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Essays IVirginibus Puerisque and Other Papers R. L. Stevenson Edited by Robert-Louis Abrahamson

Edited byRobert-Louis Abrahamson, Collegiate Professor of English, University of Maryland University College’s European Division

October 2018Hb • 9780748643844 • £80.00 BIC: DN, DS

DescriptionThese essays, written from 1874 to 1880, established ‘R.L.S.’ as one of the prominent young writers of his time, a provocative and philosophically inclined bohemian playfully offering advice to his post-Darwinian generation about how to find contentment in a society of rigid bourgeois demands. In this first ever scholarly edition, the 1881 text is followed by extensive explanatory notes and the story of the composition and reception of each essay. The volume opens with a full listing of all Stevenson’s essays followed by a substantial introductory discussion of Stevenson’s career as essayist, the characteristics and literary contexts of his essays, and the critical and popular reception of his essays from the 1870s to the present day. The volume Introduction proper then presents the publication history of Virginibus Puerisque, the reception of the book and notable characteristics of the collection taken as a whole: its style and shape, and the aesthetic and ethical vision it presents.

The first scholarly edition of Stevenson’s essays, involving a full and comparative examination of manuscripts, magazine and volume publications

316 pp. 234 x 156 mm (Royal 8vo)20 b&w illustrations

Literary Studies

Key Features• Introductory overview of Stevenson as essayist• Composition and publication history of each essay• Publication history of the volume of collected essays• Notes identifying literary references, Stevenson’s idiosyncratic diction, social

and historical allusions and cross references to Stevenson’s other works

SeriesThe New Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Works of Robert Louis Stevenson

Readership Academic, teachers, researchers, postgraduates and undergraduates in Scottish Literature; Nineteenth-Century Literature / Scottish Literature; Literary History; Prose.

Also available in:PDF, EPUB

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The United States and the Iranian Nuclear ProgrammeA Critical History Steven Hurst

The AuthorSteven Hurst, Reader in Politics, Manchester Metropolitan University

October 2018Hb • 9780748682638 • £75.00 BIC: JPSF, JPSD, JWM, HBLW, 1FBN, 1KBB

DescriptionSteven Hurst traces the development of the Iranian nuclear weapon crisis across its historical context: from the conception of Iran's nuclear programme under the Shah in 1957 to the signing of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action in 2015.

Emphasising the centrality of domestic politics in decision-making on both sides, Hurst adopts a broader perspective on the Iranian nuclear programme and explains the continued failure of the USA to halt it. He reveals how President Obama’s alterations to the American strategy, accompanied by shifts in Iranian domestic politics, finally brought about a resolution.

A critical overview of the USA's efforts to prevent Iran from building nuclear weapons, from the 1970s to 2015

304 pp. 234 x 156 mm (Royal 8vo)

Politics

Key Features• The first comprehensive overview of US efforts to prevent Iran acquiring

nuclear weapons• Covers the US-Iranian nuclear relationship from 1957 to the present• Detailed analysis of the escalation of the crisis in the 21st century, placing

that development in proper historical context• Critiques US policy, explaining why it failed to achieve its objectives

Readership Final year undergraduates, MA students and academics in Politics, International Relations, Islamic Middle Eastern Studies, History and American Studies departments



Architectural MaterialismsNonhuman Creativity Edited by Maria Voyatzaki

Edited byMaria Voyatzaki, Associate Professor of Architectural Design and Technology, School of Architecture of Aristotle, University of Thessaloniki

October 2018Hb • 9781474420570 • £80.00 BIC: AMA, HPN, HPJ, HPS

DescriptionThis book gathers 14 architects, designers, performing artists, film makers, media theorists, philosophers, mathematicians and programmers to explore how new philosophies of matter are affecting the study and practice of architecture today.

Maps materiality’s importance in the posthuman future of architecture

304 pp. 230 x 164 mm56 B/W illustrations

Philosophy

Key Features• Examines how contemporary materialist philosophies affect the theory and

practice of architecture • Addresses the consequences of the strong impact of information

technology and computation on the ideas about matter and on the processes through which it can be modelled and tested

• The interdisciplinary approach allows architecture, philosophy, materials sciences, humanities and media theory to cross their disciplinary boundaries to offer more profound insights into contemporary architecture

SeriesNew Materialisms

Readership Upper-level undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers working in contemporary philosophy and architecture.


Contributors• Jen Archer-Martin, Subject Coordinator of Spatial Design, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa Massey University, Aotearoa,

New Zealand• Levi R. Bryant, Professor of Philosophy, Collin College, USA• Vera Bühlmann, Professor of Architecture Theory, Vienna Technical University• Mark Burry, Architect and Founding Director of the Smart Cities Research Institute, Swinburne University of

Technology, Australia.Marcos Cruz, Professor of Innovative Environments and Director of the BiotA Lab, The Bartlett, University of London, UK

• Manuel DeLanda, Lecturer in Architecture, Princeton University School of Architecture, USA; Lecturer in Architecture, University of Pennsylvania School of Design, USA; Adjunct Professor of Architecture and Urban Design, Pratt Institute, USA; Gilles Deleuze Chair and Professor of Philosophy, European Graduate School, Switzerland

• Pia Ednie-Brown, Associate Professor in the School of Architecture and Design, RMIT University, Australia• Kas Oosterhuis, Professor, Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning, Qatar University in Doha, Qatar• Jussi Parikka, Professor in Technological Culture & Aesthetics, Winchester School of Art, University of

Southampton, UK• Luciana Parisi, Reader in Cultural Theory and Co-director of the Digital Culture Unit, Goldsmiths, University of

London, UK• Julieanna Preston, Professor of Spatial Practice, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa Massey University, Aotearoa, New

Zealand• Lars Spuybroek, Professor of Architecture, Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, USA• Maria Voyatzaki (Vogiatzaki), Professor of Architecture, Anglia Ruskin University, UK; Professor of Architectural

Design and Technology, School of Architecture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece• Fernando Zalamea, Professor of Mathematics, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia

Architectural MaterialismsNonhuman Creativity Edited by Maria Voyatzaki

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Deleuze's BergsonismCraig Lundy

The AuthorCraig Lundy, Senior Lecturer in Social Theory, Nottingham Trent University

October 2018Pb • 9781474414319 • £19.99 BIC: HPJ, HPM, HPCF, HPS

DescriptionHenri-Louis Bergson (1859–1941) was a French philosopher who is widely and rightly regarded to be amongst the most significant thinkers for Gilles Deleuze’s work. Deleuze is largely responsible for having revived and contoured the prevailing interest in Bergson’s work through his 1988 book Bergsonism. This critical introduction and guide to Bergsonism gives readers of both Deleuze and Bergson an opportunity to discover and fully connect with the philosophical encounter between these two great thinkers.

The first book dedicated to Bergsonism (1988): Gilles Deleuze's seminal study of Henri Bergson's philosophy

216 pp. 234 x 156 mm (Royal 8vo) 3 B/W illustrations

Philosophy

Key Features• Provides the first dedicated exposition of Deleuze’s groundbreaking study of

Bergson• Describes and explores several of Deleuze’s most important concepts, such

as the ‘virtual’ and ‘multiplicity’, in their original setting• Demonstrates in detail how the various components of Deleuze’s

Bergsonism work together to create a consistent and productive ‘whole’

SeriesCritical Introductions and Guides

Readership Upper-level undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers working in Deleuze and Bergson Studies and in contemporary philosophy more generally.

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Table of Contents AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroductionThe Method of IntuitionDuration and MultiplicityMemory and the VirtualDualism or Monism?The Élan Vital and DifferentiationNotesBibliographyIndex


Rethinking Brechtian Film Theory and CinemaAngelos Koutsourakis

The AuthorAngelos Koutsourakis, University Academic Fellow, University of Leeds

October 2018Hb • 9781474418904 • £75.00 BIC: APFA, APFB, APFG

DescriptionMaking a compelling argument for the continuing relevance of Brechtian film theory and cinema, this book offers new research and analysis of Brecht the film and media theorist, placing his scattered writings on the subject within the lively film theory debates that took place in Europe between the 1920s–1960s. Furthermore, Angelos Koutsourakis identifies key points of convergence between Brecht’s ‘unfinished project’ and contemporary film and media theory. With case studies of films ranging from Robert Roberto Rossellini’s Paisà to Bernardo Bertolucci’s 1900 and Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Act of Killing amongst others, this study challenges many existing preconceptions about Brecht’s theoretical position and invites readers to discover new ways of apprehending and making use of Brecht in film studies.

A comprehensive re-examination of Brechtian film theory


Film Studies

Key Features• The first full-length study on Brechtian film theory and cinema dedicated to

connecting Brecht's writings with classical film theory, contemporary film theory and German Media Theory

• Seeks to connect theory with practice so as to identify the ways the dialectic works within the film object

• Investigates Brechtian cinema with reference to a variety of filmmakers who share aesthetic and cultural differences, but also similarities in their employment of the dialectical method

Readership Advanced students and scholars in film theory.



Thinking AntagonismPolitical Ontology after Laclau Oliver Marchart

The AuthorOliver Marchart, Professor of Political Theory in the Department of Political Science, University of Vienna

October 2018Pb • 9781474413312 • £19.99 BIC: HPS, JFF, JPA, JPF

DescriptionErnesto Laclau (1935–2014) was one of the major theoretical voices on the Left. His concept of antagonism is the cornerstone of his theory of hegemony and the organising concept in his political ontology. Oliver Marchart tracks the development of antagonism from German Idealism via Marx to Laclau, and demonstrates the significant contribution of Laclau’s political ontology to current debates in political philosophy, rhetorics, human geography, cultural studies, communication studies, social movement theory and art theory.

Discover Ernesto Laclau’s theory of antagonism and how it contributes to political and cultural thought

272 pp. 234 x 156 mm (Royal 8vo)

Politics

Key Features• The most in-depth engagement with Laclau’s thinking so far• The first systematic and genealogical treatment of antagonism• Follows the reception of Laclau’s thought in political philosophy, human

geography and cultural studies • Presents a complete picture of Laclau’s theories of hegemony, discourse and

populism• Contributes to the current ‘ontological turn’ in political theory by proposing

a never-before developed systematic ontology of the political• Critically engages with conflict theories, including Foucault’s ‘polemology'

Readership Upper-level undergraduates, postgraduates and academics in Political Science and Philosophy departments.


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Table of Contents List of AbbreviationsIntroduction: What Is Antagonism?1. ‘What’s Going on With Being?’: Laclau and the Return of Political OntologyPart I Thinking the Political2. Marx on the Beach: An Intellectual History of Antagonism3. Beyond the ‘War Hypothesis’: Polemology in Foucault, Stiegler and LorauxPart II Thinking Politics4. The Restless Nature of the Social: On the Micro-Conflictuality of Everyday Life5. Politics and the Popular: Protest and Culture in Laclau’s Theory of Populism6. On Minimal Politics: Conditions of Acting PoliticallyPart III Politicising Thought7. The Final Name of Being: Thinking as Reflective Intervention8. Being as Acting: The Primacy of Politics and the Politics of ThoughtConclusion: Ostinato Rigore, or, The Ethics of Intellectual EngagementNotesBibliographyIndex

Thinking AntagonismPolitical Ontology after Laclau Oliver Marchart

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British Women Amateur FilmmakersNational Memories and Global Identities Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes and Heather Norris Nicholson

The AuthorsAnnamaria Motrescu-Mayes, Visiting Lecturer, University of Cambridge

Heather Norris Nicholson, Honorary Research fellow, University of Huddersfield and Manchester Metropolitan University

October 2018Hb • 9781474420730 • £75.00 BIC: APFA, APFN, APFR, JFSJ1

DescriptionThe study of amateur filmmaking and media history is a rapidly-growing specialist field, and this ground-breaking book is the first to address the subject in the context of British women’s amateur practice. Using an interdisciplinary framework that draws upon social and visual anthropology, imperial and postcolonial studies, and British and Commonwealth history, the book explores how women used the evolving technologies of the moving image to write visual narratives about their lives and times. Locating women’s recreational visual practice within a century of profound societal, technological and ideological change, British Women Amateur Filmmakers discloses how women negotiated aspects of their changing lifestyles, attitudes and opportunities through first-person visual narratives about themselves and the world around them.

The first book to address the topic of British women amateur filmmakers


Film Studies

Key Features• Brings expertise in interpreting relevant archive visual material specific to a

under-researched film genre: amateur cinematic practice • Combines newly uncovered findings on women’s amateur film and video-

related practice with relevant primary and secondary literature• Address key issues of gender and amateur film practice across various social,

cultural and racial contexts

Readership Researchers and academics working on film and gender and amateur filmmaking.



Scotland, Darien and the Atlantic World, 1698-1700 Julie Orr

The AuthorJulie Orr, Independent Scholar

October 2018Pb • 9781474427548 • £19.99 BIC: HBJD1, HBJK, HBLH, HBTQ

DescriptionThis book synthesises the rare indigenous voice with newly discovered archival sources in Spain, Jamaica and the United States. The result is a new and expanded chronicle of the Scottish Panamanian initiative. It broadens what we know about the Company of Scotland beyond British history and into its rightful place in the saga of the multinational, tumultuous seventeenth-century Atlantic world.

Julie Orr offers an in-depth analysis of the complex sociopolitics into which the Scots recklessly inserted themselves through their choice of Darien for settlement. Entanglement with slave-trading interests; the trial of five expedition participants in Spain; the dispatch of Admiral Benbow to the Caribbean with offers of assistance to Spanish governors; the activities of the Scottish spy Walter Herries; and the unintended diaspora of deserters, prisoners and survivors – all are afforded their rightful place in the story of Scotland’s attempt to establish a trading colony on the isthmus of Panama.

The history of a seventeenth-century Scottish trading colony on the Gulf of Darien

192 pp. 234 x 156 mm (Royal 8vo)

Scottish Studies

Key Features• Analyses the international complicity to undermine the establishment of

New Caledonia• Presents the complex, tumultuous sociopolitics into which the Scots

recklessly inserted themselves through their choice of Darien as the site of their settlement

• Tells the story of the 1700 trial in Seville of 5 Darien survivors• Investigates deserters, prisoners and survivors in the creation of an

unintended diaspora

Readership Students and readers in Scottish History and Diaspora Studies.


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Table of Contents Maps and FiguresAcknowledgementsChapter 1. IntroductionChapter 2. Unintended Itineraries I: Desertion, Opportunity and a SpyChapter 3. Unintended Itineraries II: PrisonersChapter 4. Admirals, Governors and SlavetradersChapter 5. The Long Reach of Spanish JusticeChapter 6. The View from Spanish AmericaChapter 7. View from Disparate AmericaChapter 8. Darien ConsequencesAppendix I Caledonia: The Declaration of the Council constituted by the Indian and African Company of Scotland, for the government and direction of their Colonies and Settlements in the IndiesAppendix II Articles of Agreement betwixt the Council of Caledonia and Captain Ephraim PilkingtounAbbreviationsBibliography

Scotland, Darien and the Atlantic World, 1698-1700Julie Orr

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Rural Modernity in BritainA Critical Intervention Edited by Kristin Bluemel and Michael McCluskey

Edited byKristin Bluemel, Professor of English, Monmouth University in New Jersey

Michael McCluskey, Lecturer in English and Film Studies, University of York

October 2018Hb • 9781474420952 • £80.00 BIC: DS, DSK, DSC, DSA, DSB

DescriptionRural Modernity in Britain argues that the rural areas of Britain were impacted by modernisation just as much – if not more – than urban and suburban areas. It is the first study of modernity and modernism to focus on rural people and places that experienced economic depression, the expansion of transportation and communication networks, the roll out of electricity, the loss of land, and the erosion of local identities. Who celebrated these changes? Who resisted them? Who documented them? Essays in this collection make the case that the rural means more than just the often-studied countryside of southern England, a retreat from the consequences of modernity; rather, the rural emerges as a source for new versions of the modern, with an active role in the formation and development of British experiences and representations of modernity.

Defines the interdisciplinary field of Rural Modernity through analysis of British literature, art and culture

272 pp. 234 x 156 mm (Royal 8vo) 26 B&W and 13 colour illustrations

Literary Studies

Key Features• Introduces readers to concept of rural modernity that locates its critical

intervention in fields of modernism and modernity studies• Split into five sections addressing Networks, Landscapes, Communities,

Heritage, and War• Includes "In dialogue with" suggestions to guide readers across

interdisciplinary contents of diverse chapters• Contributors from England, Scotland, USA, New Zealand and Canada,

representing fields of literature, art history, history, geography, and cultural studies

Readership Upper level undergraduates, postgraduates, researchers, lecturers and teachers in Twentieth-Century Literature; Modernism; Rural Literature; Interwar Literature.



The New Biographical Dictionary of Scottish WomenEdited by Elizabeth Ewan, Rose Pipes, Jane Rendall and Siân Reynolds

Edited byElizabeth Ewan, Professor of Scottish Studies and History, University of Guelph

Rose Pipes, Independent Researcher, independent researcher

Jane Rendall, Honorary Fellow, University of York

Siân Reynolds, Former Professor, University of Stirling

October 2018Pb • 9781474436281 • £35.00 BIC: BG, HBJD1, HBTB, JFSJ1

DescriptionThis is a fully revised and extended edition of a highly regarded reference work that illuminates the lives of Scottish women in history. The New Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women expands on the previous edition with over 180 additional entries on women who died before 2018, and with 40 new photographs as well as a much extended thematic index. The new material covers a range of time periods, with an emphasis on the more recent past.With fascinating lives on every page, the Dictionary offers concise entries that illustrate the lives of Scottish women from the distant past to the early twenty-first century, as well as the worldwide Scottish diaspora. Written by authors with particular knowledge of their subjects, the book provides a lively narrative of how women’s actions and influence have helped to shape Scotland’s national identity.

The life stories of more than 1,000 women who shaped Scotland’s history

448 pp. 244 x 172 (Pinched Crown Quarto) mm60 B/W illustrations

Scottish Studies

Table of Contents Acknowledgements for The Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women (2006)Acknowledgements for The New Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women (2018)Advisers; ContributorsAbbreviationsReaders’ GuideList of new entriesList of co-subjectsPrefaceIntroduction to The Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women The New Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women Thematic Index

Readership Students of Scottish History and general reference readership.


Reference


Featured biographies include:

The New Biographical Dictionary of Scottish WomenEdited by Elizabeth Ewan, Rose Pipes, Jane Rendall and Siân Reynolds

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Stephanie Wolfe Murray1941–2017

Linda Norgrove1974–2010

Margaret Ewing1945–2006

Muriel Spark 1918–2006

Jenny Wormald1942–2015

Flora MacNeil1928–2015

Annas KeithDied 1588

Frances Wright1795–1852

Maud Sulter1960–2008


Nationhood, Migration and Global PoliticsAn Introduction Raymond Taras

The AuthorRaymond Taras, Professor of Political Science, Tulane University

October 2018Pb • 9781474413411 • £19.99 BIC: JPFN, JFFN, JFSL, JPB

DescriptionDrawing on extensive research in transnationalism and ethnic conflict around the world, Taras re-evaluates the concepts of nation and nationalism in light of the major demographic changes brought about by global migration. He puts forward a new definition of nationhood that sets it apart from national identity, nationalism and diversity.

A new introduction to contemporary nationhood that sets it apart from national identity, nationalism and diversity


Politics

Key Features• Introduces the schools, tools and concepts needed to understand

nationalism• Covers both classic foundational theories and more recent theories of

nationalism and national identity• Includes chapter-length case studies of 6 countries: America, Russia, India,

Britain, South Africa and Peru• Engages with both the theory and practice of nationalism today• Shows the impact of immigration and globalisation on nationalism and

national identity

Readership Intermediate and upper-level undergraduates in politics, anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, migration studies, law and gender studies departments.


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Table of Contents List of illustrations1. Reinventing Nationhood2. Prejudices and Partialities3. Who Belongs4. 'Imperial' Russia5. Multiculturalising Britain6. Immigrant America7. Multinational India8. Multiracial South Africa9. Peru-Indigenas, Mestizos, CriollosSelect bibliographyIndex


Worldly DesiresCosmopolitanism and Cinema in Hong Kong and Taiwan Brian Hu

The AuthorBrian Hu, Assistant Professor, San Diego State University

October 2018Hb • 9781474428453 • £75.00 BIC: APFA, APFB, APFN, HBJF

DescriptionHow does cinema imagine our place in the world? Worldly Desires: Cosmopolitanism and Cinema in Hong Kong and Taiwan looks at the studios, films and policies that charted the transnational vision of Hong Kong and Taiwan, two places with an uneasy relationship to the idea of nationhood. Examining the cultural, political and industrial overlaps between these cinemas, as well as the areas where they uniquely parallel each other, this book brings together perspectives from cinema studies, Chinese studies and Asian American studies to show how culture is produced in the spaces between empires. With case studies of popular stars like Linda Lin Dai and Edison Chen, and spectacular genres like the Shaolin Temple cycle of martial arts films, the book explores what it meant to be both cosmopolitan and Chinese in the second half of the 20th century.

Examines the role that cinema played in imagining Hong Kong and Taiwan’s place in the world

224 pp. 234 x 156 mm (Royal 8vo) 20 B&W illustrations

Film Studies

Key Features• Studies Hong Kong and Taiwan cinemas together, and separately from the

cinema of mainland China• Brings together perspectives from Chinese studies and Asian American

studies to show how culture is produced between empires, in ethnic and racialized ways internationally

• Provides a serious take on "trashy" work that has been neglected by scholarship, including: romantic melodramas; martial arts films with seemingly recycled plots and tropes; action films; and music videos

SeriesEdinburgh Studies in East Asian Film

Readership Advanced students and scholars in Chinese-language film and transnational cinemas.



SchemingA Social History of Glasgow Council Housing, 1919-1956 Seán Damer

The AuthorSeán Damer, Honorary Fellow, University of Edinburgh

October 2018Hb • 9781474440561 • £75.00 BIC: HBJD1, HBLW, HBTB, JFFB

DescriptionWhen the Corporation of Glasgow undertook a massive programme of council house construction to replace the city’s notorious slums after the First World War, they wound up reproducing a Victorian class structure. How did this occur? Scheming traces the issue to class-based paternalism that caused the reification of the local class structure in the bricks and mortar of the new council housing estates.

Seán Damer provides a sustained critique of the Corporation of Glasgow’s council housing policy and argues that it had the unintended consequence of amplifying social segregation and ghettoisation in the city. By combining archival research of city records with oral histories, this book lets the locals have their say about their experience as Glasgow council house tenants for the first time.

A comprehensive social history of six Glasgow housing schemes in the first half of the twentieth century

160 pp. 234 x 156 mm (Royal 8vo)

Scottish Studies

Key Features• Provides a short history of the different national inter- and post-war Housing

Acts • Interrogates how the Corporation of Glasgow interpreted this legislation to

develop and implement its housing estate construction and management policy

• Combines oral histories and Glasgow Corporation records to provide a comprehensive and balanced accounts

• Presents detailed case studies from six housing schemes

Readership Scholars and students of the sociology of housing, urban sociology and urban history.



Framing EmpirePostcolonial Adaptations of Victorian Literature in Hollywood Jerod Ra’Del Hollyfield

The AuthorJerod Ra’Del Hollyfield, Assistant Professor, Western Kentucky University

October 2018Hb • 9781474429948 • £75.00 BIC: APFA, APFB, APFN, DSBF, HBTQ

DescriptionThis book examines postcolonial filmmakers adapting Victorian literature in Hollywood to contend with both the legacy of British imperialism and the influence of globalized media entities. Since decolonization, postcolonial writers and filmmakers have re-appropriated and adapted texts of the Victorian era as a way to ‘write back’ to the imperial centre. At the same time, the rise of international co-productions and multinational media corporations have called into question the effectiveness of postcolonial rewritings of canonical texts as a resistance strategy.

With case studies of films like Gunga Din, Dracula 2000, The Portrait of a Lady, Vanity Fair and Slumdog Millionaire, this book argues that many postcolonial filmmakers have extended resistance beyond revisionary adaptation, opting to interrogate Hollywood’s genre conventions and production methods to address how globalization has affected and continues to influence their homelands.

Examines how postcolonial filmmakers negotiate national identities in Hollywood-supported Victorian literature adaptations


Film Studies

Key Features• Bridges the fields of postcolonial theory, film studies, film adaptation and

Victorian literature • Examines the socio-political context of diverse postcolonial nations,

including India, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, South Africa, Egypt and Sudan

• Contains case studies of eight postcolonial film adaptations• Discusses the relationship between postcolonial theory and globalization,

especially through its attention to the Hollywood film industry’s global reach

• Places the United States within a postcolonial context, tracing its evolution from settler colony to global superpower through historical analysis of the Hollywood film industry'

Readership Researchers and scholars in postcolonial film, adaptation studies and Hollywood film.



Byzantine Military Tactics in Syria and Mesopotamia in the 10th CenturyA Comparative Study Georgios Theotokis

The AuthorGeorgios Theotokis, Adjunct Professor of History, University of Athens

October 2018Hb • 9781474431033 • £80.00 BIC: 1FB, 1QRM, HBJF1, HBLC1, HBW

DescriptionThis book examines the strategies and military tactics of the Byzantines and their enemies in Eastern Anatolia, Syria and in Upper Mesopotamia in the tenth century. This period of conflict is difficult to define: it was too inactive to be called a ‘war’ but too active to be called a ‘cold war’. Nevertheless, it was a ‘war’, even if it lacked the numerous pitched battles or protracted sieges that defined other periods or other operational theatres of war. This study examines the way the Byzantines innovated and adapted their strategies and tactics to those of their enemies in the East, giving a rich picture of tenth-century Byzantine warfare.

The first comprehensive history of Byzantine warfare in the tenth century

288 pp. 234 x 156 mm (Royal 8vo)

Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies

Key Features• Examines the major and most important pitched battles of this period and

the Byzantine and Arab military manuals which show how armies were organized and deployed in the battlefield

• Looks at how the Byzantines adapted their strategies and tactics to those of their enemies in the 10th century Anatolia, Syria and Mesopotamia

• Shows the transmission of military knowledge through the ages by comparing the military treatises of the 10th century with those from the Roman and Ancient Greek periods

Readership Upper level undergaduates, MA students, researchers and academics in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, Byzantine Studies and Mesopotamian Studies.



Indian Documentary Film and FilmmakersPractising Independence Shweta Kishore

The AuthorShweta Kishore, Lecturer, RMIT University in Ho Chi Minh City

October 2018Hb • 9781474433068 • £75.00 BIC: APFA, APFB, APFR, HBJF, JFCA

DescriptionIndependent documentary is enjoying a resurgence in post-reform India. But in contemporary cinema and media cultures, where ‘independent’ operates as an industry genre or critical category, how do we understand the significance of this mode of cultural production? Based on detailed onsite observation of documentary production, circulation practices and the analysis of film texts, this book identifies independence as a 'tactical practice’, contesting the normative definitions and functions assigned to culture, cultural production and producers in a neoliberal economic system. Focusing on selected filmmakers, the book establishes how they have reorganised the dominance of industrial media, technology and social relations to develop practices that build upon principles of de-economisation, artisanship and interdependence.

Examines independent documentary film production in India within a political context


Film Studies

Key Features• Simultaneous engagement with the wider discipline of documentary

studies and the practice of Indian independent documentary• Examination of documentary ethics and issues related to consent, drawing

upon the voices of documentary participants • Critical discussion of emerging issues and questions of crowdfunding,

piracy, digital storytelling and online exhibition• The first in-depth critical study of NGO funded independent documentary,

its aesthetic and political struggles in relation to films and film cultures

Readership Students and researchers in documentary film, Indian film and South Asian film



The United States Through Arab EyesAn Anthology of Writings (1876-1914) Nabil Matar

Edited byNabil Matar, Presidential Professor, University of Minnesota

October 2018Pb • 9781474434362 • £19.99 BIC: DQ, 1FB, 1KBB

DescriptionThe first Arab immigrants to New York or Alaska or San Francisco were ‘small’ men and women, preoccupied with eking a living at the same time as confronting the challenges of settling in a new country. They had to come to terms with new race communities such as Indians, Chinese and Blacks, the changing role of women, and the Americanisation of their identity.

Their writings about these experiences – from travellers and emigrants, rich and poor, men and women – took the form of travelogues and newspaper essays, daily diaries and adventure narratives, autobiographies and histories, full-length books published in the Ottoman Press in Lebanon and journal articles in Arabic newspapers printed in Philadelphia, Boston, and New York. Together they show the transnational perspective of immigrants as they reflected on and described the United States for the very first time.

A vibrant collection of writings about America from its earliest Arab immigrants

256 pp. 216 x 138 (Demy 8vo) mm


Key Features• Newly translated texts of the first writings about America by Arabs• Divides the translations into four categories: minorities, women, identity and

return• Shows how Arabs admired the United States for its opportunities, religious

tolerance and openness, but also criticised its brute materialism and debilitating work conditions

• A detailed introduction explores the idea of the Arab Nahda and America

Readership Undergraduates and MA students in Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies; Comparative Literature.


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Table of Contents AcknowledgementsSome notes on the translationsPart One: Emigration, the Arab Nahda and the United States of America – An Introduction

Part Two: The TextsSection One: Minorities1. The Book of the Description of Kingdoms by Idwar Ilyas, 18762. Kawkab America by Abraham Arbeely3. Alaska and the Klondike: Land of Gold by Jibra’il ‘Assaf Mir‘I, early 1890s4. Instructive Travels in the New World by Dr Naguib Abdou5. The American Journey by Prince Muhammad ‘Ali Pasha, 1912

Section Two: Women and Gender1. The Book of the Description of Kingdoms by Idwar Ilyas, 18762. The Traveler’s Guidebook: and the history of America by Saj‘an Effendi ‘Arij Sa‘adeh3. ‘The [female] Syrian emigrant’ by Miss Wadi‘a Faris Rashid4. ‘Who has precedence: man or woman?’ by Mrs Asma Sabir5. ‘The need to put a limit on or to pass a law prohibiting the Syrian woman from emigrating to America’6. The Stranger in the West by Mikha’il Rustum Shuwayri, 1895

Section Three: Identity and Americanization1. The Book of the Description of Kingdoms by Idwar Ilyas, 18762. History of the United States since its discovery until present times, followed by the history of Syrian emigration and all that pertains to it by Basil M. Kherbawi, 18883. The Traveler’s Guidebook: and the history of America by Saj‘an Effendi ‘Arij Sa‘adeh4. The Syrian Soldier in Three Wars by Jibra’il Ilyas Ward, al-Tarabulsi, 18985. ‘The Greatness of America’ by Bulus Effendi al-Khawli, 19056. ‘From the Rooftops of New York’ by Ameen Rihani, 19077. ‘Syrians in America’ by Yusuf Jirjis Zakham

Section Four: Return1. Diary of Khalil al-Sakakini: Diary, Letters, Reflections by Khalil al-Sakakini;2. The American Journey by Prince Muhammad ’Ali Pasha, 1912

Bibliography

Index

The United States Through Arab EyesAn Anthology of Writings (1876-1914) Nabil Matar

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Islamic Studies


The Sorrowful Muslim's Guide Hussein Ahmad Amin Translated by Yasmin Amin & Nesrin Amin

The AuthorHussein Ahmad Amin was Deputy Director of the Diplomatic Institute in Cairo.

Translated byYasmin Amin, PhD candidate, University of Exeter

Nesrin Amin, Translator and proof reader, University of Cambridge

October 2018Hb • 9781474437073 • £50.00 BIC: HRH, 1FB, HBJF1, HRHS, HRHX

DescriptionPublished as Dalīl al-Muslim al-hazīn ilā muqtada-l-sulūk fī’l-qarn al-'ishrīn in 1983, this book remains a timely and important read today. Both the resurgence of Islamist politics and the political, social and intellectual upheaval which accompanied the Arab Spring challenge us to re-examine the interaction between the pre-modern Islamic tradition and modern supporters of continuity, reform and change in Muslim communities. This book does exactly that, raising questions regarding issues about which other Muslim intellectuals and thinkers have been silent. These include – among others – current religious practice vs the Islamic ideal; the many additions to the original revelation; the veracity of the Prophet’s biography and his sayings; the development of Sufism; and historical and ideological influences on Islamic thought.

Explores the interaction between pre-Islamic tradition and modern supporters of continuity, reform and change in Muslim communities

256 pp. 216 x 138 (Demy 8vo) mm


Key Features• Makes available in English an important contribution to modern Muslim

thought from a prominent Egyptian thinker• Looks at how current religious practice conforms (or not) to the Islamic ideal

when Islam was first revealed• Explores the relationship between core, inner religious values and ritualistic

practices• Engages critically with the sources by using historical, literal and logical

criticism

SeriesIn Translation: Modern Muslim Thinkers

Readership MA level students, academics and researchers in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies.



Lord SeaforthHighland Landowner, Caribbean Governor Finlay McKichan

The AuthorFinlay McKichan, Retired Senior Lecturer, University of Aberdeen

October 2018Pb • 9781474438483 • £14.99 BIC: BGH, HBJD1, HBLL, HBTB, HBTQ, HBTS

DescriptionThis book is a detailed thematic biography of the Highland landowner Francis Humberston Mackenzie, Lord Seaforth (1754–1815). Despite being profoundly deaf and partially mute from a young age, Lord Seaforth went on to become a proprietor of a large estate who strove to protect his small tenants during the tumultuous era of the Highland Clearances. Financial pressures eventually drove him to become Governor of Barbados and an owner of plantations in Guyana, which were manned by slaves.

This is the first full-length study of Seaforth. Drawing on an extensive archival research in Scotland, England and Barbados, Finlay McKichan links important themes in Scottish and imperial history to show how far the principles and policies developed for the Highlands could be applied in slave societies. This provides a fresh new perspective on Seaforth’s fascinating story as he fought for the legal rights of enslaved labourers, while offering valuable insights into the political struggles leading to the end of the British slave trade in the Caribbean.

The story of Lord Seaforth, his estates in Scotland and the Caribbean and his governorship of Barbados on the eve of slave trade abolition

320 pp. 216 x 138 (Demy 8vo) mm

Scottish Studies

Key Features• A biographical study of Francis Humberston Mackenzie, Lord Seaforth

(1754-1815)• Provides insights into land management in the Highlands during the period

of the Clearances• The first comprehensive study of a Scottish Caribbean governor, who

struggled to increase the rights of enslaved labourers

Readership Academics and readers of Scottish History, global empires and slavery.


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Table of Contents List of Figures and TablesAcknowledgementsPreface1. Early Days2. Land Management and Clanship in the 1780s and 1790s3. Riches from the Sea?4. Lifestyle, Debts and First Land Sales5. Local and National Politician, 1783-18006. The Soldier Chief7. Governor and Captain General8. Slave Owner in Berbice9. Seaforth’s Great Matter: the Rights of Enslaved Labourers and Free People of Colour10. Martial Law, a Governor’s Crisis11. Return to Britain, 1806-1112. Shadows Lengthen (including Postscript and Final Conclusions)BibliographyIndex

Lord SeaforthHighland Landowner, Caribbean Governor Finlay McKichan

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Scottish Studies


Control CultureFoucault and Deleuze after Discipline Edited by Frida Beckman

Edited byFrida Beckman, Associate Professor in the Department of Culture and Aesthetics, Stockholm University

October 2018Hb • 9781474436755 • £75.00 BIC: HPS, JFC, JPV, JFD, JPA

DescriptionThe 11 essays in this book focus on how control mechanisms influence, and are influenced by, cultural expression today. They collectively re-evaluate Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze’s philosophies of discipline and control in light of the continued development of biopolitics.

The most extensive examination yet of control across disciplines and cultural modes of expression – showing that control is the cultural logic of the 21st century

240 pp. 234 x 156 mm (Royal 8vo)

Philosophy

Key Features• An important collection for anyone interested in the relation between

present-day politics and culture • Interrogates control as a cultural logic • Includes incisive readings on Foucault’s and Deleuze’s conceptions of

discipline and control • Contributes to ongoing interrogations into the fate of biopolitics

Case studies

• Ray Bradbury's short story The Pedestrian• M. NourbeSe Philip's 2008 poetry book ZONG!• French Renaissance philosopher and author Michel de Montaigne• Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism's Stealth Revolution by Wendy Brown

(2015)• The band The Grateful Dead• The Bourne Identity film• The TV show Spooks• Redeployment, an award-winning book of short stories of conflict in Iraq

and Afghanistan by ex-marine Phil Klay• Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's influential 1986 philosophy book Kafka:

Toward a Minor Literature

Readership Postgraduates and academics working in particular on Deleuze and Foucault as well as in contemporary philosophy, political philosophy, cultural philosophy, cultural theory and cultural studies.


Contributors

Neel Ahuja, University of California-Santa Cruz, USAFrida Beckman, Stockholm University, SwedenColleen Glenney Boggs, Dartmouth College, USAGregory Flaxman, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USASeb Franklin, King’s College, London, UKCarin Franzén, Linköping University, SwedenColin Gardner, University of California, Santa Barbara, USAGregg Lambert, Syracuse UniversityPaul Patton, The University of New South Wales, AustraliaJeffrey T. Nealon, Penn State University, USACary Wolfe, Rice University, USA

Control CultureFoucault and Deleuze after Discipline Edited by Frida Beckman

Philosophy


Artful ExperimentsWays of Knowing in Victorian Literature and Science Philipp Erchinger

The AuthorPhilipp Erchinger, senior lecturer in the Department of English and American Studies, University of Düsseldorf

October 2018Hb • 9781474438957 • £80.00 BIC: DSC, DSK, DSBF

DescriptionWhat is the connection between Victorian writing and experiment? Artful Experiments seeks to answer this question by approaching the field of literature and science in a way that is not so much centred on discourses of established knowledge as it is on practices of investigating what is no longer or not yet knowledge. The book assembles various modes of writing, from poetry and sensation fiction to natural history and philosophical debate, reading them as ways of knowing or structures in the making, rather than as containers of accomplished arguments or story worlds. Entwining innovative readings of the works of George Eliot, Robert Browning, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Wilkie Collins and William Morris, alongside in-depth studies of philosophical and scientific texts by writers such as John S. Mill, William Whewell, Thomas H. Huxley, George H. Lewes, F. Max Müller and Edward B. Tylor, Artful Experiments explicates and re-conceives the relations between the arts and the sciences, experience and language as well as practice and theory. For many Victorians, the book argues, experimentation was just as integral to the making of literature as writing was integral to the making of science.

Reads Victorian literature and science as artful practices that surpass the theories and discourses supposed to contain them

352 pp. 234 x 156 mm (Royal 8vo)

Literary Studies

Key Features• Exemplifies and expounds an approach to Victorian writing, drawn

from practice theory (Pickering, Latour, de Certeau, Schatzki) and social anthropology (Ingold), that is centred on practices rather than discourses

• Studies activities of knowledge-making in literature and science in order to show why it is appropriate to speak of Victorian poetry and fiction as a mode of experimentation

• Explicates and re-conceives the relations between the arts and the sciences, experience and language as well as practice and theory

SeriesEdinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture

Readership Academics, postgraduates, upper-level undergraduates and researchers in Victorian Literature; Nineteenth-Century Literature; English Literature and Culture; Comparative Literature; History of Science.



Nature TranslatedAlexander von Humboldt's Works in Nineteenth-Century Britain Alison E. Martin

The AuthorAlison E. Martin, Lecturer in German Studies, University of Reading

October 2018Hb • 9781474439329 • £80.00 BIC: DSBF, DSB

DescriptionAlexander von Humboldt was one of the most important scientists of the nineteenth century. Captivating his readers with his vibrant, lyrical prose, he transformed understandings of the earth and space by rethinking nature as the interconnection of global forces. This book argues that style was key to the success of these translations and shows how Humboldt’s British translators, now largely forgotten figures, were pivotal in moulding his prose and his public persona as they reconfigured his works for readers in Britain and beyond.

The first extensive analysis of the translation, publication and critical reception of Alexander von Humboldt’s writings in nineteenth-century Britain


Literary Studies

Key Features• Prompts a rethinking of the role of translation in mediating scientific

knowledge• Reconsiders how translators shape a scientist’s international reputation• Draws on extensive archival material in neglected publishers’ archives

to shed new light on how authors, their translators and their publishers collaborate

SeriesEdinburgh Critical Studies in Literary Translation

Readership Upper level undergraduates, postgraduates, academics, researchers in translation studies, history of science, gender studies, non-fictional writing in translation.



Samuel Beckett's How It IsPhilosophy in Translation Anthony Cordingley

The AuthorAnthony Cordingley, Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Research Fellow (DECRA) at the University of Sydney

October 2018Hb • 9781474440608 • £80.00 BIC: FA, DS, DSK

DescriptionThis book maps out the novel’s complex network of intertexts, sources and echoes, interprets its highly experimental writing and explains the work’s great significance for twentieth-century literature. It offers a clear pathway into this remarkable bilingual novel, identifying Beckett’s use of previously unknown sources in the history of Western philosophy, from the ancient and modern periods, and challenging critical orthodoxies. Through careful archival scholarship and attention to the dynamics of self-translation, the book traces Beckett’s transformation of his narrator’s ‘ancient voice’, his intellectual heritage, into a mode of aesthetic representation that offers the means to think beyond intractable paradoxes of philosophy. This shift in the work’s relation to tradition marks a hiatus in literary modernism, a watershed moment whose deep and enduring significance may now be appreciated.

The first ever sustained exegesis of a neglected masterpiece of twentieth-century literature, Samuel Beckett’s How It Is

320 pp. 234 x 156 mm (Royal 8vo)

Literary Studies

Key Features• Offers the first comprehensive treatment of Beckett’s most poorly

understood novel, identifying the breadth of its philosophical and literary sources

• Makes extensive use of manuscript evidence and newly accessible notes from Beckett’s reading in philosophy

• Guides the reader through Beckett’s philosophical and theological sources, highlighting his innovative and original dialectics between the pre-Socratics, Plato, Aristotle, the Ancient Stoics, the early Church Fathers and desert mystics, seventeenth-century mystics and Rationalists

SeriesOther Becketts

Readership Upper-level undergraduate, graduate and academic readers in Twentieth-century literature, modernism, comparative literature, genetic criticism, Beckett studies, literature and philosophy.

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Katherine Mansfield and Virginia WoolfEdited by Gerri Kimber, Todd Martin and Christine Froula

Edited byGerri Kimber, Visiting Professor in the Department of English, University of Northampton

Todd Martin, Professor of English, University of Huntington, Indiana, USA

Christine Froula, Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and Gender Studies, Northwestern University

October 2018Hb • 9781474439657 • £80.00 BIC: DSB, DSC, DSK

Description"I love to think of you, Virginia, as my friend … pray consider how rare it is to find someone with the same passion for writing, who desires to be scrupulously truthful – and to give you the freedom of the city without any reserves at all."

Katherine Mansfield’s ardent overture to Virginia Woolf launched a historic friendship of mutual admiration and fascination shot through with wary misunderstandings, rivalry and envy. These comparative essays explore the shared terrain of these modernist women writers and shed new light on their 'curious & thrilling' literary relationship – absorbing, intimate, distant, secretly critical, competitive, sometimes foundering in ‘quicksands’ – and its profound impact on their creative imaginations.

New essays and creative explorations of the friendship, milieu, and writings of Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf

256 pp. 234 x 156 mm (Royal 8vo)

Literary Studies

SeriesKatherine Mansfield Studies

Readership Upper level undergraduates, postgraduates and scholars in Modernism, Modernist Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Women's Writing, Feminist Criticism, Literary Criticism, Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf.



'My' Self on CameraFirst Person Documentary Practice in an Individualising China Kiki Tianqi Yu

The AuthorKiki Tianqi Yu, Lecturer in Filmmaking, University of the West of Scotland

October 2018Hb • 9780748698219 • £75.00 BIC: APFA, APFN, APFR, HBJF

Description‘My’ Self on Camera is the first book to explore first person narrative documentary in China’s post-Mao era. Since the emergence of the individual as an ever more important social figure in China, this mode of independent filmmaking and cultural practice has become increasingly significant. Combining the approach of cultural ethnography, interviews, and textual analysis of selected films, this study examines the motivations, key aesthetic features and ethical tensions of presenting the self on camera, as well as the socio-political, cultural and technical conditions surrounding its practice. This book problematises how the sense of self and subjectivities are understood in contemporary China, and provides illuminating new insights on the changing notion of the individual through cinema.

An exploration of first person narrative documentary in China’s post-Mao era


Film Studies

Key Features• The majority of the films and filmmakers examined in this volume have been

little studied or theorised in English language writing• Focuses on the performative and reflexive process of documentary film• Proposes action as a crucial aspect of first person documentary, contributing

to the debates around art practice as action

SeriesEdinburgh Studies in East Asian Film

Readership Academics and Postgraduate Students in Chinese Film Studies and Documentary Film.


The New Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Works of Robert Louis Stevenson Series Editor: Stephen D. Arata, University of Virginia, Richard Dury, Bergamo University in Italy, Penny Fielding, University of Edinburgh and Anthony A. Mandal Cardiff University

ForthcomingEssays I Virginibus Puerisque and Other PapersEdited by Robert-Louis AbrahamsonHb 9780748643844 £80.00October 2018

Robert Louis Stevenson is recognised one of the most important writers of the 19th century, covering an extraordinary breadth of genres, including stories, essays, travel-writing, the historical romance and the modernist novel. This complete edition allows readers to understand for the first time the development of Stevenson's work, his collaborations, his relations with publishers and his place in the literary history of his period. Disentangling Stevenson's writing from the changes made by his first editor, Sidney Colvin, the New Edinburgh Edition will provide a completely fresh, authoritative text. The edition present new, annotated texts of Stevenson's most popular works, such as Treasure Island and Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and bring back into print some of his lesser-known writing. The New Edinburgh Edition consider the various states in which Stevenson's texts appeared, from magazine publication to final editions, allowing readers to discover what Stevenson wrote, and how this hugely popular writer responded to the burgeoning literary market of the late 19th century

Key Features

• The first modern scholarly edition of Stevenson's complete writing, authoritative texts and full explanatory notes

• Attractive, readable volumes including original illustrations• Texts are based on full collation manuscripts and all the states of publication and include authoritative

textual apparatus• The edition will be available both as printed volumes and an electronic edition, showing the different

stages of the texts• Introductions explain for the first time the composition, context, and publication history of the volumes

www.edinburghuniversitypress.com/series/nrls

AvailableThe Amateur ImmigrantEdited by Julia ReidHb 978 0 7486 6974 5 £80.00March 2018

Weir of HermistonEdited by Gillian HughesHb 978 1 4744 0525 6 £80.00June 2017

Prince Otto, by Robert Louis StevensonEdited by Robert P. IrvineHb 978 0 7486 4523 7 £70.00April 2014

Edinburgh University Press Series

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