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Provides the most comprehensive portrayal of Virginia Woolf's education to date.

Presents the first extended account of asbestos in literature, film and visual culture Few modern materials have been as central to histories of environmental toxicity, medical ignorance, and legal liability as asbestos. A naturally occurring mineral fibre once hailed for its ability to guard against fire, asbestos is now best known for the horrific illnesses it causes. This book offers a new take on the established history of asbestos from a literary critical perspective, showing how literature and film during and after modernism responded first to the material's proliferation through the built environment, and then to its catastrophic effects on human health. Starting from the surprising encounters writers have had with asbestos - Franz Kafka's part-ownership of an asbestos factory, Primo Levi's work in an asbestos mine, and James Kelman's early life as an asbestos factory worker - the book looks to literature to rethink received truths in historical, legal and medical scholarship. In doing so, it models an interdisciplinary approach for tracking material intersections between modernism and the environmental and health humanities. Asbestos - The Last Modernist Object offers readers a compelling new method for using cultural objects when thinking about how to live with the legacies of toxic materials. Arthur Rose is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Exeter.

Brings forth the Islamicate as an aesthetic and critical force in World Literature Since its advent, Islam has been cross-pollinating world literatures in Africa, Europe, Asia, the Pacific Ocean and the Americas, constantly enriching and enriched by various humanistic traditions in multiple languages, spanning the lives of individuals and societies throughout history. Yet, scholarship on Islam as World Literature has been sparse despite its significant contribution. Islam and New Directions in World Literature understands Islamic literary and cultural heritages as dynamic forces, constantly enriching and enriched by various humanistic traditions in multiple languages. Exploring Islam's presence in world literatures in two strands - on the one hand examining the orientalist versions and usages of Islam; on the other hand analysing the presence of Islam as a discursive and creative tradition - this book advances a consideration of Islam as an agent in the history of World Literature. In so doing, it delinks World Literature from its default 'Global North' originary moments and geographies, and posits the Islamicate as an alternative modality of literary worldliness. It avoids antagonising one literature against the other, and instead creates hospitable sites of fresh interpretations across hemispheres in a collection of chapters that engage a plurality of scholarly fields, and cover a variety of periods, literary traditions and languages. Key Features  Brings forth the Islamicate as an aesthetic and critical force in World Literature  Disrupts the one-way traffic in the field of World Literature studies by regarding Islam as both an alternative and a critical force behind creative processes  Covers a wide range of regions (Western European, Turkic, Indo-Persian, Middle-Eastern, African, Chinese literatures), temporal settings, literary traditions (fiction, poetry, critical theory and philosophy, oral literature and orature), as well as languages of the Islamicate  Asserts interdisciplinarity and moves beyond the binary frame of East vs West or North vs South  Includes a foreword by Jeffrey Einboden Sarah R. Bin Tyeer is Assistant Professor at the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University. Claire Gallien is Assistant Professor at the University of Montpellier 3 and is a member of the Institut de Recherche sur l'Âge Classique et les Lumières at the CNRS.

There are numerous myths and misconceptions entrenched in the popular history of golf. Neil Millar challenges these myths and revisits the evidence surrounding the early history of golf. He shows how the game blossomed in Scotland in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and describes the role of Scottish golfers in its spread to other countries between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. Early Golf also examines the relative antiquity of golf compared with that of other early stick-and-ball games - a topic that has been debated extensively. Golf historians frequently retell anecdotes concerning historical figures such as King James II of Scotland, Queen Catherine of Aragon, Mary Queen of Scots, King Charles I and James, Duke of York. This book re-examines the evidence underpinning such anecdotes and provides a reliable account of early golf history. Neil Millar has had a long-standing interest in the history of golf and has written extensively on this topic. He is a member of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews and has served on the R&A Rules of Golf Committee and the R&A Referees Panel. He is Professor of Molecular Pharmacology at University College London (UCL).

Celebrates the centennial of Katherine Mansfield's Bliss This book celebrates the centennial of Bliss's publication by offering new readings of some of Mansfield's most well-known stories, revealing not only the depth and innovation of her work but also the extent to which she was instrumental in revisioning the potential of the short story form. It includes the publication of a newly discovered short story potentially by Mansfield, with an explanatory essay. It also presents a selection of new poetry and a new short story by acclaimed New Zealand author Paula Morris, all inspired by Mansfield. Enda Duffy is the Arnhold Presidential Dept. Chair of English at UC Santa Barbara. Gerri Kimber is Visiting Professor in English at the University of Northampton. Todd Martin is Professor of English at Huntington University and President of the Katherine Mansfield Society.

Explores Beckett's artistic vision at the intersection of queer, disability and posthumanist studies This book examines why Beckett's writing is so queer, so disabled and disabling. Why did Beckett write so often about mental illness, disability, perversion? Why did he take such an interest in 'abnormals' and 'degenerates'? How did he reconceive 'the human' in the wake of Hitler and Stalin? Drawing on Beckett's voluminous archive, as well as his primary texts, the authors use psychoanalysis, queer theory, disability theory and biopolitics to push Beckett studies beyond the normal. Seán Kennedy is Professor of English and Coordinator of Irish Studies at Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia.

'The 600,000 men who fought in Scottish regiments or in the Navy and Air Force during the Great War fought for Scotland, to them a palpable space of affect and meaning. This important book of essays breaks new ground in capturing the ways that the Great War reconfigured the boundaries between Scottish and British culture.' Jay Winter, Yale University Explores the connections between Scottish writing and World War I This book highlights the variety of literary, social, political and philosophical reverberations of the war in Scottish writing. Part one of the collection presents multi-text case studies of areas such as Scottish Great War prose, popular literature, women's letters to the editor, Gaelic writing and philosophy. Part two contains essays devoted to individual authors, including canonical figures such as Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Nan Shepherd, Neil Gunn and John Buchan, as well as peripheral authors such as A. C. Mackinlay, Charles Murray and Ewart Alan Mackintosh. David A. Rennie an Honorary Research Associate of the Centre for the Novel, University of Aberdeen. Cover image: Stonehaven War Memorial (c) Casey Rennie Cover design: [EUP logo] edinburghuniversitypress.com ISBN 978-1-4744-5459-9 Barcode

A novel, interdisciplinary approach to populism and Turkish politics over the past 100 years This book enhances our understanding of 'the popular' in the study of politics through a critical examination of the uses and constructions of 'the people', from the establishment of the Turkish Republic to the present. It proposes ways of reading the insertion and operationalisation of the notion of 'the people' as a concept, a political subject, the object of policy and politics over the past century. The author assesses the ways 'the people' have been shaped by the history of the republic and how - in turn - they have informed ways of visualising society, the country's political culture and institutional architecture, and framed the parameters and repertoires of political action. Key Features  Offers a genealogy of the notion of 'the people' in Turkish political culture  Provides a highly original analysis of the performative, discursive, cognitive and affective elements that underpin Turkey's populist adventure  Proposes key conceptual tools to study popular and populist politics and applies them to the Turkish case  Intertwines contemporary political analysis with extensive historical research, bringing together insights from critical and political theory, sociology, social anthropology and cultural studies Spyros A. Sofos is a Political Sociologist at the Middle East Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Describes the sites and excavations of the most extensive archaeological research ever undertaken in southwest Afghanistan

A pioneering collection studying religion as a wider determinant of health in Britain This landmark volume presents the lived experience of British Muslims with regard to health inequalities, access to health services and involvement in health promotion initiatives. Exploring religion, ethnicity, racism, social class and deprivation, it examines how British Muslims interact with the UK health care system and the subsequent marginalisation in accessing benefits from those systems. The authors expose the unequal distribution of health benefits among British Muslims and explore how this has come to the fore during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using reflexive, interpretive, critical and evidence-based data-driven scenarios from across the UK, the book identifies loopholes in the health care system affecting high-risk groups. In doing so, it analyses why and how British Muslims live with the worst health outcomes when compared with all deprived social groups and ethnicities in the country. Key Features - Highlights the role of religion in exacerbating health inequalities, along with ethnicity, racism, social class and deprivation - Investigates contemporary health inequalities among second- and third-generation British Muslims, with a particular focus on disadvantaged children - Captures a wide range of health issues that British Muslims live with, such as: structural discrimination; COVID-19; mental health; consanguinity; genetic predispositions; dementia; domestic violence; end of life care; absentee fathers; and migration - Critically appraises current health practices and methods and offers practical guidelines on how to involve British Muslims in health promotion initiatives - Includes a foreword by Professor Aziz Sheikh OBE, Chair of Primary Care Research and Development, University of Edinburgh Sufyan Abid Dogra is Principal Research Fellow at Bradford Institute for Health Research, specialising in the anthropology of modern Britain.

'This impressive volume puts the past and present of Islamic preaching in comparative perspective. With nuanced attention to both larger contexts and local contingencies, it masterfully explores the ethical, political, and mediated stakes of this authoritative yet continually transforming Islamic practice from 14th century Cairo to 21st century Los Angeles, from Sweden to Saudi Arabia.' Yasmin Moll, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Michigan Explores Muslim religious oratory across time, culture and media Preaching has been central to Muslim communities throughout the centuries. The liturgical Friday sermon is a prime example, although other genres that are less commonly known also serve important functions. This book addresses the ways in which Muslims relate various forms of religious oratory to authoritative tradition in twenty-first-century Islamic practice, while striving to adapt to local contexts and the changing circumstances of politics, media and society. This is the first book of its kind to look at homiletics beyond a specific country focus. Taking into consideration the historical developments of Muslim preaching, it offers a collection of thoroughly contextualised case studies of oratory in Turkey, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Bosnia, Sweden and the USA. The analyses presented here show shared emphasis on struggles for legitimacy, efforts to speak authoritatively, as well as discursive opportunities and constraints. Key features - Explores the great variety of Muslim religious oratory in Muslim majority and minority contexts - Combines analyses of political and ideological uses of oratory, with a focus on its ritual aspects and ramifications - Puts particular emphasis on the impact and uses of various types of media in relation to the authoritative power of religious oratory - Stresses the symbolic power of religious oratory and its impact on cultural and national identity formation Simon Stjernholm is Associate Professor in the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen. Elisabeth Özdalga is a Professor and Senior Researcher at The Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul. Cover image: Turkey/Arabia: The Prophet Muhammad preaching from a minbar (pulpit) at a mosque in Medina, Saudi Arabia, as represented in a 16th century Siyer-i Nebi or Life of the Prophet commissioned in Turkey by Sultan Murad III (r. 1574-1595) akg-images / Pictures From History Cover design: [EUP logo] edinburghuniversitypress.com ISBN 978-1-4744-6747-6 Barcode

Examines ideas, beliefs and practices of identification in the medieval East Roman world This book offers an interdisciplinary approach - historical, literary, art-historical and archaeological - to the topics of ideology and identity in the medieval East Roman world. The individual chapters explore ideological discourses and practices in various contexts. In particular, they focus on the content of ideas and their role in shaping different kinds of group attachments and identifications within the imperial social order. Moreover, they explore the various visions of community which different collective identity discourses projected within and beyond the political boundaries of the empire. Including both top-down and bottom-up perspectives, and exploring both the empire's centre and its periphery, this collection offers new insights into ideology and identity in the Byzantine world. Yannis Stouraitis is Lecturer in Byzantine History in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh. His recent publications include A Companion to the Byzantine Culture of War, c. 300-1204 and, as co-editor, Migration Histories of the Medieval Afroeurasian Transition Zone: Aspects of Mobility between Africa, Asia and Europe, 300- 500 CE.

The last collection of short stories published in her lifetime, The Garden Party and Other Stories would solidify Katherine Mansfield's place as the most prominent modernist short story writer of her generation.

Explores how midterm elections have shaped the American presidency Midterm elections have forced presidents to adjust course, reshaped their relationship with the party they lead, and heralded the rise or fall of new electoral coalitions. This book presents a fresh perspective on the American presidency by analysing how midterms modify in crucial ways the mandate that a president gained at the time of their election to the White House. Midterms not only provide an important opportunity for voters to evaluate the record of a president so far, but also have consequences for an administration's pursuit of the president's agenda over the two years that follow. Bringing together political scientists and historians, this collection presents a multidisciplinary understanding of the interplay between midterm elections and the American presidency. Patrick Andelic is Senior Lecturer in American History at Northumbria University. Mark McLay is Lecturer in Twentieth-Century US History at Lancaster University. Robert Mason is Professor of History at the University of Edinburgh.

Through embodied and material practice research, underpinned with theories of new materialism, Tara Page shows how our ways of knowing, making and learning place are entangled with embodied and material pedagogies.

The first comprehensive reference book to define and delineate the intersections of modernism and technology Though modernism's emergence in an environment of techno-cultural acceleration has long been recognised, recent scholarship has deepened and challenged our understanding of the connections between twentieth-century cultural production and its technological interlocutors. In twenty-eight chapters by leading academics, The Edinburgh Companion to Modernism and Technology re-examines the machines and media that functioned as modernism's contexts and competitors. Grounded in an interdisciplinary approach informed by the theoretical and socio-historical frames of current teaching and research on modernism and technology, this research volume makes a crucial and timely intervention in the field of modernist studies. The scholarly contributions on machines that govern transport, production and public utilities, on media and communication technologies, on the intersections of technology with the human body, and on the technological systems of the early twentieth century capture the contemporary state of modernist technology studies and chart the future directions of this vibrant area. The Editors Alex Goody is Professor of Twentieth-Century Literature & Culture at Oxford Brookes University, UK. She is the author of Gender, Leisure Technology and Modernist Poetry: Machine Amusements (2019), Technology, Literature and Culture (2011) and Modernist Articulations: A Cultural Study of Djuna Barnes, Mina Loy and Gertrude Stein (2007), and co-editor of Reading Westworld (2019) and American Modernism: Cultural Transactions (2009). Ian Whittington is Associate Professor of English at the University of Mississippi. He is the author of Writing the Radio War: Literature, Politics and the BBC, 1939-1945 (2018) as well as a number of essays on radio studies and twentieth-century British, Irish, and Anglophone literature, and is editor of a special issue of The Global South on 'Radio Cultures of the Global South' (2022).

A complete edition with full scholarly apparatus and commentaries tracing Hemsterhuis' remarkable influence on the French Enlightenment, German Idealism and German Romanticism. The first English translation of François Hemsterhuis' widely influential late dialogues, which came to be entwined in contemporary philosophical debates in Germany The four published dialogues offer diverse treatments of non-materialist philosophy. Sophylus is concerned with providing the basic epistemological structures that Hemsterhuis believes are compatible with common sense, Socratic inquiry and Newtonian science. Aristeaus is a sustained series of reflections on arguments for the existence of God, concepts of order and chaos in the universe. Simon is closely modelled on Plato's Symposium in style, structure and content and provides the clearest statement of Hemsterhuis' late ethics and aesthetics. Finally, Alexis - the favourite work of many of the German Romantics - uses contemporary discussions of astronomy and optics to formulate a mythic ode to the role of enthusiasm and feeling in the constitution of wisdom. Two editorial introductions supplement these translations - the first by Daniel Whistler considers Hemsterhuis' relationship with Amelia Gallitzin and how that influenced what he came to call 'our philosophy' and the second by Laure Cahen-Maurel examines the role played by Jacobi and others in the transmission of these texts and their influence on Hölderlin's Hyperion and Novalis' Hemsterhuis-Studies in particular. Jacob van Sluis is a former subject librarian at the University Library of Groningen. Daniel Whistler is Reader in Modern European Philosophy at Royal Holloway, University of London.

A complete edition with full scholarly apparatus and commentaries tracing Hemsterhuis' remarkable influence on the French Enlightenment, German Idealism and German Romanticism. The first ever English translation of François Hemsterhuis' early series of philosophical letters published during the 1760s and 1770s In this edition, the Letter on an Antique Gemstone, Letter on Sculpture, Letter on Desires and Letter on Man and his Relations are published chronologically to gradually reveal Hemsterhuis' complete systematic vision. They are supplemented with three introductions: the first by Peter Sonderen pinpoints the significance of Hemsterhuis' remarkably influential aesthetics; the second by Jacob van Sluis provides the context to his comprehensive Letter on Man and his Relations; and the third by Gabriel Trop focuses on the importance of these writings in the history of ideas, especially Herder's translation and 'Postscript' to the Letter on Desires, Diderot's commentary on the Letter on Man and his Relations and Goethe's incorporation of Hemsterhuis' definition of beauty into his aesthetic reflections. Jacob van Sluis is a former subject librarian at the University Library of Groningen. Daniel Whistler is Reader in Modern European Philosophy at Royal Holloway, University of London.

The US political system is designed to ensure that freedom and opportunity will always be protected, by making it almost impossible for power to become concentrated in the hands of a few people seeking to run society for their own benefit. Have these aims been achieved?The answer is that Americans have sharply contrasting views on how well their political system works. They disagreed with each other when they established the system at the Constitutional Convention in 1787 and have continued to disagree ever since. This book covers the key issues, political systems and governing institutions at the heart of these disagreements, outlining the thinking behind the main points of view, to help its readers decide for themselves which viewpoint they find most persuasive.This new edition of the best-selling introduction to US Government and Politics has been completely revised and updated to reflect the changes in the area since the election of the new President.