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The Amateur Emigrant, by Robert Louis StevensonEdited by Julia Reid

Edited byJulia Reid, Lecturer in Victorian Literature, University of Leeds

March 2018Hb • 978 0 7486 6974 5 • £80.00 BIC: DS, DSK

DescriptionThe Amateur Emigrant, an autobiographical account of Stevenson's voyage from Scotland to California in 1879, is a rich and provocative work of late-Victorian travel writing and cultural criticism. It describes vividly how Stevenson mixed with steerage passengers aboard an Atlantic steamship and experienced the indignities of a transcontinental emigrant train. The Amateur Emigrant engages critically with Victorian ideas about class, race, and gender, and makes an important contribution to the literature of emigration. Stevenson's middle-class family and friends found the work so transgressive that it was withdrawn from publication at proof stage. It was published in bowdlerized form in 1895 and since then has rarely been available in the form in which Stevenson composed it.

Definitive modern edition of Stevenson's intriguing account of his emigration from Scotland to California

268 pp. 216 x 138 (Demy 8vo)

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Key Features• Uses the original manuscript as copy text, making available the work as

Stevenson originally composed it• Scholarly introduction situates The Amateur Emigrant in relation to

important biographical, critical, historical, social, and generic contexts, and offers a summary of key critical responses

• Provides full textual apparatus including variant readings from hitherto unavailable 1880 proofs, textual essay, explanatory notes, and chronology

• Exciting new visual material including scans of the manuscript and proofs and a map of Stevenson's journey

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

Readership Academics, researchers and students of Victorian Literature, Victorian Culture, Scottish Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature, R L Stevenson, Nineteenth-Century American Literature, Travel Writing, Life Writing, Transatlantic Literature.

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Table of Contents Acknowledgements

Preface by the General Editors

List of Abbreviations

Chronology of Robert Louis Stevenson

Introduction

The Amateur Emigrant

Appendix

Illustrations

Essay on the Text

Emendation List

End-of-Line Hyphens

Explanatory Notes

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The Amateur Emigrant, by Robert Louis StevensonEdited by Julia Reid


Feminism and Women's WritingAn Introduction Catherine Riley and Lynne Pearce

The AuthorsCatherine Riley, Head of Communications, Women's Equality Party

Lynne Pearce, Professor of Literary Theory and Women's Writing, University of Lancaster

March 2018Pb • 978 1 4744 1560 6 • £14.99 BIC: DS, DSA, DSB, DSK

DescriptionThis book introduces you clearly and succinctly to the ways in which feminist ideas have transformed the form and content of British women's fiction and non-fiction writing. The Introduction sets out the critical background and the main feminist critical approaches to literature. This is followed by 5 chapters which outline feminist engagements with the canon, gender, the body, sexual difference and ethnicity to demonstrate the ways in which feminist ideas have affected the content of women's literature. The next 5 chapters examine types of fiction writing: romance, crime, science fiction, life-writing and historical fiction, to show the effect of feminist ideas on the form of women's literature.

The text also provides a wide range of illuminating case studies which include: Virago Modern Classics, The Women Prize for Fiction, Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland, Angela Carter's The Passion of New Eve, Margaret Attwood's The Edible Woman, Lucy Ellmann's Sweet Desserts, Barbie dolls, French feminism and sexuality, trans identities, feminist publishing and ethnicity, black and minority ethnic women's writing, Zadie Smith's novels, Toni Morrison's Beloved, Eimear McBride's A Girl is a Half Formed Thing, Val McDermid and lesbian crime writing, Ruth Rendell and the invention of the'whydunit', Margaret Atwood's Maddaddam sci fi trilogy, Jeanette Winterson's Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit and The Passion, Pat Barker's Regeneration trilogy and Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies. Each chapter ends with a list of primary texts and recommended further reading.

Outlines the key feminist debates on British women's fiction since the second wave and grounds them in examples of women's writing

256 pp. 216 x 138 (Demy 8vo)

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Key Features• Provides a clear overview of changing feminist debates and terms in the

20th and 21st centuries• Shows the changing form of women's fiction and non-fiction during this

period• Assesses the ways in which literary, political and mainstream cultures, as

well as the book industry, have impacted on the work and ideas of female writers

• ncludes a wide range of case studies as well as recommended further reading and a list of primary texts with each chapter

Readership First-, second- and third-year undergraduates, lecturers in Literary Criticism,Women's Writing; Feminist Literary Criticism, Women's Fiction and Women's Studies.

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Table of Contents Timeline

Introduction

1. The Canon

2. Gender

3. Body/Image

4. Not Straight Sex

5. Ethnicity

6. Romance

7. Crime

8. Science Fiction

9. Life-writing

10. Historical Fiction.

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Feminism and Women's WritingAn Introduction Catherine Riley and Lynne Pearce


Legal Reform in English Renaissance LiteratureVirginia Lee Strain

The AuthorVirginia Lee Strain, Assistant Professor of English, Loyola University, Chicago

March 2018Hb • 978 1 4744 1629 0 • £75.00 BIC: DDS, DS, DSB

DescriptionThis book investigates rhetorical and representational practices that were used to monitor English law at the turn of the seventeenth century. The late-Elizabethan and early-Jacobean surge in the policies and enforcement of the reformation of manners has been well-documented. What has gone unnoticed, however, is the degree to which the law itself was the focus of reform for legislators, the judiciary, preachers, and writers alike. While the majority of law and literature studies characterize the law as a force of coercion and subjugation, this book instead treats in greater depth the law's own vulnerability, both to corruption and to correction. In readings of Spenser's Faerie Queene, the Gesta Grayorum, Donne's Satyre V, and Shakespeare's Measure for Measure and The Winter's Tale, Strain argues that the terms and techniques of legal reform provided modes of analysis through which legal authorities and literary writers alike imagined and evaluated form and character.

The first monograph study of legal reform and literature in early modern England

256 pp. 234 x 156 (Royal 8vo)1 B/W illustrations

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Key Features• Reevaluates canonical writers in light of developments in legal historical

research, bringing an interdisciplinary perspective to works • Collects an extensive variety of legal, political, and literary sources to

reconstruct the discourse on early modern legal reform, providing an introduction to a topic that is currently underrepresented in early modern legal cultural studies

• Analyses the laws own vulnerability to individual agency

SeriesEdinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture

Readership Upper level undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers in Early Modern English Literature, Early Modern cultural studies, legal history, Renaissance literature.



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Table of Contents Introduction

1 ‘Perpetuall Reformation’ in Book V of The Faerie Queene

Part I: Perfection 2 Snaring Statutes and the General Pardon in the Gesta Grayorum

3 Legal Excess in John Donne’s Satyre V

Part II: Execution 4 The Assize Circuitry of Measure for Measure

5 The Winter’s Tale and the Oracle of the Law

Bibliography

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Legal Reform in English Renaissance LiteratureVirginia Lee Strain


The Pilgrims Society and Public Diplomacy, 1895 – 1945Stephen Bowman

The AuthorStephen Bowman, recent PhD graduate from Northumbria University

March 2018Hb • 978 1 4744 1781 5 • £80.00 BIC: PS, JPSD, JPW, 1DBK, 1KBB, 3JJ

DescriptionLabelled by an Irish-American newspaper in 1906 as a ‘nondescript aggregation of degenerate Americans, Britishers and Jews’, the Pilgrims Society has long excited the imaginations of conspiracy theorists. Founded in London in 1902, this upper-class dining club acted to bring Britain and the US closer together in political, diplomatic and cultural terms.

This book is the story of how this elite network – which included iconic figures such as J.P Morgan and Andrew Carnegie – attempted to influence the Anglo-American relationship in the days before it became ‘special.’ The Pilgrims did this by means of public diplomacy, a concept more commonly used by historians to refer to Cold War-era, state-sponsored publicity activities. But it was only through the earlier work of semi-official organisations like the Pilgrims Society – who operated within a state–private nexus – that greater governmental involvement in public diplomacy was legitimised.

Exposing the unofficial Anglo-American public diplomacy by the early Pilgrims Society

256 pp. 234 x 156 (Royal 8vo)

Politics

Key Features• Case studies challenge existing orthodoxies about the origins of public

diplomacy• The first scholarly study of the founding and early activities of the Pilgrims

Society• Traces the elite networking that underpinned the Society’s activities and, as

a result, sheds light on where power lies in the Anglo-American relationship

SeriesEdinburgh Studies in Anglo-American Relations

Readership This book will be of primary interest to British and North American academics studying the history of elite networking, public diplomacy, propaganda and the early twentieth-century Anglo-American relationship. International relations and politics.



Writing the Radio WarLiterature, Politics and the BBC, 1939-1945 Ian Whittington

The AuthorIan Whittington, Assistant Professor, University of Mississippi

March 2018Hb • 978 1 4744 1359 6 • £75.00 BIC: APW, DSB, HBT, JW

DescriptionWriting the Radio War positions the Second World War as a critical moment in the history of cultural mediation in Britain. Through chapters focusing on the middlebrow radicalism of J.B. Priestley, ground-breaking works by Louis MacNeice and James Hanley at the BBC Features Department, frontline reporting by Denis Johnston, and the emergence of a West Indian literary identity in the broadcasts of Una Marson, Writing the Radio War explores how these writers capitalized on the particularities of the sonic medium to communicate their visions of wartime and postwar Britain and its empire. By combining literary aesthetics with the acoustics of space, accent, and dialect, writers created aural communities that at times converged, and at times contended, with official wartime versions of Britain and Britishness.

Wartime British writers took to the airwaves to reshape the nation and the Empire

256 pp. 234 x 156 (Royal 8vo)

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Key Features• Merges the fields of sound studies, radio studies, and Second World War

literary studies through considerations of both major and marginalized figures of wartime broadcasting

• Brings substantial but underused archival material to bear on the cultural importance of radio during the war

• Foregrounds the role of radio in bridging literary movements from the highbrow to the middlebrow, and from the regional to the imperial.

• Draws on Listener Research Reports, listener correspondence, newspaper coverage, and surveys by Mass Observation and the Wartime Social Survey in order to capture listeners' responses to wartime broadcasting in general as well as specific programs

SeriesEdinburgh Critical Studies in War and Culture

Readership Academics, researchers, postgraduates, upper level undergraduates



Modern ScotsAn Analytical Survey Robert McColl Millar

The AuthorRobert McColl Millar, Reader in Linguistics, University of Aberdeen.

March 2018Pb • 978 1 4744 1687 0 • £24.99 BIC: CF

DescriptionRobert McColl Millar guides the reader through an engaging description and analysis of Modern Scots, covering its present lexical, phonological and structural patterns while also presenting evidence for its diversity through illustrations from newly collected fieldwork material. Although detailed analysis of localised variation is regularly presented, the central focus of the book is on the overall patterning of Scots. The book also considers the present state of, and future prospects for, the language, considering both its use in literature and other media and ongoing language policy and planning.

A chapter devoted to resources and methods introduces the reader to the various resources available online and in print form – corpora, atlases, dictionaries – and how to use them effectively in the study of Modern Scots. The information gained here will help equip readers with the tools for the exercises which follow in each chapter. Each chapter concludes with a series of exercises to complete and issues to discuss, encouraging active engagement and development of skill and knowledge in relation to the subject matter. This textbook offers a practical and engaging survey of Modern Scots making this an essential resource, aptly structured for use on Modern Scots and modern varieties of English modules.

An overview of the structure, use and diversity of Modern Scots

240 pp. 216 x 138 (Demy 8vo)

Language & Linguistics

Key Features• Fills the gap for a textbook with a clear focus on the language of Moderns

Scots • Provides analysis of the structure and use of Modern Scots• Leads students through often complex material while also mapping out

similarities and large-scale patterns in a clear and accessible way • Includes exercises and guided suggestions for further reading• Coherent content and structure aligned to structure of taught courses

SeriesEdinburgh Textbooks on the English Language - Advanced

Readership Upper level undergraduate and postgraduate students in the field of Modern Scots and modern varieties of English

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Table of Contents Some preliminaries

Chapter 1: Scots: languages and cultures, peoples and lands

Chapter 2: Resources

Chapter 3: Phonology

Chapter 4: Lexis

Chapter 5: Structure: the Grammar of Modern Scots

Chapter 6: Scots used creatively: literature and beyond

Chapter 7: Chapter 7: The Sociolinguistics of Scots

Chapter 8: Chapter 8: Scots: a once and future language?

References


Modern ScotsAn Analytical Survey Robert McColl Millar


Beyond Eastern NoirReimagining Russia and Eastern Europe in Nordic Cinemas Anna Estera Mrozewicz

The AuthorAnna Estera Mrozewicz, Assistant Professor, Adam Mickiewicz University

March 2018Hb • 978 1 4744 1810 2 • £75.00 BIC: APFA, APFB, APFN

DescriptionAddressing representations of Russia and neighbouring Eastern Europe in post-1989 Nordic cinemas, this ground-breaking book investigates their hitherto overlooked transnational dimension. Departing from the dark and lawless stereotypes that have characterised much of ˜Eastern noir', the book presents Russia and Eastern Europe as imagined spaces of rich and previously neglected cinematic diversity. Cross-disciplinary in its approach, with in-depth case studies of films, documentaries and television dramas like Lilya 4-ever, A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence and Occupied, this book sheds light on a variety of differing perspectives and considers how increasingly transnational affinities prompt a reimagining of Norden's eastern neighbours.

The first comprehensive conceptualisation of Russia and neighbouring Eastern Europe in post-1989 Nordic film


Film Studies

Key Features• Addresses representations of Eastern Europe within post-1989 Nordic

cinemas• Offers a conceptual frame (border/boundary) which can be applied to other

cultural narratives on neighbouring areas • Discusses an important transnational thematic thread within the much-

debated phenomenon of Nordic Noir

Readership Scholars and Reserachers in the area of Nordic Cinema and Transnational Cinema.



Antonia White and Manic-Depressive IllnessPatricia Moran

The AuthorPatricia Moran, Head of English and Reader in English, City, University of London

March 2018Hb • 978 1 4744 1821 8 • £80.00 BIC: DS, DSK, JMQ

DescriptionMisdiagnosed as suffering from schizophrenia instead of what was bipolar or manic-depressive illness, Antonia White turned repeatedly to psychoanalysis and Catholicism to resolve the emotional conflicts that she believed were the cause of her tumultuous moods, her inexplicable behaviour, and her writer's block. This study rereads White's writing within the context of manic-depressive illness to show how the misdiagnosis of her illness shaped the identity narratives White constructed in her life-writing and then used as the basis for her strongly autobiographical fiction. White's self-narratives have skewed critical interpretations of her work; at the same time, her fiction has not been studied as expressive of affective disorder. By contextualising White's life-writing and fiction within the contexts of manic-depression and narrative identity, Antonia White and Manic-Depressive Illness proposes a new model for reading White; documents the complex interplay of biological, psychological, and environmental factors involved in affective disorder; and historicises the diagnosis and treatment of White's illness in medical, psychoanalytic, and Catholic contexts.

Rereads Antonia White's writing within the context of manic-depressive illness

288 pp. 234 x 156 (Royal 8vo)

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Key Features• Rereads Antonia White's writing in the context of manic-depressive illness

and scholarship on narrative identity and illness• Documents the ways in which early psychoanalytic theories of female

development impacted White through her Freudian analysis in the 1930s• Documents how psychoanalysis and Catholicism served as master narratives

or templates for White's stories of self

Readership Academics, researchers, postgraduates, upper-level undergraduates in Modernist Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature; Women Writers; Life Writing; (Mental) Illness Narratives; Histories of Medicine and Psychoanalysis; Psychology; Affect Studies.



Tragedies of the English Renaissance Goran Stanivukovic and John H. Cameron

The AuthorsGoran Stanivukovic, Professor of Early Modern English Literature and Chair of Department of English Language and Literature, Saint Mary's University

John H. Cameron, Instructor in English, Department of English Language and Literature, Saint Mary's University

March 2018Pb •978-1-4744-1956-7 • £14.99 BIC: DD, DDS, DSG, DSGS

DescriptionTragedy is the foremost dramatic genre on the English Renaissance stage and a dramatic form with a remarkably long life in the theatre. For Shakespeare and his contemporaries, drama is a tragic spectacle that reaches both the kings and queens and the everyday person alike. But it is also a kind of play whose rules early modern playwrights were ready to trouble and transform. English Renaissance Tragedy takes into account the latest development in the scholarship of early modern theatre history in England, history of performance and acting, and the print history of stage plays, while also showing the degree to which theatre history can be connected with other significant contextual factors and critical ideas in analysis of the plays.

The popularity of tragedy is explored through a chronological commentary of a wide range of themes and ideas, and via the development of London’s playhouses

192 pp. 216 x 138 (Demy 8vo)

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Key Features• Plays and their authors are discussed alongside each other against the

background of the social, cultural, and political conditions of their times, with an emphasis of how these historical frames affected the development of tragedy in Renaissance England

• Explores tragedy chronologically• Takes a critical approach and also take into consideration the political,

social, cultural, and aesthetic factors• Explores the themes and styles of tragedy as playtexts in which their authors

compete for the dominance on the early modern stage, and as stage events and spectacles emerging along with the development of theatre culture in England, especially London

• Inspects the sub-genres associated with the form, such as revenge tragedy, historical tragedy, domestic tragedy, tragicomedy, and closet drama

SeriesRenaissance Dramatists

Readership Upper-level undergraduate and postgraduates


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Table of Contents Note on citation

Chronology

Introduction

1. The Emergence of Elizabethan Tragedy and the London Stage

2. Late Elizabethan Tragedy

3. Early Jacobean Tragedy

4. Late Jacobean Tragedy

5. Caroline Tragedy

Bibliography

Literary Studies

Tragedies of the English RenaissanceGoran Stanivukovic and John H. Cameron


Raymond BellourCinema and the Moving Image Hilary Radner and Alistair Fox

The AuthorsHilary Radner, Emeritus Professor of Film and Media Studies, University of Otago.

Alistair Fox, Emeritus Professor, University of Otago

March 2018Pb • 978 1 4744 2289 5 • £24.99 BIC: APFA, APFB, HPN

DescriptionOne of the most influential figures in French film philosophy, Raymond Bellour's interests range across cinema, art, literature and philosophy, and his work sits at the critical juncture between the cinematic experience in the period of classical cinema to the new forms of spectatorship ushered in by digital media in the 21st century. With a succinct account of Bellour's oeuvre, this book provides a generous introduction to his ideas on cinema, an annotated bibliography of his work, and a six-chapter translation of a substantial and wide-ranging interview previously unavailable in English. Providing a clear, systematic account of the evolution of Bellour's thought on the nature of cinematic representation, the impact of digital technology and the response of the spectator, this is an essential guide to the work of a major contemporary thinker.

A comprehensive study of Raymond Bellour, one of the most important foundational theorists of Film Studies


Film Studies

Key Features• Provides a clear, systematic exposition of the evolution of Bellour's thought

over 60 years• Makes available in an English translation a hitherto unpublished interview

with Bellour from 2015• Includes an annotated bibliography, with brief abstracts of all of his books

and most important articles

Readership Advanced Undergraduate Students, Postgraduate Students and Scholars in Film Theory and Film-Philosophy.


Film Studies

Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPrefaceIntroduction: Cinema and Its Discontents: The Place of Raymond Bellour in Film Theory from the Twentieth to the Twenty-first Century, by Hilary Radner

PART ONE: Raymond Bellour: Cinema and the Moving Image, by Hilary Radner

Chapter One. Film Analysis: Image and MovementChapter Two. The Digital Challenge: From the Theatre to the GalleryChapter Three. Cinema and the Body: The Ghost in the TheaterChapter Four. An Elegy for Cinema

PART TWO: Bellour by Bellour: Selections from an Interview with Raymond Bellour. Conducted by Gabriel Bortzmeyer and Alice LeRoy in December 2015. Translated and Edited by Alistair Fox

Chapter Five. Formative InfluencesChapter Six. Film Analysis and the SymbolicChapter Seven. Thierry Kuntzel and the Rise of Video ArtChapter Eight. Arrested Images and "the Between-Images"Chapter Nine. Spectators, Dispositifs, and the Cinematic Body Chapter Ten. Hypnosis, Emotions, and Animality

PART THREE: Biography and Publications of Raymond Bellour, by Alistair Fox

Raymond Bellour: A Biographical SketchA Select Annotated Bibliography of the Publications of Raymond Bellour

Select List of Sources CitedIndex

Raymond BellourCinema and the Moving Image Hilary Radner and Alistair Fox


ReFocus: The Films of Kelly ReichardtE. Dawn Hall

The AuthorE. Dawn Hall, Associate Professor, Western Kentucky University

March 2018Hb • 978 1 4744 1112 7 • £75.00 BIC: APFA, APFB, APFN

DescriptionOver her six-film career, including works like Old Joy, Meek's Cutoff and Certain Women, the independent filmmaker Kelly Reichardt has established a highly individual perspective on questions of gender, feminism, socioeconomics and sexual orientation, set within an aesthetic framework that is guided by the low-budget techniques of 'slow cinema', minimalism and neorealism. In this close reading of her films and production methods, E. Dawn Hall defines Reichardt's auteur characteristics, arguing that she offers a contemporary and sustainable model for independent filmmakers in America.

The first book-length study of Reichardt's career and works


Film Studies

Key Features• Synthesizing the contemporary feminist debate surrounding auteur theory,

this book explores Reichardt's cinematic characteristics as an auteur• Elucidates the environmental and ecofeminist concerns in Reichardt's films• Discusses Reichardt's three experimental short films in detail• Includes an original interview with Reichardt

SeriesReFocus

Readership Students and scholars in Film Studies, particularly in American independent film and/or gender and film.



Political Parties in the Arab WorldContinuity and Change Edited by Francesco Cavatorta and Lise Storm

The EditorsFrancesco Cavatorta, Associate Professor, Université Laval, Québec

Lise Storm, Senior Lecturer, University of Exeter

March 2018Pb • 978 1 4744 2407 3 • £24.99 BIC: AC06, 1FB, HRH, JPH, JPL

DescriptionThe Middle East is a region notorious for political systems traditionally built around absolutist monarchs and military-dependent presidents. What is the role of political parties in such a context? How do they support or undermine such authoritarian forms of rule? What part have they played in the survival and transformation of political systems after the Arab uprisings? What are the policy preferences of party elites and how do they connect with citizens' expectations? How do parties challenge and reflect the main social cleavages? Finally, what is the genuine significance of parties and party politics in a region struggling for some sort of democratic future? This book attempts to answer these questions through a thorough theoretical and empirical examination and analysis of the most important aspects and traits of political parties and party politics in the Arab world, exploring cases from across the region.

Analyses political parties and party politics in the contemporary Arab world


Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies

Key Features• Sets out an innovative research agenda on a under-studied topic• Provides a comparative perspective on political parties across the region• Analyses the ways in which political parties in the Arab world matter and

develop • Offers a more systematic understanding of the functioning of Arab regimes

by incorporating the role political parties play in them • Includes case studies of Iraq, Libya, Tunisia, Egypt, Morocco, Algeria, Kuwait,

Lebanon and Palestine

Readership Upper Level undergraduates and MA students in Middle Eastern Studies and Politics.




Table of Contents AcknowledgementsForeword

1. Do Arabs not do parties? An exploration and introduction, Lise Storm and Francesco Cavatorta

Part 1: Party families

2. Leftist parties in the Arab region before and after the Arab uprisings: unrequited love?, Valeria Resta3. What are secular parties in the Arab world? Insights from Tunisia's Nidaa Tounes and Morocco's PAM, Anne Wolf4. The institutionalisation of Islamist political parties after the uprisings, Anass El Kyak5. Do Salafi parties represent a contradiction in terms? The development and fragmentation of Kuwait Salafi Islamic Group, Zoltan Pall

Part 2: International constraints

6. Shi'ism, national belonging and political Islam: the Hezbollah and the Islamic resistance in Lebanon, Auralie Daher7. Party politics in the Palestinian Territories, Manal Jamal8. Sectarian friction and the struggle for power: party politics in Iraq post 2003, Sophie A. Edwards9. Post-Qadhafi Libya: rejecting a political party system, Amir Kamel

Part 3: Societal constituents

10. Tribes and political parties in the contemporary Arab world: a reassessment of Yemen, Larissa Alles11. In the shadows of legality: proto-parties and participatory politics in the Emirate of Kuwait, Hendrik Kraetzschmar12. Transformations in the political party system in Mauritania: the case of the Union for the Republic, Raquel Ojeda-GarcÃ a13. Women's political inclusion and prospects for democracy in North Africa, Loes Debuysere14. Why did the Egyptian and Tunisian youth activists fail to build competitive political parties?, Mohammed Yaghi

Conclusion and perspectives

15. Arab parties in context: lessons learned, Francesco Cavatorta and Lise Storm

List of contributors


Political Parties in the Arab WorldContinuity and Change Edited byFrancesco Cavatorta and Lise Storm


Celluloid SingaporeCinema, Performance and the National Edna Lim

The AuthorEdna Lim, Senior Lecturer, National University of Singapore

March 2018Hb • 978 1 4744 0288 0 • £70.00 BIC: APFA, APFB, APFG

DescriptionCelluloid Singapore is a ground-breaking study of the three major periods in Singapore's fragmented cinema history, namely the golden age of the 1950s and 60s, the post-studio 1970s, and the revival from the 1990s onwards. Set against the context of Singapore's own trajectory of development, the book poses two central questions: how can the films of each period be considered 'Singapore' films, and how is this cinema specifically national? The book argues that the films of these three periods collectively constitute a national cinema through different performances of Singapore, offering a critical framework for understanding this cinema and its history in relation to the development of the country and the national.

Examines how Singapore cinema functions as a national cinema

192 pp. 234 x 156 (Royal 8vo)

Film Studies

Key Features• The first full length, critical study of Singapore cinema• Includes case studies of films from the golden age of the 1950s and 60s, the

post-studio 1970s, and the revival from the 1990s onwards• Considers Singapore's cinema history and relationship with the national,

building on developments in transnational cinema studies

SeriesTraditions in World Cinema

Readership Advanced students and scholars in Asian Film Studies.



Modern Islamic Authority and Social Change, Volume 1Evolving Debates in Muslim Majority Countries Edited by Masooda Bano

Edited byMasooda Bano, Associate Professor, University of Oxford

March 2018Hb • 978 1 4744 3322 8 • £80.00 BIC: 1DVT, 1FBX, 1FK, 1HBE, HRH

DescriptionAt the turn of the twenty-first century, scholarship and policy debate on Islam and Muslim societies has come to focus primarily on Islam's ability to make young Muslims gravitate towards anti-modernity movements. Many attribute Islamic militancy, as well as the general socio-economic and political stagnation experienced in some Muslim societies, to Islamic theological or legal dictates. Yet Islamic scholarly tradition is highly pluralistic, and today's leading Islamic authority structures are developing competing conceptual and methodological approaches which vary greatly in their ability to engage with societal change.

This volume focuses on the four most influential Islamic authority structures with a visible following among Muslims around the globe. It makes a major contribution to refining our understanding of the plurality of Islamic tradition in contemporary times, helping to counter the dominant narrative of an inevitable clash of civilisations. It presents evidence of great creative energy within many Islamic scholarly platforms (old as well as new); an energy which aims to provide dynamic answers to modern day challenges from within the Islamic legal and theological tradition.

A comparative analysis of key Islamic authority platforms and their debates

448 pp. 234 x 156 (Royal 8vo)


Key Features• Focuses on four influential Sunni Islamic scholarly platforms with a global

following: Al-Azhar (Egypt); Saudi Salafism (Saudi Arabia); Deoband (South Asia); Diyanet (Turkey)

• Each case study traces the institution's intellectual genealogy, contemporary political standing, and the discourses of its scholars on Islamic law and social change

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



Modern Islamic Authority and Social Change, Volume 2Evolving Debates in the West Masooda Bano

The AuthorMasooda Bano, Associate Professor, University of Oxford

March 2018Hb • 9781474433266 • £80.00 BIC: 1DVT, 1FBX, 1FK, 1HBE, HRH

DescriptionAt the turn of the twenty-first century, scholarship and policy debate on Islam and Muslim societies has come to focus primarily on Islam's ability to make young Muslims gravitate towards anti-modernity movements. Many attribute Islamic militancy, as well as the general socio-economic and political stagnation experienced in some Muslim societies, to Islamic theological or legal dictates. Yet Islamic scholarly tradition is highly pluralistic, and today's leading Islamic authority structures are developing competing conceptual and methodological approaches which vary greatly in their ability to engage with societal change.

This volume covers the new Islamic authority centres emerging in the West. It makes a major contribution to refining our understanding of the plurality of Islamic tradition in contemporary times, helping to counter the dominant narrative of an inevitable clash of civilisations. It presents evidence of great creative energy within many Islamic scholarly platforms (old as well as new); an energy which aims to provide dynamic answers to modern day challenges from within the Islamic legal and theological tradition.

A comparative analysis of key Islamic authority platforms and their debates



Case StudiesThis volume presents case studies of six new Islamic scholarly platforms in the West that are proving particularly effective in attracting young Muslims: • ZaytunaCollege • TheNeo-TraditionalismofTimWinter • TheInternationalInstituteofIslamicThought • TariqRamadanandtheCenterforIslamicLegislationand Ethics • YasirQadhiand‘ReasonableSalafism’ • NewDeobandiInstitutionsintheWest

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



The Wealth of the NationScotland, Culture and Independence Cairns Craig

The AuthorCairns Craig, Director of the AHRC Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies, University of Aberdeen

March 2018Pb • 978 1 4744 3558 1 • £14.99 BIC: HB, HBJ, HBJD1

DescriptionThe Wealth of the Nation explores how Scotland has continued to assert its distinctive cultural difference despite the three-hundred-year union with England and the modern forces of globalisation. Dealing with Scotland since the eighteenth century, the study analyses how Scottish culture defined itself within the British Empire and how, in the late twentieth century, it recovered from the collapse of the Empire to rebuild the value of its cultural past. Through its focus on the role of memory in philosophy, literature and the visual arts, readers will gain understanding of the influence that modern Scottish writers and artists have had on contemporary Scottish nationalism. The book argues that political nationalism in modern Scotland is founded on a cultural revival that began in the 1950s and 60s but gained momentum from resistance to the outcome of the 1979 devolution referendum. That resistance, and the creative achievements which it generated, provoked a re-examination of the nation's cultural history, revealing a wealth previously denied or forgotten.

A critical appraisal of Scotland's cultural wealth and global distinction

288 pp. 234 x 156 (Royal 8vo)

Scottish Studies

Key Features• Provides an analysis of the political impact of culture in modern Scotland• Analyses how Scottish culture maintained a distinctive presence within the

British Empire• Offers an account of the contribution of the Scottish novel to the creation of

modern Scottish culture

Readership Academics and students in Scottish Studies, and general readers interested in Scottish History, Culture and Literature.


Academic Trade


Scottish Studies

Table of Contents Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Wealth of the Nation

1 Cultural Capital and the Xeniteian Empire

2 In the Race of History

3 Living Memory: Nostalgia, Necromancy and Nostophobia

4 Theoxenia: Invitations to the Gods

Conclusion: Unsettled Will.

Scottish Studies

The Wealth of the NationScotland, Culture and Independence Cairns Craig


Victorian Liberalism and Material CultureSynergies of Thought and Place Kevin A. Morrison

The AuthorKevin A. Morrison, Assistant Professor of English, Syracruse University

March 2018Hb • 978 1 4744 3153 8 • £80.00 BIC: DS, DSBF, JFCD

DescriptionVictorian Liberalism and Material Culture assesses the unexplored links between Victorian material culture and political theory. It seeks to transform understanding of Victorian liberalism's key conceptual metaphor – that the mind of an individuated subject is private space. Focusing on the environments inhabited by four Victorian writers and intellectuals, it delineates how John Stuart Mill's, Matthew Arnold's, John Morley's, and Robert Browning's commitments to liberalism were shaped by or manifested through the physical spaces in which they worked. The book also asserts the centrality of the embodied experience of actual people to Victorian political thought. Readers will gain new historical and literary understanding and will be introduced to an innovative methodology that links material culture and political theory.

An interdisciplinary study of British liberalism in the nineteenth century


Literary Studies

Key Features• Addresses interaction between British liberal thinkers and their workplaces

as an essential component in your consideration of nineteenth-century liberalism

• Enhances understanding of Victorian literature and culture and the history of architecture and design through an interdisciplinary approach

• Bridges differences of perspective between students of material culture and political theory

• Based on extensive research in British and American archives, utilizing recently unsealed records

SeriesEdinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture

Readership Academics, postgraduates, upper-level undergraduates and researchers in Nineteenth-Century British Literature; Victorian Literature; Victorian Studies; British India; Imperial Studies; Nineteenth-Century Material Culture; Cultural Studies; Intellectual History; Professional Culture; Liberalism and Political Theory.



Affects, Actions and Passions in SpinozaThe Unity of Body and Mind Chantal Jaquet Translated by Tatiana Reznichenko

The AuthorChantal Jaquet, Professor of Philosophy, Université Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne

Translated byTatiana Reznichenko, freelance professional translator

March 2018Hb • 978 1 4744 3318 1 • £75.00 BIC: HPCD, HPM, HPS

DescriptionIt is widely recognised that Spinoza put an end to the Cartesian dualism of body and mind by thinking through the possibility of their unity. Revisiting this generally accepted notion of psycho-physical parallelism in Spinoza, Chantal Jaquet offers a new analysis of the relation between body and mind. Using an original methodology, she analyses their unity in action through the affects that bring together a body's affection and the idea of this affection.

Looking at a range of Spinoza's texts, Jaquet reveals that understanding affects, actions and passions provides the key to how the mind and body are the same individual expressed in two different ways. She presents the Spinozist model in all its complexity, illuminating its potentialities for contemporary debates on the nature of the mind-body problem.

A new analysis of the mind/body relationship

176 pp. 234 x 156 (Royal 8vo)

Philosophy

Key Features• Critiques the false conception of psychophysical parallelism in Spinoza• Compares and contrasts Descartes’ conception of the passions and Spinoza’s

conception of the affects• Offers a new analysis of the mind/body relationship• Presents a novel investigation into the definition of affects and their

variations in Spinoza

SeriesSpinoza

Readership Postgraduates and academics working in Continental philosophy and specifically on Spinoza.



Fashion and MaterialismUlrich Lehmann

The AuthorUlrich Lehmann, Research Professor and course leader for MA Fashion, University for the Creative Arts at Rochester

March 2018Hb • 978 1 4744 0791 5 • £75.00 BIC: HPN, JFCK, ACX, HPS, JFCD

DescriptionUlrich Lehmann investigates the meaning of fashion for economic and social life from the 1830s up to the present day. He brings together methods and ideas from social sciences and material production to offer a new political reading of fashion in today’s post-democracy.

Accessing rare source material across a wide range of European languages and cultures he offers insight into new working structures in the manufacture of garments and textiles. Case studies include the male suit in Alfred Hitchcock’s film North by Northwest (1959), the revolutionary production methods in the work of Carol Christian Poell and the innovative textile manufacture of Bonotto in Molvena (north-east Italy).

Lehmann’s new understanding of design and production reveals materialism as a critical element in fashion’s role in modern economies, societies and cultures.

A cultural and historical philosophy of fashion

256 pp. 234 x 156 (Royal 8vo)14 colour illustrations

Philosophy

Key Features• Redirects fashion theory from previous art-historical and social-

anthropological approaches toward the concrete understanding of fashion’s materiality and materialism

• Exposes the need for engaging with fashion production on a critical level, away from the exclusive reading of fashion through its media representation

• Extends the discussion of productive processes in fashion from aspects of labour conditions and sustainability to the materialist critique of the fashion system

• Reinvigorates materialism as a critical approach to analysing economics, society and media through the thematic focus on fashion as the economically and culturally dominant sector within post-industrial societies

SeriesTechnicities

Readership Undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as researchers working across fashion and fashion theory; critical theory and aesthetics.



Taylor and PoliticsA Critical Introduction Craig Browne and Andrew Lynch

The AuthorsCraig Browne, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology, University of Sydney

Andrew Lynch, University of Sydney

March 2018Pb • 978 0 7486 9194 4 • £24.99 BIC: HPS, JPA, JPFF, JPFR

DescriptionAccording to Charles Taylor, all individuals share the aspirations to freedom, self-expression and authenticity, yet we differ in our specific understandings of how these aspirations can be realised. He claims that politics should be shaped by our sense of morality, justice and dignity yet his political thinking is controversial and disputed.

This volume critically explores how Taylor rethinks contemporary controversies, such as those surrounding religion and the secular, multicultural diversity and national cohesion, and the demands of subordinated groups for equal recognition and respect, and asks whether his work can promise a richer experience of freedom.

Introduces you to the promises and problems of Charles Taylor's thought in major contemporary debates

256 pp. 234 x 156 (Royal 8vo)

Politics

Key Features• Unpacks the Taylor's synthesis of ideas from perspectives including

romanticism, liberalism, phenomenology and critical theory • Shows Taylor's relationship to leading political thinkers, especially Habermas

and Rawls, and his influence on new theoretical initiatives• Assesses the political implications of Taylor's landmark work, A Secular Age• Evaluates Taylor's diagnosis of why contemporary society tends to lead to

discontent, alienation and atomisation, and his suggestions for dispelling these

SeriesThinking Politics

Readership MA level students and academics in Politics and Philosophy.

Alternative Formats:Hb • 978 0 7486 9193 7 • £80.00Eb (PDF) • 978 0 7486 9195 1 • £80.00EB (epub) • 978 0 7486 9196 8• £24.99


Anthropomorphism in IslamThe Challenge of Traditionalism (700-1350) Livnat Holtzman

The AuthorLivnat Holtzman, Chair of the Department of Arabic, Bar-Ilan University

March 2018Hb • 978 0 7486 8956 9 • £85.00 BIC: HBLC, HRH, HRHT

DescriptionMore than any other issue in Islamic theology, anthropomorphism (tashbih) stood at the heart of many theological debates, and was mostly discussed within the circles of traditionalist Islam. The way a scholar interpreted the anthropomorphic descriptions of God in the Qur'an or the Hadith (for instance, God's hand, God's laughter or God's sitting on the heavenly throne) often reflected his political and social stature, as well as his theological affinity. This book presents an in-depth literary analysis of the textual and non-textual elements of aḥadith al-ṣifat – the traditions that depict God and His attributes in an anthropomorphic language. It goes on to discuss the inner controversies in the prominent traditionalistic learning centres of the Islamic world regarding the way to understand and interpret these anthropomorphic traditions. Through a close, contextualized, and interdisciplinary reading in Hadith compilations, theological treatises, and historical sources, this book offers an evaluation and understanding of the traditionalistic endeavours to define anthropomorphism in the most crucial and indeed most formative period of Islamic thought.

Explores the problem of anthropomorphism: a major bone of contention in 8th to 14th-century Islamic theology

480 pp. 234 x 156 (Royal 8vo)

Islamic Studies

Key Features• Includes case studies of anthropomorphic traditions, tribal heritage and

lore, the Hashwiyya and the traditionalists• Explores non-textual elements in the anthropomorphic traditions (including

body-gestures and mimicry)• Studies rhetorical devices and rationalized argumentations in the writings of

traditionalist theologians• Provides the first in-depth literary and linguistic analysis of the

anthropomorphic material in the Hadith

SeriesEdinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and Culture

Readership Academics and researchers in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, and Religious Studies.



Tanaka KinuyoNation, Stardom and Female Subjectivity Edited by Michael Smith and Irene González-López

Edited byMichael Smith, PhD from University of Leeds Irene González-López, Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Visual and Material Culture Research Centre, Kingston University

March 2018Hb • 978 1 4744 0969 8• £70.00 BIC: HBLC, HRH, HRHT

DescriptionBringing together a range of Japanese and western scholars, this is the first book in English dedicated to the actress and director Tanaka Kinuyo. Praised as amongst the greatest actors in the history of Japanese cinema, Tanaka’s career spanned the industrial development of cinema – from silent to sound, monochrome to colour. Alongside featuring in films by Ozu, Mizoguchi, Naruse and Kurosawa, Tanaka was also the only Japanese woman filmmaker between 1953 and 1962, and her films tackled distinctly feminine topics such as prostitution and breast cancer. Her career overlapped with a transformative period in Japanese history, and this close analysis of her fascinating life and work offers new perspectives, subjectivities and modes of analysis for the classical era of Japanese cinema.

The first book in English dedicated to the actress and director Tanaka Kinuyo

480 pp. 234 x 156 (Royal 8vo)

Islamic Studies

Key Features• A unique look at the life and career of Tanaka Kinuyo, as both an actor and

director• Offers a new perspective on the history of women and film in Japan• Brings together a range of Japanese and western scholars

SeriesEdinburgh Studies inEast Asian Film

Readership Advanced students and scholars in Film Studies, especially Star Studies, Japanese Cinema and Film and Gender.
