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During the Enlightenment, people from the middling sort organised themselves into 56 patriotic societies in Denmark, Norway, and the German duchies of Schleswig and Holstein.

This book argues that one of the most striking aspects of Kim Stanley Robinson's fiction is his concern with literary apprenticeship. Engaging with a sub-set of his novels concerned with the composition of a narrative account, this book reads Robinson's fiction as addressing problems bound to narrative, examining its structures, limits, possibilities, and value.

This beautifully illustrated book shines new light on this most famous of ancient monuments, and is the first in-depth study of archaeology and astronomy at Stonehenge for both researchers and the public alike. A very important contribution to the field, it is a book that should be widely read.

Theodore Syncellus's sermons provide contemporary evidence for devotion to the Virgin Mary in Constantinople in the 620s, first the veneration of her miraculous Robe at her church in Blachernae, and second the central role she was believed to have played in saving the city in the Avar siege of 626.

Horror That Haunts Us: Nostalgia, Revisionism, and Trauma in Contemporary American Horror aims to examine why we repeatedly return to certain popular horror films. Authors from a range of backgrounds invite readers to consider their own relationships between past horrors -- both on film and through trauma -- and present lives.

This work attempts a re-reading of Peckinpah's films by applying recent scholarship on the Gothic to understand better one distinctive approach he used in his critique of American institutions. It extends beyond the Western (with which he is commonly identified) to focus on his other work, in the light of recent work on the Gothic.

This translation of the sermons of the Patriarch Germanos II (1223-40) draws attention to an unfairly neglected source for a critical period when the survival of Byzantium was in the balance. They support the patriarch's enduring importance as an architect of the Byzantine recovery from the Latin conquest of Constantinople in 1204.

This critical study engages with the films of the Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn, from his first feature Pusher (1996) up to and including Copenhagen Cowboy (2023).The book focuses on Refn's treatment of genre, gender and glamour and rejects simplistic readings of his work as 'macho' or misogynistic arguing instead that his films provide complex and layered representations of masculinity.

This absorbing study chronicles the remarkable movement for domestic worker rights in Indonesia. Examining the contribution of workers, activists, unionists, journalists, and scholars from the 1980s to COVID-19. it offers an original perspective on the spatial politics and everyday experiences of cross-class feminist and transnational social movement organizing.

This study of how early modern Spanish literature constitutes a cultural 'Golden Age' addresses the evolving uses of a literary canon that is now regarded as national cultural patrimony. It approaches these uses of the Spanish Golden Age as a diachronic problem whose analysis can address some of the most persistent questions in the field of Hispanism.

Counter-Cartographies proposes new methods of cultural and literary analysis that read against the mapped spectacle of a hyper-planned and developed (post)colonial city. To excavate, wayfind, circumvent, and confabulate in Singapore enables us to understand the contours and pressures of authoritarian governance and to reveal the insidious aspects of biopolitical power and ecological control.

Providing the first analysis of screen and stage adaptations of Peace's writings, and featuring an exclusive interview with the author, this comprehensive overview of the canon of contemporary British writer David Peace is a must-read for students, critics and fans alike.

Radical individuals, like anarchists and socialists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries were quite active when it came to crossing borders, creating radical networks, especially across the Atlantic Ocean. The creation, the functioning, and the impact of these networks will be analysed in detail in the present book.

The first critical, comprehensive history of a revolutionary park "ahead of anywhere" at that time and a pioneer in the development of urban public parks in general. The Birkenhead Improvement Commissioners envisaged it as an integral element within a wider town planning framework. They recognised the positive impact it could make in alleviating public health problems, while fostering social cohesion. In reality, it was not until the turn of the century that it could be regarded as a People's Park.

Through essays on Virginia Woolf, Roger Fry, Rebecca West, T.S. Eliot, and E.M. Forster, The Work of the Living contends that modernism's artist-critics elevate criticism to a public mode of art and expression through their craft, rhetorical strategies, techniques, figurative language, and even their chosen circulations for their critical nonfiction.

This collection of ten chapters and three interviews focuses on the past two decades of Quebec cinema and takes an in-depth look at a Montreal-based filmmaking industry whose increasingly diverse productions continue to resist the hegemony of Hollywood and to exist as a visible and successful hub of French-language -- and ever more multilingual -- cinema in North America.

Hustlers in the Ivory Tower explores how French modernist writers, including MallarmÃ(c), Apollinaire, and Proust, used newspapers and magazines as a forum for literary experimentation. The book shows how these interactions with the press yielded nuanced, self-conscious portrayals of the tensions between journalism and literature in modernist poetry and prose fiction.

Through readings of work by Joshua Cohen, Nicola Barker, Neal Stephenson and Grasshopper Manufacture, Digital Culture in Contemporary Fiction offers the first analysis of the representation of computational algorithms and their cultural consequences in twenty-first-century fiction, defining an emerging tradition of fiction attempting to redefine the novel's relevance within digital culture.

This is the first scholarly edition of one of the best-selling poets of the nineteenth century -- a poet influential on Keats, Shelley and Browning who was excluded from the canon by twentieth-century critics. It will be of interest to scholars of Romantic and Victorian poetry, labouring-class writing, and publishing history.

The Romans invented 'satire' as a separate genre and used it both for personal invective and as a literary and philosophical mode of expression. In the hands of their greatest writers mockery and critique of society becomes an artform which later ages have imitated but not equalled.

This is the first comprehensive study of an industry that helped to create the global economy. Managing tramp ships was a high-risk potentially high-reward business. Using original documents, this book transports readers into the turbulent world of those who operated the precursors of today's bulk carriers.

This edition of Callimachus' select larger fragments and epigrams offers an indispensable guide for properly appreciating his poetic art. By also discussing important but lesser-known pieces, it sheds light on Callimachus' varied activity. Finally, it offers an up-to-date introduction to his life, career, and aesthetics.

Based on a series of case studies following a wide-ranging introduction, this book examines the history of specialized dictionaries and encyclopedias during a period in which they developed dramatically, rising numerically from a trickle to a flood even as they came to cover many varieties of knowledge.