to experience afresh the poetry that Scott wrote throughout his career. Bringing together for the first time Scott's complete poetical works, including several unpublished works, this edition: - restores Scott's notes to the status that they held during the early stages of publication - is edited to the standards established by the Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels, revisiting all the textual witnesses to establish reliable fresh texts - provides full textual apparatus and explanatory annotation to aid the reading of these neglected masterpieces by a twenty-first-century audience The Edinburgh Edition invigorates our understanding of Walter Scott's poetry and provides the contexts for understanding the foundations of his literary career BACK COVER [headline] The original poetry by Walter Scott in the Waverley Novels and other works This scholarly edition offers the first reliably identified collection of Walter Scott's original poetry in the Waverley Novels, the letters and the Journal. Past editors of Scott found it hard to recognise what is and is not quotation; but thanks to modern databases the poems in this volume have been identified as almost certainly his own. This collection demonstrates, again, Scott's brilliant versatility in the handling of verse forms and his extraordinary range of voice. The poetry of the Waverley Novels is often dramatic, being uttered or sung by one of the characters; mottoes at the heads of chapters stand in a critical relationship to the narrative; the poetry of the letters and Journal is often quizzical and self-mocking; and there are many superb parodies. As part of the 'meaning' of these poems lies in their context, this collection succinctly contextualises each one. It also provides full textual and explanatory annotation and an essay which explores, among other things, the wavering boundary between new creation and quotation. [bio] David Hewitt was formerly Regius Professor of English at the University of Aberdeen. He was Editor-in-Chief of the Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels, for which he edited: Rob Roy (2008), The Heart of Mid-Lothian (with Alison Lumsden; 2004), Redgauntlet (with G. A. M. Wood; 1997), and The Antiquary (1995). BACK FLAP THE EDINBURGH EDITION OF WALTER SCOTT'S POETRY The Lay of the Last Minstrel Marmion The Lady of the Lake Rokeby Don Roderick, The Bridal of Triermain, The Field of Waterloo and Harold the Dauntless The Lord of the Isles Shorter Poems Poetry from the Waverley Novels and Other Works Verse Drama Scott's Reflections on Poetry: 1830 Introductions and 1833 essays [bio] Alison Lumsden is Regius Professor of English at the University of Aberdeen where she directs the Walter Scott Research Centre.

[headline]Brings together queer theory and textual studies to revise our understanding of nineteenth-century print culture Queer books, like LGBTQ+ people, adapt heteronormative structures and institutions to introduce space for discourses of queer desire. Queer Books of Late-Victorian Print Culture explores print culture adaptations of the material book, examining the works of Aubrey Beardsley, Michael Field, John Gray, Charles Ricketts, Charles Shannon and Oscar Wilde. It closely analyses the material book, including the elements of binding, typography, paper, ink and illustration, and brings textual studies and queer theory into conversation with literary experiments in free verse, fairy tales and symbolist drama. King argues that queer authors and artists revised the Revival of Printing's ideals for their own diverse and unique desires, adapting new technological innovations in print culture. Their books created a community of like-minded aesthetes who challenged legal and representational discourses of same-sex desire with one of aesthetic sensuality. [bio]Frederick D. King teaches at Dalhousie University as an Assistant Professor for the Faculty of Management. His research examines Victorian literature and print culture, aestheticism, decadence, and queer theory. His work has been published in the Journal of Modern Literature, Contemporary Literature, Victorian Periodicals Review, Cahiers Victoriens et édouardiens and Victorian Review.

Explores the relationship between the arts, political agency and peace formation Artpeace represents a conceptual framing of the synergy between the arts and peacemaking, as well as a methodological strategy for addressing war and political conflict through the arts. Building on fieldwork undertaken in seven locations across Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America, this book investigates to what extent local and community art projects have played a role in broader national peace projects. Equally, it also looks into the factors that have blocked artists from translating their social imaginaries into political change in contexts of war and violence. The edited collection brings together peace and conflict scholarship with arts-based studies of social movements in conflict-affected societies to examine the proposition that the arts may offer an opportunity to shape peace processes in emancipatory ways, whilst examining the blockages that, at times, prevent them from making a tangible difference to the variations of peace being designed. Stefanie Kappler is Professor in Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding at the School of Government and International Affairs at Durham University. Oliver Richmond is Research Professor in IR and Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Manchester. Birte Vogel is Senior Lecturer in Humanitarianism, Peace and Conflict Studies at the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI), University of Manchester.

[headline]Explores the relationship between radical poetry and radical politics from the formation of the welfare state to the advent of Thatcherism Challenging received ideas about the British Poetry Revival, Luke Roberts presents a new account of experimental poetry and literary activism. Drawing on a wide range of contexts and traditions, Living in History begins by examining the legacies of empire and exile in the work of Kamau Brathwaite, J. H. Prynne, and poets associated with the Communist Party and the African National Congress. It then focuses on the work of Linton Kwesi Johnson, Denise Riley, Anna Mendelssohn and others, in the development of liberation struggles around gender, race and sexuality across the 1970s. Tracking the ambivalence between poetic ambition and political commitment, and how one sometimes interferes with the other, Luke Roberts troubles the exclusions of 'British Poetry' as a category and tests the claims made on behalf avant-garde and experimental poetics against the historical record. Bringing together both major and neglected authorships and offering extended close readings, fresh archival research and new contextual evidence, Living in History is an ambitious and exciting intervention in the field. [bio]Luke Roberts is Senior Lecturer in Modern Poetry at King's College London. He is the author of Barry MacSweeney and the Politics of Post-War British Poetry: Seditious Things (2017), which was shortlisted for the University English first book prize. His writing has appeared in ELH, Textual Practice, The Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry and elsewhere.

[headline]A uniquely comprehensive two-volume study of Mina Loy's relationship to the human body and soul Mina Loy has long been recognised as a writer who insists on the primacy of the corporeal. Over two volumes, Sara Crangle excavates how Loy's relationship to the human body was inextricable from her esoteric understanding of the human soul. Elevated Realms is the first study book-length study devoted to Loy's affinities with alternative spiritualities ancient and modern. Aligning Loy's heterodoxies with her vanguardism, this volume considers Loy's engagements with mesmerism, spiritualism and telepathy; enchantment and visionariness; psychoanalysis, philosophy and physics; Christian Science and Theosophy. Attending to Loy's presentations of the upper half of the body - heartscapes, spines, eyes and nerve centres - Elevated Realms unearths the coordinates of Loy's esoteric Eros, a transcendent, orgasmic love that is cosmic, intimate, aesthetic and a corrective to women's disregarded satiation. The requisite counterpart to her acerbic feminist satires, Loy's Eros re-envisions abjectified, feminised posturing as a dorsality with the potential to access the beyond. [bio]Sara Crangle is Professor of Modernism and the Avant-Garde at the University of Sussex, where she researches and teaches literature and culture from 1850 onward, emphasising approaches experimental and decolonial. Her books include I'm Working Here: The Collected Poems of Anna Mendelssohn (2020); On Bathos: Literature, Art, Music (with Peter Nicholls, 2012); Stories and Essays of Mina Loy (2011); and Prosaic Desires: Modernist Knowledge, Boredom, Laughter, and Anticipation (Edinburgh University Press, 2010).

Bringing together leading scholars, this volume is the first of its kind to address the growing global phenomenon of transnational repression - using tactics that include surveillance, coercion, harassment and physical violence - in a comparative perspective.