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Uli Molsen

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Ross Collin

Literature and Ethics in High School English Classes

This book argues that when students read literature together in English class, they engage in ethical dimensions of reading unavailable to the solitary readers.

Wendy Larson

Optimism, Literature, and Culture in American Capitalism and Chinese Socialism

This book examines the similarity between capitalism and socialism over the twentieth century as both systems found ways to encourage happiness and optimism in their citizens. Comparing radically differen…

David Omotoso Stovall

Engineered Conflict

A hard-hitting exploration of how state policy displaces and isolates Black communities and how collective resistance creates spaces for working-class people of color to identify the true cause of conflic…

Carolin Duttlinger

Attention and Distraction in Modern German Literature, Thought, and Culture

This wide-ranging interdisciplinary study traces the intertwined histories of attention and distraction from the eighteenth century to the present day.

Tamar Koplatadze

Postcolonial Identities in Central Asian and Caucasian Literature

A monograph on the rich and complex history of postcolonial literature from the Caucasus and Central Asia, examining how post-Soviet authors have responded to the post-Soviet transition, and arguing that …

Jason Thalken

Fight Like a Physicist

An in-depth, sometimes whimsical look into the physics behind effective fighting techniques and examining the core principles that make them work: momentum, energy, center of mass, levers and wedges. It a…

Laura R Blume

The Art of Trafficking

The Art of Trafficking is a powerful condemnation of the U.S.-led War on Drugs and makes a strong case for urgent policy changes, both in the U.S. as well as in Central America.

Retrospection and Revision in Modern and Contemporary Art, Literature and Music

"What drives creative artists to turn back later in their careers to the subject matter of their earlier years and reimagine it, reclaim it, or rewrite it? This rich and timely collection asks what p…

Kathleen W Taylor Kollman

The Fictional Female Presidency in Film, Television, and Literature

This book examines the ways in which popular culture has entertained the notion of a female U.S. presidency through portrayals in film, television, and literature dating back to the 1930s.

David Glimp

Security, Fiscal Policy, and Sovereignty in Renaissance English Literature

David Glimp reveals how Renaissance England's growing tax system fundamentally reshaped its literature, influencing works by Shakespeare, Milton, Herbert, Marlowe, and More, among others. Foregrounding st…

Anat Vaturi

Beyond Tolerance and Prejudice

To understand the nature of interreligious coexistence, Beyond Tolerance and Prejudice, tests its boundaries from the original perspective of the post-conflict reactions of religious minorities - Jews and…

Adam Kirsch

On Settler Colonialism

Since Hamas's attack on Israel last 7 October, the term "settler colonialism" has become a centre of political debate in the United States. Many progressives, academics and student organisations…

Sublime Cosmos in Graeco-Roman Literature and Its Reception

"The essays collected in this volume examine manifestations of our sublime cosmos in ancient literature and its reception. Individual themes include religious mystery; calendrical and cyclical thinki…

Rocky

Protecting Our Children: Addressing Violence and Cyberbullying in South Africa

South Africa faces a double threat to its youth: physical violence and the growing menace of cyberbullying. This title, "Protecting Our Children: Addressing Violence and Cyberbullying in South Africa…

British Law and Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century

"Revealing how legal developments in Britain shaped and were shaped by imaginative writing, this volume provides fresh insights for scholars and students of eighteenth-century literature, law, and cu…

Sebastian P Klinger

Sleep Works

An exploration of sleep at the intersection of literature, science, and pharmacology in the early twentieth century. At the turn of the twentieth century, sleep began to be seen not merely as a passive st…

Kevin Schumacher

re:synthesis

Verletzende Rede übt nach Judith Butler eine "eigene Form von Gewalt" aus, indem sie bestehende Herrschaftsverhältnisse festigt. In literarischen Texten zwischen 1925 und 1955 erlebt die Darstel…

Melanie R. Hill

Colored Women Sittin' on High

"From blue-note turmoil to grace-note power, Black women preachers stand tall. In Colored Women Sittin' on High, Melanie R. Hill offers a new perspective on the art of the sermon in African American …